W6GRC RX (147.705 MHz) recordings for 2026-01-30

It. Yep. We're on the way down the hill. Got a.

Speaker A: Jim, can we
Speaker B: patch in some audio, wind Link or something that has some traffic on it just so we can listen to the audio as we're coming down the hill?

W6grc, w6l and d. Going pretty good. It's pretty decent. But it had a little flip here a few minutes ago. I didn't know because it sounded like it was in a closed loop. They're not active. It kicks them out after free.

Yeah, sounds like everything. Are you home? Sounding good down here. I think you have to.

Speaker A: Not as many. Not as many site visits needed. Now
Speaker B: lock in and
Speaker A: lock. Okay, well, I
Speaker B: will log in. Oh, hi. You got a camera right on your rack?
Speaker A: Absolutely. Well, that's a nice view looking down.

Speaker A: W6grc.w6lnd.
Speaker B: You sound
Speaker A: pretty good. There's just no activity on 2 meter anymore.
Speaker B: I had mine scanning earlier and there's just no activity. I was a little bit on Sutter Butte. Other than that, the activity levels are just almost none.

Ke6jds W F Excellent. How are you, mark?

Okay. Sounds about normal. At least the weather is nice.

Just hanging out. Been working in the. Installed the new repeater today.

Because you. You got too many things going on for retirement. You're busier than when you are working. Not with cows. Cows having calves and killing chickens.

Speaker A: So that's the All Star courtesy
Speaker B: tone. All Star is the repeater controller on this project.
Speaker A: It's local, but now it's able to be connected with other repeaters via the Internet. Well, 7:30 in the morning, it's going to connect to W6ek out of Auburn and it will have traffic on it for two and a half to three hours. College.

Speaker A: So it'll have two and a half to three hours of a morning net. They call it the coffee break net. So I encourage you to listen in. And then I think Gary's gonna connect it to some other things as well. As
Speaker B: time moves. So you should be able to
Speaker A: join in on their net. Just call in. However their protocol is, you should be able to join in and do a check in
Speaker B: if you so desire. I think the goal is to try and get it. A little busy. All right. I was telling Gary or
Speaker A: somebody earlier I was scanning two meters and there was no traffic anywhere. Mess scanning repeaters from like. Well, I took the reading one out. It's got a lot of activity, but
Speaker B: scan
Speaker A: and everything here in the area, with the exception being Sutter Buce
Speaker B: having some activity.
Speaker A: You.
Speaker B: I think
Speaker A: there's a net going on
Speaker B: on Sutter Butte right now. And then there's
Speaker A: a
Speaker B: simplex net in 20 minutes on five, two. Well, it doesn't want you to do much radio, though. Well, I'll be sawing logs with no radios on. I turn mine off at night. There you go. He might still be up. Not very much anyhow.

I have not even started on that project, Mark.

Speaker A: All right, Mark, Thanks. I'm sure I'm going to take you up on some of that. 73 from
Speaker B: W6LND.
Speaker A: Wb1g.w6lnd. Well, I'm coming in. Vrf to the repeater on red mountain.

I can tell you we need it. The repeaters around here are completely dead.

Yeah, well, today I was a mechanic. Right? That's the nice thing about what I do. You wear a different hat, different day.

Well, let's hope so. I guess I'm gonna have to take my. Take my little HT with me tomorrow so I can check in if I can give it a try. The repeaters at 50 watts at, like 3100ft or 3400ft. So with the antenna, I think it's like, about a hundred watts.

Speaker A: Your audio
Speaker B: is a lot hotter via the All Star, so I did. It sounded like maybe you're a bit over modulated.
Speaker A: No, I meant on your all star.

100 watts from my QTH schmedi.

Smitty. Good to hear from you. Glad you're able to get into this again. That's a big difference from what it was. We'll say it's because 73W6LND.

Speaker A: It. I hear someone talking for just like a quarter of a second. 700 now, huh? You
Speaker B: have a little
Speaker A: static. Greg's hit that preg. Are you using
Speaker C: ht, Gary?
Speaker A: Okay, that's the issue. Just a little bit of fuzz.
Speaker C: That's probably the ht. I. Maybe Greg can say what he's hearing.
Speaker B: Yeah, it sounds like it's probably just HT being low power because once you cranked up your power, you came in crystal clear.
Speaker A: Yeah, I kind of figured that. I cranked the 9,700 up to 100 watts.
Speaker C: Oh, yeah, It'll be noisy tomorrow, won't
Speaker A: it?
Speaker B: What, is tomorrow there, like a two meter? Well, no, it's a repeater. I guess it wouldn't be a contest.
Speaker C: The repeater is set to tune to certain frequencies with
Speaker A: activity at certain points in the day. I
Speaker C: will
Speaker A: have
Speaker C: coffee break net from 7:30 to 10 in the morning, and then I don't know, it's got some amateur news lines and some other things that'll be coming up.
Speaker A: Oh, they're gonna do that amateur news
Speaker B: broadcast over this repeater as well then.
Speaker A: Yeah,
Speaker C: this repeater is now fully
Speaker B: connected. Yeah, that's what I was hearing y' all say earlier, but. Well, that's cool. It's always kind of fun to listen to that little program. A
Speaker A: lot of stuff. The Coffee Break net. You'll hear Smitty a lot. Well,
Speaker B: good thing I'm not up
Speaker A: early in the morning.
Speaker B: There
Speaker C: you go. I'm going
Speaker B: back to bed. I gotta get up and go to work. Yep, I'm headed home so I can go to bed. Just got done working. Yeah,
Speaker A: have
Speaker B: a good one. KN6 sod G clear. All right. W6LND.