Transcriptions for 2025-11-21

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Gears holds a free Morse code class every Wednesday night, 6pm at the Golden Beaver Distillery Still House at 2420 Park Ave. All are welcome to come learn Morse code.

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The Gears. Monthly general membership meetings are held on the third Monday night of the month at the Butte County Public Library, 1118 Sherman Ave. In Chico. Doors open at 6pM and the meeting starts at 7pM all are welcome to attend.

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The Gears Net will be held Tuesday night starting at 7:30pm all amateur radio operators are welcome to join in on the net.

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Gears holds a slow speed Morse code net on 40 meters every Thursday night starting at 7pm Frequency of 7.44 plus or minus if the frequency is in use. All amateur radio operators are welcome to join in the next.

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Calling all stations. Calling all stations. This is W6P and H. Paul and I'll be your impromptu net control for tonight's Net. Welcome to the Huba Sutter Aries Net for Thursday, whatever day this is. November 20th, I believe all licensed amateur radio operators are invited to check in on this net. This net meets every Thursday night at 1900 hours local time on the WD6AXM repeater. The CTCSS tone to access this repeater is 127.3 Hz. I'm now placing the UbiSetter Aries group on level 2 emergency status for the duration of the Net. This is a directed formal net and all traffic is to be directed to or through the Net control station. If it is necessary to interrupt the Net for emergency or priority traffic, please identify the traffic by saying emergency.

Priority or brake break and station call sign Metcontrol will now pause for stations with emergency or priority traffic. In the event of an actual emergency requiring the services of the Yuba Sutter, Aries group members should tune to this repeater or When Simplex and await further instructions. For more information on Aries in this area, Please contact our EC, Neil M16Y or one of our AECs, Robert K16R, Brandon KN6J I D Paul 6PNH or Devin N0DVE. You may also contact our Sacramento Valley Staff Inspection Manager, J infix sac. Information and training materials may also be.

Be found at backvalleyarees.org or arrl.org. Is there an operator on frequency who is willing to act as backup net control station this evening? As backup net control, please have a copy of the net roster and script on hand. Anyone willing to be backup net control, please come next kn6gtn. I can do that for you, Paul. Thank you, Ernie. I appreciate that. Okay, this is W6T and H. Paul, your net controller. I will now call from a list of members of BUPA Center Aries group, starting with our leadership and Let me just. I'll put out the call. Any leadership on on the air, please come now. Anyone EC or Assistant E.

In0dve. All right, Devin, I've got you. Anything for the Net tonight? Nothing for the Net. I'm just sitting in the Jeep in a dark parking lot. So thank you, Paul, for doing the Net. Yeah, glad I had the script handy and I was able to get it tonight. So thank you for all the times you jump in there. Any other leadership, please come now. I'll go ahead and put out a call for carl n6 ckv, our district, d.c. And michael kk6cgv, our section ec.

And how about Jay N6SAC, our ARRL section manager? Well, thank you very much. Good evening to everyone. This is Jay. November 6th, Sierra, Alpha, Charlie, Arrl, Sacramento Valley section manager. Good evening. Good evening, Jay. Thanks for checking in. Good to hear you. I'm just looking for my spot on the script here. Let's see. I think it's. Well, I'll say this is W6P and H, your net controller. And we'll move on to general membership, starting with Greg K6 Gab.

Thanks for checking in, greg. I've got you. How about bud? Kk1? Bud, Carla, k6kds? Yes, this is carla, k6kbs in yuba city. Nothing for the net tonight. I've got you, carla. Thanks. How about kim, k n6 kip, w6axn? Receiver matthew kn6wnr? And our backup net control tonight, Ernie KN6GTN? You have anything for us? Just thank you for doing the net on short notice. No other traffic.

Kilo november 6 golf tango november thanks, ernie. How about grant w6 jib. John ki6uds. David wa1 nerd? How about Brad kn6r I w. Ryan k6rcm. Justin ko0x. Daniel n6apx.

And we're looking for wade kn6wx. This is wade in yuba city, and I have nothing for the net tonight, but back to the net control, this is km6wx. Thanks for checking in, wade. I've got you. How about chris kk6vzd? Jonathan ka6auq? How about mike kk6isq? Jamie kn6pww?

I will now call for frequent members of neighboring areas group. And let me start with dan. Kf6hhh. Good evening, paul lemonnette. This is stevo foxtrot 6, hotel. Hotel, hotel, dan. And woodland, yolo county areas. No traffic. Thanks for checking in, dan. I've got you. How about darrell km6 ksw. And we're looking for john k6hsp. Hey, paul. This is john up in east orville, butte county area. Kilo six hotel, foxtrot papa. No traffic. Hope everybody's doing good. Back to you, paul.

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Good to hear you out there, John. Thanks for checking in. How about Patrick kn6rth. And martin w7 ipa? What about mike n1ycn? Good evening. This is mike n1ycn down in elk grove. Check in. Thanks, mike. Good signal. Got you. Checked in. Any other neighboring areas. Members that would like to check in, please come now. This is W6PNH, Paul, net control for this evening's net.

I will now call for frequent visitors that we have on our list. And let's start with Doug. KD6 Lok Good evening Paul and the net. Kilo Delta 6 Lima Oscar Kilo Doug here on kind of wet Nimshu Ridge. We had some rain again this afternoon. It was kind of predicted, but surprised me when I took the dog out at 5:30 there to find it wet. So Paul, I'd like to thank you as Ernie did for picking up the net on such short notice. 73 all stay wet or stay dry and warm. KD6 Lok Thanks Doug. And hey Doug, check the WeissArc webpage and see if that link works for you for paying dues. I put something up since we talked last, so I just wanted to mention that while I could. How about Linda? Kk6 so Z.

And mike, kn6mdz, kilo, november 6. Mike, delta zulu, mike in kelly ridge. No traffic, tax use. Thanks, mike. I've got you. How about tom, ko6mo. And jim, kj6pkq? It's kj6pkq. Jim and chico. Where? It's getting wetter by the minute. No, not right now, maybe, but. All right, no traffic. Thank you. That's good to hear you out there, jim. Thanks for checking in. How about dan k?

Kn6drn. Good evening. This is Kilo, November 6th, Delta, Romeo, November, Dan and Lincoln Hills. I have no traffic to the Net. Back to Net Control. Have a pleasant evening. KN6DRN, back to net Control. Thanks, Dan. Nice signal. And how about Paul? Ko6bgy. Good evening, Paul and the Net. This is Kilo, Oscar 6, Bravo, Golf, Jinke, Paul in Calusa, where it should start raining right about now through about the next 30 minutes. So we'll see how eventful that is. We'll pass it back over to Nick control. Ko6. All right, I've got you, Paul. Thanks. And how about Michael? Ki6ujX? This is Ki6ujx. Michael and Lynn.

Glad to help out. Thanks, michael. And how about dave? N6orb? This is n6orb, dave and martinez. Got you, dave. Thanks for checking in. And as always, beautiful signal. James ko6aub, Leonard ko6dvv. This is leonard ko6dvv in brown. Sally with no traffic, back to you. Thanks, leonard. Sounding good, kathy. N7wvw. November 7th.

Thank you. Kathy. I've got you checked in. How about jeff? Kb9mys. Okay, Any visitors on frequency who would like to check in, please identify with your contact call sign phonetically your name and location slowly so I can ensure a proper check in and also late check ins are welcome now as well. So anyone out there, please come now. Kilo, India Six Uniform Delta Foxtrot. John in Marysville. Heading to my folks in Yuba City. I've got you, John. Thanks for checking in. Any other check ins? Please come now.

Oscar 6 golf romeo indio todd lomeg got you todd, thanks for checking in. Good evening Paul and the Ned mana here Kilo Alpha six Echo Tango Bravo thank you for doing the Ned traffic. Thanks man. I've got you checked in Any other check ins please come now. We six A X N receiver. Okay, well how about anyone with announcements and or comments please identify now. And just for ID this is W16 Paul.

Hello K. Go ahead Doug. Thank you Paul. You know, when I unkeyed the other night, I realized that I think I probably checked or paid dues by going to the webpage last time. So I'm not sure where that question come from, but thank you. I will go back and get some dues paid as soon as the bank gets full again. 73 KD 6 Lok no problem on that. It was a little awkward before, so I think it's going to be a little smoother this time. Hopefully. If you do see that, give me some feedback on how it worked for you whenever you get around to it. Okay? Any other announcements or comments, please come now. For my Delta I didn't quite catch that.

Come on back. Delta checking in. Oh, Carol. Hi. Hey, Good to have you. Got you checked in. Any comments for us? Affirmative. Yes. Tomorrow's the last day for the Pacific Division director election. If you haven't submitted your vote, tomorrow will be the last day to do that. And I will be net control on the Sacramento Valley section net on HF, it's at 3880Khz after the VHF portion of it. Okay. And is there a section net coming up right after this net, is that right? Affirmative. Okay. Yeah, thanks. That got by me, so I wasn't even sure that was coming. But it's good to have you on frequency and looking forward to that net as well. Okay. Any other announcements.

Announcements or comments. I'll give one last call for late check ins. Please come now. Thank you to all who checked into tonight's net. I invite you to return and check in each Thursday at 1900 hours local time on this repeater. We also would like to thank Dave WD6AXM for the use of this repeater. This is W6P and H, Paul, your net control station for tonight's Net. Wishing you all a good evening While returning the Eupacetter Ares group to its standard level one state of preparedness and the WD6AXM repeater to normal amateur use. This net is now closed. W6B and H clear UST QST. QST. Calling all amateur radio operators.

This is November 6th. Sierra Alpha Charlie. My name is Jay. I'm in Antelope, which is in Sacramento County. Good evening and welcome to the ARRL Sacramento Valley section net for November 20, 2025. When announced, the net will meet on the third Thursday of the month immediately following the 7pm Yuba Sutter Ariesnet, which we just heard right here on the WD6AXM repeater frequency of 146 decimal 085 MHz with a positive offset and a tone of 127 decimal 3 Hz. And after the close of this VHF net, our HF net will immediately follow on 3880khz lower sideband. All licensed radio amateurs are invited to check in. We'll do this in in the following manner. We will start with section appointees and then we will call for club president and then arrange.

Members and then any other radio amateur who wishes to check in. All right. We will start with section of appointees. Are there any section appointees on frequency? Please come now. KP for MD Civic Division Vice Director, KP4MD. Thank you very much. I still need to update our script to, say, ARRL officials. Because you're not a section appointee. You're much more important to us than that. So thank you very much, Carol. Are there any other ARRL officials on frequency? Please come now.

All right. We will move on to club presidents. Any club presidents, please come now. This is kelo, november 6th, delta romeo, november. Dan, lincoln hills. President, lincoln hills amateur radio group and also arrl member. No other traffic for the net. Back to net control, kn6drn, kilo, november 6th, delta romeo, november. Thank you very much, dan. Good to hear you. Are there any other club presidents? Please come now. That. Oh, we had a good double there and I really couldn't pull out either one of you. Would you like to give it a.

Try again, please. January, we'll have a new club president. All right. There was still some interference there. The station that says a new club president in January. Could you go again, please? KI6, UDF, John Yuba Sutter. Amateur Radio Plaza, Kilo India 6 Uniform Delta Foxtrot. I got you nice and clear that time. Thank you very much. Would the other station please try again? This is Dave, Kilo, Kilo 6, Mike Victor Juliet for Carl N6, CKB for Elk Grove.

Florin. Sorry for stepping on others. All right, KK6 MVG. Thank you very much. No apologies necessary. That's just the nature of nets and doubles. But that's quite all right. And I have got your relay in for Carl. Thank you very much. Any other club presidents, please come now. Okay. We will move along to arrl members. Are there any arrl members wishing to check in? Please come now. Yes, this is carl. Kilo, delta 6 lima, oscar. Kilo. All right. Had a double there. I did end up getting kilo. Delta 6 Lima, Oscar, kilo. Thank you very much, but other station, please go again. Yes, this is Carla. K6 KDS in Unicity.

Kilo 6, kilo delta, sierra. Thank you very much. Next. Arrl number? November 1st, yankee, charlie, november. November 1st, Yankee, charlie, November. Thank you. Next member, please. W16H. Paul in yuba City. Ernie and Bangor. All right. We had a double there. Ernie, please stand by. Did I get whiskey? Snicks Bravo, November Hotel. Is that correct? Whiskey 6, Papa, November Hotel. Paul in Yuba City. Thanks. Whiskey Six, Papa, November Hotel. Thank you very much. Ernie, could you please try again? Good evening. Kilo, November 6th, golf, tango, November. Kilo, November 6th,. Golf, tango, November. Thank you very much. Next member, please. AJ this is John up in.

East Oroville. Kilo 6, Hotel Foxtrot pop up. Kilo 6, Hotel, Foxtrot, Papa. Thank you very much. Next member, please. Good evening, jay. And that. This is kilo foxtrot six. Hotel, hotel. Hotel. Gannon. Woodland. Kilo, foxtrot six. Hotel, hotel, hotel. Thank you. Next member, please. Kilo charlie six, mike, hotel, tango. Steve in sacramento. Kilo charlie six, mike, hotel,. Tango. Good evening. Thanks. Next member, please. We six. Axm receiver. Kilo six, golf, alpha, bravo. Thank you very much. Next member.

Please. All right, are there any other amateur radio operators wishing to check in? Please come now. Kilo, oscar, six, bravo, golf, yankee, paul and calusa. No traffic. Kilo, Oscar, Six, Bravo, Golf, Yankee. Thank you very much. Next station, please. All right, I'll make another call for stations here in just a moment. But now it's time for announcements. Are there any stations with announcements? Please come with your call sign.

I do have a couple of announcements here. First off, tomorrow is the deadline for the election of our Pacific Division Director. So for the ARRL members, if you haven't voted yet, you have until tomorrow. So please make sure that you get that done. Also, the year 2026 has been declared the Year of the Club and there's going to be a lot of club activities in focus and even some contest like things, or at least radio sports stuff going on for Year of the Club. And there's already a couple of competitions that are getting ready to start. Those are going to be a newsletter competition and a website competition. So if your club has what you feel is a very good newsletter and.

A very good website. Consider submitting your newsletter or website to ARRL Drop. Where you can find that information is on the ARRL website arrl.org year of the club now that's what dash is, so it's year dash of the dash club. And you'll find some links on the left hand side to submit for your newsletter. And they'll want some past copies of them just to be able to see what they look like. And also your website URL if you want to submit that one as well. So for the clubs, the deadline for those are going to be in January, so you're going to want to pull that information together and get those submissions done before January Drop. Then finally, on the Aries front, Aries teams make sure that you keep your batteries charged and your go bags ready to go.

But there is some fun to be had. The Sacramento County Aries team will be supporting the California International Marathon in early December. And I think there's a couple of other activities. If you are on an Aries team and you are supporting some events, make sure you let our section emergency coordinator, that's Michael Kilo, Kilo, Six Zulu, Golf, Bravo. Make sure you let him know so that we can help keep tabs and maybe get some pictures of you guys having fun at those events. All right. That's it for all the announcements I have. Are there any other stations wishing to check in or any other stations with traffic? Please come now KP4MD with an announcement. KP4MD, go right ahead. Okay. Thank you very much for those news items, Jay, but also a very important notice. Now, SIGOV.

Back open. The FCC online services have been restored, and for those of you who had to do renewal filings, all of those are now postponed. Deadline is now changed to March 5th of next year, so you have an extra amount of time to be able to do that even if your license expired. That's not a problem. You can continue and those renewals will be due then on March 5, 2026. Back to net control. Kpformd kp4md thank you very much. That's good news. I know renewals and just licenses in general, and I know the BEC team wanting to submit pass their test recently, so it's good to see that the paperwork is starting to flow. Again. Thank you very much. Are there any other stations wishing to check in, or are there any other announcements? Please come now.

Yuba City. This is Tom Guest, check in last station. I didn't get the full call sign. I got MO at the end. Can I get that call sign again, please? Roger that. Kilo Oscar 6 Mike Oscar. Tom in Yuba City. Guest check in. Kilo Oscar Six Mike Oscar. Thank you very much. Good to hear you tonight. Any other stations wishing to check in or any other announcements, please come now, Kilo six Alpha, Golf Whiskey, Allen in Sacramento. Kilo six Alpha Golf Whiskey. Good to hear you. Thanks. Any other stations wishing to check in, please come now, Ki6ujx. Michael and linda.

Kilo, India 6 uniform, Juliet x ray. Did I get that right? Affirmative. All right. Thank you very much for checking in tonight. Any other stations, please come now. All right, nothing more heard. Thank you all who checked into tonight's net. I invite you to QSY over to our high frequency net. That's going to be at 3880Khz, lower sideband, and we should be right on frequency. I hear Carol making the announcements there now. And so those that can and would like to you can come join us over there on the hf. Otherwise, thank you very much for participating in tonight's net. You can also find news and information on the section website that.

That's arrlsackvalley.org so thank you very much. This is Jay. November 6th Sierra Alpha Charlie 73. And good evening.

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Ust QST QST this is KG6KUO hoping Sacramento Valley traffic this this is part of the national copy system and the purpose of this is to relay former traffic into and out of Sacramento Valley and to provide a state emergency death this is a direct police make no contaction without permission is control near control is KD60K rule that's your located Western World Station with Mercury traffic W6RHC repeater check one. Area unroll palm falls camp 6 opiate, kf6 obi mike and willows no traffic.

Good evening, mike. Thank you. Kg6k year old colin roland. Kg6t. Good evening, lester. In the group, this is kg6tso, bessie with no traffic, Kf6djy. Good evening, lester. Kf6djy, bruce and chico. No traffic. Good evening, bruce. Thank you. K6 garcia, K6pmt, kilo, echo6, papa mike tango, rustin gerber. Good evening, lester in the group and I have no traffic. Good evening, rush. Thank you, kc6 usc.

Night traffic. 2100 hours overtime. This is every 6 RC here. 1 4, 6 3, all stations are exceeding your head. Go to the Empire Amateur Society.

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This one, steve. W6trc. Yeah, I bet you can hear me better here. Absolutely. Yeah. My. My truck radio, I have that low profile wide band antenna. It's not really designed for, but it works. The receive side on it is not as hot as the transmit side. Yeah, that's okay. Yeah, as long as you're aware of it. So that way there, you know, you might be getting out and you don't know it. That happens. Yeah. So I said that it's been kind of too much rain out. I did write a text while I was working today to send you back there, but. Yeah.

Yeah. Maybe tomorrow I'll have some time to do that. It was even wet today, and I was working in Yankee Hill anyways. Didn't get home till it was dark. Nice. What did you work on today? Largely just paperwork. You know, a lot of paperwork for payroll and some real estate taxes, that kind of thing. That doesn't sound fun. So up in your tree by your house, you had. You had two antennas. You had one that was lower and one that was higher. For a long time, you really. You were getting out really good, and then that antenna kind of crapped out on you, right? Yeah. It's the feed line. Yeah, the feed line dropped off, and antenna's still up there. It's at 100ft, but no feed line attached to it.

Is it in your front yard, your backyard? It's in the backyard, yeah. Yep. It's about 100ft up there anyway. And I'm quite not sure how well it's secured up there, but, I mean, it appears like it was secured well enough. But I suppose the way that I had it attached, I had some zip ties and things like that attached to the main mast. Those probably all broke off over the time. And then finally, strain was being put on the feed line, and eventually the feed line pulled out of the. So, I'm sorry, the PL259 connector and the feed line just fell to the ground. Gotcha. Is that a diamond x50 or something up in the end, up in the tree? It's actually an X5.

10 in. But I think I do have the adapter on it that went from the end to the SO239. Most likely that's what I had on the end of it there. Yeah, I'd love to see you put some hard line up there. Nice piece of hard line up there. It'll half inch, it'll stay there forever. And tape the crap out of it to the antenna. Use that good tape. So you had somebody climb the tree or did you. Are you able to get a lift into the backyard? Hundred feet. It was a tree company that was doing the tree work and they climbed. They were climbing the tree anyway. So yeah, they put it up there for me. It's a tree company so they're not like hand radio people or nothing. But yeah, you know, I don't think hardline would really be that much better than say, l.

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600 or something like that. But that would be a project. It'd be more useful to do that than it would be to put up a tower anyway. Yeah, you never know. Someday might get back around to it, but I'd probably. You know, you'd have to hire somebody. Someone knows what they're doing. Yeah. And even a 60 foot tilt over tower with a pop up in it. Right. By the time you're done, your antenna would be at 100 foot to the top of the antenna. Those work pretty good. I got. I got one that I got to put up over at Ernie's house over in Chico. We gotta get it done. Yeah. Well, this one's probably like 100. And I'd say it's probably 110 or 115 to the top of the antenna, but. Yeah.

You're not getting any towers in my backyard, that's for sure. I don't even know if you can put a tower up in a regular house like this, because the towers, they need to be so that if they fall over or whatever, you know, they can't harm the neighbor's yard or something. And that's just not possible because, I mean, our yards aren't big enough for houses. Our houses occupy all the lot. Yes, that's true. That's why the tilt up and the retractable tower ones are good when it's weather's crappy, bring them down. But here, you know, getting that 50, 60, 70 mile wind that we get once every moon, we haven't had any super high winds for quite a long time. Yeah, it just isn't.

Enough for me to ever want. I mean, Gears has got another one that they're giving away right now, so person just has to pick it up in Orville. But it's just some little thing I would never deal with. It looks like it's about 30 foot tall. Friend of mine asked me if I could help him go get it. I said I could help him go get it, but it's not worth your time. That's what I told him. I've taken down quite a few of them. I've hired a crane to take some of them down. Local guys. It was cheap. We were going to pull one down one day, and in one section, it was actually just faster. With electric tools to pull the thing apart, bring it down 10ft at a time. We held onto it and dropped it. We were in a bucket.

Yeah. So you brought it down, and when you got down to the bottom, you just kind of lowered it down and easily. That's what you did. That's pretty nice. Yeah. We were at a crane that had a carrier in it, the basket in it, and then we just started unbolting it and then brought it down 10 foot sections at a time. There's a 85 footer. So the fun part about that is when I put it in at my parents house, you know, the. I had to put 5ft of it in the ground in concrete, 5 or 6ft of it, because I couldn't find the base for it anymore. It's an older design. That would work, though. Seems like just be a little shorter. Yeah. There was just a couple of areas that had some pop. Riveting problems. So.

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So we re pop riveted it. We actually didn't discover it until we got it up in the air. We used a 55 foot forklift, an extended fork telefork, to put it up. And when we were manhandling it, getting it vertical, we kind of bent a few of the rods and popped out some of the rivets. We had to go back up and re rivet it. I went and rented a 80 foot lift. 85 foot lift. Yep. That's where it gets expensive. Right. So if you get a good deal on the towers, that's fine, but you still got all the construction stuff to do and who knows what else. If you clean it all up and stuff before you put it re erect it. Exactly. All right, Steve, I'm over here at Destination. Thanks for chatting with me.

And I will talk to you tomorrow. W6GRC. Yeah, you ought to get Jeremy to put up. I think he's got a tower sitting probably in his dad's place, so help him put that one up, at least in his backyard. Yeah, that would be good. Try to get him to put it up. Yeah. Anyway. Okay. Yeah, he was telling me before less. He's gonna have less antennas, but I don't know. All right, 73 KN 6 MGK. I'll be clear. Yeah, there's a little bit of static coming in the repeater. I'm actually surprised. Yep, I'm hearing it. Any chance of getting something over around Paskenta again sometime? Well, you can tell me about it later. I know you're busy, so. Yeah.

If there ever is a chance that might be kind of interesting. 73 can 6 MGK.

Kg6k.uokn6pww. Hi, Lester, it's Jamie. Ran late tonight. We went out, had a good time and got home a little late. Check in. No traffic problem. Thank you for checking in. Can you say Texas? Lester, one more thing. I am not going to be on the Net until, I think, Tuesday night. Got some other obligations this weekend and in the next week. So Tuesday night, you said Tuesday night, right? That is correct. So I will not be on tonight or tomorrow night and not again until Tuesday night. All right. I'll lock it down. Thank you very much for letting me know. All right. Thanks, Lester. 73.

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Kk6bvb mobile we6a x n repeater. K6 5wh. Good morning. Good morning. Had to turn up the volume a bit. Good morning. How are you? Okay. How about yourself? Going to work? Four more months left. Well, I'm going a little to work a little early because I got the on call phone and I gotta call this morning. Well.

That's only about 10 minutes early, so I guess that's not too bad. It could have been 3:30 in the morning. You mean you're on call at 3:30 in the morning? I don't forget that I'm on call overnight for a week. Ouch. Had a job one time working at night. I hated it. Absolutely insane. You know, 3 o', clock, 4 o' clock in the morning, you start getting sleepy. Hello. Give me more coffee. Yeah, I had this one job where. Oh, it was. Yeah, it was a maintenance control. Basically you were sitting in a dark room with some plexiglass boards in front of you to write on, which.

Grease pencil. And I was working midshift, and I think it must have been Thanksgiving or one of the holidays. And I was, I think it was actually a 12 hour shift. So like five till five. And it got to where, you know, I thought, boy, this is really dragging. It must be really late. I thought it was 3 o', clock, 2 o', clock, 3 o' clock in the morning. I looked at the clock, it was 10. And I thought, oh, my goodness, this is going to be a tough night. Well, you know, I think it's like an unnatural part of living. I mean, we're intended, you know, get up and get out and get sunshine in the sand and run around, whatever. But working at night in the dark is crazy.

Yeah. You know, the, the on call phone goes around everybody in our department. So I only get it about every seven weeks or so. But I've decided I've only got it a couple more times before I retire. I've decided I'm just going to offer it to anybody that wants to make some money. Because with the all on call duty comes some extra pay. So I don't think I want it anymore. I'm just going to see if any of my co workers want an extra $300. You mean to say the money isn't really worth it? Get over there and have some supper. Not for the next three, four months it isn't. Yeah. You were in the military. There's a one fingered salute that everybody talked about.

About two days left in the Army. Yeah. I tell you, right before I was getting ready to retire. Must have been about a month or so before I was about ready to retire, and my chief comes up to me and looks at me and says, Sergeant McLean, it kind of looks like you need a haircut. Your hair's getting a little shaggy. I just looked at him, I said, yeah, I know, Chief. Yeah, I know. Goodbye. See you later. Hasta Louisa, baby. Yeah, exactly. I think he was a little disappointed, though. They didn't care a little bit more than that. But you know what? By that time, I was like, I'm finished. I've had enough of this, and I just don't care anymore. So you were in the Navy.

No, I was in the air force. What do they call AFOs? I'm not sure what that means. I don't think. I thought, ah, maybe you could have called it road at that point in time. Well, Army MOS, Air Force is AFOs. No, it's actually AFSC. Let me jot that down. Well, you know, recently I'm working on some pencil drawings. I'm trained as an art educator. Half track. You know of the M4 high speed track?

Pencil drawing, but I added little, you know, like, there's a skull here and there. One is. This is my sergeant coming to pick me up. But I'm concerned about desecration of the flag and that sort of thing. You see people wearing shirts of the flag, pair of pants, you know, no problem. I guess the. The desecration is when somebody takes the flag and stomps on it and burns it on the flag. Hey, you Americans die. Well, they're actually, you're not supposed to wear it either, but I'm not sure exactly what that means. An honest to goodness real flag. You're not supposed to wear it? No.

Not the flag pattern. Yeah, well, I think it's good to be aware. You know, people, soldiers, military personnel died for that flag, you know, and you're burning it up. Corn gas on it. I don't think so. Yeah, no, actually, this is not anywhere near that scale, but, you know, I was driving down the road one day, and he came to an intersection, and there was a couple of fire engines out there. They had this big flag hanging down over the intersection between them. They were doing a. What do you call it? Pass the boot or something like that. We were collecting money for something.

For some. Cause I don't remember. But I looked up at the flag, and something was really weird about it. And then it occurred to me, you know, when you. When you hang a flag up like, that, there's rules as to which side of the or which direction the field points to or is on. And they. They had it wrong. I think they had it. Yeah, I think they had it hung to where the field was. Was on the south side. And I know that that's wrong. It's either supposed to be east or north. And I was gonna send an email to the fire chief, but I thought, you know, 1750. Well, hey, maybe you should. You know, that stuff's important. Nobody upholds the rules, you know? I see. Oh, blue.

American flags or flags with a blue stripe, you know, and some. Someone somewhere is trying to add a meaning. I don't think that's appropriate either. And neither do I. Neither do I. But I'm now parked, and I need to get inside and get a monitor and buzz over and replace the dead monitor that they called about. So I will talk to you later. Have a great day. 73 KK6VZD, clear.

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This is ko6ewa monitoring. Ko6ewa, this is Ko6edw. Ko6edw. How are you doing? Fine. How about yourself? I'm great. Glad to hear it. What you got going on today? I'm teaching kids about ham radio and Morse code. That's pretty much it. That's fun. Good luck with it. Thank you. Thank you. What do you have going on today? One of my best buddies is going to come over later.

Hit some bench press or something, all right. Sounds fun. Yeah. Well, I gotta get out of here, so. Catch you later, k6e dw. All right. See you later, ko6ewa.

This is Ko6edw. This is Ko6ewa. Ko6ewa, go ahead. I have a question for you. What is your favorite part of ham radio? I'd say getting to talk to all of the cool people. There's a lot of people on here. I agree. That's probably my favorite part as well. So how's the weather over there? Quite windy. Where are you located? Right.

Right now. I'm in corning, california. That's cool. I'm in Chico, California. I have been there before. I know you have. What's your favorite food? Probably sushi. I agree. That's probably my favorite as well. A lot of people like it. So I'm helping teach a class right now for all these kids. Is there anything you want to.

Tell them. I'd say if they want to, they should get their ham radio licenses. It's pretty fun. And you get to talk to all of your friends. You don't even need a phone. One of the kids wants to know how much it costs. Once you are ready to take your test, it's $15 US take the test and then if you Pass, it's another $30 to get your license accepted. That's so cool. Another kid wants to know how much you can bench press. £165.

That's a lot of pounds. They're cheering for you. Well, they should know how much catch press too. I want to know if you read the Dogman books. Of course. Who hasn't? They want to know your name. My name is Eli Eko Lima, India. They want to know how old you are and where you live and if you read Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

I am 15 years old. I live in Corning, California. And, yes, I have read all of the wimpy kid books. What's your favorite book? Probably Dog Days. Can you repeat that? The Dog Days book. Okay. All right, we gotta go. All right, thanks for the call. This is ko6edw. I'll be clear. All right, thanks a bunch, ko6ewa.

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JK6ISQ mobile, WP6AXN receiver. Yeah, I know. You didn't even wave. How you doing, Mike? N60 online. Alrighty. I. I figured that was so coming up. Nope, just me. Hey, just so you know, January 10th. I'm trying to put together a CPR class, so if you might be available on that day. It's a Saturday. I'll have a list. List of my desk. Sounds good. It's gonna be in the cubicle, right? Yes. Good deal. Okay. Yeah, I'll definitely check it out. I should be available because my schedule's changing up, so.

Yep. We're just trying to. December is definitely out, but we're also trying to push it out to where everybody can plan around it. I think it's just a four hour class. Sounds good. What I'll do, you know what I'll do is I'll still attend it. However. Hold on a second. I gotta get off the side. Okay. Sorry about that. I had a fire apparatus coming up on me with lights going, but. Yeah, so I just did mine in August or. No, July, June or July. I did my cpr, so I'm up to date. But I'll still go to the class and I honestly, I want to worry about it then if you're.

If you're up to date, don't worry about it. Okay. Do you want me to send you over an email with my card in it? That way you have it on file? Yeah, that'd be great. Will do, sir. Yeah, I'll get that out to you either today or tomorrow. Right on. How's everything else going? All pretty good. I got promoted to motor pool supervisor, so. And this week, I. By Wednesday, I was already up to 46 hours for the week, so I've got the rest of this week off. All right. On sounds good? Yes, sir. I actually got some days to relax. What, are you turning your phone off? I'm just ignoring their calls.

There you go. I always say I do that, but I never do. Hey, what time are you gonna be done today? At some point, I want to give you a call on the. You know, on the phone. I got a couple questions for you. Go ahead and do it now. I'm good. I got five or ten minutes. All right. Okay. Once I get to the. The stables here, which is only about two minutes away from me, I'll give you a call real quick. The only reason why I wouldn't do it right now is my phone is buried in my pocket. Roger. I'll give you a 73 KK6 ISQ. Clear?

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