Transcriptions for 2025-11-27

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Fresno link up. Romeo2delta on fresno. Carlosbound99. Anybody out there on that wr2d? Yeah, you're a little bit scratchy, but you're making it. How you doing? 10 here n6kn. We're doing pretty good. It's been cloudy ever since we came out of the mountains north of Los Angeles. Had the de facto for holiday dinner and weekend with my younger daughter. My wife and I are being driven up by daughter.

And nice experience and taking our time. Not much choice with the traffic, but looking forward to a nice weekend. WR2, back to you. WR2T, back to you. Okay, you were a little bit scratchy. You're slowly getting better. So you are northbound 99, or are you southbound heading to Los Angeles? Yeah, I don't know. If you've got another repeater, you can grab this one. I thought you were getting better, but you're still quite noisy. Anyways, I copied. You were on 99 and you're either heading.

It Gears holds a free Morse code class every Wednesday night, 6pM at the Golden Beaver Distillery still house at 2420 Park Avenue. All are welcome to come learn Morse code W6RHC repeater check 3.

Or out of Los Angeles, but you're in the Fresno area. All right, well, I'll be listening, and hopefully you can maybe find a better repeater. My name here is ken. I am N6KNE, and I'm currently in Busa. Columbia. Happy british columbia. We get into a hole here on the freeway, dipping under overpasses and such, so probably where it gets lousy. I don't remember. It's been a long time, but what?

Was that system 17 that you're using? Or is it 18? One of those. Columbia. Come on back. I'm in colombia. South america. Colombia? As in juan valdez? Coffee? Been in quite a rig. Was in Cartagena two years ago. Just a brief stay there on a tour. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Beautiful bird sanctuary there in Cartagena. So, yeah, we're having a little trouble with the noise and.

Further away from those theaters. So you have a good holiday wherever you're going to spend it and be safe. So wrtd, I'm going to be clear of W3, and I'll see if I can decode your last. All right? Yeah, we just. We just got back from Cartagena. We went there, spent four days there on the beach and spent about a day and a half there inside of Central. You know, Cartagena. You know where Central is? Okay. You take care n6kne. Well, I'm using radio list, so I don't have the hk, but Colombia. You take care. Enjoy your turkey.

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Kilo oscar6 bravo, golf, yankee. Monitoring wp6 axm receiver.

The gear's west. Repeater frequency has been changed. It is now on 1.46.895 minus PL 123. I repeat. 46.895 minus PL 123. W fix R H C repeater check 1.

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Kk 1 bud n 60 online w e 6 a x n repeater kk 1 vd hey, Neil. Sir. Where you headed off to? Kind of. Why'd you see me? I'm headed down to my mother in law's Gonna go down there for dinner and get stuff ready for tomorrow for turkey day. Oh, there you go. Yeah, I just passed you at the intersection back there. I'm just coming going from the office over to Veterans Veterans hall, so got an event that I got to work over there. Oh, you work over there tonight? Yes, sir. 5:30 to midnight. Are you indoors, I hope. I'm hoping so. It gets kind of chilly out there tonight. Kind of chilly and wet. Yep.

Sounds like fun. Yes, sir. Yeah, I saw your truck go by. I was like, oh, that was fun. I gotta reach out. Yeah, I'm glad you did. I didn't know what you were up to these days. Just went to breakfast this morning with the crew. Yeah, I was going to try to make breakfast this morning, but that didn't happen. I'm going to have to drop to the side. Actually, I'll give you a seven for. I got a call coming in, so I'll talk to you later, bud. N60 MI73KK1BD clear.

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Kk6vzd mobile. Vzd, KK1 bed. How you doing, Chris? Hey. Just getting off of work and got a nice long weekend coming up. Yeah, I was just on just a minute ago with N6CNY and I just got off and I told my wife, I said, you know, Chris will be getting out here in a minute or two. Here I am. And not a minute too late either. So we're on. We on a day countdown yet? Oh, yes, I am. I decided to make my last day of work 31st March, so my retirement begins on for full day. That's funny. Yeah, I kind of like it.

That's it's silly, but probably just a little bit of truth saying that that's one of the reasons that I chose it. Don't you have to work the whole month to get service credit for the whole month? Well, up to the 31st of March. That's the last day. Well, yeah. I was just thinking if you left earlier than that, though. Yeah. No, no, that makes a lot of sense. So how many days you got now? Like 126, But who's counting, right? Yep. Sounds pretty cool. So you headed home now and getting ready for Turkey Day tomorrow? Yeah. But the only person we're going to have joining us tomorrow is my daughter. So we're going to have we're going to have a thanks.

Thanksgiving chicken. Well, that's good that you get to have your daughter at home. So. Yeah, we're going to be out at mother in law's after. We're out on Oswald Road right now getting ready to go in for dinner with her tonight. So she's 97, so we try to make sure we get to spend all the holidays we can with her. And we got relatives here from Idaho and Texas, so we'll have a pretty good sized group tomorrow. Yeah. Sounds like. It. Sounds like it's really kind of weird. It's like our holidays are getting less and less. We have less and less people that we visit with on our holidays as opposed to more and more. You think with, you know, an expanding family, we'd have more, but know. Yeah. Like I say, we.

Probably something when she passes. We'll probably won't be as many of us get together after that, but since she's still around, we will. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I hope you guys have a good time. Dude. What have you got a feast planned? Are you doing much of the cooking? We split it up pretty good with all the relatives. We don't do too much. I think we're making pies and I'm not sure exactly what, but we're getting ready to go under your front door here in just a few minutes now, so see what's for dinner tonight. I better get off of here and let you go. And we'll say 7:3 and have a good holiday tomorrow. Are you going to make it to the Christmas party? No, not this year. Not with it being on a Tuesday night. I need to be with the choir.

Practicing. I I need as much practice as I can get, so I've decided to to do that instead of a Christmas party. Wish I didn't have to make that choice, but, you know, it's something that I had to do, so. Well, have a great evening and hope your Thanksgiving is is enjoyable. You have a good time with all your your visitors and we'll talk to you afterwards. 73 KK6VZD clear. Yeah, likewise, Chris. You take care. 73 KK1VUD clear. K06bgy Happy holidays or happy Thanksgiving to both of you. Ko6bgy all declared. Thank you, Paul72 Happy Thanksgiving to you, Paul. 73jk6bzd73k o6bby I'll be clear.

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System 19 link up.

The Gears. Monthly general membership meetings are held on the third Monday night of the month at the Butte County Public Library, 1108 Sherman Avenue in Chico. Doors open at 6pm and the meeting starts at 7pm all are welcome. W6RHC repeater check 2.

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The gears west repeater frequency has been changed. It is now on 146.895 minus TL 123. I received 46.895 minus TL 123.

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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.

W7oqf. W7oqf. Nr7g mobile. Hey, you're there. I just want to say Happy Thanksgiving. Early. What are you what are you up to this evening? Watch a movie and Happy Thanksgiving. Oh, okay. What are you going to watch? Are you going to take a break and Take a break in an hour and check into the net real quick? 1900 and it Julie.

And James are coming back from Bishop, California tomorrow. I just left city hall and I'm headed to grocery to pick up a couple of quick things before I do net control duty of 1900. Oh, okay. Yeah, I'll definitely be there. See your behind it. Yeah, I'll definitely on watch TV and I can check in. So. That's great. Yeah, it's kind of neat to do that. I'll do pay Tesco DMR too. Nice. Nice. So what are you doing for things here tomorrow? You're gonna cook a big bird and all that stuff? Well, we're going over to Joan kids and they're having a good party.

I guess you're probably going to have a thing at home, right? Yeah, yeah, we're. That's the plan. We're going to have a big kin dig at the house. Bunch of people over all that about probably. I don't know. I think three. Three in the afternoon. Oh, that's great. Well, I'm going to run and get to this thing going and I'll definitely check in. I got the headphone on. I can do a 37 LQS in Phoenix. All right, Nat. Take care, 73, and we'll talk to you later. And R7G mobile, northbound i11 at the Rainbow Curve. Take care.

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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 licensed amateur radio operators are welcome to join in the next WFIC RHC Repeater Check 3.

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Whiskey romeo through delta mobile on the sacramento carla machine. Anybody out there, WR2D?

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Yeah, I hear somebody in there. But your audio is way low. Signal seems good. Yeah, it's a little better. Let me see if I can turn it up a little bit. Yeah, try it there. Eric here. How you doing?

Doing fine. Yeah, it's still really hard to read. I don't know. It could be my radio. I'm not sure. I'm up here at the Mineral going through the 36. I hope you have a safe trip and a happy Thanksgiving. I'm going to say 73. Okay. If I.

Like I said, I could barely read it, but like I said, it could be on my end. So, anyway, I'm going to say 73. Steve, you have a great Thanksgiving. Be safe. This will be Kilo, November 6th, Sierra Lima, November Monroe, California. Sierra hotel lima, this is whiskey romeo 2 delta, November 6th. You're at.

November. I forgot already. Just on the air a few minutes ago. Anyway, WR2D. See if you can come back to me. I'm on the Sacramento machine, northbound, north of Stockton. 73 WR2D.

Anybody out there? Come on back.

The gear's west. Repeater frequency has been changed. It is now. It is now on 1.46.895 minus PL 123. I repeat, 46.895 minus PL 123 W6 RHC Repeater Check 1.

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Kg6k u o.kf6 Obi.w6rhc. Repeater check 2f6. Okay, 6k uo, go ahead. Yes, I'm requesting an early check in with no traffic. And I will be out of the net until possibly Monday due to family and activities. All right, no problem. Thank you very much. You and Bessie have a wonderful Thanksgiving day. All right, YouTube, you have a good evening. KG6KF6OBI is clear.

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K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

Alpha kilo 6, juliet november. Can I give the radio check? System2 link off.

Qst qst qst this is KG6 Kuo opening Sacramento Valley Traffic Net. This net is part of the National Traffic System and the purpose of this net is to relay former traffic into Sacramento Valley and to provide a standard version after today directed it. Please make no transmissions without permissions. All stations are requested Station on. Located west of station with W6RHC repeater check 3 on station with traffic to be distant. Non Roll call follows. KF6OPI just called in a few little while ago for nurs to check in. Take your 60k yules call, enroll and don't drive into your 6.

Good evening, lester in the group. This is kg6tso, bessie with no traffic. Thank you. Busy kf6, dj, y, K6rcs, K6pmt, kilo echo 6, papa mike tango, rustin gerber. Good evening. Let's turn the group and I have no traffic. Good evening, russ. Thank you. Kc6ufe. Kc6ufe. Bill. Incompetent, no traffic. Good evening, lester and gobble gobble. Good evening there, bill. Thank you. And you have a good thanksgiving.

Land6 Pww. All right. That's rollers. I have it. Do we have any late members or visitors wish to check in? No further traffic or check in. This is a KG6K closing Sacramento Valley traffic 2100 hours over time through the W6. I received Peter 146 95. All stationary. SK I like and to go over the Empire Mater dis closed at 212 73.

Kg6 kuo.kf6djy6djy.kg6k uo, go ahead. Good evening, lester. Yes. Sorry, late. Check in kf6tjy. Not a problem, bruce. Thanks for kicking in, Kf6djy.

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Good evening, world. From 86 poc mobile 101 and baker avenue, downtown santa rosa. System 26, link up.

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K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

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K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range. Oh, yes. Good morning. Very cold today. 38 degrees in Chico.

Did I hear somebody say it was 38 degrees in Chico? Oh, yes. Roger rogers. Sand6iwh. How cold is it where you are? Cold is the wrong question. It is 78 degrees here. A moment. But I am only about 4 degrees above the equator. Yes, that's exactly right. And happy Thanksgiving to you.

Turkey day. Happy turkey day to you. Yeah. You know, I'm not awake yet. What's your name? It's all right. The name here is ken. I am N6K80. Oh, yeah, I remember. We went away for a while. Well, good to hear you. You know, I. I thought you were a nice guy, but I don't know you, and I didn't really rag chew that much, but I always thought you were good. I was gonna ask you if you speak Spanish. Hey, get the arsenal.

Learning. I'm picking it up slowly but surely. For being here a total of one year, I probably should be up around 20%. But I'm still sitting around 8%. Now, I'm guessing, if you don't mind me using percentages. Even though I have a Spanish surname, everybody thinks I speak Spanish. I don't. I took it in school. Three years of college level Spanish. You want to talk about a lot of work, reading, writing, Spanish. It's the Spanish of Spain. Did they teach? Oh, well, you know, Spain is in Europe. Must be better.

Well, the Spanish of Spain. Yeah, that's. That's a bad course. Just like our bastardized English there in the States. The bastardized Spanish there in the States is, is equally as bad. Colombian Spanish is halfway between the bastardized Spanish Mexico and the proper Spanish. It's kind of a. Kind of a good Spanish to know and learn. I've heard people talk of the Spanish, Cuba and how it's so different, and they have.

This noticeable accent, but their Spanish is more correct. I don't know. Well, as it works its way around the planet clockwise and counterclockwise through Spain worship yet. So, yeah, Mexico is about as bastardized Spanish as you can get, you know, and it works. It works for them, of course, just like English works for us there in the States. American English is about the worst bastardized English there is. See, now what you talking about? Yeah, Mexicans don't know how to fix that.

Isn't that funny? But in my learning of Spanish, I found out that you could come up to Mexican people and say something totally bastardized. Wrong, you know, the wrong verb conjugation, but they still understand what you're talking about, so. Hey, yo, Kero, would. Yeah, yeah. You got to be careful trying to speak Spanish while thinking in English. That can get ugly. All right, well, I. I was in the middle of something when I heard you call, but I definitely didn't want to leave you unanswered, so.

I did need to get back to what I was doing. But good to hear you back on here. And. Yeah, drop in here more often. Say hello, take care, and I will be listening. In fact, you may hear some funny stuff come out over the system. That's just me doing some testing. Take care. Six knee here in Busa Casaga, Colombia. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Sounds good. Take care. Talk to you later. Oh, n6 oh, well, n6 kn6 I talk to you later. Oh. You know, it's wonderful that got you on the horn. I mean, I'm glad that.

Carlos. I've met some really nice people on the Link system. Not too many users. Good system. Anyway. How's the lawyer? Yeah, Peter, the local stuff there in your area, you're probably going to hear a lot. More like 36 and maybe 25. I don't know. You may. You may hear a lot of stuff there. Yeah. Link. Link can be pretty quiet. All right. You take care and I'll be listening in. 6K and.

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Good morning. Cold ko6bgy ko6bgy n6iwh coin standing by. Wb6a x n receiver.

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K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

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Tell him I said hi. Oh, brother. Well, let me see here. I think there's something wrong. It says it's supposed to get down to 37 degrees, but it says it's 46. Huh? And same temperature as yesterday. 60. Start of yet another beautiful day. N6NTM Good morning.

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Go make me some coffee. But I'm listening. N6 ntm.

The gears. Monthly informal breakfast is held on the second Saturday of the month at 9am at the Farmer's Skillet, located at 690 Rio Lindo Avenue, Chico. All are welcome to attend W6RHC Repeater Check 2.

Kilo 11-6-Mike, golf kilo. Happy Thanksgiving. Yep, Just sticking around here. I don't know, may want to go play radio later. May sound counterintuitive, but if the sun starts to peak out or I decide to get snow urgent there, I might go out to the local park over here and see what I can do. Back in the day, all I cared about was the football games and looking forward to some turkey maybe. But anyway, family get togethers and stuff.

But none of that stuff happens anymore except the football, and I don't care about that.

You guys are somewhat lucky. I don't know about the last few days, but here we wake up to fog and, you know, it's been like socked in sometimes almost all day long. Yesterday when I drove up there about 11 o' clock or whatever, you know, just got to the property and it's above that layer and, boy, it's nice, pretty sunshine.

Didn't Blake hear me when he did? Whatever he did, I was able to hear him, like, you know, broken up. But that was better than not hearing him at all. So whatever it was made a big difference. Down to Chico also.

Yeah. That's one thing that's been kind of depressing lately about YAESU stuff. For the amount of money you pay for their equipment, their audio stinks. Yeah, you got to really eat the microphones on all their handhelds, I think. Pretty much. So. I don't know if they put, like, a little bit of protection in front of the electric or whatever to make it so that little bit of moisture doesn't hurt them, but something really causes them to be like that versus even some less expensive radios. Like my TID radio sounds better than the yaesu.

Ab6xf, ab6xf, do you copy? Ab6, dw mobile.

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So what antenna are you messing with, Blake? I said, what antenna? What? What antenna are you messing with?

Reminds me of. Like, I think it's our F35s planes that they can't operate in major storms, so we can't have war when it rains outside. You're saying that we can't use an antenna in the rain?

Well, I've seen KB9DBR. Michael Martin's out in Wisconsin take out his. Excuse me, haven't had my coffee yet. Still working on it. But he's taking them out in the snow and the rain and operated, parks on the air and holds them up and takes them back in his car and takes off and goes. So I don't know. Yeah, I mean, seems like they should be able to be used in the rain.

Yeah well I'm not so critical on the so called match anymore like some people get kind of crazy off on it you know I mean as long as we're within use of an internal tuner I'm cool with it. So I mean here I've had loop antennas up in the rain stuff like that inside my redwood trees and yeah I mean I think the right answer to your question was well throw off the match isn't everything about everything when it comes to antennas right? So yeah it probably would change it just being standing close to it is enough so anyway but yeah that's where I hit that internal tuner button for or whatever if I'm really concerned about it But I know in your case ICOM705 I mean I don't think something's off by if it was a 1.2 to 1 and now it's a 1.3 to 1. This really going to make that much a difference?

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Yeah, well, mine, the different ones I have. I have a couple of Chinese. Well, I have one Chinese cheap one and that chellegance which is probably made it came out of Hong Kong so same difference I suppose but it was way more money anyway. I could just change the radials, you know, add more radials to it and then the whole thing changes. So lately I've been setting up out there at, at the 1 Park in Chico and it's been wet and foggy outside. I've had to actually extend the whip a little bit longer than I used to have to in order to get the, to get the capacitives right. So. So yeah, I mean that, you know, as long as when I set up it's, it's pretty good and I'm happy. But yeah, sometimes that happens. It's not like you can leave it there and be perfect all the time. At least for me when I'm setting up portable.

Yeah, those are good antennas. From what I could see. They're very similar to this. Pretty much the same company, I think JPC12. I have the MH750. Anyway, I think that's the one you have. So, yeah, I would think they'd have some similar characteristics like that. Just for me, just taking the radials, and if you elevate them slightly, it changes everything. So, yeah, I find it best for me, at least portable, to just let them lay on the ground, and that way they get their capacitive coupling with the ground, and it's a little bit more forgiving than if you elevate the radials. You have to more or less tune them a little bit better to just do better and you elevate them. So that's kind of what I've found so far. Jn6MGK.

I think they're set. They're made, like tractor supply for, like, electric fences and stuff, aren't they? I have one of those or so laying around here. It's kind of fun to have around. Anyway, just for what you're probably thinking, you know, to elevate your radials.

The gears west. Repeater frequency has been changed. It is now is now on 1. 46.895 minus PL 123. I received 46.895 minus TL 123 W6 RHC Repeater Check 3.

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

Yeah, a friend of mine here, Chris, just sold a. Sold one he bought like a month or two ago. He sold it for like 300 bucks used, I think, like $300 used. He put it on QRZ.com and sold it right away. He only had it for a few months. He hardly ever used it.

Yes. Here's another one right now that looks like it's sold on QRZ, 335 bucks on that, included shipping. So you can still get them anyway for around that kind of price. But anyway. Yeah. What do you. Do you have something that you want to operate an ATOS with? Okay. So you'd have to buy another controller or something, too. Right. I mean, the Yaesu Atos 120 is made for the YAESU transceivers. You know that. You know, you just plug it up to that radio and it already has everything inside the radio that'll control it, you know, do what it has to do and change bands and all that. Right. So just like the Tar Heel, if you're going to use it with an icon now, you'll have to buy some.

Sort of a controller or something, too. Okay, I guess I'm not familiar. Kn6mgk.

Good morning to you. Enjoy it. Then. You guys are going to be over there at the coffee tomorrow? Maybe. Okay. Yeah. I'm just thinking about what I might want to do tomorrow. That sounds like fun. Get out of this fog, too. If it's still foggy. K6MGK. Happy Thanksgiving to John. Oh, yeah, I heard your everybody statement. You guys are missing the updates from the. From the White House. Pretty fantastic. Had me clapping in the front room at least 10 times since I started drinking coffee.

I can't remember what they call that type of deal. It's a step above an executive order. But these are permanent ones that they can't change. And he just did away with California's ability to keep screwing things up. I know you probably find that hard to believe. You'll have to. You'll have to watch the White House updates. He signed them right there. Signed them. They're incredible. It's up to you, if you're interested, to go listen to that. A whole room full of very, very important people. I haven't been able to take my eyes off it. So, anyway. All right, I'm listening. And right back at you, Steve and everybody. What a great country we live in. Hey, they say Thanksgiving's 20% cheaper than it was last year, so I'm liking it.

Or the previous four years. Yep. All right. Anyway, I'm a listening kinda in the background. Good news going on this morning. N6 NTM. Okay, well see back to antennas. What antenna are you guys building or working on? That's question number one. And for Blake or anyone out there that's listening about this non motorized YAESU antenna, I'm curious which one that is. What model number? Just researching it around because I'd be really interested in something like that too. But yeah, the ones I've always seen were like these ATOs120alphas. And they are motorized. All right, maybe take it to Jay. What antenna are you guys building?

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Oh, yeah, that would have been interesting. Yeah, to build one of those. Anyway, sounds like fun. And you're gonna do this when? Friday, after coffee.

I don't know. I sure like that one that Dan made. He showed it to me. That was real lightweight. I think I'd make one like that. But I could see a point on the. Gene down here had a few of those he was making the tape measure antennas. And you know what was neat about those is they. You kind of fold them up, right, and stick them away. And when you pull them back out, no big deal. They don't, like, get all bent up and stuff, because they'll just come right back.

Yeah, it would have been cool if I had known about it. Maybe Pat over here. I would probably got him involved and maybe he and I could have built a couple too with y'. All. It would have been fun to do a little build, you know. It would be a fun club event to put together. Gene down here used to do some of those. He was building those Slim Jim antennas. I still have some parts and pieces know left here of the 450 ohm ladder line and stuff like that, but nobody seems to be into that anymore. They're all into talking about these cheap Bowfeng repeaters and anytone duplexers, stuff like that. I still get a kick out of it though.

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Yeah. Straight tubing. Yeah. I mean, I already have some of these antennas laying around here, so, you know, the ones like Ebri makes that you put on top of a Bowfang or something. Yeah. I mean, all this stuff really isn't new. The Bofang stuff that people are still talking about today. When I became a ham five years ago, I was dabbling in it before I was legal. So, you know, just for fun. But upbreed antennas are tape measure antennas that they're like, I don't know, they're tall, like almost 4ft tall. I think they're maybe they're 39 inches tall, whatever 2 meter, 2 meter wavelength is, but. Or half whatever that is anyway. And they have string tubing over the whole thing, you know, and then it's, you can fold it back onto itself and all that.

Made in china. Yeah. I have two of them. They work different. You can put them on the same radio and one of them you can hear good and the other one you can't. One transmits better than the other. So ridiculous that there's so much variance in the antennas when you get these Chinese made things that people think are excellent. Just like the Bofang radios. I think I bought a dozen of them roughly so far in my life, and I've gotten rid of. Let me think here. I've gotten rid of 10 of them. Yeah.

Kept the two that received the best. So there you go. There's a lot of differences in each radio. Like if we bought half a dozen radios and tried them right next to each other. Yeah, there's differences. It's pretty interesting. That's their quality control.

Hey, Mike, why don't you just use the hamstick DX commando for an antenna for your 705? Not with. Here. You'll have, you know, you'll have like, you probably do four bands at one time. Hamstick Commando. Hamstick. So it's called the DX Commando? Yep. You know, DX Commander, that's McCallum. What's his name? From, from, you know, he's from the uk. Anyway, he has the DX Commander, which is a big, big vertical. Like, I don't know, he can a 10 meter carbon fiber type anyway, and he has multiple, multiple bands on like a fan dipole vertical. Anyway, but anyway, there's a guy out there that's promoting this.

DX commando. So it's the hamstick version of that with the ground plates and stuff like that. Anyway, I could always send. Well, I don't have yours. I can send it to Jay. A couple videos on it. That guy. Dude tested. Dude tested. He's been messing around with that kind of thing. Anyway, he's basically putting different tuned hamsticks on a. On a simple ground plate system.

Well, none of these will, because the JPC is a full quarter wave vertical on 20. Right. So. And then when you go down to the other higher bands, it's a full quarter wave vertical. Right? So, yeah, it's gonna be pretty tough. Yeah. Then we start getting into like 40 meters and stuff like that on the JPC. Well, then it becomes compromised, right?

Welcome to america. They pay McDonald's workers $20 an hour. I get worse service than I ever do. When I go to a fast food joint, I don't go to them anymore. But that's my analogy.

Yeah, they used to have these, what they called, like, sunrise sandwiches over here at Carl's Jr. Which is a. You know, I think it was on a biscuit instead of. Instead of a croissant or English muffin, but it had a scrambled egg and cheese, like Canadian bacon, you know, that type of a thing. Sandwich. Anyway, they were, like, a dollar apiece. And I used to go in there and get, like, four of them before I'd head off to work. Oh, man, that's what got me. The way I. The way I am, by the way, is doing stuff like that. But they don't do stuff like that anymore. Now it's all, like, you pay $5 for something like that, minimum, you know, and it's nowhere like it. No, I don't think so. But I was.

Referring to the fact that I'm not the skinniest guy on the planet. So just like you guys probably remember, like, hamburger stand, where you used to be able to get, like, hamburgers for 29 cents a piece. I'd go in and get 10 of them. Yeah, I throw away a lot of the buns, but still stack, you know, stack, you know, say four hamburgers on, you know, on top of each other. So. Thought I was doing myself a favor. Kn6mg.

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Wishing everyone listening and very happy Thanksgiving from Watsonville. System 10 link box SA.

Yeah. Good morning. Are you making a call? I copied geo page and the thanksgiving wish. Thank you for that. Hope you're going to have a good day. To n6iwh and chico. Pete, papa echo, tango, echo.

Going to have a little turkey breast over here. Dressing pie. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

Hey, in addition, cold here today. Good where you are? Hey, I'm here a bit. Yeah, it's cold here Tuesday and I'm just dropped back to the house. I'm heading back in. Roger, roger. Copy. Two dogs for breakfast. Okay one, have a good one. M6IWH monitoring.

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Anyway, so then I got. A whole day ahead would be great. Yeah, I'm just working on some nanner pudding right now. Simple recipe, seven ingredients.

Butter into the flour. Different ways to butter into the flour. That's how you make. It a little bit. Okay, very good. I was talking to Jenny. On Saturday next week, so.

Oh, yeah, because you supposed to be 88 blocks in your house, right? Yeah, that's all fixed. I go out there a couple times a day and just fire it up and transmitter for a while. I got a throttle that'll make 120 watts. Oh, wow. So what are you and Cheryl gonna do? No, she didn't want to do that.

Americana open. Oh yeah, I'm sure all the restaurants are open. Maybe back in the day I used to. When I was in high school, I used to work in the doll part time. The money. Right. Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving, Christmas or two days we were closed. And everything else we were open. But I think nowadays Everything's open. All365. Right. Well, Julie's cousin's a big in and out burger fan. Got. So every time he comes to town, here's.

I guess the exact not only I would expect that in and out is off of close. They don't know what they're going to do. They're rolling in at 12:30 and then these guys take him straight to the airport. He got a three o' clock flight. Talking about cutting close anyway. So. He'll be here on the plane by the time we're eating. You know, I never. I've never had a tune out. All right, man, I got to finish up this one. Radio. I'm six.

Have a. Have a good night. All right? I hope you guys have a good day, too. I'll call you, Ralph. They got some good stuff there. I mean, it's. It's not something I do, but every once in a while, you know, the quality is definitely there. You know, they think about in and out. Doesn't matter which restaurant you go to, some other state or some part different geographic cars outline. Anywhere you go, there will always be. Take care. 7 3nr 17.

Gears holds a free Morse code class every Wednesday night, 6pM at the Golden Beaver Distillery still house at 2420 Park Avenue. All are welcome to come learn Morse code W Fix R, H, C repeater check 2.

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The gears. Monthly informal breakfast is held on the second Saturday of the month at 9am at the Farmer's Skillet, located at 690 Rio Lindo Avenue, Chico. All are welcome to attend.

89 prl radio. You sound good. Your audio and your signal are right there where they should be. N60. Okay, I'm just kind of doing a location and distance test on where I'm at. I'm on a side by side up on a side of a mountain here. Yeah, I should be almost point to point to the McCream, so it's not surprising I'm getting through. But thank you for the signal check. KV90. All right. Yeah, you've got a good signal there into the repeater. If you want to talk about distance, I am in fusa Columbia. You take care and have fun.

Enjoy your thanksgiving. N6kn.

N6kne km6nng san jose. Looks like you made the move to columbia finally. We've been here one year now. I retired in October of 2024 and we moved out here just like November mid November of 24. Yeah. Beloved here. This is where the wife is from and this is where we decided to retire. Yeah, sounds like a great move. I remember you used to connect up frequently on Carla when you were driving a rig and I.

To listen, you're going up and down California. Yeah, I probably mentioned it a few times. Sorry about that. But yeah, we're finally. We're finally here and settled in and loving every minute of it. San Jose. So you're what's temperature in San Jose right now? Probably 60s, low 60s maybe it is 80 and a half degrees here right now, 80.5.

I must have lost you. N6 Kennedy, I'll be listening. Yeah, I got a battery problem on my walkie. I'll catch up with you later. N6 Canning, this is KM6NG, San Jose, California. We'll catch you next time.

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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 licensed amateur radio operators are welcome to join in the net WFIC RHC Repeater Check 3.

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Ab6 charlie whiskey. Ab6 charlie whiskey. Db6x ray sierra calling system 10. Link up. Alpha bravo 6 charlie whiskey from 86xs. Hill in bed. Alpha Bravo 6x3 Sierra clear.

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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Kilo Oscar 6 Bravo, Gulf Jenkies monitoring. Doing Paul KN6 WNR. Happy Thanksgiving. I hope that you're at home. I'm driving the gym. But I was just at home. I'm not working today. That's the plus side. Right on. Right on. Yeah. That's awesome. Kind of a ghost town. I'm up here at the shopping center. I'm gonna go in there in a minute and get a couple things. Nothing we forgot. Just a couple things I wanted to get. So. Yeah, that's about it. Foggy over here. I can't believe it. The first time I've had a pace. Oh, sorry. An ht. I almost said a ht. Like the British. An hd fall in the water. It wasn't any of my doing, like.

Cat knocked it into the counter. I guess he didn't like it. It dried overnight and it worked best, I could tell. Well, if it fell in the water and you pulled it out quickly, it didn't really have enough time to saturate anyways, so it probably fine. Yeah, that's what I was thinking too because the battery compartment never fully came off. It's one of those ones where you have to push a button on the bottom and it kind of pops out. Well, it does kind of. That's what it does. Yeah. So I think I got to it in time and it. I mean not. It was one can't English. It's not a Bao thing but it's one of those Wong Cheng or Quan Cheng or something like that, so might as well be pretty close to that. One of those things. Tomato. Tomato. It's, you know, all the same. Made in the same factory kind of stuff. I guess you want to call it that.

Yeah, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, those are okay. To make you feel better, honestly, when I go hiking, I have dropped mine in the mud from time to time, and I once dropped one in the mud so hard, the battery actually popped out, and it was completely covered in mud. Just slapped battery back on. Turn it on. It was good to go. So these little Chinese wonders are actually a lot more durable than you're giving it credit for, so don't Worry about it. KN6W&R. Yeah, not a problem. That's what I was thinking as well, because, I mean, they are. I mean, there's. They're not indestructible, but they are definitely better than we think they are. And they. I mean, that just shows. I mean, the stuff has come a long way.

But anyway, I'm going to go ahead and head into the store here and maybe we'll hit you up here in a little bit. Ko6bgy. I'll be clearing your vital magic. Sounds good. Nice hearing you on the air again. KN6WNR. Clear. Well, I was going to get on and say Happy Thanksgiving, but lonely Thanksgiving to you, Pete, as well. I'm about to go hop inside Starbucks, so I'm going to be radio list for a little bit. KN6WNR. All right, I'll catch you later down the coax over.

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Yeah. Yeah, there's no receiving 10 on it yet.

I guess I got the settings pretty close then. Yeah, no, it sounds. It sounds great. Audio quality is really good. Okay, good. Wonder if Total Wines open today. The wife wants to go get some wine before we go over to the kids house.

All right. Get back to doing something. So early. Stop by there first. Okay, yeah, that sounds good. Sounds really good. And that password gave me work, but that's working again soon. I got to figure out the port for my computer for that can. It's not working quite right, but I'll send that later. I appreciate it. Okay. Yeah, I forgot that sent me. It was like a pop up banner saying that the password was hacked or could be hacked. I changed it in.

Looking at all these things that you and me and a whole bunch of other Bob stuff all stopped on September 4, which probably when I changed the password I might might change it back just for a day or two, a little more. Thank you for quite a while, but just see what else is still using my service. Things on there, but they're really old. Sorry about that. I just kind of didn't realize it was going to change everything. My login for the account.

Yeah, I think so. When he. I got the Dynamics DNS and I got all the other stuff in there, I noticed my mistake went wrong with something about what it was. Anyway, I got onto that router and I felt the exclamation mark that said invalid cover. Yeah, I haven't changed it on mine here, but it's never. My IP never changed for so long, I didn't realize it was on my end. Yeah, well, very good working now. All right, well, sounds good. Hold on. Let's get back to it, All right. Until I meet you.

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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, 1108 Sherman Avenue in Chico. Doors open at 6pm and the meeting starts at 7pm all are welcome to attend. W6RHC repeater check 2.

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No, mosca, no. Ask the tango. Victor. Come in. Oh, I like it when I make you question your memory. Yeah, chalk up another one for the gatekeeper. Happy Thanksgiving to everybody. Yeah. Tri tip. Yep. We ain't wasting no time on no turkeys today. And President Trump coming up here trying to pardon them.

All right, I'll turn it back over to you. Yep. I think I went out with Goblin Waddle. Yeah, they were redheads, and they were joined at the hip. That'll leave you something to think about.

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On the dmr. There's a law you can check the FCC website about Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness act or something like that that permits amateurs with licenses to put up towers for antennas, even with HOA restrictions. Do you know about. Yeah, I think it's the. I think they used to call it, maybe it's still called the Ham Radio Paradiac, and it's been sitting in Congress.

You know, session after session after session. Never goes to the floor. It's got apparently by part of the court, but with all the dysfunction Washington vote. I think every year the ERL tries to put it back on put back on the docket. But yet it's a current bill, but it just has to go forward on you. Unless I'm thinking about something different. Since you know about that. That's great. I just wanted to mention it. And we're going to head out here in a few minutes to kids and have some Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving to you, Carol. And Your mother is 8702. Okay. Matt? Yeah.

How do things doing there now? Thanks, john.

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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 licensed amateur radio operators are welcome to join in the net WFIC RHC Repeater Check 1.

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