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Here's 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 W6R, H, C repeater check 2.

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Well, good evening, Chris. How was your Monday after a holiday? KN6GTN Pretty boring, Ernie. It took a long day for that. Look, it took a long time for the day to end, but I'm going home now, so that's all that matters. One of my daughters wound up with a little magnet they put on our fridge at says. I don't mind going to work, but the eight hour wait until I can go home is just ridiculous. Yeah, that's about what I feel. You know, Ernie, I took all of last week off. I took vacation so I'd have an entire week. And we had my son and his wife and our grandson and they stayed with us for a few days over Christmas. And, you know, I didn't mind not going to work one tiny little bit. Okay. You're getting yourself ready for the big day, I take it. Yeah, yeah, I think you can say that. I'm, I'm mentally there. You know, it'll be a little weird not going to work, but I don't think I'm going to miss it. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there that can, that'll help you acclimate or will give you tips, ones that have done it before. Oh, I'm sure there are. I'm sure there are. How was your Christmas? It was good. It wasn't quite as big as our Thanksgiving was. We had family for Thanksgiving from Missouri and Ohio and Pennsylvania and I had a big, big Thanksgiving. And then our Christmas was a little quieter. We had a good Christmas. That's good. That's good. Yeah. Ours was, I think, made by, you know, the fact that David and his family stayed with us for, for a few days. Gave me a lot of time with a grandson. And I think you could call that my Christmas present. Yeah, well, that's, that's what it's, that's what this time is for. I mean, if you can't spend it with family and enjoy yourself, why, that would be sad. Yes, yes. So, and then another short week this week and then I'm Almost, I'm at 92 days today, so give me a couple days, I'll be under 90. Okay, very good. I knew it was coming up in the spring there. So. Speaking of which, I remember when I was shooting years and years ago in Ohio, where I grew up, there was a big, they put a big billboard up and it was for a bank. Put the billboard up and they said, do you want spring to come fast? Make a 90 day note? Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Actually, Yeah. I have a feeling that These days are going to go faster than I ever thought was possible. Well, that'd be nice if they did and didn't just drag on. So. Yeah, very good. Was it frosty down there this morning? Yes, it was. Yes, it was. I had to sit and let the truck warm up a little bit. Melt some of the ice off of the windshield. Yes, same up here. It was surprisingly frosty. I think the lowest I saw in the truck thermometer down at the bottom here was 31 degrees. It was like 37 there at the house because we're up on top of a nose. Makes a difference. Yes, it does. Yeah. I think I looked at my, at the weather info on my phone and it said 32 degrees here in Yuba City this morning. And I. I didn't really take that much notice. Is that a repeat tonight where it's going to be clear? So I'm assuming it'll be pretty chilly again tonight. I haven't noticed, but I think you're right. Generally, Generally it warms up when there's an overcast and if it's clear, it gets colder. Yeah, that's right. And I thought maybe we'd have a little bit of fog after all that rain. And we did maybe a little Saturday morning, but after that it's been pretty nice. Sure. Can't complain about that. Boy, those 20 days of fog or whatever it was that was a little unusual. That's a little hard to take when it goes that long. And I think I told you they were. Some of the old timers up here were talking about in the early 80s somewhere in there. And I'd like to look this up, see how accurate they are. They claim there was. The record is 45 days of fog from the middle of November to the end of December was uninterrupted. I mean, just continual fog. Everybody day. Well, that's quite a number, but I think I could believe that. Do you have any trees fall in your house? Fortunately it was not on the house, but there is one tree from the neighbors. There's an empty 16 acre lot beside our place. There was a big tree fell in over the fence. We have a big fence to keep the deer out of our orchard. So big tree come over the fence. We're going to have to cut that up and fix the fence. Wow. It's fortunate that it didn't land on your house. I had a couple of limbs come out of my maple tree and fortunately they. They landed on the side of a tree away from the house. They weren't that Big. So I don't think they would have done much damage anyway. But still now I'm sitting there looking at that tree thinking it needs to come out because there seem to be too many dead limbs that been coming off of that lately. We did have one piece destroyed on our property for my wife's birthday. I bought her a greenhouse. Spent a whole day assembling the thing. It comes in a thousand feet pieces or whatever. And it was a beautiful little greenhouse sitting out there. And that wind come along and we woke up and it was in what was left of it was in a tree and it was all tore apart. Well, that's a shame. Yeah, that, that must have been just you look at that and shrug your shoulders and I'm not sure what else you can do. But yeah, too bad. So I learned something through that the next one will be fastened. Reminds me a little bit along many, many years ago we had a little tornado come through south of Yuba City. And it came through my friend's property and picked up. They got a small runabout fiberglass boat, you know, that picked it up and tossed it into the next field. Yeah, I'm used to that type of thing from the Midwest. We have, you know, we went out taking pictures after these storms and just, you know, it's a. What it can do. But I, it, you know, it's been quite a while since I saw a wind like that here in this part of the country. Oh yes. Oh yes. Well, I'm just pulling into my driveway and I'm looking and I'm seeing that my, my neighbors have got their garbage cans out. So I need to put mine out and hopefully I won't have to fight the recology. Last week I had put my garbage cans out and they neglected to empty my recycle toter and I tried to get it taken care of and they tried to tell me that. They were basically telling me that it was my fault that it wasn't. And I'm like, no, it's not. Yeah, I didn't get it picked up till the end next day. W okay, well, I'm pulling into my drive as well, so good chatting with you. 73. You have a good evening and we'll catch you later. KM6GTM all right, Ernie, have a great evening. KK6VZV clear.

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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. W6RHC repeater check 3.

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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 hold the 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 W6 RHC repeater check 2.

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N0dve. Devin. Is there a net on tonight? This is m0dde. I don't know. I haven't heard from anybody. Alpha, Kilo 6, Juliet, November. I'm standing by for it, just in case. I guess I could pull up the roster here and try to get one going. Give me just a moment. That would be wonderful, Devin.

Qst, qst, qst. Calling all amateur radio operators. This is N0DVE, November 0Delta Victor Echo. Devin and Linda and I will be your backup net control for tonight's dent. Kind of an impromptu, so if Neil or if Chris wants to come on and take over, that would be cool too. The following net is held every Monday evening at 1900 hours local time on the WD6AXM repeater by the Yuba Sutter Amateur Radio Club. The purpose of this net is to distribute club related information, promote interest in amateur radio and promote effective net operating procedures. All hands are welcome to join us. The CTCSS tone to access this repeater is 127.3Hz with a positive offset. This is a directed formal net, so please direct all traffic to N0DBE, your net control station for tonight's net. Any stations with emergency or priority traffic, please identify now. All radio amateurs, both club members and guests will be invited to check in. But first I will take check ins from our club officers and board members, followed by those wishing to make announcements. Okay, we're starting with John Ki6urdf. Now let our vice president, steve kn6ijd. Our secretary, linda kk6soz. Board member joe n9bd. Board member bud kk1, bud kilo, kilo1 bravo, uniform delta. Good evening, Evan and Annette. Thank you for for taking over tonight, Devin. I did text Buck a couple minutes ago and I get no answer from him, so he must be tied up. So thanks for. Thanks for jumping in there and taking over. Back to Net Control. Thank you, Bud. Got you checked in. How about our board member and VE coordinator, Paul W6P and H. Board member, leonard ko6dvv? This is leonard ko6dvv in browns valley. Thank you very much, devin. You're proving that amateur radio is in fact resilient. Thank you, leonard. How about our vhn editor, curtis ks6v vfp? This is curtis, kf6vfp in loma rica. Back to net control. Thank you, curtis. How about the other vhn editor, marcia ki6csn? This is marcia ki6csn. Back to net control. Thank you, marcia. It's good to hear from you. And we'll give a shout out to neil, our ares coordinator in 6 cno? How about our net control manager, chris kk6vzd? Our repeater trustee, dave wd6axm. Good evening, devin and lynette, wd6axm in sutter. And happy new year to everybody. And that's all I have. Thank you, dave, appreciate your check in. How about our arrl section manager, j n6sac? Okay, this is net control. N0DVE proceeding to the check in portion of the net. Everyone will have an opportunity to check in. But I will first be calling from a current list of club members followed by a call for any guests. All participants, please remember to check in with your full call sign, name and location. If you don't hear your call sign and think it is absent from the member list, please check in during our call for guests and contact KK6SOZ Linda, our club secretary. So, first up, we have AJ K6AJH, Daniel n6apx, Kathleenkm6bdq, Barbara n6bjr. Bob n6 bob, Bennett, casedix CEO, W e6a x n repeater. And this is n0dbe. Continuing on with check ins. How about leroy kj6dkm, Ed ko6dvl, Jeremy k06dbs, Avery Ko6Dvt in Yuba City. You might have an old list. Can you repeat that? I just. I was talking over you. Copy that. I may be speaking out of turn. This is avery in yuba city, ko6dvt. Thank you, avery. How about jocelyn ko6dvu, Mike kc5 dwf, Benjamin ko6fhn? Thank you. Have you checked in? How about smitty, wb1g? Todd k06bri? Good evening, devin. This is todd. Thank you, todd. How about ernie kn6gtn? Good evening, devin and the net? This is ernie kn6gtn up here in bangor. No traffic count. Thank you, ernie. How about chuck ki6hk? This is ki6hk in carmichael. Have a good evening. Devin and everybody else. Happy new year to y'. All. Ki6hk? Thank you, chuck. Got you checked in. How about walt n6hns? Don kn6ije, Steven ke6inw? Good evening. This is kilo, echo 6, india, november, whiskey, steven and gridley. And no traffic. Good evening. Thank you, steven. How about mike, kk6isq, Joseph k6jfp, Grant w6 jib. And joe. I heard you out there earlier. Joe, ak6jn. Anything else for the net? Negative. Joe, ak6jn9 williams. Nothing for the net. Thank you for doing it, nevin. Thanks, joe. How about carla, k6 kds, Daryl km6kfw, Jerry n6lai, Doug KD6 Lok. Good evening. Devin and Annette. Kalo, Delta, Oscar, Kilo, Doug here on rather nice Dim Shoe Ridge tonight. Want to wish everyone a happy holiday. And Devin, you're doing a Wonderful job. There's not many hams that I know of that could pick it up like you did and run with it. Thank you for doing that, 73 all KD6 lok. Thank you, Doug. Well, we're only halfway through. We'll see how it goes. How about Bill KM6MLT? Tom k06mo, Mike n6mrb, Jeff kn6mxb, David kb1nde? Yes, this is david in yuba city. Kb1nde? Thank you, david. How about the other david wa1ner evening, devin wa1ner david. Juba city with no traffic. Thank you, david. How about eric kn6qqt, Ryan k6rcm? Patrick kn6rth? Good evening, Mrs. Patrick kn6rth in browns valley. Thank you, patrick. How about stan n6sg? Stanley ko6sml? Wes wb6sww? This is wes wb6sww in yuba city. No traffic. Happy holidays, everybody. Thank you, lester. How about ted kn6 ted? Michael ki6ujx, Robert k6vnr, Alfred kk6vos, Robert86 bu, Paul k6wap? This is k6wap, paul uvc on traffic. Thank you, paul. Have you checked in? How about matthew k and six w and r? Wes n6wwh, K6ww? L, Wade kn6wx, Dan kn6drn, Kathy n7wvw? And how about claire ki6vwd? If there are any current club members that we missed or who did not get to their mic in time, please identify now. Okay, I will now take calls from any visitors to the net or late member check ins. As a reminder, please check in with your full call sign, name and location. Also, please speak slowly, come one at a time and wait for me to acknowledge your check in. And I'm going to call from a list I have of guest check ins. I'm going to start with James K06AUB, KO6AUB, James. Currently mobile just north of Chico and I have a no traffic tonight. Thank you, James. You sound good. How about Jonathan Ka6auq? Paul ko6bgy. Good evening, this is Paul Ayrton, Calusa, Kilo, Oscar Six Bravo, Golf, Yankee. No traffic. It is cold other than that and hopefully you can understand me. I'm coming out of a sinus infection, but with that we'll pass it back to deck control. A06BGY W E6A X N repeater. Thank you, Paul, got you checked in. This is N0DVE continuing on with our guest check ins and I'm looking for Mana, Ka6etb. Good evening, Devin. Great catch. You're doing Great. This is KH6ETD. Mana and I have no traffic. Thank you. Back to net. Thank you, Mana. How about Steve, KF6HSD. John in oroville, k6hfp. Hey, devin. This is john up in orville. Kilo 6 hotel foxtrot papa. Happy new year to everybody. Hope everybody has a nice holiday coming up. Back to you, devin. Thanks for doing the net k6hfp. Thank you, john. How about mike kn6mdz? Justin k00x, Jeff kb9 my. Okay, I think that's pretty much the visitors that I have that frequently check in. Are there any other visitors that would like to check into the Net? Thank you very much. I got you checked in. Any other visitors, please come now. Kilo Oscar Six Alpha, Kilo Echo Jet in Penn Valley. Okay, great. Got you checked in. Next visitor, please. Whiskey 7, Lee Matango. Mike W7LTM Darrell in Coulterville, about 50 miles east of Modesto in the foothills. Over. Okay, thank you very much for checking in. Next visitor. All right. Well, this is Devin Nzero, DVE Net Control. And we'll move on to tonight's Swap Shop. This portion of the Net is dedicated for both members and guests to list their available ham related items. You may list an asking price for your item, but all negotiations and transactions must be conducted off this repeater. Stations with listings for tonight's Swap shop may identify now. Okay, now it's time for the HAM help portion of the Net. This segment is provided for amateurs who need answers to ham related technical questions or who may need assistance with ham related projects. Any stations of listings for HAM help may identify now. This is Net Control, Devon in zero dve. And this is the last call for late check ins before we close the net.

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This is Claire a Kilo India 6 City, Lincoln Hill. I don't know what they heard. I did. Claire, I've got you checked in. Good to hear from you. Thank you Devin. You're doing a great job. Any other visitors or late check ins. If you would be interested in becoming a Net Control Operator for this net, please contact Chris kk6vzdrl.net or any Yuba Sutter Amateur Radio Club Officer or Board member by email to boardsarc.net a master copy of the Net Control Station Guide is posted on the Club's website Located@yuba sutterarc.org this net is held every Monday at 1900 hours local time on the WD6AXM repeater. The repeater is located at 2,100ft atop the South Butte approximately 12 miles west northwest of Yuba City in Sutter County. The repeater covers the surrounding northern Sacramento Valley and beyond. Until next week, this is Devin in zero dbe in Linda thanking all of you who checked in to tonight's net while signing clear and returning the repeater to normal amateur use. This net is now closed.

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Well, let's see if this, this thing still works here. Whiskey Bravo 1, Golf 36 local. W6LND 36 local. Hey, Smitty. Hey, brother. How you doing? Okay. I think Phil got a good update there, and I think he kind of needed that. I've been MIA for too long. I think what I'm going to end up doing. I don't know if you caught any of that, but I think what I'm going to end up doing, since it's under a year, is see if I can refund all the dues that had been paid into the Square account and then just give Phil a record of that. Obviously, once the amount of the amounts are refunded, then folks can get their money back. That being the person that paid their dues and then pay dues to the club. Makes sense. So, believe it or not, Dennis Lima actually paid his dues with Square and the website today. And I thought we had weren't going to do that, but at any rate, so I think I can refund Dennis immediately and that's going to be the goal in the near term for him. Okay. I just have been texting with Dennis and told him to return them. So how's this new radio sound? Like, you know, I was gonna like that thing during the net because I don't know how far broadcast it it was that your radio. It sounds exceptional. You, you sound like you have ICOM audio. Not that you've ever sounded bad on the Repe. There's a level of, forgive me, a level of fullness and balance in your audio that, that's just there. But using all those fancy words. I'm sorry, you're YAESU guy. Hey, good to hear you, man. Yeah, I haven't used it a whole lot. Just kind of getting my head wrapped around what all it can do. It's an interesting radio. Sounds the best you've sounded a long time. Yeah, it's definitely very bold. You got a. You've got a lot of audio where it counts. I think a lot of it's the microphone ICOM uses. You know, Bob Hale designed their microphone. Yeah, Roger, Roger that. You know, you have a unique voice too, and the ICOM really kind of, I'm not gonna say flattens it out, but it emphasizes the right parts of your voice, actually. So the, the audio characteristics are favorable. Your readability is very good. So, stopped by today and dropped off a card and wished the Heath family thoughts and prayers. You guys heard W6LG passed on the 23rd. Yeah, that was a Sad deal about that. It's been coming for the last year. It was kind of sad to watch his later videos and see the deterioration. Yeah, I met Jim, I've met Jim a couple times and his family was very sweet. His son, that video from his son was just absolutely heartbreaking. And that's when I knew. Well, I mean the beginning of that video shows the 23rd as the date of his passing. But once his son started talking, I instantly was like, oh man. You know, Jim to the very end was making videos about becoming an sk. And hey, I'm going to become an sk, but I'm going to keep doing this until I do. And he quite literally did. Yeah, I think he just literally got so weak he couldn't do it anymore. I never had the pleasure of talking to him, but watched a lot of his videos, learned a lot from him. You know, he lived in your town, so I'm sure you, you met him more than once. You know, surprisingly, I actually only met him once. I've talked to him on HF quite a bit. It's one of those things where he's pretty much line of sight or very close to line of sight from where I live. So when we're on the radio on the same band together, you can kind of, I can kind of see him. I mean he ran full eagle and so did I. So when you, when you see a wide, you know, 40 or 60 over signal, you know, it's. Well, it's either somebody across the green belt from me, it's me or possibly Jim Heath. So very, very sad. But how's everybody doing, man? It's been, it's been a while, Steve. I don't know if I replied to your email, by the way, about Parse and the website. I'd love to give you some advisement. Biting off more responsibility right now for me is a bad thing. I just don't have it. But I'd be happy to guide you in kind of easy ways to do this, but hopefully that would be help to you in Parse. I'm not sure, but no, you didn't reply to the email, but you did now. Okay. Better late than not at all. Yeah, it probably sounds like it's best. It's not to bother you. I, you know what, you guys are my friends. I don't, I, I, I discovered when things started to go sideways that I was very heavily over committed, so, so no, no, no. You guys are in the friend group, not the, not the club group. So if I help you, I'm helping You, Steve, as a friend, get you started so that you can do that for your club. I just meant that I can't, you know, take on too much responsibility just because I just. I just have to catch up and focus on the family, I guess. But at any rate, no, I didn't mean for it to sound that way, brother. Do you also have, since you're on, do you have the NorCal ragchu up on YSF2 still or did you take that down? That's a very good question. I think the server that's on went down and I haven't gotten it back on the air. So that may actually kind of forgot about that. If I'm being perfectly honest. I may have accidentally taken it down. Not thinking it'd be easy enough to put back on the air. But what was I going to tell you? I have something to tell you. Probably the most, what you guys definitely need is a web CMS that's just simple, right? And inexpensive. And the unfortunate thing is some of these things like wix, Weebly, Squarespace, these very well known webcmss, they tend to be a little on the pricier side. And I'm guessing PARSE doesn't have a huge budget for websites. But that being said, you probably can not. Probably you definitely can. And I don't know if this is a conflict or anything like that. You can launch a PARSE site on the GARS server cluster because they do allow for multiple websites on that hosting plan. Now that would mean you're sharing hosting with gars. I don't know how you feel about that, but at any rate, we can talk. Let's talk off the air a little bit on this. Maybe I'll give you a call or we can do a direct connect on ASL to chat a little bit more. I just don't want to give out or give up too much information but. But yeah, man, I didn't mean to sound like not being willing to help you. I'm willing to help Steve anytime I can. Well, I mean, as far as that's concerned, I think. I think I have a long ways to go. So I don't think it would behoove you to start with that, with the time constraints that you may have. So because I'm just a newbie beginner, I think I need to look more in the beginning process of all that. So anyway. But yeah, I appreciate the feedback. You're quite welcome. Let's not talk business, let's talk other stuff, man. How's everything else? How are things? I. I Had to take all the trees out of the backyard. The one of them was diseased, so that was a big, big project, but they're out. And then I had to reinstall some antennas because of course my antennas were relying on my trees. And then I looked at those giant. I don't know if they're spruces or pines or whatever, but I thought of you. I'm like, God, I wish I could just throw something up in that. Okay, well, I mean, I have something up in the tree, but it's not connected because the feed line came down. So I don't know. Probably wasn't my best idea. I didn't know the. The feed line became an issue for you. Okay. See, I'm outside the. Outside the circle. Yeah. Well, I wouldn't say it wasn't your. It served you for a while, didn't it? Oh, yeah. I had lots of fun for about six months there until I started having issues. And then one day it just dropped off, so. Got too hot up there, I guess. And the fitting itself, you know, just came right out of the fitting. Fitting's still on the antenna up there at about 100ft. The antenna's still up there, but there's no feed lines to it anymore. Oh, well. Well, the tree has taken ownership of your antenna or that antenna at least. That's true. Yeah. I've got other antennas, but I'm on a short antenna now, so. But I don't need very much for this repeater. Yeah, that's for sure. How was your Christmas with the family? And did you and Brigitte have a nice holiday? Did you do anything special? Fairly quiet. Fairly quiet. Thanksgiving and so forth. We stayed here but for Christmas. Yeah, we did take a drive over to Napa to visit Memahan and so forth. So it was fine? Yeah, it was okay. But I'm glad to be back home and be celebrating New Year's here, but nothing much to report there. How about you, Jer? Do you have a. How's your boy doing? Did you have a nice holiday? I had a good holiday. He's undergoing radiation. I think he's got like five doses left of that. I guess we'll see what happens after that. So they've been doing that in Chico. That's the only part of the treatment that has been done up here. Everything else was down. Done down in Sacramento at UC Davis. His primary doctor is still down there, but the way the radiation works is a daily thing that they. They recommended. That he did do it in Chico. Is that an end though. Or is there like an outpatient place there? Unfortunately, Chico is a one horse town when it comes to medical care and it's really starting to get to be a problem because there's just not enough medical care. Oh yeah, I bet. I mean, hell, they probably haven't had a whole lot of increases since I lived up there and the population is sure increased. No doubt about that. So. Well, good, good stuff, man. Good stuff. Happy to, happy to hear that the holidays on this side were all right. Let's see. Nothing too crazy. The in laws came up, they left the other day and I got my shack back. And other than that, work has been interesting. You guys know from over a year ago that the company I worked for got bought and then about three or four months ago they bought our biggest competitor and are merging everything together. And it's been funky, let's just say that. But I still have a job. Well, since your company bought the other company, that should put you in a pretty good position. It does. Here's the funny thing, guys, is I almost, when we were purchased a year ago, you remember, I was kind of starting to look and everything like that. And I interviewed with the company that we bought, which is, which is kind of funny when you think about it that way. And then they also are. Have put up a. I don't know if we've won the bid or not, but they're also trying to buy aol, like America Online, which I know you're like, what? So I work for a much bigger company, parent company than I thought, but they want to buy AOL for the ad assets, all the advertising type stuff. So yeah, it's been a very odd year. I've talked to you. It hasn't been a full year, but the last six months have been very odd at work. Well, it sounds like that's starting to level out a little bit. You know, my industry has really taken a big tank, but I feel like in the industry I'm in the safest place I can be, which I know is insane much, but there aren't a lot in this space. And now three of the three of the big players are all owned by the same company. And I failed to get my words out earlier, but the company we bought was a company that I was going to go work for when I thought I was going to lose my job a year ago when we were bought, which I would have been going through it all again. So to your point, Jer, I'm in a, I'm in a good spot. You know, I'M part of a lean team and I've. After a full year, I've kind of earned or earned my keep, I guess, if that makes sense. And so. So like I said, given the industry the way it is right now, I'm kind of in the safest position. And not to say I'm safe, but the safest position I think I can be. Yeah, roger that. I think there's somebody else wanting to break in. Well, I think you're either on Simplex or you off frequency. Was that who I think it is there? King Jack Wagon? Yeah, I picked up the mic cord and bumped the VFO on the 9,700. You know how common that is. And you also are on the Lynx side, boy. It's like. Is this your first time with an amateur radio? Jesus Christ. Get a grip. What do you have? But it was tangled up with the multi knob too, so I must have hit that. Boy, I haven't heard all my radio buddies together on 36 Local in too long. Yeah. You know, it's all my fault. I know. I'm not an idiot. But good to hear you, pal. Dude, we're not friends. Don't. Don't put me in that. Radio buddies. You never come out anymore. Dude, I have slept at your house. I have been practically on your tower with you. I have. I. I'm not gonna say that on the air. We've bonded, okay? Not bondage bonded. Boy, I'll tell you what. I am going to miss winter field day with you guys this year. Yeah, I was wondering if you were still around or still employed. But I got all my answers n6u tv. Ah, you've talked to me in text a bit. You knew I wasn't totally dead. WB1G. I guess I missed a lively Gar's net. I mean, ask the net control, Jer. I thought it was lively. I talked more on tonight's net than I've talked on a gar's net in probably the last year. It was twice as long as the net the week before. Steve, did you re up or no? No. Well, my buddies weren't getting re up, so. No Smitty, no Tyler. Yeah, the heck with it. It's gonna join. I went ahead and paid the dues for the Paradise Club and that's it. He broke up on the air, man. He. He. He mentioned that, you know, that he loved every. He was very thankful, very courteous. But he mentioned on air that he wasn't renewing and what were. What's the cost of deuce for Pars, if I may ask. That's not about the money. I think it was 30 bucks. I gave him 40. No, I figured it was reasonable. I just compared clubs, you know? Yeah, well, for me, a YAESU guy, I mean, they run two YAESU repeaters. Both of them are linked together. They have wires X, all LinkedIn. They have Echo stink. The club's doing things like, I don't know, box hunts, building antennas. They're trying some different things. And Meshtastic, they've kind of gotten on board with that right now, so, I don't know. They're doing some things at least. So we'll see. Anyway, being a YAESU guy, and I do use the repeaters for the C4FM, you know, I guess it's probably good that I joined him once in a while. Oh, that makes sense. I was just scared I was going to have to join W60 Kids to hang out with Smitty. Hey, you know what? You should go ask the folks at W60K how much I've hung out with them lately. I'm telling you, my. My exit from amateur radio has not been limited to gars. Yes, I'm still with ek and yes, I'm still doing a lot of work for them, but haven't been participating a whole lot lately. Yeah, me neither. I got a new truck and I don't have radio in there yet, so it's been quite busy. I went and bucked up some firewood yesterday. Man, that reminds me of how old I've gotten. How's the rig running? It's okay. I mean, it's not. It's not tailored like my last one was, but it works. It's got to get me for seven or so more years, but. Oh, wife just walked in, so it's gonna be dinner time for me. N6UTV. Are you gonna make Winterfield Day or no with pars? No, the only one doing Winter Field Day is gars out there, probably at Black Butte Lake. And that's where I plan on going out to. Out to there. I'll just go for that one day if that's all it is. What about Jeremy? Is he going? It'll depend on what the weather is and if I'm replanting trees. What weekend is. The 24th? Medieval weekend, whatever of January, I think. What do you say it was 26 or something?

Something like that. Anyway. Right in there. Yeah. In Blackview Lake. It's. It's not going to be that bad as long as the weather holds out. Like Jeremy said, that'd be the 24th. Smitty go for a day? I don't know. How about you, Tyler? Well, it usually starts hopping pretty good for me for farm show, but I might be able to fit a weekend. Just depends on who's going. You know, hanging out in the dirt wagon and making limited contacts is not all that exciting for me. I got the sense that it's not a weekend camp out kind of thing. Right, guys? It's just a go and show up for a few hours kind of thing. I'm not doing anything in the dirt wagon, that's for sure. Yeah, so show up. You know, I think Mike said he's gonna start at like 7 or 8 and be done at dark, but, you know, come when you can. Oh, so in that case. Probably not. I have no leadership role in GARS anymore. Yeah, I read all the threat. I saw what was going on. So anyway, I'm gonna say 7:3 to you fine gentlemen. N6UTV. Well, I was saying, you want to camp somewhere or something, Tyler? Yeah. If the four of us are gone, probably really a little better weather and maybe Collins Lake. You know, if Smitty hasn't sold his rig yet. Oh, yeah. Well, that's a. You know, I don't remember you ever inviting us to go camping, like to the desert or something either. No, I didn't think that would be very interesting for you guys. But you know, you're welcome to come over here. I got plenty of room. But we should. You know, we should all talk about. About going somewhere in the spring or something. Well, did Smitty have to sell his rig to pay for the trees coming down? No. I'll tell you what. I actually thought about it about a month ago. I was thinking about selling the rig. But no, it's. It's still. It's still parked, you know, haven't want to see the less. Let's see. You went to. I took it to summer field day. So it's been out. It was out over the summer. The VK Summerfield day. But that hasn't been to Collins in a long time. I'm going to switch to text real quick and text you. Text you something I don't want to say in the repeat. Hey, that doesn't mean you guys had to all shut up. That wasn't. I wasn't saying that. All right? They just Texted but at any rate yeah could could hear all you all you find gents. I I don't know if you've scanned the bands a whole lot but I haven't been very radioactive at all. I haven't been VHF and UHF radioactive and I don't know how long but even HF I've been really quiet on for probably the last say couple months or so. But at any rate good hearing you guys. Yeah you know I don't see you come down to the CW area of 40 meters and 20 meters very often so I guess that's why I haven't heard you. Yeah I, I haven't done head home making down to the CW portion and of course no FT8 or anything like that. I'm not doing any of that anymore. It's all all voice these days. I got a 10 meter antenna up so that's actually been a lot of fun working a lot of 10 and some some fun dx there forgot that band is when it's in it's fun. I've been having some fun with 15 meter FT8 even over there at Oroville Dam doing a pod out on Saturday. I got a couple of foreigners in there. I got Chile and well to I get Argentina and I think one other I think Ecuador or something like that. Mostly South America. Oh very good. Yeah. On 10 I got a voice contact on the island south of Argentina. I'm forgetting what they're called. They've got a name that sounds familiar but I was super stoked when I made that contact. Five, nine, both ways. Yes. Ten ask. I was running power but I heard them just fine. I, I pretty sure they could. The station I was talking to was barefoot but there you go. My little FT8 contact was. Those are all 30 watts. 30 watts on a little quarter weight vertical. Well I match your your 30 watts with 1500 watts on a horizontal 10 meter cut to cut the length antenna. Hey I, I, I sold my 7300. I still have my 7610. No way I'm selling the 7610 but I did end up selling my 7300. Going to get the dash 32 7610. Oh. That would be more in line with the new with the new 7300 Mark II with the better receive. Yeah I'll tell you what I, I loved a lot of things about the 7,300 but but the receiver was not as great as I wish it was. I'm very happy to HEAR the Mark 2 has addressed that from what I understand. Oh, so the truth comes out now? Oh no. I mean, keep in mind, 7300 wasn't my daily driver, but when I compared my 7300 to my 7610 and even to my Apache Labs Anon, there's not a comparison. The 7300. I'm not saying it's deaf. It's not deaf. It just does not hear as well as the 7610 and as well as the Apache laps rig I run now doesn't mean it's a bad rig. I sold mine not because of any reason other than the MK2 was coming out and I, I didn't need three HF radios. Two free full power HF radios and to be honest, I needed the money. And did you? Oh, you needed the money. Did you get the Mark 2? I have not purchased the Mark 2 as of right now. I have my Anon 7000 DLE Apache Labs machine here on the base as a backup here on the base. I've got the 7610 hooked up to a coax switch so I can go back and forth. That's DC powered, the Anon is AC powered. And then as far as the other stuff, I just, you know, I just haven't. I kind of bound myself by, let's just say, making the payments for college. Having a college age kid and trying to keep them out of debt as much as possible has proven to be more challenging than I thought. Let's just say that. So at any rate, no, I will not be getting the 7300 MK2 for no other reason other than I just don't need another radio right now. WB1G. Okay, well that sounds like you got the money now though. So you could if you wanted to. I don't know, I think they're like 1300 bucks or something. Crazy anyway, but pretty cool. Yeah. Well, I still haven't had any luck selling my Kenwood TS480, so 600 bucks. But I guess I'll need to relist it a third time. Yeah, I got lucky with my 7300. There was a guy who had just gotten his General and wanted to get the cheapest he could find. Radio actually sold my 7300 for 850. $850. Original box, original packaging, nothing special, nothing added on. So I felt that was pretty fair given the amount of years and with the MK2 coming out more than fair. I've seen for 600 to 650 bucks all day long on QRZ so yeah, I think you got a really fair price. Yeah, I know. I got, I got more than I was expecting. I was going to go down to 800, but I, but I brought out the antenna. What is it? The Shaylagons? I always say it wrong. I brought that out and from my truck. It was a local sale and the guy was very apprehensive new, new, new ham about buying a rig like this online. Just didn't want to do it and I was local so we set it up in the back of my truck and made a contact on it and he felt great about, you know, being able to use it and see it working for $850. And he was willing to pay a little extra rather than paying, you know, 650 and having it shipped. So yeah, he paid a little bit of a premium but he did get a low, low hours radio. But what's an Apache lab? Apache labs. The best way I can explain it, it's a headless radio. So it, it does not have a face or any buttons. It's a. It's a box with a whole bunch of PL2. Pardon me. So 239 or 238 and BNCs on the back. And it is very similar to the Flex. If you're familiar with the Flex radio, it's more that style radio. Basically a computer SDR radio. Yeah, I'd say that a computer based SDR with the ability to transmit. And I gotta say the one thing that I am very fond of on it is the digital noise reduction. The what they call NR2. They've got NR, NR2, NR3 and NR4. But it is on par with the Asus DNR which I love. I will say, and I've met guys, you say what you will. I've never made fun of the digital noise reduction on the asu. I've always thought that was superior and the ANON actually does that and even a little more to be honest. So I do like that. It hears very well and it's very clean. I'm not going to knock the YAESU on the dnr. It works well. What I will knock it on is the lack of craftsmanship and the ergonomics of the radio suck. User interface and quality qc. Completely agree. Granted after the third try mine is fixed, but it shouldn't have taken that many tries. Well, it sounds like we're all in a good place when it comes to hf. Good stuff. Good hearing Tyler out here. I haven't, I haven't talked to Tyler in a while. But good stuff. Well, there's very little activity on 2 meters up this way anymore. I mean, you hear an occasional repeater. Here's Steve occasionally. That's about it. You know, I don't do much at all. I'm so busy with the farm. And then I got into the fire department and there goes my pager right now. Oh, Jeremy's important. He's got a beeper. Look at that. Quadriplegic needing manpower. Oh, wow. All right. Extra, extra muscle. Yeah, I guess I'm throw on some pants. I got sweats on. Throw on some shoes and go to the fire hall, I guess. Yeah, thanks for that. When you said throw on some pants, I got a visual image that I'm not going to be able to shake. All right, man. Well, good luck to you. Be safe tonight. Steve. Good talking to you, brother. I'm gonna. I'm gonna get out of here myself. In fact, it's coming up on quiet hours here at 9pm and I don't want to break into the in place systems that exist here on the repeater. It's a ghost town after about. After Mike goes to bed. You guys take care. And Steve, good talking to you, brother. I'll hit you up off the air about the web stuff. I don't want you to get the wrong idea, my friend. I want to help you. I just. I don't want. Want to take on any more roles in any clubs at all, amateur radio or not. So it's not a. Not a radio thing, it's just a me thing right now. Maybe I'm being selfish, I don't know. But at any rate, good talking to you both. I'm gonna say 7:3 and hang the mic up. Even though I don't hang a mic up. I'm talking to a studio mic. But at any rate, you get the idea. WB1G73KN6M.GK. Hey, Jer, please get some pants on. All right?

Qst ust qst. This is K6KO open segment about the traffic. This is part of the National Traffic System Is purpose System is to relay forward traffic into an old Sacramento building and to provide the standard Virginia. This is a direct. Please make no transmissions without permission and control. All spaces are requested. Stay on frequency 2 HQ net controls. K6KU lesser located west of W station with MER prior traffic. Please go now. W6RHC repeater check 2 on the radio station. We're traveling to the eastern. Roll call follows k6opi. Good evening, lester in the group. This is kg6tso. Vassy with no traffic. Kf6djy. Good evening, lester. Kf6djy, bruce and chico. No traffic. Good evening, bruce. Thank you. J6rcs. Day 6pmt, kl, echo 6, papa mike tango, rustin gerber. Good evening. Lester in the group and I have no traffic. Good evening, rush. Thank you. Kc6ufe. Kc6ufe. Bill in cape. No traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, bill. Thank you. All right, that's rollers. I have it. Do we have any late members or visitors wish to check in? No further traffic or kicking. This is KG6KUO, closing segment of valley traffic. This name is daily at 2100 hours local time. There's W6 repeater 146985. Of the Empire Amateur Radio Society. Could use the computer. This next closed out 212 local type $73 case 60k year old crude frequency.

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Kk6vzd mobile wp6a xm receiver. Hello Chris.m6iwa. Good morning. Good morning. I hope you had a good Christmas. Ah, really can't complain. How about you? Had a great Christmas? I had three days with my grandson. That's the longest I've ever had an opportunity to be and interact with him. So yeah, it was great. How old is he and how many grandchildren do you have? He's the only one and he's nine months. So yeah, he was, he's interactive now. So, you know, that's great. That is great. You know, I feel like grandparents are an important part of the family. You know, like you kind of have to help out with guidance for the child. Not discipline or anything like that, but you know, just offering another way. I agree, I agree. It does help that he's a very contented little boy. He doesn't, he doesn't cry very much every once in a blue moon, but most of the time he's just, yeah, he's just happy. Oh, that's good. You know, I'm trained as an educator and of course I always think that you really need to take an active part in the child's education. Going along and helping them with the homework, that kind of thing, but also inspiring them to creativity. Yeah, yeah, that's, yeah, there's a lot that grandparents can bring. It was really kind of nice that, you know, my, my daughter in law, this is her first child and she's been rather. Clingy is not quite the word but it's the closest I can get at the moment. It was nice the other day when they were getting ready to leave, you know, getting prepared and she needed to do something without him. She just came over and flopped him in my arm. It's like, well, okay, sure, I'll take him. Well, how far away do they live? I mean see them often or long trip or what they live in Kim. So it's only a little over an hour's drive to go see them but you know, it's only about once a month. You know, sometimes it drags on a little longer than that, sometimes a little less, but about once a month and you know, be nice if you they were a little closer. I'd like to have a little bit more time with them, but that's not bad compared to what people have to deal with. I think we had a break. Go ahead. Yeah, I was going to say, you know, it's maybe not as often as we'd like to, but you know, at least they're not out of state or down in the, you know, LA region or something like that. It is doable. Okay, say again the name of the town. Cameron Park. So it's not too far from Shingle Springs. You know, there's somebody out there, they're either trying to get in or they're jamming you like a bug. Oh, gee, I didn't think that I had kicked anybody off. Sometimes you don't have to. It's if you appear confident that makes them nervous. Live down by El Dorado Hills, just up the hill. Actually, that's not bad. Hey, when you retire, go up there, visit, hang out, and then when it's time to change the diapers and do all that stuff, you go home. True enough. I've already kind of hinted that, you know, if there's something that they could use help with and I can, you know, I'm available, I'd be more than happy to come down. Well, do you get along with your son in law? That's my son and I get along with my daughter in law just great. That's good. You can't beat that. You know, like you have to have a, like a common belief system or something, you know, like everybody, you know, on all cylinders. Yeah, I'm. Well, I don't say that it was an awful lot that I, I made some efforts right after they got married to, to just have some, some one on one time, just me and her, you know, so that she would, you know, feel totally accepted. Yeah, I have two daughters. But you know, there's a time like when they're dating, they finally get married, they're kind of relieved. Oh God, no more of these guys being known. Hey, can I, can I see Molly back here? Well, I'm not sure about relieved. We were very, you know, very happy when they said, hey, we're getting. Oh great, we're glad to hear it for the both of you. Yeah, well, I had sisters and you know, I could see that it was a little bit tough for them to find an appropriate mate, you know, because even they wouldn't date certain type of guys, you know, zombies. That sounds like, you know, she was very prudent. And that's a good thing. Uh, yeah. Well, someday, if you ever have nothing to do and you're just bored sick, ask me about my family. We'll go on and on and on and on. But I have one new granddaughter in Oakland, California. My son lives there. We've been in the bay area for 40 some odd years. But he likes it. Everybody says so. It's bad. And, you know, people get mugged and et cetera. But, you know, Oakland is his talent. Oh, Well, it is what it is. You know, there's good parts in Oakland and there's ones you'd rather not be in. But, oh, well, say I've just arrived here and I gotta get on my horse and get in there and actually get over to someplace else. So I will talk to you later. Have a great day. Don't venture too far out into the fog. 73 KK, six VZD. Clear. Okay, Chris, I'm six IWH. Clear.

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Hey. Hey, quick question. Have you been on listening in the last half hour at all and. Or have you heard any battery announcements from 20 coming through? I've been listening, but I haven't been paying attention. I don't remember hearing any, but they weren't there. Yeah, I heard it a while ago. System 19 link up. Okay. Like in the last hour or so. Maybe a little longer than that. I'm getting inquiries and I heard it this morning and I know PG and E's ETR was, I don't know, something like 4pm today. So I think it's still probably on battery, so. All right, got. Thank you. All right, back to work. Hey, Greg, keep the work too. Don't forget jkv. Zen Ho. All right. So you working today, Greg, or you are you doing something else? Yeah, I'm cheating and doing all my next year's PMs a little early, you know, school's out, so I'm getting a few of the school sites. Then I'll do actual PMs after the first, you know, to make it legal. Yep, that's what I do. But you know, now it's the next. Whatever iteration is they're coming out with. I wonder how that's all going to work, but whatever. Just another day in paradise, right? Here's an interesting footnote. I was scheduling my departure flight based on bonus dates and there isn't one listed on the 2026 calendar. It says to be determined. I'm like, oh, really? So I missed kind of the first part. Exactly. The key word about what? What date were you looking for? Or. I was saying my departure flight date based on a bonus date. And they're not. It is not listed on the 2026 calendar just as to be determined. Oh, okay. Yeah. Usually I thought that was kind of a fixed thing, but maybe. Maybe they'll announce it after. After the first sometime. Well, that kind of blows us. Yeah. Because if it's going to be later, that's a big problem. If it's going to be sooner, it's not. But yeah, we'll have to see, I guess. And isn't it, I want to say sometime in February? Ish. I don't usually pay attention. I just wait till all Sundays. Oh, okay. Well, that paycheck or deposit was extra or different or something like that, but yeah, I'd wait, man. I'd wait a little bit. See. See if you get an offer, you know. So yeah, I hope they don't change it too much. All right. Yeah, the first part there you were you weren't in there at all. But yeah, I guess got to wait and see a little bit. I guess. I got to jump out and get a gate here. I'll be back at 6.50K. All righty back. KJ6K. Bootlegger. What? Yeah. What's going on? Hey, hard at work, you know. What happened to retirement? Yeah. With that? Oh, I'm still drawing social and all that, but, you know. Yeah, well, hopefully I've only got two months, but I don't know. It's kind of dependent on bonus T. Because in order to get your bonus, you have to be employed. When the bonuses come out, I'm like, well, okay, careful of that loophole, man. That would be a gotcha. Yeah, no doubt to keep an eye on that because I've already got everything set up, you know, 401k stuff and old pensions and Medicare, all that stuff. So if it's going to be later, that's really going to throw a wrench in the gear. Copy that. All right, well, we'll let you get back to it. I'm moving my main Sacramento repeater over to Mount Vaga, so I have to guys going over there, I think Friday. I don't know if I'm going to be able to make it Friday. We'll have to see about that. Such ain't fun. It should make your hub thing a little better, right? Yeah, it should be better for Reno and Tahoe so that hopefully that'll work out. Have to see. I gotta go down and measure some power legs and see where I want to put the hub antenna, all that other stuff, and I can move to 900 later. No big deal. There's always time. All right, gotta grab the phone. See you. All righty, get to work.

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Yeah. For somebody who's retired. What are you doing? I think it's a separate box of some sort. Of controller maybe. All right. I don't think there's, I don't know that there's any configuration which happens physically or not. But you know, again it's the same setup as the other ones who can do it. Computer sites and hardwire connected so using the same thing. So it should be Scottish color for that. Except that this one would be put into service new. So hopefully there's not something we're going to fix here. And you think you'll be around that time frame? I know we're going to need some kind of support remotely as we're interfacing and trying to set things up and all that stuff. Yes, I will be available. Comes right out of. So it's easy to come by. The box itself gives you all the pin out, all the pin out information. So it's a little bit of soldering and you know, what is that? Six, six, six little wonders. And then you'll have to, you know, figure out how to get how that plugs into your. And it's not too typical but it's going to take a little bit of time by somebody so you may want to have somebody jump on that. As we call it at work. Volume cold. Right. So yeah, Jeff should be able to wire one up if it's not. If we don't already have one wired up ready to go and then we can plug it into a test controller jig at home and we do some basic testing. I want to make sure we got as much ready to go and done and tested and checked out before we get down there, you know, and save that time down there for actual hooking up and installation and Gotcha. There's always those gotchas, you know. Well, when you go to the DMG website you're going to change the chemistry radio operator's box, I assume. Well, I don't know, maybe professional version only. I don't know. Yeah, when you, when you look at that, it also gives you an option to buy together the other hardware to go with it. So there we go. All right, well if you have any questions you can be there on. On WhatsApp or email either your. Okay, sounds good. Hopefully Jeff wakes up out of his beauty sleep or whatever he's doing and reading emails. It's not like he's working. And I'm trying to think what else. Anyway, I'll stop checking in when I get chance here so I'll walk with whatever we need to. Probably. Who knows what it is? All right, I got to jump out here, so maybe you know, too. I don't know if you've been listening, but if you heard any lessons from Tony, The very little bit of lifting I've been doing since the last eight, you know, I haven't heard any battery backup. Catch up with you. And see, By the way, one of these hubs, they do record all of the audio in there. Maturity. I'm not sure if I ever told you that. I don't know how to access it, but if you're still listening, that may be news that you did not know about. Insect canning.

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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. W6RHC Repeater Check 1.

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Kn60xxglobal from Carmichael to the center buttes repeater system. Kilo Oscar Zero November Delta Romeo mobile on Highway 70 north of Oroville. My apologies as my recovery. I've just got a new antenna put on my RAV4 and wanted to get a low profile antenna. So how am I coming to the center repeater? Well, you're fully audible here. No static whatsoever. I mean I'm in a car so I can't give you a super thorough audio report. But it's 100% audible to me and no static. Hey, it sounds great. I appreciate you coming back here. I'm just gonna just kind of check on some repeaters. I live in Carmichael so I know the fact that coming in the repeater is very good. It's a little profile tool band from I picked up from HR just earlier. I had one before, I've got another one. But instead of have two of them, one for each of my vehicles so I could switch off radios very easily. So get your name and location. I'll let you go. Thank you. Cool. What's the antenna itself? Is it a full half wave or how small is it? This is Kilo Oscar Zero November Delta Romeo. Kilo Oscar Zero November Delta Romeo. Connor here. I actually don't live up and around Oroville. I'm just passing through on my way back down to Sacramento. I didn't hear any transmission there. Actually I gave mine and I heard nothing else until right then. Oh, sorry about that. No problem. It's a Comet low profile. It looks like one of those old cell phone antennas. It's a mag mount. It's similar to the model I've had for a number of years. But I figured I'd just have one for each of my two vehicles. I'd switch off to my work and other things. So as long as I come in and appreciate it more than 25 watts on my YA zoo dual band. Very nice. Yeah, I know this works great. I have an SD5 half wave. I think I'm running about 30 watts right now. But the exist antenna has worked very well for me. The only low profile antennas I've played with are ones that I had for GMRs. Just a little were probably like 4 inches tall. 5 inches tall. The little screw down ones that actually work pretty well. But you know, low profile is awesome as long as you can make it work for your use case. What's your current location about? I'd say five miles north of Oroville on Highway 70. Oh good. Yeah, I work for a SIFA company. I work at the warehouse north of downtown Sacramento. But I don't. I haven't driven in a couple years. Had to stop driving, but yeah, from that area. Yeah, you're coming Very, very good. Yeah. So you're a few miles north of Oroville on the way to that interchange. Wick's Corner just came down off the 70 off the canyon. So I am not really close to anything right now. But I just came in and just merged in. Forget your name. I'll go and clear out here and wrap it up. So you take care. Seven three is all right. Good to talk to you. The name is Connor. Charlie. Oscar. November. November, Oscar Romeo. And I'm just cruising around, so good luck making more contact on the repeater there or on your antenna there. I already parked the car in the garage for the day. So you take care of Carlo and we'll. Maybe some other time. All right, Send threes and have a great drive back. Maybe someday we'll catch again. Happy new year. Otherwise, K6BX6 93, K0NDR and back to listening access. Clear. QRT.

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Gears holds a slow speed Morse code NAT on 40 meters every Thursday night starting at 7pm Frequency of 74 4/4 or minus if the frequency is in use. All licensed amateur radio operators are welcome to join in the next W6 RHC repeater check three.

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Kb6vxg, long beach, texas. Anyone on frequency. Well, you're in luck. There's somebody here that would be me. How you doing? N6k in a year? Hey, I think I talked with you about three years ago when I was driving around in Gainesville, Georgia. Truck driver. And then I heard you moved to South America. Is that right? KV6GXT, the hand of hair speed. Well, that's quite the memory you've got there, Steve. I don't remember you. I of course talk to a lot of people. Probably like you have, but that's a pretty good memory. Yes, I used to drive 11 Western states and now I'm down here in Columbia. How you doing? I'm doing real good. I was just out there for about five years. My mom had Alzheimer's, moved back here about a year and a half ago. I was living out in Texas and don't quite have the shack set up yet, but kind of patched together enough to work. All star. And your signal in here is 100% full, quiet and doing great. Hope you had a great Christmas. Yeah, we sure did. Great weather. I am just now trying to figure out what I'm going to do for New Year. Stay home. We're gonna definitely stay home, but we've got quite a few activities that we can go to around here. And then the wife and I, we have our anniversary on the 3rd of January, so I'll be planning something for that. Well, congratulations in advance. My mom turning 90 on the 1st. I talked to her today and today is my birthday. I just turned 59 so I didn't remember that but. Well good. I appreciate you coming back there, Kenny. You're easy to remember because they call sign and I know I just talked with you that one time and mostly just monitored the Carla network out there. So nice to hear you back on. I'm going to wish you 73. I do appreciate you coming back and have a Happy New Year. KB60XG. Yeah, yeah, say goodbye. Say goodbye to the old year. We only have 24 hour showers. 20, actually 20, 30. 30 hours left of the old year. So. Yeah, do all your evil, evil mischief, mischief stuff now. Get it over with. Okay? Yeah, you enjoy your New Year's also. Take care. And six Candy. Knick trg. What's going on? Hey Mike, give me one minute, I'll be right back. No problem. N6 grt standing by.

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Hello, mike. How you doing? Ken here. N6 candy. Hey, Ken. Yeah, I'm talking to you on a radio that's about to die. I'm gonna have to probably unplug it and charge it, but I'm about to go outside and work on my big blue connection. Came loop then. Anyway, my question is, when you get that package from your friend or family or whoever it is, what type of antenna are you going to end up with? Definitely a horizontal loop. Then I'm going to play around with a balloon just to. I can do that out the back here. And then I'm going to have a sloping dipole. Okay, by sloping you don't mean inverted, you mean actual sloping. It'll just have one mast with the feed line on top of that mast and then it'll have two slopers coming down. I don't know how high the mast is going to be just yet. Whatever I can get away with here, stay out of trouble. The whole back of my house here, the back of the property is a big open, open, wild field. So I'm not gonna bother anybody back there. So I can get away with anything really there but the, The horizontal loop. Trying to keep it hit the best I can. Well, the horizontal loop will hear better, but the inverted will probably might get out better. I don't know. It varies. One thing about the inverted, that's an inverted you're describing B. And you can move the ends around, you know, change the angle and it changes your SWR so it makes it easier to tune. On. Battery at 20. How am I dropping out here? It's gonna be dry. It's going to be that, that low, but I think is going to be going out straight towards the state. So we'll see what happens. And the package is not on its way yet, but I'm working on it. Okay, well, looking forward to it. And our chances of having QSOs with JSA call are better than any other mode. Okay, so I'm gonna get off of here because this radio is still going dead. It's a rad tell. Putting out six or seven watt claims. It's a 10 watt. All right, talk to you later. N60RT. Good to hear from you. Okay, Mike, I'll be listening. My local skywarn says there's high wind advisories and hydrologic outlook. The. The Carla Sky One Hub is showing nothing. So congratulations. Take care. N6 candy. Yeah, the batteries are trying to get charged up. It might have been past the high point and on the. I don't know. Anyway, I got 13.57 so I might not have quite charged up as high as I can, but pretty happy about all the solar today. Talk to you later. Have a good one, ancestor. Grg. Okay, I'm gonna dead to you here for just a second. See why I was dropping out here. Looks like I'm not driving out now. Pretty solid. Okay, take care, Mike. N6 Knee Chinalta, Columbia no dropouts to me at all. So perfect. 73 N6PRG Happy New Year to you and your, as you say, little woman.