Transcriptions for 2026-01-29

W6 rhc repeater check 3.

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

There's somebody mobile and success. On my fanny watching television. And now I'm finally getting out to go for a walk.

Here's holds a free Morph Code class every Wednesday night, 6pM at the Golden Beaver Distillery still house at 2420 Park Avenue. All are welcome to come learn Morph Code W6R, H C. Repeater checked one.

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Kilo7 Oscar Foxtrot. Oscar is mobile on the side.

K7gnd. Larry, are you listening?

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K0qg listening.

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Speaker A: Was that you, Chris? That is correct. Good afternoon. Yeah, it's six IWh. Well, I lost track, but what is it, about 48 days left?
Speaker B: Well, since today is over, there's 44 more weekdays left.
Speaker A: I'm not marking off the calendar, but what are you gonna do? Have a little party? Have some friends over, barbecue?
Speaker B: I don't have that many friends. Probably not. I might just arrange with some of the people at work that I really, really, really care to say goodbye to. I might, you know, take them to Sutter Butte Brewing or Viking. Happy Viking or something. I don't know. There won't be a lot of people, though.
Speaker A: Well, you got your ham radio buddies. How about we all go to the casino and spend your money?
Speaker B: We do that. I'm taking along one of the guys that I work with. He seems to be fairly, fairly lucky. He lives in North Sac. And so he leaves here and he drives down, and sometimes he stops off at the Hard Rock Casino there. And he's come in the next day and told me that he's taken me out to lunch because he won some money at the casino.
Speaker A: Well, do you gamble? Do you know how to play 21?
Speaker B: I knew the basic rules, but, no, I do not gamble because I know it's a loser's game.
Speaker A: Well, mathematicians don't gamble. What about poker? I don't play. I don't know how it works, but it's a pretty popular game.
Speaker B: Yeah, don't do poker either. I don't have enough friends to play poker with.
Speaker A: Well, don't feel bad. I don't have any friends either. I have a cat.
Speaker B: Yeah, I can generally find enough people to play gin rummy with, and that's my game. And I don't. I know some people bet on gin rummy, actually, or not bet, but they count points and, you know. But no, I don't even do that.
Speaker A: Well, I gotta tell you, Chris, I certainly like money. Not the love. Maybe that's a problem.
Speaker B: I like money. And what money is that? I have, I really like, and I'd rather keep it to myself.
Speaker A: Oh, how about all these people that go after the retirement package? Seniors. You know, they. They dub them, they. They dupe them. They, you know, poor retired people. I'm not laughing. The retired people end up with nothing.
Speaker B: I was actually talking with my mother on the phone the other day, and it. It sounds like somebody was trying to scam her. She said she got some correspondence from somebody that claimed that they were taking over, paying out my dad's pension benefits. My Dad's passed away, but, you know, know. And so in order to make that happen, they needed some information from her. Fortunately, she did not send it. It almost sounds like she might partially have believed it. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I said, if somebody claims that what you do is go to the company that is currently, you know, pay out those benefits and you ask them what's going on.
Speaker A: Sounds pretty brutal. What about when they steal your ID and all of a sudden everything's gone?
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I haven't met anybody like that yet. I know there are lots of people out there and yeah, that must be really tough to recover from.
Speaker A: Well, you see these advertisements for identity security and all like that seems like a good idea to me, but man, I don't want to have to spend any more money to survive.
Speaker B: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. So it's past five and I'm just coming upon there's a postman out still delivering the mail. And you know, I've noticed sometimes I don't get my mail till like 7 o' clock at night. And I think that's just silly.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's been kind of rough up here. Also, I think maybe they believe it's still the Christmas season. There's a lot of packages, you know,
Speaker B: I don't know. I just think they downsize and they're working the people that are left to death. WPZ A X N.
Speaker A: Yeah, I understand the post office is pretty rough. Even coined a phrase. It's called go postal.
Speaker B: Yeah. I tell you what I do get, I really do. I get upset when I've spent an entire day working and I come home and my mail is not there yet. Like, really? Are you kidding me?
Speaker A: Yeah, we. We get weird hours of delivery, but it's not like I'm expecting a paycheck or anything.
Speaker B: That's true. But I'd like to check my mail before I go inside.
Speaker A: And I don't want to have to
Speaker B: go out and check it again just because it's not there when I check it the first time.
Speaker A: Oh yeah. Rough call. Hey, do you like places? Do you like shopping at places like Costco? I asked just because I went there today. My God, so full of people and they're all old.
Speaker B: Do I like shopping there? No, I wouldn't. I don't hate it. But I also. It's not something that I look forward to. And depending on where you go, I mean, this one here isn't too bad. But there's one down in Rockland just off of Galleria Boulevard or something. And oh my goodness, the parking lot there is always crammed full. And it's just. Yeah, I don't enjoy that at all.
Speaker A: Yeah, I. I had that same feeling. I go there because of the prescriptions. Okay. And pay the membership fee, which is now like 125 or something like that, you know, because a lot of pharmacies won't write for opiates. So pay, pay, pay.
Speaker B: Yeah, no kidding. Well, fortunately for me, because I'm a retired military, I have access to this pharmacy online pharmacy called Express Scripts. And for short term, you know, immediate prescriptions, it's not a deal because it takes, you know, they write a prescription and it takes you two weeks to get your prescription. But for the long term stuff, you know, I get three months supply of medicine for what I would normally pay, you know, each month. So it's a good deal. And, you know, they get delivered to my house, so. But that's only because I meant military.
Speaker A: Yeah. What's another place Costco is crowded and kind of freaky? There's a place I've been to here, a medical clinic where it kind of feels like that a lot of people, you know, in the waiting room. You're going how?
Speaker B: Oh, yeah. You're not talking about the emergency room, are you?
Speaker A: Yeah,
Speaker B: yeah, yeah. Oh, well. Well, I have arrived in my location at my destination. So I'm going to go see if they have bothered us to deliver my mail yet. And then I, you know, go inside and get something to eat, I guess. So have a great evening and we'll talk to you later. 73 KK6 VCD clear.
Speaker A: KK6 VCD N6IWH.
Speaker B: They have the monitoring.

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Negative contact, K0Q.

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Negative contact, k6bty. I'll be 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 here. W6RHC repeater check 2.

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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 W6 RHC repeater check three.

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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.

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System2 link up.

System guide link box.

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32 link office.

Los Angeles link up.

Kg6k.u o kn6pww.w6rhc. Repeater check 2 and 6pww.kg6ko. Go ahead. Hey, Lester, I'm looking for an early check in tonight. Not a problem. All right, thanks. I appreciate it. Really happy to do that. Anyway, Ah, that's it for me. No traffic. Can 6pww clear. All right, Jimmy, you have a good evening. Thanks for calling 86K real quick.

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November 8th at the delta hotel, and I'm on an hd in berkeley.

Number 8 papa delta hotel in berkeley portable.

QST. QST, QST. This is KG6K Valley traffic as part of the national traffic System. And the purpose of this is to relay formal traffic into and out Sacramento Valley. And understand the word that this is incorrect. Please make no transmission. Control. All stations are requested frequency to. W6 rhc repeater check 3. Are there any special traffic to be listed? Non. Roll call follows. Camp six opi, kf6obi, mike and willows. And no traffic. Good evening, mike. Thank you. Kg6k. You caller roller. No, carbon. D60. All right. Kf60. Jy is out of the area. K6rcs, 86pmt. Kilo, echo 6, papa, mike, tango, russ and gerber. Good evening. Lester in the group and I have no traffic. Good evening, russ. Thank you. Kc6ufe. Kc6ufe. Bill in cape. No traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, bill. I hope you enjoyed the day today. All right. All right. That's a roller. Where I was see. K&6pww asked for early check in. So that's the rollers. I have it. Do we have any late members or visitors with that check in? No further traffic or check in. This is KG6KUO closing Sacramento Valley traffic and 2100 hours local time through the W6RHA repeater on 146.95. Old man. And I like to thank everybody who kicked in the night to go in fire Amateur radio study with you. 6K dual clearing frequency.

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This is ko6lwl monitor, los angeles. Link up, k6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

Speaker A: Radio check from Orange County. You believe it, charlie? Loud and clear in mesquite from k0qg.
Speaker B: Pretty decent over here at 101 in Katati. AD6 POC mobile system 26 link off.
Speaker A: Can I make it back to you? K0qg and mesquite? You're loud and clear.
Speaker B: K0QG from K6K mobile. What part of California is that? I've heard of this but I don't know where that is.
Speaker A: We're on the Utah Nevada border about four miles away. I guess it was there maybe and a half from Utah headed up to St. George. We're on a handheld here in Nevada. Mesquite is not in California. It is indeed in Nevada, over.
Speaker B: I didn't realize that the car system went that far east. I knew it went down to Vegas and there's some stuff on the California Nevada border, but I didn't know it went that far east into Nevada. That's pretty impressive. Especially around the border of Utah. Right on. Here's Adam.
Speaker A: By the way.
Speaker B: I'm on the way home from work tonight.
Speaker A: You and I have talked before. You're in Northern California around Sacramento or somewhere. I believe I maybe talked to you about two weeks ago. It's still here in Las Vegas, but we're out in Mesquite this week.
Speaker B: So I'm Adam. I work for the utility company night during the day. I have a power engineering construction business. Tomorrow I have a meeting at Stanford University. 10:00am you know, that's probably as far as I really will go in one day. I'm going to be down there at 10 so I got to be back on the road at like say 6:30 in the morning. I'm not even supposed to home yet, but like my dad said, sometimes you have to go to where the job is. I'm actually north of San Francisco by about 45 minutes. Just driving home tonight, trying to get shower a little something to my stomach in bed. Back to it again.
Speaker A: Okay Adam, you're sounding good. Like I said, into Mesquite and dry safe. Be careful out there and enjoy your commute. I'll say 73 and it's been nice talking to you again. I'm sure we'll. We'll hook up again sometime. 73 to K0QG.
Speaker B: Friday. Bill, in the seat. You have a good night. I got about 15 or 20 minutes more driving home. K86 POC mobile listening.

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Speaker A: This is Kilo Oscar
Speaker B: 6. Kilo Oscar November. Anyone available for a sound check? It.

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Kilo Oscar 6 kilo Oscar November.

Kilo Oscar 6, kilo Oscar November. Anyone available for a sound check? System12 link up.

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K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

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And sickle can eat this. K6lnk system 36 snow mountain range.

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System2 link up.

N6 katie test. N6k80.

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One more time. M6 knees. And six knee. Testing. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

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Los Angeles linked up.

Speaker A: Well, coffee cup in hand. Good morning, Kilo. November 6th. Mike, golf. Kilo. Hey, shut the hell up, you. You.
Speaker B: Good morning. I'll be on the side. I got the news going and I was listening on hs. So Jay will jump in there, I'm sure.
Speaker A: I got the business channel on in the other room, but I really haven't paid any attention. Alrighty. Yep. KN6MGK.

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Speaker A: Well, he said you're out there. J n6wip kn6mgk. Oh. You watching anything interesting? Oh, yeah. I
Speaker B: was fixing to call you last night. It's not that important. I was just curious. What HT
Speaker A: did you get? I can.
Speaker B: Yeah, I was just curious what HT you got? You said you were gonna pick up some pamphlets and someone found a walkie talkie, so I'm curious what it was.

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She lives off Humbug Road and doesn't drive a truck. Okay, well, we know that that vehicle needs suspension every now and again.

Yeah. When you were up there at Ann's place, did you fix her base antenna and stuff so she can talk to us better?

Okay, well, that explains it. Yeah. Then she's the candidate for that. That antenna. Then she ought to change that antenna out to the one that, you know, the club has. That's my personal thoughts. And maybe even raise it up a few feet. But it has a different propagation pattern, so you can see it on Diamond's website. But I bet it will have a better chance of getting in. But whatever. You can't tell things to people.

Speaker A: Yeah, if it's down the deal like that, maybe she's getting a little knife edge once in a while or something, I don't know. But yeah, she sounded good last
Speaker B: week for sure, but the week before that, no. Well, anyway, I was hoping that it was just like a Yaesu FT70 or something like that, just, you know, bumped out of the back of someone's truck. Yeah, stuff like that happened
Speaker A: in my life before, though, and then, you know, so it could happen. Yeah, Someone could lose a nice HT or something, you know, like John's ht. That thing's been around for a long time and they still work good. In fact, there's a guy in Chico, you know, Greg, he's selling one like John has, I think.
Speaker B: I
Speaker A: think he wants
Speaker B: like 100 bucks for it or something. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker A: yeah, and John likes them things if he wanted an extra, but I think he has an extra already anyway because it's old school, you know, those nicad batteries. I think it has those battery kits. You can put regular batteries in it, you know, alkaline batteries usually. He has some accessories like that down here that Greg does. Yeah, Decent deal. If someone wants a radio like
Speaker B: that
Speaker A: for me, I'd rather have like an FT71 that does digital.

Yeah. You know, I think Jeremy has a Yaesu FT5D price off of 300 bucks or something like that. He has some accessories, extra batteries, I don't know. He might have that speaker mic too. I don't know. But in case someone like Ian wants a decent radio that'll do digital, you know, I see him for about 300 bucks on main trading and stuff like that, so use especially when they have accessories and things. So I don't know, he might be coaxed to doing a little bit better, but I don't know. In case you ever find someone who wants a FT5D.

Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Jeremy's been going with more Motorolas and stuff like that, so he enjoys those. And some of the stuff. Motorola stuff has more power and stuff, too, and a little bit more dynamic
Speaker A: range for the vocals. I don't know. I think there's one he's saving up for that might be three or four times.

Speaker A: So, see, like, these Motorola repeaters.
Speaker B: It looks like it's SLR 8000, $5299. Yeah, that's the ones
Speaker A: that they use, like, on some of these repeater sites, I think. You know, up on these hills, like, even the Carla system has Motorola equipment. Yeah, you. They depend on Motorola for a lot of that stuff.

Speaker A: Yeah, that's for sure. But you'd have to go and go somewhere else so you could be on another repeater. I don't know. Yeah, Simplex is fun. Yeah, like that guy that was in Manton yesterday. Yeah, Maybe he's listening this morning, you know, haven't heard him, but
Speaker B: never know. Yeah.
Speaker C: I'm gonna head to Panera
Speaker A: and then head over to Yankee Hill and do some work for. For the day. I'll be up that way tomorrow, you know, unless something changes. But I plan to be up that
Speaker B: way tomorrow. Oh, yeah? Yeah. No,
Speaker A: I would. Yep. Don't think it's February yet though, right? Yep. Kind of figured out doing breakfast one of these days. But
Speaker B: not until February sometime.
Speaker C: Maybe I'll have to wait for the club to have their Saturday breakfast then. I can afford to do that.
Speaker B: I'm guessing you're going this time, right? To the Saturday breakfast for pars. Yeah. So. Hey, for fun.
Speaker A: And then I'll let you go. I. This morning I was running, you know, FT8, getting into Asia pretty good. I got Mexico, also about 10, 10 contacts on FT8, running higher power, mostly Japan. I didn't get Mexico and I got South Korea. China. I was having trouble getting into China, though. Anyway. Although I could hear them, they couldn't hear me. Anyway, so then I said, okay, well, then for fun, I'll go the opposite direction. And instead of doing cqdx, I just put CQ with my call sign, you know, and turn the power down to 6 watts. See? What happened? I put out three on the first time period. Three CPUs, nothing. Turned it around the other direction for the other 15 seconds. Put CQ out three times, got one from Utah. That's it. So there's your. There's your QRP lesson for the day. Life's too short for it.

The deal of the century. Okay. Yeah, I guess he's sleeping. So you can talk about it.

Yeah, yeah. A friend of mine has a 7,300 up there in Reading, actually, out of Anderson, and he's having trouble getting on JS8. I've been telling him, you know, to do the firmware update, and, you know, I don't know if he understands how to. He did that, but I don't know if he knows how to load the FT8 settings in on that preset and so forth, but I would think he would. He knows his radio like the back of his hand is the only one he's really had for quite a while, but it was working good for him for a lot of years. But all of a sudden, maybe a Windows update came in or something, and all of a sudden he couldn't get on JS8 anymore.

Well, she can use the GMRS license you got, so she could. You could have it on that frequency and she could tell you then on gmrs.

Yeah, well, simpler than ever. Yep, simpler than ever. All people have to do is study like hamstudy.org on their phone or ham exam on their phone. Yep. They can study all just the correct answers, ask some questions here and there that we could probably help answer, you know, help understand a few little concepts. But it's keynote within a couple weeks, everyone. My sister was able to pass it that way. Then you can go and schedule the exam with like that W5YI online or the guard group or the Alaska group, and take the test whenever you want. So some weekend, when you're ready to go, you schedule it, you take it, and you're done. No reason why they can't get on these days. You don't have to go to some testing facility and so forth. So if they don't do it, it's on their own cell.

Hey, no problem. I'm going to get out of here and go see what's on the business channel and get a cup of coffee. Kilo November 6th. Mike, golf. Kilo.

N6k anytime. K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

Speaker A: Kk6vcd mobile w e6a x n receiver. Good morning, Chris. Good morning. How are you this morning?
Speaker B: You want to know the truth or a lie? The lie is much shorter. Oh, I'm fine. How are you?
Speaker A: Oh, I'm fine. Yeah. Just. Yeah, waiting for the. Waiting for the week to end and then waiting for the other remaining days of my employment to end.
Speaker B: I believe you're going to be happy when you retire. Really? Just. Just a little kind of hint that I.
Speaker A: Well, yeah, as long as I don't get caught in the trap of just sitting at home all day long.
Speaker B: You mean watching tv, getting a big pot, good drink a lot of beer?
Speaker A: Yeah, that general idea.
Speaker B: Hey, now you're talking. Well, I believe human beings should have time of rest. And it's okay for a man to lay around, you know, recline, watch a movie, stay in bed until noon.
Speaker A: I'm edging towards that on the weekends. Most of the time I don't wake up till 8:39, sometimes 10.
Speaker B: Well, I'm familiar with the term beat yourself up.
Speaker A: I do that.
Speaker B: You know, I always think, you know, God, you're not. You're a terrible guitar player. You suck. And I paint because. Painting for years, I look at it and say, you suck.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, you're doing it anyway, so. Hey, to change the subject completely, have you ever taken a train cross country somewhere?
Speaker B: No, but I have a friend who. He passed away.
Speaker A: He was into that.
Speaker B: Oh, my gosh, he loved it. You know, he would get sleeper cars and, man, the food was great.
Speaker A: Yeah. I'm thinking about when I go back to Illinois instead of flying, taking the train. I know it would take a couple of days. Yeah. What, three days to get there? Two and a half, three days to get there. But I've never done it and I have the time now. You know, it's not like I'm gonna be on I won't be burning up vacation days when I'm doing it.
Speaker B: That's good. You know, work out some of these desires. What do they call that? I mean, really might be enjoyable. And I think really, you get a compartment car, you know, your own sleeper and all like that, and, you know, they. They take care of you.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And I talked to my wife about it, and she doesn't want to do it. She. Yeah, I just would be bored stiff doing it. But I think I'd like to try the experience. I did it on a bus once. I took a Greyhound from California back to Illinois and that was a bit rough. But then, you know, you're confined to your seat the entire way, except when you get off and. Or, you know, these are changes. Bus changes, or, you know, you stop at a station. Bus stops for gasoline or. Yeah, to fuel up or something. You know, you get a few minutes to get off the bus and stretch your legs, but otherwise it's rough.
Speaker B: Oh, I heard it's even rougher now. I mean, lots of people crowding into the bus. You know, it's kind of like a little circus.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, I don't really remember too much about it, but. And I don't remember too many of the people I did part of the trip. I was sitting next to this French teenager. French father was taking him across country, all around the US On a bus. And we had. So we had interesting conversation for a few hours.
Speaker B: Wow. Well, sometime you'll have to tell me, you know, some of the subjects and what you talked about and how it changed your life. I remember some relatives had a. A Greyhound pass. Somehow they, you know, pay one amount, and then they can travel anywhere they wanted. And here they are in the spare bedroom.
Speaker A: Yeah, I forget what that was called. That was a big thing back in the 70s.
Speaker B: Yeah. Go anywhere you want. You know, show them the path. I never rode the bus that much. You know, Southern California, everybody has a car. You know, Bay Area, I just had a car, so. But I did take bark,
Speaker A: and that
Speaker B: was good, but unreliable and all like that. That's kind of a train. I could say, hey, yeah, man, I've been on trains.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah. A few years ago, I went back to Illinois, and my daughter and I went to a Cubs game, and we got on the train, we took the. The. What do you call it? Not the subway. Yeah, the transit system. You know, the commuter train all throughout Chicago.
Speaker B: And.
Speaker A: Oh, my goodness, I was. I had done it when I was a kid. I was astounded to experience how small those things actually are inside.
Speaker B: Are you from Chicago? Is it actually as bad.
Speaker A: As bad as it looks? That's a very broad subject. I don't know. I mean, there's. Chicago is a big city. There's very interesting places in it. Would I want to live there? No.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, I hear the bangers have a little device to put on the back of their Glock that makes it fully automatic. And they talk about Chicago a lot when they refer these guns. And the cops don't even want to go to answer the shooting. Oh, whoopee. Hey, I'm busy right now. I'll talk to you in a week.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, you know, haven't been away for so long, I don't. I don't hear any of that. Yeah, I can almost. I can almost see the attitude. Well, they're just. They're just taking one another out, so let's not bother.
Speaker B: Well, Chris, let me tell you something here. The world is kind of falling apart right now, I think. But you know, I always refer back to some of the things I've read about how to live. How you really can get upset about everything. Oh, that's excitable.
Speaker A: You don't have much of a life. Oh, well, all right. So I'm destinated. I guess I better get inside and see what I got to do and see what I can do what. What I'm going to do wrong today. I got a couple of reminders yesterday. Hey, you should be doing that. Yeah, I'm sorry. I apologize.
Speaker B: So.
Speaker A: Oh, well, have a great day. We'll talk to you later.
Speaker B: 73 KK6VZD Clear W E6A okay, I'll catch you later. Hey, I have an idea. I'm gonna make a call. K06bgy f6iwh see you out there. Ah, see, there's always that.
Speaker A: Always that. Suspense.
Speaker B: Yawn, key and weight. Woody here. Nothing.

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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 Ave. Chico. All are welcome to attend W6RHC Repeater Check 3.

Speaker A: W6grc. Anybody monitoring this morning. Morning, gary. How's it going today? Going good. You on your way up? Yeah, we're on i5. Just getting ready
Speaker B: to get into Willows to go up 162, the long route.
Speaker A: If you got your portable right now, what does it say for the rrsi? I don't know. I'm on the base. I'm going to go out and get my dad here in a minute. You're about an S9. Ten over.
Speaker B: All right, when you get your portable, let's look at the settings at a set location. And then tonight, after we install the new one, let's look at that. Let's also listen to the audio quality on this versus the new machine. I think you're going to see a improvement in audio and a
Speaker A: Republican signal strength. I need to order some cards. If I had a card in this icom, I could record you. Yeah, that would be cool. Too bad. Oh, you like an SD card? Yeah, I don't have any. I gotta answer the phone. I'll get back to you in a minute. W6LND.

Speaker A: Morning, gary. Going good. You on your way up?
Speaker B: I don't know. I'm on the base. I'm going to go out and get my dad here in a minute. You're about an S9, ten over.

I need to order some cards. If I had a card in this icom, I could record you. Yeah, I don't have any. I got to answer the phone. I'll get back to you in a minute. That'd be a 6LND.

Speaker A: I'm back, Gary. Sorry about that. W6LND.
Speaker B: Yeah, no worries. Last night I programmed the repeater in my turbo radio and I have the always admit. So I have to let the repeater break before I can retransmit. Kind of funny.
Speaker A: It's a habit we all should be a little better at.
Speaker B: Well, it makes it annoying. It's one of the features on analog on this radio. So we're at 162 now. We just got off of i5. I got Jeff and Ernie with me. We'll see how long it takes to get up to the top. We're gonna have to go a little slower than you and I did in the Toyota 4Runner.
Speaker A: For sure.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: It's gonna be far gone. Mike didn't go with you, huh?
Speaker B: No, he was sick yesterday. So I also invited Albert as well. But Albert had a appointment today, so we'll be pulling his gear down and giving it to him this week sometime if we catch up to him.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm sure he'll probably retune those cans and put it on another frequency.
Speaker B: Yeah, recycle it and get it up somewhere else, right?
Speaker A: Absolutely. What's the model or repeater you're putting in up there? SLR 8,000.
Speaker B: Yep, SLR 2,000. And then if all goes well today, I'm gonna have. We'll be able to remotely go into it and do any type of adjustment that we want.
Speaker A: Nice. Now, is that P25 capable or just Moto Turbo?
Speaker B: It's a turbo machine. However, we're going to be running it on analog.
Speaker A: Right? Yeah, I knew that. It's not going to dual mode.
Speaker B: It can be if we want it to be. But I wasn't. Wasn't wanting to use that site for that.
Speaker A: No, I don't think. I don't think it's a good site for it. It needs to be analog and have noise. Right.
Speaker B: So we're over here, see what's the crotch here? It is County Road D, as in David. And there's actually some sort of popping noise coming in on the repeater at this location. Local interference.
Speaker A: I'm hearing it as well.
Speaker B: Guess it could be power lines. They're not super high voltage next to us, but anyway, lots of. Oh, you know what it might be, Jeremy? The high voltage voltage lines run north to south up here. That's probably what it is.
Speaker A: I was just going to say that because we had a ranch out there in that area we owned for many years. And the high voltage power lines went right through there. And it Would affect. It would affect the radio on the tractor. Right. When you listen to the radio.
Speaker B: Now we're in front of it. Did my signal clean up at all? Considerably. I assume those are some of the problems that we're experiencing on fire as well.
Speaker A: Most likely. Because you know you're coming right through them.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: I forgot.
Speaker B: There's two sets of them. There is.
Speaker A: Those belong to the wpa, I believe.
Speaker B: One set goes down to the bay area. Right. The other set keeps going down the central valley.
Speaker A: I think so. I think they both come out of Shasta Dam. But I could be wrong. The scary thing is the twin 36 inch high pressure gas lines that run right under the first. The further east set.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: And all the farmland on top of it.
Speaker B: That's the scary part.
Speaker A: Absolutely. They actually run DC voltage down those lines to keep them from getting ate up by rust.
Speaker B: Look at the cameras on St. John's
Speaker A: I haven't looked at the cameras. I tried to log into to it on my computer last night. Yeah. It's working today. Let me look at St. John.
Speaker B: Starting to melt off.
Speaker A: Yeah, it is. I can see the rocks.
Speaker B: Nobody's been in there for sure.
Speaker A: Well, you got the text I sent you day before yesterday that their helicopter wasn't running, right?
Speaker B: Yeah. That's going up there in a helicopter that's having mechanical problems. That's scary.
Speaker A: Yeah. I don't think I'd want to ride in it. Right. I think that way if the weather stays like it is for another week, you might be able to get in there with like a four wheeler.
Speaker B: Yeah. So where our cameras are a bad judge of the snow drifts and stuff, because it's up on the top where there's no.
Speaker A: You know that area that you go
Speaker B: in through before you come up on the eight hill? Know where all the trees are? Yeah.
Speaker A: And you're using an HT or are you using the mobile in your pickup?
Speaker B: Mobile in the pickup truck.
Speaker A: Yeah. So you're starting to fade out, which is interesting.
Speaker B: Where are you? By the racetrack.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. I find it interesting that right in there you're having trouble getting in. So something about the path where you're at into that site. There must be some dirt in front of you. Yeah.
Speaker B: Your signal came back. There's a lot of dirt. But right about here we should clean up a little bit right there.
Speaker A: Big cleanup.
Speaker B: A lot of dirt in front of us. We're down behind that little valley and foothills are in between us and the repeater.
Speaker A: You're kind of going through that draw.
Speaker B: Let me know when you get your mobile out and about. Let's see some.
Speaker A: Okay. I might throw the mobile in the pickup today.
Speaker B: Okay, that sounds good.
Speaker A: All right, Gary, we'll chat with you here in a little bit.
Speaker B: Sounds good.
Speaker A: W6CRC, mobile 73W6LND.

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Speaker A: Before.
Speaker B: Gone. Mike didn't
Speaker A: go with you, huh? Yeah. I'm sure he'll probably retune those cams
Speaker B: and put it on another frequency. Absolutely. What's the. What's the model or repeater you're putting in up there? SLR8000.
Speaker A: Nice. Now, is that P25 capable or just Moto Turbo? Right. I knew that. It's not going to be dual mode?
Speaker B: No, I don't think. I don't think it's a good site for it. It needs to be analog and have noise. I'm hearing it as well.

Speaker A: I was just going to say that because we had a ranch out there in that area we owned for many years. And the high voltage power lines went right through there. And it would affect. It would affect the radio on the tractor. Right.
Speaker B: When you listen to the radio. Considerably. Most likely because you know you're coming right through them. There is those belong to the wpa I believe. I think so. I think they both come out of shafts of dam. But I could be wrong. The scary thing is the twin 36 inch high pressure gas lines
Speaker A: that
Speaker B: run right under the
Speaker A: further
Speaker B: east. Absolutely.
Speaker A: I actually run DC voltage down those lines to keep them from getting ate up by
Speaker B: rust. I haven't
Speaker A: looked at the cameras. I tried to log into to it on my computer last night. Yeah, it's working today. Let me look at
Speaker B: St. John. Yeah, I was talking see the rock.
Speaker A: Well, you got the text I sent you day before yesterday that their helicopter wasn't running right? Yeah,
Speaker B: I
Speaker A: don't think I'd want to ride in it. Right. I think that way if the weather stays like it is for another week you might be able to get in there with like a four wheeler.

Speaker A: You're using an HD or using the mobile in your pickup. Yeah. So you're starting to fade out, which is interesting. Where are you? Okay,
Speaker B: Yeah. I find it interesting that right in there, you're having trouble getting in. So something about the path where you're at into that site. Must be some
Speaker A: dirt in
Speaker B: front of you. You did clean.
Speaker A: All right. You're
Speaker B: kind of going through that draw.

Okay. I might throw the mobile in the pickup today. All right, Gary, we'll chat with you here in a little bit. 73w6lnd.

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W6GRC.W6LND. Hey, Jeremy, we're just heading up. Okay, The RSSI here on Pabst Avenue is about ranging around 80, 70 to 80. Okay, let's use that after we put the new repeater and let's see what it looks like. Sounds good. I'm on my mobile, but I was monitoring the RSSI on the HT. All right, sounds good. Yeah, we're. We're on 313 now and just moving slow on the way up because the road's pretty rough. That's gonna be a. Yeah. Interesting ride up there, I'm sure. All right, Gary, we'll chat with you a little later. W6LND. W6TRC.

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Speaker A: Hey Steve.
Speaker B: KN6MGK. N6TRG. Yeah, you caught me making breakfast.
Speaker A: Okay, good. Yeah, good. You need to eat something for sure. You haven't been eating enough lately. Pretty nice outside. It's gonna be a beautiful day. I think. Kinda like a spring day almost.
Speaker B: It's overcast here, but I am getting. Well, I was getting eight amps, now I'm getting four and a half. But my voltage is up to full voltage. So that's why it's starting to go down.
Speaker A: So. Yeah. What's full voltage?
Speaker B: Right now it's 14.37 volts on a
Speaker A: cheap,
Speaker B: a cheap measurement device. I'd have to look at it with a. I know if there's a difference when I look at it with a really good meter.
Speaker A: If they say lithium iron phosphate batteries don't really go by voltage for state of charge, then why do we rate them by state of charge?
Speaker B: Because the guy that said that is not a scientist and I don't believe it.
Speaker A: I haven't seen any other way to measure batteries like that Anyway. So, like it would need to be current holding capacity.
Speaker B: Well, the controllers, you know, the solar. Solar controllers and like my Renati and all the others use voltage to determine what they're going to do. They control everything rated exactly from what they see from voltage.
Speaker A: The difference being, of course, they try to get as much amperage as possible. The charge the battery like at 14.6 or 14.4. Guess you can set that on something and get it up to its maximum voltage. And then of course it'll start letting go and start going down like you said you're seeing.
Speaker B: One of my better meters says there's a tenth of a difference. It's a tenth of a difference higher. It's actually like 14.46. The renergy. The renergy is, you know, paying attention to how much current goes into the battery and how much current comes out. So, you know, they're not entirely ignoring it. I don't know how much they use to control anything though.
Speaker A: Not neither, because like it say once it gets down to say 13.3 or 4 somewhere there. Well, it could stay like that for quite some time because that's what lithium iron phosphate does, right? I mean it won't go down to, you know, much less than that very quickly. It's kind of where it hangs out until it gets down to say, you know, on the higher 12, 12.8 or so. Most of my little portable batteries, they go down to 12 volts before they kick off.
Speaker B: Kick off. I gotta Ask you. Well, I'm gonna ask you what you mean by that and listen to it while I run over and check a cornbread thing I'm making.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, like out of Winterfield day, running my 30amp hour battery pretty hard all day, been on CW, finally hit, you know, the whole transceiver turns off because the BMS kicked in. You know, at some point in time when I went back to go charge that battery at home, because I pulled it off immediately once the transceiver kicks off like that. Because of power. Anyway, yeah, when I plugged in my charger it said 12 volts, so. So evidently the BMS sends that. The voltage went down below that number or whatever number is set, maybe it's eleven and a half, whatever. And that's when it kicked off the transceiver. You know, the transceiver, the 710 is pretty unhappy if it doesn't get the voltage it needs.
Speaker B: Well, there'd be two or three questions. One, did the battery shut down? Two, did you have a meter right across the battery when it did it? Three, what was the voltage that the 710 actually saw? Things like that.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, well, I mean that's tell all stuff that was. If someone was interested, they would care. I don't. So I've experienced it before, measured it before, but it's been a while, so no, I didn't. I don't have any special devices on there measuring it because it's not important to me. It's kind of like someone has two propane tanks and they want to have gauges on them. It's like, well, just switch to the other one, you know, who cares when it runs out, when it runs out. But each his own, you know. So anyway, yeah, so that's all I got. I do have measuring devices I could put with the Anderson power poles on it and everything, but I just don't see the point. When I charged it up, it took like 26amp hours according to my charger before it filled it up. So it was only a half hour short of being empty, evidently.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, usually the BMS shuts down the battery at a lower voltage than that, like 11 volts or something like that. So my question is that you have a way to tell whether the battery had actually shut down or whether it was just the D710.
Speaker A: Well, I mean you could power back the radio after you transmit and you let off the key, you can power the radio back on. So yeah, it's hard to say which one. What was a chicken or before the egg or whatever. But it doesn't matter. I know that the battery isn't going to supply the voltage the radio wants when you key down anyway, so just switch it out, you know. But yeah, if someone's real critical in knowing that information, I don't know. I've operated with that battery probably 50 times. It doesn't bother me to not know. So I know I get, you know, say about, in this case, 26amp hours of use out of it before I have a problem like that. If you use a different transceiver, one that doesn't suck as much energy, then, you know, it doesn't require 20amps to transmit, then you'll have better, you know, better usage perhaps of that battery.
Speaker B: Well, if you can turn the radio on after transmitting and the battery is alive and everything's working, that kind of indicates to me that it's not the battery that's shutting down, it's the radio. But I don't know, you know, I've never operated with lower voltages on my D7300 because I've just always had it hooked to this big battery bank. And the lowest that battery bank goes is like 13.2 is about the lowest I've ever taken it to.
Speaker A: Yeah, well when you run digital modes or CW at high power, it definitely sucks the energy for sure. And yeah, you can hook it up to some sort of a switching power supply or a linear power supply or that 25kW battery system. So you're unlikely to find a low voltage to feed it. But the other thing about the 7300 is it is not as power hungry as the Yaesus are. You can ask Jeremy about that, knows. So that's just the way it is. And then the new Mark 2 is even better. So I think they were claiming it's 0.7amps on receive. That's pretty, pretty amazing.
Speaker B: Yeah, receive turns out is the most important thing because you're typically not transmitting 50% of the time unless you're running that stupid app called FT8. Haha. Just kidding.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, definitely. If you're calling CQ on FT8, you're, you're pumping out at least 50% utilization gap every 15 seconds. Calling CQ this morning I was, I was probably even higher than that because I was going from one to the other to the other. But I was only putting out 25 watts in the transceiver though the amplifier was doing most of the work. But yeah, but out there on winter field day, we were doing like 75 watts CW. And it's continuous. You know, it's, you know, CQ, CQ, call sign comes in repeating, you know, just back and forth, back and forth. You know, there's no, hardly any wait time at all. So. Pretty good power usage for sure.
Speaker B: How many watts?
Speaker A: 75.
Speaker B: Yeah. That's a lot of power for continuous. The, my, my, my radio will go up to 115 full power. That's a lot of power.
Speaker A: Okay, That's more power.
Speaker B: Yeah. Are you going over the dam?
Speaker A: No, but I'm out of that bad spot though. And I'm almost at the job site. So. You're in Yankee Hill. But I've already gone over. I didn't even look this time. But yeah, it's sometimes fun to run a little extra power. You can just, you know, get, get further out there on FT8. I was having a little bit more trouble getting into China today though. Plenty of Asian stuff, but no, China's
Speaker B: got two stations on KSA call a lot of the time. At least I used to. I haven't had it on in at least a week.
Speaker A: Yeah, you're running into a couple weeks real fast here. That'll be a couple months before you get it back if you do.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's why KL7R jumped in there and said, oh, I'm going to help you out. And I think I could download, I've got fast enough Internet now. I could download a system. I think I'm going to try to download the Cam4 Ack system.
Speaker A: Yeah, I thought you were working on that yesterday.
Speaker B: Nope, I did more carpentry and well, the day before, the last thing I did was try to put one sheet, one, one piece up. And I majored and yeah, 37 or 38, blah, blah. And then I cut it at 35. So that ruined that whole sheet. So I went down yesterday and got a sheet, a whole sheet of is 10. They're 10 foot long now. Siding for 34 bucks. And I'm ready to put up pretty much the last piece unless I mess around a little bit with this one other piece that the lines didn't quite match up and, and then I got it start working on the insulation.
Speaker A: Well, I thought you were tearing stuff down, not building stuff up.
Speaker B: Well, it's a combination project because I'm using all the insulation on the existing buildings, making them toasty, toasty warm. And one of the project was, you know, the wall on the end of the building that I'm keeping was right up against the building that I'm Getting rid of. So I had to remove enough of that building to be able to work on that wall. Because what I want is when I remove the trailer, I want that wall to be looking like it's been finished forever.
Speaker A: Well, having new siding on it and new paint and stuff, that's gonna look new, not. Not like it's been there forever.
Speaker B: Well, all I'm using is this green. I think it was originally white. There's a type of primer, it's called bullseye or something. And it's really good. And I, I rolled it and brushed it. So it's on there. Good. You know, my neighbor had five gallons sitting there, like 50, $60 worth of paint. And I said, well, could I have that? Do you want that? He says, yeah, I'll take it. And I did the entire building except for that one wall. And I ran out and that includes the greenhouse. I did everything in that green. So it's exactly the same color as this house.
Speaker A: Must have a dead animal around here. Got the buzzards for him. The vultures up there not too far from me. You down up there before? So I wonder. Have to go check that out anyway. Yeah, if you're using just primer, that's not going to be a good exterior. You know, if it's exterior, you're going to want to put something else over the top of that. Bullseye is good. When it's hit the primer, you need to have the. The right stuff in it to also give you some UV protection and lasting to protect that wood more than just prime it.
Speaker B: Well, I'm really surprised how well it's holding up. But you're right, you're right. That's what the painters would tell you because they want to sell you more paint.
Speaker A: Well, that's not true. You could, you know, when you paint something with a sonica primer, you know, paint all at one, then it has some of those things just like gasoline. Gasoline is gasoline, but. But it's all about the additives. When you go certain places, right? Not saying that like chevron is worth their additives, but they are additives. Like Techron for instance. But I generally like to get top tier gasoline. But I don't care. I'll get any gasoline if I have to. I'm just thinking that especially if it's sun facing, you're going to want something to protect it a little bit longer term. But whatever. Bullseye is good primer. I use it so it's good. And I've used it for some of my sign making. Stuff before, put it out in the sun. It lasts a long time, but, you know, it does. Does fade and start, you know, cracking and stuff like that, because it was just primer. So, anyway, I'm here and I'll listen to your final, but I'm going to go inside and work. KN6MGK.
Speaker B: Yeah, I've had some primers that just haven't held up at all. I don't think they should even be sold, they're so lousy. But this bullseye impressed me and I didn't buy it. It's the first time I've ever used it. And it, of course, now, the way he. The way my neighbor used it, he sprayed it on and he didn't roll it or didn't brush it afterwards. So it doesn't hold up very good when you do it that way. It had bubbles and all kinds of stuff. So he's got flaking and all kinds of problems. I don't have those problems. Mine is just perfect. All right, have a good one. 14.40. So that means it's actually 14.50. With this one meter, I'd have to pull out my. I've got a third meter. That's equivalent of a fluke. In fact, I do have a fluke. Fluke. I could pull out the fluke. And that one should be the most accurate of all. N6 tiers, you calculate.

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This is Kilo Wishes Quebec calling pedestrian mobile system 26 link office.

Speaker A: Me. This is Ki6isq Utiah. Anybody out there got their radios turned on?
Speaker B: Okay, copy imq. This is november 6th, mike p. And we copy you from ukiah.
Speaker A: Morning. I didn't catch your call sign, but I appreciate you coming back to me. I. I do a walk some mornings and just try to hit the distance heater from Ukiah. So it's working still. All good to know. Thanks for coming back to me. This is Jim, KI6ISQ back to.
Speaker B: All right, Jim. Name here is Tom. And the call again is November 6th, Mike Victor, Tom. And yeah, I've been to Ukiah quite a few times. I think you said maybe you're taking a walk and Are you on a handheld then? You're doing pretty good for a handheld in Ukiah. Go ahead. Hey, Tom,
Speaker A: I. I am on a walk. I'm up real high. I think I could almost. There's a hang. I think I can almost see the mountain that you guys are on here. I've got a good line of sight and I'm only doing five west, obviously. Thank you.
Speaker B: Okay, so we're on down south on Geyser Peak, which is a ways down from you. So I'm not sure if you can see it from there or not, but you are making it, so good job there.
Speaker A: So this is Ki6isu. Bid you farewell. Have a great day.
Speaker B: Okay, you have a good day as well, 6 MVT. Talk to you later.

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Speaker A: Jeff, was that you I heard coming into Santiago?
Speaker B: You know, it was about to be a six pair of beat. I need to be losing his voice.
Speaker A: Okay, well, you sound like uop. And then of course, your call sign ends with T. So how are things in Huntington Beach?
Speaker B: Not bad.
Speaker A: Warming up.
Speaker B: It was kind of cool this morning, but not as bad as it was a couple mornings ago. So looks like we'll have some activity at the beach.
Speaker A: Yeah, I grew up there in Southern California. I can't imagine Huntington beach not having some kind of activity.
Speaker B: Pretty much for the surfers all year round. That's true. And I used to do that myself. Not anymore. I'm lucky to get around the house here. I tore all my stuff apart Here and
Speaker C: System 19 link up.
Speaker A: Well, I am now down here in Chinota, Columbia. But I was born and raised there in La Habra. From there I moved. I moved up to Northern California, Fort Jones. And then a year ago I set sail and permanently moved and retired down here in Columbia.
Speaker B: Sounds pretty good. Columbia. You'll have to give me a geographical location on that. I'm a little confused. Yeah, I grew up in LA harbor too. Actually, I was about 10 years old when I moved there and went to high school. Back in the 60s I had Earth. Yes, 50s, early 50s, actually. I went to high school in Fullerton and Larry got built in high school and goofing around here, so I'm not thinking of what I'm saying. Sorry about that.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's okay. So much. Hayward, confirming your call sign is W6PRP. Is that. Is that correct?
Speaker B: That is correct. Are we on the repair or we supposed to be local? I wonder if I got the same tune right. Please let me key it once, see if I get one. Beep. Oh, got two beats. Someone assistant. Now how the heck did I mess that up? Okay, anyway, the name here is Buck. Like Buck Rogers. Back to you.
Speaker A: Okay, well, I looked up W6PRP. I think that's what you're saying. W. Whiskey, whiskey, A6. I looked it up and it says there's a page out of Death Valley. Anyways, the other station. Go ahead, come on in here, say hello.
Speaker C: The other station has a very hot mic that and see if that's me or whether it is. Yes, he's voicing. Quite kind of hot there. Go ahead.
Speaker B: Yeah, okay, I'll back off a little bit. Better losing my voice here. How's this sound? I backed off a little bit. My. My voice is all messed up. I guess I'm on the repeater. I Thought I was on Simplex going through Santiago. So I kind of verify that system
Speaker C: that you're a single feet. So I think that's a little bit better. Yeah, you might want to back up. Your mic is really, really good one, I think. I think one PL cone is 114. And I forgot what the other one was for the single feet, Double P. But it sounds to me like you're on the single. And it looks like I am double on the system. System 19K650P when we find out what's going on there.
Speaker B: Yeah, I know the guys were working on it a while back. Some friends of mine were up there doing some adjustments. I don't know if they fixed that one problem. That was the system further up north. It was kind of real noisy, and they might have fixed that. Haven't been on Carlo for a while. And so the mic's hot. I thought I said, I don't know what I did this morning. And there's a Motorola. All the radios I have are Motorola except for the HF.
Speaker A: Huntington beach station. You sound fine to me. And I'm listening directly via All Star. So, yeah, unless something changed the Santiago repeater that you're talking into, you should be using PL Tone 162.2 because you are definitely on the link. And then the local PL tone is 88.5. And yes, to verify, I am in Columbia, South America, about an hour and a half drive south of Bogota.
Speaker B: Okay, I'll go along with that. Yeah, let me drop this for a minute here. I'll stand by for a minute. Yeah, I got two beats. Yeah, I'm on the other PL going through the system and take another look at that with a service monitor. Okay, very good. And you asked me a question, Laharboro. Let's see. I forgot what the question was. I'm gonna get an answer. Oh, call science. Yeah. Whiskey 6, Bravo, Romeo, Papa. Whiskey 6.
Speaker A: Okay, I got it that time. All right.
Speaker B: Thank you.
Speaker A: Yeah, I grew up right there on the street, right behind the 300 bull. Pioneer Street. I lived in the house. Well, after I left the house I grew up in, which was on the south side of Pinehurst. Later, we bought a house, and I lived on the north side of Pinehurst. I lived there in my adult years, and that was my backyard backed up right to the back wall of the bowling alley.
Speaker B: Oh, very good. Yeah, I live by working. The police station is. It's all new now. They rebuilt it. And where the church is bought up the property where I used to live. On Florence, East Florence there. And the street, of course, was. I'll think of it in a minute. Anyway, it's been a while. And it says 1950, 57, 58, 59, 60, 60, 62. I came after I got out of the service. I moved to Huntington beach and been here ever since.
Speaker A: Oh, okay. Yeah. Wow. That was. That was before my time. It's hard to tell you. All right, I'll let the system go. And good to meet you. I have one daughter who lives in Long beach and another daughter who lives there in Huntington Beach. So I'm always watching the weather and
Speaker B: the news down there.
Speaker A: Okay, you take care.
Speaker C: Good to meet you.
Speaker A: Ken here. N6T E and I'm coming in radiolift. That's why I still use my FCC cold.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, I get a little confused. I'm familiar with location changes on repeaters and so forth. I've been in the business doing that, but I get a little confused sometimes. So I got the color system to straighten out here. Now, since they worked on it, they made some changes and I had to fix mine to catch up with the changes. Take care, my friend. W6PRP Huntington beach and the other station 73.
Speaker C: It.

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Speaker A: W6grcw6lnd. W6grc.w6lnd. Sounds like it's working, Jeremy.
Speaker B: It is. My HD doesn't work on analog, of all things. Key fail. Okay. Is that working? Yep. I hear you. Get loud and clear. Sounds good. All right, that's with 5 watts. We're just getting everything put together. I wanted to make sure I had the cable connected and everything. Looking good.
Speaker A: That sounds good, Gary. All
Speaker B: right, let me get
Speaker A: everything
Speaker B: connected, and I'll holler at you in a minute,
Speaker A: okay? You'll have to text me.
Speaker B: Okay.

Do.

The Deers. 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.

Good afternoon. The time is 12:34pm.

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K7g and d n6 knee. Are you listening here?

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Speaker A: Kf6 obi.
Speaker B: We're still running on about 5
Speaker C: watts. We're working on everything up here, but we're up and going.
Speaker A: Roger that. Gary. Yeah, that at this level. There's quite a bit of static on the carrier, Over.
Speaker C: Yep, we're just barely peeping. I think it might even be 1 watt. This is the settings from down on the bottom of the hill. So soon as we get it everything wired in, then we'll turn it up.
Speaker A: Okay, well, hopefully things are set. Okay. It seems like a long turnaround time. Yeah, I happen to be in Chico. I had to make a run over here last minute, so I'm on the mobile in the truck.
Speaker C: Okay, we don't hear any noise locally, so that's good. That means there's nothing interfering up here, so by the end of the day we'll have her wrapped up.
Speaker A: Roger that.

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System14 link.

Speaker A: Kf6obi is
Speaker B: on air. Are you still mobile w6grc? Yes, I am headed back to Willows. How's the audio sound?
Speaker A: Well, you're coming in broken, so I don't like that.
Speaker B: You look everything over. Well, I am moving. We're headed south right now. Fixing to head west. But you're in a mobile, correct? With a normal antenna. Are you on a portable mobile with mag mount on the roof?

Here 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 one.

Speaker A: W6grc.w6lnd. All right, jeremy, you sound good. What type of radio are you using? Motorola xtl 2500 with a mobile.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker A: How's the repeater sound on the valley floor? Sounds good. Okay, I'm going to play a lot of audio through it. Right now, what we're doing is just listening to the signal, making sure we don't have any issues. Okay. Well, I'm going to.
Speaker B: I'm going to be.
Speaker A: I'm going to step away for a moment, but I can wait a moment if you need. Now, you're hot into the repeater, so just making sure.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker A: I'm in between two orchards out here at the ranch.
Speaker B: Okay. Ss1.
Speaker A: Amateur Radio Newsline report number 2517 with a release date of Friday, January 23, 2026, to follow in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. The following is a QSP. A severe solar radiation storm disrupts HF communication. US lawmakers propose restoring funds to Voice of America and in New Zealand, Q codes are on the move. All this and more as Amateur Radio Newsline Report number 2517 comes your way right now from around the world. This is Newsline, Amateur Radio's first independent on the air news and bulletin service. Now reporting from Wadsworth, Ohio, here's Stephen Kenford.
Speaker C: Nawb.
Speaker A: Our top story this week is the most severe solar radiation storm in more than 20 years. It began on Monday, January 19, and lasted through much of the week. The National Weather Service declared the storm to be at an S4 level, a degree of severity not seen since October of 2023. F4 is the second highest level of this type of storm. The storm severity, which exceeded that of the one in October of 2023, disrupted the HF ban, challenging Ham radio operators while creating spectacular auroral displays. A bipartisan agreement among the US Lawmakers could restore the government's financial support of Voice of America, ra, Radio Free Europe and other federally funded news services. Kent Peterson, KC0DGY, has that story.
Speaker C: U.S. lawmakers in Washington, D.C. have reached a deal that would fund the Voice of America, giving its parent organization, the U.S. agency for Global Media, an estimated $653 million. That figure is considerably lower than the annual $860 million provided previously to the agency, as described on the Radio World website. The funds would also pay for restoration of operations for Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty and Radio Free Asia. A minimum of $30 million is earmarked for medium and shortwave programming by the Office of Cuba Broadcasting. The deal is part of a larger spending bill. The National Security, Department of State and Related Programs Appropriations Act. It has the support of both parties in Congress, and its funding plan goes against the White House's executive order from last year, which shut the international news services. Even if the measure receives final approval from the House and Senate, it will still require the President's signature. This is Kent Peterson, KC0DGY the NASA's
Speaker A: Artemis 2 mission began its long awaited journey to the moon and back on Saturday 17th January with the Rocket's rollout onto the launch pad at the Kennedy Space center in Washington. Three of the four astronauts who will be aboard have their amateur radio licenses. Travis Lick, N3ils tells us what's up next.
Speaker D: If all goes well, astronauts Reid Wiseman, KF5LKT, Victor Glover, Ki5BKC, Jeremy Hansen, KF5LKU and Christina Cook could be poised for liftoff as soon as early February on the Artemis 2 test site. 40 noon won't be touching down on the moon's surface.
Speaker B: The test
Speaker D: will establish a path for an eventual longer human presence on the moon. In fact it will be a springboard in a manner of speaking, to send the first NASA astronauts to Mars. By the time the quartet splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, their journey will have taken them the farthest from Earth that any crewed mission has ventured. This will be the first human spaceflight to the moon in more than 50 years. Last year the US space agency asked hams with the necessary capabilities to observe the Doppler shift on the spacecraft's S band return link carrier signal. The spacecraft's S band range is between 20250 and 2290 MHz. Volunteers will not be transmitting or uplinking signals. This is Travis Lisk, N3ILS determined to
Speaker A: preserve Taiwan citizens ability to communicate. Despite ongoing damage to underwater Internet cables, many Taiwanese are pursuing the wireless option of amateur radio. John Williams, VK4JJW brings us the details.
Speaker E: Last summer a court in Taiwan gave a three year prison sentence to the Chinese captain of a ship registered in Togo after he was convicted of deliberately damaging Taiwan's underwater cables. Though that high profile case in the justice system appeared to settle one incident, Taiwan remains challenged by such ongoing damage which cuts the island off from the
Speaker D: rest of the world.
Speaker E: Taiwan is also embroiled in ongoing tensions with Beijing which claims the self ruled territory as its own. Recent media reports say that amateur radio is being seen as Taiwan's wireless workaround to maintaining connectivity. A civil defence group there has been providing ham radio instruction to prepare candidates for their operating licenses. Although there's already an amateur radio presence in Taiwan represented by the Chinese Taipei Amateur Radio League, these newest candidates are pursuing license status, especially because of the damage being done to the cables. Their hope is to be able to step in and maintain communications if Taiwan is cut off from the Internet. More than 90% of Taiwan's Internet traffic is carried by 15 international and 10 domestic communication cables. This is John Williams, VK4JJ the American
Speaker A: Red Cross has many powerful tools in its repertoire to assist communities in distress, and now in Flagstaff, Arizona, it is about to add amateur radio. Ralph Squillace, KK6ITV tells us about it
Speaker F: the Legacy of Silent key Jack Lunsford NT 7mm is going to help save lives. Jack, who had been a member of the Northern Arizona DX association association, became a silent key at the age of 94. In December of 2024, his daughter presented his beloved Kenwood Radio to the DX association, hoping it would continue its mission of communication and goodwill. Bob Wirtz, NF7E, the association president, has ensured that this will happen. He has donated the radio to the American Red Cross office in Flagstaff for use by licensed amateurs among the staff and volunteers. Denny Pricer, KC3DTB, a Red Cross recruitment specialist for the region, acknowledged the gift, saying in a press release, ham radio provides emergency broadcasts when everything is downed. They are more powerful than portable radios and can be used to communicate around the globe. Lately there has been a resurgence of ham radios with wildfires and other disasters. This is Ralph Squillace, KK6ITV.
Speaker A: A short window of time remains to nominate candidates for this year's award to be presented at hamvention. The categories are Amateur Radio Club of the Year and Amateur Radio Operator of the Year, Technical Achievement and Special Achievement. The Club of the Year Award honors organizations that demonstrate commitment to their community and society. The Operator of the Year acknowledges active amateurs who are also active contributors to the amateur community at large and its future. The Technical Achievement Award recognizes hams whose inventions, experiments, or other related accomplishments have improved hair ham radio. The Special Achievement Award honors an individual who has shown over the years a commitment to professionalism, service, and advancement of ham radio in general. Nomination forms can be found on the hamvention website@hamvention.org. you will also find details about supporting documentation that is required. The nomination period closes on the 10th of February. Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio News I've heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the W9MIV repeater of the Mid State Amateur Radio Club in Greenwood, Indiana at 7pm local time. Through the years, amateur radio operators have become as much a fixture at one of India's major religious gatherings as the thousands of pilgrims themselves, and for a very good list life saving reason Jason Daniels VK2 Law explains the gang of
Speaker G: Saga Mellah, the week long Hindu pilgrimage that takes place each January where the Bay of Bengal beats the Ganges river is a sacred time for millions throughout India. The crowd size makes it a perilous time as well. A man suffered a stroke, a toddler became separated in the crowd from her mother and the father of a teenager nearly drowned, according to news reports. Members of the West Bengal Radio Club, who have been a steady presence at the Mellah for many years, are deployed with their radios into the crowd, connecting with a central hub to successfully find the toddler's mother. A trio of radio operators shared a photo of the three year old with others and reached out to an amateur radio operator in the festival family's hometown in Bangladesh for additional information. In another instance, a teenage girl said her father had not returned from his visit to the shore of the island, prompting the Hands to conduct a search. They got in touch with the on site health centre and learned that he'd been transported there after nearly drowning earlier in the day in the shallow waters surrounding the island. The Hams were also able to reassure the family of a 64 year old stroke patient. They contacted his family to let them know he required medical assistance and had been airlifted to Kolkata for treatment. This is Jason Daniels VK2 Law competitors
Speaker A: and volunteers are getting ready for the 2026 World Radio Sport Team Championship in July, but organizers are also looking a bit farther down the road to 2030. Graham Camp BK4BB has those details.
Speaker H: A competition of sorts is taking place. Among would be Hosts for the 2030 World Radio Sport Team Championship and the Organisation Sanctioning Committee has set a deadline of 15 February to receive letters of intent. The letters should include the proposed time frame and location, the estimated budget with fundraising plan and identify the officers and organising committee. Letters of intent or questions about the host selection process should be sent to dougk1dgmail.com the committee would like to announce the next host during the closing ceremony of WRTC 2026 in July in the UK. This is Graham Kemp VK4BB in the world of DX.
Speaker A: Listen for the special event call sign HI60UD which is on the air to mark the 60th anniversary of the second oldest amateur radio Club in the Dominican Republic. The Union Dominicana de Radio Aficionados operators are on the HF bands using SSB and the digital modes through to 31 January. Preferred QSL is via LOTW but direct and EQSL will be accepted. Chas NK80 is on the air as far as 5h3dx from Tanzir until 9 February, operating CW and using the digital modes on 20 through 10 meters. If conditions permit, he will also be on 6 meters. Alex IW5ELA is active holiday style as 8q7EL from the Maldives iota number as 01 until 27 January using mainly CW on various HF fans. Listen for Alder PY1 FAD on the air through 23rd February as HR 1pm from Guyana. He is using CW, SSB and digital modes on 160 to 6 meters. He is also operating via satellite during the week from 2300 to 0300 UTC and more frequently during the weekend. See the qrz.com pages for these three stations for QSL and additional information. Finally, here's our last story for this week. This one, which originates in New Zealand, has been patiently waiting in Q. Or is that waiting in Q as in the letter Q? Actually, both are correct because this story is about Q signals, but it's also about cars. And Jim Meachin, ZL2BHF is here to give us a cue. Or is that a clue?
Speaker B: No doubt you've been on the air and heard qsl, QSO and qrz. If you check into any nets, you have likely met up with qnc, QNI and qnf. But have you ever encountered any of these while driving? Here in New Zealand? Our cars don't just have turn signals, they have cue signals. David Zadil 2WT, recently reported to Niels at L1NZ, the NZNET news manager, that he's been seeing more and more vehicles with plates that are sporting all kinds of cue signals. That's because New Zealand, which issues three letters and three numerals to each of its newly registered vehicles, does so in alphabetical order. Not quite two years ago, the system began issuing plates with the letter Q. A busy radio operator, David is always on the alert for a qrz, but when he recently spotted one while taking a walk, he wasn't operating pedestrian mobile it was on the plate of a car at a nearby QT8S. Sadly, he didn't find a QTH, at least not one that was on a car he was ready to locate a qrv, however, and he did parked not far from his own qth. David told Newsline that the worst Q code any car can receive is qsd. An enthusiastic CW operator, he knows that it means your keying is defective. He told Newsline, I would not own a vehicle with that number plate. Now I'm not driving, but it's time for me to put the brakes on anyway. Time to go. QRT this is Jim Meachin, Fidel 2BHF.
Speaker A: Are you ready to write a HAM radio haiq? It's easy, even if you've never written a single line of poetry in your life. Visit our website@arnewsline.org and as you compose your ode to your favorite on the air activity, we will help you use the correct number of syllables to make an authentic Haiku. Submit your work and then sit back and wait to hear whether your inspired haiku will be highlighted on our website, where everyone can read it. With thanks to American Red Cross ars Tech David ZL2 David Behar K7VB dw.com DX News 425 DX Bulletin Mvention James Gifford N8K E T KB6NU Blog Live Science NASA National Weather Service Neil ZL1NZ NZNet News qrz.com forums Radio World shortwaveradio.de Spacecom, the Statesman, Times of India, Wireless Institute of Australia, WRTC and you our listeners. That's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. We remind our listeners that Amateur Radio Newsline is an all volunteer nonprofit organization that incurs expenses for its continued operation. If you wish to support us, please visit our website@arnewsline.org and know that we appreciate you all. We also remind our listeners that if you like our newscast, please leave us a five star rating wherever you subscribe to us for now with Karen, Eve Murray, Katie2 gut at the news Desk in New York and our news team worldwide. I'm Stephen Kinford, NAWB in Wadsworth, Ohio, saying 73 and as always we thank you for listening. We wish all our listeners the very best for the year ahead in 2026. Amateur Radio Newsline is copyright2026. Amateur Radio Newsline retains ownership of its material even when retransmitted elsewhere. All rights are reserved.

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How'd the audio sound? W6grc? That audio sounded fantastic. Gary.kf6opi. All right, messenger, we're still working W6GRC. Talk to you in a bit.

Speaker A: K6jw1. W6grc.
Speaker B: You're 4569 forward work perfect. I have everything port forwarded. So when you're back in the qth, can you let me know if you can see everything? We still got about an hour worth of Cat 6 cable runs to do. All right, copy that. I'll probably be back home before you guys are done, so I'll test it and let you know.
Speaker A: Sounds great. Thank you very much.
Speaker B: K16,
Speaker A: Your radio is on the right frequency. This is the home of sac Valley's original 105 W6 GRC with a PL tone of 110.9.

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K6 javion.

W6grc k6jw. How's it looking on your side? Looking good. Connected from my note here at home. And I have the web interface up, so I think we're good. I might need one more forward. I'll let you know here in a second. Sounds good. Also, let's have the announcements go off every hour for now so I can hear the audio as I'm coming down the hill. Okay, I will go make that change right now.

Jim. When you got the Web interface open for ubiquity, take a peek at the camera. You'll see a beautiful sight.

All right, I shot you the text with the additional port and then I've also changed it to every hour. All right, I want to get that port confirmed before I come off the mountain. Give me about five minutes. Yeah, no rush. I'll be here. K6 again. Go in the ubiquity device and look at the cameras if you have a minute. W6GRC, KF6OBI. Go ahead. Mike. Yeah. When are you going to add the cameras to the St. John. Yeah. Project on the dashboard? As soon as I get home and get everything settled down. We're just getting the cameras loaded up here. Roger that. Everything is sounding great here from the qth. Awesome business. You drive safe coming back. We'll do. We'll be here for another hour, minimum. Roger that. I'm jealous. What? Killer views. Sack valley. We got him pointed right towards the hottest girl in the neighborhood pool. Of course. W6GRC. Ah, perfect. I look forward to that. K6JW1.

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Jim if he can test that port. W6grc. Looking good, K6GM. And did you log in to protect yet? Yeah, yeah, I see the. I see the cameras there. Two more coming.

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Speaker A: K0qg mesquite. K0qg kw.
Speaker B: Hello.k0qg in your, in your channel this day. My battery, I just noticed that kind of diverted me for a second. I never seen a red battery come up on the screen. So big on this thing. It's never gone down. I don't have my charger with me. How you doing today? Good. Where are you at? I'm up on the other side of the mountain from you. Looking at the new build up here in the more behind the Virgin river all the way to the top. These are homes. Oh, okay. I know where you're at. Yeah. Still going to come to Mesquite or what? She's sitting right next to me. You still got to go to Mesquite. She, she's going. Okay, you get a plan? I, I can't say yes, but right now she's changed her mind. We're working on it. We're taking a look at property. All right, well, there's a, there's a three bedroom house two houses away from me. Oh, you don't want me to be that close to you. But she's saying absolutely not. But how much? Ask him. I got other people talking. I can't hear you. Stand by. Okay, please repeat that, Bill. Oh, he's just laughing because she, she had said that absolutely not. Now she's not up my motivation to move here. She says absolutely not. But ask him how much I wanted three doors down. I guess we're going to have to have a long talk with her about, you know, the benefits of living in characterized baby. Oh, yeah, we'll do that. I, I think I'm going to lose you. If I vaporize, I'm going to blame it on the battery because it's red. I've never seen this big, huge battery that comes up on the screen. I don't know if I'm in and out of the computer, but I
Speaker A: will
Speaker B: talk to you later. We've been here since yesterday and we might stay another day, but 73 to Johnny K7ZQ from K0Q. Okay, Bill, 33, good luck on the battery. Talk to you later.

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W6lnd coming via all star. Okay, I'm just testing the All Star node into the machine. The difference in volume level or signal strength. Not. Not noticeable. Gary, of course I'm talking to you with my portable on the hip. Right? Because I'm on my base. A half a watt going into my All Star node. All right, we're just doing some Cat 6 cleanup and trying to get the STR receiver connected. Okay, well, we'll chat later. On the phone. I was just curious, once you had it up on the hill, if I'd be able to connect. And I can. Yep, it's sounding good. Okay, Gary, we'll talk to you later. W6LND get ready for coffee. Net for tomorrow. Exciting. I won't have to use an All Star node to join. Yeah, that's the idea. Need to get with you on my 4000. It won't let me transmit on analog. Okay, Gary, well, let me know if I can help you any. Just copy with your portable. Tell me what the signal strength is. Obviously, bases are good. We're looking for copies with portables. Okay, I will get my portable out and then I'll key it up.

Okay, I click twj.

Gears holds a slow speed Morse code net 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 net W6 RHC repeater check 2.

System 7, lift off.

Okay. Inside my house, it's showing about an 82. Okay. That's respectful. Okay, Gary.

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Speaker A: Ko6dvv.ko6dvt. Ko6dv.k06d. I'm hearing kickback
Speaker B: on the radio but not hearing a voice.
Speaker A: Copy that, K6eix. Radio check. This is ko6dvt
Speaker B: coming to you from yuba city, california. I'm hearing you, but it's kind of cutting in and out. Could be my rig or my antenna.
Speaker A: Unable to copy there. I just catch an occasional word.