Transcriptions for 2026-01-31

Home of the original 105 with a PL tone of 110.9. This is the W6 GRC repeater. Join us for our weekly net on Monday nights at 8:00pm.

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Speaker A: Kk6vzd mobile, wp6axm repeater.
Speaker B: I'll give you a quick Good evening, Chris. N60NY
Speaker A: quick Good evening, eh? All right, well a quick good evening to you too.
Speaker B: Thank you, sir. Yeah, I'm just about destinated. Probably about three minutes. So how you been doing? 43 work days left.
Speaker A: 43
Speaker B: and I are becoming a real short timer.
Speaker A: Yes siree, Bob. It's fun, it's fun. You know, people ask me how you doing? And I just bring up that number
Speaker B: yes or yes sir. Well, it's a number to definitely be happy and proud about.
Speaker A: Now I'm well, yeah, I gotta figure out I want to. I want to go back to Illinois and see my family. Shortly after that, maybe not right away, but I'm thinking about taking the train. Have you ever done that?
Speaker B: I have not done that yet. My in laws actually did when they went back to Indianapolis one year and they loved it.
Speaker A: My wife doesn't want to do it, but then again, you know, I could do it by myself and she could fly. That'd be okay with me.
Speaker B: Well, there you go.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: And you'll actually be able to see part of the country that you can't see other than from a train. So everything I've heard of from people that have done it.
Speaker A: Loved it. Yeah, that'd be interesting going across the salt lake on the causeway. They have a. Well I'm not sure whether you call it a causeway or what, but you know, part of the tracks goes right across the salt lake.
Speaker B: Yeah, that would be awesome.
Speaker A: Of course I know they don't stop for the evening. So there's part of the country you're going through in the middle of the night and you get to miss that. So you know, that'd be a bit. Well that would be a bit disappointing. But you know, the rest of odr.
Speaker B: Exactly. You know, and the thing is, you know, if you get one of the rooms or the room at, you know, all of the meals are included in it other than, you know, whatever snacks you want to get from the cafe car. But you know, everything I've heard that the meals are really good, you know, it's very pleasurable, you know, going through there. Just make sure you have your camera with you.
Speaker A: Looking into the room at. Do you know how big it is?
Speaker B: I think the reel mat is. The real mat isn't very big. You can fit two people in there. But it's pretty tight quarter. So if it's one person it's pretty comfortable. It's a lot Better than riding in the coach seats.
Speaker A: Yeah, I guess it's three, a little over three and a half feet by a little over six feet.
Speaker B: Gotcha. Yeah. When I. Because I was planning on going across to New York and I was gonna. Actually I was gonna see if I. When I do, I was gonna get one of the bigger rooms. That way I've got room to stretch out and you know, move around a little bit and not have to, you know, walk up and down the entire train
Speaker A: one way. That's a couple thousand dollars.
Speaker B: I actually priced it, which this was last year when I was looking at doing it. It was going to be $1200 to go one way from Sacramento to Rome, New York.
Speaker A: Do they give discounts for distance? Because I was looking at the prices from here to Chicago.
Speaker B: I don't know. They might because I know actually, so from Chicago, Rome, you know, Chicago would have to change trains and you know, so there's no sleeper car from Chicago on. So I don't know if that makes a difference or not.
Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. You know, I'm gonna keep it in mind. If I don't do it, I'll never do it.
Speaker B: Exactly.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: That's one of the one trip I really want to do is cross country on actually. So I want to go across the northern side, you know, go up to New York for a while, then drop down south and then come across the southern side. Coming back I think would be really awesome to do.
Speaker A: Yeah, that'd be fun. Yeah. I wonder, I wonder if I'm gonna get to do more traveling in my retirement. I like traveling, but you know, traveling costs money. That it does.
Speaker B: That's why get yourself a nice little used motorhome, you know, like class D, you know, one of the real small ones. And yeah, you know, make a trip cross country and you know, circling the country, you know, stopping every once in a while, spending a couple days in one area, then moving on and then when you get back home, turn around, sell the rv and don't forget just about the, the money you put into it by.
Speaker A: Yeah, but you're not talking about one of those ones that's built on a Toyota pickup bed chassis, are you?
Speaker B: No. So they've got, well, they've got different models. So they've got some that are, they're kind of like a wide body Dodge Ram van and Chevy, they made them with Chevy chassis with the van. But Dodge sprinter vans, they got a bunch of them that are built up as RVs and stuff like that.
Speaker A: Well, I haven't looked at. I know, I know. Paul's got, he's got a Mercedes van that he's got set up, you know, for mobile operating. I don't know whether it's set up
Speaker B: as an RV or not. Oh yeah, yeah, he's got it set up. It's got a kitchenette in it and it's got a bed in there and all the good stuff. So they're actually able to camp out of that.
Speaker A: Well, I might not. That might be, you know, something that I wouldn't mind doing. I don't know about my wife.
Speaker B: Yeah, I kind of have the same questions like that about my, my, I guess I'll call it my. Yeah, my wife.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Well,
Speaker A: yeah, this weekend I got to work on starting, you know, getting with the different various financial plans that I've got retirement type stuff up and, and start sending in my application saying start paying me on the 1st of April.
Speaker B: Yes sir. Yeah, you're going to want to get
Speaker A: a hook, get ahead of that. So that's a good deal though.
Speaker B: I'm, I'm proud of you, Chris. You've worked, you know, hard in your life and it's about time you're able to kick back and relax and take your shoes off for a while.
Speaker A: Yeah, my wife has actually got, got cotton planned out. There's a lot of, there's a lot of home fix up things that need to be done and she's starting to plan on all of that right now.
Speaker B: Ah, again, nice little honey do list going on.
Speaker A: Not so little. Yeah, and I think I'm going to be. Well, this is not, this is more of a, this is a season thing. I got to get up on the roof and get rid of the leaves but I didn't get off in the fall. Gotcha.
Speaker B: Yeah, get the leaves off, get the gutters cleaned out, all the fun stuff.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. All right, well I am destinated so I got to go find out what's waiting for me. So I'll, I'll have, I'll talk to you later. Have a great evening and a weekend and 73 to you.
Speaker B: Thank you, sir. You have yourself a good evening as well. Yeah, I got to go inside, start getting my stuff ready because I'm going out tomorrow, working in the Bay Area and I got a hotel out there tomorrow night so I won't be back until Sunday night. But you have yourself a good one.
Speaker A: And 73 and 6 PNY W E6A X N repeater.

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Speaker A: Hey. N6grg just finishing work.
Speaker B: Kn6mgk.n6grg. Oh, no. Not another
Speaker A: smash and grab and take off. I barely got to walk across the room. N6 GRG.

Speaker A: Kn6mgk mobile paradise, california.
Speaker B: Kn6mgk w6lnd.
Speaker A: Good evening. I'm just traveling down the hill from good old paradise and I wanted to test it out.
Speaker B: Well, how do you think it's doing? Is it better?
Speaker A: Well, I don't know. If the Internet goes out, will the repeater drop or will. Will it still have some sort of an RF ability?
Speaker B: Still has RF ability. The Raspberry PI has software on it and it is the repeater controller. And it can go without Internet.
Speaker A: Okay. Well, I mean, the sound is good, you know, very dynamic. So I think that sounds good. I mean, I have other questions, but I mean, if the Internet goes down and it can still work, then that's fine. Yeah, I mean, that's a key thing. Obviously there's always could be problems with software and Raspberry PI crashing and all that kind of stuff. That goes without saying with anything.
Speaker B: We have a computer up in the rack that we can access. We can access the Raspberry PI through that computer or we can, you know, so we have, we have lots of things. We also have a remote control switch where we can turn things off.
Speaker A: Okay, so how does the coffee break net come on? I'm kind of guessing that maybe there's a program where it. Or is there actually somebody changing it? I would think that there'd be a program that would change it to that particular for W6ek at that time. Is that what a. Am I believing that correctly?
Speaker B: You are absolutely correct. It's programmed in and it automatically, seven days a week, switches at the predetermined time, which I believe is like 7:15am or 7:20, and it turns off at 10:30.
Speaker A: Okay, well then that sounds good. Yeah. See how it goes? I have it on at home right now, I'm sure, because I left it on. So I might practice, you know, listening to this for a while and see how that goes. Is there any other programming that you guys are considering for evenings? Like. I don't know, I'm just thinking there might be something else out there that's interesting. Some sort of technical net or anything like that.
Speaker B: Well, my opinion is if we can find something, we'll add it, but we will not be adding anything from the wind system, I don't think. I don't see the purpose when Gears is running one.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, dad wasn't suggesting that at all. I can tell you that Gears isn't really running an all star direct like this. They might be doing some RF and then they shut it off at like 9 o' clock. Some people like that trivia thing, late night thing. I don't know Sister used to listen to that on the wind system But I'm sure there's other things out there that people can find. I haven't delved into it too much but like the example the fusion system through Wires X Us Kansas City wide on a certain day like Wednesdays they do have a fusion that's all questions and stuff and there's hundreds of people checking into that thing and it's very busy, very trafficked. I'm sure All Star has some stuff like that too like or maybe you know one of the other nodes like Jason Ham Radio 2.0 or Ham Radio Cash course or something like that. Maybe they put on a certain net on that weekly.
Speaker B: There's some possibilities there. I haven't delved into it. This is Gary's first real foray into All Star. It was at my urging that this happened and it was at my urging that we use the Raspberry PI as a repeater controller instead of buying a repeater controller.
Speaker A: Yeah, well it's always good to experiment with things so. Yeah so just thinking about it I'm pretty sure I've seen Josh do get on his net once in a while. I don't think he does it all the time. Someone does the net control anyway and there's check ins there's also some stuff Let me think if he does that or not. I was thinking case with UDA anyway but anyway yeah some stuff to look at in case there is some other programming things that you guys are interested in.
Speaker B: Well what we like about the Coffee Breaknet why we chose it as the first foray it kind of extends the area that that reaches and it's semi local.
Speaker A: Yeah I was hearing other check in some other states and stuff though so. But that doesn't matter. It's all about keeping traffic going and keeping people interested so yeah, I'm all for that.
Speaker B: Yeah I thought it was really good today I listened to it. I was with an HT and not a. Not what I would consider a good HT so I listened but I didn't attempt to call in.
Speaker A: Well, what's the thoughts on some or having some more difficulties in the past of hearing the repeater Seems like Smitty was hearing it pretty good. Any other word going south?
Speaker B: I haven't heard any other word as far as that's concerned and I haven't had any report. Well there was a guy from Shasta county came on last night when we were doing the initial fire up, But it took us finding a guy out of Sacramento area that had been involved as a technical support with the All Star help desk. And he's the one that helps us get it all configured and do what it's doing.
Speaker A: Well, that's very interesting. Yeah. And is that running the new version, the almond? I suppose.
Speaker B: Absolutely. So it's running the latest version of All Star.
Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. I guess that's called ASL for three or something like that. Anyway, I have to try to get that back going again. I got it going one time and didn't like the sound of it, but maybe they've updated it or something.
Speaker B: Well, the nice thing for me with this setup is I can come in with my phone now.
Speaker A: Yeah, I've heard on this qsl. I've heard two different kind of sounds from you. So maybe you're experimenting with it now. But like, one time it was a little bit lower than now. This last time it was a bit, you know, more. More volume. So a little higher, you know, hotter mic gain. So maybe you've been experimenting it now.
Speaker B: I have not. I am actually on my 9700 and I believe it's blasting full power.
Speaker A: Okay, well then like. Like right there, you were a little louder than you were the previous time, so maybe just how close you are to the mic or something.
Speaker B: This is on my motorola h. Well,
Speaker A: you can hear still a good dynamic range, but yeah, white noise. So, yeah, there's definitely a difference in the quality for sure.
Speaker B: I would not expect it to be as good. Right. Just because I'm in my house, sitting here at my desk.
Speaker A: Right. Yeah, I was just giving you my two cents, let's say. Anyway, I'm going to be pulling into the destination to get some gas here, so I'll have to let you go, but a little bit too.
Speaker B: Okay, well, that's fine. I. Betty was able to get into it with 1 watts from his QTH with his 9700. So I'm guessing it's. It's working pretty good. It definitely, I believe, is hearing better.
Speaker A: Okay, cool. Yeah. Any chance that Tyler's giving it a try yet?
Speaker B: I don't know if Tyler's home or if he's. If he's got radio in his truck. Truck or what's going on? I haven't talked to him for a few days.
Speaker A: Yeah, I don't remember him having a radio unless he installed it recently in his new truck. So. Yeah, I don't know. Okay, well, anyway, I'm gonna go ahead and let you go for now and say 7:3, but it's nice hearing you and it sounds
Speaker B: all right.
Speaker A: Steve.
Speaker B: Seven three, have a good time. Getting some gas at Costco W6LND.
Speaker A: You got 73 kn6 mgk.

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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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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 W Fix RHC Repeater Check 2.

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K 06kmh. Radio shack, los angeles. Link up. A little bit staticy, but you're good. N6K and E. You're coming in really bad where I'm at, but it could just be where I'm at. Yeah, you're quite scratchy now. You're quite scratchy. N6 keys.

Speaker A: Kn6gtn wa1ner w e6a x n repeater.
Speaker B: Well, you do know how to use your radio?
Speaker C: KN6GTN sure do.
Speaker A: Are you on the way back into Oroville?
Speaker B: Ah, negative. I'm just headed down your way.
Speaker A: Oh, I thought you was leaving after work. No, I was.
Speaker B: I went home and propped my feet up a while, took it easy and got ready to just. Just left a little bit ago.
Speaker A: Okay. I just got home maybe 20 minutes ago. I hadn't stopped by Jake's.
Speaker B: Of course, when you're in the area, you might as well. Good opportunity.
Speaker A: That's what I was thinking. And yeah, the, the oranges have got a lot of sugar in them. They're good.
Speaker B: Thank you. Yeah, we've. We've noticed. Well, actually, even when we did the first picking, there was quite a few of them that were just perfectly fine, were good and sweet. But then we got. I don't know if there's one part of the orchard or what the deal was. There was one batch of them that, that was. They were, you know, they were pretty tart.
Speaker A: Yeah, I think that's the one. I got into the dark one, but. But they weren't. Yeah, they, they were tart. These were a lot. These are a lot better.
Speaker B: Yeah, we noticed that the last law.
Speaker A: They're.
Speaker B: They're really good oranges. Nothing wrong with them. So. Yeah, there's one section of that orchard I think we must have picked a
Speaker A: little early probably so. Well, we were getting kind of anxious too, about getting them.
Speaker B: Well, there's a few more bags around if you want any more. Once you get done with those, we'll
Speaker A: be getting a hold of you.
Speaker B: Very good. Everything good on your drive home?
Speaker A: Yeah, I did 80 miles. Miles an hour all the way home, that Highway 70. That's nice. Now.
Speaker B: That is really nice and it's amazing. It just feels like it's the whole, like, you know, we always come down laporte, take Ramirez Road out and then from Ramirez down to the Marysville city limit. Just seemed like that's not far at all anymore. That speed limit made a big difference.
Speaker A: That's. That's a nice. That Highway 70 is a whole lot better. A lot of. Lot of, you know, going through, going across over to Or Dam Boulevard Boulevard and then out. 99. That's okay. But I, I just seem to. I prefer going down highway.
Speaker B: Yeah. And I. I don't know if it sends the fire up in paradise or what it was. But even, even these, like going over to the 99 and stuff. There's a lot of traffic on some of these little roads that didn't used to be that way 10 years ago.
Speaker A: Everybody's finding a different way to go and, and yeah, and at the time probably a lot less traffic, but now they're starting to get more traffic.
Speaker B: Okay, very good. Well, I'll be mobile for a while.
Speaker A: Okay, well, I'll be out here in case you get bored. I'll be out here. I'm watching a guy rebuild a Mercury engine outboard motor. He pulled it out of the junkyard and seems to be like it's not in too bad a shape just needs a little bit of work. So I'm going to watch him rebuild this thing.
Speaker B: Is it a V6?
Speaker A: Oh, no, it's just a small outboard, probably ten horse or so. Oh, okay.
Speaker B: We got to work on our 250 horse Mercury outboard. That's a V6 in there. That, that thing's a, you know, for being a boat motor I think, you know, they pack a lot of size in there. Surprising what they hide under those covers.
Speaker A: Those big engines. Those things are amazing. And they got a big price on them too.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's amazing what those Mercury outboards go for. Some of them are just plumb hard to find if you're trying to replace one.
Speaker A: I remember when my dad, he had glass bar outboard and I think he got one of the first hundred horse Mercury. They were 95 horse Mercury and when they came out they weren't so bad. At price wise they were kind of high at the time. But boy, now anymore they're just, they went crazy. I remember when the. I bought a brand new 15 horse motor. Johnson, Johnson Evinrude. Brand new, right off the showroom floor. Brand new and it. I think I paid 500 for it and. But now. Oh, crazy.
Speaker B: Yeah. You'll be lucky to get the prop for $500.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I remember. And I used to pull a water skier behind my Valco boat. Pull a water skier behind that 15 horse. Man, that thing is power.
Speaker B: What really amazed me was so we've also got a 210 horse force engine. It's made by Mercury or it's made on the Mercury patent.
Speaker A: But it's just a four cylinder.
Speaker B: That thing's a whole lot quieter and smoother and. And you don't notice that it doesn't really have the same horsepower as the other boat. Doesn't go quite as fast, but it goes fast enough for us. We like that one actually better than that big V6.250 horse
Speaker A: is it? Are they outboard?
Speaker B: Yeah, they're both outboards.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. Yeah, those are nice engines and quite the regular go. Regular gas?
Speaker B: No, there are two cycles. Of course we have to pre mix the gas in the tank. But the Ranger that we have with that Mercury 250 horse on that thing has its own mixer on it. It still works decent. It works good. So we still use it that we just put regular gas in the boat and then have another oil reservoir that it pumps out of.
Speaker A: Reservoir, huh? Well, that's pretty good. Them big new engines, boy they're. They're big and mighty.
Speaker B: Yeah, they're big and mighty and they're four strokers now instead of the two strokes and they're a lot quieter. I, I don't begrudge that at all. That. That's nice. And then if you think my 250 horse Mercury Old V6 is loud, boy they've got some inboards out there on the lake that come roaring past, shake the water and everything that I don't know what they got big old 454s or something in there with no exhaust on them.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Crazy stuff. Okay, well I'm going to see how far along they are on this motor and look at it for a little bit. Where you at now?
Speaker B: I'm on the. I'm down here in the. Just got into the valley here on Ramirez Road, driving through the rice fields.
Speaker A: Okay. Okay. Well we'll catch you when you get a little further down the road too. And if not I'll catch you on the way back back out of town.
Speaker B: Very good. Yeah, pay attention. You might, you might have to rebuild one of those engines for a job someday. So. So yeah, look sharp and figure it out. We'll chat with you later.
Speaker A: KN6GTM what I'm curious about, I've got a nice little Evinrude. It's an older model and it ran real good out on the river. My son in law and I took it out but it was just, it just seemed like it was slow to me. And I watched the YouTube and some of the same motors, they looked like they were pretty quick. So I'm thinking it's a two cylinder. I'm thinking it might just have been running on one cylinder. I never saw thought at the time to check it but now I'm thinking maybe because I thought I was going to change the prop but I couldn't even find a prop to exchange with it. So I figured it's probably, it's probably running on one cylinder so I got to check that out.
Speaker B: Yeah, that could easily be. We've got a. We had a little boat with a 40 horse mercury on it. And it occasionally would run on one foot cylinder. Boy, that made a huge difference that thing. Yeah. Just felt like you were never going to get home, so. All right, very good. I'll let you go. We'll chat with you later.
Speaker A: KN6 GTM, WP6AXM Repeater WA1NER. I'll be standing by.
Speaker C: Good afternoon Dave and Ernie.
Speaker A: This is Chuck.
Speaker C: Ki6hk. I'm just going to say hi in passing. Let you know I'm still alive.
Speaker A: Yeah, we're all doing good too. Hello Chuck. Go ahead Ernie.
Speaker B: Yeah, good evening Chuck. Good to hear you out there. Thanks for letting us know you're still alright. How is everything down there in the city?
Speaker C: Well, I spent the afternoon working on my. My antenna system. I've got a beam up there that had a. That had the coax separate for some reason so I had to track it down. But we got her fixed and it's. It's back tweedling on the air. You guys have a great afternoon. Ki6hk.
Speaker B: Same to you. 73. Chuck, good to hear you.

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Speaker A: System 19 link up.
Speaker B: Hey, John. You dropped out war yet?

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Okay, that should be better. N7tmd from nr7g mobile.

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Broadcasting live from Red Mountain at an elevation of 3673ft. This is Sac Valley's original 105 machine W6 GRC, with a PL tone of 110.9.

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Ust, ust, qst. This is K6 Kuo only second traffic yet. This next part of the national traffic system is purpose of this standard. To relate former traffic into an out of Sacramento Valley. And to provide the standard. This is a direct connect. Please make no transmissions without W6 RHC repeater check 3. All stations were requested to stay on frequency 2. Excuse that controls. KG6 Kuo bus are located west of will station with emergency or target. Station traffic to be distance. 39. Roll call follows. Kf6 obi, kf6 obi, mike and willows with no traffic. Good evening, mike. Thank you, kg60kg always calling rolling with traffic. Kg6dso. Good evening, lester in the group. This is kg6tso, bessie with no traffic. Thank you, bessie. Kf60ky. Good evening, lester. Kf60jy, bruce and chico. No traffic. Good evening, bruce. Thank you. K6rcs, K 6:00pm, Kilo, echo six, papa, mike, tango, russ and gerber. Good evening, lester in the group and I have no traffic. Good evening, rush. Thank you. Kc6ufa, kc6ufe. Bill in cape. No traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, bill. Thank you. Kn6pww, kn6tww. This is jamie and chinko with no traffic and good evening, lester. Mf. Good evening, jamie. Thank you. All right, sir. Olis, I have it. Do we have any late members or business wish to check in? All right here. Ain't no further traffic or check in. This is K6K closing. Check electronic this net res daily in 2100 hours local time through the W6. Sorry, Savior Peter on 14695 zone spaces or excuse. I like to think everybody checked in those Empire amateur ranges. I even use repeater distance close to 2102 local time. 73 doll is KD6 Kuo current frequency.

Kamie and Chico with no brackets. Good evening.

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Wa1ner085 yuba city w e6a x n repeater.

Speaker A: Wa1ner ko6bgy. K06bzy monitoring.
Speaker B: I'm on my ht. I don't know if you can hear me all right or not, but I'm on my ht. Go ahead.
Speaker A: Full copy on the audio. A little bit of crackling, but full copy. I just wanted to let you know a couple weeks ago you were talking about olive and mayo sandwiches. And so I tried that, but I didn't have the. So I used cream cheese and the diced or almost pureed canned black olives. And boiled that with a little bit of salt and pepper on top. That was divine.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's good. Yeah, it's whatever combination you want to put on it. Pretty good stuff, I think. Yeah.
Speaker A: And what's up with these oranges that you're acquiring? I know they're somewhat local to the area. I used to get some local oranges here in town, but they moved properties and the. I don't feel like going and asking the current tenants and, hey, they're good. Could I have some? You know, maybe one day I will. Maybe tomorrow.
Speaker B: Well, there's a little. There's a little furniture store and an automotive diesel mechanic shop behind it. And out in front, they've got a little stand. And they have fresh oranges on it. They're called Cara oranges. And I get them up in Oroville. And Ernie is the owner of that orchard where I get them at. And he has a little stand that he sets them on and sells them out of the stand.
Speaker A: I'll have to get the address of that and definitely head out that way. I gotta go to Yuba City tomorrow, so it wouldn't be too much of a trip. I don't know,
Speaker B: a good hour trip. It's up past the casino on Oradam Boulevard, or Olive, actually. You go up on Or Dam Boulevard to Olive Highway. And then go up past the casino to Kelly Ridge. And it's one plot, one block past Kelly Ridge on the right hand side. Or you could get a hold of Ernie and tell him you're coming.
Speaker A: Y' all have to do both. We'll definitely have to give that a shot. As if. I feel like it in the morning, but right now I definitely want some oranges. And those sounds good. I'll let you get back to what you're doing. I think you might have been trying to catch Ernie there. He ain't out there yet, I guess. But I'm gonna try to find a movie here to watch. I just realized I have one of them other TV streaming services. I gotta downsize those things. It's been paying for one that I didn't know I had. So I'm gonna go use it now. So canceled the bugger, but I'm gonna get. Get my month use out of it.
Speaker B: Is it you're gonna get?
Speaker A: Oh, it's a TV program. Paramount plus, the streaming service for television. And didn't realize I was paying for it for about two months. And now I'm gonna go ahead and utilize it. I already canceled it, though.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, Great. Yeah, it always works real good when you. When you cancel them. Yeah. Okay, well, have a good rest of the evening and I'm gonna sit back and I just had some leftover Chinese food from last night. I had panda last night for dinner. And so I had a small hamburger for dinner tonight up in Oroville when I was up there. And I thought, gee, I think I. I think I'm just a little bit hungry. So I finished off a little bit of my Chinese food that I had from last night. Okay. See you later. Wa1ner on my little ht in the kitchen.
Speaker A: I'll be clear. Nothing better than next day Chinese food. That always hits the spot. Glad you enjoyed it. KO Said youy all be clear seven, three.

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Speaker A: Node 5.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm gonna run up to Starbucks and get myself a drink and then I'll be here. I'm sitting right next to Mel's Restaurant.
Speaker A: Node 405480. Oh, man.
Speaker B: Hopefully the people at the front desk are kind to you when you walk in there with that. See you in a few minutes, Chad. Oh, they're good with it. Well, we'll see you there in a few minutes. I'm just heading up bell Road now. AI6 US.
Speaker A: Ai6us Ki6lop
Speaker B: Good morning, Russ.
Speaker A: Good morning. I'm gonna miss the breakfast today because, well, for one I gotta walk my dog and he's just staring at me like, what are we waiting for? But I am thinking about joining you guys Monday night. Are you at Brewsters?
Speaker B: Yep.
Speaker A: Yep.
Speaker B: We'll be at Brewster's burgers at 5:00pm
Speaker A: Well, I haven't joined you guys on a Monday yet, so I might try and do that. So anyway, you guys enjoy the breakfast, have fun at the fox hunt and everybody have a great day. Ki6lop
Speaker B: Alrighty. Well, you have a great walk there. And yeah, if your dog wants to do a little more. Get out of the house fox hunt
Speaker A: at 9, 9p 9am in the Mel's
Speaker B: parking lot will have the pre hunt meeting. So if you find a burst of energy that the dog hasn't taken from
Speaker A: you, it's the other way around. He's 14, so the walks are a little bit slower these days.
Speaker B: Yeah, I started slowing down around 14 myself.
Speaker A: That's a little early. That's a little early. But yeah, he's. He's a beautiful husky. But yeah, he's getting up there, so. But he's sitting here staring at me. So we're gonna head out. So have a great day. Have, have fun. Ki6l a6us Ki6lp73
Speaker B: all right. Russ. Yeah. Didn't get you in the in the winter field day log last week?
Speaker A: I don't think so.
Speaker B: We'll have to find out how. You have a good one. Talk to you later. Ai6us
Speaker A: I actually didn't. I had some emergency drywall work to do after a problem in the laundry room. So I just decided I had too many other things and I didn't do field day this year. And I realized as soon as I wasn't doing it that there was some great conditions and I'm like, dang it, but make up for it somehow. Ki6llp
Speaker B: oh, you weren't kidding about. Somebody definitely paid the 10 meter propagation bill. That's for sure. All right. Enjoy the walk. We'll talk to you later.
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Speaker A: This is ak6jp is anyone else getting some odd noise like either from the repeater or something that's on the same frequency?
Speaker B: Not here. N60 KV. Nothing near Elders Corner. KV6 SSA.
Speaker A: Well it's all the way up. There's something. It's sort of intermittent as if there was like someone talking but it's just, it's like quieter than the noise I get when the squilch is all the way open but it's just. Yeah, every few seconds, a second or two of it.
Speaker B: I don't know, it's weird.

Website. WX up here, Mick. He's got warmer today. It's about 6 degrees, which is pretty handy because we've had a central eating problem and they've only just about got sorted out today. Back to you, Mick. G0CDXG.

Good morning everyone. Welcome to the Coffee Breaknet. This is Orion AI6JV here in northwest Roseville. Coffee Breaknet meets every single morning 7:30 to 10:00am here in the W6EK repeater located in Auburn, California. The repeater is lovingly cared for for the good folks over at the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club. They hold monthly meetings and have a new home in Auburn and they are on the second Friday of every month at 7:30. We also have a zoom option now. Okay, let's get started. If you would like a quick in and out, that's a check in where you just drop in, say hello and maybe give us a tidbit of what's going on with your life real quick but then move right on. Looking for in and out. This is Orion AI6JD, N60KV, N9MUS mobile WH7BH Royal Freedom, Pennsylvania Kilo Oscar 6Amy, Hotel Juliet in and. Hey, good morning Larry. Good morning Roy. Good morning Daniel. Good morning Carl. Did I miss anybody? Good morning Carl. N60KV. How are you doing this fine morning? Good morning everyone else out there. Well, it's foggy here, lots of fog. It's not going to be that good a day. I guess. I'm going to do some stuff in the garage and not much going on. Any wonderful projects going on that are getting done in the garage or is this just a clean up the garage day? A little bit of cleanup and I got a chance. I missed that. You got a chair ride, Is that what you said? Oh, one of the knockdown chairs, an office chair that I have to put together. Ah, okay. Maybe a Costco special or something. Okay, wonderful. Well, you have a wonderful day with that and yeah, I would say with all the fog that is probably a perfect project for the the garage. Carl, have a wonderful week. Catch you next time on the Cox brake net. N6CKV AI6JV all right, 73 everyone have a good Saturday to N60KV and thanks for entering the net, Oregon. Wow. It's my absolute pleasure. Good morning Daniel. N9MUF. I've been hearing you guys get a lot of snow back that way. It's not too bad. It's snowing a little bit, right? A little foggy, but not a problem when driving. I mean, you know, you just got to move faster than the other cars. I can always tell when it's a good winter when you start seeing these cars sliding down hills on sheets of ice from back east. Yes, as it's been said, a big difference between four wheel drive and Four wheel stop. I worked many, many, many years up in Sierras. I had a ski on a ski patrol and I am always amazed at what people think, how people think that their four wheel drives are great at stopping just because they feel so good going forward. That's absolutely the case. Well, yeah, definitely quickening out, I've got to say. 7:3, I'm getting up to the church. We've got a funeral today for a beloved member of the community, our deacon. I knew her originally as a German professor at my alma mater and she very much was a mentor to me in my life. So I'm up here to pay my final farewell and support the church with music in the consort. When there was a question of who's going to be there, I'm like, there's no end to be here today. So seven three to everyone and I'll see you all tomorrow at nine. Museum my condolences, Daniel and have a good day and enjoy playing the music and celebrating her life. N9 MUF AI6JB. Good morning, roy. Wh7dh how are you faring there in freedom, pennsylvania? Good morning Orion and Nanette. When I went out to let the chickens out this morning, it was minus 9 degrees. But you know, it's hard for me to tell the difference between -9 and -5 and 0. The snow has been on the ground and will stay on the ground for quite a while. And I am getting breakfast right ready for Mickey and Jacob, including six of our own farm fresh eggs even though it's been very cold. They've been laying mostly a couple eggs still a day and even going over into another little coop that they prefer to do it. So with all that, everything is going well. Our middle son meeting house at their church, all the pipes are frozen and things and at their house they have no water. So the cold is affecting some of the facilities and some of the residences around the area. But we haven't had the power outages that come down in Tennessee and those areas have had down there. So back to you, Orianne and everyone. Have a fantastic day. Frozen pipes. Yeah, I haven't heard that in a long time. I remember 20, 20, 30 years ago we had a couple back here. We had a few weeks, a few days actually it was probably more like a week below freezing where people started busting their pipes. But back east, I would imagine you guys are pretty well hardened for that. So it must be really cold to freeze some pipes. Well, have fun with that. We'll catch you the next time on The Concert Break Man. Roy W817. We're not too hardened on it, having lived for many decades in the Pacific Islands, but we are adjusting. It is beautiful otherwise. Thank you. Have a great day, everyone. Yeah, this is the part where I don't really feel so sorry for you chose Pennsylvania when you had Hawaii and the South Pacific and all those other places you missed. Roy, best wishes to you and Nikki and Jacob Cemetery. Larry. Good morning, ko6ihj. How are you doing this morning? Good morning. Thanks for asking. I'm doing great this morning. Good morning. Classic break. Nick kill 600. Nice. Gee, I'm feeling good today. And it looks like I'm gonna be tearing into some Collins gear. Yeah, I gotta tear into some Collins gear to find out where this light is because I haven't. I've looked in there. I can't find a light for this dial, so I will find it. Other than that, easy day today. We're gonna stay inside, clean the shack and recover a little bit. Other than that, everybody have a blessed day. It looks like it's gonna be a dude day out there. It's a. Fog lifts because I have no fog down here. That means it'll burn off everywhere else fast. And have a blessed day. I'm gonna send it back to you with a KO6IHJ73. Hey, Larry. Yeah, I. I have high clouds. I don't have any fog. So, yeah, I'm expecting it'll probably burn off pretty well too. But they sure sent out the warnings last night. I got a bunch of text for it. Ko6ihj,ai6jp73. Good morning, everyone. This is the classic breaknet Orion AI6JV here on the W6ek repeater in Auburn, California with Sun's always shining, the birds are singing and the fish are jumping. All right, let's go for another quick round of in and out. Morning. Here is kc8 fox queen, victor, mark, kc8 fqv. Kj5. Kilo oscar, six kilo micromio. Alrighty. Good morning. The ko6 kmr. Good morning, will. Good morning, mark. Did I miss anybody? There was a double with will. Did I get you already? Kk 6am. Good morning, Ray. Let's throw it up to Mark. KC8FQV. How you doing, Mark? Oh, I'm doing okay. It was about 8 or about 4 degrees above 00 this morning when I. Well, was below zero when I got up at first. Yeah, it was below zero when I got up at first this morning. So now up above zero, above zero. I want to see what it is now. So yeah when I see what it is. Oh we're making it up there. Oh we're up about 12 degrees now so that better? Yeah, we were down below zero this morning when I got up at seven so I'll just send it back to net. But yeah, I even stopped by last night and listened to some of the net last night at what? 10 o' clock I think our time or 10:30. So then 10, 10, 9, 8, 7:30 I think it was your time so it was good group there going so I'll send it back to net case FQV. Did we have a net running Friday? I thought we. I thought our trivia nights on the first and third Fridays of the month. Well that what they were saying but they were the fifth Friday so they threw something in there. I don't know exactly what it was but there were some folks there. KCF qv Alrighty. Well glad you guys dropped in and had some fun. I wasn't aware of anything going on. We have a monthly game night on the last Friday of the month so that's where I was last night. All right Mark, have a good day and stay Safe out there. 12 degrees RSC he said it was 8 degrees and that was up 12 degrees from when you woke up. Wow. I am on your boy for sure. KC8FQV AI6JB. Good morning will. Kj5gwn how are you doing this morning? Good morning Orients not doing too badly here. Sitting there drinking a cup of coffee. It's 12 degrees here as well. Went up 3 degrees from when I got up at 7 local 5 Pacific it was down to 9 degrees so it went up to 12 going up to a high of 28 today under a mix of sun and clouds so not any precip falling at the moment. So we had a little bit of snow last night. Not too much to write home about though. So anyway not going to do anything except stay home and play radio. So anyway back up Little orient. This is KJ5 Golf Whiskey November. Yeah, we're. We've been driving for quite a while since the beginning of the month so we're looking for rain. Some snow here too as well. So maybe once you guys get done being cold you send it our way. How's that? KJ5TWN AI6JB73 Good morning K06KMR I should know the name for this call sign but I can't. I apologize. What's your name and how are you doing this morning? It's Robert Orion. And good morning to you. Nothing really going on this morning. Just trying to kind of wake up, tell you the truth. I have got my extra class manual book in front of me which I'll be going over chapter three and 4.1 for Monday's class. And other than that, that's all I've got planned today. Over. The minute you said Robert, I went, oh yeah, that's right, you're in our class. I apologize for that, Robert. Yeah. And my next question was, did you get your manual? So that's a good thing. So how'd you like the first class? I couldn't make it, unfortunately. I wasn't feeling very well. Yeah, I heard you were kind of under the weather there. Sorry to hear that. No, it was great. Actually got a lot out of it. And it's really nice that they actually go over the, you know, the test questions out of the book basically at the end of the session. So that helps a lot and gets you motivated to go through them a couple of other times to make sure you've got them down. So it worked out real well. Enjoyed it very much. Glad to hear it. Glad to hear it. Hopefully I can live up to your expectations on Tuesday. Yeah. Our goal for the extra class is not entirely to get you to pass the test. I mean that's a secondary goal. Our main goal is to get you to understand what's going on and a lot of material and you know, it can be difficult, especially this next one coming up when we get into circuits. That's the one that seems to get most people. But ask questions and just keep asking questions. We're more than happy to slow things down and help you guys out. Looking forward to seeing you in the class and you have a wonderful weekend. KO6KMR AI6JB73KOS kilo Oscar 6kilo Micromeo I'll turn it back over to you, Ariel and take care over. You take care as well and good luck studying there. Good morning Ray. KK 6am how are you doing this morning? Oh, it's really too early to tell. But if I wait too long, all the rowdies will come out from mels and nobody will be able to get in. Too early to tell. Yeah, I'm kind of feeling the same way right now. Slowly but slowly but surely crawling out of the hole of being thick. This last one caught me. It put me down for about a week. So I can understand that it's too early to tell. I'll let you know how things are towards the end of the coffee break, Ned. Oh y', all, I'm usually listening and in fact I give a probably get a whole lot of fun listening to the chaos of the Fox Hunt afterwards. That's right. Thanks for reminding me. Be sure to promote the Fox Hunt today. I expect most people are at the breakfast at the moment, but at 9 o' clock they'll have a pre meeting right there at Mels in auburn on Highway 49 and then you guys can go start chasing the fox. So yeah, it'll be fun to hear that as well. Well, all right Ray, you have a wonderful day and have fun. Enjoy listening to the fox hunt. KK 06:00am AI6JB73 KK 06:00am. All right folks, that's the list as I have it. I'll take any kind of check in. If you want an in and out let me know. Otherwise I'm going to sue you. Are ragchu looking for check ins on the coffee break? Regular check ins and in and outs on the coffee break then. Well how about an abnormal check in? Good morning Florian. KV6SSN KP6LUV Quick in and out. Good morning. Good morning brett. Kb6luv got you as an in n out. Good morning tom. Good to hear you. Kb6ssn anybody else? Good morning Brett. KB60 how are you doing? Or Good morning sir and everybody out there in coffee breaknet land. I am doing very well on this quite cloudy or I should say froggy South Natomas morning. The orange ball in the sky has yet to make an appearance but we will see if it happens to do so later on today. I'm thinking that it probably will. So weather forecast looks like it might. I don't know if Mark is going to be joining us but he'll let us know what our weather is going to be in store. But other than that not a whole lot. Just honeydew list around the house today. Maybe a little bit of cooking enjoying of my wife, maybe some netflix and chill as they say. So other than that not a whole lot. Hope everybody out there is gonna have an amazing day. Take care of yourselves, take care of each other. Ab6luv you of love 73 clearing list. Yeah, definitely not scooter weather I'm sure but you have a beautiful day and enjoy Netflix. KB6LUV AI6JB73. Good morning tom. Kb6ssn how you doing this morning?

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Speaker A: Flames explode slowly from the bottom of the rocket. Never before has mankind. We're going back to the moon Orion sometime. I think the earliest window is February 6th. So yeah, I'm pretty impressed by that. I've only waited 50 years, right?
Speaker B: Oh, I'm sorry, you completely lost me. We're going back to the Moon on February 6.
Speaker A: The sound of surprise in your voice tells me everything I need to know there. Yeah. The earliest window for the launch. The Artemis II is on the pad. She's passed her fueling test. The astronauts have gone into quarantine for the trip. Four astronauts will be launched sometime February 6th or later, depending on how things go for a 10 day trip to the moon.
Speaker B: Like, like this next week. And, and is this just a flyby or. I thought, I thought the. So this is a flyby and is it, or is it an actual landing?
Speaker A: It's an extended recreation of Apollo 8. They will just orbit the moon and there are various things that they want to do while doing so. It's a ten day mission. It's about two and a half, three days to get there. Two and a half, three days to get back. So there's six days right there. So they'll spend four days. Orb the boat.
Speaker B: Very cool. Very, very cool. Are they going to be on the, are they going to be on the rocket ship or are they going to be on the other one, the sls?
Speaker A: Well, it's called. I don't know a lot about the technology to be honest with you. I have not been following rocketry lately. But the craft is called the Artemis 2. It's being launched by NASA, so I don't know who manufactured it. I don't know. Perhaps as the discussion goes on today, people can throw in what they know about it. I was an avid follower of the program all the way up through Apollo and they lost me at the shuttle. So I am very familiar with those programs prior to that. But yeah, modern rocketry. I think it's pretty neat what some of the stuff they're doing is. But I don't follow it that, that closely. But I do know that we are at least going to try very, very hard to get back to the moon here after February 6th.
Speaker B: Yeah, I just googled it real quick. Yes, it'll be on the SLS and I'll take look into it some more. Great, thanks for letting me know. Going to be on the Orion MPCV spacecraft. Cool. All right, I like that. And yeah, he said March. February. Yeah, 2-6-64. Oh, fly by the moon. They're going to be 6,400ft above the moon in the flyby. Very cool, very cool, Exciting, exciting time. But yeah, I know it was coming, I just didn't realize it was coming. Going to be like next week.
Speaker A: Yeah, it kind of took me by surprise about two, three weeks ago when I started getting notifications of them rolling out the spacecraft to the launch pad and I looked at that and I said, huh, I haven't seen that since I was a teenager. Okay, so here we go. Yeah, I'm pretty pleased to be honest with you. I have a joke that I can't tell on the air here as to why we didn't go back to the moon, but ever in your cup, Ori and I will pass it on to you. So my biggest concern this morning is that the darn cabin blower has gone out in my van completely. Now it was intermittent at first, it's the blower from what everybody tells me and I have heated the van from the back heaters but it takes a while for it to get up here to the front and none of it seems to make it to my feet. So my feet are cold, but the rest of me is warm so I guess I'm doing okay. But yeah, Dan's coming up on Tuesday to meet you and I have no doubt whatsoever that by Tuesday evening I will have a working blower in the van here. So apparently today I'm just not full of enough hot air.
Speaker B: Oh, I never once said you were full of hot air. But yeah, wouldn't it be kind of cool if you could turn that into actual heat?
Speaker A: Well fortuitously it was not an exceptionally cold morning this morning so it's not that really big of a deal. Had it been, I was considering strongly just sitting in the the back seat and stretching the mic cable.
Speaker B: Well you are fortunate you're on the west coast. Everyone has checked in from the east coast, said that it's like 8 degrees, 12 degrees right now. So yeah, you're in a good spot for to be hanging out out in the wilderness with the, in your vehicle.
Speaker A: Well I have a hypothesis that does have some supporting data so I suppose it could be considered a theory, but that is, is that sub freezing temperatures, cold temperatures for that matter are indications of nature that non fur bearing mammals, that's us, should not live there. If you can't walk around in shorts and a T shirt, you know, come on now.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's times like this when people talk about how cold it is back east, you're kind of like yeah I'm glad I'm a California boy, definitely. Although I think we could use some snow for sure. I know my wife wants to go skiing tomorrow, but we haven't had snow in quite a while and we had some pretty warm days actually.
Speaker A: I haven't been tracking the snowpack. Are we behind this year?
Speaker B: I haven't been tracking either, but I got a gut feeling that we are. We haven't had that much at all and this is January, so we should be getting a ton of it up there. So. And then we've had some warm days, you know, we've had 60 degree days down here. So that means it's 40 plus degrees up there, you know, at 7,800 thousand feet. So it's definitely melting.
Speaker A: Well, it has been an exceptionally long time since I have been up to Blue Canyon. Perhaps it's a Saturday. I've got nothing else to do. It doesn't look like it's going to rain. Maybe I'll head up there and see if there's snow.
Speaker B: That would be fun. That would definitely be fun. I think it'll get you out of the clouds down here. Where are you at? Are you above the clouds right now or in the soup still?
Speaker A: There is a high overcast. It's. I'd say 90%, but it's a high wispy overcast and clear where I'm sitting. I mean, visibility is, you know, 10 miles at least. But the. Yeah, the overcast tells me that there's something going on. And it wasn't that cold this morning. It was like 42 or something when I woke up this morning. So, yeah, usually it's like 30, 32 when I wake up. So that's. That was a blessing. I'm always happy when I'm not freezing. Although, you know, you could put on more clothes and stay warm. There's a certain point in the heat that you reach where you can only take so much off and then, you know, other action must be taken.
Speaker B: Exactly, exactly. So anything fun and exciting for the coming week?
Speaker A: Well, interesting you should bring that up. Larry and I have been working diligently for months now, a couple days a week, cleaning up and restoring and getting back on the air. A lot of vintage radios, if you haven't had a chance to look at them yet. Confederate Sun 1 is the. Is the YouTube channel and you're welcome to peruse the exceptionally boring and very badly produced YouTube shorts and videos that we have on there of what we've been working on. The next project in line. I'm Thinking is going to be the big Henry floor amp. We can drive that with just about anything. And it is next in line in the storage to get it out of the way to get to the stuff that's behind it. So that seems to me will be the next. It's a Henry 2K classic I believe. Runs with 23500 Z tubes. A very good and reliable amplifier. The key to that particular model or style of amplifier is its power supply. It has a very robust power supply. Many other amplifiers use 3500Z but they have a very small power supply and thereby limiting the output of the tubes. This thing will lay a flat 2kW into a dummy load and do it for its full rated duty cycle. So you got to be a little careful with it. And we're going to get that up and running. And just in case the tubes that came with it, which I saw them work, but in case they're a little flat, I've got a brand new set of three five hundreds we can toss in there and get those tuned up, gassed out and tuned up and get that running. So preparing for the two to three years from now when the sunspot cycles at the bottom of
Speaker B: the. Oh wow. Yeah, I just googled the Henry 2K classic and YouTube channel here. Let's see what happens if I watch it. Is that yours? Is that you? Looks like your hand. So. No, that's box builder, Idaho. Anyway, very cool. They look. They don't look like. Well, I mean it's kind of weird. They don't really look like like vintage rays. It looks like there's something out of the, out of the 80s and 90s.
Speaker A: Well, the Henry 2K I think first came online sometime in the early 60s, like 60, 61. I had one that was produced in 64, just a straight 2K that had been gone through by Bill Douglas. It had and he had put a new power supply in it that was solid state as opposed to the mercury vapor X ray producing tubes that were in there. So yeah, he had rebuilt the power supply. Same original RF tech and that was the one that was built. There were five built for the US Navy that had parallel filaments. Before that they had series filaments and the Navy picked up four of them and never picked up the. And when the contract expired they put it up for sale and I bought it. So I had that thing for years. The 2k classic is basically the upgrade in the late 60s or early 70s of the 2k. Everything that Bill did when he sold me. That 2k before he sold it to me was what the upgrade was for the 2k classic. It had the classic RF deck, but it had the modern power supply. So that's what made that attractive to me. And right now that's the biggest imp I have. I am in the market for two others that are. One is equal in size and the other is larger, but haven't found those yet.
Speaker B: Yes, one guy's got picture of two of these sitting next to each other side by side. A big red sign on danger. I can't quite read what the sign says, but that's encouraging. Let's have one of those. Oh, high voltage. Yeah, these things are big. They. What do they stand? Maybe what, three feet, four feet?
Speaker A: Well, the one I've got is on some pretty good sized rollers. So that were added by a gentleman that lived up in Eureka. He, he past. Gosh, I can't remember his name right now. Anyway, I talked to him quite often. I knew the guy. His estate was sold off and a gentleman who bought quite a bit of it put it up on ebay and I found it. We drove to Eureka and we made a really good deal on it. And now it's fine. But the, the fact is is that he made some modifications to it. One was he put some pretty good sized coasters on it. So this thing, what I'm. I'm five foot ten. And is this, this thing gets me at about the belly button.
Speaker B: Yeah, it looks more like an appliance the way it's set up because the controls are kind of canted up. It looks like a little bit at an angle. So yeah, you want to set this puppy up, you have to get up out of your chair, walk over to it like it's a washing machine.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's got those beautiful teardrop meters on it too that, you know, later models had the squared these 80s looking meters on them and nothing really perfectly good. You know, the 3K, the 3K classic, all very good amplifiers. Those went on to the ceramic tubes from the glass tubes all the way up to the 5K Ultra, which is the one I'm looking for actually. But the fact is that, you know, different models had different stylings. But when they produced the classic, they went back to the original styling and the original RF deck of the 2K. But with the improvements that they had learned, you know, over those years. For instance, in the original that I had, there were some problems with the parasitic suppression resistors. They would get hot and cook themselves and you had to replace them Every, you know, what was it, every five years or something like that. And it wasn't anything bad, but one bad habit it had was it would build up a resistance on the socket for the 3500Z on the filament pin and heat that pin up and spit the solder and your tube would go dark. You had to pull the tube out, re solder the pin and put it back in. And it would work for a while. You cleaned that connector up really well. It was an old style pinch connector that was just very ineffective. And they changed that, of course. Yes. So early designs have early problems and later designs, when they put classic on it, they solve the problems.
Speaker B: Yeah, I found a few pictures here of the ones that have the teardrop meters on them. So yeah, they look definitely different. Very cool. That's kind of cool. It'd be kind of nice to be able to crank up the power to full legal limit right when, when the propagation's down. I can only imagine what it sounds like on the other side when the, when the amp kicks in.
Speaker A: Good chunk. Well, it does make a rather large relay sound when you key it up, but it's nothing that's objectionable. And yeah, it'll do full legal limit all day long without any worries at all at normal ICA duty cycle. It's a tube so you have to take that into consideration. Typically the way I used to run mine was I would tune it into a dummy load at full 2,000 watts out, which is about 126 watts of drive and tune it that way and then back it off to about 65% of MIC gain or drive that you would use normally and it would loaf along just about a kilowatt, 1100 watts right in there. And boy, the tubes wouldn't even hardly glow. It would just sit there and just do that all day long.
Speaker B: Yeah, I mean that's the way to go. Definitely don't over exercise them. There was one note here, somebody said that. Where did I see that? Somebody wrote that the tubes got red hot.
Speaker A: Oh yes they do. They will glow. Especially if you've got metal plate tubes like the original imax. They will get cherry red while you're talking. And that's perfectly normal. There's no concern there. There is a color that they will get that is whitish. That is a concern because then you're starting to get breakdown of that metal plate. But yeah, they're supposed to get just about cherry red as you're talking on it. Now the metal plates from imac. If you can find Them, they're pricey. I've got a set that are new, old stock, and I'm going to have to gas them out for about 72 hours before I even think about putting any signal on them, because they've been in those boxes for decades. But the modern manufacturer is, they use a graphite plate. And the graphite plate, it does glow, but it doesn't glow like the metal ones did.
Speaker B: Now, if I understand the physics behind it, you know, that glowing is what creates the electrons that you can use, then that plate would then theoretically erode away at some point. Right. Is it possible to fix the tube? I mean, I can't imagine that these tubes are being still produced.
Speaker A: Well, there are three manufacturers of the tubes currently today, one of which you don't buy. The other two are. Okay, Penta and Amperex seem to make a pretty. I've got both and both seem to work quite well. So I don't have any issues with either of those. Neither of them work as well as the original IMAX did. They just don't seem to have that sharp dip on the plate that the IMAX did. But the glow is a byproduct of heat. And, yes, the energy that's in there as the atoms are vibrating more quickly and the electrons are jumping valences and whatnot, as the energy is being exchange and then the photon is released and that, you know, interacts with the plate heat, all that kind of fun stuff. We're not going to get into Newton's laws of thermodynamics this morning, but the fact is that the plates on those tubes are supposed to glow. There's a video that we just put up a couple days ago of the 30L1amplifier, the Collins 3001amplifier. It uses 4, 8, 11As. And you can see in the video that we look in the side of the amplifier and they're glowing like 100 watt light bulbs in there. They're just bright as heck. And they're not even being used. They're just in idle mode. That's just the filament.
Speaker B: Yeah. I would imagine just sitting there idle. They would. I just found a picture of a Collins 3100. Yeah. With a picture through the grate and you see all the yellow, all the. That's where you get that comment where people say, oh, yeah, the. The warm glow of amplifiers and, and classic radios.
Speaker A: Well, in all of the radios we've restored.

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Amateur Radio News line report number 2517 with the release date of Friday, January 23, 2026 to follow in five 4, 3, 2, 1. The following is a QST 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 Stefan Kinford in awp. Our top story this week is the most severe solar radiation storm in more than 20 years. It began on Monday, January 19th 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. S4 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, Radio Free Europe and other federally funded news services. Kent Peterson, KC0DGY has that story. 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 Ken Peterson, KC0BGY. The NASA's Artemis 2 mission began its long awaited journey to the moon and back on Saturday 17 January with the Rockets rollout onto the launch pad at the Kennedy Space center in Florida. Three of the four astronauts who will be aboard have their amateur radio licenses. Travis Lick, N3ILS tells us what's up next.

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Speaker A: So far my favorite and the best experience I had was all glass. We had the drake twins, the four line, the R4C receiver and the T4X C transmitter in the very, very rare, hard to find embassy stack, all glass all the way through every circuit glass and then into an L4B all glass amplifier. So that was a good day. Boy, we were glowing in the dark and everybody said, you know, you sound really good. What radio are you using?
Speaker B: Okay, I'm. You got me one. I don't know what an all glass amplifier is.
Speaker A: Well, everything is tubes, you know, it's got a straight analog power supply. It's, you know, might have a. The rectifier in, it might be solid state, but the rest of it is all, you know, analog. And the amplifier stage and the amplifier uses glass tubes. There are ones that use ceramic tubes. Ceramic tubes? Tubes don't glow. The fact is that if every circuit that requires some sort of valve is a glass valve, then it's an all tube radio or an all glass radio.
Speaker B: I got that check off for learning something new today. So an all glass radio is one that has all tubes in it. Didn't know that. I thought ceramic tubes also glowed. They do not.
Speaker A: Graphite tubes do because they have a glass envelope around them and you can see the graphite plate inside. But ceramic tubes are sealed inside ceramic and have metal cooling fins that stick out from them. So to take the heat from the chlorine inside the ceramic outside and allow you to dissipate it. So yeah, if you, if you see a ceramic tube blowing, you just blown it up.
Speaker B: In other words, that's a bad sign when you see a ceramic tube glowing.
Speaker A: Yeah, this would be something I would say is not what you're looking for. What's the old joke? I think you let the smoke out. Anyway, we've rambled on about this long enough. Thank you so much for a wonderful conversation this morning, Orient. I look forward to chatting with you next Saturday. KV6 SSM73.
Speaker B: Well, I appreciate the time as well. I was able to extract some more information out of that KV6 SS9 head of yours. Yeah, I just googled ceramic. I can see why. Yep, they have a little fins. I've seen those before. It didn't click. What? Those which. When you said ceramic tube. So. Well, very good. Thanks Tom. I appreciate the time on the radio today with you this morning. It's been a lot of fun and I got learned things so. And I'd love to see that Henry 2k classic all up and running again. That'd be Fun to see. KB6SS9. I'm sorry. KB6SSN, AI6JV73. Looks like Tom had to dash off. Alrighty. Good morning, everyone. This is the coffee breaknet Orion AI6JB. Here in Northwest Roseville under cloudy. Oh, no, no, no. It's starting to break up. Starting to break up. Looks like we're going to get some blue sky here in a few minutes. All right, let's go for a round of quick in and outs. In and outs for those folks who want to just drop in, send hello and then move on about their day. So looking for a round of quick in and outs on the coffee break, Ned?
Speaker C: Kilo, charlie, 6, sierra, lima, echo, mobile,
Speaker D: Whiskey, six, lima, november, delta,
Speaker E: Kilo, delta, 3, alpha, juliet, november.
Speaker B: All righty. Good morning, anna, katie, 3 ajn. Good morning, jer, w6lnd. And good morning, jerry. I'm sorry. Creighton, casey, 6 sle. Did I miss anybody? Good morning, Garrett. I don't know where this is coming from. Good morning, Graydon. KC6SO mobile. I assume you are heading towards the Fox Hunt.
Speaker C: Good morning, Oren. Good morning. To the dead. That, you know, is a very strong possibility. I can't confirm it, I can't deny it, but it's a very strong possibility.
Speaker B: I thought you were a fox tender for today's fox hunt starting at 9:30 with the kickoff meeting at 9 at the Mel's Diner on Highway 49. That's correct.
Speaker A: That's correct.
Speaker C: I was just having a little fun with you. I'm in the shadow behind Lake of the Pines coming up on Higgins Corner. So hopefully you're still copying me
Speaker A: here.
Speaker B: Break it up a bit, but we still can get you. So any tantalizing details you want to share with us about the fox hunt.
Speaker C: There was a little trash talk yesterday on the net, or really on the repeater about who was going to find the fox. Who had the capability of finding the fox. So, you know, let the games begin. I'll go ahead and set it up and provide everything everybody needs. But let the games begin.
Speaker B: I think if I recall correctly, looking over the announcement, you've got burgers and cream as the after party. So that folks can either gloat or lick their wounds.
Speaker C: They can drown their sorrows in a milkshake.
Speaker B: And I've had their milkshakes before, so they are very good milkshakes as well. Alrighty. Well, I suspect what you're really doing is hiding the fox this very moment. And you don't want Anybody to triangulate on you early and to see, get an idea where you're at.
Speaker C: You got it. You know, it was interesting because when I pulled out of my QTH in Grass Valley, there was a vehicle sitting by the side of the road that suddenly turned on its lights and started following me. And I got paranoid that maybe somebody thought, well, this is good, I'll just follow him to the transmitter. But they turned off a little while ago. So my paranoia was unfounded.
Speaker B: It was probably Dan waiting and waiting in hiding there.
Speaker C: Yeah. You know, I can't emphasize how much fun it is being the tender once in a while, actually being the one hiding the fox. You know, people get a lot of fun and they should get a lot of fun out of finding the fox. But hiding the fox, that, you know, that's another part of the game.
Speaker B: Yeah, there's a lot to it. You know, first of all, figuring out a place that you can put it legitimately without getting in trouble and then putting it in places that is not going to be easy to find. I haven't done a whole lot of fox hunting myself, but I have played around with a few times. And a simple chain link fence becomes a great reflector and sends you off where you don't want to be going.
Speaker C: Yeah, you got to think three dimensionally. You got to think about the metal around you. That's a very good point. You got to think about the terrain around you. You know, I like to tell people that fox hunting is as much an art as it is a science.
Speaker B: I think it most certainly is. Most certainly is. Anyway, Graydon, thanks so much for doing that today and feel free to drop back in with some more details. Definitely let us know when the fox is active. So for those folks who missed the beginning party, at least we can give them a frequency they can chase. KC6SOLE AI6JB73.
Speaker C: Yeah, the fox will be on at 9:30. So that's how long I say right now. KC6SLA73.
Speaker B: All righty. I'll look for a 9:30 call. Morning to Jer. W6LND. I don't recall speaking with you. Welcome to the coffee Break Ness.
Speaker D: Well, good morning, Mrs. Jeremy. The W6LND go by Jer, sometimes via Smitty. So anyhow, we're part of the new repeater up here in the North Valley. It's out West Orland. It is hooked to the Coffee Break net every morning. So thought I would check in and say hello.
Speaker B: Well, good morning, Jer, and thanks so much for Hooking us in. I have. I have relatives whose, whose parents live in Orland. So I know exactly where that's at. And my. My in laws have property up in paradise, so we go up there quite often. So I am definitely gonna definitely check you out. What is the call sign on your repeater?
Speaker D: It's my friend Gary's repeater. The call sign is W6GRC. It is at 147.105 positive offset and 110.9 is the PL. It should cover basically from north of Yuba City up into Red Bluff in the Redding area and cover Chico Paradise. Might even get into Oroville.
Speaker B: Very cool. Very cool. As as fortunate it may be, I actually have to drive to Shasta City, Shasta Lake, Shasta City twice this next week. So I may drop in on the repeater just to say hi. Perfect.
Speaker D: We're trying to get some traffic going on it.
Speaker B: So.
Speaker D: Yeah, hook in. It's not hooked up other than at coffee break time. So just for. For knowledge there.
Speaker B: No, that's perfect. That's actually the best, I think the best scenarios way we like it is that way we can avoid having some cross traffic and stuff. So. But anyway, Jer, I'm definitely right now fumbling with the keyboard at the same time to try and look up W6GRC and are you guys in repeater book?
Speaker D: So it may be in repeater book, but it might be under the previous trustee. I can't remember his call sign right now, but it is definitely. If you look in repeater book in Glynn county, it's going to come up as 147.105. And it's going to show up in Elk Creek.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm pulling it up on repeat. I'm trying to pull it up on repeater book right now. You said Whiskey 6, George, Golf, Romeo, Charlie. Is that correct?
Speaker D: Yeah, Whiskey 6, Golf, Romeo, Charlie.
Speaker B: Oh, there it is. There it is. I see it. It's got your frequency as 1-449-65. Let me see here. Oh, that's the downlink. You said 1 4. No, it's got W6GRC. It's on here. It says Orland Glenn county, but it's got the wrong frequencies.
Speaker D: All right, I'm looking at repeater book right now. And the 105 is still showing the previous trustees qualifying. It would be November 6th Yankee, Charlie, Kilo.
Speaker B: All right, very cool. Does it show Orlando? Orlando.
Speaker D: So it shows Elk Creek. And the repeater sits right above Black Butte Lake. If you're familiar with that. West of orland probably another 10 miles the way the crow flies west of Black Butte Lake.
Speaker B: There I found the 147105. Very cool. Yeah, gets you close enough. I mean, if you're in the area, you'll set up, you just won't get the right call sign. So very cool, Very cool. Well, congratulations on getting that new repeater all set up. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker D: It's all star connected and eventually it will have some other features. Hopefully we'll find some other things tie in because traffic up this way is really light. So thank you for having us and just wanted to check in and say good morning.
Speaker B: Well, good morning, Jared. And yeah, I agree I usually listen to WD WD6XAXM when I head up north, but I will definitely make sure to stop in on yours as well. WD6LND AI6JB73 Great chatting with you.
Speaker D: 7 3. Thank you.
Speaker B: Good morning, Anna, Katie3ajn. How are you this morning?
Speaker E: Good morning Orion and everyone else on the net today. It's currently 11 degrees. It was minus 5 last night. Still cold around here. And I don't see the coming week. It looks like it might be up in the 20s, couple days, but then we're gonna have a big cold snap again. Not much going on here. Just doing some laundry and playing on the nets and seeing who I can talk to. Everybody have a good weekend. KD3 Han,
Speaker B: I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to disagree with you just a little bit. But when you say it's 12 degrees right now and you expect a cold snap. Yeah, I think 12 degrees is already a cold snap. But you guys have fun with that back east. And I'll look, I'll. I'll look for some. I'll pray for some more warmer weather for you guys. Can 83 AJN AI6JV. Good morning, everyone. This is the coffee breaknet Orion AI6JV here in Northwest Roseville at the push to talk button. All right, looking for check ins. I'll take anything out. Let me know. Otherwise I'll assume you are right. Choose. So looking for check ins on the coffee. Right then.
Speaker D: N2DYI.
Speaker B: Good morning, dave. K6dco. Morning patrick into dyi. There was a double with dave. Go ahead. Did I miss any stations out there?
Speaker C: It was a Victor Echo 2 was all I got.
Speaker B: Victor Echo 2 station. Go ahead.
Speaker F: Yeah, this is Victor Ekatowska on my uniform. Hello from Montreal, Canada. Just stumbled by your net, so wanted just to say hi.
Speaker B: Hey, Good Morning, Victor Echo 2. I apologize, I didn't catch your last part. Your cosigning. Could I get that in phonetic Alphabet please?
Speaker F: Victor, echo 2, oscar, romeo, uniform. V, e, 2, o, r, u.
Speaker B: Victor, echo 2, oscar, romeo uniform. Thank you so much. What's the name there? And welcome to the coffee breaknet.
Speaker F: My name is Alex and hello from one church, Canada.
Speaker B: Well, hello Alex. I'm going to put you down as an in N out. And what brings you? You said you were just. Just spinning the dial. What attracted you? Did you see us on a. On a net sheet somewhere or something?
Speaker F: I decided to use my All Star link note and so I went onto the notes and I found that you were online, somebody was doing something, there was some action going on. So I decided to link with your note and here I am.
Speaker B: Very good, very good. I'm finding that when people do just drop in, it's because they're watching that All Starlink page. So you have dropped in on the Coffee Breaknet. The Coffee Break net is on the W6K repeater in Auburn, California. Auburn, California is in Northern California just outside of Sacramento, which is the capital. We host the net every single morning, 7:30aM to 10:00am.

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Well, good morning. This is Jeremy W6LND go by Jer, sometimes via Smitty. So, anyhow, we're part of a new repeater up here in the North Valley. It's out West Orland. It is hooked to the coffee break net every morning, so thought I would check in and say hello.

Speaker A: My friend Gary's repeater. The call sign is W6GRC. It is at 147.105 positive offset and 110.9 is the PL. It should cover basically from north of Yuba City up into Red Bluff in the Redding area and cover Chico Paradise. Might even
Speaker B: get into Oroville. Perfect. We're trying to get some traffic going on
Speaker A: it. Yeah, hook in. It's not hooked up other than at coffee break time. So just for. For knowledge there.

So it may be in repeater book, but it might be under the previous trustee. Oh, I can't remember his call sign right now, but it is definitely. If you look in repeater book in Glynn county, it's going to come up as 147105 and it's going to show up in Elk Creek.

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Speaker A: Alright, I'm looking at repeater book right now and the 105 is still showing the previous trustees qualifying and it would be November 6th Yankee
Speaker B: Charlie Kilo. So
Speaker A: it shows Elk Creek and the repeater sits right above Black Butte Lake if you're familiar with that. West of orland probably another 10 miles the way the crow fly eyes west of Blackview lights.

Thank you. It's all star connected and eventually it will have some other features. Hopefully we'll find some other things tie in because traffic up this way is really light. So thank you for having us and just wanted to check in and say good morning.

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Speaker A: Pacific time. So we'll be here every single day, barring technical difficulties. And every once in a while there'll be a holiday that we will be off or every once in a while there will be a community that is using the repeater and we'll be off for those. So out of 365 days we're probably on, I would say probably a good 355 of them for sure.
Speaker B: Victor Akatuska from my uniform yeah, it's great. You American have a lot of hobbies like really like going on a lot. Like my city, Montreal, we have quite a lot of repeaters and few clubs, but everything is working only on weekend. Recently one repeater is doing some net on the Wednesday, but other than that it's so I'm glad that I can communicate with someone.
Speaker A: Hey Alex, you're more than welcome to join us if you're on the West Coast. The repeater works pretty much all through the Sacramento area and then up into the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas up to there's some blank spots. But we've heard people as far as Donner Pass. So we have a good section of Interstate 80 covered with this repeater. And you're more than welcome to drop by any day. Lots of different topics we have, we have, usually we have something ham radio like this morning we talked about the Henry 2K classic amplifier. But then we have other subjects too. Cooking like during the pandemic, there were lots of things that you could spend your money on for sure.
Speaker C: Great.
Speaker B: It sounds like interesting and it looks like I got checkpointed. I'm gonna be coming to this repeater more often and thank you. And I will be monitoring the frequency back to the network.
Speaker A: I'm glad you joined us. We'll catch you next time, Alex. Be 2o r u AI 6jb73 Good morning, Patrick into DYI. How are you doing this morning?
Speaker D: Good morning Ryan and everyone on the net. Well, it's cold, it's snowing right now. It's 17 degrees and it's going to get a little colder tonight and tomorrow and we are expecting anywhere between, depending on how much show, anywhere between 3 and 8 inches of snow here, which I think all will be happening today. It's been snowing pretty heavily here all day, so. Yeah, and it's windy. It's even windier to the east, so I guess it could be worse.
Speaker A: Yeah, I saw something. I think it was on my ground news. I think I saw something from North Carolina with lots of snow. And I'm thinking poor Patrick didn't get away from it.
Speaker D: Yeah, it's kind of funny because they're not getting the snow in New York and they are here.
Speaker A: So.
Speaker D: Yeah, we had. Last week we had that storm. And fun thing about that was we're still kind of dealing with some of that stuff. There's still lots of streets and driveways, and most of the stuff in the cities are pretty good. But out here where I am just a little outside the Greensboro city limits, I'm in Jamestown. That's not cleaned up as well, and some of the driveways and streets are still pretty icy. So now we got this stuff on top of it. I think it's going to go above freezing one day or maybe two for a short period of time over the next couple weeks. Not enough to. To keep this stuff from coming back. I guess it'll refreeze.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's always the worst. Once it goes above freezing, then you get that ice layer on top. But I always. One of the things that always frustrated me, I was on the ski patrol up in. Up in the Sierra Nevada for decades, and one of the things that always bothered me was I could get better traction if they didn't plow the damn roads right. It just seemed to drive much better. And the minute they plow the roads, all of a sudden it became slick.
Speaker D: Yep. All that junk under it. So they did. Surprisingly, for a North Carolina city that isn't really all that prepared for snow, Greensboro and Winston Salem and places like that actually did a pretty good job clearing things out pretty fast. But a lot of those outlying areas are still kind of not doing so good. Oh, well, more stuff coming. And I have a dentist appointment on Monday morning. I have a funny feeling that's not going to be happening.
Speaker A: I have a friend of a friend. They're not a friend, they're just. Anyway, some friends of ours has some relatives who had an appointment in Pennsylvania, and the company called them up and said, said, do not come out. We're canceling the appointment.
Speaker D: Yeah, that sounds reasonable, especially if it was last week. But yeah, I've got a. I came. I went to a dentist on Thursday, had a really, really bad toothache that just about put me out of commission on Sunday night. And so I came in on Thursday, which was as soon as they opened. Otherwise I would have gone on Monday. But nobody was going anywhere on Monday. And Tuesday was kind of risky. And Wednesday some people were still closed. So Thursday was as early as I could come in. And they said, congratulations, you get a root canal. So assuming they're open on Monday. That's where I'll be right at. Just about net time. I hope I can sneak in before I have to get thingied, because I don't know if I'll be in a condition to talk for a while after that,
Speaker A: man. You went from Sunday to Thursday? Oh, geez. I bet your Advil supply went dangerously low. It really did.
Speaker D: Yep.
Speaker A: Advil.
Speaker D: Well, I was. I was using ibuprofen. Same thing, I guess. And I got this. I don't know what it's called.
Speaker A: It's.
Speaker D: It's this Red Cross gel stuff that you can put on your. On your tooth to kind of numb it. And that helped a little bit. And, yeah, I was basically doing everything I possibly could with what little I had. And, you know, yeah, it was. Sunday was the worst. Monday was pretty bad, but it was at least, you know, I could function. Sunday, I literally couldn't function. It was terrible. But, yeah, the rest of the days
Speaker A: I could at least get by. Yeah. Your teeth hurt, boy. Oh, don't. I don't feel sorry for you there, Patrick. Well, I'm glad. I'm assuming they've got that part taken care of and you're just cleaning up. Cleaning up the damage.
Speaker D: That is the hope, anyway.
Speaker B: Let's see.
Speaker D: It might actually be worse than that, but it's got to start from somewhere. So, yeah, that's kind of the story here. Nothing really too exciting otherwise. Just kind of thinking, man, I think I want to hang out under the blankets all day. And I'm in a room in the far side of the house, actually in the very, very front of the house. And the way this place circulates, this room originally didn't have a door on it. One was added. And if the door is closed, which for the last couple of hours, I've had the door closed because I've been doing stuff and didn't want to disturb people if the door is closed. The heat doesn't really circulate in this room, so, yeah, it's pretty cold. I am definitely going to be opening the door and probably hanging out under some blankets for a while. It's funny because it was about this cold around this time last week, but it was not nearly as windy. That's the wind that makes it feel a lot colder than it is.
Speaker A: Yeah. And especially. Well, if it's so cold, then you probably don't have a whole lot of humidity. But I always find that the damp cold, you know, with a little bit of breeze is the worst.
Speaker D: Well, we got plenty of Humidity because it's. Well, there's moisture coming down from the sky right now, so, yeah, we got that. It's all a bunch of fun. Anyway, Orion, I'll let you get to the rest of the net. Good to hear you this morning. And I'll say seven three for now. AI six JB and two DYI.
Speaker A: Hey, 73 Patrick. And good luck on that root canal on Monday. Oh, boy. N2DYI. AI6JB73. Good morning, Dave. K6DCL. How you doing this morning?
Speaker C: Well, good morning, K6DCL. Doing pretty good compared to the rest of the few days prior. I had a procedure done, and it's interesting how you can be thrown for a loop when you get surprises all along the way of the procedure. So I wasn't too happy about that. And I actually reported that because somebody made a mistake of asking me for a review anyway, so I let him have it. I felt that I felt like I needed to do that. But, you know, when a doctor tells you one thing, you end up going in, being told you had the voice wait around for four hours to be tested to make sure everything was all right, which it was. But I did not plan on staying around for four hours. And the only good outcome of that was I found a let the fingers do the walking and found a salvage place for metal. And I had something on my crv, Honda CRV that I wanted to get rid of, which was a thing on the back end that you could put stuff on and carry it around. And it was way heavy. And even with some things to keep the back end of the vehicle up, it still was very heavy and didn't really sag, but it did, and I knew it was there. And boy, I tell you, once these guys took it off, which was very easy. This one gentleman that worked there in the metal yard, I said, well, that's pretty heavy, you know, be careful. And he just jerks it off. The tin of it goes down on the ground. He lifts it up and carries it away. I'll be right back. Oh, my gosh, this guy must have been a brute to handle that thing. But I know whether I was on last Saturday. My new YA3185 is known four terrifically well. 5, 4, 8, 0.

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Speaker A: Yeah, I'm doing a lot better than it sounds like you, but it's still kind of getting over this cold I developed last week. What's better up in Jamestown as far as weather's concerned?
Speaker B: I gotta turn around and look outside. It's sunny on the northern slope of a mountain across the way, so a little bit hazy, but looks like it's going to be a beautiful day. I read someplace that it was going to be a high of 69. 69 degrees. We'll take that. And very fortunate out here, right. K60 feel.
Speaker A: Yeah, we've. We're just now starting to see the sun. Looks like it's going to burn off and we're going to have a beautiful day down here as well. I haven't checked the weather, so I have no idea what it's going to be like. Kind of out of commission in the last few days. So just out of curiosity, what's going to tell me to do today? What are we going to do today? Looks like we're shooting for a high of 61. That'll be nice. Light winds and a low 43 tonight. So, yeah, we're have some beautiful weather down here, mostly just mostly cloudy, but I think we're going to get some sun here in the morning.
Speaker B: Well, that's great. You know, we deserve everything we can get living in Northern California. There's some stuff out there, but it's beautiful. The sun is gorgeous and beaming down on the trees. So we'll take it and. Oh, you know, I had a
Speaker A: carrier
Speaker B: on the back end of my Honda crv and while down in Modesto, I found a metal yard, metal salvaging yard, which wasn't really too far away from where I was at that time. And I had time to kill. And I had been wanting to get rid of this carrier for a long time. It was way heavy and was not what I wanted anyway. And so I went over and Lucy and I drove over there and lo and behold, sure, we'll take that, you know. And I said, well, it's really heavy. No, no problem, no problem. We'll take it off and take it inside and weigh it and we'll even give you some money. Wow, was I surprised. Anyway, he pulled a pin, cut the pin out real easy, wiggled it around to get it to break loose from the frost and all that stuff that was inside. And he jerked it off and picked it up by himself and took it inside to have it weighed. And I got a whopping. I'm not complaining, but a whopping $3.50. $3.50 for something to me that weighed way over 100 pounds. Anyway, I was very grateful that he did all that work because I certainly could. But isn't that something? Well, anyway, my rear end rose up a little bit because I had put. I forget what they call them, but things to keep it up. Kind of like chocks to put in the springs. So that worked. But anyway, now it's like I have a new car back here for you.
Speaker A: Yeah, spring. Spring helpers are nice tools to have. Especially when you got to carry around a lot of weight. All right, Dave, you have a wonderful day. Thanks for joining us on the coffee breaknet and we'll catch you next time. K6DCL AI6JB73. Alrighty. Good morning everyone. This is the coffee breaknet AI6JB here. Looking for check ins. I'll take anything. Otherwise I'll assume you are a ragchew. Looking for check ins on the Coffee breaknet.
Speaker C: 6 november lima whiskey.
Speaker A: Well, the only person I heard was kg6nlw. Anybody else out there?
Speaker D: Okay, three vgm for cricket. Enough please.
Speaker A: All right, I also heard ka6vgm for an in and out. Anybody else? And we got Scott. WA6YNE in and out. Scott, I'll be right back with you. Let's go ahead and throw it up to ka3bgm. I. I didn't catch the name there, but it says here you are in Spittsburg, Pennsylvania. You got some cold weather out there.
Speaker D: Okay, for Region 1 actually in Dawson, Pennsylvania to go to Pittsburgh because nobody would know where Dawson is. But it's very cold. The computer says it's minus one right now. And when I got up this morning it was minus 12. So yeah, it's very cold. So everybody have a good day. Try to stay warm. And those of you in California, be glad to have the warm weather right now. Cause we so could use it back this way a little bit. Okay, for vgm back to net. Name is Jimmy Julian. India Mike. Mike Yankee. I've checked in for a lot, but it's been a while so I may not be on your list.
Speaker A: Well, Jimmy, once I copy, once I typed in your correct call sign, you pop right up on our log here. So welcome back to the Coffee breaknet. Yeah, we've had several people check in from the east coast. One from Freedom, Pennsylvania. And all of you are commenting how cool it is back there. Right now we're sitting at, I don't know, 50 degrees, something like that at this point right now. Let me just double check here. Oh, 42 degrees. Sorry I overstated it, but it's just about sunny at 42 degrees here in northern California. You have a wonderful day. We'll catch you the next time. Ka3bgm.ai6jv73.
Speaker D: 73k3vgm. Clear.
Speaker A: Good morning, Scott. WA6Y N E. How are you doing today?
Speaker E: I'm well, how are you? Pack up, get ready to head out to work. And I heard the radio calling. So quiet. I'll jump in.
Speaker A: Well, thanks for dropping in. Did you get a chance to work winter field day last weekend?
Speaker E: Unfortunately, I did not. I had family obligations that popped up at the last minute. Like grandkids or field day. There was no alternative. I was the only one left on the list. And take care of the kids.
Speaker A: Yeah, drudgery, I guess, but definitely, I would have probably put that one pretty high on the priority list as well. We haven't fully tabulated the scores because I haven't had a chance yet. But we did over a thousand single sideband voice contacts.
Speaker E: I took my portable radio and popped it up where I could and I only heard the W6ek on 80 meter code and it was weak. I got 20 watts and a portable
Speaker A: antenna like oh, please let me in.
Speaker E: I felt kind of like Gerald Ford trying to get into a football game. But no, nobody heard me.
Speaker A: Yeah, our CW guys did almost 900 contacts. So yeah, 80 meters probably would have went right over the top of you here in the valley because we're up pretty high.
Speaker E: Yeah, I tried everything I could in the short period of time that I had. But anyway, very quiet, only noise was at an F2. And I thought maybe I got something wrong with my antenna but just wasn't heard. But I heard other, other people. I heard East coast on 80 quite a bit, but I couldn't reach him. Anyway, that was it for me. Just wanted to do a quick in and out, say hi because I haven't said hi for a while. Back to you. The visa planning.
Speaker A: Well, I'm going to say the same thing.
Speaker F: Hi Scott.
Speaker A: We haven't chatted in a while and looking forward to the next time and sorry you couldn't join us. We would love to have you there on the digital station. WA6YNE AI6JB73.73. And good morning, Frank. KG6NLW. Is this the first time on the coffee breaknet?
Speaker C: Oh no, not at all. Orient. This is just the first time on a Saturday, I guess in a long time up here. The last time I was a Saturday attendee was Loomis of 2024 I think it was that. That's how long ago it's been. So no, not the first time, definitely not the last. Just here to say hello and good morning everybody. And I'm going to keep it short because I'm sitting here soldering some stuff together for a 12 volt project I'm working on and that's about it today. Gonna be nice and sunny and I might actually get out and do a poda today. So if you have me in your ham alert or you have me on YouTube under my call sign kg6 November Lima Whiskey Kilo Golf 6 November Lima Whiskey phonetically Vertifold call just kg6 MLW on YouTube though I don't do it
Speaker A: phonetically, I just do it as it is.
Speaker C: You might see a live stream out of it. So we're probably going to be at Tryon Annadel State park here in Sonoma county and it'll be me and one other operator. At least that's the game plan here. It'll probably be lunchtime mid afternoon somewhere around there. That's about it for me Orion. You have a great day and good morning coffee break net.kg6nlw
Speaker A: hey thanks Frank for dropping in saying hi and yeah I was checking out your QR our ZED page. He's got your photo logs there and as you were signing off I just flipped to your HAM radio Wilderness with Frank YouTube channel. So I'm gonna might play around out here, check out see what you got going there. Thanks for joining us and you have a wonderful day. Enjoy the poda. If you do get out there KG6NLW AI6JB73.
Speaker C: And see what happens.
Speaker A: Oh I'm sorry we only caught. What happened is what the last part of your transmission.
Speaker C: Oh I was just saying you all have a great day and hope to catch you on the air out there. We're going to try 10 through 40 and see what happens.
Speaker A: Alrighty, 10 through 40 boda later on today.
Speaker F: Thanks Jimmy.
Speaker A: I'm sorry Frank. You have a wonderful day. KG6NLW AI6JB. That's what I get for trying to enter my log at the same time while talking. All right folks, that was a relatively short list. Looking for some check ins. If you are an in and out let me know. Otherwise we'll try and drag you along with me for a little bit of a rag shoot. Looking for check ins on the copy. Breaknet.
Speaker F: This is W872C in sunny cold Pennsylvania
Speaker B: whiskey bravo six golf uniform yankee ticket
Speaker A: chancing in El Dorado Hill. In and out. All righty. Good morning, joel. W6b wb6gyu @g u y and good morning, michelle. Wh7qc anybody else out there? Good morning to you, Joel. W86tuy how are you doing this morning?
Speaker B: Well, this is fencing in the hills
Speaker E: of El Dorado Hills. I'm headed down to the farmers market,
Speaker A: pick up some veggies for dinner tonight.
Speaker B: That's about all I've got. Back to next W6G Y quitting.
Speaker A: Well, enjoy that trip to the farmers market. I always love little farmers markets. Those are kind of cool. And be safe out there. We'll catch you next time. Joe. Joel. WB6G U Y A I6JB73. Good morning, Michelle. WA7QC we have spoken with your other half and he was mentioning you got some eggs. With all the cold, you would think the eggs, the chickens would crawl into their nests and stay there.
Speaker F: This is WH7QC. Yes, indeed. Sometimes I say my chickens or I'm more chicken than my chickens are getting out in the cold. But we generally have two eggs out of the three hens. I'm not sure what's wrong with the other one because they're always a. Well, they're all three, like three different colors, which is very fascinating to me. You look at their earlobes and that kind of gives you a clue of what color the eggs will be. So we get usually two different colored eggs, but we haven't had the third for several weeks now. But yeah, they're pretty brave. In fact, they're outside right now and it's 17 and a half degrees. Yeah, this is a heat wave from what we have had.
Speaker A: Yeah, one of the guys in our office, he has a bunch of chickens as well. He lives up in Sheridan, which is north of us a little bit here. And starting about last week or the week before, and I got some more of this last week he brought eggs in. He said they're starting to produce now, which I said a little early. And he goes, yeah, it's a little early for some reason there, but he's not complaining.
Speaker F: Yes. And they're very good eggs too. I mean, there's nothing like your own home grown eggs. I'll tell you. The yolks are a very rich orange. In fact, we just had a bunch of scrambled eggs today and we're never short of eggs, so we share them with our neighbors and with the kids. But yeah, we're just little chicken tenders out here.
Speaker A: Yeah. When the normal is a store bought egg. And then you throw in one of those fresh homegrown eggs. It's a little disconcerting because you look in there and you're like, holy cow, that yolk is. That's odd. That looks bad.
Speaker F: That's exactly what my neighbor across the street said. She had never had fresh chicken eggs until we got our chickens. She said the same thing. I thought something was wrong with the steaks. And I said, no, no, no, no, no. These are like the best ever. So, yeah, they're good little hens out there. They're Brahmas, the ones that me have. And we've been doing a lot of reading, mostly Royhouse. But they're really hardy chickens. And I've been amazed at how well they've been able to withstand the cold. Like I said, they're chomping out there right now.
Speaker A: Yeah. You know, I always think of chickens as those little itty bitty chicks that have to be under a warmer light, warmer. So you kind of get the perception or the feeling that they are fragile. But those, you know, chickens are pretty much everywhere in the world. It's kind of amazing where you'll find them.
Speaker F: Yep, that's true. We've been happy with these chickens. They're doing really well with them. Surprised. I just don't like to go out in the cold to take care of
Speaker A: them, but you got to do what you got to do.
Speaker F: But Rory is the one that mostly tends to them.
Speaker A: But.
Speaker F: But yeah, they'll eat out of your hands sometimes. And I think when the weather warms up, I'll try to cuddle up with them more than I do right now. I don't think they want cuddling with anybody right now except each other. They either stick together, tighten this one little booth there, or they're all roosting up in the rafters of their chickens and.

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Speaker A: Coop. But they know how to keep warm. It's pretty amazing watching these guys.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's got, you know, they're smart in some respects, I guess, as far as keeping warm. Well, I mean, like I said, I've seen them all over the world. It's kind of funny where you find chickens and you think to yourself, gosh, you know, that's not a. Doesn't seem like it'd be a hardy bird. But they're there. I mean, you look at their feet, right? There's no feathers or anything on them yet. But it's freezing cold outside and they're still walking around.
Speaker A: Yep, that's what they do. And they are actually smarter, we realize, than people think, too. They actually have a language and they'll have names for each other, you know, some of the reading that we've been doing. But yeah, they'll have names for each other and certain calls for each other, like they might. This is particularly if you have like a big flock of them, which we only have four, but they'll have a certain call like for their best friend, you know, their bestie, so to speak. And they even have names for their people and because after the calls, like when that person comes around or if they're trying to call their friend, it's been pretty fascinating the things that we've been. Been able to read about them.
Speaker B: So they do have a language or you're saying at least they have a call to recognize. I'm sure they have a danger call and all that kind of stuff. Very cool, very cool. So what do you. I mean, in the wintertime they can't get out, and I'm assuming you don't let them out to go and pick the seeds and stuff because there's snow on the ground. So what, do you just feed them normal grain or do you have to supplement their food?
Speaker A: We open the coop every morning and when there's not snow all over the ground, they're always out there pecking around. But even in the snow, they'll peck around or at least where it's not quite as snowy, because right now they're standing all around the outside the coop. But we do have a feeder inside. And every evening before we step the door for the night and so forth. But it's a mixture of scratch, what they call it. Sometimes we'll put the mealy worms in
Speaker B: there and they love that.
Speaker A: We'll also put some crushed pepper in there, you know, the dried pepper like you get in the bottle and that's supposed to help them in the wintertime, particularly to help them keep warm. And we also collect the eggshells, and then we'll crush those and we dry them in the oven and we'll mix that with your feet and feed. They love all this stuff. Yeah, it helps their shells and of course, some of the scraps like fruit rinds and your pieces of fruit and vegetables, they like that kind of stuff too. But they're never lacking in food. But I don't even know what they're picking for out in the ground because there's got to be something else. Even though it's frozen.
Speaker B: I was wondering what they would eat. Especially if they're out there every day. They're probably going to pick all the food away. Jerry WA6C just texted me and he says our conversations are reminding him about the kiki bird goes out in the cold and goes kiki.
Speaker A: Kiki kimini.
Speaker B: It's cold. Yeah.
Speaker A: Birds are fascinating. I know Feta is an avid bird watcher. I remember when we first got on the net. Years. Gosh, it's been years already since COVID But her out there watching the birds. So she knows a lot about birds, but they're fascinating creatures. Yeah. We do have heated water. I forgot to mention that we bought a little heating watering trough from the rural king, it's called. They have a lot of farm equipment, that kind of stuff. But anyway, so the water is actually heated a little bit, but it does accumulate ice on the top of that. But the water itself at least stays a little bit warm. Otherwise they're picking through the ice, which we, you know, they're not doing that. They got the heat and water.
Speaker B: I know. I didn't even think about that. Yeah, because you guys are down in the. In the single digits and below zero. So, yeah, you would have to heat the water, otherwise it'll be frozen solid. Well, I guess, you know, it's like us. You know, it gets cold, we grab a cup of coffee or grab a cup of tea.
Speaker A: Exactly. I'm into my herbal tea. Well, I just finished it. But yeah, I have an herbal tea drinker and the cocoa and all that kind of stuff. But yes, tends to reason. But boy, we're out there 10, 15 minutes just shoveling snow or taking care of the chickens. And man, we're running inside because our fingers are tingly and all that kind of stuff. It's not been fun, but it is beautiful to be on the positive side. And the kids love sledding and going out skiing and snowboarding, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker B: The Only time in my life where I have been in something that cold was we did a ski ski trip to Sundance in Utah. And we would go skiing, we'd do like one or two runs and we'd run back to the car, turn the heat on because our toes would be frozen, our hands would be frozen, our face would be frozen. And it was about nine, I mean noon in the morning. It was noon and we're going back out again. And we asked the lift operator, we said, man, it's really cold. What's the temperature? And he goes, oh, it's 2 degrees. Should have been in here when we opened. It was minus 12. And we were there when it opened. And so, yeah, that is the coldest I skied is minus 12. And that is cold.
Speaker A: Yeah, I think the coldest we've been out in at the far is minus 9, minus 10. But oh my word, you know, we're, we're islanders at heart. But if that wind kicks in, oh my word, it's like double. It's, it's crazy. But I'm very grateful that we haven't had a lot of wind this last week or so with all the snow because people have had to get out and shovel it. And we're fortunate that we're able to park our car in the garage. But a lot of people aren't and so they're just. But you know, we've had nearly two feet of snow. Snow in about a 24 hour period. It was nuts. And then a lot of people are just literally shelving feet of snow off their cars. But we've got great neighbors out here. One neighbor came and helped us finish shelving our driveway. We're just living a great neighborhood here. It's just really nice. So I try to look for the positives. And our house is warm and it's leak proof. We got water running, we got the well water. And my silver called me this morning, said we don't have any water. And they're on city water. But our water's been running and we got the heater on, so we're sitting prettier than some people, which I'm grateful.
Speaker B: That's kind of cool. So you got yourself a hardened house. One time I went skiing while I was on duty and it was snowing a lot that day. And so I, the parking lot was cleaned out and when I got back to my car at like five o' clock in the evening, there was three feet of snow on the ground and the ski resort was trying to plow, trying to Plow roads through the parking lot so people can get out. I must have spent maybe 45 minutes digging my car out of there, trying to get out of it. Just to get out, to go home, to go to work because of all the stuff. Yeah, I know exactly what a big drop of snow will do to you.
Speaker A: Yes. And that brings to mind like the people in Texas. I got family that live in Texas and they're not equipped for all this kind of snow. And so you don't see a snowplow very often. Even in our rural area, we get the snow plow.
Speaker B: Well, we did, you know, we don't
Speaker A: need it right now. But anyway, they were, they were over at least a couple, couple times in the day. And my son had it like once and he lives more in town than we do. And then some of my friends that I've seen with, they were like real in the cul de sac. And I've seen the snowplow.
Speaker B: What.
Speaker A: So it just kind of varies. But at least they're really well equipped here for this kind of snow. But they said on the news it's been 10 years since they've had this kind of a snowstorm. And that must have been just before my son moved over here. And that's the only reason we moved over here is because, you know, this son living over here.
Speaker B: But, but it is great.
Speaker A: I mean, you know, there's a lot of wonderful things about it, you know, if you could just bite your time through the wilderness here. But it's. But spring, summer, fall are just gorgeous. It's. It's just glorious when you get out. And they have all these wonderful festivals through the year and even in the wintertime. But it's been really, it's been really nice living here and having some, you know, change of scenery and some new things. And we miss the islands, of course, dearly. But it's always good to have new experiences too and you know, learn and grow through new experiences and appreciate, you know, appreciate what you've had and the experiences that you have had in the past. But I'm getting really telephoto. But anyway, sorry I was ragged too. But anyway, you guys have a wonderful day and it's been nice to chat with you. Orion and this is W810QC. Thanks so much, much. AI6JB Orient, everybody. Have a great safe and warm day out there.
Speaker B: Well, thank you, Michelle, for dropping in and staying a while. Usually you just drop in and give your call sign and we say hello and you go bye. Bye. So it's kind of nice to chat for a while and I do appreciate that. WA7QC AI6JV have a great weekend and stay warm up there. Alrighty folks, this is the Coffee breaknet looking for some more check ins. If you want it in out, let me know. Otherwise I'll assume you are a ragchew and I will drag you along for a while. Looking for check ins on the coffee breaknet.
Speaker C: WU6X in and out.
Speaker B: Good morning Dennis W6X anybody else out there? Good morning Dennis W6X did you get a chance to work winter field day last weekend?
Speaker C: I did not and it's too bad. I should have been looking for those from the club that were but I did not. I did work the breakfast this morning though. We had a good turnout and I got to see some people I haven't seen in a long time. Was really neat and made a new friend that we used to work together at the same company. Hadn't crossed paths. It was kind of fun. So that was a good breakfast. Anyway, thought I'd say hello. I must be getting close to winning the toaster, you know, with my check ins here. WU6X mobile just about ready to pull into the driveway.
Speaker B: Yeah, I always loved the breakfasts. They were a lot of fun. Great chance to sit and chat with people and especially chat with people you never see. Right. Get a chance to look across the table, see a face when you talk to somebody. Somebody.
Speaker C: Yeah, it was really nice having a good turnout too. All right, catch you later, Orion. Good hearing you on. Thanks for doing the net.
Speaker B: Hey Dennis, great hearing from you as well. Thanks for dropping in, saying hi. Wu6xai6jb73. All right, anybody else want to check
Speaker A: in on the copy Breaknet?
Speaker D: Good morning, Orion. WA6E I don't want crickets to start chirping here.
Speaker B: No, don't worry about that, Jerry. I was just about thinking, okay, what am I going to do next? And you know what? I think I'm going to do announcements after if I don't hear anybody. But good morning to you as well. I saw your text about the geeky bird.
Speaker D: That's an old joke. Has no fur, no feathers, just runs around going, kik ki kremen. It's cold.
Speaker B: Yeah. Oh well.
Speaker D: So let's see, you didn't get to do Winterfield Day last weekend. I understand you were under the weather.
Speaker B: Yes, I was still kind of. Right now got a cough. I feel energetic, sort of, but for some reason the cough just won't go away.
Speaker D: Well, I hope it goes pretty soon here. A week is a long time to have to put up with something like that. We've got a club meeting coming up in a couple of weeks. I know that will be on your announcement, but I'm looking forward to checking out the new digs. I understand from those who have been over there, and I saw it on the Zoom call they ran on their check out, that the acoustics are excellent.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Like night and day. Absolutely. Night and day. And the Zoom experience is going to be significantly different. So if you're a regular Zoom person who drops in on the meetings, you'll actually be able to participate in the meeting. So if you have a question, you'll be able to raise your hand and ask the question. Question. And so this will be a little heads up for you, folks. We'll put your picture up on the fix monitor. So you'll end up on three monitors in the room. So you can't show up in your birthday suit. There's definitely not likely. Not going to happen.
Speaker D: I've read stories about people who had just the top half on or naked from the waist down and they got up to wander away for some reason and all was exposed. So we might have some great S PARC stories in the making coming up. But it will be fun to see the new place.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's great acoustics and the folks on Zoom can literally hear when. When the audience mics are on. The people in Zoom can hear everything. We actually that's going to be kind of an issue because if there are some side conversations going on, the Zoom people will be able to hear it. So I think it's going to be kind of a paradigm shift for most folks who are in the audience, because normally it's natural. You can kind of ask a question or something like that. The problem will be now is everybody on Zoom will be able to hear it. It's going to be fun to watch. It's going to be a learning experience for all of us.
Speaker D: So what I'm hearing is you're going to instruct a room full of ham radio operators who are known for talking to be quiet lest they be picked up by the Zoom microphone. Good luck with that.
Speaker B: Yes, some have suggested that might be a drawback to the new location. But I think the fact that, you know the audio, the fact that, you know, the speakers that are presenting are going to be coming through the Zoom much clearer. We have camera control, so I think overall it's going to be a much better experience for everybody. We're just going to have to make a couple adjustments along the way and it'll be fun. It's going to be a lot of fun.
Speaker D: Well, it can't be any worse. So looking forward to it that we got be testing on Monday. I got four or five candidates from what I see on the. On the website. So we're making. We're making more hams here. We're making bacon.
Speaker B: Does that sound right? Sounds good to me. And we have 11, if I recall correctly, 11 in the extra class. So in a couple months we'll have hopefully a bunch of folks dropping in to say hi and get their extra.
Speaker D: The graduates of your course typically do very well of the testing, do they not?
Speaker B: You know that that is the one thing that I don't get much feedback on. You know, I always say, hey, let us know if you get your license or you get your upgrade. And I rarely ever get an email back saying, we got it with the last tech class. Tom KV6SSN and Matt K. Oh, God, Matt, I'm sorry. Imp. I'm sorry, I forgot your call sign. Matt have donated Baofeng radios and N antennas. And so we had three students show up at the last meeting to accept their radios. So that's probably the most I've gotten in one class knowing whether or not they pass their test.
Speaker D: Was that Matt K06 imp.
Speaker B: Correction. Correct. You are correct. K06 imp. Matt. Yeah, he's going to buy signal sticks for all the Baofengs that Tom. That Tom donated for the tech class.
Speaker D: Well, you know, Brian typically announces who the people are who got their. Who passed the VE test. You know, you could use that as a way of keeping track of some of them. I suppose they could test anywhere, but that would be some evidence. My guess is you're probably right up there in the 90% of successful graduates.
Speaker B: Yeah, I've only. Out of all the years I've done it, I only know two or three people who have come back and said, I didn't pass. So I think we're probably okay as far as a good success rate is concerned. I think there's also quite a few that may just, you know, stop. It was probably a year or two ago I ran into somebody and I said, hey, did you ever pass your test? And they said, oh, no, I never went back and did it. I'm like, man, you gotta do it right now while you still have it fresh.
Speaker D: Yeah, as you get older, that really gets to be important. Well, it's fun to hear Mickey on. Typically we hear Roy but not Mickey. And I think of their lives and. And here they are back there about all the snow and ice and cold. And for years they were down in the tropics. So from one extreme to the other. By the way, I have sold my Starlink. Now that we are getting rid of the motorhome, I simply don't have a use for it. So it's kind of sad.
Speaker B: That system sure works well. Absolutely. It's just phenomenal. It's funny. I set it up last weekend for the guys because they use Starlink, too. What did they use Starlink for? They didn't spot themselves, but I'm trying to. Anyway, they set it up and it was funny because.

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Speaker A: John Ki6w and I parked in the spot where there's a bunch of trees nearby. And he goes, is that going to work? And I said, it works fine. We were still getting 250 megabits up and down.
Speaker B: Given the number of satellites that they've put up, and I think it's like 10,000. It has become easier and easier to spot a satellite, so invariably there's one right overhead. I'm thinking of up at the camp out at Stampede. The first year we were up there, we had maybe 70% coverage because you're in a bunch of lodgepole pines and
Speaker A: you kind of have this little opening
Speaker B: that you're looking at up there, maybe 30, 35 degrees, maybe 40 if you're lucky of sky. And so you'd have it for a bit and it would drop out. And this last time we went up there was almost 100%. There's so many of them. You can usually see one or two through that little hole. It's an amazing system. Have you seen the satellite map that shows their constellation?
Speaker A: Not recently. Not recently? I think you mentioned it maybe a year or two ago. But aren't they supposed to finish it out at around 12?
Speaker B: Oh, I don't know the answer to that. This is a new map and it shows where they all are. It also has little red dots that shows where they're re entering and phasing out. I'll send it to you right now.
Speaker A: Oh, that'll be exciting to see. Yeah, I read somewhere where they have a strict protocol and I can't remember, and I was surprised how. I was surprised how short a lifespan these things have. So it's kind of interesting because you think about it, you know, they put them up there and they're spending all
Speaker C: their time right now just putting them up there.
Speaker A: But they have a lifespan and they're not as long as you would think.
Speaker B: Well, I guess that makes sense because they are LEOs. I sent you the map. Click on it and bring it up while we're talking and turn the constellation on for Starlink. They're LEOs, which means they have more drag, which makes sense to me. They either got to have additional thrust to keep them up or they're going to decay quick.
Speaker A: Do you send that via text or was that email? Email. I don't remember who it was, but somebody did a presentation about the Starlink system at one of the club meetings. And if I recall correctly, they mentioned that the relatively short period of why they're up there as part of their. Oh, look, at that. That's totally. Holy cow. That's a lot of. That's a lot of little dots. Part of that plan is so they can upgrade them. As new technology comes in, the older ones are going to phase out and
Speaker B: the newer ones are going to come in. Oh, yeah. You know, originally they were just put up and you could only go a couple hundred miles off the coast before you lost it because it had to have a downlink to the coast. Now they use lasers to talk one to another and you got coverage across the whole ocean. There are other. If you click on the constellations up at the top under Internet, there are others that are coming up, like the Kuiper system and whatnot. They actually have a few satellites up there too. So there's. I love competition.
Speaker D: Very cool. Very cool.
Speaker A: It's just amazing how many there are. I mean, it looks like this cloud around the Earth.
Speaker D: Yeah.
Speaker B: And now start thinking in terms of two terms. One is space junk. All these things colliding, you know, and if they burn up and don't, everything doesn't re enter. There's little bolts and nuts and washers all spinning around the globe. And the other is. Think in terms of Greg Ko6th trying to observe the planets and stars through all this clutter.
Speaker A: When I first heard that, because that was with the earlier versions, they were too bright and they were causing problems. You kind of look at it, just those pesky, persnicketiest amateur astronomers and stuff. But now when you look at this map, you look at it and go, well, yeah, practically everywhere you go, there's going to be a satellite flying through your field of view.
Speaker C: Go ahead, Greg Ko6gh comment?
Speaker A: I'm sorry, Greg, go ahead.
Speaker C: Yeah, the satellites, that's not just Elon's finest. There's all kinds of satellites up there. There's techniques to get around that. It's not that big a deal. It's more a problem with the folks visually looking into the sky. But besides the light pollution that causes. Think of all the RF pollution those things cause. Each one of them is a little radiator of something. They all got transmitters, all the harmonics and stuff, keeping those things quiet as well as dark. It's a big deal.
Speaker A: KO60H.
Speaker D: That's true.
Speaker A: All that RF that's being generated. So now we have noise all over the world. Fortunately, they're in the higher bands, I would imagine, right?
Speaker C: Well, in theory, but in practice, apparently they. I mean, our bands go up into the microwaves and that's what they're Using. So yeah, it's a problem anyway. So that's. Yeah, it's definitely interesting map. And that's just the Starlink system. How many other systems are up there as well as just random other stuff? But yeah, it says lot of stuff up there.
Speaker A: The
Speaker C: problem is when you want to launch something, how do you get a launch time to get between them and not have something intersect your launch or
Speaker A: you know, launch trajectory?
Speaker C: But yeah, it's quite a mess up there.
Speaker A: Chaos Th. Yeah, exactly. It's like you need traffic control now so that if you launch your Artemis 2 to the moon, you know, you don't want to be running through a, through a Starlink satellite, you know, at 20,000 miles per hour. That's going to be kind of dangerous. Yeah.
Speaker C: And Sir Isaac Newton is in control of this stuff.
Speaker A: So it's like.
Speaker C: Yeah, moving stuff out of the way is not a big, not a thing you can do. Anyway, I'm heading home and I'll be joining you guys back from the home QTH in a few minutes.
Speaker A: KO58. All right, Greg, thanks for dropping in.
Speaker C: Back to you, Jerry.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's an interesting map and if you look over on the right there's a little box that shows you the inclination, whether the low, high or medium. And there's people who go up and click on constellations and go down to position positioning and then click on gps. They even show those satellites.
Speaker E: There's quite a few of those up.
Speaker D: So.
Speaker B: Interesting. And the fact of the matter is I'm not too concerned about RF pollution at the KU band level about 40 meters. All right, have a good one. Ryan, thanks for running the net. Always a pleasure to hear you on. I'm glad you're down to just a cough now and you can get around.
Speaker A: Have a good one.
Speaker B: Seven three, this is WA6E.
Speaker A: Hey, thanks Jerry. Thanks for sharing the link. That is perfect.
Speaker D: Pretty cool.
Speaker A: If you are interested in getting the link, it's on a website called SAT satellitemap Space. So S A T E L L I T E M A P Space Satellite map. One word, space. If you wanted to drop in and take a look and see what's. Alrighty, I have cleared my list of folks who want to check in.
Speaker C: All right.
Speaker A: I am looking for some more check ins on the Coffee Breaknet. Check. Looking for check ins on the coffee breaknet.
Speaker D: Kilo, November 6th, Swiss, Quebec, uniform, Tate and 6WQ. Good morning.
Speaker E: Kilo, Oscar6, India, Delta, Victor, Dan
Speaker A: and
Speaker C: Ko6th pulling into my driveway.
Speaker A: All right, good morning, Craig. I'm Assuming you're going to be a ragchew. Dan Ko6IDV. Are you in and out or a ragchu? In and out please. And Dan KN6WQ, are you an in and out or right two.
Speaker D: I just got one thing to blabber about is not too long so I can do it. In and out.
Speaker A: Excellent. Got you as an in and out as well. Anybody else want to get in on this round? All right, we'll draw the line and go to Dan KN6WQ. How you doing this morning Dan?
Speaker D: Good Morning Oregon and Good Morning Coffee Breaknet. This is KN6WQU.
Speaker A: Well we we had a failure yesterday
Speaker D: getting the air conditioning heating system back up and running. So we had found that we didn't have enough Freon in it because it only comes with an X amount of speed of blind set that it can handle unless until you got to handle or add more Freon. So you know, I go buy the Freon and all that stuff which wasn't too expensive, you know, it's like 300 bucks for 20 pounds or sometimes whatever. Got to have the heat on. So you know, I get it and come to find out that the threads are backwards on the container. So therefore our refrigerant manifold in case it's not burdened. So Amazon to the rescue. We got the reverse threaded quarter inch adapter coming times two, hopefully sometime today. It does say that it's coming in the mail I guess. I don't know why that is, but okay, whatever. Let's see here. And then second I was having issue with my Amyton 578 QP3 plus I have the BT01 connected to it via the Cat 5 cable that comes with it. And because I'm running it as a, you know, as the remote head kind of situation with it and I couldn't get it to charge the battery or something was wrong with it. Just kept turning off and start doing weird things and start making weird crazy like whale sound. Come to find out, the battery was dead inside of it and I took it over to HRO and we tried to figure out. We came to the conclusion that the battery was dead indeed. So then I was able to plug it into the Cat 5 cable and then plug it in also to the USB cable and then it charged it. So we'll see how that goes. I know that it's using a lot more of its battery lately because I have a PRS running now so I
Speaker A: can see all the messages coming.
Speaker D: So I think that's our reason anyway Back over to you, orion. This is K6WQ.
Speaker A: Oh, wow. As usual, plenty going on in the KN6WQU shack there for sure. Sorry about that. I'm glad you got that battery problem solved. We'll see how it fares. Maybe next weekend you'll come in and let me know that it cleaned it up or not. Now, you said that is of your mesh core. Did I hear that correct?
Speaker D: Yeah, negative, negative. So. So I was, I was under the impression with APRs, you know, the version, the mail system we use over the. Over ham radio frequencies or gps. It's our version of gps, basically. But we can send messages to each other with it as well. But basically, I didn't know that you had to be monitoring the frequency to receive messages. Right. So I've been sending things out and I never get anything back. I'm like, what the heck's going on? So I have been monitoring DMR on my second DFO. You know, the K60 TV antenna over there on the TV station, and I've been using a little bit of that, but there's really nobody I want to talk to. My neighbor uses dmr, but he's never on it. So like, well, let's just change my second VFO back over to aprs. So every message that comes in, it tells me that what icon it is, you know, their latitude, longitude, everything. So I think that's what's been using more power of the HT more than it usually does, because it usually doesn't just. It just keys up and posts and says what it's got to say and then it's done. But the light's been coming on more and all the other stuff too. So I think that's the reason.
Speaker A: Yeah, that would probably make sense because every time, every time a packet comes in, don't you have to send. Doesn't your radio send an acknowledgement?
Speaker D: I would have to assume so, yes. In addition to, you know, it shows me what the packet's about too. So it lights the light up and all the other stuff. So I might turn it back off again since I don't use it very often. But it may be out of. Keep it as a. As a channel that I can spin over to if I wanted to monitor it. So I'm not sure what I'm going to monitor. Maybe I'll switch over to the W60K220 repeater because. Love to.
Speaker A: Man 6 WQ. Yeah, and I heard that one's back up and running. Do you know if that's on all star or is it just RF?
Speaker D: I think it's just on RF. So this 578 UV3 plus is a tri band radio. So it'll do 2, 20, 70 centimeters and 1.2. So I'm definitely in that area. Very cool. Very cool.
Speaker A: I also learned something new. You said that APRs, you have to be monitoring in order to get a text message. I always thought that was a store and forward system. I guess that's not the case.
Speaker D: Case. See, that's what I thought, right?
Speaker A: I was like, why couldn't somebody just send me a message?
Speaker D: And I get it, you know, I, I think I got one like a long time ago. I think me and Ryan W6H, we were playing around with it way, way while back and I thought I got one or two of his messages or something.
Speaker A: But I, I would think if it
Speaker D: was directed towards me, the radio knows
Speaker A: it's me because it, you know, it still sends out my beacon.
Speaker D: So it would know where I'm at. Right. So I don't know why I have to monitor it. I'm still confused about that. You know, I think this is a gym question. I'm gonna have to ask him later. Or go to hrl. Maybe they can educate me or even read the book. I'm not even sure if I'm gonna do that. But we have ChatGPT now,
Speaker A: ChatGPT, Gemini, you name it. All of them are available now. So, yeah, that was probably a great way to get that resource. All right, Dan, it's been a pleasure and thanks for dropping in and you have a wonderful day. KN6WQ, AI6JB73. Goodbye to you, Zane. Have a wonderful day as well. I think I doubled you through, Dan. I was just saying goodbye, Zane. Thanks for. Thanks for dropping as well.
Speaker D: Yeah, roger. That.
Speaker A: Wasn't me.
Speaker D: I don't know, somebody else was coming through there. This is KN6WQ.
Speaker A: I'll be clear. Oh, it looks like we're getting a little bit of interference from the Fireside Radio Network on the east coast hub.
Speaker C: Alrighty, let's go ahead and throw it
Speaker A: over to the other Dan Ko6IDV. Good morning, Dan. How are you doing today?
Speaker D: Good morning, Orient.
Speaker A: I'm doing well.
Speaker E: Just gonna work on my wife's Jeep, replace the tie rods, drag link and steering gearbox, though.
Speaker D: Not gonna get it all done today,
Speaker E: but first thought I'd start tearing it apart.
Speaker A: Yeah, just a little, you know, Saturday project. Is this an upgrade or is this just normal wear and tear and time to. Time to fix The Jeep back up.
Speaker D: It's just maintenance.
Speaker E: It's got probably about 125,000 miles on
Speaker D: it,
Speaker E: 20, 15 to 11 years old. So, yeah, it just needs to get done.
Speaker A: Well, it's a nice day out there and it's not too hot, so it's probably a good time to get started on that one as well. So I wish you the best of luck on that. It seems like a lot of work.
Speaker E: It is a lot of work. We did it on my son's two, 2007, a couple of months ago because his was. His was actually leaking really bad. Had some other things wrong with it, but yeah, it's a lot of work. So I'll get it kind of started tearing apart and finish it up another day. Parts come in sometime this week, but
Speaker D: figured you're right, it's a nice day out.
Speaker E: Got a pool in the garage. Listen to coffee break a little bit and start tearing it apart some.
Speaker A: We're perfect background background chatter so that you can. That's one of the things I like doing in the garage too, is just turn on the radio, just listen. I know I tend to be a lurker sometimes, but definitely best way to listen to it.
Speaker C: All right, Dan, Well, I'll let you
Speaker A: get back at it. Thanks for dropping in, saying hi, and it's good to meet you. I don't think I've met you yet. So good to meet you and you have a wonderful week. K06IDV8AI6JB okay, yeah, thanks a lot.
Speaker E: Yeah, we actually probably talked about a month ago, but I think it's only been once.
Speaker D: But.
Speaker E: Yeah, have a good day.
Speaker B: Take care.
Speaker D: Thanks for running the coffee break today.
Speaker E: KO6IDV clear.
Speaker D: You're welcome.
Speaker A: But it takes three times for me to lock it in, so it's. I'm probably going to say that again one more time. All right, Dan, have a good one. Good morning, Greg. K06th how are you doing today? And how was the breakfast? I'm assuming you were coming back from the breakfast.
Speaker C: Good morning, Lori. And good morning, everyone.
Speaker D: Great.
Speaker C: K06th yeah, just got home from breakfast.
Speaker A: We had the room packed.
Speaker C: In fact, it was almost packed already
Speaker A: when I got there about a quarter after.
Speaker C: So if you're coming, come a little bit on the early side. Otherwise you'll be.
Speaker A: We moved the table over to the
Speaker C: end and added people on and we all fit in there. But it was a full house this morning. Great breakfast as usual. Good conversation.
Speaker B: So.
Speaker C: Yeah, and the fox hunt has just started, in fact.

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Speaker A: Kwe6axm receiver. Morning out there. This is kk6isq mobile.
Speaker B: Good morning, Mike. KN6GTN
Speaker A: and Ernie. How you doing?
Speaker B: Doing good so far. How's your day going?
Speaker A: Pretty good. Got some waste oil dumped off.
Speaker B: Got.
Speaker A: Got an old TV turned in and went and got some discounted meat and chicken. And now I'm heading out to an orchard to check my. My cameras.
Speaker B: So those cameras aren't ones that transmit pictures through wife or through cellular data.
Speaker A: Too cheap.
Speaker B: Copy that. Yeah. I'm just running some errands we're doing. Doing a little remodel at our house. And so I need to go get some electrical supplies and get that dug in and completed. So that's what I'm up to.
Speaker A: There you go. Now, if we can just get. As long as we get something done during the day, we're doing, we're not in trouble, right?
Speaker B: That is exactly right.
Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know, I might. I might invest in those cameras. You know, by the time I get out there and everything. I've paid more for fuel than service,
Speaker B: So I'm not. You said an orchard, so what are you watching for?
Speaker A: Right now I'm watching for boar, but I saw plenty of deer trails in there. It's a. That's an orchard and a butte. So, you know, maybe I can keep my eyes out for. See where they are. Where they are for next season.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's the trick. If you want to. If you want to get something, you need to know where they're at and what's there.
Speaker A: Well, the owner of the orchard wants the boars out of there. And I can hunt bore all year round,
Speaker B: So. So there's obviously some sign. I mean, obviously they're tearing stuff up. Yep.
Speaker A: And that's right where it puts cameras.
Speaker B: I'll tell you what, those things can. Those things can almost be more elusive than wild game. Of course, I mean, they are wild, but think of deer and bear and mountain lion and stuff as being really elusive. But I'll tell you, those boars can be. Once they get wind of something's not quite right, they're about impossible to corner.
Speaker A: And most of the stuff down here, honestly, is up and around right before sundown and all night.
Speaker B: Yeah, that always makes it a little more difficult too, when they're, you know, primarily nocturnal. Just like the big bucks when you go hunting them.
Speaker A: Yeah. So if I can find out maybe where they're bend down at or something. But Yeah, I got 40 acres out there I can hunt, which is nice.
Speaker B: Yeah. One of the boys, Myron and I. Myron's just kind of taking an interest in locating some hogs, some boars to go after. So we've been doing a little research and seeing a little what our options are, but I got kind of interested in that.
Speaker A: Yeah. How to hunt them or what license or what, what gun or what.
Speaker B: How and where.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's. That's gonna be the hard part. They. Well, they're just like any other animal. Wherever there's food and water.
Speaker B: Yeah, there's certainly opportunists there, but they can. Sure, they can root up.
Speaker A: It's.
Speaker B: I mean, I can understand why these orchards, the people that own the orchards want them out of there. They could. They could tear up Jack.
Speaker A: And honestly, they take out the drip line as much as the rodents do. So, you know, because they're wanting the water
Speaker B: and they could smell it from a mile away. That has never ceased to amaze me.
Speaker A: You definitely want to stay upwind from them.
Speaker B: So how many miles do you. I mean, how far is it where you have to go?
Speaker A: Oh, it's on the north side of the butte.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's the section I run when. When we do bike around the buttes. I like that area up in there. It's amazing how many, you know, how much traffic, how many people are up there for. Secluded as it is.
Speaker A: Yeah, but it, it is opened up quite a bit. But Yeah, I got 40 acres up there that I have access to, which is real nice. I mean, I just stumbled upon it. One of the guys on my board, one of the boards I'm sitting on, I was telling him, you know, that I want to. I want to get some boar and put in the freezer. And he goes, well, heck, why don't you just go out to my orchard?
Speaker B: Yeah, that's a good way. That's what we need to find somebody who, who we know and who knows us. And it just, you know, has an opportunity like that. I haven't put my feelers out very far yet, but yeah, I. There for a while I was thinking, you know, most of them are almost too far away to go for a day hunt, but I'm sure there's stuff a little closer
Speaker A: you should have. Honestly, you should have plenty around around the foothills of the buttes and around you where you live. Word of advice. You probably already know this, but I'm going to say it anyway. Make sure you have a text or email or written down permission on you.
Speaker B: Yeah, that becomes important if you're checked out. But you know, as far as in our area, I haven't seen any, you know, hogs or hog damage anywhere as close to Bangor or Oroville here. So I, I know in Red Bluff they have, you know, they have quite a bit of. There's hogs around and on out towards the coastals. They're there. But you know, I, I haven't seen anything real close.
Speaker A: Oh wow, that's amazing. But you probably have a lot of deer and such out there though.
Speaker B: Yeah, we'd have more deer than. And we have some, and we have some mountain lions. So I've seen several across ora bang. I've seen two mountain lion on ora banger the years since I've lived here. And then one of my neighbors saw one the other day. So that big cat's still around.
Speaker A: You can't do anything with them. They want to, they want to trap them and relocate them.
Speaker B: Yeah, they're not causing any problem right now. I mean I haven't had any problems with them but just knowing they're out there is a little. I mean if you're out there in the dark and you just, you hope that nothing's stuck and ya,
Speaker A: for the most part they'll leave us alone unless you know there's something wrong with them. The biggest problems are the chickens and such
Speaker B: and small pets, dogs and cats, they, they take those when they can find them too. So. Yeah. Well, I'm here at Home Depot so I'm gonna step aside. You have a good day. Be careful out there and we'll chat with you later. KN6GTN Good chatting with you.
Speaker A: Ready Ernie? You have a great day. 7 3. And thanks for picking up KK6ISQ monitoring.

Speaker A: I understand the transmitter's been turned on, so I'm at home though, so not going to participate today. But it's supposed to be in the northern side end, whatever it is, of Auburn, within the city limit.
Speaker B: So that narrows it down a bit.
Speaker A: I thought I might know where it was going to be, but it's not there, Braden says. So I have no clue where the fox is this time. But anyway, just wanted to check in and say hi, keep on, keep my numbers up, if you will. And the thing about the satellites, the other thing that mentioned about the reason for the low orbit, besides that things can change that frequently, is that by having these satellites that low in the orbit, the speed of light actually works in their favor. It's quicker to go from a land, you know, a station on land to another station on land through the satellite than it is to go terrestrially with the delays. And the index of refraction of a fiber changes the speed of light. So light goes slower in a fiber cable than it does going up to the satellites. And if you're doing transactions like stock market kind of stuff, you've got microseconds faster propagation time going up to the satellite and back down than going across on the terrestrial earthbound system, which is kind of mind boggling. Ko68.
Speaker B: Yeah, I do remember that from whoever gave the presentation about the Starlink system. But at the time when they gave the presentation, ground stations were still required and they were saying X generation, they're going to have it set up so that they'll go from satellite to satellite, making it much, much, much faster. Yeah, it's kind of mind boggling when you think about it, because electrons don't quite move as fast when they have to go through copper or you have to convert it to light to go through fiber optic. And then of course, there's repeaters along the way. So yeah, you would think it wouldn't be that big a difference, but apparently it is.
Speaker A: And good morning to the repeater. Ko68 yeah, it's all speed of light. I mean, with coax, we have the whatever that propagation factor is on a coax. Same thing happens on a fiber optic. The index of a fraction of glass is like 1.5. So you divide the speed of light by 1.5 and that's how fast that wave front travels down the fiber cable slows things down measurably compared to going RF through the atmosphere, up 600 miles and back down again, a lot faster going low Earth orbit than up to the geostationary because that you can hear. It's interesting listening to a satellite, a new satellite operator when they're hearing themselves come back with a delay. It really messes your mind up when you're trying to talk and hear yourself with that delay on it and a new satellite operator, their voice pattern becomes just a jerkiness about it. Not quite a stutter, but there's a. You can tell that people's voice patterns change when they're operating satellites for the time first. First time because of that delay. Going up to geostationary, it's a long delay, you can really hear it. But even the low earth stuff, there's a little bit of delay there, but it's actually less than terrestrial when you're doing long distance. There's an echo canceller in that system so you don't hear it at all. It's all local echo. It's just mind boggling technology is when you think about how these actually work. Anyway, on with the day. She could be villain today. Gonna visit the kids this afternoon. We're all gathering for a family get together. Ko6th
Speaker B: yeah, isn't the geostationary satellite delay like 7/10 of a second? If I recall correctly, that includes the delay at the satellite trying to turn it around again. But yeah, it is quite a while, quite a thing. I've had the opportunity a couple times to actually use the Satin phone and it's kind of disconcerting a little bit. And yeah, like you said, I've tried to make some satellite contacts. Never made one ham radio. But you're right, you hear that echo there and it kind of gets you. Kind of throws you off when you're not. When you're by yourself for the first time. All right, Greg, have a wonderful day with family. Look forward to the next time on the coffee breaknet. K06 Thai6JB73 73 Orient Everybody have a good day.
Speaker A: KO68
Speaker B: all right folks, let's go. Hit. Hit the announcements real fast and then we'll call for log onlys and closer on up. Next club meeting is February 13th. That's Friday. What in two weeks. February 13th. 7:30pm New location. New location is going to be the Human Health and Services Conference center off of B Street. If I recall correctly, they're not showing the address here, but check out our website, w6ek.org for more information. We have only had one extra class session out of 10. So if you're still thinking about that extra class, it's not too late to jump on board. So check us out on the website@w6ek.org, go to the activities tab, slide down to training and courses, and if you're interested in the extra lab class, go ahead and sign up there. You're not too far behind just yet. After this next class, you're probably too far to catch up, but if you're interested in the extra class, check us out. If you have any questions, throw me an email@advance6ek.org. All right, our next big, big, big, big event is going to be the Loomis ham Fest, Saturday, March 28, 7am Be there or be square. It will be rain or shine, but keep in mind it's never actually rained on Hamfest. We may have experienced some heavy dew, but it's never actually rained. So March 28, 7:00am Loomis Ham Fest. I believe Graydon mentioned that we have a Sierra Foothills VE Team VE session coming up this Monday, 7pm at the Confluence Church in Auburn. Same old location. 7pm Confluence Church, Auburn, Monday, February 2 if you're interested in joining them for an upgrade, or if you know somebody who needs a license, go to hamstudy.org and RSVP there. So that's Monday the 2nd, 7pm Confluence Church for the VE session for the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Group. And then on February 14th, that is a Saturday morning at 9am The Granite Bay VE group will hold a session at the Raley's Event center on Auburn Auburn Boulevard. And I mean, sorry, Douglas Boulevard and Auburn Folsom Road. If you want to join that one, check out hampsteady.org and RSVP for that one. And then they don't have the date in here yet, but the Folsom VE Group, usually about the third Thursday of the month, will host an event in Folsom. Stay tuned on the Copy Breaknet. Once we get that date updated, we'll share with you and look forward to that. All right, those are the announces that I have it. I'm going to take Log onlys log only please. Ki6lop Good morning to everyone and while I'll bay please kilo mike6.
Speaker A: W6czd log only.
Speaker B: Alrighty, I've got Russ Ki6lop, you are in the log. Peter KD6 is Q Z H U you are in the log. Mike KM6 Mike Mike I got you. Sam Good morning. K4LGI. I got you in the log. Dan K6DLK we didn't get the audio. We just got a hung repeater there, but we got you in the log. And k w6czb sorry, the name doesn't ring a bell. The call sign is ringing a bell, but I got you in the log as well. Did I miss anybody?
Speaker A: Whiskey Bravo three
Speaker B: for the log.
Speaker A: Good morning. Not sure if I double whiskey bravo 3.
Speaker B: WB1G got you in the log. Anybody else want to drop in for a log only?
Speaker A: Oren, you had a double there with WB3 something. Thanks. I wasn't sure if I did double with him. Whiskey Bravo 3, Charlie, Sierra, Yankee.
Speaker B: Yeah, I got WB3CSY got you in the log. And I got WB1G. Got you in the log. Let's see, you came up on Supermon KG6 NLW KG6. Did we already chat this morning?
Speaker A: We did. I was just relaying that WB3 stepped on you. Or doubled with you, I mean.
Speaker B: Oh, thanks. I appreciate that. All right, anybody else want to drop in on a log only? All right. Well, very good. Thank you everybody for showing up for the coffee break. Now, I certainly enjoyed speaking with you all this morning, but don't worry, we'll be back tomorrow with Jeff KW6U. He'll be your net control station for tomorrow's edition of the Coffee Breaknet. We're here every single day 7:30 to 10:00am Pacific Time. And we'll catch you next Saturday on the Coffee Breaknet. This is Orion AI6JB returning the repeater to normal operation. Have a great week, everybody. 73.
Speaker A: Some nitro Orion. Great net today.

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Ko6lwl monitoring Los Angeles link off.

This is Kilo Charlie Six Sierra, Lima Echo, reaching out to the fox hunters out there. I have not heard anything. How are you guys doing out there? KC6FLE, this is a QST to all of the fox hunters this morning. Trying to find the fox. Morning, Graydon. I hear it, but haven't found it yet. But there it is. Kilo Golf 9 5. Thank you for the update, Frank. Have you seen anybody else or hurt anybody else? Yeah, I've got Brian right here. He's walking up. It looks like Brian and imp have found it already. Excellent. Okay, good. Well, Doug and I are still sitting at Mel's. Let us know when you want to migrate over to Burger and Cream.

Speaker A: Qst qst. This is Graydon, KC6FLE for all the Fox centers out there. Doug, WTVX and myself, we're going to head on over to Burger and Cream and get a table. And as you're successful, as you get your raffle tickets, come over and join us. KC6FFLee.
Speaker B: So great. And correct me if I'm wrong if I understand this correctly. If you find the Fox, you get a raffle ticket. AI6JB.
Speaker A: You're right, Orion. What I did is there's a small roll of raffle tickets there. The lowest raffle ticket of the day is going to be the winner for the Foxhead. But we can also take the raffle tickets and put them in a hat and have a drawing for just a general prize to everybody that participated. Very cool.
Speaker B: Very, very cool.
Speaker A: Love it.
Speaker B: Thank you so much. You have a wonderful time and enjoy
Speaker A: your burger and cream.
Speaker B: KC6SLeai6JB.
Speaker A: Well, Orion, you could come over and join us.
Speaker B: I am still coughing up phlegm. I don't think you want me there, AI6JB.
Speaker A: But you are feeling better, I hope?
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, much, much, much better. Probably about 90%. But it's just this cough just doesn't
Speaker A: seem to want to go away.
Speaker B: Kind of just lingering on slowly but surely. Every single day seems to be just
Speaker A: a little bit better. I'm glad to hear that. How is the class going? I know you just started a new class. I think somebody had to step in for you because you were sick at the first class. But I'm sure you kept an eye on it. Did you get a good turnout?
Speaker B: You know, I haven't had a chance to talk with Anderson. Anders and Steven are there, so they probably barely missed me. And as I understand, I mean, right. I know we have 11 students, so we ended up with a new one that night. Gentlemen showed up just out of the blue and so now we have 11 students. So yeah, I haven't been there, so I don't know yet, but I'll let you know maybe next week.
Speaker A: Well, if you have 11, that's a good turnout.
Speaker C: That's a good class.
Speaker A: I like to re engage in that one of these days, but just do not have the time right now. But when I do have the time, I'd like to re engage in that. Anyway, Orion, you have a great day. KC6 Fola.
Speaker B: Hey, thanks Graydon. Go ahead. Frank.
Speaker C: Just wanted to give a qst. Sorry for stepping on you there. There are a couple of us here at the Fox. We have found the fox. But the raffle ticket seems to be harder to find than the fox.
Speaker A: Well, they were sitting right at the base of the transmitter. I wonder if a critter. I hadn't thought about that possibility. I wonder if a critter took the raffle tickets and ran off with them. When I was planting the fox, I did hear some rustling in the bushes.
Speaker C: Okay, with that, we did find them. We've got kilogrolf nine mike. We've got can six nuf.
Speaker A: Is that right? And his daughters.
Speaker C: And who else? Well, I think that's what we got so far. The number that is being pulled is 006
Speaker A: and it started at 003. So that's good. So Doug and I are going to go over, get a table when you feel like joining us. Please do.
Speaker C: I know there are a few other folks, at least another group that's nearby. I'll. I'll let Brian tell you what he did. I won't give it away just yet, but there should be others that, that are nearby, so maybe we'll. I'll hang out a little bit in the area here. And before I head over to Burger and Cream Kilo Golf 9 Mike.
Speaker A: Sounds good. Thanks for the update, Frank.
Speaker B: KC6SLA, KC6SLE, AJ6 or
Speaker A: Evan, how are you doing? Well, I'm still driving around to pick
Speaker B: up the signal, so we're still hunting.
Speaker A: Do you want to. Hopefully. I know you want to keep hunting, but do you want any, any help at this point? When you want help, give me a call. I can give you some clues if you need it. I knowing you, you probably don't want any clues
Speaker B: this time. I do. Go ahead. Okay.
Speaker A: Tell you what, other people out there may not want any clues. Why don't you do this, Evan? Why don't you give me a call on my cell phone? Nine two, do you have something to write my number down with or do you have my number?
Speaker B: Yeah, go ahead, give it to me.
Speaker A: 925-768-0830. So that's 925768, 0830. I'd rather do it on the cell phone rather than broadcast on the radio just in case other people. Yeah, they don't want the clue. So maybe that's not the case, but it'd be a little more just being careful. So give me a call, evan. Thank you. KC6 Foley. Very good.
Speaker B: Thank you. AJ6 or 4.

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Gears holds a free Morse code class every Wednesday night, 6pM at the Golden Beaver Distillery still house at 2420 Park Avenue. All are welcome to come learn Morse Code W6R H C Repeater Check 1.

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Speaker B: Kilo Oscar 6 Bravo, Gulf Shanki monitoring, mobile 20 eastbound
Speaker A: to Yuba city. K a6etb. Ko6vty. Good
Speaker B: morning. Are you out there, man? You out there? Mana?

Ka 6etb, ko6vgy, Negative contact. Ko6bgy. Ollie, vacuum monitoring.

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

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K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

Speaker A: Well, hello Larry. Well, I'm hearing you somewhere else too. I'm hearing me somewhere else. What's going on?
Speaker B: Oh, nothing much. Anyway. Yeah,
Speaker A: what? 2, 2 o' clock my time? 11 o' clock your time? What time did you want to play around?
Speaker B: It doesn't matter to me. I have nothing going right today or Monday or Monday either. So I don't know. I got up literally every hour on the hour Last night.
Speaker A: You were so excited about playing around with some Supermon and putty today you just couldn't sleep all night, huh?
Speaker B: Oh, is that Audrey? Yeah. I didn't think you'd figure that one out. No, I don't know, I'm just old man syndrome, you know.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I got you. We, we have we like I told you, we got more bedrooms here than we need. One of the bedrooms is a. Is what I call a day bed in it. It's downstairs sometimes if I. If I know my wife didn't feed the very good the night the night before. Well, I did sleep good before. Sometimes I'll just spend the night in the day bed. Yeah, sometimes it works a little better that way. All right, well you, I. I know that she said she was hungry so I'm just going to make her something real quick. I know she's going to make dinner tonight. I'm going to make her make her something real quick and then I'll give you shout.
Speaker B: Okay, Sounds good. All right. You don't know about old man. All right, well, looks like we've got something to look forward to.
Speaker A: That must be why the the wind system insomniac net does so well and has so for so long. All right, talk to you In a minute. N6 Kenny.

Okay, Well, in case anyone cares, just cruise through an ice protest in Chico. Pretty good size, actually. All by the mall, so I'd recommend anyone in Chico not to go around the mall. KN6MTK.

K7NG mobile heading north on Interstate 5.

Los Angeles link up.

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.

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System32link pop. Good morning. N6g y r.

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Home of the original 105 with a PL tone of 110.9. This is the W6 GRC repeater. Join us for our weekly net on Monday nights at 8:00pm.

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The piers. 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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Kilo oscar 6 bravo gulf yankee monitoring mobile. Heading back to palisade from utah. Permit w e6a x n receiver.

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Here pulls 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 three.

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Broadcasting live from Red Mountain at an elevation of 3673ft. This is Sac Valley's original 105 machine W6 GRC, with a PL tone of 110.9.

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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 W6 RHC repeater check 2.

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