Transcriptions for 2026-03-01

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.

Speaker A: Newcastle. Moving right along.
Speaker B: My dad's car passed bog unit on a previous message. Jb6wc mobile. Yeah, hopefully you're avoiding all the traffic. So. Yep, good job there, unit.
Speaker A: Well, it does show whatever, orange or
Speaker B: something like that on the time, so that means there's traffic along the somewhere, but I'm expecting that to be at the Ridge. San Francisco. Sometimes there's that little uphill stretch out of Vacaville headed towards Fairfield. There's that little bit in there. But otherwise it should be a clean, clear shot for you. Some guys get awful L.

Speaker A: Still pretty warm up that way. Magic. I hit around 83, 84 coming up the Altamont as soon as got into Livermore. It's all good here at home. It's. Can't quite read it. I think it's 70 something.
Speaker B: That's a pretty bumpy one you got there yet.

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

J.

V6vsc mobile David.

Speaker A: Oops. I just gave you a big, long answer on local, so I bet you didn't hear it. JKV is doing a whole lot of nothing. Yeah.
Speaker B: Let the slowdown be it.
Speaker A: Why is it slowing down as I approach Dixon? What's going on in Dixon? There can't be anything going on in Dixon. It's just fields, right? Yeah, it's a whole lot of nothing. There is a little downtown, and it's pretty nice. They have some pretty good burgers and stuff there. Hung out there in years.
Speaker B: I am down to less than 20 miles an hour.
Speaker A: Oh, you know, I would expect that kind of traffic on a Sunday, not today. Take a listen there. Double. What? There was a slowdown earlier. I think it was a Tesla that probably ran out of shoes because it was on the side of the road and its occupants were further off the side of the road. Oh. Saw one of those also on the way home. Yeah, it's a Tesla all by itself. And it just brought those. Look at owners standing by. Yeah. Can only be one thing, right? I don't think they ran out of gas. Now. Maybe they pray for a lightning strike and get a big surge charge of, you know, 121 gigawatts or gigawatts or whatever it is.
Speaker B: Once those things go down to,
Speaker A: like, 10%, they go into limp mode. You have very limited range, and then they just turn all the way off. My kid tells me there's two, I guess, two networks of battery. One that runs the car and one that runs the accessories. And they're totally isolated, so you can't tap into the other when big things get dire, you know, 27th link up. Yeah, I didn't know that.
Speaker B: Are you on Backer
Speaker A: or are you on five on clueless? You know that I'm on four. 43050. What is that? Same way I do it. Yeah, that's five. That's the East 80.

Now I'm back up to the limit. I have no idea why the slowdown or stop was all about KV6WSD mobile.

14.

Speaker A: They don't even have
Speaker B: Budweiser on the plane anymore. Yeah, they used to suck a lot of water out of Lake Berryetta.
Speaker A: Maybe Lake Perrycliffe would have attracted more people if it was full of beer.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, and if the PLM hadn't shut down all the campsite. As a matter of fact, they turned our place after we sold it, though. They turned all those properties at Chuda Creek into campgrounds. So they went and pulled all the mobile homes and the 50 footers out, and we had a big one. So anyway, that kind of sucked. He must be around Cherry Glenn. That's a bit of a hole.

Cordelia. Yeah, moving right along.

Speaker A: All right. Well, anyhow, seeing
Speaker B: all the
Speaker A: hills, it's all green and all. And the cows mowing the lawn. CB6, WSC mobile. Hey, how's 32 doing up there? I just noticed when I was out on the San Mateo Bridge, it was only half scale, so I think it might even be lower power.
Speaker B: So cables are wrapping around it more,
Speaker A: or the RF output has dropped more.

Speaker A: By the way, I did a quick comparison between the quad end antenna and the normal 5 1/2 6dB game Omni that I usually use on the vehicle. Well, the 6dB Omni on two different machines was about half steel on UHF. And then with that quad band antenna, both the machines I tested were like an F1 or an F2. So a large difference, not too scientific, but it was enough of a difference to make me not leave it on the car for the ride home. Plus there's always a possibility of the wind blowing the thing loose anyway. So I think, you know.
Speaker B: Roger. That's the pretty long antenna. Well, it's probably about as long as a 6 meter antenna, but it has coils for 10 and whatnot. That kind of thing.
Speaker A: Yep, that's the one. Yeah, it looks serious. It's quite heavy duty, but, you know, have to do the old signal generator check. And that's how I can do a conclusive test. Signal generator and see antenna A versus antenna B into the repeater and see what happens.
Speaker B: I never did like those antennas because of the stuff hanging off of them. But that's why I always ran. I never ran anything on 10, but at 6 I had a separate antenna. And then either I run mono band for 2 meter and 70 centimeter or I do a dual band antenna. So what I have now is a dual band and seven DBI or more. And it used to
Speaker A: work quite well. Yeah, I was gonna try one of those dual band Larsons. Yeah, it's physically a little longer than what I have, but I guess that seems to be pretty much the standard nowadays. But when I was doing the three fans in the car, I used the 2 meter 5, 8 and that worked great on 6. And then the 441, I did that, you know, a separate one that worked well. The only thing I didn't have was gen. So there's a way around that. Yeah, I still got a triplexer laying around that handles that quite well. It gives me three separate antennas with the common feed lines. Three One I used to use on Chrissy's Camaro back in the day.

With any luck, you might not have the sun in your eyeballs. Rut Row, you're in the shadow.

All right.

Poor milady used to have a big old swig of milk. And that had chunks in it. Oh, how rude.

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. W Fix RHC Repeater Check 1.

Mobile should be able to go local now.

Your radio is on the right frequency. This is the home of sac Valley's original 105W6 GRC with a PL tone of 110.9.

The Gears Net will be held Tuesday night starting at 7:30pm all amateur radio operators are welcome to join in on the net W6 RHC repeater check 2.

Sa. 80.

It. Recently, some.

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 next W6 RHC repeater check three.

You.

Speaker A: K7boc. Radio check.
Speaker B: K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.
Speaker C: Thank you. Am I hearing a koc? Is that right?
Speaker A: Okay, I think I heard a k7 aoc alpha oscar charlie. You're a little bit scratchy. What's going on? Ken here, n6, kenny.
Speaker C: Ocean, charlo. All right. Yeah, you're not making it. You're
Speaker A: dropping out of the repeater. And 6K and E.
Speaker C: Okay, I copied
Speaker A: k7b, o, z. And that you're in kingman. Very good, ron. What's going on there? Kingman? I'm actually on the airport here at Las Vegas, Nevada. Just wondering if I could hit the repeater and everything was working. All right, thank you very much for the comeback. Okay, I'm sorry. I thought I heard. I thought I heard Kingman. Okay, you take care and enjoy the airport. Ken here, N6. Kenny, I'm down here in Genota, Columbia.

All right. I heard another station in there. You are also very scratchy. Yeah, you're not making. I'm sorry. I don't know why. Everything is very scratchy this evening. N6KLE, Columbia, Ki6fxa. Can I get a radio check, please? Los Angeles link up. All right, the Los Angeles station. You're good. The radio check there. You're. You have good, good audio, good Signal. Thank you. KI6FXA. My name is Michael. Where are you located? Hello, Michael. The name here is 10, and I'm down here in Chinatown, Columbia, South America. Here in South America. Wow. What's your call sign? November 6th. Kilo, november echo. And I'm coming in. Radio list. Wow, that's cool. How's the weather in South America right now? Beautiful. I'm only four degrees above the equator, so our weather doesn't change much. Oh, I'm in for a treat tonight. I didn't know I would be DXing like this. I didn't copy that last one. It's currently 79 degrees. I think we may have seen a high of 86, maybe today. Roger that. Roger. We're kind of warm here in California as well. Yeah, yeah. Kind of unusual weather. I was born and raised down there in Southern California there in the very north end of Orange County. And, yeah, definitely, definitely. I'll say three seasons at least. And then I moved to Northern California where there was definitely four seasons. All right, good. I'm glad it's. Glad it's finally warming up for you guys down there. Time to put on the shorts and start enjoying the beach. Yeah, Roger that. What brings you to South America? My wife, she's Colombian, and when we retired, we decided to move down here and spend more time with her family. And. Yeah, I love it. Absolutely love it. Yeah, Roger that. I happen to be Puerto Rican, Ecuadorian and then Italian. Okay. All right. Yeah, I've been down here for a little more than a year now, and I can't imagine giving it up for anything, you know, I enjoy California, and I spent 59 years there in California, so I'll stay down here and enjoy the rest of my days here. Plus, I have kids and grandkids who love to travel, so it's all good. Without ambulance. That was a little bit scratchy. I didn't copy. Yeah, it's getting, getting better. Keep practicing. Yeah, you know, Spanish, of course, is the primary language down here, so, yeah, I definitely need to pick it up as quickly as possible. Okay, you take care. And whereabouts in Southern California are you now? I'm in Riverside, California. Okay. So you're kind of right below that repeater. Okay. Well, you enjoy and hope it doesn't get too hot for you there this summer. You take care. And I'm in Chinatown, Columbia. I will. Have fun in the weather, in the nice weather in Colombia, and have a great day. God bless you. I think that next day.

This is Cam 6, JQE. Can I get a radio check, please, on this frequency?

Perfect signal in reading n60rt. I didn't catch your call. I had the TV up too high.

Amateur radio newsline report number 2522 with a release date of Friday, February 27, 2026 to follow in five 4, 3, 2, 1. The following is a QST repairs delay the Artemis 2 launch. Mclock gets a back end server and a future and are you ready for the Bouvet Island 3 y 0 kd expedition? All this and more as Amateur radio newsline report number 2522 comes your way right now from around the world. This is Newsline, Amateur Radio's Independent on the Air News and Bulletin Service. Now reporting from Union, Kentucky, here's Neil Rath, WB9VPG. As Newsline went to production, the 3Y 0Kd expedition was approaching Move island and keeping an eye on the weather. It's if you're hoping to get in the log, familiarize yourself with the team's operating procedures which appear on their website3y0k.com some of them depart from customary procedures so as to avoid interference from dqrm. Keep up to date by following the link that appears in the text version of this newscast@arnewsline.org and good luck. Meanwhile, if you were looking forward to to the launch of NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket in March, you're going to have to wait a bit longer. Kent Peterson, KC0DGY brings us an update the Artemis 2 moon rocket is leaving the launch pad at Florida's Kennedy Space center, but not for its trip in the direction of the moon, at least not yet. As was expected, the rocket is headed towards the Vehicle Assembly Building on site, where NASA can address a helium blockage affecting the rocket's upper stage. The space agency, which had announced the original launch window beginning March 6 for the test flight liftoff, has said the repair could delay things for a month or more. This is to be the first crewed moon mission in more than 50 years. Four amateur radio operators are among 34 volunteer observers around the world chosen recently to passively track radio waves transmitted during the mission. This is Kent Peterson, KC0DGY Good news for HAM Clock users and fans. A free community backend server has become available. The website hamclock.com make Ham Clock's continued functions available for free. Following a successful reconfiguration of the clock to the new server. The functions include, among other things, weather pressure maps, Aurora map generation, HAM news headlines, real time PSK reporter spot data, voicap propagation reports, and KP index from the national oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The functions are made possible through the work of Bruce Edrich W4BAE, who built the project upon the open AM clock back end updating can be done via two simple W6RHC repeater check 1.

Please. Id. Thank you.

Los Angeles link up.

Join us for the coffee break Net Daily at 7:30am here on the W6 GRC repeater.

Man 7 Tandy.

M7ld m7ld m17. N7ld, n7tnd.

W6 rhc repeater check 2.

Qst. Qst. Qst. This is KG60K.U Sacramento Valley Traffic Net. This net's part of the national traffic system. And the purpose of this net is to relay former trafficking into and out of the Sacramento Valley and provider stand emergency. This is a direct attempt. Please make no transmission to prevent that. Control, all stations were requested in. Stay on frequency till you get control, K6 cable. Unless you're located Western Willows. If there's any station with emergency or priority traffic, please come now. Traffic to be listed. Roll call foes. Kf6opi, kf6obi, mike and willows with no traffic. Good evening, mike. Thank you. Kg60k. You call enrollment. No driving. Kg16. Good evening. Laster in the group. This is kg6tso. Bessie with no traffic. Kf60 to your wife. Good evening, lester. Kf6djy. Bruce. No traffic. Good evening, bruce. Thank you, k6rcs. Good evening, lester. In the group, k6rcs. Randall and chico. No traffic. Good evening, randall. Thank you. K6pmt. Kc6ufe. Kc6ufe. Billing companion traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, bill. Thank you, kn6pww. All right, that's roll as I have it. Do we have any League members or business wish to check in? No further traffic or check in. This is KG6K.UO closing segment of Valley Traffic 10 this net day at 2100 hours local time. Visit W6RHC repair 1469850. All stations are excused. I'd like to thank everybody who'll check in tonight. And the gold of the empire mature. Basically, society for use the repeater. All this is K60K. No clearance.

System 19 link up.

Los Angeles linked up.

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.

W6r h c repeater check 3.

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

Los Angeles link up.

System 2 link up k6lnk system 36 snow mountain range. And 6mbt san francisco.

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

W6 rhc repeater check 1.

W6r h c repeater check 2.

Chat.

This is system nine link chat in.

And.

Up.

This is system 9 link champion.

Fill your coffee cup and join us for the coffee break Net Daily at 7:30am here on the W6 GRC repeater.

Los Angeles link up.

Speaker A: M17.
Speaker B: How are you doing?
Speaker A: Hey, good morning. Doing okay. Just getting ready to leave Yuma head back back home. We are at the Hamvention here for the last couple days.
Speaker B: Okay, very good. How was it?
Speaker A: It's not near Dayton or an Orlando or a Huntsville or nothing like that. It's okay. It's fairly decent size up. Didn't have any of the radio vendors. Well Flex Radio. Flex was here. I don't consider them a radio vendor but HRO was here and then just some other cats and dogs type people selling stuff. Really good swap meet. I was hoping to get that new Kenwood tribander but they haven't released a doggone thing yet. It's still in FCC type except I guess didn't get that.
Speaker B: Yeah a lot of people little pre orders down on.
Speaker A: Yeah I asked the HRO guy he, he. He didn't do this. We. We're not even speculating it's going to be. It's going to be expensive radio but I'm interested in thinking about. I got a. An ICOM 880D star and I want to get rid of that and replace it with this radio but I'm not you know I don't, I'm not going to pay a thousand bucks buddy thing but we'll see. But they got some other. They got some really. They got a lot of interesting radios out there is one I saw a demo of. It's a.a tri bander2 22440 analog completely programmable via Bluetooth either via an app on your phone owner or a computer. APRS has a, has a KISS TNC in it. It's just you know GPS everything it built into the damn thing and really good, a good quality radio. You hold it in your hand it feels fantastic and the HT is like 180 bucks and the mobile is like 330. And I'm looking at this going you know how the heck are ICOM and Yezu and Kenworth guys, you know justifying what they charge for VHF and UHF radios anymore? I don't know. Those guys are. I don't know how in a way anybody would buy those things anymore.
Speaker B: Notes.
Speaker A: I. I'm gonna have to get back to you. I got, I got it written down someplace. It's a. It's an awful dude name Catco or something like that. I'll send you something but anyways yeah it was got. Got a little talk. It had like a one hour talk on it was pretty doggone compelling.
Speaker B: As far as he. I got the 74, seven years ago. Still use it. Right. Interesting. Yeah. Decent size.
Speaker A: Yeah, I've got the 74 also. And the reason I'm interested in 7500 is the audio. The quality of the audio on a Kenwood P Star radio is just so superior.
Speaker B: But.
Speaker A: All right, Larry. Well, I'm my. My buddy Lee just got in the car, so we're going to get some gas and start heading back to Las Vegas. So I'll sh. Later. Have a good day out there at 7 p.

Node 51018 connected to node 405480.

System 21 lift off. Dan6grg on the Sunday morning net.

With a terrible 80 meter bound.

Speaker A: Good morning. This is KB1 NDE. I was wondering if anybody was listening to
Speaker B: get a radio check on this radio. You're loud and clear as far as I can tell. Kn6gtn, kn6ttn.
Speaker A: This is kb1 nde. Thank you. I bought this on ebay. It's a little handheld vertex vxa 700 radio. And it was listed as part.
Speaker C: So I'm
Speaker A: very
Speaker C: happy. Yeah, looks like it'll make a good tool for you. Sounds good in the repeater. Kn6gtn, tcn,
Speaker A: kv190e. Thank you. And one thing about this radio. If I get one more antenna, I can actually use it for my aero squadron. I can talk to the planes with it. Have
Speaker B: a rear radio.
Speaker C: Yeah, that's a neat feature. I mean, they do make a couple of those. And they're really nice to have. It's always nice when they. You can have two radios in one or sometimes even three bands. So, yeah, that should work good for you. Thank
Speaker A: you. And enjoy the little quick talk, and we'll catch you later. KB1 NDE,
Speaker C: you have a good day at 73 KN6 GTM.

Speaker A: W7oqf, w7oqf
Speaker B: m7c andrew. W 70qf and 7p andy.

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. W6R H C Repeater Check 3.

Amateur radio newsline report number 2522 with a release date of Friday, February 27, 2026 to follow in five 4, 3, 2, 1. The following is a QST repairs delay the Artemis 2 launch. Mclock gets a back end server and a future and are you ready for the Bouvet Island 3 y 0 kd expedition? All this and more as Amateur radio newsline report number 2522 comes your way right now from around the world. This is Newsline, Amateur Radio's Independent on the Air News and Bulletin Service. Now reporting from Union, Kentucky, here's Neil Rath, WB9VPG. As Newsline went to production, the 3Y 0Kd expedition was approaching Move island and keeping an eye on the weather. The if you're hoping to get in the log, familiarize yourself with the team's operating procedures which appear on their website3y0k.com some of them depart from customary procedures so as to avoid interference from dqrm. Keep up to date by following the link that appears in the text version of this newscast@arnewsline.org and good luck. Meanwhile, if you were looking forward to the launch of NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket in March, you're gonna have to wait a bit longer. Kent Peterson, KC0DGY brings us an update the Artemis II moon rocket is leaving the launch pad at Florida's Kennedy Space center, but not for its trip in the direction of the moon, at least not yet. As was expected, the rocket is headed towards the Vehicle Assembly Building on site, where NASA can address a helium blockage affecting the rocket's upper stage. The space agency, which had announced the original launch window beginning March 6 for the test flight liftoff, has said the repair could delay things for a month or more. This is to be the first crewed moon mission in more than 50 years. Four amateur radio operators are among 34 volunteer observers around the world chosen recently to passively track radio waves transmitted during the mission. This is Kent Peterson, KC0BGY Good news for Ham Clock users and fans. A free community back end server has become available. The website ham clock.com make Ham Clock's continued functions available for free. Following a successful reconfiguration of the clock to the new server. The functions include, among other things, weather pressure maps, Aurora map generation, HAM news headlines, real time PSK reporter spot data, VOCAB propagation reports, and KP index from the national oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The functions are made possible through the work of Bruce Edrich, W4BAE, who built the project upon the open Ham Clock back end. Updating can be done via two simple.

Please. Id. Thank you.

The Gears Net will be held Tuesday night starting at 7:30pm all amateur radio operators are welcome to join in on the net W6RHC repeater check 1.

Los Angeles link up.

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.

Speaker A: W7lqf&7 chandra
Speaker B: k6lnk system 36 no mountain range.
Speaker A: W7lqf, m7tnz.

Speaker A: K7nq mobile,
Speaker B: K 70 GA on my handheld.
Speaker A: Well, good morning sir. Are you out podaing?
Speaker B: No, I'm sitting in my shack on my HT doing some FDA. Just got South Africa on the 25 block.
Speaker A: Oh, good arn. Very good. You're having fun with that. That's cool. Last week or so I've gotten re engaged and done quite a bit of hfcw so I gotta get back into shape for the Kiso party coming up in a couple of weeks.
Speaker B: Yeah, I still want to learn cw. And now that my schedule's a little bit more stable, I'm planning on getting signed up probably for the Long Island CW Club. But I'm actually talking to you on a 70 centimeter loop antenna I built last night, so. Yeah, seems like it's doing okay.
Speaker A: Yep, you seem to be coming in just fine. Well, very good. Kind of overcast and gloomy today, but still 50 degrees, so I guess spring is just about to spring.
Speaker B: Yeah, I think so. My uncle was posting pictures of all of his flowers coming up over in the Boise area, so. Yeah, I think it's just around.
Speaker A: Yeah, I think so too. I'm just headed into church here, so. Thought I'd give a shout. Apparently the net is over. They must have ended it right at 11 o' clock today.
Speaker B: Yeah, the guy doing the net was having some throat issues. He was getting sick, so they ended a little early today.
Speaker A: I see. All right, well, usually Ken is hanging around, but
Speaker B: he.
Speaker A: When did I. I talked to him a day or two. Maybe it was yesterday. Was it yesterday? I talked to him? I guess, yeah, so. So he has. Probably has a day off from having to talk to me again.
Speaker B: Maybe, yeah.
Speaker A: I don't know. So have you ordered your DX10 yet?
Speaker B: Are you gonna do anything fun for the QSO day or are you just gonna go to Bob's?
Speaker A: Oh, I'm probably just. I might go to Bob's when it first starts, but I'm going to spend most of my time at home. I'll sign up for K7s and then work K7SU. I think it's more important to get our personal calls out there than it is the special event. We might even just do away with the special events next year.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm trying to decide what I'm going to do. I gotta go to Losing Indiana this week, so I'll come back, but trying to decide if I want to go do a rove or what I want to do. I'm not sure yet.
Speaker A: Well, we changed the hours you know, to help out the rover stations. So you don't. Because, you know, I mean during the night there's just nobody on. The bands are shut down. So hopefully that'll, that'll give them more time to rack up some points and the rovers can travel during the off hours.
Speaker B: Yeah, no, that's definitely appreciated. I'm definitely going to do QRP again this year. I had an absolute blast with that last year. It was amazing what we could hit with just 5 watts. We ended up getting Hawaii, which was pretty cool.
Speaker A: No, if nobody used amplifiers. Well, you know, when amateur radio first started off, you know, people only used 8, 8, 10 watts, something like that. But you know, now we've got this mentality that, oh, life is too short for qrp. And it's like everything else, you know, the next guy, you use 10 watts, the next guy uses 20 watts to get a little advantage, then the Next guy uses 40 watts and then pretty soon it's. Everybody's got to have an amplifier.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, no, and it's. I'll even, even in the PODA stuff now seems like everybody's using. The hunters are using amplifiers and blowing some people out of the water and just, just bad ham radio etiquette, to be quite honest, with some of these, you know, Hunters. But I don't know, I, It's a lot of fun. I have that KX3. I'm hoping to do some more soda this year. I think that's going to be my goal to get my butt out and start hiking and getting into some more soda spots.
Speaker A: Yeah, that'd be a lot of fun. Yeah. We're forgetting the number one rule for good operating is only use as much power as you need to carry out the conversation. But then I guess they'll argue, well, if everybody's using a kilowatt then you got to have a kilowatt to get through. So I don't know, I use an amp. I, but I use it to, I drive it with about 15 watts, you know, and then I let the amplifier do the work and I run it at about 200 watts, so gives me good output and it's not perfect hurting the radio any. You know, I always hesitate to run, run these radios that hammer down all the time and I think if we can back them off and let the tube amps do the, do the heavy lifting and I think it's better on the radio.
Speaker B: Yeah, I keep saying that one of these days I'm going to get an amp. But I don't know. I, I was looking at this Flex Aurora or it's like a package like the size of a, like a computer tower, honestly. And it has a 500 watt amp. It's pretty cool that they.
Speaker A: You're fuzzing out on me there a little bit. But yeah, I know the, they're pretty proud of that stuff. Flex and Ella Craft, any of the American made stuff, the high end American made stuff, man. It's pretty high priced, so I'll just keep my DX10 and call it good. Well, I'm getting pretty close here, Scott, so I'll let you go and have fun today and we'll talk to you later. Have a good time. Safe trip to Louisiana. K7EGA K7SU mobile. We'll clear out of here.
Speaker B: Sound three Kelly have a great day. 73 God bless K7EGA monitoring.

Los Angeles link up.

Node 51018 disconnected.

Beers, holds a free Morse code class every Wednesday night, 6pM at the Golden Beaver Distillery still house at 2420 Park Avenue. All are welcome to come learn Morse code W6RHC repeater check 2.

Here.

W.

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 checked 3.

Party.

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 W6RHC repeater check 1.

Attention all ham radio operators. You have reached the world famous W6GRC repeater on 147.105 MHz, broadcasting at least 3 watts more than necessary at all times. Please pause between overs, identify properly, and remember, kerchunking is not a hobby.

Kg 6k u o kn 6pww w 6rhc repeater check 2.

Kg 6k u o k n 6 p w.

Kn6tw clear.

Speaker A: Oh, yeah. N6WIP N6NTM all right. I got them in my hand. You just backed your truck in there, huh? Well, if you want it now, you got to come over here. They didn't. They didn't have any 12 ounce rib eyes left. I should have known that was too good to be true. So after I eat breakfast, I'll bring it over to you since I don't have to back down no driveway. But if you want it now, you got to come here. I got two different ones. One of them's never been used. That's probably your best bet. Sometimes they have really good deals on them at
Speaker B: Harbor Freight. Oh,
Speaker A: yeah? I got one that goes all the way out to an inch. And I. I have at least five of them, but I made sure I went and got some just in case. And I got one that looks like it's 3/4 of an inch
Speaker B: all the way in. Check what it. What are you doing over there on for the box? The electrical. I see. All right. N6 ntm.

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

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.

La.

The year's monthly general membership meetings are held on the third Monday night of the month at the Butte County Public Library, 1108 Sherman Avenue in Chico. Doors open at 6pm and the meeting starts at 7pm all are welcome to attend. W6RHC repeater check 3.

K4 0k mobile.

How are you, Sir? I believe we've got about a week of it coming. Getting ready for springtime. Gotta get things greened up. The end of the day. So you're cutting out just a little bit. Say that one more time. What's on your agenda today? A member of a search and rescue team and we just got done practicing and I'm just heading back to the house now. How long have you been doing that? Back in August of last year and I joined up with two teams and they're both canine teams and I apply the drones for the teams. Very interesting. It's pretty interesting. Those dogs are amazing. To watch them do what they do. Can outsmart running dogs. That's definitely for sure. Once a week and then just try to stay ready. Although it happens more often than you think. I mean, I've only been with them for Microfitzer August, and I've been on like five already. Quite a few in a little bit of time. How about you? What's. What's on your agenda? Playing around on HF earlier today. Okay. Finally got my two shift vertical up. Been listening on a coaxon and extension. Just don't work that great. Oh, gotcha. That's awesome. Heard you in there. I want to give you a shout. 73.73k. 40k is monitoring on the side.

Ku0tsl radio check. Dsl k40k. You were coming through loud and clear. Thank you.

Ab7reo.

Los Angeles linked up.

System12link op.

00.

Zero.

Kn6slm Metro California.

W e6a x n repeater.

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 checked one.

Lip.

Please. Id. Thank you.

Speaker A: Kn6wnr.ko6bty.kn6wnr.k06bby. You out there, Matthew? Hey, paul.
Speaker B: N6iwh, jp, ko6dty. I'm just waiting to go in before. What do you have to. You have a good signal now?
Speaker C: Well, I've got one radio that works good on 2 meters and CB. And then I've got another radio that's good on VHF, UHF. You know how it is. Anyway, I want to send you something in the mail. One of my little drawings. Is this okay or what?
Speaker B: Yeah, that's fine. You should be able to find my physical address on the database there.
Speaker C: Yeah. Qrz. Yeah, it's like those little things I work on. I want to maybe get your feedback, see what you think. Something like that. But other than that. Man, I got a headache right now. One of my best guitars, the Switch, the number one pickup and the number three pickup have gone dead. And I'm over here trying to find a short or a bad wire, but it might be the switch.
Speaker B: Well, hopefully you get that coordinated here before it's too long.
Speaker C: Yeah. How can you sing the blues when you don't have a guitar? My favorite song right now is Everybody's Telling Me how to Live.
Speaker B: Yeah, I don't listen to anybody else, but. Hey, Pete, I'm gonna run into Dollar General here real quick and get some soda pop. So I'll hear I'll be clearing the title.
Speaker C: Okay. Well, I'm just pulling my hair out here at the table. N6IWh. I have some hair, so it's
Speaker A: all
Speaker B: right.

17.

The that last station. You were very scratched. You want to try again. For me? You are very scratchy. I just couldn't pull out your audio. N6 knee. Maybe there's another repeater you can try.

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.

K7gnd. Larry, are you listening here on this one? N6k80. Okay, give me a yell on your eight. Four. Roger, roger.

Speaker A: Three is I connected.
Speaker B: I disconnected.

We6a x n repeater.

There.

Speaker A: And 7p and the las vegas. And when did you get back?
Speaker B: 12:30. Put my dance I guess. Yeah around there.
Speaker A: Yeah. When you we left. It's late. It's just leaving Quartzite. There's no way to reach them. But then I just saw flying through you coming up your searchlight
Speaker B: were you you back in town or are you still up in.
Speaker A: No, I'm on Angel. I'm home. I got home about an hour ago.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah I heard the couriers beep I knew you are on Angel. I just wasn't sure if you were driving in. Yeah, cool. I got got home and I got Lee home and got home and went to the gym and just got the car washed and I'm running a quad errand that be about it?
Speaker A: No, that's a lot compared to the drive you had you drive from you'll know this morning what time to leave
Speaker B: probably around 8:30 ish or so I think we went we stopped by the swap one more time to go see Bob and they were just getting ready to. They were. They were trying to get out there by nine so I would say about 8:30 quarter to nine we probably left.
Speaker A: Okay. All right, I'll let you go. I just wanted to say welcome back. Yeah, I got to give up this. Bob, a couple things we talked about with regards to the radio said there's a trash can nearby that's where you want to camp it.
Speaker B: What radio are you talking about?
Speaker A: The E.F. johnson.
Speaker B: Oh, okay. All right. Very good. All right man. Sounds good. Good to see you. It's been a while since I beeped in high ball M7 tube.
Speaker A: I know it was good. I didn't spend much money and I just wanted to see everybody so I got everything I wanted out of it. So give me 7 ore.

Kf0upn mobile monitoring 4 19.

Gears holds a slow speed Morse code net on 40 meters every Thursday night starting at 7pm Frequency of 7.44 plus or minus if the frequency is in use. All licensed amateur radio operators are welcome to join in the next W6 RHC repeater check two.

Speaker A: W.w. r monitoring we6a x n repeater.
Speaker B: Hey hey, hey. Yeah, my new new call sign. Hey hey.
Speaker A: Hey. How you doing? I'm just driving. Gonna drop off some wood that's in the back of my truck over to a friend of mine's place and that's about all I'm doing today.
Speaker B: Oh, wood. That's something I had to learn about. What kind of wood is it?
Speaker A: Plywood.
Speaker B: Oh, I thought you meant firewood. Oh yeah. Well thanks for asking. I'm having trouble with my guitar. My player guitar that I have here. It's an Ibanez wiring. Something happened. The front pickup and the bridge pickup are dead. But the middle pickup works fine. The switch checks out, the connectors are all fine. It's like this.
Speaker A: Could very well be some sort of cold solder joint. What it sounds like.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, speaking of which, I'm not able to solder the way I used to. It's kind of like a screw, Jill.
Speaker A: You know,
Speaker B: I can't see very well. Hey, you're talking like this
Speaker A: sounds to me like it just seems to get a resolder job and it's fine. That's just from way the way you're describing it. As far as I'm aware of, that's what it sounds like to me.
Speaker B: Yeah, well you know on Amazon you can buy pick up some stuff that actually work pretty well from China. You know, they're like fairly cheap, $10, single coil, humbucker, whatever you want, split coil, da da da da da da. And they also sell wiring harnesses especially for the strap, you know, pre wired, any configuration that you want.
Speaker A: Yeah, I've seen those before and they're not that expensive either for in the grand scheme of things. I remember you used to see those in like magazines where you would like send in like a something in the mail saying that you want to order that. Trying to think of the mail order. That's right.
Speaker B: Well, do you play? And it's not like you know, you're virtuoso but you can make decisions about music and stuff
Speaker A: somewhat. I haven't played since I was like 18 and I'm 30 now, so it's been 12 years since I had my own. I've played other people but I haven't owned one in 12 years. I have just now destinated and I had the pull the wood out. I'm be doing it along with him right now. So I'm going to say quick. 73 KN6WNR. Nice talking to you Pete. 73.
Speaker B: Okay, 73 from N6I WH. I've been solder. I'm inhaling solder fumes here. You know what that means? Ding dongs. Hello. Ding dong. M6IWH. Hello. Ding dong solder.

Kn6 so n monitoring.

Speaker A: Hey, john, welcome home. N6 grt,
Speaker B: Is that you, Mike?
Speaker A: Yes, sir. You copy?
Speaker B: Yeah, we're on a little handheld, so we might be kind of sketchy there, but. Yeah. Oh, about 13 miles south of Red Bluff.
Speaker A: Oh, okay. Yeah, you sound fine.
Speaker B: If you're hearing.
Speaker A: Hearing okay, then you got it made.
Speaker B: Yeah, we're fixing to go over to the. We're over here at the casino. My fish can go over here and eat a hamburger and win my fortune. Hopefully. Hopefully I don't lose my fortune.
Speaker A: Well, I have this genie. And if I rub its head and you win, then will you give me half of it?
Speaker B: You think it works, guaranteed.
Speaker A: You just have to tell me you'll give me half of it.
Speaker B: Well, yeah, yeah, I'll give you half that. Win or lose, right?
Speaker A: Well, you only have to give me what you won. You don't have to give me what you lost.
Speaker B: Well, you know, like I said, when we go over there, we don't, you know, we really don't go over there to win. We go over there just to have fun. If we win, that's more fun. But anyway, so what's been going on around the neighborhood?
Speaker A: Well, I bought an ark. It's otherwise known as Noah's ark. And I bought this ark because I think I might need it.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's what I heard. I heard it's been raining quite a bit. We were down in the desert for two and a half months and it started getting up to 90 degrees. So we decided we better head north.
Speaker A: Yeah, I heard that. I did this poda made this PODA contact with one of my buddies and he did a hike up to about 6 or 7,000ft and it was about 80 degrees there. He was in Arizona, so, yeah, weather's changed everywhere, but here we had 28, 24, 6 degrees just recently.
Speaker B: Yeah, we always started to get our 20 and 10 meter up, but we started working on the solar panels and all that kind of good stuff. Started having fun with that. Then we didn't have time to the 10, 20 meter up. So we got, you know, all we got a solar. Well, we got a second system. The first system works flawless. The second system, Bill, we had to work on in a little bit.
Speaker A: Oh, it almost sounds like you're on a boat.
Speaker B: Well, you know, like I said, the first system was as professional that knew what they were doing, put it together
Speaker A: and it works flawless.
Speaker B: Always has for the last eight, seven years. The one I put together myself there was the acid batteries and you know how they work. Everything worked, but they Just didn't last very long so I might have to end up getting split in batteries.
Speaker A: Yeah, I, I bought a Renault solar controller and you know I've got the all huge number of batteries but I just got this 40amp renov controller at job. Takes care of everything I need and it'll run on lithium or lead acid or.
Speaker B: Seems like there was a third one. Yeah, well you know I got me a. Well in the coach here that runs everything is a 2800 magnum inverter, inverter charger and like I said it runs the TV and stuff so I didn't want to mess with it. So I left it all alone. Two lithium batteries and runs all day and part of the night. Then we turn it off, then wake up in the morning, run it again. But then I went and bought a 3,000 watt inverter, hooked it up and run the TV for about, I don't know, about two or three hours and shut down. That was because the batteries were about 8 years old. Plus it was acid acid lead or lead acid batteries. And so that's why I need to get a couple new batteries.
Speaker A: Well, I'm pretty happy with my, my setup that I designed and it's running like that renergy charger.
Speaker B: But I built the batteries, I told
Speaker A: you about that how I built the batteries and I've got eight times 320amp hours total. If you multiply it out in the kilowatts it's 25W, 25 kilowatts and then I've got a couple more batteries. I got 100amp hour out there in the RV. It because it's capable of, of not being wiped out. When it goes down to like 26 degrees it doesn't get damaged. And these other batteries are inside the house so they're never going to go down to 26 degrees.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, we had a good time down there. We went through the tent, all that good stuff. All you know got got this and that. Like I said, we had a good time. And the thing was there was a guy down there that had a huge motor home. Actually he was in Stockton. He come over and asked me about my solar and he had a brand new motorhome, I mean big old diesel pushers. I asked him and he said well what his problem was that he was just getting 132 and he had 2000 watts of solar A2 controllers and amber and they had two 450amp hour batteries and it would last him about a day and a half. And he was wondering are there Something wrong with that. I said, well, yeah, are they.
Speaker A: Here's lithium.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, that's what he said. He said there was lithium. He had big ton and nice guy. He was just, he just didn't know a whole lot about it. The people that put it in for him put it on. His coach didn't tell him how to set it up and it was just set at 13:2. And I told him that those batteries, remember 13:2, I think they're full. And, and so what he has to do do. I told him to call Victor and they would go through the setting and you know, charge him up to 14 2, 14 3, something like that instead of 13 2. So hopefully he got his going because he spent a lot of money on. And he should be able to run 247 with that much power.
Speaker A: Yeah, 132 might be what I mean, I don't, I've never heard of a Victron working for lead acids, but I, I suppose they, they must.
Speaker B: They, they do it.
Speaker A: It's about anything, anywhere, everywhere. So I'm thinking he's set up. He's got that Victron set on lead acid instead of lithium.
Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know. I looked at. He said there was a lithium deal. No, these now make clear that there were 450. Now this is what he said. He said he had 450amp hour batteries, two of them that were lithium. And I said, boy, you paid a dollar and a half for that. He was. Oh yeah, his wife. He said, yeah, he paid for it. And I said that should last all through the night and then charge back up next day and keep you going 24 7. And he goes, that's what he thought.
Speaker A: And.
Speaker B: But he can only get 132 out of every morning. You know, I said, well, you know, call Victron. They show you how to do the settings. I do my own custom and had Magnum, you know, actually do the custom there unless the same.
Speaker A: Okay, well it, I, I kind of thought what you're saying is. Or I thought maybe what he was telling you was that the maximum voltage he can ever get out of with them charged is 13:2. Is that what he's saying?
Speaker B: Yeah, that's. That's the high. Yeah, that's basically what I was trying to say is the highest that would ever charge is 13:2. And I told him, I said what has happened is that. Now I don't know, but this what the guy from Magnum said, he said on mine, what has happened is charge 132 so many times that that's what the Battery is saying, so I hooked it in shore power, I roll it
Speaker A: up to 14:3 and then it settles
Speaker B: out at 13:8 for the unplugged.
Speaker A: Yeah, but I'm thinking what he's actually telling you is there's a regulator in there. It's like a solar charger. And the solar charger is saying, well, that's as high as I'm going to go. And if that's, if that's what it's saying, then it's for lead acid. And if you set it over to lithium, then it'll go up to 14 in fact. Right. Right this very second, mine is at 14.4 and it's totally charged at 14.4. And yeah, that's what it really sounds like. He's got lithium batteries and they need to go up to 14 4.
Speaker B: Yeah, you know, you're probably right, Mike, because he was telling me that it had bulk charging, absorbance absorption and float charging. Well, on mine, I turned flip charging off, but made it silent because lithium won't take a trickle charge. Now, that's what they say. But you know, I told, I told him, I said, best thing to do. I said, you spend enough money, you ought to be able to call technical sport. They walk you through it, you know, so that's what you'll do.
Speaker A: Yeah, because some of them are a little tricky, like this Renogy, I have to set the type of battery. It's got this LC LCD screen. And you look at that screen and you find this one spot where you're setting the type of battery. And when you've got it set that li, then you've got it. Well, the thing is, is the letters LI are really small. And you know, you're going, oh, wow. You know, you can hardly tell whether you got it set right. And then even after you got it set right, I don't know that it actually says on my screen that I've got li. Nope. In the regular screen it doesn't say what type of battery you got it set for. So I suppose I should go back and look. Go back into the menu and look and make sure it still says li. But there's no reason why it wouldn't. Although I never. My, my system, the lowest it's ever gone is 13.2. And right now, because I'm not running my HF radio 24. 7 transmitting on it quite often and so forth, even when I'm not here, it's still transmit because I'm not doing that. It only. Even at the, even in the early Morning after, you know, running all night long. Running my refrigerator and everything. There's still. There's still only down to about 13.8 or something like that. So. Yeah, if you get this set right, with that amount of power from those solar panels, even I. I'm running way, way more amp hours in batteries than he is. I'm running three times as many amp hours as he is. And I don't have near that many solar panels. So know.
Speaker B: Yeah, he should.
Speaker A: It's got to be set wrong. It's got to.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's. That's what me and him came up with. But there was. So he's, you know, he spent a lot of money on that system. And me not knowing a whole lot about it. I wasn't going to advise one way or the other. I just told him that you spend enough to go to somebody that knows what they're talking about and have him walk you through it. I gave him the settings that I have mine set at. And it works fine, you know, and, But. And I will have 200amp hour batteries. You know, two 100amp hour apiece, two batteries.
Speaker A: But.
Speaker B: And they're lithium. So. But anyway, anyway, Mike, it's good to talk to you. Good to hear you. I'll be on there off and on for the next couple days anyway. But I gotta run over to the casino and win my fortune. And I'll keep you in mind there. You. You talk to that genie you got there. Help me out.
Speaker A: That's this little cute genie. Don't. And I was told that if I. If I have a friend going to a casino.
Speaker B: Because I don't go.
Speaker A: If I have a friend going to a casino and I rub the top of the head of this genie for just a few minutes. And then, you know, as long as that guy gives me half the money, it'll keep working for him.
Speaker B: Yeah, there you go. I make a sure bet I'm gonna buy me a big old fat bur. That way I know I'm going to get my money's worth. But anyway. All right, Mike, I'll talk to you after a while there. Maybe tomorrow, later on tonight. Maybe. I'm not sure. But anyway, I'll be on and off there. We'll talk to you later. And this will be knc. Yeah.
Speaker A: Really good to hear from you, John, and family, and hope to Hear you again. N6GRG.