Transcriptions for 2026-03-03

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.

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.

Kilo. Officer 6 Mike Bravo, India. Coming in to system 16 asking for a signal report. You are a bit scratchy, but I was able to understand.

The last calling station. This is kilo. November 6th, Zulu x ray Golf. I heard the lap loud and clear. I just didn't catch a call sign. Over.

W7lqf w7lqf from n7p andy. W7lqf m7t.

Kilo 7. Oscar Foxtrot. Oscar is on the side.

System7 link up.

Speaker A: Kk6vzd mobile. Good evening, Ted. How are you tonight? Ready to get home?
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, I want to be home tonight too. So ted, I got four weeks and that's it.
Speaker A: I got 20 years and that's it. Well, at least I'm having
Speaker C: fun.
Speaker A: Well, I'm having fun. I've been retired 23 years.
Speaker B: I am no longer having fun. Which is why I'm glad I'm retiring in four more years or four weeks.
Speaker C: It's
Speaker B: not all
Speaker C: fun. Hello, Ted. Hello,
Speaker A: Chris. WA1 nerd. Hey, david. Kn6 ted. Almost to the house.
Speaker B: Are you going to be on the net tonight there, Ted, and give some info about bike around the views?
Speaker C: Yes, I have an alarm set for tonight. I always either forget or fall asleep one of the two.
Speaker B: Well, I can. I recognize that. Yeah, I've been taking more naps as the time goes on. When I get home from work.
Speaker C: Yeah, I don't take naps. I'm normally in bed at like 8, but 7 o' clock I'm either eating dinner or getting ready.
Speaker A: Yeah, okay. All right. Well,
Speaker B: yeah, so are you an early bird? You have to get up like at ungodly hours?
Speaker A: We normally get up about four.
Speaker B: Okay. Left my own devices. When I don't have to get to work, I get up about nine.
Speaker A: On the weekends we sleep in till 4:30.
Speaker B: About you, David, is that kind of standard fare for when you retire all you all of a sudden start
Speaker A: sleeping in late? He's not listening to
Speaker B: the active conversation.
Speaker C: Well,
Speaker B: yeah, but
Speaker A: then
Speaker B: again, you know, quite often they stay up till 2 o' clock in the morning. So I guess if not to be surprised, you know, I'll wake up later.
Speaker D: W E6A X N repeater
Speaker C: all right, well, I'm at the house. I'll be on at seven o'. Clock. We'll catch you later, Chris. KN6T80 all right, Ted,
Speaker B: talk to you later. 73JK6VZV clear.

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

M17, andy.

Thank you for the radio check 70.

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.

Np success system 7 link.

Los Angeles link up.

Speaker A: W6pnh. This is k6kds with a radio check.
Speaker B: Coming through nicely. Sound good? W6bnh.
Speaker A: Thank you much. K6kds monitoring.

W e6a x n repeater.

K6rcs.k6kg.w6rhc repeater check.3. K6 keg. This is K6 RCS. Go ahead. Hey, we're just checking in. We're getting done with an awesome baseball practice. Groovy, groovy. Drop the boys off and get stuff to make tacos. One day we'll defrost meat in time. Ten, four, Chief. Code slippers. Be home soon. K6kg clear. Roger that. See what you get here. K6rcs clear.

Speaker A: Qst, qst, qst. Calling all amateur radio operators. This is W6PNH Paul in Yuba City. Net Control for tonight's net. The following net is held every Monday evening at 1900 hours local time on the WD6AXM repeater by the Yuba Sutter Amateur Radio Club. The purpose of this net is to distribute distribute club related information, promote interest in amateur radio and promote effective net operating procedures. All hams are welcome to join us. The CTCSS tone to access this repeater is 127.3Hz with a positive offset. This is a directed formal net. So please direct all traffic to W16, your net control station for tonight's net. Any stations with emergency or priority traffic, please identify now. All radio amateurs, both club members and guests will be invited to check in. But first I will take check ins from our club officers and board members, followed by those wishing to make announcements. Let's start with our president, Carla K6KDS.
Speaker B: Yes, Paul, this is Carla K6KDS in Yuba City. Good evening everyone. I just wanted to say one quick thing. If you signed up for the FT8 focus group, look for an email this week week with information about our meetup. And that's it for me. Back to you, Paul.
Speaker A: Thanks for that, Carla. I've got you checked in. How about Vice President Bud, KK1, Bud
Speaker C: Kilo, Kilo 1, Bravo, Uniform, Delta. Good evening, Paul and the Net.
Speaker A: This is Bud in Sutter.
Speaker C: The only thing I have tonight is I'm still looking for a couple more volunteers to help out with buckeye parade on March 21. That's a Saturday. I need somebody for about four hours in the morning from 8 to 12 to help out with logistics and helping set up the parade participants. It's a good opportunity for people who are fairly new to the club, to the group to get to know some other people and help out and maybe get some other folks that have been around for a while and get them involved again. So, looking for a couple of volunteers? You can contact me at 530-933-9586. Either text or email and we'll get you set up. Okay, that's all I have, Paul. Back to Net control.
Speaker A: Thanks, Bud. Yeah, I'm looking forward to that. And I'm planning on joining you for lunch afterwards. I know you've invited anybody helping out to do that, so sounds like a good activity. And appreciate the comments about getting people involved. How about Our Secretary Linda? KK6SOZ.
Speaker D: Good evening, Paul. And that this is KK6SOZ Linda in Yuba City. Just reminding everyone that there is a board meeting tomorrow evening at 7 on Zoom. Back to Net.
Speaker A: Thanks for that, Linda. Got you checked in. And how about board member Joe in 9bd says at 9bd Joe and Dobbins.
Speaker E: And yes, I just forwarded the
Speaker F: the
Speaker C: Zoom connection for tomorrow night for those
Speaker E: that desire to attend, pass along too.
Speaker C: Enjoyed a nice opening on 10 and 15 this morning. Worked about 80 Europeans, which was kind of nice.
Speaker A: Nice change.
Speaker F: Other than that, I'm sure Curtis will
Speaker A: remark on it too if he's here tonight.
Speaker C: But we have three new hams that passed the test Thursday night, two technicians and a general. So that's about the rundown. So back to Ned.
Speaker A: Yeah, good, Joe, I'm glad you mentioned those new hams. Two of them have their call signs and I'm expecting the last one to get a call sign in the morning. So congratulations to them and I'll give a shout out to them. I'll call for them with the members. Okay, how about Devin, board member N0DVE. Board member Leonard K06DVV?
Speaker C: This is Leonard K06DVV in Browns Valley with no traffic.
Speaker A: Back to you. Thanks, Leonard. Got you checked in. And how about board member Joe AK6JN?
Speaker D: AK6JN here. Thank you for doing the Net having
Speaker C: no traffic for the Net.
Speaker A: All right, well, thanks, Joe. I've got you checked in and as your board member and VE coordinator, I'll go ahead and just chime in. And I'd like to welcome Robert K06MQW with his new general license from the class and John Ko 6Mrs. Also from the class. And Valerie should have her call in the morning, I think. So congratulations to them. It was fun to be a part of getting those tests administered. And that's it for me. So I'm going to give a shout out to our board member, Emeritus Leroy KJ6DKM. How about our repeater trustee, dave wd6axm. And VHN editor Curtis KF6VFP. Curtis KF6VFP.
Speaker C: And I have a suggestion for Carla.
Speaker A: Go ahead. Instead of sending a targeted email to those who just signed up for the
Speaker C: RT8 thing, send it to everybody in the club.
Speaker A: You might get more people kf6vfe back to net control. Okay, I'm sure she made note of that and I'll go ahead and move on to our other VHN editor, Marcia Ki6csn. Our Net Control Coordinator, Chris KK6VZD.
Speaker F: Good evening. Good evening. This is Chris, KK6VZD here in Yuba City and nice to hear of the new hands tonight. Question, Question. Are we still having a test session Saturday?
Speaker A: Oh absolutely we are. We have one person pre registered for that and of course most of the people we usually get are walk ins so definitely still on for Saturday morning. Anticipate starting testing right at 9am so feel free to arrive a little early. If you're a ve and are able to help out, we'd love to see you. And if you're looking for an upgrade or you've got somebody that is ready to take their first test, we're open to that. So looking forward to it.
Speaker F: Thank you for validating that and wanted to thank you and Carla for taking net control for March. We do have an April. Somebody signed up for April also I have to look at my calendar. We still, we still do need about
Speaker A: five or six net control operators for
Speaker F: 2026 so please consider taking a slot either a month or a day or a couple of days. I know I have a couple that are splitting a month and if you want to do that that's fine, just let me know. KK6Z Z D R L.net thank you. And back to you.
Speaker C: W E6A X N Repeater yeah, thanks
Speaker A: for that Chris and thanks for coordinating this this team. So that really is helpful and I just wanted to go ahead and put the word out if anybody is
Speaker F: may
Speaker A: be interested in being a net control but a little bit unsure about what it takes or haven't got your nerve up yet. I would be happy to have somebody join me and sit with me for one of the nets that I'm doing and you know, sometimes it just helps to see how it works. So I'd like to put that out there. Get in touch with me if you're interested. I'll go ahead and call for Our Aries coordinator Buck N6CNY. And how about our arrl section manager j n6sac? Okay, any board members that didn't make it to the mic in time that want to do a late check in, please come now. Okay, others who would like to list bulletins or announcements for tonight's net please identify now.
Speaker D: KN6 TED
Speaker A: yeah, go ahead Ted.
Speaker D: Hey, I finally remember to check in on the net. This is Cuba November 6th, Tango, Echo, Delta Ted in South Cuba City reminding everyone that bike around the Buttes is coming up on May 2nd. I'm looking for sags and rest stops. I have multiple positions open if you would like to participate. You can email me at my call, which is kilo November 6th, tangoecho, delta mail dot com. Or you can text me at 530-844-0998 or you can call me. Any of those is fine.
Speaker C: Way to get ahold of me.
Speaker D: Thanks, Paul. KN6T E D back to Ned.
Speaker A: Yeah, thanks, Ted. That's a good announcement because that's always a good event and great to be a part of it. Okay, let me see here. Any other announcements or bulletins, please come now. This is net control, W6P and H proceeding to the check in portion of the Net. Everyone will have an opportunity to check in, but I will first be calling from a current list of club members, followed by a call for any guests. All participants please remember to check in with your full call sign, name and location. If you don't hear your call and think it's absent from the member list, please check in during our call for guests and contact KK6SOZ Linda, our club secretary. And let's start off with AJ K6AJH.
Speaker F: Good evening, Paul and the net.
Speaker A: This is AJ Kilo 6 Alpha Juliet Hotel. And I'm just quite impressed with the camaraderie and the way the club works together and I'm quite happy to be part of it. So back to nat. Yeah, thanks, aj. Good to hear that. And I've got you checked in. How about Daniel, N6 and APX?
Speaker D: Good evening, Paul. Paul and Lynette. This is Daniel N6APX in Yuba City, standing by.
Speaker A: Thanks for checking in, Daniel. I've got you. And how about Bob N6 Bob, Ed, ko6dvl, Avery, ko6dvt.
Speaker C: This is ko6dvt, avery in yuba city. And I have no traffic for the net.
Speaker D: Thanks.
Speaker A: Thanks. Avery got you checked in. And we're looking for jocelyn ko6dvu. How about todd? Ko6gri?
Speaker F: Yes, good evening, paul and lynette.
Speaker A: This is todd lomarica, k06gri. Good to hear you, todd. Thanks for checking in about ernie kn6gtn. And chuck ki6hk, Walt n6hns, Steve, kn6ijd. Dawn, kn6ije. About Stephen KE6 in W.
Speaker D: This is Kilo, Echo 6 India, November, whiskey, Stephen and Grinley. And no traffic. I did tune in kind of late. So I was wondering, is there still a meeting the week, the monthly meeting going on next Tuesday or tomorrow?
Speaker A: It is two weeks from tomorrow. It'll be on the third Tuesday of the month. So I'm not looking at a calendar. I'm not sure what date that is, but. But so it's. It's not tomorrow and it's not next week, but the week after.
Speaker D: I copy that. Thank you for calling that up. Keel Echo 6 India, November, whiskey clear.
Speaker A: Well, thanks for checking in. I've got you. How about Mike KK6ISQ, Darrell km6kfw. And how about Doug? KD6LOK.
Speaker F: Good evening, Paul. And the net. Kilo, Delta6Lima, Oscar Kilo. Doug now has gophers in his yard. They're welcome, so don't worry about it. But looked out the other day when the dog was out, and there's a mound where the gopher been pushing dirt up.
Speaker A: And Ned the next day he had
Speaker F: a route going around the steps. And then tonight when the dog was on a little earlier, he got to smell the hole where the gopher evidently come to the top.
Speaker A: So life is good.
Speaker F: Thanks, Paul, for doing the net 730-KD6LOK.
Speaker A: Well, thanks for checking in, Doug. And watch your step out there. That can be tricky sometime. And I'll give a station identification. This is Paul W6PNH, your net control for tonight. And we're looking for Bill KN6MLT. Tom Ko6mo.
Speaker E: Hey, good evening, Paul and the net.
Speaker C: Pleasant.
Speaker E: Good evening to everybody in the club. Just wanted to echo what Joe said
Speaker A: about the
Speaker E: good opening to Europe this morning. It was great on 10 and 12 and 15. And last night, Sunday night it was 10, was open almost. At least from here, it was open almost all day long. So it was a really great day. So if you guys have a chance, you know, get on and work some dx, you'll really enjoy it. Just wanted to also congratulate all the new operators and anybody who's upgraded in the testing. That's really fantastic. So it's good to hear. And thanks again, Paul, for doing the net. This is Kilo Oscar 6, Mike Oscar Tom in Yuba City.
Speaker A: All right, Tom, thanks. Yeah, got you checked in and enjoyed a little bit of 10 meters today. Over to Europe too. So thanks to Joe for alerting me about the conditions. How about jeff kn6mxb? Yeah, this is jeff kn6mxb in livo with nothing other than that tonight. Thanks, Jeff. I've got you checked in. How about David, KB1NDE? This is KB1NDE.
Speaker F: David in Yuba City.
Speaker A: No traffic. Good to hear you, David. Got you checked in. And how about David Wa1ner?
Speaker F: Yes, sir, another David from Yuba City. And good evening, Paul in the net wa1ner. David Yuba City.
Speaker A: Good to hear you, David. How about Ryan? K6RCM?
Speaker C: We 6a x n repeater
Speaker A: and we're looking for steve wa1 ren. Patrick kn6rth. Good evening, Mrs. Patrick. Kn6rth in brown valley. Got you, patrick. Thanks for checking in. How about stan n6sg. And stan?

System 19 link up.

Speaker A: Stanley ko6sml, Roslyn, kk6sov, West, wb6sww, Lester kk6syv. And Ted. I heard you earlier, but I'll go ahead and call you just to see if you have anything else. KN6 Ted. All right. How about John Ki6uds? Michael ki6ujx? Good evening. This is michael ki6ujx. Thank you, paul, for doing the net. Oh, happy to do it. Thanks, michael. How about alfred kk6vos? I'll go ahead and give Claire a call. I don't know if he's done with his other meeting yet, but KI6VWG. How about paul? K6wap? This is k6wap, paul. Yuba city with no traffic. Thanks, paul. I've got you checked in. How about matthew kn6wnr. And kathy n7wvw? How about phil k6wwl, Wade kn6wx? And I'll give robert a try. Ko6mqw. And how about john ko6mrf? Any current club member who did not get to their mic in time, please come now. Kilo, Mike, Six, Kilo, Foxtrot, Whiskey, Darrell and Wood. I've got you, Darrell. Thanks. Any other late check ins or anybody I missed? For club members, I've got you checked in. Thanks. Any others I missed or late check ins? I will now call for visitors. Please identify slowly with your name, call sign and location. We'll have time for all check ins. Remember, all hams are welcome to join us. Please come one at a time and wait for me to acknowledge each check in. And let's just go ahead with the first check in. Please come now. Kilo, Oscar 6, Bravo, Gulf, Yankee, Paul in Calusa.
Speaker B: No traffic.
Speaker A: I've got your ball. Thanks. Next guest check in, please come now. Kilo, Oscar 6, Alpha, Uniform Bravo, James outside of Marysville.
Speaker B: And no traffic for the net tonight.
Speaker A: Thanks, James. Good to hear you out there. Next check in, please come now. Kilo, Bravo 9, Mike, Inky, Foxtrot, Jeff in Orland. I've got you, Jeff. Thanks. Next check in, please come now. Kilo, November 6, Mike, Delta, Zulu, Mike and Kelly Ridge. No traffic tonight. Back to net control. Thanks, Mike. I've got you. Next guest check in, please come now.
Speaker B: Hey, Paul.
Speaker A: This is John up in Oroville.
Speaker B: Kilo 6, Hotel, Foxtrot, Papa.
Speaker A: No traffic for the Net.
Speaker B: Back to you, Paul.
Speaker A: Thanks, John. I've got you. Okay, next check in, please come now. Any other guests to check in? And we will do one more call a little later, but one last chance. For right now, K6RCM, Ryan and Sutter. No traffic. All right, I've got you. Ryan and Claire, I've got you as well. So thanks for checking in. Thank you so much. Any other check ins at this time, please come now. This is Paul, W6P and H net control and we'll move on to tonight's Swap Shop. This portion of the Net is dedicated for both members and guests to list their available ham related items only. You may list an asking price for your items, but all negotiations and transactions must be conducted off of this repeater. Stations with listings for tonight's Swap Shop may identify now. Okay, nothing heard for Swap Shop. Let's move on to the HAM Help section. This segment is provided for amateurs who need answers to ham related technical questions or who may need assistance with ham related projects. Stations with listings for HAM Help may identify now. This is net control. Paul W6P and H with the last call for late check ins, please come now. If you'd be interested in becoming a Net Control operator for this net, Please contact Chris, kk6vzdrl.net or any UBA Sutter Amateur Radio Club officer or board member by emailing fordysarc.net that's ysarc.net a master copy of the Control Station Guide guide is posted on the club's website located at www.yuba sutterarc.org. this net is held every Monday night at 19:00 clock hours local time on the WD6AXM repeater. The repeater is located at 2100ft atop the South Butte approximately 12 miles west northwest of Yuba City in Sutter County. The repeater covers the surrounding northern Sacramento Valley and beyond. Until next week, this is Paul, W, 6P&H in Yuba City thanking all of you who checked in to tonight's net while signing clear and returning the repeater to normal amateur use. This net is now closed. W6PNH clear. Yeah, go ahead. Chris.
Speaker B: Did you give out any radios?
Speaker A: I did not even think of it. But that would have been a good opportunity. Maybe we would have had some check ins tonight from those two, but I just did not even think about that. I do have them. I believe I've got them programmed and ready, so I'll bring them on Saturday.
Speaker B: Okay. I was wondering if maybe you might want to get back to. Because those were the ones in your class that passed, right?
Speaker A: Yeah, those. Those three were all in the class.
Speaker B: The ones they really wanted those to go to. And if you need more, I might have a couple Extra that I could dig out.
Speaker A: Well, I'm sure we could put them to use. And what we could do is maybe I'll bring those to the club meeting. I think there was pretty good interest of these new hams to come to the club meeting. So we see them there and they still don't have a radio. It might be a good chance to hand them off,
Speaker B: actually. Yeah, that would be kind of a nice presentation.
Speaker A: Yeah. So, anyway, if you have anything else that. That you want to contribute for the cause, I'd be happy to handle that for you. But again, thanks for doing that.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, I like doing that. And it'll help me clear out my closet somewhat.
Speaker A: Well, I have to ask. How many more days do you have?
Speaker B: 19 work days.
Speaker A: Well, last time we talked, you had a pretty good project put on you that might. Might even keep you busy that time. Is that living up to expectations?
Speaker B: Actually, the project probably is not going to get finished or before I retire, and I already told my boss that. And he's all right with that because he. You know, I've showed a couple other people what they. What kind of information they need to gather, and they. They know how to do it. So if I don't finish it, they will, and that's perfectly fine with me.
Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. That's got to be a good feeling. So. Well, anyway, hope you really enjoy that retirement time. I know I am. Okay, well, I'll say 73 for now. I'll get the documentation finished up here. Anyway, thanks for organizing that spreadsheet. It's nice to work with it that way.
Speaker B: Not a problem. We'll talk to you later. 73.
Speaker A: KK6VZD, clear. W6P and H. Clear.

N6la I wa1ner. One more time. N6 lai wa1 ner. Contact. W a1 ner clear.

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System10 link up.

Ss 1.

Wa1ner. No, no contact. Wa1ner.

AC6UIS standing by for the guards Net. Tonight I will be your net control station. And we'll be commencing in about five minutes.

Speaker A: CQ GARS. CQ GAR. CQ GARS. Good evening. This is Kilo Charlie 6, Uniform Neocera and I'm located in Elk Creek. And I'll be your net control station tonight for the Gars Monday night net. This net mates every Monday evening at 2000 hours local time. And we are tonight on the GRC repeater, the 105 machine. This is a direct net. Please make no comments, no transmissions unless cleared by Net Control. When checking in, please give your call name, signal report, and if you have any traffic for the net or wish to be included in the talk Pack section. Net Control has no announcements tonight. Are there any other announcements for the net come out. All right. Nothing heard. Membership and regular check INS roll call is as follows. Alpha, echo six, zulu, chris and chico, Alpha foxtrot, 6, oscar, alpha, ian and cape. Alpha, Golf for six, Victor, Alpha, Ryan and Willow. Save me, Ryan. Well, I don't know.
Speaker B: Am I saving you?
Speaker A: This is Alpha Golf 6, picture Alpha, Ryan and Willows. And you're Q5 into the repeater. And I don't have any traffic for
Speaker B: the net, but I think it's working.
Speaker A: Yeah, it was working. I meant save me that. I had to have one check in tonight. All right, well, thank you, Ryan. I appreciate the save. And let's go down to Alpha Kilo 6, Juliet, November, Joe in Williams, Ak6jm. Yeah, I'll be number two to save you. Well, I guess I am now officially saved. Thank you, Joe. By the way, you are Q5 into the repeater. Well, I'm glad to hear that. You know, I don't have a direct line into this repeater, but it's always worked well for me for 20 years when Albert had it and all that stuff. So always been a reliable repeater for me. Okay, let's move on. Kilo 6, charlie, foxtrot, papa pat and chico. How about kilo 6, gulf alpha, bravo, greg and chico? Okay, great. Well, thank you. UQ5 into the repeater. You're here and good hearing you in there. Thank you. All right, how about Kilo Charlie Six, Uniform, Foxtrot, Echo, Bill in Cape Kilo,
Speaker C: Charlie Six, Uniform, Foxtrot, Echo, Bill and Capay. Good evening and check me in. Put me on the round table and your Q5 tonight. And I don't recall the Roger beep being activated before, but I hear it now. Back to net.
Speaker A: What's the Roger beep?
Speaker C: Right after all transmission. There's a D dot. Did I hear.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I heard a little. I didn't know what that was never heard that term before. You are solid Q5 as always and I got you on the list for the talk back. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, moving on. Kilo, echo six, papa, mike, tango, russ and gerber. Nothing from russ. Kilo, foxtrot 6, oscar, bravo, india, mike in willows. Nothing from Mike tonight. Kilo, Golf 6, kilo, uniform, Oscar, Lester and Willows. This is Kilo. Got sex scale, Union, Oscar, Lester and Willows. And you got a good 25 signal tonight. I don't have anything to add to the net so I'll be in and out. Listen. Okay, Lester, really? Yaku5 also and good to hear you in there. Miss you last week or I'm sorry, my. My list was last month, but there you go. Good to hear you in there. Thanks, Lester. Foreign. Mike, November, Phil in Willows, Kilo, India
Speaker C: 6, Mike, November, Phil here in Willows. Q5 coming in via the KF6 Obi TH and nothing further tonight but I
Speaker B: will be listening back to net. Thanks for doing it.
Speaker A: Okay, Phil. Boy, you sound very loud tonight. Q5 all the way. Okay, kilo, kilo, six, foxtrot, November, yankee, courtney and willows. Kilo, kilo, 6, foxtrot, November, Yankee, courtney and willows, your Q5. Checking and out tonight. All right, Courtney, well, thank you for joining us tonight. You are also Q5 and sounding good tonight. All right, let's try Kilo, Mike six, Victory, Fox, Fox, Hank in Elk Creek. I try many times to get into. Join us and let's see. Failed again. Okay, let's move on. Kayla, November 6th, Mike, golf, kilo, Steve and Chico. Nothing from Steve. Kilo, November 6th, Papa, whiskey, whiskey, Jeremy and Chico. November 6, sierra, juliet, julia, dennis in corning. Kilo, November 6th, whiskey, Sierra, November, Logan and Willows. Kilo, November 6th, whiskey, sierra, November, Logan and Willis checking in and out. All right, Logan, well, good to hear you in there. Haven't heard from you for a while and thank you for the check in tonight. You are Q5. Upon November 6, uniform, tango, victor, Tyler in Alberta, Whiskey 6, Lima, November, Delta, Jeremy in Orland,
Speaker B: Whiskey 6, Lima, November, delta, Jeremy and Orland coming in via all Star.
Speaker A: Well, Jeremy, your all star. The path is Q5 all the way. Good, good connection.
Speaker B: Yeah, I have comments, so when you're done, I'll make a couple.
Speaker A: Okay, Jeremy, I got you marked down for comment and let's move on down to Whiskey, Bravo one, Golf, Smitty and Rockland. All right, well, that completes the regular roll call as I have it. Are there any later mismatch Check INS members only. Come. I heard somebody in there couldn't copy any relay. I think that was M6Y YZK. Let me look on my list here, see if see anybody like that. No, I don't. And you are barely making it into repeater tonight and a lot of static on your signal. I'm very sorry I couldn't make out your call correctly.
Speaker B: Relay Bob, go ahead. That was N6Y CK, Albert and Corning.
Speaker A: Okay. And 6Y ZK. Albert and Corning. Albert, wow, it's an honor to hear you back in there. I was thinking about you actually today and wondering how you were doing. Can you give us an update? Jeremy, can you relay Everett's response? I. I could not copy him.
Speaker B: Yeah, he said he doesn't have his big radio and he's just using an HT so it's kind of noisy.
Speaker A: Okay, well Albert, we got that you're on an HT and that's why I couldn't copy very much out here in Elk Creek. So you're actually making a pretty good trip just on that ht. So good to hear you in there. Hopefully you can join us again another time. We miss you and we thank you for all the efforts you made throughout the years for the 105 repeater.
Speaker C: Always a great repeater.
Speaker A: I always thought so. Albert73. All right, well let's continue on. Are there any last comments or suggestions before we close?
Speaker C: Go through the list.
Speaker A: You're right and I got the list here. How about KC6UFE, Bill and Capay, what's your comment tonight?
Speaker C: KC6UFE? Trying not to hurry things along too quickly. Anyway, good evening to the net and had a fun weekend. Was 160 meter band contest so I enjoyed that. Made a couple of handfuls of contacts and also there's an outfit that's doing a D expedition down there south of South Africa. Let's see, it's 3A Y A 0K. So you want to look for them on all the HF bands and make a contact on that island down there. So other than that, back to you Bob. KC6UFE.
Speaker A: Okay Bill. Well thank you for that info and hopefully people will take you up on your suggestion. And let's go down to my last Talk back is W6LND. Jeremy.
Speaker B: Well good evening Bob and the rest of the net. So about a month ago Gary W6GRC went up and he removed Albert's Ya sue repeater and he put a Motorola machine up there at Red Mountain and it is fully all star compatible. Now so in the mornings it's doing the. It automatically logs into the coffee break net out of the Sacramento area. And it plays that for about two and a half hours every morning, seven days a week. And that's kind of what's happening there. And the tone that we're hearing. I know I heard Bill ask about the tone. That is an All Star courtesy tone. Let me reset. So the courtesy tone is because instead of using a repeater controller, the All Star software is actually the repeater controller. Now for that Motorola repeater. So that Raspberry PI computer does the repeater control also brings in voiceover Internet. So that's how I'm coming in tonight is via the voiceover IP using my handy talkie here at the house, going into a node, the Internet coming out through the Internet, which is right up at the mountaintop. So that's kind of a quick synopsis of what's going on with the 105.
Speaker A: Okay, Jeremy, great information and you are solid Q5. I would never guess you were going that path was that long. And I'd like to ask you, do you know anything about the solar system up there on the Red Mountain? I've been up there in my hang gliding days and saw the panels and I'm just wondering is there enough power up there for everybody? And what's the story? Do you have any input?
Speaker B: Well, I'm sure Albert could attest to this as well. Most of the time it's sufficient power other than we get, you know that two weeks or ten days of cloudy weather. They do have some energy failures. But there's two generators on site up there. I know for a fact last week, one night for sure, the generator was running.
Speaker A: Okay, very good. Well, I didn't know they even had generator back up on that. So thank you for that update. And it really, really. That's that repeater. The 105 machine was always my favorite up here since I've been here in 2000. Thanks a lot, Jeremy.
Speaker B: 73, 73 Bob W6LND.
Speaker A: Okay, are there any last comments or suggestions before we close the net? How about Elite check in. GO
Speaker B: Alpha FOXTROT 6 Oscar Alpha.
Speaker A: Alpha Ticks Oscar Alpha. Oh, we got you Elite. Ian. Thank you.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's Alpha Foxtrot 6 there, Bob.
Speaker A: Okay, well I'm sorry I missed that. And also Foxtrot 6 Oscar Alpha, Ian and Capay. And Ian, we got your Q5 in. Glad you could make it. Have a good evening. All right, this concludes the Gars Monday night Net. The Net control. Thanks everyone who checked in with us tonight and invite you to be back next week.

Hey, good evening. This is Greg K6 Gab in Chico. I've got you at a Q5 through the repeater. No traffic for the Net this evening. Thanks for doing the Net back to Net Control.

This is Kilo Charlie Hicks uniform in the US Sierra returning to the 105 repeater to normal service. Garth Monday is now closed at. Oh gosh, 8:20 hours. 73 to all this is Bill Charlie checking informing these here signing clear.

K6lwl, los angeles. Link up k6lmk, system 36, snow mountain range.

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Qst, qst, qst. This is K6 Kuo in Sacramento Valley traffic net. This net's part of the national traffic System. And the purpose of this net is to relay for traffic into and out of Sacramento Valley. No transmission without Mission Control. All stations are ussdr. Frequency. Follows. Kf6ovr call in and ask for an early check in k6k uls call, enroll in driving and kd6tso. Sleep. Kf6djy, K6rcs. Okay, 6pmt, kilo echo 6 papa mike tango, rustin gerber. Good evening, lester in the group and I have no traffic rush. Thank you. Kc6ufe, kc6ufe, dill incapando traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, bill. Thank you. Kn6pww, kn6tww. This is jamie and chico. No traffic and good evening, lester in the group. Jamie. Thank you. All right, that's all. As I have it. Do we have any late members or visitors wish to check. During? No further traffic. This is K68 year old closing Sacramento Valley traffic at 2100 hours local time to the 6. Very safe repeater on 146985. I like to thank everybody who checked in tonight and go by amateur setting, but use the repeater. This is k6ko, clear frequency. Not a problem. You 6k u2kf6.

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Hello, world. 86.mobile system 26 link K6LNK system 36 Snow Mountain Range.

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Node 51018 connected to node 405480.

Speaker A: Jk6vzb mobile. Hey, Chris, gonna try to reach out here. I'm in Vacaville. And a good morning to you, Ted. So, Vacavilleville, ranging a bit, huh? I didn't catch that last. Yeah, okay. You're probably being blocked by the Coast Range mountains down there. At any rate. Good morning. Good morning. And I guess we'll talk to you later.
Speaker B: Well, good morning, Chris.
Speaker A: KN6GTN and a good morning to you, Ernie. How you doing this morning? How's the weather appearing?
Speaker B: Well, you could probably guess from your vantage point. It's a beautiful day up here.
Speaker A: You can never tell whether, you know, you might have some fog up here while it's nice and sunny down here.
Speaker B: That was in December.
Speaker A: All right. Okay, we're now into the team 19. 19 days.
Speaker B: That's creeping up on you. You ready for it? You sure you're ready for it?
Speaker A: No, I'm not sure I'm ready for it. I am, but I'm not. I had a day yesterday where I, you know, I thought, well, there's just a couple of. Couple of things happen. But I thought, you know, I don't want. I just don't want to deal with the changes anymore, you know, both management style and what I have to support. And not that the management is bad, it's just. I don't. I just don't get, you know, some of their thinking.
Speaker B: It's not like it used to be. I'm talking about yesterday. I'll tell you. We showed up at work yesterday, and I don't know, it looked like there were eight vehicles out there waiting on us. There may not have been quite that many, but it was close. So our day yesterday was very interesting. We had to work through a pile of weekend breakdowns.
Speaker A: What fun.
Speaker B: Yeah, that reminds me. Back in the Midwest, especially in the springtime and in the fall, when the farmers were in the fields, we used to fix tires. It was not unusual to come to work and find a pile of tires outside your door that needed attention when you got there. Like, wow, what a welcome.
Speaker A: Yeah, I can just imagine. So, really quick question. Do you deal mostly with diesels or do you, you know, are you evenly split between gas and diesel?
Speaker B: Yeah, we are jack of all trades, except we try to avoid. We do avoid the European market. Just a total different diagnostic strategy and equipment and tools. So we've tried to let other people deal with the European, the Mercedes, BMW, Porsches, stuff like that, but. And our biggest push is the diesel pickup market. But we do work on a lot of gas.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. Just kind of curious. I, you know, I'm starting to think about maybe getting a different truck and I've heard that the early 2000 for the four Tritons are just really something you want to stay away from. What's been in your experience,
Speaker B: Anything that the three valve triton is what you want to stay away from. The 04 through 2010. 5.4. The 4.6 was always a good engine, even through those years. But the 5.4 was not. So when I was looking for a Truck I got an 03 and that 5.4 is a really, really good engine. Anything before they went three valve would be good, but then you might as well wait until after 20, till 2011 and get the new generation engines.
Speaker A: Yeah, okay. My son texted me the other day that he knows somebody that's thinking about selling their two 2006 F150 and well, I guess I'm going to have to ask them what, what engine is in it because you know, it's, it's. Apparently it's low miles and it's a super cab, which is kind of something I don't drive need a full crew cab. But a super cab would be nice. But if it's got the 5 4, I tell them no, no thank you.
Speaker B: Yeah, you want to stay away from the 5 4. I mean we can fix them as long as you're willing to pay for it.
Speaker A: Let me see, my conversion rate is like I'm, I'm assuming that like a 54 is like a 320 something and a 46 is probably more like 289 or something like that. Is that about right?
Speaker B: Yeah, that would sound dangerously close. Well, I hate to cut us off in the middle of a conversation here, but I've just pulled up to my gate. I do have some things to take care of here. There's several vehicles here this morning, so another pleasant day in store. So 73s. Chris, have a good day. We'll chat with you later at KN6GTN.
Speaker A: All right, Ernie, I'm pulling into the parking lot myself anyway, so. All right, have a great day and we'll talk to you later. KK6VZD clear.

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Good morning. Kn6mgk.

Speaker A: Kn6sln, kn6mgk on 36 local. Okay, well, I grabbed a cup of coffee. I heard you put your call sign out there earlier. You're breaking up right now, but maybe you're mobile. Anyway, welcome back. Good to Hear your voice. Can 6 MGK?
Speaker B: Yeah, we're just sitting here drinking a cup of coffee there. We're in the RV with handheld. I think it's probably a lot better now because I knocked you off the table when I picked up the mic.
Speaker A: Yes, you're solid now, so. Yeah, you sound good. Yeah, I just thought maybe you're mobile because it broke up the first time anyway, and your call sign, when you put it out earlier was totally fine, so. Sounded good, but I was still making my cup of coffee anyway. Got a few minutes here? Yeah. How are things going?
Speaker B: Doing pretty good. Yeah, I got. We're now off in the desert there. The weather's crazy down there. It should be, you know, like 65 degrees. It was getting up in the 90s and whatnot, so we decided, well, we'll just come up here and. The weather's great up here.
Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Outside of maybe a couple weeks ago, we had that good storm system coming in. I'm doubtful. You had a whole heck of a lot of snow at your place, so I wouldn't be surprised at all if there's hardly anything there. I know from Magalia, which. I know it's below your height, but in Magalia they had a good foot or so of snow, but, you know, it's a couple days it melted away and that's all they've had.
Speaker B: Yeah, I was up there yesterday, up there at my house, and we. There is no snow other than what came off the roof that stays there for almost a month until it melts because it turned to ice. And so I would call maybe Trace, and that's about it.
Speaker A: Yeah, seems like it'd be a great time to be back and get comfortable. Maybe there'll be another storm system coming in, I don't know. But so far, been a fairly mild winter, for sure.
Speaker B: Yeah, it has. Like I said down there, we. We went down there in mid December and it was fairly nice and got up about 75, 80 degrees during the day and then got down maybe 35, 40 at night. Then we went to the desert and started using our solar and stuff like that, and we stayed out there a couple months, and we can't run our air condition very long out there being off solar, so we decided, well, the weather's great up here. We'll just come back home. Yep.
Speaker A: What kind of ht are you on now?
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm on this HT70 with not a rubber ducky but I guess about 18 inches.
Speaker A: Yeah, I just picked one of those up at the club. Was selling one over here so yeah, I picked one up. It didn't come with the little data cable so I ended up programming it by hand. But you know, I don't need very many channels so not a big deal. I just got done doing that. I just did the Mars mod on it last night. So anyway, it's got a couple of GMRS frequencies in it now too.
Speaker B: Yeah, we got. Actually when I got my Texas license about four years ago, I guess it was three or four years ago, my wife got one, I got one FT70 and we never did get a dating table so we programmed them all by hand. They're pretty easy and so you know, that's what we use when we're out like this.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, yeah. Oh well I would have thought it came with a cable. At least that's what it said in the. On the box. You would have thought but you know, it just sticks into the side. You would think but I looked around because I have other HT's that are yaesu. One that I have for my 5D wouldn't fit it so it's a special cable. Anyway, like you said, not a big deal. I don't. I'm not a guy that needs 100 frequencies so I put 10 in it. I might put a couple more in there but that's it and seems like a good little radio. I like the size. So anyway and I have just, I just have that little seven and a half inch whip on it right now and I do have a longer diamond for it but I don't know if I'm going to put that on there or not. But I have it here in case I wanted to use a longer whip. I've been liking diamond antennas so I've been sticking with those pretty much.
Speaker B: Yeah, I believe this. That's what this is if I can see it. Yeah, it's a diamond and like I said, it's 18 inch whip. You know, it's just a small lift. But these FT 70s I ended up with four 43 frequencies and that is due to the fact is I take it traveling, I leave it in a pickup and like we set out down with Kirky Admiral, Oklahoma City meeting, someplace like that. We'll put a frequency in there for that, for that area.
Speaker A: Yep, you can always do that. But you probably try to keep the first few of them to be all the same. Right. So that way. That way you and the other half there can say, just go to channel 10.
Speaker B: Yeah. We got simplex channel in there that we watch home. So when I get up there, the house and I get all my quads, I'll cross bend my 300 and we'll talk through it. But like I said, you know, when we're out, say like an RV park or something like that, we'll just use that Simplex and you know, that kind of thing like that, just playing around. And then you got the old mighty cell phones, you. I think I lost it. Anyway, this is K and 6, as always.
Speaker A: Well, I was also out there just getting my wife her cup of coffee. So I was listening in the distance. Anyway, there. Dad been having a lot of fun with mesh nodes, meshtastic. And now the guys are all starting to mess around with mesh core, which mesh core makes a little bit more sense and how it works. But it doesn't have a whole lot of traffic yet. So I think it might be at least probably a year behind in terms of getting operators using it. So meshtastic around here is going like gangbusters crazy. A lot of the Bay Area traffic gets into here from the South Bay and it gets funneled in through the Sutter Buttes and the Butte Search and rescue group over here. So. Because they have a couple of meshtastic nodes up and so, I mean, I could turn it on and have 25 messages on my mesh node anyway. And they're kind of interesting, but the people are just, you know, you don't have to be a ham radio operator. So they talk some weird stuff on there sometimes. Not like what we do. We talk about the weather and our illnesses. Right. They talk about all kinds of weird stuff.
Speaker B: Yeah. Now down there in courts, all the people that, I mean, they have 50 members in that club down there. And I think the club has moved from Quartzite to Blythe. But the only time anybody's on there, I talked to two people while in the. And I, you know, I talked to. Used to be president. And he said most people got too old or died or something.
Speaker A: Yeah. Well, one of the members of the club died not too long ago. A couple months ago, they just had a memorial service. That's forum down there in Monterey. So one of the guys went there. So. Yep. Unfortunately, that's the way the ham radio thing goes, you know.
Speaker B: Yeah. You know what was interesting, though? A lot of people from Canada didn't go down. So the place looked like it was about. I mean there was. Don't get me wrong, there was a lot of people down there. There was lots of people that tent and stuff like that. But not like in Northland. Used to you had to get six months in advance to get an RV spot if you wanted to stay in the park. They had some empty spots because Canada didn't show up.
Speaker A: Kn6mgk. Well, have you heard from Mike N6trg yet? Because he's been having radio issues, stuff like that. I don't know that he's been in any sort of hurry to fix them.
Speaker B: Yeah, I talked to him yesterday. Of course I'm here in this rv, so. So he got real scratchy. I just talked to him briefly and then the day before yesterday I talked to him which that was pretty good. And I hadn't heard him on there this morning.
Speaker A: Wally stated to me before he was going to put another radio up like a 20 watt radio but I haven't heard that one yet if he has. So otherwise I think he's been largely working off of 5 watt radios like little HT's and things like that. I don't know. Doesn't seem to be a priority for Mike too fix that. And he had that nice YAESU going or this is a cable or something like that. I don't know. But I'm sure I've been liking these FTM four hundreds and three hundreds and five hundreds and stuff like that. They've been good radios. Mine's on a lot so been good. Anyway, back to you.
Speaker B: Yeah, I could say that all this yaesu, you know, I got that 8001, it works quite well. And then you know, I got the 300 and that's my back. My, my main radio and then these two FC 70s and you know a lot of people say that the batteries run down on these FC 70s pretty quick. I hadn't experienced that I could talk most of the day.
Speaker A: Yeah, you know, we'll see. I'll play with it today. I'll have it on when I get up to Yankee Hill. I'll have it on all day and just monitor, you know, see what I can hear. But I, what I care about mostly is the receive capability. So like. And I'll find out today, you know, when I'm up there if I can hear Carla. Okay. And maybe a couple other channels that I know from Yankee Hill. It's a good little test spot because it's kind of a slight bull and anyway I don't really have too high expectations from here, but when I get up to a different spot and I like to see what it can do. So, yeah, I think it's probably a decent enough radio for what it is. I know the one that I have, the FT5D, that paid way too much money for them things. They do have a purpose if a person wants one. But they certainly weren't worth the $500 they were asking, I think. And hey, nowadays, like that one Ken would want. They want like 700 bucks for that. So, I mean, that's kind of getting ridiculous for a little handheld. But who am I to say if someone's willing to pay it, go for it, you know?
Speaker B: Oh, you mean 500 handheld? Yeah, I should have a. But like I said, you know, it's each to his own. I see all the. The prices on radios are going up, skyrocket. I probably sell mine for about $200 to $300 more than I paid for.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah, well, sometimes that's the case. I don't know. Yeah, I know people that bought the 857s have been pretty happy. I sold one of mine for like 900 bucks or something like that because it was not a problem to do that anyway. But yeah, the 891 is a very capable machine, so it's a good choice. Yeah, I don't know. I might sell one of mine. I mean, I have the FT710 field I'm not using right now. I was using it pretty heavy up into just before January, right around Christmas time. Now I put it away. I did offer it to another friend, but he hasn't. He hasn't, you know, come. Come through. He said he would be interested in it, but he had to sell some of his gear. So. But we'll see because I have two of those 7 10. And anyway, they're good little radios. For more of a bass unit. I have the FT DX10 also. I flirted with the idea of selling that one too and getting that FT100D. If I could sell both of those radios pretty quickly, I'd probably get a 100D because I've seen a couple out there for about 2,600 bucks. And I would have to add some money. But would it be worth it to have, you know, a heck of a base unit and never have to buy one again?
Speaker B: Yeah, that'd be kind of fun. Now I'm about ready to route. I just gonna hang on to what I got, just enjoy what I got kicking around. On these solar panels now, getting solar systems running and stuff out there in the desert. I got like I was telling Mike the other day, I got my fifth wheel that a professional put in there and it works for us. I leave it alone. But then I built me another one just to see if I could do it. And I got 3,000 watts inverter controller and all this other good stuff.
Speaker A: Yeah, well I still got like 20, 27 I think it is panels in paradise. 170 watts a piece. Forget the open circuit voltage but yeah, they're older panels so yeah, they're degraded a little bit I'm sure. Anyway, in case you have any need for panels, they're about you know, 40 inches by 5ft something like that if I remember right for the size of them. But I mean they'd be good for like a 12 volt application or something like that just to keep up. Some 12 volt batteries for someone's radio system. You know, I could get one or put two of them in parallel or something like that.
Speaker B: Yeah, I got one that my father in law gave me. It's a.

Speaker A: Older one, It's a nice one, it's a well made one, if you will. But it's just a home watt. And then I bought another 100 plus down there that's half the size due to the fact it's more modern and. But then they have the solar panels that are 450 watts that are probably twice as big as that hub wa physically and I'm thinking about stuff like that.
Speaker B: Yeah, oh yeah, that's why these were changed out too. I mean, all the technology is getting better and better all the time. So yeah, you can get one of about the same size, maybe a slight bit longer or whatever, but it'll be like you said, 400 watts, 450 watts. So yeah, the technology's gotten a lot better. But yeah, all the stuff on that is all the solar I'm thinking is going to go up too because of the price of silver and so forth. Although it's getting hammered pretty hard this morning, but so is everything. So I guess the markets are in a little bit of turmoil now that we decided to go to war with Iran, you know. Yeah, the market is.
Speaker A: I'd say it was a little bit down, but yeah, what can you do? I mean, that's my attitude. I mean, nothing we can do about it until the midterms.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, I don't think we get very much choices in California. That's where I vote. So we don't have much choices here, midterms or the midterms. We're voting Democrats. That's what happens here. So I don't vote that way typically. But most of the other people in California seem to, at least around the big cities and such and they seem to rule over all the rural counties.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, you know, like I said, you know, like I tell my wife, you know, all this stuff going on and you watch the news just like I do. I stopped watching the news. Go to overseas news if you will, but you know, it's, it's just crazy. But anyway, anyway, Steve, I'm gonna let you go. I'm gonna go get cleaned up, go start today.
Speaker B: Nice. Well, yeah, I'm gonna go make some breakfast and get going myself. Head over towards Yankee Hill like I said and do some work over that way today and then I'll be back to back to reality tomorrow over here and gardening and stuff like that. Been getting that stuff going with the nice weather we've been having and so forth. Planting some potatoes, stuff like that. Right now I've got the peas going already and onions and garlic. We've been eating on some broccoli and some cauliflower, even though the snow there was about 4 inches of snow on top of my cauliflower. Didn't particularly like it. But we've been roasting the cauliflower up and it still tastes pretty good. So anyway, that's what's been going on in Chico, and I'm glad to hear your voice out there. Hopefully we'll hear you again. And good day to you and your wife.
Speaker A: 73kn6MGK okay, Steve, like I said, it'd be a couple, three or four days. We get settled out, we'll be back on here every day probably. So anyway, talk to you later. This is K6. That's all I want to be doing.

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K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

Speaker A: W8 ldp. Did I miss
Speaker B: anyone? All right. Hearing none. I'll just
Speaker A: go ahead and close the net for this morning and just wish everybody a wonderful day ahead. We'll be back again tomorrow morning for another edition of the Coffee Breaknet. Thanks for being part of the conversation this morning. It's been a pleasure. The Coffee Break Net, where the sun is always shining, the birds are singing and the fish are jumping. This net is sponsored by the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club in Northern California. And we're here every day of the week, 7:30am to 10:00am Pacific Time. So we'll catch everyone tomorrow Morning. I'm Brian AI6us, returning the W6ek replacement, Peter back to normal usage, whatever that may be. 7:3:0. Take care, brian.
Speaker C: Oh, that's interesting. Happy
Speaker A: to
Speaker C: Tuesday, brian ai6us kg6mlw. Great net.
Speaker B: Thanks guys. And everyone, have a wonderful day ahead.
Speaker A: Nature is calling because it wants to escape and nature is calling because I am starving to death. Have a wonderful day. I'm a QRT AI6US.

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K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

Speaker A: I thought I heard a n7 uvw. Is that correct?
Speaker B: Yes. November 7th, Uniform Victor, Whiskey. Getting ready here at the Myth 400 race here south face.
Speaker A: Oh, wow. That sounds like that's going to be fantastic.
Speaker B: Wish I was there. I dialed this up last night. Didn't hear too much, but I'm going to be working in one of the RV lots here. Start tomorrow and gotta get set up here with a station, be listening to all the VHS frequencies they'll be on, but same here's Doug Delta Oscar from Gulf out of Nebraska, over down here for the winner.
Speaker A: All right, Doug. Well, it sounds like you're probably going to enjoy yourself, so. Yeah, yeah, this. This system isn't very active. There's. There's a whole lot to it. No doubt. I mean, it's a fantastic system, but it's usually on the quiet side on purpose. Purpose. But that. But that's okay. Don't. Don't worry about that. You chime in here and chat with whoever you want to chat with, so. All right, well, the Name here is Ken. I am N6K, N E. And believe it or not, I'm down here in Chalta, Columbia, Columbia, South America. And you enjoy the Mint 400.
Speaker B: Okay. Well, I often found this up on the iPad. And see how this network kind of builds. I'm not sure, but I looked at it a little bit last night, thought it kind of went out into California or something, but. But this is the Vegas here. Nevada. All things look and see. But anyway. Sounds good.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Pretty quiet anyway out there. That works. Have a good day in seven. UVW here at Vegas.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. It just dawned on me. You didn't see the entire system then.
Speaker B: The Las Vegas system that you're about
Speaker A: talking into is also connected to the CARLA system, which is the California Amateur Radio Linking association, which covers all of all of California and parts of Nevada up there in the Lake Tahoe area. So, yeah, you're coming out over, I don't know, 35, 38 repeaters across Nevada and California. And in my case, you're coming out of my device here in Columbia. Okay, you take care and enjoy. I will be trying to watch that race on some kind of. Some kind of Internet. Internet, that YouTube or something.
Speaker B: I don't know.
Speaker A: Okay, take care.
Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. I'll take a look online in a little bit.
Speaker A: Hey, Doug, your audio just went. Just went south. You may want to check your microphone. It sounds like maybe it could have an electrical contamination maybe or something. I don't know. I don't think it was in the receiver.
Speaker B: So.
Speaker A: Yeah. Check your microphone connection. Just maybe unplug it, Plug it back in, in and out a couple of times after you clean it. Okay, Doug, you take care. And unfortunately, I didn't hear any of your last transmission. Transmission. Take care. N6K and E.
Speaker B: N7U, V, W. Let's see if that's any better. You're really clear. Coming this way.
Speaker A: Yeah, that was much better. It definitely sounds like you have a nice, clean microphone connection. All right, take care.
Speaker B: Okay. I have plenty of radios to check out here anyway. You always don't know what's going on your side a lot of times. This sounds clean. Sounds really good. We'll stand by in seven. You'll be there.

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W6r h c repeater check 3.

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.

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

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: M17md las vegas. Hey, Ken.
Speaker B: Good afternoon.
Speaker A: How you been?
Speaker B: Good. I'm hanging in there. How's your mom?
Speaker A: She's doing a lot better. She's still in rehab. Matter of fact, I'm heading down there right now because a nurse is coming to evaluate her. I'm moving her into that other place I got her. Assisted living facility at that I'm moving her to. I'm not sure when yet. I should know more today, but she. She's a lot better than she was like a week or so ago.
Speaker B: Oh, that's good. I'm glad to hear that. She'll be glad to get out, be with people her own age, I imagine. Yeah.
Speaker A: You know, the rehab is a depressing place, obviously, but they're getting her better. They got the nurses doing that evaluation today to try to figure out when they can release her. So I'm hoping. I'm having a bunch of furniture moved on Thursday to the new place. So Thursday, late afternoon, evening, or anytime after that, I'll be ready to move her in. So I'm hoping they'll give her a release maybe sometime Friday or this weekend.
Speaker B: That'll be good. That'll be good for her. How's everything else going? How's the job going?
Speaker A: Well, as you can imagine, based on what's going on right now, we're. We're crazy nuts all over the place. So it's been interesting.
Speaker B: An old guy like me comes to watch on tv finally. Yeah, right.
Speaker A: Listen to all the politicians yell at each other.
Speaker B: I don't know. We'll see.
Speaker A: We'll see things are going well, we'll see how long that lasts. A lot of concern about. Concerns about sleeper cells and stuff like that, but who knows?
Speaker B: Yeah, it's going to be interesting. I think it'll be good in the long run, but. Rough way to go right now, but I think it'll make things better in the long. Well, as long as we.
Speaker A: As long as the politicians let. Let us do what we need to do and not half ass it like we typically do in the past. Right? I think you're right. If we. If we end up having to pull out, get half ass it because of politics, it's gonna probably make things worse. But anyways, enough of that crap. So what's.
Speaker B: Did you ever.
Speaker A: Did you ever end up coming town for your dentist thing or what?
Speaker B: Well, we told them to find out when our appointment was and they've never called us back yet. Well, I don't know what's going on. I'm gonna have my wife call them again today and see exactly when our appointment was.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, my wife's got a. They got another big fair craft fair down at the World Market center next weekend. Yeah, next weekend I think, I think, I think, I think anyways. Yeah, I think Thursday, Friday or Friday, Saturday, Sunday, whatever. So we're gonna. She's getting all set up for that. Trying to get her inventory, get some more inventory and I gotta help her, help her set everything up. I think a week from Wednesday or so. So she's kind of crazy busy doing that.
Speaker B: Located. That'd be interesting
Speaker A: at the World Market Center. It's in the center of town, right by city hall area. That, that if you ever been. While you've been to Vegas, we go through spaghetti bowl where 95 and 15 meet. Or I guess it's called I 11 now and 15 meet. There's a huge weird shaped building right in the middle of that interchange. Several stories high over. It's high, higher than the overpasses anyways. That's called the World Market center and that's where they have the show at.
Speaker B: That sounds interesting. I tell my wife about that. Maybe she'll be in going down. What else is going on?
Speaker A: Yeah, no, she's in the crap stuff. I think she'd find it fascinating. It's a large show and they have other things too. Last time they had a home improvement part of it where they had people with like Jacuzzis and spas and water conditioners and all the other crap there on top of the craft section. I'm not sure what kind of a parallel type thing they're going to have this time, but it's typically pretty eclectic.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'll bet that'd be fun to go to. See all the different stuff people put together. I imagine there's a lot of people show up to that. Vendors and stuff, right?
Speaker A: Yeah, last time there was. Well, last couple times she was there it was so yeah, it's fairly well attended by the vendors and by people or you know, customers.
Speaker B: I guess it goes.
Speaker A: I think it's three full days. I think it's Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Sunday. I think it goes like from 9 in the morning to like 5 at night, Friday, Saturday. And I think they end up shutting down like four o' clock on Sunday, then pack up and get out of there.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'd like to. I, I like that cowboy Christmas and go watch all. Go around all them places that have all that stuff. Have a lot of stuff to look at.
Speaker A: Well, that's here in Vegas,
Speaker B: usually it's convention center and the hotels even get in have one too. They have all kinds of stuff. Think of some horse trailers, saddles, homemade stuff, sculptures and all kinds of things. Western clothes and all kinds.
Speaker A: Do they do that at the same time as they have NFR in.
Speaker B: Tried? Right. At the same time the rodeo's going on too.
Speaker A: Yeah, that makes sense. Why you have all the tourists and stuff in town for the nfr? That makes a lot of sense.
Speaker B: I didn't.
Speaker A: I never heard of that, but okay. Do you go to that on a regular basis?
Speaker B: Yeah, we have done through the years. We missed last year, but we usually
Speaker A: hit it about every year.
Speaker B: All right.
Speaker A: Well, heck, other than that.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Well, you know, like I said, come to town, give me a heads up, we'll do an eyeball or. Yeah, talk to the wife. Talk about coming to that show. Like I said, if she's into crafty stuff, I think she'd have a ball.
Speaker B: My granddaughter's born, was really into crafty, so she makes kind of weird stuff, but she likes all that kind of stuff. But I'll see. I think she's babysitting this week. I'm not sure. I'll have to see.
Speaker A: Does your daughter live up by you or she live elsewhere?
Speaker B: It's my granddaughter that we've had ever since she was little. We raised her and she ended up making all kinds of stuff. She thinks she's quite the handy person and we, like, think she is, but she has fun at it. I'll have to talk to him.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's great.
Speaker B: That's great.
Speaker A: All right, Ken. Well, I'm just pulling into the rehab here, so let me get out of here. Shot with you. Catch you later.
Speaker B: Thanks.
Speaker A: 7 candy.
Speaker B: 7 delta bravo 73.

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

Speaker A: JK6VZD mobile. Coming back for more or lunch? WP6A X N receiver.
Speaker B: Well, which was it, work or lunch?
Speaker A: Lunch. Unfortunately I have to go back to work.
Speaker B: Well, try to look busy. You know, it's a skill I know other people there have developed. You know, you really look at seriously concentrating all your good worker.
Speaker A: I think I'm gonna take a trip up to Brownsville and that'll help waste some time.
Speaker B: Hey, can you do that? Stop at the Gould Eagle and get a corn dog? Oh wait, you already had lunch. Sorry.
Speaker A: I can go to Brownsville and stop on my way back at Collins Lake and get some ice cream.
Speaker B: Collins Lake? You know, I used to live in Challenge and then the Xyl had property there in Brownsville across the street from the Gold Eagle.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, especially during the summertime. I don't mind making an excuse to go up to Brownville so I can come back and have some ice cream before I come home. They've got some really good ice cream.
Speaker B: Well, now wait a minute. I know a little bit about ice cream. Are we talking about home homemade or is it store bought dryers? Haagen Dazs? What?
Speaker A: Well, I don't know. They got big tubs of it. I'm assuming they buy it in, you know, in bulk. But whatever they buy, it tastes good. I'm not sure that it's. I don't think that it's made on site like they do at Brock's here in Yuba City.
Speaker B: Oh, I love homemade ice cream. Did you do that when you were growing up?
Speaker A: A little bit. Not much. Yeah, I guess it was. It was kind of just too much trouble. But yeah, it was. When we did, it was good.
Speaker B: Well, I'm gonna tell you something, Chris, but I wouldn't tell anybody else. Only because you're like a confidant.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: When I get depressed, I want.
Speaker A: Yeah, I. I mean I don't do it often, but. Oh, a couple of weeks ago I felt like I can't stay home and off to Brock they went.
Speaker B: Yeah. Well, how do you feel about German chocolate cake?
Speaker A: I absolutely love German chocolate cake. I'm not sure if you could say that that was my favorite, but probably close to it.
Speaker B: I usually don't like coconut, but I like what those old Germans did there. If you're diabetic, you can eat some sugar. What you have to do is not eat the whole piece of cake at one sitting. You have a fourth of. Okay, like six grams per hour, no more than 30 grams per day. You know this
Speaker A: I Can't do that. Somebody sets a slice of cake in front of me, I gotta eat it.
Speaker B: Hey, all right. Hey, go for it. You know, I haven't often thought. I've known a few people in my lifetime who consume whatever it is that's in front of them. Okay. It can be food, can be smoke, can be. I don't know. But I think that gets back to our days when we were tribal caveman. You kill an animal, you have to eat as much as you can because there's no way to take it with you.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, I tell you, I've got some. I think I probably mentioned this. I've got some new medicine and it's also an appetite suppressant. So, yeah, I find myself not being terribly hungry and sometimes not being real interested in the food that's in front of me. So I've gotten down to where, you know, either the kids portions or the senior portions are just fine for me. Whereas I used to like a really big meal.
Speaker B: Well, let me ask you this. Does it seem like food doesn't taste as good? I mean, back in the day, for example, fruit, watermelon. Oh, you get them. Oh, they were juicy, nice, full of taste. These days, you go get a watermelon, it's all dry, no taste.
Speaker A: I think that's the watermelon you got. I know there are some foods that I just. Oh, there's some peaches grown by this one orchard north of Marysville, Sidero orchard. They're O. Henry peaches. And you get them in July and August and they are absolutely to die for. I get a couple of flats and cut them up into eight and freeze them on a cookie sheet and then put them into a plastic bag and put them in the freezer and snack on them all winter long. Oh, my, Are those good?
Speaker B: Those sound good. Well, I can remember peaches with flavors, juicy. Apricots even. What do you call them, canelos or something like that. You know, they're all juicy, nice. But I don't know, I thought it was my tongue, you know, getting old. Can't taste anything.
Speaker A: Yeah, no, I think it's just the food some of you get isn't very tasty. I went to my daughter's a couple of months ago and we. We. We like to cook together. And she invited me down to. To cook and eat some caco van. Not sure if you know what coco van is. It's a French chicken stew. And oh my. I was dying because of how good it was.
Speaker B: Wow. Well, that sounds pretty amazing. I mean, that's what you call knock you out of your chair.
Speaker A: Yeah, I had to keep going back for more and more and more and more. That's how good it was.
Speaker B: Well, are you overweight?
Speaker A: A little bit.
Speaker B: A little bit?
Speaker A: I'm probably. Well, let's see now that I've had that new medicine, actually lost about 20 pounds, so I'm probably still about 10 or 15 pounds over what I should be.
Speaker B: Well, I'm 6 foot and I weigh 246. The doctor tells me to lose 30 pounds, but you know, when I'm thinner like that, like my sternum sticks out and I can't lay down very well, my body will start to hurt. Prior to that I had padding.
Speaker A: Hello? Yeah. Oh yeah, I get it, I get it. The pressure on the bones get. Gets the hurting. Yeah, I get it. Hey. Well, I've arrived. So it's a little bit early to be getting back to lunch, but I got a one o' clock phone call with my financial advisor. So we got to do something for my retirement. So I'm going to get in there and wait for his call. So I will talk to you later. I hope me talking about ice cream doesn't mean you have to rush out and get some more. But this. Do enjoy it. 73 KK6 with EZV clear.
Speaker B: Okay, well, I'm not that depressed, but you never know what could happen. Hey, I could feel bad. Hello, I'm six iwa.
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W6r h c repeater check 3.

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

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Speaker A: WF3 echo. You're pretty scratchy. I didn't quite catch your call. Got the kk6 on I. I think it is.
Speaker B: You're coming in maybe two by three.
Speaker A: You've got a lot of scratch in the background, but you may be coming in from a distance, who knows?

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: Hey, what you up to? I'm just leaving the Met. The nurse at rehab got some stuff cleared up and I'm just leaving my mom's new apartment. I was taking some measurements there to figure out where to put furniture, so might be able to move her as early as Friday.
Speaker B: Oh, they're releasing her that soon, huh?
Speaker A: Well, if they get the paperwork done. They still haven't. They have a slow rolling crap of the treehouse. What about just lazy people, non responsive, whatever. I'd be glad to get her out of there. It's on them to get the paperwork into the other facility because they can't transfer legally transfer her with all that medical release stuff making you sick. So it's all on them. So they're like wanting to get her out of there. I said well when are you gonna get the paperwork done? I talked to the supervisor and she said we'll get it submitted today. And I said well you told me that three days ago. She didn't much care for that comment, but I don't really care. And I said well she can't move any earlier than Friday, so that's the current plan.
Speaker B: Okay, well fingers crossed for that.
Speaker A: Yeah, the limb factor is moving her furniture. So I got, I got a guy coming over at 9 o' clock Thursday morning to start that process. So by the time we get everything back over to the new place and all set up, it'll probably be late Thursday afternoon. So that's why I said Friday.
Speaker B: Well, sounds good. I didn't answer your text last night. I was underneath the table trying to get the voice computer going. So far so good. No words. So this is a good one thing.
Speaker A: Awesome. So what connectors on the monitor look like hdmi?
Speaker B: I didn't even get the monitors hooked up. There's a. Already had a. Like a arm hang two monitors from but of course these monitors don't fit the arm so I kind of like put test pants on them and I'll. Then I'll worry about actually hooking it up then.
Speaker A: Yeah, good deal.
Speaker B: All right. And you still.
Speaker A: You haven't. You haven't found that cable, huh? Figured fell through the hole in the bag. Yeah.
Speaker B: You know, got a hockey game to go to. Seven o'. Clock.
Speaker A: Yeah, tomorrow, Thursday I got that Arcada thing unfortunately. So I'm probably going to end up going directly from the. Getting my mom's apartment. So that's why I say Area 15 kind of. So be able to be a long day.
Speaker B: All right? Yeah. Kind of getting a little noisy there.
Speaker A: I'm on the 215 of flamingo. I'm trying to talk into Red Mountain.
Speaker B: Okay. All right. Line of sight. Go bigger.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm behind these big berms and stuff going under. Under overpasses. So that's. That's probably part of the problem. Since I'm not a link. That's usually what I use on this part of town.
Speaker B: All right. Yeah, it's not bad now.
Speaker A: All right. Cool beans. That's about it. So I'm not gonna bother coming back to the office. I'm just gonna call his A. And I'll go home.
Speaker B: All right. Sounds good. Safe travels. Here.
Speaker A: Cool. I hear you on the Net tonight. I haven't gone the last couple of nights. Maybe I will tonight. 12pM Either. I forgot about that. All right. Talk to you tomorrow. Dennis can do.

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Speaker A: Negative contact.

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.

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