Transcriptions for 2026-03-05

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.

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

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

W7 spy w6r h, c repeater check 1.

Hope. I'm in chico. Oh, yeah, you should. You should get there and think. I'll.

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

And 6 grg. 36 local. Kn, 6sl and N6trg. What's going on? John, you out there?

Get your morning started off on the right foot. Listen in for the coffee break Net Daily at 7:30am here on the W6 GRC repeater.

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

Gears holds a slow speed Morse Cognat 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 W Fix. RHC Repeater Check 1.

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System 21, link off. K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

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Kn6qjz.wp6axm repeater. Kn6qjz. How do you copy?

K6 keg, k6 keg, this is k6rcs. Yo, k6rcs, we hear you loud and clear. I could tell because I could hear your aprs squawk and I was hoping my HT was going to hear you with that because I'd like to extend the fun are on the way with food. So we'll drop off the food to you and the boys and then I'll go run our other errands. Oh, okay. I didn't know that there were other errands, but roger that. I'm out in the front yard now, so I'm hoping to catch your APRS beacons. When you get a chance, hit that BCON button, turn it off, and then turn it back on. And I'm hoping the HD will hit it. Where is that dcon button? Sorry, I'm looking for it while I'm driving. Dead center bcon off and on. I found it. Oh, I was waiting for it to go. Okay, I just did it off and on. Yep, I think that did it. Cool. I'll confirm it in a second, but I saw a receive on the aprs side, so it's all good. All right, I'm cold. I'm going inside. K6RCs clear on your final. K6kg clear.

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.

Los Angeles link up.

Ust QST, QST. This is K6 Cable op Sacramento Valley traffic Net. This net's part of the national traffic system. The purpose of this net is to relay formal traffic into and out of Sacramento Valley. Had the provider sent emergency at the same direction. Please make no transmissions without permission and control all specs and are request of ST frequency 2SK6 located west of road. There's any station with BIR traffic please come down W6 RHC repeater check 3. Station where traffic to be listed. So behind kf6 obi, mike and willows. No traffic. Good evening, mike. Thank you. Kd6k west. Colin rolling. Okay, kd6tso is in too much pain tonight. Ks6djy. Good evening, lester. Ks6djy, bruce tico. No traffic. Good evening, bruce. Thank you. K6rcs. Okay, 6pmt, kilo, echo six, papa mike, tango, russ and gerber. Good evening, lester in the group and I have no traffic. Good evening, russ. Thank you. Ac6ufe, kc6ufe, bill anka pay no traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, bill. Thank you. Kn6pww. Kn6pww, this is jamie and chico with no traffic and good evening lester and the net. Good evening, jamie. All right, Dr. Rolls, I have it. Do we have any members or visitors wish to check in. There? No further traffic or picking. This is G6K closing segment of Valley traffic. Kilo, echo six, papa, mike, tango, kn6pww. Ah, just thinking about you. Anyway, k6pmt. Go ahead, Jamie. Just real quick, on the gars side, Michael acknowledged the note that I sent. I don't know if he called you obviously. And on the gears side, your contact information has been updated. Hopefully I can get to back as a Gears member possibly next month. I'll just download the application and send it to the PO box with. With my full payment. Very good. I forwarded you the radiator, I think. Did you get that? Yes, I did. I haven't sat down and read it yet, but I did. I did get it. Very good. Yeah, there's links in there if you want to try to pay electronically as well. Anyway, just wanted to close the loop with you. Anything else? That's it. I thank you greatly and until you're better paid. All right, well, I'm gonna call 73 then KN6 the PWW. Clear. K6PMT pits.

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

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Speaker A: Star base 12 the
Speaker B: WIP and 6 WIP and 6 MTM 44 degrees up here everybody in Magalia and the start of yet another
Speaker A: beautiful day. Good morning.
Speaker B: Yep Trevor's here and his wife is is working away at her stay at home job at part of her job. She's over there on the dining
Speaker A: room table hacking away. Hang on, I'll say goodbye Good morning to Ross. Okay so yeah, sorry for not getting
Speaker B: back to you right away. Lori told me that you had reciprocated in that. I'll probably diddly bop over sometime. What time are you leaving for for breakfast destinations?

I think we got it now, but I changed my whole thing up. I'm not going to put up that. I'm not going to put up that metal unistrut stuff. Don't need to. I'm going to use 2x6, real nice looking cedar and just come from the wall straight out. Yeah. Too much trouble on the unistrut. I don't like how. How big the holes are in the inner strut and what I'd have to go through to put that up. Sometimes mine works. I don't. I. I don't know if it's because it's upside down that it's having a problem with the batteries or what, but inconsistent reading. So I just want something else to check it out with. So I'll be over there way before you guys leave. I'll have yours for a backup.

Speaker A: Yeah, I almost went with that, but I got a truck bucket here. It's only part of a, it's only part of a footprint of a five gallon bucket. So inside the truck, this works better. On a second note, did you warn
Speaker B: the fellows that Blake was coming? I know that,
Speaker A: but just, just in case Blake was listening. I mean he
Speaker B: doesn't expect anything less from. OJ down to the floor.
Speaker A: So I put up a what a six foot ladder or close to it. And my, my Milwaukee light has adjustable telescoping pole that comes out of the top and I, I just set it on top of that, motorized it down and we watched that all three, four hours last night. It was, it was so badass. All the way down to the floor to the screen. The race car driving and, and, and the, and the different stuff. The people are the same height you, you are when they're looking at you behind a news desk or whatever. Oh man, what a. That sure adds the, the part we've been missing. Most TVs at three feet off the ground or more. So. Yeah, Still had another two and a half or three feet that I could have made it bigger but you know that thing, that thing tries to stay with 6:19 on the ratio. So. But anyway, it was still big.
Speaker B: It'll be up today, guarantee you. We just might figure out how to get
Speaker A: the sound from that unit into the home theater. So yeah, then, then, then we'll be closer to Senate and smoking. I'll be right back. N6 NTM.

Beautiful morning. Here it says grg 36 local.

Speaker A: Four more days and I'll have the Maddox 16. And I only I only paid $199 for it on ebay. We'll see. It better be in a full blister pack because I didn't see nothing about paying paying shipping jay and he added 15 onto that. Otherwise I wouldn't have bought it because between that and tax it came out to 230. I I see that harbor freight raised the to 259. So that would have been getting up there about almost 300
Speaker B: bucks. They're supposed to be here by
Speaker A: the 9th, but I was blown away with that screen. Showed up on the 4th. Huh? It wasn't supposed to be Urzella 9th either. I wonder what's up with these mail companies getting it done days ahead of time.

Well, we've had, like, three different mailmen so that they got some position changes around there for new people.

Blue screen of death. And it doesn't even have a screen. Hardly. Anyway, yeah, I'm glad I didn't jump in. I don't. I didn't see the use for it. It is nice that you can use it for phone calls or at least texting. I mean, but.

I'm looking to make a little Faraday cage in one of the three glove boxes that the truck has. So I have a place to put the phone in. Yeah, well, you shouldn't have any problem with the mesh unit putting that in in a small projector. Yeah. Oh, breakfast is on the way.

Speaker A: Well, K6MGK is out here just piddling around here trying to clean up a few things at my desk area. Put in a. I've had it for a little while, a little mini computer. I don't know why, it's kind of old. So bought her the mini computer with Windows 11 on it because that's what she wants anyway. And yeah, I got that put in. Having some trouble with the audio, but I found so fixed that and got the
Speaker B: obvious. Pretty impressed with the little
Speaker A: mini weld. Oh, maybe three, four inches by another five inches or so and mounts on the back of the screen, the little monitors, you know, so
Speaker B: far. Continues. Run, everybody, run while you can.

Speaker A: Well in all these years that I could tell you right now. You talk about being demanding on a computer or whatever, but I was demanding on it when I had my business back in Windows xp. So all these computers today are way those machines were so pretty easy
Speaker B: to be productive with. One actually. A tooth one that only cost like 210 or something.
Speaker A: Something like that, you know. Yeah, there's a pretty big difference there. None of the people around here too much are gamers and stuff like that. And hey, talking about Faraday, something like this that literally comes in like a 5 inch by 5 inch box, brand new, would fit in a little garbage can thereadays. So that'd be a perfect little item to put in there.
Speaker C: Windows what do you think? Jay Windows Steve has a way of making you feel old. He didn't know nothing about no Vic 20.

Well, worldwide. It's a popular operating system. I'm not a fan, you guys know that I'm a Linux operating system user and have been since 2004. But the wife, she worked for companies that all use Windows, and she's familiar with that operating system and works, doesn't want to change. And you talk about all the spyware and stuff like this, this nitty computer, there's no microphone on it, there's no video camera on it. And. Well, my wife is old school when it comes to banking and stuff like that, so, I mean, she might. She browses the Internet to look at some stories and perhaps does order a few things on a couple different websites. But, you know, that's pretty much what I would say a good portion of Americans do.

Speaker A: Boy that makes you feel loved. Nobody says good morning. Oh, shoot. Turn this radio back up. Hope I didn't double with anybody. And he over you. He touched on you. Of course.
Speaker B: Sorry about that. I'll mark it down. Let me see. I'm gonna have to get bigger paper. That's. That's 16 stars for me, just. Just today.

System32link op.

What'd you say, Steve?

Speaker A: So your ham clock to whatever that new thing was. Something I was considering doing.
Speaker B: Building a ham clock until I know for sure that they were going to be supported. Yeah. That's the one I'm talking about, right?
Speaker A: That's you. Somehow you. You know, you. That's a video I think I sent you. But maybe you got it somewhere else, too, I thought. Where it's talking about on the ham clock settings or whatever. Like, you know, using the terminal and stuff like that.
Speaker B: That's what I'm asking if you've done that yet. Multitasking. Multitasking. Knee pads. Knee pads are the answer. Knee pads work good to sit on if you got hemorrhoids.

Well, I know both of you guys got a real nice phone. I have a decent phone, too. You're talking about spyware. And you know them things that all of us like to use for. A lot of what we do are just more full of spyware than you can imagine.

By the way, cool over there, computers for classrooms. Then I had to drive up and ring the bell there, but they came out and grabbed everything I had. So I profess learning electronics like computers, cables, cords, those kinds of things, you know that that's still a decent place to drop them off for e waste kn6mgk. Well, I don't know about that. I mean yeah, I donated it but all my stuff's older so all you guys want to run new stuff. Even the one I just bought my wife is probably 2 years old at this point anyway. But yeah, some of those I think the newest one I opened up before I sent it in over to him to look at it. One of the devices inside, like the DVD ROM with the DVD writer or whatever, it had the date of 2013 on it. So I think that was the newest one. Yeah, let me see what I can read here. Okay. Yeah, the one I'm using right now for a desktop unit was my mom's for a while. Sister bought her a new one. This has got a Intel Core i3 seventh generation in it. I know it came, I'm pretty sure it came with Windows Vista if I remember right anyway. But yeah, I put Linux on it so it's working fine. It's a little slow to boot up but other than that, you know, it does what I need it to do. So I keeping it and then I have my little laptop which, which does have I think an Intel Celeron processor in it. Like it probably 1.9 GHz so about probably a third of the speed. J. The hard drive is about half full already. It has 128 gig hard drive. That's all I've got in this laptop. So yeah, I might have to invest in some sort of external storage at some point for it if I want to continue using it for long term anyway. Yeah, or I'll move it over to Linux too eventually. Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of Windows, you know, but there is in fact yesterday I had a problem with this laptop I was trying to put on Chirp that program Chirp and I must have selected the wrong website to get it from and man it tossed on some. I'm going to call it adware real quick. Like I couldn't stop it. I you know, I could see it was asking me to confirm the publisher and I could see it was a weird one and I go nope, it's too late already. Just hitting on the website was enough. Anyway, that's the tough thing about Windows and why I like Linux. I don't care if I went to any adware, spyware, malware website. It couldn't get on. It just never would. Worst thing I'd ever have to do is reboot the computer, you know, is to clear it off. And then it just couldn't come back. So because it just. They build all these viruses for. Mostly for Windows, I think. I think it's Windows. They probably. Gates there, he probably invests in all the viruses and then he invests in the. Then he sells you the antivirus software, you know, something like that. It's a conspiracy, I tell you. KN6MGK.

Speaker A: Kn6mgk on frequency for a few minutes. Kilo november 6th mike golf kilo.
Speaker B: Well, good morning. N6grg up in beautiful ready.
Speaker A: November 6 Golf Romeo Golf from Kilo November 6 Mike Golf Kilo location Chico QTH Looking forward to decent weather, slightly slight bits of wind. They're saying other than that, not a lot going on here. Purchased about, gosh, it seems like six months ago. I don't time flies but one of those mini computers in ace Magic Vista v1 I think it is. Anyway, I got it up and running yesterday for the wife there because it has Windows 11 on it and she I couldn't get the audio to go and so finally I was thinking about it while laying in bed and so I got out and looked at it again and go okay, well yeah, there's a setting right over here there. So I found that setting and changed that and then all of a sudden it started working. So anyway, that's good. Anyway, I've been pretty impressed with it so far. You know, the thing is only like maybe 4 inches by 4 inches, a couple inches high and has a little mount on it. You just put it on the back of the monitor. So she's got a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, which I never use those things but she likes them and anyway seems to be working pretty good. So I'm impressed with it. Back to you.
Speaker B: Well, you're running, you're personally running regular laptop, right?
Speaker A: Roger, Roger, yeah, regular laptop. So hers was a desktop, you know, unit which is pretty big and bulky. You know, you send them on their tower. It's actually a, probably like a mid sized tower anyway because it's an older one. I mean it probably dates back to, oh I don't know, 2006 or something. I'd have to look back at it. It was an old one, but it had window. It had been upgraded to Windows 10 and it was Windows 10 Pro or whatever. And so it's at its end of life. So anyway, she was trying to put a program into it the other day and says nope, it only will work on Windows 11. So I'm like okay, well guess it's time to get your other computer going. So yeah, so that was a long answer for your short question myself just using a 14 inch laptop here, one of the things. But I have my desktop here too, which is, you know, one behind it here. It's probably a 24 inch screen with Angel Pentium 3 dating back to about 2010 probably, I don't know. But anyway, it had Windows Vista on it When I got that. But it has Linux on it now, of course. Okay. Yeah,
Speaker B: I'm surprised that 2006 unit was operating well enough to do anything with. But anyway, that's ancient from computer years. Well, so you doing the usual thing today? Are you actually working at Yankee Hill or what are you doing?
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm going to get going here in a few minutes and get breakfast going and then I'll head out towards Yankee Hill. So anyway, I could be wrong on the date on this one. It could be 2010 or so, but I'll put you this way. I just went and dropped off three computers and a whole bunch of big box of wiring and stuff like that. Mostly all computer related. Maybe some telephone related stuff in there, keyboards and extra micro mice and stuff like that over here to computers for classrooms. They were pretty nice if anyone's located in the Chico area. But you know, I've donated to them before the stuff and e waste, that kind of thing and they take it and they were pretty nice about it. So come in. Emptied some space here in my shack but I've got a couple more now that I've been messing with getting computers straightened out here. So anyway, I know you're okay with your computers but I probably have another laptop here if I could get ready to go with Linux on it if that was needed. But it sounds like you've got it under control back to you.
Speaker B: Well, I pulled out a couple of those computers that I've been wanting to put Linux on and I've got Linux downloaded on one not installed, but it's there so we'll see. Anyway, have to kind of rely on what I've already got working and not try it, you know, and use what I've got because I don't, you know, without the Internet I can't download a bunch of crap. But anyway,
Speaker A: yeah,
Speaker B: I was working on this IC22s regular little ICOM and looking at the microphone connection and I'm kind of thinking maybe there's a short with. I have to look at the relay that transmit relay because it's got full 12v full power where I think it's supposed to have a relay coil connection. It's got full power. I'm kind of wondering if, you know, all these relays usually have a.
Speaker A: A
Speaker B: diode right across the relay coil and if that relay coil is short, that diode is shorted, then this is what I would see. So I gotta take a look inside and see if that's what's going on. So yeah, it Won't key because of that and always some little thing. Don't know how that happens. All right I will let you go. I know you want to go n6grg
Speaker A: yeah no I got a few more minutes but yeah I was just trying to fill you in on what's the new Seattle thing picked up from the Sonic Keys the person handling that Yaesu FT70DR. So another little HT anyway and did the Mars mod on it Got it programmed up a little bit with some GMRS and a couple HAM things. I was trying it the other day with a short antenna. I brought my longer antenna with me. I might try it from Yankee Hill later today and see if I get out. I did put a couple calls out on Tuesday and nobody came back but afternoon time so we'll. That's another thing with that. So working on putting together a bunch of communication frequencies and so forth on a little database and putting that together. So another thing I'm working on but all radio related stuff that really hadn't been done that I've been wanting to for a long time just have a record of all the frequencies and stuff that I that are used are in our area and stuff like that. So pretty cool. Anyway. Yeah. Let's see Anything else I can think of? Yeah well that same guy same estate there. The guy has a ICOM 7300 probably pretty reasonable but I haven't found out yet what they're going to be asking for that it's just the old school one more like what you have I think I was thinking about playing around with one and just picking it up so that I could inform other people how I'm doing things with it and so forth. I'm pretty sure it works and everything. The guy didn't use very much of his stuff as he was. I think he was almost 90 years old. Now back to you.
Speaker B: I just looked inside and I see a connection going to the microphone
Speaker A: that
Speaker B: might have something to do with what I'm seeing on the microphone plug. Don't know why I would have chased changed it to full voltage on purpose. I don't know. I don't know what to think. Anyway I would have liked to have been able to put that radio on. It would have been a useful VHS transceiver but we'll see. So yeah I better get going. I've got that 192 thing is going on right now. It's the early bird session but oh by the way have you heard them talk about this thing called SWAT with meshtastic slots?
Speaker A: Well, I mean, we're using the USA preset. And so each one of the channels, like medium fast, that's what they call channels in there. But long fast and so on. They have a certain frequency slots for the presets and so that's what we're using. But yeah, you can change that. And some. Half of the. They can't communicate with us, you know, and they can't figure out why. And some erroneously. Somehow some frequency slot got changed. So, yeah, I've heard about it. See, the settings couldn't describe exactly what it is. I know on mesh core you can change some things about the width, the bandwidth, and probably the way that the frequency shift keying happens and so on. There's another setting with that, but that's all I know. And I don't know much about that portion of things, actually.
Speaker B: Well, they're calling it slot 20. And the frequencies are above 900 MHz. A band of slots. A bunch of different slots.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's what comes up as a preset, like slot 20 on medium fast. It's like 913 dot. I might get it wrong. 913, 325 or something, or 125 or something like that. 913 something is there actual megahertz. And then, you know, then the like you say frequency slot is 20. So yeah, it sounds like whoever it is is using the same thing that we're using.
Speaker B: Yeah, the thing that kind of got me was Ofg didn't understand that it's a shared band and blah, blah, blah. He just. He had a different concept of it and didn't understand it. But from what I could pick up of what he was saying, and he's supposed to be. And he's training somebody else, so it's kind of scary. Yeah.
Speaker A: I don't know. Yeah. But. Well, I mean, yeah, the frequency is. A lot of us are using the sharing, but some people go off on their own, right? I mean, because they want to. They go off on their own. You can do a lot of things with that and stay within the range of the little radios there. But then they can't communicate to the other folks. So, you know, we use that for the public channel and then we have our own private encrypted keys. So it can use the same infrastructure and the same, same. Everyone else's stuff, we stay on the same channel, but we just use an encrypted key for our own Private Channel. KN6MGK.
Speaker B: Yeah, 6 GRG. There's this gadget that I was asking you about? Because I was asked about that gadget by a guy. Echo X Ray Tango. Did you see that?
Speaker A: Not that I recall. Did you send it by text or signal?
Speaker B: Yes, sir. I thought he did.

Node 51018 connected to node 405480.

Speaker A: Well, looks like all either religious stuff
Speaker B: or
Speaker A: war stuff seems to be what we've been yakking about lately, which probably has been folly pretty much. So try to mix in some ham radio stuff in here, but now I can't find it. Whatever it was that you may have sent or I've forgotten maybe, you know, I think I might have a dose of CRS too sometimes.
Speaker B: Well, that stuff does go on for a way back and. So I'm going, trying to go. Before that you started talking about disposing lithium batteries and solar panels, which is a crazy stuff subject that I don't think anyone would be interested in knowing about because nobody's disposing of lithium battery lithium iron oxide batteries and that's the only batteries I deal with. I'm going way back. Some of the out of the world conversations we started there. I. No wonder you can't find where I was asking about Ms. Dastic. Oh my God.
Speaker A: Well, you say nobody is disposing of and I just so happen to have some panels that needs to be disposed of. So I guess I'll just go in the dump trailer and they're all smashed up and that'll just end up in a landfill where I don't. I don't know. I was hoping to find a better source. Maybe they have some silver in them for somebody. I don't know. Anyway, that was a thought on the solar panels and the batteries.
Speaker B: Yep.
Speaker A: There's some that have already been toasted, you know, I mean lithium iron phosphate batteries, so. Yeah, so some people are being charged hazardous waste fees and things for trying to dump them at the landfills and things. So that was why the question came about. Because when that time comes, you know, there's going to be some issues there. I guess so anyway, that was the reason for bringing that subject up. It was actually something I was interested in. But yeah. Nevertheless, you may have to ask a question again or send it to me or whatever so I could look into it.
Speaker B: I don't know. Yeah, I looked way back to pre birthday stuff. Anyway, yeah, no luck on signal. So maybe, I don't know, hard to think maybe I didn't ask you. Lithium iron phosphate batteries have 8,000 cycles typically. So to be disposing of lithium iron oxide batteries would mean that somebody has a battery that didn't have any protections whatsoever and got destroyed by the waves. And a solar panel can be set up to work if it hasn't been, you know, busted, you know, physically damaged. It can be made to work and do something for something I mean, I would take it. I have things I can do with them. So I don't know, just. And I'm sure I'm not unique. I'm sure there's plenty of people who would want them. So I don't know how you're reaching out. If you're using Facebook free or,
Speaker A: You
Speaker B: know, the other platforms where free stuff is made available to people. I don't get it. Why would you want to destroy a solar panel? That's like destroying. Like destroying a glass of water is just what.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, when they've been dropped from about, you know, 30ft up. Yeah, I think it's pretty well gone. So. Yeah, the way it goes. Yep. Anyway, that's some of the cases here. I've got like 27 panels of paradise there that I need to do something with. And I've offered them for sale, you know, a couple times. And yeah, nobody responds.
Speaker B: So.
Speaker A: Alrighty. Yeah, I might list them one more time. We'll see. But I need to clear them out or make them into a fence or something, which, you know, because I have no purpose for them other than that at this point, they're 2006. They still work, I'm sure, but they're probably better than the ones I got on my house right now that I've operated my radio station on. But that's here. Nor there, if people are not interested because you can, you know, buy new panels for a hundred bucks a piece now.
Speaker B: Alrighty.
Speaker A: I know you got to get back to it and get my wife going with some coffee and breakfast going, so I'll have to chat with you later. Have a good net. 73 KN 6 MGK.
Speaker B: Sounds like they were intentionally thrown off a roof. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker A: Well, I don't know about intentionally, but, you know, what happens, happens. I don't come into knowing sometimes how come things are the way they are, but yeah, they're. Yeah, maybe I'll. Well, anyway, it's just here nor there. Yeah, it is what it is. I mean, there's lots of people that toss things eventually, but good stuff. I mean, some people don't hoard everything. They hoard enough stuff, though. There's a big boneyard there in Naked Hills and stuff. I go through it and get some stuff out of here easily. But sometimes lots of fences and gates and all kinds of stuff get pulled off the job sites. Anyway. I'll say 73Kn6MgK.
Speaker B: All right, 73N6GRG.

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The gears. Monthly informal breakfast is held on the second Saturday of the month at 9am at the Farmer's Skillet, located at 690 Rio Lindo Avenue, Chico. All are welcome to attend W6RHC Repeater Check 1.

And this is grt Back again. Steve, are you on the road?

Speaker A: N6iwh ko6bty. N6iwh ko6bty. Calling you out there, pete. Did I hear my call sign?
Speaker B: Good morning, Pete. Thank you. Got the artwork this morning. I'm going to take it in and put it up here at work. Unfortunately, I am getting ready to go inside. But thank you. That looks amazing.
Speaker C: Okay. You know, I did want to talk to you though, being that you were military, about stepping on toes. You know what I mean? Like hurting people's feelings or something like that. Disparagement of the military. I want to be careful.
Speaker B: I don't think you're going to offend anybody. Yeah, I think you should be good.
Speaker C: Well, I've also got a tank and a half track with skeletons all over them. I mean, you know, blah. Flying through the air. All right, look at. I'll catch you later. KO6BGY on 6 idle 8 73K06BGY. I'll be clear.

Speaker A: Kp7reo.kp7r7g bubble. Somebody
Speaker B: calling.
Speaker A: Yeah, hey, good morning. Nr 7g mobile hyco. Highway 318 northbound.
Speaker B: Hey, John. Very good. Must be a lot of wind up your way.
Speaker A: Yeah, a little. Little wind noise on the windshield. But anyway, where are you at today?
Speaker B: Actually, I'm gonna have to jump off here. I gotta get ready for a zoom meeting. And I'm multitasking three things right now. Then I gotta head down to Henderson for an office luncheon we're doing today. So. Yeah, anyway, very good. Hope things are going well for you up there in Spring Creek. And it looks like the work continued on Mike's property is not going to happen until the end of the month or April. Just unbelievable.
Speaker A: Work on what property is not going to happen until April.
Speaker B: I've got. I've got plumbing to be done at the Tonopah place.
Speaker A: Oh, okay. Well, hey, I know you're doing three things. I won't keep you, but I'll be on the road for a while. And again, I'm just probably. Well, you know where I am. I'm probably about 20 miles north of turnoff from 93 onto 318. So northbound 318, mile marker 21 on Lincoln County. I won't. I won't keep you. Good. Cap. 73. NR7G bubble.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Know the route. I'm gonna have to head that way this year for an end dot project up that way. So. Anyway, travel safe. KB7REO. All right, take care. 73 from
Speaker A: NR70.

Speaker A: Los angeles link
Speaker B: up.
Speaker A: N6mvt. N6mvt. Wa6wiry.
Speaker B: System11 Link off. Well, good morning, sunshine. What's going on there? Fred and.
Speaker A: I just headed down to the office. I got to do some work on some panels. Man, all of a sudden business is. Just went nuts. A lot of new stuff going in. How's your day?
Speaker B: Not too bad, you know, same old, you know, stuff. Different day. Huh. I wonder why. Things are changing the season, sunshine. I don't know, Geopolitical, whatever. Have any idea what's why?
Speaker A: Not a clue. Anyway, starting to. As I said, starting to pick up a lot of new business. And I'm working on another tower company, see if I can get some more of their business. They got towers all over the place, so I'm working on that. It all takes time.
Speaker B: It sounds to me like you're. You're aiming for less sleep. Potential getting woken up in the middle of the night, but seems like you're. You're kind of into that. You don't care, so. But I need my beauty sleep now. Guess that's. That's the difference between the two of us.
Speaker A: Look, they've been ringing my phone since I was 18, so it doesn't bother me. Anyway, I'm here at the office. I gotta work on panels and stuff, so we'll chat with you later. Have a good day. W86 yre in Whittier.
Speaker B: Okay? Been here in front of you and we'll talk to you later in 6, 10.

N6 grt portable west of ready. November 6th. Golf Romeo Golf Quan Shay portable with big air, a big portable antenna.

November 6th. Mike golf, kilo and 6 grg portable quan shank with a somewhat longer antenna. Or anyone else. Kn6sln if you're out there. N6grg.

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.

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Taking Reddit link up.

This is GRG, just a 25 links west of Reading, Northbound, south of Ely. How you doing? Yeah, good morning. You're a little. Little noisy with mobile flutter, but you're in there. And I'm on a portable into System 25 Cascavale from west of Reading in the forest in 1613.

Speaker A: No. No reply from you. I don't know why. This is tr.
Speaker B: 6trg in a beautiful
Speaker A: wooded area west of Reading. Kind of in the boondocks. System 25 link.

And this is TRG. 25 link, 8kn, 6sln and 6trg. Are you hanging out, John?

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Speaker A: Seven DSP mobile. Twin bulbs.
Speaker B: There you are. This is WA6CWF. I put you on the list because I knew you'd be there.
Speaker A: Thank you for having faith in me. Oh, I'm gonna have some steamed eggs today, just in case you want to know.
Speaker B: Very good. That's always something that I do want to know. So I'm glad that you're having a good work day and you're off to have lunch.
Speaker A: Absolutely. And it just to let you know, 39 degrees here and the wind's blowing so hard, it probably feels like about 14. It's really cold, and we had snow this morning. So. Anyway, have a great day. KB7 DSP mobile.
Speaker B: Winter is not done with you yet. Well, drive carefully. This is WA6CWF. You have a great day.

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Here hold the free Morse code class every Wednesday night, 6pM at the Golden Beaver Distillery still house at 2420 Park Avenue. All are welcome to come. Learn Morse code. W6R, H, C. Repeater check three.

System2 link up.

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 1.

We6axm receiver.

Speaker A: Wb6kxv marine mobile, lake orville.
Speaker B: 6 CWO vehicle mobile. How are you doing out on the lake?
Speaker A: I'm doing good, doing good. Just enjoying sailing alone here. Had surgery recently. 20 days out from that and I'm just out here having a great time, having lunch on the water and checking in with nets and so on and so forth.
Speaker B: Hey, Roger that. This is Gary. I live in Oroville. In fact, I'm leaving Oroville right now. I'm over on Oprah Road. I guess it is. Whatever. I just left the gas station handing them half my paycheck and fuel in this truck, you know, just going up and up and up. Well, you got a sailboat, Roger, Roger.
Speaker A: Yeah, this is Hal and I'm aboard Genesis. It's a 27 foot Catalina and I keep it at Bidwell Marina. I live in Gridley, California.
Speaker B: Oh, okay. Wow, that person just outright ran the red light. Yeah, I've known a few people that like to sail sailboats and right now today's a good day for it. Nice breeze out there today.
Speaker A: Yeah, Moving along, not very fast. Right now the boat's sailing itself and I've only got one sail up, so I'm only doing about four miles an hour. But yeah, it should have about 12 to 15 mile an hour winds out here. Starting to form little white caps right now.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, I've lived here for 30 something years and we always talked about a boat, but we've never gotten one. My experience with the lake, one time we were given a free rental of a patio boat for half a day in a raffle and we enjoyed that. But work and everything else, we just never got around to getting a boat or anything.
Speaker A: Yeah, Roger on that, Gary. Well, I tell you, I've had small boats quite a while, but since I retired about 17 years ago, I've gone through three boats and slowly gotten up from 23 to 27ft, different boats and yeah, it's great. And we have a little club called the Chico Yacht Club and we have seven boats right now in the marina that stay there year round.
Speaker B: Okay. Part of a yacht club? Yeah. I have a friend, I don't know if he's doing sailing, he had the smaller sailboat and he used to sail his boat quite a bit. Him and his daughter, they liked to go out. When I was in high school, I did a wilderness class in summer school and we had backpacking and rock climbing and repelling and. And we had sailing and learned a little bit about sailing. The teacher we had, Mr. Allen, he had one of those Hobie cats. And my sister and brother in law had one of those too for a while. They really enjoyed those.
Speaker A: Roger. Yeah, I've sailed the Hobie 16s and Hobie 14s years ago. I had a small little 13 foot boat called a Laser for a while. Yeah, they're a lot of fun. They're a lot of fun.
Speaker B: And
Speaker A: the bigger boats are nice because you can have lunch on them. I've got a bathroom on mine. I got a two burner stove and a microwave oven and all that kind of good stuff, barbecue. It's kind of like a home.
Speaker B: W e w axm receiver kf6cwo Friday yeah, when I was, I was in the army, I was stationed in Belgium and there was a Danish master sergeant that was my supervisor at that time and, and he had a dream he had to sailboat and he had a dream that he was going to sail around the world. I don't know if he ever did or not, but used to talk about it all the time.
Speaker A: Yeah, Roger, Some of the people in our club have done that, sailed around the world. In fact, two of them, they're older now, they must be 92 of them went through the Panama Canal going opposite directions, both sailing around the world in different directions.
Speaker B: Wow, that must have been an experience going through the Panama Canal.
Speaker A: Yeah, Roger, but just imagine little tiny Chico and two people meet each other in the Panama Canal. What are the chances of that?
Speaker B: That's quite a. Like I say, that would be quite an experience. Or getting next to one of those large ships. You know, I remember one of the cruise ships that we were on. After our cruise, they were going to reposition from the Pacific into the Atlantic and supposedly they were going to be going through the Panama Canal.
Speaker A: Yeah, Roger, Roger. Yeah. I don't think I'll ever get to do that. I'm almost 78 years old, but at least I'll sail in the bay. And I'm going to sail to Monterey here pretty soon. Another boat, another friend. We all have boats, different places we can share.
Speaker B: Well, that's, you know, another type of hobby. And you know, you get groups that do the same thing and imagine you guys got a lot of stories to swap and everything. Now we're getting ready to go on Alaskan cruise in July. I've always wanted to go to Alaska, so we're going to do that. I just, I retired back in October. My job ended and I ran a power plant for 32 years here in Oroville. And so anyway, it ran out and I was 66 and 8 months and started my Social Security and got a nice 401k. And so I'm. I'm retired now, too. I got to go to my mom's and take care of some. Some business for her.
Speaker A: Roger, Roger, Gary. WB6KXVID. Yeah, that's great. Yeah. If you ever want to go sailing, you hear me on. Come on out. I take people out all the time and it's fun. It's just nice. Today I'm by myself. That's okay. It's super beautiful out here today. Nobody here.
Speaker B: This is the best time of year
Speaker A: to go, I think. You know, summers get too hot. This is great.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's nice. Peaceful and relaxing, I imagine. Yeah, summertime, you got that hot sun beating on you and you just want to get out of it, which I guess is another reason I don't have a boat to play around in the summer. Oh, there's a boat for sale. Anyway, what was your name again? I'm sorry, short memory.
Speaker A: Roger, Gary. Name is Hal. Hotel Alpha Lima. Hal Hotel Alpha Lima. Yeah. Well, have a wonderful day, Gary, and I'll try to remember your call. I'm not very good with that, but I do remember Gary, but.73, have a nice day and thanks for coming back to me. This is whiskey problem. 6 kilo x ray Victor, Marine Mobile.
Speaker B: Okay, Hal, well, you continue to enjoy your day. It's nice talking to you. I've never talked Marine Mobile before, so I got that one. And yeah, I used to be on here quite a bit in the early days, but a lot of the people are gone. I spend more time on hf and so anyway, you have a good day. This is KF6, CW.
Speaker A: Roger. Yeah, me too. I just checked in on the Marine Net. There's a Maritime net at 14, 300. And so I checked in there. When I'm out sailing, I always check in and they work really hard to relay. I like that because if I ever take this thing and I've got to take it to Washington and sail out to the islands out there, the San Juan, I want to feel have some connection with the world other than cell phone. 73 kf 60 wo.

Kb7reo mobile.

Gears holds a slow speed Morse code net on 40 meters every Thursday night starting at 7pm Frequency of 74 4/4 or minus if the frequency is in use. All licensed amateur radio operators are welcome to join in the net W6 RHC repeater check 2.

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.

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

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

Los Angeles linked up.

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 to W6RHC Repeater Check 1.

Los Angeles link up.

Here's holds a free Morse code class every Wednesday night, 6pM at the Golden Beaver Distillery still house at 2420 Park Avenue. All are welcome to come learn Morse code W6R, H, C repeater check 2.

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

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Reading link. On system link. This is n6grg on local 36.

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Kilo november 6th. Sierra, lima, november n6. Grt j6. Welcome. It's right over here. Kilo, November 5th. Sierra leaving in November N60. RZ. Mike, are you out there? John?

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Gears holds a slow speed Morse Codenat 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 WFIC RHC Repeater Check 3.

Speaker A: Hello, ralph. This is kk7tbi. Panaca. I got a report back on my dental appointment. Monday at 11. This Monday at 11.
Speaker B: Okay. See if I can break away.
Speaker A: All right? Yeah, we'll see. I'll let you know.
Speaker B: Just got done getting all the stuff setting around the apartment, so that's done. And I think they're supposed to release her tomorrow. Like around 10 or so in the morning.
Speaker A: I'll bet you'll like that. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker B: It's going to be hard. A hard adjustment for. But we'll see.
Speaker A: She'll like it. It should just take a little while getting used to it, but them places are pretty good. My mom was in one for a while. She got to liking it.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's kind of what everybody tells me.
Speaker A: So it is a nice place.
Speaker B: I got it pretty much set up for her. I think I got pretty much everything she's gonna want in there. She'll want some knickknacks here and there that we can. I can bring over from other place
Speaker A: little by little, but they move. It just takes a while to get adjusted. Is it cold down there and the wind blowing?
Speaker B: It's not cold. It's mid-60s, but, yeah, blowing pretty good, you know, higher and lower.
Speaker A: I don't know what the sustained winds
Speaker B: are, but there's a couple of decent gusts coming through. I think we got a high wind warning out until like, tomorrow evening sometime.
Speaker A: I just got back into feeding that old horse, and he. The wind was blowing pretty bad and kind of nippy out there. Of course, we're a little higher than you are, I guess.
Speaker B: Yeah. Like I said, the car says it's 66 degrees, so temperature's pleasant. Just the wind, but it beats the freaking 98, 99. I had down in Yuma last weekend. There wasn't a cloud in the sky. There was no wind that was at least nice, but, man, it was warm.
Speaker A: Just getting you for July and August in Mexico.
Speaker B: Yeah, I just got on the expressway. I got 30 miles to go.
Speaker A: And so it's going to take me
Speaker B: 50 minutes to get there with traffic.
Speaker A: I just love Las Vegas traffic.
Speaker B: It's not even rush hour yet.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's crazy. The older I get, it harder for us to go down there because we go. Have to go out on Rainbow. Clear out on Rainbow to Dennis. We usually, just as we head in town, we'll hit that express lane or whatever it is and go out that way and hit it. Hit 95 and then go back to Rainbow. Yeah, that's not too bad because you're
Speaker B: coming in from the north anyways.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker B: So Rainbow's fairly north of town. So at least you're gonna have to drive. Drive all the way through town into Henderson or something like that.
Speaker A: That'd be. Yeah I did. I had a doctor that I found my lungs over there and I had to go clear over there. Time we and my wife got through there, we were fit to be tied. Wanting to tear hair out. We got lost. Two old people just shouldn't be down there and all that spaghetti bottom and all that stuff.
Speaker B: Yeah even. Even here around town when I know where. If I know where I'm going or I've been there multiple times, I still
Speaker A: put it in the nav system because
Speaker B: it tends to let you know if there's traffic. Right. You can navigate around it.
Speaker A: So that's why I was hand. We use that quite a bit when we're down there. Try to keep us straight. Find us to get in there where they got all them lanes of traffic and it's telling us to get over and they got us locked in and we don't know where we're going after that one. Well there's where you're supposed to turn but you're in the wrong way. So that happened a few times.
Speaker B: Yeah, I've noticed that the new, more modern systems actually tell you what lane you get into and anymore the more. The more California drivers will get in here. I know that sounds biased but it's true. The more California drivers will get in here. If you turn on your blinker they tend to speed up and try to prevent you from getting and changing lanes. It's just crazy.
Speaker A: I agree with that. That happened quite a few times down there. Even on the freeway there. I don't know. They just think that left hand lane, better lane. I guess down there they don't let any semis in that get in that left lane. So they drive in that left hand lane all the time. They don't move over after they. They just stay in that lane all the way up through the freeway.
Speaker B: Yeah, I know some. Some states it's actually illegal to do that.
Speaker A: You're supposed to. You're supposed to move over unless you're passing.
Speaker B: I'm not sure if Nevada's one of those or not, but I know that's how this looks at some.
Speaker A: I think most of them are that way. After you get around the car, pull back in the right hand lane so cars coming by can pass you or whatever rather than pass you on the right it's probably not too safe going, passing along the Right. But it sure happens a lot. Yep.
Speaker B: So I think the last time you and I talked, you, you gave up on HF and sent that radio to somebody in Florida, is that right?
Speaker A: I had some friends here. They were retired Air Force and she was in communications. And when she found out I had that thing, she just pestered me. So I said, she's got to have it. She just got to have it. So I boxed her up and sent it to her. She just. Like a kid in the candy store, she thinks that's the. She's getting quite a kick out of it, I guess.
Speaker B: Oh, that's great.
Speaker A: That's great.
Speaker B: And like I said, the bands are
Speaker A: really good right now. Making a lot of.
Speaker B: A lot of contact. I know we're on the downhill slope of the sunspot cycle. I'm not sure how much longer it's going to be really good, but it's been fantastic. Even the higher bands, like 10 meters have been great.
Speaker A: Oh yeah? Yeah.
Speaker B: A lot of content. Lots of Japan's pretty easy from the west coast. Actually. Been making a lot of contact in Europe, South America, obviously. That's pretty easy. Quite a few down in Australia, New
Speaker A: Zealand, Tahiti, areas like that. There's a guy here in town that. Well, I give him the antenna to that great. Well, it was cb, base station from Wilson's down there. It's a big end, you know, pretty good size bandana. I gave that to him to set up because he sends us that 10 meter really strong and getting a kick out of it. So I let him take that because he said he could cut that down for us to where I was working. 10 meters.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I mean it's 10 and 11 meters are pretty close.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's easy. Easy to do. Yeah.
Speaker B: I'd have to go look at my logbook. I think the majority of my contacts down towards Australia, New Zealand are probably on. Probably on 20 and maybe 15.
Speaker A: But I have to go back and look.
Speaker B: But there's been quite a few lot lots on the pewter of Russia and China. Not a lot, but a few there too.
Speaker A: You understand them when they're talking to them. They speak English.
Speaker B: Well.
Speaker A: Most times I've seen them as I talk to. Even when they're speaking, it don't sound like it. I. There was a bunch of guys from Australia that come to Cedar when I was living in Cedar and they came there to shear sheep. There was quite a few sheep men around that area. And then guys come in there With a shearing glass or shears their sheep. And it's quite interesting to talk to them. They were a good bunch of people.
Speaker B: Yeah, I work with a few Australians on some projects that we have. But yeah, they get used to the dialect.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker B: Just like the Brits.
Speaker A: I work with some of those guys too, but the Oscars are pretty cool guys.
Speaker B: I like working with them.
Speaker A: Some of them guys, They were interesting because they could tell you a lot of history sometimes of all safety. It's quite a place, I guess. Quite a wild place at the time too, I guess.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's where the British set all the colonels. The penal colony colony is the right term, but yeah, that's where they sent all the criminals. I went to Australia, New Zealand several years back, did a cruise, flew into Sydney or.
Speaker A: And end up including the Sydney.
Speaker B: Went across to Auckland and got on the ship at Auckland and ended up back in Sydney at the end of the cruise. So it was pretty long. And toured some of the prisons and things in Australia and got some of the backstory. Pretty neat.
Speaker A: Same lungs. I take one of them breathing treatments and I can't stop coughing. I get that uterol on for my lungs. I give me them breathing treatment. I can't stop talking. So I'll hop over, let you go. Been good talking to you and I'll try to get a hold of you Monday talk. If you get a chance, call me this weekend and maybe we hook up there and go see some of your wife's stuff. All right. KK7 DDR73.
Speaker B: How long are you just here for the day count or going to be staying overnight or.
Speaker A: All right. We got. We were raising a granddaughter, so. And we put her. We'll put her in school Monday morning and then we'll run down. We'll probably stay a little while with that, but we have to head back. Yeah, okay.
Speaker B: All right, well, we'll see what we can do. May not be able to this time. Maybe next time.
Speaker A: We'll see.
Speaker B: I'm stuck in traffic, so I'll talk to you later.
Speaker A: Have you rest your day.

W6r h c repeater check 1.

Good afternoon. Ko6kkw. Looking for a radio check on gears east. Ko6kkw monitoring.

This is Ko6, KKW. Looking for a contact. Some kind of radio check, please. On gears east.

Thank you.