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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 to W6RHC Repeater Check 2.

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

Gears holds a slow speed Morse code NAT 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 one.

Speaker A: 11 link up
Speaker B: k6l n k system 36 no mountain range
Speaker A: f6qop.

Amateur Radio News line report number 2523 with a release date of Friday, March 6, 2026 to follow in 5 4, 3, 2 1. The following is a QST Hams in Cuba assist a critically ill child Canada is silencing its National Weather Radio and students in Germany plan for a hu so with Antarctica. All this and more and more as Amateur Radio Newsline Report number 2523 comes your way right now from around the world. This is Newsline, Amateur Radio's independent on the Air News and Bulletin Service. Now reporting from Jonesboro, Arkansas, here's Skeeter Nash N5ASH Quick Thinking by Hampton Midst of a power outage in Cuba are being credited with connecting a critically healed child with Virginia medical care. We have the details of that story from the newest member of the Newsline team, Dave Lee M70LB as an outage swept through several communities in the municipality of Rio Cauto in eastern Cuba, disabling electric power and the telephone service, a six year old girl lay feverish and in pain, her twelfth hour of suffering. The doctor treating her at the family home in Grandma Province suspected appendicitis requiring emergency transport. An outage resulting from a power grid failure prevented him from directly contacting an ambulance. The physician turned to a father son team of amateur radio operators, Jorge Bonilla Minegra and his son Edgar Bonilla Manegra. The hams, however, found that their own radios were also without backup power because of the fuel shortage. That is until a neighbor let them make use of the battery from his motorcycle. The general call was received by Santiago de Cuba by station CL8YTY, who was able to connect with the emergency system. The station is listed on qrz.com as being in Santiago de Cuba. The call sign holder is Yonendris Garcia Rodriguez. According to various media reports, surgery was performed on the hospital and was a success. This is Dave Lee and 7TLD wrapping up another year of action taken against unlicensed radio broadcasters in the United States. The FCC recently submitted a report to federal lawmakers summing up its enforcement activities in the fiscal year 2025. We have those details from Ken Peterson, KZ0DGY. Since Congress enacted the Pirate act, an acronym for Preventing Illegal radio Abuse through Enforcement, the Federal Communications Commission has been responsible for reporting its annual activities with the enhanced power that was given through the January 2020 legislation. Its most recent report covers the government's fiscal year for 2025, which ran from 1 October 2024 through 30 September 2025. According to the report, the FCC issued 28 notices to property owners or managers for permitting illegal W6 RHC Repeater Check 2.

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

Speaker A: This is W7X Ray Zulu calling the Oroville Amateur Radio Society. Sunday night net. This net meets Sunday evenings at 8pm local time. And good evening to all. This is Jim, your net control for this session. And let us see who we have out there. Station 4 Wishing to check into the net. Please call now. W7X Ray Zulu,
Speaker B: K6HFP,
Speaker A: This w7x ray zulu. And we had a double there and k6hfp one. Good evening john. Other station attempting to check in. It's w7x ray zulu, charlie six fox. And this is w7x ray zulu. I've got k6hfp and I have kc6flb. Good evening john and lance from the. Should say good evening again from the zoom session. Do we have additional check ins to the net? This w7x rays of a. Got a carrier there but little or no modulation. Could you try that again please?
Speaker B: Can relay that for you, jim.
Speaker A: Did you pick it up, john?
Speaker B: Yeah, roger. That was gary. Kf6ewo, k6hfp. Back to you, jim.
Speaker A: Okay, kf6ewo. Gary, got very, very, very little audio on your signal there if you got the right microphone connected.
Speaker C: Yeah, I only have the one microphone. I don't know if you can hear me now.
Speaker A: Okay, got audio now.
Speaker C: For some reason this mic has a switch for impedance and it was switched to 500 and I switched it to 50k. So apparently that's the difference.
Speaker A: Okay, you've, you're, you got plenty of audio now. Do we have any additional check ins to the the net? This W7X Ray Zulu. Yeah, nothing heard. I guess we can do a jump shift here to the roundtable mode and take a pass through anything it might have been missed in the zoom session. K6HFP. John, you'll be passing it to KC6FLB and length from you it'll go to KF6E WO. That's Gary. So go ahead, John. K6HFP and the net, W7X Ray Zulu,
Speaker B: W7X Ray Zulu and the net. This is John up in Orville. K6HFP. Hello to everybody. As far as my week, well, just every free chance I can get. I'm trying to hammer out the practice test for the extra upgrade here. Doing pretty good. Not gonna say I guarantee it, but pretty comfortable in my progress so far. So that's pretty good. As far as anything else goes.
Speaker A: Just,
Speaker B: you know, it's crazy seeing the war going on. Not to bring up politics but man, who'd have thought that we'd see it? You always thought that it was going to happen but who thought that we'd actually see it? And we're seeing it. So it's pretty crazy. But other than that, got nothing else. Hope everybody's doing good, enjoying the weather. Kick it over to Lance, see what he's up to. KC6FLB in the net. K6HFP, Charlie six fishing large bass, Lance and Orville. I pretty much got all the questions,
Speaker C: my questions to answer.
Speaker A: Listening to the zoom.
Speaker B: That's pretty much what I was trying to get on. Trying to find out what was happening to repeater, etc. Etc. And I know that we have the feather Fiesta days coming up and I don't think I heard anybody say anything about field day. So I think that's probably a no go from what I understand.
Speaker C: Just trying to. Trying to clear my lungs, get back
Speaker B: on top of my health. That's the biggest thing right now. I did a little bit of HF weekend but not. I couldn't stay on there long enough. But you made a couple contacts. I was trying to get a hold of a guy in Hawaii. No, no, not Hawaii.
Speaker C: It's Guam.
Speaker B: I heard him out there. Yeah, Filipino guy. That man, he was just getting a pile up. I don't, I didn't have that. I couldn't sit here long enough to be taking them away from him. But I think that's it though. I guess I'll chat with you guys either next Sunday or whenever we get together again with Charlie Sick Fox Bravo. And we're going to hand it off to KF6 EWO Gary,
Speaker C: This is KF6CWO
Speaker B: K Gary and Orville.
Speaker C: I spent this whole last week. I left last Friday and headed to my mom's and my brother is buying my dad's truck from my mom to give to his son who needs transportation
Speaker B: and my mom needs to get rid
Speaker C: of it because of the insurance costs
Speaker A: and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker C: So I had to fix it. I had a battery issue which turned out to be the ignition switch had to be replaced in it and good old YouTube and it was one of those deals where a 2001 Ford F150 truck, the way the switch is, it's just a little module block and then a plug with all the wires that plug into it at the bottom of the steering column. Not like it used to be. Anyway, we got through it, got the truck shipped out Friday down to Southern California. Came home, spent yesterday doing nothing and today we went to Miami laws and Citrus Heights. Other than that, not much going on. I haven't messed with the radio at all over the last few days because I wasn't home. Anyway back to you Jim. This is KF6ZW,
Speaker A: Kf6ewo and the net w7xz okay gary and yes I'll put out one quick call. Do we have any additional check ins to the net? This w7x ray zulu w e6a x n repeater. Nothing heard maybe short session of it tonight here. Well I have gone through a couple episodes here. I was scheduled for annual family doctor visit at Doves Landing back there on well see what was President's Day Monday. I inquired if they'd be open that the office would be open that day and found out my nurse practitioner has left the practice so I was rescheduled for an appointment for this coming Wednesday with a physician's assistant and I got notified late last week that he was going to be out of the office that day. So my next question scheduled date was sometime in April so who knows. Anyway now I've got now I've got an April appointment for what was supposed to be done in February and my dryer had a problem well see about 334 weeks ago and and got an appliance repairman out here from a one appliance who diagnosed one part there which turned out to be the wrong it turned out to be the wrong diagnosis anyway hopefully on Tuesday the repairman will be here with the right part to get the dryer working. Anyway aside from that haven't been doing too awfully much on the air here except getting together with some friends on 75 meters for a half hour in the mornings there. Anyway with that I'll put out one more call. Do we have any additional check ins to the nap? This W7XZ. Nothing heard. Run it back up the line for any additional comments. Is W7XZ. Nothing heard? K6HFP John, are you 10 meter capable tonight?
Speaker B: Unfortunately negative Jim. Not tonight again. We'll shoot for next week. K6HFP back to you
Speaker A: okay John and see I'll give 10 meters a try here once we adjourn I'll put out a last call here for any late check ins or any unfinished business before we close the 2 meter portion of the net. Nothing hurt. Thanks for thanks to all who checked in tonight. This net will convene again this coming Sunday evening at 8pm local time. This is W7X Ray Zulu signing the the Oroville Amateur Radio Society Sunday night Net clear and going QSY to 28.450 MHz upper sideband.

Qst, qst, qst. This is qt6ko OK, but not traffic net. This net's part of the national traffic system. And the purpose of this net is to relay homo traffic into and out Sacramento Valley. And the provider said emergency that this is a direct event. Please make no transmissions without control. All patients are requested as take on frequency controls. K6K year old Lester located West Station with part traffic W6RHC repeater check 3. Station for traffic to be listed. Done. Roll call follows. Kf6lbi, kf6lbi, mike and willows. No traffic. Good evening, mike. Thank you. Kg6k, your host caller. No traffic. Kg6t. Good evening, lester in the group. This is kg6tso, bessie with no traffic. Thank you. Busy. Kf6djy, K6rcs, Kilo, Echo six Papa, Mike, Tango, Rustin Gerber. Good evening, Lester in the group and I have no traffic. Good evening, Royce. Thank you. KC6UFE, KC6UFE, Bill. In comparison, no traffic. Good evening, Lester. Good evening, bill. Thank you. Kn6pww, kn6pww, Jamie and Chico with no traffic. And good evening, Lester in the group. Good evening, Jamie. Thank you. All right, doctor, roll as I have it. Do we have any members or visitors wish to tune in? Good evening, Lester. KS6DJY, Bruce and Chico. No traffic. Good evening, Bruce. Thank you. Anyone else? There is no further traffic. Check in. This is KG6KUO closing 2nd Manor Valley Traffic Net. This net meets daily at 2100 hours local time through the W6RC repeater on 146985. All stations are excused. I like to thank everybody who tuned in tonight. And to go to the Empire aperture measure society with use and repeater. This net's closed at 2103 local time. 73 Daw, this is K6K, your third frequency.

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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.

System 7, link up k6lnk system 36, no mountain range.

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Los angeles link up. K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

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.

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

Speaker A: Well, give it another try. Good morning. Kn6ngk. Almost 7am. Well, yeah.
Speaker B: Well, that's all good. Yeah. Did you hear me on the other frequency? I was trying to see if anyone was on 70 centimeters.
Speaker A: Why not? We could try it, you know, like this. Four, six, triple zero. Four, four, six, triple zero. That's the call frequency simplex.

Speaker A: Well, to say, not useful. I'm not sure about that, but. Because I could hold that in conversation and write down information if I had to. Yeah. I'm not saying it'd be that
Speaker B: enjoyable, but I could. Right? Right.
Speaker A: It's just good that we have other options. Right. Anyway. Yeah. But that's good to know. I never did think about trying that. You guys sometimes mention not using 70 centimeters, but I think I can see why, actually, at least for you. Because I could give you a repeater frequency that I sometimes use. That's 70 centimeters. I'd be curious if you could hear it very good. Or not. I don't know. I guess you probably could, but wonder if you'd get into it very well.

443-07-54-43075 positive offset 114.8 is the 114.8 is the PL.

Yeah. So heading to the dentist here about 8:30 or so. Appointments at 9 anyway, so that's what I got on tap for the day. That'll get me going. After I get those cavities done, well, then I'll continue on with my day.

Fresno link.

What about you? What you got going on? N6wip from kn6mgk.

Well, good morning, all. I don't know where N6WIP went, but anyway, good morning. Looks like a fine day in Chico. Probably gonna be in the 70s somewhere, so. That'd be pretty nice. Yeah. Week long. I think we're gonna see some 80s by the weekend with this, so. Yeah, someone might get out the shorts, I guess. Anyway. Yeah, it should be a nice one. Unfortunately, though, you got some bad stock market stuff going on. Dow is down 1.8%, markets are down pretty sharply, and oil is up over 100 bucks a barrel, so should bring up the price of fuel for everybody. KN6MGK.

Speaker A: You guys think I filled the tanks last week W6LND?
Speaker B: Oh yeah. Yep. Yeah, you have mighty big tanks to fill, I guess. Yep. So I was going to ask a question though about fertilizer. If you'd gotten that, drove down there off of Highway 45 and some other things. Those walnut trees seem like they weren't popping out any leaves yet. Of course, I'm just driving by, Curious if you got your fertilizer in yet.
Speaker A: Going to do it today. And the only reason I would have waited until the end of the month was due to the rise in natural gas prices. We're seeing a significant increase after this week in the price of nitrogen.
Speaker B: Right. Yeah, I went down last, picked up £100 over there at the, over at the other place, the Heritage Place, which is off of over by Wood Brothers Carpet normac. But they call themselves something a little different now. Anyway, I picked up £100 there, put that out in paradise like I do every year, but haven't finished here at my own house on my trees. But I wouldn't mind picking up an extra bag of something. You know, I was going over here to the place, but for some reason this year I decided I didn't want to have as high of a nitrogen as I'm getting there. So called tree and vine. I'm guessing that's some similar stuff to what you get, but of course, you know, palatable. I guess
Speaker A: mine comes in bulk. I'll tell you how much per acre right now. Looking for the recipe, they text me.
Speaker B: Yeah, I know you're saying both, but what is the container? Because for me they put it in those 50 pound sacks. So I was thinking that you would just get like pallet upper or something like that. But what kind of container would they use otherwise?
Speaker A: Bring it in a set of trailers and you unload it with a belt into a spreader. So 200 pounds of super yield per acre, 300 pounds of sulfate of potash, 100 pounds of sulfur and 2 pounds of manganese.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, of course they come already pre mixed. Right. When you get it. So you just, you know, you drive down the aisles.
Speaker A: Absolutely. They blend it for me there on site. They have a blending machine.
Speaker B: Right, Right. Yeah. So anyway, the thing I, when I get it there, I just ask them and they say, oh yeah, this is the one. They stack it up. But I know that, I know that that's what they've done because they've had to do that before for me. They'll say, oh, you know, we don't have you Today. But we're gonna put some, you know, I'll call you soon. That might take a few days or a week. And they call me up and I go pick it up. I know they had to do that, but they're not going to do it for some little old customer for 50 or 100 pounds. They wait until they're going to have to do it for.
Speaker A: Absolutely. And they're slammed this week. But, yeah. That kind of gives you an idea of what we break it down with. Of course, that's by the acre. Right. So I think it's about £600, the acre in total for our. For our men.
Speaker B: Yeah. And then you just lay it down and you probably water it in, I guess. I mean, seems like you'd have to water it in, I would think, because there's no rain.
Speaker A: Eventually I will. Right. But right now, no, hopefully it'll rain.
Speaker B: Right. Yep. So anyway, and then around here, at least at my house, I can dig down a little bit around the trees. You know, it's only a few inches and, you know, kind of put some there and then put the. COVID the dirt back over and then I water it in. Usually, of course, you hope for rain, too, in paradise. No, no. God, that kind of time. So just out there spreading it around the trees, kind of like what you'd be doing.
Speaker A: Yeah. See, we don't do it that close to the trunk. Right. We put it in the root zone, basically.
Speaker B: Yeah. These are small trees I got. Right. So, I mean, I'm, you know, maybe three feet away from the trunk or something where I could have put it. But. Yeah, yeah, for you, your roots are what, 20ft away, maybe?
Speaker A: Exactly. So, yeah, we just spread it out evenly over the ground and let it wash in. I hope I don't have to irrigate it in at $4 a gallon for red diesel.
Speaker B: Yeah, I think it's going to, you know, I mean, of course, I don't know when, but, you know, I would think it's actually already stabilized some from overnight, because I was sitting here watching it with up to almost $117 a barrel at one point. And of course, I don't know the current numbers, but it seems like it came back down to around 100.
Speaker A: Well, where they're seeing the biggest increase, it's all going to go up. But the biggest increase is in the nitrogen. Right. It's going up 150 a ton after this week. They told me that they gave me a price last week, and he says, you better get it on because because after next week it's gone up. And the price I'm giving you is only good till the end of next week.
Speaker B: Yeah, I should hop on over there. While I was thinking about that, I could go after my dental appointment today and see if they've got something they can tell me. But I don't really need it right now, at least to have good prices, you know, if I can get some triple 16 from them or something like that. Maybe had some issues. I didn't really store it well. Stored it on top of concrete and here in my garage. And just the moisture alone was enough to kind of mess with it one time by storing it for long term. So that's a better dry storage, I think.
Speaker A: You gotta put it in like a can, but it absorbs moisture. It doesn't store real well. Right. The bigger the pile, the better it stores. It gets across over it.
Speaker B: Yeah, it could be. I would think even if I put it in a can, you know, there'd probably like a metal can just rust that out. I don't see that in a plastic one maybe. I don't know. But. So I think I've had a little bit better luck with some of the ones that come in plastic bags rather than more bags. But, you know, I store it for a long period of time is. It's kind of like gasoline. You know, I can go buy extra gasoline, but you know, it doesn't store that nicely either. Diesel, no problem. But gasoline, you have to use it a little quicker.
Speaker A: Diesel don't for like it used to either. You have to treat it. I had all mine treated
Speaker B: okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The 50 gallon. But it would need some cleaning out and stuff like that. I had no diesel implements or anything like that. There kind of a waste to store it except for somebody else or whatever. But you know, turning diesel into work is one of the most efficient things a person can do. I can grab a shovel and I can only dig so much tobacco with a gallon of diesel can do some damage.
Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. I bought 5,000 gallons last week. So that tells you how much I bought.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I would imagine. Yeah. Hopefully that'll get you in for the season.
Speaker A: Well, not. It'll get me through to June, maybe.
Speaker B: Yeah, Well, I may top off at some point, I don't know. But actually, hopefully if I wound down, I mean, that's kind of the whole thing.
Speaker A: No, that's kind of my hope. Hopefully I can hedge the gap in between. Right. And kind of not ride the high.
Speaker B: Well, you are in some ways off to go to Maverick and stuff to get with your trucks.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's probably what I should have done. I probably should have filled the 500 gallon tank with pickup diesel.
Speaker B: Yeah, I like those. We have a couple of those up in Yankee. Yankee will have a couple of those 100 gallon ones, You know, that they can fill for them. They usually put the green diesel. I don't think I've ever seen them buy the diesel.
Speaker A: I buy the red. Right. But maybe they take that tank and go to Feather Falls.
Speaker B: Well, yeah, he has 100 gallon tank. He'll run that over to Feather Falls and get that topped off and he'll come and fill up all of his equipment and then he'll fill up his and he'll go.
Speaker A: Absolutely. Well, I think I'm gonna have to let you go, Steve. Just wanted to say good morning. We're gonna get moving.
Speaker B: All right? Yeah, Yep, sounds good. Jeremy. Take care of yourself. Don't talk at it. Better go to the dentist. And myself just a couple of cavities. So I won't be talking much today, I guess afterwards anyway. A coup. Good day. 7 3.
Speaker A: Just one more thing. Can you reach out to Obi and let him know if you'd be interested in helping with the meshtastic thing he's wanting to put together in April?
Speaker B: Well, yeah, he text me something to that and I've been thinking about it, but I'm just not sure I could be helpful in the sense of a presentation. Especially when I'm sitting down with Friday and we're still, you know, we still have enough issues. I don't feel like I have any expertise really. A little bit more than some, but maybe a workshop type thing, you know, where we work together on some things so I could see. All right. Seven three can fix mgk.
Speaker A: That's what it is. It's more like a workshop. So think about. Maybe you and Jay could come.
Speaker B: Yep. Well, for the guys up there, dan be a good choice too. So anyway. All right. Kn6mgk7 3. Have a great day, steve. Be safe.
Speaker A: You too, steve. Have a good day. Enjoy the dentist. I get to go again tomorrow. 73w6lnd.
Speaker B: Yeah, we'll have to meet up for a bean burrito. All right.

Speaker A: He saved his money. He flew all the way across.
Speaker B: A
Speaker A: big thunderstorm rolled in the very day the plane is arriving. They had to circle LAX three hours in order to land. It poured non stop for nine days. He never saw the sun. The day after he flew back to Pennsylvania, got sunny as warm and he said, I'll never come to California again. KF6OJ standing by again. Thought I'd share that with.
Speaker B: Oh, the irony. The irony of that. That's pretty cool though. But yeah, well, sorry experience that hopefully you'll find better luck next time. Not that often we rain for nine days straight. Hopefully enjoyed the hotel or something or enjoyed wherever he went for nine days. But
Speaker A: yeah, well,
Speaker B: anyway, standing by for that. It's nice to hear from you and nice talking for a little bit.
Speaker A: Okay, thank you very much. Well the four, the poor guy spent nine days sleeping on our couch. It was raining so hard like was happening lately. You couldn't go anywhere. We were going to go to Disneyland. Knots, the horse races, had it all lined up. He never got to see one thing, not even an art museum. Okay, fifth time is the charm for me. KS6OJ standing by.
Speaker B: Yep, eight minutes to the net or seven. So. All right, well, 73, nice talking to you. And ke9awi is also standing by.

Speaker A: Sam.
Speaker B: All right. Somebody needs to pull the plug on that one. KF 60J standing by.

Kk6vzd mobile. You're there, and that's what counts. Good morning. You know, I must comment that you always seem to be in a chipper mood. Sometimes I get up and look at the world and go, oh, God, it's a new day. You know, as the day goes on, I might get to know, you know, worse mood, but it's a new day. Yeah, new day. Monday morning, ready to meet the world. I've been having all kinds of things going wrong and breaking and stuff. And one of them is the heater. The thermostat. It's not freezing cold right this minute, but the wall heater, thermostat. I turn it and hear it clicking, nothing happens. Oh, well, guess it's time to call the guy. Oh, no. Well, if you hear it clicking and nothing happens, then that sounds like. I don't remember the component that I had to replace, but I remember having a problem where the furnace would never shut off. And I don't know, I ended up replacing. I was actually rather proud of myself that I could actually fix the furnace myself without having to call in the guys. W E6A X M Repeater. Wow. Hey, well, if you're not busy, head on over. Well, when we first moved here from Challenge in Yuba county, we called up a guy, said, hey, come on over here. Doesn't work like to get something. He said, we can get a rebuilt unit or you can get a brand new for $5,000. The rebuilt was, you know, 1700, something like that. Said, well, the rebuilds work, you know. Oh, yeah, they work fine. I think what's happening is it's not getting the proper air to ignite the pilot. Well, I'm not sure I'd know how to fix that. Yeah, I really do forget what the. It must have been some sort of sensor that it was a temperature sensor that would send the signal back to turn it off. I'm at where I'm supposed to be at, but turn off. Yeah, this is what they call the old mercury switches. It works without electricity. I'm glad of that, but, you know, it's just one of the other things. For example, my guitar. Something happened. The front pickup, the bridge pickup, both went dead center pickup worked. I thought, hey, it's gotta be the switch. I get in there, check it out, everything works. Check out the volume control. Everything's fine. It still doesn't work. So there's a big hole in the wall over here dedicated to programming modern radios. But I've been going over there and putting my head in there going boom, boom. Yeah. Okay. Hey, do pickups ever go bad? Yeah, those little small coil windings often break and you know, the guys, there's not a lot of stress, but you know, you put the guitar in the case and you throw it in the back of the car and it's banging around. So you do get vibration and stuff like that. Well, if you're, you have to have some sort of electricity feed to it, right? Assuming. And if the switches all work the way they're supposed to, what's left? The wiring or the pickup? I found the problem. It was actually a grounding to the five position switch. I assumed that since it was metal and you're putting it on metal insulation cake. You know that conductive tape you put in to block out RF and stuff. I assumed that would conduct electricity, but it didn't. So I put a wire on and it's fine now. And that's why I sing the blues. Boom, boom, boom, boom. There you go. And you figured it out for yourself. How marvelous. Well, I've got a meter. Actually, I like it because it, it beeps me, you know, when you get a continuity. And I just kept checking and I go bang my head against the wall and come back and finally it worked. Well. And you probably had the time to spend trying to troubleshoot it, huh? Oh, you see, Chris, let me explain this. When you retired, you don't have somebody yelling at you, screaming, do this, do that, be here on time, shut up, stand up, sit down, go away, work harder. I just sit here. Oh, the other thing that went bad is my computer got a virus. And what's happening is I did get avg. I thought, you know, you buy these refurbished. I thought it had Norton, but it didn't. I've got all these pop up boxes that are coming up telling me I need, you know, protection here and I can't get them to shut off. Sounds like a virus to me. And wait a minute, I want to go back to your comment about nobody telling you what to do. I'm going to ask you, are you married? Divorced, but I live with the YL X Y L. We've known each other for 50 years and it was kind of like we're always friends. You know, we dated for a while in college and then, you know, we stating communication and I'd meet her boyfriends and she'd meet who I was dating and eventually she got married, I got married, but we hooked up years later by the grace of God. And it worked out. Actually, one of the ministers in our church said he's not sure if there's celibate relationship is not better. Yeah, well, I guess you got lucky. Because you know, when you start describing not being told to do this, that or the other thing, or being watched over, you know, over everything that you do, that doesn't. That sounds like. That sounds like relationship with my wife. That doesn't sound any different than work, so. Oh, well, hey, I'm destinated, so I'm gonna go inside. I've got 15 working days left, so I'm gonna go burn another working day. And maybe I'll catch you this afternoon. Have a great day. And I hope you get your furnace working again. 73 KK ZD clear.

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.

Speaker A: Ah, yes. Looks like the start of yet another beautiful day. 52 degrees up here in Magalia and 6 NTM. Good
Speaker B: morning. Good morning.

Speaker A: Roger. Yeah, I got up too late. I planned on getting up at the regular time, but. Yeah, the bed felt
Speaker B: too. Too good. I could have stayed in there, right? That wasn't no big deal.
Speaker A: Going up for an MRI today that I. That I should have canceled a couple of days ago when I started getting the vertigo thing. Ended up just being earwax and they've addressed that. So. Kind of a waste of a trip, but need to go by the Dodge dealer up there in Reading and Dave's tractor. I got like six, eight filters for the old tractor. I still give me credit for. I'm ready to do an oil change on the tractor, so.
Speaker B: Yeah,
Speaker A: Well,
Speaker B: it
Speaker A: would be if I was still getting dizzy, but I haven't been dizzy for weeks.
Speaker B: Up and ready. I could. I could have went south. We live halfway between Mather and
Speaker A: Redding, so.

Yep. Pretty in the middle. So the deciding factor is that the way they drive down in San Francisco and the amount of cops that are in between when you go north, hardly any of either.

Speaker A: Well, the lady that sold my place over there on the Denise, no stipher, no Imperial. And that, that was one of Lori's boss's son. Married her. We went over there for dinner last night. They were supposed to come up here. I don't think they wanted to drag their two kids around or something, I'm not sure, but that was the deal. I rubbed their nose in it, said you were supposed to come up to our house. So he said he would. But anyway, nice steak dinner. Two different kinds of steak. And sat around a table bull pooping until I don't know what time. But anyway. Yeah, off and running again today. All right, well, it still says it's 52, so looks like it's going to be partly cloudy sometime today. Yeah, partly cloud. It could happen tomorrow. Mostly cloudy, no rain, though. I'm not seeing it anyway. All right, well, I'll let you get back to what you're doing. Did they have steak the other day
Speaker B: when you went down there? Yeah, I started to get the
Speaker A: feeling that they. They got the better pick of the steak the other day and now they're back to their real skinny. Not so much time taken with it. Yeah, it was pretty good the other day. I guess we'll find out. Well, thank you. Looks like I got breakfast in bed this morning. All right, back to what you were doing. N6 NTM. Good morning.

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.

W0d a.

Grg portable with a big long rubber ducky. Grg 36 local.

Well, I was supposed to have a dental appointment today, but it got canceled. Can 6 MGK? Well, depending on what's going on, you might be happy or you might be sad. N6GRG on a Super long rubber deck.

Speaker A: Well, the super long rubber ducky is working for you. A little bit of white noise back there. You're getting in any way, Any plans for the day? Well, unfortunately, you couldn't hold down the repeater that time and you were very quiet, so for whatever reason, I couldn't understand whatever you said.
Speaker B: Okay, Yeah, I have to make sure I find a good spot. Is this okay?
Speaker A: Yeah, it is. Yeah, it's fine. Anyway, yeah, if you could repeat what you said that last time.
Speaker B: Anyway, yeah, I'm gonna take on JSA call again. What my radio is doing is when tests, you know, when you do the CAT test, you know, where you push the CAT button, it sends something to the radio and the radio says, well, what am I supposed to do? Go to VFO A or VFO B? And it flashes both VFO A and VFO B frequencies on the screen very quickly and then it just, it doesn't give me a cat. But the tx, the push to talk does, stays right on frequency and just keys up, but there's nothing coming out. So that's where I'm at.
Speaker A: Okay, well, yep. Okay, well, that sounds good. And what computer are you going to be using? And what radio? I'm assuming the 7300 on the radio.
Speaker B: Yeah, 7300 and PI 400, which is supposed to be a PI 4B inside the PI 400, which looks like a keyboard, is what you see, just a keyboard with a pi4b inside.
Speaker A: Okay, and are you going to be on 20 meters or 40 or what?
Speaker B: Well, since JSA call is not working, I won't be on anything until I get it working.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, I was just thinking I would have my radio sit on. On 20 meters or something like that, but. Okay.
Speaker B: Yeah, if you had that alert working, you'd know when I came up, I just. My alert just went off and somebody's probably doing a photo.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, well, could be. I know your friend Ko5se was on yesterday. Later. Well, our time late at night, like seems like 10 o' clock or something. Our time?
Speaker B: Oh, on side bend on 20 meters.
Speaker A: Well, he was using FT8, but he was actually off frequency, so on purpose probably, you know, talking with whoever he wanted to. Whoever knows where they are. Maybe. Maybe spotted himself up there. But it was, you know, instead of being on 1407 Ford, he was on like 1409 something. I don't know, I'd have to look at it again. But anyway, it wasn't, it wasn't the normal ST8 frequency.
Speaker B: Well, of course ST8 is there's only so much you can do with it until somebody was on and that's about it. Kl7r is doing KSA call 247 now taking my place and maybe communicating with the folks up in Anchorage which is where he lives in the summer. And I don't know where KL5X he would do but be located but normally he in anchor east or Fairbanks just like KL7R Fairbanks like 8 Anchorage I think before Fairbanks is what I meant to say. And all his buddies are up in Fairbanks and they're not actually in Fairbanks. They're in in the boondocks around Therabang. Can you tell from FP8 where someone is?
Speaker A: Well how is it any different than JSAs or anything else? I mean yeah, by call sign
Speaker B: you
Speaker A: know, unless they say otherwise. I mean I don't, you know usually they'll say otherwise by a stroke. Something like if they're six and they do stroke seven or something like that, maybe it'll be in a different area. But yeah, I mean you can't write messages back and forth. Maybe a small one line thing you could if someone really cared to be paying attention to that. But so yeah just by looking up call signs is really it. Or on the FP8 on the left side before you click on them it might tell you about you know a country or you know or Texas or so say state or something like that. But it won't give a city not as far as I know. So anyway like say it was Ecuador or like Colombia or whatever it would say that before you even clicked on it.
Speaker B: Well with JSA call you can ask where someone is and it will tell you the grid square of where they are.
Speaker A: Yeah so it's the same thing on fda. I mean when people put out a CQ it usually says their grid square right there but you'd have to look that up still.
Speaker B: Yeah. In fact there's several other options for JSA calls. You can do info and they will tell you what they typed in for their info and quite often write the city where they are, you know exactly their outskirts of whatever city where they are. And yeah you can, you can tell a lot with JS8. You can get as much information as they they decide to. And you don't have to have the Internet.
Speaker A: Well if you don't have the lookin up grid squares very easily you don't have the Internet or something that way unless you have a big map of all the grid squares somewhere. So yeah I think you shall do
Speaker B: negative, negative, you Get a text sentence that says where they are, what rig they're using, what antenna they have, everything. All you do is you send out an info question mark and you get all that.
Speaker A: Yeah, Well, I mean GS8 is a good. I have it on right now and I see 20, 20 meters is pretty active, but right now I'm not decoding, so I'm gonna work. I'm working on that. I have to fix the setting here. Maybe my audio settings aren't on right now. Something. So fix that real quick.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's interesting, the Burr Brown thing. If you're running Linux.
Speaker A: Yeah. This is Windows on this. On my, my little laptop here that I bought for 200 bucks. It's got Windows 11 on it. So that's what's running it right now. I try to do everything on this laptop for about the last, oh, year, 18 months I guess.
Speaker B: Well, if it updated
Speaker A: then the
Speaker B: audio. Audio is not going to work. That's exactly the problem I had.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, for me I'm just. I'm seeing decodes and stuff, but so far I haven't put a heartbeat out or nothing like that yet.
Speaker B: Yeah. So you think it transmits now?
Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah, I can. I can transmit. Yeah, but haven't checked. Haven't checked it yet. I'm about ready to.
Speaker B: Yeah. So that'd be a quick check. Audio and settings and change to real audio from your codec. There you go.

Speaker A: But I really want to get my PI 400 working because it's far more reliable. It'll run for a week without being restarted or who knows how long. It'll run for a long time without having to be restarted. With Windows I had to restart it every day. And I'm talking about JS8 will run for a week and with. With Windows I had to restart it to get JS8 working again.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, I put out a heartbeat, but no, no responses I'm seeing. So yeah, I've got some work to do on this and my transevo is definitely putting out, so. And let's just see what's going on here. Mostly I think it's a timing thing or something here.
Speaker A: Well, if you set up View and look at View to show the time of every station in milliseconds in your column, actually you'll see you don't. Do you go to the column on the left hand side and tell it to show timing. I think that's how you make that. That's what you have to do for starters. Do you have that. Hope I didn't make it that time. You go to the left hand side on the top of the columns and right, right click. And it brings up a bunch of possibilities there until it's fine.
Speaker B: Yeah, no, it's not a timing issue at this point. Yeah, it's not getting the decodes so I gotta work on that anyway. So that's where I'm at. I'm working on getting some decodes right now. I'm seeing them, but I've got a computer issue so I'll be back. KN6MGK.
Speaker A: Does it show? Well, let's see if you're not showing anybody at least. Okay. Yeah.
Speaker C: And you know how I say.

Yeah, still around.

Speaker A: Okay. N6MGK back on frequency trying to see what I can do about using the WWV timing. So I don't know. I tried the set time drift to now minute start. That's what I tried to do. I don't know if a different one that one should try but that's the one I tried.
Speaker B: Okay. And then you wait until he says he speaks and then he first it'll be the Hawaii person and then it's the male voice and then beep and that's when you click on it. Sometimes I have to double click.
Speaker A: I don't know, I just clicked it one one time so and yeah, the male voice I did it at first when the female voice because I was expecting it but then the male voice came on so anyway, let's see the decodes coming across. Let's see if I get it.
Speaker B: Yeah, I found that I've had to double click real quick.

Speaker A: Well, sending out a heartbeat. I do see a decode of some sorts, so we'll see.
Speaker B: All right, we got it. And. You have that column fit on the left hand side that shows timing.
Speaker A: Yeah, I always have my timing on, so, yeah, I mean, you taught me that about four years ago, I'd say, about putting the timing on. So, yeah, I try to pay attention to it and be within, you know, a few hundred milliseconds of other people if I can.
Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. Well, with windows, you know, you're gonna have to know how to do all this stuff because the automatic thing is terrible and I don't like it at all. And boy, I can't believe something's actually water running. The watering system on there already. Proposition. But some of these people where I am right now have a lot of money.
Speaker A: Well, I've had to. I've had to run water already. So I'm going to go up there to paradise here. I've got something to do here at the house for a little bit, but then I got to go to paradise and I'll have to hit water everywhere. I'll probably spend three, four hours doing watering at some point, whether it be today or tomorrow or whatever, but everything's all dried out.
Speaker B: And how about those gas prices
Speaker A: paid like 432 yesterday. I don't know. We'll see after the day's over. Because overnight the price of oil was up to 117 a barrel but backed off. I think it's still hovering around 100 bucks a barrel. Yeah, stock markets have already kind of come back from where they started. The Asian markets really took a dump, but our market started out that way this morning, but it looks like it's already pared the losses at least.
Speaker B: So.
Speaker A: Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker B: Yeah, interesting world right now, that's for sure. And the guy that's started this work, we care less about the gas prices, especially in California. And if you've seen the. The blurb, Israel is saying we started it and we're saying India started it. And Trump says he says something different every day.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, the Trump administration in general has. They mix up and get chaotic with all their messaging. So, yeah, hard to pick up on what they're exactly doing or what they really believe. So I agree with you there. I think some of it they do it that way on purpose, some of it they're just not on the same page all the time. I don't know. Anyway. Yep. I don't know. I didn't. I sent something to this guy the one that I saw on JS8 said 200 milliseconds, so seems like I should have been okay. But anyway, I'm missing packets. You know, it gives me the dot, dot, dot. Then It'll say day 73.
Speaker B: So I have no idea
Speaker A: how many.
Speaker B: What's the decibel rating from his signal?
Speaker A: -04, I think it must be. Yeah, no, this one's. This one's. One guy is minus 16, and the other one is minus 04. So, yeah, it's hard to know. And I'll send out a heartbeat this time and see if I get anything back. I was just trying to. There was a guy that was on, and I could see he was talking. You know, I even put out, like, something w copy me, you know, and it's in green, so I figured, okay, well, on that frequency, you know, and I'm seeing a heartbeat now. Someone else just sent a heartbeat and 100 milliseconds, so timing seems to be okay. But minus 17 DP on this one.
Speaker B: Well, the minus 17 guy would probably be a tough one if he's receiving you. I just think you'd have to go. You'd have to type in SNR question mark and get his. Find out what he could do.

Speaker A: Well, I mean, I'm PSK reporter, it looks like I came up and it's on my HAM alert. So KSA call and it says I've been heard by this guy ks0usa, which he's coming up on my screen here at minus 3db. So anyway, I'm being heard I guess, but there's nobody on. I guess that's why I'm not getting much for response. Pretty typical. So anyway, kind of slow action versus FT8. So busy, you know, four or five T codes at least every 15 seconds.
Speaker B: Well, back when I had mine running, I would put a HP out at 0.6 volt watts. 0.6 watts, and I did about 10 responses.
Speaker A: Yeah, I suspect it'd be better if I was on 40 meters at the right time of day. Right now I'm just on 20, seeing what I could get. So anyway, not seeing. Not seeing a whole lot of traffic at the moment, but at least I know it's working and it's on there. So anyway, yep, maybe you'll get it working. I'll leave it running for a while. We'll see. Yeah, so yeah, that PI 400, that PI 400 should, should do the trick, you think? As long as you got all the radio settings right and everything.
Speaker B: Well, I'm going to go back to my old JSA7300 bedding option. I've got this one program that goes through about 15 or 15, 20 different options for the FT for the 7300. The preset only says a few things and. But like I said, mine is doing some kind of a weird split thing and I'm not set to split at all, so I don't know what's going on. I'll figure it out. But I'm gonna be talking with a guy who is trying to keep me from walking on the fire. What they are trying to call an emergency only fire road and trying to block it off to the public. And I'm gonna get the sheriff over here and deal with this once again for all.
Speaker A: Okay, Yep. Well, I just put on PSK reporter to see where I'm being heard and I'm definitely being heard back in the east coast mainly and went over to Alaska, so. So I know it's working. All right, talk to you later. 73 KN6NGK.
Speaker B: Have you put out an HP yet?
Speaker A: Yeah, I put out one. One. That's it. So I'll just let it run for a while. We'll see what comes up.
Speaker B: All right. Yeah, you'll be surprised it will still alive. Although you're on 20, so you're right. It's just because everybody on
Speaker A: 40.

Speaker A: Yeah, steve, kn6mgk, n6trg. You're showing on jsa call on alert because I've got it set up so it'll show that n6grg.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's the first place I saw it just so happens this guy came back to me, you know, and I'm texted. Well, chatting with him back and forth. Right now that's the way I prefer to do it, you know, is call signs Kilo, Sierra, 0 USA, KS 0 USA. Anyway, and I just wrote him a paragraph so he's gonna come back to me, I hope, and then I'll see what he's up to.
Speaker A: Well, a couple more options with the later JSA call that was put out, you know, a few years ago is you can be typing while he's talking to you, you can be answering his questions as he talks to you and keep adding to what you're going to send him as you go and it'll allow you to do.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's what I'm doing. But you know, it doesn't appear he's doing that. So I don't know because yeah, I was watching his decode come in and I'm hovering right over his spot and I could just read it as it comes in and I'm just typing my response and right when he was done transmitting, I hit send.
Speaker A: Yeah, it speeds up the QSO when you do that. That's perfect. So maybe they'll get a clue also, you know, to find out how well he's receiving you. The option that comes up when you, you know, there's a list of things you can send people and SNR? You could, or you could just type in SNR? And it return that singularly. So you what? How? Well, he's receiving view in decibels.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, I know, yeah. But that's all based on automatic replies and I much prefer like this guy here, I just happened to catch him on. So I went on his frequency, his offset and just started, I typed in you know, something and then I hear nothing back from him. And then you know, after you left to do whatever you're doing there he comes back. Did you disappear? No, I'm still here. So yeah, he's responding to me now. You're the only one I see on the waterfall. That's what he's saying right now. Well, I saw one other. I saw that Sua W7 Sua. So, boy, thinking about that, we have lots of people on this frequency before from Steve to Dennis to David, a whole bunch of other folks. But, man, this is quiet these days. KN6, MGK.
Speaker A: Well, they're all over on 40. 40's always been quiet. It's just 40 works so well. It'll cover the whole entire United states. So if you want foreign countries, then 40 is the place to be. But otherwise, you got to.
Speaker B: I was talking on system 36 is what I'm talking about. Like Steve and Dennis and David and a whole bunch of other guys not out here anymore. Very quiet out here.
Speaker A: Well, John's in the area. Sln's in the area. And maybe we'll hear from him today. He was not up in mineral, though. Last time I talked to him. He was not in mineral. Yeah, you know, on the road I'm on right now, A semi truck came down, the part that doesn't have any gates to deliver a package to a guy that has a mobile auto repair company. I don't know what he was ordering, but maybe an engine or something. But anyway, it's old semi truck came down with a great big huge trailer. And then as I'm out here walking around, I see a big old hole in the ground that was caused by that semi truck. So, yeah, this road is not the deepest road based and not very wide. The guy that was harassing me, Telling me I was on private, A private road, Was the son of the actual owner of the property. And I told him, hey, you know, you're way out of line. You don't know what you're talking about. This is a public. Right away. What about the word public do you not understand? And he continued to harass me and continued to say he wasn't harassing me. So I. And then he called his dad and his dad came down and visited his brother and son. And I would love to get the sheriff out here someday to talk to those people, But I don't know if it's ever going to happen. And it's one of those neighborhoods that puts up signs saying on a public road, way, way, way. You know, about a mile back from where I was, they put up signs that they. This is private from here on. Don't come any farther On a public road. And then these people tried to put a gate on the public road. On the page road, they tried to put a gate. So, yeah, these people are saying,
Speaker B: Well, looks like this guy is in topeka, kansas. According to his qrz page. I decided to look him up. Yeah, looks like he's been around for a while. He's got 18,000, is that right? No, 185,602 lookups. That's quite a bit. So, yeah, he's been around for a while.
Speaker A: He's probably.
Speaker B: Well, he does log on. Logbook of the world. So, yeah. Anyway, I logged him on QRZ just because I'm having a live QSO with him right now.
Speaker A: Yeah, that guy's been on. That guy's been on GSA for a long time. I think it's w. Is it w7 usa?
Speaker B: Yeah, he's on right now, too, but probably just his automatic station. I saw it pop up. It says five minutes ago. Let's say five minutes ago. No, 13 minutes ago. Plus zero. Two decibels. I don't think it puts out the
Speaker A: TVs like that, does it? It's just minus or plus and a whole number, but. Oh, well, I don't know how you're seeing that. I'm not there.
Speaker B: On the right side under call signs. It gives you the call sign and it gives me the age, and then it gives me the SNR, which in his case it says +0.2DB. That gives me the hertz and the time delta also. So that's where I'm seeing it. This other guy is -16 dB, and the guy I'm talking to right now is -0.6 dB. That's how it goes.
Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. So you just say 2dB, minus 6dB for those two people. Leave out the zero. Yeah. So sounds like you've got signals on 20. You know, I was on 15 meters during the DX contest, and I. I got a couple of super DX stages. One was started with a P and another one I've got. I don't know if I got the one that started with a P in the logbook, but I got the. The other one in there. I could put them up.
Speaker B: Yeah, the P is probably like Brazil. I see them guys come quite a bit,
Speaker A: actually. I have to look him up on my cell phone. Anyway, what am I saying?
Speaker B: Here's his response. KN6MGK, FB. So find business. Perf copy. This guy must be into CW. Perf copy on all. Get to your garden. I'm telling them gardening today as it is that time of year. I said so. Sounds like he's gonna let me go here. We'll see. Yeah, I need to head to the. So I'm finishing it up here. But anyway. Yep. So that was good qso. I'll let him know that I logged him in, and then I'll take off and do what I got to do today. Hopefully you get yours running.
Speaker A: Would you say do CW? And see what he does?
Speaker B: Yeah, I don't got time either. I need to get outside. Start at 10 o'. Clock.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm bringing up, bringing up the qrz. Com.

Speaker A: Now it won't go there.
Speaker B: Okie dokie. Well anyway, yeah, yeah, you definitely said 7:3 here, so. So yeah, you can get kind of when you do these. One time I was talking to this guy, it was later at night, like 10, 11 o' clock I think I was up until 1 o' clock in the morning just writing back and forth in the sky and checking out his QRZ page. And he built his own, some of his own equipment and I was looking at that and just chatting back and forth on JS8. So it's fun for me to do stuff like that versus just the auto replies and put messages in boxes. I don't really care for all that. But like on a field day event like the winter field day, it was fun because your people have to be there in front of theirs. We just, you know, it was a real quick qso, but you know that they're sitting at their station and it's just back and forth so you can say a little bit other stuff with your signal report and your class and section and stuff. So I think I only got like seven contacts that way. But it was fun, you know, and I'll do it, I'll do some more of that again. That's the fun way.
Speaker A: Well, there's a bunch of places on JSA poll where they set it up so you can put a bunch of answers to typical questions that people might have. There's three different places and you can tell them where you're at. Typical one, I forget, it's just info info question mark. Type info question mark for that station when you're. Or when you start it in the blue area on your thing there on your right hand side where it's blue selected that guy typed in the old question mark and that's the first one. And people type in all kinds of stuff here and then the second one is idle and that comes up automatically after a while. And I don't just say I'm idle or something. I put a whole bunch of stuff in there because it lets you do it. So I just do it. I told them I never idle and do do this, do that and have fun.
Speaker B: Yeah. Anyway, I don't need to ask questions anymore. That guy responded at the end of mine, dit, dit. You know what that means?
Speaker A: Yeah, but everybody uses that and they're not necessarily btw people I use that. So whatever Dodger da, you know, go K or qsl, everybody knows those, those responses whether they do CW or not.
Speaker B: And then another station, this kilo echo 2 station just put out a CQ, CQ for all calls. But anyway, so I. I responded to him to see if he'll get back to me.
Speaker A: Yeah, let me see. Da, da, da, da, da, da, da. And I can't remember. L. It's like da or something like that.
Speaker B: I don't know. What are you trying to say?
Speaker A: Well, D, D, D, D, what's that? What's that? Qs and then I said I couldn't remember what l was for sure.
Speaker B: Okay, wait for response here. Anyway, I'm gonna get going. If he doesn't respond. Are you. Are you back at your QTH now? Are you walking back?
Speaker A: Well, I'm all the way over on Cloverdale now and I've got a dog behind me that's supposed to be a very, very nice dog, but all doesn't work. His name is Shadow, just like my dog was years ago. But it's a female. Mine was a male. A male lab here in New Jamaica. Then I've got a couple of sheepdogs up in front of me, border collies, and they like to bark. That's about all I do. I'm right on Cloverdale, which is the old gold rush trail into the gold rush territory. I found out that there was Cloverdale, and it's not down by the valley, it's Cloverdale, which is my road.

Speaker A: Office Superman. I got Bert in there this morning. AI6LZ. Bert, you are in the log. Thanks for checking in. KI6TC. Good morning to you there, Glenn, you are in the log. Happy Monday to you. Good morning to Ed. KB6 Ed, you are in the log. Thanks for checking in. And let's see, read my handwriting here. See? 6ns. That would be Ray. AK 6ns. Good morning, Ray. You are in the log. KB7DFB. I'm glad to hear that you're gonna have some nice hot chicken noodle soup. You have a great day there, Ken, you are in the log. KN 6 mm. Good morning. Mike, you are in the log as well. W8LDT. Good morning, Tim. Got you in the log. Thanks for checking in. And ki6lop. Good morning to you there, Russ, you are in the log as well. Any one that I missed. For the log. A very long poignant pause. Good morning, Mike. KK6SNG. Got you in the log. Thanks for checking in this morning. And good morning to Doug. W2VX. Thank you very much, Doug, for the battery swap in this weekend. The repeater is sounding great and the batteries look to be in good condition. Thanks, Doug. W2VX. All right, anyone else for the log? This will be last call for the coffee. Breaknet.
Speaker B: A couple quick comments.
Speaker A: I'll take the comments in a moment. Last call, quick in and out. Excuse me. For the log. Any takers? Last call. All right, quick comments because you are holding me from going to the bathroom and eating KG6LW.
Speaker B: Well, I will make it very quick. Ferndale is just south of Fern Bridge on 101, just south of Eureka. And Buffet island is no longer in the top 10. It is number 15 in the list of most wanted. The top five are of course, North Korea, Johnston Island, Kira Island, San Felix island and Kerguelen island, followed by Scarborough Reef. There you have it, Brian.
Speaker A: I stand corrected. For some reason I was thinking it was number two. But I guess that failed attempt at giving contacts a couple years ago moved it down the chart maybe a little bit. Thanks. Appreciate that, Frank. All right. With that, I'm going to go ahead and close the Coffee Breaknet for this Monday morning. It has been a pleasure having great conversations with everyone this morning. Just a reminder, this Friday, for anyone in the greater Sacramento area, the club meeting will be held this Friday, 7:30pm at the Placer County HHS Conference Center. That's in the Dewitt center in Auburn, California. Easy Access off of I80 and Bell Road exit. New beautiful facility. We've worked over the audio. The audio should be fantastic. No promises, but that's what we're shooting for. And secure parking. Reminder if you're coming to the event, we support our community with food donations. So please give generously and support our food bank. It's a great way for our club to give back to our community. Also, Loomis Hand fest coming up March 28th. Have you seen the prize list? It's going to be worth attending and buying a couple of tickets for those prizes. Good morning Coffee Breaknet. We'll be back again tomorrow morning. Same bat time, same bat channel. Coffee breaknet on the W60K repeater where the sun is always shining, the birds are singing and the fish are jumping. This net is sponsored by the Super Foothills Amateur Radio Club and we'll be back 7:30 to 10:00am Pacific Time tomorrow morning. That is 15:30 to 1800 UTC. With that, I'll just be returning the W6EK repeater and connected nodes and repeaters back to back to normal. Whatever that is. 730 ai6.
Speaker B: Brian, if you're still listening, there was a VIP part to the meatball sandwich. Mozzarella cheese. I forgot it.
Speaker A: Katy6CDQ I'll have to go back and play the Broadcastify replay or watch it on YouTube. I thought you had said mozzarella. My brain said you did. Sounds like you have a great dinner ahead. 73.

Speaker A: Well, I'm gonna try to get to him, but it's gonna be tough because he's talking to somebody or trying to. So KL7R just came on. So he's already.
Speaker B: You think he's already linked up to somebody?
Speaker A: Yeah, I can hear. Hear his
Speaker B: station right
Speaker A: now
Speaker B: saying
Speaker A: now. And I'm hearing it transmit. He's a plus plus six db. So he's
Speaker B: maybe Delta Uniform, India.
Speaker A: I had no idea. Yeah, let's try to decode him, I guess. Get over this spot here. He's over around 2000.
Speaker B: Yeah, Delta Uniform India was a. Is a guy that's always been on from day one, just like I was always on. He's been around forever. I think his name is Mark. And he lives in arizona over by kl7r.

Okay, well, he's got me. He's coming back to me right now.

Speaker A: I was moving one of my sheep that I have eating all the, all the stuff outside of my fence between the road and the fence.
Speaker B: Yeah. Anyway, he says, he said good morning hi to Mi but I had some broken packets. Okay, I will say hi. I'm saying okay, I'll say hi. He's on VHF anyway, so we'll see. Hopefully he responds one more time here. But anyway, definitely got him on right now.
Speaker A: Yeah, different subject. Their sheep is what they call a bottle fed sheep which means that its mother died and I kept it alive by feeding it with the bottle. And they're quite different. They, they actually are extremely pain. Even Rudy doesn't bother this guy. He just keeps, just put his head down and say I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker B: So
Speaker A: yeah, that's what this shoe is that. I got TV stuff out by the road and the TRD.

Speaker A: Sorry, my volume got turned down.
Speaker B: Well, I was kind of hoping for a response. I'm not seeing one so far. So I may just throw in the towel. Or I'll send a message to him put in his box. I don't know. Anyway, I need to get going. That's 15 minutes. So I've done enough. I better say 73 kn 6 mgk.
Speaker A: Well what I do when that happens is I type info question mark and types out a whole bunch of stuff about his station and make it so that he'll want to go over there and see why his transmitter. That way you can have a conversation. Yeah, there's a lot of little secrets. And 60 RG.
Speaker B: Oh yeah. No. Well, he was at a station. So he was. And that's how come he responded to me. I didn't put any messages in the box. I just went on his frequency and put his call sign in there and started talking. So. And he came back to me. So he knows anyway. But that doesn't mean you heard me this time. That could be the propagation way it goes sometimes, but it was a pretty good signal so I would think. I would seem to think it would hold up anyway. 73 to you and we'll talk at you later. Good luck getting that JS8 running KN6 MGK.
Speaker A: I'll be glad when I have it back. I like using all these little automated features it's got and maybe propagation and such that I'll get a signal relay from. It first started out a guy in England relayed through a station in Australia and put a message in my mailbox and I was never able to get back to him. But it did work and he says this is a long way to hit you and hit the erc. I'm out of here. I'll let you get out of here.
Speaker B: I've got to put
Speaker A: this radio down. Put this radio down, turn it off for a minute and go trick a few sheep into getting tied up so I could put it out with that other sheep because sheep do not like to be by themselves. N60 Archers.

Speaker A: Kg6 and LW. You're looking for a radio check on W60K.
Speaker B: And here's a call sign. This is wh6q
Speaker A: whiskey hotel 6 queen.
Speaker B: Call sign.
Speaker A: Good morning, Jim. I think it is call here. Kilo Golf 6 November Lima Whiskey. And I just wanted to make sure that this
Speaker B: was
Speaker A: working right again.
Speaker B: Apparently the volume knob
Speaker A: somehow got bumped on the All Star node overnight or something because the volume according to parrot note was turned all the way down, which is weird.
Speaker B: I don't know. Parrot's still running or something. It's coming behind you. About a second behind you. Anyway, I need to figure. I need to find a parrot I can get on and see how loud I am. I had a guy tell me I was really loud the other day. Too much mic gain. Anyway, yeah, you sound fine on here, except for you do have an echo.
Speaker A: All right, the echo should be gone now. Yeah, I was connected in via repeater phone as well, and that was still on my phone and I was sitting here on the desk. So that's what you were hearing back there. But yeah, well, if you. If you want to know how you sound and you want to get Patrick's honest opinion on it, you know, enter DYI's opinion, connect to 55553. That's four fives and a three. Connect to that and, you know, key up and talk and Patrick will come back and tell you, hey, you're too loud or hey, you're too soft, or no, you're just right. Have fun.
Speaker B: Okay. Maybe he's like me because I've been accused of being too critical about audio. Anyway. Well, thanks. And you do sound okay now that the phone is not on. There was a little, little mouse in there reciting everything you said. 73. Have a good day from WH6Q in Tennessee.
Speaker A: Thanks for coming Back to me, Jim. WH6QKG6NL. Yeah. Figure out why there's a gremlin. Why there's a gnome gremlin in the Shack studio that just volume constantly. That's the next goal. 73.

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 three.

Node 51018 disconnected.

System 2, link off.

November 6th. Bravo Oscar, bravo bob in cuba city. Anybody around this morning? Wp said axm repeater.

Try one more time. Anyone around this morning for a short qso m6pov bob yuba city.

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.

Los Angeles link up.

Gears holds a slow speed Morse code net on 40 meters every Thursday night starting at 7pm Frequency of 7.44 plus or minus if the frequency is in use. All licensed amateur radio operators are welcome to join in the net W6 RHC repeater check 2.

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.

November 6th. Bravo after bravo, Bob. And you, City. Anybody around for a short QSO this morning?

Looking for something to do tonight. Why not join us for the Monday night net at 8pm on the W6 GRC repeater with a PL tone of 110.9.

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

The year's monthly general membership meetings are held on the third Monday night of the month at the Butte County Public Library, 1108 Sherman Avenue in Chico. Doors open at 6pm and the meeting starts at 7pm all are welcome to attend. W6RHC repeater check 1.

Kk6vzd at lunch.

Los angeles link up. K6LNK system 36, no mountain range.

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.

Join us tonight for the Monday night net at 8pm on the W6 GRC repeater with a PL tone of 110.9.

13 link up, Reddit link up.

W6pr on frequency. W6tr on frequency.

Speaker A: Mobile wp6axn repeater.
Speaker B: Things are going good. Beautiful day, man. Nice warm sunshine.
Speaker A: Looks like a highest 75 day over here in Yuba City. And it's great. I'm enjoying it. I was just helping a friend of mine do some, some yard work in their backyard. Doing a whole backyard garden and all that. I've been helping them with that for a little while and. Yeah, just got done with that. I'm gonna go grab some food. How's it over there?
Speaker B: Oh, nice. Yeah.
Speaker A: Warm.
Speaker B: You know, I should be laying out in the sun and a bathing suit, but too lazy. So that means you're kind of tired and hungry.
Speaker A: Yeah, because I was shuffling a bunch of wood chips for a while for the walkways. They're putting wood chips around the planter box and stuff like that. Everything is a walkway going to be wood chip.
Speaker B: I'm sure it's going to look good. You know, I like that kind of stuff. But they always say, hey, don't hurt yourself.
Speaker A: It's a lot. Pretty significant endeavor, that's for sure. It's quite large. They got, they got a big backyard and the whole thing is basically grinder boxes.
Speaker B: Are you getting paid for this? Is it a freebie or what?
Speaker A: David, it's fine. I'm just helping a friend out.
Speaker B: Well, that's nice to you, really. You know, I've seen, you know, some bad, bad people, bad thoughts and then they can't figure out how come their life's not working.
Speaker A: I just helping a friend out and almost finished. It's looking nice. The amount of stuff they're going to be growing. The variety is nice. We're still building the planter boxes and stuff, getting everything all kind of situated, but we're, we're just chilling in all that, the wood chips right now. Yeah, that's. That's been something. Wheelbarrowing it over there and been, you know, laying it down flat the rake. It's a lot of work.
Speaker B: Yeah. Hey, well, what's happening? Do you think that winter is over or are we going to have more cold?
Speaker A: I think it's going to be like the really short spring and then we're going to go straight into summer. Like kind of what we had last year. I think that's what it's going to be. I think it's going to be a repeat.
Speaker B: Hey, well, you know, it's brutal. Gets really cold. These brutal calms. Summertime brutal. Ouch.
Speaker A: I'm not a fan of these California summers. Really. We'll see what happens. I've Been getting interviews and stuff like that. I might be getting a really, really good paying job. I can't really talk about here pretty soon and we'll see where we go from there. And once I get that more money coming in, I'm going to be probably spending the time that I do have my downtime. Probably going to the coastline a lot because I am done with the California heat. I want to go to places where it's nice and cool.
Speaker B: You mean you're eventually going to move away?
Speaker A: Well yeah, the job in question is actually going to be me not even being within California border. Yeah. Oh wow.
Speaker B: Well that'll be interesting. You know, I say go for it, really reach for this guy, blah blah blah.
Speaker A: Well I'm going to spend part of my time in California. Part of it not so you'll hear me on the air once in a while. It's one of those.
Speaker B: Well that's cool. What was it doing any kind of work?
Speaker A: Do you like getting too much specifics? But yeah.
Speaker B: Oh, that's cool then. You know, man, if you could do something. I always wanted a job where I wake up in the morning and want to go to work, you know,
Speaker A: most
Speaker B: of them weren't like that.
Speaker A: Kind of funny is I've been 30 for about a week now and things are starting to fall into place. It's kind of weird how that works. As my dad was telling me is like usually guys gotta figure stuff out around 8:30. I'm like, well it's barely been 30. What happened?
Speaker B: Well that could be. I see that we don't starting to start to use logic until we're 25 years old. Well hey, five years of hanging out, then you start thinking, well maybe I should settle down and do something right?
Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. I mean I've been really chipping away at this for quite some time now and I think it's starting to pay off. We'll see what happens. I'm gonna know very shortly if I, I'm gonna be doing that and. Yeah,
Speaker B: Well, I believe in love. You know, I've known people who would do certain things that they loved and they were good at it and, and it always paid off. You know, it's like somehow the love came back.
Speaker A: Right. You know, ultimately I'm going to chase what I'm passionate about and that's what I want in a career is just doing what I'm passionate about. I'm about to be doing Destinated here in about five minutes. But I'm going to keep on talking for A little bit.
Speaker B: How.
Speaker A: How has things been with your guitar? Remember you're talking about I had like a soldering issue.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, I found the problem. It was grounding to the switch. The five way switch wasn't grounded, you know, the body metal. I thought it would be just like contact to the copper sheeting, you know, the tape that you use. But it wasn't enough. And finally I found the problem. The other thing going on, just a little information. The heater's not working out front. I know it's warming up sun today, but you know, at night it gets a little chilly. I guess I'm gonna have to call PG&E and have him come check it out. But just another little thing where, you know, makes you want to kill yourself.
Speaker A: Well, on the bright side, you won't be able to use the heater very much here shortly because it's going to start getting very hot. Start thinking about ac. Well, hopefully that your situation gets straightened out. I'm almost destinated. It's a really nice day. It was great, you know, being outside today, actually helping them out because like any other day, I'm glad it wasn't raining. I wouldn't, I wouldn't be moving bark around in the rain anyways.
Speaker B: Well, you know, I kind of think sometimes. Hey, well, you got good karma, you know. So goes around, comes around and I see you feel good about it. So that's great, you know, good for you. I'll catch you later on down the COAC 6. I wish
Speaker A: I talk to you again. I'm 3Kn6WNR. Step three.

Gears holds a slow speed Morse code net on 40 meters every Thursday night starting at 7pm Frequency of 7.44 plus or minus if the frequency is in use. All licensed amateur radio operators are welcome to join in the net wfix RHC Repeater Check 3.

Los angeles link up. K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

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.

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

We6a x n repeater.

System7 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 one.