Transcriptions for 2026-03-10

6bzb mobile w e6a x n repeater.

Kg6 kuo, kn6 pww, K6pww, kg6kuo. Go ahead, you. Hey, lester, this is jamie. I'm looking for an early check in tonight. Got it. You have a good evening. Kt6 kuo. Thanks very much. Kn6pww player.

The Gears. Monthly general membership meetings are held on the third Monday night of the month at the Butte County Public Library, 1118 Sherman Ave. In Chico. Doors open at 6pM and the meeting starts at 7pM all are welcome to attend.

Los Angeles link up.

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.

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.

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

Los Angeles link up.

GRG or anybody else in Chico area or around there. I've heard you have a power outage. You did?

Kn6 mike golf keel n6 grg.

Qst, qst, qst. Calling all amateur radio operators, this is W6P and H. Call in Yuba City Net control for tonight's net. The following net is held every Monday evening at 19:00 clock hours local time on the WD6AXM repeater by the Yuba Sutter Amateur Radio Club. The purpose of this net is to distribute club related information, promote interest in amateur radio and promote effective net operating procedures. All hams are welcome to join us. The CT CSS tone to access this repeater is 127.3Hz with a positive offset. This is a directed formal net, so please direct all traffic to W6PNH, your net control station for tonight's net. Any stations with emergency or priority traffic, please identify now. All radio amateurs, both club members and guests will be invited to check in. But first I will take check ins from our club officers and board members, followed by those wishing to make announcements. Let's start with our club president, carla k6 kds. How about Vice President Bud? KK1? Bud, kilo, kilo one bravo, uniform delta. Good evening Paul. And Nest is Bud mobile in South Hunt City tonight. I don't have anything to announce other than looking forward to seeing everybody at the club meeting next week back in Mexico. Thanks Bud. I've got you checked in. How about Our secretary Linda? KK6SOZ. Hey, good evening Paul and Lynette. This is Kilo, Kilo, 6, Kira, Oscar Zulu. Okay, I really don't have anything to report other than echoing what Bud said. And that is the club meeting is next week. Back to now. Thanks Linda, I've got you. And how about board member Joe N9BD? N9BD. Joe and Dobbins. And I don't have too much to add. I did work the ARL International DX phone over the weekend. Didn't do as well as they did on cw, but additional all over the place. Great. Starting out, then terrible, then great. Terrible. Only made about 222. So anyway, back to net. Nothing else. Well, that sounds like some pretty good activity. Anyway, thanks Joe. Got you checked in. And let's see, how about board member Devin N0DVD? Good evening everyone. This is Devin and Linda in 0dve in no traffic. Thanks Devin, I've got you. How about Leonard, KO6DVV. And board member Joe AK6JN? This is Joe, AK6JN and Williams. Nothing for the NAT. Thank you for doing the NAT, Paul. Oh yeah, happy to do it. And I'm next on the list so I'm here and I will go ahead and report. This past Saturday's exam session we had one youth applicant and I'd like to say congratulations to Michael from Gridley for earning his title technician license. I'm expecting he may receive his call sign as early as tomorrow morning. Michael, we look forward to hearing you on the air. Okay, let's see. And let's go with board member emeritus Leroy KJ6DKM, WP6AXM receiver, Our repeater trustee dave wd6axm. How about our vhn editor, curtis kf6vst. And our other vhn editor, marcia ki6? How about our Net control Coordinator, Chris KK6VZD? Evening. Good evening. This is KK6VZD from Yuba City. And not much to report except that the keychain antenna has been published in on the Air magazine by arrl. Kind of neat to see it in print. I put the link out on Facebook if anybody wants to check it out. Thanks, Paul. Thank you, Chris. And that is kind of fun. I actually got to use that antenna, so I'm going to look that article up and check it out. Thanks again. How about our Aries coordinator, Buck N6CNY, Our arrl section manager j n6sac. Others who would like to make announcements or list bulletins for tonight's Net, please identify now. This is net control W6B and H proceeding to the check in portion of the Net. Everyone will have an opportunity to check in, but I will first begin calling from a current list of club members, followed by a call for any guests. All participants, please remember to check in with your full call sign, name and location. If you don't hear your call sign and think it's absent from the member list, please check in during our call for guests and contact KK6SOZ Linda, our club secretary. And let's start off with AJK6AJH. Good evening, Paul and Annette. This is AJ in Yuba City, Kilo 6 Alpha Juliet Hotel. Nothing for the net tonight. Thanks, AJ I've got you checked in. How about Daniel N6APX. And bob n6 bob? Ed ko6dvl, Avery ko6dvt, Jocelyn ko6dvu. Todd Ko6gri? Good evening, Paul. This is Todd, Normerica Ko6gri. Thanks, Todd. Good to hear you out there. Got you checked in. How about Ernie kn6gtn? I'll give the call out to Chuck Ki6hk. And how about walt n6hns? Steve KN6IJD? This is Gil on November 6th in real Julia Delta and nice to have a sunset at the time of our net is nothing. I've got you, Steve. Thanks yeah how about dawn kn6ije? Steven ke6inw? This is kilo, echo 6 india, november, whiskey, stephen and grilly and no traffic. Good evening good evening, steven, thanks for checking in how about mike, kk6isq, Darrell, km6kfw? This is km6kfw, no traffic. Gotcha, darrell, thanks. How about doug, kd6lok? Good evening paul and the net kilo delta 6 lima, oscar, kilo, doug here on nimshu ridge and I noticed another gopher pushing up through the ground here so it's good to see mother nature coming back finally after the campfire in 2018. Thanks for doing the netfall 73 kd6lok. Thanks for the report, doug, appreciate that. Good to hear from you. This is w6bnh paul, your net control station tonight and move on to bill kn6mlt. Tom ko6mo, Jeff, kn6mxb. David kb1nde. How about David wa1ner? Good evening Paul and the net wa1ner David Yuba City, no traffic. Good to hear you, David. It's nice to break that string of no check ins too. So now I know things are working all right. How about Ryan, K6RC. Steve wa1ren, Patrick, kn6rth, Stan n6sg, Stanley ko6sml, Roslyn, kk6sov, West wb6sww? Good evening, paul. This is west wb6sww in yuba city. No traffic. Thanks for checking in, wes, I've got you how about lester kk6syv, Ted kn6ted, John ki6udf? This is john kilo, india 6 uniform, delta box traffic, nothing for the net gotcha, john, thanks how about michael ki6ujx? This is ki6ujx michael and linda, thank you for joining the net paul, no traffic. Thanks, michael, I've got you checked in and how about alfred kk6vos. And we're looking for claire ki6vwg? How about paul k6wap? This is k6wap paul in yuba city with no traffic. Thanks, paul, got you checked in how about matthew kn6wnr? Kathy n7wvw? This is kathy november 7th whiskey, victor, whiskey and lucas. Thank you for the joining it tonight. Thanks kathy, got you checked in how about phil, k6wwl. And we're looking for wade kn6wx. Any members that didn't get to their mic in time, please come now WP6A X N repeater. Hello. Foxtrot6 Victor, Foxtrot Papa, Curtis, Momorika. Gotcha, Curtis. Thanks. Any other member? Late member, check ins, Please come now. I will now call for visitors. Please identify slowly with your name, call sign and location. We'll have time for all check ins. Remember, all hams are welcome to join us. Please come one at a time and wait for me to acknowledge each check in. Please come now. Net control, please copy kilowatt bravo 8 victor oscar mike. Kb8v o m portable. Name's adam. Located in west kansas city. I've got you, adam. Thanks for checking in. And I've got kb8 vomit. All right, next visitor check in, please come now. Kilo Oscar Six Alpha Uniform Bravo. This is James, just outside of Marysville and I got no traffic tonight. Thanks, James. I've got you. Next guest check in, please come now. Kilo Oscar Six Bravo, Gulf Yankee. Paul in Calusa. No traffic. Back to you, Paul. Thanks, Paul. I've got you. Next check in. Please come now. Hey, Paul, this is John up in Oreville. Kilo Six Hotel, Foxtrot Papa. No traffic. Back to you. Thanks, John. And I think we've got that address thing sorted out, so don't worry about that at all. Okay? Next guest check in, please come now. This is KI6CSN Marcia in Yuba county. And thank you, Paul, for hosting the next. Oh, well, thanks, Marcia. I've got you checked in. Any other check ins? Please come now. November India 6 Charlie, Kilo Nick over in Roseville. No traffic. AI6HK, Chuck in Sacramento. Okay, hold up there. I've got Nick in Roseville. Thanks, Nick and Chuck, I've got you too, KI6HK. All right, next check in. Please come now. K6RCM, Ryan in Southern. No traffic. Got your eye in. Thanks. Next check in. Okay, well, we'll have another chance for late check ins, but this is Paul W6PNH, NetControl. And let's move on to tonight's swap shop. This portion of the net is dedicated for both members and guests to list their available ham related items only. You may list an asking price for your items, but all negotiations and transactions must be conducted off this repeater. Stations with listings for tonight's swap shop may identify now. Okay, well, let's move on to the ham help portion of the Net. This segment is provided for amateurs who need answers to ham related technical questions or who may need assistance with ham related projects. Stations with listings for ham help may identify now. This is net control, Paul W6 TNH with the last call for late check in. Anybody wishing to check in, please come now. Looks like we've got it covered. If you would be interested in becoming a Net Control operator this evening, I mean for this net, Please contact Chris, kk6vzdrl.net or any ubisutter, Amateur Radio Club Officer or board member by emailing boardsarc.net.

Local. What happened down in Chico. But, boy, I've never heard of chico. Losing power. 10, 6, GRG.

Speaker A: A master copy of the net control station guide is posted on the club's website located at www.yuba sutterarc.org. this net is held every Monday at 19:00 hours local time on the WD6AXM repeater. The repeater is located at 2100ft atop South Butte, approximately 12 miles west northwest of Yuba State City in Sutter County. The repeater covers the northern Sacramento Valley and beyond. Until next week, this is Paul W6P and H in Yuba City thanking all who checked in and signing clear and returning the repeater to normal amateur youth. This net is now closed.
Speaker B: Question, Paul Katie6lok. Yeah, go ahead, Doug. I had a lady contact me on Facebook the other day about ham some ham help. Anyway, I looked her up on QRZ and she's definitely listed as being here in Magalia, but she hasn't responded to my comment to her on Facebook. And I was wondering if you have any access to finding out where this lady was licensed. I don't have a way to see
Speaker A: where she was licensed. I could just. Just the public info about when she was licensed. If you have. If you want to send me whatever you've got on her. I don't use Facebook, but
Speaker B: I might
Speaker A: know somebody that does. So if we need to do a little bit of research, we could try that. So feel free to give me that info.
Speaker B: Well, I thought I'd ask if there was a way to figure out where she was licensed. That was one of my questions to her, whether it was with you guys
Speaker C: or gears or where she.
Speaker B: How she got licensed. She's got a KN6 call, so it's been a while since we're already into the K0s or Kos I mean, so. But she hadn't responded to me and I was just trying to find out where she was licensed. But thanks, I'll proceed farther in my own trials here. Appreciate it. 73 KD6 Lok.
Speaker A: Thanks, Doug. Well, good luck and yeah, let me know if you think I can help. All right, this is W6P and H and I'll monitor a little bit.
Speaker C: Wa1ner.wa1ner.kv8 vom portable v8 vom.w8.1ner.
Speaker B: I was just getting to do the same. Same thing. How you doing, Adam? Hey, buddy, how are you?
Speaker C: Been been a year and we're just out here in Yuba City making our. Our annual trip. Brought the HT wagon. Check in this net, check into the yellow Ares Net and try to catch up with some of my long lost Elmers and friends there.
Speaker A: Over.
Speaker B: Roger that. Well, how's the. How's the family doing?
Speaker C: The girls?
Speaker B: How old are the girls now?
Speaker C: Well, the girls are 19. They graduated high school this year. They started at Ohio University. One's. One's a freshman and one's got enough credits to be a sophomore. And at the end of this quarter, she'll be a year.
Speaker B: Holy smoley. They're just really moving on up, aren't they?
Speaker C: Good.
Speaker B: The wife's doing good.
Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
Speaker A: Yep.
Speaker C: Nope. Everything's great. David, I'm not sure if I can QSY with you over to Simplex, but do you want to QSY off of this one over to 210?
Speaker B: We'll give it a try. That. That won't be Simplex, because it's still. It's a repeater and it's got the 127.3 PL. Is that in your HD?
Speaker C: Roger, Roger.
Speaker B: Just go ahead and give it a go. We'll give it a try.
Speaker C: Wa1ner qsy we6 a x m repeater. Okay, David, Sounds good. And, Paul, I know you're still listening. Thanks for doing Annette. It was a fine job, and I was glad to be able to check in this trip out here. Thanks again, Paul. And KBH view and portable will be 2 XY order 2 10.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Well, good to hear you out there, Adam. And thanks for checking in with us. W6PNH.

System 2, link off.

Ss 1.

Hey, k6jn radio check. Kc6uis sounding great, Joe. Cabby. Thank you Bob. Sorry I missed the net yesterday. No problem. We had a good net. Band was up and down and had 15 check ins and two guests. So all in all it was a good, good net for sure. And look forward to hearing you next time around. Yeah, I'm standing. I look forward to being there.

Speaker A: 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. Okay, now that was interesting. Casey QAs.
Speaker B: Yeah, what's that?
Speaker A: I was kind of surprised, but I liked it. And with that it is the top of the hour, so. Good Evening, this is AK6JN located in Williams, your net control station tonight for the GAR's Monday Night Net. This net meets every Monday evening at 2000 hours local time using either the AFC or the W6GRC repeater. We will be using the W6GRC machines on the odd months of the year and on the even months of the year we'll be using the AF6OA machine for our nets. This is a directed net. Please make no transmissions unless cleared by Net Control. When checking in, please give your call, your name, a signal report and if you have any traffic for the net or wish to be included in the talkback segment. Net Control has no announcements for tonight, so are there any other stations that have announcements for the net? Please come now.
Speaker B: Okay, I6Smed.
Speaker A: Go ahead, Phil.
Speaker B: Just noticed information for the guards group that this month I'll be paying the ARRL insurance for the club and also the PO box rent and that will hopefully get that done before Wednesdays Zoom meeting for the membership. That will be at what time do we do that? 6:30 with that? Jeanette, this is KI6SMN.
Speaker A: Thank you. Thank you, Phil. Are there any other stations with announcements? Please come now. Hearing them move into the check in portion of the net. Start off with AF608 Yen and Cape.
Speaker B: This is Alpha, Foxtrot 6, Oscar, Alpha Yen and Kabay. Your Q5.
Speaker A: Thanks for doing the net. Copy.urq5 as well. Little bit of the crackle in the background but very very strong. AG6VA, Ryan and Willows,
Speaker B: Alpha Golf 6
Speaker A: Victor, Alpha, Ryan and Willows, you are Q5 to me. Beautiful.
Speaker B: Clear signal.
Speaker A: I don't have any traffic for the net, but thanks for doing that, Jeff. Copy. Thank you Ryan for the check in. Have you checked in? You are a Q5 into the repeater as well. K6 Gab, Greg and Chico, Kc6ufe, bill
Speaker B: in capay, kc6ufe, bill in capray. And good evening to the group q5 for everybody and put me on the roundtable back to nat.
Speaker A: Copy. Thank you bill, have you checked in? You are a q5 as well. I'll have you on the talkback section next. We've got kc6uis bob and elk creek. Kc6uis, bob and elk creek. Urq5 into elk creek tonight. No traffic. Kathy, URQ5 into the repeater as well. Thank you. KS6 Obi gave two ask for a text check in. He won't be with us this evening. KG6K U O Webster and Willows. Good evening, this is KG6KUO, Lester and Willows. And I have nothing to add to the net tonight but I'll be listening and I'll be in and out. And you had a couple good q5 signal. Copy of your Q5 as well. Thank you, Lester. Got you checked in K6SMN, Phil and
Speaker B: Willows, Kilo India 6 Share Mike November, Phil here in Willows Q5 through the 8:57 tonight. And I do have an item for the talk around.
Speaker A: Copy. Thank you. Phil. Have you checked in and have you on the list for the roundtable? KK6FNY, Courtney and Willows. Kk6fny, Courtney and Willows checking in and out your Q5. Gabby. Thank you, courtney. Have you checked in cam6vff, hank in elk creek, Kn6wsn, Logan and Willows, W6LND, Jeremy and Orlando. Are there any late or missed member check ins members only. Please come now. Are there any guest stations wishing to check into the cars Monday night that please check in now?
Speaker B: November 6th, Julian, Oscar, Os, Charlie. Quite a bit south and a little
Speaker A: bit east in state of California. Could you come back with your call one more time please? The call is november 6th juliet, oscar alpha. November 6th Juliet Oscar Alpha. Have you checked in? Thank you. Do we have any other visitors? And N6 Joa, did you want to be added into tonight's talkback section? Did you have anything for us or is it just a quick in and out? No ads.
Speaker B: Thank you very much. No ad.
Speaker A: Copy. Thank you. With that, I'll ask one last time. Do we have any more guest check ins? Please come now. Hearing none. We're moving on to the talk back section or the roundtable portion of our net. Starting off with KC6UFE, Bill and Cape. What have you got for us, Bill?
Speaker B: KC6UFE. Good evening, everybody. Well, I've been spending my time chasing that D expedition down by Antarctica on Bouvet Island. So far, no luck. They're up and down the bends and about one step ahead of me. So I must say though, I am quite appalled at the behavior of the ham radio community. It's just there's no excuse for what's going on. So I hope things get better and
Speaker A: back to net KC6UFE. I have to admit I haven't been on the airwaves over the past week or so, so I'm not quite sure what you're referring to, but I'm not going to go into it, so we'll move on. Next we've got KS6SMN Phil in Willows. What do you have for us, Phil?
Speaker B: Yeah, Kilo India 6 Sierra Mike November. My thanks to AF60A. Went up to his place last week and he helped me do some testing of a some ancient RCA radio. It would be the equivalent of having a small portable receiver. It's a tube type unit and he had a bariac that we could slowly bring the current up and did some testing and lo and behold it still works. Did a couple tested a couple of tubes, found one, one that was good, two that were bad but those were auxiliary tubes in the auxiliary tube rack. That's a part of the radio and go drop and come back. And then yesterday I was able to do some work testing out and working through the short wave bands on it. It is intended to be a listener short SWL receiver, shortwave listener receiver and it even the handbag or not the hand bands but the broadcast. Yeah, I guess it'd be broadcast bands in HF those also were working. It's stoppable but it is operational. So with that back to net. This is KI successive ENSO. Thanks again. AF6OA.
Speaker A: That sounds pretty interesting. I'm always fascinated about some of the older radios and how all of this technology came into being in the first place.
Speaker B: Copy that. I guess this is a vintage. It was probably on the market. I would guess late 50s. During the 50s, maybe early and into early 60s. Once again it was a tube type unit.
Speaker A: What year did you think that was from?
Speaker B: I guess it came from either the 1950s or into the early 60s because it was not. There were no solid state components, it was all tubes. So I'm guessing on it. I didn't actually research.
Speaker A: It's also amazing that some of those older radios are just like tanks. They just keep going and going and going.
Speaker B: That's the truth. This thing, when you put the battery in, it weighs about 20, I think it said the documentation said weighed about 2025 pounds. We were not using the battery, we were plugging it into the wall.
Speaker A: Kathy again, that just sounds amazing. So was there anything else that you had or is that it?
Speaker B: That's it. Unless there's any questions.
Speaker A: Did anybody have any questions for Phil? I'm Sorry, I stepped on somebody. Go ahead.
Speaker B: AF6OA here. Phil, did you ever get the long wire going as far as an antenna? Yes, I did. That's what I was doing yesterday. Sorry I didn't get back to your text about that. Yeah, and only thing I could get during the daytime very faintly at 15 megahertz could hear WWV. But then when the. I can't think what it's called when the sun is starting to go down and you're in that shadow thingy. A lot of stations didn't recognize where they were from but could pick up more stations, particularly on. I think it was 40 meters. Roger.
Speaker A: Great. Yeah, Gray line is what it's called. Yeah. Cool. Well maybe we get.
Speaker B: Well, if it's still around and I can get an RF signal generator to do a full alignment we could do it. Appreciate the effort. And yeah, Gray line. I think I misspoke. I think it was 80 meters, not 40 meters. Had the. The most activity.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Good show. Af608 clear. 73.
Speaker A: Okay, are there any last or comments or suggestions renting foreclose the net Last calls for late members, guests wishing to check in announcements, anything like that?
Speaker B: KI6 asked amend. Just a reminder we do Wednesday evening at 6:30 via Zoom there will be the monthly business sort of meeting if anybody wants to log in. You're more than welcome to be a part of the conversation.
Speaker A: Cappy. Phil. And you will be sending out an email on that, correct?
Speaker B: Hopefully the President will be doing that. If I don't see one coming from him, I'll make sure that it happens. Copy.
Speaker A: Appreciate that. I always forget when I don't get an email
Speaker B: comment.
Speaker A: Good comment. Yeah.
Speaker B: Phil, I just looked up the service
Speaker A: data on that radio.
Speaker B: It's 1953.
Speaker A: Okay. There's nothing else. I'm going to go ahead and close the net. Hearing. Nothing. This concludes the guards Monday night Net Net control thanks everyone who checked in tonight and invites everybody back next week. This is Alpha Kilo 6 Juliet November returning the AF 608 or the W6 GRC in this case repeater to normal service. The car's Monday night Net is now closed at 2018 hours. 73 to all this is AK6 Shan signing clear.

System 26, link up k6lnk, system 36. No.

Qst, qst, qst. This is KG6KO moping Sacramento Valley traffic. And this is part of the national traffic system. And the purpose of this stand is to relay fog of traffic into an out of Sacrament Valley. And to provide a standard mercy. This is indirect and face being. No transmissions without permission and control. All stations are. Station with emergency traffic. Please come down W6 RHC Repeater Check 2 Station with traffic ticket. Call follows. Kf6 obi, kf6 obi. Mike and willows. No traffic. Good evening, mike. Thank you. Kg60k. Mills calling roller. No traffic. Kg6tso. Good evening, lester in the group. This is kg6tso, bessie with no traffic. Thank you, bethy. Kf60ky. Good evening, lester. Kf60jy, bruce, no traffic. Good evening, bruce. Thank you. K6rcs, K6pmt, kilo, echo6, papa, mike, tango, russ and gerber. Good evening. Lester in the group and I have no traffic. Good evening, russ. Thank you. Kc6ufe, kc6ufe. Bill in cape. No traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, bill. Thank you. And kn6pw request an early check in. So that's the role as I have it. Do we have any late members or visitors wish to check in? All right, I got you checked in there, Jamie. Thank you, Ken. What else? Area no further traffic or check in. This is KG6K low closing Sacramento Valley traffic this. That beats daily at 2100 hours local time through the W6 Ferry Civil Pier on 14685. All spacings are excused. And it looks like everybody who kicks in tonight and the Golden Empire mature Radio Society with Houston repeater this mint closed in 213 local type $73. K6 Kuo clearing frequency.

System7 link up.

Fresno link, pop.

Ss 1.

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.

System 19 link up.

Kb6 poc mobile 101 at 116 system 26 link up k6lnk system 36 snow mountain range.

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

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

W6r h c repeater check 3.

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

Node 51018 connected to node 405480.

Kk6vzd mobile w e6a x n repeater. See if you got any real friends. I say real friends because I, you know, I, I know, you know people, you're probably wishing they would come on, but I'm so excited about you. Waste. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Yes, I know a lot of people and you know, I get, I'm not exactly sure that I have a lot of friends. I know I have a lot of acquaintances and a lot of people I get along well with and socialize well with and stuff, but you know, real friends, somebody to talk to in times of trouble. Yeah, no, a real friend is somebody who will get up at midnight because you have a flat tire on a little road somewhere and you don't have a jack, cell phone doesn't work and they'll come out, get out of bed, come out, help you change the tire. That's a real friend. Yeah, well, you know, there's a couple of people that would fit into that category for me, but I would consider them friends. I mean they would already been as my list of friends without me having to think about it. I knew some really good people. They're dead now, you know, I mean like all these health food, you know, meditators, stuff like that. And they took off just like everybody else. Well, yes, and it's not exactly quite right to say that that's the risk that you take when you get older. I guess it's the consequences of, of age as that stuff happens. Hey, well, I think you have trouble. I've got a split in my aorta, lower clavicle, blah, blah, blah. Bypass. It's 6 millimeters centimeters a year ago, 50 something centimeters this year. But they don't work on people over 80. I mean, he looked right at me and said, you know, you got a rule 80, we don't work on you. So. Well, guess who's gonna be 80 next November. Well then he should have just worked on you right there and then. Well, he's from Canada and I told him there's been new innovative discoveries in the world of the spiritual realm, ghosts, etc. And they've discovered that an American ghost will go boo, but a Canadian ghost goes a. Yeah, I anticipated you there. I was saying that to myself as you were saying it. Yeah, I guess a means what you want to talk. I know Aussies say it too, but a little bit different. I wasn't sure that there was an actual honest to goodness reasons for seeing. Eh. I think they just said it, their sentences to sort of Like a period, a verbal period, eh? Well, one of them told me it means they want to talk. Do you want to have a conversation? A. Hey. Yeah. It was really funny. And this has been a while, but when I was up in Washington state, my wife and I went and stayed with at a bed and breakfast up there and there was a Canadian couple of Canadian couples out there and we went to have breakfast. We're all sitting around the table and everything that they say and hey, eh. And I was just laughing inside, you know, because it's a stereotype, but it's also true. Yeah, I guess, eh. My daughter lives in New Zealand. Went down there with the ex wife and her husband. The kids all live around Australia and they tell me, don't confuse their accent with the Australian or especially the British. You know, they use that. I'm gonna go to the car and get my daughter some water. It's very different. Different. And I see. I don't think they say aa. No, no, I don't. I don't think so. I was trying to think I had something in my mind that I was gonna say and it's gone. Oh, well, yeah, Aussies. And do Aussies sound different than New Zealanders? Yeah, apparently. And they get offended if you, you know, don't know the difference. I guess the same to me. Sounds the same to me, but, you know, I guess there's probably enough difference that they can tell, but just not enough difference that we can tell. One time I was talking to this kid from Bosnia back, you know, some days back, and I said, you know, I don't get it. What's the war for about religion? It's not. And I'm sorry, you guys are all Hawaii and what's the theory? He said, oh, no, their faces are different, so we want to kill them. They'd have a tough time over here then. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Anyway, well, I hope you're gonna have a good day. I. Dealing with things around here, you know, this economy, you know, it's just really kind of knocking me here for a loop. Everything is just so high, stupid high. And then the PG&E and I'm going, wait a minute, wait, wait, wait. What? You know, something. Something wrong with this picture. And then everybody wants money, more money, you know, vendors and creditors and businesses and, you know, nagging here and there. Oh God, I hear you. Yeah. I look back at the past couple years and how much food prices have gone up. It just knocks me out. It's like you can't get any beef now for less than $10 a pound, I don't think. Yeah. Hey, you know, I got the EBT card. I usually. Through my life, I'm not going to take welfare. I'll work anyway. I'm retired. I got the ebt applied for. Big hassle dealing with government. Sorry. You know, finally got the thing going here. But they only give me like 50 bucks a month. Okay. What? $50? I'll, you know, I'll buy a steak. Yeah. A couple gallons of milk and I don't know what else. Yeah. It's just ridiculous. Oh, well. Well, I'm at work a little early today, so. But I am at work and I got 14 days to go and I'm supposed to. At this late stage of the game, I'm supposed to be taking people around and showing them things that I'm familiar with, but maybe they're not. Just, you know, give them a heads up so that they won't get surprised when they have the support it. Oh, well. All right. Well, have a great day. A and we'll talk to you later. 73jk6vzd Clear Alex and A also, it's addictive. N6 I. 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K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

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 Ave. Chico. All are welcome to attend. W6RHC repeater checked 1.

And 6grg36 local. 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.

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

System21 link.

W e6a x n repeater.

W6r h c repeater check 3.

Speaker A: Sierra Delta. And good morning to Dan K6VP. And good morning to Chris KJ6 Zulu Hotel. Good morning to Ken KB7 DFP. Steamed eggs. I don't know, it's just doesn't sound good to me. Hope you enjoy your lunch.
Speaker B: Kin
Speaker A: what's important that you like them, right? Good morning. Coffee Break Net. Last call for check ins. All right. This has been the Coffee Break Net where the sun is always shining, the birds are singing and the fish are jumping. This net of course is sponsored by the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club in Northern California. We're here every day of the week, 7:30am to 10:00am Pacific time. That's 15:30 to 18:00 clock UTC and just invite you back again tomorrow. I will be your net host and conversation facilitator once again and invite you back for some more great conversations. It's been a fun morning but with
Speaker B: that I'm going to go ahead and
Speaker A: wish everybody a wonderful, wonderful Tuesday ahead. Thanks for being here and being part of this morning's conversation and I guess we'll be clear. This is AI6US. Beautiful metavist California. Returning the W6EK repeater and connected nodes and other repeaters back to your normal operation, whatever that may be. Have a wonderful day everybody. 7 3.
Speaker B: I6us.
Speaker A: Go ahead, Grayton.
Speaker B: Before you take a much needed bio break and refuel, there was another game that I had before that console system. It was called Air Traffic Control. It was a very simple device in some ways. It was self contained. Oh, outside of a little 9 inch TV. And it had a series of landing patterns on it with LEDs on it. And the objective of the game is you were an air traffic controller and you'd have to control a plane as it came in. You had to control its elevation, its speed and had successfully landed. And as you went up in sophistication, as you became better at it, it would throw more planes at you to the point to where you were overwhelmed and you couldn't control them all. I don't know if you remember that game or not, but I actually still have it. It's sitting on a shelf at home with the instructions underneath it. But it was called Air Traffic Controller and it would try your patience and it would definitely stress you out.
Speaker A: No, the only handheld device I ever owned might have even been from Radio Shack.
Speaker B: It was a football lineup game that
Speaker A: you were represented by little dashes on traveling across this LED screen. That's the only handheld gaming device. And looking back on it, a dot represent. Yeah, not very engaging graphically.
Speaker B: Yeah, this was simply a screen. You know, not even a computer screen, just a plastic screen with LEDs. And you know, if I remember on Thursday, if you're going to be at the board meeting, I'll get it off the shelf, dust it off and, and I'll show it to everybody if you're interested in seeing what it looks like. You know, they used to warn you that this game causes extreme stress. It was right around that time when air traffic controllers were getting a lot of attention. With that, I'll let you go have some breakfast. KC6SLA.
Speaker A: Yeah, I remember that air traffic control time. I lived in Auburn, Washington at the time and a bunch of my friends, their, their parents worked for the FAA control center there in Auburn. And yeah, good old Reagan. I remember a couple kids who were very stressed out about not having. For getting to school.
Speaker B: Yeah, the good old days.
Speaker A: Kind of. Claire, have a good one.
Speaker B: Thanks, Graydon.
Speaker A: And yeah, maybe in the shack might be a great opportunity to show off that gem. KC6LEAI6US.

Speaker A: Kc6sle, k3bgm, you still are out. Great.
Speaker B: This is kc6sole. Go ahead.
Speaker A: When you were talking about childhood games, do you remember that Firebird console where you used to drive the Firebird with it and it made the digital motor noise K through vgm?
Speaker B: I do not remember that. What was the platform for that? Was that Atari, Nintendo or something else?
Speaker A: Actually, that was before Video Consult. It was a self contained device. I had one of those as a kid and I played that thing for
Speaker B: hours
Speaker A: to the point where my alcohol had to take it apart and re solutter it because I played it so much, the wires broke inside. K30 VGL.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's good. That one I don't recall. I do remember the one that I saved. I actually have on the shelf, the air traffic controller one. But it was the same thing. It was not very sophisticated. It was sophisticated for the time. You think about the microprocessor that ran, it was probably very sophisticated for the year that it came out and it was available. But display wise and all that, you know, it doesn't have anywhere near the graphics that video screen would have. But yeah, I agree with you. I had hours and hours of enjoyment on this.
Speaker A: Whoever that is. Do not banging the system. Yeah, the first Atari I had, Grayton was an Atari 2600. I also played that for hours. The problem is the new video games are so sophisticated that they're beyond my hands capability. Having several faulting. But now I can't play any of the new video games because they're too complicated for my hands to work.
Speaker B: Yeah, they do take a lot of dexterity. They take better eyesight than I have these days. Although you can get closer to the screen, wear your reading glasses. But yeah, I used to watch my son play Mario Brothers. Just it was entertaining to sit there and watch him play it. I never got into it because frankly, they're time eaters. They eat up a lot of your time. So watching him play Mario Brothers, it was fascinating because Mario would be bouncing along. All of a sudden he'd get Mario bouncing and bouncing higher and higher and he'd reach up into the cloud and pull down some type of advantage, some type of hidden thing that he could use to progress on in the game. And I would ask my son, I said, how do you know that's there? And he said, oh, you know, dad, you just know these things if you play games all the time.
Speaker A: Yeah, Roger. I used to be, as a teenager and early adulthood, I used to be quite addicted to the Atari 2600 game called Defender. Do you remember that one? Over.
Speaker B: I do not, but it sounds like it's probably a very similar game to the submarine one I was describing earlier. That subject Submarine 1 was very unsophisticated, but at the same time probably more realistic than some of the later, more sophisticated games because it kind of emulated what you as a submarine commander In World War II, what you actually could see, what you could actually control. I remember one of the techniques that I learned because eventually you would get within range of their sonar and they'd start tracking you down. They would. They would depth charge you until you were destroyed. And it was very hard, which I'm sure it was, for a real submarine to get away once you were located. But one of the techniques I learned, it was only one destroyer chasing me, is to rise up to torpedo depth and do a bow shot with my rear. I would get lined up, same trajectory they were, and I would do a bow shot with my aft torpedoes. I'd say that was probably about 25% effective, but it was about the only thing you could do at that point because they had you.
Speaker A: Yeah, Roger. Well, I never saw that game you're talking about, but as far as battles, as far as Battleship games, I'm sure you remember the old Electronic Battleship game that was its own console, debate noises and all that. I had one of those as a kid. I enjoyed that thing a lot as well.
Speaker B: Yeah, we would play Battleship, my sisters and I, we'd play Battleship for hours. And the thing about, you know, they had no strategy for how they placed their ships. They learned it after playing with me for a while because, you know, I would sit there and think, well, you know, what are the parts of the arena here that are going to be that they're going to pick probably last. So that worked for a while. I had the advantage because I was very strategic about what, where I would put my ship. But once they picked up on that, once they learned that, my advantage was gone.
Speaker A: Well, my sister, who was my oldest sibling, was there very interested in that stuff. So I never had anybody to play with. So I used to play against the computer. The Electronic Battleship had a mode where you could play against the computer. That's all I used to do. Just out of curiosity, Craven, what age did you finally get your hand licensed? I've been licensed since I was 13 years old. And I just turned. I just turned 50 on February the ninth. So I bet it is a Walapoo K3 VGM
Speaker B: KC6 sleep roti. Well, I'll Preface it by saying that I started playing with electronics at a very, very early age. In fact, my parents gave me a kit. I couldn't have been more than 8 years old. Gave me a kit to build a crystal controlled radio for Christmas. And I was so thrilled and so fascinated. Simple little thing, but so thrilled and so fascinated with it. And then I started doing some reading and figuring out ways to make it more than just a crystal radio. You know, how to actually integrate it to feed the signal into, you know, another amplifier so they could actually listen to it without headphones. So it sparked an interest and it caused me to learn a lot more than I would otherwise learn about electronics. And I fell in love with electronics to the point where as a teenager, as a young adult and a teenager, I was running around scarfing up all the black and white TVs that people were tossing away to get color TVs. And I was cannibalizing them for the tube sockets, the tubes, the capacitors, resistors. And then I was getting plans out of magazines and I was building my own equipment. If I didn't have the right components, if I was figuring out a way to make the components, I did have work. Taught me a lot about electronics, but I didn't get in. And then I got into shortwave radio listening. That's the first thing I did, is I just listened around the world to all the frequencies that I could find and played around with antennas. But then later on I went ahead and in my 30s, I decided to become an ham radio operator. So it had to be right around the mid-1980s.
Speaker A: Oh, okay. Well, I had my lip, I think, when I was 13, but I had. I had a slight advantage. I had a great alcohol that used to be a ham. Unfortunately, it's a silent cane owl. But I did as a.
Speaker B: I'll give my parents a lot of thanks, a lot of kudos for recognizing I had an interest in electronics and cultivating that interest. I remember the first vom, you know, multi volt meter that they gave me. That was a kit I put together within an hour of receiving it. I was always getting something related to my interest, you know, mainly at Christmas time. And yeah, they didn't have a lot of money, so I appreciate the fact they're out and doing that. And my dad always challenged me to fix things. Not only electronic things, but mechanical things. He taught me how to work on car. Cars and tractors and all that. I think I have a lot more patience working on those than my dad because I spent a lot of time helping him, looking for the tools that he threw out into the field or into the corn or into the soy grass that we were raising. That he had quite the temper. And he taught me my he taught my a really interesting vocabulary of sweet, which most people will never hear, but I got them.
Speaker A: Yeah. Roger well, I try to consider myself patient with that stuff because I quickly learned that feeding on things and throwing things without going to husband for things to break and then not work anymore. So I like to consider myself patient. I started with computers when I was 12. Also used Cocoon Vic 20 that I wanted on a friend date. Used to listen to other skater. So that started my computer for fade as well. And for VGM. Node 51018 disconnected.

System7 link up.

Good morning, ko6kkw. Looking for a radio contact on ears. East w6rhc repeater check one.

This is Ko6kkw. Looking for a radio check on Gears East. Gears holds a free morph code class every Wednesday night, 6pm at the Golden Beaver Distillery Still House at 2420 Park Ave. All are welcome to come learn Morse code.

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

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. W Fix R H C repeater check 2.

Kilo. Kilo. Suspicion, Uniform, Quebec Oscar. Radio check. System two, link off. You sound okay? Good enough. Okay, that's good to hear. I'm just sitting over here and we got a local power outage, so I figured it'd be a good time to check and make sure. My radio is that we're doing. All right? Yeah, I guess that's a good time to check as any. All right. You take care.

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

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.

System 21 lit.

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

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.

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

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

System32link op.

System 2, link off.

System 19 link up.

Speaker A: Los angeles link up. Hello.
Speaker B: Radio check. Loud and clear. System two, lift off. Thank you. Kn6. Dod clear.

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.

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

Speaker A: This is kilo kilo kilo. The average kilo whiskey. Kilo kilo seven sierra, kilo whiskey. Doing a radio check on carla mal. Backup.
Speaker B: Sounds okay in La Habra, California,
Speaker A: Los Angeles. Linked up. All right, very good. Thanks for the comeback. Yeah, you're sounding pretty good, too. All right, man. Well, how are things down in. Down in La Habra? Down in the down SoCal?
Speaker B: Warm but comfortable, you know? And anyway, I gotta jump out of here. Yeah, you're. You're okay. This thing works a lot better since we the. The All Star. Working on it. A lot better. W86 WIRY.
Speaker A: Roger, Roger. All right, man. Hey, 73, see you. This is JK7SKW. I'm clear.

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

Speaker A: W6P and H, this is K6KDX. Do you copy?
Speaker B: W E6A X N repeater. Yeah, Carla, go ahead.
Speaker A: There you are by your radio. Awesome. Hey, I thought I'd just call you. I just left ride out and so I'm en route to the salon and then I'm probably going to sing by home. And. And so anyway, I just kind of want to give you an update.
Speaker C: Yeah, well, good. I look forward to seeing you. Hold on a sec. Okay? I had too many things happening at
Speaker D: once. I missed part of what you said. You're going someplace next and then by home.
Speaker A: Yeah, I use code word salon. I gotta get my hair done. So anyway, I'm doing that and as soon as that's done, then I should be headed your way.
Speaker D: Okay. You're not supposed to disguise the meaning of what you say on the air, but I'm teasing you. I think the salon probably is pretty clear. So I'll see you in a few hours is why you're staying?
Speaker A: Yes. I love that ham radio joke. It's fun. Yeah. Yeah. So probably hour and a half maybe, so. Yeah.
Speaker D: Okay, well, enjoy that. And I look forward to seeing you. W6BNH. I'll be clear.
Speaker A: Okay. K6KDS. And I am clear as well.

System 2, link off.

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.

Los Angeles link up.

Kilo. 7 Oscar FoxTrot Oscars on the side.

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 W Fix R, H, C repeater check 2.

Instead of tnblock.

70. Seven.