Transcriptions for 2026-03-18

Speaker A: Well, I got my email like that. But that's just
Speaker B: an email, right? I don't know. You didn't open the attachment? Okay, it should be an attachment. So let me see
Speaker A: what's going on here. I sent it to you wrong or something.
Speaker B: I don't know. Plus I had to add
Speaker A: a contact in there email address.

Yeah, I hate outlook. Same reasons. So my one that I sent shows the attachment tool paper. So I think even probably the attachment name changed a little bit there. Equipment, blah, blah, blah. Sail upper. What do you call it? The upper case thing and then the L1 after it. Yeah, not sure.

Okay, so you were able to go the other email or something to try it again, like the way you sent it to me, but with the suggestions there. You can disregard what the suggestions I wrote in there if you want to, but I think your goal is to see if I can open it and make changes to it, right?

Yeah, I don't. I think your goal was to see if I can open it and whatever. I don't really care about the Mosley and all that. In fact, I've already helped take down towers that were given away. So. Yeah, if you're wanting someone to pay for them, I mean, I don't know, but a lot of times like the Gears group says, hey, they're free, you just go get it. We have to take it down, whatever. Right. That's how they've got. So I've helped with two of those such cases and they were never for me, so I was just helping. The beam on the other hand, if it's taken down, I've seen those be sold. If they're. Or whatever, I have no idea. But again, if someone had to take it down, the one guy took down the 50 foot roan tower with a couple of VHF beams on it once he took it all down and that's what he did. That's a friend of mine in Sacramento. So I helped him install it at his place, which he's already up and down anyway. Showers, not my thing.

Okay. It has a PDF viewer, it has an Office, it has a spreadsheet, a drawing program, presentation, and a word processor. The answer to your question Open up an edit PDF. That's always a tough thing anyway. Edit. In other words, being able to take the whole PDF, like a DMV document, and being able to edit the whole thing. No, that's not real easy. With any program, you have to pay lots of money for them, I would say. Now, the ones I've seen from even Microsoft, I've seen them fill certain things like Adobe or whatever that might not be at Microsoft. So you fill certain spots but not edit the whole thing? Bills aren't too expensive, but like fill and sign. No, that's a tough one for me.

Speaker A: Kk6vzd mobile W E6.
Speaker B: A XM receiver.
Speaker C: Hey, it's only nine days. Oh, wait, how many?
Speaker A: Eight, count them. Eight.
Speaker B: Eight days.
Speaker C: Oh, this is what you call chomping at the bit.
Speaker A: Oh, let me tell you, I. I just got asked to go. Equipment that's long gone, and they want, you know, they want, you know, what's the status? Do we have it?
Speaker C: Where is it?
Speaker A: Was it disposed of? And let me tell you, most of it's probably long gone and there's no record of what happened to it, so I won't be able to say, you know, I'll just be able to say it's not here. I'm assuming that it was disposed of and not documented.
Speaker C: Is there any way they could accuse you of losing it or stealing it?
Speaker A: I don't know, you know, but, you know, it's just really stupid because this same equipment had to have been accounted for over the past few years. And, you know, it's the same status. A lot of this stuff's probably been gone for years. And, you know, they knew that when they did the inventory last year, but it's still coming up and I don't want to waste my time.
Speaker C: Well, don't do it. A long lunch and then say, oh, I couldn't find it.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, another thing came up today.
Speaker B: I got a.
Speaker A: A request that got assigned to me for something that I haven't the slightest clue about. And it only got assigned to me because they're randomly assigning things. Basically, they put. They put these on assigned tickets on a wheel, and it just goes to the next person whether or not they have any clue on how to deal with.
Speaker C: Kind of looks like maybe they want to try to hang something on you while you're retiring anyway, make it look like your.
Speaker A: It's your fault. Yeah, no, actually, as long as I get to retire, you know, once I leave, it's not going to matter to me. You want to hang it on me, go right ahead because it won't affect me in the slightest.
Speaker C: There you go. That's a good attitude. But what are you gonna do when you're retired? I mean, say your first day of retirement, Monday morning maybe? What? What, you gonna get up and what.
Speaker A: My actual first day of retirement is Wednesday, April 1, and I think I'm gonna sleep in and then I don't know what I'm going to do. To be quite honest, I have not made any plans. I might go spend, go down to my daughter's apartment and while she's working, get on the computer and do something.
Speaker C: I thought you were gonna say, you know, vacuum the carpet, clean the bathroom, help out. Well, don't feel guilty about laying down either on the couch with the remote or in the bed to say, hey, I interview.
Speaker A: I'm not gonna feel bad about that, especially the first day. Now, the second day, I might get up and come out to my truck and pull everything out of it, vacuum it neatly, put everything back and the stuff that needs to go back and not put stuff back that doesn't need to go back. I might do that.
Speaker C: Oh, you're going to make room for that World War II jeep you were going to buy?
Speaker A: Yeah, if I could find a world. I need to find one of those old crates, World War II jeep in the Cosmoline that you could buy for like a hundred bucks and have to assemble it. I wouldn't mind that. That would be kind of fun. The chances of me finding anything like that are, like, astronomical.
Speaker C: Ah, you never know. There was a guy out here. I see. I just, I talked with him a couple years back. He. That's what he did. He had a. I think a couple of them, but he worked on them, knew a lot about him. He was having a great time.
Speaker A: Yeah, you know, get a big crate, start unboxing everything, get out the instruction
Speaker C: manual,
Speaker A: just start piecing together. I enjoy that a lot.
Speaker C: Well, do you watch television at all? You know, like daytime tv?
Speaker A: Well, I watch reruns of old television shows. Lately it's Law and Order. I've been watching a lot of reruns of the Law and Order series, but it's not the entire series. It's just the first few years and then it starts replaying. So I've seen a lot of different episodes, about six times each.
Speaker C: Well, what kind of TV do you have? Cable or out over the air?
Speaker A: Neither. I have like, Roku and Netflix. My wife has Apple tv, so it's all Internet based.
Speaker C: Internet. Well, okay. There's always YouTube movies. I watch stuff on YouTube. You know, currently it's the aircraft, the. I want to say aliens, but that doesn't. You know, the people in the spacecraft that are coming around and going under Grand Canyon and, you know, doing all this stuff. Well, it's getting worse.
Speaker A: Okay. All right.
Speaker C: I thought maybe you were watching some of that.
Speaker A: Those shows where people said they were abducted by aliens and taken away for three years, brought back, and they were brought back, you know, just a few weeks later.
Speaker C: Oh, we're watching the same program. Oh, yeah, great. Oh, what, the Grand Canyon. They're discovering there's something underneath
Speaker A: and they're,
Speaker C: they're closing it off. Part these caves and stuff, they're putting these huge concrete walls. People are disappearing go into the cave and they're gone. Even park rangers and stuff like that, they can't find them.
Speaker A: They got lost in the cave with them fennel down holes and things like that.
Speaker C: Well, there's also spacecraft coming in and
Speaker A: out of the,
Speaker B: in and out of
Speaker C: the caves at night. There's a couple other places in Arizona also underwater and in the Arctic they're finding.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, okay. All right. Well, I'm not going to worry about it. One of these days I'm going to be dead and it won't affect me whatsoever.
Speaker C: Yeah, one of them touched on. You know, they wonder what these beings have in mind for us. You know, is it going to be something bad? Are they manipulating the weather, you know, global warming and making us tough for humans? Just all speculation really. But it's pretty obvious they have some pretty outrageous power, you know, And I, I too wonder what, what, what do they want?
Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Who was the guy that used to do the uh, uf alien and radio shows late at night? He got really famous for it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Speaker C: What happened to Art?
Speaker A: Did he get abducted?
Speaker C: He died, actually. He was a ham, you know, and I know a guy that. They had a fight on the air or something, I don't know. And I actually knew Art Bell's sister,
Speaker B: Bill.
Speaker A: Gamir Whoopi WP said a X N receiver. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Well, all right. Well, I am in my driveway and I've got, I've got a, a club meeting to tonight. So I'm going to go inside. I'm going to rest myself for a while before I have to go back out again. So come on down to the club meeting if you can. But if you can't, have a great evening and we'll talk to you later. 73 KK6ZZD clear.
Speaker C: Watch out for those UFOs. Okay.
Speaker B: Good to hear you, chris. K06bgy howdy, pete. N6iwh k06bgy for about five minutes if you have time.
Speaker C: Well, paul, do you believe in alien spacecraft or are we all dreaming here?
Speaker B: I believe there's some sort of intelligent life out there. We can't be the only ones on a rock spinning in space like this. There's got to be some another planet that we don't know about like that. But as far as them coming here, I don't know. I just Chalk it up to a whole bunch of people drinking too much Bud Light and then they see a can staring at them in the distance. It's an identified. It's an unidentified object.
Speaker C: You know, you're right about that. Especially these stories about abduction where they kick the guy up in the spacecraft and they, you know, do all these things to him. He's always a farmer, you know. Yeah, well, they did this and did that. It's never anybody like a scientist.
Speaker B: Maybe we're not the chosen one, I don't know. But if you look up on YouTube, Late 70s or early 80s, whatever, came out and interviewed a lady that I know here in town, I never talked to her about it. I saw it on YouTube and didn't realize that that was my neighbor for a while. I was like, oh, that kind of adds up now. But she had this whole story there out on the edge of town and some kind of farming or whatever. And sure enough, she reported a ufo.
Speaker C: Well, there's a lot of them, you know, all over the world, the lights in the sky.
Speaker A: Just.
Speaker C: We'll have to wait and see how things are going to work out. But what are you up to? You off of work?
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm just out here partaking in my nightly ritual of my quote unquote medication and enjoying the beautiful sun.
Speaker C: It's hot kind of nice out here. Oh, yeah, it's nice. Nice here in Chico. But I can tell what's coming. I mean, really, it just seems like brutal hot, the sun, you know, Summertime, you're going out.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Just know there's still some people out there that don't believe that when they get a sunburn, that's actually an actual burn. I'm like, the sun radiation burns you. Your skin said, no, it's not cool.
Speaker C: No, it didn't burn me.
Speaker B: I'm like, maybe you didn't get burned, but if you got burned, I'm pretty sure you got burnt.
Speaker A: I don't know.
Speaker B: How was your day? I just got out of work a little bit ago and had a pretty good day. We had our work St. Patty's Day party thing for the people that I served, not the staff, but there's all the other people.
Speaker C: Ah, nice to have a little party. Yeah. I do errands in the morning and I don't know if it's because of summer, but, you know, when it's hot, you do all your stuff when it's cool and then hunker down for the afternoon. It's usually brittle, evil hot. But we're not Doing? Too bad. I fixed my guitar. Been playing hello Gen. Yeah, we'll have to get together sometime and form a band. I've always thought of it. Call yourself the Ham Band. You could play drums or something. I'll wank the guitar
Speaker B: if I'm playing anything. I'll play the triangle.
Speaker A: But
Speaker B: totally unrelated to a musical instrument. There was a Huey that was flying over Od Green. Flying right over. Came from the airport. I think it was pretty cool to see.
Speaker C: Oh yeah, you know, I like military vehicles. Helicopters, you know, of course, vehicle, tank, truck. Wish they had more shows, you know, where you could go down and I know the basin probably got, you know, open house once a year. What do you think?
Speaker B: Ko6bgy. That would be really cool. If you ever go to any of the. They usually have an armada. They have a Huey that they cut the tail off of and then for transport and they. Maybe they didn't cut it off, but anyway, they reattach. It doesn't have any of the blades or the rotors on it or anything, but it's shocking to see how small those actually were or how small they are. And to think that overseas during Vietnam and stuff, they were packing those things as tight as they could to get people in and out. That's something else. What a remarkable site.
Speaker C: Hey, old Chris, he was talking about getting the jeep. I kind of like that idea, but I don't think you can get a World War II. You might get a replica or something like that.
Speaker B: With as many of them that were made, I would assume. Maybe not until now, but maybe a couple years ago. You probably would see quite a few of them. I don't think it would be too hard to find. I'm sure you might have to. There's a lot of military government surplus auctions that happen in like Tennessee and stuff or anywhere near a military base, I guess, but sometimes you can look out there, but I don't know.
Speaker C: Oh yeah. Roger, roger. Post. If you've got money, you know. Yeah. Coin to freeze, money, talk, walk.
Speaker B: Yeah, hard to come easy. Go for the money part.
Speaker C: I'll tell you that.
Speaker B: Boy, these guys are just flying down this road. Makes you want to take a stick and throw it out in their tires. Not like it's a bicycle.
Speaker A: You can't. Can't do that.
Speaker C: Hey, if you ride motorcycle, I hear they keep ball bearings. It's in their pockets. So somebody gets too close behind you, giving you a bad time, you just start wanking out some ball bearings.
Speaker B: I could imagine a handful at once. Quite dangerous
Speaker C: yeah. Actually throw it up in the air, give it some throttle, say goodbye. But then the guys will probably chase down, you know, next gas station. Here they are.
Speaker B: I mean, if. If it gets their attention and it keeps people alive,
Speaker A: it's warranted. But apparently there an earthquake here in
Speaker B: Calusa or somewhere northwest or something that's believed or. I don't know. But it happened about 10 o', clock, and some people said that it felt more like a boom than an earthquake. And I'm like, I didn't hear a boom and I didn't feel anything.
Speaker C: Yeah, it's weird to have earthquakes. I know. There was one up in the mountains where we used to live, Yuba County. And it sounded like a big.

Yeah. Why would you want to edit a PDF? Okay, because these are sometimes government documents like DocuSign or that they specifically want. Kind of encrypted to help altogether. Could be a resume, anything. Why would you want. You know, I mean, anyway, Linux does have. They do have editors and even like Adobe Acrobat, that's probably what she's using. They have an editor, but as I know, they don't really allow you to edit the whole document. But maybe you might have to pay 250 bucks for it. I don't know. Actually, that sounds pretty cheap if that's what you're trying to do. But I'm sure Linux does software that's free that you can use. Just don't know how it works. I've never used it.

Yeah, doing one on YouTube here called Something like that. You can edit and merge them together, extract pages, stuff like that. If people misunderstood what Linux operators had offered, they would never come back. And that was the same thing a friend told me back in 2004 and I tried my first, you know, I didn't particularly care for that one that was called Susee Linux at the time. And so I think it was a couple months when the first Ubuntu came out and I was hooked ever since. I mean it did take a week to understand the little differences like a lot more like Apple where it's a lot of single clicks instead of double clicks, but still using the same graphics and stuff like that, like Chrome, you know, as long as you're using a fairly recent distribution of Linux, you know you're not going back 20 years ago or whatever. I mean now it's 26. I've been using it since 2005, 2006, so about 20 years now I've been using Linux and it does all this stuff plus a lot more like all these stuff. Linux has had apps for forever, for a long time. It's all in the like the software. You can look up in the software center, any sort of game you want or whatever or if you want stuff like you want off the stars, there's something called Stellarium, you know, stuff like that for Linux. So yeah, you just pull computer and start enjoying it, you know, and learning about it. So I don't understand why people are so different to want to giving money to Microsoft and that guy gave. At least you're using Apple and stuff and they can understand people wanting to buy. And there's so much with all the different issues with Microsoft and hacking and all this kind of thing, the Unix based system from all that.

Anyway, as usual, when it comes to all this equipment and stuff like that, I think you all have made this go way too difficult. We should have just hammered it out on the meeting and, you know, you could have already had that stuff out to the people. I don't know. I could have taken all the pictures of the stuff and put it all on QD time, right?

Speaker A: Yeah, I'm doubtful that anyone in the club is going to buy that amplifier. I've seen other amplifiers not be sold to club members. Many of us don't have that kind of budget I guess and if we do, we might choose something a little bit.
Speaker B: I could be wrong. Of course I could be wrong. Seem to go through any steps. So if they had
Speaker A: to, I don't know. My understanding was the stuff was given to both Don and Nan. So they the ultimate people that could have just said here, this is. That's the end of it.
Speaker B: Whatever.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Anyway
Speaker A: I'm off on that at this point. So I have LDG. I don't know if you saw but K MRD did a video on the LDG. I think it's the LDG Z200, whatever it is anyway, the Pro 220 watts, 125 watts and 75 watts TW and so on. That's the one that I bought brand new for a couple hundred bucks and I haven't even used that. So anyway that's the only thing I can see on the whole list at this point.
Speaker B: That's the one thing
Speaker A: reminded of is there's no most part no box warranties. Right. I mean I guess there's a box with a couple of the. Maybe the FM radio or something. Yeah. So if I wanted to have a good tuner bass unit that would be a good tuner. But tend to run more resonant antennas where even my internal tuner do like four to one will be fine. I've never needed it. But start running the amplifier all the time. Well then that's when that tuner becomes.

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Big bang. I thought, you know, a truck fell off the road or something. Loud bang. I mean, technically speaking it makes sense. It did go bang boom. And it's. I mean imagine how loud a car track is. I mean tectonic plates or whatever. And yes, I don't know, never thought if earthquake made it down. But anyway, I'm going to sign clear. I'm going to go in and get ready to eat. Relax. But great talking your feet as always. We'll catch you again soon. N6IWH KO6BGY. Clear on your final 73 WP6A okay, have a good one. K6PGY on six side of the lake.

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Qst, qst, qst. This is Jim K6est, your net control for tonight's Golden Empire Amateur Radio Club Net. This net is each and every Tuesday evening at 7:30pm right here on the W6RHC repeater. We do this for the purpose of fellowship through amateur radio. Are there any stations with emergency or priority traffic? All right, general announcements for the Net. Well, first up is next Saturday. Not this Saturday, but next Saturday, March 28th. We got a couple of things going on. We're going to have a soldering class and session for the QRP kits or anything else you want to solder. It's going to be held out at the at Tecton. That's the place that recycles used electronic equipment. And that is going to be in the morning, 9am and then we're going to have a poda that afternoon and that'll be out at Sacramento River Park. I will email this information to everyone so you will know. Also, we have wildflower coming up if you'd like to help out with the wildflower. It is April, I believe, April 26th and there are a couple spots open so I'm sure we can find something for you to do. It's a lot of fun. You get a free T shirt and meet some nice people. And then starting April, this net will move to the Gears west repeater. So keep that in mind so that it'll be moved to the here's west repeater. If you don't have the frequency, it's 146.895 and PL is minus 123. It's on our website also, if you didn't copy that down. So those are the announcements I have. Are there any other announcements for the net? Please come with your call sign. All right, let's do roll call. I'm jim k6 est calling roll. How about kg6kuo, Kf6ncx? This is kf6ncx. Larry in chico and I will be around. Thank you very much, larry. W6js. Kn6qxl, K7kfs, Kd6lok. Good evening, Jim the net kilo Delta 6 Lima, Oscar kilo here on 2 Hot for duck, Nimsu Ridge and the grass is growing almost fast enough. He can watch it. Thanks for doing the net, Jim. I have nothing else. 73 KD6 Loki. Doug, thank you very much for the check in. And yeah, everybody's mowing their lawns around here. All I hear is lawnmowers these days. So you have a Good Good evening. N60 UK. Good evening. On a weak battery. I don't know if I make it. Kick me in and out. 60 UK. I got you checked in. You had a clear signal. Go charge your battery. K6 Gab, Kn6pju. Good evening. This is dennis, k&6bju and I'm checking in and I think tonight I may stick around. Great. I'll come back to you later. Kc6ufe, kc6ufe, bill and cape. Good evening. And check me in. Put me on the back talk list. Bill. Gotcha. K n6jht. This is can6jht, chris and chico. Thanks for running the net tonight, jim. I'm going to be in and out. Thank you very much. Chris, you have a good evening. Kb6 cyj, Kj6 we x. Aj6wv. Hello. Kn6kwm. And N6JLX. November 6th. Julie Lima, X Ray, Mel in Palermo. I will be in and out tonight. Thank you. Thank you very much. Mel. Have a Good evening. K06KKW6KKW. This is Jerry, just checking in, probably with a. Sorry about that. All right, Jerry, do you want to come back with comments later on the roundtable? I'll be here for a while. Thank you. All right, Jerry, thank you. Ko6l u m. K6y l h. Good evening. This is devin. K6ylh. Thank you very much. Jevin, got you on the list. Ko6miv, Ki6ujx, Kn6mgk. That is the list as I have it. Is there anybody I missed? Come with your call sign. Do we have any visitors for the net? Come with your call sign. All right, seems like Everybody's out celebrating St. Patty's Day tonight. So do we have anything for the swap segment? Come with your call sign. This is Jer. Ko6kkw. I might be interested in a little 2 meter mobile of some kind. Like 50 watts. If there's anybody has an extra. All right, anybody have an extra radio? Give us your phone number so they can get in touch with you. It's a 530-588-61882 meter 50 watts. Okay, so you want, you want a high power radio, full 50 watt radio rather than one of these 10 or 20 watt ones. That would be great. I don't need any digital right now. I've got a. The radio I'm on has digital and I'm not using it. So. Yeah, just a simple one would be good. All right, so anyone have a radio they'd like to sell, get in touch with them 530-588-1888. Anybody else have something for the SWAP segment? All right, let's do the roundtable. The first up is me, Jim, k6est. And I am skipping the normal revelry and celebrations for St Patty's Day. So that's why I'm here tonight. We had a great presentation last night at the GEARS meeting. We learned about the maritime communications and the west coast station that served ship to shore communications for many, many years. I know Chris Koning is trying to that place is a state park now. You can go out and visit there at Point Reyes. And I know Chris is trying to organize a field trip to go out there. So I'll put more information out when I hear about that. Next up is Larry, KF6NCX. Good evening, Jim and the rest of the Net. This is Larry, KF6NCX. Well, we celebrated St. Patty's Day here by having dinner of green pasta. It was a little unusual and very tasty. So far, no beer. This seems to be the time of year when there aren't any big contests on the calendar, but there are these state cuso parties and I tried my hand at a couple last weekend. I think it was Wisconsin and Oklahoma and Idaho. I did okay with Oklahoma and Idaho. Never has too many people and actually didn't hear anybody from Wisconsin. This weekend coming up is the Virginia cuso party. It should be going on all weekend and should be fun. I think it's a pretty good one and we get quite a few people participating in that. So if you have a chance, you might want to get on the air and, and give it a try. There's also a monthly Morse code event called Random Grams that's kind of fun, where people exchange five character groups of numbers and letters. And it's kind of like a contest but very low key. Okay, that's about it for me. Jim, back to you. This is Larry, KF6NCX. Thank you very much, Larry, Dennis, KN6PJU. Hi, Jim and the rest of the Net. This is Dennis, KN6PJU. And I did some antenna work the other day, put a different mast up, a new connection. And I'm really just primarily curious as to how I sound tonight. You sound excellent. Crystal clear and a strong signal. Well, perfect. I guess I'll leave the antenna alone and try and figure out a way to keep cool and keep the grass shorter. So thank you very much, Jim. Thank you for doing the Net. This is Dennis, KN6PJ. Over. Thank you very much, Dennis. You have a good evening. And enjoy the lawn. Bill KC6UFE, KC6UFE Bell in Cape. And good evening to the group. And I'll just add a little to what Larry was saying. There's some activity going on on a place called Austral Islands, some DX work, and coincidentally it's off the coast of Australia, so they're available for a little while anyway. And also we have a new mode available to us. Most people are familiar with FT8, and then we have FT4, which is twice as fast as FT. Now we have FT2, which is four times as fast as FTA. And it's not quite as good for weak signal, but it's plenty good anyway. And people are responding favorably to the faster speed rate. And if you check the spotting pages, you will find that they are quite populated with FT2 spots. So everybody enjoy. And back to you, Jim KC6UFE. All right, thank you very much, Bill. And how about Jerry Ko6KKW there? This is Jerry Ko6KKW up at Concow. I live pretty close to Spring Valley School and see the spring bicycle ride every year. I wouldn't mind helping out on that. What was the date? It was April something. It's April 26th. You can either sign me up or I'll get on the webpage and sign up or something, but that would be available that day. All right, Jerry, I will tell you what. I'll just send an email to Jamie and he's coordinating it and he'll get back to you. All right, very good. Thank you very much. K06KKW. Thank you, jury. Jevin. K6Y L H. Well, good evening, Jim and Lynette. This is Devin K6YLH down in Santa Cruz county, coming in through Echo Link. So hope that y' all are hearing me okay. Well, let's see. As Bill mentioned these hands down, activating the Austral island has been real interesting. It's Tango X Ray 5. Echo uniform is the call sign. And I've also been trying to work them on different bands and different modes. And I've been pleasantly surprised at actually how strong they've been coming through here in California. So highly recommend getting on and trying to work them. Other than that, haven't been doing too much else with the radio, but enjoying the warm weather and looking forward to more of that to come. So I'll say 73 and wishing everyone a good week. This is K6Y LH. Thank you, Jevin. You were coming through very clearly. That is the roundtable, as I have it. Do we have any late check ins? Please come now with your call sign K7KSS. Kevin, go ahead. Do you have any comments? Don't have comments for the net. I did try to check in earlier with Echo link and I was unsuccessful getting through but yep, thanks for doing the net Jim. I guess I'm in and out so we're done. All right, thank you Kevin. Any more check ins come with your call sign. There you are Steve. How you doing tonight? Doing good. Been taking a little bit of break from Rotterdam radio stuff. Just checked in kind of late. Came inside from gardening and stuff and I was stopped 15 minutes later. So on the net here, just listening in. Thank you for doing the Net out there and hello everybody on the net. One thing I'd like to mention is the 28th, March 28th to the Elks Lodge in Paradise. In case anyone's interested there's going to be a homesteading fair and a lot of stuff having to do with being more self reliant. But the PARS Group, Paradise Imagery Radio Society Group is going to have a little, probably a little booth or a little location there inside where they might talk about like emergency communications, GMRs and one of the latest things meshtastic let me reset and that is a good subject out here. In case anyone's interested. I know a few others, Greg K6 Gap and Chris JHT I know they have nodes for Meshtastic and it's becoming more and more popular in the Chico area. Paradise Group put up over about 20 nodes up there. It's covered that area pretty good, pretty saturated, pretty good coverage. The search and rescue group down in the forest ranch and excuse me and over by the search and rescue building have some really good strong nodes and and many of us around here in Chico have these solar nodes up on our roofs. There's over 20, I'd probably say closer to 25 or so nodes now located in and amongst Chico, but probably could use some more. So maybe there'd be interesting people out there that would like to have some sort of mesh system going of nodes where they can talk. You don't have to be ham by any stretch. The one area of town where I think it needs better coverage actually over by where Tom lives and stuff over there, the middle of town, downtown area could use some more nodes in that area but that would just help extend the coverage. Today I was sitting over there in Chico Panera with a friend of mine from Idaho come down and showing him Meshtastic and I was getting from that building into Antioch in Fremont over that that way this morning with a half a dozen messages and conversations back and forth. So it's pretty neat little system. It is like texting. You don't. It doesn't use the Internet in as such as you know you personally. But like the search and rescue building does have a tie in. There's a few tie ins. The center buttes has probably have some sort of a tie in but I've been pretty regular to get into my friend Jeremy W6LND in Orland. So we do have an active.

Good evening, this is Dennis K in 6BJU and I'm checking in and I think tonight I may stick around.

Hi, Jim, and the rest of the net. This is Dennis, KN6BJU, and I did some antenna work the other day, put a different mast up and new connection, and I'm really just primarily curious as to how I sound tonight. Well, perfect. I guess I'll leave the antenna alone and try and figure out a way to keep cool and keep the grass shorter. So thank you very much, Jim. Thank you for Doing the net. This is Dennis, KN6BJU, over.

This is OJulio Delta, radio check. W-E-6-A-X-N repeater.

K6MGK. Uh, doing good. Been taking a little bit of break from a lot of ham radio stuff. Uh, just checked in kind of late, came inside from gardening and stuff, and I was about 15 minutes late or so on the net here, just listening in. Thank you for doing the net out there, and hello everybody on the net. One thing I'd like to mention is the 28th, March 28th, at the Elk's Lodge in Paradise, in case anyone's interested, there's going to be a homesteading fair and a lot of stuff having to do with being more self-reliant. But the PARS group, Paradise Amateur Radio Society group, is going to have a little, probably a little booth or a little location there inside where they might talk about like emergency communications, GMRS, and one of the latest things, MeshTastic. Let me reach And that is a good subject out here in case anyone is interested. I know a few others, Greg K6GAP and Chris JHD, I know they have nodes for Meshtastic and it's becoming more and more popular in the Chico area. Paradise Group put up over about 20 nodes up there, covered that area pretty good, pretty saturated, pretty good coverage. The Search and Rescue group down in the Forest The Search Ranch and— excuse me— and over by the Search and Rescue building have some really good strong nodes. And many of us around here in Chico have these solar nodes up on our roofs. There's over 20, I'd probably say closer to 25 or so nodes now located in and amongst Chico, but probably could use some more. So maybe there would be interested people out there that would like to have some sort of mesh system going. Of nodes where they can talk. You don't have to be a ham by any stretch. The one area of town where I think it needs better coverage is actually over by where Tom lives and stuff over there. The middle of town, downtown area could use some more nodes in that area. But that would just help extend the coverage. Today I was sitting over there in Chico Panera with a friend of mine from Idaho who had come down and showing him Meshtastic and I was getting from that building into Antioch in Fremont over that way this morning with half a dozen messages and conversations back and forth. So it's a pretty neat little system. It is like texting. It doesn't use the internet in such as, you know, you personally, but like the search and rescue building does have a tie-in. There's a few tie-ins. The Sutter Buttes probably has some sort of a tie-in. But it's been pretty regular to get into my friend Jeremy, W6LND, in Orland. So We do have an active mesh system for at least Meshtastic 'til about Chico. Not a whole lot going north right now. So just something to think about if you're interested. You know, check into meshtastic.org or perhaps talk to me at some point or email. I'm good on QRZ. Anyway, thank you for doing the net, Jim, and I appreciate you out there. It's been a pretty busy season so far for me. KN6MGK.

Kf6OBI, Ki6DWP calling.

Mesh system for at least meshtastic tilt till about Chico. Not not a whole lot going north right now, so just something to think about. If you're interested, you know, check into meshtastic.org or perhaps talk to me at some point or email. I'm good on qrz. Anyway, thank you for doing the net gym and I appreciate you out there. It's been a pretty busy season so far for me. KN6MGK. Thank you very much Steve and any more check ins come with your call sign. Before I close out the net. Any additional comments? You all right? Thanks everyone for checking in. This concludes the Gears Weekly Club Net. This net is closed at 7:51pM73 to all. K6 est is court.

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System 7 link up.

Speaker A: KK6VZD mobile on homeward bound.
Speaker B: KK6SYV mobile.
Speaker A: Finally let Buck go after he showed off his toys. Yeah, the little rig's pretty loaded. I was giving him some guff about it, the fact that, you know, about how tricked out it is for a security patrol vehicle.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, uh, well, company wants to spend the money, I guess it's, uh, got to have it, have it set up that way.
Speaker A: Yeah, but I guess, you know, if you're going to do that, it, it doesn't hurt to have it act like a patrol car. I mean, it's not, you can tell it's not, but you know It's like, uh, it, uh, if it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, maybe it's a duck.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, what he's doing is, you know, it's more about deterrence than, uh, you know, doing anything else. So he's, you know, got to be able to, uh, at least make them think that he's Responding.
Speaker A: True, very true. You know, I gotta say that, uh, I won't say that I got a huge kick out of it, but it was kind of fun to be able to play around with the equipment in the patrol vehicles. Now, they never let me touch the lights and the sirens. I was not allowed to do that, but, uh, you know, still Well, as long as you're in the shop, it doesn't matter.
Speaker B: But, uh, yeah, when you're outside of the shop, you can't play with all those.
Speaker A: Every once in a while, I'd have to take one out and test the equipment away from the Sheriff's Department. So I'd get in one, I'd drive it around Marysville and up to Hallwood and around and around. And, uh, you know, I'm just sitting there thinking, I hope nobody, you know, pulls me over needing some help thinking I'm a deputy.
Speaker B: Well, I mean, you could administer basic aid, but not, uh, nothing else.
Speaker A: So it's technically supposed to have signs in it that said "out of service." I just never bothered. Very true. Interesting though, you get that going, going down the freeway doing 60 and everybody around you slows down so that, you know, no, look at me, I'm not speeding, I'm not speeding, really.
Speaker B: Yeah, they're wondering why you're only doing 60 on a 65 or something, you know.
Speaker A: Yeah, you know, it's interesting. I, you know, I don't know, I figured a long time ago that, you know, if, if they're doing 55 and I'm doing 60, they don't care. And, and I just go past them, and other people are like, you're going to pass up the Yes, I am.
Speaker B: Yeah, he could be distracted in being safe and driving at a lower speed pertinent to his amount of, I guess, distraction.
Speaker A: Yeah, I figured as long as I'm not doing something really blatantly stupid around them, that they'll be okay with me.
Speaker B: Exactly. Yeah, they usually are supposed to finish all their report and everything before they get back on the road, but you never know. They may get another call and need a couple last-second notes.
Speaker A: Hope not driving down the road typing. I really do. Although, yeah, yeah. Uh, maybe.
Speaker B: Well, they're like us, you know, supposed to be considered a professional operator, so we're not supposed to be really talking on the radio and driving either.
Speaker A: Yep, yep. So, yeah, well, so when's 4014 coming through again? Uh, soon.
Speaker B: Uh, I don't know exactly to the day, but yeah, it's coming through, going up through, coming down through Portola, through Oroville, Marysville, and then down into Roseville. If you go to upsteam.com, it has the whole route, days, exactly what events are going on when. They are having a, a public view viewing down in Roseville on, I think, I don't know if it's a Thursday or a Friday.
Speaker A: Which, you're retired now, you can attend without any repercussions. I can, I can. And you know, it'd probably be better during the week than on a Saturday.
Speaker B: Yeah, I don't, again, I don't remember the exact days. You go to look at upsteam.com, it'll definitely tell you when it'll be rolling through, you know, through Marysville, and then when it'll be parked down in Roseville for public viewing.
Speaker A: I did notice this time that they're not carrying passengers along any part of it.
Speaker B: They actually are on this trip as well. It is a lottery— or not lottery, uh, excuse me, on auction, raising money for the UP Steam or UP Heritage Foundation.
Speaker A: Oh, okay. All right. But you're not going to just buy a ticket? Uh, no.
Speaker B: And that is a cab ride if you were to win that auction, and they have 2 people, I think, I think is what they're— 2 tickets essentially is what they're auctioning off.
Speaker A: Oh boy. You know what I'd like to see, and it's never going to happen, I'd like to see them pull that Ford cab out of the railroad museum and back, put that on the road again. Yeah, that's one that I don't think they are—
Speaker B: any operational ones of those SP Ford cabs.
Speaker A: And that would be real different to see one of those rolling along.
Speaker B: Yeah, definitely. I don't know if you watched, now that you'll have time soon, watch the Jay Leno episode of the 4014 where he has a tour of the whole train and riding in the cab.
Speaker A: Oh, I hadn't heard of that. I'll have to go look for that now. And actually, now that I'm going to have some time on my hands, I might actually be able to do things like get up to Portola because I've never been there. Yeah, I haven't either.
Speaker B: I've heard that's a really nice museum up there too.
Speaker A: Yeah, okay. Well, Lester, uh, I'm just done designated, so I'm gonna get myself on inside and, uh, you know, be in tomorrow and, uh, count down one more day.
Speaker B: One more day.
Speaker A: Hey, thanks for doing the presentation.
Speaker B: It was really great.
Speaker A: We'll talk to you later. 73, KK6ZZP. SyV, clear.
Speaker B: Thank you very much, Chris. KK6SyV, on the side.

QST. QST, QST. This is KG6 Cable. Opening segment traffic. That's part of the National Traffic System. And the purpose of this is to relay formal traffic into and out of the Sacramento Valley provider. This is a direct. Please make no transmissions without control. All stations are requested to stay on breakage until secure. X code 6 Ko lesser located located west of Wilson Station. With emergency of prior traffic. Please go down W6 RHC Repeater Check 2. On the ring station where traffic to be lifted. Kf6 obi, mike and willows. No traffic. Good evening, mike. Thank you. Kg6ku call. Enroll in. No traffic. Kg6k. Good evening, lester in the group. This is kg6tso, bessie with no traffic. Thank you. Busy. Kf60j1, K6rcs. Good evening, lester in the gang. K6rcs, randall, chico. No traffic. Good evening, randall. Thank you, kc6ufe, kc6ufe, bill incapay and all traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, bill. Thank you, Echo six, papa mike, django, russ and gerber. Good evening. Lester in the group. And I have no traffic. Good evening, russ. Thank you, kn6pww. All right, that's the Rose. I have it. Do we have any late members or visitors wish to check in? No further traffic or check in. This SAM's K6KUO closing segment of Valley traffic this daily at 2100 hours local time. Doing the W6 rec repeater on 1468-5030. All stations are excused. And I'd like to thank everybody who ticked in tonight. And to go to the Empire Amateur Radio Society for the use of computer this close to 2103 local time. $73. Clearing frequency.

Kg6kdo, kf6djy, f6dky, kg6kuo. Go ahead. Good evening, Lester. Late check in. Clock went faster than I was going. Not a problem. I come close to not being here tonight. I just got home from Sacramento. Anyway, you have a Good evening. KG6KO. Thank you, Lester. Have a good evening. Also. KF6TJY.

N6LAI, WA1NER. W-E-6-A-X-N, repeat. No contact, WA1NER, clear.

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86 POC Mobile in Rotor Park. System 26 link up.

K6LNK, System 36. Snow Mountain Range.

System 7, link up. K6LNK, System 36. Snow Mountain Range.

Los Angeles, link up.

K6LNK, System 36. No mountain range.

K6LNK System 36. Snow Mountain Range.

W6r h c repeater check 3.

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Los Angeles, link up. K6LNK, System 36. Snow Mountain Range.

Speaker A: KB6JKB connected.
Speaker B: Got to be on link. Sounds like you're trying to echo link.
Speaker C: KB6WSC mobile system 19 linked TV6, WSD Mobile.
Speaker A: I've ever used it on this phone before.
Speaker D: Had to jump through a couple of hoops to get it to fly, but here we are. Don't know about levels or anything, but sounds good this way. Ah, let's see. Well, guess what? When —when we QSY'd over to 19, I forgot step number 3, set it to low power. Dope!
Speaker C: It's kind of interesting that I could detect when it's right before the fuse is going to blow, because you start dropping out. So, all right. Well, I don't know if you want to continue. On link, on EchoLink. But, uh, good morning. Sorry that you blew your fuse. Maybe it was that— well, I guess it's just high power related and temperature related. 62 degrees here, driving to work.
Speaker D: But, uh, have a good day.
Speaker A: KB6FSC, mobile phone.
Speaker D: No, I'll swap the fuse out when I get to work, or maybe at lunchtime and get the mobile working again. Yeah, I don't want to tie the system up here for the first thing in the morning commute hour, but yeah, we don't, we don't want to reactivate the mic head. What the heck, tied up for days. All right, Mike, have a good day, man. 60 degrees cruising by a, uh, Raulston. So, um, yep, looks like it's, uh, going to be one of those days. 73, WB6KAB Mobile.
Speaker A: Hey, hey, V disconnected.

All right, it looks like 62 degrees this morning up in beautiful downtown Magalia. Supposed to get up to 81. That's about what it was up in Redding yesterday. Oh yeah, the start of yet another beautiful day. And 6M PM, good morning.

Speaker A: Bill's dying. Yeah, I'm just, I'm just funny. Not a funny, not a funny topic, but yeah, good morning.
Speaker B: Getting along all right.

Yeah, uh, so there was no Larry on, on that frequency. Okay, I listened for, well, a pretty long time, over 6 months and, and maybe 8, but anyway, no, no SQ Larry. I talked to SQ Larry, uh, periodically at night on 3900. And, uh, of course, you know, 10 years ago, uh, we'd talk about motorcycles and whatever, this and that. And I, when I met up with Larry Lori, we did, uh, you know, I had my house, she had her house, and, uh, she'd stay over at my house and, and get up in the morning and come over here and work out. Well, during the off-season, I'd come over here and work out with her. You know, it wasn't long before we were inseparable. So, uh, anyway, I kept— uh, Steve would come up, you know, Steve on, on this other frequency. He'd come up on 3900. He'd made several homelones to MRN and Jimmy down in LA and stuff, so he'd come up and yack it up with us. And he, a couple of times, he goes, well, you're up early in the morning, you ought to come and yak it up with us up on 3997. They had been talking on 95 for a long time, but it did— when the band was long, there was too many people out there on 95, so they moved up to 97. And I would periodically We had already went up to Graffiti Weekend. I got along real good with Larry, talked to him sometimes 2, 3 times a day. You know, you know. Uh, went up there for Graffiti Weekend. It was a lot like San Jose and, and, uh, 4th Street over in Sonoma County. And I hadn't done that. This was a, this is a big one, like hot August night. But more racing, more radical, uh, you know, light to light and stuff like that. Not like San Jose was mostly lowriders. And Santa Rosa, they raced, but a lot of it was alongside of the road talking to the girls and, you know, looking at other cars, fast cars. And Graffiti Weekend, shoot, I hadn't been on 4th Street for 20 years. I was It was fun, and Lori loved it. So, uh, you know, I talked to Larry a lot of times, 2, 3 times sometimes a day, at least once a day for a couple years. I told him there's a bunch of guys on 3700 Oh, you know, 3997. Uh, they, they get along pretty good and they joke around with each other and this and that. Well, he started coming on there and, uh, and he didn't like Bill first. He didn't like one of Bill's 30-year friends. He didn't like Ray, and Ray didn't like me, so So Larry took offense to, to Ray, and Ray snapped back at him. And, uh, then Ray just didn't come on the frequency anymore. I had already stopped talking to Ray. He tried to be friends with me, but it was more of an information searching thing. He was one of them guys to go look you up see what your record is, your service record, your police record. And, uh, Ray lives close to Larry up in Idaho, northern Idaho, who grew up with— who grew up with, uh, uh, shoot. You know, our good friend— his name's not coming to me right now, I'm having a brain fart on it, but it will. Uh, I get along with him good and have for well over 10 years. He runs the 40-meter swap net. Oh, I had it right on the tip of my tongue right there. You talk to him too when he comes over to see his brother up here. But Larry in Idaho and and him, uh, uh, went to school together out here by Corning, you know. And so long-term relationship there. And Larry in Idaho was friends with Ray, who's been friends with Bill for 30 years. Well, Ray just decided he didn't like me. He tried to use my, uh, prison record against me. Yeah, he was nice at first, wanted my email, tried to get me interested in some DMR stuff so that we could get connected on UHF and VHF or whatever. And I wasn't in the whole computer thing, as you know. I was kind of getting away with that. I had too many blue screens over the years. I didn't like the infiltration of negative people. But anyway, so, so, uh, Ray was kind of hanging in there. It was the syndrome. Ray was kind of hanging in there, but when I'd come on, he'd get off. And a couple of times Larry would come in there and, uh, he'd give Ray a bad time because, well, you know, it was the dogpile thing, Jay. Uh, he knew that Ray didn't like me, so he was giving Ray a hard time sometimes in the morning. And pretty soon it wasn't long before Bill was calling me on the phone So I got along just fine with Bill. Had lunch with him and John down in Arizona and Jerry, uh, up here at Cabela's, and Bill and a couple other people that you didn't know. You remember Van though. I got along real good with Van. Lived halfway between here and Bill's house up by Portola. And, uh, yeah. Well, Dennis, if you remember Dennis, he just passed away about a year ago. He, he fixed everybody's radios. Pretty soon I was getting stuff to take out the van. His brother would be going down Highway 5, you know, everybody's getting along pretty good. Uh, pretty soon Ray didn't come on the frequency at all anymore. He didn't like Larry giving him a hard time. 'Hey, good morning, Ray Ray,' and, you know, calling him a different name, a little sarcasm thrown in there. Larry's been quite the disruptor. Well, pretty soon, pretty soon, uh, he didn't like Bill. He wasn't saying it on the radio, but Larry didn't like the SQ, didn't like Bill, and they went back and forth, very similar to exactly what you just described this morning. One or the other would have a stick up their butt or whatever, and they'd go back and forth a little bit viciously. And, uh, pretty soon Bill would be going up and talking to Ray Ray on a different frequency. But Bill missed Terry and Steve, and, you know, and by then Hey, they had already named me, uh, BW John, you know, because we already had John down in Arizona. They had to give me a handle there so that they couldn't just talk, say John, because half the time we didn't know— me and John didn't know who they were talking about, and we'd double. But anyway, uh, well Joe up there missed Ray, and Bill was missing Ray. So there started to be a little back and forth, and Larry pressed us pretty hard, which you already know all about. I'm glad I don't got to explain all that to you, but he, he could be a little bit of a poop disturber. And when push comes to shove, none of them can, can go fisticuffs, you know. None of them are in good enough health to go settle it if you can't settle it, uh, verbally or mentally. So they get into kind of a conundrum a little bit. Well, most of those guys are older than me, you know, and, uh, so I try to treat them like elders. And, and, and, and I know when it comes down to putting push comes to shove, I, I got every single one of them except for maybe Steve. He works out, he goes to the gym, he's a bit of a health nut. But I've never had a single argument with Steve, never. In fact, a couple of times, like John down in Arizona, uh, John just had talked to me openly though on the air, uh Hey, don't let them, don't let them bother you, he'd tell me. Uh, they're just trying to rile you up. They're, they're just having fun. And then, and they were talking about Terry, Larry, and, you know, giving me a hard time about the, uh, Flexamp blowing up, you know, just little things like that. There was just their way to have fun, see. If they get under my skin. But I'd shut Larry off. You were in touch by then. I'd shut Larry off because you could tell he was looking to a one-liner argument, so to speak. And I just tell him when he directed a question to him, I just tell him, I'm not going to argue with you, Larry, you know. And when he couldn't get— he couldn't force me into engaging Uh, you know, he gets away with the one-line innuendos, but I got to explain it a few times. You know, I got to explain it. Uh, I knew that those other guys didn't want to see it going past that point. Larry ain't in good enough shape. He's in a wheelchair half the day. Yeah, just like the weatherman Larry. He's permanent in a wheelchair. So, and, and you know, Larry and Larry live not real close together, maybe 30 minutes, 40 minutes. Uh, they've known each other for over 20 years. So that was a little bit of SQ Larry's in on 37. Or, you know, '97. So he did know some people. And Dennis, he had been friends with Dennis also, sometimes in a wheelchair. Uh, you know, uh, the only other little, the only other little consequence in there was Steve had made that loan to MRN And Larry SQ already had arguments with MRN down on other frequencies 20 years ago, so there was already some whoopty-poopty in there. So a couple times when MRN would be up on 3900, Larry would come in there and run him off. I mean directly, just out and outrun him often. I didn't mind because then it wasn't me, uh, giving Larry a hard time, uh, just me. And you know, the other people on the frequency didn't really want to hear it, so I just have to put MRN in his place from time to time, which was pretty easy, uh, anyway. That, that's the whole thing right there. Uh, if Bill and SQ are going to go back and forth, you'll see SQ will just back out of there because I already don't talk to him and things are starting to mount against him. Uh, Ray Ray's waiting in the, in the bleachers to come back on the 97. When, when I'm out on 95 now, or 97, wherever we go. Uh, Bill just stays up there talking to Ray Ray. They're old-time radio buddies, long before you and me were even around, Jay. So, you know, I, I know they don't want to hear me and Larry going back and forth. I just know they don't, because it's going to get— it's going to get push come to shove. Larry wasn't— what, a couple of months Larry, Larry SQ, was saying, uh, oh, so now you're a tough guy, huh? And I said, I never said nothing about, uh, being a tough guy. Anybody could be taken out with a 22-cent bullet. How tough do you— how tough can the guy be? So he couldn't go nowhere without— and he couldn't get me to engage in an argument. Because as soon as it started getting like him and Bill, I'd tell him, I'm not going to argue with you, Larry. And he knows, he knows that, uh, I could run him in the dirt with the quickie comebacks and cutdowns and all that stuff. But ultimately, Jay, I know that nobody else really wants to hear it get to that point. So it's been better that I control the situation. I just don't talk to him, that hurts his feelings. And you know, Bill and Joe— Joe's been around with them guys for 20 years, and, and Bill's been out there I don't know how long on that frequency. But, uh, Larry and Bill ain't long for this world from the sounds of it. Better not to be the cause of not getting along. Uh, I know Joe misses Ray Ray. So, uh, me and Joe got along good for over a year. You know, he, he drove a log truck for a while. He didn't own his own, but he drove one 10, 20 years, something like that. So we had some something in common, and we'd talk. Joe'd get up real early in the morning, like John down in Arizona, and occasionally Jerry. He'd be out there at 4 o'clock in the morning, and so was I. No SQ, no bill. So I got along just fine with Joe, uh, but it wasn't long before Ray— Ray was coming in there and saying, uh, stuff, innuendos toward, uh, being in prison. So, you know, the first time I heard it, I told him, what, you're talking something 40 years ago? I haven't had anything more than a driving infraction since then. So, you know, you have more experience than those. I've been, I've been around the planet more, more closer to the equator, the long way around. Yeah, but anyway, he used that against me, Ray did. And Joe, Joe, when he found out, I noticed there was a little change in him talking to me in the morning. Ray was threatening those guys with not talking, uh, if I was out there. Well, you know, old-time friendships on the radio. It wasn't long before Bill called me on the phone and told me his history with, with, uh, Ray. 30 years. I've been talking to him for 30 years. He's all right, he's all right, she tried to tell me. So unfortunately, Larry came in there, Ray couldn't stand him, so Ray Ray went bye-bye permanently. Well, that's the way it is. Well, you know where everybody's at, you've been out there for the last year. Yeah, I like most of those guys, and more than half of them like me, so that's good enough. Lori's not getting up at 4 o'clock in the morning, so hey, I'm not out there real early, as you know. So anyway, dude, dude, dude, uh, Larry, Larry, Larry SQ, he's pretty, he's pretty in touch with how people feel and how they act, so you know. Uh, if he notices that several people on the radio, uh, aren't talking to him, he'll get his feelings hurt. He will. He'll cut out early. He's going to resist for a while though. He'll run them in the dirt if he can, and he probably thinks he's run me in the dirt, but it's just a matter— I made my excuses already. It's just a matter of I've I'd rather sleep in with my sweetie than get up at 4 o'clock in the morning and talk on the radio. Just the way it is. You know, I'm not— I miss not being out here on this one earlier because this is the time when I like to be out here on, on UHF and VHF. So, well, I can't believe I can't remember, uh, but Bodega Bay there— what's not Bodega Bay? Fort Bragg. His name's just not coming to me. Brain fart. Yeah, look at all them other guys. I had no problem remembering their name. Couldn't remember Dennis. Yeah, Dennis, Dennis was like a, a movie

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movie star. Everybody knows Dennis. He's been doing the net over 30 years on 40 meters. Everybody— he's got a long list of acquaintances. So I always liked him. He's always been a little shy of me though, a little bit. But anyway, you know, he misses me too. Well, you know, as me and Lori got along more and more, it was— I liked sitting on the couch and spending time with her after work instead of talking on 3900 till 11 or 12 o'clock at night. So anyway, Yeah, my life's changed on this end. I got other things to do besides radio, uh, Jay. Really, that's what it boils down to. If it comes down to what I'd rather do, it's— I got all kinds of things going on, you know. Only 100,000 of them are right here on 3.5 Acres, so Yeah, Bill's coming in good, almost 20 S units this morning, so obviously he went to his bigger amplifier. Now, a couple of those guys out there, like Larry the Weatherman— he's been good friends with Larry for a long time, they live semi-close, he's helped him out a bunch of times— but Larry the Weatherman refuses to go along with with SQ, uh, he talks to me like he's not going along with all the telephone, uh, conversations of negativity. I know Larry SQ does that because he'd call me about stuff like Bill and Ray Ray and MRN, you know, talk for 20, 30 minutes badmouthing people behind their backs, so, you know. I, I know that's what's going on. That's why Terry dogpiles with SQ and, and Larry. And I mean, Terry and SQ have a more recent— he's come over to Larry's house a couple of times. Winston and, and, uh, I can't remember the county up there that Terry lives in, but there's a couple of them that live— Mike Mikey, uh, lives semi-close. When Steve's up on that end of the world, he's, you know, good motorcycle ride away. So they get together a lot, Terry and Mikey. And me and Lori went up and had breakfast with them. There was 8 people at the table, 10 people I think. So anyway, uh, Larry and, and, uh, both Larrys, SQ and the weatherman, uh, they got long history, but he won't give in to it. And Jerry was the same way, same with John down in Arizona. They weren't, they weren't getting in on that. They weren't treating me any different even though there had been conversations on the phone about the reasons to hate NTM. So anyway, that's just the way it is. Uh, Steve's got the best, the best outlook on radio. You, you know, he says the radio is supposed to be fun. So I, I try to, I try to look at it that way, and that's kind of how the good Lord likes it to be too. My grandmother used to say, uh, if you don't have nothing nice to say, don't say nothing. So I know I'm bothering a couple of people out there because they just don't like me, but that's the way love is. I've never done anything to them. There was a time when we all got along, almost a year. Uh, without any back and forth. Larry turned it into a little bit of FQ, turned it into a little bit of a— what a lot of people call a shit show. Well, you know, ain't none of them's gonna whoop my ass, so I'm not really worried about it. Uh, staying in my lane makes me a better man. That's, that's where we're at today.

Node 51018 connected to node 405480.

Yeah, well, I'm pretty quick on the comebacks and I got a million of them, so I'm armed pretty well in that department. Unfortunately, uh, I'm a little too extreme— obscure is probably a better word for it. You know, I can make jokes that they don't always get right away and it bothers them. You can tell there's some negativity involved when they don't understand the jokes. Jerry or John down in Arizona will be coming back laughing their butt off. So, you know, Jerry called me on the phone, he says, could you not be so out in left field? He's a Democrat. Then he started saying it publicly on the radio too, Jay. Uh, yeah, so anyway. A few of the other guys were going along with them, Larry, Larry SQ being one of them, which is weird because on the phone we used to, we used to come up with the stupidest, craziest stuff, talking about stuff that you shy away from. So, you know, uh, Larry's always hinted he had 5 Harleys when I first started talking to him. Larry did. He was just getting to the point where he couldn't ride anymore. Uh, he was liking that wheelchair more. But anyway, that's what happens. Uh, he doesn't act that way on the radio. He's, he's seen it early on. They're not the, they're not the left-field joking around kind of guys, just the more upfront kind of joking around, you know, talking about Pelosi and the political people. I used to love to make, make jokes about them having a Pelosi picture in their shack or whatever. They'd get a little offended, but they know that was in all part of joking around. So yeah, I like that part about this. That's what made me listen to him for so long. I didn't know any of them, and I was just starting to recognize their names to their voices. Took me 7, 8 months. I'd tell Steve up on 3900, oh yeah, I've been listening. Oh, chime in with us, come on, you know. Uh, so that, you know, eventually when Steve would come on there, I would talk to him, and if It wasn't long before everybody was talking to me. Me and Bill had a lot of good conversations. Yeah, he liked motorcycles. I had motorcycles. Still ride motorcycle, you know. Uh, Bill used to go down to the track and race. I don't know if he raced cars, but I know he raced motorcycles, so And Joe too. Joe's put a couple of dirt bikes together. Joe's got like 4 sons, as I remember, 3, at least 3. And, uh, and he, he's got a full machine shop at his house, you know. So he builds bikes from time to time. Joe does every part of it, right down to machining some of that crankcase and stuff. So, uh, yeah, I had a lot of good conversations with Joe, you know, but throwing rear ends and big rigs and transmissions and all that kind of stuff. So anyway, yep, that's what drew me into them is because they could go back and forth and nobody, nobody get upset about it. I was surprised SQ lasted as long as he did. Anyway, he, he gets one or two of the other guys against him and, and he won't come on there. He'll go scope and talk to Steve and Mississippi and them up on the other channel. Well, I haven't had no coffee, but I sure am talkative. I'm gonna go get me a cup, Jay, and give you a break. And 6:00 PM.

I feel him. He is out there. N6NTM. All right, I'll be back.

Speaker A: Okay, K6VZD mobile, WE6AXN repeater.
Speaker B: Good morning, Chris. Better take advantage of your days of going to work, KM6GTN.
Speaker A: Very true. Fairly soon I won't be on the radio this early in the morning.
Speaker B: Well, how's your day starting out?
Speaker A: Well, I kind of missed it yesterday, but I put a corned beef in the slow cooker to have tonight.
Speaker B: I probably shouldn't say this out loud, but that's one— that's one thing— one reason I'm glad I'm not Irish.
Speaker A: I'm not Irish either, but, uh, um, yeah, corned beef is a tradition with me, with my family. Uh, we used to have it, you know, since I was a little kid, so I look forward to it, actually.
Speaker B: Okay, very good. Yeah, that's not something I really have a taste for or really care for that much. But anyhow, well, I'll tell you what, we've had our share of, you know, warm weather compared to back in the Midwest where northern Missouri there where I come from. The other morning they had, you know, down close to zero and the wind a-blowing and it was like, wow, it's Spring is hard to come by.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I checked, uh, I don't know, week or a couple weeks ago or something and saw that we were— they were actually warmer than us. But I guess that's reversed itself, huh?
Speaker B: Yeah, it did. And by— I think it's by Friday they're going to be up in the 70s again as well, just so a weird cold spell system moved through and hammered them.
Speaker A: Well, you know, that's part of the variety of living back there.
Speaker B: You definitely get that. I remember the locals there, up there in the in northern Missouri, they're telling me that some of the, you know, most vicious or most unexpected storms really come late in the spring. I forget, was it in March or was it maybe the first week in April where there was a school bus— I mean, it snowed so much that the school bus didn't get the children home in time. The school children were stranded for like 3 days at a farmhouse because the road was blowed shut and they couldn't get the thing open. And this would have been back in the, like, the '50s or something like that.
Speaker A: Wow, geez, that's, that's, that's pretty interesting. I wonder how many kids there were and who they stayed with, and how, how that other family, whoever they stayed with, you know, put them up for 3 days.
Speaker B: Yeah, you'd have— I mean, of course they probably didn't have all the four-wheel drive equipment and stuff that they do today, but you'd have thought the parents would have, you know, put forth quite a bit of effort just to go get them or something. The years we lived there, we would occasionally get a late spring blizzard, but it never stranded anyone for 3 days.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Nowadays, yeah, nowadays you'd probably get people out there with snowmobiles, uh, um, what do you call it, getting, you know, uh, getting the kids one by one and moving them back.
Speaker B: Yeah, or they'd call search and rescue and they'd have snowcats and they could go do what they needed to do. But, uh, yeah, that was interesting. It's just that northern tier up through there, whether it's not You know, northern Missouri is even mild compared to like Wisconsin and Minnesota and some of those places. But I'll tell you, you forget about how it can be, but it can be nasty.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. I'm not sure I actually want to see it, but I was kind of impressed when my daughter and I drove cross-country and we're going through Wyoming and we go past the stretches of 80 where, you know, um, they've got barriers that they can lower across 80. I'm like, holy cow, barriers over a, over a highway, over a freeway like that, so that, you know, okay, we're closed, don't go anywhere.
Speaker B: Yeah, I remember the years we drove out here, we'd remark about that. Wow, that must be be something. And then, uh, oh, here about 5 years ago or so, we actually were coming home from Missouri and the road— they had the barriers down there at Denver, or I mean not Denver, we went from Denver North up to the 80 there. The 80 was closed there at the 25, so we had to wait the night out until they got the road cleared. But that was— yeah, it was— it was— the roads weren't They didn't close it for no reason. It wasn't fit to be out there.
Speaker A: Apparently, on the, uh, my daughter and I drove, drove back to Illinois that way in like October, and it was, it was great going out. And we decided to stay an extra day since we were driving, you know, we had that flexibility. And it was a good thing that we stayed that extra day because if we had left the day we originally intended, we would have caught— been caught in a, uh, in a, in a snowstorm on our way back. Apparently, they— the day that, uh, we drove through Wyoming, they had, they had just opened the road the day before. Amazing.
Speaker B: Yeah. All right, well, I just pulled in here to work. I thought I'd say hi to you. I knew I didn't have a long chat here, but good talking to you. And Take care, have a good day. We'll, uh, catch up with you later. 73, KN6GTN.
Speaker A: All right, Ernie, have a great day. Hey, we're not going to see the Boxcite Parade, are we?
Speaker B: Uh, negative, I'm not going to make that one.
Speaker A: All right, well, have a great day. 73, KK6EZD. Clear.

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that's Saturday, March 28th, and we'll look forward to seeing you there. And just as it was pointed out to me, the, the meeting for volunteers for the Hamfest is tomorrow night at 6 PM, so Thursday evening, 6 PM. We do need more volunteers, so if you are a club member and you haven't volunteered yet, what are you waiting for? This is an all hands on deck call. We need you to volunteer. We need probably about 10 more volunteers so we can have time to enjoy the Hamfest ourselves. Good morning, Coffee Break Net. We are well after 10 o'clock in the morning, so I'm going to go ahead and move right into For the Log. Anybody out there who would like to get the call into the log, this is the time that we do it. And please spread it out, and I will get everyone one in the log before I sign clear and die. Kilo Mike 6. Good morning, Brian. W8LDT, Tim, Michigan Mobile. Good morning. This is Kilo Bravo 7 Delta Foxtrot Papa, KB7DFP, Cannon Twin Falls. WB7 UK. W1 ATV, good morning, Brian. Good morning, Brian. Good morning, Brian. AI6 LZ. K06 IMV for the log only. Whiskey Bravo 3 Charlie Sierra Yankee. Thanks, Brian. Your radio is on the right frequency. This is the home of Sacramento Radio 109.5 WLKC with a PL tone of 110.9. KA3VGM, Florian White. Everybody have a good day. All right, a little bit of kerfuffle in there, but not bad. Thank you. Good morning to Jimmy, KA3VGM, and good morning to Jim, KE6POR. Good morning, Dan, K6DLK. Good morning to Rick, WB3CSY. Good morning, Matt, uh, K06IMP, and a very good morning to Bert, AI6LZ. Good morning, Russ. KI6LOP. And good morning to Dick, WB7UKX. And good morning to Ken, WAB7— excuse me, uh, KB7DFP. Good morning, Ken. What's for lunch? It's going to be something super, and I haven't decided which one yet. Probably from the Campbell's line. KB7DSP. And on behalf of Campbell's, I'm sure they are grateful. You have a super day yourself. That was funny, Ken. Uh, W1ATB, I heard you twice, I'm only going to put you in the log once. Good morning to you, Aaron. And W8LDT, good morning to Tim. And, uh, KM6MM, good morning. Mike, everyone, I have you in the log. Do we have anybody else for the log this morning before we close down the coffee break? Good morning, Brian. KI6TC. K06IMP, just wanted to add that my wife Kathy enjoyed Kathy's information and we are excited about sorghum. This is Matt, K06IMP. Clear. Kilo Delta 6 Hotel Oscar November. Thanks, Brian. Hey, good morning, Joe, uh, KD6HON. Got you in the log. And good morning, Glenn, KI6TC. Got you in the log as well. Glen. And Matt, glad to hear that you are excited about sorghum. We'll have to talk more and see if you need some counseling. Last call for the log, any takers? And I must say, yeah, Kathy gave a lot of great information this morning. That was a fun conversation with, uh, KQ4SDX. Good morning, Coffee Break Net on the W6EK repeater. Well, as you know, this is my Friday, so if you— when you come back tomorrow, Theta WA6EWS and Jerry WA6E will be your net host and conversation facilitators, and I will be taking a break until next Monday morning. Uh, let's see, with that, I'm just going to wish everybody a wonderful Wednesday ahead. Hope that you have a great day, and I really appreciate you stopping by and being part of the conversation. Had a couple of new folks stop by today, and always great to welcome a new person in and, and have them be part of our conversation. So with that, I'm going to go ahead and wish everybody a wonderful day ahead because the Coffee Break Net is where the sun is always shining, the birds are singing, and the fish are jumping. This net is sponsored by the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club. We are here every day of the week, 7:30 AM to 10 AM Pacific Time. That's 14:30 to 17:00 UTC. You're on Node 51018 and connected to All-Star and EchoLink nodes through the W6G 6EK repeater. I'm Brian, AI6US, in beautiful blue skies, sun hitting the ground, and temperature rising. Metavista, California, returning the W6EK repeater and all connected repeaters and nodes back to normal operation. Everyone have a wonderful Hope Day. 73. Brian, don't go anywhere for a second. I gotta run an outro and I have a question question for you. KG6 Nova, yeah. And, uh, let's see, uh, N2DYI, Patrick, are you still monitoring? I am indeed, N2DYI. Go ahead if you want to do that Echolink restart, feel free, and then I'm going to take a quick dash and I'll be back into the room in a few minutes. Is it good for you right now to do the restart? Yeah, not a problem. That'll take about probably 10 whole seconds for me to get to the console and then I can restart the node. Okay, I'm stepping away for a few minutes and I will be back. So thank you for making that correction and doing the restart. Really appreciate your assistance. N2DYI AI6US, I'm going to be QRT for a few. All right, well, this is N2DYI QST. I'll be restarting Node 51018, so that will be unavailable for for less than a minute. It shouldn't take too long. Restarting in about 10 seconds.

Speaker A: I think there might have been a person in there. Really, really, really low audio.
Speaker B: N2DYI. Okay, I'll bump my microphone up. How soft is it now, Brown Cow? K2 6N, hello, yes.
Speaker A: That's still way, way quiet.
Speaker B: Oh no, I overcorrected the microphone issue. Hi Patrick, KG6LW. Uh, let me find the stupid button here. Let's go -20. I'm on Balfang right now. How copy?
Speaker A: It sounds like a Baofeng. Level is good though.
Speaker B: Alright, now I'm back on the dreaded Icom, the IC-9700. How tough is it?
Speaker A: Crank it up by about 12 dB and it'll be great. Yeah, it's really quiet.
Speaker B: Well, you see, the only problem with that is I can only crank it up in multiples of 20. So I'm at 0 dB now.
Speaker A: And now you're way too hot.
Speaker B: All right, so now I'll bring the, uh, the mixer down. How about now?
Speaker A: Down a little more. You're still distorting a bit.
Speaker B: All right, now I'm down to -10 dB, which means the VU meter is nowhere near zero.
Speaker A: And that's about perfect.
Speaker B: Oh geez, I'm gonna have to adjust the All-Star Node even further then, because I can't have it at this level for the stream audio. Oh boy. Oh boy, okay. I presume the Echolink reboot was due to the mismatched number that I brought to Brian's attention?
Speaker A: That is correct. And by the way, that's why the other day I suggested using a send instead of the main out. Gives you a lot more flexibility. I don't think your node audio needs to be adjusted.
Speaker B: Oh, that's the funny thing is I switched it to the auxiliary send port, so I'm no longer going through the main mix output.
Speaker A: Okay, well, if you're using, um, are you using a pre-fade FX send?
Speaker B: Uh, negative. The, uh, the Mon— the The auxiliary monitor pre is set to zero and the auxiliary FX post is set to zero. I'm using nothing.
Speaker A: Okay, what I was suggesting was actually using one of the FX sends, and that way you can do whatever you want with the monitor mix or the main mix, and that won't affect what gets sent to the radio. And that would then be controlled by the FX sends per channel, and you can make that either pre or post fade.
Speaker B: Okay, I'll have to dig into it on the Behringer a little more. I switched the ports on the back and figured I'd be a hunky-dory, a-okay, but there you have it. Because the microphone— so the microphone I'm using and all that for when I'm live streaming, it has to be up about here in order for me to hit 0 dB, but that's too loud for All-Star. This is just right for All-Star, but now it's too soft for live streaming.
Speaker A: Yeah, so get that off of that bus, get it on its own bus, and then, uh, you can do whatever you want with either of them and they won't affect each other.
Speaker B: Oh, that requires installing a second microphone then, because this is my main microphone that goes to Everything, all of it, goes to the VHF, UHF, HF, and studio streaming.
Speaker A: No, it just requires a pre-fade send, and you can turn that up and down on the channel. Same microphone, two different paths with two different sets of levels. That's the whole point of sends that you can change like that. Normally they're used for things like backstage monitors and effects processors. But they're just generic line outputs. You can make them pre or post fade the channel strip, and then you can set the individual gain per channel to that bus without affecting what comes out of the main out.
Speaker B: Okay, I'll have to fiddle around some more then for it. Thank you, Patrick. Yeah, I was sort of killing time waiting waiting to see if Brian would come back because last night him, uh, the other Frank, and Larry— I happened to jump in here and we're trying to figure out why, uh, well, I was trying to figure out why the Icom was sounding so bad versus the Baofeng UV32, which sounded, uh, 10 times better apparently.
Speaker A: [FOREIGN LANGUAGE] Yeah, it's just, uh, it's just how you drive it. You're right below where the threshold is for the ICOM's processing, uh, which is right where it starts to kick in and get squished. So, uh, that's probably about the same level as your Baofeng was a few minutes ago. I'm not sure, I haven't heard it in a minute, but I'd say it's probably about equal at this point.
Speaker B: All right, well, I'll get— I'll give you a nice A/B comparison. This is the IC9700 with nice long audio transmission with the studio mic, and the main— and the fader for the mic is at -10 drop. And this is the Baofeng UV32. I'm only a fist away from the mouth with the radio.
Speaker A: Okay, yeah, levels pretty comparable. The microphone that connects to the Icom sounds slightly better, only slightly though. And yeah, levels pretty close on both. Comment, Patrick?
Speaker B: Yep. KC6FLA, I use an IC-9700, and my experience is, uh, it's a very hot radio as far as, uh, the driven elements.
Speaker A: So I have to back the gain way off. I run about 25% gain on the IC-9700. So don't be afraid to turn it down.
Speaker B: KC6SLE.
Speaker A: Yeah, and I imagine because Frank is running a line level, I assume this is— is this an attenuated line level device? Do you have a 20 dB pad going between your board and the radio, Frank?
Speaker B: I have a, uh, DI box between the board and the radio. Yes, I can do 0 dB, -20 dB, or -40. And -40 is when I first came on.
Speaker A: Okay, so you have it at -20, right?
Speaker B: Uh, negative. It's at zero right now. When you told me to go at least 12 dB higher, I was at -20.
Speaker A: Okay, so what you probably are going to want to do is set your pad to -20 and then stick that thing on a pre-fades end. That will give you enough radio on the— I'm sorry, that will give you enough headroom on the hardware input to play with, and you should have plenty of range. Once you get it on an FX send instead of one of the main outs or the auxiliary out, which is, I think, just control room, then you can actually fine adjust that per channel, should give you a lot more control over that without affecting whatever comes out of your main out.
Speaker B: All right, so I put it back to -20 and I have the studio microphone back to zero. I'm going to get to Mike. That should be him.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's too quiet as it is, but the nice thing is once you get it moved over to the FX end, you can probably— like Graydon was saying, he said he runs his gain at 25%. Where do you have the gain on the radio set compared to how it's coming in from the board?
Speaker B: You know, just so I can see, play around with the 9700 without, uh, destroying anything here. Great. And where is the gain control on this radio? It's still newer radio to me, and I haven't gotten all the bits and bobs worked out.
Speaker A: [FOREIGN LANGUAGE] Hey, go ahead, Brian. Yeah, it really depends how you're feeding your 9700. So hopefully you're not coming in through the mic jack. Hopefully you're coming in through the aux in.
Speaker B: Is that correct? Node 51018 disconnected.

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

Home of the original 105, with a PL tone of 110.9, this is the W6GRC repeater. Join us for our weekly net on Monday nights at 8 PM.

K6LNK, System 36. Snow Mountain Range.

N6DUK, WQ6T. WQ6T listening.

K-06 FTI. K-06 FTI from KG6VDO on, uh, Charleston. System 26 link up. A-06 FBI. A-06 FBI from KT6 PDO.

I see you wore Steven out having coffee. I seen him down at Thomas down there. N6NTM.

System 7 lift off.

Speaker A: All right, well, you're into the repeater just fine. Uh, you on a, uh, on a, uh, a trip on purpose or by accident?
Speaker B: I'm on a trip on purpose here. I just drove down to Santa Barbara and then stayed there and then —in Santa Cruz and we're on our way up. Just brought my portable with me, so I don't know how I sound from the car right now, but—
Speaker A: Okay, very good. Did you get the opportunity to watch the Vandenberg launch there in the perfect hours of the evening? I did not. I must have missed it. Oh man, you would have had a spectacular view of it there in Santa Barbara. Um, I think it was today, uh, Wednesday. What was, uh, Monday? I think, I guess it was Monday.
Speaker B: Yeah, we, uh, we drove down that day, but I guess we missed it. I'm gonna have to let you go here. I'm gonna get driving again.
Speaker A: Safe driving. Have a safe drive there. N6KNE, Ken here in Chinatown, Columbia.

System 26, 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 next WFIC RHC Repeater Check 1.

W-E-6-A-X-N repeater.

Kilo 7 Oscar Foxtrot Oscar's mobile on the side. K6LNK, System 36, Snow Mountain Range.

Broadcasting live from Red Mountain at an elevation of 3,673 feet, this is Sac Valley's original 105 machine, W6GRC, with a PL tone of 110.9.

System 26, link up.

Speaker A: KB6WSC mobile. Yes, it is. Me too. WPKV mobile.
Speaker B: I meet you over on local on 19. System 32 link up.

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