Transcriptions for 2026-03-21

Speaker A: JK6VZD mobile.
Speaker B: Hey, happy Friday, Chris. One week to go, huh?
Speaker A: One week, one week. Not sure whether somebody was doubling with you. There or not, but, uh, yeah, one week. Just thinking about that's going to be really strange. Yeah, I'm not sure if there was another station or not as well.
Speaker B: Uh, it sounded a little odd on my end as well, but anyway, waiting for these two to pass. That's what I get for living on the busiest road. But, uh, happy Friday to you.
Speaker A: Do you live on the east or the west end?
Speaker B: I am on the east end of town, southeast of town. I can, like I said, I can stand on my front porch and I can see the antenna mast on top of the Sutter Buttes from my front porch, so that's pretty cool.
Speaker A: Okay. Oh, line of sight transmission there. W-E-6-A-X. —and repeater.
Speaker B: For the most part, other than these houses and a golf course in the way, but yeah, I kind of lucked out. Didn't think I would ever be a ham, and now I am, and I got a great view of the repeater there. Ever go golfing? Say again?
Speaker A: Since you're that close to the golf course, you ever go golfing?
Speaker B: No, I can't stand golf. It's not for me. I'll leave it at that.
Speaker A: Well, I'm not really a golfer, but I have been golfing, and I've got another retired friend who's a golfer, and I might just start going out with him. And I've never— when I played golf, I never really played it Seriously, you know what I mean? I went out there and I tried my best, but I didn't get all bent out of shape if I had a bad shot.
Speaker B: There you go. I wouldn't mind going to say like Topgolf just to like, I don't know, have some fun with some buddies or whatever. But as far as going to a course, I mean, I've been out on that course, our junior high and high school in the spring for physical education. We'd go out there and, uh, to the driving range, I think, is what we were doing. Then I think we did play a couple rounds. I mean, this is only a 9-hole, so you got to play it and then you got to play it backwards.
Speaker A: Yeah, okay, all right. Yeah, I know it's only 9 holes. I've played that course once and almost, almost clobbered a guy with a drive. He was not yet off of the course, and I was a little bit too quick on the trigger there. And yeah, I was sure that that ball was going to hit him. As it was, I think I missed him by about 10 feet.
Speaker B: That would have been a wake-up call, huh?
Speaker A: Oh yes, oh yes. Yeah, so yeah, I'm going to be— I think I gotta take one guy around and show him a couple of things next week. Other than that, I think I'm gonna be a total, uh, couch potato. It works.
Speaker B: I mean, really, what's the alternative? Are they going to fire you?
Speaker A: Yeah, it's going to be an anticlimactic thing, I think. I'm going to go around and see some people I know, but when it comes time to leave on Friday, I think it's just going to be a step out the door. It's not going to be a big deal. It would be like a Neil Armstrong moment. Yeah, something like that, something like that. So there we go. And then, then I got to think about, okay, now what? I, I've already got the, uh, couple of things in mind. Maybe let me clear out some of my, some of my, uh, well, I've got a technology closet that needs to be cleaned out. I've got my radio closet that needs to be cleaned out. I've got a lot of stuff in my garage that needs to be cleaned out. So I don't know, my wife wants me to scale back on my clothes and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker B: Kelly, tell her not to go too quick because you have the whole retirement to get it done. But then again, it is what it is. I probably could do the same. My wardrobe's pretty much thinned out because I had to get rid of everything. I went from 2X shirts to mediums and pants at least 3, maybe 4 inches off the waist there for the last year and a half, and I finally said I got to get some new clothes, so that's what I did. But the socks still fit from last time.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that's pretty impressive. And yes, that must have made quite a hole in your closet when you finally Finally got rid of that stuff.
Speaker B: Yeah, I still have one, I basically have one outfit just as like, hey, that's where you've been. But I tried the pants on the other day and I was like, goodness gracious. And the shirt, that's like a night shirt for someone that likes wearing long night shirts.
Speaker A: Yeah, so not sure I got much to say. I won't be on— well, I might have to. Maybe not get up quite so early in the morning, but still get on at 7 in the morning just so I could talk to people that I'm used to talking with.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's the best part of, uh, I guess, free will. You can do what you want. And, uh, I definitely appreciate, uh, the morning QSOs, even though it slowed down a little bit on my end. But still, it is good to hear someone on there and go from there.
Speaker A: You know, Doug used to be on all the time. Of course, this was actually years ago. He and Grant— Grant lives up in, uh, McCallia. Crap, what's up in McCallia? And so you'd hear them every single day when Grant was on his way to work. They'd have a rag cube going, and I don't know what happened. I think they switched repeaters. I think they started using the repeater up in Butte County.
Speaker B: Okay, yeah, I do recall quite a few times. I can't remember the call sign or the guy's name, but I believe it's a guy that drives from here down to Sacramento area for the railroad or something. He's always got something interesting to say, whether it's about— whether it be about locomotives or ham radio. So I haven't— I don't think I've heard him in a while, or if I did, I just haven't heard Yeah, that's Lester, and depending on his schedule, you'll hear him.
Speaker A: Yeah, KK6SYV. So, oh well. Hey, guess what? I'm destinated. It's another weekend, uh, so I'm gonna drop off, go inside, probably take a nap, and then be up for the Bok Hai parade tomorrow. And then my grandson's first year birthday party, first year, is Sunday. So I got, I got my weekend kind of planned out. So all right, have a great weekend. We'll talk to you later. 73, KK6VZD, clear. 73, Chris.
Speaker B: Enjoy the weekend. K06VGY.
Speaker C: KJ6HRM, Magalia, listening.
Speaker B: Kilo Oscar Six Bravo Golf Yankee, can I get that call again here in one second? I got a pen, I just got to put the paper down.
Speaker C: Oh, don't let me hold you up. Yeah, I just, I heard you both talking there and I just thought I would, uh, play. This channel used to be 145 and 14, real busy back in the day. Darold was out there, the cement driver, back in the '70s. Yeah, he used to be. But anyway, is what it is. A6SU was out there, N5EUG, Gene was out there. Anyway, KJ6HRM, magalia, you guys have a wonderful weekend.
Speaker B: KJ6HRM, K06BGY. All right, 73. We'll hear you out there again. I'm horrible with call sign names. It takes a while, but I do get there anyway. Stay cool. K06BGY, clear.
Speaker C: Oh, I know they're already talking, you know, went through the Park Fire, now they're talking fires because of the drought we're going into. So, my goodness. Anyway, so much for that. Have a wonderful afternoon. KJ6HRM, clear.

Los Angeles, link up.

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

System 32, LinkPop.

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.

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.

KM6BSO, KI6BWJ.

KN6 SOM, roger.

KS6SLF, monitoring.

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

System 26, link up. K6LNK, System 36. Snow Mountain Range.

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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.

Los Angeles, link up.

KN6, SOL, monitor.

K6SLF, monitor.

Qst, qst, qst. This is K6KO open Sacramento Valley traffic at this district, part of the National Traffic System. And the purpose of this data? To relieve forward traffic into and out of Second Third and to provide a statute mercy that this is a correctedness. Please make no transmission and control. All space are requested to stay home for that controls K6K West. If there's any station with emergency or prior traffic, please come down. W6RHC repeater check. One station with traffic to be listed. Kf6 obi mike at willows. No traffic. Good evening, mike. Thank you. Kg60k. Uh, no traffic. Good evening, lester in the group. This is kg6tso, bessie with no traffic. Thank you, bessie. Kf6djy, K6rcs, k6rcs, cardin in chico. No traffic. Thank you very much for checking in. I appreciate it. Okay, six pmd, kilo, echo six, papa, mike, tango, russ and gerber. Good evening. Lester in the group and I have no traffic. Good evening, russ. Thank you. Kc6 ufc, Kn6pww, kn6tww. This is Jamie and Chico with no traffic and good evening, Lester and the group. Good evening, jb. Thank you. All right, that's the Wallace. I have it. Do we have any late members or visitors wish to check in? Good evening, Lester. KF 60 JY, Bruce, Chico, no traffic. Good evening, Bruce. Thank you. All right, one more time. That's what holds. I haven't we have any late members or visitors with the check in. There is no further traffic or check in. This is K6KUO closing segment of Valley traffic at 2100 hours local time. This was a W6 rec repear on 146 98. I'd like to thank everybody who checked in tonight and the Golden Empire infrastructure radius society. But use the repeater 2103 local time. $73 is the kinky 6K U clear frequency.

System 26, link up.

Kg6ufe. Good evening there, real. This is kg6kuo. Evening, lester. Running late tonight. No traffic after that. Thank you very much. Talk to you later. You have a good evening, k6 kuo.

System 11, Link up.

Please. I d. Thank you.

System 2 lift off.

Settings, link up.

W6r h c repeater check 2.

System 7 link up.

Los Angeles, link up.

86, POC Mobile, Roner's Park. System 26, link off.

Kilo 6 Golf Quebec Papa, uh, testing from Lincoln, California. Kilo Oscar 6 Bravo Golf Yankee, I don't have a pen to copy the call sign, but you're making it in just fine. Kilo Oscar 6 Bravo Golf Yankee, Paul in Toluca, it'll be clear Okay, roger, roger. Uh, K6PGY, this is Kilo 6 Golf Quebec Papa. K6PGT, hey, thanks for the radio check over here, 5 watts from Lincoln. Um, yeah, very fine business, thank you.

Fill your coffee cup and join us for the Coffee Break Net Daily at 7:30 AM here on the W6GRC repeater.

K6LNK, System 36, Snow Mountain Range.

Los Angeles, link up.

W6 rhc repeater check 3.

System 7, link up. November 6, India Whiskey Hotel, Kilo Oscar 6, Mike Mike November.

K6LNK, System 36. Snow Mountain Range.

System 10, link up. K6LNK, System 36. Snow Mountain Range.

W fix r h c repeater check 1.

Station, AS6AK, Texan 123221. AS6AK, over.

This is AWACS 6, airtime, traffic 123, G21, AWACS 6, airtime.

System 26, link up.

W6r h c repeater check 2.

Fill your coffee cup and join us for the Coffee Break Net Daily at 7:30 AM here on the W6GRC repeater.

System 26, link up. K6LNK, System 36. Snow Mountain Range.

Speaker A: K6SLN, monitoring.
Speaker B: K6LNK, System 36. Snow Mountain Range. Well, good morning, entrance CRT. Just checking, I got a message from, from a guy who normally is in, uh, Australia. This morning. How are you doing?
Speaker A: Oh, pretty good, sitting up here watching the car shows, uh, about the auction in Dallas and buying cars and selling and whatnot. Saturday morning, so kind of a lazy day.
Speaker B: Yeah, I got one neighbor that goes to work on Saturday. I don't think he goes to work on Sunday, but he goes to work on Saturday. I kind of wonder, some sort of retail job, I guess. I don't know.
Speaker A: Yeah, you must be on your good radio because it sounds really good up here. Yeah, why, thank you.
Speaker B: Yeah, this is that little Alinko, one of the first small radios I got. Um, Steve would always say it sounds like a Icom D710, so kind of surprising for a little radio like this, but it's what they call a DMR. It's that, that other mode, you know, that didn't quite make it very into, uh, ham radio very well. Not as as Fusion did. It's— but it's got rooms and all that kind of stuff, like, and they're harder to program.
Speaker A: Yeah, no, I— a Linko, I had never had one or been around one, so I wouldn't know. But, uh, anyway, we're, uh, just up here. I'll tell you The conditions up here— or not here, just about everywhere— must be good because off of Mount Rose, I was doing a full meter out to Winnemucca, Nevada last night.
Speaker B: Yeah, I keep walking over finding different pairs of different clothes and trying to find my socks and stuff. Yeah, that happens, you know. We're— another thing that's going on is we're going into a little bit of a cold spell.
Speaker A: Yeah, I heard that this week's supposed to be 10 degrees cooler, and then I think, uh, yeah, I think not this week but next week it's supposed to be a chance. Now that's a chance, so I don't know if we're going to get it or not, uh, of rain and snow mix. So it's got to be down to 36.
Speaker B: Yeah, and I was explaining to, uh, Steve how, um, at a little bit, just a little bit beyond this date, we had one of those freezeouts here, one of those super, super low temps, like 28 or something like that, that hit, killed all— everybody had all these garden things going and stuff, and it killed everything.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, it happens. I got pictures on Facebook book, uh, you know how they, they remind you of what happened 6 years ago on this day, 7 years, whatever, um, pops up. And, uh, I have pictures of this place having 2 foot of snow today— yesterday, actually, uh, March 20th, I believe it is.
Speaker B: That's why I like my greenhouse so much. This lady right at the beginning of winter gave me, gave me a bunch of tomato plants, and then I was growing lettuce a a couple years ago in the greenhouse, and I let some of it go to seed, and all that— all those seeds come up every year now. I've got some that's starting to bolt, but I've got a lot of really good lettuce in there. And, uh, some— they're just cherry tomatoes, but it's really amazing how fluffed out it got. It just pretty much took over this one area in the greenhouse.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, yeah, up here we, we, uh, all replanted a, a small garden about 4 foot by 6, uh, and we got you know, like tomatoes. I think— I'm not sure what else they planted, but we've only done one time, so we don't even try up there because the acid from the pine trees doesn't kill it.
Speaker B: Well, that's about perfect. You know, you take an area like that and put some different soil in there. And I don't know, if you've got trees dropping leaves, then you might have to put a little bit of lime in there. And, uh, but you cover it, you know, because now down here at least, not so much up there, but down here And partially, it's partially similar to what you've got up there where grocery stores are a ways away. And, uh, prices— it doesn't matter where you are, prices on some veggies are higher this time of year and before this time of year, and everything's going up anyways. So yeah, if you can cover it, so even in areas like that, if you can cover it and protect it from the cold weather with, you know, glass or even plastic— for a lot of people use those, make those things that they take a PV, some PVC pipe and make a frame cover it with plastic. Even that, uh, you can, you can, uh, get some, some things going. They'll even grow themselves if the seeds are there.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, we don't, uh, you know, we kind of do it for fun. We do all our harvesting down there at Walmart for our favorite, if you hear what I'm saying. And what we do is go down maybe once a month, twice a month, do grocery shopping. We got a freezer and stuff, so we handle that, you know. That's basically why I was trying to get this solar up, is to hook that freezer up to Yeah, somebody's keying up on the repeater frequency on Link.
Speaker B: Took a little bit of that, but, um, right toward— just right towards the end of it. But, uh, yeah, um, it's, uh, uh, they'll probably try to key up over me too, but, um The thing about veggies, you know, when you try to harvest them at the stores, is they're the first to go bad, you know. Where if you can go out into the garden and pick some lettuce, makes a big difference because it's— you just pick up, pick enough for a salad and leave the rest there, and then it kind of like keeps it at least for quite a while until it starts to bolt.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right there. Yeah, my sister, when she owned that, uh, that ranch out there in Oklahoma, uh, now back there, you talk about gardens, you just throw a seed on the ground, it grows, it'll look like a tree tomorrow. Uh, when me and my wife went back there several years ago, she was going to make a salad. She walked out in the garden, got the lettuce and everything, everything she had right there, put the salad together, pulled it down, and, you know, think how they like that, you know. So I mean, it's pretty cool, you know. But we don't— yeah, we just don't have the patience at this point.
Speaker B: And if you do put one of those covered little things with greenhouse plastic or something like that, you gotta— it's best to have a source of water that just that goes in there regardless of whether you, you know, from rain or something, some sort of automated thing. Because then you don't have to even worry about whether you're, you're just, you're walking around one day and all of a sudden you look in there and oh man, there's a whole bunch of veggies in there.
Speaker A: Yeah, you know what we have, uh, I think we have a 3-stage irrigation system that does the front, the back, and the sides. And then up on the upper driveway, we have a sprinkler that gets some water. And we water about every 50— every morning about 15 minutes. You know, per state, you know. And I mean, that part of it wouldn't be hard to figure out. We had soaker hoses when we had that one little garden that was hooked up to that, so it just soaked every morning. You know, I mean, we got stuff growing, but, you know, it wasn't— I don't know, you know, if we had a half an acre or something like that of good soil and good sunlight and all that good stuff without the trees, it'd be worth it. But, you know, just a smaller— like, that's not very worth the work.
Speaker B: I'm surprised, you know, for just a couple of people, how a small plot—
Speaker A: how well—
Speaker B: how much a small plot will do for you if it's just certain things, you know. And up there especially, you'd have to be all covered up, you know, in greenhouse material. But down here, the greenhouse was here. I had to put some new covering on it years ago, and, uh, it's getting a little worn now because We had a hailstorm that, even though it's expensive material, it put some holes in it. It was a big, big hail that year. But yeah, I'm really happy with what I've got. I could send you a picture of it in your email, I think. You'd be surprised considering I didn't do anything but try to pull the weeds out.
Speaker A: Yeah, you know, I'll tell you, when we were down there in Millbury, half of our yard, which the yard, backyard, wasn't that big, but it was fairly good size. Anyway, half that yard we had in garden, we were growing corn, watermelon, pumpkin, uh, oh, I don't know, squash, uh, tomatoes obviously. I think every garden got tomatoes in it. Um, and we were growing it every year. And, um, so we did away with that when we got rid of the place. Then we moved up to, uh, Red Bluff, well, we dug up half the lawn, if you will, in the backyard and did the same. Well, no, we didn't dig that up. We did above-ground planter boxes and stuff like that, so we had a pretty good garden going there. But up here, there's so much else to do, so We, we just like, we would like to.
Speaker B: I was going to go out and check and see if there were any more lambs, but I didn't do it. And I see now it's getting— it's about midway through what they call the early bird session on that 40-meter net that I always go to. How'd you do? Did you get any, uh, HF stuff up?
Speaker A: Uh, no, I'm probably going to do it today. Uh, we got it, we got it up and we got the coax out to the deck. Shove it into the house here, and that won't take much. But yeah, you know, like I said, we're, we're just motivating along, taking our time, enjoying life. And yeah, I was looking for all that 105. If that net— they say they have that net every morning, uh, I forgot what time. It's called the Coffee Break Dance.
Speaker B: Yeah, you think it's on now?
Speaker A: Well, I don't think so. Hang on, just a moment.

Speaker A: Yeah, I don't see— I don't hear anything. Yeah, I don't hear anything at all, so I guess they're not on. Um, I'll monitor it while I'm talking to you. Um, but, uh, you know, like I said, it was really weird. I don't know.
Speaker B: Me how my dog starts barking.
Speaker C: I don't know why he barks when he does sometimes. He's probably going to have to go out. But anyway, yeah, I'm listening to these early birds on 40 meters and they're not there. A guy will check in from San Diego and some— a bunch of people from Arizona and, you know, that sort of thing.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of people get, uh, pretty early in the morning. Uh, I got up here, I couldn't sleep, so I got up at 4 o'clock one morning. Of course, that was several months ago. Well, it happened to be over 3 months ago, you know, 1 year. But anyway, what I'm saying is, I got up, I didn't think anybody was on here, and there was quite a few people on at 4 o'clock in the morning.
Speaker C: Yeah, at one time there were, there was quite a bit going on late at night. Uh, by the way, I wanted to mention, uh, the guy that would be part of the group that was on— if you're talking about the local, are you talking about this repeater on local?
Speaker A: Uh, no, no, obviously, uh, like 195, and I believe it was 195 or something about 4 o'clock in the morning.
Speaker C: Is that what you're talking about? No, I, you know, we're on this repeater, so I thought you were talking about this repeater. Uh, that's why I'm asking.
Speaker A: Oh no, no, um, I mean, I guess there's people on, but, uh, that time in the morning. But, uh, no, the one I was talking about, I was just scanning that, um, the frequencies I have, 195,000, uh, Hey Mike, if you can, um, if you can get that 105, uh, they're on there right now. They just came on.

Node 51018 connected to node 405480.

Okay, very good. You have some signal. Reply necessary.

Yeah, I guess I lost you. Anyway, Mike, I gotta, gotta run. I got a phone call I gotta take, so, uh, so I'll get back on here in about 10 minutes or something. K6SLA.

Speaker A: Hope I dropped out or got interfered with or something.
Speaker B: Are you hearing somebody key up, uh, John?

Speaker A: You still there, Justin? Well, I'm going to take a look outside, see if there's any new lambs. So, N6GRG, I'll be signing for a little bit. K6SLN, back. Oh, would you go get a cup of coffee or something?
Speaker B: Uh, no, I got a phone call there and had to take it. But, uh, what did I miss?
Speaker A: Oh, nothing much. I was just telling you about that guy that checked into my HF radio, well, apparently when I was sleeping. I'm looking to try to figure out when he put a message in my mailbox.
Speaker B: Wow, yeah, that's, uh, pretty good. But, uh, anybody— like I said, there was somebody came on that 105 down there. I thought it was that dance thing. Yes, uh Um, there was— there's nobody on it right now. Oh, okay.
Speaker A: You know, I thought he was from the North America. It said it, it says North AM, but what I read the rest of it, it says North AM, West Australia.
Speaker B: So I don't know what Northam is.
Speaker A: It's not North America. And he put that message on there this morning. Huh, I didn't even notice it being put on there. He was on 40 meters.
Speaker B: Oh, you got it hooked up to your computer?
Speaker A: Yeah, it was off for a while. I used to run it on Windows machine, and Windows did an update and screwed everything up. So, so now I see I got that 40— some of the local 40-meter guys, uh, finally getting on this, uh, maritime net that I take part in on 7192. But, uh, yeah, he, uh, he put it in on 40 meters from Australia. It turns out he was in North— in a place called Northam, and then West Australia. I have no idea where that is.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, I must say I'm lucky to know where Australia is. Um, now the rest of that, I have no clue either.
Speaker A: Yeah, and this, uh, this, uh, MarineNet is starting to get more active. One guy just jumped in from, from Arizona. Right on top of a guy who's in Encinitas. You know where Encinitas is? I don't know too much about Los Angeles, but it's down there someplace.
Speaker B: I don't either. I've heard of it, but I couldn't, I couldn't tell you how to get there or where it was, but I've heard it before. Um, yeah, I guess, uh, if they're over there in Phoenix, they can talk to LA pretty easy.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, that's 40 meters, you know. The— it's almost the same as what we get on Carley, except that it's covering Arizona too.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, I was, um, oh, I was kind of, uh, interested in that Northern California Nevada Echolink is, uh, Node 1 for Carla. And the reason it's Node 1 obviously is because it's the first, uh, Echolink repeater they got.
Speaker A: Yeah, um, that's, uh, you know, I always tell people I like it if it's on the air. Echolink was the very first, uh web-oriented connection that I ever made. Uh, and of course, uh, Carla's got that. People jump in on it sometimes. One time a guy came in on one of the Carla, uh, virtual link, a guy came in from a university in Nepal, you know, right near where Everest is and stuff. And it was in Nepal, in, in the capital of Nepal. And I talked to him for quite a while.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, the EchoLink, uh I mean, it's nice to have. I have it on my phone, uh, because if you don't have radio handy, you just pick up the phone if you got internet or you got a cell phone and get in. Um, but I was kind of not surprised but excited or happy to hear that Carla has Um, like I said, that they put that first one up for, uh, echoing, and they just did it. When I say recent, last 6 months or, or so, something like that.
Speaker A: I don't know if you're talking about a recent online thing on Carla. You might be Talking about All-Star and Ken and 6K and 8K, maybe?
Speaker B: No, I don't think it's, uh, it— I mean, it may have All-Star with it, I don't know, but this is the first time that, uh, like I said, 6 months ago or, um, maybe 8 months go. Um, I seen it come up on the EchoLink, and, um, there wasn't very many people use it. Now they're starting to use it, and it's starting to get into the system because I had one on the— why, I guess you call it uplink, that 173 PL on, uh, 155 or 115, um, and I tried my phone and it came across the radio, so it worked all through the system.
Speaker A: Now you're talking about Carlinet?
Speaker B: Well, it's not, not a net, but yeah, the system, um, you know, because I, uh You know, like you got your local and then you got your uplink, I call it. You know, so you talk all the way to Las Vegas, you know, from sitting right here. And I put my radio on 115.0 PL173, and then I'll run on EchoLink, and wherever that node is I went through and came out on my radio, so it works.
Speaker A: Okay, well, I'm trying to nail down what— where this is all happening, which repeater system.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm not— I'm not sure, Mike. I don't know what repeaters is. Uh, the, uh, excellent room or node, or it's node number 1, Carla system. Um, and it is, uh, what's it called, Northern California and Nevada, Echolink node number 1. You can go on that Carla website, it's on there.
Speaker A: Well, okay, well, if it's listed on a Carla On the Carla website, is Carla, um, that's what I'm trying to find.
Speaker B: So, uh, yeah, it's all— I believe it's all that website because I found it, um, just searching EchoLink for Northern California. That's how I found it. And then I went a long time, I didn't think, I didn't associate with Carla, but then I was listening to my radio one afternoon and it said that Echo Link so-and-so from wherever he was, uh, is hooked up. And I thought, well, that's Echo Link. And then I went to search it out a little bit and I found out it was, it was Carla.
Speaker A: Yeah, the John the Carla webpage is Carla, um, and it's coming out on Link. And, uh, the one thing I learned about it back in the day when I was using it was, uh, that Echolink system has a way for you to hear how much deviation you've got. And what it does is that you, you talk and then it— the EchoLink comes back. I was connecting via Carla, I think. Anyway, you can tell how much, uh, how your audio is, you know, how much audio you've got. And it comes back right out of EchoLink. It's one of the various— I guess I was going in on a phone or something, computer.
Speaker B: Yeah, I think that's called Echo Test. Uh, you can test your audio and see if you overmodulate, so you can adjust your phone mic so you're not, um, has a lot of A lot of ham operators say you're coming in too hot, and you can back it up or whatever. Do adjustments. And then when you get out there on the airwaves, you know, your voice sounding good, because a lot of times, it all depends on what kind of phone you got. A lot of times you overmodulate or undermodulate or Yeah, trying to check into this net real quick.
Speaker A: You don't— on this particular net, you don't get to say much. Hang on just a second.
Speaker B: Okay, I'll let you— I'll let you go, Mike. Uh, I'm gonna roll over that 105. If you can get that repeater, they're, uh, having that net right there. Maybe you can figure out where the problem— but anyway, I'll talk to you after a while. KFC. That's it.
Speaker A: Okay, yeah, I just had to check in real quick there. And, uh, it's a net, marine net, and good way to test, you know, nets are a good way to test your antennas. So I highly recommend them for finding out how you're doing, especially this particular net.
Speaker B: I've only got the 10 meters and the 20 meters hanging there, but it's not hooked up enough, but, uh, Anyway, like I said, uh, can you get that 105?
Speaker A: I'll try that today, uh, probably right during this net. I'll try it, uh, this net, you know, has people. I just kind of have to pay attention because they'll call out every— on this particular— this is— this net is really unusual in that everybody talks and everybody calls out for you know, where most nets have a net control and he's the only guy that does most of the talking. That's not the case with this net I'm on. So that's what— why it's such a good place to test your, your HF. But it's only on 40. The only place I've ever seen a net like this is, is 40 meters. And, uh, It's very unusual. You'd have to hear it to believe it.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, I hear you there. Um, but anyway, I'm gonna roll over and listen to them on 105, figure out where that repeater is. Um, and, uh, because they're coming in like strong here and they're just starting to go down a couple hours probably.
Speaker A: Well, if you turn your computer on to figure out where it is and what it is you're listening to and put some of the calls in and find out where those people are and stuff on QRZ, while you're doing it, go to Northern Utah. Type in on Google, type Northern Utah SDR, Northern Utah SDR. And I think you did some of those SDRs, so you know what I'm talking about. And go go to 7192 and listen to it, and you'll hear how this net works. It's not like any net you've ever heard, ever, because everybody's talking. Everybody takes turns putting out a call. It's very unusual.
Speaker B: Okay, all right, let me try it. Anyway, I'll let you go. This is KNC, SLA. Let me try.
Speaker A: And I'll try to find something that— some way to listen. I think I can put— I think 7105 is in this Alinko. This Alinko's got everything in it. So, but if you— 7192 on that orange, uh, colored Northern Utah, they call it number 1. Go to the orange one and, and just— you'll see a list down there on the, on the page, and one of them says TabascoNet. Click on that and everything's all set up. If you do that, it's all set up for you. And it's got what they call, uh, waterfall on the page.

Speaker A: PU2 SJH, South America, Brazil.
Speaker B: PU2 SJH.
Speaker A: PU2 SJH, this is WA6E. Good. Morning. We're just about to start the net here, so if you'll give me a couple minutes, I'll pitch on this, we'll come back and chat with you. Good morning, everybody else. It's 7:30 AM Pacific time, which means it's time for the coffee break net. This is Jerry, WA6E, and I, along with Theta, WA6EWF, will be your net control stations, or as they as we humoristically call it here, your conversation facilitators this morning. Okay, so what's the deal? I don't sound like Orion AI-6JB. No, I don't. He has a conflict of some sort. I think he's at Disneyland, and you know, they spend the money if he's down there. So we're going to do the net this morning to keep it rolling merrily along. So who's out there other than PU2SJH, who I'll come back to in a second, uh, who wants to check in with this morning and do some quick in and outs to get the Saturday version of the net rolling? 7-9-8, Roy in Freedom, Pennsylvania.
Speaker C: Cherry and Zaden, thank you for handling the net.
Speaker A: N6CKV, good morning. M9REA, Mike Romeo Slash AE, over.
Speaker B: Good morning, station from Brazil, South America. I stay here, say hello. I have a nice Have a nice weekend for everybody. My operator name Sandro. I spell my name like Sierra Alpha November Delta Radio Oscar. My operator name Sandro. I live in São Paulo in South America. Local time here 11 o'clock AM on Saturday morning. The weather's very nice, blue sky, sunny day, sunshine, temperature about 28, 29 degrees Celsius. Celsius. Very hot day at my side. Okay, sir, thank you so much.
Speaker A: We come back.
Speaker B: I very high appreciate connection from station from Alaska, for United States, for, for everybody. Another place, another place, very good for a very, very high interest for connection from North America. 73, PU2SCJA, standby.
Speaker D: Thank you, sir.
Speaker A: Okay guys, hang on. Uh, Sandro, good morning. PU2SJH, I've got you from São Paulo, Brazil. I am not in Alaska. This is a repeater. We run a net every morning here in California near Sacramento, so not Alaska, but thank you for checking checking in. It's good to hear you on from Brazil. You can stay around and talk with us a little bit, or we're here every morning and would love to have you check in with us. So thank you for checking in.
Speaker B: God bless, take care, have a nice weekend. Bye-bye for now, sir. I want to call Lisa now. Thank you, sir.
Speaker A: 73. 73, Sandro. Have a good day. Okay, this is WA6E. Here's who I heard other than Sandro. I got N9MUF, WH7DH, and 6CKV, N9RES, and a station that's, uh, gonna have some kudos here. I tell you, I only got the last letters, Mike Romeo slash Alpha Echo. Congratulations, but give me the rest of the call.
Speaker E: Yeah, Jerry, that's Kilo Oscar 6 Kilo Mike Romeo, and I did get the, uh, uh, slash, uh, AE on Saturday.
Speaker D: Over.
Speaker A: Nicely done, nicely done. Was that at, uh, the Granite Bay, uh, testing Yes, sir, affirmative, over. Yeah, I usually go down to that and I had a conflict, so congratulations. Before I go back up to the top, did I miss anybody?
Speaker D: KA6UAI.
Speaker A: Okay, Ron, I got you. N9MUF, good morning. How are things in Illinois?
Speaker E: Good morning, Jerry.
Speaker F: Theta in the net, uh, very interesting, I think is a good way to put it. I'm not on the way to the train station. My partner's wife is driving him into the studio today, but we'll get a bit of the band back together, have a good practice. And it's amazing how quick the bands open up when there is a contest or a QSO party. I was looking at the band conditions and bemoaning that to a friend, and suddenly the Virginia QSO party kicks in and 40 meters becomes wild and active.
Speaker A: Actually, Daniel, that strikes me as a real good thing. I'm glad to see there's still people out there willing to participate. I know the California QSO party for us is really a kicker because it's the only time during the whole year people actually want to talk to us. So you say the band's getting back together. Is that a musical band or are you talking about the radio band like 40 you were just mentioning?
Speaker F: No, you're right, I've got to remember to keep that clear. The musical band is getting back together. When people have had commitments, we haven't been able to have a full practice, and we'll be able to have that today. And no, it was just— I'm glad that people are doing it. I just find it interesting how the bands can be dead and closed and everybody's complaining about it, and if there's a QSO party or a contest, suddenly it's amazing how the bands suddenly open up.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. It's also interesting how you can turn on, say, 10 meters or 12 meters, 15, and hear nothing, and you call CQ and all of a sudden the bands come alive. Everybody's sitting around listening but nobody's talking. That seems kind of unusual for the hobby, but it does happen.
Speaker F: Oh, it very much happens. Let's see what else. My son and I, we did our first CW-only POTA activation yesterday. Got our 10 in the logs. The WRL logbook is absolutely excellent for this. I set it up, spotted it, and then he took over and logged everything, and a nice simple download when I got home. And then just working CW on the Virginia party this morning. So really enjoying CW and really enjoyed getting that first CW POTA. I know this is a quick in and out, so I should hand it back to you and the net. Jerry, thank you so much for running it. 73 and 9MUF.
Speaker A: Well, congratulations on the POTA. That's nice, and you're going to be a CW expert here before too long. Of course, you You know, the CWers invented a lot of these abbreviations that the kids use today and they think are so unique, like LOL and others. So good luck with your CW, and thanks for checking in. Have a great weekend. This is WA6E. Roy, WH7DH, how are things in Pennsylvania? You still have snow?
Speaker C: Good morning, Jerry and Seda and the net.
Speaker A: Oh, our snow is pretty much melted.
Speaker C: We're back up to— let's see, it shows here 43 degrees right now. But our main concern has been our family in Hawaii. They're in Kahuku and they are safe. They're up on higher ground from the massive floods that they have been having there, which particularly has affected Laie and Haleiwa and Wahiawa and that area there, and they're expecting some problems over on Maui also with this heavy deluge of moisture that's coming in. And also the challenge of these, what, 120-year-old sugar mill, back in those days, dams that were put in. That are earthen dams, and so they're kind of worried about one of them at least breaking and causing more problems there. But our prayers and thoughts go out to all those in Hawaii with these conditions.
Speaker D: Back to you.
Speaker A: Yeah, I've seen pictures on the news of Honolulu now, and they're just swamps there. Last week it was Maui. This has been going on for a while. Dan, K6DLK, said his backyard was, was flooded, but other than that, his house was okay. He's here, so I guess he's looking at some cameras online. But yeah, Hawaii, especially the windward side of that island, just getting nailed. And I also saw something about a potential dam break, and for the life of me, I have no idea where that dam is on that island. I didn't know there was one.
Speaker C: Ah, yes, um, this is WH7DH again. But, uh, yeah, I'm not sure where those dams are either. I've never seen them. They must be up, you know, up, uh, uh, mountainside there and away from common view. But, uh, all those rains that go in the middle of the island where the mountains are and things coming down. So, but yeah, that's a big concern for, for that happening. So Laie, I know, is, has historically been challenged with flooding. When our family did live there, we had to go up because of— well, it was actually a different situation, tsunami warning— and go up near our temple there in Laie, up on higher ground, and and everybody was kind of camped out and everything in their cars. And we had a new little grandbaby at that time there, and a missionary couple in a little housing nearby had us come in, and that was nice. But yeah, these things happen there in Hawaii, and whether it's the floods or whether it's the tsunamis from earthquakes or whatever, lava flows there on the Big Island, they do do have their share of challenges, but it is still a beautiful and marvelous place to live.
Speaker D: Back to you, Jerry.
Speaker A: Yeah, that is true. When we lived there, we lived on Hickam Air Force Base, and they would get one of these storms like this, not as bad as they're having now, but the, the streets would fill up with water because it was so level they couldn't drain off fast enough. You know, our elevation above sea level at our house was maybe a foot, maybe two, I'm not sure. It— if there was a tsunami, we were going swimming. So it was, uh, it was kind of tough. But nevertheless, it, uh, it's tough for the folks who live there, and we wish them well. It's good to hear you on. Give our regards to Mickey, and, uh, have a great day back in Pennsylvania.
Speaker C: Thank you, Jerry and Stata. This is Roy, WH7DH, and Mickey, I think, is down still doing some exercising, uh, WA7QC. And it is going to be a nice day here in Western PA. Take care, everyone.
Speaker A: 73, Roy. This is WA6E Carl in 6 CKV, top of the morning to you.
Speaker D: Good morning, Jerry, Zayden, Rocky.
Speaker G: Well, thank you for, uh, talking to Roy about Hawaii. I was going to ask the two of you how it was going there. I've got a friend who lives in Kona. I've been exchanging emails with him. He just is getting tired of all the rain.
Speaker A: It seemed to be that it was kind of specialized on Imbali Island.
Speaker D: The—
Speaker A: they were all getting some rain, but last week Maui was just getting nailed, and that was the one that was popping up on the news that I saw. And yesterday and the day before, it was Honolulu, uh, meaning the island of Oahu. And, uh, got Ron coming up here, maybe he can give us the outlook on Kauai. But yeah, one at a time. And when it rains there, it really comes down, and it just doesn't go anywhere. It just kind of hangs around the water that's dumped. Yeah, I've been watching some YouTube videos and the news, and it looks really bad.
Speaker G: I'm glad, uh, those folks are okay. I saw the house that went into the river on one of the news stations.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's really bad.
Speaker G: But thanks for the update there, Roy and Jerry.
Speaker A: Always seems to be someplace undergoing a crisis somewhere in the world at every moment, doesn't there? So hopefully all is well with you. You got everything put together so you don't have to do a lot of weed mowing this year?
Speaker G: Well, I've been getting ready for weeding. It's really grown this year. I'm going to be out there on the tractor. Tractor in another week, mowing like mad, like a crazy man. Anyway, I'm going to say 73 since this is short in and out, and thanks for the update on Hawaii. This is N6PKV. Have a good Saturday, everyone, and thanks for running the net, Jerry and Theta.
Speaker A: Yeah, you have a good one too. I went out and mowed my pasture— pastures— last week. Uh, the idea is don't water them. Of course, they're green now, but I don't want to have to mow them during the summer. I want to keep them down about ankle level or lower so that if we have some sort of a fire, it just kind of smolders. Have a good one and, uh, have a great weekend. This is WA6E N9RES. Good morning.
Speaker C: Good morning.
Speaker A: Don't really have a whole lot to add. Uh, just wanted to pop in and say good morning. It's almost 50 degrees here in Northern Illinois, and I think I'm going to be heading out to do some yard work, but I'll be listening. NRES. Well, you know, Bill, you got to be grateful for what you have, having sat here and listened to, uh, the, the problems out in Hawaii. And of course, we're having endless summer here for some reason. Uh, it— you would swear it was June, even, even July, by the weather that we're having. All the trees are blossoming. We have mandarin trees here that are just loaded with blossoms, so we're going to be awash with mandarins this fall. And, uh, yeah, I guess if the sun comes up, you go out, mow the lawn, be grateful for it. Did we, uh, lose you, Bill, or are you still there? Oh, I'm still here. I had a little dog incident I had to take care of, but, uh, Yeah, fortunately I'm on very high ground here, so if my house floods, you guys are probably all going to be underwater. Well, I believe that one of the commandments of being a good ham is to live on top of a hill, so you are doing your job as a ham and I have to respect that. Have a great day.
Speaker F: You too, Jerry.
Speaker A: 73, man.
Speaker D: NRS.
Speaker A: Okay, K06KMR, recently Amateur Extra. Congratulations, Robert. That's, uh, that's the way to go. Now you're going to go out and get on those bands. Yes, sir.
Speaker E: I gotta get out, uh, first of all, and get me an HF radio. I still haven't quite determined which one I want at this point, still doing a lot of research and all. And, uh, get me an antenna up and hit the airwaves. But I am excited about completing the extra. The class helped me a lot. I actually didn't finish the whole class yet. I'll go ahead and attend it, but I didn't finish it. I've been preparing so much for it, I felt like I was ready to go and went in and passed it, and just all happy with that. Other than that, I'm going to be working on sprinkler systems today. I sprung a leak in the yard yesterday, it looked like, when I turned it on, so I get to dig up part of the yard.
Speaker A: Over. Well, I do not envy that. I've got irrigation systems out here in the pastures and there's always something with them. Yesterday one of them would shut off. It runs from an application on my iPhone and it would turn on but it would shut off. So I've got the irrigation water shut off to it and I've got to go out and figure out what's causing that. But there's always something. Any event, as far as What is a good HF radio? The candidates are numerous. If you talk to a Chevy guy, he'll tell you that the Chevy is the best one. If you talk to a Ford guy, he'll tell you the Ford is the best one. The Icom guys, the Kenwood guys, I guess they are all good radios. You know, a lot of our members work at HRO, and if you happen to catch one of them, maybe they can give you their opinion.

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

Speaker A: John, are you still there? I know you were looking at 105, but are you still there? N6GRG.
Speaker B: Uh, K6SLA, go ahead, Mike.
Speaker A: Yeah, did you happen to turn on that HF or turn on an SDR so you could listen to HF?
Speaker B: Uh, no, no, I, I'm doing something else. I didn't, uh, I didn't get over to it.
Speaker A: Oh, okay. Yeah, if you ever get a chance to listen to 7192, um, I don't know how many nets you've ever checked into, but if you listen to 7192, you're going to go, what kind of a net is this? This is different than anything I've ever heard, ever. From Annette. It's very different. But anyway, that's an invitation to listen to it.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'll get around to it. Like I said, right now I'm in the middle of something else. But yeah, you know, the SDR, I got one of them here at Shingletown. Like that one. Oh, I don't know where that other one is. It may be up to Utah. Then I got one out of Oklahoma City, um, but, uh, yeah, I'll give them a check.
Speaker A: Yeah, we did have one guy on a boat in a place called Barrow, something like Barrow or Barrow Navidad. And you could hear the Navidad part of what he's saying. So you could, you know, put Navidad, N-A-V-I-D-A-D, in a Google Map and it would probably come up on that Mexican coast, way, way down south of Baja on the Mexican coast. He'd been, he'd been there for quite a while, just sitting there in his boat enjoying life. And, uh, He checks in every once in a while, and he's so far south that he's a little bit harder to hear. So I use— and I could hear him on my radio, but to boost it up, I put it on— I put on this— there, you know, you've heard of Half Moon Bay SDRs, right? The Half Moon Bay KFS?
Speaker B: Uh, yeah, yeah, I have. Um, I think there's one down there in Monterey and whatnot. I usually go on that, uh, I don't know if it's Half Moon Bay one or not. Uh, no, I think it's just one of the scenic towns. Uh, on this, those guys down there on the coast, San Cruz, Capitol, uh, all the way down Monterey on the 80B or something.
Speaker A: Well, see, the interesting thing is that these are HF radios, so the closer you are to somebody, the harder it is to hear on some bands, you know, and that includes 40 meters. And, uh, so you're gonna, you know, you're— if you're, if you're listening on Half Moon Bay and like there's a guy in San Francisco, I can barely hear him. Because he's too close to, uh, to that particular SDR in, uh, in Half Moon Bay, which is just of course south of Pacifica and, you know, south of there. But, uh, yet the, the one in northern Utah will pick up all those stations just perfectly, and it picks up me me just perfectly. Uh, but the one I listen to in Half Moon Bay has an antenna that's a huge antenna and it's pointing south, so it picks up the guy in Mexico that checked in from Faro Navidad. So yeah, it's pretty crazy how it all works.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, well, I tested that out one time when I had my HF up and running. I put an SDR over here in Chingletown. I couldn't even— the guy over at Chingletown with the SDR over there couldn't pick me up, but yet I could talk to LA and Texas and every place else. Uh, so I put it on, uh, Oklahoma City, and, uh, they are there in Oklahoma City now. I can hear myself over there.
Speaker A: Exactly. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying. So the one in Shingletown will be good for people in the Bay Area, uh, and south in California, way down to Los Angeles and even maybe even down into Mexico, but very few of them actually have antennas that are— see, this is a log periodic, you know, it's a— I think that's what they call it.
Speaker B: It's a—
Speaker A: it's a— not a log periodic, that's a beam. Uh, it's a— it's a big huge, big huge, uh, array of wire They have pictures at that KFS site. They have pictures of the different antennas, and they've got like 4 or 5 of these big huge antennas because it used to be what it was for was phone calls from ocean liners back before the internet, uh, phone calls from, from, uh, ocean liners going in pumped right into the phone system. So you'd be on a regular phone line and you make a special call to this place, and this place would hook you up with an ocean liner to somebody on the ocean liner. That's what they were— these antennas were for.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, the, uh, ship-to-shore, uh, yeah, I, I, I'm familiar with that. I used to listen to a lot of shortwave radio when I was, I don't know, maybe 10 years old, 11 years old, 12 years old, something like that, when I lived there in— actually lived in San Francisco.
Speaker A: Now there's that guy in Barro Navidad, and he's coming in directly on my radio. And they're asking, uh, I think they were asking him what his weather was like down there. I don't know, but yeah, I've actually got him on the radio.
Speaker B: Yeah, I guess, uh, Hawaii is getting hit with weather. Uh, they got evacuated from what these guys on the radio were saying. in their flood, I think. I'm not sure about this, but, uh, you talk about weather, they, they supposed to be getting hit pretty hard.
Speaker A: Oh, it's a huge storm and it's flooding out like it's filled up this dam and the dam is ready to break. And, and then when there's something about people that build dams right above cities, I don't know what That's like Oroville did that.
Speaker B: Uh, boy, I— this guy is weak.
Speaker A: I think it's, uh, the guy down in Santa Cruz, and he's super weak.
Speaker B: Not sure why he was so weak. Yeah, there's a bunch of operators down there, uh, like so, all up and down that coast right there. And, uh, I heard him say, and I've got a guy, that, uh, there was a couple of them down there, had to kill one. So they could turn the power on and off.

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Speaker A: Okay, I just put out my weather question, Steve. They got different sections on this net. They got different sections and they have a big old weather report for boats, and then they— everybody puts out a weather question. What that means is that— oh, and there goes Mike Yankee from, uh, way down south is checking out. So maybe he'll put out a weather question before he checks out from Navidad, down way down the coast.
Speaker B: Yeah, that'd be pretty good to live on a boat, you know what I mean?
Speaker A: Yeah, this is a very interesting net because not only do you get to hear stations that are scattered all over Arizona, California, Nevada on 40 meters, but you get to talk to them and they can give you a report right there in the middle of the net. So, and everybody's taking turns, so So yeah, I love it.
Speaker B: Yeah, I think that— is that a 24-hour, uh, 24/7 set?
Speaker A: No, it's only— uh, starts 7 o'clock with what we call 7 o'clock is, is, uh, when the general chitchat thing, what they call the early bird start on 7192. And then that goes on for a half an hour, and 7:30 the net starts. And 7:30 net has a special format, you might say. It's not real special, but it's a little bit special where everybody takes a turn and puts a call out With— in the call, there's usually a question. Do you have any— do you need this? Do you need that? Right now it's the one where we're doing general traffic, so everybody's putting out a call. And the first thing they do is if they have general traffic, they say, well, here's my general traffic, blah blah blah. And then they'll say, is there anybody who has general traffic for the net? And sometimes people have questions about what they just said or Whatever.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, uh, and they don't have a net control.
Speaker A: Oh yes, they do. Yeah, they have a net control. There's two things. They have a net control and then they have— they're asking everybody, everybody's taking turn, turns. They'll, they'll say okay, uh, and they use the last three of the calls. So say if they want Wanted Greg, who listens to this frequency sometimes, India Uniform. If they had Greg on there, then Greg is India Uniform out of Corning. And so Bravo Golf Delta, which his whole call is K1BGD, Bravo Golf Delta will say, India Uniform, how about putting a call for general traffic? That's where we're at right now. And then, in the end, he'll put it, if he has any general traffic, he'll say it. And then if he, after he's done with that, he'll put out a call for general traffic. That's a question. Does anybody have any general traffic? And then if nobody comes back, then he'll pick somebody else out that checked into this net. Say Echo X-ray Tango, which is Kilo Delta 5 Echo X-ray Tango, way down in Mexico. Well, right now he's in Encinitas. So that guy will put out a call, and then TWR will be asked. His call is Kilo November 6 TWR, who's on Carley every once in a while, and he'll put out a call, uh, from San Francisco, and he's kind of weak because it's too close, but I hear him good on Northern Utah. And then, you know, and you learn a lot from a net like this because you can find out just where, how well your signal's doing on 40 meters to all these different locations.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, I don't have a 40-meter antenna, so, but you know, like I said, it's, it's, uh, you know, it's something to look into, uh, but, uh Anyway, anyway, I'm gonna run back over that 105 and, uh, and try to figure them guys out. I don't even know if I can get back in there. Maybe I don't know. I don't know how many come across this.
Speaker A: Well, if you can reach it, then just put out a call that says this is This is, uh, KN6SLN, and I'm wondering— I've got a question. I'm wondering where this repeater is. And of course, if there's more than— if there's different repeaters with different PLs on the same frequency, that makes it a little more complicated. But, uh, yeah, right now they're talking to that Yankee Hotel Charlie guy, Kilo November 6 Yankee Hotel Charlie, in Santa Cruz. Well, right today he's very weak into my radio, his propagation, you know. So he's very weak into my radio and kind of weak into that KFS. But if I turned on Northern Utah, he'd be strong into that. And, uh, he was talking to the guy in NCN who nor quite often is down in Mexico. I think he left Mexico because of all those those, uh, big fights they were having down there. Anyway, I know you got to go, so talk to you later. N6GRG.
Speaker B: Okay, Mike, we'll catch up with you later on today.
Speaker A: Okay, N6, that's all I got. Real easy and put up an inverted V or one of those end-fed half waves wherever you want. I'll help you out, figure out a way to get one up. Good band to have, N6TRG.

Amateur Radio News line report number 2525 with a release date of Friday, March 20, 2026 to follow in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. The following is a QST the Bouvet Island Team declares the trip a success. YL operators around the world conclude their first major event and coming soon, a documentary about the well loved founder of MFJ Industries. All this and more as Amateur radio newsline report number 2525 comes your way right now from around the world. This is Newsline, Amateur Radio's first independent on the air news and Bulletin service. Now reporting from Wadsworth, Ohio, here's Stefan Kinford in awb. If you were one of the lucky ones to contact 3Y 0K on Bouvet island, our lead story is for you. Ralph Squalachi, KK6ITV tells us more the 3Y 0K D expedition to Bouvet island in the South Atlantic Ocean is done and according to the team was a great success. A report on their Facebook page stated the whole 3y0k team is safely back on the vessel after a successful expedition to Bouvet. We made more than 100,000 contacts and achieved our goals. It was an extraordinary undertaking involving years of planning, complex logistics and determination needed to succeed. The team worked well together under harsh conditions, cold snow and severe wind. Bouvet is known for its remoteness and unpredictable weather and while it is a beautiful island, any attempt going onshore involves a risk. Despite all the challenges we encountered, the team stayed focused on our goals, determined and the result is due to real teamwork. We have been working with professional expedition guides, pilots, crew and vessel along with our off island support team who all contributed to our success. End quote. According to the team, logs will soon be available in oqrs if you wish to check you made a valid contact but want to verify you can search the logs at the link in the text version of this Week's newscast@arnewsline.org the group's next target is, according to them, another icy rock in the Antarctic Ocean. Peter the first island in 2027. This is Ralph Swillacci, KK6ITV the voice of America broadcast service, which has been shut down amid come controversy last year, is headed back into Service. Ken Peterson, KC0DTY has more details. Judge Roy C. Lamberth of the United States District Court in the District of Columbia reversed actions taken last.

Please. Id. Thank you.

W-E-S-S-A-X-N repeater. KK1BUD, KK6BZD.

KN6SLN and 6GRG still there?

Kilo November 6, Tango Juliet Delta, Mobile, uh, and just leaving Sutter.

this radio, and it's coming in like the station, like the repeaters in my backyard. N6TRT.

Speaker A: K06MDZ, radio check.
Speaker B: I think I heard a radio check out there, maybe MDZ. W6PNH here.
Speaker A: Yeah, that was MVZ, Mike Victor Zulu. Thank you for the radio check.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, I think I recognize that call. Um, yeah, welcome to the air. Good to hear you out there. This is Paul in Yuba City. Yeah, thank you. This is Joseph up in Oroville. I'm up on the Table Mountain, so I'm in line of sight of the Thunder Buttes now, so Thank you. Oh, have a great time up there. We're heading to the parade to help organize that this morning, so on the repeater, well, you won't hear too much about that. We're going to go simplex, but anyway, have a good time. 73, W6BNH. 73, KO6MVZ.
Speaker A: W-E-6-A-X-N repeater. Paul, this is IJD. You copy? Yeah, Steve, go ahead.
Speaker B: I just want someone to know I'm running late. Shock, surprise, and all of that, but I am on my way. Is on Highway 20. All right, well, I'm a little bit ahead of you, but, um, I'm on my way as well, and I'll make sure Bud knows when I get there. Thanks. W6B&H.
Speaker A: K6IJD, uh, KK1BED, were you calling me? Hey bud, Paul here.
Speaker B: Um, he just wanted you to know he's running a little late and, uh, I'm still in Yuba City, so I'll— I'm just a few minutes away, but And I'll see you soon, and he'll see you a little bit after that is what he was trying to say. W6PNH.
Speaker A: Okay, thanks for the contact. I appreciate it. Bye, CK1ZD.

N6CNY KK1BED. N6CNY KK1BED. N6CNY, KK1BUD.

Speaker A: KF6VFP, KK1BUD. WP6AXN, repeater.
Speaker B: KF6VFP, KK1BUD.

KD6WYH, Koni, Petaluma doing the radio check. KD6WYH, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 1. System 26, 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 W6RHC repeater check 1.

Good morning, this is Tony, Kilo Delta Six Whiskey Yankee Hotel, from Sonoma County ACS. Is there any other ACS members on frequency 86 WYH? [FOREIGN LANGUAGE] [FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

Speaker A: [FOREIGN LANGUAGE] [FOREIGN LANGUAGE] Thank you very much.
Speaker B: Yeah, I've got, uh, my old, uh, IC-706 on a tuner, and I've got a, an FT-891 on a tuned 40-meter. So we'll see if I can hear anybody. And not yet, so good luck. Talk to you later. K6WIH.
Speaker C: N6GRDKN6SOS.
Speaker A: N6GOG K6 SOS.

Speaker A: [FOREIGN LANGUAGE] [FOREIGN LANGUAGE] a little while ago and I tuned it up. I can hit Santa Barbara wonderfully, Apple Valley, Rancho Palomares. But I got a call back from, uh, Derek in San Marin. And, uh, you know, where did I put his call sign? Uh, KF6VKQ. And I had, uh, I had Henry in Santa Barbara relay his call to me because I couldn't pull them out of the noise floor. So I did do that, but I've been playing HF for quite a while on 40 and 80, 75, and, uh, I can hear a lot of folks, but it's like they're 300, 400 miles away.
Speaker B: Sounds good.
Speaker A: I think you'll let me use that, uh, that setup one time. And thank you. Yeah, that should work well. Yeah, I decided to go, uh, tuner-less because my, my rig that I've got here at home is my regular setup. I've got it on a tuner and I figure I'd build out a dipole and tune it for 40 and I did another one for 20 and they were work wonderfully. So I was on, I was on that rig. I'm going to break that down in a few minutes after my coffee break and head over to Salvation Army. I know Greg, uh, WB6WPN, is over there, and I believe MVT Eric is going to head over there, and I believe Peter, uh, KK6HQT, should be there now. So I'm going to head over there in about 15 minutes or so.
Speaker B: [FOREIGN LANGUAGE] [FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

W fix rhc repeater check 2.

WB6WPM. Greg, this is Tony, KD6WIH.

Odd battery at 13.

Los Angeles, link up.

Speaker A: No, it's off the Atlantic coast of, uh, of, um, I'm sorry, of Canada.
Speaker B: Oh, Newfoundland, out towards Greenland that way, huh?
Speaker A: Even points farther beyond, yes.
Speaker B: I'm looking at the call sign. I wonder who owns it.
Speaker A: Uh, it's the same one they used, uh, you know, I didn't look at myself, but same one they used 3 years ago when they were on the island.
Speaker B: So, uh, you know, it's, uh, it's kind of cool to see.
Speaker A: And I guess very limited access. I think that's, uh, you know, if you don't get them in here, you, you wait 3 years.
Speaker B: AI-6US. Oh, it says it's Nova Scotia, pardon us. So that's a Canadian call. Who'd have guessed? Very good. Thanks for letting us know so that we can, uh, pick that up. Yeah, and I did forget, yeah, I have seen other Charlie Yankees.
Speaker A: I think they're usually, I think, uh, associated with special events. I remember during one of their, uh, government, uh, celebrations, there were a lot of Charlie Yankees on a couple years ago.
Speaker B: I forgot about that. Thanks. Yeah, they reported, uh, December 12th, 2026. I think they mean 2025. The wind at 10 at night is sustained at 35 knots with gusting 44. Sounds like pretty normal for them. Very good, thanks for checking in and having a good day. This is WA6E. See you later, Brian. Apparently it's staffed year-round by the Canadian National Park Agency. And Jim, W6JCZ, you have anything else for the net? That's all I got, Jerry.
Speaker C: Just wanted to check in after hearing Brian talk about the actual native Linux client for the FlexRadio. You hear all these Zetus guys talking about how good their software is for the Apache Anon radios. Maybe this will finally give Flex users a chance to talk about how good their software is.
Speaker B: W6JACZ. That would be fun, wouldn't it? And what's the latest on you versus the Department of State and green cards and all that stuff?
Speaker C: Well, based on internal messages.
Speaker B: Seems like—
Speaker C: [FOREIGN LANGUAGE] all those I-129F visas were processed at the California center, but there have been confirmed instances of people getting notices from the Texas processing center. So there's a chance that there may be some internal reorganization among U.S. Customs and Immigration Services and might cause a slight delay in how it's processed.
Speaker B: Process.
Speaker C: A lot of people noticed that processing had stopped and then when it resumed they were getting letters out of the Texas processing center which traditionally has never done I-129Fs. So chances are maybe it might take a little bit longer but we're hoping for sometime by third or fourth quarter this year when the YL will be able to come over.
Speaker B: W6JACZ. Oh, the wheels turn very slowly. That's amazing. Well, never give up. Uh, what's, what's the old Latin phrase? Uh, non illegitim carborundum, which means don't let them wear you down. Okay, have a good one. This is WA6E. This is the Coffee Break Net. Anybody want to check in just to get on the log before we, uh, call it a day?
Speaker A: Kilo Charlie 6 here, Lima Echo.
Speaker B: Number 6 Foxtrot Mike Delta in 6FMD, Jimmy. Kilo 6, Kilo 6 Mike Uniform, Michael.
Speaker D: Alpha India 6 Juliet Bravo.
Speaker B: There he is, AI6JB. I know you're on your phone down there, so how's Disneyland? W6GRC with a PLB.
Speaker D: We don't know yet because we just left Lathrop and heading south on I-5.
Speaker B: Oh my, you got a ways to go then, so I assume you're going to plan to go tomorrow? Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker D: Oh, the kids are already wondering how long it's going to be before we get there.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, in kid time it's forever.
Speaker D: Yeah, you know that.
Speaker B: You know that for sure.
Speaker D: Anyway, I thought I'd just drop in and say hi. You guys have a wonderful day. AI6JB73.
Speaker B: Okay, very good. And this is for log only. I got KC6XLE, KM6MM, N6FMD Jimmy, K6GBZ, and Michael, I got your last letter, uniform, but you doubled. I didn't get the rest of your call. Can you help me out? Uh, it's like TN6USH. Yeah, I know you, Mike. I thought it was somebody ended in uniform. Did I mess that up? Hang on, Mike. Okay, so I got KN6USH. Who else am I missing? This is WH7QC, Vicki in sunny Pennsylvania. Aloha, and I'm for the log only. Thanks, everybody.
Speaker D: Okay, I think— Hello, Mickey and Log.
Speaker B: We don't get to hear you very often. We had Roy Jek in quite a while ago, and we were talking about all the floods in Hawaii. It's kind of sad. And since then, Theta's been over here looking at the news. It seems to be getting worse there. This is W878. Yes, sadly, it is getting worse. Mickey's not available right now. But she's able to log in only. But Jerry and Zeta, 73s, and thank you for everything in handling the net today. Okay, Roy, very good. Appreciate, uh, you checking in, and give Mickey our best. This is WA6E. Who am I missing, or who wants to check in that I haven't got yet? KI6LOP. Whiskey Bravo 6 Golf Uniform Yankee. Kilo Delta 6 Hotel Oscar November. N5TIN to the log. Okay, I got KI6LOP. There you are, I see your call come up on the Super Mod from time to time. WB6GUI, KD6HON, and N5TIN. Anybody else for the log? Okay, with that I'm gonna call it done and return the repeater back to normal use and chat. Everybody, thanks for checking in and have a good one. The coffee break will continue tomorrow, uh, when Jeff W6— I don't remember Jeff's call now, he's got a new one that I almost said W6X-ray, that's not him. Oh well, anyway, whatever it is, Jeff will be the net control and we'll continue. Thanks everybody for checking in. Have a great day. This is WA6E Audios.

W.

N6GRG, K6SLF.

Boy, 40 meters was one way this morning. Good morning. I noticed that too, I only got 12. Hey, I did find that, uh, fox and hound mode. It's a little box, it's a pull-down menu. You're right, I found it. I'm working with it and play with it, learn it. Okay, some facts about it. Very cool. Um, it only is used with a key, and so if you see a DXpedition operating in that mode, they have been validated, uh, and so you don't have any pirates. So that's kind of— you probably run across that a couple of times where a a station, a pirate station. You never know until you just don't show up in their DX log. That's what that is. Okay, because yeah, I've got a few of those. It's like you get the little message on the, on the, uh, saying, hey, you got 3 incomings here. It's like, okay, who the heck? I don't even see these people. Yeah, so, uh, with, uh the SuperHound mode, those stations, the mode doesn't work for them unless they are a verified station in advance. And so when you make a contact with somebody in SuperHound mode, you know that they are a legitimate station. But other than that, one other neat thing about SuperHound mode is that you probably notice when you are working some of the stations that are replying to more than one station at a time, their signal gets weaker and weaker the more stations they are replying to in the Hound mode. I have noticed that. I have watched the tick-tack, as I call it, on the left-hand side. And that was one thing that the SuperHound addresses. Because it uses a spread spectrum and it just throws the data out there across a broader spectrum. There is no reduction in power, so the effective radiated power for the signal is going to be much superior. I'm thinking I read somewhere they can work up to 16 stations in a cycle. Very effective. Oh boy, that would look like good logs books, wouldn't it? Oh my gosh. Okay, yep. I said this is a, this is a learning process. I like to learn stuff and get here. It's like, okay, this, this isn't just, hey, how you doing? Hey, how you doing? 73. 73. Well, it still is that, but, uh, see, it's little moments like this, like last night when you learned about Super Hound You know, it just makes me laugh when you look at QRZ and other sites in there. Oh yeah, digital mode, it's this computer talking to computer. Well, hey, let's go work the SuperHound station, see how you do without some knowledge of how the software works and how to use it. Roger that. All right, I just need to check— I need to check back in with you, tell you I figured it out. Monkey didn't pull the right menu down. Yeah, I saw them again this morning. I'm trying to remember if they were on— I think they were on 80 meters earlier this morning. So, you know, once the sun goes down this evening, head on over to 80. And they were on 160 last night, but they showed up there after I went to bed. I think around midnight, 12 o'clock in the morning, they finally popped up on 160, so I missed them. So I'm going to try catching them on 160 tonight. But, uh, anyway, you have a great day, and, uh, glad you— glad you got it, uh, somewhat figured out. Let me know when you make your first contact using it. It's pretty cool. And expect, like I said, expect to see your, uh, when you're using Hound mode, your transmit frequency will shift when they call you back. But with Super Hound mode You notice you can toggle when you hit the TX mode, it doesn't completely go away, it goes to yellow. Well, that keeps it in an active mode, so if they reply to you and you are not in TX mode, it kicks your machine into TX mode to reply to them. So it is very effective. Oh wow, so it is almost like a backup system. Oh wow, yeah, I did not know that. Yeah, very effective. So if they're managing a list of, you know, 30, 40, 50 stations coming back at them, they can't work them all in one cycle. But maybe you give up on trying to contact them, but you're still on frequency. When they respond to you, it brings you back in and pulls you down, which doesn't happen with any other mode, you know. You have to acknowledge. So that's pretty cool. So there is a mode to go, you know, no TX, and then that yellow will be auto TX, and then red is the manual, you know, the automatic cycle transmission. So that's the difference on that button. And right-click, I think, right-click on Hound or and SuperHound to go between those two modes. Will do. Hey, change the subject. I don't know if you caught the ISS going over yesterday and hear that big old, as you call it, a kerfuffle. I feel— I felt pretty, pretty bad for that guy, that Tin Can up there floating in space, trying to call back to the 15 people that I heard calling in. Node 5. 1-0-1-8. Disconnected.

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 checked three.

N6GRDKN6SLA.

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

Los Angeles, link up.

A6GGG connected.

P— disconnected.

KN6 SLM monitoring.

Attention all ham radio operators, you have reached the world famous W6GRC repeater on 147.105 MHz, backslash broadcasting at least 3 watts more than necessary at all times, backslash please pause between overs, identify properly, and remember kerchunking is not a hobby.

Gears holds a slow speed Morse code mat 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 2.

On battery at 13.

K9 DAG, David G, do I have anybody in Mesquite with a copy? Good in Santa Rosa, K86 POC. System 26, link up. Appreciate it, 73. K9 DAG, QSY to Mesquite repeater. K9VAG, correction, it's USY2 Scenic Repeater.

KN6MGK, KN6SLM.

Los Angeles, link up.

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.

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.

AK-7JUO connected.

[Speaker:MAN] GAY-Q-O disconnected.

This is Kilo Mike Six Zulu Sierra Whiskey from Noe Valley, San Francisco. Signal check. Can anyone copy? System 2, link off.

Speaker A: K06 PTY monitoring. K06 PTY. You missed the parade, KK6VZD. Yeah, I slept in till about 10 o'clock, so yeah, I definitely missed it. How did it go?
Speaker B: Very smooth, actually. Very smooth. I couldn't wish for anything better.
Speaker A: Sounds good, sounds good. Yeah, it's a nice day over here so far in Colusa. Bit of a breeze. Annoying neighbor using electric, uh, leaf blower for the last hour and a half, so maybe he's going, uh, replanting something, I don't know. But anyway, uh, you heading back to your house now or are you, uh, out running errands?
Speaker B: I'm gonna go get something to eat and then I'm gonna go home and I'm gonna be bothered to go, uh, mow the lawn and other such things.
Speaker A: Yeah, we just did that last week and looks like it's starting to come back up pretty quickly already and we're on a corner lot so there's plenty of it.
Speaker B: So yeah, what fun. Well, I gotta cross some traffic here so, and I'm almost where I'm supposed to be anyway, so I'm gonna drop off. Have a great afternoon, whatever you do, and we'll talk to you later. 73, KK6BZD. Clear.
Speaker A: 73, Chris. 73, Kilo Oscar 6 Bravo Golf Yankee. Monitoring.

W-E-6-A-X-N repeater. Kilo Oscar 6 Bravo Golf Yankee clear.

The Gears. Monthly general membership meetings are held on the third Monday night of the month at the Butte County Public Library, 1108 Sherman Avenue in Chico. Doors open at 6pm and the meeting starts at 7pm all are welcome. W6RHC Repeater Check 1.

N7TND. N7TND, 84 LV.

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 2.

KAM6PSO, KI6DWJ. K6LNK, System 36. Snow Mountain Range.

System 7 link up.

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.

W6RHC West repeater. Should be working at 60. You can test me.

Speaker A: System 26, link up.
Speaker B: This is WA6CRB at the Sonoma County basic ACS emergency operating center. Did anybody

Los Angeles Link up.

System 19, link up.

AC power at 10. Battery announcement at 10 enabled.

Gears holds a slow speed Morse code net on 40 meters every Thursday night starting at 7pm Frequency of 7.44 plus or minus if the frequency is in use. All licensed amateur radio operators are welcome to join in the net W6 RHC repeater check 3.

KN6, this is LEM, positive.

System 26, link up.

Your radio is on the right frequency. This is the home of Sac Valley's original 105.5 W6GRC with a PL tone of 110.9.

Hello, station in there. It sounds like your microphone gain may be a little bit low. You want to try it again? Hello there. Hey, this is KF0CUW. I'll just try to talk a little louder. Well, that helps, but yeah, it's still a little bit low. Do you have a microphone? Gain adjustment. I don't know if I have one. I'm just running a Chinese handheld, and I think this is one of the first times I've had good luck with it so far. Oh, okay. Then it could be that you're on narrowband too. Make sure that— you want to make sure those Chinese radios are always on wideband. When you take them out of the box, a lot of them are on narrow. So how you doing? The name here is Ken. Hey Ken, this is Brent. Yeah, thanks for the tip. I'll see if I can browse through the settings on here. But, uh, it's been a pretty good day hitting some trails. Uh, I don't live in the area. I live in— we're about 3 and a half hours away, exploring some of the ghost town relics of the area and the cooler weather. Okay, did you say you live at Pahrump or you are currently in Pahrump? I live there, but currently I'm in Piocheere. I'm up by one of the old mill sites just above town testing out to see if I can hit a receiver. Repeater from here. Okay, all right. Yeah, for some reason I keep missing the town that you're in or the area that you're in. All right, well, very good. Um, sounds like you're having a good time, and, uh, your signal into the repeater, yeah, that, that sounds very good. Just your audio is a little low, but, uh, your, your signal into the repeater sounds like it's more than adequate. Thanks for the tip, Ken. I appreciate it. I'll do a little bit more reading, have to dust off the instruction manual for this and see if I can find settings for it for playing around with it next time. Have a good one. Alright, um, if it's a Bullfeng, Menu 13 is kind of popping into my head for some reason. It's been a long time since I've had a programmable Bullfeng. On the fly programmable. All right, uh, you take care and enjoy your, uh, enjoy your hike or your exploring. N6KNE, the name here is Ken, and I'm in Chenaulta, Colombia. Good evening, gentlemen. This is KK7SCO. I'm sitting on Applewhite Summit here and just listening to your conversation. Uh, the new spot 5 for the Baofeng for the narrow and wideband settings, thought I would chime in and throw that out there for you. Uh, did you say that was Menu 5? Yeah, AFRM, I'm on a UV-82 and it's Menu 5, the band. Okay, all right. I'm starting to think that maybe it wasn't him because your audio is about the same as his. But did he— did his audio sound a little low to you? Definitely not as strong as yours, but I, you know, it wasn't too bad. I'm on a Chinese radio. It's a mobile unit, but it's a Retivus RT95, I think, here in my Razor. So it could very well be non-HET kind of radios aren't as good. Alright, when he said Chinese radio, I just automatically assumed Baofeng, but Yeah, it could be anything. Okay, you take care. N6KNE. Good talk with you. K3-7FBO, clear. 10-6 KNEM6, QOV. Well, hello there, fella. How you doing? I'm doing pretty darn good. Good afternoon, or good evening, I guess, in your case. What do you got over there, 6 o'clock or 7? It's 6 now, aren't you? Yeah, yeah, it's 6 o'clock here right now. I'm just trying to get that in my mind straight. We're on daylight savings now, so we bumped up an hour. A month ago, we were— you and I were 3 hours different. Okay. And now it's 2. So by happenstance, I'm leaving Carl with Ken down in the South Bay, and I'm driving right past 7. So I'm thinking about pulling into 7 just long enough to shut off the, uh, hourly time announcement and maybe do a quick adjustment on the link audio. What do you think? Do you got time? Be about 45 minutes, maybe an hour before I get there. Oh yeah, you betcha. Yeah, um, if you're going to go up there Absolutely. Fire up that laptop of yours and I'll get rid of that time announcement. You bet. And there's a couple of other things that we needed to do there. I'll go back into my notes and we'll knock those out as well. I think we did the DTMF pass-through, but you can double-check that if you came up with any new things or whatever. When we left, it was just a time announcement and the audio was high-pitched, you know, it's just not dialed right or something. So, all right, let me get down close to there and see what time it's getting to be and how we feel here and stuff. But a good possibility. All right. I'm looking at my notes. Looks like my notes are not in my 7 file here. They must be somewhere else. But yeah, I know we had some adjustments to make there. Okay, I'll find that stuff. Just give me a yell. On here and I'll be ready to go for you. Okay. We did a lot of audio adjustment at VACA, so it may be in your VACA notes, the audio adjustment stuff, and you just have to, you know, the actual levels might be a little different if we're going into a different radio or something, but otherwise I think that might get us there. Okay, I'll let you go look. I'm going to put both hands back on the wheel here. N6QOP, I'll get a hold of you in a bit. Okay, I found the notes here. Yeah, a couple of simple things here. Disable courtesy tone and DTMS pass. So no, we didn't do the DTMS pass on that one yet. Um, doesn't define optional halt switch to make those high to enable or disable. Okay, all right, yeah, I found the note, so [Speaker:JAPANESE] [Speaker:JAPANESE]

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 one.

Speaker A: Hey, K6NBC Mobile listening. Norwalk.
Speaker B: Los Angeles, link up.
Speaker A: KE6HJT, Bob, you out there? KF6NBC Mobile, Norwalk.
Speaker B: And that's your— KF6NBC Mobile listening, Norwalk. System 7, link up.

System 11, link off.

Speaker A: Command 6200 or 203, Command 6M3T.
Speaker B: Is OO and OP related? I know OP is on his way up to 7.
Speaker A: Hello, Ken. Uh, no, they are not related, but they are friends and got their licenses, uh, pretty damn close to each other, I would say. I think maybe the same day. So the other one is Victor, one of the original OGs, uh, of Karma. Never hear him because, uh, Basically got rid of these radios and got off the radio anyway. Yeah, I tried them on the phone and both phones and radio also, and I think they're in the Harambe store at the base of the mountain in the canyon there.
Speaker B: I'll bet they're talking to each other.
Speaker A: I bet you're right. Ignorant that people are trying to get a hold of them, huh?
Speaker B: That would explain why they're— neither one of them's on the radio, and they were here just a little bit ago, and why you can't get a hold of them on the phone, because neither one of them want to answer you while they're talking to each other on the phone. That's what I think. Anyways, happy event.
Speaker A: Okay, you know, I'm excited. Definitely had a warm, hot week, um, like summer all of a sudden, right after Hurricane Irma. I think it's supposed to, uh, go back to the norm for this, uh, time period, so we shall see. A little toasty out there today. How are you doing over there?
Speaker B: Mind if I— sounds like Jeff is definitely feeling better. He sounds better, and, uh, he's out there jumping from mountaintop to mountaintop. Yeah, he must be doing much better.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: It's all, uh, it's all good here. Still trying to fix my damn water pump. I fixed one problem and it turned out that the, uh, that, that problem was created by another problem. So I got to dig into it again on Monday. Well, actually, Monday is a holiday here. I am going to have to dig into it, uh, well, I could dig into it on Monday and then buy the parts on Tuesday.
Speaker A: Um, what holiday is it today? Well, you know, if you're gonna hang out with the locals, you better start getting into local stocks. You're gonna be looked at like people over here that, you know, live here a good chunk of their life and still don't speak English. I kind of, I shake my head at that. I was like, you know, If you're gonna stay here, then learn the damn language. I can understand if you're visiting, but if you made this your home, then at least know how to speak English. You can talk whatever you want, but know the local language, you know?
Speaker B: Well, I have a very expensive interpreter that goes everywhere with me. Yeah, oh, anyways. Jeff, since Jeff is driving, he didn't get a chance to elaborate, but is 7 having audio, some audio quality issues, and if so, do you know what they are? Can you describe them to me?
Speaker A: System 26. Sleepwalk.
Speaker B: Um, yes, and I was going to say, I know why he's probably in a good mood.
Speaker A: He's made out 10 picks. He didn't blow anything up. So normally, you know, he's feeling good too, besides that. Anyhow, yeah, it's got too much pre-emphasis one direction and things too much de-emphasis the other direction. There's ways to compensate for that in the controller, but if you can just flip the states on the Altar or Apply or whatever it is you do there, then that would probably be good too. I just gotta check which— I don't remember which What the problem is going which direction.
Speaker B: Okay, all right, I'll take a look. Uh, Vaca, uh, de-emphasis and pre-emphasis is set to no. So yeah, that must be— I must have one of those set incorrectly there. 7. And there's a couple of other items there that— I'll just go through all the files there and make sure everything looks good. It shouldn't take too much of Jeff's time. And then I've got some notes here on some things to fix and add. And I guess there's time announcements in the crontab file that I never—
Speaker A: I never eliminated.
Speaker B: All right, the pretty little woman just yelled at me, said dinner is ready. So that's my cue to get up off my duff and, uh, go grab myself a plate. But I'll be listening for Jeff.
Speaker C: He's gonna—
Speaker B: he'll be up there shortly. He's gonna open up his laptop and give me a— give me a shout.
Speaker A: Okay. And I want to say, I think, I'm not positive, but these preemptions added leading, you know, on the Altar, I guess, outbound transit side, it may be added, turned on or whatever, and on the inbound I want to say it needs to be turned off, but it needs to be emphasis turned on because it's a bit too city on the receiving side on head 7 locally coming from all sources. Too high, too city needs the emphasis, and leaving the building is too low and it needs the emphasis. If that makes any sense. But we can come Yeah, okay.
Speaker C: Yeah, I'm here and I'm all hooked up and ready to shoot you a passport, Ken, but what do you want to do?
Speaker A: I think he wants to eat. He got the dinner call, so he's going to grab his plate. He'll probably be back in a little bit. Um, so I think if things went well at 10:00, and, uh, I tried calling both of you, and even on phones and radio, got nothing. So you must have been in a, in the pond somewhere. Um, but, uh, so yeah, just remember, you want to, or he wants to, or whatever, or we need to get pre-emphasis added on the link transmit side, leaving the site on the link on All-Star. We need to add pre-emphasis. And for you, I am imagining it sounds a little tinny, and therefore you want to add pre-emphasis There's only D side coming into the controller from all sides. D emphasis. Get rid of that high F. Does that make sense?
Speaker C: Okay, so pre going out needs to be added and D coming in needs to be added emphasis. I think I got it. Yeah, I heard him say he was going to— had dinner, so he probably took off. So I'll sit here and wait to eat. And like that, everything was good again for the most part. And rather than go through all the details, I'll just— if you took pictures, we'll send you the latest shots and a shot of WAG and like that. But it looks like we're okay at 10 again.
Speaker A: For a while. Okay, I was going to say, uh, emphasis on the cream and the cheese. All right, well, you know, as, uh, they like to say in Carla, is a good work unit, good work, and, uh, Yeah, I gotta go deal with things, so I'm probably not gonna be on the radio, but if you need help with something, um, you can call me on the, uh, telephone. I'm here.
Speaker C: Ah, okay.
Speaker A: I'm here.
Speaker C: Yeah, I turned my phone off actually and forgot I turned it off because I had no cell. So it just, you know, drains the batteries. I don't know about Victor, but that's at least part of the reason that you didn't hear from me, Tom. Okay, I'll let you go, Tom, N6MVP, and over to Ken, N6KNE. And I guess since it's a one-time phrase I can just use to over the air here, Ken. When you are ready, then 62 will beam.
Speaker B: Go ahead.
Speaker A: I am ready. Okay.
Speaker C: It is 51D4C2.
Speaker B: Okay, I think I missed the letter after 51. Let's do it again a little bit slower.
Speaker C: Okay, 51 D Delta, 4 Z P Paul. I'm on the same subnet as the node so that you will be able to connect. If you have problems, we will need to look into that a little bit, so keep that in mind. And with that, I'll let you fly and I'll stand by and fix the issues.
Speaker B: Okay, I think I can do everything from SuperMon, so let me first get into SuperMon. Um, I don't know what browser— can you bring up a browser I can use?
Speaker C: Yep, that— there's it right there. That's what you just brought up.