Transcriptions for 2026-04-26

2026-04-26 00:30:02 UTC 22.2s · GEARS E TX (146.850 MHz)

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.

2026-04-26 00:44:31 UTC 6.9s · GEARS E TX (146.850 MHz)

H6k u o w6r h c repeater check 2.

2026-04-26 00:56:33 UTC 5.2s · GEARS E TX (146.850 MHz)

W fix r h c repeater check 3.

2026-04-26 01:00:01 UTC 11.9s · GEARS E TX (146.850 MHz)

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

2026-04-26 01:30:01 UTC 27.7s · GEARS E TX (146.850 MHz)

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 WFIC R H C repeater check 1.

2026-04-26 01:40:28 UTC 3.2s · GEARS E TX (146.850 MHz)

Please. Id. Thank you.

2026-04-26 01:54:06 UTC 5.7s · GEARS E TX (146.850 MHz)

W6r h c repeater check 2.

2026-04-26 02:05:01 UTC 184.9s · GEARS E TX (146.850 MHz)

Amateur Radio Newsline Report number 2530 with the release date of Friday, April 24, 2026 to follow in 54321. The following is the QST the FCC grants a satellite Constellation company the ability to provide cell phone service from space, a popular antenna maker returns to the ham radio market and New Zealand amateurs prepare to mark the centennial of their national organization. All this and more as Amateur Radio Newsline Report number 2530 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 Charleston, West Virginia, here's Jim Dameron, natmw. We begin this week with breaking news as Newsline prepared to go to production. The US Federal Communications Commission announced it had authorized AST Space Mobile's full 248 satellite constellation to use requested parts of the radio spectrum, including those that had drawn objections from the amateur radio community. The agency move will permit AST to fulfill its goal of providing services to consumers in so called dead zones, regions without terrestrial networks, especially for emergency services. The successful application on behalf of the Low Earth Orbit Satellite System was granted on 21 April with conditions. The grant for the use of 698 through 960 MHz includes the permission to make use of 430 to 440 MHz for emergency control and tracking of the satellite, a move that Amateur radio operators feared would cause interference with ham's operation. The FCC said that AST emergency telemetry use will be limited to the 430.5 MHz, 432.3 MHz, 434.1 MHz, $435 and 439.5 MHz frequencies for a duration of less than 24 hours. The SEC said in the past that interference with ham radio was unlikely. A leading US Antenna manufacturer is coming back to the ham radio marketplace following its departure last summer. Travis Litt, N3ils picks up the story from here. Stepper, which announced last summer that it was halting production of its popular antennas for the amateur radio market, is returning to the ham radio business. A recent statement on the website of the Washington State Company said that although Stepper had decided last year to focus on commercial sales, recent favorable developments in that sector are permitting the company to resume supplying hams. WFIC RHC Repeater Check 3.

2026-04-26 04:00:11 UTC 185.2s · GEARS E TX (146.850 MHz)

QST, QST, QST. This is KG6KUO, opening segment of valley traffic net. Purpose of this net is to relay formal traffic into and out of Sacramento Valley and to provide a standing merchant net. This is a direct net. Please make no transmissions without permission and control. All stations are in the west of the Stig. Operate excused next to K6K LE located west of WS station with MER traffic. W6RHC Repeater Check 1. Is there any station were traveling to be listed? Kf6 obi, mike and willows. No traffic. Good evening mike. Thank you. K6 kuo cold and rolls on traffic. K6 tso. Good evening western the group. This is kg6 tso, bessie with no traffic. Kf60, ui. 6 rcs, 86PMT, Kilo, Echo 6, Papa, Mike, Tango, Russ and Gerber. Good evening Lester in the group and I have no traffic. Good evening Russ. Thank you, kc6ufe, kc6ufe, bill in pay. No traffic. Good evening Lester. Good evening bill. Thank you, kn6pww. K6pww, this is Jamie and Chico. No traffic and good evening Lester and the group. Good evening Jamie. Thank you. KO6NCI. 68 year old closing Sacramento Valley traffic this next daily at 2100 hours local time to the W6 rec repair 146985. Mega result. Stations are HQ. I'd like to thank everybody who checked in tonight to go to the Empire Inventory Society for the use 3 Peter dispatch close 2103 local time 73. Now listen to K6KU, clear frequency.

2026-04-26 04:10:48 UTC 4.1s · GEARS E TX (146.850 MHz)

Hello.

2026-04-26 11:53:04 UTC 5.6s · GEARS E TX (146.850 MHz)

W6r h c repeater check 2.