Transcriptions for 2026-05-08

Speaker A: 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.
Speaker B: W6RHC repeater check
Speaker A: 3.

Get your morning started off on the right foot. Listen in for the coffee break Net Daily at 7:30am here on the W6 GRC repeater.

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.

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

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Speaker B: Amateur radio newsline report number 2532 with a release date of Friday, May 8, 2026 to follow in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. The following is the QST get ready. Ham Finchin is coming. The longtime editor of DX News becomes a silent key and a towers toppling ends an era for one seminary campus. All this and more as Amateur Radio Newsline Report number 2532 comes your way right now from around the world.
Speaker C: This is Newsline, Amateur Radio's Independent on the Air News and Bulletin Service. Now reporting from Jonesboro, Arkansas, here's Skeeter
Speaker B: Nash, N5ASH we begin this week with the countdown to Hamvention. No doubt the suitcases are already packed and the tickets are in hand for the most eager of travelers to this year's Dayton Hamvention in Xenia, Ohio. Jack Parker, W8I S H has the details.
Speaker D: The dates are May 15th, 16th and 17th. For ham vintion and for many amateurs making the trip this year, those days
Speaker C: can't come soon enough.
Speaker D: This year's Hamvention at the Greene County Fair and Expo center was created with the theme Radio Adventure. As always, it's a reunion among friends that takes place in a mix of forums, dinners, flea markets and workshops. If you haven't already purchased your ticket, admission is $30 at the gates. Study admission is free and children under 12 are admitted free if they attend with a ticket holding adult. As always, there will be a chance to upgrade or to simply get your US License for the first time. FCC volunteer examiners will be on site for all three days, offering examinations at the Technician, General and Amateur extra level. For more details about Hamvention, visit the website hamvention.org this is Jack Parker, W8ish.
Speaker B: If you're young and you're at Hamvention, you're in luck. Hamsci, the RCA Youth Forum and the ARRL Youth Rally are only part of the action. Youth on the Air has scheduled a full array of activities based at booth 4304 in the Volta Building, including small forums in a meeting area adjacent to the YOTA booth. This is designed to be a gathering spot for Ham Finch and Spring youngest guests who are also invited to a social hour from noon to 1pm on Friday and Saturday, where eyeball cusos go hand in hand with a free lunch. A satellite based contest organized by Saudi amateurs is back this year and the teams are ready. Jim Meachin, ZL2BHF tells us what it's
Speaker E: all about, hoping to help university students, hands and industry professionals sharpen their skills in receiving, analyzing and decoding signals from satellites. The Saudi Amateur Radio society is hosting Sason2. This year's competition, which is running in cooperation with AMSAT Hz is taking place on the 8th through to the 10th of May. Competitors work in teams in one of two categories, with the top three winners receiving cash prizes as well as certificates. The announcement was made on social media By Samir Kayot hz1sk this is the second running of the contest. Its ultimate goal is to nurture innovation and teamwork while helping nurture skilled use of satellite communication technologies. This is Jim Leechin 3rd L2VHF in
Speaker B: Japan Researchers are reaching out to the amateur radio community to listen for C signals from a cubesat built in Tokyo. Graham Kemp BK4BB has the details.
Speaker F: The Sakamoto Laboratory in Tokyo, Japan, is asking for the continued support of the amateur radio community for its Eureka2CubeSat. The 2U CubeSat, launched from New Zealand in late April, has been transmitting CW signals to the laboratory and is relying on the amateur community as well to send reports. The CW data is sent at 20 words per minute on 436 decimal 830 MHz. At some point GMSK transmissions will also commence and will be announced by the satellite team on the social media platform X and through the AMSAT bulletin board. The satellite will use 4800 GMSK in AX25 format. Arica 2 also has a mission unrelated to amateur radio. Its function is to collect images of the Earth and aurora using machine learning and to demonstrate real time alerts of gamma ray bursts and other astronomical events using commercial satellite services. CW reception reports can be submitted using the link that appears in the text version of this Week's newscast@arnewsline.org this is Graham Kemp.
Speaker G: The K4BB funeral services were held on
Speaker B: Saturday, May 2nd for a noted radio amateur who has belonged to a singing family that once topped the pop music charts. We hear more about him from Ralph Squalace. KK6ITV family and friends said their final
Speaker H: goodbyes to Alan Osmond, kn0i z e who led the singing family. The Osmonds as both a performer and a songwriter. Alan, who had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987, became a silent key on 20 April. He and his brothers were veterans of the music scene, starting their careers in the 1950s and were later joined by younger brother Donnie, who at one time had also been a ham operator with the call sign KA7EVD. Alan's widow Suzanne has the call sign KF7ERB. Alan Osmond, who had been a lifelong ham radio operator, was 76. This is Ralph Squillace, KK6 ITV a
Speaker B: top contester known worldwide for his many achievements including a notable superstation, has become a silent key. He also served as editor in chief of the DX News website. We hear more about him from Jason Daniels, VK2 Law.
Speaker G: As a top d expeditioner, contester and well respected radio operator, Alexander Tomirozov for Lima 5 Alpha had a presence that was felt in many corners of the world with a history as a busy and well respected radio operator. He helped others make those important radio contacts by publishing their activations on the popular website DX News. On May 2nd Alex was reported to have been become a silent key. His website noted recently that he had been in ill health. Hams knew him as the net control station for a DXNET in the early 1980s alongside ARC, Uniform Alpha 4 Charlie. Charlie and another ham, Ark told Newsline that Alex's call sign at the time was uniform Foxtrot 6 Foxtrot Foxtrot Foxtrot. Alex was especially prominent because of the Delta 4 Bravo contest superstation he built in Cape Verde in 2002 where he became even more of a leading contester, setting records. His achievements date back as far as childhood when at age 12 he became a member of the Georgian National High Speed Telegraphy Team and later the Caucasus High Speed Telegraphy Team. He was declared champion repeatedly for high speed Telegraphy. The Caucuses Countries this is Jason Daniels VK2 Law There are only three weeks
Speaker B: left before the window closes on nominations for Amateur Radio Newsline's Bill Pasternak WA6ITF Memorial Young Ham of the Year Award. Our deadline is 31 May. Nominees must be licensed hams who are 18 years of age or younger and they must reside in the continental United States. If you know a promising young amateur who who contributes to the quality of the radio experience on the air and
Speaker A: off, tell us more.
Speaker B: Visit our website arnewsline.org and find the nomination form under the Awards tab. Submit the documentation that tells us how your nominee has played an important role not just in the community of fellow amateurs, but in the community at large. Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio Newsline heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the AD0TP repeater of the Village 7Amateur Radio Club in Colorado Springs, Colorado on Fridays at 5pm. With the largest number of teams ever coming to North America to take part in the World Cup Soccer tournament. Amateur radios just had to do something celebrate and it is in a big way. Neil Rapp, WB9BPG knows the score sports
Speaker A: stadiums in 16 cities throughout the U.S. mexico and Canada will be hosting the world's best as 48 teams from around the world vie for the World Cup. The opening match gets underway on June 11th in Mexico City, but amateur radio operators have already spent months getting in shape to play their own positions inside cw, sideband or digital modes. They're preparing to call CQ from each of those cities in a wide ranging
Speaker C: special event, an activation that is not
Speaker A: affiliated with the World cup but is operating in support of all of the teams and these important matches. Host cities will be offering collectible QSL cards for successful contacts made and certificates will be available for overall achievement by the most successful chasers. Become a part of the action as a chaser or if you live near a host city, you can join the activation even if you can't play soccer or football. You can visit the event website at the link that appears in the text version of this week's newscast. At arnewsline.org you will find a gallery of colorful QSL cards, profiles of each of the host cities and their operators,
Speaker C: and a tab at the top of
Speaker A: the screen that will let you volunteer to call cq. Whether you know this sport as soccer or football or something else entirely, you can expect a lot of action. This is Neil Rapp, WB9 VPG when
Speaker B: it comes to reimagining a concept for others to enjoy, ham radio operators consider that a specialty. In the case of this next reimagined program for outdoor portable operating, you might even say it is the nature of ham radio operators. Dave Lee, M7TLB tells us about it
Speaker I: Perhaps you've already done SOTA and POTA and worldwide flora and fauna, but have you done parc? PARC is the acronym for Protected Area Radio Community and this global portable activation program has been in development for the past two years. Its creator, Larry F5 Pyi formally introduced it recently as quote, a free open alternative to existing programs like POTA and WWFF with a strong focus on European coverage and inclusive rules, end quote. The program makes its debut with more than 200,000 parks and protected areas in its database, which represents more than 260 countries. The database is designed to be compatible with existing pota, SOTA and WWFF references, so it will recognize and credit those already worked. The program also features real time spotting that integrates with with the DX clusters based in France. The program supports speakers of French, English, German, Spanish and Italian. Larry welcomes feedback on the program or recommendations for new parks as it begins its journey. Find the website in the text version of this Week's report@arnewsline.org this is Dave
Speaker B: Lee, M7 TLB in the world of DX. Listen for Harold DF2WO operating at as XT2AW from Burkina Faso until the 19th of May. He is using CW, FSB and FT8 on various HF bands. He is also operating via the QO100 satellite. Takeo JH3QFL will be on the air as a 31AA on Tongatapu Island IOTA number OC049. From the 13th through to the 22nd of May he will operate FT8 on 80 through 6 meters. Rick WE9G will be using the call sign PF WE9G from Borg, Iceland IOTA number EU021 from the 10th through to the 19th of May. Rick will be using FT mode mainly, but on some bands he may make limited use of SSB and CW's. Two operators take JI3DST and KEN. JA4GXs will be on the air as JI3DST6 and JA4GXS6 from the Danzhou Island IOTA number as 056 on the 15th and 16th of May. If bad weather cancels the activation, listen for them instead. On the 22nd, 2nd and 23rd of May they will operate CWSSB, FT8 and FT4 on 40, 30, 20, 17 and 6 meters. This activation is on the second most wanted IOTA group in Japan. For QSL details and other information, visit each Station's page on qrz.com there are always mixed emotions whenever a radio tower of any kind needs to come down, but sometimes it means progress as we hear from Randy Sly W4XJ.
Speaker C: The radio tower is gone from the campus of Concordia Seminary, which has been its home since 1948. Despite its decades of history on the Lutheran Seminary campus, the actual goodbye last month took only a few moments of its demolition. The station itself, K F U O, predates the tower on the air since 1924. It is considered the longest continually operating radio station to carry religious programming in the U.S. kFUO has such long tenure on the air that its original license was issued by the US Department of Commerce. In fact, it would be years before the US Government had something known as the Federal Communication Commission. It is considered the broadcast Ministry of the Missouri Senate. Its demolition last month on the campus ended the last visible connection the seminary had with the AM station. It was perhaps only a formality, since its invisible connection, the radio signals themselves haven't been transmitted from Concordia for two years. Its 3.8 kilowatt signal move to the other side of the Mississippi river, to an existing broadcast site in Dupo, Illinois, where it now transmits the same Lutheran programming familiar to listeners. The destruction of the tower, it seems, has cleared a path for what the station hopes is a bright future. This is Randy Sly, W4XJ with thanks
Speaker B: to amateur radio daily Amsatna News, Ark. UA4CC Associated Press David Behar K7DB DX World Facebook FCC Football on the Air 425 BX News Ham Benchen Henrik SM0JHF Radio World the Reporter of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Protected Area Radio Community Sakamoto Laboratory ShortWaveradio Be Wireless Institute of Australia and you, our listeners. That's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. We remind our listeners that Amateur Radio Newsline is an all volunteer nonprofit organization that incurs expenses for its continued operation. If you wish to support us, please visit our website@arnewsline.org and know that we appreciate you all. We also remind our listeners that if you like our news, please leave us a five star rating wherever you subscribe to us. For now with Karen Eve Murray, KD2 gut at the news Desk in New York and our news team worldwide, I'm Peter Nash N5ASH in Jonesboro, Arkansas saying 73 as always, we thank you for listening. Amateur Radio Newsline is copyright 2026. Amateur Radio Newsline retains ownership of its material even when retransmitted elsewhere. All right are reserved.

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Well, good evening, Jim. You're just booming in. You must be have your good intent in because you scared my cat when you first came on the air. This is Tom W. 6Js. We'll be hanging around.

You started a little bit early, Jim. Maybe they're not tuned in yet.

Well, not much going on in Hamming. I've been listening to 40 meters. I had a couple contacts, but you had one out there in the distance. I don't know if Steve could pick it up. I could barely pick it up too. But that's all I got, Jim and. Are you going to go to the breakfast? The next one? Yeah. The ninth, I think, isn't it? I could be wrong. The days all run together after a while. This W6Js, we're clear.

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Speaker A: Steve, you still out there? This is tom, w6js. No contact. We're clear. W6j is.
Speaker B: That is a real interesting call sign. W6sos. Yeah, this is tom, w6js.
Speaker A: I don't know if
Speaker B: Jim could hear you because you're. You're. You're breaking my squelch. But I can hear you and read you, but not very well. You must be way out there. Or you got a short antenna. Not putting much antenna. Got
Speaker A: your
Speaker B: power
Speaker A: out? Yeah. Jim's saying he can hear you. Yeah. Hey, Jim saying he can't hear you, but I
Speaker B: can hear you. But I can just barely make you. Are you mobile?

Well, sounds good. You're making it. You're getting cross, but that's the main thing you're making. You're making it. I don't have anything else. If you want to call it quits, this is Tom W6Js.

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

Speaker A: Qst. Qst. Qst. This is KG6 Kuo. Open Sacramento Valley Traffic Net. Part of the National Traffic System. And the purpose of this net is to relay formal traffic into and out of Sacramento Valley. And to provide a stand emergency net. This isn't drinking. Please make no transmission without information and control. All stations are requested. Stamina training control. Skate 6 capable. Lester Western Station with emergency or prairie traffic. W6 RHC repeater. Check 1.
Speaker B: Are there any station we're traffic to be listed?
Speaker A: Very non. Roll call follows. Kf6. Sylvia.
Speaker B: Kg6k.
Speaker A: You always call it rolling. No traffic. Kg6t. Good evening, lester. In the group. This is kg6tso, bessie with no traffic. Thank you, bessie. Kf6djy. Good evening, lester. Kf6djy. Bruce, chico. No traffic. Good evening, bruce. Thank you. K6rcs,
Speaker B: K6pmt,
Speaker C: kilo, echo6, papa, mike, tango, russ and gerber. Good evening, lester and the group. And I have no traffic.
Speaker A: Thank you, russ, and your letter. King today.
Speaker B: Kc6ufe, c6ufe.
Speaker A: Bill in traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, bill. Thank you. Kn6pww. Kilo. November 6th. Papa. Whiskey. Whiskey. This is jamie in chico. And on an ht with no traffic. And.
Speaker B: Good evening, lester and the net.
Speaker A: All right, that's the rules. I have it. Do we have elite members or visitors wish to check in?
Speaker C: KF6, Obi, Mike and Willows with no traffic.
Speaker A: Good evening, Mike. Thank you. And I heard another one in there. Come back, please.
Speaker C: Ko6mci, Chris and Chico. Good evening, Lester.
Speaker A: Good evening, Chris. Thank you. I might not have held it switch down very long. Did you hear me call your call sign or did I just skip over it?
Speaker C: I didn't hear you, but I couldn't tell. I wasn't actually looking at the face of my radio. So I'm not sure where I was getting, like, the Morse code from a repeater from. It may have been on my channel B. So that may have been it.
Speaker A: Okay. Well, I think that it was all my fault. That I didn't hold it down hard enough or something. Anyway, thanks for checking in. I appreciate it. All right. Again, that's roll as I have it. We have any league members, wizards wish to check in. No further traffic or kick in. This is K6KO closing Sacramento Valley traffic. This met me standing at 2100 hours local time. W6R state brief. RHC repeater on 146.85 volt mega res. All spaces are excused. And I'd like to thank your buddy who checked in. Tonight and to go to the Empire Amateur Radio Society for the use of the repeater. This net is closed at 2104 local time. $73. The K6K. Clear? Clear. Frequency. Kg6 kuo, this is k16. This is kg6ku. Go ahead. Next month I'll get the reps over to you. Okay, thank you.
Speaker B: E6pm tcr.

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

W6r h c repeater check 2.

W thick r h c west repeater.

Join us for the coffee break Net Daily at 7:30am here on the W6 GRC repeater.

W6 rhc repeater check 3.

Node 51018 connected to node 405480.

Speaker A: Sample,
Speaker B: this is M01CZ in the UK.
Speaker C: Can anybody tell us there's any nets on?
Speaker A: Starting very shortly, over.
Speaker D: Roger. 7:30 Pacific Time. It's supposed to start K6DXN Northern California.
Speaker B: I'm much obliged.
Speaker A: Thank you very much. I'll be monitoring. Thank you for your help, sir. M0ncz Manchester, UK Roger.
Speaker D: Roger.
Speaker A: Enjoy the net.
Speaker E: Go with us, Simone. K6LVP
Speaker A: Good morning, JR. All right, this is the Coffee Breaknet. I am Tom NM6H and the coffee breaknet starts right now at 7:30 Pacific Time here on the W6EK repeater. All Star Node 51018 EchoLink and WireSX. We do this every morning at 7:30 Pacific Time. 7:30am except for a few exceptions which we'll talk about later. But this is just a general rag cue net. And this is the net where the birds are singing, the sun is shining, the birds are singing and the fish are jumping. Anyway, so we generally start out with just get some. Just general kind of in and outs. So we'll do that when we first start out here anyway. I'm Tom NN6H and I am broadcasting from Lincoln, California, which is up near where the repeater is in Auburn, Northern California. So who's out there for quick in and outs? Quick in and outs are about two minutes or less. Just kind of just a quick hello and say what you're doing today and then we move on there. So who's out there for check Ins?
Speaker D: N6H,
Speaker B: Kilo Delta 6, Charlie, Delta Quebec. Rick in beautiful downtown suburban North Islands.
Speaker A: M6ckv at the doctor's office.
Speaker C: Kilo bravo 6 lima, uniform, victor, brett. Good morning.
Speaker A: Okay, good morning. I got brett, kv6 luv, I got m6 ckv, carl at the doctor's office. I got the kd6 cvq, rick and kj5 gwn. Okay, I'll go ahead with this list here and I'll do another call for quicken announce here in a minute. I'm going to go to carl first since carl's in the doctor's office and maybe call it away here. So carl. N60 kv. Good morning.
Speaker C: Good morning.
Speaker A: Tom and Annette. Yeah, I'm just getting a blood draw and then seeing some other things.
Speaker D: Other than that, not much going on.
Speaker A: Just maybe go to MO today.
Speaker C: Other than that, I'll let you keep going with that as well.
Speaker D: N60 KV.
Speaker A: I'm going to say 73.
Speaker C: Everyone have a good Friday.
Speaker A: All right, very good there, Carl. And I'm glad that you're Glad to see you're out and roaming around again and no longer radiated there. So anyway, enjoy the freedom there. You may now roam the roam the cabinet, as they say, or roam the plane. All right, so let me go to the top here and go to, go to will, kj5gwm and good morning, Will.
Speaker E: Good morning, Tom. Yep, it's Will Ko 5. Got whiskey and whatever. Not doing too much here. Just watch, listen to a little TV and drinking some coffee and listening to the net. So anyway, not much going on here. I'm gonna listen a little on HF later. So anyway, that's the story here. This is KJ5 Golf Whiskey November. Back to you, Tom.
Speaker A: All right, very good there, Will. KJ5GWN and NN6H for the coffee break net. All right, very good. Well, you have a great day there. Good to hear from you. Always welcome your check ins in the morning here. So you take care there and enjoy the HF and enjoy the weekend clearing with KJ5GWN. Next, Rick, KD6CDQ. How are things in beautiful North Highlands?
Speaker B: Good morning, Tom nanette. This is KD6CDQ, Rick and North Highlands. And yeah, things are going pretty good today. Like to see that sunshine out there. So sun come up this morning just before 6 o' clock and it's another beautiful day in North Highlands in paradise.
Speaker A: Well, I can tell you that I'm looking out at some nice blue skies, a little bit of a breeze, but yeah, the sun's coming all the way to the ground, so looks beautiful. I kind of think that it's probably the beginning of what we're going to be seeing here in the summertime when it's going to get like this but be toasty hot.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's the bad part about it. The hot does come in and we'll just have to tolerate it for a few months and then the cooler weather will start to drift in again. But anyways, I hope everybody out there will have a great day today and as far as myself, well, I'll do what I can. This is KD6CDQ, Rickenhouse Islands and 73s Tom.
Speaker A: All right, 73s and this is Aloha Friday. So Aloha Friday to you there and hope you have a great, great day there and a great weekend. All right, next up. So next up would be Brett KV6LUV. Good morning, Brett and heard about your. Your wife. And anyway our prayers go out to her and to your family.
Speaker C: Good morning Kilo, Bravo 6 Lima, Uniform, Victor, Brett here. Good Morning and thank you very much. That is deeply, deeply appreciated. Again, yesterday's folks that chimed in. It's definitely heartfelt and I feel it. Thank you all deeply, deeply appreciate it. Well, so I don't know if you heard my rooster problem is over, but apparently birds of it. Because this morning, well, last night I was like, oh, I'm gonna open up my windows and sleep in the nice cool evening air. This morning at 5 o', clock, some little bird sitting right outside, it must have been right on the gutter line,
Speaker D: was sitting there saying, my name is Tony Montoya.
Speaker C: You killed my cousin. Prepare to die or prepare to wake up.
Speaker A: Well, is that called karma? Is that what he's saying?
Speaker C: Yeah, I'm guessing that's what it is. I deserve every bit of it. So. No.
Speaker A: Hi.
Speaker C: Hi.
Speaker D: It's all good.
Speaker C: It was a lovely evening. I definitely slept with the windows open. I'm going to say good morning, mom in Newton, Kansas. Bonnie there, she's listening in. Hope you have a great day. Enjoy what maybe cool weather, nice weather you're having. I think the weather might get a little nuts. Nuts in Missouri yesterday with all the tornadoes, the touchdowns, praying for everybody that might have been affected by that. Other than that, looking forward to coffee and donuts in the morning with you all. So the wife and I will be there with bells on. Other than that, everybody, have an amazing day, Be blessed, take care of yourselves, take care of each other. KB6 luv. Be of love. 73, clear enlistment.
Speaker A: Okay, well, with two things here. I know. I'll let you go real quick. Quick here. I want to find out what I didn't hear the resolution about the rooster. I know we had talked about it last time, you know, and you're the second person to talk about going there with bells on. I think Theta and Jerry are going to be there with bells on. You and your wife will be there with bells on. And I don't have any bells, so I think I might have to go shopping today. But anyway. So what was the resolution on the rooster?
Speaker C: Well, I can confirm nor deny that the rooster is probably outstanding in the field. Well, outlying in the field. He's across the rainbow Bridge.
Speaker A: Okay, we won't go any further than that. You need to need the plausible denial there. Okay. Well, at least one way it's been resolved there. Okay. Sorry I asked. All right. You take care there, Brett. And thanks for being here.
Speaker C: Thanks a lot, Tom. Again, have an amazing day. 73.
Speaker A: Okay, I don't know if you're bowing your head and saying there or what. But the audio towards the end there was kind of muffled there, so I don't know. Anyway, this is the coffee breaknet on the W6ek repeater. Quickly go through what our national days are. There's not a lot of them here. It's national have a coke day. So that's definitely a sponsored national day. It's national Coconut cream pie day, national provider appreciation day, National Knockout Rose day and national student Nurse day and national Military spouse appreciation day. So those are the national days. So the only food related thing which we tend to gravitate towards is national Coconut cream pie day. And they're showing a picture of the coconut cream pie and it does look good. All right, so I'll take another round of quick in and outs. Quick in announced to get you going on the coffee breaknet. Who's out there? This is Tom, NN6H.
Speaker D: Okay, juliet charlie, over. N9 muf.
Speaker F: Ko six. Any lead?
Speaker A: Okay, that last station, could you come back to your call sign again a little slower with genetics, please? The last station that was trying to check in, can you come back with your call sign a little bit slower with netex? I didn't get able to copy it.
Speaker F: Sorry. K06nev.
Speaker A: Okay, yeah, you need to use some phonetics there. I got K06, I guess. Is that med Mike, echo, delta, Kilo, Oscar, six, Mike, echo, delta. That's what I heard.
Speaker F: Kilo, oscar, six, november, echo, zulu.
Speaker A: Okay. Kilo, Oscar, six, November, echo, Zulu. Okay, very good. That, that helps a lot because a lot of letters sound some to say same especially when you in zoom. So Oscar, kilo, Oscar, six, November, echo, Zulu. Thank you for that.
Speaker C: Very good.
Speaker A: All right, so the other station I got, I got Daniel and nine muf. I got Casey two. You would double Casey two, Sho, Sugar, Hotel, Oscar. And then I know there were some others there. So who am I missing from this list?
Speaker D: November 6th, romeo, juliet, charlie. Over.
Speaker A: Okay, I got November 6th, RJ Charlie. Very good. Okay, I think. And. And then I see KC8FQV. So I'll put you down here, Mark, KC8FQV. I see you keen up when I'm keen up, so very good. All right, so let me go to the top here. I got Casey 2, Sierra, Oscar. I don't know the name and location, but good morning to the coffee breaknet. Hey, good morning to everyone else on the net.
Speaker D: First time checking in on the coffee break. I guess I've heard you guys talk about it over on the all notes net so happened to be home this morning and thought I'd link up and check in anyway. Nothing much to report here. About to head out the door so I wanted to get a quick check in.
Speaker A: You guys have a great net and
Speaker D: we'll see how much I get to
Speaker A: hear as I'm heading down the road.
Speaker D: KC2S 3 John in White Rock, New Mexico. We'll say cheers in 73.
Speaker A: Okay, very good. Well, good morning to you, John and welcome. Welcome to the Coffee breaknet. Yes, the All Knows net. We get a lot of people across the country and glad we're getting some people coming from the all notesnet which we do on Monday nights at 6pm Pacific 9 Eastern. Coming over to the Copper Breaknet. So very good. Well, you have a great day there and I'm glad you checked in. All right. So clearing with John QC 2 sho next Daniel N9 MUF Good morning. How are things in Illinois?
Speaker D: Good morning, Tom and Annette. Cloudy skies but those are supposed to. Well, if they don't clear up they're at least supposed to not sprinkle. Just having a good day here. I've got a phone call with a friend in about 15 minutes. I thought I'd go ahead and get the check in in and watching my listening to my cat go after sky rays and she's got a particular yelp that she does and the only time she ever does it is when there's a sky raising she's trying to get.
Speaker A: Okay, I missed what you were saying. She's going after what and I missed that.
Speaker D: Oh, sorry about that. We call flying small, you know, insects that cats go after. Sky raisins.
Speaker A: Okay. I have not heard that term before, but I guess if it fits.
Speaker C: Yep.
Speaker D: Just having a good day here. Had a good interview yesterday. Just waiting for the results. I told them, you know, if you try and send it out on Monday, you're going to have to get on 20 meters. We should be ready for the warthog run on Monday and I'm looking forward to a CW event this afternoon. There's the slow speed test. They encourage people between 15 and 20 words a minute. And one thing I've realized over the week that I've got to work on is getting comfortable using my paddle for rag chews. I'm finding that the way that the cadence of a rag 2 because it's not straightforward. I tend to mess up on the paddle and I've got to resort to the straight key. So I'm going to have to work and make sure that the paddle flow isn't just contest Mode.
Speaker A: Okay, very good. I guess you have different patterns there. Pretty good. Well, it seems like you're pretty active there in cw. I think it's amazing how since they've dropped the requirement for that on the testing, that a lot of people have decided they want CW where you thought that it would have totally died off there. Very good. Well, enjoy the contesting or the rag chip part of it. And also your CW event today,
Speaker E: It's
Speaker D: definitely a lot of fun and I'm just trying to. It's like any language, you've got to stay current in it. And I'd refresh myself and then drop currency and refresh myself and drop it again. So just making sure I stay current in it. Since digital or voice is easier to pick up and CW is a skill you've got to maintain, I'm trying to make sure that I maintain and keep improving it. Well, quick in and out. So I will say 7:3 to you, N9 MUF.
Speaker A: All right, very good. Yeah, just another aspect to the hobby that people enjoy and kind of keeps things going. That's what's nice about amateur radio, AM radio, is that it's just so diversified and just different things people can get into, you know, building stuff or operating or doing CW, FT8 computer related stuff. It's all good. All right, Daniel, well, you have a great day there and good radio time there and good luck with the interviews also. All right, so clearing with. Yeah, N9 MUF. Next to my list is Kilo, Oscar 6, November, Echo, Zulu. I don't have a name there, so. Good morning,
Speaker F: This is Maxim. I was just coming in to say hello to the Coffee Breaknet since I haven't been here for a while. So just checking in and I'm gonna. I'll see you at the meeting tonight. 73.
Speaker A: Okay, Maxim. Well, it's nice to meet you and I will be at the meeting tonight myself and also at.

Speaker A: At Coffee and Donuts tomorrow morning. So glad you checked in. You're sounding good there and welcome back to the coffee breaknet.
Speaker B: Thank you 73.
Speaker A: All right, 73 you there maxim and we'll talk to you maybe talk to you tonight at the meeting. There are co op meeting starting at 7:30. All right, next up I have Robert November 6th Romeo Juliet Charlie. I'm getting used to you and you heard call sign Robert but good morning.
Speaker C: Yeah, I'm sort of getting used to it. I still revert back to the old
Speaker A: one from time to time and have
Speaker C: to think about it but I'm getting a little better at it. I appreciate it. Say hello to you and all the group really don't have anything this morning. Just up drinking some coffee. Karen got off to her volunteer work this morning and so I'll just be around the house working on my CW a little bit and other than that that's about it but just wanted to get onto the coffee break this morning just to say hello to the group and on that happy positive note I'm just going to turn it back over to you. November 6th Romeo Juliet Charlie and going to monitor N73 out.
Speaker A: All right, very Good there, Robert. N6RJC and N6H yeah, I think you're, you're, you're. Yeah, your call sign is good. It's just a matter of getting used to it there. But you know a lot of times we hear voices and associate them with old call signs and sometimes it's hard even for net controls it's hard to get it to change. All right, you take care there. You have a great day. Have fun with your CW stuff. Like I say again, I'm amazed on all the people that are picking up CW and going with that even though they don't have to. But you take care and glad that we got to check in there. All right, last on my list is Mark KC8FQV. Good morning Mark. What do you have for the net this morning?
Speaker D: Okay, so the sun came back out when I got this one was like 46. I went and looked to see if I was checking into the barometer Net sun came out at about 7 and went away by about 7:30 was gone for and it got real pretty dark and then it got lighter. Now the sun's back out.
Speaker A: Good.
Speaker D: I was just looking at, you know there was a, a ride, a flat ride called Chase Chain. It was a flat ride in, in the amusement park and you got on it started spinning and then the cars you face out and Then they lift you up 90 degree, about 90. So it's like a Ferris wheel and car is spun, you know, on their axis as he went.
Speaker A: Okay, Mark, I'm not sure if you stopped talking there or something happened there, but you were talking about the spinning cars here. I guess we never hear the end of that story there. We just lost Mark. I don't see him on Super Mon here anymore. All right, we'll go ahead and move on here. All right, so this is the coffee breaknet on the W6EK repeater. I am Tom NN6H. Do want to remind people that we do have big event coming up tomorrow and that is the donuts and coffee in the park. That'll be at 9:30. I mean 9:00 clock tomorrow morning for those in the area here at the Auburn Recreation Park. Auburn Recreation park and the pavilion there. So it'll be nine o' clock and it'll be hosted and served by the coffee break host. So join us for donuts and coffee in the park tomorrow morning. If you're around the Auburn area. The club meeting is tonight. Our club meeting is on the second Friday of the month. So that's tonight. 7:30. It'll be at Placer County HHS center, which is off Bell Road and that starts at 7:30. It will also be on Zoom. So you can join us on Zoom if you can't make it in person. K06th Greg will be having a presentation about lithium battery charging and if you are coming to the meeting tonight, you can bring some food donations. According to Jim, what they're looking for is jellies and things for kids lunches as well as paper products like paper towels, toilet paper, napkins, those type of things. So if you can help out with that, that would be appreciated. Also we're going to have a touch it, take it table. Well, not just a one table, there are going to be three touch and ticket tables where Jim and Graydon are bringing a whole bunch of stuff from the Ham fest and you'll be able to take something. In fact, you're required to take something if you come to the meeting. You're required to take something home to get rid of all that stuff there. So touch it take it tables at the meeting tonight. All right, well we've gone through a couple rounds of in and out so I will go ahead and open up here for Ragshew and if you want to be in and out, let me know and I'll put you at the top of the list there. So who's out there for the coffee break net. This is Tom, NN6H,
Speaker E: N Q Dyi.
Speaker B: Good morning, Tom.
Speaker D: Hey, tom. This is wb6bj and tom.
Speaker A: I think we're good for.
Speaker D: You can put me at the bottom of your list.
Speaker A: Good morning, Tom.
Speaker D: KD6Q
Speaker A: and I'll be here for a while. Thanks for me down there, Mark, if you want.
Speaker C: Good morning, everyone.
Speaker A: Okay, I got kind of a kerfuffle there, but this is who I have. I got kd6qzh, peter, then I got w. I heard w6som charlie in there. I got wb6bjn, so I'll put you at the end. Mark, kb6ssn and k6dlk. I think there might be some others, but that's who I got. I didn't hear anybody going to be in and out. Are everybody ragshu or is there somebody in and out?
Speaker E: Yeah, I checked in as well. I must have doubled with SSN, kilo 6 delta, x ray, November and into DYI.
Speaker A: I doubled with a bunch of people. Well, Patrick, that's the problem when you come through on stealth mode and I don't see you on supermodern, so I can't tell you. And yeah, you definitely got covered up. Okay, so I got Patrick in 2DYI, and I got K6DXN. So is everybody here Ragchu? All right, well, I'll put Mark at the very end here. And I guess this will probably take us up to the end of the coffee place net here if it's all right. Anyway, I'm just kidding. All right, so let me go to the top of the list here versus Dan K6DLK. Good morning and aloha Friday.
Speaker B: Good morning, Tommy B. I'm a short rag chew. How's that for a little longer than an in and out? Because I was hoping to turn the table and flip my egg timer and find out what you've been up to. Long time no talk. What have you been up to?
Speaker A: I wasn't expecting to answer that question. I've been up to playing pickleball.
Speaker B: I hear it's a thing. I have friends who took a moment to explain to me all the different ways you can actually get hurt playing pickleball. I didn't realize it was such a dangerous undertaking. Apparently people are getting hurt while playing. Are you playing safely and taking care of yourself?
Speaker A: Well, funny you should ask. I'm actually just actually recovering from an injury. I used to play racquetball quite a bit. I used to play tennis and racquetball, so I Played racquetball a couple times a week. You know, it was a very fast moving sport and stuff. Well, I. So they opened up a pickleball place here in Roseville, so I joined that. So I've been playing for probably the last three weeks. And last week I ended up playing. Not aggressively, but I was playing. I didn't warm up fast enough, Good enough. And I actually pulled a calf muscle. So I was out for probably about a week, limping around stuff. But yeah, it definitely is a sport that you can get hurt on.
Speaker B: Oh, my goodness. Well, I hope you heal up well. And yes, I loved the racquetball in my younger years. My high school actually had a bunch of courts and many tournaments, and it was a thing. Just. Just love playing now. I have to admit. It's a quicker game that I can catch up on and I like watching a little bit more now, trying to take it a little bit easier.
Speaker D: I've been.
Speaker B: I've been duking it out with torsion springs. I don't know if you all have garage doors out there, but my spring started breaking and I realized it's about that time. So with the amount of doors here and other places, I've decided to dive into the realm of torsion springs. How to upgrade sizes so I can get a better cycle count. And it's just this chapter, you know, we take the time to journey through and learn things and get better at it, and then when we have to do it again, it's a whole different landscape.
Speaker A: Okay, very good. That was a smooth transition there from pickleball to torsion strings there. So good job there, Dan.
Speaker B: Smooth is my middle days, and I'm about as smooth as that transition was. But you already know that. Tommy B.
Speaker E: Always a pleasure.
Speaker B: You have a lot of people coming in, and I enjoy listening to everybody sharing what they're up to. Thanks for letting me know what you've been up to. And I'm looking forward to the next time we can talk. K6D. Okay.
Speaker D: Okay.
Speaker A: Very good there, Dan. Good to hear from you. Yeah. So torsions springs. Well, you know, maybe you could do a presentation to the club on torsion strings. Those things scare me. Looking at what's there and knowing what could happen. I kind of leave that to professionals.
Speaker B: You know, what I found, though, is, and I'm sure I'm not trying to diss any professionals out there, but professionals just by their very nature have to make good time. They have to get the job done quickly, usually with the inventory that they have on their trucks. So hopefully they have exactly what you need and that they're not kind of matching up what they have with what will get the job done quickly. I dive into this stuff and I just make sure and I consult with others and run all the calculations online and the inch pounds per turn and the height and wire sizing and the type of wire and Cadillac galvanized versus this new coating that people are doing. You know, we have, I gotta tell you, we have old springs that are running like almost 30 years old in some instances that haven't had a lick of problem. So you know, I'd like to duplicate that, but you never know. You never know how you're gonna do, you know, whether you're talking about electric transformers or other type of equipment or even roofing systems. It just seems to be that every time it comes up in discussion again in a couple of decades, it's a whole landscape of what materials are available, what methods are available and it's fun. You just have to relearn it and that's life. So we enjoy it.
Speaker A: Okay, very good there. Well, I think you've kind of moved up the coffee break one notch here. You know, originally started talking about radio stuff on the coffee breaknet and then we talked about instant pots. Then we moved on to lithium batteries and solar panels and now we're at Torsion Springs.
Speaker B: You know, everybody brings in a little bit of everything and that's why I love listening in because it's always things that make you go,
Speaker A: Yes, very good. Well, I appreciate your passion for the subject and yeah, I think you're a lot like Doug there, delving into different things going down different rabbit holes here. Well, very good. Well, I'm definitely interested in what you come up with. You come up with a lot of stuff and yeah, if I never ever have a Torsion spring need, I will definitely contact you there. Anyway, it's good to hear from you and very good.
Speaker E: I was going to ask if there's
Speaker A: Torsion Springs in Hawaii, but there probably are. Alright, you take care there, Dan. And thanks for checking in. K6PLK NM6H
Speaker B: Thanks Tom. Yes, there are toys bridges in Hawaii and that was one of the reasons why I waited out and found out
Speaker E: that it would probably be a good
Speaker B: investment of time for me to get involved in all of this stuff and make sure I got everything done. And as far as my knowledge of the subject, I think you're much better off contacting a professional. And as the subject matters go on the net, it's very varied and I'M looking forward to. I think Mark's in this group on this short bus crew of check ins here. I'm looking forward to finding out more about the weather. I guess. I have the report from Jerry that he's got fog up in your neck of the woods up there and we have fog down here too, a little bit. So maybe Mark will tell us what's going on with us. I'll get off and let others get in and listening intently. NN6H Always a pleasure. K6DLK73ANILOFA all right, very good there, Dan.
Speaker A: K6FLK NN6H for the coffee breaknet well, I can tell you, I can attest right now in Lincoln there is no fog, is beautiful. Blue skies, slight breeze and sunshine all the way down to the ground. It's very, very nice outside.
Speaker E: Looks like it.
Speaker A: And it's a very pleasant 76 degrees inside the house here. All right, you take care there, Dan and we'll talk next time clearing with K60. Okay, next tom. KB6SSN well, I'm glad to see you're up and around. People were asking about you yesterday.
Speaker E: They were worried. Well, you know, there's a certain level of gratitude and a certain level of annoyance that's involved in that. We'll talk about that some other time. No, seriously here. I really appreciate everybody being concerned. I was just very busy the last couple of days and didn't get a chance to check in or talk to anybody and I had a whole bunch of stuff going around the house with appliances being swapped out and all that kind of fun stuff so just didn't have a chance to play with it. Did have a chance yesterday to play with some radios with Larry and a few days before that we got our hands on, I call it a beacon in a box. It's a 10 meter beacon controller with an HTX100 realistic radio on top of it. You know, give you 5 watt, 25 watt out for a beacon on, on 10 meters. And we tested it and the radio worked fine except there's no RF out of it. So yeah, the finals are blown in it. So it was actually cheaper to buy another radio than it was to get the finals and spend the time replacing them. So that will arrive today. Hopefully it will have some RF out. If it does, we're going to hook it to this controller and get it all up and working. But this leads to another problem. The controller is designed and built by a company called Rant Rat Ranch Electronics. Rat Ranch Electronics. Just like it sounds. Yeah you dirty rat. Right. Anyway, we can't seem to find a single shred of documentation on this particular model on how to program it. So if there's somebody out there who knows anything about Rat Ranch Electronics, how to program these things. This is not the model that has the USB plug in the back that you can do it from your computer. It's all done from buttons on the front of the unit. I'm told these were kits that were bought at one time that were assembled. This does not look like a kit. This looks like it was probably an assembled product that was produced by them. I'm not sure, to be honest with you. But in any case, any help on this would be very beneficial because at this point it plays somebody else's call sign and we can't put that on the air.
Speaker A: Okay, very interesting. Rat Ranch Electronics. Okay, I did a search on that on the Internet and there is a thing for a MC2100 motor controller.
Speaker C: No, that's not it.
Speaker E: This is a rat Ranch electronics 10 meter beacon keyer. And it's really quite nice. It works very, very well. We just don't know how to program it. It's got a menu button on the front of it, but no way to tell what menu setting you're in. It's got buttons for adding dots and dashes to create the signal you want to transmit. It even has a manual key on it so you can override it and send manually if you like. And it's fully automated. It's actually a good little unit. We just don't know how to program it. So anyway, thought we'd go online and find that information, but can't.

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Speaker A: Seem to find this thing anyway. So anyway, if you're curious, you can go to Confederate Sun 1 and take a look at the. The Beacon in the Box video. If you're familiar with that particular beacon keyer, let us know because I'd sure like to know how to. To make it work.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker C: I just did a quick Google search on it and I see like a YouTube. So guess what? The first thing that comes up is your website. Beacon in a box from Confederate 1, Sun 1. But then there's also a beacon keyer for. Looks like it has a. It's programmed by an Rs232 port. That's what one of these things are saying there. And yeah, Pack rat. That's pack rat. Okay. Yeah. Anyway, yeah, I haven't looked at this close enough, but.
Speaker A: Interesting.
Speaker C: Well, anybody out there contact Tom if you have any information about a Rat Ranch Electronics beacon gear.
Speaker A: And this has no ports on it anywhere. The back has one thing and that's the power port and that's it. This was apparently manufactured. Manufactured or sold as a kit prior to computer interface. So yeah, it's. It's in that area here. Manually programmed from the front. You can see the buttons on the front of it. That program, the darn thing. I'm sure there's a menu setting that you just go to and it's a combination of keys, but it's just a matter of finding the manual that tells you that information. So anyway, we're gonna. Once we get the new radio installed or maybe tomorrow or maybe Monday, I'm not sure when, which we'll do a video on that. You can see it at least up and transmitting into a dummy load. But I'm not going to put it on the air with somebody else's call sign on. I think it's got WA6Mhz in it right now. I think that was the last person who put their call sign in it. So yeah, that's not me. So can't do that. Anyway, the rest of the day is just going swimmingly. It's a beautiful, beautiful morning, guys. Sun's out. Looks like it's going to be in the mid-70s today. I'm sure our weatherman's going to tell us all about that at the end of this series of call ins here. So I will bid you adieu and we'll talk to you again soon. KB6SSN.
Speaker C: Okay, very good there, Tom. So I guess I have two questions. First off, have you tried using an AI chat box to ask questions about that? Maybe it can provide some Information. And also have you tried going to QRZ and contacting the call sign of the person in that maybe he could give you some information?
Speaker A: Well, to be honest with you, that second idea is a capital idea. So yeah, that's exactly what I'm going to do.
Speaker D: Thank you, Tom.
Speaker A: I didn't think of that the first idea. Well, you know, the last time I asked any AI for any information, I asked it to divine to define denial and it told me it was a river in Egypt. So yeah, I was done.
Speaker C: Well, it doesn't mean it's not going to find anything for this. I mean you have to. So let me, let me just put in here Rat Ranch. Beacon Keyer. Rat Ranch Beacon Keyer. I'm going to put this into my AI and see what it says
Speaker B: and
Speaker C: maybe it'll come up here.
Speaker A: So this is, I know this is
Speaker C: not good for radio, but ran speaking here and says sound like you're looking for a radio Ranch Beacon Keyer which is a popular choice for amateur radio for CW Morse code transmissions. Key features, programmability. You can program a custom call sign via the standard Morris paddle or serial Interface. Variable speed 5 to 40 miles. So it does know about it?
Speaker A: Well, it does have a paddle input on the front, so that is encouraging. So okay, I'll do more research on that. But no, I think your idea of contacting the last guy who got his call sign in this is probably the best idea. That's fantastic. And it's pretty obvious what his call sign is because as soon as you turn it on, it sends it.
Speaker C: Thanks Tom.
Speaker A: Appreciate it. Have a great day. KB6SSN.
Speaker C: Okay, very good. And so yeah, I just asked it how do I program the call sign and it says programming a ranch device usually involves a command mode access, physical buttons and your Morris paddle. Since enter the command mode, press and hold the main setup button number one, Wait for the keyer to send a Morse code character through the cytonic keyer. On older ranch models it usually sends a question mark or a K. Release the button and then you select the memory spot. So yeah, it gives me at least. I don't know if it's hallucinating, but it's giving me step by steps on how to program it.
Speaker A: Okay, I will take a look at that. That's interesting. Some of that you described is not on this model. Like you know, serial interface and this type of stuff does not exist. But there. And there's not a setup button, but there is a menu button. So perhaps holding that down will put in the Boat. And I don't see anything on here for a memory of any kind. So there's probably only one memory in it, to be honest with you. This is an older pre computer interface, you know, model. So I'm sure it was all manual and manually programmed at the time. Probably only had one memory. So in any case, yeah, if I can find at least some of the steps on some of the other models or whatever they may extrapolate into how to do this, I will tell you one kind of humorous story about it. The rack of the unit, the two units and then we put a tuner on top of it are held in place by these clear plastic panels that the original owner built to hold it together as one unit. And the camera didn't really pick up the panels very well. So I got an email from a guy that says, how'd you get the radios to float in the air like that?
Speaker C: Very good. Well, at least that means that people are watching and that's always good. Yeah, so I'm using Gemini. Gemini, you know, Google Gemini AI. So you might just try that. And yeah, just. I originally did it for just a rat ranch beacon thing and it came back and then I asked it how to program it. So you might try those steps and, and maybe you get some results here.
Speaker A: Well, thank you, Tom. I'm trying to get out of here so you can get to the next guy. But I really appreciate all the help. Thank you so much. KB6SSM
Speaker C: well, this is the Elmer net here. Okay, very good. Okay, you take care there, Tom, and you have a great day and good luck with your beacon, your rat ranch speaking machine there. All right, clearing with Tom. So I'm losing track of who's on the list here. Oh, so next I have, I think Charlie W6 SOM. Good morning. Whiskey6 here. Oscar Mike. Good morning Charlie, are you there? All right, put him down as an in and out.
Speaker B: Next.
Speaker C: Peter. KD6QZH. Good morning, Peter. What do you have for the net this morning?
Speaker B: Not much. I had a fever overnight so I'm taking the morning off. But Max was doing better. But everything is good. Just been checking out a couple of minutes. Add on to my CHAM radio. I do like the topics for today, but this one thing I do to use the S47 running my tires to the bum lately with projects from work. So I think my body said time to chill. So everything is good. I'm already hugging it as well. I'll pass it back to you if you could do that.
Speaker C: Okay, Peter. Well, I'm hoping you're feeling better today. I hope you may just kind of take it easy and recover there and get better there. All right, very good. It's a beautiful day out. Maybe we can go out and enjoy that or maybe get some liquid sunshine there or some sun. Get some sunshine there and some vitamin D and help your body recover. So anything else for the Net this morning?
Speaker B: Well, just if we can hear one good show today and I'll probably attend the meeting tonight via Zoom. It's helpful when you guys announce the meeting. I remember, oh it's Friday meeting night so I'm going to try to hit club meeting via Zoom.
Speaker C: Okay, very good. Yeah, the meeting, yeah, the meeting is tonight. So it's on the second Friday of the month. So it will be tonight, 7:30. It'll be in person and on Zoom and they open up the doors. I think they're going to open up the doors at least on Zoom at probably around 7 o'. Clock. Typically it's a hosted. Orion generally does that. But also I think they're going to
Speaker A: open up the doors early for those
Speaker C: in person because we're going to have a touch ticket table. Three touch ticket tables and I think Jim mentioned MPA was mentioned maybe opening up around six so people getting there early to grab some goodies that were left over from the ham fest. Anyway, you take care there, Peter. And like I say, I hope you feel better. Katie.
Speaker D: Katie.
Speaker C: 6qzh and then 6h for the coffee break now.
Speaker B: Okay, you have a good day too. Good morning everybody.
Speaker C: All right, Peter, we'll see you tonight via Zoom there. Maybe I'll pop in there and wave to people. Okay, with Peter next, Simone. K6DXN Good morning, Simone. Aloha Friday. What do you have for the Net this morning?
Speaker D: Good morning, Tom. Good morning everybody on the net. Sitting out here on my balconies and stuff about six o' clock this morning and just listening to the birds chirp. Don't hear the fish jumping, but I'm sure they're down there Cameron Lake down below me. First thing I have is I don't know If Will Will, KJ5GWN is still listening. I was looking to get in touch with him off the air and I did a call sign search on him and there's no email listed. Nothing super important, but something he may be interested in that I might be able to help him out with. So Will, are you still listening? Okay, well I'll try them another time. Let's see what else we got here. Not a whole bunch I am dawn and I are flying out tomorrow morning to Missoula. I'm going to be one week in Montana and Wyoming and anybody interested in getting Yellowstone hunting, Yellowstone and also probably the Grand Tetons, excuse me, frog in my throat. You can follow my channel Parks in the Dark. I will be posting up there
Speaker C: videos
Speaker D: and probably as it gets closer. But sometime next week, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or actually Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of next week, I will be doing a poda Yellowstone and most likely the Grand Tetons and we'll see for sure those two and we'll see if we get any more in. But yeah, that's the plan. So if anybody wants to work those two parks, subscribe to my channel Parks in the Dark and I will be posting up there times and frequency and so on and so forth. Back to Tom.
Speaker C: All right, well that sounds like a wonderful trip there. Going to Yellowstone and the Tetons and all around there. Very, very good. So is that the main. Are you just going to do some sightseeing or is the main purpose to do photos there or what is the nature of your trip?
Speaker D: The nature of the trip is my good friends John and Laurel. John, WB6 Jon, a longtime friend of mine, we both used to reside in Rancho Cucamonga, California. They moved to Montana. We moved up here. We've been friends, I don't know, 15, 15, 20 years. And yeah, so we're mainly going up there to spend time with them and the poda is just an added bonus. And I think it'd be kind of neat, you know, to shoot a YouTube video, you know, to two blindies activating Yellowstone. So and just spend time with them. And my wife's never been to Montana. I've been up there before to his house in the Bitterroot Valley, but neither one of us have ever been to Yellowstone, so that's definitely a bucket list thing. So we're staying three days in Yellowstone at a place called the Kelly Inn, which is at the western entrance to Yellowstone.
Speaker C: Well, Yellowstone is definitely on my bucket list too. And I heard Theta talking to Don WV6L.V and they are going to be staying at a KOA on the Western entrance to Yellowstone. I don't think your troops are going to overlap. I'm not sure when he's leaving.
Speaker B: I think they're leaving.
Speaker C: I don't know. Maybe they will overlap, but sounds like a popular destination.
Speaker D: Roger, Roger. Okay, well that's about all I got. My antenna is set up here in the backyard. I'm going to maybe hook up to it with my zygoo today and play a little radio. We did an activation yesterday in the forest up in the Eldorado above Sly park here and it was rough. The bands took us about hour and a half to get 13 contacts and that's a, that's a struggle considering normally we don't have that kind of problems but we got it activated. But yeah, the bands, the sunspots were low and we had some sort of a solar flares going off but we managed to get it done. I'm hoping that the bands will be more favorable next week because Yellowstone I'm not going to get a do over. That's a one and done thing. So we'll see what happens. But I don't know what the bands are like today, but they were not, they weren't hopping yesterday. We managed, like I said, to get it done, but it was a struggle. So anyway, hey, I'll let you get to someone else. Tom, everybody out there, have a good day. Kilo 6 Delta X Ray November, Cameron Park.
Speaker C: Okay. Regular Simone. Yeah. K6DXN and then 6H. So I guess one question. I think I know the answer to this. So it sounds like you and Don will be gone for next Friday's trivia.
Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, we will not be here for trivia. We fly out Saturday morning and fly back Saturday, the following Saturday. So we will not be doing trivia next Friday.
Speaker C: All right, very good. Are you taking your node with you? Maybe you can announce on the repeater when you're going to be activating Yellowstone in the different places.
Speaker D: No, I'm not going to take my node but what I do have is repeater phone so I can jump on the repeater as long as I have cell phone.
Speaker B: So service.
Speaker D: I just bought one of these little POC radios to play around with. Push to talk over cellular. That's an interesting. That's a whole other ball of wax there.
Speaker C: But
Speaker D: I have a repeater phone on my iPhone so if I have cell phone service I could certainly jump on the repeater.
Speaker C: Yeah, I thought about the repeater phone and DV switch right after I had said that. That's probably easier. Okay, very good. Yeah, well I guess if you have service there you might want to just get on and let people know that you're there because my contacts from back here. All right, well you take it. You and Don have a great trip there. That sounds like a wonderful trip there. And it's think it's gonna perfect time of year to do that. Probably. You know, it's just probably just perfect there. So enjoy that and be safe. And we'll talk to you when you get back there. K6TXN and N6H for the Coffee Breaknet
Speaker D: Flight 73.
Speaker C: Tom K6DXN all right, next up, I have Patrick. N2DYI. Let's see, is it. No, it's still morning there. Good morning to you.
Speaker A: Good morning, Tom. Good morning.
Speaker C: Everybody on the Net into DYI here. Still in central North Carolina, Maybe forever, I don't know. Anyway, not really a whole lot to talk about this morning. I guess maybe at some point today I might try building this little repeater. I was going to do that Wednesday and then a bunch of stuff came up and wasn't going to.

Speaker A: Try yesterday because it's Thursday, so maybe I'll do that this afternoon. I've got The All Scan ANF101M module and two HT's ready to go. I'm going to take the backs off the HT's and mount the PCB's or mount the radios pretty much directly to the board on either side, connect it just right and hope it all works.
Speaker B: Yeah, I saw that on. I was looking at the AllScan website. I was looking at the UCI150 that we've been talking about and yeah, I noticed that he has one that looks kind of unusual. I guess it uses the Retrievis RT85 radios.
Speaker A: Yeah, it uses two RT85s, one for the receiver, one for the transmitter.
Speaker C: So.
Speaker A: So that you have full duplex. And I got two of those on Amazon last week for 27 bucks for two radios. Actually it's kind of funny because I had rewards points on my credit card that almost exactly match the price. So what I ended up actually paying for the two radios was pretty much the tax, about $1.20. So I guess that's not too bad.
Speaker B: Okay, interesting. Yeah, I think you had mentioned that. And I went and looked on Amazon, but I didn't see $27 for two. I saw something like around $50 for $50 or a little over that. So I think it came out about 20, around $25 each. So I don't know what Amazon's doing.
Speaker A: Yeah, it was one of those sales that only existed for about two days and then it went back to its normal 40, whatever it was, dollar price.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, because I, Yeah, I see RT85. Yeah, they're, they're $30 each, what they have here. So. Yeah, you got a good deal on that.
Speaker A: Yeah, I paid less for two radios than you would normally would for one. I'm not complaining. So, yeah, got the module out of the box, took it up and looked at it. All the little screws and washers and standoffs that go with it. I just haven't actually put it together yet. So that's either today or this weekend's project, depending on how that goes. And I still have a bunch of other little silly things that need to be done, so don't know if I'll get around to it, but that's one of the things that I want to do this weekend anyway.
Speaker B: Okay, very good. So this one with the radio, with the RT85, so it sounds like it's a better situation because it's actually using radios that have all the filters and all that stuff in them. Because I remember you had another one that was similar but it would use, I think it uses the SA818s, had two of them on a board, so basically give you a full duplex. But it was kind of a different arrangement, right?
Speaker A: Yeah, quite a bit smaller, but it had two SA818s next to each other and they were both UHF models. So you would put one on maybe a five meg split from the other. These, you can do that if you want, but you will get a better result if you put one on VHF and one on UHF and then they're nowhere near each other. So I'm going to do that, but I'm also going to try just to see how well it works. A wide UHF split without a duplexer and you know, just for fun, probably won't actually operate it like that. But I just want to see what if it's even feasible.
Speaker B: All right, yeah, I got you there, Jim. So that's kind of interesting. So I kind of wonder how you talk to it. You have to have a radio that can do split uhf, vhf. That's kind of odd. Anyway, Jim, go ahead with your comment.
Speaker D: Good morning, Tom. Boarding Coffee Breaknet.
Speaker C: Before I pull in and turn off
Speaker D: the car, I just want to mention
Speaker B: I've got one of those.
Speaker A: What is it?
Speaker D: HSR duplex repeaters. It turns out the usual answer, separate the antennas vertically with vertical separation. It's amazing what you could do. I'm running it on a standard 70 centimeter repeater pair. Got one antenna inside the house, the other antenna on the roof and no interference. But I will say when I used the two antennas next to each other on the, there was plenty of interference even with a 5 MHz split. So yeah, your mileage may vary. W6JEC is at QRT for now.
Speaker B: All right, very good. Thanks for the comment there, Jim. And 7, 3D there. Anyway, over to you there, Patrick.
Speaker A: Yeah, I actually used one of those HSRs with the two antennas, just the two little stubbies and I didn't have any real problems where I was. I was really expecting to because everything is so noisy there. But it worked. I did also try using a J pole for the receive antenna or no, it was a J pole for the transmit antenna and the other one for receive. I think is what I ended up doing. But I sold that board so I'm going to do the this thing with the two HTs. They're better radios anyway. A little larger to put it all together, but also a lot more flexible because I can do VHF or UHF. So yeah, pretty much any HT anymore, modern HT that's been made in the last like 15 or 20 years can do cross channel like that, where it transmits on one band and then receives on the other in half duplex mode. And then that also gives you the opportunity if you put a second radio on the receivers or a second radio on the transmitter that'll give you. If you don't have a full duplex radio. I do have a couple of full duplex HT's. If you don't have a full duplex HT, then you can still get full duplex communications receiving and transmitting. Just put it in the mode where the repeater does not repeat your own audio and should work fine. So yeah, that's this weekend's project, I guess.
Speaker B: All right, very good. Wow, it sounds interesting. Yeah, I think using two radios there and doing an implementation that way is a much cleaner way. You know, a lot of people take the 818 and they try to put external antennas on it and all that stuff. And I think if you really want to have a good situation where you may put some external antennas and have a little bit of range there going this 8RT 85 with some real radios is the way to go.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker A: And on top of that I've been playing around with a new cherry design that is still very much in prototype and it doesn't use the SA818. It's a much cleaner radio. So hopefully at some point that'll come out to market and that'll get rid of some other problems. It's also a tri band radio, so it does 2 meters, 440 and 220.
Speaker B: Okay, very good. Yeah, it looks like this all scanned stuff with David and his what he's offering there is kind of competition to that and it's. Yeah, it's just amazing all the different options provides at allscan
Speaker A: for real. And actually it's kind of funny because speaking of that, I have an interesting problem right now. I'm using Ampersand asl, which of course is very experimental and bleeding edge and all that stuff. And so the other day a new software version came out and I plugged it in, used it with this, what I'm talking to you on now, which is the UCI 80, which is the little tiny, little, little tiny case with the K connector on it. So I'm actually talking to you on a little $16 cheap Chinese HT speaker mic. And it works Fine with that. But it doesn't, for whatever reason now work with my UCI120, which it used to work with. So I don't know what's going on there. Email Bruce, see what he has to say about it. So right now, yeah, I'm using the UCI 80 to talk to you this morning. I would rather not, but it's the one that works right now.
Speaker B: Well, I think your note sounds pretty good. The audio quality sounds good, even with that cheap mic there. So, yeah, very good. Yeah, like I say, I was amazed at all the different products that David has there on AllScan and the different ones that can come out. So very good. Just kind of a different topic there. Just kind of a quick thing. I know you had made the mention that anybody that's running these nodes and stuff should upgrade their software. There has been a bug that's been found in Linux. Basically there's a. I think it's called Copy Fail, where basically somebody can elevate their privileges there on account and take over a machine. So that. And this was found. But the interesting backstory to that is that was found by a researcher that used AI to discover that bug. I guess it's been a bug that's been in Linux for a long time and it's basically in all the distros. But yeah, AI is definitely becoming an important thing for going through all these different, different software packages and finding obscure bugs or bugs that maybe were not found before. So that's living interesting times.
Speaker C: Yep.
Speaker A: And now there is yet another one just got discovered called Dirty Frag and it's a similar, different kind of thing. So most dittos haven't patched for it yet. So get ready for that one.
Speaker B: Yeah, interesting. And even the HAMP wipe, the one that we've been using, like in the Clitter nodes, the original Clitter nodes that I'm using, even that got patched for that because it definitely needs to be patched. Very interesting. Well, good luck with your project today there, Patrick, and yeah, it will be nice to. Maybe next time we'll hear you with. Talking on your new, your new board there with the RT 85s.
Speaker A: It's kind of funny because, you know it'll be RF coming into RF, so, you know, two sets of bandpass filters. It probably won't actually sound as good as I do now, but that's just how it goes when you, when you put radio. I don't really have too much help. We have a little bit of rain coming up next week. We got a fair bit on especially Thursday, a little bit on Wednesday which is good. We definitely needed that.
Speaker B: And a little bit more on the
Speaker A: way it looks like next week actually kind of looks like. So I'm sure Mark will talk more about that sort of stuff. Anyway, I'll let you go get to the rest of your check ins. Good to hear you all this morning. I'll say seven three for now everyone have a great weekend and two dyi.
Speaker B: Okay, Patrick, very good. And I'm sure we'll talk to you soon, especially on the all notesnet which I'll be hosting on Monday. So all notesnet which will be 6pm Pacific, 9 Eastern on this repeater, all star node and echo link and stuff where we talk about all things node related and I'm sure Patrick will have an update on his project and how well that worked out. Yeah, that's kind of the bad thing is you know, your audio sounds great now because you're basically radio less. There's no radio to shape the audio sounding. But when you start using the radios then you're sound like the rest of us. I'm not sure if that's a step forward or step backwards. But anyway, have fun with that and you take care there. All right. Clearing with Patrick NTDYI Last on my list is Mark and maybe Mark will be talking about the weather.
Speaker C: I don't know.
Speaker B: We'll find out. WB6BJN Good morning. How are things in Tennessee, Mark?
Speaker C: Tom, have you ever known me not to talk about the weather? It comes up in some circle, doesn't it? Hey, good morning to you. Good morning, Patrick. Yeah, there'll be some much needed Patrick that you will get thanks to some stuff that has come through here and it's going to keep coming through here that will hopefully bring much needed rain to places like the Carolinas, Georgia, even Middle Tennessee where we need the rain. We really do. It's dry, drier than what it should be. Yeah. Good morning, Tom. Let's see. I don't think I heard days. Maybe I did. And let's see if there's anything that I can talk about regarding the days. Tell me what the days. What is today known for? What is special about today? There. Go ahead.
Speaker B: Well, I guess the most important thing is as far as this net is concerned, it's National Coconut Cream Pie Day. Then the other ones are just National Coke Day, which I think is sponsored National Provider Appreciation Day, National Knockout Rose Day, National Student Nurse Day, National Military Spouse Appreciation Day. So either a Coke or a coconut cream pie.
Speaker C: Well, I got to go for the coconut cream pie. I do like coconut cream pie. Although my pie is banana cream pie. I like my, I like my banana cream pie the best. But I'll take coconut cream. I like coconut. And so, yeah, that's good stuff. Can't eat too much of them anymore because of the diabetes. But hey, I cheat once in a while. In fact, Sarah made some peanut butter cookies and I have, I have my peanut butter cookie. I like peanut butter cookies. Anyway, very good. Student Nurse Appreciation Day. Yep, that's. We need those nurses and Nurse Appreciation Week, I think this is too. So that, that, that works. Oh, and for Tom the other day he said he saw a big blob of something regarding space weather. Ssn Tom. And that was a coronal a, that was what you saw on the thing about something headed toward Earth and that was a solar wind stream coming from a, a large coronal hole and that was pointed at Earth. So yeah, we're getting some solar wind now which has had a few disturbances. In fact, this morning, space weather is now active and I'm not quite sure why because I checked space weather live and there were no major geomagnetic stories. Storms, not that it reported. So I don't know why it's active. Maybe because there was a filament eruption and sometimes those will cause a problem. So band conditions might be down today. So back there to you and then we'll talk about what's going on in the weather.
Speaker B: Okay, Mark. Well, nothing else here. So yeah, I'm interested. Looking out at the nice blue skies, a little bit of a breeze. I mean, it's just beautiful up here in Lincoln, which is up near Auburn. So yeah, I guess it's going to get a little toasty going next week.
Speaker C: It's going to get a lot toasty next week. Not a little, a lot Monday and Tuesday. In fact, it could be over a hundred in places in the Valley. And that's a little early for this time in May. Somewhat the same pattern though, has set up. Like what set up in March. I was listening to a huge video that Glenn sent me. And wow, what a huge, what a very interesting video. It was a huge video on what went on with that system in March that caused and it basically affected the entire nation from west to east with extreme high pressure in the west and extreme low pressure in the east. And it just simply verifies what I've said. One pattern affects what goes on in one part of the nation, affects what goes on everywhere in the nation and to some degree globally. So all weather types are connected and this was like a three system in one event and you had anywhere from 100 plus degree temperatures in the west 1500 miles east of there you were having blizzards and then in the middle and parts of the nation you were having fire extreme fire danger in parts of the south and also parts of the middle nation and very very unusual situation. Anyway today it's going to be pretty nice actually in California it's going to be in the 80s in the valley 70s in some places in the foothills the mountains maybe the 60s 50s and 60s depending on your elevation pretty much in the 80s in the valley and if you go along the coast there's quite a marine layer may gray and once those clouds burn off it can be in the low 60s along the coast 70s a little ways inland then 80s further inland you go and the far inland interior areas along the coast could get up into the low 90s then as we move into tonight and.

Speaker A: That marine layer starts to compress. That's because that high pressure really starts to take over, building in out of the eastern Pacific into the west coast of California. And as it does so, since high pressure is sinking air, subsiding air that pushes down on the marine layer, which, which makes it very shallow. And the more shallow it is, the easier it is for the sun to burn that off. And the sun comes out earlier and the coast starts to warm up and the inland areas really start to heat up. So we're going to have a lot of summer even over on the coast. And then in the San Joaquin Sacramento valleys, temperatures could be over 100 degrees by early next week. So you heat lovers, you folks that are heat lovers out there, hang on, it's coming. And then by the middle of next week, things kind of start to level out a little bit and that high pressure starts to move eastward and as it does so starts to cool off a little bit, get a little delta breeze coming through. And even though temperatures are going to cool off, they're still going to be quite a ways above normal. Yeah, let me take a break. The 6 to 10 and 8 to 14 day does call for above normal temperatures and near to maybe slightly above normal precipitation. Now, when we're talking above normal precipitation now, if in a lot of places, if you get 200ths of an inch, that's above normal, we're really wrapping up the rainy season. A lot of places in the valley, anything above a trace now is above normal. So if you get a couple of hundredths of an inch. So above normal doesn't really mean much in a lot of instances because by June, rainfall totals, normal will be zero in a lot of areas, the valley by June. So that just goes to show you summer is really almost here. Back to you there, Tom. And then we will talk about the rest of the nation.
Speaker B: All right there, Mark. Yeah, WB6BJN and then 6H for the coffee breaknet. Well, yep, kind of bracing for the, the heat to come. And I figured this is probably pretty much done with all our rain and things going forward here. So probably going to look for the heat coming through. I don't mind the heat during the day. What I don't care for is when it doesn't cool off at night there. So those are the nights that I don't really care for, but hopefully we won't get too many of those and I guess bring on the heat. All right. Yeah, go ahead and give us what the rest of the nation is there, Mark. WV6BJN and then 6H,
Speaker A: Yeah, you guys, as a general rule, don't get hot nights in California. I've seen nights in California where, you know, it can be 110 during the day and cool off and be 70 at night, which isn't hot. Back here, it can get up to 95 during the day and be 85 at night. Night, that's a hot night. If temperature doesn't get out of the 80s. I did see it one time in California. It took till 3 or 4 o' clock in the valley. One heat wave to get out of the 90s and it was right back into the 90s by 8 o' clock in the morning. That's rare. And generally what causes that is humidity. And California just doesn't have the humidity that we have back here. So your temperatures drop. If dew points are low, the temperature always tries to meet the dew point. So if you got temperature of 110 during the day and the dew point's in the 30s and 40s, it's likely going to cool off good at night because you don't have much humidity in the atmosphere. And even hot air cools quickly if it's dry. That's why you can get large spreads and temperatures. If it's moist, it holds on to the heat. So we're not going to have that problem back here though, too much because it's going to warm up today. We're already above yesterday's high here in Clarksville. Make that shut up. Okay, let's go over here to the weather station. The Tempest 30.0, 1.2 on the barometer, and it is 66.7. Yesterday we had a 60, 65.5. That was the high and it's already 67.7. So we're going to get well into the 70s today. 76 degrees, I think, is going to be the high today and maybe a little warmer tomorrow. A low this morning though of 39 degrees. So there you go. It's already 67 and we had a 39 low. That shows pretty dry air. In fact, the dew point right now is 48. So you know, that's a wide spread between temperature and dew point. And that dew point is low. So we have warming days, cool nights, almost cold nights. In fact, I had to eat her on early this morning. But as soon as that sun came up, that temperature took off. And we're warmer now than we were yesterday. Now that dew point probably come up today, so it'll be warmer tonight. Probably down in the 50s at some point this weekend, maybe Sunday we could get some showers, some thunderstorms down the road. That'll be good weather for Patrick because what starts west comes east. So probably, yeah, Sunday, Monday, and Daniel over there in Illinois gonna get some showers this weekend. Should be good for Apoda today and probably good for Apota on Monday. So that's the deal. No real severe weather. The most active severe type weather might happen in parts of Oklahoma and Texas where Will is. And even it's not going to be that bad. They're not talking any tornadoes for a change, but they are talking about the dry line that could sharpen and that gets in trouble if you're east of that dry line and starts to set up a boundary that makes thunderstorms. Let me take a break. So about the middle of next week, it's about that high pressure that's over. You guys is going to make a run east. So we're going to get a flip in the pattern. Right now there's low pressure over the east. That's why we've been chilly. That's why there's clipper systems that are coming through the, what they call Alberta clippers that come through the Midwest. If this were January, they'd be getting snow and there's been some arctic here. But if that high pressure starts to move east and starts to cover the eastern seaboard, it'll push that low away and maybe, and maybe the jet stream further north and maybe that'll be the start of summer back here. It's been a really cool spring in a lot of the east and parts of the Midwest. And so maybe we'll start to get some warmer weather. I don't really care for summer, so. I don't care. I don't mind the colder weather, although I do like it a little warmer so I can go out and sit on the deck in the morning and work on a little bit of a tan. So I look nice and healthy. So maybe I'll get to do that today. Tom, back there to you and Sarah and I are doing good back here and we'll turn it back to you. That's probably just about enough out of me today there. Go ahead.
Speaker B: Okay. Very good there, Mark. WV6BJN NN6H well, I guess you. Yeah, we did get the weather forecast from you there. Wasn't quite sure what you were going to talk about. Just kidding there. Yeah, very good. Well, I'm glad that you guys are not going to have any real severe weather back there and things are kind of quieting down, quieting down over the. The nation there. And we do have a nice. I'm looking, like I say, I'm looking at nice blue skies here. I guess Dan was checking in from Fremont and said that they were getting some kind of fog over there, so a little marine layer. So I'm sure that that'll clear off. And yeah, out here, you know, you said it's very rare that it's hot at night, but I remember there are streaks, you know, like maybe weeks here and there where things didn't get much slower than 85 or 80 degrees at night. So that gets a little uncomfortable. I like to sleep with the window open and not have the air conditioning on at night. But very good. And also learned that the higher the humidity, the less the air is going to cool off at night. So that's always something to watch then I guess is what the humidity is during the day to give me a prediction of how it's going to. How warm it's going to be at night. All right, well, definitely appreciate the weather. It's always education. And also it's always good to hear your forecast there, Mark, and glad that you and Sarah are doing well. Back to you there for a final WV6BJN and N6H.
Speaker A: Okay, Tom, Tom, Two things to pay attention to, and one is not the actual humidity. The one is the dew point. Okay, Dew point temperature in some degree is a much more representation of. So it's the dew point plus the temperature that tells you what your humidity is. And the higher the dew point, of course, during the day and even at night, the higher the dew point especially means the higher the humidity. Sometimes, though, at night you can have 58 degrees and get down into the 50s and the temperature be in the 50s and you have 100% humidity. Now, if the sun comes up and let's say that dew point stays in the 50s, but that temperature starts to rise and gets up into the 70s and your dew point is in the 50s, it's really going to be a pretty nice day. On the other hand, if your dew point is in the 70s and your temperature is in the 80s, your dew point is pretty close to your temperature. And I've seen that back here. I've seen temperatures in the 90s and dew points in the 80s and your humidity isn't 100%. But Maddie, you see dewpoints getting into the 60s, 70s. We really were watching for thunderstorms and, and tornadic activity this time of the year when you start to see dew points. Dew point. And the other tool I use is the barometer. And during the summer, a low barometer simply means a thermal low in the valley. Doesn't usually mean rain. But if you're predicting rain, you want to see your lower barometers, that's for sure. Just a point of interest that what we really look at and the dew point right now is 48 and the temperature's in the 60s. That's almost a 20 degree difference. It's going to be nice here today. WB6BJ.
Speaker B: Okay, very good there, Mark. Yeah, I'm looking at my weather on my phone and it says that our current temperature here in Lincoln is 16 degrees. The dew point is 53 and the humidity is 78%.
Speaker A: There you go. You're a little bit moist because your dew point and your temperature are only 7 degrees apart. On the other hand, my dew point is 48 and my temperature is 64. So it's going to dry out for you. I think if that dew point stays at 53 or right around that vicinity or lowers and your temperature goes up into the, into the 70s and in the 80s, that's really going to be pretty nice. If your dew point follows your temperature and gets into the 60s and your temperature is in the 80s, it's going to feel a little muggy. WB6 be.
Speaker B: Okay, very good. Yeah, it's supposed to be the high today and the 81 and the low 54. Okay, very good. Well, I definitely will keep track of the dew point there and I'm learning something every time. All right, well, you and Sarah have a great, great Friday and a great weekend and you know, I'll give you permission tomorrow. Don't tell Sarah this, but I'll give you permission tomorrow to have a donut. How about that?
Speaker A: I'll be on the first plane out. Yeah, right. There you go. Thanks, Tom. You guys have a lot of fun at the coffee and donut situation tomorrow. I wish I could be there. That'd be, that'd be fun just to meet a lot of, a lot of you guys I've never met in person. And that would be. That should be a. That'd be a blast. Talk to you all later. Take care. WB6BJN everybody have a blessed day and a blessed weekend coming up.
Speaker B: Okay, very good there, Mark. Yeah, and I kind of regret that we couldn't get together there towards the end there when you were getting ready to leave. And I know we had planned to meet up and that didn't work out, but maybe if you ever get back out here, we can end up doing that.
Speaker A: All right.
Speaker B: All right. You take care there, Mark, and thanks for the weather and what you do there. So clearing with Mark, WB6BJN. So I want to talk about what's coming up here. First thing we have of course tonight is our club meeting and that'll be at 7:30 at the HHS Pascha County HHS Conference center which is off of bell Road in I80. And that'll start at 7:30. We are going to have a touch it, take it through. We're going to have three tables Jim and Graydon are setting up and I think Jim said they're opening the doors at 6pm to go cruise the tables and stuff. So essentially you have to take something home. If you come to the meeting, you have to take something home off of the table. These are kind of the leftovers from the ham fest and they have a whole bunch of stuff that they just want to give away. So. So they don't want to take it to the dumps or recyclers. So come and bring a bag or something. So you can take a whole bunch of stuff from the touch it take it table. So that'll be seven. So the meeting will start around 7:30 tonight. And that'll be. And you can also join us on Zoom. Of course on Zoom you won't be able to get any of the touch and take it stuff. You may see some pictures of it and maybe ooh and aah over it. But unfortunately when they came they're not going to ship it to you. So I think the Zoom room probably opened around 7 o'. Clock. It's a hosted room. Orion AI6JB generally hosts that and as a greeter for that room. So that'll be on Zoom. 7:30 the actual meeting starts. If you're coming in person, bring some stuff for the food bank. We're still doing that kind of support the community. They're looking for jellies and anything that may be for kids lunches as well as paper products, paper towels, napkins, toilet paper, anything like that would be appreciated at the meeting tonight there. So you can do that. And then the presentation will be from Greg K06th. We'll be talking about charging lithium batteries. Lithium batteries. So should be an interesting presentation there from Greg. All right then the other thing we have coming up is, and maybe you've heard about this, it's the Coffee and donuts or Donuts and coffee in the Park. And that'll be tomorrow, May 9th, 9:00am and that'll be at. And it's hosted by SFARC, you know, and also the coffee break now host. So the Coffee breaknet host will be there serving coffee and donuts. And I haven't heard this but I kind of imagine that maybe the, the coffee break, the coffee and donuts will be kind of dished out, kind of a coffee break style. And that means we'll have three different ways of getting, getting it. First off would be the quick in and out. And that's where you probably get to the line first you get at the very top end of the line, you get your coffee and donut. Maybe just say hello. Kind of more soup Nazi style if you remember Seinfeld, you know. And if you don't, if you're not there fast enough doing that, you just. There is no coffee and donuts for you. That's the one way. The second way is probably the rag chew method. And that's basically where you're at the end of the line. You kind of just mosey through it, you know, talk about whatever you want to talk about, radios, maybe instant pots, that type of stuff. And that's where you get your coffee and donut there. Then the last way is we'll probably have the log only type of way. And that's at the end when we're kind of cleaning things up there and we're putting things away. You know, you drive through the parking lot and kind of just wave and you know, somebody waves back to you and just acknowledges you and then you just go on. Is there any leftover donuts and stuff? You know, maybe we throw a couple one or two into your interior open window there. So that's kind of the way, that's kind of what I think the official way of doing this coffee break. But you know, I'm sure Brian AI6US probably has his own ideas, but that would be at least a way of doing it for the coffee breaknet style. Anyway, who's out there for check ins? This is Tom NN6H KM6RFB.

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

Speaker A: Kv1pzs, kilo, bravo 1, papa, zulu, sierra, kb1pzs and connecticut,
Speaker B: November 4th victor, wn4v south florida, wn4v.
Speaker A: Kb1pzs, kilo, bravo1 Papa, Zulu, Sierra.
Speaker B: In case I got stepped on. Wn4v with the november 4th victor, south florida.
Speaker A: I believe I got stepped on.
Speaker B: Okay, I have some people that checked in multiple times here. Kind of my suggestion is just check in once and if you don't hear your call when I read them back then you can kind of fill in any check ins here. So I got WN4V, I got K06th, I got K4RD, got K6DCL, I got KB1PZS, Papa Zebra, Sierra, and I got KM6RFV. Anybody that I'm missing from this group.
Speaker C: N4rd bubble.
Speaker B: Okay, Kathy, I got you from before but I guess they called you K4RD. Yeah, so N4RD. Okay, so I have you on the list. All right. So I'm going to assume everybody is rag shoe unless you want to tell me now that you're an in n out.
Speaker D: Victor, kilowatt, one juicy tomato, vk1jt in.
Speaker B: Kilo, charlie, six sierra, lima, echo. Okay, I got KC6sLE added to the list as well as VK1JT added to the list. Okay, so I am assuming all these are RAG two. So I will go to the top. Good morning Scott, Cam6RFB.
Speaker A: Good morning Tom and everybody on the net.
Speaker B: Hope everybody's having a great Friday. Not much going on here, just I took your advice on the ad or
Speaker D: the additions to the app and I
Speaker B: have added that information and just other
Speaker D: than look forward to the meeting tonight
Speaker B: and I've got a couple things I'm
Speaker D: going to add to the Touch it
Speaker B: and take it table. Okay, very good. Well you know the app looks good from what you're doing there for Aries and that looks very interesting. Yeah, I actually have something I'm going to add to the Touch it ticket table too. It's a radio which I don't need but anyway, very good. So looking forward to seeing you tonight at the meeting. Absolutely. And I've got some stuff for Jim W8MPA and other than that, not bad.
Speaker D: Thanks for doing the net today.
Speaker B: I appreciate it and I'm sure everybody else does. And I'm also looking forward to getting some coffee and donuts tomorrow at the park in Auburn and there is no Aries net for Sunday due to Mother's Day. Okay, very good. Well, looking forward to being At Coffee and Donuts tomorrow, the host net host will be serving the coffee and donuts. So very good. We're looking forward to seeing you there and thank you for all that you do for aries Air. Scott. KM6 RFB and N6H KF6 RFB. Back to net. All right, you take care of this, Scott. All right, Next, have a KB1 Papa Zulu Sierra. And I think you said your name is Bob. Good morning.
Speaker A: Yeah, good morning.
Speaker B: Good morning.
Speaker A: I coming in on a new note that I made over last weekend. A handheld transceiver connected to a Raspberry PI with a sound card and seems to be holding up pretty good. Yeah, beautiful day yesterday. Looks like a Beautiful day today. 65 degrees yesterday with 25% humidity and clear skies. Same today. I had several weeks off and I go back to work on Monday. So trying to get back into the new schedule again. Back to the work schedule. So that's what's going on here. Back to net control. KV1P0.
Speaker B: Okay, very Good there, Bob. KB1PZS NN68. Well, it sounds like you have a beautiful day back there. Yeah, low humidity. I think that's great. So I definitely enjoy these kind of springtime days. It's beautiful out here too. Get the heat coming in the summer here. All right, so is this your first time checking I didn't see in the log here or this is your first time checking into the the net?
Speaker A: I kind of check in kind of regularly here on this one. So yeah, I've checked in before.
Speaker B: Okay, very good. And also want to mention that your note is sounding good. We also have a be all notes in that which we do on Monday nights. I don't recognize your call sign from that net. But yeah, we have the AllnodesNet Monday night at 9pm Your time Eastern time. And that's on this repeater and All Star node and echo link and we talk about all things node related. All Star, Dstar, IRLP, EchoLink, those type of things. So it's a pretty popular net and get a lot of people from the east coast checking in there. Welcome you to that net too. Anyway, back to you there for anything else before then I'll move on here. KB1P ZF NN6H.
Speaker C: I've checked into that net.
Speaker A: Sometimes I don't get every week because sometimes I just don't make it up that late. Starts at 9 o'. Clock. I know it's kind of early but I get up early in the morning so. But I try to make it I Don't think I made it in the past couple weeks. But I like the net though. It's very informative. Learn a lot from listening and participating. So very good.
Speaker B: Yep.
Speaker A: Back to Net Control, KV1P7.
Speaker B: Okay, very good there Bob. Yeah. KB1 P C S N6H. Yeah, we, we actually used to start an hour later then we, we getting a lot of people from the coast and people complaining that starting at 10 o' clock and at night was too late for a net. So we actually dropped it back an hour. Most of our nets here on this Repeater start at 7:30 Pacific Time which would be 10:30 your time. So yeah, that one, the allnose net starts at 9. Just mainly for the east coast people there to participate. All right, well you take care. Good to talk to you and maybe we'll see you on the all notesnet here on Monday nights clearing with KB1PZS. Next up, Dave K6DCL. Good morning to you Dave. Aloha Friday to you and Lucy.
Speaker D: Hey ALOHA Friday from K6DCL. Good morning. Good morning Tom. Glad to hear you and really glad. Last week I was down in Luke and I were Pismo beach visiting family, grandkids and great grandkids celebrating one of the great grandkids sixth birthday. So that's what I've been up to. I hope you're doing well. Back to you.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm doing fine. I'm up here in Lincoln. Gonna do the club meeting tonight and then hoping with the serving at the donuts and coffee and donuts in the park tomorrow. So yeah, I'm glad that you and Lucy had a good trip there and visiting family and I heard that. I think I heard the net the other day where you talked about the line for cinnamon rolls was out the door and unfortunately you couldn't do it that way. So I guess one of these days when I'm down in Bismill Beach I should try that place out.
Speaker D: Yep. I couldn't, I couldn't. I couldn't stand up that long to stay in that line. Oh my goodness. And you could smell the cinnamon buns wafting out of the building. I just was really sad that I could not participate in those cinnamon buns. They're always great. I've got a call coming in so I will let you go.
Speaker C: K16.
Speaker B: All right, Pretty good there, Dave. You and Lucy have a great Friday and a great weekend and we'll talk to you later. Clearing with K6DCL. Next up, Kathy. So Kathy, you are on the road N4RD. Good afternoon to you.
Speaker C: Hello. Yes, we got on the road about an hour ago. We're headed from Tennessee to the west coast and so far, so good.
Speaker B: All right, very good. Well, you're heading to the west coast, so you're heading to the beach, but maybe that's not your final destination.
Speaker C: Yes, my husband told me to be beach ready. We're celebrating our 45th wedding anniversary and then he's added to it and told me to be ready to fly out of Sacramento. So I'm kind of thinking maybe Hawaii or something. I don't know. He won't tell me. I love it.
Speaker B: Maybe he's going to fly you down to Southern California. Cucamonga.
Speaker C: Yeah, maybe.
Speaker B: Well, good morning to Bob there, too. Or good afternoon to Bob. I think it's afternoon there. Well, maybe you're in the. Maybe you're not quite in the afternoon time yet. Anyway. Well, you have a safe trip there. So you're pulling the trailer out?
Speaker C: Yes, we are. It's 11:22, so Central Time here, not east coast time. So. Yep, got the trailer in tow and very familiar. Packing it up again. And that all went smooth. Yeah, it's kind of exciting.
Speaker B: Okay, very good. Well, I hope that when you make it out here, you can find some time to maybe spend some time with your SFARC family out here.
Speaker C: Yes. I haven't looked at the calendar as to when we are going to be there, and now we're not going to be there when. I thought we were going to be there because of being at the beach, but yeah, hopefully something will work out where I can meet up with everyone. Boy, it would be fun to be donuts. Donuts sound good.
Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, we could probably hold a few over for you and Bob, but I don't guarantee they're not going to be stale. But as you guys get out here. Yeah, I guess timing wise, it wasn't good there for coffee donuts tomorrow. But I'm sure we could probably have an impromptu type of get together, you know, up on Taco Tuesday, maybe.
Speaker C: Yeah, that's always good. Yeah, we'll see how it goes. And I guess, you know, we've got a space at Jerry and Theta's and we'll have to let you know when we're there because we're going to need someone to partner up with to play our Rummy Cube.
Speaker B: All right, very good. Yeah, I haven't played Rummy Cube in a while there. That's always a fun game there to play. And I know that Jerry and thedos Would like to play that. All right, very good. Well, you guys have a safe drive out here. And where's your new your stop tonight?
Speaker C: We don't know yet. Typically what we like to do is get just on the outskirts of a town. It's typically quieter and cheaper and so we like to stop around 4 o'.
Speaker B: Clock.
Speaker C: So wherever we are about 4 o' clock is when we'll find a spot and we, we just kind of roll with it. So no firm designation yet, just 4 o' clock so I can have time to make dinner and clean up and be ready for the night.
Speaker B: Okay, very good. So I'm just kind of curious, more of an inside baseball type of question, but how do you locate what campsite you're going to go to? Do you have an app or do you look for koas or what is your method?
Speaker C: I have a few methods. I use the Apple maps just searching for RV parks in the area and I use an app and then we're members of Harvest Host and so there's wineries and maple farms and just depending on where we're at different locations that we can dry camp. So those are the three things I use to find a spot.
Speaker B: Okay, very good. Well, I think that's a good plan. You know, stopping early and then just kind of figuring out that's what's nice about doing the trailer and the camping stuff is that you kind of just go where the wind takes you and stop when you put find something that looks good. All right. Pretty good. Well, again, you guys have a safe trip and looking forward to seeing you guys when you get out here and looking forward to seeing what Bob has planned out there for your beach destination.
Speaker C: Yeah, I look forward to disclosing that too. What I learn. And I'll be making some caramels when I'm with my dad, so hopefully I can make some to share with the club. So everyone have a blessed day and for our D7 3.
Speaker B: Okay, very good. Well, 73 to you there. To you and Bob and again, have a safe trip there and thanks for checking in. We'll be looking forward to talking to you later and also seeing you when you get out here onto the west coast here. So clearing with N4rd mobile got. Next up, Greg Ko6th. Good morning, Greg.
Speaker C: Good morning, Toddam. Good morning everyone.
Speaker D: Greg K06th lovely morning. Wow, this is wonderful weather. Trying to take it all in but unfortunately we can't keep it. So yeah, enjoy it while we can. Today is getting ready for the meeting tonight. I've Got need to rehearse the presentation so I can fit it in 20 minutes and yeah, let's see how that goes and let's see what else. Oh, I had a great star party last night with the astronomy club at an elementary school up in Grass Valley. Sixth graders that came out to look at telescopes and enjoy the night sky and and it was quite a great event. Everybody had a lot of fun, saw a lot of things and I managed to get some images of the needle galaxy which I am just right now running through the software. So we'll see how that comes out. Anyway, on with the day. KO60H back to you.
Speaker B: Okay, very good there. Yeah looking forward to your presentation tonight on lithium battery charging and all things related to that. That's always interesting topic here that talked about on the the Armor Net or on the the in the shack and also on the coffee breaknet so looking forward to that. And yeah these, these, these days are nice. I'm sure there was some nice clear skies last night for your your party and looking at just a beautiful day here too. So. And looking forward to the meeting tonight and the coffee and donuts tomorrow. I know you're not going to be able to make the coffee and donuts tomorrow. I think you have some family things going on there but so we'll miss you there tomorrow.
Speaker D: Yeah really looking forward to being able to have breakfast everybody but that isn't going to happen this time. I've got family stuff to. I mean I wouldn't call it to say more enjoyable. Be more enjoyable. Yeah. But thank you. Different family to be with. So we'll pick it up. I guess we'll see everybody at the meeting tonight and then next event will be what are we next next thing probably. Probably breakfast is another month. So anyway on with the day everybody stay cool. Save up some of the the cool weather and yeah don't overdo it outside but get outdoors and get, get some vitamin D. KO60H73
Speaker A: Yep.
Speaker B: I think it'll be pleasant. At least it's pleasant right now in the 60s and supposed to get up to about 80 today. So yeah, I think it'll be nice. Very nice. All right, you take care there Greg and we'll talk to you tonight. We'll see you tonight for your presentation coding with KL60th. Next going back I think Florida to John WN.

Speaker A: N4v good afternoon to you.
Speaker B: Well, good afternoon from South Florida and right now it's partly cloudy with 28 degrees C here. Hopefully tomorrow we will get some rain. We really need it here. It's very dry. There are open burning restrictions, no open flames,
Speaker C: limited lawn watering,
Speaker B: although we do use untreated water here. So no water lawns, but that's the end of it. Well, the Xyl is fixing a nice spaghetti dinner for lunch and she just put the garlic bread in the oven and she's boiling her noodles right now. So I'm really looking forward to that. She makes great spaghetti. One of my all time favorites. I received two Baofeng UV5R minis from Amazon yesterday. Nice little radio, easy to take care of and easy to program by hand. Back to you.
Speaker A: Okay, very good there John. Yeah, WN4V NN6H for the coffee Rignette. Yeah, spaghetti is actually one of my favorite dishes there and with garlic bread and yeah made my mouth drool there. Even though it's still breakfast time here. That actually sounds wonderful for, for lunch or for dinner or anytime at the UV5R minis. I am a fan of those two. I actually ordered two of those from Amazon. I like the form factor. I like the USB C charging of the battery. I think that's great And I also appreciate, I have, you know, I have a Yaesu radios and I have other radios. I have a whole bunch of HT's and stuff and what I appreciate about the Baofengs and like the, especially the UV5R is that when it comes to the battery is low it tells you, it gives you a thing saying where my Yaesu I have an Yaesu FT65 when that battery is dead it just stops. The display goes blank and that's it. And then you hear people stop talking and you look at it and you find out the battery is dead. So I do appreciate that. So yeah, I'm definitely a fan of the UP5R, especially the little mini size.
Speaker D: I have a collection of bow things.
Speaker B: 12 total UV32, 3 of those, UV21, 2 of those the UV26 1 and 3 UVF5R minis plus 2 paunchings which I like. I've had those a long time. He's going to be putting the dinner or rather lunch on the table very soon so I'd better let things go. It's always great to check into this net and I try to do it every day if I can. Unless we've got something to do out in the city back to you and thanks again here in South Florida.
Speaker A: All right, yeah. WN4V and then 6H for the coffee Breaknet. All right, well, you enjoy your dinner there and I hope that you. You get the rain that you're. You're hoping for, that you're expecting and that comes through there and yeah, enjoy the dinner there. I'm kind of envious. Or maybe I'll have spaghetti or for later too. All right, you take care and thanks for checking in, John. Next up, I have VK1 juicy tomato, VK1J.
Speaker D: Good morning.
Speaker A: Good evening to you, John.
Speaker C: Good evening to you. Good morning to me. 2:34 in the morning. We're talking about radios. Let's see, I have 28 heads handheld and counting, and more than half of them are dmr. The latest acquisition was the ar880 by a brie alpha, bravo, bravo, romeo, echo, echo. That's one of the latest ones.
Speaker A: What is it?
Speaker C: Target 3 dm1701s. The ar8 to get dm1702.4 ragtail, rt4ds2 anytone d168uvs, the dm32uv, bao feng k6. I've got a k5 kong sheng, two burrado uhf radios and r5 mini 4 rag tool, rt4ds. I think I mentioned that. The motorola dp2400, the icom and. But dozens of other uv17 pro2uv, sorry, uv17 to uv18 pros, etc. Etc. Etc. And I've got a few more on the way. I like collecting them. It's a disease and I do not want to be cured. Hang on, standby. The other good thing I've been doing is HF and QRP. This time I got 100 watts. I was working Adelaide, 2 watts and an untuned antenna. I just wound the power back, buggered the ATU and. Yeah, 40 meters. I love it. And I live in a government flat and I've never done HF from here before. I've been living here five years now and I just threw a wire out in the tree from the kitchen window. I'm up on the second floor, strung it through the tree. No one's complained, no one's said anything. And yet I'm back on the air, so I'm happy. More stuff up on my qrz.com okay.com page and then don't forget DR, SBR, Delta Romeo, Space Sugar Delta Romeo if you're on social media. Otherwise, everyone have fun. Take care, take care of Each other and yourselves. And back to neck control. One juicy tomato.
Speaker A: Okay, very good. BK1JT. NN6H yeah, I said good evening to you, but I guess it is your early morning here, so. Good early morning to you there because it's also morning here too. It's 9:36am here in California. All right, well I guess it kind of begs the question there. So you have 28 hts, I think you may have a record there. So I'm just curious, if you had to keep one, if they took all the radios away and you had to keep one, which one would you prefer to keep?
Speaker C: Oh, that's a real tough one. I like the rad cobit because of the size, but to be practical, I keep the TYT390 plus the 10 watt radio with the open GD77 because that firmware is brilliant and me being ADHD and Spectrum, I love playing with the VFO. Back to you.
Speaker A: Okay, very good. Yeah, I have one of the older TYT, I think 380s, it was a DMR radio back when they were either a UHF or VHF type of thing. So yeah, those are nice little radios. I have an Anytone 860 that I like. I think the battery life on that is good. It's a little heftier radio, but I think it's good. And then my other radio that I plowed in, I like the little baobang minis. And then I have a Yaesu FT65 which I think is a good radio except that it does have that problem, that one, the battery dies on that, it just quits and you have no indication that it's gone. All right, very good there. Well, I won't try to cure you of your HT problem there, John, and I'll just let you keep buying radios there. All right, you take care there and thanks for checking in and good to hear from you this early morning. VK1JT NN6H.
Speaker C: N6H in the group. VK1JT. All right, mate, you take care. Thank you very much. And if you are interested, the USDX or there's another one called the Black Brick by USDR, USDR plus or USDX Plus. It's a little 8 man 5 watt QRP rig made that fits in your backpack. 4amp hour battery and I'm gonna buy another one and see if I can convert to the six meters. All right, take care. VK1 juicy tomato. Listening.
Speaker A: All right, very good. Yeah, I've heard others use those radios there and they're Pretty good there.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker A: Well, anyway, have fun. Like you're enjoying the hobby with the HS stuff, the QRP things and all that, so very good. You take care there and thanks for checking in. Good to hear from you there, John. All right, last on my list is Graydon KEC6SLA. Good morning to you, Graydon, and thank you for taking care of the helping Jim with the touch ticket table this morning at the or this evening at the club.
Speaker D: Good morning, Tom. Good morning to the Net. Yeah, it's always fun doing that and it's a lot of work. It's good to help Jim out. Doing it by himself was just. You just can't imagine the amount of work to sort through all this stuff. Although all the work to move it around to store it now that we have the trailer at trailers, I should say that helps because we have a place to store it so Jim doesn't have to give up his job every or his garage every year to do this for the club. So it's working out really good. Looking forward to seeing you tonight. Look forward to seeing everybody that's attending in person. A lot of good stuff on the table. Yep.
Speaker A: No, I think it'll be good there. Yeah, I'm having actually three tables. So I had sent you a text about some things. You might want to check that, if you haven't already, about some things we talked about last time. And so tonight I think Jim mentioned that maybe things will be set around 6 o'.
Speaker D: Clock.
Speaker A: So is that the kind of the time when you're going to open the doors for people to wander through and require them to take pieces off the table?
Speaker D: Jim and I will be there at 5 o' clock and start unloading my truck and start putting it inside on the tables. If people want to show up that early and get first dibs, if they want to take us up directly out of the truck and take it away, we're all happy.
Speaker A: All right. And I guess if everything's in, in the trailers and stuff, were you actually hoping that maybe somebody would. Would go into the trailers and actually take stuff before you even got there?
Speaker D: Nothing's in any of the trailers. It's in my garage right now. Shortly after I finish doing some repairs on the tractor, I'm gonna go up
Speaker B: and load the truck.
Speaker A: Okay. For some reason when you're talking about the trailers and stuff, I thought that maybe all the stuff was actually in the trailers. That's where it was being stored. All right, very good. Well, I appreciate that. And we will see you tonight at the meeting,
Speaker D: you know, based on the last month, which was round one stuff was still there at 7 o', clock, 7:30. So if you can't get there at 5 o', clock, don't worry about it. There's so much stuff that it'll still be there. Still be a lot of stuff there. And you know, on some of the connectors and stuff like that, we ask people, you know, take a reasonable amount,
Speaker A: take a reasonable amount that you might
Speaker D: use, but don't take it all, you know, leave some for other people as well.
Speaker A: Yeah, I think, I think that's very good there. So I'm sure there's connectors and cables and different miscellaneous stuff there. So, yeah, that's three tables. That's gonna be quite a bit of stuff there. So thank you, you and Jim for doing that. And hopefully you have good success and don't have to take much back home.
Speaker D: Well, whatever I take back tonight is going to stay in the truck and then either Saturday or Sunday it's going to go to the recycling center where I was hoping. I took a load of other stuff that I knew wasn't going to move last week. I took it a pretty good load. And the recycling center took very little for electronic recycling. The rest of it, they had me throw it into the metal bin.
Speaker A: Yeah, I was surprised. I took stuff too. In Lincoln here we have a recycling thing and they have garbage and recycling and stuff. And I took a whole bunch of stuff there and you know, the guy looked at it and very little of that went into the recycling part of it. The rest of it. He said, just stuff it over there. And I says, well, that's the dumps. And he says, yep. He says, just so here I was carefully having all this stuff that had wires and all sorts of things in there, and they pretty much just put it into the garbage.
Speaker D: It sounds like the recycling center down in Auburn does a much better job. Brian's had good experience down there. The problem with you and I is we can't take stuff to that recycling center because they check your license to see if you're actually a resident in that county. And I'm not.
Speaker B: You're not.
Speaker A: Okay, so what county are they? Are they you have to be a resident of?
Speaker D: Well, I'm a resident of Nevada county, so I have, you know, that's why I use the McCourtney Transfer Station because it's in Nevada County.
Speaker B: AI 6 US.
Speaker A: Okay. Because I'm a resident of Placer county, so I should be able to use the same one that Brian uses.
Speaker D: Go ahead, Brian.
Speaker A: Yeah, they've never checked my ID when I came through there, so. Yeah, so maybe we can sneak Graydon through AI6US.
Speaker B: Break.
Speaker A: Go ahead, break.
Speaker E: Yeah, Tom, I'm just going to parrot kind of what Brian said. Every time I've gone through the Lincoln area, the.
Speaker A: The dump out there, they just ask
Speaker E: me, where you coming from? They don't check my id. They don't run my license plate.
Speaker A: They don't do anything.
Speaker E: They just asked me, where are you coming from?
Speaker A: Okay, so, Scott, are you talking about the Lincoln one, or are you talking about the. The Auburn one? It's like there's two different ones.
Speaker E: I'm talking about the one out here near the casino in Lincoln. Out near Lincoln.
Speaker C: They.
Speaker E: They just waved me through and they just. They just ask where you're coming from.
Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, I've been to that a couple times, and, yeah, they haven't asked me either, but. Brian, are you talking about the one in Auburn? Yeah, correct. The recology in Auburn and also the transfer station in Meadow Vista. I guess they figure if you're out this far, you must be from here. Ai6us. Okay, very good. Yeah, well, I wasn't impressed by the one in Lincoln where they just basically took my electronic. Just threw it into the garbage. I think they looked at it and said, oh, yeah, this is something that's valuable to us, and this is something that's not. It wasn't based on whether it was electronic, recycled stuff. It was based on whether they had any value. All right, anyway, over to their gradient for anything before we move on.
Speaker D: Yeah, I guess Nevada county is a little more strict because always have to fill out a form, I always have to sign the form, and I have to show my driver's license. So different rules, different areas, different counties. With that, I look forward to seeing as many of you out there listening as possible tonight. It's always fun to be there in person. And I got a chance to look at Greg's presentation on charging lithium batteries. Very good presentation. I think everybody will learn a lot from that. A lot of valuable information in there. So, Greg, if you're listening, good job putting that together. With that, I'm going to go back to hammering on the tractor. It's not behaving KC6SOLE.
Speaker A: All right, well, you know, the solution for that, Graydon, is just a bigger hammer. Right. Or an axe. All right, very good there, Ian. Well, anyway, thanks for that. I'm glad Greg passed that value. Greg kind of gave us a preview of that in the Shack a couple weeks ago and I said that I know you had a lot of knowledge of that and a lot of ideas and stuff and that he should pass that presentation by you just to get maybe get some more input there. So I'm glad he did that. All right, well looking forward to seeing you tonight and seeing everybody tonight at the club meeting which will be at the official meeting will start at 7:30 but the doors will open early, it'll be open around six and beyond for anybody who wants to come by and look at the touch ticket tables. There'll be three of them there with a whole bunch of stuff from Hamfest. So bring some bags, bring some stuff and be prepared to take home some stuff from the table. And looking forward also to Greg's presentation there. All right, well 73 is there Graydon so clearing with KC6SLA. So this is Tom NN6H this is the coffee breaknet. We're about 10 minutes away from the closing witching hour time here so I will just limit it here to just do in and outs in and outs for the coffee breaknet and then after that we'll do for the log. So who's out there for check ins on the coffee breaknet? This is Tom and it's good a thanks.
Speaker C: K6DCL recheck.
Speaker B: Kilo 11-06-Nov Uniform Foxtrot,
Speaker A: Alpha, india 6 uniform sierra. I can tell you're enjoying the full duplex there node. Then I got the KM6nuf Joshua and I got the K6DC all for recheck. There was some.

Speaker A: Somebody else there that I couldn't pick up who's trying to check in. Kilo Oscar 6 India Hotel Juliet. Larry. Okay, then I have K06IH got you there Larry. Okay, well let me go with this for in and out and do the recheck first. A K6DCL go ahead. Dave, anything else to add after your phone call?
Speaker B: I hate to end a connection that quick that way, but it was a doctor's office scheduling an appointment for the 27th so I knew who it was and I knew I needed to take it or I'd never get it scheduled. So I apologize for that. Other than that, everything is going well here. Lucy's got a bowie on her left back and she fell down trunk over a walker of mine out by the car and so morning course thinking of her and I'm ready to still it happened three, four or five days ago but I'm still ready to take her to ehar if she wants to go but she seems to be a little bit better today so that's it. Have a great weekend. Tom up there in Lincoln and with the club. I wish I was there for those donuts. I could use a donut. K6DCL73.
Speaker A: All right, Pretty good there, Dave. Well, you can have a donut donut on me. And sorry that Lucy got hurt there. I thought walkers were supposed to be something to help save you from falling, but I shouldn't leave them places where people can trip over them there. Well anyway, I hope that she feels better and that there's nothing else going on wrong with her there. All right, very good. And I just got word from Brian saying that Jeff KW6U is officially on the Pacific coast or Pacific Crest Trail and to show a picture of him so, so Jeff who is a host here normally on Sundays is now I think on what a five month trek from Mexico to Canada. So wish him luck there and hopefully at some point he can check in different places so that we're going to miss him. All right, so going down my list here so next up so clearing with Dave. So Next up, Joshua KN6nUF Good morning and I know last time we talked you were heading to the dentist for your numbness in your face so hopefully that's getting better now.
Speaker C: It hasn't really gotten better, it kind of got a little bit worse but now it's kind of the same. So the doctors concluded that I have Bell's pulse and it could be eight weeks, maybe longer before the feeling comes back at my left side of my face. So there was some concerns from my doctor about my left eye not closing all the way and they wanted to do some kind of measures to make sure that my eye stayed closed. But we agreed that a patch would suffice since it is just temporary. So, yeah, I'm just kind of getting through each day and taking the lesson that is being presented before me. So, yeah, it's been an interesting week, I'll put it that way.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's kind of scary, especially when I know you talked last Friday saying that they never heard of that before and that's pretty scary there. Well, hopefully it all recovers and I hope they on the phone there and that there's nothing else going on there. All right, very good. And I think you are heading, I think you and the family, the girls are heading on a trip.
Speaker C: Alyssa and I leave on the 17th for the East Coast. We'll be going to Washington D.C. and then traveling up the east coast to New York with a bunch of students in her class from Bear River. They do a trip every year and she really wanted to do it. So we've been collecting recycling and things to raise the money and paid for it and she wanted me to go with her, so I chaperoned her. And yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun. I've been to both places extensively when I was much younger, but it's been 30 years so it'll be fun to go back.
Speaker A: All right, very good. Well that should be a fun trip and some good ponding time there and getting and also the weather should be nice here. So very good. Well, I hope and I hope by that time too your condition, the face numbness improves here and you don't have to deal with that too at the same time. Very good. Well, enjoy the trip there and I think you will be. I have you down here as the fox tender. The fox tender for the on May 30th there. So after, after breakfast at Mel. So looking forward to that.
Speaker C: Yeah, speaking of that, I emailed Graydon, but I haven't heard back from him. I'm not sure if I have the right email address. So if he happens to be listening or somebody happens to speak to him before I do, let him know that I emailed him about it. But if he hasn't gotten it, I need to send him at another email address. But yeah, that'll be a lot of fun. KN6NUS.
Speaker A: Okay, well, let's see if Graydon is still listening there or if he's pounding on his tractor. KC6Slee, are you still there monitoring? Okay, I don't hear him respond there but I will see him tonight at the meeting. So I will remind myself to remind him or to ask him if he's got your email and responding there. All right, very good. Well you take care Joshua and thanks for checking in. KN6 NUF and N6H
Speaker C: and N6H. Have a great Friday and remember everyone out there reach out and hug those
Speaker D: that you love every chance that you
Speaker C: get because you never know when you get that chance again. Share the love with Everybody you know. KN6NUS clear.
Speaker A: All right, 7.3 there Joshua and you take care. All right, Next up, Brian AI6US. Good morning Brian. And are we, so are we going to enforce that I mentioned earlier, are we having maybe possibly the quick in and out, the rag chew and the log only type of stuff for the coffee break donuts and coffee tomorrow morning?
Speaker D: Yeah, that was the first I'd heard of it. If you want to try enforcing that and guarding the donuts and the coffee from visitors, I'll just, I'll put that in your corner. Tomorrow morning we're going to have a ton of fun. I know that we're going to have set up people starting there at 7am Orion is going to be running the coffee, starting the coffee breaknet from the park at 7:30 and then we're doing setup and we start serving coffee and donuts at 9am Bring out your your pups, bring out your spouse, bring out your family and maybe even bring out your go box and maybe show off your car install. We're going to have a great time at the park tomorrow morning 9am Recreation park in Auburn, California. And yeah, so the net control operators will be helping serve coffee and donuts also rotate in and out and and take a little time running the net as well. And yeah the main thing is we want to just get out there and have a great social time.
Speaker A: Yeah, I think it'll be looking forward to that. And it's going to be beautiful weather. It's going to be beautiful tomorrow. I think Mark has mentioned that it's going to start warming up a little bit but at 9am I think it'll be just perfect weather for coffee and donuts in the park.
Speaker D: Absolutely. Yeah, Mark is going to be there at 8am and we're going to be getting that coffee brewing so when people start showing up we'll be ready to serve and yeah, it's going to be great. Time past coffee and donuts and coffee in the park has Been highly, highly successful. As many of you remember, this was the first event that we held after Covid to get club members kind of back together and socializing out in the open and it just has carried on from there. So I think as I recall this is our fifth year now doing this, so it should be a, should be a fun, fun time. And thank you. Looking forward to seeing you and all the other folks there. And I ordered enough donuts to go around and maybe there'll be a few left over, but I don't think so for Kathy and Bob. Wish you guys were here. Anyway, that's it for me today a day just kind of packing all the details, making sure that we have everything for tomorrow morning for Donuts, Coffee in the park and then see everyone this evening at the club meeting. I understand those who show up early to help Jim and Graydon unload the trailers get first dibs on the awesome items being put out on the Touch take it. So yeah, that's a little incentive to show up a little early at 5pm and help him unload because you know, he who unloads first takes home the best.
Speaker A: That's very true. Yep. So I guess you're going to start unloading at 5pm Maybe open things up around 6 for people to come through and browse and put stuff from the Touch ticket tables for Kathy and Bob. Maybe we can take a couple donuts and maybe pack it with sand. That way she can take it to the beach with her.
Speaker D: Great idea. Well, if they make their presence known when they're out west here visiting, I will be more than glad to buy them a fresh doughnut or two. Anyway. Hey Tom, you have a wonderful day. Thanks for running the net to the and we will see everybody tomorrow morning at Donuts and Coffee in the park,
Speaker A: 9am okay, very good there Brian. And thank you for setting this all up and getting things done for tomorrow. You know, the stone it and coffee, you know, and I keep wanting to say coffee and donuts instead of donut and coffee. Seems like it's wrong but that's just me. But that reminds me, I think the very first event because I joined and I joined the club and started listening to the coffee breaknet during the COVID time and I think the donuts and coffee in Metavista, I think that was the first event that I ever attended and I don't know if it was. Maybe I did it off of Zoom but it's kind of sketchy. But I think that was the actual first in person thing that I Had with the club itself. So it brings back good memories. Yep.
Speaker D: I was president of the club at that time and it was like, well, what can we do to get folks together that's kind of out in a safe, safe zone where we can mask up, wear gloves and have fresh open air and get together. So this and the, the hot RF nights were kind of a. Getting back into. Into seeing each other and kind of socializing in that period of time. So.
Speaker A: Yeah, Covid.
Speaker C: Yeah, good.
Speaker D: A good Covid memory. Have a great day. Ai6us.
Speaker A: You know what's interesting? The mind is kind of an interesting filter because I remember back donuts in the park. I remember back going to Meta Vista, that little, little sleepy park there. I don't remember the mask or that stuff. And maybe my, my mind is kind of filtering all that. That bad stuff out there, But I do remember the, the good times there and meeting people and stuff. Yeah. And I think you. Yeah, you were present at the time and. Yeah, it was just an interesting time. Anyway, that's kind of my first memories of meeting people with that on the club. All right, very good. Well, seven three to you there and we'll see you tonight and see you tomorrow. Thanks for getting everything set up and organizing this. All right, so clearing with AI6US. Next up, Larry. K06IHJ. Good morning to you in Aloha Friday. Good morning. Aloha Friday. K06 ICEJ. Hey, everybody, how you doing?
Speaker D: Just a quick in and out for me.
Speaker A: Just I gotta go to town. I notice I'm low on groceries. I need to go to the food store, so there's that. Other than that, I don't think I'm doing anything with them. Just gonna relax, take it easy and enjoy the day. So I'm gonna make it real quick and say, everybody have a place. Blessed day, everybody. Have fun. Be careful. KL6IHJ73. All right, very good there. You have a great day there too, Larry. Good, good, good to have you check in there. And by the way, I just want to mention that there is a hum when you power, when you transmit, there is a hum on your signal kind of in the background. Roger that.
Speaker D: It's probably gone now, but if not,
Speaker A: I'll check into it. Nope, it's still there. So, yeah, you might want to check into it. Maybe a power supply or something there is going on, but just kind of a low hum in the very background there. Very noticeable. All right, clearing with K06IHJ. All right, this is the coffee breaknet I am Tom NN6H and and want to remind people of course we have the club meeting tonight, 7:30 and then tomorrow we have donuts and coffee in the park at 9am at the Auburn Regional park up in Auburn. And looking forward to that. That will be hosted by SFARC and the coffee breaknet host, myself included. So we will be serving the coffee and donuts tomorrow morning starting at 9:00am all right, so I will go ahead here and take check ins. I will take for the log and also I'll take in and out. So in and outs or for the log. If you want to be in and out let me know and I'll come back to you. This out there for check ins. This is Tom NN 6 inch K6GBZ for the log. Kilo Bravo 7 Delta, Foxtrot, Papa, KB7 via Peak Kennen Twinfold Kilo 11-6-Tango, Trout,
Speaker D: India, Brian and Sacramento KN6TCI fertilized. Kilo6 victor papa
Speaker A: in rexburg, idaho for the log only.
Speaker D: Ai6lz for the log. Whiskey3 charlie, sierra yankee for the log.
Speaker A: Good morning tom.
Speaker D: W8ldt, tim, michigan mobile Friday.
Speaker A: Okay, got quite a few to go through here and sort out some of these. I have KV6ed for the log. I got K4lgi. Sam, are you for the log or in and out? Okay, very good there sam. K4lgi and I hope you hope you feeling better soon. All right. And then I have tim w8l d t. Tim, I didn't hear if you're for the log or wreck you or for in and out.
Speaker D: Sorry tom, I am for log only. Thank you.
Speaker A: Okay, very good there tim. You have a great day. I got you for the log. Then I have wb3csy. I got ki6lz and then I have ki5tlz. I think you're for the log. Can I get a name there please? This is kilo, india, five tango, lima, zulu.
Speaker D: The name here is joseph.
Speaker A: All right, very good there Joseph. And were you for the log or in and out?
Speaker C: I'll be for the log.
Speaker A: Thanks for running the net with the D element. All right, very good. 73 you see there Joseph and thank you for checking in. Then I have K6 Victor, Papa, I have K6 TCI. Brian, is that did I get the call sign right? I think it was a kilo. November 16 Tango, Charlie, India, Brian, is that correct? Call sign?

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Okay, no response there. I guess I'll have to look that up and see. All right, then I have kb7 dfp. I'll come back to you in a minute here, ken. Or a second, couple seconds. Then I have k6 gpz for the log. So kb7 dfp. Good morning. And so what's for lunch? Well, good morning. I'm gonna go for lentil soup today. It sounds good and you know, the weather is not bad here at 72 degrees. But lentil soup still sounds good. Yeah. So do you have. Do you do this? So lentil soup is good. So do you. Lentil soup even when it's like 100 degrees? Yeah, the weather really doesn't affect what I eat very often. Okay, very good. Yeah, I always associate soups with being cold and snowy and all that stuff and just being warm inside with the soup there. All right, very good. All right, well, you have a great day there, Ken and enjoy your lunch. I guess I just like things that are easy to fix. KV7 DSP. I understand that. That's why I have a lot of peanut butter sandwiches too myself. All right, you take care there and good to talk to you. All right, so this is the coffee break minute. We are in overtime here, so I will take just for the log only. For the log only check ins for those who want to get checked in. Who's out there and N6H. Ak6nh. Okay, I'm hearing nothing there, but I did see KC2 Sho. John. I saw you key up there. Did you have something else within that? And you had a k6 ns under. Under the there. Okay, so is there an AK6Ns that's trying to check in? Good morning, this is ray. Ak6ns. All right, Good morning, Ray to you. Are you for the log or you want to chat for a few minutes? No, log only. Thank you very much. All right, very good. Well, AK6Ns, we got you checked in for the log here, so very good. All right, final call for any check ins. Final call for any check ins for the coffee break net before I close things down and throw away the coffee grounds. Okay, I got you there, Mike. I think it's so it's Kilo Mike six. Is that your prefix? That's correct. Kilo Mike six. Mike, Mike. Okay, very good there, Mike. Got you checked in and you'll be my last chicken. So very good and have a great aloha Friday to you there. All right, so this has been the coffee breaknet. I am Tom and N6H so want to remind people we've been talking about this that we have the the club meeting tonight starting at 7:30. It's a touch and take it tables will be set up probably starting around 6 o' clock. So if you want to come by and cruise what was not what's left over from the ham fest, you can come and pick some stuff up tonight. So that'll be at 7:30 or probably open at 7:6 o' clock for that zoom. If you can't make it in person you can be on Zoom and Zoom will probably start around 7 o' clock where the official meeting will be starting at 7:30. Then tomorrow morning we have donuts and coffee in the park at 9am at the Auburn Recreation park and so there's more information on the w6ek.org website and then I will be hosting the Allnowsnet which is on Monday night at 6pm Pacific North 9pm Eastern where we talk about all things node related there and we alternate that with Patrick and 2Dyi. So join us for the AllNodesNet if you're interested in digital nodes on whatever All Star tstar, those type of things. All right, this is the Coffee break net where the sun is always shining, the birds are singing and the fish are jumping and we are sponsored by the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club and we can be found on W6EK Repeater RF on Allstar 51018 EchoLink and on WiresX. We will do this again tomorrow morning at 7:30. It'll be started off at and we'll be broadcasting from the donuts and coffee in the park. Ori and AI6JB will start out and then we'll probably take different shifts, different hosts taking over the Coffee breaknet tomorrow morning. So join us for that and you can hear if you can't make it in person, at least you can hear what's going on through the net host tomorrow morning. So this is Tom NN6H wishing everyone a great Aloha Friday seven threes and we'll talk to you next time and hopefully see you tonight. And tomorrow morning NN6H will be clear. What was the station that wants me in for the log? All right, we got you there Mike. Got you checked into the lock. Good morning to you in LOH Friday and N6H clear.

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Speaker A: Might have missed the call there. K06 Obi met possibly AI6 us.
Speaker B: Good Morning, this is KS6OBI.
Speaker A: Yeah, Kilo Oscar 6 or. Yeah, you're a little fast on that. Glad you know the call sign. I don't ai6us. Brian here. Good morning.
Speaker B: And good morning. This is kilo foxtrock6 Oscar Bravo, India.
Speaker A: There we go. Good morning, Mike. Michael, what you have? What's going on this morning?
Speaker B: I was just checking the repeater. I got the alarms in that individuals are up at the site and they were doing some tower work. So I was just making sure the repeater was still active.
Speaker A: Maybe you're talking. You think you're talking to somebody else. What repeater site? We're probably not in that site.
Speaker B: That is correct. I was talking about the St. John site and I keep forgetting that this is Red Mountain. I apologize.
Speaker A: Yeah, no, no, we're actually in Auburn, California. So I did. I'm sorry, do not know what you're talking about there. Apologize.
Speaker B: No problem, no problem at all. At least the. We got good clear comms today on this repeater and things are working out very well. I appreciate you coming back to me and now I have to get on to other projects.
Speaker A: Okay, yeah, sorry about that. No, I just looked at the Internet and I see your. Yeah, you're coming in through the Orland W6 GRC repeater. Yeah, very good. Yeah, good copy up on that repeater there. And they are still linked in for about one more minute after the coffee breaknet. So sorry about the confusion, but yeah, you're making the Orland W6 GRC repeater just great.
Speaker B: Thank you very much for the feedback. Kf6obi is clear.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, the great coverage of that repeater, by the way. AI6US, you have a great weekend. 7:3.

Speaker A: Please. Brian, you made the repeater sound so good. You can't tell if you come from all star or RS anymore. Hi, high kn6wq.
Speaker B: Hey, Dan. No, it's. I'm very impressed with W6GRC's coverage area. It's a great repeater system.
Speaker A: I haven't had a chance to look at that plot yet, but it sounds pretty good. I was talking to my neighbor, Irk. J6IRK. He changed his qualify. Now, I think. Maybe not, but he's got a repeater up now. But I think we're gonna try something unique. I think we're gonna try to build M40
Speaker C: node 51018. Disconnected.

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