Participants were Bob, Lyle, Karen, Rick, Larry, Marcos, Charlie.
Steve AI6ZW talked about the Fairview Fire. We called off the Digital Only net last week.
Steve also talked about the previous Net where his HT was acting up.
KN6RBP jumped in as net control. That sparked the topic of batteries. A lot of people chimed.
The take away.
Generally being that you don’t want to leave them fully charged and store them.
You never want them to become to completely De-charged.
You definitely dont want to not overload them, causing a potential failure. And a lot more.
We also talked Make sure your batteries are fused and never short them out.
Thank you AF6YY, we love, our batteries.
KE6JGM is having some issues with FT8. He called CQ but nobody’s out there. He calls CQ but nobody is out there or responds. KN6RBP will be taking a look at his set up seeing if there’s any potential issues.
We had a coronal mass ejection that missed us but not by very much.
KN6RBP timed out the repeater.
I’m thinking my nickname should be Alligator bait. works but seriously folks
AI6ZW also asked about what cal-fire planes drop. It’s called Phos-Chek.
We also talked about the new website. Everybody’s pretty happy about it, but it may not quite be ready for prime time yet. Not everybody was able to find files that are linked, so stay tuned on that.
