Central California Packet Radio

Packet Net every Sunday at 8:00PM on 145.050 MHz in Central California.

If you get a chance please check in using the unproto mode. If you check in, you will be included as a member. It is free with no obligations. It is easy to do. Set the KaNode you hear best as the first node in the string. Then add KaNodes to the string that hear each other. There is a table below that shows which nodes hear each other. Here is an example what I use from Livermore:

UNPROTO  TODD VIA KJOHN,KBULN,KJOHN,KBERR,KLPRC3,KBERR,ROSE

I can be heard from Modesto to Redding and San Fransisco to Tahoe. 

Here is a sample text if you volunteer to be Net Control:

QST QST QST Sunday Night Packet Net.
This is (Your Call Sign) your "Lucky" net control this evening.
This net meets Sundays a 8:00PM Local Time.
Join by checking in and be added to our list of members.
Answer with an Unproto packet with your Name & Location.
Ask for Net Control volunteer for next Sunday.

Roll call is as follows:

Note: After Roll Call, be sure to ask again for a volunteer for next week's Net Control
if no one volunteered earlier.

Helpful Hint For KPC-3 Users:
MALL ON (default), you see everything.
When OFF only Unproto and Unconnected packets are shown.

Here are some unproto paths I use:
U TODD V KJOHN,KBERR,KLPRC3,KBETH,KBULN,KBERR,ROSE

U TODD V KJOHN,KBULN,KJOHN,KBERR,KLPRC3,KBERR,ROSE

Note. Lately, there are no stations using KCORN and KRDG. Sometimes WOODY is weak and needs to be omitted. KPAC has been very weak lately. Only KBETH and KCORN reliably see TAH0E. WOODY does see TAH0E sometimes. KBETH is a KaNode on Bethel Island and has very
good coverage.

The TRACY/KTRAC node is gone. It burned up in the SCU Lightning Complex Fire south of Livermore. Some of the hardware is in the new JOHN/KJOHN node.

The only reliable path to the ROSE node is via BERRY/KBERR (It does hear JOHN/KJOHN but the weak signal from ROSE is not heard in return).  Rose allows digipeating and is very useful for Tahoe area stations to check into Sunday Night Packet Net.

Central California Packet Net Roster 6/26/2022

Stations that Answered Roll Call (x)

----> Past Net Control Stations    Node Heard

K2YE   Jim in Oakland.............   KLPRC3

K6FVC  Fred in Manteca............   KBERR

KF6ANX Todd in Livermore.......... x KJOHN (Net Control 7/3/2022)

KG6H   Jason in Modesto...........   KBULN

KI6BZR Bob in Woodland............   KBERR

KI6ZHD David in Santa Clara.......   KLPRC3

KJ6M   John in Millbrae...........   KLIVE

KJ6NKR Jeff in South Lake Tahoe...   ROSE

N3CKF  Joe in Volcano.............   KBERR

N6BRL  Ben in Sunnyvale...........   KLPRC3

N6PAA  Ron in Walnut Grove........ x KBERR

W6ELA  Ed in Palo Alto............   KLPRC3

W6OAK  Hugo in Oakland............   WOODY

WB6YNM Al on Bethel Island........ x KJOHN (Net Control 6/26/2022)

WG6CFS Chuck in Sacramento........   KBERR

WU6P   Nian in Sunnyvale..........   KLPRC3

----> Stations Answering Recent Roll Call

AB6BR  Tony in Castro Valley......   KBERR

AG6QO  Joe in Winters.............   KBERR

K6IP   Armand in Union City.......   KLPRC3

K6IXA  Grady in Atwater...........   KBULN

KB6LFM Bill on Bethel Island......   KBETH

KC7MSX Doug in Fernley............   ROSE

KD6NNA Jesse in Union City........   WOODY

KE6NYB David in Oakland...........   WOODY

KE6SZG Roger in El Sobrante.......   KELSO

KF5TPZ Joseph in Sunnyvale........   KLPRC3

KF6COZ Rik in Burlingame..........   KLPRC3

KG6BAJ Bill in Grass Valley.......   KBANN

KG6LRI Vito in Castro Valley......   KLPRC3

KG6KPW Dwane in Sacramento........   KBERR

KG6VWJ Shane in Grass Valley......   KBANN

KG6SJT Greg in Davis/Pioneer......   KBERR

KI6JAS Nathan in Modesto..........   KJOHN

KI6UDZ Bob in Foster City.........   WOODY

KJ6LNH Mike in Pitsburg........... x KBERR

N1QV   Blaine in Berkeley.........   KLPRC3

KK6DCT Kevin in Davis.............   KBERR

KN6LGL     in Folsom..............   KBERR

KK6FPP Thomas in Sunnyvale........ x KLPRC3

KN6PE  Jim in Cupertino...........   KLPRC3

N6TCE  Bob in Carbona.............   KJOHN

KM6HK  Dan in Coursegoald.........   KPOSA

KM6VZD Eric in Emeryville.........   WOODY

KO6TH  Greg in Auburn............. x KBERR

KP4MD  Carol in Citrus Heights....   KBERR

N6AIR  Robert in San Jose.........   KLPRC3

N6ACK  Matt in Cupertino..........   KLPRC3

N6ARP  Mark in Turlock............   KHILL

N6DRY  Paul in Elk Grove..........   KBERR

N6MAM  Mark in San Mateo..........   WOODY

N6YP   Frank in Woodside..........   WOODY

N1OES  Bill in Grass Valley.......   KBANN

NC6J   Jeff in Rancho Cordova.....   KBERR

NM3S   Mike in South Sacramento...   KVOLC

W4FLL  Tom in Carson City NV......   ROSE

W6KGO  Carl in Hayward............   WOODY

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