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]TGIF Net Transcript January 16, 2026
DIR By: VE3RD
Date: January 17, 2026, 6:48 am
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TGIF Net Transcript January 16, 2026
Preamble
Welcome to the TGIF Radio Net for Friday, January 16th of 2026.
My name is Eric.
My call sign is KC8UKB.
We meet here every Friday evening at 830 p.m. Eastern Standard
Time
on the TGIF server talk group 31665 to chat about a chosen topic
and anything else related to amateur radio.
Tonight's subject is winter field day.
Emergency traffic may be indicated by a triple break and will be
accepted
at any time during the net.
Please remember, this is a directed net, so please only transmit
once you're directed
to do so by the net control station.
Does anybody have any announcements, news, or important
information for the net?
Please come now.
All right.
Now that you've heard, let's get on to check-ins.
When you check-in, say your call sign, then say it phonetically.
For example, this is KC8UKB, Kilo Charlie 8 Uniform, Kilo Bravo.
Check-in List
--- Code ---
W3MTN W3MTN W3MTN
KF5MG KF5MG KF5MG
KA7DLB KA7DLB KA7DLB
K9FEH K9FEH K9FEH
NY2S NY2S NY2S
WB3IHY Joe PA WB3IHY Joe PA WB3IHY Joe PA
K2OZ K2OZ K2OZ
N4MNN N4MNN N4MNN
KC1LKO KC1LKO KC1LKO
KE8APO KE8APO KE8APO
KA3NGT KA3NGT KA3NGT
WE8M WE8M WE8M
KB3PTP KB3PTP KB3PTP
NT9Q NT9Q NT9Q
WC7V WC7V WC7V
K8LR K8LR K8LR
WA1WQC Dave WA1WQC Dave WA1WQC Dave
KE8PCQ KE8PCQ KE8PCQ
WD8KOB WD8KOB WD8KOB
W4SFX W4SFX W4SFX
KE4TLC KE4TLC KE4TLC
W1GSK W1GSK W1GSK
NG5N Angie NG5N Angie NG5N Angie
KF8I Clint KF8I Clint KF8I Clint
AC4VT AC4VT AC4VT
N9DYO N9DYO N9DYO
KC9MEC KC9MEC KC9MEC
WM3Q WM3Q WM3Q
N9NJS Lee N9NJS Lee N9NJS Lee
KF0JQR KF0JQR KF0JQR
KC2FLY KC2FLY KC2FLY
N3DJK N3DJK N3DJK
W3ATN W3ATN W3ATN
WB3GTM WB3GTM WB3GTM
N4HYK Doc FL N4HYK Doc FL N4HYK Doc FL
N3DQD N3DQD N3DQD
N1XQX N1XQX N1XQX
N3JAS N3JAS N3JAS
KA2YED Mark KA2YED Mark KA2YED Mark
AD2CH AD2CH AD2CH
KB3RD Vic KB3RD Vic KB3RD Vic
KW0Z Steve KW0Z Steve KW0Z Steve
KD4BJA KD4BJA KD4BJA
N4ZWR N4ZWR N4ZWR
KG5PPT KG5PPT KG5PPT
K4WZV Robert K4WZV Robert K4WZV Robert
N6PPP N6PPP N6PPP
N4XV N4XV N4XV
WB4T WB4T WB4T
K5GUU K5GUU K5GUU
K4EJW K4EJW K4EJW
KC8USA Fred KC8USA Fred KC8USA Fred
KB8KES KB8KES KB8KES
NS8G NS8G NS8G
KC9SIO KC9SIO KC9SIO
WD9HGO WD9HGO WD9HGO
KV9Q KV9Q KV9Q
KD9LOR KD9LOR KD9LOR
KD8BVR KD8BVR KD8BVR
KB8PFL KB8PFL KB8PFL
KB3AJN KB3AJN KB3AJN
WW4EOC WW4EOC WW4EOC
KB3JQQ KB3JQQ KB3JQQ
W7BPA W7BPA W7BPA
AB3TY AB3TY AB3TY
N4DAD N4DAD N4DAD
--- End Code ---
TGIF Trading Post
Nothing heard.
Discussion
K4WZV
Yeah, no problem at all, good evening everybody on the net, and
doing a fantastic job, Eric.
Winter Field Day, just like any field day, if you have not
participated in a field day,
it is a must if you are an amateur radio operator.
Get with your club, and what the best part about the field days
is learning how to set
everything up, learning how to set the different types of
antennas up, the different types
of radios, different types of modes, you get to meet a lot of
really great people, and
they usually have pretty good food, so if you want a free lunch,
stop by Winter Field
Day.
It's definitely unique in what they do, and the preparation for
it, there's just quite
a bit going on, so get to Winter Field Day, especially a lot of
you new hams, it might
be just technicians, it will give you an opportunity to work the
HF bands.
You are allowed to when you're at Winter Field Day, so that will
give you an opportunity
to see some of the great that amateur radio hobby has in store
for you, so check out the
Winter Field Day, it's a great experience.
Back to NetControl, this is K4WZV.
W3ATN
Yeah, thank you, club in the MDC district, we're actually in
Maryland, we're not a very
big club, I think we have about 60 or 70 people, and we do
Winter Field Day, we're not into
competing, we're more into educating and just having a good time
together, and so we have
a fair number of new members this year, and we're just
encouraging as many as we can get
out to join us, we don't get any visitors for Winter Field Day,
only because we do it
in, a member has a farm with a shed out in the field that we can
shelter in from wind
and stuff like that, but we run off batteries and solar and so
forth, and we usually set
up four radios and we'll do phone, you know, we do all three of
the modes that were mentioned
earlier, but it's mostly a time to get together and help new
hams get their feet wet and just
have a good time making contacts and having fun together.
Now when we do Summer Field Day, we do that in a park in town,
and so we get a lot more
visitors and turn people on to join the club and learn a little
something about ham radio,
but in the winter it's more of an isolated, go and have a good
time and work with each
other, building up our skills, so that's how we do Winter Field
Day, so W3ATN, Tenet.
N4HYK
Thank you, Mr. Eric, this is N4HYK, November 4th, 2015.
N4HYK, my name is Doc, and I'm over here in Central West
Florida, in a little town called
St. Petersburg, anyway, I'm an old dude, and I need to
contribute something to that.
So I thought I'd come in and say this, number one, field day is
field day, when is field
day, field day is the last bad weather weekend in June, that's
field day.
The other field day was made up, that Winter Field Day, I'm
saying this for the newcomers
that may not know this, but that's okay, as someone just said,
it's a time to have fun.
And some of the clubs do have some good food, our club would
have been one of them, and
we had a professional cook, he was also a member of the club,
and a ham radio operator,
but he was also a professional barbecuer, he worked at the
college, but he did those
barbecuing jobs on the side, so guess what, he did that when we
had field day, and so
forth and so on, and boy oh boy, we couldn't wait until the full
dinner on the Saturday,
and of course on the Sunday, on the Sunday, when you get ready
to take down, you could
see ham slipping off the grounds, trying to get away, so they
wouldn't have to do all
that work.
Let me reset and I'll continue, but as someone just stated, you
will learn a lot, you will
learn a lot, and I think once upon a time, not nowadays,
nowadays everybody's got the
internet and everybody's got their own emergency device, and so
forth and so on, but once upon
a time, it was a serious thing, setting up with your own
equipment, with whatever you
got for emergency communications, now you may find them doing
something similar to that
on some of these Caribbean islands after hurricanes nowadays,
but you don't hear much of it anymore.
I heard from North Carolina a couple of years or so ago, and
they didn't have any connection,
and the big guy in the sky with all the tech, and I didn't, I
think he put in a couple of
satellites for them, remember that?
There was no ham set up there.
The reason I bring this story up, let me reset, okay, this is
N4HYK, the reason I bring this
story up, I think Field Day started many years ago, and if you
do it by the rules, like Nat
Control just said, there are rules for this if you want to play
by the rules, and some
of those rules will dictate you can't start before a certain
time.
I think they've backed it up to Friday now, there's so much you
can do on Friday, and
then the rest have to be done on Saturday before 1 p.m. when it
starts, but all the
rules are there, as in Nat Control's statement, the rules are
there, so this brings me to
the point I've been trying to get to with legal, they go out and
buy stuff for Field
Day, when you're supposed to be able to operate and communicate
with what you already have,
because it's supposed to be an emergency setup for
communication, so nothing's going to be
open, everything's going to be down, it's just what you already
have, anyway, good evening
to all, and thank you very much for letting me get in here and
tell that little story,
N4HYK.
Acknowledgements
No questions heard.
Late check-ins acknowledged: WW4EOC, KB3JQQ, W7BPA, AB3TY,
N4DAD.
Before we close the net, I need to thank the people that make
the TGIF Network possible,
let me start with someone who will always hold a special place
in our hearts, the founder
of our DMR Network, Mitch Savage, Echo Alpha 7, Kilo Delta
Oscar, he started the TGIF Radio
Network with a single Raspberry Pi, totally hard to believe, he
gave us an excellent screening
on TGIF and MDVM hotspots, and spent countless hours helping
operators with technical questions,
sadly, Mitch has passed away, but his spirit lives on in every
QSO across the TGIF DMR
Network, KF6S, James, he is now a silent key, and he left us
incredible legacy, he worked
with Mitch on the NextGenScreen hotspots, and when those two
together, they set new
standards for DMR Radio, Ty Weaver, KG5 RKI, he is our core
coder, Andy Nielsen, G7 LRR,
he is our dashboard master, he spoke to us last week at Lens, it
was wonderful, Glenn,
M3, MEL, he created our international forum page, he's retired
now, but he will always
be remembered, and appreciated, thanks goes out to the forum
management team, AD2CH,
thank you for checking in tonight, K5CDK, Doug, and WB3IHY, Joe,
thank you for checking
in too, Vic, V3JR, sorry about that, I had to pause for a break,
Vic, V3JR, he handles
our documentation, Phil, V3RD, he does the net recordings,
development of the NextGenScreen,
you're always on 31665, and I've heard you help countless people
with DMR, HF, and any
other subject, thank you, Robert, and I also want to make sure
that I thank every single
station that checked in tonight, we truly appreciate their
participation.
Close
All right, nothing heard, and I want to remind everyone
listening that you can hear this
and other TGIF amateur radio net recordings at the TGIF.network
web page, select the forum
tab on the left-hand menu, scroll down, navigate to the TGIF
Friday Night Net Recordings Index
on the forum tab at the TGIF.network page, and you can listen to
this or any other TGIF
net that we've had in the past.
Thank you, V3RD, for making the TGIF amateur radio recordings.
It is a super nice tool if you heard something wrong and you
want to revisit.
My name is Eric, callsign KC8UKB, signing off from Alglase
County, Ohio.
Join us again next Friday at 8.30 p.m. for another TGIF Radio
Net on Talk Group 3165.
This is the end of the net for tonight, Friday, January 16,
2026.
The TGIF Talk Group 3165 is now available for amateur radio use.
73, remember, thank God it's Friday.
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