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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
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
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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