WD6AXM TX (146.085 MHz) recordings for 2025-12-07
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Ko6pgy.ko6pgy.n6iwh. Con standing by. Go ahead. N6iwa. Kayla6tby. How you doing? All right. What's going on with you? You oval headed out or what?
Appear to be having some radio issues with this little bell thing. How are you copying? It's okay. Seen better days. But you know what I mean. Over. Oh, yeah, no, this is a stock rubber duck on this new radio, so I'm going to have to switch over to a different antenna. What is that? Is that the UV5R? The 5R mini? It's actually a decent little radio. I mean, the other day I was getting good signal reports of maybe today's weather or whatnot is different. But yeah, for 20 bucks each, you get the little.
Radio, and it is little and it's a little chunky, but it's about the size of a like a little frs family bubble pack radio from Costco. Oh, I remember those. $20. That's not bad. No, I already gave one away for or going to be giving one away for Christmas and whatnot. We just you take it out for a day. If you drop it or break it, hey, you're out 20 bucks. But the seller I got it from also included 2 Nagoya 771 high gain whip antennas. That was I opened up the box, but I ended up actually ordering two sets. So anyway, that's neither here nor there. Anyway, I opened up the box, not expecting a Nagoya to be in there, and it popped open like one of those little snakes in a can. Anything WP6A X N repeater.
It sounds exciting. I like the part about snake in the can. Yeah, one of those little spring loaded little jumping things out of a can because darn things jump. Scared me twice. I mean, I should have known after the first time, but I was caught off guard again. The toaster seems to do that too. I never, never can anticipate the toaster up. Well, hey, did you program it with Chirp? I've got stories. Okay. Chirp has never really worked for me. I don't know why. Windows 10? I don't know. But you know, I've been beating my head up against the wall trying to program some of these rigs. The Wilson 980. Oh, it was terrible.
No, I. I programmed these, and with these little radios, you can actually input the, like, the actual phonetics. So I have it listed here as the WD6AXM. Or, I mean, you can put in numbers, some symbols and stuff, so. Makes it easier to program without having to use curves. The way they redid these UV5R minis, they have two subsets. Like, if you want to. If you want to. If you want to work on something on the radio, you go to radio programming. If you want to program a channel, you go to program channel. That's it. All the settings are pretty much in those two little spots there. Yeah, I've had a few UV5Rs, you know, they work. What the hell? I mean, the money is like a good deal, and.
And you know, a dual band ht. You know, I just bought a rig I'm looking for Rattail r a d te l that was 30 something 35. But it receives HF. Although I haven't heard anybody. I haven't heard anybody out there yet. But it's, you know, 2 meter 440 and you can get sideband, you know, FM the whole bit. Two antenna ports. Yeah, that's a pretty neat. I probably shouldn't hook it up because I'll probably want to get it. Small group of people, I would love to run.
Into somebody that's an expert at programming. I would even pay them money to have them program. You know, I had a 400, a Ya 400 XDR. It does Yaesu fusion and, you know, it's all hooked up with self that I don't know about. And I just could not make it work. So I finally put it in a box, put it in the closet. You know, it's happy there. I'm happy here. Works out. Oh, yeah. There's definitely a nuance to the programming. And a lot of it's running old technology that a lot of ham radio websites are important. But then again, if it's not broke, don't fix it. I would argue that it.
If it's not broken, don't fix it. But I would argue that it's kind of broken. Well, the statement I hear is how can you be a ham for 40 years and not know how to program your radios? Oh, hello. Is that cruel or what? No, it's not for everybody. I've always programmed from the front page software through DMR or anything like that, so I would say it's pretty easy to program an hp. Well, the trouble I had with the wolfang is getting programming a channel manually and getting.
Getting it to remember the PL and also remember. Well, CTCSS. Also get it to remember different PLs and different channels. I couldn't make that work. Yeah, it can be a little elusive there. Taking a rock on the ground, like trying to make fires. It's fine where they are and you're fine where you're at. We are screenshot. Have a lot of leaves on them. They're not the right colors, but hopefully coming down soon. Yeah. Well, what are you up to today? It's only noon. Feels like it's four o'. Clock. I haven't had anything.
It's December 7th, and I can remember because my parents talked about it all the time. And a lot of, you know, after the war, there was a lot of news reels and movies, you know, John Wayne leading the charge. It was all about, you know, kill or be killed. Oh, yeah. You had a bit of a QRM or something on your signal. There was something in the background. It kind of sound like you statically waved or something up. I don't know if anyone else heard that, but I can still hear what you were saying. But in the background, there was a static signal. So it.
I have two. I have two Wilson radios. The one for GMRS, one for 2 meter 440. They get hot. Oh, yeah. Hey, I feel the fan going though. That's a good sign. 50 watts and the GMRS radio will start to make noise. Everybody starts crying about, okay, okay. I still haven't done the GMRS thing. I thought about it, but then the government shut down and then I forgot about it. Now I just remember, so maybe I'll.
Well, there are two good machines, channel 29 and channel 30. And one of them is right there on Sutter Butte. And it's digital po. That means you have to have a GMRS certified rig. But the. The other one is in Oroville. A lot of hands check into that net they have on Thursday night, I believe 8 o'. Clock. And I would listen if there's any kind of an emergency fire, flood, those guys talk about it. Okay, the frequency is 462 725. No, what am I saying? Wait a minute. Ding dong. Ding dong. Channel 30.
Hang on, hang on. Hang on. I'm hanging, I'm hanging. Hang on. It's nice when you used to have a brain. It's gone now. All standby for that privacy. Well, thank you very much. 462-725-462-725. And it's 5.0 MHz. Split just like 440. Ham radio. Be a good idea to see if you can hear.
Them. A lot of guys in that club have outside antennas. So they're all, you know, strong, strapping young men. You know, W E6A X N receiver. Oh, yeah. I always say that. They're new, so I'll do it. If I wait a week, then I won't. Are you talking about. Get the gmrs ticket? Hey, I paid 70. Now it's only 35.
That's an odd drop there. Well, I kept hanging out, thinking everybody was saying it's gonna go down eventually. It did, but not in my lifetime. So I paid $70. And the FCC website. Man who creates these? Are they geeks? Is that what it is? They hate us. They want us to have toil and strife in our lives when we get on the FCC website. And then that damn FRN number. Oh, good. What else? I mean, you're a ham. You already got one, so you don't need to worry about it. Yeah, I was saying earlier that the technologies they use for those websites, even the government wants to.
So old. It's like it doesn't work. Well, are you at home right now? Is that. Is that what's going on? You keep moving around. You have a hot spot, but then it goes away. You gotta go make coffee and stuff like that. Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and switch over to the Nagoya Antenna as well. We'll make the radio a little top heavy, but I'm sure I can manage. I'll be back. I'm gonna make coffee as well. I'll be back. Okay. All right. Well, I'm.
I'm working here on my. I have a granddaughter putting her little gift here for Christmas. Time is moving so fast. It's already. But. You know, Christmas is gonna be here. You're gonna be standing there looking pretty bad. Nothing ready. Like me. I'm going. Oh, God. Back when I was a kid, it was a joke. They'd put a rock, wrap it up in paper and give it to me for Christmas and then laugh. Well, they were good rocks. I did keep them. But my parents could afford a rock and a kick.
Although I think this is a maybe a knockoff Nagoya or something, because I've never had this happen where the little plastic bit that covers the actual connector inside the antenna, that little plastic bit just slides up and I've got bare antenna if I lift that up. So I may not be using this antenna anymore. Well, if you're on it now, it sure is working. That's good to know. It's just. I don't know. I mean, if you go waving the antenna around like I do with being an Italian, talking with my hands, this little thing is just going to keep bobbing up and down, but it's not interfering. I gu.
Maybe I'll leave it alone. Or I'll find a way to glue that cover to where it's going to start. I don't know. Well, do what I do. I just put GE silicone gasket paper on stuff. If it offends me, I just. Here, put some of this on there. Now this issue is gone. Well, still, you got no plans. You're just kicking back today, doing nothing, watching a movie, getting on ham radio. Yeah, that's about a lot of it. Maybe some laundry. I gotta do laundry at some point, so probably do that here before too long so I don't have to worry about it later. Hey, I gotta tell you something, Paul. I hate how.
Housework. I want to get one of those aprons. You call them. I guess an apron that spills out. I hate housework. Really? But you know what? Nobody else is doing that. Anybody else doing it. I'm going. Okay? Would be. I do, like, clean, you know, clean bathroom and stuff like that. Clean toilet. Oh, I wish I had a camera. I could show you some stuff. Years ago, I went to visit people and I went to the bathroom and I was, ooh, no way. You know, my mother's sick. I gotta go. But I like clean. I just don't like doing all the work. Oh, well, yeah, no, that's understandable. Yeah, I like the end result, but suffer through the process sometimes.
Yeah, well, I've got a system, you know, trying to keep things buttoned up, organized. You know, it's like. Younger brother. He wouldn't do anything in high school. I've never seen anybody who just didn't do anything, didn't care, didn't want to know. My mom, bless her heart, he wouldn't even get up out of bed. He could not drag him up. He had to get up, be to school with hate, drag him across the floor outside. He wouldn't wake up. Yeah, that's my brother. He could do anything. Later on, he actually got.
Job, found a career. I couldn't believe it. He became a draftsman. And, oh. Oh, my greatest memory, he was going to a job. He did. Cad. And two bosses. One of them was real nice. The other guy was a jerk. Came in, started yelling at him. He got up, picked up his stuff, said, thank you. Have a good day. Walked off. The other boss came running out. No, no, please. Oh, hey. He's just. He's, you know, he's not waiting because we really need you. Said, nope. Talk to you later. I mean, yeah. Oh, you know, take this job and shove it. Yeah.
Hey, peter, you're copying me now. Ko6bgy. Oh, yeah, that's perfect. Okay, well, I'm gonna get get step in here and get storage done, so that way I can enjoy the rest of the day. But I'll have the ready one in the background. Yeah, thanks for the cute, though. All right, talk at you later.
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