WD6AXM TX (146.085 MHz) recordings for 2026-01-08

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Kk6vzv mobile. Wp6axm receiver. Kk6FYB mobile. How are you tonight, Chris? I'm fine and dandy, Lester. 82 calendar days till retirement, and I think I counted 59 work days. Said two calendar days, but 59 more work days, 83 calendar days and 59 work days. Okay. Yeah. I misheard you when you first said it. Okay. Yeah. Only got about two months to go, and I got my little countdown calendar up on my wall, so all I got to do is scratch through the days. Yep, yep. Be gone before you know. Yeah. And so now I got to start. I started doing my Social Security application. I got to go down to CalPERS and talk to them and get that going. Got a couple other things that I have to do financially before that time runs out. Yeah. Gotta get all the ducks in a row to. None of them fall down. When you time to go? Yeah. Let me tell you, I. I took. I took all the Christmas week off for vacation, and I. I don't think I thought about work once while I was at home. And when I got back, I thought, I'm not gonna miss this one bit. Now you get to a point where you say, I've paid my penance. I'm ready to be done. Yeah. Now it's like, yeah. My wife is talking about, well, we need to do this and we need to do that. And I'm sitting there thinking, that can wait till retirement. Now you'll be busy enough when he gets to retirement. Time you don't need to stack up other things to do. Yeah. Yeah. So how you been? Oh, just fine. Just cruising along. Are you kind of steadied on a regular work schedule? Are you still kind of doing weird hours here and there? Oh, I still got to go a few different times. Like next Monday, I got to go to second shift for one day just to train some guys on second shift so they don't lose time on both ends. Oh, boy. So you get off late at night and then you got to go back early in the morning? I go back when I need want to and then just got to work sometime during that day, and then I'll be all right. It's been so long. I don't exactly remember, but I used to. I used to work with this, or I used to, the barracks neighbors with this guy that worked in the command post on Travis. And he was telling me they had like three and three shifts, three on, three off. But his three on was like eight to four, and then four to midnight, and Then midnight to eight, morning I was like, what? Yeah, a few of those jobs you had rotating too. Yeah, that would mess up your sleep schedule so much. So I don't think you'd ever have a normal, you know, how could you have a normal day off? Yeah, you don't. That's why you got three off. Cuz you, you spent the first one trying to catch up and then get a day and a half to do something and then you got to go rest to go back to work again. Yeah, I think we had, I think I used to work four and three, but they were, they were regular shifts, but I think I had four and three. It was six o' clock to six o' clock and back then it was like, you know, nobody was open after 9 o' clock at night. So you get to that point where, you know, I'm on my shift but I'm off. So I'm awake from 6 o' clock at night to 6 o' clock in the morning and it's Saturday and Sunday night and there's absolutely nothing to do. And that's when the, that's when the television guys cut off at 2 in the morning. Yep. The American flag comes up on the TV and then it goes to gray and then it goes to static. Yeah, those were some very long nights. I remember one evening having absolutely nothing to do. So, you know, after midnight or something in like January, I got on my little Honda 350 and I went for a ride and it was January so it was cold out. When I got back. I could barely get off the motorcycle. Went upstairs, threw my jeans in a corner and they were, you know, they were just emanating, just waves and waves of cold. I went back to check them like a half an hour, 45 minutes later and they were still emanating waves and waves of cold. Yeah, everything gets frozen through when it's like that. Oh yeah. And you know, I had a full face helmet, but it was cold enough to where whenever I'd breathe out, you know, the face match would fog up. So I was sitting there breathing with my mouth pointing my breast down so it would go out and not into the helmet. That's why I have frostbite on my cheeks from riding in Alaska and snowmobiling in Alaska. Wind chill, same thing. Face mask fogs up. So you crack the face mask and then eyes water and then tears freeze to your cheeks and then you close the face mask and your face mask fogs up. You can't win. Yeah. A couple of years ago I got this one. I got a new helmet. And one of his features is that you could put. You get another. What do I call it? You got your face shield. And then there was another liner that went in the face shield so that it, you know, put a bit of insulating air between the two of them. It's amazing how well that works to keep the fog free. Yeah, yeah. Helped a little bit. Ours had a diverter thing that went over your nose to help divert the. Like you said, divert the steam out the bottom, but. But then your neck gets wet and cold and you can't win. True enough. True enough. All right, so I'm going inside. I just pulled into the driveway. I'm going to grab my nail and get myself inside and see what this evening is going to bring me. So I'll talk to you later. Have a great evening. Hope you get home soon and put your feet up and relax. 73 KK6BZV clear. All right, Chris. Enjoy. KK6SYB mobile.

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Speaker A: N6 pov monitoring. Anybody around this morning? Wp6axm receiver.
Speaker B: How about N6IWH? I'm somebody.
Speaker A: Okay, you got the OWH? N6POV here. That's my new call. Yeah, it used to be owh. Who is this? I didn't catch the name or the call. I'm Bob. Yeah, Roger, Bob.
Speaker B: It's November 6th. India, whiskey, hotel, Pete or Peter, if you prefer that anti. Go. And it's Sunshine, Little Cool. And I copy you five by five. Okay.
Speaker A: Hi, Pete. You're loud. Then you drop out. It's like your battery's giving up on you here, here and there. Or your fingers slipping off the microphone. You have me. Okay. Am I solid? How you doing? Yeah. Oh, lord. I haven't driven this car in a couple weeks. It's like it rained on the inside of the car. There's water all over the inside of the window. I think I caught you. Okay, now. Anyway, it sounds like your finger was flipping off a microphone. Microphone. How you been, Pete?
Speaker B: How have I been? Okay. You know, I always say, do you want to know the truth or a lie? The lie is a lot shorter. I'm doing that. I'm doing okay.
Speaker A: Okay. You're on the right side of the grass. Yeah. I don't know why. I don't know if it's at this end. You're kind of in and out. I copied that last transmission. I'm headed over the park to get a little exercise, and I'm gonna go see my wife. She's still hanging in there over at the home with the Alzheimer's. Anyway, she's 82. I'm 80. How old are you, Pete? I forgot.
Speaker B: 79. I'll be Haiti. And people say, oh, you look good.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Hey, well, I don't feel like, like. Like 60, you know, it's more like I feel like 80. But, you know the funny thing about these surgeons up here? Like, I need some work. If you're over 80, they don't want to work on you. I'm going, hey, what? And I said, yeah. You didn't get too old? Recovery's a little rough. Sometimes you don't make it. Thank you, Doctor. I love you, too.
Speaker A: Well, I would think they'd have the opposite attitude. That. Ka ching, ka ching. You know, the money. A good chance of making some money on you. I know you have a good hospital up there. So I've heard inlay or something like that. Does that sound right? Doesn't sound right to me. That float.
Speaker B: I'm sorry, Bob. You don't win the rubber Ducky.
Speaker A: Henlo.
Speaker B: He N L O e. Henlo. Yeah, and they've been around, you know, And I know the, the hip replacement surgeon on a personal basis, you know, hey, Doc, how you doing? Actually, I call him Dapper Dan. This guy, well known surgeon,
Speaker A: North Valley here.
Speaker B: He wears like purple blazers and, you know, a tie that's, you know, neon, stuff like that. It's weird.
Speaker A: That's good. Kind of dresses it up a little bit, keeps it interesting. Well, did you get a new hip?
Speaker B: I got the one on the right. They're talking about the one on the left. The right hip. I think it was repetitive stress back in the days of taekwondo. I thought I was tough. I mean, the teacher never said, go over to the bag and bang on it as hard as you can. Kick it like you're stupid.
Speaker A: Okay. Well, it's probably good exercise. Are you going for walks like me? I go to the park. I'm driving there right now to walk half a mile to a mile in the park. Then I'll go see my wife.
Speaker B: I exercise in the backyard and I do walk, but the Mexican guys are yelling at me. Now I'm walking and the guys just slow down in the pickup trucks and they go, hey, hurry up, viejo. What? Viejo means old man. So now I got an audience.
Speaker A: Oh, you must be entertaining them. Okay, Pete, well, it's too bad. You. You could try and find someone to walk with. You know, if you were down here, we could probably walk together in the park here. But you go for a walk, then go out to breakfast somewhere.
Speaker B: Yeah, if you can afford it. By the way, I worked with Sam Betty there at Cal State Hayward. We called him sensei, but Professor Zambetti in the PE department. And you know, he looked. He looked pretty tough. But I know somebody that won actually in the tournament. You know, my, my opinion of it went down just one click.
Speaker A: Okay. Back in the day, when I went there, they. They didn't have a gym at first. They finally put one up. We had no pool. They put that in too. I think it's probably a pretty nice campus up in the hill. Have you been down to visit it lately at all?
Speaker B: Not too much. My son lives in Oakland. I should get down there. But, you know, that happened. Hey, the one thing about Cal State Hayward is going up the hill. I mean, you can go around the sideway. It's not that bad, but I had a Volkswagen bus.
Speaker A: Yeah, it was, I forget Hillary or something like that. Was that the name of the street? Yeah, I used to ride my bike up to the campus there. I think they put in a dormitory eventually, and I think now they've torn it down. But it was there Carlos B, I think, was the name of the dorm.
Speaker B: Yeah, I remember Carlos B. And you rode a bike. Well, coming down must have been a thrill.
Speaker A: Yeah, it was. I had to use my brakes anyway. But there's nothing too bad. I mean, I had to how many gears I had. But I go into low gear and just take my time. Chug, chug up. And I guess there are probably houses all over those hills. Go back and take a look.
Speaker B: Yeah, it used to be, you know, quite the place to hang out around that area. Cal State Hayward. You know, it's well known and, you know, now they call themselves Cal State East Bay.
Speaker A: W E6A X N receiver. Okay. N6V O, V. You're right. They changed the name. Doesn't bother me. I'm trying to think what the motto. Astronaut or something like that. The pioneers. Does that sound right? Where were the pioneers when you were there?
Speaker B: You know, you've got at least a couple of brains health here, right? The Cal State Pioneers. I had a jacket with pioneers and a little kind of a little figure of a guy with a hat and a bucket or something. I don't know. Looking for gold maybe.
Speaker A: When you think about pioneer, people tend to think that rather than the space pioneer. I'm trying to think 63, 65. We're just putting guys into space before we had even orbited the Earth.
Speaker B: I remember that. You know, the big deal, though, in my growing up era was the assassination of Kennedy. That kind of, you know, wait a minute. And then, you know, all these other political figures being shot at the same time.
Speaker A: You know, that was very upsetting to me. I heard him speak at the UC Berkeley campus. And, you know, it was an outdoor event. And Kennedy was really quite different from what we hear today from Donald Trump and the people today. Kennedy really, really was inspiring.
Speaker B: Well, you know, it looks like all the good ones get shot, so, you know, okay, I think I'll become a plumber.
Speaker A: Yeah, safer. Oh, man. That was right. Right before Christmas. And I remember I made some Christmas cards up and I sprinkled red dye on them, like symbolizing blood. Anyway, for my cards, don't send them out anymore. But while I'm at the park, fun to reminisce with you, Pete. Take care. Catch you in the future. N6BOV mogul, Cal State graduate of 67, first graduating class.
Speaker B: Wow, you're famous. Okay. Be sure to breathe deeply. Inhale. Pull your shoulders up when you're inhale. What that does is open the up the top part of your lungs. Get some movement there. Boy, I feel good already. N6PO B&6IWA AP.
Speaker A: I'll remember that. N6B will be clear.

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Speaker A: M6vob Monitoring anybody around this afternoon?m6vob.
Speaker B: Hello, Bob. N6BOV WD6AXM
Speaker A: well, hi, Dave. Long time no chat. Good to hear you.
Speaker B: Yeah, same to you as well. It's been a while, but yeah, sitting here at the house changing eye doctors. So I was getting some of my files, some pictures and things from the previous doctor and giving him to. Sending him over to the new one. Hold on a sec. Turn down the background stuff there. That's so otherwise just, you know, taking it easy today. And of course, now the RF on the HT is affecting the.
Speaker A: The computer. You have an eye problem like me. I think I've had six surgeries on my eyes so far.
Speaker B: Not really nothing like that. I've, you know, got a little bit of the old age stuff starting to develop a bit, but had a little some kind of a separation of something inside there, not the retina, but it's been like that for quite a while now. But otherwise, no, just the usual old age edge. What do they call it? Dinosaur aging.
Speaker A: W E6A X N repeater. Okay. N6POV. Yeah. I think what happens when we get older. The fluid, I forget what it's called, the scientific name. The gel comes away from the back of the retina and that was a problem for me, one of a number of them.
Speaker B: That's kind of what it was. It had to do with the gel. The jelly stuff in there comes loose there. But apparently mine cleared completely away and it hasn't really affected my vision. I just came back yesterday from a test and I'd had a pair of prescription from six, eight months ago, I guess it was the other doctor. And so, you know, he read the new doctor, read them and then did the test on my eyes. And he said, well, it's exactly what your prescription calls for, or you currently have. So it hadn't changed as much as I thought it had.
Speaker A: That's good news. Do you remember the name of your doctorate?
Speaker B: The new one? Yes. Is Texera over at Three Rivers.
Speaker A: Yeah, he's a. I'm trying to think of the name of it. Anyway, I know him, but I. Del Perro, I think Robert Del Piro is one of the ones. I see. I've done the retinal consultants. Have you been there?
Speaker B: No, I haven't had the need nor the recommendation to go see anybody else. Everything looked okay. They took the pictures of the inside of all the retinas and so that's why I was getting copies of the ones from my previous eye doctor. So they got ophthalmologists and optometrist. I think what the optometrist is put glasses and the ophthalmologist is the actual eye doctor or something like that.
Speaker A: You've got a. And the people that specialize in the retina. Anyway, I'm right here waiting for traffic to clear up so I can get across. I'm on Walton. There we go. Got a clear shot there. Anyway, back here. I haven't been on the radio much at all the last couple months. How about yourself?
Speaker B: Well, not as much as I should have probably, but I'm getting there. I do a lot of listening but not necessarily talking because I'm usually doing something in the background. But so far so good. Things are still up and up and running as far as I can tell. Had a little bit of power line arcing it sounded like up there on the site Monday night it was kind of. Kind of ripping and buzzing quite a bit there, sort of sliding up and down a little bit.
Speaker A: Is there much trouble with lightning? I had some issues with lightning the other night in my home. Qth. Oh really?
Speaker B: You had a strike that got into the house or what?
Speaker A: I think it actually hit the house next door. So everything went off and then a few seconds later things came back on again and it maybe three times. I was afraid I was going to lose everything but things seemed to survive. But worryful. Oh boy.
Speaker B: No, I have actually seen a lightning strike on the upper site we had quite a number of years ago. We did a lot of grounding work and lightning protection work on the lower site where the repeater is. And there's a big telephone cable that runs between the two sites to tie intertying systems and things like that. The lightning actually hit the upper sight, ran down the cable to the lightning protection stuff in the lower sight. And then there was also another time when the television folks had their camera looking over that way. They actually caught a strike on the lower sight at one the top of one of the towers. There is a Channel three I think it is.
Speaker A: Has the camera up there periodically. You see them show the fog over the valley?
Speaker B: Yeah, Channel three is one of them. And then there's also alert. Let's see, Alert Wildfire or Alert California has one up there as well. And there's a. At least one other one that's of a private nature. WD6AXM.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, I'm just sitting in stopped traffic over here on Walton right in front of the Moose Lodge across the street. In fact, I just joined the Moose Lodge about two weeks ago. Have you ever been moose over here?
Speaker B: No, I haven't got that kind of time anymore. I was doing, you know, I did the volunteer firework for 20, what, five years here? 25 years or so here in California and so that was enough.
Speaker A: Okay. Did you ever get sent out of state on a fire?
Speaker B: No, I didn't do any of the out of state. I've done a couple of the other mutual aids here in state, the strike teams they call them. But no, I stayed. I had to stay mostly in local area because of my, my primary job.
Speaker A: You haven't retired yet?
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, 2017.
Speaker A: Okay. Well, it's nice that our feeder is still up and running. Everything seems to be working okay.
Speaker B: Yep, so far so good. I don't know if you were aware, but they, you know, the. We had an antenna failure up there last, last year, had those super high winds and it sheared the. That big antenna off at the base caused it. The winds were so gusty and hard that they got. It started it whipping and I guess the mount came loose or something. But anyway it snapped it off and we had to replace it. But so far so good.
Speaker A: Well, did you, were you the one who climbed the tower and do the nuts and bolts of it or do you find you have someone else that could do that?
Speaker B: A couple of years ago we had to come down off of the tower. We had to give up our space there because it was needed for the site owner and commercial and public safety needs. So. And our agreement was such that, you know, we were flexible to be. Have to move if needed if the space was needed for something up there. So. So it's now, it's right there basically on the, at the roof of the site there. But yeah, Ted helped, helped me out and so the other couple of the guys down there at the shop, they got it up there for me because it's about a 23 foot antenna. And then Ted actually helped get it up there and you know, get it mounted and tied down.
Speaker A: So it did a little bit of
Speaker B: work on it, but it seems to be functioning pretty well for, you know, especially for where it's at.
Speaker A: Have we lost coverage to the southwest in that area? I know down around Fairfield? Has that been degraded?
Speaker B: No, that's one of the air REITs. That's one of the areas that should be working probably the best of any of them up there. Going to the north, northwest up there to the. What's that? There's a thing over there. We called it the Triangle. But going up northwest. Yeah, there's a. There's a notch there because of the upper site, you know, notching out the lower site, but otherwise still hear people check in from over in Williams and Maxwell and on up there and of course, you know, anywhere else doing pretty good.
Speaker A: That's wonderful. We're really blessed with a great team. Nice that we can use the site. All right, well, I'm just about to pull in the driveway. Good to talk to you. My car parked here, and we'll catch you another time. W6M 6 POV. Clear.
Speaker B: All right, Bob. Yeah, you take care, and good to hear from you. Yeah, we've been really fortunate over the years here, but unfortunately, there's a lot of commercial, broadcast TV and FM and digital stuff that's up there, and it's. It's starting to chew away at the noise floor as time goes on. So, fortunately, I've still got a hand in it. So, you know, we've got things we can do. All right, take care, Bob, and talk to you later. WD6AXM
Speaker A: for sharing. Dave. N6 pod. Wp6axm repeater.

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