WD6AXM TX (146.085 MHz) recordings for 2026-01-09

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Speaker A: Ko6fh.
Speaker B: This is n6iwhere. N6iwh.
Speaker A: Ko6fhn. How am I coming out of this thing?
Speaker B: Sounds good, sounds great. Your mic might be a little hot over.
Speaker A: All right, well, thanks for the feedback. I just got this yay screen off of ebay, so I'm just testing it out, seeing if it, it was worth the money or not.
Speaker B: Sounds good. What'd you pay
Speaker A: the FT70D and I got it for 100 bucks.
Speaker B: Oh, not bad, not bad. It's working. And you know, the mic gain is adjustable. People have told me to turn mine down. I don't know, it's how close you talk to the mic. You know, my problem is I eat the mic. Hello?
Speaker A: Well, I'm still goofing around with the settings. We'll get it dialed in sooner or later.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Hey, can you give me your call and your name? N6iwhere. Name here is Pete Papa, Echo, Tango, Echo. I'm in Chico,
Speaker A: Kilo, Oscar Six Foxtrot, Hotel November. This is Ben, Bravo Echo, November in Mary's Hill.
Speaker B: All right. Hey, we got a little sunshine up here today, but a little chilly. Are you out headed home or shopping or what?
Speaker A: I'm still at work, just getting my day wrapped up here. Just waiting for the last bit of my students to get picked up and then I'm on the road.
Speaker B: Hey, Ben, do you get on the GMRS frequencies?
Speaker A: Not really. I've got my GMRS car ticket, but I really just use that for camping when I'm, when I need to get a, get a hold of my kids.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, good idea. Hey, One thing about GMRs though is you can give a radio to your kids, your mother, your mother in law, whoever, on the same ticket. They would be unit 2, 3, 4, 5.
Speaker A: Yeah, that was the appeal with that because, you know, try as I might, I know I'm never gonna talk my wife into getting her ham ticket, so, you know, that was the, the only way I could see that happening.
Speaker B: Well, you know, there's quite a few people out there. I'm thinking of this repeater in Orville. Every Thursday night, 8 o'.
Speaker A: Clock.
Speaker B: They have a net, you know, a lot of people. It's because, you know, back in the day, paradise set fire, the power went out, nobody knew what was going on. Now at least they've got radio.
Speaker A: That's actually part of the reason why I bring a handheld with me to work because I, I work at a local elementary school and this is part of the fail safe, just in case we lose phone and cell phone service, because, believe it or not, AT has
Speaker B: actually
Speaker A: been cut a couple of times this year. We've. We've had no phone service here.
Speaker B: Ouch. Yeah. Hey, you know, the power grid could go down. Anything could happen. I think if something. Get to bed, I'll be listening. Over on GMRS, it's actually channel 30 that I was thinking of, and. And nice people, you know, they don't want you to rag. Chew out there that much, but they're. They're all polite.
Speaker A: Yeah, Ragtuan's definitely starting to go on the. The wayside, I think. Unfort. I know. You know, 20, 30 years ago. Definitely a lot more of it going on than there is now.
Speaker B: Yeah, I hear ham's talking about it, too. They say it, you know, because of the Internet and everybody's. You know, we don't really need to talk and stuff, but I enjoy it, really. But, you know, over on the Carla system, They asked me to go away.
Speaker A: Well, that's what I was gonna say. The problem with the Internet is I think a lot of the times people are talking a little bit too much, and the etiquette really isn't observed that much. You know, a lot of. A lot of keyboard warriors out there.
Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Technology is certainly changing things. You know what I see, though? Places I go, everybody's staring down at the phone. I mean, really, a bomb could go off and they wouldn't care.
Speaker A: Don't I know it. And, you know, that actually kind of bugs me a lot with the school setting. You know, we go up to shady creek. It's a science camp once a week. And I'm amazed. We always have a small portion of kids that are freaking out because they, you know, can't take their phones with them. And, you know, it's like they don't have anything to do. And they're like, you know, oh, my gosh, we actually have to talk to people.
Speaker B: Oh, my God. Yeah. What, are we coming through? Yeah, I know. And I don't like seeing kids. I used to teach high school. I don't like seeing kids playing solitaire. But a lot of adults that I know get on, and hour after hour, they sit there and they drag those little cards around in solitaire. That to me, I think, you know, how about at least get online and look. Look at stuff or whatever. No, I'm okay. W E6A repeater.
Speaker A: Ko6fhn for identification. Yeah, you know, it's. I actually read a article that Arnold Schwarzenegger had in his newsletter a little while back, and it was talking about just how much brain power we waste. Not. We're just trying to ignore our phones in the first place. It's just become that much of a thing. That's me personally.
Speaker B: I'm just.
Speaker A: I'm trying to make it a habit, bit of just turning the sound off and putting it in another room, Kind of like just back in the old days, just so I can focus on whatever it is I need to get done.
Speaker B: Well, you know, technology. I mean, the house could be on fire and say, wait, let me get this call.
Speaker A: Yep. Or, you know, trying to get my son's attention, you know, for something. And, you know, it's. Hey, hang on a second. I need to. I need to finish what I'm doing.
Speaker B: Well, hope for the best in terms of the kids, really. I've known students where in a high school and they have no skills. I really wonder what happens. Where do they go? I mean, you never hear about them or anything. You know, they're just gone. But it was bad.
Speaker A: Well, you know, I tell my 6th graders all the time they need to be. They need to take care because, you know, just kind of like the computer did years back. You know, AI is going to be taking over a lot of stuff by the time they get out of the workforce. So, you know, I always try and encourage them to try and find a thing or two that you're actually passionate about because, you know, whatever your folks are doing, odds are it might not be there for you.
Speaker B: Hey, you mentioned AI. You know, people are really afraid because they're already creating things on their own and we don't know what they're doing. One of the comments from an AI robot was, there are too many humans.
Speaker A: It's a black box, that's for sure. But. And you know, it's definitely something to take care of because, you know, it's starting to become more and more a tool even in. Professional development, Learning how to use a
Speaker B: couple
Speaker A: for research projects and lesson planning.
Speaker B: A little while. It dropped out on that last one. You know, it's almost like your radio is getting hot. And this happens to me gets hot and you know, it'll just garble. Yeah, not sure.
Speaker A: I'm wondering if I got a. A couple of batteries with it. I'm wondering if I need to put this one up. I'm gonna play around with it a little, but like I said, For 100 bucks wasn't bad.
Speaker B: Or you're moving around, you know, changing positions.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's the other thing, too, I live down the street from the school I'm at, so I'm actually on my way home right now.
Speaker B: Hey, I know a guy who was the nighttime janitor at Diablo Valley College. And I knew him because he was going to school and getting a degree. But he said, I am not going to lose that job. He said, the work is easy. I make good money. Nobody bothers me. You know, I got a degree in engineering, but I want. I want to continue as a janitor. Okay.
Speaker A: Nah, I like teaching. You know, I always. I. One of my first jobs I ever had was private security. Anytime anything gets rough, I just remind myself that I used to get paid to stare at a door door for eight hours. So this, you know, really isn't that bad.
Speaker B: I taught adult heads for a while because high school, it was more like ride control and being a man, they would always pick me for the tough job. You know, the big guys who couldn't pass anything. Right. But I had a couple of inches. Incidents of women claiming sexual harassment. And I was just amazed at how quickly they turned on me. I didn't even get a chance to say, wait a minute. This didn't happen. You know, so, you know, men have talked about this before even, you know, even the accused of sexual something or other, and, you know, you've had it. Yeah. Good afternoon, pete. And the other fellow. Wd6axm. Yeah, we're talking to. You. Dropped out. Try it again. How are things going? Fair to Midland. Trying to, you know, pick up the shop a little bit more and do things that enjoyed a little bit of the sunshine today, that's for sure. Yeah. And you've been cleaning up a lot. Your garage must look really great. Well, the floor has come up out of the ground a couple inches. You know, I have a little. A little clutter problem myself. Trying to keep things organized is, you know, pretty time consuming. Yeah, well, I'll get up and then decide in the morning.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Go out and dig up these few things. Look through there. I haven't used that or even forgot I'd had it for three or four years. And so it's off. It goes into the trash can, you know, those kind of things. Of course, the next day or two, I'd be sorry. Well, I need one of those. Oh, I've been that held something in my hand, A car part. Oh, I'll never need this. Toss it in the trash. And guess what? The next day, one of your friends calls up and says, hey, you got one of these? Yeah. Or the next week. You need it yourself. But I used to collect Volkswagen parts. And finally, after about 20 years of doing that, I got in touch with a mechanic. Oh, he got a tremendous deal. I mean, any kind of part you need, I had it. And I just sold it all for like 500 bucks. You know, cleaning up, getting rid of it. Yeah, I went through the same thing with the Motorola parts and stuff.
Speaker A: Alrighty.
Speaker B: Well, I guess see if the other fellows was there. WD6A XML Ben. Fhn w I'll be listening n6iwhich you a little later. Have a good day of it. WD6AXM. Sounds like frequency is clear. Wa1r e n wa1 nerd. One more time. Wa1ne I get confused on my call. Wa1r e n w a1ner Go ahead, David. W a1ren Are you. Are you right up on the dam? Yeah, right up at the top of the spillway. Launching facility. Okay. Pretty up there, huh? Yeah, very nice for the sunshine.

Speaker A: Standing up here a lot of. Is there
Speaker B: a
Speaker A: lot. They letting out a lot of water right now?
Speaker B: Yeah, it looks like
Speaker A: they're letting
Speaker B: out quite a bit.
Speaker A: Wow, that's. That's great. Okay. No fish are jumping though, huh? No idea. See him jumping?
Speaker B: No, I don't see any fish jumping.
Speaker A: Probably no salmon now. Okay, well, it sounds good up there. Wow.
Speaker B: Yeah, we're heading back out of the boat launch area right now.
Speaker A: Not much going on down. Down around the boat ramp, huh? Nope,
Speaker B: not a whole lot going on up here.
Speaker A: Well, I wanted to check with you and did you get my oranges okay? Yeah, we got them. Paula says she just ate one. It's very good. You did? You did try them? Yeah, she tried it. She said it was very good. Okay, good. I'm looking forward to them. Okay. Well, you
Speaker B: didn't get
Speaker A: a chance to see Ernie, though, huh? No, did not. Oh, he's boy, huh? Yeah, we just went into the furniture store and didn't go down to the shop. Okay. All right. Okay, well, we'll get
Speaker B: you
Speaker A: a hamburger, head on home here pretty soon, huh? Yeah,
Speaker B: we'll
Speaker A: be heading
Speaker B: to the house here very shortly.
Speaker A: I'll catch you after a little bit. Wa1r e n wa1ner I'll be clear. See you later. All right, talk to
Speaker B: you
Speaker A: later. Wa1ren clear.

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Speaker A: Kk6vcd mobile we6a x n receiver. Kk6vcd ko6vcy. How you doing, Chris? Happy Thursday. Or what's left of it.
Speaker B: Happy Thursday. Yeah, yeah. And yeah. Well, I'm frustrated as all get out. My computer stopped working for me today and I, I went to get another computer ready and I spent an entire day trying to get it to go and it wouldn't. And I got to come back to the same thing tomorrow.
Speaker A: And you are the IT department, so I would say you can't really call anybody else to do it, right.
Speaker B: And you know, I want to know what in the world is going on. I think they're trying to give me a hint, actually. I think they're trying to tell me they don't want me anymore. Here's an idiotic driver in front of me. Let's see. I want to turn left. No, I don't. I want to go straight and back, back behind me. He, he was on the off ramp off of the bridge and then decide, no, I don't want to do that after all. So he's like making it up as he goes along.
Speaker A: Yeah, the knucklehead. Knucklehead drivers are out and about. There was a few here just on my short commute on the way home today. And it's like one guy uses left signal to turn right. I thought that was. Maybe he's dyslexic.
Speaker B: Well, yeah, I've had somebody with their left signal on in the left lane and then when they actually got up, then they went all the way across everybody and turned right.
Speaker A: I remember one time I was driving a loaded 5 ton truck and tractor trailer, military stuff coming from Beale, going back to Oroville and coming off that bridge right there and the light changed and it was just a mess. And they're like, why didn't you stop? I'm like, you try, you try stopping that truck.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, I'm going home. I don't have to deal with any more stuff. So. The only thing is I have to go back out again tonight. I don't want to go back out again tonight.
Speaker A: Choir practice or Bible study?
Speaker B: Bible study. Choir doesn't start back up again till Tuesday, till February.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: I didn't get a chance.
Speaker A: How did your, how did your part go? Did you meet your expectations or this day, sir?
Speaker B: No, I was pretty satisfied. There was a couple of spots along the line where I kind of got confused and just quit singing. But you know,
Speaker A: The best part is a lot of people don't know the Difference. They fake it and keep going. Even with our military funerals, they were like. Most of these people don't know what you're doing, so if you make a mistake, they probably won't even see it. But at least with that, I still strive to not make any mistakes. But sometimes that's bugle. That'll get you.
Speaker B: Yes, it will. Yes, it will. Well, I got my appointment with CalPERS next week to go discuss retirement and probably start the paperwork on it.
Speaker A: Wonder if they have any way of fast tracking that. Probably not.
Speaker B: Well, all I need to do is make sure that, you know, they get everything ready for when I retire April 1st.
Speaker A: Yeah, I still don't know the whole process, and I'm sure you'll figure it out here in the next coming weeks, but. Well, that's real smart. Ride your bike. And your kids riding their little bike with no light. He's behind you and you're 300ft ahead of me. Anyway, we had a couple people two years ago at the county. They got the golden hat handshake or whatever and said that they regret doing that because they got shortchanged or whatever. But you would think that they would do it on their own. But they really imply that you need to contact them to retire because they're not gonna. They're not gonna do it automatically, which is kind of redundant. You think they would automatically process people out?
Speaker B: There's like five or six different choices that you have on. This is how I want my retirement paid. So you really have to tell them, you know. You know, I guess if there was only one way to do it, like the Air Force, there's only one way to do it. So, you know, when you retire, you retire and, you know, they know exactly what to do.
Speaker A: I might be sure if I need Ko6dgy. I'm sure I did. But you say it so often, but.
Speaker B: Yeah, no, that's.
Speaker A: I did not know that there was that many options and stuff, but it makes sense. Do you want to go this way? Do you want to go that way? Do you want benefits?
Speaker B: And it all has to do with. Do you have any survivors? And you don't want. Do you want them to continue to get benefits after you die?
Speaker A: No. It's funny, I was watching. Well, I just won the lottery and my kids think it's part of theirs. And it's like, if they're grown adults, they are not entitled to any of that.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, well. Well, I'm swollen in, so I said I get to go inside and have 15 minutes to myself before we have to leave. Maybe 20. So have a great evening and we'll talk to you later. 73JK6VZD. Clear seven three.
Speaker A: Chris, enjoy your evening and hopefully you can relax for a little bit. Ko6vgy. I'll be clear 7 3.

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Speaker A: This is km6riw listening. Does ubisetter have a net control on frequency?
Speaker B: I wasn't planning to do it, but I'm just pulling up documents to go ahead and get it started.
Speaker A: I can help out with that too,
Speaker B: if you want me to. Paul.
Speaker A: KN6GTN.
Speaker B: Yeah, Ernie, if you don't mind, I think that'd be great. So. Yeah, please do, if you've got your documents ready.
Speaker A: Calling all stations. Calling all stations. This is KN6GTN Ernie in Bangor, California, your net control station for this evening's Net. Welcome to the Yuba Sutter Aries Net for Thursday J January 8, 2025, 2026. All licensed amateur radio operators are invited to this net. This net meets every Thursday night at 1900 hours local time on the WD6AXM repeater. The CTCSS tone to access the repeater is 127.3 WE6AXM repeater. I am now placing the Yuba Sutter ARES team on Level 2 emergency status for the duration of the Net. This is a directed formal net and all traffic is to be directed to or through the Net control station. If it is necessary to interrupt the Net for emergency or priority traffic, please identify the traffic by saying emergency priority or brake. Brake and state your call signs. In the event of an actual emergency requiring the services of the Yuba Center Aires teams members should tune to this repeater or 146.460 MHz simplex and await Feather instructions. For more information on areas in this area, Please contact our EC, Neil N6 or one of our AECs, Robert K6VNR, Brandon Km6JID, Paul W6BNH or Devin N0DVE. You may also contact our Sacramento Valley Section Manager, J&6SAC. Information and training materials may also be found at sacvalleyarees.org or ARRL. Is there an operator on frequency who is willing to act as backup Net control station this evening? As backup Net control, please have a copy of the net roster and script on hand. Anyone willing to be backup net control, please come now.
Speaker B: W16H. Thanks, Ernie.
Speaker A: Thank you, Paul. I got you down. As backup net control, this is KN6GTN. Ernie, your net controller. I will now call from a list of members of Ubisider Ares, starting with our leadership. First of all, looking for EC, Neal N6CNY, Paul W6PNH, our assistant EC. Do you have anything for the Net tonight?
Speaker B: No, nothing for the Net, but I sure appreciate you jumping in. Thanks a lot. Back to you, W6P and H.
Speaker A: Thank you paul. Got you checked in. How about assistant ec brandon km6jid? Devin n0dve assistant dc
Speaker C: good evening everyone. This is devin nzero, dbe in linda and thank you ernie for doing the net at the last minute. Appreciate it a lot.
Speaker A: Thanks for checking in, devin. Yeah, I think you've done your job at that too, so thank you. How about assistant ec robert k6vnr. Our district ec carl n6ckv. End our section ec michael kk6zgb. And the arrl section manager n6sac j. This is a non training net tonight so we will move on to general membership starting with Greg K6 Gab. How about carla k6kds?
Speaker C: Yes, this is carla k6kds in yuba city. Nothing for the net tonight. Back to you.
Speaker A: Thank you carl. I got you checked in about kim kn6kip. Matthew kn6wnr. And grant W6 jib. How about John Ki6UDF?
Speaker B: This is John Kilo, India 6 uniform Delta Foxtrot.
Speaker A: Nothing for the net. Thanks for checking in John. How about David wa1ner?
Speaker D: How about good evening Ernie and the net wa1ner David in Yuba City and my youngest daughter came up to the furniture store today, this evening actually and picked up a couple nice bags of oranges from your son there. I didn't come up today. They snuck out and had to take a run trying to run a coat out on the truck truck. So I didn't come up and I will be. I will be eating them a little bit later. Thanks for doing the net wa1n er thanks Ernie.
Speaker A: Thanks for checking in. David, I was going to ask you where you been but that. That explains it. You have a good evening. Good to hear you on the on the air. How about Brad Km6r. And ryan k6rcm. Manna ka6etb? How about daniel n6apx?
Speaker B: Good evening ernie and the net. This is daniel n6apx wishing everybody a happy new year and back to net.
Speaker A: Thank you for checking in daniel how about dan km6nfe? Are there any other Yuba Sutter members on frequency this evening that didn't hear your call sign or didn't get to your mic in time? Please come now.
Speaker B: Ko0x justin in calusa with no traffic.
Speaker A: Thank you Justin. Any other Yupesider ARES members on frequency that would like to check in. Hearing?
Speaker B: None.
Speaker A: I will now call for neighboring Aries team members. I will start by calling from a roster of frequent members. Afterwards we will call for further neighboring Aries members to Check in. First of all, looking for Dan KF6HHH. Good evening, Ernie and Manette. This is Kilo, Foxtrot 6, Hotel, Hotel, Hotel, Dan and Woodland, Yolo county areas. No traffic. Thanks for checking in. How about Darrell KM6 KFW. And John K6HFP?
Speaker B: Hey, good evening, Ernie in the Net. This is John up in East Orville representing Butte county tonight. No traffic for the Net. Hope everybody's doing good. Back to your name. Ku6h, jeff, pete.
Speaker A: Thank you, John. Good to hear you on the air. How about Patrick Kn6rth?
Speaker B: Good evening, Ms. Patrick. Kn6rth. Nevada county areas.
Speaker A: Thank you, Patrick. How about Martin W7IPW. And mike n1ycn? Okay. Are there any other Aries team, neighboring Aries team members that would like to check in tonight? Please state your call sign phonetically and give it slowly so I can record it correctly. Any neighboring Aries team members that would like to check in, please come now. WP6A XM repeater. Hearing None. I will. This is KN6GTN. Ernie. I will now call for visitors to the Net. I will start by calling from a roster of frequent visitors. Afterward we will call for further check ins. First of all, looking for Doug KD6LOK.
Speaker B: Good evening Ernie and the net. Kilo, Delta, 6 Lima, Oscar, Kilo, Doug over here on dry Nimshu Ridge tonight. We appreciate the dry, but we know we need some rain or more rain anyway. Although I've dumped.
Speaker A: I think it's been 10 and a
Speaker B: half inches or so for January already.
Speaker D: Thanks for picking the net up, Ernie.
Speaker B: Seven three, all KD6 lok.
Speaker A: Thank you for checking in, Doug. I wondered if it was drying off up on top of the ridge there. Looking for Linda, KK6SO Z.
Speaker C: Good evening, Ernie and the net. This is Kilo, Kilo, 6 Sierra, Oscar, Zulu, Linda in cool and breezy Yuba City. Back to Ned.
Speaker A: Considering it's January, it's probably. We're probably deserve that. Thanks for checking in, Linda. How about Mike, KN6MDZ?
Speaker B: Good evening, Ernie and Annette. This is Kilo, November 6th, Mike, Delta, Zulu, Mike in Kelly Ridge. No traffic tonight. Back to you, Ernie. And thanks again for doing the net for us.
Speaker A: Thanks for checking in, Mike. Good to hear the locals on frequency. How about Bennett, K6CEL? Going to chico. How about jim, kj6bkq, Dan, KN6DRN. Good evening, Ernie in the net.
Speaker B: This is Kelo, November 6th, Delta Romeo,
Speaker A: November Dan in Lincoln Hills.
Speaker B: No traffic for the Net. Wishing everyone a pleasant evening.
Speaker A: Back to net control, KN6DRN. Got you checked in, Dan. Thank you. How about Paul Ko6bgy?
Speaker B: Good evening, Ernie and the net. This is kilo, Oscar 6, bravo, golf,
Speaker A: yankee, Paul in Colt, Colusa.
Speaker B: Other than that, no traffic back to net control. Happy New Year to all.
Speaker A: Thank you, Paul. Got you checked in. How about Michael? KI6UJX?
Speaker D: This is KI6UJX.
Speaker B: Michael, mobile, northbound 70, just leaving Sacramento.
Speaker D: No traffic.
Speaker B: Thank you for taking over the Net.
Speaker A: Ernie, you're sounding good from down there. Michael, thanks for checking in. How about Dave? N6orb? This is N6orb, Dave and Martinez. Thank you. Got you checked in. How about James, Ko6aub, Leonard, ko6dvv. And Kathy, N7WVW? This is Kathy, November 7th, whiskey, Victor,
Speaker C: whiskey Mobile and outside of Nicholas.
Speaker A: Thank you, Kathy, you're also sounding good. Got you checked in. Are there any more visitors who would like to check into this evening's net? Please identify one at a time with your call sign phonetically. Name and location. Slowly, please. Once I acknowledge the first check in, I will call for the next in line. First visitor guest check in this evening. Go ahead. Well, you didn't get all that through there, so go ahead and try again. I just caught one word.
Speaker B: Mike Yankee, Fox, Truck, Jeff in Orland.
Speaker A: Thank you, Jeff. I got that one. Next visitor check in. Please come now. Hearing none. Anyone with announcements and or comments, please identify now. Well, you're going to make this easy for me tonight. Hearing none. I will now stand by for any further or late check ins. Thank you to all who checked into tonight's net. I invite you to return and check in next Thursday. We also would like to thank Dave, WD6AXM for the use of this repeater. This is KN6GTN Ernie, your net control station for tonight's net. Wishing you all a good evening while returning the upacetter Ares team to its standard level one state of preparedness and the WD6AXM repeater to normal amateur use. This net is now closed. KN6GTN clear.

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Speaker A: Kk6vzb mobile w e6a x n repeater. Good morning. Good morning. It's a bit chilly out here.
Speaker B: Think so? Well, not if you're a penguin.
Speaker A: Well, even if you're a penguin, it's still chilly. They just don't feel it as much.
Speaker B: And I wonder. It's a little bit cold when they grow up.
Speaker A: I grew up in Illinois. This. This isn't bad. It's just not the warmest it could be.
Speaker B: Well, reminds me of a joke. This penguin walks into a bar. I'm looking for my brother. The bartender says, well, what does he look like? Ha, ha. That's funny, because all penguins look the same.
Speaker A: Hello. I wonder if they all look the same to each other.
Speaker B: I'm sure they have something. Maybe the smell, you know, or the tone of voice. Hey,
Speaker A: actually, I kind of like that joke. It's. Yeah, it's clever.
Speaker B: Okay, well, as long as I've got you on a roll here. I come out of the dentist and I said to the girl, do you have a joke, please? I need to laugh. She said, coil. What is a pilot's favorite bagel? I said, what? What is a pilot's favorite bagel? I said, I don't know.
Speaker A: What pl. Okay, that's a groaner.
Speaker B: Well, it's not that funny. It's actually so stupid. That's why it's funny.
Speaker A: True enough. True enough. So it's Friday. I'm not sure whether that makes much difference in your life, but Fridays are pretty significant in mine.
Speaker B: You know, I've heard that. Really? And if I had had to go back to work, I mean, I'm retired, but if I had to work, I'd kill myself.
Speaker A: Well, you know, I got a countdown calendar at work, right?
Speaker B: Is it three months? 3.9.
Speaker A: Oh, we're under three months now. I think it's like 82 days as of today. Or 81 days. I don't recall. This guy doesn't know how to drive in a traffic circle. But I thought about it, and I was like, gee, that's calendar days. I wonder how many work days that actually is. So I got out. I figured out all the weekends and holidays that are in the way and figured out that I'm down to about 52 actual work days.
Speaker B: How many weeks is that?
Speaker A: Well, let's see. That's 10 weeks.
Speaker B: So you'll be out of prison in March.
Speaker A: End of March. 31st of March is my last working day, which means my retirement day is April 1st.
Speaker B: The cosmos is playing a joke on you.
Speaker A: Actually, I was originally going to retire on the 8th of March, and when they actually came and said, you know, we need some paperwork, you need to fill this out. And I thought to myself, well, why not get paid for the entire month and at the same time have something
Speaker B: fun to
Speaker A: talk about. So I made it the 31st of March, my last day.
Speaker B: Well, if you don't mind my asking, did you get a severance package? Will you?
Speaker A: Well, I'll get my retirement. I won't get any severance packages. Now a severance package is for like when you're being downsized or something and they want to compensate you for the, oh, I don't know what, what they call that, but, but since you weren't being fired, they like, I'm sorry we have to let you go because we just can't afford you anymore, you know, here's some money to make you go away.
Speaker B: Hey, that sounds like fun. Here's some money. Go away. I'll do that.
Speaker A: Yeah, I've only gone through that once before. I used to work for eds and you're probably old enough to remember who EDS is or was. Most of the young guys that I work with nowadays who are in the tech industry have no idea who EDS was.
Speaker B: Well, I better join the club and sign up. What is it?
Speaker A: Electronic Data Systems, a big company founded by Ross Perot. It was the first large IT services company that was not IBM or you know, something, one of those.
Speaker B: IBM, yeah, it was Hal from the movie 2001.
Speaker A: This is Hal.
Speaker B: Go ahead and say something. I can't open the door, Bob.
Speaker A: I had a manager who went on vacation and when he went on vacation, we went and played with his computer a bit and we gave a, we assigned a sound file to a function that he would perform normal to him. So he came back from vacation and he went to log into his computer and he hit that key and it said, I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that. Dave.
Speaker B: Well, you know why that's so prophetic? If you look at AI are actually really afraid because they're doing stuff we don't even know about.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm not. I'm in a tech industry and I'm not a fan of AI.
Speaker B: Oh well, you know, it's the high tech world. I have people saying, how can you be a ham for 40 years and can't program your radio? That IWH must be stupid. Oh, now they found out.
Speaker A: Yeah, well. Oh well. So listen, I just pulled into work, I got my, my computer died on me yesterday. So I have to go resurrect it today. I tried yesterday twice. And at the very end of it, it blew up again. So I gotta try a third time. Isn't that fun?
Speaker B: Yeah. I like that idea of your paying people to go away. Well, somebody. And I was thinking, you know, I could do that for $5.
Speaker A: Put a sign around your neck that said that maybe you'll get some money. Hey, I'll talk to you later. Have a great day. 73 KK6VZB clear. W e6a x n repeater.

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Speaker A: Kk6vzd mobile and out to launch, both literally and figuratively.
Speaker B: Out to lunch. WD6A XF.
Speaker A: Yeah. So that we provide coverage, you know, all throughout the workday. They split the lunch and I got put on the south second shift. I got one to two. I guess that's not bad. It puts me closer to the end of the day when I get home.
Speaker B: Yeah, but I heard you're always out to lunch though. But how's it going, Chris?
Speaker A: Oh, not too bad. Kind of enjoying the sun and anticipating that. That means that I'll probably have to get out tomorrow and clear my gutters and get the rest of the leaves off of the roof that I didn't get before.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm going to have to make a check on mine, although mine, I've kept them clean pretty much all through the storm, so hopefully all the loose debris and stuff has finished flying for a while. But yeah, I'm just getting ready to. I'm just heading back to the house. Almost there now.
Speaker A: I'm going to do some grass cutting
Speaker B: and put up a new flag which got shredded and things like that. And I was going to program some radios for somebody, but turns out that I got rid of the cable apparently for the old and antiquated radios which are no longer supported.
Speaker A: Oh, no. Was that part of your clear out the garage effort?
Speaker B: Yeah, but it was probably from some time ago. It has to do with the old HT 6002 and MT1000 series of products when they stopped being able to get decent reliable batteries because they all were originally nicads and then you know what they swapped over to the others. So, you know, I'm short on batteries, short on chargers, just not worth keeping.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's too bad. That's too bad. Well, and nobody makes nickel metal hydride or anything like that for them.
Speaker B: They probably do. And I've heard that there are some around, but they come from a very questionable area that is very cheap and I don't want to burn the house down or something.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Okay. Well, let me tell you, I guess I'm past the new year, so I'm actually starting to have to take action for, you know, getting my finances ready for the end of March.
Speaker B: Oh, boy. Is that for the retirement ceremony or is that just for taxes?
Speaker A: That would be for retirement. Although, you know, yeah, I got to do my taxes too.
Speaker B: I got to figure out.
Speaker A: I don't know whether I need to go find somebody to help me with taxes this year or not. I had to liquidate some savings Bonds that I had last year. So I know I'm going to have to pay tax a tax on that stuff but I'm not sure what else is, you know, coming up in that. Also, you know, I've managed to, to not be audited all my entire life and I don't want to start now. W e 6 a x n receiver
Speaker B: yeah, we can pretty much brag the same thing. We've tried to keep it simple but I still am paying a guy, the CPA tax service people, about 250 bucks and they take care of all of it. And if there's any problems or mistakes in the, any fines, things they, they pay it, that type of stuff. But yeah, probably. I don't know. I thought that the savings bonds were tax free.
Speaker A: No, unfortunately you pay tax on the, you know, what you, what you earned. So I guess the increase in value is what you pay the tax on. They're only tax free if you use them for education and it's a very limited scope of that. I had originally bought them for education and then I found out that they can only be used tax free if you apply them to tuition. And tuition for my kids was already covered by. Yeah, because I'm a disabled vet. California pay their tuition for me.
Speaker B: Oh boy. Well, that just goes to show you probably ought to go seek the services of a professional person in the field. Yeah.
Speaker A: Now if I only knew somebody professionally actually I might. And I just, I don't know, not sure whether she retired or not. A couple that we went to church with, the wife was a CPA and did stuff like that. I asked my son, he's a CPA and he said unfortunately because he works for an accounting firm that would be considered a conflict of interest. And he can't do that for me.
Speaker B: Yeah, that could run into some problems. I deal with the same thing in volunteering my services for, you know, certain things. That's why I keep it strictly non commercial and anything that is not a profit to the local shop, those type of things. So.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Alrighty sir, I am home. I'm going to get into the program. Little puppy dog is sitting there looking at me, wanting to go out and crank up the lawnmower and do that stuff as well too then. All right, have a good afternoon, Chris.
Speaker A: Hang in there.
Speaker B: WD6AXM. Congratulations.
Speaker A: All right, Dave, talk to you later. 73 KK6VZV clear.

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