WD6AXM TX (146.085 MHz) recordings for 2026-01-12

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Speaker A: This is W7X Ray Zulu calling the Oroville Amateur Radio Society. Sunday night net. This net meets Sunday evenings at 8pm local time. Good evening to all. This is Jim, your net control tonight
Speaker B: and.
Speaker A: Well, let's see who's out there. Stations wishing to check into the net, please take call now. W7X Ray Zulu,
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Speaker A: K6HFP,
Speaker B: Kc6f lb, kb9myf, Kf6ew.

W7X Ray Zulu. I got four check ins and. One moment, please, while I correct the typo.

Speaker A: This is w7x ray zulu and I have four stations checked in here. K6hfp. Good evening again john from the zoom session. Kc6flb. Good evening again lance, kb9myf. Good evening jeff and kf6ewo. Good evening gary. And do we have any additional check ins the map, this w7x rays, Nothing hurt and well it's head over to the roundtable mode here K6HFP. John, you've got the lead off tonight and you'll be passing it to KC6FLB. Lance you'll be passing it to Kilo, Bravo 9, Mank, Mike, Kilo, Bravo 9, Mike, Yankee Foxtrot, that's Jeff and Jeff, you'll be passing it to kilo, foxtrot, six, echo, whiskey, Oscar, that is Gary. So go ahead please John. K6HFP and the net, W7X Ray Zulu,
Speaker B: W7X Ray Zulu and the net. This is John up in Oroville. K6HFP. Well for me I feel like the club had a pretty productive week this week with our club meeting this past Friday. We actually had a club meeting for January this year so I thought that was decent. We had some transfer of executive positions that was good. We have a new treasurer. Shout out to Bennett for being our club treasurer for eight, eight terms there. So he put in some decent time as the club treasurer and pass it on to Joe nibd. So shout out to those two guys because need a treasurer. So definitely thanks for that. Working on some position changes for our president and vice president. Those positions are staying the same for now but more to come on that subject matter repeater move project. I'm sure Jim will give us an update on that. It's moving along but slight hiccup currently right now. I'm sure he'll give some details on
Speaker A: that but other than that
Speaker B: hope everybody has a good week. I won't ramble anymore and hope everybody has a good night as well. So I'll pass it over to Lance, see what he's up to. Kilo, Charlie, Six, Fox, Boom, Bravo, this is K6HFP. Appreciate this. KC6FLB, Lance and Oroville. Yeah, I have to admit that the Friday meeting was pretty productive. Even had a little training session there. Some good information, some things that do in the future either for the newbies and some things to do for those that are upgrading. So I'm really looking forward to you know, studying up for this test. I don't know how good I'm going to do but you know, put my 2 cents worth in. Sit down and just do it, win or lose it. Still, at least I made the effort. Weather's been good, a little cold at night time. Never had a problem with cold because
Speaker A: I got money for
Speaker B: Anyway, we said pretty much what we said what we needed to say on our Zoom meeting. So I'm going to hand it over to KB9MYF.
Speaker C: Kb9myf and not a whole lot going on. I changed the rear speakers in my car because one of them was damaged when I put stuff in the trunk and damaged the wiring in the back of the speakers. So I replaced the pair of speakers and I'm also putting a new car stereo in. Maybe tomorrow or the next day. An Android stereo with the with all the goodies, the navigation and all that. Other than that, nothing else was going on. This is KB9 my F and I think that Gary is after me.
Speaker B: This is KF6EWO Gary and Orville. I work Thursday and Friday and glad the rain's over but now I got a jungle in front of the house and behind the house to get mowed down while the weather is nice. Even barbecued dinner tonight so that was good. Not much else going on. Just trying to stay out of trouble. Been playing around with antenna ideas. So with that I'll pass it over to W7X player Zulu, KF6CWO.
Speaker A: KF6 CWO and the net W7X Ray Zulu. Okay Gary and well let's see. We pretty well covered that we have organized a work party there to get our club repeater antenna system up hopefully on Tuesday. It's presently on hold there until we hear more from our host up there at the site. And anyway the other really big thing club wise is put it out here. While we have a pretty good coverage area we will have a volunteer examiner session thanks to W6PNH which will be taking place in Oroville at our usual meeting venue on March 13 and starting somewhere around 6pm or possibly a little bit earlier and new licensees or present licensees seeking upgrade are cordially invited to come to the venue at that time. Anyway, that's about all I have here and I'll put out the call here. Are there any additional check ins to the net this W7X rays? Nothing heard. I'll run it back up the line here. Does any station have any additional comments for the net? This does. W7X rays W E6A X N repeater. Well I heard one ker chunk of modulation there. Any additional comments than that? This W7XZ well I guess my cat
Speaker C: manages to push the button and turn the meow into the microphone. KB9MYS
Speaker A: okay I thought it might have sounded like a meow. Anyway thanks for letting me know Jeff. Kind of sounds like maybe we got it done here tonight so so I will put out a last call for any late check ins or any unfinished business before we close the net and try 10 meters W7X Ray Zulu. Nothing heard bit of a short session tonight. Thanks to all who checked in tonight this net will connect convened again this coming Sunday evening at 8pm local time and thanks to Dave WD6AXM for the use of his fine machine on south butte. This is W7X Ray Zulu signing the 2 meter portion of the Oroville Amateur Radio Society Sunday night at clear and going QSY to 28.5 450 MHz upper side band Good evening to all.
Speaker B: Thanks for running the net Jim everybody have a good night. We'll be on the side listening for a bit K6HFP.

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Speaker A: K6HFP. W7X Ray Zulu. John, are you still there? K6HFP. Hey, Jim. Yeah, go ahead. I think most of the principals there for the repeater project are notified, with the exception of Rock. I don't know if you have a phone number form or anything like that, but wondering if you do, you could give him a call.
Speaker B: Yeah, I sent him a note while we were on the zoom earlier, so he should be notified. Okay, most
Speaker A: appreciated. Anyway, hopefully I'll have some word well before this time tomorrow night and promulgated as much as I can here whether it's a go or no go.
Speaker B: All right? Yep, copy that. Copy that. I'm on the same page with you. Just keep me posted when you when you know and we'll go from there then.
Speaker A: Sounds good. And anyway, I'll let you get back to things there and I'll get in touch tomorrow. Hopefully before this time W7XZ is going to be clear.
Speaker B: Copy that, Jim. Have a good night and we'll catch you later. Holler if anything comes up. K6HFP.

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Speaker A: Out here on Highway 99. Just going for a drive.
Speaker B: That's a 99. Where?
Speaker A: Just went past Lomo Crossing, heading back into town. Just went for a little drive, just up the road. While I was still trying to get this evap system to set.
Speaker B: Say again? I had to turn my TV down.
Speaker A: I said. I just went up to the board's live oak. I'm still trying to get this evap system to reset.
Speaker B: Nothing better to do but go out for a drive. This late at night, huh?
Speaker A: Pretty much.
Speaker B: You all alone?
Speaker A: No. Apollo's in here, too.
Speaker B: She is there.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: I was just sitting here watching a little tv and. Well, I was watching American Idol and they had nobody, not one. I don't know what's the matter with this program. Nobody could hold a tune. Have you ever seen that program?
Speaker A: Yeah, I've seen that. When they're testing people out, getting ready to bring them on to American Idol, they show a lot of that.
Speaker B: First time I've seen that one. That's just plain mean.
Speaker A: So what's Shirley doing?
Speaker B: She's in there next to her phone or watching TV or something. I don't know what she did. She. She's in there doing something. TV or. Are you going to bed anytime soon? Well, I am actually in bed. Why? What's up?
Speaker A: Nothing. Just. Paula was asking. She was wondering how late you're gonna
Speaker B: stay up, so I'm just liable to just crash anytime. All right. Now that I'm looking up at the clock, I'm about ready to turn it in. Yep.
Speaker A: Well, I'll be getting home here a little bit, and I'm gonna do the same. Paula's wondering what you're doing tomorrow.
Speaker B: Hoping my. My yard guy comes tomorrow. I hope.
Speaker A: When's the last time he was there?
Speaker B: Told me the. The last time he was here that he was going to go to Mexico for a week.
Speaker A: But
Speaker B: I hope he gets. I hope he makes it back. I hope they let him back in the country.
Speaker A: Yeah. Hopefully he makes it back pretty quick if he's.
Speaker B: I have no. No plans for tomorrow.
Speaker A: Yep. I don't have any plans either, other than maybe might have to drive this truck some more tomorrow.
Speaker B: What. What. What do you think you got to do to make that thing turn over?
Speaker A: Well, I had a full tank of gas in here, so I know the evap system won't really check it or reset itself. It's got to be between, like, I think, three, eight of a tank up to Three quarters a tank of fuel. So hopefully we'll have ran enough gas out of this for it to work.
Speaker B: That's the evap. That's. That has to do with the gasoline for the gas tank, huh? Yeah,
Speaker A: it checks all those little vacuum lines and all that stuff.
Speaker B: What can they do with that if it doesn't run out?
Speaker A: Not following you. You mean if it doesn't reset or set.
Speaker B: If it doesn't reset, what do they do?
Speaker A: Well, then if it doesn't reset, I'll get a code on my truck or a check engine light and then at that point I'll have to figure out what has to be fixed or repaired.
Speaker B: Now where do you start with that?
Speaker A: Probably a smoke test. But there shouldn't be an issue with it because I've had no issues the last six years with it smogging and I've not had any check engine lights.
Speaker B: The problem with that, so far you took it out what, three nights already?
Speaker A: It's been more than that. I'm at 112 miles that I've driven it. And again, it doesn't work unless all the special little parameters are met. For it to run through its cycle, It's got to go through, you know, the drive cycle where it warms up for four minutes. And then you have to drive it for like 15 or 20 minutes at a certain speed. Have to let the vehicle kind of coast down to 20 mph without hitting the brake. So you gotta, you gotta follow all these little steps. At some point it has to go through the drive cycle and I. It, you know, is messed up. It will kick on that check Engine light.
Speaker B: Take 24 hours to do that.
Speaker A: Hopefully not. I know I said you have to go through those drive cycles and it may take one or two, three, four
Speaker B: drive cycles for go through that process. Okay. Okay. I gotta get everything just right. I guess. Never dealt with that. So I, I've never had any experience with.
Speaker A: Well, I guess the best thing to do is not let your battery go dead on your truck.
Speaker B: I've been let. I've been doing that too. And matter of fact, I went out there today, I charged it up a couple days ago,
Speaker A: and then I decided,
Speaker B: well, I better get out there and
Speaker A: fire that thing up and let it
Speaker B: run for a while and do that every, every so often.
Speaker A: Yeah. Need to drive it around.
Speaker B: Yeah. Need to do something.
Speaker A: Paula wants to know how come you haven't been driving it around to work if it just sits there keyed with you. Paula wants to know how come you haven't been driving around,
Speaker B: nowhere to go.
Speaker A: I guess you can just get up and go.
Speaker B: Go for a drive. Yeah, I guess so. Guess I might just have to do.
Speaker A: Paula said pretend like you're going to work and back.
Speaker B: We said AXN receiver bring back old memories real quick. Yeah, it would. WA1 R E N B A1 NER
Speaker A: Apollo's had to pick another job and drive to a different one every day. You said you can drive over there and sit in the parking lot and think about what it would be like to go to work.
Speaker B: You know, I haven't really forgotten yet. Every time I do go up that way, it comes back real quick. It reminds me I remember a whole lot.
Speaker A: Yep. Well, we just are getting pulled up here at the house right now, so I guess I'll go ahead and let you get to bed. Hopefully you'll get some sleep.
Speaker B: I gotta. I gotta just decide when I'm gonna turn this radio off. And I don't turn the radio off. Turn the TV off and hit the rack. Well, I'm in the rack. I just gotta get busy and turn it off so I get a night's sleep. Quit sleeping until noon.
Speaker A: Yeah, I know. I've been doing that lately myself. I gotta get used to getting back up and going to work.
Speaker B: Got that right. Okay, I'll let you go. Good night. See you later, Paula. Hi, Paula. See you later.
Speaker A: She said hi and bye and have a good night and I'll talk to you tomorrow. Probably. WA1RE and clear. Have a good night.
Speaker B: Okay, see you later. Good night. Wa1ner clear.

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Speaker A: Ak6vzd mobile. W e6a x n repeater.
Speaker B: I always like to wait in case your normal friends show up.
Speaker A: So I'm not sure I heard all of that, but this is my normal time to show up.
Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. And only, what, four months and ten days?
Speaker A: Negative. Negative. We're down to. Oh, I don't know, I think 79 days. Awesome. Check that when we get to work. Okay.
Speaker B: Well, I. I better adjust my notes here. 79 days equals purgatory.
Speaker A: Another cold day. Yeah.
Speaker B: Well, what's good going on in your life? Is there anything, anywhere, anytime? Like, you know, you're collecting fountain pens and you found a really good one. Something like that.
Speaker A: Yeah. No. I don't know. I'm just going day to day and nothing spectacular is happening. And just living, just living day to day.
Speaker B: Oh, hey, I'm down with that. But the economy. Oh, my God, really? I'm starting to feel it. And pge, we get letters from PG and E. Your neighbors are in compliance with the allotment for gas but you're using a thousand percent more than your neighbors.
Speaker A: Give it a rest. Yeah,
Speaker B: yeah.
Speaker A: I just. I look at those. You know, the trend is that it's basically no difference as far as I'm concerned. Yes, I use a little bit more than some people. Yes, I lose less than other people. And it pretty much stayed that way for months.
Speaker B: Well, in our lives, I've worked.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker B: Paid into the system, really. It gets cold and, you know, it hurts. Especially as you get up to your twilight years.
Speaker A: You know, like, your feet get cold, your hands.
Speaker B: And there's a thermostat right there. All you have to do is just click that little thing over, like,
Speaker A: oh, Yeah, yeah, I get that. My wife's starting to get on me because, you know, our bills are getting more and more expensive. And I'm sitting there thinking that, you know, we're paying about the same that we did about 20 years ago. So, you know, before I replaced my. My furnace we were starting to creep up and then it went down. Now it's back up to what it was about 20 years ago. So, yes, it's still relatively expensive but in. In the overall scheme of things, it hasn't changed a lot.
Speaker B: Yeah, I guess you. The nature of life. I remember this guy had a bumper sticker. Manhood a struggle. No, youth a blunder. Manhood a struggle. Old Age of regret. I'm going, well, wait a minute.
Speaker A: Whatever happened?
Speaker B: The idea of having a good life and, you know, enjoying the bounty of goodness.
Speaker A: Well, I guess I Don't think too much about that stuff. So, yeah, you know, I was trying to figure out what the inflation rate is then, trying to remember what things were 20 years ago versus versus now. So I could kind of figure out, you know, because it certainly seems like over the past couple of years, prices have just skyrocketed. I mean, I look at meat, and beef is about. Kind of, on an average, about $10 a pound. Holy cow.
Speaker B: Yeah, holy cow is right. You know, grain prices and all like that. You know, farmers actually are really griping it. They're in a hard spot.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B: This is kind of.
Speaker A: I'm driving up and I'm looking at a gas station, and, you know, those prices have been volatile. They're always going up and down and up and down and up and down. And my wife sometimes goes down to this one convenience market, and it's got a Chevron gas station associated with it. And sometimes she fills up down there, and I. Every time, time she tells me that, I, it's. I just cringe, you know, and she's like, what? They're not more expensive? Like, they're about a dollar more per gallon than anybody else, and, oh, no, they're not. I'm sitting here thinking, am I stupid? I. You know, I've seen those prices and other prices around the area, and I. I think I can tell the difference between the prices. So it just. It's just bothers me that she's not. She doesn't.
Speaker B: Long as I got you on the horn here, I'll tell you what bothers me. Summertime air conditioners running full blast and the doors are wide open. Oh, well, the cat went out. Oh, there's somebody at the door. Oh, I just went outside for a minute. Hello?
Speaker A: Yeah. Well, I think I got myself a good parking spot. I'm coming up and we have some solar panels out in front of the building, and those spots are normally taken up, but I got one that. So I can park and have shade all day long.
Speaker B: Yeah, can't beat that. Yeah. All right, Chris, Have a good time if you can at work. 73. Good luck in the contest. Actually, you know, it's kind of fun talking to you for a few minutes in the morning. It reminds me of the ham radio of camaraderie. Everybody loves each other and six side of our work.
Speaker A: Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Well, have a great day yourself, and we'll talk to you later. 73 KK6VZD clear.

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