WD6AXM TX (146.085 MHz) recordings for 2026-01-18

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Speaker B: Well, good evening, Chris. You seem to be out late tonight. KN6 GTM.
Speaker A: Yeah, just coming home from a visit to my daughter. I helped her pack up her Christmas stuff and put them away in her storage locker. And then we tackled making beef bourguignon tonight.
Speaker B: And it turned out edible.
Speaker A: Oh, more than edible. It was heavenly. Yeah. Got any idea what beef bourguignon is?
Speaker B: I don't think so.
Speaker A: Basically a French beef stew, but oh boy, is it good.
Speaker B: So what kind of a concoction is it? What all do you mix in there?
Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. Chuck steak, beef broth, red wine, garlic, carrots, onions, pearl onions at the very end, mushrooms, a little bit of tomato paste, some bay leaves, some thyme. Yeah, I. I think I said carrot. Yeah, you end up putting all this stuff together and then you put it in the oven for an hour or so. Oh boy, just heavenly rich broth. And the meat just falls apart.
Speaker B: Yeah, that does sound good. How long has it been since you had that?
Speaker A: Oh, I've never had. Was one of those we had talked about a while back, tackling it one day together. Yeah, she had me down to her apartment, oh, a few months ago and we made coq au vin, which is basically French chicken. Ste.
Speaker B: Well, sounds like you're on an adventure. Hard telling what you'll cook up next.
Speaker A: I know, I know. You know, Ernie, actually I'm sitting here thinking that, you know, come April, when I don't have to go into work anymore and I won't come home all tired, I might actually get into doing a lot of cooking or around the house and think that, you know, I think I'll enjoy it. That'll be a little bit of a
Speaker B: new leaf for you, wouldn't it?
Speaker A: Yeah, it would. Yeah, it would. I mean, I like cooking anyway. It's just, you know, get home at 5 o' clock in the afternoon and just don't feel like putting forth the effort.
Speaker B: Especially this time of the year when it gets dark soon after and just feels like the evening's late and you don't have much time.
Speaker A: Exactly. Exactly. So how are you doing? What are you up to?
Speaker B: Oh, doing okay. Just sitting here relaxing and close to the radio. And I heard you out there and I thought my might as well say hi.
Speaker A: Yeah, might as well. Might as well. So I think I already told you I got a countdown calendar. And you know, that was great. It showed me calendar days and then I thought, wait a minute, that includes weekends. I Want to know what my work days are? So as of Friday, I think I'm down to 51 work days.
Speaker B: Okay. I heard yell with Paul the other day saying how many calendar days and how many work days? And I thought he got that one figured out.
Speaker A: Yeah. And looking forward to it. Really looking forward to it. Now that I got it, what I have to do is I have to make sure that I've got, you know, everything aligned so that my pension starts paying me when it's supposed to be paying me and Social Security and a couple other things so that, you know, I, you know, I'm gonna. I'm gonna lose some income every month, but, you know, it's not as bad as I thought it might be. And, you know, if I get everything in a row, then I won't be missing a whole month paid.
Speaker B: Exactly.
Speaker A: Is your.
Speaker B: I mean, has your wife been working? Is she retired as well, or does she stay at home or how is that going?
Speaker A: My wife has been a stay at home for a long, long. A long time ago. We decided, you know, for the kids sake, it would be better if she was a stay at home mom. And once the kids left, she never really got back out. So that's all right. That doesn't bother me, you know, that we don't have some things that other people do. It doesn't really bother me. Sometimes I think it bothers her.
Speaker B: Yeah, I was just curious. I mean, if you can retire about the same time, it's nice. You can at least do some traveling or get some time in going away or whatever. But if one has to work yet for a couple more years, it can. Can have its own schedule, challenges.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, we don't have to worry about that, that's for sure. So, you know, and I'm just starting to think about what we're gonna do and. Well, I think I'm gonna. About may. I think I'm gonna go visit my family back in Illinois, because I can.
Speaker B: And you can stay as long as you like or as they like, whatever that is Here a few minutes here. I say a few minutes ago, a little while ago, I heard someone come on one of the GMRS repeaters and said it was extremely foggy in Sacramento. Is that creeping on up the valley?
Speaker A: It is, it is. We had some when I was leaving Lincoln, probably till about 5 or 10 miles up the road. It's absolutely clear though, coming up from Wheatland.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's still clear up here too. I was just curious how far it was.
Speaker A: I did get an alert on My phone saying that it was going to be, you know, dense fog coming home. So I'm really pleasantly surprised that it wasn't as bad as I was led to believe.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's very good. Shouldn't be a. I mean the ground's still saturated, but shouldn't be an awful lot of moisture to make that fog anymore. It hasn't rained in a while.
Speaker A: That's very true. Although let me tell you, I came out from somewhere and I was looking, the ground was all wet and I could why is it all wet? It hasn't rained, but who knows?
Speaker B: Yeah, but just remember here a month ago it had rained and this ground is really saturated, so it's not drying off yet.
Speaker A: Which I guess is the reason that a couple weeks ago they put out flood warnings or flood watch. Be careful because it might flood. I'm like, you're kidding me. I don't believe it.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm here. The laporte road on down the line here on down by Hancut. That thing's been closed several times for flooding, which it floods easily down there, but still wheat.
Speaker A: It's
Speaker B: often February, often more towards spring when we have finally have enough water to run down there. But yeah, it's been closed a couple times already and pretty early for normal.
Speaker A: I know there's a couple of roads over by the buttes that are closed because I guess they got the bypass. Well, yeah, there's water flowing through the bypass and some of those roads go right, you know, near or through the bypass. So that's. That's not surprising.
Speaker B: Speaking of the buttes, have they got the bike around the buttes information started yet? I mean, somebody starting to work on that.
Speaker A: WE six a X N repeater. I have not heard anything yet, but from, you know, my understanding is that KN6 Ted. Ted who headed it up last year, will be heading it up this year also.
Speaker B: Okay, that's good.
Speaker A: He's got a lot of irons in
Speaker B: the fire, but he can handle that on top of it. He can.
Speaker A: And he brings some special skills with him. I was kind of impressed that I forget what. What web app he was using to. To track all the. All the sags. I thought that was pretty neat.
Speaker B: Yeah, Special set of skills, also equipment.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, I vaguely remember that. When I went by, you know, command and saw what he had, I just kind of like rocked back on my heels thinking, holy cow.
Speaker B: Yeah, that was pretty impressive. And speaking of him, I haven't heard him on the ham bands here lately. He's probably tied up so Every once in a while I hear him, but I haven't heard him in quite a while.
Speaker A: He has never been a regular on the repeater. You'll catch them here and there. A lot of the times he'll be busy like during the net. I think, you know, he'll still be working on customers. Yeah. A customer request or something.
Speaker B: Yeah. Being a business owner brings with it its own schedule and challenges and it keeps him more than busy the way it sounds. I think here the last year or so he's really picked up a lot of clients and been good for their business.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. I, I gave some thought to going over there after I retire and saying could you use somebody, could you use an extra, you know, a part time guy and see what they said.
Speaker B: But then when you got thinking about that, you decided not to KN6G10.
Speaker A: Well, still not out of the realm of possibility. You know, I still haven't definitely figured out, you know, what it is that I'm going to do with my time. Go through, go through some of our possessions and tear a lot of it down. That's part of it. Take a look around the house and see what fix up jobs there are that I can do and other such things like that.
Speaker B: Yeah, it seems to me I heard you talking about being a little bit of a history buff. You'd have time to go visit all kinds of neat places here in Northern California.
Speaker A: Yes, I would. You know, a long, long time ago I got this book. I guess it was put out by State of California and it was a book that listed all of the historical markers along all the highways in California. And I started to go around and find a lot of those
Speaker B: interesting. Yeah, that would be really interesting. One of my customers said he had he somehow got a hold of a fool book. It was called the Roar of the Monitor. It was a gold mining history book about Laporte, about the Laporte area. Just a detailed description of, you know, the daily lives and all that went on and things that happened. It's just a fantastic book. There aren't many of them around in their horribly expensive if you can find one.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, yeah. Actually I went to look at for a history book that was, that I had run across. It was about a fighter pilot in World War II and it's out of print of course and the only, only ones you can get. They were asking like $600. I was like holy cow. No, I don't think I'll be buying one of those.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's amazing. And I think like this book here, I. I think the only copies that were around would have been like 13, $1400.
Speaker A: I.
Speaker B: It was just. I. I haven't looked recently, but for a long time you couldn't find one.
Speaker A: And then if.
Speaker B: And I was just amazed that a book of local history would, you know, would actually be that expensive.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. True, true. So, you know, I used to. Oh, I had a couple of books about the ghost towns of the west. And when I was single, I used to get on my motorcycle on the weekends and I'd pick one and I'd go head off for it and just see, you know, what was what. Remember ending up in Ione and Jenny Lind and Jackson. Of course, Jackson's not exactly a ghost town, but, you know, places like that,
Speaker B: It's one thing if you can get to them, but one thing that's so frustrating around here. When you get up in these hills, SPI has big gates and locks, and they don't want to see you on the other side of them. You can't get back to some of those historical places anymore.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's a shame. Yeah. I remember finding Jenny Lind and you really couldn't tell that there had been a town there. You knew that that was the place, but, you know, basically everything was gone.
Speaker B: Yeah. And it's really amazing when you see pictures even of Bangor, you know, back in the 1800s, just the booming businesses that were here. You know, this even what's here today is a ghost town compared to what it used to be.
Speaker A: Yeah, true, true. I kind of wanted to go eventually find Timbuktu, because I know it's not too far from here, a little bit off the beaten path, but not too far from. What's that mean? Smartsville.
Speaker B: Why. Why is it that we use Timbuktu to describe parts unknown or somewhere you about can't get to, or some. Somewhere way out back or whatever we use it for?
Speaker A: Yeah, good question. Good question. Well, I'm home. I made it all the way. Had no real problems with the fog, so I'm gonna grab my stuff and get inside because I haven't been home all day. So. Have a great evening, Ernie, and be listening for you over the airwaves here. Talk to you later. Have a great evening. KK6ZZD clear
Speaker B: 73s. You have a good weekend.
Speaker A: Be careful.
Speaker B: We'll chat with you later. KN6GTN.
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Speaker A: been lurking out there. I was hoping to. To hear Chris say that he. He tried a olive stamp, black olive sandwich. But no chance.
Speaker B: Just. Just soup, right?
Speaker A: Just French onion soup or something. Some kind of soup. So, yeah, there's a lot of history around here and, and about Ted. When, When Ted first came on the radio, he. You can't say he was never, never ever on the radio because he used to be on the radio a lot in the very beginning.
Speaker B: First.
Speaker A: First two or three years, he was real busy
Speaker B: talking about your olives. I heard you and Chris talking the other day about him and. And I was gonna. I was gonna tell Chris this evening that one, he was saying he doesn't
Speaker A: have a lot of options.
Speaker B: And I was gonna tell him he ought to make. Make his own. They need to have more options.
Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. You can go up in your country up there and get lots of olives up and around there, huh?
Speaker B: Yeah, we can. You can get bunch down your way too, I'm sure. Have you ever home cured them?
Speaker A: Oh, no, I've never fooled with them. I'm not a connoisseur. Like I say, I was never a connoisseur of olives. I love black olives.

Speaker A: And all my grandkids do. I said that
Speaker B: too.
Speaker A: But yeah, I just. I just like black olives. Not so many groups. Yeah, there's a couple green olives but my favorite black olives.
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Speaker A: Well, if you like black olives you would probably like these home cured ones. It's been what four years now since I took. I decided to dive into it and see what I could do and it's been fun. I've enjoyed making them do several gallon of them every winter and it's just a little hobby. But you an olive is really impressive. I guess you call it impressive. Impressionable. You can make them things any flavor you want.
Speaker B: Yeah,
Speaker A: yeah, I've eaten a few different ones, you know, things like that. But it's just around the holidays is when. When I do eat them the most. The most. When I do eat them I do here eat them year round. But not as heavy as on the holidays. Yeah. Well, the recipe I have, you know it ends up after you treat them with the lye and get all that yucky stuff out of them and then get them flushed out and get them good and good and rinsed out. Then it's. Then it's a salt brine, that salt water that you put in with them and they, they taste like the black olives. I mean they. Yeah, I like them. Do you still have my cell number? I. I usually keep most of my phone numbers for people I say yeah, I'm sure I do. Can you give me a ring? Have you. Have you got time to talk on the phone for a couple minutes? Most certainly. Call you in a little kn6gtn that'd be just great. Okay, thanks and wa1ner I'll be standing by.

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