WD6AXM TX (146.085 MHz) recordings for 2026-01-31

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Speaker A: Kk6vzd mobile, wp6axm repeater.
Speaker B: I'll give you a quick Good evening, Chris. N60NY
Speaker A: quick Good evening, eh? All right, well a quick good evening to you too.
Speaker B: Thank you, sir. Yeah, I'm just about destinated. Probably about three minutes. So how you been doing? 43 work days left.
Speaker A: 43
Speaker B: and I are becoming a real short timer.
Speaker A: Yes siree, Bob. It's fun, it's fun. You know, people ask me how you doing? And I just bring up that number
Speaker B: yes or yes sir. Well, it's a number to definitely be happy and proud about.
Speaker A: Now I'm well, yeah, I gotta figure out I want to. I want to go back to Illinois and see my family. Shortly after that, maybe not right away, but I'm thinking about taking the train. Have you ever done that?
Speaker B: I have not done that yet. My in laws actually did when they went back to Indianapolis one year and they loved it.
Speaker A: My wife doesn't want to do it, but then again, you know, I could do it by myself and she could fly. That'd be okay with me.
Speaker B: Well, there you go.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: And you'll actually be able to see part of the country that you can't see other than from a train. So everything I've heard of from people that have done it.
Speaker A: Loved it. Yeah, that'd be interesting going across the salt lake on the causeway. They have a. Well I'm not sure whether you call it a causeway or what, but you know, part of the tracks goes right across the salt lake.
Speaker B: Yeah, that would be awesome.
Speaker A: Of course I know they don't stop for the evening. So there's part of the country you're going through in the middle of the night and you get to miss that. So you know, that'd be a bit. Well that would be a bit disappointing. But you know, the rest of odr.
Speaker B: Exactly. You know, and the thing is, you know, if you get one of the rooms or the room at, you know, all of the meals are included in it other than, you know, whatever snacks you want to get from the cafe car. But you know, everything I've heard that the meals are really good, you know, it's very pleasurable, you know, going through there. Just make sure you have your camera with you.
Speaker A: Looking into the room at. Do you know how big it is?
Speaker B: I think the reel mat is. The real mat isn't very big. You can fit two people in there. But it's pretty tight quarter. So if it's one person it's pretty comfortable. It's a lot Better than riding in the coach seats.
Speaker A: Yeah, I guess it's three, a little over three and a half feet by a little over six feet.
Speaker B: Gotcha. Yeah. When I. Because I was planning on going across to New York and I was gonna. Actually I was gonna see if I. When I do, I was gonna get one of the bigger rooms. That way I've got room to stretch out and you know, move around a little bit and not have to, you know, walk up and down the entire train
Speaker A: one way. That's a couple thousand dollars.
Speaker B: I actually priced it, which this was last year when I was looking at doing it. It was going to be $1200 to go one way from Sacramento to Rome, New York.
Speaker A: Do they give discounts for distance? Because I was looking at the prices from here to Chicago.
Speaker B: I don't know. They might because I know actually, so from Chicago, Rome, you know, Chicago would have to change trains and you know, so there's no sleeper car from Chicago on. So I don't know if that makes a difference or not.
Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. You know, I'm gonna keep it in mind. If I don't do it, I'll never do it.
Speaker B: Exactly.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: That's one of the one trip I really want to do is cross country on actually. So I want to go across the northern side, you know, go up to New York for a while, then drop down south and then come across the southern side. Coming back I think would be really awesome to do.
Speaker A: Yeah, that'd be fun. Yeah. I wonder, I wonder if I'm gonna get to do more traveling in my retirement. I like traveling, but you know, traveling costs money. That it does.
Speaker B: That's why get yourself a nice little used motorhome, you know, like class D, you know, one of the real small ones. And yeah, you know, make a trip cross country and you know, circling the country, you know, stopping every once in a while, spending a couple days in one area, then moving on and then when you get back home, turn around, sell the rv and don't forget just about the, the money you put into it by.
Speaker A: Yeah, but you're not talking about one of those ones that's built on a Toyota pickup bed chassis, are you?
Speaker B: No. So they've got, well, they've got different models. So they've got some that are, they're kind of like a wide body Dodge Ram van and Chevy, they made them with Chevy chassis with the van. But Dodge sprinter vans, they got a bunch of them that are built up as RVs and stuff like that.
Speaker A: Well, I haven't looked at. I know, I know. Paul's got, he's got a Mercedes van that he's got set up, you know, for mobile operating. I don't know whether it's set up
Speaker B: as an RV or not. Oh yeah, yeah, he's got it set up. It's got a kitchenette in it and it's got a bed in there and all the good stuff. So they're actually able to camp out of that.
Speaker A: Well, I might not. That might be, you know, something that I wouldn't mind doing. I don't know about my wife.
Speaker B: Yeah, I kind of have the same questions like that about my, my, I guess I'll call it my. Yeah, my wife.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Well,
Speaker A: yeah, this weekend I got to work on starting, you know, getting with the different various financial plans that I've got retirement type stuff up and, and start sending in my application saying start paying me on the 1st of April.
Speaker B: Yes sir. Yeah, you're going to want to get
Speaker A: a hook, get ahead of that. So that's a good deal though.
Speaker B: I'm, I'm proud of you, Chris. You've worked, you know, hard in your life and it's about time you're able to kick back and relax and take your shoes off for a while.
Speaker A: Yeah, my wife has actually got, got cotton planned out. There's a lot of, there's a lot of home fix up things that need to be done and she's starting to plan on all of that right now.
Speaker B: Ah, again, nice little honey do list going on.
Speaker A: Not so little. Yeah, and I think I'm going to be. Well, this is not, this is more of a, this is a season thing. I got to get up on the roof and get rid of the leaves but I didn't get off in the fall. Gotcha.
Speaker B: Yeah, get the leaves off, get the gutters cleaned out, all the fun stuff.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. All right, well I am destinated so I got to go find out what's waiting for me. So I'll, I'll have, I'll talk to you later. Have a great evening and a weekend and 73 to you.
Speaker B: Thank you, sir. You have yourself a good evening as well. Yeah, I got to go inside, start getting my stuff ready because I'm going out tomorrow, working in the Bay Area and I got a hotel out there tomorrow night so I won't be back until Sunday night. But you have yourself a good one.
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Speaker A: Are you on the way back into Oroville?
Speaker B: Ah, negative. I'm just headed down your way.
Speaker A: Oh, I thought you was leaving after work. No, I was.
Speaker B: I went home and propped my feet up a while, took it easy and got ready to just. Just left a little bit ago.
Speaker A: Okay. I just got home maybe 20 minutes ago. I hadn't stopped by Jake's.
Speaker B: Of course, when you're in the area, you might as well. Good opportunity.
Speaker A: That's what I was thinking. And yeah, the, the oranges have got a lot of sugar in them. They're good.
Speaker B: Thank you. Yeah, we've. We've noticed. Well, actually, even when we did the first picking, there was quite a few of them that were just perfectly fine, were good and sweet. But then we got. I don't know if there's one part of the orchard or what the deal was. There was one batch of them that, that was. They were, you know, they were pretty tart.
Speaker A: Yeah, I think that's the one. I got into the dark one, but. But they weren't. Yeah, they, they were tart. These were a lot. These are a lot better.
Speaker B: Yeah, we noticed that the last law.
Speaker A: They're.
Speaker B: They're really good oranges. Nothing wrong with them. So. Yeah, there's one section of that orchard I think we must have picked a
Speaker A: little early probably so. Well, we were getting kind of anxious too, about getting them.
Speaker B: Well, there's a few more bags around if you want any more. Once you get done with those, we'll
Speaker A: be getting a hold of you.
Speaker B: Very good. Everything good on your drive home?
Speaker A: Yeah, I did 80 miles. Miles an hour all the way home, that Highway 70. That's nice. Now.
Speaker B: That is really nice and it's amazing. It just feels like it's the whole, like, you know, we always come down laporte, take Ramirez Road out and then from Ramirez down to the Marysville city limit. Just seemed like that's not far at all anymore. That speed limit made a big difference.
Speaker A: That's. That's a nice. That Highway 70 is a whole lot better. A lot of. Lot of, you know, going through, going across over to Or Dam Boulevard Boulevard and then out. 99. That's okay. But I, I just seem to. I prefer going down highway.
Speaker B: Yeah. And I. I don't know if it sends the fire up in paradise or what it was. But even, even these, like going over to the 99 and stuff. There's a lot of traffic on some of these little roads that didn't used to be that way 10 years ago.
Speaker A: Everybody's finding a different way to go and, and yeah, and at the time probably a lot less traffic, but now they're starting to get more traffic.
Speaker B: Okay, very good. Well, I'll be mobile for a while.
Speaker A: Okay, well, I'll be out here in case you get bored. I'll be out here. I'm watching a guy rebuild a Mercury engine outboard motor. He pulled it out of the junkyard and seems to be like it's not in too bad a shape just needs a little bit of work. So I'm going to watch him rebuild this thing.
Speaker B: Is it a V6?
Speaker A: Oh, no, it's just a small outboard, probably ten horse or so. Oh, okay.
Speaker B: We got to work on our 250 horse Mercury outboard. That's a V6 in there. That, that thing's a, you know, for being a boat motor I think, you know, they pack a lot of size in there. Surprising what they hide under those covers.
Speaker A: Those big engines. Those things are amazing. And they got a big price on them too.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's amazing what those Mercury outboards go for. Some of them are just plumb hard to find if you're trying to replace one.
Speaker A: I remember when my dad, he had glass bar outboard and I think he got one of the first hundred horse Mercury. They were 95 horse Mercury and when they came out they weren't so bad. At price wise they were kind of high at the time. But boy, now anymore they're just, they went crazy. I remember when the. I bought a brand new 15 horse motor. Johnson, Johnson Evinrude. Brand new, right off the showroom floor. Brand new and it. I think I paid 500 for it and. But now. Oh, crazy.
Speaker B: Yeah. You'll be lucky to get the prop for $500.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I remember. And I used to pull a water skier behind my Valco boat. Pull a water skier behind that 15 horse. Man, that thing is power.
Speaker B: What really amazed me was so we've also got a 210 horse force engine. It's made by Mercury or it's made on the Mercury patent.
Speaker A: But it's just a four cylinder.
Speaker B: That thing's a whole lot quieter and smoother and. And you don't notice that it doesn't really have the same horsepower as the other boat. Doesn't go quite as fast, but it goes fast enough for us. We like that one actually better than that big V6.250 horse
Speaker A: is it? Are they outboard?
Speaker B: Yeah, they're both outboards.
Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. Yeah, those are nice engines and quite the regular go. Regular gas?
Speaker B: No, there are two cycles. Of course we have to pre mix the gas in the tank. But the Ranger that we have with that Mercury 250 horse on that thing has its own mixer on it. It still works decent. It works good. So we still use it that we just put regular gas in the boat and then have another oil reservoir that it pumps out of.
Speaker A: Reservoir, huh? Well, that's pretty good. Them big new engines, boy they're. They're big and mighty.
Speaker B: Yeah, they're big and mighty and they're four strokers now instead of the two strokes and they're a lot quieter. I, I don't begrudge that at all. That. That's nice. And then if you think my 250 horse Mercury Old V6 is loud, boy they've got some inboards out there on the lake that come roaring past, shake the water and everything that I don't know what they got big old 454s or something in there with no exhaust on them.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Crazy stuff. Okay, well I'm going to see how far along they are on this motor and look at it for a little bit. Where you at now?
Speaker B: I'm on the. I'm down here in the. Just got into the valley here on Ramirez Road, driving through the rice fields.
Speaker A: Okay. Okay. Well we'll catch you when you get a little further down the road too. And if not I'll catch you on the way back back out of town.
Speaker B: Very good. Yeah, pay attention. You might, you might have to rebuild one of those engines for a job someday. So. So yeah, look sharp and figure it out. We'll chat with you later.
Speaker A: KN6GTM what I'm curious about, I've got a nice little Evinrude. It's an older model and it ran real good out on the river. My son in law and I took it out but it was just, it just seemed like it was slow to me. And I watched the YouTube and some of the same motors, they looked like they were pretty quick. So I'm thinking it's a two cylinder. I'm thinking it might just have been running on one cylinder. I never saw thought at the time to check it but now I'm thinking maybe because I thought I was going to change the prop but I couldn't even find a prop to exchange with it. So I figured it's probably, it's probably running on one cylinder so I got to check that out.
Speaker B: Yeah, that could easily be. We've got a. We had a little boat with a 40 horse mercury on it. And it occasionally would run on one foot cylinder. Boy, that made a huge difference that thing. Yeah. Just felt like you were never going to get home, so. All right, very good. I'll let you go. We'll chat with you later.
Speaker A: KN6 GTM, WP6AXM Repeater WA1NER. I'll be standing by.
Speaker C: Good afternoon Dave and Ernie.
Speaker A: This is Chuck.
Speaker C: Ki6hk. I'm just going to say hi in passing. Let you know I'm still alive.
Speaker A: Yeah, we're all doing good too. Hello Chuck. Go ahead Ernie.
Speaker B: Yeah, good evening Chuck. Good to hear you out there. Thanks for letting us know you're still alright. How is everything down there in the city?
Speaker C: Well, I spent the afternoon working on my. My antenna system. I've got a beam up there that had a. That had the coax separate for some reason so I had to track it down. But we got her fixed and it's. It's back tweedling on the air. You guys have a great afternoon. Ki6hk.
Speaker B: Same to you. 73. Chuck, good to hear you.

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Speaker A: Wa1ner ko6bgy. K06bzy monitoring.
Speaker B: I'm on my ht. I don't know if you can hear me all right or not, but I'm on my ht. Go ahead.
Speaker A: Full copy on the audio. A little bit of crackling, but full copy. I just wanted to let you know a couple weeks ago you were talking about olive and mayo sandwiches. And so I tried that, but I didn't have the. So I used cream cheese and the diced or almost pureed canned black olives. And boiled that with a little bit of salt and pepper on top. That was divine.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's good. Yeah, it's whatever combination you want to put on it. Pretty good stuff, I think. Yeah.
Speaker A: And what's up with these oranges that you're acquiring? I know they're somewhat local to the area. I used to get some local oranges here in town, but they moved properties and the. I don't feel like going and asking the current tenants and, hey, they're good. Could I have some? You know, maybe one day I will. Maybe tomorrow.
Speaker B: Well, there's a little. There's a little furniture store and an automotive diesel mechanic shop behind it. And out in front, they've got a little stand. And they have fresh oranges on it. They're called Cara oranges. And I get them up in Oroville. And Ernie is the owner of that orchard where I get them at. And he has a little stand that he sets them on and sells them out of the stand.
Speaker A: I'll have to get the address of that and definitely head out that way. I gotta go to Yuba City tomorrow, so it wouldn't be too much of a trip. I don't know,
Speaker B: a good hour trip. It's up past the casino on Oradam Boulevard, or Olive, actually. You go up on Or Dam Boulevard to Olive Highway. And then go up past the casino to Kelly Ridge. And it's one plot, one block past Kelly Ridge on the right hand side. Or you could get a hold of Ernie and tell him you're coming.
Speaker A: Y' all have to do both. We'll definitely have to give that a shot. As if. I feel like it in the morning, but right now I definitely want some oranges. And those sounds good. I'll let you get back to what you're doing. I think you might have been trying to catch Ernie there. He ain't out there yet, I guess. But I'm gonna try to find a movie here to watch. I just realized I have one of them other TV streaming services. I gotta downsize those things. It's been paying for one that I didn't know I had. So I'm gonna go use it now. So canceled the bugger, but I'm gonna get. Get my month use out of it.
Speaker B: Is it you're gonna get?
Speaker A: Oh, it's a TV program. Paramount plus, the streaming service for television. And didn't realize I was paying for it for about two months. And now I'm gonna go ahead and utilize it. I already canceled it, though.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, Great. Yeah, it always works real good when you. When you cancel them. Yeah. Okay, well, have a good rest of the evening and I'm gonna sit back and I just had some leftover Chinese food from last night. I had panda last night for dinner. And so I had a small hamburger for dinner tonight up in Oroville when I was up there. And I thought, gee, I think I. I think I'm just a little bit hungry. So I finished off a little bit of my Chinese food that I had from last night. Okay. See you later. Wa1ner on my little ht in the kitchen.
Speaker A: I'll be clear. Nothing better than next day Chinese food. That always hits the spot. Glad you enjoyed it. KO Said youy all be clear seven, three.

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Speaker A: Kwe6axm receiver. Morning out there. This is kk6isq mobile.
Speaker B: Good morning, Mike. KN6GTN
Speaker A: and Ernie. How you doing?
Speaker B: Doing good so far. How's your day going?
Speaker A: Pretty good. Got some waste oil dumped off.
Speaker B: Got.
Speaker A: Got an old TV turned in and went and got some discounted meat and chicken. And now I'm heading out to an orchard to check my. My cameras.
Speaker B: So those cameras aren't ones that transmit pictures through wife or through cellular data.
Speaker A: Too cheap.
Speaker B: Copy that. Yeah. I'm just running some errands we're doing. Doing a little remodel at our house. And so I need to go get some electrical supplies and get that dug in and completed. So that's what I'm up to.
Speaker A: There you go. Now, if we can just get. As long as we get something done during the day, we're doing, we're not in trouble, right?
Speaker B: That is exactly right.
Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know, I might. I might invest in those cameras. You know, by the time I get out there and everything. I've paid more for fuel than service,
Speaker B: So I'm not. You said an orchard, so what are you watching for?
Speaker A: Right now I'm watching for boar, but I saw plenty of deer trails in there. It's a. That's an orchard and a butte. So, you know, maybe I can keep my eyes out for. See where they are. Where they are for next season.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's the trick. If you want to. If you want to get something, you need to know where they're at and what's there.
Speaker A: Well, the owner of the orchard wants the boars out of there. And I can hunt bore all year round,
Speaker B: So. So there's obviously some sign. I mean, obviously they're tearing stuff up. Yep.
Speaker A: And that's right where it puts cameras.
Speaker B: I'll tell you what, those things can. Those things can almost be more elusive than wild game. Of course, I mean, they are wild, but think of deer and bear and mountain lion and stuff as being really elusive. But I'll tell you, those boars can be. Once they get wind of something's not quite right, they're about impossible to corner.
Speaker A: And most of the stuff down here, honestly, is up and around right before sundown and all night.
Speaker B: Yeah, that always makes it a little more difficult too, when they're, you know, primarily nocturnal. Just like the big bucks when you go hunting them.
Speaker A: Yeah. So if I can find out maybe where they're bend down at or something. But Yeah, I got 40 acres out there I can hunt, which is nice.
Speaker B: Yeah. One of the boys, Myron and I. Myron's just kind of taking an interest in locating some hogs, some boars to go after. So we've been doing a little research and seeing a little what our options are, but I got kind of interested in that.
Speaker A: Yeah. How to hunt them or what license or what, what gun or what.
Speaker B: How and where.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's. That's gonna be the hard part. They. Well, they're just like any other animal. Wherever there's food and water.
Speaker B: Yeah, there's certainly opportunists there, but they can. Sure, they can root up.
Speaker A: It's.
Speaker B: I mean, I can understand why these orchards, the people that own the orchards want them out of there. They could. They could tear up Jack.
Speaker A: And honestly, they take out the drip line as much as the rodents do. So, you know, because they're wanting the water
Speaker B: and they could smell it from a mile away. That has never ceased to amaze me.
Speaker A: You definitely want to stay upwind from them.
Speaker B: So how many miles do you. I mean, how far is it where you have to go?
Speaker A: Oh, it's on the north side of the butte.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's the section I run when. When we do bike around the buttes. I like that area up in there. It's amazing how many, you know, how much traffic, how many people are up there for. Secluded as it is.
Speaker A: Yeah, but it, it is opened up quite a bit. But Yeah, I got 40 acres up there that I have access to, which is real nice. I mean, I just stumbled upon it. One of the guys on my board, one of the boards I'm sitting on, I was telling him, you know, that I want to. I want to get some boar and put in the freezer. And he goes, well, heck, why don't you just go out to my orchard?
Speaker B: Yeah, that's a good way. That's what we need to find somebody who, who we know and who knows us. And it just, you know, has an opportunity like that. I haven't put my feelers out very far yet, but yeah, I. There for a while I was thinking, you know, most of them are almost too far away to go for a day hunt, but I'm sure there's stuff a little closer
Speaker A: you should have. Honestly, you should have plenty around around the foothills of the buttes and around you where you live. Word of advice. You probably already know this, but I'm going to say it anyway. Make sure you have a text or email or written down permission on you.
Speaker B: Yeah, that becomes important if you're checked out. But you know, as far as in our area, I haven't seen any, you know, hogs or hog damage anywhere as close to Bangor or Oroville here. So I, I know in Red Bluff they have, you know, they have quite a bit of. There's hogs around and on out towards the coastals. They're there. But you know, I, I haven't seen anything real close.
Speaker A: Oh wow, that's amazing. But you probably have a lot of deer and such out there though.
Speaker B: Yeah, we'd have more deer than. And we have some, and we have some mountain lions. So I've seen several across ora bang. I've seen two mountain lion on ora banger the years since I've lived here. And then one of my neighbors saw one the other day. So that big cat's still around.
Speaker A: You can't do anything with them. They want to, they want to trap them and relocate them.
Speaker B: Yeah, they're not causing any problem right now. I mean I haven't had any problems with them but just knowing they're out there is a little. I mean if you're out there in the dark and you just, you hope that nothing's stuck and ya,
Speaker A: for the most part they'll leave us alone unless you know there's something wrong with them. The biggest problems are the chickens and such
Speaker B: and small pets, dogs and cats, they, they take those when they can find them too. So. Yeah. Well, I'm here at Home Depot so I'm gonna step aside. You have a good day. Be careful out there and we'll chat with you later. KN6GTN Good chatting with you.
Speaker A: Ready Ernie? You have a great day. 7 3. And thanks for picking up KK6ISQ monitoring.

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