WD6AXM TX (146.085 MHz) recordings for 2026-02-02

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Speaker B: That is W7X Ray Zulu. Hopefully I'm on the center buttes repeater.
Speaker A: Yep, Roger, you're on WD6AX engine.
Speaker B: Sorry about that, I had a little cockpit problem here with the rig. Anyway, this is W7X Ray Izulu calling the Oroville Amateur Radio Society Sunday Night Net. This net meets Sunday evenings at 8pm local time and sorry for the delay in getting back on the right channel here. Let's see who's out there. Stations wishing to check into the net please call now. It's W7XZ.
Speaker A: Okay, six HFP checking in.
Speaker C: Mike Dinky Fox trip.
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Speaker B: W7X Ray Zulu. Well I've got three here and sorry for the delay in starting starting up the net. Apparently I had a stray touch on the the panel of the rig here and had to go find it. Anyway K6HFP. Good evening again John from the Zoom session. KB9MYF. Good evening Jeff and KF6EWO. Good evening again Gary from the Zoom session. Do we have any additional stats to Check in this W7X Ray Zulu? Nothing hurt. Guess we're on kind of a light turnout tonight. Anyway let's go to the roundtable mode here and get K6HFP. John you're the leadoff person tonight and from you it'll go to Jeff, KB9 my F. Jeff you'll be passing it to Kilo, Foxtrot Six Echo, Whiskey Oscar. That's Gary. So John, it's your nickel, K6HFP and
Speaker A: the net, W7XZ, W7X Ray Zulu and the net. This is K6HMP John up in Oreville. Thanks Jim. So for me the week kind of flew by. It's kind of busy all week doing doing errands and appointments and staying busy all the time so. But whatchamacallit that X flare today? Oh my gosh, about 4:30 today x 8.1 or something popped off from that gigantic sunspot that's rotating towards Earth. So hopefully nothing, nothing major happens but potentially I've been hearing about possibility of some big big stuff popping off from it so hope everybody stays alert on that. Other than that good to see everybody that showed up on Zoom kind of flew by pretty quick and it's good to see everybody that joined there. Sorry I missed breakfast yesterday, tried to make it, couldn't make it. Sorry about that guys. And other than that just trying to keep up on my extra extra upgrade studies and stuff like that so been working on that still and hopefully it's one and done on that one, but that's all I got for tonight.
Speaker B: Hope everybody's doing good.
Speaker A: Have a good week. Coming up here, pass it over to Jeff, KB9MYF and Annette K6HFP.
Speaker C: Oh, yesterday I went over and bought it. I wonder where the east of Sacramento and bought a antenna a HF antenna, a Cushcraft R7 and it's upright right now. It's only tune it but.

Speaker A: Kb9 MYF and the Nat W7XZ. Jeff, are you still there? You dropped out after talking about tuning the Cushcraft R7. I wonder if we doubled their kb9 myf and the net w7xz. Jeff, are you still there?
Speaker B: Did I drop out?
Speaker A: Yeah, you did.
Speaker B: Oh okay. My Somehow my radio gets switched to higher power. I don't really have the power to do it. I got a new antenna Yesterday,
Speaker C: a
Speaker B: Cushcraft R7 which is a multi band HF antenna for 40 meters up to 10 and I got it up right now but I needed to do some
Speaker A: tuning
Speaker B: but seems to be going pretty good and I moved my chute meter antenna so that now on 25 watts I can hit the mount rose repeater from here. Other than that, not much going on KB9 MYF. Go ahead Gary.
Speaker C: Kb9nyf Nanette, this is kf6cwo Gary and Oroville. Not a whole lot going on here. I've just been working doing some what they call extra help with the school district. In fact I gotta work again tomorrow so I'm making a little money here and there and I've been doing some research in some different antennas and trying to decide what I want to build next out in the backyard and
Speaker A: listened
Speaker C: a little bit on the radio. There was oh one day I guess 10 meters was pretty busy a little while back earlier in the week I think it was and anyway just staying out of trouble, trying to stay warm down here. So I'll pass it back to you Jim. W7X Ray Zulu and Nanette. This is KF6EWO,
Speaker A: Kf6ewo and the nat w7x ray zulu. Okay gary, very good and before I ramble a bit here, do we have any additional check ins to to the net this w7x ray zulu? Nothing heard. Well, I'll put out a little bit of a QST the Oroville Amateur Radio Society March meeting night which is March 13th. We will have volunteer examiners at the venue for license examinations and anyone looking to upgrade a current license or prospect of new licensee all are welcome and tentatively scheduling things to be starting about 6pm or so that night. Anyway with that W E6A X N repeater. Anyway with with that said. Yeah John, that I mentioned on the zoom session that the x 8.1 flare was quite noticeable on 40 meters there on the phone band this afternoon and the two stations I was having a roundtable with went from 5 to 20 over 9 down to S3 or S2 and I understand and with just my hundred watts there on 40 meters I kind of disappeared on there and it really took the path away. Anyway, there are probably going to be some more of those. We're still fairly high in the cycle although we appear to be past the peak. And my experience over the last few sunspots cycles is that the declining part of the cycle seems to be where the flares seem to be more frequent. Anyway, aside from that haven't done too awfully much on the air here except keeping a schedule on 75 meters in the morning for half an hour before I get my day started. And anyway, with that I'll put out one more call. Do we have any additional check ins to the net? This is W7X Ray Zulu. Nothing heard. I'll run it back up the line here. Does any station have any additional comments for the net? W7X Ray Zulu
Speaker C: okay, 6HFP.
Speaker A: Go ahead John.
Speaker C: I meant to mention I do have my 10 meter gear up and ready so I'll be on 10 tonight.
Speaker A: Okay, very good. Well I'm all tuned up on 10 here also. And anyway for Jeff, when we adjourn the net here we go to 28.450 MHz upper sideband on 10 meters and do essentially a short net session up there and hopefully be able to join us once you get the antenna working there. And well let's see with that. Are there any other additional comments for the nap? This W7X rays 89 mys. Go ahead Jeff.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm going to try tonight to get on 28 450. In fact I'm there now and I have two 10 meter antennas. It's all tuned up on 10 meters already. I just haven't seen the other bands but I'm going to give it a try anyway. KB9 MYF.
Speaker A: Okay Jeff, very good and we'll give a listen for you once we adjourn the net here. Any additional comments? This is W7X Ray Zillow. Nothing hurts. Sounds like we got it done. I'll make this the last call for any late check ins or any unfinished business before we close the 2 meter portion of the net. This time W7X rays. Nothing hurt. Thank you for the check ins tonight. This net will convene again this coming Sunday evening at 8pm and hopefully your net control can get the transceiver on the right channel here for the repeater on time. This is W7X Ray Zulu signing the 2 meter portion of the Oroville Amateur Radio Society Sunday night Net clear and going QSY to 28.450 MHz upper sideband. Good evening to all.

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Speaker A: Ki6hk Sacramento.
Speaker B: Hey, Chuck. N6IWH in Chico. How you doing?
Speaker A: Pretty good for an old man. Pete, how are things in Chico?
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, I have a couple complaints about getting old. You know, people say, how you doing? I go, oh, getting old. But that really doesn't, you know, tell the story of the pain, the discomfort, the hassles at the medical place on and yada da, yada da, you know.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I'm very familiar with it. I'll be 83 in June. So that tells a story right there. How old are you, Pete?
Speaker B: 79. Everybody says I don't look 79. Even the doctors. I go over here and see these tenlo and they say, oh, yeah, you look 60. He looks 65. Well, you know what? I feel 80. And, you know, some of these doctors here, they won't work on you after you turn 80.
Speaker A: Yeah, you're neg negligible after 80.
Speaker B: Well, I asked the guy, I said, what? What's the deal? And he said, well, the recovery. You know, most men, by the time they're 80, they got quite a bit, you know, other stuff wrong.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's just like a car, you know, some people love classic cars. My favorite car was the gto, the Pontiac.
Speaker B: And
Speaker A: I don't think there's many of them left around anymore. They're still running.
Speaker B: You lost your sight, is that correct?
Speaker A: That is true. Ever since I was nine years old.
Speaker B: Oh, wow. You know, ham radio guys, they make a joke sometimes when, you know, they talk to another ham and they find out that he's blind and, you know, they're talking and stuff, and the guy will always say, well, gee, you don't sound blind.
Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know what that sounds like.
Speaker B: Yeah, Really, I don't know. Well, you know, I've known a few. They call themselves okay. I mean, but, you know, they love ham radio. It's a place where they can go and get on. They don't really. You don't need to see what's out there. They can talk to people. Work hf.
Speaker A: Well, I love radio, period. My first radio was an airline, Bakelite, Chase Montgomery wars radio that my parents gave me when they bought a new one. And it had 20 meters and 75 meters on it. And that's what introduced me to AMP radio.
Speaker B: Well, you also work the code, right?
Speaker A: Yeah, I've been using code all my life, Pete. I enjoy code because I can sit and eat or drink and just work my hand and still be on ham radio.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, Yeah. I passed the General code. Back in the day it was 13 words a minute. You know I had to hunker down and practice a little bit it but I'm trying to get it where I can just listen and kind of get the gist of the conversation. I'm not quite there yet.
Speaker A: Just keep it up Pete. I, I operate around 20 words a minute and you know I could bear down and probably do 30 but who am I going to find to talk to at that speed? 20 words a minute is comfortable for me and I don't care to do any better than that.
Speaker B: Well what kind of keyer did you use? Did you like a venture or did you use a bug?
Speaker A: I've got a bug, a gold plated bug that I bought from Fresh Fred Honnold up in Pioneer years ago and it's a beautiful buck. Got it all balanced out. But I also use a keyer, electronic keyer. I have a Scotia paddle that I use that was given to me by a good friend in Lumen and they're a rare thing now too.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, I like, I like paddle. I've got a MFJ and it works. Hey, you know I was getting out there. My biggest DX was working Australia on 10 meters which was pretty amazing. I mean I heard this guy and he was so loud, you know you could hear the needle pin when it went bump, you know and I had to ask him to repeat, repeat qth he spelled out Queensland, Australia.
Speaker A: Yeah, my favorite contact was Imdefound Mongolia. The Guy's call was JT1 Alpha November and that was back 15 years ago but yeah, I worked in Monster.
Speaker B: Well do you run into guys that are using the computer and just typing or using the device?
Speaker A: No, no, I prefer just working somebody the old fashioned way. Key to.
Speaker B: Well that's what I run into. The guys are so fast and so good, you know and I mean perfect code. I don't think they're pounding the paddle.
Speaker A: Could be the skier you know cranked up pretty fast. My keyer can put out up to 50 words a minute.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, you know but you don't really find many that fast. That's, that's full bore.
Speaker A: Really? Yes. Like I always say, who you going to find to talk to at that speed? And it's the same way with amplifiers, you know, if you can't hear the person, how can you work them? They might be able to hear you but you can't hear them. It doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker B: W E6A X N repeater um, help. I think we talked about it once. You're grounding, grounding there in the house. You told me something about a pretty elaborate system for all your ground. Is this true?
Speaker A: Well, when I put in my tower, I went down 8 1/2ft, 4ft square, built a used 3 quarter inch rebar and built a cage in there. And then I used J bolt to suspend from the template and poured in four and a half yards of concrete. Before I poured in the concrete, I went down in the bottom of that hole and drove in four copper wires rods. They were each about 8ft long. I was driving it into damp, sandy bottom and that's what I used for my ground system. I ran a track up to the top of the hole before I poured the concrete.
Speaker B: Okay, well, should your ham radio stuff be grounded with the house electrical ground?
Speaker A: I've never done that. I'm grounded totally independent of the house.
Speaker B: Actually, that makes better sense. And I think you know your signal, if you're trying to work, you know, real weak stations, you can't have any noise or buzzes or, you know, that kind of stuff.
Speaker A: Yeah, when I re remodeled the kitchen a number of years ago, they put in these rocker switches and dimmer switches and they're notorious for rf. So if I'm on the air and I've got a lot of hash on there, I go around the house, check all the twitches that usually smears with us.
Speaker B: Hey, even when I lived up on Oregon Hill Road, on Challenge, I could hear stations, you know, even scanning stuff from the Bay Area and stuff like that. But you could work people because you could hear them. No noise really. But, you know, down here there's buzzing. It's chico, you know, Central Chico. Plus I got somebody who, they come home and they turn something on.
Speaker A: Please,
Speaker B: what is that? I think what it is is, I don't know, something like a neon bulb or something out of wax.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's famous for that. But television, computers, The lighting system for marijuana growers, those produce a lot of hash.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, well, you know, that's big business. Now, they've got a few of those places around here. And, you know, you look at the parking lot, it's full of really nice cars. You know, actually there's the older crowd. They like edibles. Okay, what. What are you doing? But they use it for pain. I don't know, I. I don't think I want to fly that direction. But my sister takes them. The one she just orders off of Amazon. The gummy bears with thp. She says they help.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, the only thing I use for pain is Tylenol, and I've got real serious problems with arthritis, but I can handle the pain. That's no big deal. I want to go out of this world still thinking straight, and I don't know how on earth I could do that if I depended on other types of painkillers.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, well, you know, the DOJ is actually watching doctors pharmacies, you know, because of so many people dying off of fentanyl. So, you know, a lot of doctors don't want to write for that stuff anyway. And low hospital, you know, you go in and have surgery, you're pretty much numb, but they don't give you anything for pain to take. Oh, I'm going. Wait a minute. What's wrong with this picture?
Speaker A: No, I've been going through some procedures in Kaiser. They offer, you know, opioids, and I don't want anything to do with it, so. But I'm on a. An oral chemo right now called lymphedema, which is really a high, really a high pressure type drug. But I'm tolerating it. Okay. I'm keeping my blood pressure down. I've lost £20, so I'll go with it as long as necessary.
Speaker B: You got family? You got people there helping you.
Speaker A: My dear wife, been my wife for 62 years. And my children are all in Utah and Idaho. I've got a daughter and a daughter that lives in South Jordan, Utah. I've got a daughter that lives in Boise, Idaho. I've got a son that lives in El Paso, Texas. And I've got another son that lives in Hiram, Eco.
Speaker B: Hey, well, you're not short on family, that's for sure. But, you know, I. I know what people talk about, the older crowd, you know, when they say you feel like you're alone, you know, there's no help. Yeah, I understand that, you know, and. Yeah, but I feel like I'm hanging in there. I have a belief system I don't want to tell you, you know, Christian, whatever, I mean, that's your business. But my mom was a Bible thumper and she never shoved it at you. But I used her as an example, you know, I mean, she took it into dried and, you know, everything was died, really died in a good way.
Speaker A: That's good.
Speaker B: That's a great thing.
Speaker A: You're not supposed to be embarrassed about mentioning religion to me, Pete, because I think we've all got a little bit of that in it. Everybody does. And whether people or not, we're all related because we're all part of the family of man. So anyway, I'm from a very large family up there in Brownville and challenged in that area. I've still got lots of relatives up there, but many of the ones have gotten older and passed on. My aunts and uncles, cousins, grandparents had nothing to break memories with my childhood, my youth.
Speaker B: Yeah, you know, I have as yet to get up to that graveyard. I was going to go and look around. You know the Xyl, she's the still going up to Brownsville. There's a little heart heart show they have once a month across from the Gold Eagle. And hey, one time I tried a corn dog from the Gold Eagle. Oh, it was good. Oh, went back tried one. Oh man. Oh, this is awful dry. I thought I was having a bad dream. But anyway, usually they have these really good corn dogs. W E6A X N receiver.
Speaker A: Oh, that's a try one next time I'm up there, Pete. Anyway, my one of my brothers lives over in the trailer park over there by the airport. Errol Pines. My brother Monty, he's retired federal law enforcement. I mean yeah. And my brother Art is in Dayton, Nevada. My other brother Dwight lives at Brownsville right across from the right across from that Kingdom Falls right there along the highway. My brother lives kind of up on the hill, white but.

Speaker A: You know, my mom and dad have passed on.
Speaker B: My grandparents, we were all a very,
Speaker A: very close family and so I grew up there. But those people are missing, so not to thank.
Speaker B: Are you going to be buried up at Brown Hill?
Speaker A: Yeah, we've already got our flat purchased there in Brownville Cemetery. That's for my family for years back
Speaker B: have been buried there. My grandfather and grandmother are both buried there. My aunt and uncle, cousins, my oldest
Speaker A: son is buried there, and my mother
Speaker B: and father in law are buried there.
Speaker A: My wife, brother and sister in law are buried there.
Speaker B: So, yeah, a lot of family there. Yeah, you're getting a little bit scratchy on that last one. Did you change something?
Speaker A: No, but this microphone cord might be a little suspicious. How's that sound?
Speaker B: You know, sometimes I've had that when the radio gets hot.
Speaker A: I can probably turn the power down on this thing. I'm running 50 watts into this chinwid.
Speaker B: It's an old, old chinwid.
Speaker A: So let me lower the power and see what happens there. I'm down to 10 watts.
Speaker B: Well, not much difference. I mean, you're into, you're into the machine. While there was kind of crackling sound and I was not able to hear everything you were saying.
Speaker A: Okay, I'll take a little stretch off of the microphone cord. How's that?
Speaker B: Hey, perfect. What did you do?
Speaker A: Got one of those spiral mic cords and so I had it stretched out leaning back in my rocking chair. Now I've taking the stretch out of the court.
Speaker B: Oh, that's too funny. It worked. It sounded so good. I think I'll do mine. Wait,
Speaker A: That's kind of like me at my age, when I stretch too much, I pay for it in the long run. So I did some encounter work yesterday for a couple hours and I overdid it. So I'm kind of laid up today.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I know these people from, you know, where I go in doctors. I see the same kind of guys and stuff. Older, But, you know, they're all good people. I don't know how to describe this, but I don't know, they just all seem a lot more friendly. These are the patients and some of them are getting ready to die, but apparently, you know, they're hanging in there and doing the best they can.
Speaker A: I think that goes for most of the people I talk to on this, on this repeater. Pete. Good bunch of folks. And we have a lot in common because I grew up in that area up there. But they're just fine people.
Speaker B: Well, are you gonna have any kind of funeral service? Or get together. Not with, like, ham radio people.
Speaker A: No, not really. When I go, I go. And just a private little family service.
Speaker B: That's about it. Well, I'm sure, you know, you probably have some guys out here that wanted to, you know, pay their condolences and stuff, but that's a good. You know, I'll tell you what really gets me is when you have a veteran, say, who dies and the dog waits, that's a grave sight, for him to get up and play ball, but he never does.
Speaker A: That's all right. You were talking about religion earlier. By faith, we believe that, you know,
Speaker B: we leave things behind, but then we
Speaker A: meet others on the other side. So there's a celebration on the other side, too.
Speaker B: Yeah, you know, I've heard that. Well, I'm kind of thankful in my life that I never hurt people. You know, I've seen some times where, you know, like, say, a fight and the guy's still, you know, wailing on him after he's down and out, you know, it's just cool. So a lot of it is what you send out, you know, that comes back.
Speaker A: Yeah, I. It's a celebration of life, actually. And so, anyway, I heard my wife toot the horn when she came into the garage, so she wants me to come and help her carry in the groceries, so I'm going to do that. Pete, good talking to you. And you have a great one. K6IWH, K I6HK.
Speaker B: All right.

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