WD6AXM TX (146.085 MHz) recordings for 2026-02-09

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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 for the session. And let's see who's out there. Stations wishing to check into the net, please call now. It's W7X Ray Zulu,
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Speaker A: This is K6HFP checking in. Kilo Oscar Six Bravo, Golf, Yankee with a check in. I'll be heading out as well. 73, KO6, BGY, Kube, revo9 mike, yankee, fox truck.

Speaker A: This is W7X Ray Zulu. A little bit light tonight but anyway check in K6HFP. Good evening again John from the Zoom session. K06BGY. Good evening Paul, thanks for the check in and 73 to you and KB9Mike, Yankee Foxtrot. Good evening Jeff and thank you for the check in tonight. Do we have any additional check ins to the net? This is W7X Ray Zulu. Nothing heard. Kind of a short list tonight here but I guess we can go to roundtable mode here. K6HFP. John, you're leading off and you'll be passing it to Jeff. Kilo, Bravo 9 Mike, Yankee Foxtrot. So John, go ahead case. K6HFB in the net, W7X Ray Zulu.
Speaker B: W7X Ray Zulu in the net, K6HFP. Thanks Jim.
Speaker A: This is John up in Orville.
Speaker B: Kind of a quick week for me. Kind of flew by waiting for the super bowl hoping that it was going to be a good game but man I almost fell asleep. That was such a spoiler alert. That was a boring game. Anyways got through that and other than that throughout the week just been trying to chug along and keep up my studies on extra so I'll be ready next month.
Speaker C: That's what I'm hoping for.
Speaker B: So radio wise I guess that's all that I got my study in for extra but other than that nothing else for me. So pass it over to Jeff, see what he's up to. Hope everybody has a good week. KB9MYF and the NAT, K6HFP.
Speaker D: Well, pretty much nothing going on over here. And you're right about the game, it was kind of boring. The second part was I didn't get to see the first half of the game but the second half was kind of boring. Other than that nothing else. I guess you hear in the background the cat had something to say. That's Sylvester in the background meowing KB9MYS,
Speaker A: KB9MYF and the net W7XZ. Okay Jeff and I'll put out one more call. Do we have any additional check ins to the net? This W7X Ray Zulu,
Speaker C: Whiskey Foxtrot 3 Echo. Steve, at the moment in Calusa normal home is in Corning. We're opening a store down here.
Speaker A: Whiskey Foxtrot 3 Echo. Good evening Steve and thank you for the check in tonight. Anyway we have been in the roundtable mode here. Wondered how things are going on your end there. Take a transmission please. WF3E and the net W7X rays.
Speaker C: Can't say there's A whole lot going on radio wise but it is a mighty good friend to have when you're on these kind of long remote trips in between cities here and there trying to get stuff transported to a new place of business from your old place of business, back and forth and sideways. And it's always good to have a
Speaker A: friendly voice out there.
Speaker C: So I appreciate all of you.
Speaker A: Thank you very much.
Speaker C: WF3 echo for recognition.
Speaker A: Okay Steve, and thank you very much for the check in tonight. Do we have any additional check ins to the net? This W7X rays it would.
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Speaker A: W6BNH and the Nat W7X Ray Zulu. Good evening Paul and thank you very much for the check in tonight. A little bit, a little bit of a light turnout here but anyway thank you for the check in tonight and looking forward to VE session there in March at our venue in Oroville and hopefully I can get a turnout of folks there to actually do the online testing. Anyway, how things have been going with you W6PNH and the net W7XZ.
Speaker E: Yeah, thanks Jim. Yeah, this is Paul and Mobile between Sacramento and Yuba City tonight. Looking forward to coming up next month and doing a VE session with you. I'm excited about that. I think you're going to bring in a few people to test and a lot of times we're only testing maybe one or two in Yuba City. So if we're willing to go where we can get people to test with
Speaker D: us then that's fun.
Speaker E: I haven't done too much else radio wise. I made a few sideband PODA contacts. I was just out hunting, not activating, but I did a few of those this week and I have to kind of force myself to get on sideband because FT8 is so addictive that I don't always even tune in sideband. Well that's about all I've got but I'll hand it over to Carla right here and back to Ned after. Carla.
Speaker F: Yes Jim, this is Carla, K6 KDS and I too am somewhere between Sacramento and Yuba City and Mobile. And yeah, I haven't been doing much with radio this week. I've been really busy, a lot of things going on but I hope to get back to it and get some more contacts out there and that's about it from me. So I'll go ahead and turn it Back to you
Speaker A: K6 KDS and the Nat W7XZ. Okay Carla and looking forward to you and Paul to our 13th of March meeting time there and hopefully hopefully we'll get get a few folks showing up
Speaker C: there to take the test.
Speaker A: Well John K6HFP is working on extra right now and see Lance KC6FLB. The last time the two of you were to meeting we had Lance via zoom session. He was in hospital there with a problem. He is hopefully going to be up for getting there for the general class examination. Hopefully we can scare up a few more. I'll be putting out some QSTs about
Speaker D: that
Speaker A: here and also by email on my email list and hopefully we can get a few more out of the woodwork. Anyway, are there any additional check ins to the net? This W7X Ray Zulu.

Speaker A: Nothing heard. Maybe we got it done. As far as the check ins been a fairly quiet couple weeks here. I noticed this morning my 40 year old Alenco linear type power supply seemed to be doing a bit of low voltage into
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Speaker A: the 7610 that was tied to getting out the voltmeter. I found that when I put the voltage adjustment up full it was slightly over 12 volts. And tonight I happen to have an Astron power supply on hand and I've got that now set up here to run both the 2 meter rig and the 7610. It seems to be doing a bit better and aside from that not much else going here anyway at this point. I'll run it back up the line. Does any station have additional comments for the net W7X rays? And with.
Speaker C: Nothing
Speaker A: hurt sounds like we got it done tonight anyway. Paul and Carla have a safe remainder of the trip there back to Yuba City and John and Jeff thank you and Steve thank you for the check ins tonight. We also had Ko6BGY in here and he was in and out as such. Anyway, I'll make this the last call for any late check ins or any unfinished business before we close the 2 meter net in W7XZ.
Speaker C: Well
Speaker A: nothing hurt. Sounds like we got it done here. Thanks to all who checked in tonight. The SNET will convene again this coming Sunday evening at 8pm local time and I'll give 10 meters a try here briefly see if anybody shows up. Doesn't sound like we're going to have anybody tonight though. 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.
Speaker B: Good evening to all. Right on. Thanks for running that Jim. Hope everybody has an Excellent week. K60 I'll be clear.

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Speaker A: It is a good morning. How are you, Chris? KN6GTN
Speaker B: oh, doing okay, Ernie. So how are you this morning?
Speaker A: I'm doing good, just on the way to work. Looks like a beautiful day. A few degrees cooler than it has been in the mornings, but the sky's clear and it should be a nice day.
Speaker B: Yeah, I had no, no mist on my windshield this morning.
Speaker A: That's interesting. We had, we had a pretty good dew up here. So I mean it was, there was, you know, everything was wet. But yeah, I, there's no fog and it's so yeah, it's looking good.
Speaker B: Any big projects this week?
Speaker A: I didn't copy that. Try again.
Speaker B: So you got any big projects this week?
Speaker A: We do just normal, normal workload.
Speaker B: I think.
Speaker A: Got quite a bit scheduled but we've got, oh, we've got a complete overhaul on a 6o diesel going back together and we've got, just got heads on a 3, 6 and a 2015 Jeep Wrangler. So just about done with that project. Should get the last couple pieces delivered this morning. Need a camshaft yet and then that should be together. So yeah, we've got, we got a lot going on.
Speaker B: Well, I never did that for a living, but I kind of miss that kind of work. I was a jet engine mechanic for years and years and you know, I always felt that I could go back to that real, real willingly.
Speaker A: I've always been curious how those, how a jet engine works. Have it studied into a lot, but it looks like it's, it's a little, it's quite a bit different than your internal combustion engines.
Speaker B: Oh yes. Oh yes it is. The theory is actually really simple. You suck in air and compress it at the same time. And when it gets compressed, then it gets released into a combustion chamber which the pressure is lower in the combustion chamber until you add the fuel and ignite it. And there's actually the pressure from the compressor is higher than the pressure from the, the combustion. But the combustion turns, you know, provides gases which hit turbine blades and turns the compressor and keeps, it just keeps that cycle going.
Speaker A: So I mean do they use any type. What do they use to ignite it? Do they have, is it just the compression like a diesel that ignites it or is it, do they have an ignition system?
Speaker B: The compression doesn't get high enough to self ignite like a diesel. They actually have very fancy spark plugs that initially set it off and then once, you know, once it's going, it just feeds off of itself. Itself ignites because you're just Pouring more fuel into the fire.
Speaker A: Well, all the years I've traveled, flew all over the world, I've never heard them say that the plane had a bad spark plug. So I was curious if they even
Speaker B: had spark plugs on them just to start the ignition process. Once it's going, then it actually shuts off. Okay.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's interesting. Be a little bit like our diesels. They use glow plugs just to. To help ignite it when it's cold. Then they don't use them after that.
Speaker B: Right. Actually, here's an interesting fact. When they got to the newer engines on the F15s and newer, the ignition system actually continues to function. But believe it or not, there's so much pressure in the combustion section of the engine that it actually suppresses the spark from bridging the gap.
Speaker A: It keeps that fire blowed out, huh?
Speaker B: Yeah, that's mind boggling. How in the world do you have so much air pressure that it keeps a spark from bridging that gap? But that way, if they, you know, if it unstarts, as they call it, you know, they lose the ignition in there, it's no longer burning, Then that pressure drops and that spark starts again so that, you know, it makes it easier for it to restart.
Speaker A: Well, that makes sense. Interesting. Yeah. I've watched, I mean, I've seen pictures of the theory of operation, but it's not something I've ever physically laid my eyes on and totally understand how it works.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's neat. It's fun to work on those. It's even more fun to test them out. I used to work in a shop where once we do inspections on the aircraft and replace one what needed to be replaced, whether it was because it was broken, worn out, or it was just on a schedule to replace some things. But then we take them outside and test the engines. And I got to sit up in the cockpit and run the engine.
Speaker A: Yeah. After we get done with the vehicle, we take it for a test drive. That'd be interesting on an airplane. But I guess you could test those engines without actually flying the plane, at least to a certain degree.
Speaker B: Yeah, we had these trim pads, they call them, and you tow the airplane out there and they let down their tail hook and you connect the tail hook to a link that bolted into the ground so that you can go to full afterburner and the darn thing's not going anywhere. And let me tell you, taking an engine up to full afterburner is a hoot.
Speaker A: Makes a lot of noise and have off there. On the ground, doesn't it?
Speaker B: You see.
Speaker A: See all that dust fly? Of course, your place is probably clean, but yeah, there'd be a. There'd be a large area of disturbance.
Speaker B: Well, the thing about it is, you can feel all that power behind you and it's just. Oh, yeah, probably like getting into a dragster, right? And when the light comes is green and you dump the clutch and hit that throttle and have that much power shoving you down the road. Holy cow.
Speaker A: You might have just found. Found out what you're going to do here after you retire.
Speaker B: Now, when I. When I went from running the engine on F4s to F15s, the engines on F15s are twice the power of an F4, just about. And I tell you what, the first time that I got in the cockpit and got all chained down and took that thing into full burner, I gotta say, I was a little bit. Well, I. I guess I could say scared. Sitting there thinking, holy cow, if that
Speaker A: link ever breaks, I can't stop this thing.
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Speaker A: Well, I'm sure that would be a valid concern. Well, I'm fixing to pull into the job site here. Here to work. So I'll say 73 is good chatting with you and you have a good day at work today and we'll talk with you later. KN6GTN
Speaker B: all right, Ernie, have a great day and we'll talk to you later. 73 KK6VZD clear.

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Speaker C: Okay, thank you, Ted. I'm gonna go outside, see if it makes a difference.
Speaker A: Just about the same. Hard to copy. Very, very trashy, like you're. I don't
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Speaker A: Okay. Thank you, Ted. Maybe. Maybe I need to clean the dust out of the way. All right. Thank you much. This is KX, KK6OAS. I'm clear. You were decent that time. All right, we'll catch you later, Kansas. Eating.

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