WD6AXM TX (146.085 MHz) recordings for 2026-02-10

Speaker A: Kk6vzd mobile. W e6a x n repeater.
Speaker B: Kk6fyv mobile. Hey, Chris. How you doing?
Speaker A: I am doing just peachy, thank you very much. How are you?
Speaker B: I'm driving right in front of you. Probably.
Speaker A: You think I'm coming out of Harbor Freight. Is that where you're at?
Speaker B: I figured you were just leaving work over here in Marysville. But I'm still in Marysville.
Speaker A: Still. If there you get caught, there's some construction going on on 65. Right. Right before you get to the mall, right?
Speaker B: No, I was. After that. I had a doctor's appointment, and I ran by Sportsman's and Rocklers, and then I'm on the way home.
Speaker A: Isn't it nice that they're both right there together?
Speaker B: Yeah. If you want to speak.
Speaker A: Actually, yeah, no, I. Rockler's an interesting place to go, but I don't do all that much woodwork, so, you know, it's kind of wasted on me. But I saw that they have some classes here every once in a while. I thought I'd like to.
Speaker B: Yeah, my daughter and I went and took a epoxy woodworking class over there.
Speaker A: Oh, neat. Yeah, I. I'd like to see what they do. I had talked with my daughter about possibly going and doing a class. She seemed amenable.
Speaker B: Yeah, they were really nice and knowledgeable and all that. It's just every time I go in there, I spend more money than I should.
Speaker A: Oh, yes. Well, yeah. Too bad I'm not younger and had more room and a bit more ambition. I'd love to do woodworking. Yeah, There's a lot to be done with that.
Speaker B: It all depends on how deep you want to go. Then it gets into. How much do you want to spend?
Speaker A: I made a very basic model mahogany bookshelf years and years and years ago. And that darn thing. I mean, that thing's built like a tank.
Speaker B: Well, that's the other thing is, you know, if you personally spend the time and to make a really nice piece of furniture or whatever you're making, is it gonna last? And is your. You know, is it gonna be generational, they call it, you know, where you're pass it on and your rest of your family can use it, and they can.
Speaker A: Their kids can use it.
Speaker B: Who knows?
Speaker A: Yeah, my daughter has it right now. I think she really appreciates it. I think that might be one of those that just passed down to the next generation whenever that comes time for it. Yep. Yep. Did find out that. And I built this thing when I was at McChord. And that was, that was 40 years ago. And back then mahogany wasn't cheap. I can just imagine what it would cost now to build that same bookcase.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm not sure. I kind of perused the wood selection there a little bit, but I don't, didn't look at mahogany,
Speaker A: Make one mistake. Instead of making the backing, you know, like a quarter inch piece of wood there just, just to cover the back. I made it three quarters of an inch, man.
Speaker B: Do you make it out of plywood at least or is it 3 quarter inch solid piece of wood, you know, all edge glued together.
Speaker A: It's three quarter mahogany edge glued together.
Speaker B: Then you got a heavy piece of furniture there.
Speaker A: Yes, I do. But it, it, you know, like I said, it came out pretty good. There's a couple of flaws that if you look, you can see them but you know, it looks pretty, pretty nice and it's stained up. Well,
Speaker B: are they obvious flaws or the ones that you stand behind somebody and you smack them in the back of the head because they're looking too hard?
Speaker A: Well, I guess it's probably an obvious flaw that I use a little wood putty to fix, but you know. Oh well,
Speaker B: those are fine. I wish I had taken the time to learn a little more with my, I would call him master that I worked with when I was in high school. But yeah, he could take, you know, take grab five or six little, you know, whatever they are half ounce cans of different colors of wood putty and he'd sit there and mix the colors and play with the colors and blend the colors and you would have to stare at it to see where he put the putty.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, I, I should have checked this out. There used to be a, a furniture making classroom over in Marysville fifth right there at E Street, just a little bit past E Street. And I don't know how much the guy would have charged for lessons, but I kind of wish that I had done that when he was still there.
Speaker B: Yeah, the guy I did was just a painter, interior finisher, whatever you want to call it, kind of guy did, you know, painted whatever he needed to houses or buildings or whatever. But also did, you know, wall coverings, you know, put up expensive wallpaper like we did interior of doctor's offices. And we did remember where it was, but we did a finished new cancer ward for a place and all their waiting rooms and all that stuff. And all around it was hardwood trim. And I said filling nail holes. I mean you had a hard press when he was done to find a nail hole, and it would look like a continuous beast all the way around the room.
Speaker A: Yeah. You know, I remember when my. When I was younger, my grandfather came over a couple of different times and put up some wallpaper for us in our house. And, you know, it'd be nice if he had taken the time to instruct us. That would have been. I'm not sure what I had the patience, but I wish I had some of those skills nowadays.
Speaker B: Yep. He knew exactly how much to cut off to match it up. All the way around the room or out across the wall. Like I said, all of his woodwork was perfect. Or better than perfect.
Speaker A: Yeah, when Grandpa was finished, you couldn't tell where the seams were. That was.
Speaker B: It was that good.
Speaker A: Oh, well. Well, I am pulling in to the driveway right now, so I'm going to wish you a smooth journey the rest of the way home. And we'll talk to you later. 73 KK6VZD.
Speaker B: Clear. All right, Chris, I was just wondering when the next meeting is. I haven't been able to listen to the net.
Speaker A: That would be next Tuesday. Okay, just making sure.
Speaker B: All right, I may see you then, if nothing else is going on. All right, KK6 SYV clear for now.

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Kk1 Bud, radio check, please. Jn, you're coming in live. And, Claire. Alrighty. Thank you, Joe. Appreciate that. Just sitting around here getting ready for the net coming up. So appreciate the comeback. Thanks. KK1 bud, clear.

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Speaker A: Qst. Qst, qst. Calling all amateur radio operators. Good evening, everyone. This is bud, kk1 bud in sutter net Control for tonight's net. The following net is held every Monday evening at 19:00 clock hours local time on the WD6AXM repeater by the Yuba Sutter Amateur Radio Club. The purpose of this net is to distribute club related information, promote interest in amateur radio and promote effective Net operating procedures. All hams are welcome to join us. The CTCSS tone for this repeater is 127.3 Hz with a positive offset. This is a directed formal net, so please direct all traffic to KK1 bud, your net control station for tonight's net. Any stations with emergency or prior to traffic, please identify now. All radio amateurs, both club members and guests will be invited to check in. But first I'll take check ins from our club officers and board members, followed by those who wish to make any announcements. And let's start things off with our president, KK6. Excuse me. K6 KDs. Take it away, Carla.
Speaker B: Yes, this is Carla. K6 KDs. Good evening, everyone. I don't really have much for the Net tonight. I do believe we have a club meeting next Tuesday, so we hope everybody comes out. Paul W6P&H is going to be giving a presentation on this trip to Quartz Fest. So it should be really interesting and fun. And of course we'll have some snacks and hopefully have a good time. So hope to see everyone there and I will turn it back to you.
Speaker A: Thank you, Carla. Appreciate that. Okay, next would be our vice president. That would be me. I'll check myself in here. I just have one announcement tonight. Just wanted to pass on some information that we received recently regarding a ham operator by the name of Chuck Murphy, call sign KI6CM. KI6 Cookie Monster, as he's refer to himself, has become a silent key. My understanding is he's been a ham for about 10 years and was a longtime member of the Nevada County Amateur Radio Club in Grass Valley. I didn't know Chuck personally, but I thought some of you out there who did know him might appreciate this information and perhaps pass on your condolences to the family. Rest in peace, Chuck. All right, let's move along to our secretary, Linda. KK6SOZ. Hey, good evening, bud and the net. This is KK6F of Zed Linda in Yuba City on this breezy, cool evening. Yeah, the only thing I have is just once again that next week we have a club meeting. Back to Net thank you, Linda. Yeah, it's not breezy. It's downright windy out here. Okay, how about June, our treasure, Kent 6 J? Okay. He might be taking teaching a class tonight, but let's try Joe N9BD board member. And how about board member Devin N0DD?
Speaker B: Good evening, everyone. This is Devin and Linda N0, DBE and just a quick reminder that there is a fox hunt scheduled for this Saturday at 9am there's also rain scheduled for Saturday, but hopefully it'll be in the afternoon and we can still do our fox hunt in the morning. That's all I've got.
Speaker A: Thanks. Yes, I forgot about that fox hunt coming up.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker A: Yeah, Fox hunt this weekend? This Saturday. Thank you, Devin. Appreciate that. How about board member Leonard Brown, Valley KO6D? Victor? Victor, Is that you trying to get in there, Leonard? Yes. Not. Okay, we'll go over to williams for joe. Board member ak6jn. This is joe ak6j in williams, california. Nothing for the net. Thank you for doing the net, bud. You're welcome, joe. How about board member paul w6p and h? Yeah, thanks, bud. This is paul in yuba city, w6p h and I don't have anything for the net tonight. Back to you. Alrighty, how about what? Member emeritus leroy kj6dkm. All right, looking for the guy who takes care of our repeater. I hope it's not too windy up there tonight. Repeater Trustee Dave WD6AXM. Okay, I'm on our valley ham news co editor marcia ki6csn. We6a x n repeater. This is marcia ki6gsm from lomerica. Thank you, marcia. He's probably teaching class tonight, so we'll try our other vhn editor, curtis kf6vfp. And how about kk6vzd? Our net control coordinator, chris. Good evening. Good evening. This is chris kk6vzd here in yuba city. And I don't really have anything for tonight, so I'll pass it back to you. Got you checked in, chris. Thank you. How about buck, our ares coordinator? N6cny? No buck tonight. He must be working the night shift. Okay, how about our arrl section manager, j n6sac? Okay, that's it for the board members and officers. Are there any others who would like to list any bulletins or announcements for tonight's net? Please identify now. Hearing none, we'll move along. This IS net control, KK1 bud. Proceeding with the check in portion of the net. Everyone will have an opportunity to check in. But first I'LL be calling from a current list of club members, followed by a call for any guests. All participants, please remember to check in with your full call sign, name and location. If you don't hear your call sign and you think your call sign is absent from the members list, please check in during our call for guests and contact Linda, our club secretary, KK6SOZ. And we'll start things off with AJ. You out there tonight, AJ? K6AJH. Good evening, Bud and Annette. Yes, I'm here, Bud. And just a little side note, you and me. I used my splitter today and it sure worked fine. I'm thankful you sold it to me. Anyway, back to you, Bud. There we go. Glad you're out there getting some exercise. Okay. How about Daniel N6APX? Good evening, bud in the net. This is Daniel N6APX in Yuba City. Standing by. Got you checked in, Daniel. Mr. Bob. N6 Bob. How about k6 cel? Bennett? Looking for dan kn6drn. Okay, let's check out the loma rica gang. How about ed ko6dvl? How about avery k06 dvt? And we'll round out the family with a k06 dvu. Jocelyn. How about ben k06fhn? Looking for todd k06gri? Good evening, bud. This is todd lomarica. Ko6gri. Hey, todd, good to hear from you. Kn6gtn. Ernie hippenbanker. How about howard kd6gx? Looking for Sacramento check. KI6HK. This is King, India 6 Hotel Kilowatt. Bud, with no traffic and have a good evening and thanks for your work. You're welcome, sir. Thank you for checking in. Walt N6HNS. Steve kn6ijd. Looking for kn6ije.
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Speaker A: How about stephen and gridley? Ke6inwood? Good evening. This is kilo echo 6 india november whiskey, stephen grinley. And no traffic. Good evening. Got you covered, steven. Thank you, mike. Kk6isq. How about joseph k6jfp? Looking for darrell in woodland. Km6kfw. Good evening. This is km6kfw. Darrell woodland. No traffic. Thank you, Darrell. How about up on the Ridge? Doug, Katie six lok. Good evening, Bud and the Net. Kilo, Delta Six Lima, Oscar, Kilo, Doug here on Dry Nimshu Ridge tonight. We did have a trace of rain this morning, but not near enough to please Doug. Thanks for doing the net, bud seven three. All KD6lok. You're welcome, Doug. I guess you don't have the wind up there tonight like we do. This is A station identification. KK1BUD. Let's move along with Bill, KN6MLT. Good evening, Bud and Annette. This is KN6MLT out here by Campfire West Lake, and everything's fine. And thank you for doing the Net this evening. You're welcome, Bill. Thank you for checking in. Tom, K06MO. Good evening, bud in the net. This is Tom, K06MO in South Yuba City. Thanks a lot for doing the Net tonight. Have no traffic back to you. You're welcome, Jeff. Thank you. KN6MBX. Jeff. How about david? Kb1 nde? Wa1ner? David. Good evening, bud and the net. Wa1ner david. Yuba city, and thank you. Gotcha. Checked in dan mountain. Sutter ryan, k6rcm. How about wa1 ren? Steve. Patrick up in grounds valley? Kn6rth? Good evening, Ms. Patrick. Kn6rth in browns valley. Hey, good to hear from you, patrick. Thank you. Stan in 6sg. Stantley, k06sml. About kk6 sov. Rodolin, Wes, wb6s. Whiskey. Whiskey. This is wes, wb6sww in yuba city. Good evening, bud. No traffic. Good evening, wes. Thank you for checking in. Lester.kk6syv. About our bike around the butte. Sky, Ted, KN6 Ted, Ki6udf. John. This is john kilo, india 6 uniform, delta 5 strut. And nothing for the net. Gotcha. John. Ki6ugh. Michael. How about robert k6znr? We6a x n receiver, And we're looking for alfred kk6vos. How about robert 86 vu? Yeah, it's a little bit early for Claire, but we'll give him a try. KI6VWG. Claire. How about paul in yuba city? K6wap? This is k6wap. Paul in yuba city with noah traffic. Thank you, paul. Kn6wnr. Matthew. How about kathy in 6wvw? All right, gotcha. Kathy, thanks for checking in. How about wisp? Excuse me, wesley. N6wwh? Looking for k6wwl. Phil. And last on our members list is wade kn6wx. That's it for our members. We'll move along. This is net control, KK1 bud. I'll now take calls from any visitors to the Net. First, I will call from a list of our fairly frequent visitors and guests, starting with how about James, K06 Aubrey, KO6 Aub. James outside of Marysville. No traffic tonight. Hey, James, good to hear from you. How about Jeff K06ake? Paul over in Colusa? You got to be there. Ko6bgy. Good evening. This is Paul in Calusa. I'm not sure how my signal is coming through. I'm inside the house. Kilo Oscar 6 Bravo Gulf Yankee with no traffic back in that control. Good evening. Your signal is strong and clear. Paul. Sounds good. Okay, how about Tom at WD6 FTC? And I'll give another shout out to my owner here, gary ke6glm. How about john and orville with k6hfp? Hey, bud, good to hear you. Neck control tonight. This is john up in orville. K8kilo6 hotel foxtrot papa. No traffic. Hope everybody's doing good. Back to you. Just pt keen there, john. Thank you. All right, jeff, kb9myf, Kv9 myf. Coming in loud and clear from Orland there, Jeff. Sounds good. Okay, justin. Ko0x, justin, About.

Mike up in kelly ridge, kn6mdz, kilo, november 6, mike, delta, zulu. Mike in kelly ridge. No traffic back to net control. Thanks, mike. Good to hear from you again. How about david wa7rnr? Okay, that does it for our list of frequent callers. Now I'll call from other visitors or late member check ins. I'll be calling from the alphabetical groupings determined by the first letter of the caller's call sign suffix. For example, my call sign is Kilo, Kilo One, Bravo, Uniform, Delta would fall in the Alpha through Echo alphabetical groupings. As a reminder, please speak slowly and clearly with your call sign, name and location. Any visitors or late member check ins. Alpha through Echo, please come. Now. Let's move up to Alpha through Juliet. Any visitors or late member check ins. How about Alpha through Oscar? Late member check ins or visitors. Let's go. Alpha through tango. Kilo, Alpha 6, Papa, Delta, Yankee. Paul in North Highland with nothing for the net. Okay, I missed the prefix. I got K6 ndy. That's kilo, alpha six, pop, delta, yankee. I got kilo, alpha six and then I got Delta Yankee. What was before Delta Yankee? Kilo Alpha 6, pop, stealth, yankee. Okay, I think I got it. Now it's K06 TDY. Okay, Kilo Alpha 6, K A6, roger. That was. That's what I got there. I didn't get your name. It's Paul Union Lima. And I'm in North Islands in Sacramento County. Hey, good to hear from you, Paul. Thanks for checking in tonight. Appreciate it. Any other alpha through tango, wd6, qzl, quebec, jim knauzer, uru. Okay, I got WB6 and I didn't get the suffix. Quebec, zulu, lima. Thank you, jim. Appreciate it. Okay, let's go. Alpha through Zulu. Let's shoot the works here. Alpha through Zulu. Any visitors or late member check ins. Okay, any other. Excuse me. Any further guests or late members, please check in now. Whiskey foxtrot, three echo. Steve, currently in calusa. Whiskey Foxtrot 3 Echo. And I didn't catch your name. Steve. Thank you, Steve. Appreciate you checking in tonight. Any other late check ins or guests? All right, hearing none. We'll move along. This is net control. KK1 bud moving into tonight's swap shop. This portion of the net is dedicated for both members and guests to list their available HAM related items only. You may list Diddy asking price for your items, but all negotiations and transactions must be conducted off this repeater. Additionally, if you're looking for HAM related items, you may announce your wants during this Time stations with listings and or wants for tonight's swap shop may identify now. Alpha kilo6 Juliet November. Hey Joe, what you got? I'm actually looking for some ladder line. I'd like to try and make a J pole. So if anybody's got some scrap ladder line laying around that they don't need for cheap, let me know. You can find me at joe ak6jnmail.com okay Joe. Looking for some cheap ladder line. Cheap is always good. Free's better. But cheap's good, we said. AXM repeater. Any other listings for tonight's swap shop? This is net control, KK1 bud. Now it's time for the ham help portion of the net. This segment is provided for amateurs who need answers to HAM related technical questions or those who may need assistance with HAM related projects. Additionally, anyone that has a handy hint of general interests are welcome to share. Any stations with listings for HAM help may identify now. Anybody? Anybody requiring any type of ham help. This is netcontrol kk1bud with the last call for the check ins. Are there any other questions, comments or announcements before I close the net? If you happen to be interested in becoming a Net Control operator for this net, please contact Chris kk6vzdrl.net or any other Yuba Sutter Amateur Radio Club officer or board members by email@boardsarc.net a master copy of this Net Control Station guide is posted on the CLEP's website. It's now located at www.ubisetterarc.org. this net is held every Monday at 1900 hours local time on the WD6AXM repeater. The repeater is located at 2100ft atop the South Butte approximately 12 miles west northwest of Yuba City in Sutter County. The repeater covers the surrounding northern Sacramento Valley and beyond. Until next week, this is KK1BUD in Sutter, California, thanking all of you who checked into tonight's net while signing clear and returning the repeater to the normal amateur use. This net is now closed. Kilo india 6 victor whiskey golf in swim city nexus. There we go. Got you. Claire. Guy, you got a clear signal tonight? Must be the wind. Coming through tonight. Did you guys have a good nap today? Thanks for checking in, Claire. We got you covered. KE6IMW. Go ahead. What was the station that needed the ladder line? Hey Joe, you still out there? That's affirmative. Copy. Do you know how much you need? Not a lot, you know, just enough to make a J pole. He has. I think the dimensions are only like 6ft, but, you know, might make a few of them. So, I don't know, 6, 12, 21, 20ft, something like that. I might have enough to make about six feet. I'd have to double check, but you're welcome to. It belonged to an antenna that broke, so. But that part of the antenna is still pretty good. Cappy, are you going to be at the meeting this next Tuesday? Yeah. If you want, I could bring it with me. That'll work. Thank you.

Speaker A: 0dve from Ko6mo Are you around? Devin?
Speaker B: Yeah, this is dve. What's going on?
Speaker A: I just wanted to let you know there's been some pretty good openings in the morning on 10 and 10 and 12 in the last couple weeks to Europe. So I've been. Had some pretty good success there in case you. You're interested in that.
Speaker B: Okay, I'll give it a look. Have to get up earlier.
Speaker A: Yeah, I mean around 7am or so seems to be. I mean at least around here it's kind of like that seems to be working pretty good. I was able to work the Falklands on 17 like late in the afternoon today. That was kind of interesting and I think on 40 around the same time, maybe a little bit earlier in the morning. But on 40 there were some openings to Asia which I found that was kind of interesting as well.
Speaker B: Yeah, with the wind it's kind of jumping all over for me. I'm trying to taste Cameroon right now, but not getting anywhere.
Speaker A: W E6A X N repeater. Yeah, I saw that one come up but there was Cameron and then I think Malawi was on a couple of weeks ago. They've been pretty active. They have a little station there. Were you able to get. What's the one in Angola? That one seems to be pretty. Coming up quite a bit and it's pretty easy to get.
Speaker B: Yeah, I've got Angola a couple times. Did you get your hundred DXX DX this is yet?
Speaker A: Yeah, I gotta. I'm up to 112 but I don't have enough of them confirmed yet.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's always a problem unless you're actively chasing him, which I don't always do.
Speaker A: Yeah, I copied that. I got a. I worked my tail off trying to get the USA 250. That's what I've been was working on for the last couple weeks and I got it on Saturday, this last Saturday. So that was kind of cool.
Speaker B: That's good, that's great. Yeah, I got mine I think February 1st
Speaker A: right on. I was pretty sure you probably already got it but I didn't really know too much about it until, I don't know, a couple weeks ago somebody had mentioned it on their QRZ page and like well that's pretty, pretty neat. But then I understood because what people are calling CQ250 and you know, and all that stuff. So I guess it kind of. It's kind of a cool little thing. I really like QRZ because make these little interesting awards, you know and you can kind of go after them just keeps. Keeps life interesting.
Speaker B: Yeah, I do too. I'm also working on the W1. Aw. Worked all states. Have you been doing that one?
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm not really familiar with that. I've worked at W1, AW1, 9 4, I think those, those stations. And maybe tell me a little bit more about that.
Speaker B: So they're rotating around, so there's going to be two chances for each state through this year.
Speaker A: Okay. So it's going throughout the whole year. So y' all just keep trying to work them. Oh, I wanted to mention, have you worked at the UN station that un Won un. That one's been pretty active lately as well.
Speaker B: Yeah, I have that one too. That was great.
Speaker A: Right on. I saw them trying to work Samoa this afternoon and so they were like locked in a. Trying to like work them. But yeah, Samoa's been pretty easy. One I'm after right now, I think in the Pacific is the Solomon Islands. I haven't worked work them up. I saw him come up, but I think I need that one.
Speaker B: Yeah, I don't think I have that one either. I'm still stuck at 87, so I've got a ways to go.
Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, you're right. You're gonna get there. So. Yeah, I think Europe last Monday, a week ago Monday, this morning was pretty good, but a week ago Monday was insanely good. Into Europe on 10 and 12. It was like. I've never seen it open like that before since I've been operating. I've only been operating a couple months, but it was really, really cool to see that everything all the way into, well, deep in Russia, which was kind of where some station called Kaliningrad, which is like. I don't even know. It's way out there in the middle of Russia. So that's kind of the situation that was just unbelievably good.
Speaker B: You might have a better antenna than I do, but I'll keep working at it.
Speaker A: I don't know. Yeah, it's hard to say because, like, this is just an infed, you know, half wave, infed antenna. So it's on. I don't know. I usually, you know, 10 through 10 through 80, but I don't work 60 or 30, so. Yeah, but it's. I don't know, it's only up. But it's weird because just. I guess it just depends on the orientation, you know. So I guess I got a good. A good look, you know, once in a while, you know, going north that way.
Speaker B: Well, my wire is only about even with my second story window so it probably should be higher but it's all I can do.
Speaker A: This one's thrown up in the tree so it goes from the chimney to the tree to another crape myrtle and then into another crape myrtle. So it's nothing special either.
Speaker B: Well either way it's fun. I enjoy it.
Speaker A: Yeah you got me turned on to it and I'm very thankful for that. So I mean it's really made made a huge. Always puts a smile on my face working working these these stations. It's just amazing. So thank you so much. Anyway, I'll sign clear. I'm gonna get back to doing some other projects but oh I did put on a a 1 to 1 ballon choke on this thing so maybe that helped out a little bit as well. I don't know. Anyway, ko6ml be clear on your final
Speaker B: okay you have a good one in zero dve.

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Speaker A: Kkk6vzd mobile.
Speaker B: Hey, Chris. Pete.
Speaker A: And a good morning to you. How are you doing this morning?
Speaker B: Real good. You know, I wanted to actually get a date.
Speaker A: I know.
Speaker B: No, no, no, no. Yeah, it's not like that. A date of your retirement, you know, March 15th or what?
Speaker A: March 31st is my last day of work, so according to CalPERS, my actual retirement date is April 1st.
Speaker B: That's a good day for you. Just kidding. But the 31st. Oh, wow. You gonna have a party?
Speaker A: No, no, I might. I might ask some of the people that worked when I'm close to if they want to go out to Happy Viking or Sutter Butte Brewing after work for a beer.
Speaker B: Oh, and they're expecting you to pay? Oh, gosh, they're so low.
Speaker A: Well, I might do that just because
Speaker B: I want to, but yeah, they generally,
Speaker A: you know, there's generally some sort of a send off from work and I've decided that there are so many of the people that, you know, I, I worked with for so long that are no longer there that I don't care. I don't want, I don't want a, A send off from people I don't know that well.
Speaker B: Yeah, they didn't go through boot camp and serve their time. Well. Yeah, you kind of got it.
Speaker A: We weren't in the trenches together like the other people were, so. Yeah, within, within two years time, two, three years time, they basically changed over the personnel in that department almost 100%.
Speaker B: I don't like the new kind of workers anyway. And, and people tell me about this, you know, they try to hire, you know, and they can't think, they can't solve problems. They call it the inferential level. You know, they can't put together information they've learned, you know, so, hey, they can pay their dues.
Speaker A: Well, I know this is a bit of an exaggeration, Pete, but I think it's because they let their phones do their thinking for them.
Speaker B: Well, you know, teachers are concerned about this. There's a general trend and their solution is to, you know, lessen the standards, you know, lower the, Lower the critical basic stuff to nothing.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I get it. You know, I have, I have a few what I call rants, things that have got a real definite opinion on. And one of them is people not being able to think for themselves anymore because they're so dependent on their telephones or Google or whatever that you take that away from them and give them facts. And they can't, they can't, you know, compare them against one Another and come up with, you know, a conclusion.
Speaker B: Well, also they're thinking, you know, their behavior, their. The way they don't solve problems. Doesn't seem to be an issue to them, though. You know, as long as mommy's got the base, everything's fine.
Speaker A: You know, this was 20 plus years ago or so, but I was going out to Yuba College, some computer classes, and the professor, who wasn't that old, I mean, he was 40s, 80s, early 40s. We were talking about, you know, how wonderful smartphones were, and we got into the discussion about, you know, the utility, and he came up with the scenario, said, well, what if your car broke down in the middle of nowhere? What would you do? And you didn't have a cell phone to contact somebody, what would you do? And I said, I'd do what I always did, start walking.
Speaker B: You know, I hope you don't mind. That sounds like a good theme for a country western.
Speaker A: And I think then I, I, I countered back at him. I said, well, you know, there's, there's spots. My wife used to regularly drive down to Fairfield to take my daughter to visit her grandmother. And I said, you know, there's, there were spots where, you know, outside Woodland, there'd be vast stretches where she didn't have a cell phone signal anyway.
Speaker B: Hey, is that around Esparto? I used to have a friend there.
Speaker A: No, I'm not exactly sure. I'm not exactly sure. And the, you know, the need to have your telephone guide you to where you're going. You know, I actually, you know, I do use that on occasion just because it's a, you know, it's convenient to do that. But most of the time, I'll make sure that I look at a map first before I'm going, so I have a clue as to the general route that I'm going to be taking.
Speaker B: That's a good idea. I have heard about a guy who flipped over his pickup. He was a ham. Took him all day calling Simplex. Finally somebody heard him. So that's, that's encouraging. So, by the way, do you ever come this way to Chico? There is a breakfast I like the guys, you know, gears over here and there's mas grandes chitas there. They all talk about it. Okay, but you ever come this way?
Speaker A: Oh, not very often. Not very often. Listen, I'm going to pop out really quickly to mail. Put something in the mail. I'll be right back.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker A: I'm just sitting here.
Speaker B: I'll continue. Well, you know, I could talk.
Speaker A: It's fine.
Speaker B: Don't have a problem with that. I got a new toy here. I know nobody cares, but base I've
Speaker A: been at
Speaker B: plays really great, but, you know, you have to have strong hands to play bass. But I certainly like some of these artisans that have a bass and play. It's very creative. You know, the bass line to listen to. I particularly love the walking bass style. Some guys really master that. They use more chromatic movement, you know, through the baseline as well as,
Speaker A: you
Speaker B: know, arpeggio chord structure, all that. So anyway, N6Iwhere I hear that's me. Anytime you hear that sound.
Speaker A: W E6A X N repeater. So the reason that I had to. To get out and drop off a letter here was because I couldn't mail
Speaker B: it at the post office yesterday because
Speaker A: they had removed the drop boxes from outside the post office.
Speaker B: That's. That's a good issue for a ranch man. Let them have it.
Speaker A: I would like to talk to the postmaster and find out why in the world. And then, you know, they didn't give any other options. I guess the only other option is that you have to go inside the post office during business hours to drop off your mail. And, you know, the point of the drop boxes outside was so that you didn't have to go there during business hours.
Speaker B: Well, the other part of this is try to find deposit boxes. You know, where are they? At the post office, and they're not there anymore.
Speaker A: I know of one on my way to work, and I'm surprised it's still there. And with the fact that they removed them from the post office, I'm almost, you know, anticipating seeing this one removed also. But, you know, who would. You've got a point. That's a good subject for a rant. And, you know, maybe I'll make that one.
Speaker B: I wanted to start a rant about stupid people, and I mentioned this to my son. Hey, you know, I really want to do this. How stupid people can get and blah, blah, blah. Give some examples. And he said, well, dad, you better put yourself in there.
Speaker A: Well, you know, at certain points in time, while I'm sitting here talking about somebody, you know, it does occur to me, Chris, you're. You're part of that crowd. So I get it.
Speaker B: You know, I. I used a little contractor for dick job, and the guy was such a jerk. I just could not believe it. I mean, I could not believe how he, you know, is a professional businessman, right, when he's just a freako. Anyway, we had, you know, a couple words where he wanted more money. And I said, well, it should have been in the contract anyway. I didn't write any review, but I saw one later. Same guy and this woman, she just tears him up and says the guy's a jackass. If I only had read that prior to the business.
Speaker A: Yeah, be nice to be forewarned sometimes. Hey, listen, I pulled up at work, so I'm gonna grab my stuff and get inside and burn up another workday till retirement. Today should be 37. And then I have two vacation days that I'm taking this month before I actually lose that time. So that actually makes it 35 work
Speaker B: days and two vacation days and a wake up. Well, just stay real. Everything will work out.
Speaker A: All right, talk to you later. Have a great day. 73 KK6VZD clear. Hey, Chris. Did you guys meet at Rumpy or something after, you know, retirement get together? Let me know. Roger. Roger. Will do. And good morning, 73.

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Speaker A: No contact. Ko6bgy. I'll be clear. Was that un6iwh? You had a lot of static on your end. That could be in a bad position as well. K06vgy.
Speaker B: Yeah, I've been having some rig Trouble also. Anyway, K06VGY, M6IWH. How's it going?
Speaker A: Hey, Pete. Going good here. Copied that. You're having some rig issues. Hopefully that gets sorted out. I notice when I park here at the office, if I park too close to the building, it's staticky on my end. How's my signal coming through?
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, you sound good. Good audio, you know, you're full quieting now. Are you on a rubber duck?
Speaker A: Negative. I'm on the mobile.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, sounds good. Sounds like you got 30 watts,
Speaker A: Right? Yeah, you're. You're way down in the weeds there. Hopefully things are going good with you starting to get the front of this little weather system that'll be moving through. It's enough to make the dirt on my car turn into mud spots. So hopefully it fix that so I can clean my car for this work.
Speaker B: Anyway.
Speaker A: What, what, what issue are you having with your rig? Are you able to figure that out or are you still troubleshooting? Pete, I think I lost you there. I'll try again probably when I get up 4:30, see if things are in better circumstances for you to copy N6IWH from K06DTY730P.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, roger, roger. And I'll try out another radio and fix IWH.
Speaker A: Okay, I'm here for another 10 minutes, so if you want to try another radio, go ahead. If you want to switch over to the Carla 36 as well, that could be an option too. But if you're not hitting these over here, you're probably not gonna do too good on the car. But, yeah, go ahead and switch radios. I'll be here for a few minutes. Kosh bgy, standing by.
Speaker B: Testing, testing. Do you copy, N6Iwhite?
Speaker A: Copy. Same signal as last one. A lot of static. A lot of static.
Speaker B: Okay, well, I'll work on it. Talk to you later.
Speaker A: I'm not able to take much out of that at all. Have you tried going outside, standing on one foot and hopping up and down, see if that helps the signal over.
Speaker B: What would you say? Go outside and jump up and down?
Speaker A: Yeah, see if that helps with the radio signal. We might get a little bit better propagation that way. I don't know.
Speaker B: All right, let me try that.
Speaker A: I could hear you better. That Time. But you still had some noise on you there. What have you been up to working on your scale drawings of the half tracks and all that?
Speaker B: I've been working at that actually. Right now I'm working on a bow fang, trying to see if I can get it going and looking for an adapter so I can put a 2 meter antenna on the bowfang or.
Speaker A: Good luck with that. Are you on an AC right now or are you using something else?
Speaker B: Something else. And this is a ICOM HF rig and I don't know, I'm having some bad luck. Everybody says you're scratchy, your signal's bad. Oh no, it's getting kind of rough out there, see. Testing, testing. One, two, three, four.
Speaker A: Wonder if water got in it somewhere out on your antenna line somewhere.
Speaker B: Well, the trouble is I don't use it enough. And you know, when you get the radiation in the antenna makes it run better. So this is good. Use the antenna, use the radio, Everybody's happy. Ain't that right?
Speaker A: I gave up on trying to make everybody happy. I only leave myself and I bet anyone else is of the last cause I. I don't know. But hopefully you get that sorted out soon. So that way you get back to your booming signal. Probably something simple, but hopefully you don't have to climb too high. I don't know how high your mass is.
Speaker B: Well, the, the trouble is the rotor and direction, you know, because pretty much full scale everywhere I point the antenna. But people say scratchy noise. I'm going, okay.
Speaker A: To try to get in, get in on one of the nets and see if you can ask a question on there. But that's if you can even make it through to get the person to copy what you're saying.
Speaker B: Well, I'm awful lot of trouble on a 4:40 machine. Some other kind of linking system like Carla, I forget what it's called, but over there, especially on 440 and it's a whole separate antenna. Separate coax, separate radios. Everybody's going, you're all scratchy, you're all scratchy.
Speaker A: Well, whatever you did, I don't know if you moved or jumped up and down or what, but it's still scratchy. But I can hear you better than on the last radio. Not much else going on over here. Rinse and repeat. Rinse we sit. Axm repeater.
Speaker B: Fairly new radio, $300 radio. 350. 50 watts to an end tomorrow long should be working.
Speaker A: Yeah, I, I did not get enough of what you said to make sense of what you said there, but anyway, my 10 minute break is winding down to an end here and it's only a small stretch, probably one more hour and then I'm off. We'll give it a shot again, see what's going on. Anyway, Pete, stay safe, stay warm, stay dry, and we'll talk to you soon. N6IW8 from KO6DGY 73ft.

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