WD6AXM TX (146.085 MHz) recordings for 2026-02-16

Speaker A: And don't focus so much on the ditz and the daws because you'll get lost fast. Focus on the rhythm of the sound it makes. Sure enough, true enough. Well, I have just destinated so I'm
Speaker B: gonna let you go for the afternoon. Thanks for the cuso that helped the trip back up from Roseville go by. Nice to hear you out there and
Speaker A: don't be a stranger. I was. I was talking. I. Let's see.
Speaker B: IWH and saying that there's not too many people out there on the ear, you know what I'm saying? I like to have somebody to. So have a great day and we'll talk to you later. 73 KK6VZD.
Speaker A: Clear. You have a good one. It was nice to keep you company on the drive home. Yeah, I'm not on here enough but I probably should. I wasn't aware of how. I guess dead it's been on the repeater. I wasn't aware of that. I thought there'd still be people talking or the regulars. I wasn't aware of that. I guess I'll start throwing my call sign out more, you know, as I'm driving. And try not to tie up the repeater too much, man. This is probably about an hour now. Try not to tie it up too much so we don't overheat the repeater. But yeah, it was great talking with you. You had a great rest of your day. 73 is KN6WNR73.
Speaker B: I've been listening to you gentlemen ever since I cleared Kalinga. N60NY.
Speaker A: Hey, how you doing, Neil? It's been a while. Yeah.
Speaker B: Just headed back towards the. Towards Yuba City and Sutter coming back from Walnut Creek out there in the Bay Area.
Speaker A: So you had to heard that entire qsl?
Speaker B: Yes, sir.
Speaker A: Long. How long was it? I don't have a clock in my truck that works.
Speaker B: It was about an hour. Probably about an hour, five minutes.
Speaker A: Oh wow. Gotta be one of the longer 2 meter QSOs I've ever had, to be honest.
Speaker B: Oh no.
Speaker A: Oops. Apologies for tying up the repeater. I do apologize. Well, that was a good qsl. Well, what were you doing down there? First of all,
Speaker B: we got a church out there in Walnut Creek that we got a contract with. So every Saturday and Sunday, well, since the weekend before Christmas, I go out there and work the church for the weekend.
Speaker A: Change of pace and must be a pretty good fellowship and. Sounds great. It's quite a drive, that's for sure. Yeah, that must be interesting actually. Tell me more KN6WNR.
Speaker B: It's actually a pretty good gig. You know, I get to go to a church. They've got speakers outside so I could hear the entire sermon and everything. And I get to go through four different services. One on Saturday night and then three on Sunday. But I usually get out there Saturday afternoon, get a hotel room set up, go work for Saturday night for two hours, go to the hotel room, be up early next morning, go do it again.
Speaker A: Nice. That's cool. You probably see a lot of enjoyment in that. That's good. How is everything else going?
Speaker B: It's going. It's got a stressful moment, I'll put it that way. But yeah, I've, you know, been doing security work for six months now. Almost seven months. And two months ago, three months ago, something like that, they made me a supervisor. And yeah, it's been interesting. I've got two investigations that I'm working on for fraudulent claims for workers come. So they're. They're keeping me busy.
Speaker A: Wow. Okay. At least you found something that's more up your alley. I remember you told me about it, about that time frame when you. Right before you started doing. I did. I didn't take you that long to find a job then. That's good. I know. I'm still working at Target. Still there. I quit the job that Buffalo Wild Wings. If you wondered, I was working two jobs. Now I'm just working one. I am actively job searching. I haven't stopped job searching. I'm living on the bare minimum right now. It's hard to the point where I'm probably gonna have to get food stamps even though I'm still living with my parents, because I can do that. So, yeah, I'm gonna have to do that because I'm just not getting enough hours. I'm making a whole lot. I can't really live off of 7, 800 a paycheck, so I'm still paying my parents rent, 500 bucks. But still, I. It's just. I don't know.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's pretty rough out there right now. I know my oldest boy, he. He does, you know, he's in Marine Corps Reserve now, but he only drills one weekend a month. So he's only getting like 200amonth out of that. But he's been job searching and he just. Nobody seems to be hiring right now. And for a matter of fact, Monday or gonna finalize his application for his guard card to do security. And then we're gonna bring him on with our company that way, you know, because we need, we need guards right now. We just took down a three year contract that's 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And so we need all the help we can get. So we're bringing him in and getting him all trained up and everything for can put him to work. But he's applied over 60 places from here to Roseville and nobody will hire him.
Speaker A: W E6A X N receiver. I fully empathize with that. I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah, pretty much same here too. I've not been here in any back at all. I'm applying every day. I don't know just the area, what's going on. I'm just doing the best I can and I hope I wish the best for him as well. And anybody else that's also struggling with this, that may be listening, there's always other people listening. It's really unfortunate to hear that. You know, it's not easy right now and you know, it's a really, it's a really great thing that he is still serving even just one week in a month. He's still serving his country. That's a great thing. It's a really honorable thing. He should absolutely keep on doing that. You know, just, I don't know where he could go work at because I've literally tried everywhere and I haven't got anything back and I'm like, I don't know where the jobs are. I don't know what to say. KN6W on R for ID
Speaker B: and CNY variety.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's, it's.
Speaker B: This area right now is hurting for jobs. You know, I keep hearing everybody. Oh well, everybody's hiring. Really. It seems like the only way you get hired on to anywhere in this area right now is if you know somebody on the inside of a company that get you in there. So that's really sad, you know, because I mean he went in the Marine Corps to be a diesel mechanic, you know that that's his mos. That's what he does in the Marines.
Speaker A: And even the, the mechanic shops around
Speaker B: here, they're like, well, first of all, you don't have your aspect. And second of all, we're just not hiring right now.
Speaker A: Oh, it's really hard to hear that. I'm sorry. That just adds to the stress, you know. And honestly that's how I got the job at Target because my mom works there. That was a huge factor else I'd still be unemployed to this day. And the reason why I got the job at Buffalo is because I knew the Manager. I knew the guy who earns it. That's how I, it's, it's literally that right there you have to know somebody that's already in to get a job out here. I don't know what to say. I, I, I, I don't know how kids just coming straight out of high school or actually get to jobs right now if at all. I don't know. That's rough. I mean I look back when you know, I got right out of the Cuba college, I found a job right away. It was a lot easier. I got the job at Sam's Club, I was there for like years, almost five years and I got the job over at Race and lay off from there.
Speaker B: Easier? Yes sir. Yeah, it's been horrible. I mean you know I went through, I, you know I did a full on academy for getting my, you know, my guard card and all my permits for you know, for being a guard so I could do armed guard and it still took me three weeks, you know, to get a job. And I just fortunately found a company here in Yuba City that you know, had a position open. I put in my application. 30 minutes later I got a phone call from the vice president of the company, asked me to come in immediately for an interview. I walked out, you know, four hours later with a job and I got, I counted myself very lucky because right
Speaker A: now with getting jobs is rough.
Speaker B: You know, I can't even. I was putting in applications for security out in Sacramento and couldn't get a call back.
Speaker A: Something with the area. I don't fully understand what's going on but yeah, I fully empathize with that and it's a good thing you got, you got a job and you got a job that you and a career path that you want and that's what matters. At the end of the day I'm a few to keep on looking. I'm going to keep on putting in applications. I'm not quitting, I'm keeping up on that. I'm not going to go a day without doing that. I'm making sure. I've been putting in applications late at night when I get off of work because I work late. I always close at target. That's the only time they'll probably see me there because in my department somebody opens and somebody closes so I'm the closer. So normally what I do is I'll do the application after I get off or sometimes before like I'm doing today hoping to get a call back and I'm not getting anything back. Not a call back. Maybe sometimes they'll send a rejection email. Most of the time they just go. They don't even say anything. I don't have any idea. Oh well. Gotta keep on going. I guess. That's just it.
Speaker B: Keep the head and chin up, nose to the grindstone and, you know, keep going. That's all we can do.
Speaker A: But. All right, Matthew, long last is day seven three.
Speaker B: I gotta get out and put some
Speaker A: go go juice in the truck.
Speaker B: She's down below quarter tank now so I'll. I'll say seven three and I will be clear on your final sir and
Speaker A: 60 on well, it was nice talking to you again. It's been a long time. It's been quite a while actually. It was great hearing that you got a job that you like and wish the best for you and your family. And I'm gonna say seven threes as well. I gotta go and make some food before I go into work. JN6WNR I will be clear.

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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 this session. And let's see who's out there. Stations wishing to check into the net, Please call this W7X Ray Zulu Bravo K6HFP, KO6JIT.

Speaker A: This is w7x ray zulu and I have kc6flp. Good evening again lance from the zoom session and k6hfp. Good evening again john from the zoom session and k06git. Good evening ken. And there was a double double there but ken won the other station attempting to check in please call again this w7x rays,
Speaker B: Cb9myf,
Speaker A: Kb9 myf and the nat w7x ray zulu. Good evening jeff and thank you for the check in tonight. Do we have any additional check ins to the navis w7xz? Nothing Heard kind of a light session tonight here but let's go to the roundtable mode here. K66FLB. Lance, you're the leadoff person tonight and from you It'll go to K6HFB John, from you it'll go to K06GIT and Ken you'll be passing it to Jeff, KB9Mike, Yankee Foxtrot. So Lance, it's your nickel, KC6FLB and the net, W7X Ray Zulu,
Speaker C: KC6FLB, Lance and Orville.
Speaker D: Not much putting out.
Speaker C: I did have a question since I didn't make it to the Friday meeting was there anything that that's upcoming or something that was any new information about. I know this is probably a hard subject but tower, tower raising or that
Speaker D: kind of stuff maybe location or that kind of stuff.
Speaker A: Okay Lance. Well unfortunately our host up there became Silent Key KB6TR passed away. It's been about three weeks ago now and we are figuring that his widow is going to to vacate the property up there. It's still in a bit of state of flux but I am fairly certain that our next move in this whole thing will be to collect the station duplexer and peripherals and all that and actually get them off the site there and that's going to be pending here in the next well, few weeks. I think
Speaker C: I knew about the passing and I knew there was a good chance that we weren't going to be able to raise it up. I just wondered if anybody discussed another solid, another site but again I didn't know what. I wasn't there at the meeting. So if there was anything passed on as far as any kind of upcoming
Speaker D: event or anything W E A X N repeater.
Speaker A: Well, I'm going to try to contact Terry's widow this week by telephone and see what her plans are. I foresee us in fact just collecting the gear there. We have a possible alternate site back on Kelly Ridge essentially kind of going full circle there that KD6 Lil's placed which was the original repeater site way back when it might, the repeater just might return there full circle.
Speaker C: QSL. I knew that the present location was probably a no go anyway and I didn't know if we had an alternate site or not. Okay, well, if there was nothing else that went on during the meeting Friday, then I'll go ahead and pass it off to K6HMP. Go ahead and take it there.
Speaker D: KC6FLB in the net K6HFP. Thanks Lance. This is John up Norville. Not a lot from me. Had an interesting meeting on Friday. Definitely was good to see everybody that did show up. It was a. Jeff had a presentation on a new little vertical HF vertical antenna, portable HF vertical antenna that he picked up and he did some testing yesterday and I went ahead and ordered one myself. So I'll have the HF vertical to toss up here and there.
Speaker C: Maybe get on HF a little bit more.
Speaker D: Once I get that, that'll be kind of cool. But other than that, just watching this weather system approach and I've been hearing some, some decent rain totals that we're going to be getting and fairly low snow levels on starting Tuesday night and Wednesday. Not sure how much precipitation we're going to be getting by then, but if the precipitation holds and the forecast holds, it's possible we might be getting some Snow down to 1500ft, which would be kind of cool. I heard one forecast say up to a foot at 1500ft. Now take it with a grain of salt of course, because that doesn't happen very often, but hey, if they're forecasting it, I'm looking for it if it happens. So everybody stay warm and dry. But other than that, just trying to stay up on my extra class studies. Hopefully I'll be ready on the 13th next month to upgrade.
Speaker A: So that's what I'm hoping for.
Speaker D: And other than that, that's all I got. Hope everybody's doing good. Pass it over to Ken Ki6git in the net. K6HB
Speaker E: almost got it right. It's Ko6git. And yes, I am prepared. That's why I've been gone doing some things, winterizing things, and I've had some appliance issues and if we have rain in Brownsville as we speak, and other than that I haven't done a whole lot of a radio. I did have a contact to somebody up at Tahoe which is kind of fun to do this week, but other than that I haven't been doing a
Speaker C: whole lot of radio.
Speaker E: I've been doing more chores around the house and I miss you guys. I'm going to try my best to be down there for the breakfast K06 gig clip passing on to I didn't
Speaker C: catch who I was passing it to.
Speaker A: Go ahead Jeff KB9F MYF MY and the NAS W7XZ
Speaker B: I just looked outside and realized that I think our power is out here but of course we have solar and a battery here so our power is not out but I don't see any lights from the neighbors or. Or just lights from nearby. And of course I also have a backup battery power station so even if the house battery runs low, no problem I can still be on the air and I've been working on a Holografters SX71 receiver. I found that the tuning string on the main tuning is broken and
Speaker A: not
Speaker B: getting much for audio output so I'm have to look into that and see what's going on and nothing else is going on and KB9MYS back to net control.
Speaker A: KB9MYF and the NAT W7X Ray Z okay Jeff and that SX71 I got to use one a bit way way way back in the early 1960s. Quite a nice receiver in its day there two slide rule dials one for the general coverage and the other dial the other rule dial there for band spread for the different bands. And yeah the dial cords unfortunately don't last forever and now and again need replacement. I'm not even sure if one can even find dial cords that near the electronic part anymore. I'm sure somebody's got some somewhere. Anyway it's raining here also had a beautiful morning and then it kind of turned to rain this late afternoon and I'm going to put out another call. Are there any additional check ins to the nav this W7X Ray Zulu? Nothing Heard kind of in short session here tonight and well things I guess got kind of interesting Friday with the rupture of the penstock there from I guess if I have it right a little Grass Valley reservoir and the pen stock going to the powerhouse behind it or below it I should say it's a good thing at least that there was a gate to shut off the water flow to the penstock. Otherwise it could have been a really bad mess flood wise perhaps all the way to Marysville. Anyway it's going to be a while I think before that powerhouse goes back online. Well I have to probably do a complete replacement of a pen stock between the dam and the powerhouse anyway not much else to report here. Haven't done too awfully much radio wise except get on with the couple friends in the morning on 75 meters for about a half an hour between 7 and 7:30. Anyway I'll run it back up the line for any additional comments from any station. This is W7X Ray Zulu KO6 Git. Go ahead Kent. I heard that the.
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Speaker A: K06GIT and the NAT W7X Ray Zulu. Ken, your last got totally covered up by a something like a signal with about a 2khz tone going through the repeater. I want to try it again. W7XZ
Speaker E: yes Jim, do you hear me now?
Speaker A: Yep, you're in the clear.
Speaker E: I heard that the pen stock break was below Lake Francis. Not Bullish. Bullish ships water to Lake Francis and the Penstock break was down below Lake Francis and there were some three workers who were down in there and one of them is had to be med backed out down to wherever they went Orville, Yuba City. I don't know but yes, it's tragic but what I was saying I'm tragically sad anytime I hear a silent key and if his widow is going to be selling anything I'd like to be appraised of that would be because I might be able to buy it and give her some money for something I might want.
Speaker A: Okay Ken. Well I'm hoping to make contact with her this week. I think she's still kind of recovering from the trauma of losing her life partner there, her husband and anyway I've been getting my information from a close friend of hers that goes to St. Paul's here in Oroville.
Speaker E: That's fantastic Jim. I was up at church this morning. I will be clear now it's raining outside Ko6.
Speaker A: Okay Ken. Anyway I'll see I'll run it back up the line again. Are there any additional comments from any station? This is W7X rays. Go ahead lance.
Speaker C: Someone was asking a question about the amount of rain we're supposed to be getting. I just watched a weather report here a while back and it looks like we're going to have with these new setnas going, looks like we have up to about 3 inches of rain in Oroville.
Speaker A: Well it kind of sounds like the city public works folks are going to be clearing out some storm drains downtown.
Speaker C: QSL that's for those people that are interested. Okay, I'm go ahead go back to NEP there.
Speaker A: Okay Lance and thanks for the information and Ken, thanks for the information there on the broken pen stock and all that I knew is up somewhere in that vicinity, but not really all that clear on the geography along the way. There used to have a cousin by marriage that had a cabin up on Little Grass Valley Reservoir at one time. Anyway, run it back up again. Are there any additional comments for the net this W7XZ. Nothing's heard. Are there any additional check ins to the net? This is w7x ray zulu kilo oscar 6 bravo golf yankee in and out kilo oscar 6 bravo golf yankee 73. Ko6bgy am the Nat W7X Ray Zulu Good evening Paul. Thank you very much for the check in. And anyway, while I've got the opportunity here I'll put out a little QST ors Oroville Amateur Radio Society will be hosting a VE session on March March 13th and anyway anyone within the sound of my voice here through the repeater, any prospect of new licensees or any operators seeking to upgrade class license, all are welcome that evening that there we'll have further information as to a definite starting time the like. I think we're looking at about 6pm Though to have have the VEG's gathering there and all that. And do we have any other additional check ins that? This W7XZ K06 Git go ahead Ken.
Speaker E: This is not a check in but I'm doing my best to have my extra ready to go for March 13th down there. I wish to have this done so I don't have a testing.

Speaker A: Longer. So I'm studying studying a lot and I will try to get down there. Otherwise I'll take it otherwise maybe online. So I would love to have it be my final test the in person
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Speaker A: oh very good Ken and look forward to seeing you there next month and well you got nothing to lose as far as taking the test and of course the extra class to gain. And Paul, thank you very much for the check
Speaker B: in and 73 to you. Well, kind of sounds like we got it done
Speaker A: here tonight. I'm going to make this a last call for any late check ins or any unfinished business before we close the 2 meter portion of the net and give 10 meters a try. This W7X
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Speaker A: Sounds like a done deal here. Thanks to all who checked into the this net will convene again this coming Sunday evening at 8pm local time. This is W7X Ray Zulu signing the Oroville Amateur Radio Society Sunday night net on 2 meters clear at this time and going QSY to 28.450 MHz upper sideband. Good evening to all.

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Speaker A: Kilo Oscar 6 Bravo Golf y. Could I get a signal report, please? New antenna swap WP6 as
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