WD6AXM TX (146.085 MHz) recordings for 2026-02-18

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Speaker A: November 6th if it goes julian delta mobile monitoring enjoying the bright and beautiful sun and sun
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Speaker A: Kk6vzd mobile.
Speaker B: Good evening, Chris. KK6SYV
Speaker A: Good evening, Lester. How you doing?
Speaker B: Doing fine. Heading to the meeting.
Speaker A: Alrighty. Same here. Same here. So I've been enjoying some time off. I can't say I've been awful productive
Speaker B: about using it, but.
Speaker A: Yeah, got a couple of vacation days I had to burn up before my retirement. So made a long weekend of it.
Speaker B: Pre retirement party then, huh?
Speaker A: I'm not sure how it happened, but I guess when I was transmitting to you I changed channels on my radio which is really kind of weird, but okay. Yeah, saying I've had a, had a long weekend. Could be I had to burn up some couple of vacation days.
Speaker B: Yeah, I heard you that. Then I, I said pre vacation party, huh?
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm having so having yesterday off for, for President's Day and then two days of vacation. I got a nice five day weekend out of it. Can't say as I've been real productive about it.
Speaker B: Well, if you didn't have inside projects been foreign so it's kind of hard to do outside projects.
Speaker A: Well, today I went and sharpened all the knives in my knife block.
Speaker B: Well, that was productive as long as you didn't take a finger off.
Speaker A: Did not. Did not. But you know when you do, when you do all of the knives in your knife block and then I did a couple others, I got a buck 110 knife and a couple others, a Leatherman and a Swiss army knife. I took the opportunity to sharpen them too. So it's like three hours sharpening knives. But it was worth it.
Speaker B: Yeah, you might be able to actually cut something without hurting yourself. Now dull knives are worse than sharp ones.
Speaker A: You know, it's kind of fun.
Speaker B: I figured this out a little while
Speaker A: ago that, you know, when you finish, they tell you when you're finished sharpening them, you're supposed to strop them to. Yeah, there's supposed to be a little curl when you're sharpening. There's a little curl on the very edge of the blade. And the only way to get rid of that is to strop it. And I figured out oh little while ago that one of my old leather belts makes a pretty good strop.
Speaker B: Yeah, that works on the inside where it's not, it's not polished or whatever or it's rougher. That works for a good strop. I was taught a long time ago about using three different stones to sharpen, you know, three different hardnesses or whatever stone to sharpen a knife and it through triple edge.
Speaker A: Well, I got I got two stones, a 1000 and a 6000 grit. And yeah, that seemed to do this right. Well.
Speaker B: And then if you put any compound on your belt, it's even
Speaker A: a finer
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Speaker A: that I don't have. But yes, I had a, I had an old belt sitting around that really, you know, starting to fall apart a bit on the, on the public side, if you know what I mean. But the backside is, is a nice piece of solid leather. So I've been actually using that to strop. I've got a straight razor that I've been toying with and that puts a pretty good edge on that.
Speaker B: Yeah, I got taught when I was up in Alaska. I kind of knew how to do it before, but I was shown again by a guy up in Alaska that was a woodcutter and he, he carried his three little stones with him for sharpening his axes. And he was, it was at a trade show and he pulls out a double bladed, you know, I don't know,
Speaker A: 16 pound axe probably and sharpens it
Speaker B: there in front of you and then chops a tree with it that he
Speaker A: had a little, you know, stump tree
Speaker B: in his booth and then he proceeds to shave his face with it.
Speaker A: Oh my goodness. That's a pretty good edge on that.
Speaker B: Well, that's why. That's the way I test most of the knives I sharpen is on the back of your arm, you know, if it'll shave hair. Got no stubble left. You got it right.
Speaker A: Not sure I got mine that sharp, but they're definitely better than they were. And you know, the, you just drag it. I was just dragging it across the rind of a grapefruit and it was, it was cutting into it. So I figured that that's pretty good.
Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know if I have mine silk sharp as they say, you know, with the katanas and all the Japanese swords. But mine are pretty good.
Speaker A: So I think the last time I sharpen them was a couple of years ago. I should probably do about every six months or so. Good steel.
Speaker B: You can do it more often if it's just a cheap kitchen knife getting rid of the metal.
Speaker A: These are good German knives. I got them when I was fishing overseas and I took advantage of the, of the good price, price that I got on them over there. It's, it's interesting to. I think I paid like $200 for the set and now I look at just a replacement for, for one of the chef's knives. A larger chef's knife would probably cost me about 150 bucks.
Speaker B: Yeah. For a good quality one like that, we bought some pretty good quality ones for my daughter that were in the fifty to seventy dollar a piece range. Yeah.
Speaker A: Quite a while ago, actually, when my daughter was getting ready to move out, I found a pretty good set at Ross. I was really, really kind of surprised. Of course, you know, I think it got a. A nice set for her for, like, 50 bucks. And they're probably close to being as good as mine.
Speaker B: That's kind of surprising, but. Yep, sometimes you find a good deal.
Speaker A: Yes.
Speaker B: Yes.
Speaker A: Well, I'm just about ready to pull into the parking lot here, so I'm gonna shut her down, and we will see you inside. 73 KK6VZD.
Speaker B: Clear. All right, I'm a little visual, but I'll be there. KK6 SYV. Clear.

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Speaker A: Good afternoon, Dave. How are you? Everything is windy and cold today. Good meeting last night.
Speaker B: Okay. I had to hunt you down. You're on the 085. Okay, gotcha. Were you running around?
Speaker A: I'm helping the friends put some furniture together at her office. And he was curious about ham radio too. And so I thought I'd try the 85 if anybody was around.
Speaker B: Just finding all kinds of people, huh?
Speaker A: People that are interested in possibly coming to our meetings. Yeah,
Speaker B: yeah.
Speaker A: Be cool if he lives up in Dobbins or Loma Rica area and kind of in a hole. And every once in a while they would get a little worried when the Internet telephone go down. So they were thinking of getting a radio.
Speaker B: There's a lot of them up in that area up there. They're on GMRs.
Speaker A: Okay. That takes a license too, doesn't it?
Speaker B: Oh, that doesn't take a license. I think they. They got to purchase some kind of a license or something. But when they buy a license, it goes for the whole family. It's not a HAM license. It's the GMRS and quite a few. Quite a few people. It's getting pretty popular up there.
Speaker A: All right, we'll check into it. I think that radio that I want has it programmed into it.
Speaker B: I would still encourage him, you know, to go with the ham license too, because you can always purchase the other one. But when you. When you purchase the license, it's good for the whole family.
Speaker A: That's cool. Good to know.
Speaker B: I'm not into it, but I know a little bit about it.
Speaker A: But.
Speaker B: And they use it for the. Basically for the fire season or whatever, you know, for whatever.
Speaker A: Okay. Her vehicle, one of her vehicles is an old fire vehicle that cigarettes stripe and everything. Wow. Okay.
Speaker B: Yeah, they've got repeaters now for the GMRs and they have little nets and, you know, get together just like the ham boys and girls do.
Speaker A: All right.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: See if we could get her hooked up up there somehow taking the test. Not too hard.
Speaker B: Roger that. Okay, well, I'm here. I'm sitting here watching a bee collect, picking up a swarm out of a tree here. Pretty amazing how these guys can work these bees.
Speaker A: That's cool. They're trying to get the queen and everything.
Speaker B: I think he found the queen. They swarmed on a tree, tree limb. And I think he found her and he's getting them, putting them in a box. Man, these things are just. These bees are smart. What happened to us? Did we disconnect some way or another?
Speaker A: We were trying to think of the fellow's name that we know that those bees. I was.
Speaker B: Anyway. Somebody that's into the bees, huh?
Speaker A: Thinking. We're working on it.
Speaker B: I didn't catch this guy's name on YouTube that's just doing this show that I'm watching. Well, he's not even here. He's in, I think, Tennessee or somewhere. I think he said in the beginning.
Speaker A: Okay, that's cool. All right, Dave, thanks for hopping in there. We got to pick up a big ginormous box at FedEx.
Speaker B: Okey dokey. We'll. We'll catch up with you a little bit later.
Speaker A: Wa1ner va1ner kb1nde thank you. And we'll be clear later.

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Speaker A: Kilo India 6 Sierra Mark November Doing radio test. Anybody on frequency please come back.
Speaker B: This is KK6VZD Chris in Yuba City and you've got a nice strong signal and yeah, all full quieting.
Speaker A: Yeah good to hear. I think it was kvz. Might have got that wrong if I did. Sorry. Thanks for coming back letting me know if I was working and was. I've got my 857 set up to connect remotely to where the radio is about a mile or so away and good to. I had to make some adjustments and Good to hear it figured out finally how to get it working again.
Speaker B: Yeah that process can be a bit challenging sometimes. Can it? Yeah you're. You're into Yuba City here really well.
Speaker A: Copy that. Radio de energized for a moment yes, this is a result of about three and a half hours worth of troubleshooting and finally figured the right magic smoke didn't come out or anything so life is good. So 73 from Ki6smn, I'll be clear on your final
Speaker B: 73 to you also and yeah, I hope you have no more problems can just operate your heart's content. 73 KK6VZD clear.
Speaker C: This is as.
Speaker B: This is KK6VZV in Yuba City. I didn't catch your call sign, you're a bit scratchy.
Speaker C: This is as6AK Air Force 6 Alaska, back to you.
Speaker B: Okay, copy that. So where you located?
Speaker C: In Linda, California.
Speaker B: Sorry I didn't catch. I heard California didn't catch the first part.
Speaker C: I'm in Linda, California. Copy.
Speaker B: All right, copy that. Yeah I'm mobile here over in Yuba City just heading over to Staples.
Speaker C: I'm planning to do too if I can't get my printer to work. I also have a base station pretty good one. It's FTDX101MP. Have you ever heard of that?
Speaker B: I do not believe I have heard of that one. But I'm assuming you're on an HT at the moment correct?
Speaker C: W E6 that's correct. Yeah I think I got myself over the over over my head on this radio but it's the best one out there. I figured well why not? So I went ahead and got it. Boy, I'm going to tell you does that system hard to learn. It could take me a while that's for sure. Back to you.
Speaker B: Roger, Roger. Well anything that starts with the. With the letters FTD X I'm assuming is going to be a good radio. So I'm destinated so I'm going to say 73 and have a good afternoon. KK6VZB clear.
Speaker C: This is as.

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Speaker A: Wp6, axm receiver. Was there a station in there? This is kb1 nde mobile.
Speaker B: Kilo, kilo, six, sierra, yankee victor, mobile.
Speaker A: Kilo, kilo six, jerry, yankee victor. This is kilo bravo one, november delta echo, kb1 nde david mobile. Also southbound on 99. Now.
Speaker B: You're getting in loud and clear. I'm northbound on 99 at 113.
Speaker A: Oh, you're a little bit behind me. I already passed that, so I'm down here. Catlett. Get into the hail. I heard it was hail down that way.
Speaker B: I didn't see any in Roseville today.
Speaker A: Okay, good.
Speaker B: Yesterday, I guess there was some in Zach, but not where I'm at in Roseville.
Speaker A: I've talked to you before or maybe once, or maybe I've heard of you. Anyway, I worked on some cabinets today. Got them all backwards every which way, but I finally got them together.
Speaker B: Is the metal cabinets better together or something?
Speaker A: Yeah, it's metal with wood. You know, it has the cams and the Allen wrench, the whole nine yards. You sure can't. Can't tell by the instructions which way they go until the end.
Speaker B: The instructions been translated four times exactly.
Speaker A: This is kind of a new radio. It's ICOM ID 5100 DSTAR radio. I still haven't figured out the dstar of it all, but at least I got it programmed now.
Speaker B: You got this half working. I don't know about that dstar stuff either. Haven't messed with it or don't even own a radio that has it yet.
Speaker A: I tried to get it to work. I guess you can do the GPS thing in the whole nine yards, like EPRs, I guess, but I haven't. I haven't even come close.
Speaker B: Yeah, I had the APRS working on the other half of this radio, but my GPS battery swelled up, so I gotta get a new battery for it.
Speaker A: Oh, man. I would have one of those up flying models a few weeks ago, and I could smell it. I was like, man, what is up going on with this battery? So I unhooked it and stuck it on this metal lip on our. One of our flight benches. And about 45 seconds later, that sucker went up.
Speaker B: Yeah. When they decided they don't want to work anymore, it doesn't take long.
Speaker A: We're like, oh, we need to have a bucket of sand out there. So eventually we're going to have that. Hopefully they get it soon.
Speaker B: Yeah. Where do you fly?
Speaker A: The Wheatland Amphitheater. The Red Barons RC Flying Club.
Speaker B: All right. Yeah, I drive by that way Once in a while. I stopped in there once and looked around but nobody was there. I also stopped by the one that's out by Thunder Valley.
Speaker A: Yeah, the Amos Club. They're a very successful club with lots of people. It's a nice place.
Speaker B: I've been there a couple times. A little bit expensive. Nice club but a little expensive to join.
Speaker A: Ours is a steep eater but we're not crowded. We only have like 30 people.
Speaker B: Yeah, their initiation fee is pretty steep but I can see why. I mean they gotta keep up the facility.
Speaker A: Ours is, you know we pay a monthly rent and we also have a restroom that we. And we mow the lawn. We take care of the lawn and the tractors and all that kind of end up costing us. This is KB1ND.
Speaker B: Yeah, everything costs a little bit, you know fuel and pay for the restrooms to be monitored and maintained.
Speaker A: Got kind of lucky we'd be able to. We found a tractor with a mower deck for fifteen hundred dollars and it works. The John Deere works fantastic.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, that's the club had the
Speaker A: money to buy it.
Speaker B: That's good. So was my P up.
Speaker A: Only takes us 2 hours to mow about 10 acres.
Speaker B: That's not too bad. Pretty good sized lot to keep mowed.
Speaker A: You're welcome to come out anytime. We usually fly. I usually go out of there on Saturday. You find me on here. I usually have my radio on on the way out. I used to go around at about 8:30, 9:00 clock and I leave it on when I'm out there. So anybody from our club for sure welcome to come out there.
Speaker B: Yeah, I just gotta get mine out, make sure they're ready to go. I haven't flown in a long time but mine are all radios, all fm. I don't even have one of the new radios yet.
Speaker A: Oh, they still work. They work great. I even have one ham radio that I used to use was the green wire and I. I still have it. I put a new battery in it but I don't use it. I use the other stuff.
Speaker B: Yeah, if you're the only one flying FM it doesn't matter as much at the particular location. Instead of having to spend the Money for the 2.4 I've got one of the any link upgrade things on on the radio but I don't know that it's as reliable.
Speaker A: No idea. I never, never tried it. I'm just using the spectrum. It works pretty well.
Speaker B: I don't know.
Speaker A: I keep debating on changing to something with a little bit better gimbals. In the old days, the radio said I had to have better gimbals and spectrum on their kind of plastic. Bit weird. Yeah.
Speaker B: Some of the open source like FR sky or whatever it is, they're not too bad on price and supposedly have high grade gimbals and stuff in them.
Speaker A: Exactly. They have the same gimbals in Radio Master. I think that's one I've been looking at. I don't know.
Speaker B: At least that one could work with my receivers.
Speaker A: You know, I have probably 20 airplanes that have a receiver in it and be a lot easier. It all adapted to that.
Speaker B: Yeah. As far as I know the 2.4, as long as the spectrum pretty much works.
Speaker A: All my stuff originally had FM. All the planes I fly are 70s 80s airplanes. So they all had a wire in
Speaker B: them at one time. Yeah, that's what mine had.
Speaker A: What kind of plane do you have that had that?
Speaker B: Curious. I've got a Sig Cadet Mark two. That's from the. I didn't know exactly when that kit was out. And then PT40 and great planes. Learjet.
Speaker A: Nice. Yeah, that's probably early 80s for like the SIG Cadet stuff. I remember those planes everywhere. And then I have like super chaos, great plane, super chaos. I have the pretty kid chaos. I have. All of it's like family heirloom my uncle built. So I got a stick, a big stick. I got solitail. But I find mostly the pattern old pattern plane with glow engine.
Speaker B: Mine are all gas flow engines. Whatever you want to say.
Speaker A: I think it's better in long run. I mean you really think about it. You buy four batteries, you know, at $40 a piece and you have one go bad and then. Yeah, I'd rather stick with a 20, $30 gallon worth of fuel.
Speaker B: Yeah. And I think that, you know, you're not worrying about running out of battery power as fast. You know your flight battery, if you got a decent one, will last all day.
Speaker A: Exactly. Yeah. The lysbe batteries work pretty well. Yeah.
Speaker B: I still got nightcad in mind. I gotta upgrade that to a little
Speaker A: ify
Speaker B: whatever flight pack. But yeah, with gas. I mean my cadet, I fly till I tired of flying before it runs out of fuel.
Speaker A: WP6, AXM repeater. That's awesome. Yeah, I kind of do the same. I actually run some on nicads. And the reason I run them just because I have the older servos. So when you have the older servos, you don't want to overpower them, you know, with the light. Be a little bit, kind of a little bit on the edge of like the servo. So I'll run like a 6 volt nickel metal hydride in there and that's pretty good that way. And then I know I'm. I. I feel better sometimes having an old school battery in it.
Speaker B: Yeah, you don't have to worry about them smoking. KK6SYV.
Speaker A: What's your name?
Speaker B: This is les. Lima, echo, sierra.
Speaker A: All right. Hi, les. Mine is david. Delta, alpha, victory, india, delta. Feeling pretty good down here in Rio Vista right now.
Speaker B: Yeah, I thought it was pretty dark when I drove by, but I'm up in Yuba City now.
Speaker C: David, can you hear me? WA1 ner.
Speaker A: WA1 ner. KB1 NDE. How you doing, David?
Speaker C: I was just checking out my hd. I didn't think it was working the other day, but it's working now that
Speaker B: I know it's working.
Speaker C: Lester was sitting right over my shoulder. Did you see where I was sitting last night, Les? He was sitting with me.
Speaker B: I saw you. I didn't. You jumped up and ran away before I had the chance to say hi last night.
Speaker A: I was moving kind of slow.
Speaker C: I didn't move too quick. Yeah, he was. Him and his lady friend were sitting with my. My wife and I had cabled just 10ft away from you.
Speaker A: Alrighty.
Speaker B: Yeah, I know. I hear who you're talking. The sight of the face. Anyway,
Speaker A: thank you, Dave, for pointing that out. Then I'll just have to switch around seats next time.
Speaker C: He's got a big old goatee on his face.
Speaker A: Okay, then you won't be able to miss him.
Speaker B: Well, if you come next month, you won't miss me at all. I'm the one presenting for the vna and you know, antenna analyzer.
Speaker A: Awesome. Yeah, I remember you speaking up for that.
Speaker B: That's cool.
Speaker A: I had a nice antenna analyzer. I said it kept. It got valuable and some guy wanted it.
Speaker B: Yeah, sometimes that's not too bad. Especially if you're in the mood to upgrade, maybe.
Speaker A: Exactly. Alrighty, David.
Speaker B: And David, I'm. I'm up to my stop almost. So signing off and going on the side.
Speaker C: Hey, see you later, Les. WA190R thanks for the radio check, David.
Speaker A: No problem. Thank you for hanging on the drive, Les. That was fun. We'll do it again. Hopefully we get you out flying. You can come out at least three times if you have ama, you know, before you have to pay anything. You could last, you know, quite a while. But thank you. And KB1 NDE be clear. Alrighty.
Speaker B: Good to talk to you. KK6SY V clear.
Speaker C: I'm just sitting here having a hot
Speaker A: bowl of chicken noodle soup.
Speaker C: See you guys later. Wa1nerf.