WD6AXM TX (146.085 MHz) recordings for 2026-02-26

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Speaker A: K6vzd mobile w e6a x n repeater.
Speaker B: Kk6syv mobile. Chris, how are you this evening?
Speaker A: Oh, doing all right, thank you. I gotta remember tomorrow morning not to come to work first thing in the morning, but to go down to CalPERS and finalize my pension retirement submission. Yeah, I've got like, there are four different things that I have to do that with Social Security is done. I did one the other day that is going to require me to finish the paperwork off and submit it to them. But at least the application is in and the calpers. And then there's one more so I can continue to get many. Yep, yep.
Speaker B: Don't want any delays.
Speaker A: Yeah, no, I'm just. Well, I don't spend all my days thinking about it, but every once in a while I think, oh, after the end of March, I'll be able to do. If I want to do something in the middle of the week, I'll be able to do something in the middle of the week.
Speaker B: Yep, your schedule would be your schedule. You don't have to worry about somebody else telling you what to do anymore. Except for the wife.
Speaker A: Yeah. Interesting. I'm not exactly sure what they're doing, but our management team sent out a questionnaire about, you know, your employees. They want to put it on a web page, you know, sort of a get to know your co workers thing. And they sent it to me and my manager came and said, hey, Chris, I need you to submit that too. And I'm sitting there thinking why I'm only going to be here another a month.
Speaker B: Yeah, he's just dotting his eyes and crossing his teeth, I guess.
Speaker A: Yeah, I think that he was getting some pressure from his manager. You know, I want all that information on everybody. I don't think he specifically sent me, but he just said, I want, you know, I want that information from everybody in your, in your group. So, you know, I'm still part of the group, so they still want it. But.
Speaker B: Yeah, by the time they get done getting it all together and getting it ready to put on the website, you
Speaker A: won't need New York. Yeah. I think the first question is, what's, what's your official job title and what do you find, you know, really interesting about your current job? And I'm like, how in the world am I going to put down, I don't find anything interesting about my current job. So I put down my job title and then I just put down, after having worked for the county for 21 years, now I'm really looking forward to retirement. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker B: You put in your time to run.
Speaker A: Yeah. Be interesting to see what the reaction to that answer is. I mean, I didn't. I wasn't snarky about it. I just was like, you know, I've done my time and it's now time. Looking forward to retirement, and I am.

Speaker A: Well, we got police over by the Holiday Inn here with their lights flashing. I wonder what's going on.
Speaker B: Who knows these days whether they're, you know, got a call about homeless or got just something else going on, you know.
Speaker C: Yeah, sitting here at the intersection making
Speaker A: sure that I don't get run over by somebody that isn't quite sure what the right of way rules are.
Speaker B: There's right away rules.
Speaker A: That's what I was already.
Speaker B: It doesn't always seem like anybody follows them anymore.
Speaker A: Hey, guys.
Speaker B: Dave, was that you? We can barely make you out.
Speaker C: Yeah. How's that any better? It sounds like there's got some power line noise up there on the hill again.
Speaker B: Yeah, it's definitely better. How you doing, Dave?
Speaker C: I do okay, Les. Just sitting here wrapping up the day here at the house.
Speaker A: I was wondering. I was out earlier today outside the government center and tried keying up and it didn't seem like I was. I was tripping the repeater. So I was kind of wondering if, if it was offline.
Speaker C: No, not offline.
Speaker A: There's just.
Speaker C: It's a high power line noise up there. I heard it on less and I heard it coming and going
Speaker A: up.
Speaker C: Making a trip up there. Go find it. Because nobody else seems to be able to at the moment.
Speaker A: Yeah, okay. All right. Well, is it, is the weather good enough for you to do that?
Speaker C: Yeah, well, that's probably part of the other problem is this. That road has got to be a real mess up there right now from all the rains and the know, the heavy rains they've had. I'm sure it's washed stuff down and broken some stuff loose because that road's not maintained at all.
Speaker A: So. Dave, did you ever get to spend any time in Germany?
Speaker C: Nothing I can brag about.
Speaker A: All right, well, my wife and I went down to Bavaria while we were down there and we got to visit Hitler's eagle's nest down there. And the bus takes you up to a certain spot and then parks and you get off and you have to get on special buses. When they built it, they had to blast a, a one lane road up the rest of the way to the top and it's not terribly wide and they have these special buses and it's only a one lane road so they have to, they have to regulate, you know, uphill, downhill. And these buses have triple redundant brake system.
Speaker C: Yeah. For something like that. Sounds like they should. Well, the, the tram that goes up to the upper side over there on the buttes has a dead man braking system on it. The Cable breaks and it locks it up and clamps, you know, to the rails.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's like triple renungen brakes. They really don't want it. They have any accidents up there and you know, there's not much of a railing. I was sitting on the outboard side up against the window and I pressed my head up against the window and looked down. I could not see the road. All I could see was down a couple thousand feet.
Speaker C: I got a couple of little switchbacks there up on the hills that are similar to that type of thing. Go ahead, Les.
Speaker A: Thank you. I'm just listening, trying to not get
Speaker B: run over out here on the highway.
Speaker C: Where are you right now?
Speaker B: I am at where 99 goes down to two lanes going north directly across from the repeater.
Speaker A: We z axm repeater.
Speaker C: Okay, yeah, I'm hearing it in the background. I was heavy HD here in the house on 1 watt. I switched up to 5. But yeah, there's still some stuff going on up there and they're going to have to do something about it pretty soon.
Speaker B: Yeah, I can direct line of sight, see it from here. No trees, no lines, nothing.
Speaker A: Gentlemen, I have arrived home. So I'm gonna go check my mail. I'm gonna go inside. I don't have to go out for anything tonight, so I'm just gonna go relax. So I'll talk to you about later. 73 KK6VZD clear.
Speaker C: Okay, short timer, we'll see you later.
Speaker A: WD68.
Speaker B: All right, well guys, have a good night. JK6SYB on the side. Good hearing everybody out there. And I'm just about detonated as well. Kilo Oscar 6 probable JK 73.
Speaker C: Have a good evening.

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Speaker A: Jk6 of ezd mobile.
Speaker B: We6a x n receiver. Good morning. Good morning. How you doing? Sounds like. Sounds like the static is back. And according to Dave, that's from the repeater power lines up there on the hill.
Speaker A: Well, you sound really great. I don't hear any bacon frying or popcorn popping. Hey, party.
Speaker B: Okay, well, who knows why? Maybe because I'm closer and I'm using a mobile rig. I don't know.
Speaker A: Maybe it's because of your diet. Your body is actually grounding your signal. It's your brain that's actually radiating.
Speaker B: That'd be interesting. Yeah. Who does?
Speaker A: Well, you're asking. Hey, what's good, Pete?
Speaker B: I don't know.
Speaker A: Nothing. Working on the guitars here. I paint. So therefore I play guitar and I paint the guitar body skull, you know, and hey, I'm happy sitting here drawing gold and blues. Hey, baby. Oh, oh, okay.
Speaker B: All right. I'm sitting here thinking, let me see, let me see. Teeth from the era of hippies.
Speaker A: I can just imagine what those guitars look like. You know, I tried to grow my hair long back in those days, but kind of Angela Davis. And those are really inconvenient kind of live. Walk, go out on the trees around, drink water out of a fountain.
Speaker B: Angela Davis. That's a name I haven't heard in a very long time.
Speaker A: Still kicking it. She was a professor at SF Stage State or something. And yeah, a lot of people are still hanging in there. I talked to a young woman who she is and what she represents.
Speaker B: Yeah, okay. I thought Angela Davis was from Berkeley. I don't know.
Speaker A: Yeah, probably close to some kind of truth. I wanted to sla. And the Patty Hurt thing. Oh, that was a big deal.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I remember that. Yeah. You mentioned that to anybody? Oh, I'm not sure. Yeah, not too many people. A younger age would. Would have it. Clue as to what that was about.
Speaker A: Yeah. SYMBIO N Liberation Army. What are you talking about? A country called Simba.
Speaker B: Yeah, you know, I was thinking that myself. What in the world is symbionese? What in the world does that mean?
Speaker A: It rhymes with fleas. You could write a song.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, that was a. That was quite a while back, I guess, you know, it was interesting. Time to live through. Glad that it, you know, kind of passed away.
Speaker A: We were all splitting the draft. Yeah, People are freaking out, running to Canada, and then we're all complaining because anybody rich, they get out of it.
Speaker B: You weren't one of those, were you?
Speaker A: No, but I was in school. And by the time they had Some kind of slaughtery system drawing numbers. By the time they got around to me, the war was winding down, you know, luckily, because I was thinking about, oh, Vietnam, here I come.
Speaker B: Yeah, I know, I know. I'm just a little bit younger. So, you know, by the time I got of age, we had pretty much pulled out. It wasn't quite fully over yet, but there was nobody else being. Sent overseas anymore. And I remember thinking about, please let the war be over before I get to be draft age. And it just about was. But, you know, I actually, before I turned 18, I went and. Well, no, I don't think that's true. It must have been right after I turned 18. I went and signed up. Delayed enlistment for the Air Force. So, you know, they got me. Anyway,
Speaker A: Tell you what's funny. Not ha ha, but I feel kind of guilty about not going with a lot of, you know, buddies in high school, that age group. You didn't come back, you know, And I'm thinking, well, I don't know, why didn't they take me?
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, I kind of get it. Yeah. You know, I spent 24 years in the Air Force, and there wasn't much going on that entire 24 years that I was in. But there was a, you know, there was a few things right at the very end there. You know, we went over to Iraq and the Middle east over there, and I was not one of the ones that was sent. And I had.
Speaker A: I have a kind of.
Speaker B: A bit of a hard time when people, you know, come Memorial Day or you're in gatherings and people ask the veterans to stand up and be recognized. I almost feel guilty about standing up because I never was exposed to combat.
Speaker A: Have you heard of stolen valor? These guys who dress up in uniforms, claim they were, you know, Navy seals and stuff like that. They never served the day.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, I've heard that. And not exactly sure I had acquaint them with the. The name Slime, but, you know, that's. Yeah, to take away the recognition from the guys that actually did serve and put themselves in harm's way. That's pretty low.
Speaker C: Quick comment.
Speaker A: Go ahead.
Speaker C: This is N60NY. I just want to say, Chris, from one veteran to you sometimes doesn't feel like you did enough to be recognized
Speaker B: for you did your full.
Speaker C: Your full step, man. When they ask for veterans to stand up, be proud of the service that you did serve, you know, you don't have to see combat. Count your blessings that you did them.
Speaker B: So my eyes, as a Marine, you're
Speaker C: Still a veteran to me, bro. N60NY
Speaker B: thank you, thank you. I've gotten that from many, many, many other people and I guess I'm dealing with a little better than I did. But still, you know, I got to recognize that there is a difference between, you know, somebody that served their country and then somebody that was shot at. There is a difference. And you know, for the guys that did, man, my respect and my admiration goes out to. Hey, you know, I was thinking about it the other day. By the time that I got in the service, basically we were out of Vietnam. But technically I'm still a Vietnam era veteran. So Neil, what are you doing? Where are you out and about today?
Speaker C: I'm currently on
Speaker B: Highway 20 headed towards.
Speaker C: Where am I headed towards? Towards Penn Valley.
Speaker B: Sorry I didn't catch the last.
Speaker C: Currently Highway 24th Inglebright. So I've been on the road since 8 o' clock last night and I'm still going.
Speaker B: Oh man. How did the stay in the Bay Area go?
Speaker C: It was actually nice. Put me in a somewhat decent hotel and you know, staying out there in Walnut Creek, I actually enjoy it quite a bit.
Speaker B: Yeah, when I was kind of between full time jobs and I had a part time and had to go to San Francisco, they put us up in San Francisco while we were there during the week they put lined me up in the this little hotel, I think it might have had, oh, I don't know, a dozen rooms in it maybe. And it was right across the street from the entrance to Chinatown. Oh, good deal. We got to have some good food
Speaker C: and some pretty good entertainment out there.
Speaker B: Yeah, I was working, I was working like 5 till whenever and for you it was in like the business district where we were. So you know, we'd go in and we'd start to work and we'd hit 10 o' clock or something like that and want to go eat somewhere and you know, there was absolutely nothing open anywhere around us because it's the business district and all the businesses were closed.
Speaker C: Yes sir. Yes sir.
Speaker A: Alrighty.
Speaker C: Well, I'm going to start picking fencing here in a second. I could already hear it coming across the radio with you talking. It's just starting to get a little choppy so I want to hand it back over to YouTube. You guys have a good one at 7:3. Hopefully I'll be able to see my bed sometime before 9 o'clock tonight.
Speaker B: So I'll talk to you guys later.
Speaker C: Stay safe out there. And 69.
Speaker B: All right, have a great day. So Pete, going back to those days. Yeah, I don't think about it too much, but it was interesting to think back. Those were some really interesting times.
Speaker A: I suppose they are really. I mean, politically and all like that, blah, blah, blah. But what I got out is this Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, transcendental meditation. Don't worry, be happy. Hey, look at how happy I am.
Speaker B: Well, good for you. Glad you got something out of it.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: A while back, actually, a very long time ago, cbs, Charles Kuralt, they got Charles Kuralt to narrate. There was a record that CBS put out about all the events from the year 1968, everything that happened in 1968. And Charles Carleton narrated it. And that was something my brother bought. And I always thought that was very interesting. And then I went back and found a book, probably about 10 years ago, that was written about somebody by somebody about the year 1968 and how that one year basically changed the world. And I read it, and there was so many things that happened. So many things that happened that year that said. Yeah, it was like a. It's like a page turn between what was and what is now.
Speaker A: Yeah, I remember 69. End of the hippie generation, the Altamont Pass. So I guess that was the end of the love with.
Speaker B: Yeah, I remember. Well, like, different. Different times, you know, when your news came across, CBS or ABC or NBC and, you know, that was. That was your only source of news. And I remember watching the news and the reporting of the fires in Watts and the riots in Detroit and Chicago and such.
Speaker A: You know, a lot of that stuff is still available on YouTube. Go in there and they zoom right in on the guy getting beaten up.
Speaker B: Yeah, and. Yeah, just everything. Bobby Kennedy being killed, Martin Luther King being killed, and, Oh, I can't even remember all the other things that happened, but, man, what a year.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, life in the fast lane.
Speaker B: I wonder about
Speaker A: really, quite frankly, our future. You know, I'm sitting here, I'm retired. I'm kind of thinking, well, you know, majority of my manhood struggle is over, but what about the kids? You know, the grandkids, mom and dad and all like that? So it might be kind of tough. Tough times. You ever heard of that?
Speaker B: Yeah, I get to thinking about that now and again. And quite a while back, I kind of figured it came to me that, you know, I've had my experiences in life and dealt with the life that was dealt me, and so much has changed that. That is hard to deal with. I think there's a reason that our life is finite, because I don't think that I could deal with all the changes that are coming up.
Speaker A: Well, you know, I was trained in art, and one of the themes of my paintings is existential agony. Ha ha ha. Well, existence is pain, torture. Sometimes, you know, and sometimes you feel like it's meaning to go. Let me out of here.
Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. You know, I look at how people live nowadays and the attitude and the thinking, and it's just really foreign to me and, you know, wonder how in the world people can think the way they do nowadays.

Speaker A: Kk6vzd. Did I lose you? Yeah, I think you did. I was talking about the homeless. I was just kind of wondering. I'm on my way to sac, and I'm getting kind of close there, so it's getting harder and harder to. To copy you. So I think I'm going to just say good morning for now and maybe I'll catch you on my trip back up. So if I don't talk to you the rest of the day, have a great day and we'll talk later. KK6VZD player.
Speaker B: WP6A. Okay, KK6VTV. I'll be listening out. KF6 CWO. That last station, you're pretty noisy into the repeater. This is why he's having a hard time hearing. This is n6iwas,
Speaker A: and thanks
Speaker B: for
Speaker A: telling me. Something's going on with my radio. Scratchy noisy, so I'm gonna have to try to check it out. Maybe rain and the coax, something like that.
Speaker B: Yeah, that last transmission, you were a little bit clearer, but there's. There's a bunch of noise in there with you. I don't know what is. Anyway, have a nice day. This is KF6EW Gary at Norville.

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