WD6AXM TX (146.085 MHz) recordings for 2026-02-27

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Speaker A: W6PNH,
Speaker B: P6KDF,
Speaker C: WP6A X N repeater.
Speaker B: Hey, Carla. Go ahead. W6P and H.
Speaker A: Hey, I thought I'd just jump on here. I just left Yuba Acute, so I'm en route. Should be ETA probably about 20 minutes.
Speaker B: Okay, well, that sounds good. We'll have some soup tonight.
Speaker A: That's what I was hoping you would say. All right, well, hey, I'll see you soon. So I will go ahead and be clear on your final K6 KDs. Clear.
Speaker B: All right, well, thanks for letting me know. Look forward to hearing a status update. I'll talk to you soon. W6P and H.

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Speaker A: K6vzd. Mobile.
Speaker B: Kk6vzd.ko6bgy. I'm also mobile as well. Good afternoon. On a Thursday.
Speaker A: Good afternoon. Good afternoon. 23 work days, minus two vacation days, 21 work days.
Speaker B: Right on, Right on. That's a. That's gonna be a heck of a. Heck of an accomplishment there. A little less than a month. That's coming up quick.
Speaker A: I was gonna say that's only four weeks.
Speaker B: One day I'll get there if the retirement's still there. That's why I do like the county. I mean, we got callpers, so I think that's one of the biggest public official retirement Systems. I'm not 100% sure. There's probably other options, but.
Speaker A: Yes, yes, yes. And I went down to Calper today and I submitted my application for my pension.
Speaker B: You say you had to go down there to their office or you went on their website?
Speaker A: Well, I could have gone on the website. I went down there just so that if, you know, something came up that I wasn't sure about, I could. I've had somebody there to talk to directly.
Speaker B: Yeah. From what it sounds like, there's not much known about that process until you get there. So, I mean, you're having to learn this as you go and definitely don't want any mistakes. And I'm sure you have copies of everything that you need, but it's getting that all piled together.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And you know what? I took four days or four hours of floating holiday today to do that, so I didn't have to go to work till one.
Speaker B: That's nice. Where did you have to go to calpers. Is that in Sacramento or.
Speaker A: Yes, it's right off of Q Street. Right as you get off the freeway. It's like just past 3rd Street. You know where that is?
Speaker B: Vaguely. I don't do much driving in Sacramento anymore now that I don't drive service trucks. So. I was down there the other day. I think I talked to you on the radio for a little bit coming back from one of mom's appointments over there at UT David. And traffic over there was a nightmare.
Speaker A: Yeah. Is that that off of 16th Street? I don't remember.
Speaker B: This one was off of J Street by about. It was on J Street quite a few miles, and then one left turn, one right turn, and then you're there. It was a pretty big complex. I get the. To be an old cantery of some sort.
Speaker A: Of course it did. Yeah. I don't think I know where that is. I was trying to think if there's there's the one. I think it's UC Davis Med center, where you're going down 50 and you're getting close to near 60. Davis. And it's off on the right hand side there.
Speaker B: W E6A X N receiver. That's the one. As it sounds very familiar, but anyway, I am detonating. Hey, gas is 449 here in Williams.
Speaker A: All right, well, then I guess I will talk to you later. Have a great evening. 73 kk6vz be clear.
Speaker B: 73 chris ko6vgy all be clear.

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Wp6a x n repeater. Kilo oscar6 bravo, golf, yankees portable. Williams, california.

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This is W6B and H. I'm just wondering if we have a net control for the Aries net tonight. If anyone is ready and would like to take it, it's available. And if not, I'll start up here in just a few few seconds. Calling all stations. Calling all stations. This is W6PNH Paul, your net control station for this evening's net. Welcome to the Ubisetter Aries Net for Thursday today, February 26, 2026. All licensed amateur radio operators are invited to check in on this net. This net meets every Thursday night at 19:00 clock hours local time on the WD6AXM repeater. The CTCSS tone to access this repeater is 127.3. I'm now placing the UBA Sutter Aries group on Level 2 emergency status for the duration of the net. This is a directed formal net and all traffic is to be directed to or through the Net control station. If it's necessary to interrupt the net for emergency or priority traffic, please identify the traffic by saying emergency priority or brake. Brake and state your call sign. Net control will now pause for stations with the most emergency or priority traffic. In the event of an actual emergency requiring the services of the euphice sutter aries group members should tune to this repeater or 146.460 MHz simplex and await further instructions. For more information on aries in this area, please contact our ec, neil n6cny or one of our aecs. Robert k6vnr, brandon km6jid, paul w6pnh or devin n0dve. You may also contact our sacramento valley section manager, jay in6sac. Information and training materials may also be found on sacvalleyarees.org or arrl.org. Is there an operator on frequency who is willing to act as backup net control station this evening? As backup Net control, please have a copy of the net roster and script on hand. Anyone willing to be back up Net control, please come now. WE six A X N repeater. Thank you, Brad. I gotcha. Appreciate it. This is W6P and H Paul, your net controller. I will now call from a list of members of Yuba Sutter Aries, starting with our leadership and Let me just put out a call. Do we have any leadership here tonight. In0dbe? Thanks, Devin. I've got you any other Neil or any AECs here and then I'll move on to the District and section. How about carl n6 ckv or district dc. And michael kk6zgb or section ec. And j n6sac. He's our section manager. Okay. This is W6P and H, your net controller. We'll move on to general membership, starting with. How about Greg K6 Gab? Butt kicking one bud. Carla k6 kds? Kim kn6kip. Matthew kn6wnr. How about ernie kn6gtn? Good evening, paul. This is ernie up here in bangor. No traffic for the net. Kilo november 6th. Golf tango november. Got you, ernie. Thanks for checking in. And let's see, I'll call for john ki6uds. How about david wa1ner? Good evening, paul. On the net. Wa1ner. David. Yuba city. No traffic. Thanks, david. I've got you. All right, brad, I know you're out there. Anything for the net tonight? Km6riw. Sorry. So, thanks, paul. This is km6riw and I have no traffic today. All right, gotcha, brad. Thanks for. Thanks for backing me up. How about ryan k6rcm? This is ryan k6rcm out in the sutter. No traffic. Back to you. Hey, good to hear you out there, ryan. Thanks for checking in. And how about justin ko0x? Daniel n6apx? Good evening, all on the net. This is daniel n6apx in yuba city. Standing by. All right, thanks for checking in, daniel. I've got you. And how about wade kn6wx? We're looking for chris kk6dzd. And jonathan ka6auq. Sorry about that. How about mike kk6isq. And Jamie kn6pww? I'll just put out a call for any members that I missed or a late member check in. Please come now. I'll now call for frequent members of neighboring areas groups. And let's see, let's start that with Dan KF6HHH, Darrell km6kfw. Good evening. This is km6k. Darren woodland, member of yolo area. No traffic. Thanks for checking in, daryl. I've got you. And how about john k6hfp? Hey, paul. This is john up in east hotel, traffic. I'm checking in for butte county areas tonight. Back to you. Yeah, thanks. For the butte county areas. And I've got you. Thanks, john. How about patrick kn6rth? Good evening. This is patrick kn6rth, nevada county area. Thanks, patrick. I've got you. And how about martin w7 ipa? I'm going to drop down to tom w6 ftc. Any other neighboring Aries members who would like to check in, please come now. Identify slowly with your Name, call sign phonetically. And the Aries team you're a member with first check in, please come now. This is W6P and H Paul, your net controller for tonight. I will now call for frequent visitors that we have on our list. And let's go for Doug, KD6 Lok. Good evening, Paul and the net kilo, Delta 6 Lima, Oscar, kilo, Doug here on dry sunny grass grow and Nimshu Ridge tonight. Thanks for doing the netball. Seven three off KD six lok. Hey, thanks, Doug. And yeah, we had a beautiful day down here in the valley as well. Thanks for the reports on conditions up there. How about Linda, KK6SOZ, Mike, kn6mdz? How about Tom, Ko6mo. And jim? Kj6pkq? This is kj6pkq. Jim and chico. No traffic tonight. Thank you, jim. I've got you. And how about dan kn6drn. Good evening, paul, nanette. This is kilo, november 6th, delta, romeo, november dan in lincoln hills. No traffic. Have a pleasant evening. Back to net control, kn6drn. Thank you, dan. It is a nice evening and appreciate you checking in. How about paul? Ko6bgy. Good evening, this is Paul and Calissa. Kilo, Oscar six Bravo, Bolt JE on an HP inside the house, so hopefully it's going through, no further traffic. Back to you. Yep, you're making it. Okay, Paul, I've got you. How about Michael? Ki6ujX? I've got you, Michael. It's a little tough to copy at the end, but. But I do know that was you, so I've got you checked in. Thanks. How about Dave? N6orb, this is N60orb. Dave and Martinez. Thank you, Dave, Appreciate you joining us. Good to hear you. How about James? Ko6aub? K06aub? This is James outside of Marysville with no traffic tonight. W E6A X N receiver. I've got you, James. Thanks. And how about Leonard? KO6DVV? Cassie n7wvw? This is kathy, november 7th. Thanks, kathy, and have a good night too. Got you checked in. How about jeff, kb9mys, Peter, n6erl, David, kk6 mvj. And I'll go ahead and call for carol, kp4md. Any visitors on frequency who would like to check in, please identify with your call sign phonetically your name and location slowly so I can ensure a proper check in. Go ahead and come now. Whiskey Foxtrot 3 Echo. Steve of late from Calusa California. Thank you for taking the net tonight, Paul. I've got you, Steve. Let me confirm that call. I got whiskey Foxtrot 3 Echo, is that correct? Correct. It is a tricky one. Well, I like that one, so thanks. Got you checked in. Next guest check in. Please come now. Kilowatt Charlie 5 Delta, Whiskey Foxtrot, Mike. Yuba City. I've got you, Mike. Thanks for checking in. Next check in. Please come now. Anyone with announcements and or comments, please identify now. I'll go ahead and just put out. We did a little test session on Yuba Sutter Amateur Radio Club was offering a training class for technician level and we've got three new technicians that passed their test last night. So congratulations to those guys and they'll probably have their call any day now. Any other announcements, please come now. One last call for any further check ins or late check ins of members. Anyone wishing to check in, please identify. All right, well, thank you to all who checked in to tonight's net. I invite you to return and check in each Thursday at 19 hours local time on this repeater. We also would like to thank Dave, WD6AXM for the use of this repeater. This is W6PNH, Paul, your net control station for tonight's net. Wishing you all a good evening While returning the Euba Setter Aries group to its standard level one state of preparedness and the WD6AXM repeater to normal amateur use. This net is now closed. W6PNH, clear. So thanks again, Paul for jumping up and being next poll for us tonight. You did a great job. I'm glad you were here. This is Brad, AM6. Thank you, Brad, appreciate that and thanks for backing me up. Good to hear you out there. All right, W6PNH clear. Whiskey foxtrot 3, echo, kilo, oscar 6. Probable being. Whiskey foxtrot, 3, echo, kilo, oscar 6, bravo, golf yankee out there. Steve, Negative contact. K06DTY, all the monitoring in the background.

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Speaker A: Ko6 jit radio report please. We6axm receiver. Ko6 git radio report please.
Speaker B: You're making it into the repeater. Full quieting and you have good audio.
Speaker A: Cb9myf.ko6 git standby, please. Okay, I had a problem with dogs barking. K06 Git radio report please.
Speaker B: You have nice loud audio, but not too loud, but it sounds good. And your full quieting into the repeater.
Speaker A: Thank you very much. I have a problem getting into the Nevada county ones in the morning. I have to switch back and forth between the 147285 and the 147015. I'm on the skywarn net every morning and I have to always check.
Speaker B: Oh, okay. Where. Where are you located?
Speaker A: I am in Brownsville.
Speaker B: Where is the 285?
Speaker A: The 285 is actually has. It's a split repeater. And so I don't know exactly the locations. They think it's on banner pieces up in Nevada City, but it's split. So I come in on one frequency and I hear back on another one. And sometimes that transmit M1 has noise on it. The L15 is also up in that same general area and in Nevada County. But it's a send and repeat individually from that repeater.
Speaker B: Stand by second. Let me look and see which repeaters that is.
Speaker A: Where are you located? Station, where are you located?
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, there's another one that you can get in that you can get into that with the link system, but I forget which one it is and propagation's not very good tonight, so I can't. I'm not able to figure it out.
Speaker A: Well, our club's two repeaters are 147.285-147-0.015, both with a positive. I'm sorry, they think it's a negative offset of 151.4.
Speaker B: I did catch your location that linked with the 14529.
Speaker A: Where is that located?
Speaker B: I'm not sure. Oh, wait a minute. That's. That's. That's linked up with the 147700 or something like that. So that's not the right one. Yeah, but is that down at the valley floor? I have no idea. I know that I can. When things are normal. I can. I can normally hit that one and I can hit the 285.
Speaker A: So I can hit obviously Sutter Butte. I can get the gears east and gears west. I can get the two repeaters in Graft Valley. I can also because I. I Have a tri band on 220. I can hit another repeater up in Grass Valley.
Speaker B: Okay. I can't get anything on 220 from here.
Speaker A: Really? You should be able to get them out here.
Speaker B: Where, Where?
Speaker A: You haven't told me yet where you located.
Speaker B: I'm in Orland, but I only have a. A handheld that does 2 220. And on 220 it only puts out 7 watts.
Speaker A: But maybe that's part of the problem. I don't know what exactly my watts are coming out, but I think they're lower on 220. But I can easily hit even my handheld getting up to Grass valley on the DO20 repeater.
Speaker B: Yeah, and I can hit several 70 centimeter repeaters with the handheld, whether I plugged it into the main antenna or not. I got a tri band antenna. But the only tri band radio I have is several handhelds that are tri band. The radio that I'm talking about now is 2 meters only.
Speaker A: Yeah, the radio I'm talking to on is a 25 watt. It'll do 2 meter 70 centimeter and 1.25.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, I can put up 75 watts on 2 meters.
Speaker A: I don't have that much power, guy. I. On my own HF, I can put out 100 watts, but I don't even really ever have to use that very often. I have a FT710 for that. So I don't. I have to switch back and forth between antennas and radios if I'm going to be moving around a little bit.
Speaker B: Yeah, no, I mean, yeah, my HF, I only have 20 watts on HF, but it does the job.
Speaker A: Which is the reason why I don't crank mine up to 100. Because. Why,
Speaker B: why do you need to? Especially since I'm doing it with a multi band vertical in 20 watts and people can hear me just fine.
Speaker A: Yeah, I have a tri band antenna on my roof that I use and that's just for like this local traffic. But when I'm on HF, I do most of my work at 20 watts.
Speaker B: The antenna has more effect than the actual power output.
Speaker A: Yeah, even when I've cranked it down to 5 watts, I've still been able to with HF reach South America here.
Speaker B: Oh yeah. When I used to talk on the CB I could talk in Australia I'm 10 watts on sideband and people said that I got out better than people they knew were running 5,000 watts. My 10 watts, I could just talk right over all of it.
Speaker A: Yeah, I have an old CB Guy. I never went to SSB for TV because it was just a little out of my price range. And I didn't lie, it works well enough for me. But I still like cb. They, they've trashed the, the channel and the, the service and it's just bunch of noise and garbage now.
Speaker B: Oh, it's been like that for years, many years.
Speaker A: Don't I know it. Well, it's sad. I mean these guys would get on with their echo mics and their amplified signals at 100 or plus watts and they could just dominate the, the band.
Speaker B: That's funny. They get all this power and yet when I would get on sideband my 10 watts and a power mic, I would just dominate the channel, which is 10 watts. People would tell me all the time I'm the only one they can hear when I'm talking and they could tell that there were people out there running 5,000, even 10,000 watts and yet they'd still hear me right over them.
Speaker A: I don't live in no one talking about that high a lot of, but I've heard several people being up in the thousand watt range and it's just ridiculous. You don't need to go out there and have your power mic and your echo mic and you're just going to stomp on everyone else around you.
Speaker B: You don't need all that power. It's good to have good audio on the side bend but you don't need all that power.
Speaker A: I wasn't trying to do long distance communication on CB. I mean if I communicated 25 miles I felt I was doing pretty well.
Speaker B: Yeah, back in the day we had a CB radio club called Non Automotive Radio Club and we had our radio mounted on our bicycles and I could get out from my bike locally. I could get out 25 miles new from problem
Speaker A: Jeremiah. It's in the same league. I put a CV radio on my first motorcycle when I was 17.
Speaker B: Oh, I had, I had one on a motorcycle before too. I had one on a motor scooter that I had a Yamaha rev. I had 102 inch whip on the back of it.
Speaker A: I don't have anything that big. I had a luggage rack on the back of my bike. I rigged up the CB and also AM FM cassette radio between the handlebars and ran the antenna back to my luggage rack on the back end. And this was a Honda CVX250.
Speaker B: Yeah, one that got out the best that I set up was a 50cc scooter and I had a, I wired up a helmet with a Pair of speakers and a microphone and a full face helmet. And then under the seat I put a DIN plug so I could just plug it in and it worked very well.
Speaker A: I did something very, very similar to that.
Speaker B: Yep, yep, that's the way to do it. That way you can unplug the Helmut and. Yeah, but it's too bad the CB went to hell.
Speaker A: I actually still have my mag mount CB antenna and my three radios.
Speaker B: I don't have any mobile antennas. I have several sideband radios and I have one radio. The rest all outside bend.
Speaker A: Well, I have a COBRA. I think two Cobras and a realistic good old Radio Shack CB radio.
Speaker B: Yeah, I have an old road talker, 40 Sears rude talker. It's in perfect. And then I have a Uniden. There's another radio. I don't even remember what it is. I haven't seen it in so long. It's in storage. And I have a little unit in 510XL that's just am only. But back in the day I. I tuned up a radio and people said it sounded like a. It sounded clear, like a broadcast station.
Speaker A: Well, I actually have here in my shack a one of the CBs. I have one of the Cobras set up here. I don't turn it on very often, but it goes out to a man on my roof and I just have it if I want to look at CDs every now and then.
Speaker B: Yeah, you never know what you might find. Maybe one of your friends might get a seed interested and you can get them interested in him.
Speaker A: Actually most of my friends are into frs gmrs.
Speaker B: I heard that there for GMRS they're going to add some frequencies or some channels around 45, 46 megahertz.
Speaker A: Yeah, I have a Wilson handheld. It's. I forget what model number I had a. A while now, but I forget but it's. I bought it in pink, just kind of being weird. But I use it out when I go fishing or hunting because I can stick it in my backpack. I can wear my Bluetooth headset with on Vox and I can talk to people, my buddies, without having to take my hands free.
Speaker B: Oh, that's cool. Yeah, I think they should make it because if you have a ham radio license that it will work on GMRs. But if you want both, you gotta get two call signs that can get confusing. But. This, they should set it up so that if you have a ham radio license that's good for GMRS also.
Speaker A: Well, I have my GMRS license and I'm a ham General, right now I'm studying for my extra.
Speaker B: Yeah, I've heard you mention that before.
Speaker A: I'd like to have my extra before field day.
Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, that'd be nice. I don't know if I'm even gonna be in the US on field day or not. This summer I'm planning on taking a trip to Ecuador because it's just too hot here and I just got to the point where I can't tolerate it anymore. So I'm out of here during the summertime from now on.
Speaker A: The same way with heat. I Like you said, I lived in Brownsville, which is 2850 elevation, so it never gets super hot here. And we do our field day. At least. I think we're gonna do it again this year up at the Nevada county area airport.
Speaker B: Yeah, I used to live in Battle Mountain, Nevada at 4,000ft and it was kind of too hot there too. Where I'm going in Ecuador is at 8,000ft, so it's normally around 70 degrees year round.
Speaker A: Yeah. Are you going to try getting over to the Galapagos? Because that's actually technically an Ecuador.
Speaker B: Eventually. I plan on going over to the Galapagos Island. Yes. But I'm thinking about moving to Ecuador and I've always wanted to go to the Galapagos Islands since I was in second or third grade.
Speaker A: I have only been a couple times out of the country, and Mexico and Canada are my only options out.
Speaker B: I've been to Canada twice, but I haven't been to Mexico. I've been within a mile of Mexico when I was a kid. But then a tropical storm hit the San Diego area, so we decided not to walk across the border on that trip. But I did go to the San Diego Zoo and the San Diego Wild Animal park. And that was when I was a kid at San Diego Wild Animal park in the bird enclosure. Still hanging out there by the entrance like he did when I was a kid. They live a long time. A friend of mine just went about a year and a half ago and he mentioned the Toucan.

Speaker A: And I said, oh yeah, I remember him. He was very friendly. And he said, yeah, he's a very friendly toucan. Extremely friendly.
Speaker B: Oh, now you're really getting into my home plate. I lived, I grew up about a mile and a half or so from
Speaker A: the Wild Animal Park.
Speaker B: I had a seasonal past for years when I was in college I used to go out there and you know how you, when you first came in the park they had you walk through the AV area but then they changed that and so the aviary was off to the side and so the main pathway was going through the park, through either side of it on the left hand side. And so not many people walked into the Aviary Park. I used to go in there with my textbook and read and study in virtually ultimate privacy. And the birds would fly down and see what I was doing and it was a wonderful time. W E6A X N receiver did you
Speaker A: ever meet that friendly toucan?
Speaker B: KB9MYF KO6GIT no, I don't recall meeting a toucan. I There was other little songbirds flying around, floating, that would sit, come down to me because I was sitting there still and would come down and sit on the bench with me. I don't know what they were, they were just very pretty. And I would just sit there and read for a couple hours every afternoon because I had a seasonal pass. Like I said, it was about a mile and a half mile quarter from my house and I was attending junior college at Palomar. Did you grow up in Escondido or the area?
Speaker A: No, I grew up in the San Jose area.
Speaker B: Well, what brought you down to San Diego to go to the White Island Park?
Speaker A: We went when I was a kid?
Speaker B: Well, the Wild Animal park was always one of my favorite places. So was the zoo with a seasonal path when I had, I was an independent contractor and I had to work down in San Diego proper for lunch. Oftentimes I would go into the zoo, take the little bucket things across all the way over to where the polar bears are and just sit over there and eat my lunch.
Speaker A: I don't think they had the polar bears there when, when I was a kid they had, I think they had some black bears though, and I think they had, I think they had gorillas too.
Speaker B: Both the Wyoming Animal park and the zoo have gorillas and there's a whole place in the zoo that's called Bear Canyon. But the polar bears are not there. They're over in a separate area for arctic animals.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, yeah, I'm sure They don't like it warm
Speaker B: with the polar bear area. They also have like yaks and just other things you're going to find in cold climates.
Speaker A: This is indoors.
Speaker B: Well, it's not totally indoors over the polar bears. I don't know about the seals and the yaks and stuff. They're semi enclosed so they are trying to be, you know, something they have. But they have musk ox, they have yaks. They have the seal, the window seal. They got the bears.
Speaker A: Yeah, the animal I remember the most of that toucan and.
Speaker B: You dropped at the end there.
Speaker A: Yeah, the one I remember the most is that. He was.
Speaker B: I am getting a lot of buzz from your station.
Speaker C: Now. You're clear.
Speaker A: Hold on, I'm gonna turn up more power. Somebody's actually doing that.
Speaker B: Anyway. Yeah, I. I lived like I said about a mile and a half from the animal park and I had a seasonal pass. So that was where I did my reading and study for my homework for college. At Cadill area. I still have a niece and a nephew, my brother and this appointments, children all living down there. I'm sorry, I think I covered you. Was that another station?
Speaker C: KILO OSCAR 6 Bravo, Gulf Yankee. I just got to the radio monitoring briefly. Hopefully things are going good in your guys area. Sorry to interrupt. Kilo Oscar Six Bravo Golf Yankee.
Speaker B: Bravo Golf Yankee. You're always welcome.
Speaker C: Thank you. It's good to hear that the 085 machine is working great. Thanks to Dave WD6AXM for the awesome machine. Sorry to interrupt. I know you guys don't say I'm interrupting but. Sorry, my phone's interrupting me. Anyway, I'll go ahead and clear. We'll talk to you guys soon. Seven three, KO six bgy.
Speaker A: Oh, you're not interrupting. You're just joining in and you're welcome to join in.
Speaker C: All right. Yeah, I know the names escape me. Memory issues at 38, but it's good hearing you guys out there. We had a wonderful day here in Calusa, weather wise. Mostly clear skies and no rain. We'll pass back to you guys and I'll see if I have anything to interject. Ko6BGY.
Speaker B: Well, BGY, this is Ko6G I T Ken and I'm in Brownsville. Not Browns Valley, but Brownsville. People's always could get confused. But I'm about ready to be wrapping this up too. I was just checking because I had to. I've had to do some system changing here because of the power outages for the snow last week and I'm just trying to reassess if everything's going fine. So BQI, I will admit you to do at 73 and I don't know the call of the other station I was talking to, but I will also be clear with you. 73. Ko6git. Ko6git.
Speaker C: Sorry for the other station that was probably trying to chime in. Great hearing you out there. I'm inside on 18, so I'm not probably getting through too well, but I'll go ahead and clear as well. Ko6bgy,
Speaker A: see what's on TV. So I'll talk to you guys later. KB9MYF.
Speaker C: Good evening. Yeah, I think we had a double there. It is what it is. Anyway, gentlemen, have a great evening. Great hearing you guys out there. And hopefully this week I'll do more to get back on the air and more active. Kilo, Oscar 6, Bravo, Golf, Yankees.

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Speaker B: 6 Al Aoi. Is that correct? This is KB1 NDE.
Speaker A: N N6 Lai.
Speaker B: Okay, N6 Lai. This is KB1 NDE. Name here is David. Southbound on 70 heading to Rancho Cordova today.
Speaker A: Hi, Dave. David. I'm headed down there too. Yeah, I'm one of the guys that catches in call.
Speaker B: Yeah, it sometimes happens. My call's kind of hard with the November Delta Echo thing. Sometimes it messes people up.
Speaker A: Just hard to remember.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm headed down to pick up some computers that I had serviced down there for. Computers that actually are for a simulator. Like a airplane simulator.
Speaker A: WE six a X N repeater. Oh yeah. I used to have a good one, a slip program, but it got old.
Speaker B: Yeah, these are kind of older computers and I'm trying to. I made sure they're working right. The precision simulator place. They're old but they work. The guy says you can't really upgrade the hardware, but at least we can get them back running again and make the simulator work. It hasn't worked in a long time. It actually belongs to the Aerostem Academy and I'm a volunteer for the Sutter County Sheriff Aero Squadron. We got them serviced down there. So we can sit some kids down on it or we can actually fly real instruments and get log time in our logbooks. Oh, cool.
Speaker A: I used to train down at Natomas and now Natomas is gone.
Speaker B: I remember that old airport. It got buildings there now or houses or something.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, lots of houses.
Speaker B: Two story houses. I never landed there, unfortunately. A little all around this area, but I never had a reason to stop. But it was a nice little airport
Speaker A: that was our home base and I never did quite finish my license, but I learned a lot there.
Speaker B: I trained in Sutter County. I had a plane with my father and we used to fly out of there. My instructor was actually a right seat pilot in a B17. We could hear really well. He was mostly red lipped, but he was an excellent instructor, at least for the way we fit together in the cockpit.
Speaker A: Oh, that's cool. We used to know one of the guys that was in a fortress once, you know,
Speaker B: what do you call it?
Speaker A: I forgot what?
Speaker B: B17 Fortress. That's right.
Speaker A: Sit.
Speaker B: He actually crashed and had to. Well, he crashed in Switzerland. He got shot up pretty good and ended up crashing in Switzerland. He ended up back flying again and he says that one of the first bombing runs in the Germany. He told me that they couldn't get an engine started. Luckily he said, oh really? He was supposed to Fly the slot. And they didn't want to fly the slot. I don't know. A lot of planes broke down. I think during that period. Things were so different then.
Speaker A: I like listening to guys stories when they, you know.
Speaker B: We used to have the guy in
Speaker A: the club that used to teach them. I can't think of what it was.
Speaker B: He used to be up there. Used to be.
Speaker A: And all kinds of stores,
Speaker B: good stories. The one thing I remember about him is if that engine ever quit, he would get. He knew how to get that airplane where we needed to be. Taught me a lot how to get that thing, you know, maximizing the scent rate, I guess. Keep the speed up and get where you needed to go. And get it right down in the middle of a Runway that I thought we'd never make. Wow. Hey.
Speaker A: I landed in the Thomas finally. My girlfriend showed me where the airport was.
Speaker B: It's a park now.
Speaker A: Just a park. And there's nothing around there except for buildings.
Speaker B: Darn. Yeah, there's a lot of airports like that have disappeared. The one on the short field thing over. I think it was called Lakeport. It was over at Clear Lake. And I used to go over there, practice short field landings and takeoffs because the. The examiner was at the Lampson field. Clear Lake, Lampson Field. And he might take you in there if you're. If you're struggling or something. Got my license over at Clear Lake.
Speaker A: Oh, well, that's cool. I remember that.
Speaker B: Clear.
Speaker A: Yeah. What's it called?
Speaker B: It was the field, I think it's called. Yeah, they have a restaurant there now. Some guys fly over from my squadron and have lunch sometimes.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah? Well, I was working down in Sacramento, Richards Boulevard. And later on I transferred Grass Valley.
Speaker B: And then I end up retiring.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: You up in Grass Valley now?
Speaker A: No, no, I live down in Oliver, so I'm going to Rio Linda today. Okay, that's cool.
Speaker B: I have a friend that lives kind of next to the airport down there. You can actually watch the planes from her house taking off and landing all the time. It's fun. And of course, I'm also retired Coast Guard. And the air station's there. My sons are both in the Coast Guard now, and they used to go down there and exercise with them before they went into boot camp. Run around the actual airport down by the Runway. Well, that sounds cool. I used to park over there. I used to email the OOD and land there when my sons were young. And we'd go to the Air Museum. Nice. Nice place to go.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah, we. We went a Couple of months ago, we went there and looking around at things and there was like a kite that they used to put it up on a hill over the. Almost toward the Bay Area. And they used to let this big kite, had a tether and it generated power.
Speaker B: Boy, that's the best for the time, huh? That's pretty neat.
Speaker A: Well, now it's up on the roof. If you ever go back there, it's. Yeah, it's mounted up on the roof there, inside on the roof, and it's pretty cool. I sit there for a long time
Speaker B: just reading about it. Check it out. Yeah. I had this idea one time having buoys when I was in the Coast Guard. You could make them out of plastic and the wave action would charge the battery on board. I had the idea to do that and had people come and talk to me about it and everything. And never really. Now that the LEDs came, it's a lot easier to maintain power for those lights.
Speaker A: Seems to me like a lot of overkill to build something like.
Speaker B: Yeah, probably was more money than stent sometimes. Yep. See, I'm coming up the housie road. I think
Speaker A: you got a government willing
Speaker B: to pay for it.
Speaker A: Why not?
Speaker B: They drop a line in the water sometimes and drag it along. On a submarine to make power.
Speaker A: Oh, yes. I didn't know that. I worked with a guy that was on the USS Batfish and he was aptopedement.
Speaker B: I had a friend in Maine that he was retired, but he was an engineer on a submarine. He says he worked so much on that submarine that when they pulled in for it, he didn't even get to get off. He said he was underwater for seven years.
Speaker A: He was in the Battle of Midway.
Speaker B: Wow. That's a while ago. That's cool though.
Speaker A: Yeah. I was on the Pamanito checking in out over in San Francisco. And it was pretty much identical to the Batfish.
Speaker B: I guess I used to be stationed in Alameda and kind of went around down there. Friend was on. What do they call that island with the airport there.
Speaker A: I'm not familiar with Alameda, but I used to work down there.
Speaker B: Cool. What I liked about being there is I take my lunch and I'd have a control line airplane in the back of my car. And I'd go fly it by myself over by the airport. And there was a club there and I'd fly that thing around. It was a good time, relaxed me, and then I went back to work.
Speaker A: Well, that sounds like fun. Yeah. All I got is a. I have one. I have an RC plane It's a glider, but it busted it up. I got some drones.
Speaker B: Nice. Nice. I'm the vice president of the Red Barons RC Club at the Wheatland Amphitheater over there. Oh.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah. You're familiar with that one? W E AXM receiver.
Speaker B: This is KB1NE. Yeah, I. I've been flying since I was real little. Got too many planes probably.
Speaker A: Now. I. I gave up my interest in the planes when. Well, the real planes, when I was getting low on money, they were pushing me to, you know, get further.
Speaker B: It's expensive. I remember I was lucky. I went into a partnership. I met this guy at Sutter County Airport. He had this 172. And he's partnered. So my dad and I both be gay partners on it. And that's what I ended up with. My license, it was AN E model 1964. E model. Wow.
Speaker A: I used to. I worked with a guy.
Speaker B: My instructor was a guy that worked
Speaker A: with me in Sacramento. We used to go there for lunch at lunchtime in Natomas, and I was heartbroken when I found out that it was going to.
Speaker B: That kind of takes it away. That's not always fun. But. Yeah, I don't fly right now. I partnered with my dad on the plane for 27 years. Currently without a plane, but I might get another.
Speaker A: That's cool. Maybe you will.
Speaker B: I had wasted a few years ago, and then I was flying a friend once in a while. He's got. You know, it's hard to keep the medical. But now that they have that where you can use your driver's license thing. I haven't heard if he's gotten back in the year, but he used to fly. He just goes around the pattern. Basically owns the plane, but he goes around the pattern a lot. I help him out with keeping the tires full and things like that.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that's right. You know, all you need is a driver's license for a. I was trying to get the sports license, and then they moved it up and then they
Speaker B: had the one with the driver's license.
Speaker A: And I never did go back for it.
Speaker B: Check on it. It might be easier for me to go that route. Check on it.
Speaker A: Got some new stuff now. They got the. I just watched a video this morning about a drone. That guy just takes it flies around Macau pasture and then lands it.
Speaker B: Funny. Yeah, I have a. I have a drone and I fly it once in a while just to make sure it still flies small. DJI Navigator. Take a couple pictures of myself, Put it away for another six months.
Speaker A: This time I Saw it that held a person in it.
Speaker B: Well, that's neat.
Speaker A: Yeah, I used to take, I used to take mine out at work lunchtime and I would take my little drone and flying up, take a picture of myself.
Speaker B: One time I drove all the way to the coast and I got some really good pictures. But the state parks are getting kind of mean about drones flying around, so I really haven't gone back.
Speaker A: I don't blame you.
Speaker B: Now I wonder how far this road Peter goes. I really haven't ever kept it on all the way down. I'm all the way down to real ended now.
Speaker A: We got, we got the Butte one and then we got A, A1 at the Yuba City Airport. It's a low level.
Speaker B: It doesn't,
Speaker A: it gets, you get about when you get out of the county, it, you can't, can't hit after that
Speaker B: I talked to old Dave over there all the time. Wa1ner all the time. He's an old buddy. He used to come out the airport and I guess Mike had the repeater there and he'd visit with me when I was working on the plane With Mike.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, he's a friend of mine too. I used to hang around with him
Speaker B: too too, in the Yuba Sutter Club, the amateur Ryu club. What was that?
Speaker A: Yeah, I, I, I was one of the early members and then I quit for a while and then I went back.
Speaker B: Okay. I was there at the last meeting sitting with Dave and they didn't have a raffle last time I got, kept winning, but that's okay. I'm gonna wait for the next one.
Speaker A: I think my club dues expired.
Speaker B: That happened, that happened to me. I've been in and out of it. I've even been a volunteer examiner. I just, I'm too busy. I drive a semi and that doesn't really help.
Speaker A: Yeah, I got a general class license. I did, But I kept my encode because I just like it.
Speaker B: And.
Speaker A: I basically just talk on this one, the local one and the, I call it the local one, the one that's down the street from Davis and the Butte. But I, I used to work with Dave Gardner.
Speaker B: Wow, that's cool. That's really cool. I, I've made a lot of friends with the radio, especially when I was in the coast car.
Speaker A: Yeah, it's a good hobby. I kept it as a hobby after I retired because I used to fix two ways, you know, GE's, motorolas, things like that. And I'm 70 now, so I just
Speaker B: kind of got tired of working. I was lucky. When I was in the Coast Guard my skippers on the boat would let me call in like on a Saturday, like a little morale thing. I could be underway in the Bahamas and on a Saturday I could be call and talk to entire coasties out there on sea. It was really fun to do.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, I, I got an eight shift rig at home but I don't use it very often. But I'm planning to do it.
Speaker B: Cool. I, I had an old ya101e and I really missed that old boat anchor. I don't know why I liked it, but I did. It was kind of fun setting it up. I set it up on the ship. I set it up in my houses that I lived in and lived in Maine and all over Alaska and everything. One day it just decided to give up on me. It was old and never really got down to fixing it. So I sold it. I had a mark, the mark 2G, the ICOM 706 thing. I have one of those with the filters and everything. That was a good radio and it was, I ran digital on it and everything but I, I, I don't know, I wasn't working so I, somebody wanted it, I sold it and now I need a new one again. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A: What was it going to say?
Speaker B: Make antennas. I make all kinds of different size antennas.
Speaker A: You live up here?
Speaker B: Yeah, I live up in Yuba City.
Speaker A: Okay. I grew up in Yuba City. My, my daughter lives there now.
Speaker B: She's
Speaker A: where, she lives at where the used to have a shooting.

Speaker A: Range and gets to go fishing out
Speaker B: there and doing stuff.
Speaker A: That's all houses in there now.
Speaker C: I grew up there too and then
Speaker D: left for 22 years and came back because I had twin sons out up there and they all left. It happened.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker A: I got three grandkids. My granddaughter is 18, she's about to grow graduate high school and my grandson
Speaker D: is about to
Speaker A: graduate into high school.
Speaker C: That's wonderful.
Speaker D: That would be fun to attend. Is it that Cuba City High or the other one? I forget the other one.
Speaker A: She went to Solder. I don't know why they should etc for. I guess because my son in law went there.
Speaker C: Okay.
Speaker D: All my nephews nieces up there. That's where they used to have the field day. I used to go to that too.
Speaker A: I don't know what River Valley is like. Is it River Valley High School?
Speaker E: W, E, Z, A, X A and receiver.
Speaker D: Valley High. My daughters went there too. I have four kids.
Speaker A: I think they liked it.
Speaker D: It was not a challenge for them at all. Coming from other states they really excelled in school.
Speaker C: It was pretty easy for.
Speaker A: Yeah, I only had two, her and my son. I live with my son. My wife died this last year.
Speaker D: Sorry to hear that. And I'm sure that life's been different for you. My condolences on that. But it's life.
Speaker A: It's hard.
Speaker D: Oh yeah. An adjustment.
Speaker A: Her heart just gave out on her about a month a year ago. It was a year ago.
Speaker D: It's a hard one.
Speaker A: Well, she got to a point where she just couldn't get any better. She was sick and sick all the time. She was in dialysis and everything was wrong with her.
Speaker D: Yeah. Well, I'm all the way down to Richard. I don't know how far this repeater goes on. I've never actually talked on it this long. But thank you for being in there.
Speaker A: Welcome. I. I used to use it down there all the time.
Speaker C: Awesome.
Speaker D: One of those compact antennas, those little short ones. Compact antenna, only about 8 inches tall. I got a mag mount on my truck.
Speaker A: I don't feel like I don't like drilling holes.
Speaker D: Okay. I thought I'd try it because my truck's kind of tall and I thought well maybe I better get something that doesn't hit trees. Yeah.
Speaker A: Mine's a midsize Nissan. I kind of like it sometimes it looks small around other trucks. Thinking man, God, this one looks like a puppy.
Speaker D: Okay.
Speaker A: Mine's a mid size. It's four, you know. Does it handle five people?
Speaker D: Wow, that's cool. Yeah, mine. Mine's A Denali. It's lifted and everything. I got it to go capping overlanding with my brother in law and my sister.
Speaker A: Yeah, mine's a lot of fun. I got a car too.
Speaker D: It's going to have to go in
Speaker A: for smog and probably next week. Confusions and that stupid Ford company just put the law in it.
Speaker D: Interesting. Yeah, this one's got the.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm at the bank. I gotta jump out of here just for a minute. If you're still here, I'll talk to you some more.
Speaker C: Hey, good talking to you.
Speaker D: For the amount of time I'll. I'm definitely going to be coming back in a little while so probably a couple hours stop at RC country and browse around. So I'll be back out here on a couple hours from now. Good luck with the club and.
Speaker A: All right, let me catch you a little later then. And probably will before I get down here from my house. It only takes what, 35, 40 minutes to get there.
Speaker D: All right, I'll look for you for the cuso. And this is KV1 Nava 73.
Speaker A: Good to talk to you too. This is N6 Lai and Sim 3.
Speaker B: I'll say hi and bye to you, Jerry. WD6AXM. N6lai wd6x.
Speaker D: Because I was going underneath the bridge, but this is Cap. I think he went into the bank.
Speaker B: Boy, he sure got out of there in a hurry then. Good afternoon. I've been listening to you guys.
Speaker E: Your call again,
Speaker B: WD6AXM.
Speaker D: Okay, WD6AXM. Thank you. Yeah, I'm just cruising down, pick up some stuff, go to RC Country.
Speaker B: Oh, very good. Well, I, I put 40, I got 40 hours or better in a Cessna 150. But then it got too expensive and I decided to get married.
Speaker D: Yeah, I've had these big long breaks
Speaker C: because of being married and stuff. Yeah.
Speaker B: Yeah, and that with the, with the Air Force too. Put some space in the time that, you know, in the flying time there between sessions. So.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: But had fun with it and I can say I did it.
Speaker C: Cool.
Speaker D: Did you fly in the airplane? I sometimes fly at the Beale. I've done in the Beale Aeroplane.
Speaker B: Yeah, I did it through the Veal Aero Club. Yeah.
Speaker A: Many many years ago.
Speaker D: Used to have a really nice hawk XP. I remember this hawk XP back in the late 80s, early 90s. I used to like flying around in that thing.
Speaker B: Yeah. The particular planes I was flying were out. Located at Yuba County Airport. We still had the alert facility was still active at the time. I was out There.
Speaker C: That's cool.
Speaker D: I have lots of friends out there. I used to work for Honeycutt Aviation out there. Spent a lot of time in the sun working on planes. But it was fun,
Speaker B: Roger. Well, I was in ground radio and some other electronic stuff. But I had fun.
Speaker D: I've flown a lot of different planes over the years.
Speaker B: Yeah, Roger that. All righty. Well, right now we've got a little bit of power line noise going on up there on the hill on the butte. And it sort of shortened the range on talk in. So you've got getting a bit on the noisy side at the moment. But normally reading the Stockton is usually a good bet.
Speaker D: Well, that's awesome. Yeah. Appreciate you maintaining that thing. It's an awesome repeater.
Speaker B: Well, thank you. Appreciate that. All right, I'll let you get back to it there. I'm back to pulling weeds. I'm retired now, too. I used to fix radios. WD6A XM.
Speaker D: Thank you. And I'll be back this way in a few hours. Enoy the rest of.
Speaker A: I'm gonna load up the frequency.
Speaker E: Dave? Dave and David.
Speaker B: WA1N hello?
Speaker A: Dave?
Speaker E: David?
Speaker C: Hello? David
Speaker E: down there. David
Speaker D: down in Sacramento again, picking up the computer.
Speaker E: I think I heard you earlier today on the other. On the other repeater. Did I or didn't I?
Speaker D: You heard me. I was trying to say hello when I was leaving.
Speaker E: Okay. I thought I did. I was in the other room and I was busy at the time, so I couldn't get to the radio,
Speaker D: But. Glad you're in there. Nice day.
Speaker E: Where you at now? Where you at now, David?
Speaker D: 65th Street, Sacramento. Highway 50.
Speaker E: You're quite a ways down there then. Okay. Yeah, Like David said, they've got little power line noise up on the hill
Speaker A: and it's causing people out a little further.
Speaker E: A little static in the radio now. Okay, I'll let you go so you can go do what you're doing down there. I guess you're gonna go play airplane or something. We'll see you later. We'll practice. Probably catch you on the way back. W E6A X N repeater.
Speaker D: All right, Dave? Yeah, we'll look for you the other side. KB1ND clear.
Speaker E: Okay, see you later.
Speaker B: WA180R.

Speaker A: 6 lai85.
Speaker B: I think David's still out there. XM might have to holler at him to get him back over to the radio.
Speaker A: WA1N ER okay, well I'll stay here. I'll get out of range the other one real fast. As soon as I get down at Plymouth Lake, it's gone.
Speaker B: You headed out of town?
Speaker A: I'm gonna go see my girl today.
Speaker B: Okay, give him a holler. Neva want in here. I gotta go take care of something. Did you hear about.
Speaker A: Well real quick, did you hear about a swap Lincoln this weekend or.
Speaker B: Wrong. No. Loomis. I thought.
Speaker A: Was it Loomis? Okay,
Speaker B: Don't remember the date. I think it's this month. I'm sure.
Speaker A: Yeah, I was going to take her down a short round, Explain myself a little bit so she wouldn't think I'm so crazy. On my. My Facebook won't let me talk to Paula.
Speaker B: What? What? My. My TV was too loud.
Speaker A: What? They won't let me. I think Paula's got me blocked. My Facebook won't type to her. I was gon about frames for my glasses because my glasses broke.
Speaker B: Oh, you're talking about my daughter. Oh, I. I think she's at work. Well, chances are her phone's not on her. Her own phone. Her private phone is probably not on.
Speaker A: Nothing urgent. I got a taped together. They're holding out just fine.
Speaker B: You're trying you. You were trying to get a hold of her about your glasses.
Speaker A: Just tell her I was. I'm looking for some frames. All he needs frames for these.
Speaker B: Sure she's got them?
Speaker A: She does. I might have to join back at Sam's. I much prefer to work with her on that.
Speaker B: She doesn't know what she's doing.
Speaker A: Oh, I used to be member both.
Speaker B: Waiting for that oldest one to show up right now. She said she was coming over but she hadn't showed up yet.
Speaker A: Okay. Going to kung fu class the other night some crazy person was behind me and they were laying on their horn and I just, you know, I just. I have to make a quick turn and park, you know, over by the donut place and this person. So I decided to go around and whoever it was sit there and honking at me the whole time.
Speaker B: Probably somebody you knew.
Speaker A: No, I don't think so. I think they wanted to humiliate me.
Speaker B: Humiliate? Well, she's the wrong person. You get out and karate chop them.
Speaker A: Well, you know when they're behind you, if they're too close, you can't turn or move around. Do anything, especially. Especially if they're laying on their horn like that. And so I just didn't feel like going around, so I wouldn't just cut over. They were just making a missed spectacle of himself.
Speaker B: You know, old people get a lot of horn honking at them anymore. That's what happens when you get old.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, you know, it makes me very angry when they do that. I don't like that. Another one on Power Line Road, and he come rushing up and almost hit. Not hit me, but he was tailgating me. And then they were just laying on his horn, you know,
Speaker B: Need to pull over real quick. Jump out with your karate outfit on, and me and Tyu is going to your class. Jump out with your karate outfit and say kung fu. Say kung fu or something. I don't know what you say, Adam, when you're. When you're old and you got a karate outfit on.
Speaker A: I don't.
Speaker B: I don't know if they just drive by and laugh or what. I don't know what they would do.
Speaker A: Say boards. Don't kick back. I got a shirt that says. It says, never underestimate an old man that knows kung fu. You know, this is a joke. You know, I spent all those years in there learning karate, you know, starting over. You know, You ought to see the mountains today. They're just all covered with snow.
Speaker B: I didn't do any of that kung fu karate stuff. I just went down to the local shop downtown and got me one of them pieces of metal with a revolving cylinder in it.
Speaker A: I almost did that myself, but I thought, well, I don't get in trouble. They have a new one now. It's called a burna launcher. And what it does is it shoots tear gas out.

To go find out where the heck this My granddaughter was here. Now I got to go find out where my oldest daughter's at. People supposed to be showing up, but didn't show up yet, so I got to go check on them. Jerry. Okay, well, tell her I said hello. Tell her you said hi. W thanks. Is n6lai a1 ner clear?

Then. 6 Lai, does anybody know about the ham swap down in Loomis tomorrow?

Speaker A: How do you copy? Over.
Speaker B: All right, Pete, how are you doing today, man?
Speaker A: Well, you know, everybody's been telling me my signal is scratchy and I'll, you know, weird.
Speaker B: That's interesting cuz I'm copying you just fine. Full sliding.
Speaker A: Well, great. You're sounding good. Oh, maybe it was the rain the other day or something, I don't know. But you know, I've got a beam with the rotor. Maybe I just didn't have my, what do you call it? Azimuth comment. Hey, Good afternoon guys.
Speaker C: WD6AXM. Probably what's happening is we're experiencing some intermittent power line noise up there at the site. There's some 12kV lines that run between the sights there and every once in a while something comes a little loose and it starts arcing and sparking and it comes and goes and I think that's what probably people are talking about years.
Speaker A: Hey, did I hear you correctly? Did you say they start argument barking?
Speaker C: My southern accent coming out arcing and sparking.
Speaker A: Well, arguments for parking kind of sounds like something a young couple would do.
Speaker C: Well, we don't discuss those kind of things here. But anyway, I just thought I'd throw that in there. It's possibly if you're using a low powered setup or if you're on a beam antenna pointed the wrong way. Yeah, you're going to have issues. Good afternoon, Matt.
Speaker B: How you doing, Dave? It's been a while.
Speaker C: It has.
Speaker A: How you doing?
Speaker B: Actually pretty good. Pretty active on HF. Actually turn on 2 meters every once in a while. It's nice that we finally have sunspots facing earth. So propagation's been getting a little bit better. I was on 10 meters a little bit ago and you know, I was hearing propagation definitely starting to roll back in and it's been great even you're a little bit on 15 meters and yeah, bands are starting to finally open up again. So it's been good. I've been okay. How are you doing, Dave?
Speaker A: Oh, doing okay.
Speaker C: Trying to stay out of trouble. Yeah, I was 6 meter. I used to work 6 meter sideband. In fact that's where I first started out at and down there in the Mississippi, Florida, the east coast, these openings out to the west coast and stuff and even further kind of funny but you know, it doesn't happen all the time.
Speaker B: Yeah, I've been meaning to want to get on to 6 meters. Actually my mobile setup right now is actually good for 6 and 2 meters. It's just I only have a 2 meter rig in my truck. Eventually I'm going to get a 6 meter and put it in. But it's not. Not right at the moment. I'm trying to save up some money right now. But, yeah, six meters is actually pretty neat. I haven't gotten around to actually, you know, getting a setup that can do it.
Speaker A: Yeah, Roger.
Speaker C: All right, I'll let you get back to it there. I just thought I'd throw that in there because, you know, some of the stations will experience that. Get some of that hardware comes loose up there and it. It'll start doing funny things, making funny noises, so. All right, carry on. WD6AXM,
Speaker A: I said you were on there saying hi to me.
Speaker C: Well, I was, but you slammed the door pretty fast. Yes, I did.
Speaker A: I was at the bank. You know, the bank is.
Speaker C: Some other guys were carrying on here, so let them get back to it.
Speaker A: But.
Speaker C: Yeah, Jerry, I'll catch up with you in a little bit.
Speaker B: Don't.
Speaker C: WD6AXM, you sure will.
Speaker A: Talk to you later. I'm going. Going to Rio Linda.
Speaker B: I'm going to say 7:3 for now because I just got destinated. It's nice talking to you guys again. This is KN6WNR73.
Speaker A: Six lei mobile.

Speaker A: N6LAI mobile.
Speaker B: Jerry, this is K. N6WNR.
Speaker A: Hey, there you are. How's my signal?
Speaker B: You're almost full quieting. It's all good. How you been? It's been a long time since I've talked to you. Probably about six months or more. How many. How is everything going?
Speaker A: Well, something I was fooling around with my radio somehow got it unprogrammed and couldn't get it back together. But it finally got it fixed.
Speaker B: To hear that, you know, it's been a while. Got to play catch up. Yeah, I've been on HF mostly, so I haven't really been on 2 meters. So I haven't really heard from you in a while.
Speaker A: Oh, that's great. I got a new HF antenna. I just haven't put it up yet. Vertical antenna. I thought, well, I don't have a whole lot of property, you know, So I had 5 RV that it just kind of. I didn't have a whole lot of anchors there. Worked, but it just kind of did. It kind of inverted dipole kind of thing going on. The whole lake shit up. From a friend of mine, Willie's wife, and she died and I felt bad, so I just. He just. She had just bought it for him, so I. I bought it off her.
Speaker B: Okay. Are you getting in? Are you moving away from the repeater or something? Because you are kind of going in and out of the repeater at this point. You were more clear earlier.
Speaker A: Oh, w. Alberta coastal. Yeah, I'm in Alberta right now. I'm going to Rio Linda.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, because your signal was dropping in and out there for a second, but yeah, you were more clear at the last bit of that.
Speaker A: So.
Speaker B: Anything else new?
Speaker A: They said. They just saying that there was some interference up on the repeater. I don't know if that pertains to meeting
Speaker B: from loose power line wires. It happens. That's not the first time I've heard of that happening. It's actually kind of common, actually. I've heard about that happening to more than one repeater site. It happens. It gets thick. It's okay.
Speaker A: Yeah, I used to work up there on the butte and well, we've had all kinds of weird problems over the years.
Speaker B: I don't know. That must have been a lot of fun.
Speaker A: That's what I did for a living and so did Dave, and we've been in contact for quite a while.
Speaker B: I always kind of wanted to work for the state doing radio too. I mean, I've applied for it, but I never got anything back. I Mean, hopefully someday, you know, I will most likely be getting my bachelor's in electrical engineering, probably from Chico State. I'm really considering going back to school for it. Just because I'm so passionate about radio that I think it'd probably be best that I do.
Speaker A: That'll help you get in there. I've worked in an industry for about 10, 10 years before I got home to state and I. State was a great job. I love that job. I used to go up to trucking a lot.
Speaker B: I heard you guys really go all up and down the state, which is kind of cool too, you know. And I think that'd be fun, you know, working on radio equipment, going around the different things, you know, because I like going up and down the state and cool to be able to do that for work too, you know, going up to different repeater sites and stuff. I think that'd be fun.
Speaker A: I guess I was one of the lucky ones. Yeah, I started from ground up just from one job to another.
Speaker B: Must have been quite an experience. How long were you doing it again? I remember you telling me, I just, I don't know why I forgot about 30 years.
Speaker A: And when I retired they took one one year away. They go, why are you taking one year around? I said, because. Because you have to put in a year first.
Speaker B: Okay, yeah, maybe someday I' getting into that. I. I got to figure something out because I am 30 at the end
Speaker A: of the month so I can tell you about it or tell you to talk to or something. It has changed. Anyway. My wife died last year, about a year ago and the her said that they were paying her was the class B retirement. And I, because I didn't tell them that. She died, they just kept paying it I guess. But that's funny though. They stopped the check cuz she was getting a check. But I guess, I don't know. They're so screwy.
Speaker B: A little bit in and out there.
Speaker A: I don't.
Speaker B: I. I kind of copied it, but I kind of understand what you were.
Speaker A: Like.
Speaker B: I lost gary. A and six wmr monitoring.

W e6a x n repeater.

Speaker A: Wv6aew, ks6auq. 6A UQ, WB6AEW. Good afternoon. I just thinking about you. I was wondering where you guys were at. Saw you guys earlier when you were still coming up Lost Hills. So saw you were in Sacramento. Figured maybe he's close enough to hit this repeater yet. Yeah, just leaving Sacramento and about to pick up the turn off to Yuba City. Okay, fantastic. I'm shooting north on 505 right now. I'm about, about an hour from home. So you guys will probably get there just shortly before I do. Yep, just crossing the Sutter county line. Okay, perfect. Well, I guess how was the drive so far? Well, it hasn't been too bad. Traffic hasn't been too bad. Got us hung up a little bit in Stockton but I think that's the way it always is. Yeah, it's pretty much a daily occurrence if not hourly occurrence. Yeah, the weather's been good. It was getting to be warm when we left home. Checked into the 40 meter net around Santa Paula and listened to them all the way up until they were done about oh, 9:30 or so. Checked in up to 8:30 and it's been pretty good. Oh, that's good. Yeah, I checked on you guys about 11 and you were says Lost Hills. My guess is you were probably trying to make Harris Ranch about noon
Speaker B: w e6 a s n repeater.
Speaker A: We stopped at Santa Nella for gas and had my bony sandw well, Sanonel is another good stop along the way like stop at Loves. Understood. Well, I am cruising to home so I should see you guys there. Okay son, thank you so much. I'll be listening here for a little bit. K6A UQ mobile, WB6AEW mobile. Okay, sounds good dad. I'll see you guys in a little while. WB6AEW, Ka6Auq coming up to 16 Esparto.