WD6AXM TX (146.085 MHz) recordings for 2026-03-09

Speaker A: This is W7X Ray Zulu calling the Oroville Amateur Radio Society. Sunday night net. This net meets Sunday evenings at 8pm local time. And good evening to all. This is Jim, your net control for this session. And let us see who we have out there. Station 4 Wishing to check into the net. Please call now. W7X Ray Zulu,
Speaker B: K6HFP,
Speaker A: This w7x ray zulu. And we had a double there and k6hfp one. Good evening john. Other station attempting to check in. It's w7x ray zulu, charlie six fox. And this is w7x ray zulu. I've got k6hfp and I have kc6flb. Good evening john and lance from the. Should say good evening again from the zoom session. Do we have additional check ins to the net? This w7x rays of a. Got a carrier there but little or no modulation. Could you try that again please?
Speaker B: Can relay that for you, jim.
Speaker A: Did you pick it up, john?
Speaker B: Yeah, roger. That was gary. Kf6ewo, k6hfp. Back to you, jim.
Speaker A: Okay, kf6ewo. Gary, got very, very, very little audio on your signal there if you got the right microphone connected.
Speaker C: Yeah, I only have the one microphone. I don't know if you can hear me now.
Speaker A: Okay, got audio now.
Speaker C: For some reason this mic has a switch for impedance and it was switched to 500 and I switched it to 50k. So apparently that's the difference.
Speaker A: Okay, you've, you're, you got plenty of audio now. Do we have any additional check ins to the the net? This W7X Ray Zulu. Yeah, nothing heard. I guess we can do a jump shift here to the roundtable mode and take a pass through anything it might have been missed in the zoom session. K6HFP. John, you'll be passing it to KC6FLB and length from you it'll go to KF6E WO. That's Gary. So go ahead, John. K6HFP and the net, W7X Ray Zulu,
Speaker B: W7X Ray Zulu and the net. This is John up in Orville. K6HFP. Hello to everybody. As far as my week, well, just every free chance I can get. I'm trying to hammer out the practice test for the extra upgrade here. Doing pretty good. Not gonna say I guarantee it, but pretty comfortable in my progress so far. So that's pretty good. As far as anything else goes.
Speaker A: Just,
Speaker B: you know, it's crazy seeing the war going on. Not to bring up politics but man, who'd have thought that we'd see it? You always thought that it was going to happen but who thought that we'd actually see it? And we're seeing it. So it's pretty crazy. But other than that, got nothing else. Hope everybody's doing good, enjoying the weather. Kick it over to Lance, see what he's up to. KC6FLB in the net. K6HFP, Charlie six fishing large bass, Lance and Orville. I pretty much got all the questions,
Speaker C: my questions to answer.
Speaker A: Listening to the zoom.
Speaker B: That's pretty much what I was trying to get on. Trying to find out what was happening to repeater, etc. Etc. And I know that we have the feather Fiesta days coming up and I don't think I heard anybody say anything about field day. So I think that's probably a no go from what I understand.
Speaker C: Just trying to. Trying to clear my lungs, get back
Speaker B: on top of my health. That's the biggest thing right now. I did a little bit of HF weekend but not. I couldn't stay on there long enough. But you made a couple contacts. I was trying to get a hold of a guy in Hawaii. No, no, not Hawaii.
Speaker C: It's Guam.
Speaker B: I heard him out there. Yeah, Filipino guy. That man, he was just getting a pile up. I don't, I didn't have that. I couldn't sit here long enough to be taking them away from him. But I think that's it though. I guess I'll chat with you guys either next Sunday or whenever we get together again with Charlie Sick Fox Bravo. And we're going to hand it off to KF6 EWO Gary,
Speaker C: This is KF6CWO
Speaker B: K Gary and Orville.
Speaker C: I spent this whole last week. I left last Friday and headed to my mom's and my brother is buying my dad's truck from my mom to give to his son who needs transportation
Speaker B: and my mom needs to get rid
Speaker C: of it because of the insurance costs
Speaker A: and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker C: So I had to fix it. I had a battery issue which turned out to be the ignition switch had to be replaced in it and good old YouTube and it was one of those deals where a 2001 Ford F150 truck, the way the switch is, it's just a little module block and then a plug with all the wires that plug into it at the bottom of the steering column. Not like it used to be. Anyway, we got through it, got the truck shipped out Friday down to Southern California. Came home, spent yesterday doing nothing and today we went to Miami laws and Citrus Heights. Other than that, not much going on. I haven't messed with the radio at all over the last few days because I wasn't home. Anyway back to you Jim. This is KF6ZW,
Speaker A: Kf6ewo and the net w7xz okay gary and yes I'll put out one quick call. Do we have any additional check ins to the net? This w7x ray zulu w e6a x n repeater. Nothing heard maybe short session of it tonight here. Well I have gone through a couple episodes here. I was scheduled for annual family doctor visit at Doves Landing back there on well see what was President's Day Monday. I inquired if they'd be open that the office would be open that day and found out my nurse practitioner has left the practice so I was rescheduled for an appointment for this coming Wednesday with a physician's assistant and I got notified late last week that he was going to be out of the office that day. So my next question scheduled date was sometime in April so who knows. Anyway now I've got now I've got an April appointment for what was supposed to be done in February and my dryer had a problem well see about 334 weeks ago and and got an appliance repairman out here from a one appliance who diagnosed one part there which turned out to be the wrong it turned out to be the wrong diagnosis anyway hopefully on Tuesday the repairman will be here with the right part to get the dryer working. Anyway aside from that haven't been doing too awfully much on the air here except getting together with some friends on 75 meters for a half hour in the mornings there. Anyway with that I'll put out one more call. Do we have any additional check ins to the nap? This W7XZ. Nothing heard. Run it back up the line for any additional comments. Is W7XZ. Nothing heard? K6HFP John, are you 10 meter capable tonight?
Speaker B: Unfortunately negative Jim. Not tonight again. We'll shoot for next week. K6HFP back to you
Speaker A: okay John and see I'll give 10 meters a try here once we adjourn I'll put out a last call here for any late check ins or any unfinished business before we close the 2 meter portion of the net. Nothing hurt. Thanks for thanks to all who checked in tonight. This net will convene again this coming Sunday evening at 8pm local time. This is W7X Ray Zulu signing the the Oroville Amateur Radio Society Sunday night Net clear and going QSY to 28.450 MHz upper sideband.

Kk6vzd mobile. You're there, and that's what counts. Good morning. You know, I must comment that you always seem to be in a chipper mood. Sometimes I get up and look at the world and go, oh, God, it's a new day. You know, as the day goes on, I might get to know, you know, worse mood, but it's a new day. Yeah, new day. Monday morning, ready to meet the world. I've been having all kinds of things going wrong and breaking and stuff. And one of them is the heater. The thermostat. It's not freezing cold right this minute, but the wall heater, thermostat. I turn it and hear it clicking, nothing happens. Oh, well, guess it's time to call the guy. Oh, no. Well, if you hear it clicking and nothing happens, then that sounds like. I don't remember the component that I had to replace, but I remember having a problem where the furnace would never shut off. And I don't know, I ended up replacing. I was actually rather proud of myself that I could actually fix the furnace myself without having to call in the guys. W E6A X M Repeater. Wow. Hey, well, if you're not busy, head on over. Well, when we first moved here from Challenge in Yuba county, we called up a guy, said, hey, come on over here. Doesn't work like to get something. He said, we can get a rebuilt unit or you can get a brand new for $5,000. The rebuilt was, you know, 1700, something like that. Said, well, the rebuilds work, you know. Oh, yeah, they work fine. I think what's happening is it's not getting the proper air to ignite the pilot. Well, I'm not sure I'd know how to fix that. Yeah, I really do forget what the. It must have been some sort of sensor that it was a temperature sensor that would send the signal back to turn it off. I'm at where I'm supposed to be at, but turn off. Yeah, this is what they call the old mercury switches. It works without electricity. I'm glad of that, but, you know, it's just one of the other things. For example, my guitar. Something happened. The front pickup, the bridge pickup, both went dead center pickup worked. I thought, hey, it's gotta be the switch. I get in there, check it out, everything works. Check out the volume control. Everything's fine. It still doesn't work. So there's a big hole in the wall over here dedicated to programming modern radios. But I've been going over there and putting my head in there going boom, boom. Yeah. Okay. Hey, do pickups ever go bad? Yeah, those little small coil windings often break and you know, the guys, there's not a lot of stress, but you know, you put the guitar in the case and you throw it in the back of the car and it's banging around. So you do get vibration and stuff like that. Well, if you're, you have to have some sort of electricity feed to it, right? Assuming. And if the switches all work the way they're supposed to, what's left? The wiring or the pickup? I found the problem. It was actually a grounding to the five position switch. I assumed that since it was metal and you're putting it on metal insulation cake. You know that conductive tape you put in to block out RF and stuff. I assumed that would conduct electricity, but it didn't. So I put a wire on and it's fine now. And that's why I sing the blues. Boom, boom, boom, boom. There you go. And you figured it out for yourself. How marvelous. Well, I've got a meter. Actually, I like it because it, it beeps me, you know, when you get a continuity. And I just kept checking and I go bang my head against the wall and come back and finally it worked. Well. And you probably had the time to spend trying to troubleshoot it, huh? Oh, you see, Chris, let me explain this. When you retired, you don't have somebody yelling at you, screaming, do this, do that, be here on time, shut up, stand up, sit down, go away, work harder. I just sit here. Oh, the other thing that went bad is my computer got a virus. And what's happening is I did get avg. I thought, you know, you buy these refurbished. I thought it had Norton, but it didn't. I've got all these pop up boxes that are coming up telling me I need, you know, protection here and I can't get them to shut off. Sounds like a virus to me. And wait a minute, I want to go back to your comment about nobody telling you what to do. I'm going to ask you, are you married? Divorced, but I live with the YL X Y L. We've known each other for 50 years and it was kind of like we're always friends. You know, we dated for a while in college and then, you know, we stating communication and I'd meet her boyfriends and she'd meet who I was dating and eventually she got married, I got married, but we hooked up years later by the grace of God. And it worked out. Actually, one of the ministers in our church said he's not sure if there's celibate relationship is not better. Yeah, well, I guess you got lucky. Because you know, when you start describing not being told to do this, that or the other thing, or being watched over, you know, over everything that you do, that doesn't. That sounds like. That sounds like relationship with my wife. That doesn't sound any different than work, so. Oh, well, hey, I'm destinated, so I'm gonna go inside. I've got 15 working days left, so I'm gonna go burn another working day. And maybe I'll catch you this afternoon. Have a great day. And I hope you get your furnace working again. 73 KK ZD clear.

November 6th. Bravo Oscar, bravo bob in cuba city. Anybody around this morning? Wp said axm repeater.

Try one more time. Anyone around this morning for a short qso m6pov bob yuba city.

November 6th. Bravo after bravo, Bob. And you, City. Anybody around for a short QSO this morning?

Kk6vzd at lunch.

Speaker A: Mobile wp6axn repeater.
Speaker B: Things are going good. Beautiful day, man. Nice warm sunshine.
Speaker A: Looks like a highest 75 day over here in Yuba City. And it's great. I'm enjoying it. I was just helping a friend of mine do some, some yard work in their backyard. Doing a whole backyard garden and all that. I've been helping them with that for a little while and. Yeah, just got done with that. I'm gonna go grab some food. How's it over there?
Speaker B: Oh, nice. Yeah.
Speaker A: Warm.
Speaker B: You know, I should be laying out in the sun and a bathing suit, but too lazy. So that means you're kind of tired and hungry.
Speaker A: Yeah, because I was shuffling a bunch of wood chips for a while for the walkways. They're putting wood chips around the planter box and stuff like that. Everything is a walkway going to be wood chip.
Speaker B: I'm sure it's going to look good. You know, I like that kind of stuff. But they always say, hey, don't hurt yourself.
Speaker A: It's a lot. Pretty significant endeavor, that's for sure. It's quite large. They got, they got a big backyard and the whole thing is basically grinder boxes.
Speaker B: Are you getting paid for this? Is it a freebie or what?
Speaker A: David, it's fine. I'm just helping a friend out.
Speaker B: Well, that's nice to you, really. You know, I've seen, you know, some bad, bad people, bad thoughts and then they can't figure out how come their life's not working.
Speaker A: I just helping a friend out and almost finished. It's looking nice. The amount of stuff they're going to be growing. The variety is nice. We're still building the planter boxes and stuff, getting everything all kind of situated, but we're, we're just chilling in all that, the wood chips right now. Yeah, that's. That's been something. Wheelbarrowing it over there and been, you know, laying it down flat the rake. It's a lot of work.
Speaker B: Yeah. Hey, well, what's happening? Do you think that winter is over or are we going to have more cold?
Speaker A: I think it's going to be like the really short spring and then we're going to go straight into summer. Like kind of what we had last year. I think that's what it's going to be. I think it's going to be a repeat.
Speaker B: Hey, well, you know, it's brutal. Gets really cold. These brutal calms. Summertime brutal. Ouch.
Speaker A: I'm not a fan of these California summers. Really. We'll see what happens. I've Been getting interviews and stuff like that. I might be getting a really, really good paying job. I can't really talk about here pretty soon and we'll see where we go from there. And once I get that more money coming in, I'm going to be probably spending the time that I do have my downtime. Probably going to the coastline a lot because I am done with the California heat. I want to go to places where it's nice and cool.
Speaker B: You mean you're eventually going to move away?
Speaker A: Well yeah, the job in question is actually going to be me not even being within California border. Yeah. Oh wow.
Speaker B: Well that'll be interesting. You know, I say go for it, really reach for this guy, blah blah blah.
Speaker A: Well I'm going to spend part of my time in California. Part of it not so you'll hear me on the air once in a while. It's one of those.
Speaker B: Well that's cool. What was it doing any kind of work?
Speaker A: Do you like getting too much specifics? But yeah.
Speaker B: Oh, that's cool then. You know, man, if you could do something. I always wanted a job where I wake up in the morning and want to go to work, you know,
Speaker A: most
Speaker B: of them weren't like that.
Speaker A: Kind of funny is I've been 30 for about a week now and things are starting to fall into place. It's kind of weird how that works. As my dad was telling me is like usually guys gotta figure stuff out around 8:30. I'm like, well it's barely been 30. What happened?
Speaker B: Well that could be. I see that we don't starting to start to use logic until we're 25 years old. Well hey, five years of hanging out, then you start thinking, well maybe I should settle down and do something right?
Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. I mean I've been really chipping away at this for quite some time now and I think it's starting to pay off. We'll see what happens. I'm gonna know very shortly if I, I'm gonna be doing that and. Yeah,
Speaker B: Well, I believe in love. You know, I've known people who would do certain things that they loved and they were good at it and, and it always paid off. You know, it's like somehow the love came back.
Speaker A: Right. You know, ultimately I'm going to chase what I'm passionate about and that's what I want in a career is just doing what I'm passionate about. I'm about to be doing Destinated here in about five minutes. But I'm going to keep on talking for A little bit.
Speaker B: How.
Speaker A: How has things been with your guitar? Remember you're talking about I had like a soldering issue.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, I found the problem. It was grounding to the switch. The five way switch wasn't grounded, you know, the body metal. I thought it would be just like contact to the copper sheeting, you know, the tape that you use. But it wasn't enough. And finally I found the problem. The other thing going on, just a little information. The heater's not working out front. I know it's warming up sun today, but you know, at night it gets a little chilly. I guess I'm gonna have to call PG&E and have him come check it out. But just another little thing where, you know, makes you want to kill yourself.
Speaker A: Well, on the bright side, you won't be able to use the heater very much here shortly because it's going to start getting very hot. Start thinking about ac. Well, hopefully that your situation gets straightened out. I'm almost destinated. It's a really nice day. It was great, you know, being outside today, actually helping them out because like any other day, I'm glad it wasn't raining. I wouldn't, I wouldn't be moving bark around in the rain anyways.
Speaker B: Well, you know, I kind of think sometimes. Hey, well, you got good karma, you know. So goes around, comes around and I see you feel good about it. So that's great, you know, good for you. I'll catch you later on down the COAC 6. I wish
Speaker A: I talk to you again. I'm 3Kn6WNR. Step three.

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