WD6AXM TX (146.085 MHz) recordings for 2026-03-18

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Speaker B: A XM receiver.
Speaker C: Hey, it's only nine days. Oh, wait, how many?
Speaker A: Eight, count them. Eight.
Speaker B: Eight days.
Speaker C: Oh, this is what you call chomping at the bit.
Speaker A: Oh, let me tell you, I. I just got asked to go. Equipment that's long gone, and they want, you know, they want, you know, what's the status? Do we have it?
Speaker C: Where is it?
Speaker A: Was it disposed of? And let me tell you, most of it's probably long gone and there's no record of what happened to it, so I won't be able to say, you know, I'll just be able to say it's not here. I'm assuming that it was disposed of and not documented.
Speaker C: Is there any way they could accuse you of losing it or stealing it?
Speaker A: I don't know, you know, but, you know, it's just really stupid because this same equipment had to have been accounted for over the past few years. And, you know, it's the same status. A lot of this stuff's probably been gone for years. And, you know, they knew that when they did the inventory last year, but it's still coming up and I don't want to waste my time.
Speaker C: Well, don't do it. A long lunch and then say, oh, I couldn't find it.
Speaker A: Yeah, well, another thing came up today.
Speaker B: I got a.
Speaker A: A request that got assigned to me for something that I haven't the slightest clue about. And it only got assigned to me because they're randomly assigning things. Basically, they put. They put these on assigned tickets on a wheel, and it just goes to the next person whether or not they have any clue on how to deal with.
Speaker C: Kind of looks like maybe they want to try to hang something on you while you're retiring anyway, make it look like your.
Speaker A: It's your fault. Yeah, no, actually, as long as I get to retire, you know, once I leave, it's not going to matter to me. You want to hang it on me, go right ahead because it won't affect me in the slightest.
Speaker C: There you go. That's a good attitude. But what are you gonna do when you're retired? I mean, say your first day of retirement, Monday morning maybe? What? What, you gonna get up and what.
Speaker A: My actual first day of retirement is Wednesday, April 1, and I think I'm gonna sleep in and then I don't know what I'm going to do. To be quite honest, I have not made any plans. I might go spend, go down to my daughter's apartment and while she's working, get on the computer and do something.
Speaker C: I thought you were gonna say, you know, vacuum the carpet, clean the bathroom, help out. Well, don't feel guilty about laying down either on the couch with the remote or in the bed to say, hey, I interview.
Speaker A: I'm not gonna feel bad about that, especially the first day. Now, the second day, I might get up and come out to my truck and pull everything out of it, vacuum it neatly, put everything back and the stuff that needs to go back and not put stuff back that doesn't need to go back. I might do that.
Speaker C: Oh, you're going to make room for that World War II jeep you were going to buy?
Speaker A: Yeah, if I could find a world. I need to find one of those old crates, World War II jeep in the Cosmoline that you could buy for like a hundred bucks and have to assemble it. I wouldn't mind that. That would be kind of fun. The chances of me finding anything like that are, like, astronomical.
Speaker C: Ah, you never know. There was a guy out here. I see. I just, I talked with him a couple years back. He. That's what he did. He had a. I think a couple of them, but he worked on them, knew a lot about him. He was having a great time.
Speaker A: Yeah, you know, get a big crate, start unboxing everything, get out the instruction
Speaker C: manual,
Speaker A: just start piecing together. I enjoy that a lot.
Speaker C: Well, do you watch television at all? You know, like daytime tv?
Speaker A: Well, I watch reruns of old television shows. Lately it's Law and Order. I've been watching a lot of reruns of the Law and Order series, but it's not the entire series. It's just the first few years and then it starts replaying. So I've seen a lot of different episodes, about six times each.
Speaker C: Well, what kind of TV do you have? Cable or out over the air?
Speaker A: Neither. I have like, Roku and Netflix. My wife has Apple tv, so it's all Internet based.
Speaker C: Internet. Well, okay. There's always YouTube movies. I watch stuff on YouTube. You know, currently it's the aircraft, the. I want to say aliens, but that doesn't. You know, the people in the spacecraft that are coming around and going under Grand Canyon and, you know, doing all this stuff. Well, it's getting worse.
Speaker A: Okay. All right.
Speaker C: I thought maybe you were watching some of that.
Speaker A: Those shows where people said they were abducted by aliens and taken away for three years, brought back, and they were brought back, you know, just a few weeks later.
Speaker C: Oh, we're watching the same program. Oh, yeah, great. Oh, what, the Grand Canyon. They're discovering there's something underneath
Speaker A: and they're,
Speaker C: they're closing it off. Part these caves and stuff, they're putting these huge concrete walls. People are disappearing go into the cave and they're gone. Even park rangers and stuff like that, they can't find them.
Speaker A: They got lost in the cave with them fennel down holes and things like that.
Speaker C: Well, there's also spacecraft coming in and
Speaker A: out of the,
Speaker B: in and out of
Speaker C: the caves at night. There's a couple other places in Arizona also underwater and in the Arctic they're finding.
Speaker A: Oh yeah, okay. All right. Well, I'm not going to worry about it. One of these days I'm going to be dead and it won't affect me whatsoever.
Speaker C: Yeah, one of them touched on. You know, they wonder what these beings have in mind for us. You know, is it going to be something bad? Are they manipulating the weather, you know, global warming and making us tough for humans? Just all speculation really. But it's pretty obvious they have some pretty outrageous power, you know, And I, I too wonder what, what, what do they want?
Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Who was the guy that used to do the uh, uf alien and radio shows late at night? He got really famous for it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Speaker C: What happened to Art?
Speaker A: Did he get abducted?
Speaker C: He died, actually. He was a ham, you know, and I know a guy that. They had a fight on the air or something, I don't know. And I actually knew Art Bell's sister,
Speaker B: Bill.
Speaker A: Gamir Whoopi WP said a X N receiver. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Well, all right. Well, I am in my driveway and I've got, I've got a, a club meeting to tonight. So I'm going to go inside. I'm going to rest myself for a while before I have to go back out again. So come on down to the club meeting if you can. But if you can't, have a great evening and we'll talk to you later. 73 KK6ZZD clear.
Speaker C: Watch out for those UFOs. Okay.
Speaker B: Good to hear you, chris. K06bgy howdy, pete. N6iwh k06bgy for about five minutes if you have time.
Speaker C: Well, paul, do you believe in alien spacecraft or are we all dreaming here?
Speaker B: I believe there's some sort of intelligent life out there. We can't be the only ones on a rock spinning in space like this. There's got to be some another planet that we don't know about like that. But as far as them coming here, I don't know. I just Chalk it up to a whole bunch of people drinking too much Bud Light and then they see a can staring at them in the distance. It's an identified. It's an unidentified object.
Speaker C: You know, you're right about that. Especially these stories about abduction where they kick the guy up in the spacecraft and they, you know, do all these things to him. He's always a farmer, you know. Yeah, well, they did this and did that. It's never anybody like a scientist.
Speaker B: Maybe we're not the chosen one, I don't know. But if you look up on YouTube, Late 70s or early 80s, whatever, came out and interviewed a lady that I know here in town, I never talked to her about it. I saw it on YouTube and didn't realize that that was my neighbor for a while. I was like, oh, that kind of adds up now. But she had this whole story there out on the edge of town and some kind of farming or whatever. And sure enough, she reported a ufo.
Speaker C: Well, there's a lot of them, you know, all over the world, the lights in the sky.
Speaker A: Just.
Speaker C: We'll have to wait and see how things are going to work out. But what are you up to? You off of work?
Speaker B: Yeah, I'm just out here partaking in my nightly ritual of my quote unquote medication and enjoying the beautiful sun.
Speaker C: It's hot kind of nice out here. Oh, yeah, it's nice. Nice here in Chico. But I can tell what's coming. I mean, really, it just seems like brutal hot, the sun, you know, Summertime, you're going out.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Just know there's still some people out there that don't believe that when they get a sunburn, that's actually an actual burn. I'm like, the sun radiation burns you. Your skin said, no, it's not cool.
Speaker C: No, it didn't burn me.
Speaker B: I'm like, maybe you didn't get burned, but if you got burned, I'm pretty sure you got burnt.
Speaker A: I don't know.
Speaker B: How was your day? I just got out of work a little bit ago and had a pretty good day. We had our work St. Patty's Day party thing for the people that I served, not the staff, but there's all the other people.
Speaker C: Ah, nice to have a little party. Yeah. I do errands in the morning and I don't know if it's because of summer, but, you know, when it's hot, you do all your stuff when it's cool and then hunker down for the afternoon. It's usually brittle, evil hot. But we're not Doing? Too bad. I fixed my guitar. Been playing hello Gen. Yeah, we'll have to get together sometime and form a band. I've always thought of it. Call yourself the Ham Band. You could play drums or something. I'll wank the guitar
Speaker B: if I'm playing anything. I'll play the triangle.
Speaker A: But
Speaker B: totally unrelated to a musical instrument. There was a Huey that was flying over Od Green. Flying right over. Came from the airport. I think it was pretty cool to see.
Speaker C: Oh yeah, you know, I like military vehicles. Helicopters, you know, of course, vehicle, tank, truck. Wish they had more shows, you know, where you could go down and I know the basin probably got, you know, open house once a year. What do you think?
Speaker B: Ko6bgy. That would be really cool. If you ever go to any of the. They usually have an armada. They have a Huey that they cut the tail off of and then for transport and they. Maybe they didn't cut it off, but anyway, they reattach. It doesn't have any of the blades or the rotors on it or anything, but it's shocking to see how small those actually were or how small they are. And to think that overseas during Vietnam and stuff, they were packing those things as tight as they could to get people in and out. That's something else. What a remarkable site.
Speaker C: Hey, old Chris, he was talking about getting the jeep. I kind of like that idea, but I don't think you can get a World War II. You might get a replica or something like that.
Speaker B: With as many of them that were made, I would assume. Maybe not until now, but maybe a couple years ago. You probably would see quite a few of them. I don't think it would be too hard to find. I'm sure you might have to. There's a lot of military government surplus auctions that happen in like Tennessee and stuff or anywhere near a military base, I guess, but sometimes you can look out there, but I don't know.
Speaker C: Oh yeah. Roger, roger. Post. If you've got money, you know. Yeah. Coin to freeze, money, talk, walk.
Speaker B: Yeah, hard to come easy. Go for the money part.
Speaker C: I'll tell you that.
Speaker B: Boy, these guys are just flying down this road. Makes you want to take a stick and throw it out in their tires. Not like it's a bicycle.
Speaker A: You can't. Can't do that.
Speaker C: Hey, if you ride motorcycle, I hear they keep ball bearings. It's in their pockets. So somebody gets too close behind you, giving you a bad time, you just start wanking out some ball bearings.
Speaker B: I could imagine a handful at once. Quite dangerous
Speaker C: yeah. Actually throw it up in the air, give it some throttle, say goodbye. But then the guys will probably chase down, you know, next gas station. Here they are.
Speaker B: I mean, if. If it gets their attention and it keeps people alive,
Speaker A: it's warranted. But apparently there an earthquake here in
Speaker B: Calusa or somewhere northwest or something that's believed or. I don't know. But it happened about 10 o', clock, and some people said that it felt more like a boom than an earthquake. And I'm like, I didn't hear a boom and I didn't feel anything.
Speaker C: Yeah, it's weird to have earthquakes. I know. There was one up in the mountains where we used to live, Yuba County. And it sounded like a big.

Big bang. I thought, you know, a truck fell off the road or something. Loud bang. I mean, technically speaking it makes sense. It did go bang boom. And it's. I mean imagine how loud a car track is. I mean tectonic plates or whatever. And yes, I don't know, never thought if earthquake made it down. But anyway, I'm going to sign clear. I'm going to go in and get ready to eat. Relax. But great talking your feet as always. We'll catch you again soon. N6IWH KO6BGY. Clear on your final 73 WP6A okay, have a good one. K6PGY on six side of the lake.

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Speaker A: KK6VZD mobile on homeward bound.
Speaker B: KK6SYV mobile.
Speaker A: Finally let Buck go after he showed off his toys. Yeah, the little rig's pretty loaded. I was giving him some guff about it, the fact that, you know, about how tricked out it is for a security patrol vehicle.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, uh, well, company wants to spend the money, I guess it's, uh, got to have it, have it set up that way.
Speaker A: Yeah, but I guess, you know, if you're going to do that, it, it doesn't hurt to have it act like a patrol car. I mean, it's not, you can tell it's not, but you know It's like, uh, it, uh, if it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, maybe it's a duck.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, what he's doing is, you know, it's more about deterrence than, uh, you know, doing anything else. So he's, you know, got to be able to, uh, at least make them think that he's Responding.
Speaker A: True, very true. You know, I gotta say that, uh, I won't say that I got a huge kick out of it, but it was kind of fun to be able to play around with the equipment in the patrol vehicles. Now, they never let me touch the lights and the sirens. I was not allowed to do that, but, uh, you know, still Well, as long as you're in the shop, it doesn't matter.
Speaker B: But, uh, yeah, when you're outside of the shop, you can't play with all those.
Speaker A: Every once in a while, I'd have to take one out and test the equipment away from the Sheriff's Department. So I'd get in one, I'd drive it around Marysville and up to Hallwood and around and around. And, uh, you know, I'm just sitting there thinking, I hope nobody, you know, pulls me over needing some help thinking I'm a deputy.
Speaker B: Well, I mean, you could administer basic aid, but not, uh, nothing else.
Speaker A: So it's technically supposed to have signs in it that said "out of service." I just never bothered. Very true. Interesting though, you get that going, going down the freeway doing 60 and everybody around you slows down so that, you know, no, look at me, I'm not speeding, I'm not speeding, really.
Speaker B: Yeah, they're wondering why you're only doing 60 on a 65 or something, you know.
Speaker A: Yeah, you know, it's interesting. I, you know, I don't know, I figured a long time ago that, you know, if, if they're doing 55 and I'm doing 60, they don't care. And, and I just go past them, and other people are like, you're going to pass up the Yes, I am.
Speaker B: Yeah, he could be distracted in being safe and driving at a lower speed pertinent to his amount of, I guess, distraction.
Speaker A: Yeah, I figured as long as I'm not doing something really blatantly stupid around them, that they'll be okay with me.
Speaker B: Exactly. Yeah, they usually are supposed to finish all their report and everything before they get back on the road, but you never know. They may get another call and need a couple last-second notes.
Speaker A: Hope not driving down the road typing. I really do. Although, yeah, yeah. Uh, maybe.
Speaker B: Well, they're like us, you know, supposed to be considered a professional operator, so we're not supposed to be really talking on the radio and driving either.
Speaker A: Yep, yep. So, yeah, well, so when's 4014 coming through again? Uh, soon.
Speaker B: Uh, I don't know exactly to the day, but yeah, it's coming through, going up through, coming down through Portola, through Oroville, Marysville, and then down into Roseville. If you go to upsteam.com, it has the whole route, days, exactly what events are going on when. They are having a, a public view viewing down in Roseville on, I think, I don't know if it's a Thursday or a Friday.
Speaker A: Which, you're retired now, you can attend without any repercussions. I can, I can. And you know, it'd probably be better during the week than on a Saturday.
Speaker B: Yeah, I don't, again, I don't remember the exact days. You go to look at upsteam.com, it'll definitely tell you when it'll be rolling through, you know, through Marysville, and then when it'll be parked down in Roseville for public viewing.
Speaker A: I did notice this time that they're not carrying passengers along any part of it.
Speaker B: They actually are on this trip as well. It is a lottery— or not lottery, uh, excuse me, on auction, raising money for the UP Steam or UP Heritage Foundation.
Speaker A: Oh, okay. All right. But you're not going to just buy a ticket? Uh, no.
Speaker B: And that is a cab ride if you were to win that auction, and they have 2 people, I think, I think is what they're— 2 tickets essentially is what they're auctioning off.
Speaker A: Oh boy. You know what I'd like to see, and it's never going to happen, I'd like to see them pull that Ford cab out of the railroad museum and back, put that on the road again. Yeah, that's one that I don't think they are—
Speaker B: any operational ones of those SP Ford cabs.
Speaker A: And that would be real different to see one of those rolling along.
Speaker B: Yeah, definitely. I don't know if you watched, now that you'll have time soon, watch the Jay Leno episode of the 4014 where he has a tour of the whole train and riding in the cab.
Speaker A: Oh, I hadn't heard of that. I'll have to go look for that now. And actually, now that I'm going to have some time on my hands, I might actually be able to do things like get up to Portola because I've never been there. Yeah, I haven't either.
Speaker B: I've heard that's a really nice museum up there too.
Speaker A: Yeah, okay. Well, Lester, uh, I'm just done designated, so I'm gonna get myself on inside and, uh, you know, be in tomorrow and, uh, count down one more day.
Speaker B: One more day.
Speaker A: Hey, thanks for doing the presentation.
Speaker B: It was really great.
Speaker A: We'll talk to you later. 73, KK6ZZP. SyV, clear.
Speaker B: Thank you very much, Chris. KK6SyV, on the side.

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Speaker A: Okay, K6VZD mobile, WE6AXN repeater.
Speaker B: Good morning, Chris. Better take advantage of your days of going to work, KM6GTN.
Speaker A: Very true. Fairly soon I won't be on the radio this early in the morning.
Speaker B: Well, how's your day starting out?
Speaker A: Well, I kind of missed it yesterday, but I put a corned beef in the slow cooker to have tonight.
Speaker B: I probably shouldn't say this out loud, but that's one— that's one thing— one reason I'm glad I'm not Irish.
Speaker A: I'm not Irish either, but, uh, um, yeah, corned beef is a tradition with me, with my family. Uh, we used to have it, you know, since I was a little kid, so I look forward to it, actually.
Speaker B: Okay, very good. Yeah, that's not something I really have a taste for or really care for that much. But anyhow, well, I'll tell you what, we've had our share of, you know, warm weather compared to back in the Midwest where northern Missouri there where I come from. The other morning they had, you know, down close to zero and the wind a-blowing and it was like, wow, it's Spring is hard to come by.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I checked, uh, I don't know, week or a couple weeks ago or something and saw that we were— they were actually warmer than us. But I guess that's reversed itself, huh?
Speaker B: Yeah, it did. And by— I think it's by Friday they're going to be up in the 70s again as well, just so a weird cold spell system moved through and hammered them.
Speaker A: Well, you know, that's part of the variety of living back there.
Speaker B: You definitely get that. I remember the locals there, up there in the in northern Missouri, they're telling me that some of the, you know, most vicious or most unexpected storms really come late in the spring. I forget, was it in March or was it maybe the first week in April where there was a school bus— I mean, it snowed so much that the school bus didn't get the children home in time. The school children were stranded for like 3 days at a farmhouse because the road was blowed shut and they couldn't get the thing open. And this would have been back in the, like, the '50s or something like that.
Speaker A: Wow, geez, that's, that's, that's pretty interesting. I wonder how many kids there were and who they stayed with, and how, how that other family, whoever they stayed with, you know, put them up for 3 days.
Speaker B: Yeah, you'd have— I mean, of course they probably didn't have all the four-wheel drive equipment and stuff that they do today, but you'd have thought the parents would have, you know, put forth quite a bit of effort just to go get them or something. The years we lived there, we would occasionally get a late spring blizzard, but it never stranded anyone for 3 days.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Nowadays, yeah, nowadays you'd probably get people out there with snowmobiles, uh, um, what do you call it, getting, you know, uh, getting the kids one by one and moving them back.
Speaker B: Yeah, or they'd call search and rescue and they'd have snowcats and they could go do what they needed to do. But, uh, yeah, that was interesting. It's just that northern tier up through there, whether it's not You know, northern Missouri is even mild compared to like Wisconsin and Minnesota and some of those places. But I'll tell you, you forget about how it can be, but it can be nasty.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. I'm not sure I actually want to see it, but I was kind of impressed when my daughter and I drove cross-country and we're going through Wyoming and we go past the stretches of 80 where, you know, um, they've got barriers that they can lower across 80. I'm like, holy cow, barriers over a, over a highway, over a freeway like that, so that, you know, okay, we're closed, don't go anywhere.
Speaker B: Yeah, I remember the years we drove out here, we'd remark about that. Wow, that must be be something. And then, uh, oh, here about 5 years ago or so, we actually were coming home from Missouri and the road— they had the barriers down there at Denver, or I mean not Denver, we went from Denver North up to the 80 there. The 80 was closed there at the 25, so we had to wait the night out until they got the road cleared. But that was— yeah, it was— it was— the roads weren't They didn't close it for no reason. It wasn't fit to be out there.
Speaker A: Apparently, on the, uh, my daughter and I drove, drove back to Illinois that way in like October, and it was, it was great going out. And we decided to stay an extra day since we were driving, you know, we had that flexibility. And it was a good thing that we stayed that extra day because if we had left the day we originally intended, we would have caught— been caught in a, uh, in a, in a snowstorm on our way back. Apparently, they— the day that, uh, we drove through Wyoming, they had, they had just opened the road the day before. Amazing.
Speaker B: Yeah. All right, well, I just pulled in here to work. I thought I'd say hi to you. I knew I didn't have a long chat here, but good talking to you. And Take care, have a good day. We'll, uh, catch up with you later. 73, KN6GTN.
Speaker A: All right, Ernie, have a great day. Hey, we're not going to see the Boxcite Parade, are we?
Speaker B: Uh, negative, I'm not going to make that one.
Speaker A: All right, well, have a great day. 73, KK6EZD. Clear.

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