GEARS W TX (146.115 MHz) recordings for 2026-01-09

K6lnk system 36, snow mountain range.

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Speaker A: 17. Hey, good afternoon. How's it going down there?
Speaker B: Actually nice, you know, blue sky and stuff, but a little cool. How about yourself? Oh, not too bad.
Speaker A: I've been out of town all week. Just got back in. It's kind of cold and nasty where I was, but kind of. Kind of windy down here. But anyways, looks like we may have got some snow in the mountains here in Vegas while I was gone because the hilltops are all snow covered. They weren't when I left, so a little bit of rain, I guess, or snow.
Speaker B: You mean you're just now pulling into town or.
Speaker A: No, I got to the office a couple hours ago. Been locked up in meetings and just going home.
Speaker B: I'd rather go home than go to a meeting, really. But you travel around. You ever get back from a trip and everything feels so foreign. The first moment that you walk into your house, you open the door, it just feels weird.
Speaker A: I didn't really understand what you were saying. I just thought the link's got a lot of crackle on it. I get home and I feel like it's. What,
Speaker B: jet lag? Jet lag? Oh, no, I don't.
Speaker A: No, not really. Typically, if I, you know, even. Even on overseas flights, I really never have that problem. But. No, I mean, I travel back to Alabama and west to east coast quite a bit, and the flights aren't that bad. I mean, I'll usually. I'll end up getting back here home around six, seven o' clock at night. So that's not too big of a deal. Get. Get home, get unpacked, kick back, then go to bed. So, no, I'm not. Don't really have that problem.
Speaker B: Do you have animals at. Nope.
Speaker A: Not for a number of years. No animals at all?
Speaker B: Yeah, I love dogs myself. I'd love to have one. Cattle, they get three cats. I call them the cats in the house. They won't eat cheap food. Give them a can of tuna and they look at it like.
Speaker A: Yeah, I used. I had dogs years ago. I always had dogs, actually, but we had a couple of them that passed pretty early on, so kind of stopped getting them. I had a Rottweiler and dormant pinscher. I always had big dogs who were great, but she's probably haven't had one for seven or seven years at least. Probably maybe longer.
Speaker B: Yeah, I had German shepherds. Last one I had a female. That dog was smart. I couldn't believe it, really. She understood more than I wanted. But. Yeah, people walk by where I live, you know, on the street here in Chico, and I Always say hello to the dog. I always say you're so beautiful. Oh, excuse me, man. I'm talking to the dog. Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker A: I like animals more than like most people, that's for sure.
Speaker B: Well, you don't mind my asking. No kids? Nope.
Speaker A: No kids.
Speaker B: Well, that's. That's fine. I've got. Blah, blah, blah, and I've got some grandchildren, blah, blah, blah. But my family is not really close. You know, we don't communicate a lot lot. You know how some families it is, they glom onto each other. We're the opposite. We go. We're lucky if you get a Christmas card. Yeah.
Speaker A: You know, same way here. Except for my mom. Everybody else still lives back home in Germany. So stay in contact via text or WhatsApp or whatever. Every now and again, exchange pleasantries over WhatsApp, over Christmas, and that's pretty much it.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, it was low key this year. That's okay. You know, I do have a son. And I have a granddaughter, but, you know, we're not real close. We love each other dearly, but, you know, the mechanical part of buying gifts.
Speaker A: Yeah, got it.
Speaker B: All right, man, I'm.
Speaker A: I don't want to be rude, but I'll let you go. The link is really selling terrible here, so I'm really having a hard copy on you, especially with the rod noise.
Speaker B: So I'll.
Speaker A: I'll catch you later. Maybe fingers will clean up. M7 candy Las Vegas.
Speaker B: All right.

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Speaker A: Very low audio. You should try that again.
Speaker B: November 6, India Whiskey Hotel Chico. Where it's a little bit cold.
Speaker A: Over. All right, well there's more audio. What you do differently. It sounds much better now.
Speaker B: Speak up into the microphone.
Speaker A: Over. It has something to do with it. You lost a little audio in the last go around. But one prior to that you're actually pretty decent up in Chico. My sister went to Chico. Boy, that was a popular place to go for kids in college. Myself I never went. I always went there for graduation. And I said to myself, boy, I grew up in Santa Rosa. There's a lot of familiar faces here. You know, I went to Berkeley. I tell you what, that place is known as Utah 10 for a reason.
Speaker B: Oh yeah. My son got a degree from Cal Berkeley. And I took my novice, my ham radio novice test over there. W6BB they called it. Watch six bouncing. You know.
Speaker A: That there's a ham club there on campus? I gosh, you know what? It's not quite as famous as the one at Stanford. One at Stanford's got a real old hall sign. It's like a one by two. It's like W6 something. And I know that I've actually seen photos of theirs. But even though I went to town, I never seen them stop by and looked at a ham ham station or ham setup or ham anything. Now just keeping your head above water with all the engineering force work was enough. So that's where I directed the my, my endeavors. One of the folks asked me, didn't you go to a base a football game on Saturday? I said no, I never lived there. I always live down the road that I'm not coming down for watch a football game. Hell, I'm already there two or three days a week as it is. I mean I got something else to do fellas. Supposedly though Memorial Stadium. Real fancy fans.
Speaker B: So is petaluma your home? Qth over.
Speaker A: And I work in Petaluma at night for pta. During the day I design and build communication sites. I mean everything. I mean roads to a compsite, gates going up and down the road, towers, foundations, incentives coax from bending conduits, fishing core drawn through walls. Buddy, you do it all. Actually have a job tomorrow in San Francisco.
Speaker B: Sounds pretty exciting really. I used to. Had a girlfriend in Windsor. I used to commute up there. Oh, what a drag.
Speaker A: Winter is not really a bad town. There's not a lot there. It's a big bedroom for daisies. New grocery stores, they do have that Louisiana our airport boulevard which is fun to See, but they don't offer a whole lot. You know, growing up, they used to have a pretty nice selection of junkyards there on the north. North side of. Of windsor as you're on your way to where that next would be. Heb. But now they just consolidated to one. People generally don't fix cars anymore. It's too laborious for most people, and they're just not interested. There's not a lot of wrecking art businesses around like they used to be. They used to be all over the place. Now there's just a pocket here or there.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I used to be a mechanic,
Speaker A: Trying
Speaker B: to think was it pick and pull
Speaker A: or something like that.
Speaker B: A real kind of a chain of junkyards. And, you know, you go and you pull your own part. It used to be, hey, years ago, they would pull it off for you, you know, and come bring it to the counter and go, here's water pump 57 Chevy.
Speaker A: There's wrecking yards and still do that. Picking pole is famous because it's cheap. We take a step back. They're not as cheap as you think, Even though you're doing the labor. I found it something that I want. Most wrecking yards are not like pick and full. Most wrecking yards, you actually, you know, tell them what you want. They'll pull it off and give it to you. And frankly, it's not that much more. It's more money at all than picketful is. So that's why I'm like, you know what, not going to do business with them. I've not been in a thicket hole. Is probably 23 years, 24 years, something like that. I'm not a mechanic. However, I do own a fleet of trucks and yellow equipment. Probably the only guy you're going to meet on the computer system who owns his own gold ogre. So I maintain all my own stuff. A, I'm a very particular person, and b, it's because I, you know, I can work on all weekend and be ready to roll on a Monday. So when I do these stumps, there's a few places a lot of for stuff like around sacramento. And they'll deliver. So it works out pretty good. You can get what you want.
Speaker B: Yeah, I've gotten some good stuff here in oroville. I used to live in challenge up in the hills, and I work on ford. Oh, hey, Broncos. I've got two Broncos. It's the 302 V8. And been hanging on to them for years and years and years. I don't know why why?
Speaker A: Know what I tell you? I had a big. A big thing, big soft spot in my heart with broncos myself. Mine has the 351 in it. That was a pretty damn good engine, but it burned the same amount of gas, the 460. So you know what I'm saying, If you're going to be burning that kind of fuel, getting 10 miles a gallon, why not have the big block? So there you go. Tell me what's. What's going on in Chico, buddy? What do you do for work if you're working.
Speaker B: N6iwh? I'm a retired educator. Although my degree was in art. And I never taught art. I taught computer literacy, physical education, remedial math. Because I was a man, they would put me in the rooms with the tough kids. Hello. This was Richmond Pinole High School. Taught at Albany High School, but didn't really like it. I'm an artist and musician. I paint acrylic on canvas and I write songs, play guitar. Whoopee. I'm working on some videos for YouTube. Tongue in cheek. She's ugly, but she loves me. But nobody wants to play the part of the ugly woman.
Speaker A: Nobody wants that. Nobody at all. Well, you caught some hard areas over there. Richmond Pinole, maybe El, even especially remedial glasses. You know what? I was going through some old paperwork of mine last night looking for a Social Security card I found from my high school gpa, report cards and whatnot. I had the honor roll a few times, 375 and above. Let me tell you what, most time I was like a 35 students, maybe 3 7. It is amazing to me, though, people are just not honest with students. I know an amazing amount of people who I work with every day that have a master's degree in this or that with a C average or maybe a C and a B average. I'm telling you, there's a ton of pressure to get some kind of academic performance. But in the real world, the real the folks just pass abortion are really the majority of kids. When people are honest about that, I actually always leave my eyes open.
Speaker B: Okay, well, my personal opinion is I don't like teachers and administrators. I found out, you know how they work. You know, they'll stab you in the back given the chance. Administrators didn't support the teachers in any of those places. And I've been exposed to some pretty outrageous behavior by administrators who were all like, real locky, duh, blah, blah, blah. But they lie to save their own image of. Oh, isn't this wonderful?
Speaker A: Surprise me. At all. When I was in high school, I grew up in Santa Rosa. I remember so many educators were very political. If you wanted to distract them from talking about something that was actually part of the class, ask them something about topic and they would not get off the soapbox. It's like so many people there are the politics of how we would be running school or what you see on the news or some other current event. There were in my time. I can think of one high school teacher I really clicked with. I actually worked with a guy out of high school and he taught regional occupations program. We call it rop. It's not electronics. A lot of other pieces, if I saw them in a grocery store I'd say hey, how you doing? But I wouldn't want to really sit there and chat and reconnect. I think a lot of people become educators because of their perceived flexibility of their schedule, if you know what I'm saying.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, you know, it does separate, you know, one group from the other because you have to pass the C best, you have to have a four year degree.
Speaker A: So you get these people,
Speaker B: they're half crazy. They have their own agenda. They're always right. You push one and they push back harder.
Speaker A: Maybe you can answer me this question. Do you need a four year degree to teaching physical education? A PE class? I was always wondering about that. Teachers have four year degrees.
Speaker B: I thought so. Any kind of a degree, four year and master's.
Speaker A: You can get any kind of a
Speaker B: master's degree and your pay rate goes up.
Speaker A: Okay. Like I said, I know a lot of kids that just have courses and they have a Master's. In fact, let me tell you this one buddy, is that if you look at any job posting, they all require a Master's. It's amazing. It's like no one cares about a Master's anymore. I guess we got too many of them. All jobs require a master's degree. Every single one. It's amazing to me you've not been in the job market in a while that they would Ph.D. preferred. But you know what? We're requiring a Master's degree. I mean left and right, every single one of them. My dad had a past 50 bets. He actually wanted to put his toe in the water and be an educator. I just. You know what? I can see why he wanted to do that. But he just does not have patience. So I don't think he ever could have been an instructor. As much as he loves school, he does not have patience. Trust me. Not for kids. He is a Terrible teacher. You know what, my roommate from when I was graduating college, his name was Scott Stevens, if you want, went to Speedo. He actually got a degree in an mp. I'm like, what the hell? They actually offer a degree, physical education. He had a four year degree of P.E. and I'm like, what? I didn't notice someone actually sold that.
Speaker B: Hey, I knew some guys, bodybuilders, and they went into a career of physical education. And actually there's other places, not just schools that use PE for, you know, something good. But if you ask me, they're kind of like plumbers. You know, you need a plumber, but, well, you don't really ask their advice or anything.
Speaker A: I know what you're getting at. You know, the thing I had a hard time with is dentist. I had the Same dentist for 27 years. The guy was a friend. I mean, he knew my parents name, we could share similar life expectancy. He sold his business and retired. He was going through lie about it, didn't tell anybody. Well, obviously doesn't want the custom bait to leave. The woman who took his business was some Indian woman that does not give a damn about anything. And so I changed dentist. Let me tell you what, the new dentist I have now, he's a couple years younger than me and I just get the feeling he's there for a check. You know, there's just no pride in working. Just know I don't, there's just too much. I don't give a damn. Unfortunately, I think there's more of them like that than not. My other brother in law works at Kaiser. He says most of the time the MD staff that's on staff at Kaiser, he works at ID is all looking at vacation packages on the Internet. They're not looking at patient charts or answering emails or something like that.
Speaker B: Well, it sounds like you have a window into the workings of modern capitalism. Nobody cares really.
Speaker A: And
Speaker B: I learned something recently, trying to help a homeless person. Guys made a mistake, you know, let him stay overnight in the back garage. Well, turned into a vortex of problems. I finally did go through the system. I mean, people here say, what happened to that umpteen million dollars that Chico got for the homeless problem? Well, anyway, I learned don't yell at government workers, they don't like it. Don't yell at Social Security. They will, they will mess up your life, you know, in one hit of a button.
Speaker A: Anybody ever. I mean there's folks that like more than others, but anybody say that, you know, I don't, I don't know about Chico's homeless problem. Santa Rosa has one, that's for sure. Problem is social services for vats. And you try to encourage people to do any kind of real work. They're not gonna. You're not even bad. I've actually offered folks. I remember one time me and Laura was first dating and she got a calzone and decided she didn't like it. And I offered it to homeless guy. He's like, really? What can you do it? She wanted to know how he could have to money for the food instead. You know, there's a lot of homeless people that are perfectly content with the lifestyle that they have. And I. I'm an employer myself. I told you, I design and build comp site. I have offered jobs to folks that is like landscaping. Dude, you might as well be asking them to scatter all the sky into a box. They don't pay the scientists. They're perfectly happy and existing.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, for sure. Some people just don't want to work. They don't know how to work. There's never been any structure in their lives. You know, my dad had the Horatio Alger work ethic. Okay, everybody gets up and goes to work, but they don't care.

And you know, hey, gotta have crank. For you. When my father in law died, we had a homeless man going over to the house. He locked all the doors and windows, right? He would actually push the access in. He would actually crawl through a vent hole under the foundation and then find the access hole in the floor inside the house, one of the bedroom closets, push that open and turn on the heat and sleep in Paul's bed. The neighbors were telling us about it. I'm like, man, it's a lot of work. Believe it or not, here's the discipline. I had to give the guy cash for keys to get out locked. And they didn't even have any keys. But I had a signed document that said he wouldn't come back because we had worked out a deal. And I came him a thousand bucks, a lot of money for a secret, right, at once. And we were all like, what in the hell? But dude, that's the way it breaks out. Homeless situations are serious problem. K6PO, Give me your call again. KE six pockets, Negative. Third negative. 86 poc kilo delta 6, point of contact. Roger. Roger. Well, the question here is what are you doing up? You going home?

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Updated local information. Freeze warning, San Bernardino. Updated local information. Freeze warning, San Bernardino.

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Speaker A: Updated local information. Extreme cold warning.
Speaker B: Roger, San Benito, Santa Clara.
Speaker A: Updated local information. Extreme cold warning.
Speaker B: Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara.
Speaker C: K6LNK System 36, no mountain range.

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Updated local information. Freezing fog advisory.

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Speaker A: Nr 17mobile
Speaker B: las vegas. Do you
Speaker C: live in the car?
Speaker A: Probably. I'll probably freeze the dust in the car like 30, 33 degrees right now. NR7G. Mobile Vegas.
Speaker C: Yeah. NR7G and 6, I believe. Well, are you going to work?
Speaker A: No, I just picked up a bundle of Schedule 83 quarter inch PVP electrical gray bundle of that seven strand number two. 10 foot ground solid bare copper or stranded? Bare copper ground 400amp panel stuff like that. So I'm just headed home now. Got the goods picked up from my electrician front.
Speaker C: Got the goods. Reminds me of a line for a song. I got the goods now, baby. Well, you guys start early. You know us hippies here in Laid Back California, man, we're going. Oh, far out, dude.
Speaker B: Yeah, for sure. All right, well,
Speaker A: I'm about pulling up here, so thanks for checking in with me. You have a good day and keep warm and keep cool, whatever your climate dictates over there. It takes IWH from NR7G bubble.
Speaker C: Yeah, it's a little bit cool here. So anyway. All right.

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Speaker A: Good afternoon, Fresno
Speaker B: Station. I gotta turn my volume down here. I'm sorry. How you doing? And just real quick, let me see if Jeff is listening. N6QOP. Jeff, are you listening?
Speaker A: All right. Over to the
Speaker B: Fresno Station. How are you doing? Ken here. N6 kne.
Speaker A: Nothing heard there either. Let
Speaker B: me try jeff one more time. N6qop. N6k. Any.

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