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Kk6vcd N6 item on your age. Good evening. Good evening. It's getting dark out here. Dark, Cold. Lonely. All right. You'll be okay. Yeah. Well, I'm gonna go have a beer or two with one of the guys that I worked with that left the county weeks ago. I live over here in Chico next to that brewing company. 99 and I was 20. What do you think of Anchor, Porter Torpedo? Are those.

Three different types of beers, or are those all? Because I know Anchor Steam Anchors Team in San Francisco. You're saying you live over by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, right? I'd go there if I weren't diabetic. Yeah. I don't know much about those dark beers, though. But there's something everybody's talking about called Torpedo Sierra Nevada. I don't know. Well, I've had the Torpedo once. The Torpedo is one of those IPAs. Meaning it's got a very, very hoppy taste. I'm not a fan of very hoppy tasting beer. To me, it tastes like pine needle. No, I prefer a. A lager or a Pilsner or a German wheat deer or.

Or, let's see, a dark beer. Actually, I like Guinness stout and that's quite a bit different than Auger. God. Guinness stout. I remember a doctor telling this woman she was anemic, right. Real bad. And he said, edith Dake, and have a Guinness stout every day for breakfast. You know, after about a month, this woman was perking up. Yeah. Well, I can't say as to the health benefits of Guinness stout. It's about. It's a really. Looking at it, you'd think it'd be a rough tasting beer. It's very full flavored, full bodied, but it's a very smooth deer. I didn't used to like it, but I do now.

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Well, that's what they call the stout, right? Stout deer. Stout deer. Have you ever heard of Old English 800? I haven't heard of it, but I don't have any experience of it. Oh, try one sometimes. Impress your friends. Or Schlitz Malt Liquor. The Bull. Apparently, that'll knock you out pretty quick. Yeah, that's another one I've heard of and have no experience. I'm not sure that I want to have an experience with it. Well, a lot of that stuff is not really beer. You know, like wine. Also, there's Cribari and all these cheap wines. It's not really wine. Do you remember Colt 45 malt liquor?

I think so. I was never a heavy drinker, but the kids in high school where I taught, they would drink a quart of colt 45. And that was one drink. Yeah, yeah, no, no, I'm not really a drinker, but I have here and there. You know, I just gotta say, probably about once every two weeks or so I have a beer. Three weeks, something like that. I just actually picked up a bottle of port a few months ago because I've never, ever had port in my life. And that's another one. I thought, wow, you really have missed something.

So you're on your way right now with a few friends, right, to go have some brew? All right. Yeah. One of the four guys that left county employment in the past three months, one of my other co workers got hold of him today and arranged to get together with him and called a few other people. And this is kind of like a goodbye party that he didn't get when he left the county. And just those people that, you know, have worked with him for a while, none of the newbies, You were not expecting a party. Maybe you could go in there and say, hey, guys.

Well, I'm leaving, too. You know, I actually had contemplated and I still might do this when I leave, call them up and tell them, hey, I'm buying. Let's meet together at Happy Viking or something like that. I don't want an official party from the county, but I'll get together with friends. That sounds fun. How about like. Like a local Pollard. They still serve a pitcher of beer if you order a. Oh, you mean like shakies or. We don't have any shakies anymore, but I think straw hats. If you buy a. You buy a piece of straw hat. You can get a picture up here. Yeah, well.

Is this a wild bunch? Are you guys gonna have a food fight, get drunk and laugh, pour beer on each other? Negative. And if it was gonna be one of those, I wouldn't be doing. Oh, yeah, well, kind of. In my family, there's some alcoholism. And, you know, along with that came this behavior. You know, you were kind of on guard. You had to be afraid of the person because you knew when they got drunk, you know, ooh, they did things. Yeah, yeah. No, I don't think anybody that we're going out with tonight qualifies or fits into that category. That's good.

Nobody's Mormon, I assume they don't drink. I take. I was stationed in the Air Force in Utah for four years now. I never went out drinking myself, but there were a lot of. They don't sell liquor in the grocery store. They don't have liquor stores. They have state liquor stores. The only one that permitted to sell liquor is the state of Utah itself. And they had these little clubs that. It wasn't exactly a bar, but you could bring in a drink, you know, a bottle or something to drink, and you'd bring in your glasses, and they would open the bottle and they would service you, and then they'd store your bottle there for you for the next time you.

That sounds pretty bizarre. Uh, you mean some Mormons drink? Well, yes. Even though they're not supposed to? Yes, they do. Yeah, well, I belong to this group, Yoga philosophy, okay? And they want. They want perfection. They want you to be pure and full of love and light and celibate and all that. But you know what? We're all just trying to make it W E6A X N repeater. Well, yeah. Moderation in all things. Well, I don't know if it was lucky or not, but, you know, I never had a.

Taste for alcohol. You know, I had some, of course, growing up, high school, young guy and all that. But even good wine people. Oh, here. Hey, here's a $200 bottle of wine. Oh, great. Oh, yeah. Well, you know, when we get together for families dinners for Thanksgiving or Easter or Christmas or something, you know, my mom would host, and she'd have her a couple of her great aunts and her cousin and my grandmother and grandfather and her sister and all that over. And their idea of wine was Nanishevic or what's the other? I don't remember the kosher wine. And that's the only time that they'd ever have any wine. But they serve that, and I'd get a sip.

Then I tried Manisheva way much, much, much later, and it tasted like aluminum foil. I've heard of that. You know, there's some older wines. Thunderbird that was big when I was a kid growing up. Okay. Ripple. I I well, it's okay. You don't have to clap or anything, but I've written a song called R I, Double T, L, E. It's white Whipple wine For you and me. Hey, sometime when we get a moment, I'll. I'll flip out the guitar here for you. Okay? Okay. Yeah. What about Annie Greenspring? Annie Green Spring.

Boone farm. Oh. Oh. Oh. You know, there's a lot of alcohol out there. I really don't know that much about it, but I know the better quality alcohol, you get a better buzz. Well, I got to spend four years in Germany, and gotta say, I got a prejudice towards German white wine. You asked me what my favorite wine is. It's a German white. So in other words, back in those days, you were slamming down the beer and the wine. No, but if I was going to go out to a restaurant in Germany, I would buy a bottle.

Nah, nah. I never. I never have been a drinker. I drink here and there and sometimes with food and sometimes because if I'm really hot and a cold beer is just the most refreshing thing you can drink. Oh yeah. Hot day on six night of Woody Lakes. Nothing like a brew. Cooled you down for sure. But my dad was an alcoholic. He had a can of beer in his hand every moment of his life. Except when he was at work. He worked for the government. United States Department of the Interior.

Okay. Well, yeah, no, I don't really make a big deal of it. I like trying new shades. So, you know, every once in a while, my. My sister, or my sister, my daughter lives down in Lincoln, and they've got a couple of microbrew breweries down there. So, you know, one or two times when I left her house and stopped by there for a sampling and enjoyed myself, but, you know, didn't have to stay here for hours and hours. I remember back in the day, this friend who cooked his own beer, he brooded, okay, had this big stove and always had it going, and they actually called it.

Heroin, beer. And I said, oh, gee, why do you call it that? Man, that stuff was strong. Yes, yes. Well, there's another ham that used to live up here. We went and one of the other guys went and we did a contest at his house, and Kevin did his own home brew, and he brought out a bottle. Oh, my. That was good. Well, it seems like if you're in the military, air force and doing all that, you gotta have some alcohol. Keeps you going, isn't it? Well, there's an awful lot of it that's consumed. Yeah, it's very true.

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I never got into that. Yeah, well, you know, the other thing these days, the price? I got this one friend, he whines about it. He used to have a beer, you know, all day long, right? Not anymore. Gotta save up and, you know, wait for the weekend. Well, I'm not a smoker, but it's the same way with smokers. If you want to smoke nowadays, be prepared to put out so much. You know, I actually feel sorry for smokers because, you know, you don't have any very many perks these days. Right. What's the last, you know, hold out for something fun? Is it smoking? What do they do, raise the price in the name of public safety? Oh, yeah. So we're going to save everybody from cigarettes.

Give me a break. You don't understand. Also at the hospitals over here in Oroville, too. This is a smoke free zone. You can't even go outside to have one. The guard comes over and tells you to shoot out. Well, it's interesting. Yeah, you're pretty much made to feel like a pariah nowadays. I never was a smoker. I never wanted to smoke. I never, you know, it's just something that I don't want to do and will never pick up. But, yeah, you know, to be. To be made to feel like a pariah because you do. I think that's. Pariah. Well, you know what I see what I noticed, it's taking off as the pot club, you know, and there's tons of people going to those places. Big money, nice cars. You know, a lot of the older retired.

Group, they. They use edibles for pain management. Okay, man. Hey, work for you, Go for it. Well, you know, I've actually heard that, and it's, well, sort of like, you know, heroin. If you're in a lot of pain, you can take heroin and it's not going to addict you. It will help you with your pain and it won't addict you. But, you know, you have to be in a lot of pain in order, you know, for it not to affect you. Oh, yeah. I hate pain myself, but, you know, one of the things I would have to blame my parents or our society, but we aren't really prepared for old age.

You know, I mean, there's some things that happen that are not fun. You're not gonna lie. But nobody ever talked about it. They never said, getting old is not a party. Wah, wah, wah, wah. Yeah, that's. That's really true. And actually, because our society is the way it is, and we don't have our old folks back in the home and take care of them like a lot of other cultures do. Yeah, you're not going to see that. Oh, yeah, I know. Our society, we want to get rid of the old people as soon as we can, you know, get the inheritance and move to Hawaii. W E6AXM repeater. This is KK6VZD.

So it's the weekend. Gee, I got a concert to sing in on Saturday and Sunday and I think some leaves to rake up tomorrow. Hey, do you know KK6SYV? And how did you guys get call sign so close? You went to the testing center together? No, he's an S and mine's a Victor. So he got his a few months before me. Probably six or seven months. We just know one another. I met him for the first time when we went to go pick up. He had the club trailer with the antenna on it for quite a while and we went to.

To go pick it up from him so that we could use it for one of the contacts and ended up. It ended up being stored with somebody else. We put some work into it also. He had done an awful lot and we appreciated that, but figured that it was time for somebody else to contribute. So. And just have known one another since then. Are you a general class or extra? I'm a general so far. I'm thinking, and I don't know whether this will really come to fruition, that when I retire I'll have time to study for my extra. Yeah. They give you the questions and answers though, if you you can remember and you have.

A lot of issues. Back in 19, whatever it was, when I went to San Francisco, you had to know things, you know, like capacitors in series, for example, and they would give you a problem to solve. You know, prior to that, it was even like code. You had to send code and receive code. I got the 13 words per minute general class back then, but the back also, they had a 20 word per minute for the extra class. Hello? Yeah. I'm sitting here thinking that if they still had the code as a requirement for getting licensed, I wouldn't have my license. Well, you know, back in my time, you had to, if you wanted to get on voice, say.

Had to have general class code. And I think they still honor certain areas for extra class only in the frequencies. Yeah, yeah, very true. That's very true. Yeah. So I'd like to get my extra class just so I could do that, but have not been able to make myself buckle down to it. But like I said, I'm gonna have some time now that I'm retiring. LQJ LQJ Go ahead. Good evening. Almost. Anyway, I too, am thinking about doing the upgrading to the. Yeah, that's general.

For some reason, I have a brain fart as I'm driving. But I used HAM tests online and the fast Track system. The fast Track system is an audiobook for me. It's an audiobook. And then the HAM test online is obviously on the computer. Those were pretty good because you sit down, you know, like you said, you have to memorize nowadays, have to figure out things. But it was a good program. Well, you certainly have to have some mental agility, you know, and all that. Oh, Steve. I'm heading down to Oliver's. I guess Jeff de Camp got hold of Lauren Foster, and so we're going to go down to. Oh, gee, what's the name of that place?

I don't remember. Grubstake mine. Yeah, I don't know. Some bar, and I guess some of the other guys that are no longer with the county are coming out, and we're just gonna sit there and have an official going away party for Lauren. Oh, wow. You said that was in Oliver's. Grumpy is one bar that I know that's in Oliver's. Yeah, that's the one. Grumpy. Yeah, my brother's band used to play there. We used to frequent there a little bit. Hey, funny thing today I got a phone call from Vargas about the Language Line computer. Wait a minute. What do I have to do with that? But anyway, I told them they'd have to get a hold of Language Line because apparently there was some update done, and now LanguageMind doesn't recognize that computer, and it's absolutely.

For a code and stuff like that. That's way beyond anything I. I know about. Oh, yeah. And, you know, they can ask me about it. I said, well, I, I configured a computer for him to use with it, but that's all I know. Yeah, it had. She sent me a screenshot. I'll let you carry on your cues, though, and. Okay, try to maneuver myself back over to Costco, pick up something my wife wants all of a sudden. But anyway, it turned out to be that it was a screen that LanguageLine was requesting, not, you know, wasn't like the password. And I told her the password and everything was on the computer. I'll let you carry on with conversation. And then I'm going to watch these idiots drive, I think. Seven, three. Chris and.

Was that tonight that you're doing that heading that way right now. So was there a time that you guys are going to do that? I don't know if I want to spend that half hour drive down there but I might, you know that might be fun just to mingle with some of the guys. 6 o' clock officially at 6 o' clock and yeah you know if you feel like showing up great. I have to see if I can get a kitchen pass. I know the wife is going over to cut the stepdaughter's hair or trim the bangs or something along that line and then I've got to run over to Costco but anyway if not you know tell them I said hi but otherwise if I can I will make that truck down there. And it also depends on how this fog is starting to come down a little bit. I don't know if I want to drive in some of the fog if it's.

Better or worse than it is right now. Oh, Roger, Roger. Okay. All right. Well, if we see it there, great. If we don't, then we'll talk to you later. 73. 73 so, yeah, when you retire and start to upgrade, maybe we can tag team and quiz each other. And I'll do that. Like I said, I'm going to do the I already have the audiobook that I started listening to again yesterday and probably subscribe to the online one. The online one was basically how I basically got my general, because while we were in Costa Rica with the kids, I would sit down and while they were off doing something and use that handcast online. I think it's Sparky or something like that. It was a good system. 73 both of you. KE6L QJ Natomas.

Well, Pete, are you already an extranetory? But you know, I do have confidence in my ability to take head until I made it through school, right? I learned. Learn how to take tests and stuff. You know, learn by reading and going through it over and over and over. I'll tell you what. How about you? We'll both. After you retire, we'll both set a goal to get our extra class license and it's okay. You won't have to bow down.

When I come around. WP6AXM receiver. Well, I wouldn't worry about that. Oh, wait, really? You didn't know that there's a hierarchy of respect? Well, of course, if you're an extra class, then you. You lowly generals. And who else is there? The tax. You have to step aside and say, yes, sir. Yes, sir. Okay. All right. Well. Okay. Well, I'm very early, but I think I'm closing in on my target. Okay, where are you exactly? What. What town, Oliver? It's south, across the Yuba river from Marysville, about 10.

10 miles. I guess. Oliver, I used to live in Challenge, drove up from Marysville, Highway 20 to Browns Valley. Up that area. I think, actually Oliver's is still considered sort of considered Mary Zillow. I think it shows the same zip code. Hey, well, how does it work when you want to pay separately? Do you ask for separate checks or are you buying? I don't think I'd be buying for everybody. No, I think it's just. Yeah, good question. I don't go out to bars at all, so I think it's just, you know, I'm going to ask for a drink and pay for it then.

You know, I hate going out with people. When you start to argue over the checks, I will just say, hey, separate. Go to the waitress and say, separate checks. Okay. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it'll come down to, okay, this is my round. Charge me for it. Okay, it's your round. Charge in for it. Yeah, but it's terrible, though, when people invite you out to have a beer and then expect you to pay for it. Well, you know, since this is a get together sort of in honor of this guy, I don't think he's going to be paying anything.

Do you ever go to the club? Breakfast, dinner, Lunch, get together. Now, there's. We have club. There's a club breakfast. But it's at 8 o' clock in the morning and at 8 o' clock in the morning I have to be at work, so. No, Well, I know there's a. This machine. And Christmas, they have a huge party. We had a Christmas party that I couldn't go to last week. At our normal meetings, like. Yeah.

Must be nice to be able to get together with, you know, people you like and do the same, you know, sort of activities. That'd be good. Yeah. I don't have any really any other. Don't belong to a book club. I like reading, but I think that would be kind of weird, you know, everybody reading the same book and discussing it. I don't want to discuss it. I just want to read it and enjoy it myself. Well, Chris, you know what I think is weird? I heard about these people who offered money to men and a scientific study to see if they could knock themselves out just by punching themselves in the face. And this event actually took, you know, there were many.

And I just could not believe there would be a room full of guys sitting around themselves in the face in the name of science. No one could do it. By the way, it's knock yourself out with your fist. Yeah, that sounds really weird. And goes down with people that I wouldn't serve to socialize with. Strange world. Well, sometimes I like these little programs, believe it or not. You know, since I watch the YouTube videos, weird stuff. Sometimes I like abandoned and the guy with the camera is doing all the work.

See what? What's historical? What used to be? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I don't know. Well, I found the bar, but I'm 20 minutes early. Well, what are you thinking? Go in and warm up. Oh, I'd be, you know, satisfied if I went inside. Somebody else was already there too. Well, just tell them you had to wet your whistle and he'll say What? Keep it, guys. WD6XM hey, Dave. Good evening.

Good evening, Dave. How you doing? Oh, doing okay. Just sort of cleaning up and throwing away more stuff. In that mood again? Oh, my. I'm gonna have to get into that mood here pretty soon, Dave. Don't have much room left in the garage. Some of the stuff I've got, people. Somebody told me today that I'm in. What was it? The. I forgot what the word was to use now, but. Ancient. Working on the, you know, chips and troubleshooting down to a transistor or something or to a resistor, so. Oh, yeah. Okay. All right. Say, did you know Warren Foster? Name's not familiar. Okay. I didn't really think that you got in contact.

With him at the County. He was our telephone guy. At the. At the County? No, I dealt mostly with the AT&T folks. Didn't get into the internal phone system. But you knew Joe Oates, right? Yes. Well, Joe's left government service as of about a week and a half ago. Oh, wow. Did they move you up to Boston? No, they didn't. And I don't care if they do because I've got my date. March 31st. Yeah. Congratulations. Well, you know what? I found out, And a lot of times good technicians don't make good supervisors or bosses, and I'm here to vouch for that. Well, you know what?

I kind of found that out myself. I wasn't an awful manager boss when I was in the Air Force, but I wasn't a really good one either. And, you know, I look back at it, and it's not hard for me to admit that. I admit that I saw it time and time again in Motorola, where they take a good technician and try to put him in as a shop manager or a group leader, and it just fell all apart. But anyway, that's all. I'm gone and done. So. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do after I retire. I know I'm gonna have to do something other than sit around the house. It hasn't become, you know, a critical thing that I figure it out, but. Oh, my.

Yeah. What can you say? All right, I'll get back to it here. I'm doing a little computer cleanup and updating my databases and my Garmin GPS's W E6A S N receiver. All right, well, good luck with that. Yeah, and wish me luck. It gets prepped and ready to get out when it comes time to do it. Yeah, that's not too far away. Pretty soon, you'll be so short that they have to. When you jump out of bed in the morning, you have to count to three before you pull the rip cord. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Well, I think I'm gonna sign off, so nice chatting with you, Dave. Nice chatting with you, Pete. And I think I'm going to see if somebody else has beat me in here. So have a great evening. Have a great.

Great weekend. And we'll talk to you later. 73 KK6B, C, D. Clear. Hey, Chris. Yeah, go ahead. You said that Joe left. Did he retire or just he went to another job? Understanding from Jesse camp is that he was encouraged to leave. Okay. All right, step three, go ahead and enjoy yourself. I just got here to my destination, and. Hello, Dave. And I didn't meet the other guy, but. KE6LQD. Yeah, good evening, Steve. You got a little bit of a frying noise on your signal there. Maybe reach down there and tighten up the mic and the RF connector on the back there or something. But anyway, have a good one. We'll see you guys later. WD6AXM. Okay, I'll take a look at that when I get home there and I.

I am in. No. Thomas, too. So I'm not sure if that has anything to do with. I'm on the fringe for some reason as a system. 73 KE6L QJ. Yeah, your RF is solid. It just needs a little bit of. A. Little bit of a frying sound on it. So, for what it's worth. Okay, thank you. I'll check.

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Yeah. Ka6leq. I think W6tr name here is Bill. I don't know if it's something setting on your radio or if you're not talking loud enough.

Thanks for the information. I'm actually accessing the computer via. Trying to see if I can get this to work properly. Ah, understand. Okay. Well, actually, it sounds muffled, if that's helpful at all. Appreciate that. I guess I should kind of yell at this thing. That helps, but maybe there's a better fit. Thanks very much for getting back with the signal report and I'll see if I can make it any better, Okay?

So, yeah, FYI, your audio level did increase, so I don't know if you're, you know, talking louder than normal, but it does sound muffled. The quality does sound muffled, so. Good luck. 73W6TR. A o6l eq disconnected.

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Qst. Qst, qst. This is a k60k year old sacrifice. Valid traffic. This is part of the master climbing system. And the purpose of this? This is direction. Please be no transmissions without permission to control. Most patients are requested stay. Operate. W6 rhc repeater check 3. Station. We're traveling. Cav6 will be I kf6 obi. Mike and willows. No traffic. Good evening, mike.

Thank you. K6K caller roll. K6. K6djy. Good evening, lester. Kf6djy. Bruce, tico. No traffic. Good evening, bruce. Thank you. K6rcs, 86pmt, kilo, echo 6, papa, mike, tango, russ and gerber. Good evening, lester in the group and I have no traffic. Good evening, ross. Thank you. Kc stick, ufc, kc6ufe, bill in cape. No traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, bill. Thank you. And kn6pww down the area. So.

At the Rolls. I have it. Do we have any late members or visitors wish to check in? No further traffic or check in. This is K6KU, closing segment of Valley traffic. And I like this. Thank everybody who checked in tonight. And to go to the Empire Amateur Radio this night for the use of repeater.

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