2m Simplex (146.520 MHz) recordings for 2025-11-26

It sounds pretty quiet out here this morning. 41 degrees up Magalia, and the start of yet another beautiful day. So may it be a little cloudy in the morning. Looks like gives away the sun. Says a low of 43, but I see 41 up here. Hi. Yes, good morning. And 6 NTM.

Kn6mgk good morning. Run, everybody. Well, good morning to both of you. Happy Thanksgiving. Early advance. Hope everything is well and you guys are doing great on the ridge. No price on that one, Jay. You have to. You have to click on something else. But anyway.

Ntm. We're dual banding it there, Steve.

Yeah, they're not gonna. They're not gonna give you a price on that either, even though where I clicked on the where to buy. Then it's gonna take you in a half an hour to find out what they're getting for them.

It says it takes five minutes. Five minutes to get a price. They want to know. They want to know the year and the length of the bed of your truck.

They want and they want it, and they want to know how many inches your bed is. And I don't remember. Six feet. I'll just put six feet.

What is it that you guys are playing around with? Oh, Neodyne. You ride your bike up onto it and. And then you put your Milwaukee electric drill up on the other part, and it lifts the bike up and slides it in of the bed of your truck up next to the cab. What kind of bike are we talking about? It'll handle up to 1200 pounds.

It reminds me of people paying, like, my uncle did this. He paid a lot of money to have a boatloader put up on his truck so he could bring his little fishing boat along with him to lakes when he hauled his RV behind him. I think he used it, like, twice. Paid many thousands of dollars. Well, I'm not gonna do it, Jay. Yeah, they got to the end where they want your email address. That's why. That's where I said forget. Yeah. All these, like, custom bike companies will do the same things, too. Yeah. Because they want you to. They want to get.

You some information and then they're going to call you back and start hounding you for a while. Oh, that ain't happening. Just, just show me a price list or, or I'm not interested. It's called neodyne. Yeah. One of my friends did buy it, Steve on the, on the radio. Yeah. Because he likes to be able to load his bike by himself. But he didn't get that fancy mechanical one. He, he just bought a three wide ramp so two guys could push it up in there if you didn't want a chance riding it up in there. But yeah, the new trucks, you wouldn't want to run into the front of the bed. Get a motorcycle, even at one mile an hour. We'll bend that back part of the bed. It's the front.

Part of the bed. But, yeah, just stopping fast might do it. Yeah. Politically, if somehow they manage to win the House back to make things a lot more difficult. But I think. And then we'll slow Trump down. I'm getting back to you on your. On what you're thinking is going to happen, that things are going to move a whole lot slower. I don't know how they. They'd get that back since it's in the court over the jurymandering and it's such a simple thing. All I have to do is go look and see, see where the votes came from and they'll see the cat.

California's not Democratic. And if they just go by that, just that thing alone where the vote, how many votes are in that state and what, what counties it came from, that'd probably be kind of hard to get that information, but I'm sure they have it. AI would only take seconds to produce those numbers and then you could forget the whole Mandarin rip off. They're working on it, so we'll have to wait and see what happens with that. Yeah, well, I think the whole goal is me talking anything about the politics and so forth is if you remember that during Obama there was a lot of Hopium out there, you know.

I think we even called it that different sides think things all the time. So I think a lot of times, we've got this Trump derangement syndrome, where you got the left side that's talking about everyone's going to be shoved into prison camps. I mean, I hear this even from my own family members and re educated and, you know, and all the all the people of color are gonna be rounded up and sent to an island somewhere. I mean, really, you know, because of ice, you know, I mean, they come up with all these things, and they're the ones who are out there, you know, on the Black Lives Matter stuff and, you know, burning up towns and things like this, you know. But and then when the other side, like, say, Joe Biden was president and stuff, well, of course, you got whole right side.

Talking about how old country is going down and you know, all this stuff. And yeah, granted, there's a lot of crazy stuff that guy was doing for sure. Plus he was half dead all the time. So anyway, what I'm trying to say is that there's two sides to everything. And yeah, we could all have all this open desire that America is really thinking like they're going to keep Republicans and conservatives more in power over the next 12 years or whatever. But you know, the alternate is also possible and that is that people get disgusted or whatever with whatever they perceive as a high price. Like we said egg prices were terrible. Well, right now they're saying turkey prices are terrible and so on anyway. I mean, there's this whole affordability mantra now. But I just don't want you to forget that. Remember what they did to Trump last time and they could do it all.

Over again. Last time they threw Covid at him. Right. So the economy kind of took a tanking right there at the end. And people vote, you know, primarily because the economy. So how the economy is in about a year from now or a little bit less, is going to determine probably how the vote goes in the midterms. I ain't worried about whatever disease they're gonna throw at us when they do that again, and they probably will sometime in the future. But it would be a little too obvious for him to pull it off on this next election. And I'm pretty sure Trumpet jump in there with a executive order that still they are working on it. By the time the next election really goes around, they'll have the legal. Not the legal, but the. They'll have the voting. Very hard to cheat at.

Once the AIs in there. Oh, yeah. It's gonna be tough. Yeah. I'm not buying into that whole deal. I. I listen to the best theory I've heard so far. And if you want to talk about us losing, which is nothing but a win for a Christian. Yeah. So there's no sense in having any worry about it. It's pretty simple. Just go jump straight to the back of the Bible and read the end. And. And that should satisfy you if you got any faith at all, that you got nothing to worry about. But anyway, Buddy Brown, I don't know if you ever watch him on tv. They're just shorts. I only ever think I've seen one that was longer than five minutes. But he's got a little podcast style thing where he goes out into the woods and.

And he sits on the back of his side by side or whatever. He's driving his pickup or whatever, and he's got an AI background, and he's sitting on his tailgate. And he gives you a short message. Buddy Brown, look it up. I think you'll like him. He's a backwoods kind of guy, quotes Bible things to back up where his point of view comes from. And I like his backwoods interpretations. They're excellent. You'll get a kick out of it. He believes that the devil has already started to influence the world, and we're seeing the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. And it makes a lot of sense to me because we know that does happen in the.

And it. It isn't like he just shows up one day, bink, and he's transported here onto the planet. It takes him a while to. To take over. That's. That makes more sense to me. But you can see the amount of people that are adverse to the Constitution. You can see the amount of people that choose to go with things that don't make sense, like defunding the police and all the rhetoric that you see on TV today. I was hoping that I would pass away. Not that I'm ready to pass away or anything, but I was hoping that I'd pass away before I actually seen any real signs of. The devil must have, considering the effect of his powers across the entire planet.

But I think we're seeing it. I think we're seeing the beginning of it. Kn6MGK well, yeah. Since the fall of man, the Antichrist, or Antichrist in general, Satan has been in charge of what goes on here on Earth. So he rules over it. Anyway, he's not in charge of it. Ultimately, of course, the Lord is in charge of everything, I guess. But nevertheless, he's been allowed to roam on this planet. And yeah, it gets worse and worse as we go along. And we know how it ends, of course. So on to another subject, and that is.

Meshtastic update on that. Bought a couple unknowns. I mentioned that to Jay before, anyway, and put them together. And recently, yesterday I put one up on my roof finally and been getting a lot more traffic now. And so I had to use a different channel. It's called medium fast. Anyway, what's the channel of these nodes? And right now, as I look at it, using that outside antenna, I think it's the same antenna. Jay might have one of those discode antennas like a tram 1411. Anyway, I have that attached to the node and right now I've got It's showing me 21 of 110 nodes. It's seeing. Some of these are pretty interesting, like the Sutter buttes showing up.

One from Mount Diablo, another Yuba one. These other stations from like W6CF W6CX is the Mount Diablo one kg6MDW is Fairfield, but other nodes like from El Dorado Hills and Folsom. So anyway, there's some activity going on. I wish I had some other people around here that we could try to converse with and get the thing running from a mesh standpoint. There's some people in Chihuahua here, but anyway, so far I haven't really had any good communications. So anyway, just a quick update on meshnastic devices and it's more encouraging than it was a couple years ago when I first bought a device. Try to get others involved. It's a little more encouraging that some are out there.

Trying it these days. Back to you guys kn6mgk. Well, I wish I could reply, but I was saying good morning and goodbye to Lori to a good part of it. And then of course there was the run down the hall thing. My apologies on that. Jay didn't come back to you, so he must have been busy as well. Oh Don, I doubled with you Jay. Try it again.

Yeah. So talk about a fairly easy setup for you, then. If you already have a feed line coming in with that, with that disc going on it, you can just make a quick adapter on to one of these, like, Heltech v4 nodes, probably cost you like, you know, less than 40 bucks. And plug it in on medium fast channel, and you'd have it up and running real quick. I'm thinking that's the way to do it. You know, you use your phone app to talk through the node or chat through the node anyway. So it's something that Moreham seems to get involved with, especially radio clubs and things like that. So, like, that one is the North Hills Radio Club out of Polson. That's listed. And the other one, the one from Mount Diablo, the club that's up there, I guess.

That's used for, you know, maybe emergency communications when Internet's down and. And no other way of chatting with people. You've already preset up these mesh networks, hundreds of nodes that all hop from one to the other, you know, and you can send essentially text messages all around. And you don't have to be a ham. So they have, on its basic setting, you can do the encrypt encryption. Now they are, they do have some that are, that are HAM specific, and they put out more power, like these little things here.

Put out like, you know, I don't know, 50, 50 milliwatts or something like that. You know, they're based on the Lora long range stuff. So interesting. So think about like, let's say if you and John both had nodes up there and you know, you could be encrypted, sending text back and forth, you know, and then other people like Paul up there and stuff all had nodes and so forth, they all mesh together and they can hop from one to the other to the other to the other and make it all the way into, you know, like I said, I've seen Fairfield and so forth. So some of them are up high. You guys that have elevation are sometimes in prime categories, you know, depending on your spot there. But you get a node up in the air and you can possibly have a good line of the side of the valley and stuff. Who knows what can happen.

No, it's on 915 megahertz. So no, it's not a 2 meter node. Then you'd have to be a ham, I think. So that's why in the US they use. I think it's like 906.75 or something like that. But yeah, I have to show it to you sometime. But I need to get it working and try to make some comms with some people I know and so forth. So I'm just in testing phases. I did this a couple years ago when nobody was really that interested in it. And now it looks like a lot more clubs and things have been getting involved with it. I could send you some videos. I think I've sent them before though, you know, like KB9DBR. I think you follow Michael Martins. He's got one recently he did on meshtastics.

So does Cade, MRD and heavier crash course, so forth. Anyway, they like to carry them around when they go to like the habitats and things into the different campouts and so forth. And probably people at Quartzsite have them and stuff too, I'm sure. Anyway, you know, it's just a little finicky project kind of thing. Not everyone's cup of tea. If you like to hear people voices, you know, then it's probably not your thing, you know, it's more like a digital mode or something. I think it might actually be kind of up your alley in some ways but you know, because we don't like to talk on the microphones while we can text one another. Right. Anyway. And yeah, you don't. It doesn't have to be just ham radio people. It can be, it can be anybody that. You don't have to have a ham license to operate these little things.

All right, well, let's see. Someone was telling me it sounds like doo doo, so, like, it gets garbled and stuff like that. I don't remember who that was now, so I don't know. I haven't messed around with it yet. So what band are you using on it? Okay, so. So you do 40 meters and then with whom can you speak?

Okay. Yeah, so it sounds interesting, you know, but just even integrating my computer into my radio system, I think that's a stopping point for a lot of people, at least for me. I mean, here at the house I've never really had a computer, had my Raspberry PI for a long time plugged in that way, but it wouldn't do that kind of thing. It doesn't have any video or microphone or anything like that coming out of that. So, so then now I have to have a regular desktop device or something like that and I have one right here in front of me that's Linux. And here again, you know, all the stuff for audio never seems to work just right for, for that. So I guess, you know, one would have to go out and use buy a Windows specific machine usually to make all this stuff work. And that's something I don't want to do.

So. And I don't want to spend the time, you know, necessary to go through all the terminal node stuff with Linux to make to discover what audio outputs to be using and so forth that it seems to require, because it's not plug and play can 6 MGK.

Well, that's fine. That just gets the software running. That's the easy part. Getting the software on is easy. Having your computer though, do the encoding, decoding from the radio and using the right inputs and outputs, setting it up, that's the part that is hard. You don't get a whole lot of people videos showing you exactly how to get things running on, say, all the various Linux operating systems out there. It's not like there's just one like say Windows 10 or Windows 11, you know, Linux, there's literally hundreds of operating systems and they all are a little bit different. So that's probably why they don't do. People don't specialize in videos on it, you know, you wish they would like km4ack. He likes Linux Mint. Well, I like Linux Mint. I can put that on. So why don't he do a video.

On it, showing how he sets up FreeDV, for instance, on Linux Mint. But he doesn't. So, yeah, so until someone does that's smarter than me, more intelligent on all using Terminal mode, which is like, you know, the backside of a computer system, you know, it's going to be difficult for Linux users to do some of that stuff.

Yeah, I've been going back and forth between HF and here and an occasional hallway visit. So sorry about not participating fully. Well, look at distrowatch J, which is the main page that Linux users go to to see like most popular, the newest information on distribution releases and so forth. On Linux anyway, number one is called catchy OS with 4445 hits per day. I have to check that one out because I have not. But Mint Linux mint is number two. 2,573. Anyway, they list the top 100 distributions. Of course Ubuntu is number nine. POP OS and Zorin have both come in pretty high.

Which they're right up there with, because of the Windows stuff going on right now. People, they've designed those two systems, those two operating systems around, like, what Windows 10 look like and so forth, so that people can move over fairly seamlessly. So anyway, I'd have to look down at ways to find Raspbian, I think. I haven't found it so far, but it's not the most popular.

Yeah. Well, that's Raspberry PI. So that's the operating system designed all around the Raspberry PI. And generally, you put another operating system on first, like Debian, and then the Raspbian layer goes on top of that. So I bet you there's something else there first before Raspbian goes on.

Yeah, AI says yeah, because I use Raspian. But it says it's a Linux based operating system, specifically operate optimized for Raspberry PI. It's a version of Debian Linux. That's what I thought. Yeah. So anyway. But yeah, they've changed that over the years to make it a lot easier to get installed and stuff. But yeah, before you used to have to put. I know you used to have to put Debian on first before he could slide the Raspbian OS in there. Yeah, things have definitely gotten better over the years with Linux. Make things a lot more simple.

Well, Jay, the question is, are you running your free DV on your raspberry PI?

Watch. I'm going to watch this video. It's only three minutes long. From Peter Marks on YouTube installing free DV on Lynx. Let's see what's involved in it. But anyway, nice chat with you guys this morning. If I hear from you tomorrow, that'd be great, but I understand if I don't. So I'll be around the house. But I'm gonna go ahead and say 73 now, and I'm gonna get ready to head out. So in about an hour. So catch up with you later. I have to go to Yankee Hill later. So we'll say 7:3. Kilo, November 6th. Mike, golf kilo. You guys have a great day up on the ridge. KS6, MG, KS, clear.

And 6wip ntm on this end. Now pick up my microphone. I have to pick my microphone up off the floor. I ran out of cord. Yeah. What do you think? 20 minutes. Might as well go down to where we like the food the best. Yeah. I don't even have shoes or a shirt or nothing on, so I'm thinking about leaving in 20 minutes, all right?

Yeah, I heard you. I was down the hall. N6 ntm getting in the truck.