2m Simplex (146.520 MHz) recordings for 2025-11-27

Tell him I said hi. Oh, brother. Well, let me see here. I think there's something wrong. It says it's supposed to get down to 37 degrees, but it says it's 46. Huh? And same temperature as yesterday. 60. Start of yet another beautiful day. N6NTM Good morning.

Go make me some coffee. But I'm listening. N6 ntm.

Kilo 11-6-Mike, golf kilo. Happy Thanksgiving. Yep, Just sticking around here. I don't know, may want to go play radio later. May sound counterintuitive, but if the sun starts to peak out or I decide to get snow urgent there, I might go out to the local park over here and see what I can do. Back in the day, all I cared about was the football games and looking forward to some turkey maybe. But anyway, family get togethers and stuff.

But none of that stuff happens anymore except the football, and I don't care about that.

You guys are somewhat lucky. I don't know about the last few days, but here we wake up to fog and, you know, it's been like socked in sometimes almost all day long. Yesterday when I drove up there about 11 o' clock or whatever, you know, just got to the property and it's above that layer and, boy, it's nice, pretty sunshine.

Didn't Blake hear me when he did? Whatever he did, I was able to hear him, like, you know, broken up. But that was better than not hearing him at all. So whatever it was made a big difference. Down to Chico also.

Yeah. That's one thing that's been kind of depressing lately about YAESU stuff. For the amount of money you pay for their equipment, their audio stinks. Yeah, you got to really eat the microphones on all their handhelds, I think. Pretty much. So. I don't know if they put, like, a little bit of protection in front of the electric or whatever to make it so that little bit of moisture doesn't hurt them, but something really causes them to be like that versus even some less expensive radios. Like my TID radio sounds better than the yaesu.

So what antenna are you messing with, Blake? I said, what antenna? What? What antenna are you messing with?

Reminds me of. Like, I think it's our F35s planes that they can't operate in major storms, so we can't have war when it rains outside. You're saying that we can't use an antenna in the rain?

Well, I've seen KB9DBR. Michael Martin's out in Wisconsin take out his. Excuse me, haven't had my coffee yet. Still working on it. But he's taking them out in the snow and the rain and operated, parks on the air and holds them up and takes them back in his car and takes off and goes. So I don't know. Yeah, I mean, seems like they should be able to be used in the rain.

Yeah well I'm not so critical on the so called match anymore like some people get kind of crazy off on it you know I mean as long as we're within use of an internal tuner I'm cool with it. So I mean here I've had loop antennas up in the rain stuff like that inside my redwood trees and yeah I mean I think the right answer to your question was well throw off the match isn't everything about everything when it comes to antennas right? So yeah it probably would change it just being standing close to it is enough so anyway but yeah that's where I hit that internal tuner button for or whatever if I'm really concerned about it But I know in your case ICOM705 I mean I don't think something's off by if it was a 1.2 to 1 and now it's a 1.3 to 1. This really going to make that much a difference?

Yeah, well, mine, the different ones I have. I have a couple of Chinese. Well, I have one Chinese cheap one and that chellegance which is probably made it came out of Hong Kong so same difference I suppose but it was way more money anyway. I could just change the radials, you know, add more radials to it and then the whole thing changes. So lately I've been setting up out there at, at the 1 Park in Chico and it's been wet and foggy outside. I've had to actually extend the whip a little bit longer than I used to have to in order to get the, to get the capacitives right. So. So yeah, I mean that, you know, as long as when I set up it's, it's pretty good and I'm happy. But yeah, sometimes that happens. It's not like you can leave it there and be perfect all the time. At least for me when I'm setting up portable.

Yeah, those are good antennas. From what I could see. They're very similar to this. Pretty much the same company, I think JPC12. I have the MH750. Anyway, I think that's the one you have. So, yeah, I would think they'd have some similar characteristics like that. Just for me, just taking the radials, and if you elevate them slightly, it changes everything. So, yeah, I find it best for me, at least portable, to just let them lay on the ground, and that way they get their capacitive coupling with the ground, and it's a little bit more forgiving than if you elevate the radials. You have to more or less tune them a little bit better to just do better and you elevate them. So that's kind of what I've found so far. Jn6MGK.

I think they're set. They're made, like tractor supply for, like, electric fences and stuff, aren't they? I have one of those or so laying around here. It's kind of fun to have around. Anyway, just for what you're probably thinking, you know, to elevate your radials.

Yeah, a friend of mine here, Chris, just sold a. Sold one he bought like a month or two ago. He sold it for like 300 bucks used, I think, like $300 used. He put it on QRZ.com and sold it right away. He only had it for a few months. He hardly ever used it.

Yes. Here's another one right now that looks like it's sold on QRZ, 335 bucks on that, included shipping. So you can still get them anyway for around that kind of price. But anyway. Yeah. What do you. Do you have something that you want to operate an ATOS with? Okay. So you'd have to buy another controller or something, too. Right. I mean, the Yaesu Atos 120 is made for the YAESU transceivers. You know that. You know, you just plug it up to that radio and it already has everything inside the radio that'll control it, you know, do what it has to do and change bands and all that. Right. So just like the Tar Heel, if you're going to use it with an icon now, you'll have to buy some.

Sort of a controller or something, too. Okay, I guess I'm not familiar. Kn6mgk.

Good morning to you. Enjoy it. Then. You guys are going to be over there at the coffee tomorrow? Maybe. Okay. Yeah. I'm just thinking about what I might want to do tomorrow. That sounds like fun. Get out of this fog, too. If it's still foggy. K6MGK. Happy Thanksgiving to John. Oh, yeah, I heard your everybody statement. You guys are missing the updates from the. From the White House. Pretty fantastic. Had me clapping in the front room at least 10 times since I started drinking coffee.

I can't remember what they call that type of deal. It's a step above an executive order. But these are permanent ones that they can't change. And he just did away with California's ability to keep screwing things up. I know you probably find that hard to believe. You'll have to. You'll have to watch the White House updates. He signed them right there. Signed them. They're incredible. It's up to you, if you're interested, to go listen to that. A whole room full of very, very important people. I haven't been able to take my eyes off it. So, anyway. All right, I'm listening. And right back at you, Steve and everybody. What a great country we live in. Hey, they say Thanksgiving's 20% cheaper than it was last year, so I'm liking it.

Or the previous four years. Yep. All right. Anyway, I'm a listening kinda in the background. Good news going on this morning. N6 NTM. Okay, well see back to antennas. What antenna are you guys building or working on? That's question number one. And for Blake or anyone out there that's listening about this non motorized YAESU antenna, I'm curious which one that is. What model number? Just researching it around because I'd be really interested in something like that too. But yeah, the ones I've always seen were like these ATOs120alphas. And they are motorized. All right, maybe take it to Jay. What antenna are you guys building?

Oh, yeah, that would have been interesting. Yeah, to build one of those. Anyway, sounds like fun. And you're gonna do this when? Friday, after coffee.

I don't know. I sure like that one that Dan made. He showed it to me. That was real lightweight. I think I'd make one like that. But I could see a point on the. Gene down here had a few of those he was making the tape measure antennas. And you know what was neat about those is they. You kind of fold them up, right, and stick them away. And when you pull them back out, no big deal. They don't, like, get all bent up and stuff, because they'll just come right back.

Yeah, it would have been cool if I had known about it. Maybe Pat over here. I would probably got him involved and maybe he and I could have built a couple too with y'. All. It would have been fun to do a little build, you know. It would be a fun club event to put together. Gene down here used to do some of those. He was building those Slim Jim antennas. I still have some parts and pieces know left here of the 450 ohm ladder line and stuff like that, but nobody seems to be into that anymore. They're all into talking about these cheap Bowfeng repeaters and anytone duplexers, stuff like that. I still get a kick out of it though.

Yeah. Straight tubing. Yeah. I mean, I already have some of these antennas laying around here, so, you know, the ones like Ebri makes that you put on top of a Bowfang or something. Yeah. I mean, all this stuff really isn't new. The Bofang stuff that people are still talking about today. When I became a ham five years ago, I was dabbling in it before I was legal. So, you know, just for fun. But upbreed antennas are tape measure antennas that they're like, I don't know, they're tall, like almost 4ft tall. I think they're maybe they're 39 inches tall, whatever 2 meter, 2 meter wavelength is, but. Or half whatever that is anyway. And they have string tubing over the whole thing, you know, and then it's, you can fold it back onto itself and all that.

Made in china. Yeah. I have two of them. They work different. You can put them on the same radio and one of them you can hear good and the other one you can't. One transmits better than the other. So ridiculous that there's so much variance in the antennas when you get these Chinese made things that people think are excellent. Just like the Bofang radios. I think I bought a dozen of them roughly so far in my life, and I've gotten rid of. Let me think here. I've gotten rid of 10 of them. Yeah.

Kept the two that received the best. So there you go. There's a lot of differences in each radio. Like if we bought half a dozen radios and tried them right next to each other. Yeah, there's differences. It's pretty interesting. That's their quality control.

Hey, Mike, why don't you just use the hamstick DX commando for an antenna for your 705? Not with. Here. You'll have, you know, you'll have like, you probably do four bands at one time. Hamstick Commando. Hamstick. So it's called the DX Commando? Yep. You know, DX Commander, that's McCallum. What's his name? From, from, you know, he's from the uk. Anyway, he has the DX Commander, which is a big, big vertical. Like, I don't know, he can a 10 meter carbon fiber type anyway, and he has multiple, multiple bands on like a fan dipole vertical. Anyway, but anyway, there's a guy out there that's promoting this.

DX commando. So it's the hamstick version of that with the ground plates and stuff like that. Anyway, I could always send. Well, I don't have yours. I can send it to Jay. A couple videos on it. That guy. Dude tested. Dude tested. He's been messing around with that kind of thing. Anyway, he's basically putting different tuned hamsticks on a. On a simple ground plate system.

Well, none of these will, because the JPC is a full quarter wave vertical on 20. Right. So. And then when you go down to the other higher bands, it's a full quarter wave vertical. Right? So, yeah, it's gonna be pretty tough. Yeah. Then we start getting into like 40 meters and stuff like that on the JPC. Well, then it becomes compromised, right?

Welcome to america. They pay McDonald's workers $20 an hour. I get worse service than I ever do. When I go to a fast food joint, I don't go to them anymore. But that's my analogy.

Yeah, they used to have these, what they called, like, sunrise sandwiches over here at Carl's Jr. Which is a. You know, I think it was on a biscuit instead of. Instead of a croissant or English muffin, but it had a scrambled egg and cheese, like Canadian bacon, you know, that type of a thing. Sandwich. Anyway, they were, like, a dollar apiece. And I used to go in there and get, like, four of them before I'd head off to work. Oh, man, that's what got me. The way I. The way I am, by the way, is doing stuff like that. But they don't do stuff like that anymore. Now it's all, like, you pay $5 for something like that, minimum, you know, and it's nowhere like it. No, I don't think so. But I was.

Referring to the fact that I'm not the skinniest guy on the planet. So just like you guys probably remember, like, hamburger stand, where you used to be able to get, like, hamburgers for 29 cents a piece. I'd go in and get 10 of them. Yeah, I throw away a lot of the buns, but still stack, you know, stack, you know, say four hamburgers on, you know, on top of each other. So. Thought I was doing myself a favor. Kn6mg.

No, mosca, no. Ask the tango. Victor. Come in. Oh, I like it when I make you question your memory. Yeah, chalk up another one for the gatekeeper. Happy Thanksgiving to everybody. Yeah. Tri tip. Yep. We ain't wasting no time on no turkeys today. And President Trump coming up here trying to pardon them.

All right, I'll turn it back over to you. Yep. I think I went out with Goblin Waddle. Yeah, they were redheads, and they were joined at the hip. That'll leave you something to think about.

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