2m Simplex (146.520 MHz) recordings for 2025-12-03

Good morning, kn6mgk. Well, I was playing a little FT8, but the only thing coming back to me is Japan looking for dx. You know, I see other things. Korea and stuff. Yeah. Anyway. Oh, there's one from Fiji. Wow. I'll have to try to get him. Yeah. This Fiji station Could be. Could be our friend Barry. By the way, I forget his Fiji call.

Yeah, you have to get involved with that Tabasco net at least listening in the mornings at 7:30. And then you'd find out information about him. But last I heard he's. You can look up his call and stuff like that, but he's in New Zealand.

Yeah. But right now it's okay, Right? And now you probably hear the hum back, right? This to be confirming. So I turned it back on. Yeah. Trying to run a little extra power. Anyway, no Fiji. They didn't come back to me, so that's okay. I gave him about four.

Five calls. Yeah, especially if it was him. I could look up the call here, but if it was him, he's an advanced operator. He would. He would try, I'm sure. Yeah. For me, I put a CQ out there, and Japan came back. Two different Japanese stations. And so I didn't even go back to them. See? I'm selfish, huh?

I guess you can call me selfish. I don't know. I just have lots of Japanese stations there, so maybe. Maybe someday. And by the way, it did find. It did come back. Fiji did come back to me.

So are you seeing anything good out on the bands? Okay, yeah. What are yb stations? Yb5. I think those are china, right?

I guess that's Indonesia. I said Indonesia. So hopefully. Because that Tunisia might be another country. I don't think I do. I'll try to get him.

Okay, so Chris said, down here, who lives? Oh, well, as you drive, a quarter mile from me, but it's a little less as a crow flies. Anyway, he put up a. Well, he didn't put anything up. Actually, he has a. He bought one of those, like, credit card style. Credit card style Meshtastic nodes. Put it on long, fast. Well, come 10 o' clock last night, he must have got it up because it started its beacon and I got it right away. And so he and I were chatting back and forth on Ms. Tastic, from this little credit card node thing inside of his house to mine. So I guess it works at short distance. Nothing. That was just the device itself. Now, for me, I have the two nodes. So.

It might be picking it up on the outside roof node. That's my assumption. But anyway, yeah, I just thought I'd let you know we're both on long fast. So. Yeah, just like the credit card looking thing, they cost about 30 bucks. Yeah. So I think I might have to end up getting at least one of those stick it in my pocket kind of thing. If it works that good. Because all I need is something like that to carry around with me with my phone. Then I need a longer distance one, like something for the rooftop that would be like maybe a little more powerful or something. I'm still looking into that. That'd be interesting.

How did your trial run go? I was kind of expecting to hear a little bit about that.

And did you try your triangulation technique?

I don't think so. I don't remember, though, for sure. I have to look at the settings generally. That's like if you're wanting to poke it into the Internet or something, right? Yeah. I think he's hooking up to the Internet he mentioned, right?

Well, if you look at that video that temporary online just did, he talks about that, you know, because he's in Arizona somewhere, and he wasn't getting any notes popping up. So he turned that on or whatever and hooked it into, you know, the USB C data cable into one and started, you know, he could. Then he could populate nodes and stuff like that. But it's using the Internet, but it's a way of getting started, at least to see if it works and how it works and all that. I guess I haven't been able to do nothing until. Other than just put out calls until Chris put his up, you know, a quarter mile away. So might end up taking some of that stuff happening in order for it really to start working.

Well, I guess I got asiatic russia again. Kn6mgk. Good morning. It's kind of fun, but. Yeah, I mean, I could definitely use more countries. Are you. How much above 100 are you now? Well, it's a contest. I gotta try to catch up to you. Hell, yeah. Well, it's a goal. It's gonna be. It's gonna take some time.

But it's tougher for you because you've already got those, say, 100 or so. So, you know, I think I'm one of my 26 away, so it's easier for a guy who needs a lot more. Yeah, we're talking countries. Yeah, yeah. All right, so that's my goal. 1. Yeah. I want to be like my brother up there in Magalia, man. How about John? Does he ever use his big beam up there and see what he can do? I remember him doing it with you.

Does Ernie use his anymore? Does Ernie have a tower? I guess. I'm guessing that's yes.

Well, there might be a chance you can do that in the future. They might start getting prepared, getting the names and stuff, cutting them trees down.

There's a pota station on. I can't believe it. So I'm gonna try for him. Of course. It's texas.

Now. Talk about sleeping in and six mtm. Good morning. Good morning. We were talking about you. Looks like my sweetie's going to work this morning. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know why I slept in so late. Yep, but that's the way love is. Got a few things done. Anyway, Ronnie came over here after he left your place. I fed him some apple pie and.

He likes that Matt's off road towing or. Or something. Then I. I showed him Wrecker Rick's Murphy Deal Towing and I think he watched two of those. I was surprised he hung out. Yeah, I explained that to him too. Yeah, he did. And he still used a cut off wheel.

To cut it instead of the portaban.

I brought it over for that project right there. Otherwise, I'll have to call down there to Thomas Hydraulic, see what that cost. He's going to use it for something he's going to do.

Yeah, I. Before I use those, I like to heat up some grease. You know, you smear it on it and then you. Then you heat it up with a. With a torch or something, whatever you got, heat gun, whatever, and. And work it back and forth so the grease gets inside them. Piano hinges, I think they call those. But anyway, because, you know, if those are out in the weather, they will rust if you don't coat them on the inside.

So my memory's not serving me. Seemed like they had some type of a title down there by them. They got all different lengths and thicknesses and flange widths and all that stuff. So what? He wanted to buy something different to put on that year deal.

Well, since he's decided to go absorberant on prices, it's my chance to get some money back. Oh, yeah, Check. No, I didn't just got up. I. I went on 3900 last night for a little bit and. And they got that poop disturber. Evidently he lives in Reno or something. Comes out there cussing and swearing and, and carrying on, keying up on people, just saying cuss words. Doesn't actually talk. Dennis is over.

Had a surefire way of getting rid of them kind of people, as soon as they come on there, you just. Nobody else. Nobody else. Keys up. You can do it. You want go to it, go to a different channel or turn it off or whatever, but you don't respond to the guy. And after a couple of times, they know it doesn't do them a damn bit of good to come there to poop the stuff, because pretty soon they're sitting there by themselves, so they just go to another channel. It's very hard for me to do that. I like to rile them up. And I got a million games to play with them that I use for over 30, 30 years on the CB. So, yeah, I can. I can usually fire them up pretty good. The ammo.

Animal noises works real good. You tell them, hey, can, can you make any animal noises and, and get them talking? You know, I have got them to make noises before and, and then you move to the next animal. How about a cow? Can you do a cow? You know, it doesn't take long before they realize that they've been duped, but then they come back all the time. Well, that's why we like these digital modes, right? It's a little harder to poop Disturb on FT8.

Well, anyway, Desert Dave or. And some other guy that I didn't. Didn't know, they. They continued. They continue to try to talk to each other. Back in the good old days, I would have. I would have paid that guy a visit. Reno's not that far. Haven't heard you guys talking about your fishing game in a while.

Getting this D expedition from Vanuatu. He's been on in the mornings. He's been on right now. Anyway, I got him for a second time. Oh, that's okay. Yeah, this is a long term project anyway. But yeah, I was thinking that you get up early, you know, do some FT. Eight in the morning. Anyway, right now, this Y. What is it? YJ0GC in Vanuatu. The D expedition. Only on for a couple more days.

40 meters. And I probably only got, like, maybe, I don't know, 15 more minutes or so that I can even operate before I gotta get the wife up and get some breakfast going, stuff like that.

Thinking coffee is in order. I'll be right back. And six mtm.

All right, well, it's a brewing and 6mtm. I wanted. I was looking for immediate satisfaction, so I'm drinking a cold flappuccino. But it's a brewing anyway, that'll fit me for the day. I didn't expect Lori to go to work today, but. Oh, yeah, I'll have to figure out what. What I'm going to get done.

Well, you know, we. We put new ones around on Lori's mom's house. But I got those. I got those. And I have a couple of them brand new. Those screens that you put for the air openings along the siding. You know, that's probably your easiest way. Way just to cut out a couple square holes and screw one of those on there. Keep the critters out. Oh, yeah. Probably look nicer. Gotta get. Gotta get the ones with the screen in them.

Yep. I'd get to. I'd get the chemical guy to spray real good in there, too. Have you run it with that on there?

Yeah. Well, over the past years, generally, I always worked hand in hand with that. That way I made sure of certain things. And. And, of course, that was back in the cigarette smoking days. And he liked to. He liked to take a cigarette break. Work. That's all you did is sit around and talk or sit someplace, have a beer or whatever. And. But I. Back then, I always asked him, what, do you want to do a job? See, then it didn't matter how long it took. We agreed on a price. That sounded good to me. I'd say, go for it. Yeah. Didn't it? Sometimes.

Back, it turned into an hourly thing, that. The cigarette smoking thing. Well, he eventually quit, so. Yeah, There's a lot of meandering going on there, though generally, I didn't care. Just like any old friend, hanging around you and me and. Done it a bunch of times, you know, you talk about all different kind of stuff while you're getting it done. No big deal in general. But when. When it. When it's hourly. Yeah, you can't. It's not profitable to do it and. And all the. All the. Run into the store three times in a single day. But you're supposed to be prepared for that. That part ahead of time. I don't like paying for trips to Chico normally. That's the gopher work, and I do that part.

Soon. As soon as it takes the need to go do that. I sure not gonna pay somebody 30 or 40 bucks an hour to go to Chico. Coffee's up and 6 centimeters.

And 6mtm. Well, I made a big mess. Oh, boy. I thought it was going to be one of them mornings, but the cleanup ended it up pretty good. So now I'm enjoying the fresh Cadillac.

Run, everybody. Yeah. Good morning, Mr. Blake. All right, I'll catch you guys tomorrow. Yeah. Good morning to you. Good to hear your chipper voice this morning.

They sounded okay, but I. I know what you're talking about. I did hear it. Picket fence once or twice, but it was lightweight. The audio sounds good. See if I can get it right. Was it Dan or. Or Paul? He was doing fine then. A lot of dirt between here and there. Well, what's on the agenda today? He might be having some driving difficulties. I didn't ask.

I didn't ask Stephen what was on his agenda for the day either. Blake probably only has one eye open, so I won't even ask him. A bar, huh? I can't think of a better way to start your morning. I didn't. I didn't have the catch container in the coffee, the bean grinder in there all the way. I knew I already had a little mess to clean up, but while it was.

Brewing. I didn't have the little catch pot, the coffee pot in there all the way. I managed to get a full cup of coffee, but it made a big mess all over the counter. So don't feel too bad. I've been in there the last 15 minutes cleaning up all the grounds and the. And the spewed coffee, but I still maintain a good attitude anyway. Oh heck, I've. I've brewed a whole cup of coffee before and didn't ever even put the pot underneath to catch any of it. And that. That made a huge mess. Not that I worry about it. Even liquid mess is being too much of a problem, but luckily enough, it don't happen all that often.

Yeah, We don't. We don't put our garbage out. We only have the one smallest can. So for two households, I installed a trash compactor so I can actually go two weeks without. Without worrying about missing the garbage guy. But, yep, we don't put the garbage in the garbage can and wheel the can out by the curb until about an hour before they get here. We've never had a bear problem, but I have seen dogs, because, you know, logging and everything. I have seen dogs going from one garbage can to the next one. They know exactly how to tip them over. Lori's mom used to put a bungee cord on hers, so even if a dog knocked it over, they weren't clever.

Enough to get inside it. They just move on down to the next one.

Let me see. What is it that they don't like? It's not vinegar, anyway, right on the handle where you, where you, you know, lift it open. You just tie a good sized rag on there. I was hoping whatever they put on it, it's a smell that they don't like. And generally they don't smell the garbage because that inundates it. But anyway, one morning the guy was out there and it had the strap across the can to hold it closed. And the guy just kept shaking the can, shaking the can until he broke the strap. It was pretty funny. Probably did it for 30 seconds, just, just radical hydraulic movement until it broke the strap, so.

Yeah. We just don't put it out. You know, Tara. You probably haven't heard Tara out here too many times, but. But they. They had all kind of problems up there. They. They got an old truck or something out. Out in the yard. They put their garbage out there in there before they put it in the can. Yeah. And they've had the bear crawl through the chicken coop roof, get up on the roof, rip the roof back and jump down inside there. We have never had no problems. No problems with the bear. I'm a light sleeper, so. And I got a baby monitor out there. That's the other way around it. I don't know what you could do with your garbage out in the road to put a baby monitor, but.

Chicken coop. That works good. I'm out there in a hot flash with a. With the shotgun. They run away. One shot, they run away. We're not near a neighborhood like yours. We got lots of land around us that people shoot whenever they want around here. I don't shoot the bear. All you got to do is shoot toward them from a good distance. They just run away. They're afraid of the noise. You. You got guns. Blake, grab a couple of wad cutters. That way you can shoot them. Shoot them right. Shoot the noise right toward the baron. It ain't gonna ricochet or go through anybody's. Copy.

Car or any of that stuff. It's a lot of work to clean a bear down. I wouldn't shoot them. Well, what. What do you think, Jay? Can you. Can you see the electrical cord going up on the garbage truck L up there and arcing and. And jumping around as he's trying to dump the can with the cord attached?

We went to a lady's house up in, oh, I can't remember what they call it. Area. All the rich people up there up on the lake, up around. Shoot, can't think what they call that area. But anyway, it's up by Reno, but it's this side, big lake. And everybody has the exact same garbage deals. They're bear proof. He did away with that problem when they built that community up there. Now a little bit over there, more toward on the other side of 80, Up on the mountains up there, big wood.

Lake. Real common place. All the richie people live up there. It burned a couple years ago. Double. No, no, no. It's about two and a half hours from here. You go like you're going to Reno, but it's still a little bit south. Close. Giant. Giant Lake. Huge. I've been out on it. Can't believe it. The name of that. Everybody knows about that area. But anyways, that's. It's not.

That important where it is. But the whole community has the big metal communal style garbage can. See, it's like the old mailboxes. You can put stuff in it, but you can't get it back out. And the doors big enough to put plastic bags on it, they. They can't get in it, though it works pretty good. When they. When they go in. When they go in to get it, to dump it. When the forks are all the way in and push forward, it unlatches the roof and they dump it the same way they do our cans. But it's a much bigger. It's a much bigger deal. Except periodically around the community up there must have cost them a small fort.

Fortune. Well, what's Stephen getting done today? Sounds like Cherry's having problems with his Flex Radio. I text him and reminded him about pirate ship. There's one of the nice things about Flex radios, though. He's had his problems. He said he'll never buy another Flex radio. This morning I felt sorry for him. Not that I'm laughing at him about it or. Or anything, because it ain't really funny, but it's a bummer. That just takes one or two Hamster.

To give a radio a bad name, and I love mine. I had never had no complaints other than customer service. I probably wouldn't buy another Flex product because of their customer service. The radios are bad to the bone.

The same thing you and me went through, Jay. For one thing, I didn't read the update. You got to read the whole update before you do it, because otherwise I would have known to. You have to go in and and download or upload the. Program before the one you're running. You have to start back one in order. You know what they were. You know what was going on with that whole deal. And if you had the linear and the radio, you had to do them both. Otherwise those radio wouldn't operate the linear after you updated the radio to the latest version wasn't for you. I probably wouldn't even have a flex radio right now. It's about ready to put that one underneath the back tire on the truck. But anyway, it in turn blew up the engine.

And of course, that cost me about 350 bucks or more to fix. And then I sold it for half of what I paid for it and had into it. But anyway, that was a nice amplifier. They build a good product, but the testing on the software, they don't devote enough time for it before they release it. And I've seen that happen a couple of times with them. Then you're back dealing with customer service. So it's just not worth it. I'll keep the one I got and I'll probably sell it broken if I ever get rid of it.

Well, yeah, I never had any problem with the Maestro except for what I did to it with the cord. That I do have a complaint there with them. Those little small jacks, they. They don't live up to yanking on the cords whatsoever. And if you just happen to yank at the right direction, it bends where it touches the tip. Yeah, I can make the Maestro work if I hold the jack over to one side for the. For the modulation. Otherwise it does everything else. You already know that. You may. You made it work. Yeah. Well, anyway, the whole computer and the radios, I wouldn't even have got that little repeater style cross band repeat thing out in the garage for the handy talk on if it wasn't for Steven coming up and.

Had that kind of radio, that 400 yaesu, he had those down so it wasn't nothing for him to do it. I just don't want to apply myself. I've the thrill is gone that end of radio. But anyway, I could fix the Maestro one of these days I might get a wild hair if I wind up in a wheelchair or something and I got nothing better to do than occupy myself. I can fix the Maestro easy enough. It's just making that one connection and hardwiring the microphone to it. Or putting a jack in the side. There is enough room in there to put the jack on the side. And they could have fixed the whole wiring problem had they just made a strain relief somewhere in the middle of the back of it so that the cord had to run through an S shape, anything. All the cords.

To hold it, so if you accidentally yanked it, it couldn't bend the prongs inside the jack. Not. Not that big a deal. You could. You could. You could hear Steve talking on the radio. Jay, He likes using the computer instead of a Maestro. He sold both his Maestros. He likes the way it looks on the screen, you know, 15 inch laptop or whatever. Touch screen. Yep. So he. He sent me a little short video, what it looks like, and it does look nice. You don't even need the Maestro.

Oh, yeah. Well, I already figured that out, because one time while I was playing with it, I seen it modulate, and so I reached back there and started moving the plug around, and. And I could make it work that way. So the opening is so small, and if you. If you take it apart, which I've had it apart before, they. They got that. They got it. That part of the board submerged in some type of a. It's not really a silicone application. It's. And it's not epoxy, so. But you can't just get to it. So I took the board completely out of there, because that's its own separate board, all the jacks, and you can see the bottom of the board just fine. All. All you got to do is get it hooked up, get it operating, because it does all that just fine.

And then you just need to feel around with your finger till you hear it hum when it's keyed up, watch it on another radio, whatever, till it hums. And then you found the contact on the bottom of the board. See what I'm getting at? Then you drill a hole in the side of the case. There's just enough room around there. Put your own mic jack in and run the ground and the positive wire to your new jack from the board directly. And don't mess with the epoxy or the silicone. You know why they like to put electronics in a suspension like that? Because they know. They know you're going to be carrying the Maestro around or whatever. And so the electronics go through, heck, dropping it and setting it down hard and airplane trips and you name it. So they. They just suspended in some type of gel that hardens. So anyway, I didn't.

Feel like digging all that out, because then it would look like a whoopty poopty. I think my way of fixing it's the easiest way. I sent it up to Larry. He took it over to Dennis's house before he passed away up on 37 and 97, I mean. And, well, he. It was starting to get sick. He has since passed away, but he didn't have the unction to fix it. He had fixed one before that, so he knew what to do. He just didn't have the unction to do it. So six, eight months later, I can't remember what. What. What the. What the deal was, but I think the next time I went up there, I collected it from. From Larry, and it's been sitting here ever since.

See with the StarLink in the RV with which Starlink texted me yesterday by the way, to just keep you up to date on that. Due due to demand. It's going to be late for the BE. Send me the Starlink Mini. It's only $5 a month and you can, you can can cancel anytime and put it back into a non op for $5 a month. Otherwise it's $65 a month. Yeah, maybe. Maybe it's even 165 bucks a month for that Starlink on the go thing. It's pretty small. Smaller than the unit you put on your house, which isn't that big a deal to carry in the RV anyway. But when we hit the road, you know, I got to have that Starlink and it would be so easy.

To operate the base station here rather than outfit the whole RV with another whole separate radio antenna. And all that stuff between the Starlink and the. And the Maestro. That would have been great. Who knows how I'll tackle that problem when I get to it. Oh, I remember. J. 165 bucks a month for the Starlink if you. If you run it in. No, no, Cap. Roam. Roam mode. That way, while you're driving the truck, you can talk on your base station.

I got a 6500 inverter and two seven thousands to choose from. It's this 3500 that I just bought. I wish I'd have got the 5,000 that would have ran everything. But that little. That little 600amp is only 110. It's not that much amperage, so I don't think I'm worried about that. If it's. If it's hot enough outside to run the air conditioner inside while you're sitting still, I'll probably be out and hiking and doing stuff early in the morning. I probably won't be running the air conditioner. The guys I talk to. So who knows, Jay? Maybe I'll be out in Arizona and it'll already be a hundred degrees outside when I get up in the morning to yak it up with the normal crew.

About mounting the amp right out there by the antenna in the back of the truck. Oh, yeah. Well, you have a very short cord running to the amp.

I already did it. I ran the compressor for a half a day and I checked the cord periodically. There wasn't any problem there. I I don't want to pop that grill cover off up there on the top. And I'm sure not getting up on the roof for any reason unless a tree falls through it. Yeah, I've learned over the years what things not to do to create more work for yourself when it comes to roofs. That's why I'm not going through the roof in the shop to put a fireplace in out there. I'm going through the sidewall down there where I can reach it. But anyway, yeah, 30amps ain't a big deal for a number 10 cord. That is a heck of a nice cord. It's good. It's rated at 50amps. Even at 100ft.

I sure like the marine application the best. That, you know, a threaded ring that holds it in place and it's watertight. That was the best connection. I'm not even taking it with me. The generator is going to be in the back of the truck. I have a, I have a 20 foot and a 30 foot cord. It's hardly any use on either one of them. So I'll just run the generator. Well, we, we watched some shows last night, Jay, that Lori found on Cross Country Parks to parks, hitting all the parks, all the national parks. That's a one particular run that a lot of people do and some campgrounds.

That you go to, it won't allow you to run a generator. And some of those parks won't let you run a generator, even though they don't have plug in facilities. And I also learned something else about that deal, especially koa. A lot of people buy a seasoned spot. I don't know what that costs, but a lot of people book. They've already done it before. They know what places they're going to and when they're going to be there. So they make sure they save them a spot. You got to call ahead of time. If you have a season pass, you can call within a week or two and and they'll save you a spot or even a month. And then if somebody leaves or the next available spot, they end up holding that for you. And they have a couple of spots that they always leave open for full season.

People. So anyway, I. I don't plan on doing that sort of thing. I see a road that runs off the side of the highway, a dirt road. I'm just. I'm just heading out that way and pulling over on the side or at the first open area and. And sleeping there for the night. If we find a place next to a creek and hang out for a couple of four days or seven days, whatever you. You're able to do. Yeah, I'm not gonna go. I'm not gonna go from campground to campground. Forget that.

I've seen it being over, over the road. I was down in LA and one of my ham operators there. Lived, you know, a couple of blocks from the Walmart. Maybe it was a Kmart. And I just pulled the big rig in there. It was six or seven of them in there. They had a huge parking lot and there was plenty of motorhomes in there like Cabela's. They had a separate little lot just for big rigs and stuff. And you could just pull in there, sleep and leave in the morning. Yep. Little mall like places back east too, that I went to that were just four big rigs, but campers went in there. Had little community just like what you're talking about. Washer and dryer showers and one or two restaurants.

Yeah, I seen those. They got. They. They had one right there in orland that had the window units, but I think they only had 10. 10 spots for that. That way you didn't have to run your truck. It's hard, real hard on a diesel motor. You're just wiping the miles off it. If you let it idle all night, in fact, through the qualcomm, if you pulled over into a place like that, it would start and stop your engine. As the air conditioner would come on, it would start the truck engine and cool the truck down and then shut it off just so it wasn't idling all night. They made it illegal in a lot of places to let it idle all night anyway. But those guys that are over the road, they don't care about the mechanic repair bill. It's just the owner operators. I don't even know if Ortland still has that through the window thing, but that was a good idea. I don't know what they charge them guys for a night, but some of them guys.

Only drive at night, Jay and so they pull in those places during the day, put that in the window and sleep all day while it's hot. All nicely air conditioned. And yeah, nighttime comes around, they take it out and drive all night. Truck lasts longer driving at night. Anyway, Like to finish this little ice box. I'm almost there. I. I made a couple of big time improvements. I wish I wouldn't have drilled the holes in the side where I did. Now it's an easy fix and if I really want.

To. I could go down and spend the $28 that's with tax and everything for a new ice chest. But this one's almost done, so I'm gonna live with it. I put. I found those gray pipe. They have electrical sweeps for the wire. And the opening on the inside is bigger than the. The clear tube. If you go with the three quarter inch like that better. The clear tube, I gotta go from the outside of the chest, but on the inside you ought to see how nice that looks with the preformed sweeps coming up out of the fan and just going up and pointing straight towards the output to go through the case and. And then I put the ribbed deal so you can put a plastic hose on the outside to run the air where you want to. So I end up.

With a not such a sharp bend. Using that clear tube inch and a quarter. The sweep has plenty of room inside of it, so. And it makes it look real clean inside the box. J. I like it. So what are you doing FT8 in it?

Oh, yeah. You can just hook the whole thing up and measure the output on top of the linear to see if it matches the numbers I already wrote down that we did from the stock fan. Yeah. I really appreciate you giving me, making that data available to me with your. I was gonna call it a monocular, but. Yeah. Yeah, an anometer. It's a three in one thing anyway, isn't it? Does temperature and everything. That thing's bad to the bone. Yeah, we'll be. We'll be able to match it. Match it up. I just. That's what you gave me the variable for, Jay. I can. I can adjust the flow without creating back pressure at the fan, and there is no equal to it. Right now, I just run in one linear off it. I'm going to run two hoses out of it so I can run.

One in the back where the 4 inch fan is on the back just to cool the hole inside of the unit. Besides the one that's isolated with the blower fan on the inside that just does the tubes. I'll run two hoses. The one that just blows around on the inside is an optional thing. You don't even need a 4 inch fan on the outside. But if you want to cool the whole case. And since I got two sides to pull off of. Yeah, so I'm only gonna have two pipes and two outlets for now. But I have the capability of running five pipes out of there. I got two on one side of the fan and three on the other side. So three quarter inch outlets in case I need to expand somewhere down the road I can run a hose over to anything the back of the 9700 or even over to the 101, anything I want to cool. Now I got a blower.

Capabilities. Yeah, that'd be nice. Just for the hell of a couple LEDs on the side of it, the front of it, to make it look appropriate. Yeah, I need to get a nice strain relief for the power cord running into the inside of it, but it's all going to look pretty darn sweet. I might. I might play with that today. I found a fresh tube of two cylinder epoxy and some ATV clear that I'd bought out in the shed. I wouldn't even have spotted that. I'm gonna wait till I get it completely done before I apply any gl.

Oh, I wouldn't, I wouldn't change the part that I would. Epoxy. If I epoxied anything, it would just be where you push on the slip on barbed outward. So you can put those. You know, if you transport it, you just. It's just an ice chest. And, and if you, if you want to disconnect it from the, the clear tubing, you just slide it on and off the, the barbed fitting on the outside. Once that's glued in, you can, you can take it apart on the outside. On the inside, it's all that gray 3/4 inch PVC. Yeah. I got away from the barbed clear tubing on the inside because it makes such a.

Sharp bend that it collapses it. So I went to electrical PVC sweeps. Can't beat that. And then it makes it look a lot nicer in there. I was thinking air horns.

It sounds familiar. I think I've seen that. Yeah, I think I seen that on the early models, like the 60 Thunderbird. Maybe it was a little earlier, 58 or 9 or something. The first, the first thoughts of the tilt wheel invention. Yeah. Well, I was watching those things last night about traveling across the United States, and that guy put an air horn under his Airstream. How do you like that? Four footer, comes with the electrical pump. And I was very impressed. Very impressed. Actually, it was a two horn setup. They were both separate from each other, both horns. And he put a button on his, his wife's side so that he, he made the one longer horn and she made the shorter. They were both the same loudness and they ran on the same tank. Air.

It was pretty funny. They could almost play a little tune between the two of them pushing the button, you know, they were playing with it.

I think all The Thunderbirds were two doors and yeah, the 60 model one was a full size car. No doubt about it. That's just the way it was. But they, yeah, they made the other model. I know what you're talking about in the before the 60 models came out that the sport size and even it was too big. It was mid sized compared to today's standards. My Rodin one had a 409 or something and I wasn't impressed. It did lift the right side or the left side of the car up when you floored it but the damn thing was so heavy there was nothing quick about it. I always liked the body style, removable hard top at that. At least I got to ride in one. And I owned a 60 and a 61 and those were bigger, like you're saying much wider. And what a dream car. What a dream car. Man, I love driving it.

Appetite. Even in those days when gas was under 50 cents a gallon, it was still a gas hog. Eight little men with buckets. Well, it is possible that this one might have had the 60. One might have had it. Maybe it was an option and I just never seen it. Back in those days, somebody offered me 300 or $500 for a car that I just bought to fix up and sell. I took it as I didn't always have a car more than a month or two. You bet. Yeah. So who knows? It could have had it and I just didn't find that how you. How you activated it. Yeah.

It did sound familiar, though. Jay, I think I seen a car with that.

I know. Yeah. Well, I'll keep that comment to myself. You know, Tupperware parties and everything. Yeah, you wouldn't have appreciated that comment anyway. Yeah, well, they were doing the best they could when the first ideas came into mind. Telescoping. They were probably having a problem because you remember it was probably around the 60s that they started making. After a few head on collisions, rammed the steering wheel right through the guy's neck, they started making. Making it a law that you had to have a telescoping attachment down to the steering gear. I even put one on the 38. But anyway, you can only imagine what kind of conditions they were going through. Even on 9 inch swing away they had to have a universal in there.

It was a big selling feature. You know, the guy that was selling the new cars? Leave the door open and swing it away for the customer. So I can't wait to show that to everybody. Sounds about right. I was pitching Ricky Ricardo, you know, with Lucy driving one of those. Yeah.390 was probably the most common motor they used. What?

After. After 60. That 57 or so smaller Thunderbird with the. With the port holes in it that I wrote in that had a 409 in it, way too big. Sounded nice, Lifted the friend up nice. But I expected it to burn rubber. And it. I think. I think it could break a moose. But only talking a few feet at best. If you look at the weight of that car back then, Jay, I'll bet you it's even the sport, the smaller, Sportier one, still 6,000, £7,000.

So in 55. In 55. I don't remember which way it went because I was too young. But the 55 smaller model before the 60s model, the fins that were over the taillights in the back, like Cadillac used to do, were straight up and down. Then the. To make them different, maybe about 59 or something like that. 58, they slanted them so they were. They were outward. None set a straight up and down. They were pointing outward. And then, you know, you remembered Jay here just recently, in the last, what, seven or ten years, they, they re. They remade that smaller model Thunderbird, with the removable hard top with porthole. I didn't care for that one compared to the original.

The nostalgia crew. Yep. Big. They got. They got them all. Mercury Lincoln and Jaguar later.

Well, they did ride nice. I tell you that. I hated to get rid of that 60 or that 61. I only had that for a week. Same guy that bought the 60 from me bought the 61. What a beautiful car to drive, man. As good as a Cadillac any day of the week.

Brother. That was my giggle for the morning.

This stupid exhaust pipe running across over the water pump in the front of the motor.

Oh, brother. The things we came up with back in the day, which is something else I gotta do. Jay and I may run the. The clear hose up and over the top of the linear just so I can put a pin on the inside of the hose with a piece of rivet on it so I could see the flow in case it. Case it ever quits on me. Ate the ruin a 500 metal tube over no airflow. I have it. I have that set up. I still have that little setup energy.

Temperature gauge that it runs through the tube for the liquid cooling. I have that whole setup. I think I showed it to you. The Zalman Salmon liquid cooled. Now you've got the chip sets and manifolds and all that stuff. Still got it all brand new, never used even. I got two bottles of the non conductive fluid, cooling fluid.

And no, it's K something, I think. I was gonna say MGM's call sign, but I brain farted on the first part. What'd Blake do the other day when he was riding with you and I signed out with his call sign?

Yeah. Timer ran a big stick from the back seat hump out of a station wagon. Cut a hole in a rubber donut through the roof, had a big stick. You guys probably seen that Blake. Probably did. Talk about stupid looking. A big stick, a 18 foot antenna sticking out of the middle of a station wagon. Oh, brother. He definitely had to mochi in him.

Oh, it's just. Looks like Ron Ronnie sent me an E message. Hey, what was this hinge for? It looks like a Bronco windshield. Hinge? They sold a hinge for a Bronco front windshield? Fold down. I guarantee you they got way over a hundred bucks for that length. Looks like I gotta call Thomas Hydraulics today, See what they get for it. And then they'll tell me what you act the name of that hinge is. So anyway, I was busy sending him a voice text. I can't believe Stephen hasn't keyed up in 45 minutes. No, I. I always heard him call a piano hinge. But there's another. There's another technical name for it. The type of hasp or something. Just not coming to me. You.

You had another name for. Was just going to sit in the garage. I don't know what I used it for. The nice thing about those are that when you put them on a door, they're already lined up. You can't screw it up. You know, like when you put on two hinges and you got one slightly crooked, the door. The door gets in a bind every time you open it. Depending on how out of kilter. These metal doors that I have here, these security doors, they already have the hinge and the flange square box tubing that you put three bolts through to attach it to wood. Someday you might see where I put one on her shed that came out nice, very nice, and works perfectly.

Check. Interesting. I see. Or they might have the actual term. I. I just have a vague memory that Thomas had a. Had a little sign above the stack. They had. They had all different lengths. 2ft, 3ft, 5ft, 6ft, you know, And that was. That was at least a five footer, so, yeah.

I can't believe you didn't use it. That that would have guaranteed you a perfect opening. He wouldn't add to brace the back of the cabinet or any kind of weird stuff. Not tuned up on 97, but I hear Ken or Larry, the other weatherman. Larry. Yeah, There's Terry heading out the door. This was first morning in a long time that I just listened and didn't key up. I never heard F.Q. larry.

Yeah. I wish I would have never told him about 97. He knew one or two of the people from over the years, but he never went there in the morning. I listened for seven to nine months before I even keyed up there. Steve kept inviting me off 3900 to go there early in the morning. And I wanted to get to know everybody's name and the flow, you know? When in Rome, do as the Romans do that, will you blend. You don't end up with some weirdo that decides they don't like you and mistreating you. So I waited and waited, and I never heard him out there. So eventually I did start talking up there. I told him about it because they're. They're. They're a different sort of.

Group, and they've been together out there 20, 30 years, like 3900 was. So anyway, Larry's ruined it. He ran Rich off there, who I didn't like anyway, but I just didn't talk to him. And. And he. He's you. You've been privy to some of the latest stuff. So. Yeah. So, anyway, we won't talk about people out here. I notice you always change the subject when we start doing that. But anyway. Doot. It's getting light out. I was gonna jack Stephen up for what he was gonna get done today. If It'll be interesting to see what Ron decides to do. I mean, his original idea plan, which I didn't like, by the way. I don't like sliding wood. The at.

Cross wood. I would. I would at least. At least put some type of a low profile wheel or something. Wheels on it. So that. And a handle on the front so you could pick it up a little bit and roll it out. And then still you had to go all the way around the side because the porch ain't deep enough to. When the. You got to move it over to the side or pivot it out in order to do. Especially the gas. Yeah, I would do that whole thing differently. They sell little 12 volt gas pumps. Jay said that you'd pump the fuel into there. You just put the hose inside your gas can or whatever and let it. Pump it into the tank. But I. I would just get a permanent five gallon tank. Whatever. How much. How much fuel does that mammoth inverter you got.

Don't tell anybody that. Still electric. Probably safer that way. That is the nicest way to fill it up. And you don't have to worry about all that. If you just had a five gallon container, you'd probably never overfill it. You wouldn't have to lift the lid or do anything to get the right gas cap, which I don't know if Honda makes. That would be problematical. So they probably don't have an option like that. But yeah, you need to come up with a better idea. I myself would say screw that tank inside and just close the valve, and I'd run a different hose down to it and put an outside tank. Since they did put the tank on top, it's probably gravity flow, which would be your only deal. That's why I was thinking an electric pump, just so when you got home you could put 5 gallons or 10 gallons.

In a tank mounted alongside of it, then it'd be out in the sun then. Yeah, that might cause you another whole thought process in case you got a fire on and on and on. So, but that's, that's generally how I do it. I got a, I got an 8 gallon or 7 gallon metal tank that you put down on the ground, see. Then you just put your permanently mounted little pump like you got. You still got to lift the lid and see what it's filling it to. If you only had a five gallon tank like any that you fill up at the gas station, you'd probably never overfill it. But I know you just good enough to know that you're not going to want to worry about keeping an eye on it when you're electrically filling it up, that it might be overfilling it. Yeah.

Yep. You may find out if you look into it enough that that generator actually does have a fuel pump on it. It's probably. It's probably injected, right? So it makes sense that it would. It pressurizes the system. There's still probably meant to be a gravity flow, but you should look into that. If that's the case, you could just run a hose over to an outside tank. You know, do, do, do. Just. Just trying to overthink it.

I like that. That's cool. It was when I was thinking about this other deal about the air hose running to the bottom of the amp. I was thinking about putting a short piece of ribbon in there with a pin or something so that you could see the airflow anytime you looked over at it. But in your air conditioning business, as you guys probably got all kinds of thermocouples that you could simply put anywhere inside the. The tube area so that if it ever, if it ever started getting too warm because you didn't know that your secondary air supply shut off for whatever reason, it set off a buzzer or something or a light bulb, something.

I like it. You put that right inside the box, the air box. So, you know, with another little doohickey on the outside, a couple digital gauges for. So you knew what was going on with it. Like, when you're setting your variable speed to match the CFMs you want and all that good stuff, I'm running down the hall and six mtm.

I could hear you from just around the corner. Right there. I didn't want to pee myself. What? Larry, you did that for.

Anyway, if a guy was to mass produce these air boxes, nobody'd want to go make the part. The manifold that hooked to your linear or whatever, you were going to cool with it, but I guarantee you'd probably sell a couple of hundred of them off the top. Guys that had elaborate systems that just run an air pipe down the back of their bench so they could tap in anywhere they wanted with a short, clear hose or something. I got to have something, though. Some type of warning device. Be a bummer to have to replace five to $700 tubes times two over blower failure.

So I'll get back with you when I get to that point. I have, I have several two digit digital, For lack of better term, You know, readout. I could put voltage in and amperage in line. That would, on the outside of it, cut out nice square holes for it. On, off switch, the variable speed. Well, it has an on and off on that variable speed, so I don't have to worry about that. But you could definitely doll up the front of this ice chest.

Heck, you can buy them that you can have multiple choice on the color. All kind of weird. Pink and blue and yellow and green, red, you name it. That's a very small chip. Well, I talked to you off enough. I'll go look, see what's happening with the news. Work could break out at any time. I'm waiting for him to do El Salvador. That's going to be very interesting, but we're going to cut back the drugs coming into this country. He's kind of attacking the problem at the wrong end. Can you imagine or.

All these dopers, especially the heroin addicts and stuff, that are going to go crazy because there's dope's going to go sky high in price because there isn't going to be so as much easy access to it. And they'll be scrambling, rob analysis, stealing cars, you name it, to get the money to pay the exorbitant prices. But I'll tell you what might happen further down the road is you might find people go back to work because they can't get drugs so easy. It's not worth, not worth sitting around all day doing nothing.

They let him get away with it, then Trump will send him a deal. Look, the next ones that come over are out of here. He'll. He'll. He'll add another rule to the rules of war. I'm sure if you come within a certain distance, we're shooting. They're just seeing how far they can get away with. Just like when Russia sent those balloons over, over Canada or Washington, Oregon, whatever. Remember when those balloons went over, it was. They got the units. They know it was purely surveillance. They were just testing the water, seeing what they get away with. Now they got drones. You have to send a whole bunch of drones and get away with that. But they have, they have ways of doing away with it. Now, from the sky, J. They can micro.

Microwave them little suckers with Star wars and, and they can override them with wide band, overpowering them so that they can't get no signal. They've. They've already came up with ways to overdo that, running several frequencies. So you just got to cover a huge band with and, and high power. They'll just drop out of the sky. And I'm sure that's what part of Elon's deal he can actually do that. They're probably implementing a lot of that Starlink deals so that they can create that dome over the United States that they can do something about air traffic. Well, the El Salvador thing, or Venezuela, whatever. They're getting ready to go on land any day now. You wait and see. They're going to do away.

With the help of Starlink, I'm sure. Now I'm guessing at that. But they know where every drug manufacturing plant is. Way out in the middle of the jungle. Yeah, they're just gonna, they're just gonna blow them all up. The president down there, they told him that, they already told him a couple of days ago, get out of your area, otherwise they'll die and you're no longer the President. The. The administration down there is afraid that the cartels will kill all the administration. So. And you could, you could see down there in that land, I mean, that's, it's overridden with mob style takeover. Been that way for 20 years, I'm sure. But anyway, we could eradicate a lot of that.

The idea is to stop people in America from using the damn stuff. That would be the other end. They should be attacking simultaneously is doing something about the dopers. You know, we really should just cordon off, like the movie Cordon Off New York and put, put a nice wall up. You can only go in and out through a couple of different places so you can get food and stuff into them and send all the dopers to one one state. You get caught with drugs or anything, you just send them there. And if they get straight on their own, they can test positive, they can come back out, test negative, I should say.

Perfect. Perfect. That's. That's what I call district mandering. That's what they're blaming Trump for. For resume regime change. Using drugs for the reason to get the the right administrators in down there so we can work with them. All right. N6 NTM yeah, it's only gonna get worse for me. I still got a half a cup of coffee. I better go do something else. Well, very good. I probably won't be able to resist coming by and seeing how far Ron gets. He's still sleeping in because he didn't get back to me over that text I voice text I sent him about the hinge. So, yeah, I want to see what he's going to do about hinging that hinge is the right way to do it. I think we both.

Know that. All right. Good. Good morning, Blake, Steve and whoever. Whoever's listening. Paul's at work or something, I guess. N6NTM Good morning.