2m Simplex (146.520 MHz) recordings for 2025-12-11

All right. And I got this one on. I turned it off last night wondering why it was so quiet. Yeah. Let me see here. Looks like it's 51 degrees up here in Magalia. Yeah. Washington got. And part of Oregon got 11 inches, and they were only predicted for six. And there's still more headed their way. Yeah. And it looks like we got a little rain in the forecast setting for Monday. And the numbers are starting to go up on percentages, so just high pressure is going to go away. N6 NTM and the start of yet another beautiful day. Good morning.

I run I run lock. But this. This radio so far off to the left side, I rarely bump this one, so it doesn't matter anyway. Just like the HF radio I that VFO is so sensitive and even though it has a nice appearance to the 101, That knob is so big that it is easy to touch it trying to get to the much smaller buttons all around it. So I just run the lock. No big deal. I don't find it a bother to unlock it if I want to change the frequency.

So the other day you text me and said check my mic. Is was Sally sitting on in the truck or was it here? And you don't know if I was in the mobile or not? I don't know how I that one can get keyed up. I don't remember doing any of that that you heard. So. Sometimes if I leave the one on in the garage, if it gets below 11, 10 and a half, 11 volts, it goes into keyed up mode. How do you like that? That's a flaw design, but anyway.

Anyway, that guy bought that radio just so he could use his handy talk and talk out of his mobile while he was in the hospital for a month or six weeks, something like that. So several times he ran his battery down and then that radio would go into key up mode until it got so low that it couldn't hold it keyed up anymore. So of course he gave it to Larry and Larry gave it to me. And my fix, my fix for that is to hook it up to them L6s, no L2. So anyway, them big, them big batteries and now I got the AGMs out there and, and just to make sure they stay up, there's six CAT batteries, so it's almost impossible for it to get below ten and a half.

Half volts unless I don't go out in the shop for a week. Yeah, they charged up. Yeah, I. I unplugged it yesterday evening when I shut the garage door and I plugged it back in, and there wasn't no big snap or anything, so. Yeah, I'll go out and check the actual voltage. Boy, the new RVs, they got all that stuff. I don't. I don't want to modify this one at all, but, you know, I. I would put in some digital numbers so you can see.

Them instead of having to go back there and push the rocker just to see four LED lights or whatever. That's kind of weird.

I know where there's one sitting right on the right side of Skyway. When you get down to the bottom, there's an open field before the expensive houses. And you can see that one sitting right there. It's primer red. It's been here for years. And it's got one of the transfer pumps on top of it. And it's a skinny one. It's about 10 inches wide, so you don't lose bed space, you know, to fill that thing up. Yep. I'll look at them sometime this morning.

Yeah, I see them. $2,237. They got that big plastic one they'll put in there. No, these all look like metal. Yeah. So they're copying the top of the original tank so it'll fit up in there. The one they put in yesterday on TV. That guy's Ford pickup only added 30 gallons, but it only added 27 to start with, so it doubled it. Made it 60. 2,788 bucks. I guess that's them installing it. You. You put that. You put your. You take your pump, the low pressure pump out of your old plug.

Plastic tank and it goes right in the new tank. So, yeah, there is a port. There is a port that you could put a secondary pump so you can have a hose and a nozzle and all that, so you could give somebody else fuel or fill up your tractor and all that stuff. So I'm just gonna go with the construction pump. They're only a 160 bucks or something for a pretty well known brand. The name ain't coming to me, but you know, all the loggers, all the guys that are running equipment on the job, are responsible for bringing us the fuel for the whatever, whatever piece of equipment you're running. And that way, you know, I only need about a six foot hose. You just throw that back in there, it's got a holster for it. They look a little weird, but.

I figure I'll just paint it white. White truck, white tank. Most people probably won't even notice it that way. When I want to put fuel in the tractor, you just pull up alongside it and fill it up. And it only holds four and a half gallons anyway. So I've been siphoning it out of Peterbilt most of the time. That gets old. No, I got air. I got onboard air in the Peterbilt. I just throw a rag around the fill nozzle, put the siphon hose in there and hit the tank with a little air pressure, and out it starts and it finishes. But it's still a hassle.

Yeah, they got them on the discontinued tables down there at True Value. They're, they got like a half inch hole or something and they're slow. It's a little model I don't like sitting around waiting. I've seen it though. It's got a check valve of check ball. And as you shake the hose back and forth, it pushes it down into the tank and. And then when you lift it back up, the ball closes the little deal so it can't go back the other way. Eventually it comes up and over the side and starts siphoning, holds the ball back. But yeah, I, I see how it works. If they sold it in a, in a, you know, three quarter or five, eight inch, you could get a decent flow going. I probably would have had one. I have a little 12 volt one. I can't remember where I got it and.

When I got it in the mail, it was only $22. It's just a little bit scary hooking it up to a battery if something goes wrong and you're there at the gas tank with it. But it worked pretty good. You didn't want to get it. You didn't want to get in the way of the flow. Otherwise you'd get some gas in your eyes while it's squirting. It has pretty good pressure, but anyway, it's a pain in the butt. It works with diesel, too, and I got a pretty nice pump. It's on the bench right now for the death. It'll It'll pump diesel or gasoline, obviously. You know, the pump part is completely separate than the motor part, so there's no fear. It's 110 volts, but excuse me, since it came from China, it had poop bearings in it. They were not sealed bearings.

So if you know how death works, if you know how corrosive death is, that was a. That was a catastrophe just waiting to happen. Planned adolescence, that's what I call it. So I got it all apart. I'm gonna take the amateur and what's left of one bearing down to bearing belt and chain to see if they can give me a pair of sealed bearings so I could just slide them on the shaft. I cleaned everything up and that. That's why that one quit working. I could hear it touching the armature, but it didn't. Didn't hit any windings or anything. So I'm gonna assume that it's gonna be ok. Well, I wouldn't use that in the truck either. I better. Just to buy one of them ones that bolts right in the top of those.

Tanks like transfer flow here. Too much money. I won't be going to them. I do like the 4 fuel level deal there. That shows you the fuel level in that tank. That that might be worth having for 273 bucks.

See what they're using in race cars. They got them flat pads. Looks like a heating pad that you put down in the bottom of the tank, then you put the foam on top so there's no slosh. And it. It sucks fuel wherever across the entire mat. And that is actually a filter as well. Those are pretty neat. Racing pickup. I'm looking at your pump. Deal. So how long does the batteries last?

You'd still be putting that thing on and off, on and off. Unless you got a big. A big tank. That would be the smart way to go. And I do got one. I do got a big tank. I got an 8 gallon metal tank that has a hose on the bottom of it. So as long as you elevate it, you got gravity flow. It's a regular sized nozzle on the end for filling your gas at a station.

Well, I was thinking about pushing that buy it now button. I'm thinking I got to take that thing off every time I. I fill it up. Huh. I guess if it's raining and snowy out there, it's convenient. Yeah, it's still a. Still a pain in the butt. Well, you got to take it off to fill it up. See? So you're still. You're still playing that game. I just want a big diesel tank. Wouldn't it be nice? Just go pull your truck over next to Lori's mom's generator right there. I'm just gonna get the one in the back of the truck. I guess I'll save the 38 bucks. Plus, I don't think I have prime delivery free delivery anymore. I only turn it on when I need it and then shut it off. It just costs you. Or I let Lori, who already has it because.

Got prime on tv, so I just send her the link, she gets it.

And you put a plastic bag over the nozzle.

The advertisement says it's powered by two AA batteries, and you can see the guys putting four in there.

You give the old one to Ronnie, he'll tape it up, baling wire, whatever it takes and it'll work. Not here. It's 5:46. I wonder what's the matter. Vehicle's never usually wrong. I better go get my phone. No wonder everybody was out here, huh? Yeah. That didn't make any sense to me. That didn't make any sense to me because Lori went to work before 6:30, so.

I'm going to do a system reset first.

Now. My. Now. Now my remote for the Geochron isn't doing anything. How do you like that? Well, you gotta go. Let's see. I'll try pushing the off button on and off. Don't work. But I can see the little LED lights working. Okay, I know how to do it. You just. It was on and working. And it's not just barely warm, so. Turned it on this morning. Sometimes you have to reset it, turn this other radio down. Sometimes you got to reset it and take out the little dongle out of it and they want you to wait a full five minutes.

Then you put the dongle back in, put the batteries back into the remote, and then you turn it on and they Both start off on 0 or 1. Whatever. Then everything works fine.

When we go hit the road, it'll be. It'll be summertime, I think. But that'd be a nice thing for Lori's mom, that pump, just in case. Well, I bought one gallon. I bought five one gallon containers and I used three of them for use, three of them for mixing the two stroke gas, you know, for the chainsaw. I just need a 1 gallon for that. And the plug. I have 12 stroke. I have 12 stroke water pump, so I don't need more than a gallon. And then I bought five. They're cheap on Amazon. They're the good ones with the push button on them. Only had one of those.

Go bad. Out of the 10 or 12 that I got, I bought 35 gallons, 52 and a half gallons and 51 gallons. And that's what I've been working off of. Oh, yeah. Lori's mom can actually manipulate the two and a half gallon ones. I keep one of those out there in the shed there next to generator. Not right next to it, but. Anyway, what's your new adventure? You got adventure going on for the winter? Hang on, Larry's talking.

See, I have to do my part to be. I can't think of what you call that. But yeah, Anyway, they told me to be. Be like that when I was going down the mill, across the scales with the chick was snitches, snitching me off left and right. And they wanted me to be congenial. No, that's not the word. But anyway, yeah, they wanted me to say good morning to her and all that stuff. And I said, why would I talk to her if she has any questions? Or to the legality of weighing in and weighing out? I got no reason to talk to her. And it got down to a point, after about the third time, they were telling me that because she was complaining that I wasn't being polite. Well, I wasn't talking to her at all. They told me, well, if you can at least be.

Oh, I almost had the word don't bother coming back. Well, I almost went and talked of Red Bearing, and he's the one that runs all the SPI and got his take on it. But anyway, check it out. The two big top bosses and that chick don't work there anymore. And it's been like that for two years. So shortly after they told me not to come back. At least not back down to Lincoln anyway, which is no skin off my butt, I they were gone. They got rid of all three of them people. So my buddy John lives down in Chico. He's got two log trucks now. He's been begging me to come back. Work logging that they won't even know. But anyway, do well.

Take all those jobs, right? I mean, what's the need for someone like that anyway? You know, robot or a machine can. Can do that kind of work. You could just do it yourself. There. There are cases, there are deals out there where there is no Waymaster. You don't know if you're getting screwed or not, because it looks okay on the little stick sub they give you. But if at the end of the month or whatever, and you can see things aren't just right, you. You get the hassle, then. So, yeah, yeah, they'll. They'll. They'll have it. They'll have it dialed pretty soon, just like you're saying. AI's taking. Taking over a lot of jobs. And in a lot of ways, Steven AI, customer services will be better than dealing with these next two.

Generations that don't know the first thing about customer service. Yep. AI is taking over, even building houses. I was seeing on the business report yesterday, they were showing framing robots that are framing, so they have stacks of lumber, and the robot's grabbing one and doing whatever it's got to do and building walls and so forth, stacking them up. So this company was saying they can do 70% of the house with robots. So there you go. Oh, they'll be able to do the whole house. I watched the thing and the Tesla car, and there's 12 of them or 15 of them going across the United States as we speak. And the guy rode in the car. I think they went up to Seattle and back, and it made every maneuver perfectly.

They're getting there, I think. Well, I've seen some quality, the quality of some of the work done by these subdivision builders and stuff, the kind of quality of people they hire and so forth. And in a lot of ways I think I prefer to have a robot built house because you know what you're gonna get. Well, you'd have to be there watching it. But I'd be willing to bet you that if, if you are having AI or robotics build your house, you could probably tap in and watch it happen. They'll probably send you a tape so you can see every nail pound. Yeah.

And this is KN6MGK, by the way. Yeah, something like that. I bet it is good. But, you know, it won't make any mistakes unless the programmer made a mistake. But, you know, it's just gonna do whatever. Whatever it was told to do. Well, Elon's loving it. You can watch two side by side. Two cars are being built as the EX, same time. And the production line's only, what, 180ft long. Pumps out two cars. I. I can't remember how many minutes it takes to build a car, but it ain't that long. 30 minutes, I think. And that thing runs day and night. You still got to have mechanics, but they. They got. They know what the repetition is. And if it goes.

Into a fault mode, then it resets itself. However, if somehow it doesn't go right back to regular programming, then a guy's got to come out. You know, they're. They're on the floor, you could see one or two people and the whole thing. The cars are being pumped out, but. And there's one or two people that are out and walking around. So it's not a hundred percent, but it's 999 anyway. Well, when working on cars, mechanics these days have to have a whole bunch of computers and stuff like that too. So they can't just. I remember a buddy of mine who's passed away now, but he was a mechanic, and he could grab onto a coil wire and tell you exactly what was going on with the electronic distribution in that engine. Well, anyways, that stuff can't happen anymore.

So, yeah, they've got to use computers now to sell them everything.

Well, good morning, Jay. I just kind of bumped in here, was looking at the business channel and I heard you all talking. But anyway, good morning and yeah, we'll see. I might make it over for coffee. Yeah, I only got a half a cup earlier and I told them guys on 95 that I was running to make me a cup and I never got up unless and did it. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna go grab some coffee. I'll let you catch up with Jay while I'm doing that. N6 NTM and good morning to you. Good morning, Kilo. November 6th Mike Golf Kilo for ID and question for Jay was I did text whether he received a message from me direct on Meshtastic when I was at the property. I don't think I got a response to that. I thought you did because it gave me a little tick mark in it.

So I just close it. I don't understand. I would wait for about 30 seconds and I close it and then it reboots. It all works. So I would. I don't bother with those that those they come up and a lot of times they go say zero and then you can just hit close. So once you've made a change, you hit save for save a friend. Anyway, I thought you adjusted all those settings yesterday so no need to change them, right? That's number one and the number two. And I was saying the another way to make the whole thing better is having two, right? So if you've got one up on a pole somewhere or outside where you can't access it, you have to be able to wake it up. So you can wake it up with a second one just by sending a message or something to that effect, right? You have to wake it up. That's how you do it.

Yeah. I mean, I have a hard time establishing Bluetooth connections sometimes to one of my nodes. And the way I have to. First thing I have to do is wake it up, and then all of a sudden, it'll establish Bluetooth. So I end up waking it up by, like I said, you know, with the other node, I send something out, and that wakes it up. I mean, they go to sleep. That's what they do. They're waiting for. Waiting for the signal to come across or something like that. So they're trying to be in power save mode anyway. So that's what happens when they go. A long time, at least. Okay, well, I'm not sure what that means, but okay. I think they only come up, like, every 15 minutes or something like that. Say hello to the world.

Yeah, you need to get John to get one. If John gets one, you see, then that's going to be a game changer, telling you, especially if you have line of sight to him, he's going to want one anyway. So he gets one up there and, you know, you guys can communicate back and forth and that keeps your. Keeps it awake in step two. Yeah, I think everyone needs two. Probably. Probably one of those little flat card looking things and. And then a node you can put up on a pole somewhere. That's one of the mistakes I made, by the way, when I first started. I think it works a lot better when I have two here at the.

House. So one inside the house that can communicate with the one outside. KN6MK. Going back to listening.

Yeah. Let's see. Blake, Paul, John, you. If you all have that, I think that would create a little bit of a mesh right in between you guys.

Looks like my laptop. I got the right time now. 7:24 came on a little while ago, but try this one more time. Hey, it worked that time, all right. Looked like it was getting turning into one of them mornings.

Well, it's too early for me. Otherwise I'd join you. I might be able to pull it off by then. I'll let you know. There you go. Don't count on me. But, yeah, I might be ready to. I'm gonna go turn the TV on and. And. And see if there's anything interesting there. Otherwise, I'm still sitting here in my underwear. There's a picture for you.

Hear the water bobbling. I get coffee this time.

I ordered the pump. Yeah, for Lori's mom, if nothing else. Thanks for that, Jay. Yeah. If I knew you were gonna order one, we could have got two. For what? 18? It was an 8. 8%. I forget. But you know how they always offer you that? 300 of them bought in the last month. Boy, there's some lazy people out there.

Now I'm not even seeing it. Huh? That has nothing to do. Yeah, Now I don't even see the buy 2 price or the buy 3 price.

A different way. I put down buy two of them. $76. 38, 8, 16. No, you don't get no break if you buy two.

Well, for $42, you can get the automatic fuel transfer 3.2 gallons per minute.

I got my Starlink mini yesterday or day before. Couldn't bring myself to open the box, though. But when we go rving, It's only $5 a month to put it on standby, so I figured we could, we could handle that. That way I can get the. The plug and all that put in. Yeah, I seen on this program, we watched this couple turn around RV and. And their new.

Their new trailer. Airstream already has a Starlink button and the connection on the outside. So all you do is pull into a place, unwrap the cord, set it out wherever you want to put it, and. And put go push the one button inside and you're hooked.

All right, I'll look for that. I am going to. That is my first priority. When I go outside to go play with that put the. Put. Check both batteries for voltage, see if they're both still the same. And if they're. Everything's okay. Well, I got to have it wound up. Yeah. Too lazy to get close to it. But I do see a whole bunch of. I do see a whole bunch of different style pumps. Man, I wish I would have went and looked at them and checked them out. But I. I like the one that you, you ordered. The same exact one that I just bought. Okay. Yeah. So we got the same one. Right on.

Well, I still got three quarters of a cup of coffee. Jay, if you want to go eat and you're ready to go, go ahead and take off. I. I think I'm on a path. Yeah, it sounds good to me. I'm just still sitting here in my underwear. Yeah, I don't have the unction to get up and get moving yet, so otherwise, I am too lazy to cook a couple eggs. Even though everything's right there. It'll only take me a minute. Right down to fresh made bread and everything. Just too lazy to do it. And I don't go down there and eat by myself. I mean, I have before, but I next to rarely ever do. It's always a lot more fun when you got company, so. But anyway, do, do, do.

I know you don't watch Buddy. Buddy Brown on YouTube. He is fun to watch, though. I like the shorts on YouTube, too, but Buddy Brown on YouTube, I like his, I like his take. He does, he, he does one a day or something like that. And he's, and he's got like five years of him to. But anyway, I was, I was, I was watching one the other day. I like, I like that Baby Trump. You ever watched one of them? Oh, yeah. Those are smoking this. And he uses rednecks because he's, because he's a white boy. So he can say, say neck without any retaliation. These.

Two redneck hunters were walking through the forest, and. And they come across this big hole in the ground, and they. They both look down in there, and. And Baby Trump is narrating this joke, and it's a cartoon to look at. Video. So. The one, the one hunter looks over at the other redneck hunter and says, and that's a deep hole. I can't see the bottom. And the other one says, well, we could. We could throw something down in there and see how long it takes to hit the bottom. And the other one said, well, I seen a gearbox sitting right there over there, and on the trail. Let's go get that and throw that down in there. So they. They went over and picked it up and dragged it into both the 1, 2, 3, and threw it in the hole. And they hurt.

This rustling in the bushes behind him. And pretty soon this goat comes along and jumps right down, head first into the hole. And they both looking at each other and. And they were scratching their heads. And the farmer comes along and says, oh, good morning. Have you guys seen a goat? And the one guy goes, yeah, Dwight just came running over here and jumped down in this here hole. And the farmer scratching his head now and he says, well, I don't know how he could have got over here. I had him chained to a gearbox right over there.

Okay, jack, that's the first clean joke I've heard in months. Enjoy.n6ntm.

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Flow. Mobile seat? A little bit. I tried to give you one in paradise, remember? No, it also wasn't gobs and money. It was free. No, you would have to do a lot of work to it though. I get it.

Transfer foam makes nice stuff, but they're usually pretty proud of it, too. I got a couple aluminum ones at home. Otherwise, I was tempted. I was tempted, Steven, when you offered. I think I put one of them aluminum ones on somewhere at the house so I could just put the tractor. But now that I got this, Jay referred, and they're. And you get a pretty good discount because that's where Franklin gets all their stuff. So I couldn't say no for 1600 bucks.

At the meeting. I was there until 11:30. I'm home now. Yeah. So nobody ever wants to go out to eat or nothing like that. So I just get at them. I got things to do. Yep. The ones that we use up there in Yankee Hill, like, the ones, I forget what they cost, but they're about half that price, if I remember right. But they're not Transfer Flow. Like, they're like the same company, Delta, that makes. That makes them. Construction users use them a lot, but, yeah, they're not Transfer Flow. I tried to work for Transfer Flow, but they wouldn't accept me.

Yeah. Now I've already come home. Yep. I've got to get going here in a minute and collect up some leaves and stuff like that, so. No, no go. Yep. Gotta be a little earlier on a day like this. I guess so. I guess I'll miss again.

Chat. I don't know. Martine was saying, I think it's a little over $3 a gallon. That probably feta falls for diesel right now. He went and filled up everything, so that's pretty reasonable.

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Yep. That's what the construction guys do. You know, I guess it keeps. It lets. It gives you a choice to be able to fill other things. And he buys a lot of diesel stuff, like even a diesel Volkswagen, so he could fill up his other cars, his tractors, Bobcats, all that stuff. That's why he goes and fills it up and gets, you know, the truck full plus 100 gallons. And he goes around and fills up stuff and he has to go back and get bored. See, there'll be a difference. In your truck. It's just for the line fuel line. And it pumps the fuel to the high pressure pump. When your tank gets down to a. Your stock tank gets down to a break. I didn't like. But if only uses it purpose just, you know.

Then it's probably.

Well, when you're going to get one of these meshtastic devices, John, you need two of them. Kn6mgk.