2m Simplex (146.520 MHz) recordings for 2026-01-04

Good. Anyone else on the ridge?

He didn't like the piece of coal he brought. You know, we're all seeming to be. A piece of coax to it, then.

Party. To deal with. Sa, You come down, you have a little cut on one side and you install a tree.

Yep.

Is that?

That being? Yeah.

It. Fallback.

Even. Your situation.

We should probably see. I do want to do that, you know, Someone told me, like, you're doing that, and then someone directed, you know, directed towards the pickle, let's say.

That serious about being interested in the event. Not a big deal. People that.

My office. On field day events and stuff like that. FT8 everything he's doing.

Yeah, John has poor ear. I hear John just fine. So not perfect, but I do hear John out there. Do you hear John? Jay, he's calling for you.

Move from one to another to another to another to two or three in a day or whatever. Use it on your cell phone, iPad or whatever, and your desktop goes well.

Know your.

About eight confirmations are so.

I don't know.

Speaker A: All right, well, I'm gonna go do something too. Kndk.
Speaker B: See you. That way, I turn the radio on, everybody
Speaker A: disappears. W6L.
Speaker B: Yeah. Good morning, Jay. Sorry about yesterday. I had other things going on.
Speaker A: Sounds good.
Speaker B: I just sat down with one. I gotta leave here in about an hour. Got a guy coming to the firehouse to do some radio stuff.

Speaker A: We could
Speaker B: use a dry out. The orchards are all wet. I was went over to Chico yesterday, over to Peugeot. Had to take my mom back to retrieve her car. My parents bought a pickup yesterday. Everything over there is just soaking wet.
Speaker A: Oh yeah. Yes, for sure. Anyway. Absolutely. Until we have the.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, there's standing water most of them. I imagine mine has some standing in it too. I was out there on New Year's Eve. I haven't been back
Speaker A: out since. Please. On New Year's Eve I had one
Speaker B: tree down. I haven't been back out. And then Tuesday I gotta go Sacramento so. And I don't know if I'm gonna get out there
Speaker A: tomorrow around. It's a little wet anyhow. Oh yeah, we need. We need
Speaker B: no more
Speaker A: than
Speaker B: rain now. We've had a lot of rain. Mountains are ready for some snow, that's for sure. But
Speaker A: yeah,
Speaker B: I. I drove. I only went to Chico with mom to. I drove the new pickup back after they came home in it and then took her back to get her car. And then I drove it back out to her house and she gave me a ride home. But other than that yesterday there was just nothing going on. And I didn't feel
Speaker A: real
Speaker B: good
Speaker A: yesterday morning. I don't know what was wrong. I was more congested and coffee. But I could be getting a cold. Yeah, I think that's. Propagation. Yesterday wasn't
Speaker B: all that
Speaker A: great. Yeah.

Speaker A: On 20 meters, 6 and 7, Oregon in washington. That was on c. It was way better in terms of that. I was going a lot longer. Mostly all east coast. Oh, absolutely.
Speaker B: I worked at Chico Station yesterday, of all things, on FT8, on 20 meters, kg, 6 TSM.
Speaker A: You know him? Yeah,
Speaker B: he worked me on and he gave me a minus 14, so he wasn't hearing me very well.

But no idea. He lives over there behind you. I actually know his son.

Speaker A: My orchard consultant.
Speaker B: No, absolutely not. He was a civil engineer, was what he was by trade, I think he said. Semi retired now. Is the guy there by you? His father farmed out there in Dayton, So I'm working right now on FT8 and 89 AR. I'm hearing him at a minus 3. I'll probably be like a minus 20.
Speaker A: I can't even hear me now.

Minus 14 and he. He went down to a minus six. I figured I'd be pretty weak.

He was in Indianapolis on 20 meters.

Speaker A: All right, steve. I'll be standing by w6lnd. Well,
Speaker B: good morning, John. Good to hear you out there. You're a little bit weak. You must be using a different radio.
Speaker A: Okay, that
Speaker B: explains it.
Speaker A: You usually have that booming signal down here. All right. Good morning to you again, John.
Speaker B: Safe travels. Where you're going, W6LND.

It. So easy, Tailgate.

Speaker A: And that little screen inside there wasn't deep enough to put the end of anyway anyway used all that wood stuff there. I never used this generator. Probably put a gallon or something like that in it like I was telling you and then I started up and running it a couple of times and after putting oil and all that stuff in it and. And checked out and started it up for. Yeah I used much gas and it was. It was still running.
Speaker B: I'll have to do use a phone
Speaker A: for a hot spot there. I'm not. I'm not seeing John's. I can't believe how much standing water
Speaker B: is one field after another.