2m Simplex (146.520 MHz) recordings for 2026-01-06

Speaker A: Good morning. Five two, this is kilo. November 6th. Mike, golf. Kilo. Good morning. Yep. Had a cup of
Speaker B: coffee. Brought some coffee to the wife. So things are looking up. Pretty much. Cloudy skies, but people are dogs outside. So I
Speaker A: think we're going to have a decent day here in Chico. How about you? Okay. Did you make it out to Mr. Lunch yesterday? Since you had to go out anyway.

All right. Beijing radio is going on. You've been on 80 meters.

Yeah, I turn them on. I haven't turned them on in a few days, at least. Maybe a week or so. So I'm not sure what them guys are up to.

Speaker A: Well, yeah, you know, let me. Okay. Well, I was going to say
Speaker B: one of
Speaker A: the
Speaker B: things that talks a lot about ferrite beads and toroids in general has been a YouTube channel under the Smoking Ape kind of. You can look through his channel and see different topics on toroids and mixes and things like that. I'm sure you'd have to look potentially over the last couple years because you brought up that topic several times and he's done experimentation with it and stuff. But I think in General, like mix 31 is a little bit better for the lower bands. Mix 43 is a little bit better for the higher bands. So I don't think there is something that's perfect. I have no idea what these companies are using for their ferrite beats in the first place when you buy some of these that have it on there. But I some of these cheap Chinese ferrite beads, I don't think they really do the job. So if I was really being particular about it and I wanted to buy ferrite beads, I'd probably have to, well, either trust like what ham radio outlet has or something or buy directly from Mike Palmar who has known good. And they're good engineers. Right. So they have good quality. I'm sure there might be another company too like that Allen Designs or something, you know, I don't know. But at least, you know, use reputable company like that to get the right size. You need.

Yeah, well, I don't think most of them are designed that way, so I would presume that was. Yeah, but then you'd have to use a bigger right? You'd have to put more than one loop through it type of thing.

What she got through. What you got going on? Some of the work.

Yeah, well no, I don't look at DX Engineering. I've never bought for them so. But I will say that magnetic hoops are interesting. People thought about building them and so on. They're not that big. So I think the main component is that. Isn't that like some sort of a magnet or something down there at the bottom that you can adjust and so on? Anyway, it'd be fun to play around. And in terms of working places, yeah, there's always a stinker in the office. That's the way it is. I never found a place that was perfect so I just tried to develop good business with people as much as I could. Although there were some incidents and that's the way it went. So I don't know. My wife works at that company so they hire a lot of Native Americans and some of those are hard to move along, you know what I'm saying.

Yeah. Dan Pat filters. Yeah. Kennedy build them where he could order them, man. Anyway, that KV9BBR, Michael Martin a few years ago, he discussed. He discussed some, you know, like Morgan, I think it was a brand or something brand that Gars ended up going with. And they were fairly expensive. You know, they've been working pretty good. So hard to. Hard to deny that, but there was a set you could buy like you could buy. I think they came from China, of course, on like, you know, the different aliexpresses and so forth. And a few business been going. This neighbor Chris over here, he. He got a set of those from. From the Ham Fest and I think, you know, they paid like 80 for all five or something like that. You know, he got a decent deal on them and he used them. Last time I was with them both, he's one and they seem to work okay as far as I could see. The only interference between us two and I'd be working on. He was on 20, so bands are pretty close.

Speaker A: Yeah, well, build them, I guess. Could be cheap, but not a good one. So I think you should look at that video from DBR and look at those units,
Speaker B: if you're interested in one anyway. Yeah, well, there's kits like that too. I think for the most part, these ones you have to be prepared to wrap a lot of toroids. You don't know
Speaker A: Michael Martin. You do too, because, you know, you just played his video for tape measure. You're washing stuff.
Speaker B: KB9, Vbravo, Victor, Bravo, Romeo. Anyway, I bet you could Google that call sign.
Speaker A: You know, bandpass filters. And I bet you bring it up. I'll try it right now.

Speaker A: Yeah. Anyway, so.
Speaker B: And I don't think they look terrible, but the Gar's group, what happened was some of us, not me, I did invested the money. One of the guys, there was like five of them, and they all invested the money. They ordered them up and they put it with the club, you know, and now what happens is, you know, the club disbands or whatever. I don't know. You got me. I guess what's happening, they all forget about it. It ends up being a donation. But who gets them? I've always thought. I've always wondered about that going to disappear. And they have been so. I don't know what. It's all the equipment and stuff that's all around, laying around, and houses that belongs to the club or whatever, you know.

Well, if you're really wanting to learn how to do things, you know my out there at the Gears Club, at least doing QRP Labs bulk buy. I don't know how far along they are with that, but. So you can buy all kinds of kits, like from QRP Labs, different things to build different radios. You could build a 20 meter radio, you could build a multi banded radio, whatever. They're small little radios. And then they have all kinds of surface components. I mean, those are already integrated on board. But all kinds of Polaroids and things like that you got to put together and put in place, solder them on and so forth. And then you can build your own complete radio. And that's going to have Van Tass in it too.

Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Here's one on kitsandparts.com Let me see what it is. So this may be the one I've seen before, but like the board shows L1, L2, those are inductors. L3, that are inductors. So they're wrapped and then there's capacitors, a couple of capacitors in there. Then of course, a couple of junctions and a couple. Yeah, so,
Speaker B: yeah, that's how that goes.
Speaker C: You can't go your
Speaker A: band. You gotta leave your radio on the filters for somebody else. That's what you have to do. That's part of what clubs run on there. You know, bands, how that works, Right. They actually have a band plan. So there's a. Usually a band coordinator. That's how that works. So before you change, you're supposed to. You're supposed to communicate with the
Speaker B: band coordinator at a field day. I can't hear him this morning.

Speaker A: Yeah, that price has gone up a little bit I think. But that's about right. I think it's 100 bucks or so. If I remember right. There's a couple. Invest in, in one, you know. So what if you're going out on. I'm going to say, you know, 15, 20, 17, you know, 10, 12, you know, those are all the higher bands. So 40 meter doesn't come until
Speaker B: later than 80 at night. Yeah, I like 15 meters a lot
Speaker A: is like, let's say if you can, like if you can work it out like say you have a 20 meter filter on and you stay on 20 meters, that's all you do. Then say Blake was on something else if he has no filter. But I mean do you care? Well, you probably do because he's your brother. But if you have operating somewhere on your own and you don't care probably what somebody else is going through, it's their
Speaker B: having a pilcher on their unit, right? That's correct, yeah. Because the
Speaker A: pass is only like for you what you transmit and you receive. It's going to clean up everything on both sides. So you won't be sending out any negative harmonics, but they'll be here. The 20 meter band potentially interfering with them because you're so close. So yeah, they 15 and they don't want to hear you then they have to have a 15 meter passover.

Speaker A: Yeah, I copy that. Anyway, so that's why it's important on a field day event. Like we're going to run three or four transmitters. Three is a good number, I think, for three different antennas and so forth anyway. And then people share time on each different transmitter or whatever. You pick the different bands, you know, that you're going to do like 20, 15 and 10, you know, or whatever, which is fairly common on a good, you know, like C17 meters. Those are the work bands. Right. So not really in any other than, you know, they're not really
Speaker B: in any sort of field day event. Kb9bvr
Speaker A: stated yeah, if you go and you have that filter on there, you know. Yeah, you're gonna mess up
Speaker B: the filter. Yeah. Probably blow out a capacitor. Kn6MGK. I'm going to go make some breakfast.

Need more k and 6 mgk.

Yeah.