2m Simplex (146.520 MHz) recordings for 2026-01-09

Speaker A: Did jim forget us? This is w6js standing by. Also. Just be patient.
Speaker B: Maybe Jim didn't get a battery for his watch for Christmas. That could be it. Just a W6JS.

Speaker A: Yeah, Jim, I was ready to call the police and give a welfare check on you. We were getting worried. If you're gonna show up this Saturday, we're gonna have our ham breakfast. Everybody's invited for that. You pay for what you eat. Also testing the first Sunday of February coming up. Be the first Sunday on 2 o' clock at Elk Lodge. That's all I've got. This is Tom, W6JS. I'm glad you
Speaker B: showed up, Jim. We were getting worried.
Speaker C: Jeremy and I'll be in and out, champ. Thanks for doing that. And
Speaker B: w6lnd.
Speaker C: Kt 6 USC
Speaker B: Bell in Cafe.
Speaker C: I'm not worried in the least. Check me in. Put me on the list.

And 6mtm. John up Magalia Good evening to the Net and thanks for doing it. Jim, back to you.

Yeah. Do you remember Ron Wandswick? He ran or was a controller for the repeater for the wind system. And he was in Paradise. And then he got burned down and he moved to Gridley. He passed away a week and a half ago. I told my wife I'm not going to take in any older friends. They got to be younger because they're passing away left and right on me. Look at. Look at our fourth district, Doug LaMalfa. Another good friend gone. And I don't know, that one sounds kind of shady. With Enloe. I don't know about that one. In the hospital for six hours. I couldn't stop him bleeding. Good grief. That's all I've got. And I'm glad you're okay and kicking. Are we going to see you for Saturday? This is Tom W6JS across from Denny's on the freeway.

Yeah, about a week ago. It was a Wednesday. Had lung cancer and I can understand it. He smoked like a chimney. He smoked. Unbelievable. He rolled his own cigarettes. He had such a demand for smoking. I guess he was stuck on it. I always tell him, that's gonna kill you, Ron. And he said, it ain't killed me yet. But it did. Finally. He had lung cancer. It's a shame, but it happens. He was. I think it was 90 or 89 maybe. Anyway, yeah, he passed away. He's gone. This is Tom W. 6 JS.

HC 6 USB bill in? Yeah. Used to hearing Ron on the wind system Friday evenings. He was part of that technical support group. They have a program every Friday at 6 o'. Clock. So. This aorta anurags exploded. When that happens, there's nothing you can do. You got five minutes, your heart pumps you out and that's it. No matter what Antelope did, there's nothing. There's no way that's going to shift them. When you're aorta has aneurysm that explodes. That's it. That's it. Sorry to hear that too. He's a good guy. Met him a couple times. Anyway, just watching the place dry out finally and the rivers are starting to go down. And this morning there was a little frost out there. So I figured that was it for winter. So we'll start heading on into spring now. Start warming up. Back to you, KC6, UFC.

And 6 NTM. No snow this year and very little up there on in Truckee. But last, last year we got some in March. So I think in the cold weather could still appear tomorrow. Should be 33 degrees up here. Things are covered all right. I think we're at about 6, 67, 8, about 69 inches on the rain. That's, that's our average anyway. A little over N6 NTM. Good evening, everybody. Back to you, Jim.

Speaker A: You had a station in there, jim. Jeff. Give
Speaker B: me a call again, I'll relay in. Kilo, bravo 9, mike, yankee foxtrot. Jim. Kilo, bravo 9,
Speaker A: mike,
Speaker B: yankee foxtrot.
Speaker A: Kilo, bravo 9, mike, yankee foxtrot. Jeff and arland.

Speaker A: Kb9 Mike, Yankee Fox. You still in here, Jeff? All right. This is W6MD. I'm also an orange. Are you kind of clipping into all the repeaters and stuff around here? I live
Speaker B: in town. I see you're out on road E, correct?
Speaker A: Yeah, my parents live on Road E. But
Speaker B: 14715, it's in Glenn County. It's behind the lake up at about 3,100ft. It's not got a lot of activity, but we're hoping to get some more activity on it. 147105W6GRC. Gary is
Speaker A: the repeater owner. So that repeater
Speaker B: is on
Speaker A: solar,
Speaker B: but it is also with dual generator backup at a cellular tower. It's also where the. Where the sheriff's office
Speaker A: and the fire department's repeaters are.
Speaker B: Yeah. So it's Red Mountain. It's to the west of Crome. It's about, oh, probably about 20, 15, 20 miles from where
Speaker A: you are, the way the crow flies. Okay.
Speaker B: You're about a F9 to me here, and I'm on the east side of Orland. Jim has pretty good ears. He's the net controller on the Simplex Net. He is. He's based over in Chico, kind of on the northeast side of Chico.

Well, you know, you move antennas to different locations, soil composition and all those things will affect it, right?

Speaker A: There you go. Yeah well I have a. I just have a 80 to 10 meter infant halfway here on my lot in town and for the most part I have invis. I don't. I can't get out and really reach around a lot of places.
Speaker B: Yeah you do. There is
Speaker A: an amateur radio club here in the county based out of Willows but they do their meetings in our place. I know that we're doing a field day event out at Black Butte Lake on winter field day and the club has a webpage and it is garshamradio.org and if you put in Glenn Amateur Radio Society it should point you in Google it should point you to the page and the president. I'm no longer in the. I'm
Speaker B: no
Speaker A: longer one of the people in charge but I had to step down due to other reasons. I got too much going on. But if you. You send a message through the website the president of the club he's very helpful and probably would be more than willing to help you.

10 meters has been pretty hot as of late. Sideband. A lot of times verticals do work and they have a different takeoff angle, but a lot of guys like the horizontal antennas or something of that nature.

Yeah, well, I just wanted to introduce myself. I don't have. We got three or four hams here in town, so we don't have a whole lot of us kind of a. There's just not very many of us here in town.

Speaker A: Okay. I'm looking here on the map, so you're actually not too far from. From my parents. It looks like you live in there, back in there along Hambright
Speaker B: Creek.
Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. So my parents live on the north side of Hambright Creek on the
Speaker B: side of the road right along the creek. Yeah, absolutely. You're a little bit
Speaker A: south of them, but yeah, basically the same neighborhood. Looks like you live over there by the Porters. Yeah. Okay. Well, I just wanted to introduce myself. I'm going to go get my get ready for bed. But wanted to introduce myself. And like I said, we got that one repeater. There's another repeater in the county as well. It's up high level. The Carla system has a local, the link side. Those repeaters will reach all over the state. So if you have access to repeater books listed in there.

I think here in town, you could get into the 085 with a handheld in the right spots. That's a really strong repeater and a really good location. But like I said, there's just a couple out west here that are local and have local people on them sometimes. So put that in your Listen bank. You might hear us out there occasionally.

That's a pretty strong handheld. Be careful with putting that out because those can cause some damage.

Speaker A: Okay. So using right now.
Speaker B: Okay. I think those were a popular radio. I don't know if they still make them or if that's the current model. I'm not sure. I don't really use any Aces stuff. I'm on a ICOM 9700
Speaker A: base station. Yeah,
Speaker B: you gotta be careful with those because sometimes they. If you put it on a meter and check
Speaker A: the
Speaker B: wattage.

Okay. Well, that's interesting. I've pretty much most of my foldables are Motorola. I understand a lot of the older ones, you know, that are not used anymore have been recovered.

Kn6mgk kilo november 6 mike gold, kilo good morning.

Kn6MGK. Putting the call out one more time. Good morning.

Speaker A: Oh yeah. N6wip. N6mtm. So you're gonna go eat breakfast first, huh? I would have only ate
Speaker B: one of those, but I was. I was very tempted to get it. I had to look at them a couple of times. Probably glad I didn't. But. Yeah,
Speaker A: they don't put no hamburger meat in theirs, huh? Well, it
Speaker B: used to be at least way back, you know, 20 years ago, what they used to do when they made biscuits and gravies, they'd take the unsold cooked meat from the day before and they'd cut it up real small hamburger, whatever. Whatever meat they had the majority of, and they'd put that in there with no skin off their butt to make. Make good tasting gravy.

Know what time. All right, that gives me plenty of time.

Speaker A: So it's self cleaning. I don't cook enough to.
Speaker B: I don't cook enough to have contemplated it. That's full blast, ain't
Speaker A: it? I don't think I ever seen 600 on a home oven. Sweet. That's easy.

Yeah, that just keeps cooking for that hour. Yeah, I'd be afraid.

I had hamburgers last night on Lori's second loaf of sourdough fresh made bread.

Speaker A: And and sourdough pancakes with your starter what most people throw away as you're feeding it a couple of days before you use it Yep
Speaker B: sourdough pancakes hello Terry. Terry rants and raves about it he loves it. All right well I'll turn it back over to you guys and
Speaker A: I'll go back in the listening mode I've seen some pretty good news there on YouTube they're really they're really driving on old news scum A new lady came in there with all the numbers all the receipts 70,000 trucks re moved relocated I started to say out of California in 2025 and now with all these gas stations closing and some that did in in 25 there's more more to shut down and refineries in 26 boy he's stiffen up the flexibility in California it's going to take a couple years for it to bounce back yeah but I'll be glad I may show up down there when he passes away if they put him in a regular graveyard just to pee on his grave N6 NTM.