2m Simplex (146.520 MHz) recordings for 2026-01-11

Speaker A: Good morning, kn6mgk.
Speaker B: Morning, steve. W6lnd.
Speaker A: Hey, good morning. Thought of a name yet?
Speaker B: Yeah, I think we got it.
Speaker A: Okay, so what's the name?
Speaker B: Because she has a shaped like a heart.
Speaker A: Oh, okay. Cornstones. Okay. Yeah. So now she's a Spanish dog too.
Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. Right now I got her from a farmer out in Baylor.
Speaker A: Oh. My wife was wanting to know. Yeah, okay. So does the farmer have more?
Speaker B: This was the last one.
Speaker A: Yeah, not surprised. That's how that goes. Nice looking puppy. Yeah.
Speaker B: The price was only 300 bucks. Cost you that to go get one at the pound.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah. I don't know. I paid $50 for my last dog, Mr. Willie, as a donation. I don't think I've ever spent more than. More than that. Really. Much more than that. But I've always had Nick's dogs.
Speaker B: She's Jack Russell, basically. Rat Terry, they call him a decorator.
Speaker A: Yeah. Cool. Yeah, I'm sitting here trying to work some FT8 also. So there's a boda station on 40 meters trying to get into them. Looks like LA or somewhere over there.
Speaker B: I don't think PSK was working this morning. I can hear it interfering with your radio when it's transmitting.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, I can believe it. Yeah. Just like other folks out there putting their. Like right now, this transmit at 25 watts. Is it. Is it affecting it right now?
Speaker B: No, it's not now, but it was earlier I. You had hum in there and like. Huh. So when you said FT8, then I
Speaker A: knew what it was. Right, right. And so it's going to transmit here in about 10 seconds and we'll see then if it does that. I'm sure it will. Probably will.
Speaker B: Right. I just exercised the battery. It ran about a day and a half running the station, so. Gonna exercise the other battery probably some point this week.
Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. So is there a hum right now?
Speaker B: Slight, but not bad.
Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Well, it just. It was at the end of the transmit cycle and it was just sending the roger out, so to the Pona station. So anyway, yeah, it's done now. Unless I find another guy. I just. Anymore. I don't just put cqs out too much. I just wait till I see someone I like. I put it. I put one or two CQs out just. Just for giggles. But usually like this time of day, I'll get nothing but Japan. Like right now, just putting that one PO out. A Japan station already came back.
Speaker B: Yeah, I like fleas. Right. I worked a. Worked a VK4 over near Brisbane yesterday. ST8. I think it was on 20 meters. No, I was on 10 meters.
Speaker A: Yeah. Do you think East Malaysia is a different country than, say, any other Malaysia? I don't know because it's popping up right now for dx. But I tried to get to him. He wouldn't respond.
Speaker B: Yeah, he may not be hearing you. I tried to work in Malaysia last night, no luck. But like I said, I put out probably 10 or 15 cqs this morning. I couldn't get anything coming up on PSK. I know. A week ago or so PSK wasn't working.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I'll have to. All I know is people are coming back to me like that. I didn't even put a CQ out. And the Japanese got three of them right away after putting out that one response to a poda.
Speaker B: They're like fleas, right?
Speaker A: Yeah, they can be. And you know, whatever it is, they have some good tactics. They work. Evidently, when I go out and try to. To just blanket, give someone a cq, not a cq, give someone a response with. Even with a signal report in it, I don't oftentimes it'll get nothing back.
Speaker B: Yeah, I just call CQ anymore. Every time I ever try, damn near reach out to somebody, don't get them. If somebody reaches out to me, I try. Mark Automatic courtesy.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah. So you get four of these Japanese guys and you didn't even call, put on cq. You try to get. You get back to them?
Speaker B: Yeah, I do.
Speaker A: I see. Yeah, I don't. Although one time I got an interesting one. I can't confirm anything, but remember that one baseball player in Seattle, like Suzuki something. Here's something. Suzuki. Hiroshima. Suzuki or whatever. I don't know. Anyway, his name popped up after I looked him up. And I'm like, wow, that's interesting. Is that him? Is that him? I was reading through it. It doesn't appear to be him. So maybe more. More people have that same name in Japan.
Speaker B: I think it's a pretty common name.
Speaker A: Log this one real quick.

Speaker A: Yep. Well, that's how long it takes to log one right there from start to finish. After having to change everything over to, you know, the mode and all the stuff in the software. Since I'm not running anything like HEM Radio Deluxe and tracking everything, I mean, I just threw my computer up real quick and stuck the cable in and started putting out. Start looking at FT8.
Speaker B: I feel like right now I'm running FT8 as well. I'm seeing some stuff on PSK. It should start to receive or send. Now I'm sending. Is it interfering?
Speaker A: No, no. How many watts are you transmitting? Yeah, well, when I was doing 25 watts, you were saying. And I transmitted on purpose when you were. I was talking to you, you said you didn't hear nothing. And then when I came back with adding more power than I did, then you said it was a hum.
Speaker C: Yeah, see, I'm at 30 watts right now. We'll see if I see anybody, if anybody gets back to me. I'm seeing Indonesia, a few Arizona, Illinois, Canada. There's some stations out there. I'm on 40 right now.

Speaker A: I see you saw me 82 seconds ago.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, I'm gonna see you here real soon too, I think, because I'm gonna try for you without even. I didn't see you on the screen. Yeah, I'm transmitting the call right now. I'll be surprised. Maybe you won't see me if I'm on the wrong 15 second interval.
Speaker A: You're on the same interval as me?
Speaker B: Yeah, because I won't be.
Speaker A: I just went to even.
Speaker B: I have to change back anyway. We'll see. Let's see if we get you this time. I don't know, I didn't see you at all, but I'm just putting out the blanket call.
Speaker A: I'm looking for you. I haven't seen your call come up yet, but I. I'm at 50 watts now.
Speaker B: Yeah, I just saw you so I grabbed you.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's working. Yeah. You're a plus 19.
Speaker B: Yeah. You're at plus 00.
Speaker A: Yeah. My antenna is not very good, is it?
Speaker B: Well, just for fun, I'll add negative O2. Okay, well just for fun, I'll lower the power. We'll see. You're doing 30 watts.
Speaker A: I'm at 50 right now.
Speaker B: Okay, well, I'll log in a second, but I'm going to change the power and I'll put the call. Just put a blanket call out there again.
Speaker A: You're a plus 23.
Speaker B: Yeah, I'll go to 50 watts and see. I'll just put out a blanket call again for you. And you can, you can. You don't have to respond to it. You can tell me what you see. If you see a difference, I'll Change it to 50 watts.
Speaker A: My computer is gonna answer it automatically. So I'll have to cancel it.
Speaker B: Yeah, you can, you can do whatever you want to do it. It won't unless you click on it. Right. You can just verify by seeing. Because I'm just giving. Instead of giving you a signal report, I'm just giving you my grid square.
Speaker A: If you call my call sign right, it'll go. It'll go. It'll answer mine. Configure where it'll answer automatically.
Speaker B: Okay, well, we'll see. I'm just putting the blanket call out there and you could verify it on the left hand side to see it.
Speaker A: But.
Speaker B: Okay, so you have to. So you know it'll go automatically. Okay, well I don't have mine done that way. I gotta click on it.
Speaker A: So you're plus 17 now.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah. Alrighty. Yeah, so it went down anyway. Okay, well, that's good to know. Yeah, I don't know. My antenna is just the same antenna. Well, I've had it for a couple months ago. So anyway, off center fed and roughly 20ft off the ground.
Speaker A: Yeah. So I'm on an infed. It's a homemade transformer and I just ordered a. I ordered a Palomar high power transformer.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, well we'll see. I backed it off to 25 watts, so we'll see if what it does on the next run here.
Speaker A: The last transmission was a 16 and the one before that was an 18.
Speaker B: Yeah, it doesn't really make that much difference, at least when we're close.
Speaker A: I think my transformer is homemade. It was kind of amateurish and I don't think it's that great.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Well, you're using a 200 inch gust though, right. So I mean even though if it was off a little bit, you know it's going to make up the difference.
Speaker A: I think I'm using the internal tuner. Right?
Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So it's gonna. So I'm just saying like if your transmatch was say instead of 49 to 1, it was 60 to 1. Or if it was 40 to 1, that internal tuner is making up the difference.
Speaker A: Yeah, for the most part. But you lose some and then I've got. I do have some reflected power back coming back in too. I need to do. That's why I ordered the Palomar. I'm hoping that'll solve some of the issues.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Plus an NFET halfway though. You order a trans transformer, did you? What's the length of the. And I think you, you told me before you're using the counterpoise. I think so. What is the length of the wire though? Move.
Speaker A: The counterpoise is about 20 foot.
Speaker B: Yeah. No, the length of the regular wire. The director.
Speaker A: 134.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. So. So you're actually losing a lot of power. Yeah, losing a lot of power. Just in the fact that it was cut for 80 meters and you're using it on 40. That definitely. This gets lossy. It gets even more lossy if you get into 20 meters.
Speaker A: Yeah. I had to put a different cable the other day on the radio. I had ordered a custom cable for the 9700, a USB cable. It has ferrites on it's longer one. It's like a ten foot long cable. I found a place and had it custom made basically and I had to put it on the FTDX10 because I was getting I was getting RF.
Speaker B: Yeah. Anyway, mine, my infant half wave is cut for 40 meters and I can use the tuner to use it on 80 meters. But yeah, I think I'm about half scale as everyone else because it worked the other direction. It's not very efficient either. I think it's probably almost five to one, but that's okay. Maybe four to one, something like that. Swr. So getting pretty lossy on 80 meters. But the other way is the same. The off center fed I think is slightly more efficient, the one I'm using right now because it's only using a 4 to 1. So you don't lose as much inside that. Inside that core.
Speaker A: Yeah, you're probably not losing quite as much. But you know, I got a tough yard to do anything with and this is, it's in a like. So I've got it pretty much evened up on each side of the house. That goes across the back and it's all at the same level. Unfortunately it's kind of hard in that configuration. So it's kind of like a half, half of a rectangle.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, the battle is you want to do everything with it, right? That's the problem. So like I don't know if you still have your loop up or not, but of course mine came down and I never put it back up. So if you still have a loop and you still have 80 meters on that, you didn't have to have an 80 meter on your end fed, something like that. But it's hard though with copies of like ours. Mine's not much different than yours. I've got some big trees in the middle of it, so. But yeah, the only way I can get like 135ft out of anything is go to corner to corner to property. And my wife doesn't want nothing in front of the house. It's bad enough. I've got the one on the edge of the eave at the front of the house and that's pretty visible from the, the front yard. But she won't let me go. Like the corner of the property.
Speaker A: Yeah, I gotta put my tri band up. Maybe next week I'll get to it.
Speaker B: Yeah. Is that a like a fan dipole?
Speaker A: No, I got a tri band diamond antenna for the, for the 9,700.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, yeah, you mentioned that. Yeah, I forgot. What like a 6000 or something like that? I looked it up and it worked for 1200. Yeah, I told you I had that one here, that about that same size. That's a dime. It's a comet and it has the same. It's a TRI band with 1.2 GHz on it. But that's what I'm using right now actually.
Speaker A: I really like the diamond.
Speaker B: Well I like diamond too but this one I got reasonably. But yeah, it's been up for gosh probably four years. I bet it's always been my alternate but I've been relying on it for quite a while now. Since my antenna on the tree is
Speaker A: not working right then I'm going to take my GMRS antenna down. So if you know somebody is looking for a GMRF cut base station antenna I'll have one available.
Speaker B: Yeah, that does pop ups sometimes but I don't know. So is it fairly short or is that not still 10 footer? So it's probably got a lot of gain still.
Speaker A: This is all than my diamond. Right. And the diamond I bought I think is the same. Same length as my X2.
Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know. It's nice to have an antenna that's cut right for a particular thing like that. I would think that the word gets out somebody if I jump on that stuff.
Speaker A: I would think so. I'd probably let it go for a hundred dollar bill. I think they're about 200 new.
Speaker B: Sticking up on the mountain up there and put a GMRS on it in the last one season maybe.
Speaker A: Yeah, right.
Speaker B: Yeah, I seen that Obi Comet CX333 or whatever it is. Yeah, I saw that thing in half on the ground one time.
Speaker A: Yeah, exactly right. That mountain is just brutal. Yeah.
Speaker B: I think you know, things get iced up. I mean I was amazed one time I saw a big mast all steel bent over like a horseshoe. I was like what the heck. And that was. That was strong. I just think things get iced up and then the wind comes.
Speaker A: Exactly. I've been listening a little bit on my scan bank on my 9700. I've got gear. They got so much garbage on that I'm gonna have to take it out of my scam bank.
Speaker B: Yeah. By garbage what do you mean? Because I'm not aware most time I only heard it come alive at 7:25 on Tuesdays
Speaker A: every 15 minutes. Now they got a message going their CW training the new frequency for Gears West Club Net ham breakfast and now they're putting on an amateur news thing.
Speaker B: Yep, I have heard some complaints about some of that. Yeah, there's a guy in Durham who made those comments the same that you just did. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Yep. They've Got some things going on over there. So we'll see what they do over the next year.
Speaker A: Yeah, I take it out of my scam bank because it's just like. It's just like a commercial radio station. Right.
Speaker B: Sounds worse because I think they only have to put out their call and stuff like once an hour or something, don't they?
Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. It's just to the point where then the audio on that repeater is terrible.
Speaker B: Yep. I heard something yesterday about possibly changing its location, which seems like a mistake to me, but in a sense, you know, it's like anything, you give up a location or whatever and then you never get back. So I mean, they should always leave something there. Maybe they would the 70 centimeter stuff there, I don't know. But yeah, I've heard something about changing its location.
Speaker A: That's the problem when the new crew comes in like that. Right. They make all these changes and then they alienate some of the older members. But in this case, the repeater's been bad for a long time.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. These hot ideas, you know, they're going to put up a tower because they were given a tower. It looks like a little 30 foot tower or something. They're going to put some sort of an antenna that they were given, you know, beam antenna on top of it and then put it out like somewhere in Oroville or whatever and have it, have it be, what do you call it, like, you know, remote. So that say if you're a member, you can, you can, you know, use the remote software and I don't know they're gonna sign up for time and stuff like this. I don't know, whatever. But if I was gonna remote into a station, I'd want to remote into. I don't know. Tyler's exactly right.
Speaker A: With a real antenna.
Speaker B: Yeah, anything, Anything. But, you know, something a little bit out height and so forth. I mean, it'd be really fun. It'd be easier and better just to load into Jay's up there in Magalia because he's got power and stuff too.
Speaker A: Exactly. Right. Yeah. And then you got. You should be up out of the noise to a degree.
Speaker B: Yeah. Sometimes he has a pretty high noise floor. He's got all the solar and stuff going.
Speaker A: Yeah, I got, I bought a new solar panel, I bought a 200 watt folding panel. So I've got that. Been getting some of my stuff together for just so I have it.
Speaker B: Yeah, I've got some work to do on all that kind of stuff. Even batteries that I haven't really paid much attention to that. I need to get those back up and running and stuff like that. Like have it made sure one of the city box is charged. And that's one if you have that Bluetooth in it. And if you leave that alone for too many months, it, it doesn't die or nothing, but it wants to be asleep.
Speaker A: They say if you're going to store these Life Po4s, you should have them at half charge. But if you do that, then you want to use them, then you got to plan a little bit better. So what I do is every two or three months I take mine and cycle them through on the station to pretty much drain them down.
Speaker B: Oh yeah, that's smart. Yeah, I always want to have mine up if I can so I could just, you know, go out the door with it. But I did that one time, one time and couldn't figure out how come it wouldn't work. I ended up having to plug it in just to wake it up. And then it had okay charge, but it just, it was in its sleep mode.
Speaker A: Yeah, my original one, I just ran it out and then my one, I bought this last year, my hundred amp hour. I need to cycle it. So I'm charging back up the other one right now on the charger.
Speaker B: Probably the biggest mistake I've made was buying these individual cells that I've never put together into a battery. And now you can buy a decent 300amp hour battery for under 500 bucks. I've already got $500 invested in this one.
Speaker A: Yeah, but now you almost are. You almost got to finish it that you bought the stuff, right?
Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. Every time, you know, every time I turn around, I start to work on it, I need another part. So I'm like, well, that's stupid. So now I feel like I got all the parts and then I had no drive to want to do it. Then probably when I get back around to doing it, I'll lose some of those parts.
Speaker A: Just half buckle down and get it done. And then some of that you ordered from AliExpress and the shipping takes forever, right?
Speaker B: Yeah, I got those parts, those main parts, the cells and the, the bms, those things were, they've been here for more than a year now at this point.

Speaker A: Exactly. So you're gonna have to, gonna have to do something with them, right, at some point. W6L.
Speaker B: Yeah, but every time you turn around, like I needed, I need the right cables, I need the right screws, like, you know, the screws just to screw into the top of the cells. The ones they give you are too short when you add the cable to it, you know, stupid stuff like that. Then you start looking up and going, okay, well the bus bars they gave me to go across terminal to terminal are just solid metal. And like the kid over there, he, you know, Will Prowse, he likes those ones that are expandable. You know, it's like, well, geez, I want to do it right at one time, so now I gotta order those.
Speaker A: Yeah, exactly, I get it. I don't know, you're gonna have to, have to get everything one day. If you need screws to that, at least you're close to Valley Wide Fastener.
Speaker B: Yeah, I never think about them.
Speaker A: I go in there all the time. Right.
Speaker B: Yeah. I'm gonna see if I can get our good friend. I just saw him on, so. But you know, jay helped their N6 WIP. I'm going to try to get him on FT8 since I just saw him on
Speaker A: Weird. I didn't see him, but maybe I wasn't looking for him.
Speaker B: Yep. I'll have to make sure I'm on the right 15 second interval too.
Speaker A: Well, on mine, I think if you click them, if it knows they're off, it'll automatically change it. I see, I see you calling them now.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yep, I hear the buzz.
Speaker A: You're, you're.
Speaker B: Yeah, I have to switch intervals just to see if you go on the other interval. Yeah, that's half the battle sometimes with all this is getting them, getting them, you know, synchronized to each. And by the way, when I go out and do poda, sometimes I'll do that. I'll put call down on both 15 second intervals and then just wait a couple cycles.
Speaker A: There you go.
Speaker B: Yep. I only know he's on because he, he put out, you know, he was responding to some other station.
Speaker A: He does a lot of FP8, I think.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Anyway, we'll see, see if he gets back to me. Well, how about it, n6wip? Are you listening? Are you lurking? All right, so you're not seeing me call you on FT8.
Speaker A: Morning, jay. How are you? There you go. I'm not seeing you either, so I don't know what's going on. I never saw you, even saw you come up to me. It looks like the band's pretty long. Sent out my last signals. Other than Steve, everything's like out in the Salt Lake area, right? Is the nearest stations that saw me.
Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, I just. Just got you. So I think partly I was just on the wrong interval. Yeah, yeah, I switched to. So, like right now you probably have your box checked that says TX even first. Yeah, and that's what mine was checked. So I had to uncheck that so I could get onto the different intervals and that way you could hear me instead of us transmitting at the same time.

Speaker A: I'll be back. I'm gonna take Puppy out for a minute.
Speaker B: All right. Is she fixed? Probably not yet, right?
Speaker A: No. She's only 10 weeks.
Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. Well, yeah. I forget what size you can do it, but you can do them when they're fairly young.
Speaker A: They say it's better to let them go through a heat cycle.

Speaker A: The joys of having a new puppy. So, what you up to, Jay? No, but it probably just heard me on PSK recorder. Although
Speaker B: I would like to do some early ponas. It's just that, well, it's awful cold and I don't want to drive in the dark, so that is half the battle.

Yeah, we've been hitting that down here in Chico. Maybe he's in Oroville or something right now, but in the mornings, we've been. We've been hitting that.

Speaker A: Mine's heated. After I eat a nice, nice load of beans. Kn6mgk. Do you hear me, paul? Yeah. It wasn't anything
Speaker B: worthwhile anyway. But anyway, good to hear you out there. And that's good that you're hearing me, short antenna out of Chico. So if you're heading up the hill, then you'll hear me better as you go.

Speaker A: I bet in
Speaker B: your field
Speaker A: there's
Speaker B: some things
Speaker A: that you don't want to see, too. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Well, people
Speaker B: generally aren't upset with you because it's not your fault. But what about everybody that comes. Comes to the wherever at some point in time. They may not be contacting you directly, but they're all sick, right? In some form or another.
Speaker A: Is there others that do, though? I mean, others that
Speaker B: are helping those patients and then, you know, they're coming back to see you potentially?

Well, I got two podas this morning on 40 meters already on FT8J.

Speaker A: Can you imagine someday somebody who's used to something like that fancy stuff, and they drive an older vehicle, thinking it's going to do the same things, and they come upon somebody and it doesn't do it?
Speaker B: Yeah, well, she's anything like my wife. They want to be in control of everything, so they
Speaker A: don't like things that are automatic.

Speaker A: I wouldn't
Speaker B: trust it in rain and heavy fog.

Yeah. And if it can't see the fog lines or any of the lines, I think it wouldn't do so great. And then it won't be able to see any tail lights until you get up close to them and stuff. So reaction time, I'm thinking.

Yeah. So what's new on the mesh there, Paul? You doing anything on that? Yeah, I think some people are like, you know, failing to turn on the MQTT function. There's a few of those in there that need to be on. And then, of course, the one you don't want the one for the Internet to be on, but then the mapping and the cassette and the consent at the bottom of that same field, those need to be. Yep. Well, Dan sure has it down because he's on the map every minute or two. He has all the settings right. So he can chime in there and see what. What exact setting is not right. If that's the problem. Yeah, I would think if you hung out somewhere for a couple hours and it wasn't at your place, you'd be able to determine real quick if it was a setting or not. Because, like, I know down there at Starbucks even tends to go off and show our positions there. So. Yep, even if you went there, hung out for an hour or something like that, it ought to have gone off by then. Yeah, I have like four nodes now. But, yeah, I did leave one up there with my neighbor to kind of play with and stuff. And so he's been mostly monitoring. As far as I know, that's the MGK1 node. And even though he doesn't have it up on a pole or nothing, you know, it's in a pretty good location. And he's actually down in a little bit of a hole. But I see that it takes over some of the other stuff in the area sometimes, so I find that pretty interesting. When I go up there probably tomorrow, I might play around with something totally different, and I'd be curious how that works. Usually I'm there for, say, four or five hours, and I'll hang it up in a tree, you know, hang a different note up in a tree. So do some experimenting anyway, so I may do something with that tomorrow. I think I pretty well found that those little short ones that they come with are pretty ineffective. But I bought off of Amazon those. I think Dan was sending the link around. They're two, like, little half wave. They say 17 centimeters, but they're really about six and a half inches. And they say 915 megahertz on them anyway. But yeah, they work pretty good. I think they work better than some of these other antennas I've seen. Even the one I saw on my solar node, I think it works better than that. I might experiment with changing that one out and putting that little thing on there just to see if I get more nodes than I'm getting now, so I won't be surprised. Yeah, No, I saw him, too. Yeah. In fact, Pat down here saw him, and he posted who's this? AJT or whatever. And so then it came back. Oh, yeah, that's Adam. So, anyway, yeah, he's been on the map. Yeah, I want to see one. Get up there at the. At one of the schools or something. That'd be pretty cool.

Speaker A: Well, I know under the MQTT settings,
Speaker B: there's definitely a couple of them right there that need to be, you know, enabled, especially at the very bottom where it says, you know, okay to map. And then there's a consent. Those two need to be on. But I think I have one on the top. You know, there's one disabled and one enabled up
Speaker A: at the very top of that section, too. Yeah,
Speaker B: right on. You know, when you. I have an Android, so inside the program, you open it up, you get your Lora settings and all that. Didn't Dan go through at least with one of you guys? I don't recall. Or maybe at the meeting? All the settings on all the little. All the little fields that come up.

Yeah. KN6MGK. Yeah. Ultimately, I think someone needs to, I don't know, go through every field once it's all dialed in, like, take a little quick camera shot on their phone and then send it out to everybody, you know, so that everyone's on the same page, you know, with one exception being that, like, maybe your unit could be one could be a client mute. One can be in client, or one can be in client base. That would be everyone's up to them how they do it. But all the other settings, I think, pretty much need to be the same.

Speaker A: If you have those shorter ones that are only, you know, about 7 inches tall, you might be able to cut off one. Yeah, I probably want to have an analyzer on it or something just to see, just for fun, but I bet you it would work.
Speaker B: Yeah, well, I have to check
Speaker A: them. I have some of those, I think, somewhere laying around. It might be kind of fun. I do stuff like that because I don't really care about a, you know, $40 radio like those things are. So I play. I play with them. Yeah. Anyway, I just have some fun with it. I don't have all the nice tools that Dan has, of course. You know, if I think Jay might have one, I don't recall if he has, like, a rig expert that goes up into that 900 MHz range. My rig expert only goes up to 220 MHz, so I didn't elect to spend
Speaker B: the extra money. Yeah, it's true. I have a vna, but
Speaker A: I just. I hate the thing, so. And I don't know how well it would work anyway, because I paid $25 for my VNA back in the day, and that's how much they were. Just like, the tiny sas were cheap, too. Everything's double, triple. I mean, I think you. You have to spend a hundred bucks to get a Nano VNA anymore, and mine was 25 bucks.

Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. So, see, you can experiment with some of these, like the Bofang
Speaker B: antennas and see how they are on 914 MHz. Why not? What's way too long? HT maybe. I don't understand what you mean. HT antennas are six and a half inches long. That blue guy's been there for
Speaker A: a
Speaker B: while.
Speaker A: I've gotten him before. Yeah, they're too long. That's the whole point, is that you look at them and you cut them off. They're both fang antennas, after all. All they are if you pull that shield off. There's a little piece of wire inside there, you know. There's nothing to them.

That was the whole point of it. You said that yours will go up to 3 GHz. So if your analyzer goes up to 3 GHz, then you should be able to measure an HT antenna and be able to cut it back until it goes down to 914 MHz.

Speaker A: Yeah, mine did. Yeah, the Robert, I think, put the link on there again yesterday or so forth. It was like 20 bucks for two. Yeah, you're full scale now, by the way. 73
Speaker B: kilo November 6th, Mike. Golf kilo. So I'll be checking into a net here in a minute.

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