2m Simplex (146.520 MHz) recordings for 2026-01-28

Yeah, it looks like a much warmer day in magalia this morning. 46 degrees and 10% chance of sprinkles. N6NTM Good morning.

Speaker A: As soon as I said that it went down to 44 n6mtm
Speaker B: magalia good morning.
Speaker C: People get confident overconfident in their ability.
Speaker A: Looks like we took the rain away for today and tomorrow and the next day but another little chance there on Saturday.
Speaker B: I should say Sunday and Monday. Pretty staticky out today. I got that electrical line static 9 inch unit. Now right here. Oh no I'm
Speaker A: thinking about going down there though. I know he's gonna be there no out front of the house. Remember a couple years ago I went up and down the street banging on telephone poles see if I could change. Just goes away by itself in a couple days like static or whatever but still still minus and it I can wind it right away without interfering with anybody. Modulation level stays the same up but the rest since I can spin it right back to one I hardly hear it at all with that VC tune.

Speaker A: I don't know. I run filter 1 next to the blue FM insignia. I don't remember actually it putting it on, but.
Speaker B: I'm seeing four or five S units of noise right here
Speaker A: and nine on the hf.

192 kilters.

Maybe it's moving over a little bit because of the filter.

Speaker A: I just asked John if he
Speaker B: had breakfast or not this morning. Yeah, Well, that's
Speaker A: how the. That's how the VC tune works as well. It moves the sound over to the side. In your case, it looks like it's moving you off frequency a little bit. Yeah, it's a weird way to change the noise level. It's the funny part about it is it's right the center of the noise falls off on both sides of 95. So I can watch the noise move, move off down to about 392, or I should say 992 and you don't hear it, but you're still listening on
Speaker B: 95. Different way to approach it, but anyway.

I remember seeing it, but I don't recognize the abbreviation.

Speaker A: Hey John, on that 100 delta,
Speaker B: can you. Can you do like FP8 on one side and be listening to a different frequency, even a different band on the other side?
Speaker C: 2 completely different on their own receivers. Yep. You have to pick which one you want to talk on, obviously. So it gives you TX and RX for the sub band and the main band.
Speaker B: Yeah, that's fine. Like let's say obviously FT8 requires that you, if you select on somebody, you need to be, you know, txing at certain points. So let's say you're listening to your guys on, you know, 80 meters on the left. You don't need to be talking to them. If you're just listening like I do sometimes I just listen. Anyway. You could be playing, you could be doing FT8 on the right hand side or something at the same time. That's
Speaker A: all my question. Thank you.
Speaker B: Good morning.
Speaker A: Yep, good morning. Just lurking, cooking some breakfast
Speaker B: here. K N 6 MGK. Thank you.

Well, I'm guessing. I don't know. I think those other guys would be hearing you. I don't know. I think so. They're a better location than me. Kilo Niner, Kilo Alpha Delta. You're being heard into Chico, California about a five four. Five four. Back to you.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, that's interesting. So you say Shasta area. Shasta County. What town are you located?

Yeah, I know where Matton is. Yep, used to hunt in the area and do some other things, but. Pretty cool. All right, so just out of curiosity, I know you're hearing me in Chico, and you are kind of positioned where you may not be hearing those guys in Magalia. Were you hearing those Magalia stations who are, by the way, much higher than me?

Yeah. Nice. So I'd be remiss if I'm not asking this, at least what radio are you using and what antenna?

Okay. Well, yeah, those are very good transceivers and a very good combination. I wouldn't be too concerned about the other band 220. Not a whole lot of people are on it. And you know, you'd be giving up something if you get a tri band antenna. However, it's nice to have that in case you wanted to talk to the people a little bit more privately or whatever, because a lot less people, as you know, are probably on the 220 band. Though many hams still have equipment, many of us still don't, so very nice. Well, you've got some good equipment there. It's nice to hear you. You might check into some of the repeaters. Have you heard of the Carla system, like System 36, which is located west of Stonyford, But I'm sure you can get into it at frequency 146115? Have you heard of the Carla system.

Okay, Mark. Yeah. Name here is Steve or Steven. Yeah, using a Yaesu FTM 450 watts. Actually a short antenna. It's only about 6DBi gain antenna, but it's a comet, like a, like a GP6, if you're familiar with Comet. So anyway, so not really much, about 24ft off the ground, so not very high. I don't have the best antenna up right now anyway, but yeah, I would encourage you to keep going with it. It's fun. I don't know if you can do hf, but that's even more fun. The other guys there, they love HF too, so that's something to think about. Also another good group if you want to learn some things too. Sounds like you might be tech savvy there a little bit. The Paradise Amateur Radio Society group. They have a website, but two repeaters, one in paradise and one in Magalia. And anyway, you might check that out, go to the website if you want or whatever to get the frequencies. But anyway, a good group of guys, you get out there talking and ask questions even here on Simplex, like the other two gentlemen, you were hearing very intelligent people. So I'm glad to have you in the hobby and good to hear you. I guess at this point I'll say 7 3. Hope to see you down the log though, and don't be a stranger. Kilo, November 6th Mike Golf. Kilo.

Well, if you're associated with a group in Chico, that's probably Gears Golden Empire. And I was a member of that for like five years. I'm not a member this year. I've also been affiliated with the Glenn Amateur Radio Society, another good group of guys. But the one I mentioned was paradise, because the other gentlemen there were from that area. Paradise amateur radio society pars repeater system is a whiskey 6 papa alpha romeo w6 par. We also have a little mesh network going on too with meshtastic, though I doubt that would be very significant for you. I don't know for sure, but you might be pretty well out of range on that. But you could check into that at some point in time too, if you're interested. But yeah, the ICOM 7300, a very good little transceiver. And yeah, you should have lots of fun with that. Let me think, what else? Off center fed dipole. I'm running one right now. The only negatives I'll say is it could be a little bit noisier than a loop antenna. If you can ever put up a loop antenna or something, that might be a good choice. But anyway, I'm running a 40 meter version of an off center fed dipole. Mine's not the traditional balance. It's like 20%, 80%. You can research those a little bit, you know, changes it to where you can get a little bit different band structure. But off center fed dipoles are very good, very efficient antennas. And last thing I'll say is on the ICOM 7300 is one of the gentlemen there, Jay. He loves that transceiver. I've been using it for quite a few years, so I'm imagining if you have any questions, if you come back out here and ask for him, he'll probably be able to help you kind of donating his intelligence on that. I don't know much about the 7,300, but he runs it quite often anyway. All right, I'll say 73 and move on. There might be somebody else wanting to use the frequency. Kilo November 6th Mike Golf Kilo.

Well, looks like john already ate n6 ntm.

Speaker A: He had his phone turned down for you. Didn't hear when I called him at six. Well,
Speaker B: Costco Duracell batteries still in the pack. Only used about five or so out of there. And more than half of them got acid coming out
Speaker A: of the bottom. In the hallway. Pretty nice back there.

I left the cardboard on, but it was peeled open. It should have got air, but all the other types of batteries. I don't have any problem with the 9 v or the. Or the AAA's or the D's.

Speaker A: 120. I'm looking at the 150 now. Well, yeah, that's
Speaker B: what I'm. That's what I'm looking at. 800 bucks drops down from the ceiling, motorized.

Oh, it does got wall switches. It's got wall switches right there. I could put a plug up there, but I'm not going to worry about that. You just plug it in when you want to use it and then unplug it. They. They even have a battery model, so. Battery backup model, so. Yeah, And they got three remotes, and one of them you put right on the wall and it. And so it's just on the wall. Just the remote part. My beams run east to west, and that's east to west is the orientation of the screen. So. I could just tie into a 2x4. But that particular model is almost £75.

Speaker A: Okay. If you go to Amazon and you type in electric 150. H2, you can see the one that I'm looking at looks like fiberglass. Yeah. Let me see. Oh, I switched. But anyway, I'm pretty sure that's what it's called. Elect you type in electric 150 H2 and you'll. And you'll see at 809 bucks, the spectrum series, they actually got one that's a little bit cheaper. But this one has pretty good specs.
Speaker B: Yeah. For, for $250
Speaker A: less, you can get a manual pull down one. I just, I just got a little bit of problem on pulling the screen. The tension on the screen on because you're winding the spring up in the retract part. So the electric. And it'll just let it down easily and, and bring it up easily. It seems like it would put less wear on the screen surface.

The one I just told you about, the first one I looked at, it won't fit. The 150 won't fit. To store it back in the bedroom like the. The 120 is, it gives me about two feet to shut the door. Any bigger won't fit, so. And that's the one with the aluminum stands that you saw? Yeah. I definitely want to hang it from the ceiling.

What was the name the other guy was talking about of the screen?

Speaker A: Oh yeah he's he's loud and clear here. Yeah I'm looking for a little bigger than 10ft myself but I like the 150 inch size diagonal but it's
Speaker B: well
Speaker A: I have to run way down here to see them specs and I I'm not I'm not too happy about there it's only got 1.1 gain too not too happy about their specs deal the the inches it does have pretty good reviews though 72% 5 stars and I don't see oh there's the measurements deal I don't believe their measurements for the 150 142.6 wide and 84
Speaker B: high. And it says £30. I appreciate it I
Speaker A: I have 120 inch one that which is phenomenal but I have a little bit more room so I was thinking about going with that 150 yeah if I send the one I already bought but back I'd only have to add about 300 bucks to it to get the bigger one so I still got about two weeks left I could decide.

Oh, yeah. I said good morning, but same to you on the good day.

Speaker A: I see they sell screens. They're pretty darn cheap. Well, I thought I saw one for 28 bucks. Yeah, 150 inch, $28. That's the one where you put nails or screws up and you know it's got about oh 14, 15, 16, 18 holes all the way around the outside edge. Yeah, that, that, that'd be all right. You put some of that stretchy rope they use on big trucks for tying the tarps down. Yeah, for the garage door, you know. You know, or indoor use for the garage door. Inside or outside if you already had it set up pretty cheap for 150 inches. I'd probably, I'd like to see what a 300 inch screen looks like. You know, the full
Speaker B: ability of the projector. Yeah, I would. Not for, not for in the front room, for out there on the garage like in the summertime or something. On the outside of the garage door. That's the biggest they sell that particular company is 150 inch. So 28 bucks though it's worth a try. So I was looking
Speaker A: at these inflatable models. Pretty mind blowing price wise. Under 200 bucks for 100. Oh, 24ft across and I think nine or ten feet high.
Speaker B: Yeah, it seems like I seen.
Speaker A: I looked at the daylight ones there that Paul was talking about. I'd like to try one of those ones but they're measuring the inflatable part at 100. I'll see if I can make something come up here in the hundred.
Speaker B: 200 inch inflatable, 24ft across. That's the one I looked at this morning.
Speaker A: That's including. It didn't say the viewable area. That was including the inflatable part.

Yeah. Yep. Get up on a little ladder and on the outsides of the door in the frame so you could put some nice smooth bolts. 269 bucks for a 30 foot blow up model. And once again, they don't say. And that's got a hell of an inflatable part. But it's supposed to be 30ft across. Only says 1080 full HD, not ultra high definition. That's why. That's why I stopped looking at those.

I. I was reading a review where the guy said he finally replaced his first big, big screen. And it was Canvas, if you can believe that. White canvas said, what an improvement the newer stuff is.

PVC fiberglass matte white. Yep. Here's a Nebo 200 inch large screen, 16 by 9 thick canvas material projection screen. 96 bucks for 200 inch.

Speaker A: Maybe one of these days I'll try that
Speaker B: inflatable. 184 bucks for 25ft. Let's go. I have to
Speaker A: go. I have to go there and look at it. Hey, they got a 33 foot one. It's almost too big. Let me see. They make you scroll way down to get the peripheral upgraded design. 25, 33ft back to the park. Isn't not giving me the normal. Oh, here it is. Measurement 253 inches by 159. The screen dimensions are 253.2 inches. So. And it only weighs 14 pounds. That inflatable doesn't say what the measurements, features, specs, additional. Let me see. Manual mounting type 160 degrees. Silk is the very front. It's double layered, so the front one that you're looking at is silk.

Speaker A: Yeah, they're giving it four and a half stars. Haven't read any reviews on them, but they're not making a big deal about
Speaker B: the gain either. 10ft high and 25ft wide.
Speaker A: One of these days I'll order it and just mail it back after I see what it is. But who knows? If it folds up small enough, you might as well just throw that in the garage.

Speaker A: Fun to Fun to browse anyway. You can only imagine. Nobody complained
Speaker B: about the inflatable. The fan. This fan is pretty quiet. It it's going to only be five feet away from the screen out the back. I watched a video of them inflating
Speaker A: it. Yeah, that was Steve. But I already turned the linear and everything off, so I won't bother. But the other way the
Speaker B: other day I did do that with a hundred watts back when I was before I put the ALS 600 in there and almost nobody was believing that I was talking to him. When I turned it down to 10 watts and they could still hear me, I don't think anybody was. I didn't get anybody saying that's pretty good for 5 watts or 10 watts. Whatever it was, no comment is as good as not believing.

I don't know who those people are. There was the other net there where you checked in. And people all over the world. Whoever could hear you, was giving you signal. Check. That was a great way to test an antenna.

All these next storms are headed north of us. Too bad. We might be done with winter rain, but we've had snow in March, so guess we'll just have to find out.

You know, I guess I better get dressed. Oh, yeah. Looks like we're gonna have some sun poking out here in a minute.

Speaker A: Yeah. I didn't particularly want to go down there and do electrical but I know he went and bought a bunch of stuff for the overhead do. The backbone of the two of the shops are in line. I could put one long wire and three boxes in there to put the twist wire lugs inside of. I told them if you're gonna go that far I would just go ahead and put a couple plugs in three different spots along. So you could just plug in lights in case you
Speaker B: got to replace any. It'd be interesting to see what
Speaker A: he bought. So. Yep. Otherwise might as well just. Well you'd have to put up six boxes if you ran the plugs right out to where the light is. Still got to get up on a big ass ladder to get up to the top of the ceiling. But if he put plugs in he'd be able to put any kind of light he wanted to up there later.

Oh, yeah. He put a bunch of them overhead lights inside his house around ones he just push up into the sheetrock. I seen the little pin setups. That's okay. LED don't have no current, so.

Speaker A: He's got six 10 foot fluorescents in there. He was thinking about leaving those and he put three LEDs down the middle of the number two bay. And that's like I have in the garage, but I put one at the front door and two at the back just to make sure when the hood was open, I and the toolbox and all that stuff's along the back wall. Two of them work good. He isn't quite as high as me, so he's thinking about putting three smaller ones on the left and right side and the three big ones like mine down the middle. Yeah. Now that's going to increase the boxes to nine, probably duplex setups, you know, plugs per.
Speaker B: Get on it. Otherwise I'll go to fall asleep.
Speaker A: N6 ntm.

If it's a yaesu ft70, it's mine.

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Speaker A: So
Speaker B: I can grab you up, show you that little piece. I want to show
Speaker A: you
Speaker B: that little.
Speaker A: I found. I took a picture of me actually. But I'm pretty sure
Speaker C: I. What they use that for? Sure.
Speaker B: It's got this real heavy duty plastic thing you can see through. It's real thick. And it's got a spring trap door on it that you put over.
Speaker A: And it picks up the shoes. It turns on some blue
Speaker B: lights inside the dome. And I don't know if it transmits a signal, but it driving along,
Speaker A: Gotta look for the pole. And then I think that thing, You know.
Speaker B: Yeah. Does all those things, it just hangs up there. Yeah.
Speaker A: Really heavy duty.
Speaker C: They just leave it up there.

70. Two, 70 an hour, 10, sometimes three if I somebody or I lose a half a mile gallon.