2m Simplex (146.520 MHz) recordings for 2026-01-29

Speaker A: Well, coffee cup in hand. Good morning, Kilo. November 6th. Mike, golf. Kilo. Hey, shut the hell up, you. You.
Speaker B: Good morning. I'll be on the side. I got the news going and I was listening on hs. So Jay will jump in there, I'm sure.
Speaker A: I got the business channel on in the other room, but I really haven't paid any attention. Alrighty. Yep. KN6MGK.

Speaker A: Well, he said you're out there. J n6wip kn6mgk. Oh. You watching anything interesting? Oh, yeah. I
Speaker B: was fixing to call you last night. It's not that important. I was just curious. What HT
Speaker A: did you get? I can.
Speaker B: Yeah, I was just curious what HT you got? You said you were gonna pick up some pamphlets and someone found a walkie talkie, so I'm curious what it was.

She lives off Humbug Road and doesn't drive a truck. Okay, well, we know that that vehicle needs suspension every now and again.

Yeah. When you were up there at Ann's place, did you fix her base antenna and stuff so she can talk to us better?

Okay, well, that explains it. Yeah. Then she's the candidate for that. That antenna. Then she ought to change that antenna out to the one that, you know, the club has. That's my personal thoughts. And maybe even raise it up a few feet. But it has a different propagation pattern, so you can see it on Diamond's website. But I bet it will have a better chance of getting in. But whatever. You can't tell things to people.

Speaker A: Yeah, if it's down the deal like that, maybe she's getting a little knife edge once in a while or something, I don't know. But yeah, she sounded good last
Speaker B: week for sure, but the week before that, no. Well, anyway, I was hoping that it was just like a Yaesu FT70 or something like that, just, you know, bumped out of the back of someone's truck. Yeah, stuff like that happened
Speaker A: in my life before, though, and then, you know, so it could happen. Yeah, Someone could lose a nice HT or something, you know, like John's ht. That thing's been around for a long time and they still work good. In fact, there's a guy in Chico, you know, Greg, he's selling one like John has, I think.
Speaker B: I
Speaker A: think he wants
Speaker B: like 100 bucks for it or something. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker A: yeah, and John likes them things if he wanted an extra, but I think he has an extra already anyway because it's old school, you know, those nicad batteries. I think it has those battery kits. You can put regular batteries in it, you know, alkaline batteries usually. He has some accessories like that down here that Greg does. Yeah, Decent deal. If someone wants a radio like
Speaker B: that
Speaker A: for me, I'd rather have like an FT71 that does digital.

Yeah. You know, I think Jeremy has a Yaesu FT5D price off of 300 bucks or something like that. He has some accessories, extra batteries, I don't know. He might have that speaker mic too. I don't know. But in case someone like Ian wants a decent radio that'll do digital, you know, I see him for about 300 bucks on main trading and stuff like that, so use especially when they have accessories and things. So I don't know, he might be coaxed to doing a little bit better, but I don't know. In case you ever find someone who wants a FT5D.

Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Jeremy's been going with more Motorolas and stuff like that, so he enjoys those. And some of the stuff. Motorola stuff has more power and stuff, too, and a little bit more dynamic
Speaker A: range for the vocals. I don't know. I think there's one he's saving up for that might be three or four times.

Speaker A: So, see, like, these Motorola repeaters.
Speaker B: It looks like it's SLR 8000, $5299. Yeah, that's the ones
Speaker A: that they use, like, on some of these repeater sites, I think. You know, up on these hills, like, even the Carla system has Motorola equipment. Yeah, you. They depend on Motorola for a lot of that stuff.

Speaker A: Yeah, that's for sure. But you'd have to go and go somewhere else so you could be on another repeater. I don't know. Yeah, Simplex is fun. Yeah, like that guy that was in Manton yesterday. Yeah, Maybe he's listening this morning, you know, haven't heard him, but
Speaker B: never know. Yeah.
Speaker C: I'm gonna head to Panera
Speaker A: and then head over to Yankee Hill and do some work for. For the day. I'll be up that way tomorrow, you know, unless something changes. But I plan to be up that
Speaker B: way tomorrow. Oh, yeah? Yeah. No,
Speaker A: I would. Yep. Don't think it's February yet though, right? Yep. Kind of figured out doing breakfast one of these days. But
Speaker B: not until February sometime.
Speaker C: Maybe I'll have to wait for the club to have their Saturday breakfast then. I can afford to do that.
Speaker B: I'm guessing you're going this time, right? To the Saturday breakfast for pars. Yeah. So. Hey, for fun.
Speaker A: And then I'll let you go. I. This morning I was running, you know, FT8, getting into Asia pretty good. I got Mexico, also about 10, 10 contacts on FT8, running higher power, mostly Japan. I didn't get Mexico and I got South Korea. China. I was having trouble getting into China, though. Anyway. Although I could hear them, they couldn't hear me. Anyway, so then I said, okay, well, then for fun, I'll go the opposite direction. And instead of doing cqdx, I just put CQ with my call sign, you know, and turn the power down to 6 watts. See? What happened? I put out three on the first time period. Three CPUs, nothing. Turned it around the other direction for the other 15 seconds. Put CQ out three times, got one from Utah. That's it. So there's your. There's your QRP lesson for the day. Life's too short for it.

The deal of the century. Okay. Yeah, I guess he's sleeping. So you can talk about it.

Yeah, yeah. A friend of mine has a 7,300 up there in Reading, actually, out of Anderson, and he's having trouble getting on JS8. I've been telling him, you know, to do the firmware update, and, you know, I don't know if he understands how to. He did that, but I don't know if he knows how to load the FT8 settings in on that preset and so forth, but I would think he would. He knows his radio like the back of his hand is the only one he's really had for quite a while, but it was working good for him for a lot of years. But all of a sudden, maybe a Windows update came in or something, and all of a sudden he couldn't get on JS8 anymore.

Well, she can use the GMRS license you got, so she could. You could have it on that frequency and she could tell you then on gmrs.

Yeah, well, simpler than ever. Yep, simpler than ever. All people have to do is study like hamstudy.org on their phone or ham exam on their phone. Yep. They can study all just the correct answers, ask some questions here and there that we could probably help answer, you know, help understand a few little concepts. But it's keynote within a couple weeks, everyone. My sister was able to pass it that way. Then you can go and schedule the exam with like that W5YI online or the guard group or the Alaska group, and take the test whenever you want. So some weekend, when you're ready to go, you schedule it, you take it, and you're done. No reason why they can't get on these days. You don't have to go to some testing facility and so forth. So if they don't do it, it's on their own cell.

Hey, no problem. I'm going to get out of here and go see what's on the business channel and get a cup of coffee. Kilo November 6th. Mike, golf. Kilo.