2m Simplex (146.520 MHz) recordings for 2026-02-08

Speaker A: Ks 6mgk. Hey, what's going on? I'm just hearing some traffic out here. It's not mesh. Yeah, it's for encrypted comms. That nobody can understand what we're saying about each other. Where? Oh, not today. Yeah, not something I'm interested in doing.
Speaker B: Yeah, I go up to paradise and work at the property, though. I got stuff to do. Trying to. Gardening kind of stuff. And getting ready for that rain coming Tuesday.
Speaker A: Yeah, the stuff here coming tonight.
Speaker B: Supposed to be kind of weak.

Speaker A: Well, I'm sorry I didn't make the fox hunt yesterday. I can't understand why there wouldn't be such good
Speaker B: weather. Over the past month, you guys should have had more than one fox hunt.

Speaker A: Yeah. Or ask why. Why do we spend time making those antennas if we don't try them?
Speaker B: Well, yeah. Wife is cooking something right now. Yeah. We'll probably go out somewhere later this afternoon. I got some stuff I gotta do in the yard, though. Trim the rest of my Mandarin tree out there and maybe even a little bit of the orange tree. Yep. A little bit more garden kind of work, so.
Speaker A: Yep. Got some of that to do. Yeah. Keep my eyes off of
Speaker B: eating some bread and tortillas and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. The mesh is going off right now. Jeremy's putting his node up in Orland, so I'm kind of waiting to see if I can see anything through the Sutter Butrin or something. I think he's getting Sutter. Sutter router traffic. At least some of it. So be nice to see if I can get something going that way.

Speaker A: Using the one that Robert put on. Yeah, Rockland. Yeah, that's the main US
Speaker B: Supplier for rack wireless stuff. Anyway, yeah, that was, you know, you saw the one that was at the Magelli repeater. Well, that's the one that's up at my house right now. Nothing's changed except for it's on a. My pole. You know, it's about 30ft right now. That's as high as I'm gonna have it.

Speaker A: Need a Heltech 4. Okay. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. So you actually might have more power. I think that'd be a bit interesting to try something like that myself. Maybe change it out at some point. I don't know, build one or. Build one or something. Pick it up.
Speaker B: My thoughts are. Anyway, Yeah. Yeah. Jeremy went and bought a,
Speaker A: like a wish mesh little mini repeater. And then I think he bought a Heltech. And then he also bought a wish mesh tag, too. So. Yeah. The only thing that's eluding you, I think, so far. I don't think you have a tag yet. So, yeah, you have to open up that bankroll and
Speaker B: spend 50 bucks. What's your plans for the improvement?

Yeah, well, maybe next time I go, might be a couple weeks to Starbucks or something, maybe I'll bring a note up, maybe just slightly above where my fleshwag is and stuff like that, and leave it right there and see what happens during coffee to see if that really improves anything on the inside of the building.

Speaker A: Yeah, well, that's why if there was a node close enough, you know, that maybe it penetrate through it good enough. So it was within
Speaker B: a quarter mile of the location there. Well, you guys have the connections. When you guys took off the other
Speaker A: part of it and still left that part hanging there, I mean, could have maybe. Let's put something right there around that top of that thing with a standoff or something, maybe.

Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Someone has to invest in a boom
Speaker B: lift or something. You know, I have a couple friends that have them, but it's just too much of a hassle. Go around picking them up and stuff like that. Like the trainer mounted ones and so on. Yeah. But, you know, because you're spending more fuel, still get it and so forth, then it's worth. That's what, like, I think sometimes, like, Dennis would need. But. But I guess his pulled over, so. Yeah. He
Speaker A: ought to have that antenna up in a couple days, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's it. All
Speaker B: right. I'm gonna get out of here for a
Speaker A: minute and I'm gonna go use the restroom.
Speaker B: KN6MGK.