2m Simplex (146.520 MHz) recordings for 2026-02-11

Yeah, I think it's going to rain in Magalia. N6 and 10.

Speaker A: Well, did you wake up this morning, Mr. J?
Speaker B: N6wi q w I p shoot,
Speaker A: I forgot. N6ntm. Got a little under an inch of rain, but when I went to
Speaker B: bed last night, it was pouring. I was expecting a couple inches. Damn it.

Yeah. You're the guy for it, though. Well, what kind of camera did he get?

So there's a lot of stuff in the news here lately, especially with that lady that got kidnapped. But there's a lot of stuff in the news about the ring camera doorbell setups. Other people being able to look at them and they're keeping an eye on you. Other people being able to look at them and they know when you leave your house and when you come back to your house they thought that lady was going to church. That's what the police said, that somebody called them from the church and said she hadn't come there and she hadn't been going to church for six months or a year and that's because they were looking at her camera. Yes, she left and came back at about the same time as church because she was going over to her church ladies house. Her and several other church members were going over to one of their their friend's house and watching it on TV instead of going to church.

Speaker A: Well, they're putting a dent in the rings sales. I guarantee you when they have that much publicity downgrading, you know, their product like that over the news especially. But anyway, I would like to be able to keep an eye on the neighbor's house. He bought a camera, set it all up. He bought four of them so that I'd be able to keep an eye on his place when he goes to China, which is in another week or so. So if you got any, if you got any suggestions there, I'd like to at least get one over there so I can see if anybody comes. Two would be optimum and so I could watch it from the house here. I'm going to guess and say that we're probably at least 700ft apart, but complete
Speaker B: line of sight. He shut all that off or it's set to be shut off? Yeah. He does not have Internet.

No, I, I, I, I already know. Yeah, you are limited. But they, that's what they do. They put an amplifier line. Remember the guy that, you know, I mean, I have a, I have a 200 foot one running out to the card that runs the, the stepper antenna. So that instead of counting on the WI fi end of it, I just plug in a network cable. Okay? So but if I put something right out, say at the street 300ft away, that boost it up and runs it here, it's easy for me to put the network cable out to the mailbox, for instance.

Well, something's pushing me to put up that nice camera I got. I could see his house perfectly from, you know, 80ft up the tree. I'll have to get a tree climber to come over to him, mount that, but, you know, I'm long overdue. What. I've had that bad to the bone camera for, you know, couple of years now. And I've been, I've been overly happy since we did the synology thing and he talked me into doing a network because, heck, I got that end of it. I got that end of it. The network part complete, completed there. I'm perfectly happy with that. I got big legs, I'm an octopus. I got a 140 foot cable runs out to the shop for that router and I can, I can still put a TV out there. And I got one running over to the, the other shop here at Lori's mom's. And she doesn't even use it. She's still paying for Comcast and, and she has all the smart TV capabilities. But anyway, nothing stopped me from running, running the same cable up the tree out in the front that get me up about 60, 70ft. I could actually watch his place. But I'd like to have something dedicated, looking at his place in case anybody pulls in the driveway, you know, if they're gonna try to steal anything from him or break in, I just need to see the driveway in the front of the house. We could charge him. If you decide to take on this endeavor, if you come over and look at it and tell me, tell me what you think we need to do, he'll pay for everything. Lori tried to set up the camera that he bought. I don't remember the brand, but he bought four of them. Just little square boxes and it has a hub, but he didn't think that it would. It could make it over here, you know, via WI fi or whatever. He broke. He set it up, programmed it like the picture. Everything was good. Next day he turned it on, it was all gone. So he gave it to us. Lori tried to set it up and couldn't, couldn't get past the. With us. However he set it up, she couldn't get around that. So we never did find the actual range. I could put an extender out there on the power pole. The private one that's on the property here, that would be easy. I think that's within 400ft. I could go measure it off real fast. But I would like to set him up. You could increase your revenue by a little bit. Local Internet, but there ain't over there, but I have Internet. Okay, yeah, I get it.

Speaker A: So send me the link. I'll walk it over to them and let them look at it. He can order it and send it
Speaker B: to my house. I can actually get
Speaker A: across the street and over to that big triangle out front. We got pipes that take the water from here in, into that center section. And so I can actually set up right there, less than 200ft from his place.
Speaker B: I have to put a pole up and all that stuff. Oh, I gave it back to him yesterday. Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker A: I was thinking, well, I always wanted to put that on the twin towers out in front so I could see up and down the road and most of the property,
Speaker B: I could spin that around and look right at his place. But I don't want it looking over there all the time. I think you
Speaker A: could set it up so that it. It didn't turn around and look at whatever you put it up on, which in this case is, you know, three foot across, cedar tree.

Yeah, mine either. What about when it gets wet from the rain?

Speaker A: Yeah, I wouldn't mind putting one inside the shop. There is a network cable there, so that would be easy. Can't believe I
Speaker B: cut open the driveway so many times. And even for water, which I haven't even put a sink out there and. And I still don't have water out there at the tree for the pressure washer. I'm still running a garden hose across the part of
Speaker A: the driveway. It's Ethernet. It's poe. I had to buy
Speaker B: the network box there to increase so it had the voltage to run the camera.

Speaker A: Check. All right, give me a minute. I'll be right back. N6 ntm. Good morning.
Speaker B: 106 mgk
Speaker A: and listening. No, yeah, I put some seed down before I left too, but little concerned about the snow next week. Yeah, I guess it is a four
Speaker B: letter word, huh? Yeah, I don't think I've planted anything that's gonna be too much affected, but the see just put down for clover and stuff. Well, it likes to have more like around 40 degrees at least in the morning to germinate and get going. So I think it might actually start, you know, in the next couple days. But unfortunately when that snow comes in, I'll probably just kill it right off, so. Probably wasted my money on that.
Speaker A: I'll have to go redo it again. Yeah, a lot of times
Speaker B: that's what we do. Yeah, try to keep that. You know, I like that a lot better. Yeah, I have to mow it a couple times, but that's way better than having weeds. I don't like to use Roundup products, but yeah, I have to use Roundup products too. I just don't want to use it everywhere.

Speaker A: Well, I don't know what you're talking about. That she got over Tractor Supply. But I get the stuff at Tractor Supply, too. But it's Roundup. I mean, it's. I mean, just because it says Tractor Supply on it, you look at the ingredients, and it's 41% glycosylate, you know, which is what I use. So anyway, I mix it like, you know, six ounces to the gallon, and then, man, it tears stuff up, man. So Roundup, the new formula. And, you know, Martin out there in Nick Yeol, he bought several jugs of that stuff. It's not cheap, of course, but it has a different chemical in it. It's kind of like it's some sort of a salt, you know, by looking at the wording on it. Very low percentile, though, like two and a half percent or whatever. But, man, it's knocked everything down out there already. So that new formula, Roundup, it works too.
Speaker B: Yeah. Well, you can go
Speaker A: get a gallon of bleach if you want to and put that around. Yep, I've killed lots of things like vines with just regular, standard old bleach.

Well, you guys talk a lot about cameras. Maybe they don't like to be on camera and. Haven't had my coffee too much anyway. Maybe they are afraid of ice going up, too.

Speaker A: They don't have to worry about it. But they do. I mean, especially when you see stuff like that happening and knowing that a lot more ICE agents and stuff have been coming into the area here. There's some that live right next door to Jeremy. So anyway, yeah, no idea what I'm going to do. I did put mesh core on one of my devices, so I'll be trying that out, but I don't expect anything to happen on that. I ordered another little mesh, another heltech. Just an empty board, you know, no, no LED, no OLED, no GPS, no nothing on it. Just the board itself and 22 bucks or something like that. Yeah, I guess they're 25 bucks after tax, so maybe I'll toss mescore
Speaker B: on
Speaker A: that and make
Speaker B: a repeater out of that. Yeah, the
Speaker A: One that was MGK3. It's now a mesh core device. And then I did buy, like I said, one more Texas board for $22.99. You know, I don't need to have a screen on it. Don't use the screens that I've got on these. So I don't need a GPS if I'm using it as a repeater at home. You know, put it up on the roof or something. Right. You don't even have to have a GPS on it if you don't want turning around, I guess, but that's up to you. I don't know. So 23 $25 investment. I guess it's not
Speaker B: a huge hit in the pocket. Yeah, no, I
Speaker A: don't pay anything when I go to Panera. You know, I'm a member of the sip club, so right now it's costing me about $8 a month, I guess. So you get all the drinks you want for free. You know, maybe not those fancy ones, but, you know, you want soda pop or you want coffee or tea or there's various other different kinds of teas like pomegranate hibiscus and a few others that, you know, that you get with the sip club. But yeah, if you wanted something fancier, you know, like some of the stuff that you guys get at Starbucks or whatever. Yeah. Then they might charge you $2 for that.

Kn6MGK. Yeah. You know, like, if you're guys that come down here on Thursday, we're going to Panera instead. You know, everyone was a number and paying, you know, $8 a month. You know, a lot of guys are just getting coffee, so they'd probably be okay. Satisfied. I mean, yeah, I think the coffee's probably not quite as good, but whatever. Maybe somebody would like it anyway. I don't know. Most of the time, people are going to Thursday for the socialization aspect.

So if you're talking about great harvest bread again, right, you're not talking about Panera? Panera. It's more of a lunch place. And yeah, they do have some bread. So they have pastries and stuff in there. That's it, right? That's what Panera is. It's not great harvest bread. But besides of that, the food pyramid's been inverted. All the breads and carbs are at the low on the end of where you're not supposed to have very much of them.

Just got me a poda. Ft8 poda. That's nice. Kn6mgk.

Speaker A: Well, this. Yeah, this morning I turned on the FT8 and got it going and I got like 11 international, most all Asian stuff right away. I mean, bam, bam. One after the other after the other. I mean, really quickly, 11 of those. Then it
Speaker B: just dried up and went away. I just. I have 40 meters, that's all.
Speaker A: Just 40 meters.
Speaker B: That's
Speaker A: all I've been on for a couple months now. I mean, yeah, I can put it on to 20, but
Speaker B: that's it for FT8. That's all I've been doing. Maybe I'll have time today because I'm
Speaker A: 20 meters, but like, yesterday I had my truck cooling system tore apart again, so had to go down to Whitmire and so forth. So, yeah, working on that. Always something. I wanted to get it done before the rain came.

Yeah. The one failure I think of the Ford vehicles when they put in all the factory molded ends on the cooling system for the. For the coolant. Yeah, it's. They have these, like, O rings and flatten out, and, man, they go bad all the time. It doesn't seem like you get, you know, but maybe a year out of one or something out of the. And there's many of them there, so, you know, of course, I have 160,000 miles on the truck, so, you know, you got to expect some of that. But. Yeah, I just repaired one the other day, you know, maybe a month or two ago, and everything was good for about two weeks, and then another one started steeping.

Yeah, I don't know much about the refrigerant stuff, but I know that the devices probably are fairly stable. In other words, they don't move around and go up and down, big bumps and jerk and shimmy around all the time, like in your engine. And so I just think that that might have something to do with it. And like I said, I don't know for sure, but I. Maybe they could improve the seal a bit. But they are just like a rubber O ring and they're rounded, you know, like O rings are, you know, but when you pull them out, they're all flat, so they end up squishing down. And they just start off with a little seep, like a little drip. You know, you might get like a couple of drips per notch on the driveway. And then they start just getting worse and worse. And eventually, you know, I gotta put in like, say a quarter of coolant to, you know, every week or something like that. Okay, this is ridiculous. It's time to. Because I use OEM coolant too. So get the motorcraft coolant, you know, anyway. Yeah, and then it'll drip down on your serpentine belt and start making some noise that way and stuff too. So, yeah, it all plays into it. But it definitely. The old school, just putting a nice hose clamp on it and tightening it down that would, you know, those very rarely have trouble until the hoses were brittle and gone.

Kn6NGK. I bought one of those backpack sprayers that's electric, so it has a lithium ion battery in it. You just charge it up and it holds 5 gallons of whatever you put in the tank. I just used it once so far, but anyway, it's a lot nicer than carrying around a hand one and having to mix up two gallons at a time and walking around with it.

Okay. Yeah, well there's. They sold some of those at Tractor Supply up there in Yankee Hill. They have a 15 gallon one of those. I think it's made by Thimco Fimco, if I remember right. Anyway, changed the pump on that one time anyway, but yeah, it just runs off a 12 volt battery.

Well, see, here you go. I'm looking up the Roundup Pro Max. So for like, what is this, a gallon? How much is this here? Two and a half gallons. They want a hundred bucks for it anyway. That's glyphosate. Yeah, glyphosate. Glyphosate. I guess they call it glyphosate, yeah. 48.7% for the Pro Max. So even the tractor supply version is 41%, because it's probably not the Pro Max anyway. But, yeah, that's the poison man. And I've been using that for a few years in Paradise. Traction supply stuff is 50 bucks for about a. Seems like that might be. I don't think it's a gallon. It says it makes up to 85 gallons. Well, whatever. It depends on how you mix it. You mix it, you know, six ounces per gallon. Well, it don't make 85 gallons.

Speaker A: That's a weird one, Jay. Good
Speaker B: morning, Eric. You never bailed in that. I was. I just keyed up, heard you on uhf. That was funny. I was reached over to turn this radio back up and
Speaker A: you were calling me. You know what? I think? I think I do.

Give me. Oh, yeah, he popped.

I'm looking. I'm looking for the little card. I kept the little. I kept the little car. Okay. I think this is it. You know, that comes on the box in case you got to send it back. All right. Now some glasses. Let me see. It is a model IP2M dash 8, six three E W dash AI V2. I think that's all you need. It's a network PTZ camera.

Speaker A: E
Speaker B: w a I v2. Edward wayward. It says ptz. No paul tango zulu. That's probably that power capability poe that's a guess. Well you know it is because you can run it out 2 or 300ft on an ethernet cable and it powers it. That's why I bought that
Speaker A: other network box so that it had the power to run out and up the twin towers. That's what I call those two cedar trees 200 foot
Speaker B: cedar trees. It does not say
Speaker A: on this little cardboard
Speaker B: piece that I cut off the box. But I believe it's amcrest. Remember I bought the hard drive to match it. No, you. They can't. They don't let
Speaker A: them do that sort of thing. You can't. You. You can't even hardly use your cell to other countries out of China. That's what he was telling me let alone look at
Speaker B: live cameras. You don't think they're not all over that.

Know, in China, they probably have a way to monitor your vpn. I mean, there's got to be some kind of subs energy source there.

Speaker A: Oh, yeah. And they probably go, look what your use is then. Then they have to look even deeper than that because, you know, they hide things in between frames. So, you know, China is. There's. You. You might think you're a skeptic in this country, but over there, they got. They got it.
Speaker B: I can't
Speaker A: believe the deals that Trump made yesterday with Chevron, Exxon, Conoco. Chevron was already two times. They completely set up refineries in Venezuela only to have them criminal people down there take over the whole facility and ruin it because they weren't smart enough to run it. And. But Trump guaranteed them sanctuary. And Chevron said, well, we'll do the framework and look at it. But just going on that you, you've always done exactly what you said you were going to do. We're in. Excuse me. And that one with the Exxon and Chevron both committed right there at
Speaker B: the table yesterday,
Speaker A: Had a bunch of smaller private oil refinery people in there. They wanted in on it. You know, Venezuela has the purest crude. I know that's an oxymoron, but the heaviest crude, you can do more with that than crude from any other part in the world. And Venezuela government down there is more than happy that Trump's going to step in and operate all them oil fields and sell the oil. He'll be controlling a lot of energy with that deal right there. The leverage, baby. It's all about the leverage.

Speaker A: Trump will deal with all that. Yeah, I'm. I'm feeling pretty confident that things are about to change for California and
Speaker B: world energy. Do you hear me telling Steve about our Bianco visit? That was pretty much the end of
Speaker A: Terry, Steve and me going back and forth and back and forth. But anyway, I'm pretty sure they're listening out here. If Bill wanted to, he could set something up right there so that he could listen. They. They don't have any. They don't have any of those. Well, what the heck they calling those big antennas the digital relay stations? The main actual name's not SDRs for UHF
Speaker B: VHF in the area, do they? Yeah, well, he. When
Speaker A: he lived in Truckee, he. He probably could have heard us. And he does have friends in Truckee. He could achieve it if he really wanted to. But it'd be Mr. The other guy north of us that would want to listen more than anybody else. Bill probably wouldn't waste his time, but, yeah, they'd like to be privy to what we talk about here. But anyway, when it comes to talking about other people, that's something we probably should do in person, even though we don't even do that as it is for the most part, you know. Yeah.

Speaker A: Yeah, I sent it back. By the time I bought a hard drive and everything for it. Yep, I sent them both back. They couldn't, they couldn't make it work. And they accessed it remote and they said it should be working. And I said, okay, no big deal. I'm at the end of my rope with it. I'm just going to send it back to you. I got full refund on the hard drive. And when they sell you one of them units for almost 300 bucks, you. They don't give you a hard drive in it. Is that ridiculous? Right then and there, I
Speaker B: almost threw in the towel and I should have. Yeah, well, I already had
Speaker A: the synology, but when I went and looked at what you had to do to set it up, but. And I didn't want to keep bothering you about it. And I don't like leaving
Speaker B: the, the NAS on anyway. I could invest again
Speaker A: if you thought it was worth doing that, if you think it's easy enough. I. And on the, on the same token, I don't have any problem leaving the synology on, especially since, you know, when we go
Speaker B: away for two weeks or three weeks at a time, I wouldn't mind taking
Speaker A: it with me so I could just wire it directly to the, you know, HDMI cables or whatever, right to the theater, the nebula. So that, I mean, do you know how. So. Twice. Twice Trevor's been here, brought his recording device, which he always gets the most updated one to back up all his CDs and all that stuff. He. He downloads VO Wire. It usually runs for more than a day. Jay. While he puts all the latest movies that, that he's paid for from his. See that. That really paid off. Me buying three of those things and, and giving him one for Christmas. That's really paid off. I don't know. I
Speaker B: got thousands of movies. Yes. Yep. It's right here
Speaker A: under the table. I can run that. I can run that camera out and, and I have 150 or a 200 foot piece of the network cable. The good stuff with the, you know, twisted pairs and, and I'm
Speaker B: sure it's Cat 6. Yeah, I sure can. Give me a minute. And six nps.

Speaker A: How do you take a picture with your phone?
Speaker B: I just. I just did that so the folks out in listening land could get a laugh. They'll be telling their friends. Yeah, I heard. Ntm he was asking Jay how to work his phone own.
Speaker A: You just took all the fun out of it.

Okay. That's a net gear. I think that's the one that is the POE Otherwise, I may have to go look for another box.

Is that one, poe. Okay. Otherwise, I'll have to go look for that little one. I think this is the one, though.

Now I found is a net gear as well, and it's got enough room for five cameras. And I'll send you a picture.

Speaker A: Pretty impressed with the old memories. This morning.
Speaker B: I knew right where to go to find that little box. Check.

Speaker A: Oh yeah, small business loans. California just got all that frozen. Suspected fraud. They have found enough fraud to freeze it, but yep, 111 billion. Oh, poor Newscomb. But anyway, it's mostly small business loans and some. And a secondary type of loan for payroll, ppp. But anyway, I love him shutting Newscomb down, down, down. He's going to be running in the opposite direction. We're not enough to worry about seeing where he's
Speaker B: hiding. Well,
Speaker A: you got the same feelings as most of the people on 97 so. Or 95. I see accountability happening. A bunch of people already just went to jail. None of the really top big shots. That's going to take longer to get them. So the GS305 should be the one link blink act. That's. That is the. That is the powered
Speaker B: network box. That's called onlink. Actually. Not one link. I remember Lori
Speaker A: getting a million dollars. A million dollars for the company and then it was within a year. Wasn't even. You didn't even have to repay it.
Speaker B: It's not only her worth
Speaker A: act, her work ethics, but the things that she came up with and pulled off that made things possible during COVID Oh yeah. And dramatically made up, well, huge revenue. So anyway. Yes, indeed.

Speaker A: Looks like we're going to be losing a lot of Mexico's people out of the state because this is going to allow him to shut off the welfare to the illegals, which he already did for the most part. He let the, he let the EBT cards go a little bit longer so that nobody starved. But that's going to save us a lot of money, too. Not that we're saving any money. It already went out the window. But it's going to be much
Speaker B: less next year. And you
Speaker A: know what? That deal J. Newscombe running Chevron, Exxon and Conoco and a couple other small refineries that were jumping ship here shortly, we ain't going to have to worry about our gas prices going up to 10 bucks gallon because you know darn good and well Trump put that little safety buffer in there saying, no, you're not screwing with those refineries and you're not getting no extra money from them either. Indubitably.
Speaker B: Oh, I gotta go
Speaker A: listen to Rubio. This whole deal was shutting down parts of the government and ice. He didn't actually come out and say that Trump will pay for it out of his pocket. But it's going to continue to happen. They're not going to be able to shut down the government like they did last time. Not complete like that anyway.
Speaker B: Cool.

Kn6mgk on 5, 2.

And 6wip and 6mtm.

Speaker A: And 6wip and 6mtm.
Speaker B: So you know
Speaker A: the little cover on the back of your phone that covers the cameras?
Speaker B: I got a little bump on the back of mine and the corner of it's got a couple cracks in it. I was just wondering maybe there was a chance you might know how hard that is to change. That little plastic
Speaker A: piece, the covers. I think it's just a protective cover. I don't notice any magnification or anything happening in them. Yeah, I could have done that. I will do that. I guess I'll find out. How do you think they're describing that?
Speaker B: It's
Speaker A: not the small one. It's a
Speaker B: 22 plus.

Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that came right up. Just a lens
Speaker B: protector replacement. Yeah, they want you to heat it up slightly with, well, you know, some type of heat deal. They don't give you temperature, but just to soften the adhesive. And then it carefully just pries off the old. It is glass and cleaning debris to prevent sensor damage. That's what it says. Three, five minutes. Don't even. Don't overheat the device. Be nice if they had a. Oh, I did. I found a video. I'll go look at that.

Speaker A: No, I didn't see it, but. Zoom. Metra z o o m e t r a check those
Speaker B: glasses. Yeah, not gonna happen.
Speaker A: That'd pump up the economy because, you know, they'd go out and blow that money and, you know, the. It wouldn't be long before they rewrite back where they're at. But they dump a lot of money into the economy that they're never gonna do ever anyway. And the hopes is that they would be forced into investing at least half of it. That would really be big.

Speaker A: It's a Galaxy S22 Plus. Now I know what to put in. I'm looking at something different here.
Speaker B: Galaxy
Speaker A: S22 Ultra.
Speaker B: Looks pretty easy, though.

Yeah, it doesn't look too hard. Looks like just about anybody could do it. Yeah, it was all there. Back camera lens, glass replacement, fixed repair change.

I'll take it to somebody, though, see what they charge. Yeah, those guys are super expensive for the dumbest little thing. I should order it and get it here, though.