2m Simplex (146.520 MHz) recordings for 2026-02-16

39 degrees. Looks like snow is on its way. And 6 mtm. Good morning.

Speaker A: That's one I out away on j n6 ntm.
Speaker B: Have you seen that movie Hidden figures?
Speaker A: Well, we watched that one the other night. Jay, that was the best movie I've seen in weeks.

Speaker A: Then we watched another one had Jack Nicholson. It's an older movie and colored guy that's well known. He went. His name was Edward on the program and I can't remember his actual real name, but he's a good actor too. That was a good movie. They're both dying. I think I told
Speaker B: you about it. Yeah,
Speaker A: yeah. That was way out of Nicholson's character. Of course. Of course he's. He's pretty damn good at
Speaker B: whatever he wants to do. Or was. I think he's still alive. You're not hearing the background noise on hf, are you, Jay? Yeah, I oiled it
Speaker A: and then I greased it the next day and let it run for five minutes and I didn't hear the little clicking noise or any of that stuff to grease. My stuff made up the tolerance difference. Right on the edge though. I just need to glue up one more pipe in the air box and then I can and bolt and bolt the deal on the bottom of the Alpha 99. So the hose will slip onto the air inlet area. I can't figure out because they, they ran the. I don't want to just start nipping wires and they don't give you. At least on the schematics I've looked at for the alpha 99, they don't. They don't tell you which of the wires run the fan. So I could shut that
Speaker B: off. The one that's built into it. The fans that come in a 99. No. Yeah. You don't have any choice. When you turn it on, the fans. Come on. Gave me an idea with that though.
Speaker A: They have an optional fan in the back to blow cool air into the. Into the upper cavity. And that's where the inside onboard tube cooler squirrel cage is. And it blows the fan into a box underneath the top area and up through the tubes, you know, to cool them. So mate, just maybe I'll see the color of the wires for the inside fan. Have to look up. I think, I think I'll try looking up the optional outside 4 inch whisper fan that they. They'll send for you. There's got to be wires for that.

Speaker A: Well, they sent my big screen 150 inch one that pulls down electrically from the ceiling and that gives me nine more days for them to get that here. Then I'll send back this 120 inch
Speaker B: one.
Speaker C: They actually have a deal
Speaker A: in California, so not sure if it's that one or the other place where they actually manufacture stuff, but heck, it's taking them two weeks to send it to me. So. I didn't see that when I looked at the mail this
Speaker C: morning. Jay. Yeah,
Speaker B: they obviously had to build it. I don't think a lot of people order 150 inch
Speaker C: screens for inside the house. Gonna need a bigger boat.
Speaker A: Thinking less and less of that. Yeah.
Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know. We're down to the last little part though. Well, I told you that Sunday. I think.
Speaker C: No light dimming at
Speaker A: this point. We're not clear enough on that. But I haven't been been down there. I tried to do a quickie deal and hook the remus down that on, off, switch up to some power and see if I could vary the red wire with the white stripe. And it wasn't. So
Speaker C: we're at a loss. Yeah. Then we.
Speaker A: Then we can move on to the camera thing there. I'm thinking I ought to try getting my camera up on the tree. Right now is a good time. Or sometime over the next six or seven days. The ground ought to be moist. Stay moist. I said I could bury that wire. Yeah, I did buy the Cat 6. Yeah. I think that's what I got. 175ft will be plenty. And I did get the burial stuff. I'll probably put it inside of a small great electrical conduit anyway though.
Speaker C: I'll just feel better about it. And the small stuff is cheap.

Did you hear that Terry was looking to proposition you?

Speaker A: What are they trying to listen to our UHF and vhf. I was under the impression
Speaker B: that.
Speaker A: Just whatever's on the 9700D start. We had the
Speaker B: 500 when we got those 400 those FTM 400 radios which I still have. We me and Jim, you know the net gym when that first came out we tried all that digital stuff and I'd be in the log truck going out 20 up to Clear Lake and stuff. And it definitely made a cleaner a better coffee sometimes some at different places as we went. I don't think we ever used it again after we saw what it did do. That was a benefit but not
Speaker A: good enough yet. Back in those days. Yeah. All colors touchscreen.
Speaker B: You can even get that microphone that takes slow scan pictures.
Speaker A: The the 440 end
Speaker B: of it is a little less power than it's supposed to put out. That was the only thing that didn't work that good. But for my applications because I'm pretty sure that one crossband I don't need a lot of power for the 445 because I'm. I'm within
Speaker A: 300ft of the antenna. We might try doing that sometime if
Speaker B: if Steven doesn't come to the rescue. And I'll be right back in 6:10pm.

All right. I got my answers for wiring the O2 sensor for five bucks. That was a worth it deal. But I told them if it works, I'll. I'll send them a couple extra bucks. I'm pretty happy with it. I couldn't get that information out of the Denso. You know that they got the QR code there. It's supposed to give you the cross reference for the wires, but anyway, I'm gonna try. It doesn't make 100% sense to me, but it doesn't have to. Well, we hurried up and paid the. So if I have to drive the car down and have new tags and they pull me over, I'll already have an appointment with my regular smog people. And yeah, I'll have to drive it around for a good, good while before it'll even send the information to itself so that the light will go off. Then I can go in and get. Get a smog. It'll be okay long as I got the, the registration paid with dmv, which I already have the paper for. That should, that should make the cop happy. He can always call the, the guy. The guys that are doing the smog. Yeah. Seeing that I have an appointment with them on the same day for the information to come through to get rid of the light. So, you know, you know, half the time you can get rid of the ticket just by showing them that it's the fixes in the works. Yeah, I'll tell lori. She'll do the dmv paperwork. Oh, I don't know how that works. Crawling into the car and cutting the old O2 sensor off and wiring in this new one I got in my hand. And then I'll. I'll obtain a pass just in case, but I'll. I'll drive it north up Skyway to do the test. They were giving me a hint up here at our little local guys. He goes, you should, you should do it on a flat ground. Don't, don't do it on uphills or downhills. Try to do 12 miles on the flat, which is almost impossible here. Other, other than the highway, you know, even if you go down to Oroville, it's good. There's going to be uphill and downhill parts. If I go north on 5 or on 99, that's the flattest thing I can come up with.

There's a little uphill and a little downhill before you get down there to the long flat again, but I don't think that would affect it that much. All right. I'll call Lori and see about the permit. Set that up for Tuesday or something.

Speaker A: All right. She's looking into that as we speak. It's probably free at
Speaker B: the DMV for the one day smog pass. Yeah, well, anyway, I know what to do. For the most part. They want you to hold it out of 55. 55 to 60 mile an hour for 12 miles.
Speaker A: Guy was pretty easy to work with. Alan. That Just Answer. He was pretty cool. Guy. Yeah.
Speaker B: Called Just answer. They get $5 from you up front. And then he said, that's all there is to it, just $5. I go, it's worth more than $5 if it works.

Yeah, I don't. I don't understand how he came up with how. How you run a blue wire, a white wire, and a black and a black wire. He's running the black to the tan wire and a black to the signal wire, which is purple. I don't know how he came up with that. But the blue wire is a power wire connected to a brown wire, and the red and white wire goes to the pcm, the white wire, blue and white. I guess those are the important ones. The black and the black aren't a big deal. Why they call it a signal wire? I don't like that part. But, yeah, the most important one is the pcm. The red and white wire to the white wire. Yeah, it seems like I should be able to turn on the key and determine which one is the power wire, which they want me to connect to the brown to the blue. Yeah, I might try that real fast. Damn it. I didn't bring my good volt meter home. I think I got an extra one, though. Yeah, my test box. I got an Atoms or something like that. That'd be good enough for that simple test.

Speaker A: Well, I'm sure the voltage there, the red and white wire that comes off of the PCM. Yeah. That shouldn't be more than 12 volts. So that's, that's how I'm wiring it, basically. And the white, the white one's going to the power wire. That's, that's obviously 12 volts. And the tan and purple are both black wires. That's what I'm going to give a try to, anyway. I guess if I get an unusually loud spark pop, then they got
Speaker B: something wrong with the
Speaker A: boy. If I burned up a PCM over that bad information right there, I'd
Speaker B: be jumping up and down.
Speaker A: Doesn't say. Just that he'd call me. Yeah, it would have been nice if they. If he would have sent me a cross schematic on the site. Yeah, that would have been nice. Instead of me just taking his word for it on over the phone.

Would have been cool if my regular smog people down there could have cross referenced that for me as well. Be nice to have two people agreeing on how the wires go. Yeah, that would have been nice. I wrote down the wire colors from the Denso O2 sensor people and I. He looked up the Corvette and told me the wire colors there. Tan, purple, brown, and a red with a white striped wire. So he just did the figuring from there. What I'm thinking though, Jay, is if I go underneath there and turn the key on, I should be able to figure out the brown power wire that they want me to connect to blue. If that one's. If that one's the brown wire showing 12 volts going to blue. That sounds right. And the white wire goes back to the pcm. That's not going to give me a reading that I can test the red with the white stripe, The purple, and the tan wire coming down on the wire that's already in the car there. One, the purple wire says the signal going to black. That's kind of weird, don't you think? You think black was ground? There's two black wires on the. The Denso O2 sensor. Yeah. They want me to run the tan wire to that one and. And the other one down to the red and white wire. Doesn't seem like you'd want to ground the PCM wire brown. Yep. I. I don't like how he decided to send me on the wiring, but you know what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn on the key and see which one is showing me voltage and maybe the PCM input wire. That sounds weird to me. There's no plug down by the O2 sensor. And the. The Chevy is. Which is he. That's what information he gave me. Yeah. Tan, the black and let me see. Purple. The signal wire to black. Yep. The other two white colors for the off the Chevy are purple and. And brown, which they want me to hook to blue. And the white wire. Let me see to the red and white PCM wire. Yep. So anyway, I will do the voltage check when I cut. Cut the wire off the old O2 sensor.

Speaker A: You gotta cut it. Otherwise you gotta follow the wire. It's more than a five foot long wire. From where the O2 sensor is behind the cap. I followed the wires both sides and they go up the firewall. I pop the hood and look under the firewall and I don't see those two wires coming up around by the bell housing. I got no idea where those end up. There might be a plug up there somewhere. But the denso unit comes with a plug on it. But it's only 4 inches long. So you know, I'm cutting that
Speaker B: plug off. Guess I could always go to the Chevy dealer and see how long their wire is, huh? 2004 Corvette. There's
Speaker A: four. There's four O2 sensors. There's two. One on each side. Bank 1 and Bank 2 before the cat. And then there's two O2 sensors after the cat. Bank 1 and Bank 2 and Bank 2 is the one I'm working on. 2004 Corvette.

Speaker A: Okay. The O2 sensor. I was letting the dog out. The O2 sensor is a Denso D NSO and the part number on that is 23-4466-8.
Speaker B: Yeah. 350. Basically. The two
Speaker A: short ones are before the cat, I'm gonna guess, and the two longer ones are after the cat. And those are the wire, though those wires just run up to the. Up the firewall somewhere, which I never could trace them back, but. Yeah. So the Denso has a blue wire, a white wire, and two black wires. No need. They know it's the one after the cat because it won't send information to clear the check engine light on the O2 sensor. So they could do a smog. Yeah.

So the wiring colors on the car are tan, purple, brown, and red with a white stripe. That's what I'm. That's what that Just Answer man told me. You're not supposed to go buy that. You're. You're seeing what you can find. Yeah. Mine just says Denso D N S o First time fit. Then it isn't a Bosch, unless Bosch owns Denzel or something like that. If you just plugged in, it would be a five or six foot long wire that goes from the back of the cat, which is right under the passenger seat. You know, the cats are only about 6 or 8 inches long, so, you know, before and after oxygen sensors. He told me down at the auto parts or Napa where I bought this Denso that all four sensors are the same. Yeah, they only got 4 inches of wire and a plug on them. I don't like the plug being right by the cat either, but it is up above it and out of the way. So I'm not worried about that because I'm just going to cut the wires off and cut the plug off the Denso and. And wire them together. Same thing the just answer guy said. He goes shrink tube and solder the wires and shrink tube. Them best is with the, with the type of shrink tube that makes the seal. I just put silicone inside the shrink tube after I solder it and then shrink tube until you see it poop out silicone. And then that dries and you're watertight. Oh, yeah. I jack it up in the back and put 10 by 10 blocks of wood. Then I can fit under it. Then I jack the front end up and, and put, you know, jack stands, Which I'll probably do up here today sometime. That's. That's going to be my excuse. And then she's got the. Or she'll call me when she gets the pass so that we stay on the legal side of me doing a long test drive. Hopefully it doesn't snow tomorrow like they're calling for, because Corvettes are a little tricky in the snow. Yeah, yeah. And 12 inch tires. The width in the back and tens in the front. Yeah, that's. That's not a horsepower car. Not yet. Not to mention the lowness like you're talking about that, that little rubber piece there that runs across the front. Only three inches, two and a half to three inches off the ground. And I didn't do no lowering. Supposedly this is a stock suspension situation, but it sure looks low to the ground to me. I can barely get my jack under it. Which I'll probably be looking for a new jack an aluminum racing jack and not from harbor freight because that's what I have is a Harbor freight one that barely fits under it and it bleeds off but I've asked it to lift up the front of the log truck and you know that's way more even on just on one corner more than three and a half tons so. That's probably why it bleeds off. I could, I could probably settle for a, for a 3 or 4 ton 3 ton jack all aluminum racing jack that has a pretty low profile but I'm probably only going to be doing stuff on the 38 or the you know her srt that little fiat Brat or yeah my pickup so I can probably get by with the three and a half ton three three ton jack. It's always better to get a little more than what you're going to use it for. What are you thinking? Are we supposed to go get breakfast? What are you thinking?

You know I'll make you choose if I suggest Quincy. Morning Thunder.

Never seen the Morning Thunder out that way. So you guys. You guys were going there before me. There was just. There was just the Moon's restaurant, which is still there, and Morning Thunder is right next to it. For all the years. For 20 years, that's where I saw Morning Thunder. But, yeah, she did just recently buy it, and Nate renamed it Patty's Thunder. Yeah. Doesn't say Morning Thunder whatsoever. She screwed up when she did that. As far as I'm concerned over just putting her name on it.

Speaker A: Yeah, which is primarily primary. Primary business there that keeps that town alive is logging the mill and always has been. Yeah. So you wouldn't, you wouldn't be wanting to promote smoking pot in a mill
Speaker B: community. I'm thinking 70,
Speaker A: 80% of the population smokes pot some time or another. Aside from the medical marijuana using people, which is probably mill walkers wives anyway. I'm just guessing. I really don't care. I would think if they were actually operating the saw, they don't do that anymore. You know, they feed, they feed the log in and then it's all done digitally after that. I don't know about Quincy, but I know the newer mills are all. The computer decides what direction the wood's going to go in to get the most amount of board feet. What I'm saying is they don't actually touch a tree with their hands and shove it through the mill. It's all mechanical.

Killerman. I think that's his last name. Yeah. I never met him in person, but I was waiting for the phone call directing me to go see him when. When they were trying to oust me from sbi. But he never wanted to see me.

Speaker A: Oh, yeah. So they made fence posts. When I first came here to Lori's, I seen stacks of bad ass fence posts that were probably 6 to 8 inches across, made at the telephone pole part up there and up there in Red Bluff. Not Red Bluff, but north of that. Let me see, Red Bluff, Cottonwood. Past Cottonwood, up to. Yeah, the last mill up there by the Peterbilt dealer. But anyway, they made all of his fence posts. And you know how much land he's got. It's all done in the exact same post. I think there's six, maybe some eight foot posts. And. And he said, well, those belong to Red. Those ones that are out there, we could probably make you some. And if Red okays it, we can take from his stack. He keeps a. He keeps a running amount sitting right there at the mill up there. And you know, their telephone poles are super expensive.
Speaker B: Needless to say, I never got the okay to have
Speaker A: them. All right, there's the thing from Lori. Then all you got to do is decide where. Where we're going.

Well, I got some kind of type of a Cha Ching noise, but I don't see. I don't see where anybody tried to call me. I'll call her just in case I don't screw it up.

Speaker A: All right, so we came to an agreement on that. You see, you have to go in person to go get a one day pass. So I probably won't do that. But she thinks it's good until the 18th. I have until the 18th. So I might be able to pull this off anyway if it doesn't snow tomorrow. Because I don't think I'm going to get both things done. Although I might. If I get underneath there right after breakfast and then solder that one in real fast and then go for a ride real fast, I could, I could beat the, the
Speaker B: deal.
Speaker A: Yeah. So now all you have to do is pick where we eat because somehow I know you ain't going
Speaker B: to Quincy. Well, I'm thinking
Speaker A: you, you probably like to go down there
Speaker C: to
Speaker A: our regular place instead of
Speaker B: Terry. Oh, that's right, that's the other one, Jackie. Yeah. Boy, talk about two past tense businesses. So the choices
Speaker A: are no
Speaker C: runny nose or slightly less quality food. All right, you know, how about I'll leave here at 10 to 9,
Speaker A: See you there. N6 NTM. You could always invite your, you could always invite your dad if you wanted to go up to Morning Thunder someday in the future. Oh, phone call.

Speaker A: Here's a good one. Rag dump's got six inches of snow right now, Jay. And that was one hour ago. He posted that. So we're
Speaker B: right
Speaker A: on
Speaker B: the edge of snowing. Oh, I don't
Speaker A: care. We're gonna do the sneak it thing anyway. I'll just wait until it ain't snowing. The weather registration's, it's already paid for, but whether it's past the date for the smog, I ain't gonna worry about any of that. I'll just get the smog. Okay. And. And hopefully they'll send me tags automatically. All right, I'm just bringing you up to date. N6 NTM I'll start getting dressed and watch 5, 10 minutes worth of news and get no end.