2m Simplex (146.520 MHz) recordings for 2026-02-28

Speaker A: But
Speaker B: what a day for a daydream. That's right. Looks like the start of yet another beautiful day. Yeah. Yeah. Let me see. We can always look and see how beautiful it's going to be. But it looks pretty nice out. I'm looking at semi Blue skies indeed. N6 NTM says it's 58 degrees already. I'll take it. Good morning, everybody. N6 NTM.

Speaker A: Take your helicopter with you. You bought that cool little helicopter and it just sits in the closet. I don't even think you
Speaker B: wrecked it once yet. So I've been out with her.

Damn it. I guess. I guess you won't be buying me breakfast for a long time. Yeah, Lori asked me what kind it was. I told. I told her about it. I. It surprised you. And me and Sally got a fist, a fist full of meat. She was a pretty happy camper, though she did not say thank you, I might add, that she didn't have to. And it's never good just to give her the whole clump because she just swallows it. She used to chew it when she was younger. Chew it up a little bit and swallow it and then grab another hunk. It didn't. Meet Pete. That was my last dog. He was every bit as smart as Sally. Didn't catch on as fast, but he could do everything she does. And he never chewed anything ever since he was a puppy. It just went in his mouth. If you opened up his mouth, his throat was twice the size of the chew chewing area. Just crazy. I was telling Lori this morning one time that this girl that was living with us thought it would be cool to give him a half a corn cob. It might have been a third, but anyway, he did chew on it for a little while. She thought he'd just chew it up like a bone. And then she. Then she saw him swallow it. Took her about 45 minutes to call me because she was pretty scared. I told her, you don't got to worry about dogs. Dogs digestive systems can digest bones. So. Yeah, we never found no corn cob out in the backyard. I'm pretty sure it dissolved, but anyway, 70 bucks. You only need one battery to practice a little bit, Jay, because you get braver and braver pretty fast. I got great big ones. I ain't kidding you. I got helicopters here with three foot blade spans. No cameras, never flew it. I got brand new one in the box. The whole complete thing. I probably got 10 bodies. I went on a nut spree. Yeah, I had helicopters and. Yeah, I used to be able to fly helicopters. Probably still can. And I had a whole handful of little dinky ones. In fact, we used to race them around in the front room making circles and stuff. Yeah, I can operate the controls. I would just lift them off the ground just enough to get rid of the wash so it could be somewhat steady. And then put it back down, raise it up, put it back down, raise it up, put it back down. But pretty soon you start getting confidence. That's when you start wrecking them a little bit. You know, you don't see the cheap tree, bent branch. This is not a good area to learn how to fly a helicopter. We got too many trees. But I got big, open areas. Yep. Hey, Lori's officially retired. We got sleep in.

I don't know nothing about any of that. We used to get three months off every year so I was always looking forward to them vacations. It was just like getting another vacation for me. Yeah. And then of course. When Sierra Pacific started being weird, I had to. I was forced to think about doing something else. But of course there's other logging companies. Sierra Pacific's only the biggest one. There's all kinds of little companies I could have worked for. I was actually liking the idea. And of course, you know, me and Lori were already together so there was that the construction end of it. That was fun, that weaned me and then I just like that padding around here. Didn't take me long to indoctrinate. But I do still have dreams from time to time. For 25 years. 30 years. I haven't had one in a long time. Now though, I'd be looking for my motorcycle all night. One of my. One of my real fine chops. Yep. I remember waking up in the morning, it's all night long. I was looking here and looking there and pretty sure I was going to find it and never did. Oh, I. I got the tire minder piece yesterday. Today I get the leveling one.

Yeah, them lipo fours can go underneath the bed. They don't gas, so looks like we're gonna, we're gonna end up beating up. I hope they totally obliterate it. They're already moving people out of Israel and I don't think there's any people in Iran, but they are getting ready to. They're getting ready to go to war with Iran. Shouldn't take too long. Israel surrounds it, so for the most part. And Israel's tired of putting up with all those terrorists. There's probably five different groups there. So it'd be nice to go in there for our military to get some real. Get some real practice. You know, there's already three aircraft carriers there. Anyway, at least it's over there, not over here. Another chance for Trump and the military to show that we are the king of the hill. But anyway, if Russia had their way, you know what they, what they said when China, when China tried to say something about if they, if they got in bed together, that they could probably take the United States and the word back, at least on our end anyway, was they. They thought they needed to start five wars that the United States had to be. Had to be involved with five different places for them to have a chance. That was reassuring. But anyway, so if you look on ebay, not that you care any, but I, I looked on ebay just to see if there was any of those. Maddox, changing gears here, Mr. 16s Harbor Freight OBD. And I found. I found a guy who had several of them for 199 bucks. That's the price of the 14 at Harbor Freight. And I'm thinking this guy's got to be. This guy's got to be a scam. He's only got three sales or something. So. But I went and looked and he had a thousand nine hundred, something like that of sales and 99.6% positive. So, you know, I couldn't resist. $200 for a 16. Come on, Jay. You know, I'm a skeptic. It could be a sure deal and I'm, and I'm scratching the dir like I'm looking for a place to poop. I don't. It doesn't make any sense to me. Maybe they. Maybe there's a flaw to it, but it says it and it shows it in a plastic package, sealed, new, never been opened. Yep. Okay, lynn, I'll send you the thing that I.

Torrance, California. That's where my big screen's at. Torrance. Torrance, California. That's down by la, I'm pretty sure.

Speaker A: Okay, here it is. This is bullshit. I. I hate it after a deal. What's new in photos then? They don't give you any way to get rid of that screen except for continue
Speaker B: or learn more. It's. Okay. I know I took a picture of it when I ordered it, but I'm not seeing it.

Put it in Google. That's what they. They directed me to. Ebay.

Speaker A: Yeah, I found. I found one with a 7 or 8 inch screen. It was a different company. It was a hundred dollars more but I did all the graphs. I don't know enough about them to be for sure about what I'm. I can't find it. Not even the one I ordered. How do you like that? It's not my
Speaker B: pictures or any. I found
Speaker A: a brand new Factory seal. Maddox Mr. 16 advanced 4.3 $199. Buy it again.
Speaker B: It's on E. Give you a big long item number but I'm pretty sure all you got to do is type it in. Came out to $230
Speaker A: which is almost $50 less than Harbor Freight. And then I would have had to drive to Yuba City. That would
Speaker B: have been another $15. It just says paid
Speaker A: March 4th. Tracking decals, economy shipping. It doesn't say what service they're going to use. But this is the picture I took right after
Speaker B: I paid for it. Doesn't matter. I have
Speaker A: concierge. If I don't see it on the 4th or see tracking starting to work, I'll call ebay. I'll get that money back right away. Sold by the People's Exchange. And I went and looked at that guy's other sites, Jay, and you ought to see all the nice stuff he has for sale. 190 something different items on his sale, ebay sale.

Speaker A: You still didn't find it, huh? Go look at his other stuff.
Speaker B: It's worth it. And I'll be back. N6 NTM I smell breakfast cooking. I offered to take her out for a steak. Do they. Do they offer that steak fake deal every day,
Speaker A: Jay. All right, here comes breakfast. I'm gonna go eat.

N6wip n6 ntm.

Speaker A: Well, I've noticed that too. A lot of times I got to take it for fear of breaking it, a jar especially, and put it on the floor. I still got enough hand strength to twist it off, but every now and then I can't get that off. I put my knee up on it and then grab it with both hands at the lid and twist it slowly. The hardest ones are the. Are the Costco Kirkland peaches in a jar. Yeah. Probably because of the stickiness of the sugar inside, but anyway. Yeah, most of the things I can. If you just
Speaker B: keep holding the pressure on and
Speaker C: hold
Speaker B: it and on and hold it on,
Speaker A: eventually it starts to move, but. All right. So to save me from looking in the binder of where to jack that thing up. So they want me to put this booster for the tire pressure management system in the middle. And it's got a metal bottom all the way across the bottom. So I can't just put it inside. Not going to put it all the way back by the axles, but I'm going to probably put some small screws inside to hold it on the bottom. Four screws. But it looks like I'm going to have to jack it up. Where is there. Is there some mark someplace
Speaker C: that it's okay to jack it up by? Yeah, booster. That's what I was thinking. I didn't know it had a rear view camera. Check. No big deal. That's.
Speaker A: I never needed. I never needed a backup camera. But who knows? National parks, other things that it might be nice. That and a pretty good light back there somewhere to light it up back there. But I, I see on keep your daydream videos that their camera actually lights it up back there, so you don't really need to have a backup light, so to speak. If you're used to using mirrors to back trailers up, you know how to do it.

Speaker A: Yeah, we used it. We used it. It
Speaker B: probably needs a new cover. It's pretty yellow, but. Yep, that'll get you by. Oh, cool. Something I haven't
Speaker A: found. All right, well, I'm going to back it into the garage. So in order to lift it up enough to put that thing on it. Yeah, I want to do that on the garage floor. There is no place other than the trailing arms to lift it up with a jack.

Speaker A: Yeah, they don't give you feat. They just say for best results. And I did watch a video. It wasn't a applin light, you know, it was just a regular trailer which you could scoot underneath those pretty damn easy. I might get by with just being able to drive it up on some blocks if I have to go all the way back there. No, they. They only give you an eight foot cord and I prefer not to have things out on the bottom unless they're above the axles, which there isn't one. There isn't axles. So you could still knock the thing off. I. I would prefer to put it on the inside and try it just like you're saying. I'll do that first and then I'll program all the wheel sensors. They just screw onto the valve stems which I don't particularly care for, but I'm pretty sure we're putting some. I found a place that sells rims, you know, quality used tires down there in Chico for 40 to 75 bucks is their average price. That's cheap. And. And I'll have them put metal valve stems in the wheel so that I have to worry about it. Centrifugal force and the weight of the valve stem with that transmitters on each one. You know what I mean? Bending a rubber one back while it's centrifugal force. Forcing.
Speaker B: Yeah,
Speaker A: I don't want to trip on that. So when I get rims, I'll have them
Speaker B: put metal whilst in.
Speaker A: Oh, precisely. Because you know that thing's a little. I got the aluminum one. They used to sell them in brass. I got the aluminum ones so the. They're not really that heavy. But you know me, you do it the best you can. Of course you want to balance them with the transmitters on them.
Speaker B: All right, I think I got it down.

Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: Actually, they tell you in the instructions that it wants full time power, but I know what you're getting at. Of course you don't want to just. I. I think after there's no motion or anything, it shuts
Speaker A: itself off. It has
Speaker B: never sat anywhere without being plugged into 110 so far. But, yeah, you know, Yeah, I. I like to be able to go out there 247 and go in there and have lights and everything all the time. And then you don't have to worry about the batteries being charged or any of that stuff. I ran power out to Lori's potting shed out there, and it's parked 10ft from that, so I got four outlets right there to plug into. That's how it is right now.
Speaker A: Yeah.

Speaker A: Oh, yeah, they're much cheaper now. I think I paid 120 for the tire minder. The other and pressure and temperature. So you can see before something goes wrong the other things coming today. That's why I thought I'd just back it into the garage so I could work in the comfort and close to the tools. The other thing that's coming today is the balance thing. That all. Is there a light in the. In the closet?
Speaker B: You know, like, for hanging shirts and suits? Yeah. Well, I got to get
Speaker A: power to that balancing unit. That's. That. That is the nicest thing right there. You just push an app button on your phone, and it shows you how many inches the front or the back and left and right needs to come up to be level.

Speaker A: Perfect. Thanks.
Speaker B: Well, if I wait any longer,
Speaker A: the day will be gone. Now I'll have it in the garage. So do, do, do. Just everything will be good. All right? You're getting stuff done, and I'm about to go outside and get it done, too. See
Speaker B: ya. Thank you.
Speaker A: And
Speaker B: 6 ntm.