2m Simplex (146.520 MHz) recordings for 2026-03-05

Hope. I'm in chico. Oh, yeah, you should. You should get there and think. I'll.

Speaker A: Star base 12 the
Speaker B: WIP and 6 WIP and 6 MTM 44 degrees up here everybody in Magalia and the start of yet another
Speaker A: beautiful day. Good morning.
Speaker B: Yep Trevor's here and his wife is is working away at her stay at home job at part of her job. She's over there on the dining
Speaker A: room table hacking away. Hang on, I'll say goodbye Good morning to Ross. Okay so yeah, sorry for not getting
Speaker B: back to you right away. Lori told me that you had reciprocated in that. I'll probably diddly bop over sometime. What time are you leaving for for breakfast destinations?

I think we got it now, but I changed my whole thing up. I'm not going to put up that. I'm not going to put up that metal unistrut stuff. Don't need to. I'm going to use 2x6, real nice looking cedar and just come from the wall straight out. Yeah. Too much trouble on the unistrut. I don't like how. How big the holes are in the inner strut and what I'd have to go through to put that up. Sometimes mine works. I don't. I. I don't know if it's because it's upside down that it's having a problem with the batteries or what, but inconsistent reading. So I just want something else to check it out with. So I'll be over there way before you guys leave. I'll have yours for a backup.

Speaker A: Yeah, I almost went with that, but I got a truck bucket here. It's only part of a, it's only part of a footprint of a five gallon bucket. So inside the truck, this works better. On a second note, did you warn
Speaker B: the fellows that Blake was coming? I know that,
Speaker A: but just, just in case Blake was listening. I mean he
Speaker B: doesn't expect anything less from. OJ down to the floor.
Speaker A: So I put up a what a six foot ladder or close to it. And my, my Milwaukee light has adjustable telescoping pole that comes out of the top and I, I just set it on top of that, motorized it down and we watched that all three, four hours last night. It was, it was so badass. All the way down to the floor to the screen. The race car driving and, and, and the, and the different stuff. The people are the same height you, you are when they're looking at you behind a news desk or whatever. Oh man, what a. That sure adds the, the part we've been missing. Most TVs at three feet off the ground or more. So. Yeah, Still had another two and a half or three feet that I could have made it bigger but you know that thing, that thing tries to stay with 6:19 on the ratio. So. But anyway, it was still big.
Speaker B: It'll be up today, guarantee you. We just might figure out how to get
Speaker A: the sound from that unit into the home theater. So yeah, then, then, then we'll be closer to Senate and smoking. I'll be right back. N6 NTM.

Speaker A: Four more days and I'll have the Maddox 16. And I only I only paid $199 for it on ebay. We'll see. It better be in a full blister pack because I didn't see nothing about paying paying shipping jay and he added 15 onto that. Otherwise I wouldn't have bought it because between that and tax it came out to 230. I I see that harbor freight raised the to 259. So that would have been getting up there about almost 300
Speaker B: bucks. They're supposed to be here by
Speaker A: the 9th, but I was blown away with that screen. Showed up on the 4th. Huh? It wasn't supposed to be Urzella 9th either. I wonder what's up with these mail companies getting it done days ahead of time.

Well, we've had, like, three different mailmen so that they got some position changes around there for new people.

Blue screen of death. And it doesn't even have a screen. Hardly. Anyway, yeah, I'm glad I didn't jump in. I don't. I didn't see the use for it. It is nice that you can use it for phone calls or at least texting. I mean, but.

I'm looking to make a little Faraday cage in one of the three glove boxes that the truck has. So I have a place to put the phone in. Yeah, well, you shouldn't have any problem with the mesh unit putting that in in a small projector. Yeah. Oh, breakfast is on the way.

Speaker A: Well, K6MGK is out here just piddling around here trying to clean up a few things at my desk area. Put in a. I've had it for a little while, a little mini computer. I don't know why, it's kind of old. So bought her the mini computer with Windows 11 on it because that's what she wants anyway. And yeah, I got that put in. Having some trouble with the audio, but I found so fixed that and got the
Speaker B: obvious. Pretty impressed with the little
Speaker A: mini weld. Oh, maybe three, four inches by another five inches or so and mounts on the back of the screen, the little monitors, you know, so
Speaker B: far. Continues. Run, everybody, run while you can.

Speaker A: Well in all these years that I could tell you right now. You talk about being demanding on a computer or whatever, but I was demanding on it when I had my business back in Windows xp. So all these computers today are way those machines were so pretty easy
Speaker B: to be productive with. One actually. A tooth one that only cost like 210 or something.
Speaker A: Something like that, you know. Yeah, there's a pretty big difference there. None of the people around here too much are gamers and stuff like that. And hey, talking about Faraday, something like this that literally comes in like a 5 inch by 5 inch box, brand new, would fit in a little garbage can thereadays. So that'd be a perfect little item to put in there.
Speaker C: Windows what do you think? Jay Windows Steve has a way of making you feel old. He didn't know nothing about no Vic 20.

Well, worldwide. It's a popular operating system. I'm not a fan, you guys know that I'm a Linux operating system user and have been since 2004. But the wife, she worked for companies that all use Windows, and she's familiar with that operating system and works, doesn't want to change. And you talk about all the spyware and stuff like this, this nitty computer, there's no microphone on it, there's no video camera on it. And. Well, my wife is old school when it comes to banking and stuff like that, so, I mean, she might. She browses the Internet to look at some stories and perhaps does order a few things on a couple different websites. But, you know, that's pretty much what I would say a good portion of Americans do.

Speaker A: Boy that makes you feel loved. Nobody says good morning. Oh, shoot. Turn this radio back up. Hope I didn't double with anybody. And he over you. He touched on you. Of course.
Speaker B: Sorry about that. I'll mark it down. Let me see. I'm gonna have to get bigger paper. That's. That's 16 stars for me, just. Just today.

What'd you say, Steve?

Speaker A: So your ham clock to whatever that new thing was. Something I was considering doing.
Speaker B: Building a ham clock until I know for sure that they were going to be supported. Yeah. That's the one I'm talking about, right?
Speaker A: That's you. Somehow you. You know, you. That's a video I think I sent you. But maybe you got it somewhere else, too, I thought. Where it's talking about on the ham clock settings or whatever. Like, you know, using the terminal and stuff like that.
Speaker B: That's what I'm asking if you've done that yet. Multitasking. Multitasking. Knee pads. Knee pads are the answer. Knee pads work good to sit on if you got hemorrhoids.

Well, I know both of you guys got a real nice phone. I have a decent phone, too. You're talking about spyware. And you know them things that all of us like to use for. A lot of what we do are just more full of spyware than you can imagine.

By the way, cool over there, computers for classrooms. Then I had to drive up and ring the bell there, but they came out and grabbed everything I had. So I profess learning electronics like computers, cables, cords, those kinds of things, you know that that's still a decent place to drop them off for e waste kn6mgk. Well, I don't know about that. I mean yeah, I donated it but all my stuff's older so all you guys want to run new stuff. Even the one I just bought my wife is probably 2 years old at this point anyway. But yeah, some of those I think the newest one I opened up before I sent it in over to him to look at it. One of the devices inside, like the DVD ROM with the DVD writer or whatever, it had the date of 2013 on it. So I think that was the newest one. Yeah, let me see what I can read here. Okay. Yeah, the one I'm using right now for a desktop unit was my mom's for a while. Sister bought her a new one. This has got a Intel Core i3 seventh generation in it. I know it came, I'm pretty sure it came with Windows Vista if I remember right anyway. But yeah, I put Linux on it so it's working fine. It's a little slow to boot up but other than that, you know, it does what I need it to do. So I keeping it and then I have my little laptop which, which does have I think an Intel Celeron processor in it. Like it probably 1.9 GHz so about probably a third of the speed. J. The hard drive is about half full already. It has 128 gig hard drive. That's all I've got in this laptop. So yeah, I might have to invest in some sort of external storage at some point for it if I want to continue using it for long term anyway. Yeah, or I'll move it over to Linux too eventually. Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of Windows, you know, but there is in fact yesterday I had a problem with this laptop I was trying to put on Chirp that program Chirp and I must have selected the wrong website to get it from and man it tossed on some. I'm going to call it adware real quick. Like I couldn't stop it. I you know, I could see it was asking me to confirm the publisher and I could see it was a weird one and I go nope, it's too late already. Just hitting on the website was enough. Anyway, that's the tough thing about Windows and why I like Linux. I don't care if I went to any adware, spyware, malware website. It couldn't get on. It just never would. Worst thing I'd ever have to do is reboot the computer, you know, is to clear it off. And then it just couldn't come back. So because it just. They build all these viruses for. Mostly for Windows, I think. I think it's Windows. They probably. Gates there, he probably invests in all the viruses and then he invests in the. Then he sells you the antivirus software, you know, something like that. It's a conspiracy, I tell you. KN6MGK.