2m Simplex (146.520 MHz) recordings for 2026-03-09

Speaker A: Well, give it another try. Good morning. Kn6ngk. Almost 7am. Well, yeah.
Speaker B: Well, that's all good. Yeah. Did you hear me on the other frequency? I was trying to see if anyone was on 70 centimeters.
Speaker A: Why not? We could try it, you know, like this. Four, six, triple zero. Four, four, six, triple zero. That's the call frequency simplex.

Speaker A: Well, to say, not useful. I'm not sure about that, but. Because I could hold that in conversation and write down information if I had to. Yeah. I'm not saying it'd be that
Speaker B: enjoyable, but I could. Right? Right.
Speaker A: It's just good that we have other options. Right. Anyway. Yeah. But that's good to know. I never did think about trying that. You guys sometimes mention not using 70 centimeters, but I think I can see why, actually, at least for you. Because I could give you a repeater frequency that I sometimes use. That's 70 centimeters. I'd be curious if you could hear it very good. Or not. I don't know. I guess you probably could, but wonder if you'd get into it very well.

443-07-54-43075 positive offset 114.8 is the 114.8 is the PL.

Yeah. So heading to the dentist here about 8:30 or so. Appointments at 9 anyway, so that's what I got on tap for the day. That'll get me going. After I get those cavities done, well, then I'll continue on with my day.

What about you? What you got going on? N6wip from kn6mgk.

Well, good morning, all. I don't know where N6WIP went, but anyway, good morning. Looks like a fine day in Chico. Probably gonna be in the 70s somewhere, so. That'd be pretty nice. Yeah. Week long. I think we're gonna see some 80s by the weekend with this, so. Yeah, someone might get out the shorts, I guess. Anyway. Yeah, it should be a nice one. Unfortunately, though, you got some bad stock market stuff going on. Dow is down 1.8%, markets are down pretty sharply, and oil is up over 100 bucks a barrel, so should bring up the price of fuel for everybody. KN6MGK.

Speaker A: You guys think I filled the tanks last week W6LND?
Speaker B: Oh yeah. Yep. Yeah, you have mighty big tanks to fill, I guess. Yep. So I was going to ask a question though about fertilizer. If you'd gotten that, drove down there off of Highway 45 and some other things. Those walnut trees seem like they weren't popping out any leaves yet. Of course, I'm just driving by, Curious if you got your fertilizer in yet.
Speaker A: Going to do it today. And the only reason I would have waited until the end of the month was due to the rise in natural gas prices. We're seeing a significant increase after this week in the price of nitrogen.
Speaker B: Right. Yeah, I went down last, picked up £100 over there at the, over at the other place, the Heritage Place, which is off of over by Wood Brothers Carpet normac. But they call themselves something a little different now. Anyway, I picked up £100 there, put that out in paradise like I do every year, but haven't finished here at my own house on my trees. But I wouldn't mind picking up an extra bag of something. You know, I was going over here to the place, but for some reason this year I decided I didn't want to have as high of a nitrogen as I'm getting there. So called tree and vine. I'm guessing that's some similar stuff to what you get, but of course, you know, palatable. I guess
Speaker A: mine comes in bulk. I'll tell you how much per acre right now. Looking for the recipe, they text me.
Speaker B: Yeah, I know you're saying both, but what is the container? Because for me they put it in those 50 pound sacks. So I was thinking that you would just get like pallet upper or something like that. But what kind of container would they use otherwise?
Speaker A: Bring it in a set of trailers and you unload it with a belt into a spreader. So 200 pounds of super yield per acre, 300 pounds of sulfate of potash, 100 pounds of sulfur and 2 pounds of manganese.
Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, of course they come already pre mixed. Right. When you get it. So you just, you know, you drive down the aisles.
Speaker A: Absolutely. They blend it for me there on site. They have a blending machine.
Speaker B: Right, Right. Yeah. So anyway, the thing I, when I get it there, I just ask them and they say, oh yeah, this is the one. They stack it up. But I know that, I know that that's what they've done because they've had to do that before for me. They'll say, oh, you know, we don't have you Today. But we're gonna put some, you know, I'll call you soon. That might take a few days or a week. And they call me up and I go pick it up. I know they had to do that, but they're not going to do it for some little old customer for 50 or 100 pounds. They wait until they're going to have to do it for.
Speaker A: Absolutely. And they're slammed this week. But, yeah. That kind of gives you an idea of what we break it down with. Of course, that's by the acre. Right. So I think it's about £600, the acre in total for our. For our men.
Speaker B: Yeah. And then you just lay it down and you probably water it in, I guess. I mean, seems like you'd have to water it in, I would think, because there's no rain.
Speaker A: Eventually I will. Right. But right now, no, hopefully it'll rain.
Speaker B: Right. Yep. So anyway, and then around here, at least at my house, I can dig down a little bit around the trees. You know, it's only a few inches and, you know, kind of put some there and then put the. COVID the dirt back over and then I water it in. Usually, of course, you hope for rain, too, in paradise. No, no. God, that kind of time. So just out there spreading it around the trees, kind of like what you'd be doing.
Speaker A: Yeah. See, we don't do it that close to the trunk. Right. We put it in the root zone, basically.
Speaker B: Yeah. These are small trees I got. Right. So, I mean, I'm, you know, maybe three feet away from the trunk or something where I could have put it. But. Yeah, yeah, for you, your roots are what, 20ft away, maybe?
Speaker A: Exactly. So, yeah, we just spread it out evenly over the ground and let it wash in. I hope I don't have to irrigate it in at $4 a gallon for red diesel.
Speaker B: Yeah, I think it's going to, you know, I mean, of course, I don't know when, but, you know, I would think it's actually already stabilized some from overnight, because I was sitting here watching it with up to almost $117 a barrel at one point. And of course, I don't know the current numbers, but it seems like it came back down to around 100.
Speaker A: Well, where they're seeing the biggest increase, it's all going to go up. But the biggest increase is in the nitrogen. Right. It's going up 150 a ton after this week. They told me that they gave me a price last week, and he says, you better get it on because because after next week it's gone up. And the price I'm giving you is only good till the end of next week.
Speaker B: Yeah, I should hop on over there. While I was thinking about that, I could go after my dental appointment today and see if they've got something they can tell me. But I don't really need it right now, at least to have good prices, you know, if I can get some triple 16 from them or something like that. Maybe had some issues. I didn't really store it well. Stored it on top of concrete and here in my garage. And just the moisture alone was enough to kind of mess with it one time by storing it for long term. So that's a better dry storage, I think.
Speaker A: You gotta put it in like a can, but it absorbs moisture. It doesn't store real well. Right. The bigger the pile, the better it stores. It gets across over it.
Speaker B: Yeah, it could be. I would think even if I put it in a can, you know, there'd probably like a metal can just rust that out. I don't see that in a plastic one maybe. I don't know. But. So I think I've had a little bit better luck with some of the ones that come in plastic bags rather than more bags. But, you know, I store it for a long period of time is. It's kind of like gasoline. You know, I can go buy extra gasoline, but you know, it doesn't store that nicely either. Diesel, no problem. But gasoline, you have to use it a little quicker.
Speaker A: Diesel don't for like it used to either. You have to treat it. I had all mine treated
Speaker B: okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The 50 gallon. But it would need some cleaning out and stuff like that. I had no diesel implements or anything like that. There kind of a waste to store it except for somebody else or whatever. But you know, turning diesel into work is one of the most efficient things a person can do. I can grab a shovel and I can only dig so much tobacco with a gallon of diesel can do some damage.
Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. I bought 5,000 gallons last week. So that tells you how much I bought.
Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I would imagine. Yeah. Hopefully that'll get you in for the season.
Speaker A: Well, not. It'll get me through to June, maybe.
Speaker B: Yeah, Well, I may top off at some point, I don't know. But actually, hopefully if I wound down, I mean, that's kind of the whole thing.
Speaker A: No, that's kind of my hope. Hopefully I can hedge the gap in between. Right. And kind of not ride the high.
Speaker B: Well, you are in some ways off to go to Maverick and stuff to get with your trucks.
Speaker A: Yeah, that's probably what I should have done. I probably should have filled the 500 gallon tank with pickup diesel.
Speaker B: Yeah, I like those. We have a couple of those up in Yankee. Yankee will have a couple of those 100 gallon ones, You know, that they can fill for them. They usually put the green diesel. I don't think I've ever seen them buy the diesel.
Speaker A: I buy the red. Right. But maybe they take that tank and go to Feather Falls.
Speaker B: Well, yeah, he has 100 gallon tank. He'll run that over to Feather Falls and get that topped off and he'll come and fill up all of his equipment and then he'll fill up his and he'll go.
Speaker A: Absolutely. Well, I think I'm gonna have to let you go, Steve. Just wanted to say good morning. We're gonna get moving.
Speaker B: All right? Yeah, Yep, sounds good. Jeremy. Take care of yourself. Don't talk at it. Better go to the dentist. And myself just a couple of cavities. So I won't be talking much today, I guess afterwards anyway. A coup. Good day. 7 3.
Speaker A: Just one more thing. Can you reach out to Obi and let him know if you'd be interested in helping with the meshtastic thing he's wanting to put together in April?
Speaker B: Well, yeah, he text me something to that and I've been thinking about it, but I'm just not sure I could be helpful in the sense of a presentation. Especially when I'm sitting down with Friday and we're still, you know, we still have enough issues. I don't feel like I have any expertise really. A little bit more than some, but maybe a workshop type thing, you know, where we work together on some things so I could see. All right. Seven three can fix mgk.
Speaker A: That's what it is. It's more like a workshop. So think about. Maybe you and Jay could come.
Speaker B: Yep. Well, for the guys up there, dan be a good choice too. So anyway. All right. Kn6mgk7 3. Have a great day, steve. Be safe.
Speaker A: You too, steve. Have a good day. Enjoy the dentist. I get to go again tomorrow. 73w6lnd.
Speaker B: Yeah, we'll have to meet up for a bean burrito. All right.

Speaker A: Ah, yes. Looks like the start of yet another beautiful day. 52 degrees up here in Magalia and 6 NTM. Good
Speaker B: morning. Good morning.

Speaker A: Roger. Yeah, I got up too late. I planned on getting up at the regular time, but. Yeah, the bed felt
Speaker B: too. Too good. I could have stayed in there, right? That wasn't no big deal.
Speaker A: Going up for an MRI today that I. That I should have canceled a couple of days ago when I started getting the vertigo thing. Ended up just being earwax and they've addressed that. So. Kind of a waste of a trip, but need to go by the Dodge dealer up there in Reading and Dave's tractor. I got like six, eight filters for the old tractor. I still give me credit for. I'm ready to do an oil change on the tractor, so.
Speaker B: Yeah,
Speaker A: Well,
Speaker B: it
Speaker A: would be if I was still getting dizzy, but I haven't been dizzy for weeks.
Speaker B: Up and ready. I could. I could have went south. We live halfway between Mather and
Speaker A: Redding, so.

Yep. Pretty in the middle. So the deciding factor is that the way they drive down in San Francisco and the amount of cops that are in between when you go north, hardly any of either.

Speaker A: Well, the lady that sold my place over there on the Denise, no stipher, no Imperial. And that, that was one of Lori's boss's son. Married her. We went over there for dinner last night. They were supposed to come up here. I don't think they wanted to drag their two kids around or something, I'm not sure, but that was the deal. I rubbed their nose in it, said you were supposed to come up to our house. So he said he would. But anyway, nice steak dinner. Two different kinds of steak. And sat around a table bull pooping until I don't know what time. But anyway. Yeah, off and running again today. All right, well, it still says it's 52, so looks like it's going to be partly cloudy sometime today. Yeah, partly cloud. It could happen tomorrow. Mostly cloudy, no rain, though. I'm not seeing it anyway. All right, well, I'll let you get back to what you're doing. Did they have steak the other day
Speaker B: when you went down there? Yeah, I started to get the
Speaker A: feeling that they. They got the better pick of the steak the other day and now they're back to their real skinny. Not so much time taken with it. Yeah, it was pretty good the other day. I guess we'll find out. Well, thank you. Looks like I got breakfast in bed this morning. All right, back to what you were doing. N6 NTM. Good morning.