2m Simplex (146.520 MHz) recordings for 2026-03-18

Speaker A: Well, I got my email like that. But that's just
Speaker B: an email, right? I don't know. You didn't open the attachment? Okay, it should be an attachment. So let me see
Speaker A: what's going on here. I sent it to you wrong or something.
Speaker B: I don't know. Plus I had to add
Speaker A: a contact in there email address.

Yeah, I hate outlook. Same reasons. So my one that I sent shows the attachment tool paper. So I think even probably the attachment name changed a little bit there. Equipment, blah, blah, blah. Sail upper. What do you call it? The upper case thing and then the L1 after it. Yeah, not sure.

Okay, so you were able to go the other email or something to try it again, like the way you sent it to me, but with the suggestions there. You can disregard what the suggestions I wrote in there if you want to, but I think your goal is to see if I can open it and make changes to it, right?

Yeah, I don't. I think your goal was to see if I can open it and whatever. I don't really care about the Mosley and all that. In fact, I've already helped take down towers that were given away. So. Yeah, if you're wanting someone to pay for them, I mean, I don't know, but a lot of times like the Gears group says, hey, they're free, you just go get it. We have to take it down, whatever. Right. That's how they've got. So I've helped with two of those such cases and they were never for me, so I was just helping. The beam on the other hand, if it's taken down, I've seen those be sold. If they're. Or whatever, I have no idea. But again, if someone had to take it down, the one guy took down the 50 foot roan tower with a couple of VHF beams on it once he took it all down and that's what he did. That's a friend of mine in Sacramento. So I helped him install it at his place, which he's already up and down anyway. Showers, not my thing.

Okay. It has a PDF viewer, it has an Office, it has a spreadsheet, a drawing program, presentation, and a word processor. The answer to your question Open up an edit PDF. That's always a tough thing anyway. Edit. In other words, being able to take the whole PDF, like a DMV document, and being able to edit the whole thing. No, that's not real easy. With any program, you have to pay lots of money for them, I would say. Now, the ones I've seen from even Microsoft, I've seen them fill certain things like Adobe or whatever that might not be at Microsoft. So you fill certain spots but not edit the whole thing? Bills aren't too expensive, but like fill and sign. No, that's a tough one for me.

Yeah. Why would you want to edit a PDF? Okay, because these are sometimes government documents like DocuSign or that they specifically want. Kind of encrypted to help altogether. Could be a resume, anything. Why would you want. You know, I mean, anyway, Linux does have. They do have editors and even like Adobe Acrobat, that's probably what she's using. They have an editor, but as I know, they don't really allow you to edit the whole document. But maybe you might have to pay 250 bucks for it. I don't know. Actually, that sounds pretty cheap if that's what you're trying to do. But I'm sure Linux does software that's free that you can use. Just don't know how it works. I've never used it.

Yeah, doing one on YouTube here called Something like that. You can edit and merge them together, extract pages, stuff like that. If people misunderstood what Linux operators had offered, they would never come back. And that was the same thing a friend told me back in 2004 and I tried my first, you know, I didn't particularly care for that one that was called Susee Linux at the time. And so I think it was a couple months when the first Ubuntu came out and I was hooked ever since. I mean it did take a week to understand the little differences like a lot more like Apple where it's a lot of single clicks instead of double clicks, but still using the same graphics and stuff like that, like Chrome, you know, as long as you're using a fairly recent distribution of Linux, you know you're not going back 20 years ago or whatever. I mean now it's 26. I've been using it since 2005, 2006, so about 20 years now I've been using Linux and it does all this stuff plus a lot more like all these stuff. Linux has had apps for forever, for a long time. It's all in the like the software. You can look up in the software center, any sort of game you want or whatever or if you want stuff like you want off the stars, there's something called Stellarium, you know, stuff like that for Linux. So yeah, you just pull computer and start enjoying it, you know, and learning about it. So I don't understand why people are so different to want to giving money to Microsoft and that guy gave. At least you're using Apple and stuff and they can understand people wanting to buy. And there's so much with all the different issues with Microsoft and hacking and all this kind of thing, the Unix based system from all that.

Anyway, as usual, when it comes to all this equipment and stuff like that, I think you all have made this go way too difficult. We should have just hammered it out on the meeting and, you know, you could have already had that stuff out to the people. I don't know. I could have taken all the pictures of the stuff and put it all on QD time, right?

Speaker A: Yeah, I'm doubtful that anyone in the club is going to buy that amplifier. I've seen other amplifiers not be sold to club members. Many of us don't have that kind of budget I guess and if we do, we might choose something a little bit.
Speaker B: I could be wrong. Of course I could be wrong. Seem to go through any steps. So if they had
Speaker A: to, I don't know. My understanding was the stuff was given to both Don and Nan. So they the ultimate people that could have just said here, this is. That's the end of it.
Speaker B: Whatever.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Anyway
Speaker A: I'm off on that at this point. So I have LDG. I don't know if you saw but K MRD did a video on the LDG. I think it's the LDG Z200, whatever it is anyway, the Pro 220 watts, 125 watts and 75 watts TW and so on. That's the one that I bought brand new for a couple hundred bucks and I haven't even used that. So anyway that's the only thing I can see on the whole list at this point.
Speaker B: That's the one thing
Speaker A: reminded of is there's no most part no box warranties. Right. I mean I guess there's a box with a couple of the. Maybe the FM radio or something. Yeah. So if I wanted to have a good tuner bass unit that would be a good tuner. But tend to run more resonant antennas where even my internal tuner do like four to one will be fine. I've never needed it. But start running the amplifier all the time. Well then that's when that tuner becomes.

All right, it looks like 62 degrees this morning up in beautiful downtown Magalia. Supposed to get up to 81. That's about what it was up in Redding yesterday. Oh yeah, the start of yet another beautiful day. And 6M PM, good morning.

Speaker A: Bill's dying. Yeah, I'm just, I'm just funny. Not a funny, not a funny topic, but yeah, good morning.
Speaker B: Getting along all right.

Yeah, uh, so there was no Larry on, on that frequency. Okay, I listened for, well, a pretty long time, over 6 months and, and maybe 8, but anyway, no, no SQ Larry. I talked to SQ Larry, uh, periodically at night on 3900. And, uh, of course, you know, 10 years ago, uh, we'd talk about motorcycles and whatever, this and that. And I, when I met up with Larry Lori, we did, uh, you know, I had my house, she had her house, and, uh, she'd stay over at my house and, and get up in the morning and come over here and work out. Well, during the off-season, I'd come over here and work out with her. You know, it wasn't long before we were inseparable. So, uh, anyway, I kept— uh, Steve would come up, you know, Steve on, on this other frequency. He'd come up on 3900. He'd made several homelones to MRN and Jimmy down in LA and stuff, so he'd come up and yack it up with us. And he, a couple of times, he goes, well, you're up early in the morning, you ought to come and yak it up with us up on 3997. They had been talking on 95 for a long time, but it did— when the band was long, there was too many people out there on 95, so they moved up to 97. And I would periodically We had already went up to Graffiti Weekend. I got along real good with Larry, talked to him sometimes 2, 3 times a day. You know, you know. Uh, went up there for Graffiti Weekend. It was a lot like San Jose and, and, uh, 4th Street over in Sonoma County. And I hadn't done that. This was a, this is a big one, like hot August night. But more racing, more radical, uh, you know, light to light and stuff like that. Not like San Jose was mostly lowriders. And Santa Rosa, they raced, but a lot of it was alongside of the road talking to the girls and, you know, looking at other cars, fast cars. And Graffiti Weekend, shoot, I hadn't been on 4th Street for 20 years. I was It was fun, and Lori loved it. So, uh, you know, I talked to Larry a lot of times, 2, 3 times sometimes a day, at least once a day for a couple years. I told him there's a bunch of guys on 3700 Oh, you know, 3997. Uh, they, they get along pretty good and they joke around with each other and this and that. Well, he started coming on there and, uh, and he didn't like Bill first. He didn't like one of Bill's 30-year friends. He didn't like Ray, and Ray didn't like me, so So Larry took offense to, to Ray, and Ray snapped back at him. And, uh, then Ray just didn't come on the frequency anymore. I had already stopped talking to Ray. He tried to be friends with me, but it was more of an information searching thing. He was one of them guys to go look you up see what your record is, your service record, your police record. And, uh, Ray lives close to Larry up in Idaho, northern Idaho, who grew up with— who grew up with, uh, uh, shoot. You know, our good friend— his name's not coming to me right now, I'm having a brain fart on it, but it will. Uh, I get along with him good and have for well over 10 years. He runs the 40-meter swap net. Oh, I had it right on the tip of my tongue right there. You talk to him too when he comes over to see his brother up here. But Larry in Idaho and and him, uh, uh, went to school together out here by Corning, you know. And so long-term relationship there. And Larry in Idaho was friends with Ray, who's been friends with Bill for 30 years. Well, Ray just decided he didn't like me. He tried to use my, uh, prison record against me. Yeah, he was nice at first, wanted my email, tried to get me interested in some DMR stuff so that we could get connected on UHF and VHF or whatever. And I wasn't in the whole computer thing, as you know. I was kind of getting away with that. I had too many blue screens over the years. I didn't like the infiltration of negative people. But anyway, so, so, uh, Ray was kind of hanging in there. It was the syndrome. Ray was kind of hanging in there, but when I'd come on, he'd get off. And a couple of times Larry would come in there and, uh, he'd give Ray a bad time because, well, you know, it was the dogpile thing, Jay. Uh, he knew that Ray didn't like me, so he was giving Ray a hard time sometimes in the morning. And pretty soon it wasn't long before Bill was calling me on the phone So I got along just fine with Bill. Had lunch with him and John down in Arizona and Jerry, uh, up here at Cabela's, and Bill and a couple other people that you didn't know. You remember Van though. I got along real good with Van. Lived halfway between here and Bill's house up by Portola. And, uh, yeah. Well, Dennis, if you remember Dennis, he just passed away about a year ago. He, he fixed everybody's radios. Pretty soon I was getting stuff to take out the van. His brother would be going down Highway 5, you know, everybody's getting along pretty good. Uh, pretty soon Ray didn't come on the frequency at all anymore. He didn't like Larry giving him a hard time. 'Hey, good morning, Ray Ray,' and, you know, calling him a different name, a little sarcasm thrown in there. Larry's been quite the disruptor. Well, pretty soon, pretty soon, uh, he didn't like Bill. He wasn't saying it on the radio, but Larry didn't like the SQ, didn't like Bill, and they went back and forth, very similar to exactly what you just described this morning. One or the other would have a stick up their butt or whatever, and they'd go back and forth a little bit viciously. And, uh, pretty soon Bill would be going up and talking to Ray Ray on a different frequency. But Bill missed Terry and Steve, and, you know, and by then Hey, they had already named me, uh, BW John, you know, because we already had John down in Arizona. They had to give me a handle there so that they couldn't just talk, say John, because half the time we didn't know— me and John didn't know who they were talking about, and we'd double. But anyway, uh, well Joe up there missed Ray, and Bill was missing Ray. So there started to be a little back and forth, and Larry pressed us pretty hard, which you already know all about. I'm glad I don't got to explain all that to you, but he, he could be a little bit of a poop disturber. And when push comes to shove, none of them can, can go fisticuffs, you know. None of them are in good enough health to go settle it if you can't settle it, uh, verbally or mentally. So they get into kind of a conundrum a little bit. Well, most of those guys are older than me, you know, and, uh, so I try to treat them like elders. And, and, and, and I know when it comes down to putting push comes to shove, I, I got every single one of them except for maybe Steve. He works out, he goes to the gym, he's a bit of a health nut. But I've never had a single argument with Steve, never. In fact, a couple of times, like John down in Arizona, uh, John just had talked to me openly though on the air, uh Hey, don't let them, don't let them bother you, he'd tell me. Uh, they're just trying to rile you up. They're, they're just having fun. And then, and they were talking about Terry, Larry, and, you know, giving me a hard time about the, uh, Flexamp blowing up, you know, just little things like that. There was just their way to have fun, see. If they get under my skin. But I'd shut Larry off. You were in touch by then. I'd shut Larry off because you could tell he was looking to a one-liner argument, so to speak. And I just tell him when he directed a question to him, I just tell him, I'm not going to argue with you, Larry, you know. And when he couldn't get— he couldn't force me into engaging Uh, you know, he gets away with the one-line innuendos, but I got to explain it a few times. You know, I got to explain it. Uh, I knew that those other guys didn't want to see it going past that point. Larry ain't in good enough shape. He's in a wheelchair half the day. Yeah, just like the weatherman Larry. He's permanent in a wheelchair. So, and, and you know, Larry and Larry live not real close together, maybe 30 minutes, 40 minutes. Uh, they've known each other for over 20 years. So that was a little bit of SQ Larry's in on 37. Or, you know, '97. So he did know some people. And Dennis, he had been friends with Dennis also, sometimes in a wheelchair. Uh, you know, uh, the only other little, the only other little consequence in there was Steve had made that loan to MRN And Larry SQ already had arguments with MRN down on other frequencies 20 years ago, so there was already some whoopty-poopty in there. So a couple times when MRN would be up on 3900, Larry would come in there and run him off. I mean directly, just out and outrun him often. I didn't mind because then it wasn't me, uh, giving Larry a hard time, uh, just me. And you know, the other people on the frequency didn't really want to hear it, so I just have to put MRN in his place from time to time, which was pretty easy, uh, anyway. That, that's the whole thing right there. Uh, if Bill and SQ are going to go back and forth, you'll see SQ will just back out of there because I already don't talk to him and things are starting to mount against him. Uh, Ray Ray's waiting in the, in the bleachers to come back on the 97. When, when I'm out on 95 now, or 97, wherever we go. Uh, Bill just stays up there talking to Ray Ray. They're old-time radio buddies, long before you and me were even around, Jay. So, you know, I, I know they don't want to hear me and Larry going back and forth. I just know they don't, because it's going to get— it's going to get push come to shove. Larry wasn't— what, a couple of months Larry, Larry SQ, was saying, uh, oh, so now you're a tough guy, huh? And I said, I never said nothing about, uh, being a tough guy. Anybody could be taken out with a 22-cent bullet. How tough do you— how tough can the guy be? So he couldn't go nowhere without— and he couldn't get me to engage in an argument. Because as soon as it started getting like him and Bill, I'd tell him, I'm not going to argue with you, Larry. And he knows, he knows that, uh, I could run him in the dirt with the quickie comebacks and cutdowns and all that stuff. But ultimately, Jay, I know that nobody else really wants to hear it get to that point. So it's been better that I control the situation. I just don't talk to him, that hurts his feelings. And you know, Bill and Joe— Joe's been around with them guys for 20 years, and, and Bill's been out there I don't know how long on that frequency. But, uh, Larry and Bill ain't long for this world from the sounds of it. Better not to be the cause of not getting along. Uh, I know Joe misses Ray Ray. So, uh, me and Joe got along good for over a year. You know, he, he drove a log truck for a while. He didn't own his own, but he drove one 10, 20 years, something like that. So we had some something in common, and we'd talk. Joe'd get up real early in the morning, like John down in Arizona, and occasionally Jerry. He'd be out there at 4 o'clock in the morning, and so was I. No SQ, no bill. So I got along just fine with Joe, uh, but it wasn't long before Ray— Ray was coming in there and saying, uh, stuff, innuendos toward, uh, being in prison. So, you know, the first time I heard it, I told him, what, you're talking something 40 years ago? I haven't had anything more than a driving infraction since then. So, you know, you have more experience than those. I've been, I've been around the planet more, more closer to the equator, the long way around. Yeah, but anyway, he used that against me, Ray did. And Joe, Joe, when he found out, I noticed there was a little change in him talking to me in the morning. Ray was threatening those guys with not talking, uh, if I was out there. Well, you know, old-time friendships on the radio. It wasn't long before Bill called me on the phone and told me his history with, with, uh, Ray. 30 years. I've been talking to him for 30 years. He's all right, he's all right, she tried to tell me. So unfortunately, Larry came in there, Ray couldn't stand him, so Ray Ray went bye-bye permanently. Well, that's the way it is. Well, you know where everybody's at, you've been out there for the last year. Yeah, I like most of those guys, and more than half of them like me, so that's good enough. Lori's not getting up at 4 o'clock in the morning, so hey, I'm not out there real early, as you know. So anyway, dude, dude, dude, uh, Larry, Larry, Larry SQ, he's pretty, he's pretty in touch with how people feel and how they act, so you know. Uh, if he notices that several people on the radio, uh, aren't talking to him, he'll get his feelings hurt. He will. He'll cut out early. He's going to resist for a while though. He'll run them in the dirt if he can, and he probably thinks he's run me in the dirt, but it's just a matter— I made my excuses already. It's just a matter of I've I'd rather sleep in with my sweetie than get up at 4 o'clock in the morning and talk on the radio. Just the way it is. You know, I'm not— I miss not being out here on this one earlier because this is the time when I like to be out here on, on UHF and VHF. So, well, I can't believe I can't remember, uh, but Bodega Bay there— what's not Bodega Bay? Fort Bragg. His name's just not coming to me. Brain fart. Yeah, look at all them other guys. I had no problem remembering their name. Couldn't remember Dennis. Yeah, Dennis, Dennis was like a, a movie

movie star. Everybody knows Dennis. He's been doing the net over 30 years on 40 meters. Everybody— he's got a long list of acquaintances. So I always liked him. He's always been a little shy of me though, a little bit. But anyway, you know, he misses me too. Well, you know, as me and Lori got along more and more, it was— I liked sitting on the couch and spending time with her after work instead of talking on 3900 till 11 or 12 o'clock at night. So anyway, Yeah, my life's changed on this end. I got other things to do besides radio, uh, Jay. Really, that's what it boils down to. If it comes down to what I'd rather do, it's— I got all kinds of things going on, you know. Only 100,000 of them are right here on 3.5 Acres, so Yeah, Bill's coming in good, almost 20 S units this morning, so obviously he went to his bigger amplifier. Now, a couple of those guys out there, like Larry the Weatherman— he's been good friends with Larry for a long time, they live semi-close, he's helped him out a bunch of times— but Larry the Weatherman refuses to go along with with SQ, uh, he talks to me like he's not going along with all the telephone, uh, conversations of negativity. I know Larry SQ does that because he'd call me about stuff like Bill and Ray Ray and MRN, you know, talk for 20, 30 minutes badmouthing people behind their backs, so, you know. I, I know that's what's going on. That's why Terry dogpiles with SQ and, and Larry. And I mean, Terry and SQ have a more recent— he's come over to Larry's house a couple of times. Winston and, and, uh, I can't remember the county up there that Terry lives in, but there's a couple of them that live— Mike Mikey, uh, lives semi-close. When Steve's up on that end of the world, he's, you know, good motorcycle ride away. So they get together a lot, Terry and Mikey. And me and Lori went up and had breakfast with them. There was 8 people at the table, 10 people I think. So anyway, uh, Larry and, and, uh, both Larrys, SQ and the weatherman, uh, they got long history, but he won't give in to it. And Jerry was the same way, same with John down in Arizona. They weren't, they weren't getting in on that. They weren't treating me any different even though there had been conversations on the phone about the reasons to hate NTM. So anyway, that's just the way it is. Uh, Steve's got the best, the best outlook on radio. You, you know, he says the radio is supposed to be fun. So I, I try to, I try to look at it that way, and that's kind of how the good Lord likes it to be too. My grandmother used to say, uh, if you don't have nothing nice to say, don't say nothing. So I know I'm bothering a couple of people out there because they just don't like me, but that's the way love is. I've never done anything to them. There was a time when we all got along, almost a year. Uh, without any back and forth. Larry turned it into a little bit of FQ, turned it into a little bit of a— what a lot of people call a shit show. Well, you know, ain't none of them's gonna whoop my ass, so I'm not really worried about it. Uh, staying in my lane makes me a better man. That's, that's where we're at today.

Yeah, well, I'm pretty quick on the comebacks and I got a million of them, so I'm armed pretty well in that department. Unfortunately, uh, I'm a little too extreme— obscure is probably a better word for it. You know, I can make jokes that they don't always get right away and it bothers them. You can tell there's some negativity involved when they don't understand the jokes. Jerry or John down in Arizona will be coming back laughing their butt off. So, you know, Jerry called me on the phone, he says, could you not be so out in left field? He's a Democrat. Then he started saying it publicly on the radio too, Jay. Uh, yeah, so anyway. A few of the other guys were going along with them, Larry, Larry SQ being one of them, which is weird because on the phone we used to, we used to come up with the stupidest, craziest stuff, talking about stuff that you shy away from. So, you know, uh, Larry's always hinted he had 5 Harleys when I first started talking to him. Larry did. He was just getting to the point where he couldn't ride anymore. Uh, he was liking that wheelchair more. But anyway, that's what happens. Uh, he doesn't act that way on the radio. He's, he's seen it early on. They're not the, they're not the left-field joking around kind of guys, just the more upfront kind of joking around, you know, talking about Pelosi and the political people. I used to love to make, make jokes about them having a Pelosi picture in their shack or whatever. They'd get a little offended, but they know that was in all part of joking around. So yeah, I like that part about this. That's what made me listen to him for so long. I didn't know any of them, and I was just starting to recognize their names to their voices. Took me 7, 8 months. I'd tell Steve up on 3900, oh yeah, I've been listening. Oh, chime in with us, come on, you know. Uh, so that, you know, eventually when Steve would come on there, I would talk to him, and if It wasn't long before everybody was talking to me. Me and Bill had a lot of good conversations. Yeah, he liked motorcycles. I had motorcycles. Still ride motorcycle, you know. Uh, Bill used to go down to the track and race. I don't know if he raced cars, but I know he raced motorcycles, so And Joe too. Joe's put a couple of dirt bikes together. Joe's got like 4 sons, as I remember, 3, at least 3. And, uh, and he, he's got a full machine shop at his house, you know. So he builds bikes from time to time. Joe does every part of it, right down to machining some of that crankcase and stuff. So, uh, yeah, I had a lot of good conversations with Joe, you know, but throwing rear ends and big rigs and transmissions and all that kind of stuff. So anyway, yep, that's what drew me into them is because they could go back and forth and nobody, nobody get upset about it. I was surprised SQ lasted as long as he did. Anyway, he, he gets one or two of the other guys against him and, and he won't come on there. He'll go scope and talk to Steve and Mississippi and them up on the other channel. Well, I haven't had no coffee, but I sure am talkative. I'm gonna go get me a cup, Jay, and give you a break. And 6:00 PM.

I feel him. He is out there. N6NTM. All right, I'll be back.

I like it. N6NTM, you mean you're not having coffee yet?

Yeah, then what happened? And 6:00 PM.

I see you wore Steven out having coffee. I seen him down at Thomas down there. N6NTM.