W6GRC TX (147.105 MHz) recordings for 2025-11-21

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This one, steve. W6trc. Yeah, I bet you can hear me better here. Absolutely. Yeah. My. My truck radio, I have that low profile wide band antenna. It's not really designed for, but it works. The receive side on it is not as hot as the transmit side. Yeah, that's okay. Yeah, as long as you're aware of it. So that way there, you know, you might be getting out and you don't know it. That happens. Yeah. So I said that it's been kind of too much rain out. I did write a text while I was working today to send you back there, but. Yeah.

Yeah. Maybe tomorrow I'll have some time to do that. It was even wet today, and I was working in Yankee Hill anyways. Didn't get home till it was dark. Nice. What did you work on today? Largely just paperwork. You know, a lot of paperwork for payroll and some real estate taxes, that kind of thing. That doesn't sound fun. So up in your tree by your house, you had. You had two antennas. You had one that was lower and one that was higher. For a long time, you really. You were getting out really good, and then that antenna kind of crapped out on you, right? Yeah. It's the feed line. Yeah, the feed line dropped off, and antenna's still up there. It's at 100ft, but no feed line attached to it.

Is it in your front yard, your backyard? It's in the backyard, yeah. Yep. It's about 100ft up there anyway. And I'm quite not sure how well it's secured up there, but, I mean, it appears like it was secured well enough. But I suppose the way that I had it attached, I had some zip ties and things like that attached to the main mast. Those probably all broke off over the time. And then finally, strain was being put on the feed line, and eventually the feed line pulled out of the. So, I'm sorry, the PL259 connector and the feed line just fell to the ground. Gotcha. Is that a diamond x50 or something up in the end, up in the tree? It's actually an X5.

10 in. But I think I do have the adapter on it that went from the end to the SO239. Most likely that's what I had on the end of it there. Yeah, I'd love to see you put some hard line up there. Nice piece of hard line up there. It'll half inch, it'll stay there forever. And tape the crap out of it to the antenna. Use that good tape. So you had somebody climb the tree or did you. Are you able to get a lift into the backyard? Hundred feet. It was a tree company that was doing the tree work and they climbed. They were climbing the tree anyway. So yeah, they put it up there for me. It's a tree company so they're not like hand radio people or nothing. But yeah, you know, I don't think hardline would really be that much better than say, l.

600 or something like that. But that would be a project. It'd be more useful to do that than it would be to put up a tower anyway. Yeah, you never know. Someday might get back around to it, but I'd probably. You know, you'd have to hire somebody. Someone knows what they're doing. Yeah. And even a 60 foot tilt over tower with a pop up in it. Right. By the time you're done, your antenna would be at 100 foot to the top of the antenna. Those work pretty good. I got. I got one that I got to put up over at Ernie's house over in Chico. We gotta get it done. Yeah. Well, this one's probably like 100. And I'd say it's probably 110 or 115 to the top of the antenna, but. Yeah.

You're not getting any towers in my backyard, that's for sure. I don't even know if you can put a tower up in a regular house like this, because the towers, they need to be so that if they fall over or whatever, you know, they can't harm the neighbor's yard or something. And that's just not possible because, I mean, our yards aren't big enough for houses. Our houses occupy all the lot. Yes, that's true. That's why the tilt up and the retractable tower ones are good when it's weather's crappy, bring them down. But here, you know, getting that 50, 60, 70 mile wind that we get once every moon, we haven't had any super high winds for quite a long time. Yeah, it just isn't.

Enough for me to ever want. I mean, Gears has got another one that they're giving away right now, so person just has to pick it up in Orville. But it's just some little thing I would never deal with. It looks like it's about 30 foot tall. Friend of mine asked me if I could help him go get it. I said I could help him go get it, but it's not worth your time. That's what I told him. I've taken down quite a few of them. I've hired a crane to take some of them down. Local guys. It was cheap. We were going to pull one down one day, and in one section, it was actually just faster. With electric tools to pull the thing apart, bring it down 10ft at a time. We held onto it and dropped it. We were in a bucket.

Yeah. So you brought it down, and when you got down to the bottom, you just kind of lowered it down and easily. That's what you did. That's pretty nice. Yeah. We were at a crane that had a carrier in it, the basket in it, and then we just started unbolting it and then brought it down 10 foot sections at a time. There's a 85 footer. So the fun part about that is when I put it in at my parents house, you know, the. I had to put 5ft of it in the ground in concrete, 5 or 6ft of it, because I couldn't find the base for it anymore. It's an older design. That would work, though. Seems like just be a little shorter. Yeah. There was just a couple of areas that had some pop. Riveting problems. So.

So we re pop riveted it. We actually didn't discover it until we got it up in the air. We used a 55 foot forklift, an extended fork telefork, to put it up. And when we were manhandling it, getting it vertical, we kind of bent a few of the rods and popped out some of the rivets. We had to go back up and re rivet it. I went and rented a 80 foot lift. 85 foot lift. Yep. That's where it gets expensive. Right. So if you get a good deal on the towers, that's fine, but you still got all the construction stuff to do and who knows what else. If you clean it all up and stuff before you put it re erect it. Exactly. All right, Steve, I'm over here at Destination. Thanks for chatting with me.

And I will talk to you tomorrow. W6GRC. Yeah, you ought to get Jeremy to put up. I think he's got a tower sitting probably in his dad's place, so help him put that one up, at least in his backyard. Yeah, that would be good. Try to get him to put it up. Yeah. Anyway. Okay. Yeah, he was telling me before less. He's gonna have less antennas, but I don't know. All right, 73 KN 6 MGK. I'll be clear. Yeah, there's a little bit of static coming in the repeater. I'm actually surprised. Yep, I'm hearing it. Any chance of getting something over around Paskenta again sometime? Well, you can tell me about it later. I know you're busy, so. Yeah.

If there ever is a chance that might be kind of interesting. 73 can 6 MGK.