Transcriptions for 2025-12-07

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This is kn7tal. Just hanging around to see if anybody's on the Internet. I don't think there's anybody here. I'm just a AI Bot talk. Have a good evening. And six Mike Victor Tango in Concord, California.

Well, good evening from Las Vegas, Nevada. All right. Las Vegas. Well, this is, like I said, Concord, California, so. And name again? Here is Tom. And I am jumping out. I just got to where I need to be, so. But at least I'd let you know you're getting through. And the other station coming from the reading system. You got some noise on you. I don't know if it's you or if it's the link path. It could be either, but just FYI. All right, have a good one.

At 6m, the T will be clear. Yeah, Reading. I. I can't read you at all. Just barely. I don't know if you can try to maybe change to a different repeater or something like that. Km7pas.

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Ust qst qst this is KG6K UL in Sacramento Valley Traffic Net. This net is part of the National Traffic System and the purpose of this net is to relay former traffic into and out in Sacramento Valley and to provide the state emergency network to them. Please make those reservations without permission to Control. All stations are requested. Stay on frequency to fields. NE controls K260K Leer located west of Will Station with emergency W6 RHC repeater check. One. Station with traffic to be listed. Kf6 obi.

Mike and willows. No traffic. Good evening, mike. Thank you. K6kf6djy, Kg6k. You always call it rover. No driving. Kg6tfx. Good evening. Lester. In the group. This is kg6tso, bessie with no traffic. Thank you, missy, k6rcs, K6pmt, kilo, echo6, papa, mike, tango, russ and gerber. Good evening. Let's turn the group and I have no traffic. Good evening, rush. Thank you. Jcc, qf.

C6ufe. Bill in traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, bill. Thank you. Kn6pww. Kn6pww. This is jamie and chinko with no traffic and. Good evening, lester. Eminence. Good evening, jimmy. Thank you. All right, back to rotors. I have it. Do we have any late members or visitors wish to check in? No further traffic or check in. This is KG6K UO Cleveland closing Sacramento Valley traffic net. This net is daily at 2100 hours local time. To the W6 rec repeater on 146. 95. And I'd like to thank everybody who checked in tonight. Go to the Empire Amateur Raid Society with the use of the repeater. This match closed at 214 local time. $73 K, 60 K.

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Well, I went over to vhf n6grg36 local. Through the fog. Radio does make it through the fog. N6GRG. Good morning. Well, it might go through the fog, but at least for you, it's a little shaky, a little bit of white noise behind it, which is not normal for you. So I would say it is having some effect. Yeah, It's a possibility. That's five watts still. Still haven't upgraded. Yeah, I actually found a YouTube video on.

That low pass filter using a modern spectrum analyzer. Maybe it's a. I wonder if it's a tiny. A tiny spectrum analyzer. That'd be kind of cool. Well, I wasn't listening too much because I just wasn't interested in whatever they were talking about. Well, they weren't talking about what I was talking about. They are talking about a receiver that just came out. It's something like you. The only reason I can see you'd want to use something like that is that from a practical viewpoint anyway, is if you wanted to have a receiver that took almost no power whatsoever.

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Probably would run on a 9 volt battery for a couple of days. Fairly, fairly sensitive. Cost almost nothing. 39 bucks and extremely sensitive, you know, for that amount of money. But it's 40 meters only. And it's like a throwback to the very first radio that that company put out, where the. I think it's the Z Bittx is the latest, and the S Bittix was just before that. But this is the very first. They just called it a Bittx back then. And this is a throwback to that receiver. And it is kind of shocking to see that come out like that. I don't know why he bothered, and I don't know why there's so many people going nuts over it, but it's a lot of radio for 39 bucks, I can tell you that.

Well, I don't know. Maybe guys like me or Pat or somebody might want to get one. 40 bucks. And then you would build it. Right. And then you would learn some stuff. For 40 bucks, it probably would be a good class. I'm sure there's way more stuff, more advanced. But. But you got to start somewhere. And maybe this would be a starting point. Well, I was looking at the schematic, and I think somebody mentioned a vfo, but I haven't really found it yet on the schematic. So. But it's, you know, it's got a. The way they did it, they. The guy bought a whole ton of crystals, and then he would match the crystals.

Right down to the nitty gritty, the band pass, so that the band pass of the crystal match together with about six all together. And you'd have a crystal filter. So that's how they do the crystal filters and pretty much all the rings.

Did that make it through? I wasn't. Just a second ago, and it just came back. I don't know what happened. Well, maybe. Maybe we doubled or something. I was saying that there's a group buy of those for $150 for five of them, and the group over here are doing a group buy on QRP Labs stuff. So, I mean, they're the kind of people that would do something like that. Buy five of them, 30 bucks a piece plus shipping, probably. And then. Yeah, then they'd build them for a day and learn something. Maybe. Well, one thing that's different with this stuff from HS Signals in India is that the whole board with all its surface mount components is put together. I don't think that happens with the.

Qrp stuff, Right? Well, it could very well be. And if that's the case, it makes it better for a novice like myself or Pat or something where we might have to turn a couple of these toroids or something like that. But, you know, maybe that's it, you know, Sawn it on a few through hole components. Yeah, that's all you're gonna have to mess with, is the through hole components. And I don't know what the. I forget what the crystal filters look like in the old ones. And I'm not sure about this one. I think they were through hole, though, from what I remember is the older one. I don't know about this one. I haven't seen it. No, I don't think there's an actual picture of the board.

But you go to hfsignals.com and he talks about the latest stuff he's talking about. Yeah, it'd be more practical for me if it was in 20 meters instead of 40, so. But I suppose we could make it work in 40 anyway, if it's 20 meters, it'd be something. I could build it and put it on the air and try it, you know, at least. Well, typically what he does is he puts out the first one on 40 and then he goes to 20 and maybe he'll put out a 10 meter one, an 80 meter one. You know, each board is a different band.

Yeah, that was funny. I just transmitted on 40 meters J, as they call area. What I'm going to say right now, that radio is advertised as a CW radio. If you've made it to the hfsignals.com site. It's the first radio that he talks about and receiver he talks about. And. And there's a full schematic there. I don't know, there might be a picture or something. Just a little board, a lot of components on it. It is incredible. If you look at that schematic for $40, it is absolutely amazing. And it's like I say, it's advertised for CW and it's going to be extremely low power because it doesn't use a microprocessor. I don't think microprocessor on that board, they're what takes power.

Well, I was looking at it and texting it to somebody, but I don't know how it's advertised by looking at here. I've been looking at it, but just on my phone. But it talks about being CWM Sideband and the fact it says it includes an electric to make your microphone. So that says Transmit at least 5 watts of power on CW and sideband and operate on one band. Something like that. And at the very bottom is where the pricing really comes in because it's actually 59 for the seven day DHL international shipping tracking and PayPal charges if you buy a seven. If you buy a kit of $575.

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You know, I. I have a plan, and I'm gonna put it to. To effect right now because I'm trying not to use the. The little stupid little lo line. Nova, however you say that for anything but JSA call, because I don't want to take any trans. Any of. Any of the computing power away from it, so I'm going to turn on a. Another microprocessor system and use that for my Internet.

A linux system? Yeah, that's what I got on right now, but it's a desktop unit. I've got it queued up with a YouTube video for the warriors guy that I have Podcaster I watch and they found a way to win last night, so it'd be interesting, but. And then I use my phone for some things and my laptop for some things. Sometimes I've got three different. Three different things going that are all connected. Well, I just turned on the Trexonic. System and only thing I've got connected to it is the battery and it came on, so. Wow.

That could be a real backup for somebody. HDMI monitor that has a little battery in it. Wow. Pretty incredible. It doesn't look like it's a plug into the. Linux system that's sitting on the desk here. So I've got to plug that in here. And also I need to use the another Linux system that's a PI 400 that just sitting here hasn't been turned on in ages. So see, I've got a lot going on with. That'll be the one actually to use probably.

Yep. I used to use my little pi4b here for a lot of Internet searches and stuff like that. It didn't have any speakers or any volume coming out of it at all, but for the most part, I didn't need it. I. I did figure out a way to get volume out, but it's via the HDMI system. You have it going right into the monitor. I've done it a few times. I need to probably work at that option because it's really cool the way it works.

And I'm using that option for my Windows system, my big Windows system now. And it's cool because it actually allows me to use the. Get this, now you can use the monitor, the Sony monitor volume control. And yet the audio doesn't go to the monitor. It goes to my big audio system. Go figure. I mean, it is so crazy. What it. I think it goes right through the monitor out to my audio system. So that's a really cool feature. So it gives me remote control, audio feature for volume.

This PI 400's got a C. It looks like it's a power. The power input is a C. I haven't used it in a while and I think I'm running my C power to a A4B Linux system that's been running on my bench for quite a while. That was part of another project. So I want to get this 5,400 going because it's got everything in it. It's even got FT8 in. Yeah, I think I've got about three. Three usb sticks.

Devices all being plugged in right now. So always something I put up, you know, when I first got the computer that had the USB C pd, I put up a little charger hooked up in power poles off of my system that has a little trigger in it and so forth. It has usb, a USB cpd, and probably another usba. But it puts out, you know, the appropriate. I think I'll put out up to 65 watts or something like that. But anyway, so it charges several things. And even right now, the Mess Tastic node, one of them, is hooked up to USBC permanently right now. So it's a fairly common mode of charging things these days. A guy's got to have more than one source, I think, on the desktop to do that. Got to have a couple of them around even. I have flash.

That's why I said I'll get charged up. Usb c now. Well, after looking at what's on my bench and thinking about it, I've decided to hook up the S, bend it, because like I say, it's got everything. In fact, it would be easily upgradable to the V3. From what I understand, it's not that tough to do. Not that I would need to. I mean, for me, the V3, the V2 has everything that the V3 does, maybe even a little more power, because I think they cut back on the power. So I'll just cut back on the power and I won't have to worry about too much power. But yeah, I've got the aesthetics just sitting.

Here. I might as well just plug it in. So you got a fire going to keep you warm? Oh, yeah. I really had a great one last night. It just cooked the whole building. And it's still. What is is? It says it's 68, but it feels pretty warm. It actually went down to 62 yesterday with no fire yesterday morning. So 68 is a whole lot better than that. And that with no real wood output from the wood stove right now having burned.

Burned all night.

All right, well, I'm gonna go back to monitoring. I'm gonna watch this YouTube video. So I'll be monitoring that one. Maybe John will come on or something. Good morning, KN6MGK from Chico. What? Was that YouTube video related to what we're talking about? Nope. It's about basketball. The Warriors. So, no, nothing to do with Am Ra. Well, you might want to see what that low pass filter is about, but until you really start getting into your QRP stuff, you're not going to care about low pass filters. Now, the next thing on my mind really is about making some sort of trap for 15 meters on an off center fin dipole that I have up, because it'd be nice to get 15 meters on that same wire. So that's something I'm more interested in, is.

It would have more of an effect on what I'm. What I'm doing right now. Anyway, that's what's on my mind. All right, chat with you in a bit. KN6MGK. Yep. INSYSGRG. Now, having decided that the aesthetics is my next project at this amp station, get that thing back to operational. One of the things that slowed me down a little bit with it is that I've only got one antenna here, and you can't plug this SBITX in without having at least a dummy load on it. It is famous for transmitting a little blip that is dangerous for if you don't have an antenna on it. So I think I need another antenna, but that's a whole other project.

Little corner wave vertical right inside the place. If that's what you have to. No radial. Just run a, run a little feed line to it, tiny one or whatever. That way you can leave it hooked up. If it does transit something out, it'll at least have a little antenna attached to it. So I don't know they even make those little. Like Pat just bought one. You can get a, it's called a just okay, 20 meter antenna, something like that. Yeah, but I don't know, that was, that's the whole idea about those little verticals. You know, put them up anywhere. Throw one of those up somewhere. Yeah. I would have to put it inside the backyard so the sheep couldn't get to it because they like to rub on just anything, fence posts, fences and something like that that they were curious about. They would come over and rub on it and knock it down.

Speaking of that type of animal, I. I have a video of a guy who made friends with a small young deer of some kind. Maybe it's a male, I don't know. And they were playing and the deer were chasing the guy around. Kind of funny. But those deer can get. When they get full grown, if it's a male, they can get kind of crazy and start jumping up in the air with their paws coming down on you, so their. Their hooves coming down on you. So they can be kind of crazy as they grow old. Well, hopefully you're still working on selling some of those U's. That's the thing that you said.

That sold really easily, but I don't think you sold any. So, anyway, that's what you were. That's one of the things you were working on anyway. But, yeah. Okay. Catch up with you later. I'm gonna go watch this YouTube and grab me another cup of coffee. Kilo November 6th Mike, golf. Kilo. Shut it down for. For a little while. Yeah. To be a little. To give you a little more definition. The thing that I said sold easily was the lambs. And one of the things I sold, I think at least one set of maybe two sets of was male and female lambs, because somebody wanted to get started with sheep, and then the next one was used. But last year was the first year that that was not true.

The ewes did not sell. What sold was the rams. And it has to do with various ethnic groups showing up that want rams for meat. But you said something about some other ethnicity that wanted you. I think for me, which, you know, I have to look at it like, oh, well, that's what they're going to do. I don't raise. I. I've never raised Jews for meat. I raised them so that they would give me a lamb every year. But that's the old days. So what I said was that I'm going to get all the lambs in March and sell them all, sell them all off and then still try to sell the ute. That's the plan. 10, 6, GRG.

And even with this fog, yesterday's solar charge gave me 13.27 to 13.28 volts with one amp coming through the fog. Isn't that weird? Talk to you later. N60RZ.

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Oh, yeah, there's fog. I was out there about 6:30 this morning, so I came home about 10 o', clock, 9 o' clock last night. Fog all the way from the Bay Area to here. So, yep, there's fog. It's kind of high fog. It's not a big a deal, you know, but it's. It's not like last week. We did have like two days of sunshine. Yeah, I might have to take my wife up there for a ride just so she can see some sunshine. We've been having to take our vitamin D3.

Well, we'll see what she wants to do today. Maybe. But it's still probably a little. Little cool up there, so. Sure. It'll be in the 40s. Like yesterday it was like. I won't understand. The height of day in Chico is going to be like 46. That'll be about 3pm, so. Yeah. That doesn't sound too warm. Well, good morning.

Supposed to be that way all day today. I think we're supposed to have our fog all day.

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Appear to be having some radio issues with this little bell thing. How are you copying? It's okay. Seen better days. But you know what I mean. Over. Oh, yeah, no, this is a stock rubber duck on this new radio, so I'm going to have to switch over to a different antenna. What is that? Is that the UV5R? The 5R mini? It's actually a decent little radio. I mean, the other day I was getting good signal reports of maybe today's weather or whatnot is different. But yeah, for 20 bucks each, you get the little.

Radio, and it is little and it's a little chunky, but it's about the size of a like a little frs family bubble pack radio from Costco. Oh, I remember those. $20. That's not bad. No, I already gave one away for or going to be giving one away for Christmas and whatnot. We just you take it out for a day. If you drop it or break it, hey, you're out 20 bucks. But the seller I got it from also included 2 Nagoya 771 high gain whip antennas. That was I opened up the box, but I ended up actually ordering two sets. So anyway, that's neither here nor there. Anyway, I opened up the box, not expecting a Nagoya to be in there, and it popped open like one of those little snakes in a can. Anything WP6A X N repeater.

It sounds exciting. I like the part about snake in the can. Yeah, one of those little spring loaded little jumping things out of a can because darn things jump. Scared me twice. I mean, I should have known after the first time, but I was caught off guard again. The toaster seems to do that too. I never, never can anticipate the toaster up. Well, hey, did you program it with Chirp? I've got stories. Okay. Chirp has never really worked for me. I don't know why. Windows 10? I don't know. But you know, I've been beating my head up against the wall trying to program some of these rigs. The Wilson 980. Oh, it was terrible.

No, I. I programmed these, and with these little radios, you can actually input the, like, the actual phonetics. So I have it listed here as the WD6AXM. Or, I mean, you can put in numbers, some symbols and stuff, so. Makes it easier to program without having to use curves. The way they redid these UV5R minis, they have two subsets. Like, if you want to. If you want to. If you want to work on something on the radio, you go to radio programming. If you want to program a channel, you go to program channel. That's it. All the settings are pretty much in those two little spots there. Yeah, I've had a few UV5Rs, you know, they work. What the hell? I mean, the money is like a good deal, and.

And you know, a dual band ht. You know, I just bought a rig I'm looking for Rattail r a d te l that was 30 something 35. But it receives HF. Although I haven't heard anybody. I haven't heard anybody out there yet. But it's, you know, 2 meter 440 and you can get sideband, you know, FM the whole bit. Two antenna ports. Yeah, that's a pretty neat. I probably shouldn't hook it up because I'll probably want to get it. Small group of people, I would love to run.

Into somebody that's an expert at programming. I would even pay them money to have them program. You know, I had a 400, a Ya 400 XDR. It does Yaesu fusion and, you know, it's all hooked up with self that I don't know about. And I just could not make it work. So I finally put it in a box, put it in the closet. You know, it's happy there. I'm happy here. Works out. Oh, yeah. There's definitely a nuance to the programming. And a lot of it's running old technology that a lot of ham radio websites are important. But then again, if it's not broke, don't fix it. I would argue that it.

If it's not broken, don't fix it. But I would argue that it's kind of broken. Well, the statement I hear is how can you be a ham for 40 years and not know how to program your radios? Oh, hello. Is that cruel or what? No, it's not for everybody. I've always programmed from the front page software through DMR or anything like that, so I would say it's pretty easy to program an hp. Well, the trouble I had with the wolfang is getting programming a channel manually and getting.

Getting it to remember the PL and also remember. Well, CTCSS. Also get it to remember different PLs and different channels. I couldn't make that work. Yeah, it can be a little elusive there. Taking a rock on the ground, like trying to make fires. It's fine where they are and you're fine where you're at. We are screenshot. Have a lot of leaves on them. They're not the right colors, but hopefully coming down soon. Yeah. Well, what are you up to today? It's only noon. Feels like it's four o'. Clock. I haven't had anything.

It's December 7th, and I can remember because my parents talked about it all the time. And a lot of, you know, after the war, there was a lot of news reels and movies, you know, John Wayne leading the charge. It was all about, you know, kill or be killed. Oh, yeah. You had a bit of a QRM or something on your signal. There was something in the background. It kind of sound like you statically waved or something up. I don't know if anyone else heard that, but I can still hear what you were saying. But in the background, there was a static signal. So it.

I have two. I have two Wilson radios. The one for GMRS, one for 2 meter 440. They get hot. Oh, yeah. Hey, I feel the fan going though. That's a good sign. 50 watts and the GMRS radio will start to make noise. Everybody starts crying about, okay, okay. I still haven't done the GMRS thing. I thought about it, but then the government shut down and then I forgot about it. Now I just remember, so maybe I'll.

Well, there are two good machines, channel 29 and channel 30. And one of them is right there on Sutter Butte. And it's digital po. That means you have to have a GMRS certified rig. But the. The other one is in Oroville. A lot of hands check into that net they have on Thursday night, I believe 8 o'. Clock. And I would listen if there's any kind of an emergency fire, flood, those guys talk about it. Okay, the frequency is 462 725. No, what am I saying? Wait a minute. Ding dong. Ding dong. Channel 30.

Hang on, hang on. Hang on. I'm hanging, I'm hanging. Hang on. It's nice when you used to have a brain. It's gone now. All standby for that privacy. Well, thank you very much. 462-725-462-725. And it's 5.0 MHz. Split just like 440. Ham radio. Be a good idea to see if you can hear.

Them. A lot of guys in that club have outside antennas. So they're all, you know, strong, strapping young men. You know, W E6A X N receiver. Oh, yeah. I always say that. They're new, so I'll do it. If I wait a week, then I won't. Are you talking about. Get the gmrs ticket? Hey, I paid 70. Now it's only 35.

That's an odd drop there. Well, I kept hanging out, thinking everybody was saying it's gonna go down eventually. It did, but not in my lifetime. So I paid $70. And the FCC website. Man who creates these? Are they geeks? Is that what it is? They hate us. They want us to have toil and strife in our lives when we get on the FCC website. And then that damn FRN number. Oh, good. What else? I mean, you're a ham. You already got one, so you don't need to worry about it. Yeah, I was saying earlier that the technologies they use for those websites, even the government wants to.

So old. It's like it doesn't work. Well, are you at home right now? Is that. Is that what's going on? You keep moving around. You have a hot spot, but then it goes away. You gotta go make coffee and stuff like that. Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and switch over to the Nagoya Antenna as well. We'll make the radio a little top heavy, but I'm sure I can manage. I'll be back. I'm gonna make coffee as well. I'll be back. Okay. All right. Well, I'm.

I'm working here on my. I have a granddaughter putting her little gift here for Christmas. Time is moving so fast. It's already. But. You know, Christmas is gonna be here. You're gonna be standing there looking pretty bad. Nothing ready. Like me. I'm going. Oh, God. Back when I was a kid, it was a joke. They'd put a rock, wrap it up in paper and give it to me for Christmas and then laugh. Well, they were good rocks. I did keep them. But my parents could afford a rock and a kick.

Although I think this is a maybe a knockoff Nagoya or something, because I've never had this happen where the little plastic bit that covers the actual connector inside the antenna, that little plastic bit just slides up and I've got bare antenna if I lift that up. So I may not be using this antenna anymore. Well, if you're on it now, it sure is working. That's good to know. It's just. I don't know. I mean, if you go waving the antenna around like I do with being an Italian, talking with my hands, this little thing is just going to keep bobbing up and down, but it's not interfering. I gu.

Maybe I'll leave it alone. Or I'll find a way to glue that cover to where it's going to start. I don't know. Well, do what I do. I just put GE silicone gasket paper on stuff. If it offends me, I just. Here, put some of this on there. Now this issue is gone. Well, still, you got no plans. You're just kicking back today, doing nothing, watching a movie, getting on ham radio. Yeah, that's about a lot of it. Maybe some laundry. I gotta do laundry at some point, so probably do that here before too long so I don't have to worry about it later. Hey, I gotta tell you something, Paul. I hate how.

Housework. I want to get one of those aprons. You call them. I guess an apron that spills out. I hate housework. Really? But you know what? Nobody else is doing that. Anybody else doing it. I'm going. Okay? Would be. I do, like, clean, you know, clean bathroom and stuff like that. Clean toilet. Oh, I wish I had a camera. I could show you some stuff. Years ago, I went to visit people and I went to the bathroom and I was, ooh, no way. You know, my mother's sick. I gotta go. But I like clean. I just don't like doing all the work. Oh, well, yeah, no, that's understandable. Yeah, I like the end result, but suffer through the process sometimes.

Yeah, well, I've got a system, you know, trying to keep things buttoned up, organized. You know, it's like. Younger brother. He wouldn't do anything in high school. I've never seen anybody who just didn't do anything, didn't care, didn't want to know. My mom, bless her heart, he wouldn't even get up out of bed. He could not drag him up. He had to get up, be to school with hate, drag him across the floor outside. He wouldn't wake up. Yeah, that's my brother. He could do anything. Later on, he actually got.

Job, found a career. I couldn't believe it. He became a draftsman. And, oh. Oh, my greatest memory, he was going to a job. He did. Cad. And two bosses. One of them was real nice. The other guy was a jerk. Came in, started yelling at him. He got up, picked up his stuff, said, thank you. Have a good day. Walked off. The other boss came running out. No, no, please. Oh, hey. He's just. He's, you know, he's not waiting because we really need you. Said, nope. Talk to you later. I mean, yeah. Oh, you know, take this job and shove it. Yeah.

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Hey, peter, you're copying me now. Ko6bgy. Oh, yeah, that's perfect. Okay, well, I'm gonna get get step in here and get storage done, so that way I can enjoy the rest of the day. But I'll have the ready one in the background. Yeah, thanks for the cute, though. All right, talk at you later.

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Well, do you have sunlight up there? I remember sunlight from a long time ago, when I was a young man. And since PR2. Yes, we do. I'll send you some. I'll email it to you or FedEx it. Yeah, I was down there this morning. Down there? Red Bluff. It was really far. Oh, boy. Yeah, you took you. I suppose there's a chance for ice someplace along the way. Maybe there was a little bit of ice. Not a whole lot, you know. Nothing to speak of. I call it frost more than anything. Well, it can fool you, I tell you. And I saw an accident.

Video of an accident, and it was incredible. A whole lot of vehicles were involved. One after another. A guy was just standing there watching. Everybody totally wiped out. Where was that at this morning? No, it's like, say it's a video. And it just came to me and didn't tell me where it was coming from or anything. So I really don't know. I might be able to. If it's YouTube, I might be able to find out more about, though, because it'll be in my history. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, I've been seeing a lot of that stuff on Facebook, stuff I'm on, Trucker Channel, all that kind of good stuff up around Denver on Central.

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70, they have massive accidents where, you know, white car wrecks in front of a whole bunch. That all runs about 45, 50 mile. Well, like I said, I don't know if it was Facebook or. For YouTube. So I'm looking to see if it shows here and if it's face. That's the problem with Facebook, see, is they have those reels. And if it was Facebook, it's not going to tell me. It's not going to show me a history. See, so Facebook is a little bit bad that way.

There sure was a big accident. I'll tell you now. They're having them now because of. And they're having them all over. I mean, you know, pilots, like I said, you know, one. One car, one truck gets sideways in the highway, everybody else runs into it for some reason. I don't know. But. Yeah, I mean, it's all over. All over the north, because the big storm came through. It snowed all the way down there in the southeast of Oklahoma the other day. You know, it's just that time of the year they have every year. It's just how it's publicized for. But now we took a load down there to the fifth grill, started loading it up, and we're just hanging out. I did look at.

Really closely at. What I've watched at YouTube, and it didn't show for three or four days, and I swear it was not that long ago. So I just got through looking. I'm looking right now and I'm seeing one. And if it includes semis, then it might be the same one. I don't know. So far, I don't think so, because the one that I saw, the vehicles were completely trashed. I mean, it was just incredible how badly they were trashed. Yeah. Well, have you ever heard that song? You seen it? In Living Colors? Yeah, up there around the Siscues. Back up that way. Yeah, you get to see stuff like that.

Well, I did see one up in Bay in Siskiyou. It was last year or the year before. That was probably as bad as this one. I mean, this, the one in Siskiyou had cars on top of each other and. And then a semi truck driving on top of the cars. I mean, it was just horrible. And the crazy thing with that. No, nobody hardly said a thing about it. Nobody mentioned it in the news. Just nothing. But there were like 40 or 50 cars and cars and vehicles in it. Yeah, well, I better identify myself there. K and 6 SLA. Yeah, they all the time. They, they have. Have. When the big snowstorm comes, you. You're gonna have pilots somewhere. Somewhere. I mean, the United States is too big not to have them, so they have more.

Almost every, every big snowstorm comes through, you know, some are more serious than others and whatnot, stuff like that. I've had them spin out in front of me and you don't get nervous to hit the brakes. You just kind of hope for the best. And luckily, I'm going to say this, knock on wood, I've been pretty fortunate. I 42 years to drive that dude. Well, I just tried something I've never done and watch. And I'm watching a pile up after a search of the reels on Facebook and it does bring up a bunch of them, but so far I haven't found the exact one.

Although I'm seeing one that may be it that has as many vehicles as I saw trash. And let's see, where is was I 70 westbound near Illinois, Indiana border. Border. And it looks like there's as much trash, many trash vehicles in it as I saw from the guy that was just standing right on the other side of a guardrail taking pictures of all these vehicles. Looks like there's at least a hundred vehicles in this thing. Yeah, that's probably head fog. Freezing fog and ice and stuff. Yeah, you know. You know, like I said, it happens, that's for sure. But hope it don't happen, but it does.

Unfortunately. Yeah. So, anyway, on the radio side of it, we're. We're just hanging out, listening in, and that's about it. Like I said, we got back from Red Bluff about an hour ago, ate lunch, came up here, turned everything on, and we got about another week or so and we'll be headed south. Well, one of the good things about that is you'll get out of this fog. This fog is just as bad as any other bad weather you could get. I mean, it just wipes you out. But. Yeah. The only black ice I was ever in in my lifetime was I was on my way up to an airport in Massachusetts. Right in central Massachusetts.

And on my way up there, and I saw this, what looked like a beautiful, clean parking lot. And I, you know, I should have recognized it as black ice immediately, but I didn't. And the reason I had snow where I was was because the snowplows had been over it. And where the black ice was, there was no snow plows or nothing. It was just all black, black guy, probably an inch or two thick. And I pulled off into that parking lot, and I just that was it. I had no control until I hit the Snow bank about 100ft into that big, huge parking lot. I was the only stupid one in there. And I did manage to get out of it, but. Wow. Yeah, well, you know, like I said, that ice, I, too, drive on snow any day other than this ice, but I've drove all the way across Oklahoma.

Pullman, Arkansas. Well, I actually went to Texas and have about 4 inches ice underneath me on 40 there. And, you know, you just drive along and hope it don't fold up on you. Well, the areas you're talking about are far more southern than we are here. I think. So you think we'd have more of it here, but we don't. So that I'm not. I'm not unhappy that it's that way. No, the way it works, or at least this is the way I think this is my opinion, watching that kind of stuff like that. You know, the way it works further north, you get ice and snow, but then when you come south, you get down to around 40 and.

You get a lot of snow on 40. Now, don't get me wrong. You come across Flagstaff in New Mexico, and the higher elevations, they're in the Amarillo. You know, you get a lot of snow. I mean, you get a lot of stuff. They shut the highway down. But when you get down there around Oklahoma City and Little Rock and back in there, you still get the snow. But mainly that's where it turns from snow to sleet. When you get sleep, it's 23 degrees or so, something like that. Then you get ice. I've seen my antennas be 1 inch in diameter on my truck. My mirrors have ice hanging off of them. I've seen. Not mine, because they're run, but I've seen trucks going down 40, where they drive straight for a long time, and they have ice built up around their fist.

12. Yeah. Crazy. Well, believe it or not, I've got six amps coming in. Well, five amps. It was six amps when I first looked at it. Now when I started transmitting, it immediately changed the 5amps. I don't know. I didn't think I was on. I didn't think this radio was powered by the solar battery system. So I don't know why that changes like, change like that. But I had six amps a second ago and all right through the, right through the fog. So that's cool. Yeah, it is. Yeah, that, that's pretty good. Coming through that fog, I, I, like I said, I got down. Oh, I think it was right above Paint street. And it turned where you couldn't hardly see anything. You see the highway. So we kept, I mean, there was no problem. There.

But when I say you see the highway, you see the white light, yellow lines. But the. As far as seeing anything, you know you could. And you just keep driving until you get drive out of it. Now, like I said, that's what's up on the hill. But up here where I'm at, it was clear when we left. Morning at six o'. Clock. Well, not to change the subject, but one thing I've decided to do is I've got these cells. They're lithium iron oxide cells, you know, the good ones that don't blow up and catch fire. I've got these cells. And they're what? They're what my bigger batteries are made out of. I've got these cell holders. Each cell holder has a bunch of batteries in it, but I've got the individual cells. That's not the.

Not the best way to make a battery but I was going to, I was planning on it just second here. Yeah, yeah, I hear you there. Well, like I said, you know it's, it's, you know you build it another battery but yeah, you know it's one of those things there. But. But anyway we're, we gotta give Josh call. He. I think he's on 10 meters there. I'm not sure he's doing parts on the air. I think he texted me about an hour ago and I was eating lunch watching Lame man. You ever watch that? That's a good, good show. Laying man comes on every Sunday. You know we're just hanging out that. I thought I throwed my call sign out there. Anyway Mike, we'll let you go and we'll talk to you after a while as we came.

SLM will be good. Yeah. Well, before you go, what was Josh's call? Kj5ifl. All right. KJ5IFL. I'll put it in my announcement system. Talk to you later. N6YRT. Okay, Mike. Yeah, Like I said, I'm going to try to get a hold of you, see where he's at. I sent him a text there, and he definitely come back. So, anyway, I'm going to give him a call. All right, talk to you tomorrow.

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