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Recent content by plinko

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    Getting back into it with a VX-8GR?

    Hey Bill, Bill here! :) Are you seriously from Salida, CA? I am between Modesto and Ceres, so I am basically one city up the road from you... small world! I'll keep an eye out for you on here, and maybe I'll see you at a club meeting at some point? ~Plinko :)
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    Getting back into it with a VX-8GR?

    Thanks for the info, I appreciate it! For the extra ~$70 for the DR, it seems like it would be worth it at the moment... wide Rx would be nice, and the additional bands couln't hurt. I am not thinking I'll need/want the GPS immediately, so that actually would be an okay thing. Thanks...
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    Getting back into it with a VX-8GR?

    So I have been inactive for a long time with a pretty much dead Yaesu FT-51R from back in the day. Since I had success with that HT, I thought that my new radio would be Yaesu as well - I am specifically looking at the VX-8GR It seems to have far more features than I plan on using in the...