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welcome to the club of CW ops (y) I find CW the most satisfying mode because of how much effort I had put into becoming proficient at it. There are lots of opinions on how to best learn CW (Farnsworth vs. Koch method, etc. etc.) but 1 thing you should definitely do is join the Straight Key...

SARS is really good with turnaround, if they're slow its because they have a backlog of work. Matt Adrian's usually the guy who will call you with what they find, he's great at communicating.

If you're sending it to Michigan it'll be in good hands. I myself and everyone I've known who has dealt with Matt found his work and his attitude to be as professional as they come. Could be as simple as corrosion on the inline fuses or you have a problem with the finals. If you had just...

I remembered reading something before about using an internal sound card on a PC and did some searching. Here's the link to the article I remembered: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wadei/HOWTO_TS-590S_digital_and_dv_v1.8.pdf I forgot to mention too that you need to keep an eye on the ALC...

Digipan is Old Reliable. I think it's pretty basic but it works. One of the older hams in the area I know swears by it too and he's made close to 10,000 QSOs with it and his FT-2000 using a Signalink USB. The software is very dated but it still runs fine on Windows 7. Haven't done much...

Interesting for the novelty but the stock FT-817 right now is cheaper, $609 after rebate.

I'm sure their inability to scare off everyone who dared operate between 14.290-14.310 for a whole 24 hours made their piles bleed.

so that everyone else expends resources to try to crack the encryption so they can make sure that it is of no consequence? :confused1:

I see 2 problems here. Both Visa and Master Card prohibit a vendor from requiring a phone number, address, or other personal information as a condition of sale, it is a condition that the vendor agrees to if they want to accept the card. If they follow the correct procedure including...

Keep in mind that before 1987 the Technician and General written exams were drawn from the same pool. If you have the technical ability to be able to understand the questions in the current Technician pool, you have the ability to understand those in the General pool. I would encourage you...