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It’s not just England, I bought a used radio off eBay, didn’t notice the seller was in Canada so PayPal tacked on tariff charges and then a few days after the package arrived I got a bill from UPS for another tariff charge. So my used radio that I bought for $130 ended costing me another $79 in...

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Anyone have any information about how to increase the FM deviation on these radios? The one I just got appears to be super low on FM audio, as it is out of the box I don't see it being usable for FM.

That stand works great and nIce price, I have metal one like it but it cost a bit more. Wished I’d saw this one first.

For what it’s worth, I’m hearing the same kind of signals here in central VA during the daytime.

Very. I tried different radios, always channel 2. I also have a ft891, it’s pretty quite on 40, 20 and 10 meters but ive never checked on channel, figure it would be the same though.

I drive a 2011 Cruze, it’s not overly noisy with one weird expectation. On channel 2 after it’s been running for a while if you stop and turn the car off to run into a store for a minute when you start it back up you get what sounds like a fuel pump noise, move to any other channel no noise! Go...

Both stations look great, mine are never that neat and clean.

Glad to hear you survived the storm, let’s hope we don’t have another one for another 100 years.

I just about wore out my copies of Lou’s books reading and reading them. Very cool that you have/had a signed copy.

Them and Lafayette. https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Lafayette_Catalogs.htm#:~:text=The%20company%20went%20into%20bankruptcy%20in%201980%20and%20quickly%20liquidated%20its%20assets.&text=60%20Years%20of%20Lafayette.,Click%20cover%20to%20read.

I built a vertical using bamboo pole with some 16 gage wire tye wrapped to the pole and a few(not enough) radials out of the same wire. Wasn’t much for working local but worked ok when the band opened up. It was cheap and it got me on the air.

I can’t imagine the pain of seeing that happen. I’ve had a few wire antennas get taken down because of ice but that’s nothing compared to your loss!

Congratulations, enjoy having more frequencies to chase dx