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Smiley makes the best HT antennas, period. I have been using them exclusively since the early '90s.

Slient running, very underrated movie

Couldn't have said it better myself

Update on the H3 radios: I bought two of them in 2024. Both were working fine—no third-party firmware, no charging with the battery attached. Then, within a couple of days of each other, they just died. I turned them on and… nothing. Nada. Strangely, after about a week, one of them came...

Use Chirp, that's how I program 99% of the radios I have

Old school always. Sure, I like new stuff—hell, my job depends on dealing with the latest tech and all the chaos that comes with it. But old gear? That’s my escape. It’s my release from the constant churn of updates and problems. When I flip on my 101ZDmkIII, the displays glow, the tubes...

Nice!

Yes, the stock one and Smiley. The issue with my two is the RX gets easily overloaded, the ACG needs to work better. I am only five blocks from a major airport (Midway).

Yeah they were local only, I don't think they even had a website. There was also Spectronics and Ericson

The Ham Store in Wheaton.

Cb shops are non-existent around here, there used to a few back in the 80s but long gone how. There was a ham shop about twenty minutes away but they closed two years. Closest not is Ham Radio Outlet (former AES) in Milwaukee, about an hour and half away.

Urban near a major airport with no HOA (thank god)

Long gone memory and not just RS but many electronics stores.

Could be interesting if it had an actual VFO and the not typical channelized system most exports have. When they do this it screams 11 meter use.

Around 1973, my parents gave me a Pase 166 for Christmas. Put up an RS 1/2 wave GP, and I was off to the races.

Love the TS-50

They are just a drop shipper

They pay too much attention to ebay selling prices and not what the stuff sold for. Goodwill.com was goto for older camera great but they are to pricey nowadays.

My vintage stuff is Carver, I have an M-400t amp with CT-17 preamp.

Then what I heard about it is correct. I never heard one on the air, most of the people around here ran Cobras, Uniden, Colt, Tram, amd a smattering of Midlands.