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It's always fun to listen. There maybe a tracon center near you as well. Chicago center is about thirty miles west of me and I can pickup both sides of converstation.

I live between two major airports—Midway and O'Hare—and have several radios that pick up the airband. My primary setup is an older RadioShack scanner connected to a discone antenna mounted on my tower. The antenna sits about fifty feet up, and with it, I can easily hear the tower at O'Hare...

Nice, it look a lot like the KSUN UV-110D

I don't but looking forward to your opinion of it.

I get what you're saying, same here old eyes.

As someone who owns over thirty Chinese HTs, I can confidently say that Baofeng would be my last choice. The Radtel RT-470 and RT-490 are vastly superior in every respect. Both offer exceptionally good RX performance and clear TX audio, and their airband reception is outstanding.

A few years ago I was using an HT with a Smiley 1/2 wave telescoping attached, I worked a friend who was mobile, he was about seven miles away and I was in the house. Excellent performer!

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...

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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.