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Plantronics Blackwire are extremely good

I have worked in IT for almost 40 years now. I hold many Micro$oft certs and deal with Windoze PCs and servers daily. My main PC runs Linux KDE Neon, but for my photography, I use a Mac (which has much better color management). I have one Windoze PC that I use to program radios; it does not have...

I will take a look as well

LDG are nice tuners

Nice

Nice setup.

As has been said a sat phone is your best bet. If you want to travel with ham gear then you want a general class license and use HF. VHF and UHF will be mostly useless.

It was called "First class comerical" license but changed to what you have here in the early '80s, just after I got my first class ticket. I was grandfathered in.

They are indeed cool toys

China is all about numbers not quality

I agree on the 718

Are you in channel or vfo mode?

I have been looking at these on Aliexpress, glad you took the plunge so I can see how they work for you.

Nice! Building antennas is the best part of the hobby for me.

I have always had good luck with ham-sticks. Before I went with the screwdriver I ran a 20 meter ham-stick with an LDG tuner for the other bands. It worked well and I was happy with it.

There are two vfos but they are linked so you really can't do what you are looking to do.

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That makes sense.

I was driving near the area where Cobra's HQ is and noticed it no longer says Cobra on the building. It's been at this location since the 70s, I can't find any info if they moved or just closed it.

I still have mine that I get in the late 80s although mine is Uniden