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Unfortunately, this does happen. I reluctantly tell the customer to bring it back in and I will check it again. However if it's an issue at their station and no trouble is found there will be a diagnostic fee. This typically deters someone from blaming you when it's actually their station which...

I have been using an OK Industries vacuum desoldering station since the late 80's. I also have a Pace MBT. The OKI's I have, were made by Hakko in Japan, for OKI. The technique I use on through hole, is when the solder flows around the tip hole, I rotate the tip around the lead, as I pull the...

Good for smoke shows, headaches, christmas trees on spectrum analyzers and deep pockets, as they require replacement often.

MTF power is real. HG is wannabe

Cool...smart guy, using MRF power!

I once had a Clipperton L. I too had bandswitch issues. I would harvest switch contacts from junk box switches and fasten them to the wafer with #2 screws.

And then there are the people, that buy their ticket, because they can. Remote VE sessions? LOL $300 for a General, $300 more for the Extra. I HAD friends that did this. I lost respect for them. Needless to say, they are no longer my friends.

I love 10m and would not want that to happen. BUT......they SHOULD give us the freeband and metal antennas!

This may just be the coolest thing, I have heard all day.

Yep.....Galaxy should have parted company with Ranger a long time ago. I am certain, that Galaxy could have had a competitive product, in today's CB/10m market, had they tried to get out from under the RCI cost cutting quality, with the outrageous price tags and moved on to an OEM like QX. It's...

The Advanced class exam, was not for the timid. It was way more difficult than the Extra written. I would love to see some of these egotistical, hotshot, new age extra's pass it, or even HALF of it. This was the LID filter. The 20 WPM Morse exam, was the supreme LID filter. Yeah, it required...

I was referring to the OP's quote "give it back to the hams", which would refer to 11m being *taken*, unlike the spectrum you have mentioned. You missed that one. 10m and 11m were close enough to be considered the same at one time.

Mobeeeel or base unit?

I see this all the time. I was sent a link to a YT channel, for and individual, who knows absolutely nothing about radio. Went from nothing to extra in 8 days. What does this tell me? It is too easy. All these hotshots with extra class tickets, fancy vanity call signs buying pre made dipoles...

Great plan. Have you listened to 10m in the past 10 years? There is more going on 11m, than 10. Besides, the majority of hams today, wouldn't know what to do with it.

In the 70's, I had a Dyna-Com 5a. I would load it up with alkalines. I lived in a beach town at the time. I went to the boardwalk with the Dyna-Com and spoke to a guy in a boat, 90 miles south of where I was. That was amazing! The Dyna-Com was the best WT. I have the 12a and a 23 now. I always...

Yes, thank you.

I have one that uses one transistor, not two.

I use TIP41

I don't believe SAMS covered any exports.