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    Passed General class test

    Congratulations! You have opened up an entire new world for yourself. Extra is obtainable, but don't obsess over it -just have fun. Sent from my fertile imagination.
  2. K

    Hell froze over...

    Congratulations!
  3. K

    The Old FCC

    I agree. If the existing rules were strictly enforced, a lot of the nonsense that is happening now would never even come up.
  4. K

    time to make the jump to HAM

    Welcome Gene! Search Google for Ohms law, and look at the images. I remembered the circle, and as soon as I sat down for my tech test, I wrote that circle down on my scratch paper. From there it was just a matter of covering up the letter that I wanted to find, and doing the math as shown...
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    More FCC whackiness - now they're affecting potential EmComms

    The FCC are the enforcers of communications law in the USA. While they do not make the laws, they are free to implement regulations as they see fit. As for "taking" 10 meters, the FCC can reassign ANY frequency allocation in the USA that is not controlled by the NTIA. If you doubt this just...
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    Help on re-activating old license

    It looks like WA7CTA is available. I have a VX-8R and it is truly a spectacular little radio!
  7. K

    Movin' on up!

    Good luck!
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    Three People Killed While Erecting Ham Antenna

    This is just a sad tragedy. All that we can hope for is that somehow this will serve as ANOTHER WARNING of the dangers of electrical wires, and hopefully someone that reads about this will be prevented from coming into harm.
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    Passed the Tech. test

    Congratulations! :thumbup:
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    Yaesu VX-8R unable to turn ON ARS

    If you are actually talking about MENU 74, RPT ARS, did you push the MENU key to enable changing the setting? After you push the MENU key you can then make any needed changes to the setting. If you are talking about MENU 76, RPT SHIFT FREQ, you cannot change that from the MENU settings unless...
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    RT systems or G4HFQ:VMWare

    I am running VMWare Fusion on a Mac with an XP SP3 virtual, with a 3rd party cable that I bought from ebay. I have had no problems other than occasionally having to tell the G4HFQ software what port I am using again. I did learn that if you mod the VX-8R that you will have to change the...
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    Yaesu VX-8 after TX-extension, 4m RX in NFM not possible

    My VX-8R received only WFM there before and after the mod.