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I have this week off work and while cleaning the garage yesterday I found a bag of aluminum tent poles I picked up at a yard sale a few years ago. I got the bug to build a ground mounted vertical for 20m. But, I was only going to do it if I had all the stuff I needed without buying anything...

I'm participating in the 13 colonies special event today and kept hearing the tail end of my exactly when I would un-key. It happened several times on 20 and 40m. I though someone was messing with me until I heard almost my full call and realized it was my voice! LOL So I'd heard of...

Talk about dedication. I'd love to work these guys but I think the big guns will dominate. http://qrznow.com/announcing-the-bs7b-dxpedition-to-scarborough-reef/

There is a cobra on the loose. They say that anyone spotting the beast should keep a safe distance and notify the FWC. If I ran across that snake the irresponsible owner would have a hard time identifying it's parts. :)...

Feast your eyes on this beauty. $250, rust included! To say it probably sat in a high moisture environment for several years is probably an understatement. http://www.ebay.com/itm/cb-amplifier-bruiser-linear-/322361025388?hash=item4b0e36e36c:g:aG0AAOSw241YU1bD

For anyone who doesn't already know. The ARRL 10 meter contest is this weekend. It will be interesting to see a band everyone thinks is dead come to life for the weekend (hopefully). I'm not to going to compete by I will get in there and make some contacts and burn the dust off those 572B's...

I ordered one of these today from eBay. It's the Gen 2 version and the price is under $100 including the programming cable and software CD. Anyone else have one? I just wanted something to monitor the local not so busy repeaters and to play around with. I may take my aging Kenwood dual...

Well I did something I've wanted to do for a while now and that was to purchase an SDR dongle. I bought one from NooElec and got it working with the HDSDR software. Pretty cool but the dongle covers from 25mhz up and I wanted to use it on the lower bands. If I used it as a IF based pan...

I've had my classic (old) Icom 271A 2 meter base set up for a while and can never catch a band opening to do a little 2m ssb. So I get home today at the usual time a little after 1730L, feed the walk the dogs, grill the chicken for dinner which I eat sitting at the table on the patio outside...

On a whim while I was at Radio Shack for a fuse. It was on sale for Fathers Day and has a really crappy camera. Most fun ever!! I am beyond being entertained by this thing and already ordered another one (with a better camera anyway). I crashed it about 10 times before I found the right...

Since we don't have a vendor review section I'll post this here. Over the past 8 months I've purchased a few things from DX Engineering. Every purchase has been great from order to delivery and their packaging is the best I've experienced from any ham radio dealer. The Alpha Delta Delta-4B...

I've owned just about all of the Kenwood hybrid radios over the years and sold all of them to buy other equipment. But, the TS-830S was always a favorite so I've been looking for one for quite a while and finally found a really nice one. A ham I've bought a few other things from re-furbished...

I found this while looking for some wire for springtime antenna building and ordered a spool. Seems like a good deal and the seller has 101 spools left to sell. $20 plus $6 to ship. http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=2&toolid=10001&campid=5336136228&icep_item=262247394506

Or maybe not but, in MI there's a brewerey on every corner(or it seeme like in anyway) and they have the best beers I've ever had. Takes some getting used to paying $10 for a 6 pack buy it lmits my drinking...a little. I offset the calorie intake by by visiting Planet Purple 5 days a week...lol...

A really good resource for stations still on the air. I loved listening to all the foreign broadcast abd strange noises when I was a kid and still do. Especially during a contect weekend :) http://www.short-wave.info/index.php

On sale on eBay for $30.80/free shipping. Cosel power supply. I picked up 2. http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=2&toolid=10001&campid=5336136228&icep_item=262232570141

I've wanted to do this ever since Charter increased the cost of my service a year ago by almost 50%. They also told me at that time I was no longer eligible for any more "promotional deals". Those 6-12 month promo deals were what kept my cable bill at something I could just barely live with...

I had one go out so I replaced both with a 12v LED SMT strip light. I known it's blue but look s really nice.

RF Parts is showing another batch of 572B's available at the time of this post. $5 less each than their last batch a few weeks ago. I ordered a matched pair for my SB200 and effectively doubled it's value. What a deal! :) They go fast so if you need them grab them now.

A minor project but still challenging for a freight guy like me. I picked up this SB-200 for $150 and installed the soft- key module on Sunday to complete the last of the Harbach mods. The amp has the soft-start, new power supply module and soft-key, It also has two strong Cetron 572B tubes...