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#1
General Discussion / Re: Chinese hf radio
August 02, 2017, 09:40:09 AM
I do wish that the designer/builder would consider that the owners of his design would like firmware updates and heaven forbid repairs ,let's face it bad things do happen to our fun toys ( as the yl keeps saying " the only difference between Men and boys is the price of our toys"

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#2
General Discussion / Re: Chinese hf radio
July 31, 2017, 11:13:39 PM
I am having fun on the air with mine

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#3
General Discussion / Chinese hf radio
July 30, 2017, 06:31:09 PM
I just acquired a fx9 radio it's a 10 band hf rig I am wondering if anyone else has one and would maybe like to start a net or a chat 

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#4
Sign me up just As long as it's slow speed , it's been years since I set in on a cw rag chew instead of " hi and bye"

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#5
General Discussion / Re: Field Day
June 26, 2017, 09:01:07 AM
I agree with taking a brake the yl and I took a 7 year field day brake and since we moved and become involved in our current club both of us have found renued enthusiasm for field day and the comradie , and our weather here in Texas was close to y'all's upper 80's and rain but we still had a good turn out . Grilled 20 steaks ,baked potatoes with all the fixings ! Breakfast was megas with tortilla's  Oh did I say we we enjoy eating too ..lol

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#6
Quote from: gil on June 23, 2017, 06:26:25 AM
QuoteUse to work into Colgate Ok and central Texas (Waco, Ft Hood ) from East Dallas

How far is it?

Gil.
From Mesquite Tx  to Colgate Ok is roughly 140 miles ,and to Ft Hood, Killeen is about the same.

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#7
General Discussion / Field Day
June 25, 2017, 09:23:13 PM
Hope every one had their fill of field day not sure how well our bad we did . Saturday morning started out thunder ,rain , and a question in my mind if I really wanted to get my butt out of bed , but I did. Drove over and helped one of our club members load up four honking heavy AGM batteries and dollar panels along with our mesh nodes , and antennas for HF .
On sight the circus began antennas go up solar panels go up and stations and the commo trailer active . But the bands were not the best , hope y'all did well we will not know for a bit but hope our numbers were better than last year
           73's

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#8
I had an 817 sold it regreated it and bought another love those radios

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#9
Use to work into Colgate Ok and central Texas (Waco, Ft Hood ) from East Dallas with no more than a 7 element beam horizontal and I think 12 watts out on my old Icom all mode mobile rig

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#10
Have woken up to that several times when I lived in Arizona , a sand storm would blow in and it generated enough static electricity to cause that, it was common out there

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#11
Tactical Corner / Re: Building Your Own EMP Faraday Cage
November 29, 2015, 07:06:15 PM
Been reading this post and had a thought on using the ammo cans , and that is what about using aluminum foil to cover the opening of the can then closing the can lid on top, if the paint was removed from the can body and the foil makes full contact with the can edge I think it just might do the job of shielding the contents