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finished writing the canadian ham license (basic+honours) on sunday  is it worth getting a portable QRP kit (hardware, non-sdr)? they seem awfully tempting with respect to price and flexibility if not what is the best way to get involved in hf without dropping down a grand for some overpriced thing i do not need
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after checking out some nets i am sad to say that oh my god all ham stereotypes are true looks like i somehow vastly overpaid my credit card bill so i can afford a yaesu ft-817  another stupid idiot question: what are some good recommendations for a good portable hf antennas? i do a lot of hiking and dont want to lug around some huge dumb nerd stick
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Jun 12, 2015 19:36
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my old-rear end apartment has a shitload of interference that has prevented me from using my end fed antenna. we are talking s9 noise across all hf bands. because i am an idiot and have no idea how to do things is there something i should be trying or is there even a better kind of antenna for my living situation?
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Jul 17, 2015 03:23
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PuTTY riot posted:is the antenna outside or inside? how high up? there is a tree that allows me to hang it pretty much straight horizontally from a window around 12 feet in the air or so
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Jul 17, 2015 03:32
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i have been tempted to buy one of those chinese quad-band mobiles that go for $170 stick it in my piece of poo poo truck and just drive everywhere pissing everyone off with the 50W amount of channel spillover they are doomed to produce
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Jul 18, 2015 02:57
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on the bright side: 50W on 6M and 10M
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Jul 18, 2015 02:58
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PuTTY riot posted:fm only tho huh gently caress that nevermind then
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Jul 18, 2015 03:50
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new personal best: 1874 miles with JT65 only running 5W of power
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Aug 12, 2015 03:39
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one of my relatives gave me moneys strictly for the intention of buying an amateur radio (i also inherited an old tube tester and a box full of canadian and american made NOS tubes heck yes) all i have are qrp transceivers so i was thinking of picking up a base station help me choose something for $1500 CAD gooooooooo
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Nov 13, 2016 02:18
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thanks for all the suggestions and they are all things i am actively looking into that being said there is a local ham selling a pristine condition ic746 for cheap and i am kind of tempted to jump on iiiiit
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Nov 17, 2016 19:36
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ahahahahahaha the ham radio deluxe software suite has been under attack in the past two days. long story short, the software was phoning home to check and verify if the callsign is valid and/or blacklisted. if the check returned blacklisted, you would be prevented from using the software (unless you changed your callsign, whoops) if you posted a bad review on eham, welp, turns out you were probably blacklisted by an apparently easily exploitable and bypassable telnet check and welp  
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Dec 16, 2016 23:14
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oh and this got found out all because the owners of hrd decided to blackmail a user during a support ticket (that was documented) into removing his bad review before they would remove him from the blacklist
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