After about a month, it's going strong. The receiver is good, speaker is loud and clear, and it plays Christmas music from the local FM station.

Cheese Jr. sez: 10/10 would buy again.

He has a BNC adapter on it and he got a BTC-orange Signal Stick. He can get into a couple repeaters about 20 miles away with that setup.

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The link in case anyone else is looking:

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Some other thoughts... An OpenSpot 4 Pro is a good investment, especially with Icom stuff, because you can do D-Star. The OS4 will also let you go to DMR and YSF from your D-Star radio. It's pretty powerful. The ultimate equipment loadout might be ID-50/IC-705/OpenSpot. You could add an amp for even more flexibility, and never need to buy another piece of gear.

Don't judge me by those emojis. Blame the Corny Chat people.

It's in the emoji pack.

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Hymen-optera hehheh

Icom 7300 is on discount with the mk 2 coming, and I really like the 705. The QMX+ is a good kit for a couple hundred bucks. They say 100W and a wire, but I think 10W, a NanoVNA, and a small wire is a more efficient setup.

Yeah, QRZ and Gigaparts do it. Check the qrz.com main page for a link. It's called the QRZ-1.

I need to check those out for Cheese Jr. and myself. We have Extra to work on, and it's dry as hell, even for me. I thought I knew stuff, but I make about 50% on the Extra test.

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Them haters ain't never been to Texas. We rope and ride bass every Saturday down at the arena.

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Menstrually and hymenally

Hamstudy.org is a straight-up cheat code for getting your ham license. They built the testing application, too, so it all looks familiar when you test. They're also the same folks who make the Signal Stick antenna.

It's 100% worth it. I deeply regret not doing mine while it was all still fresh from studying for the Tech.

Congrats dude. 73 and get that General!

Timestamp deez nuts, future historians.

I LIKE THE CRUNCH

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Supply, demand, no government bullshit.

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That one was a banger of a painting.

I'm gonna make the saddest, most ineffective windchimes ever constructed out of all of your doorbell-pushing fingers. Just 20 bloody little stumps, weakly thumping in the wind.

Clearly this is a problem for the men to solve.

THAT WAS ANOTHER JOKE RETARDS

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He told me to tell you to send it to his new address at cornychatdev@satsilo.com

Gonna need that link...

I'm considering switching from cigars to ear candles.

Ear candles?

Got it. All good info, thanks.

Agent Frank is playing both sides!

I was thinking about this nsec rawdogging business.

I'm pretty sure what bothers me so much is that we're trying to bring users to the Nostr protocol while simultaneously hiding the best and most unique parts of it.

We should embrace the need for a signing process, not bury it like some kind of inconvenience.

Keeping users ignorant is poor stewardship, and make no mistake, we are all stewards of Nostr at this stage.

M'orning m'dude.

Never have liked it. The taste is meh and it makes everything slimy. I can tolerate the dipping sauce kind of stuff nowadays, though.

I keep the SWR high for that special chassis tingle.

He's going to make us trans at gunpoint now.

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Grab a tool kit and a couple of batteries from scamazon. Keep a little tube of silicone grease around for gaskets if they need it. I've paid for the kit 3 times over just working on bracelet links and changing batteries.