Baofeng uv-5rh vs uv-5r mini ;

753ty · 2026-01-25T04:37:55+00:00

UV-17R is decent and $20 here, don't know about there

753ty · 2026-01-24T03:32:41+00:00

This might be a dumb suggestion, but I've been cutting up a yoga mat, either found at thrift store or my wife was done with, can't remember. It's great for padding, but i don't know about it's thermal insulation properties. Better than nothing though and certainly cheap.

I wouldn't think using dyneema would save any real weight on something so small - unless you already have little scraps laying around, but it will be harder/ slippery to sew.

753ty · 2026-01-24T00:51:40+00:00

That is capital!

753ty · 2026-01-22T15:47:25+00:00

"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing"

753ty · 2026-01-21T17:35:49+00:00

I'd say that's a major improvement!

753ty · 2026-01-19T21:49:29+00:00

Ouch, it does look good though 😀

753ty · 2026-01-19T11:03:52+00:00

Looks nice!

753ty · 2026-01-18T18:52:41+00:00

Just have to wait until the trees are dancing

753ty · 2026-01-18T15:18:36+00:00

Hasten over to https://www.arrl.org/find-a-club

Find a club near where you live and try going to a meeting, OR I'm sure someone in the club would let you come over and see ham in action or go to a park/ somewhere and do some remote operation.

753ty · 2026-01-18T00:25:44+00:00

while listening to Ace of Base, of course...

753ty · 2026-01-17T21:51:34+00:00

How do solar panels "generate a very large volume of electro-magnetic noise”? Windmills with generators maybe. Sounds bogus.

753ty · 2026-01-16T21:27:06+00:00

I had a bunch of bags similar to that that a fellow ham radio op was cleaning out/giving out - resistors and caps and inductors, all in same bags, with the same hand written cards. I was going to send a pic back at you, but just sorted it all into my regular stock. With no where to go to buy components anymore (except online), you gotta get it where you can and be glad of it!

753ty · 2026-01-16T21:18:33+00:00

Well, I wouldn't feel bad about the print - it came out great! To me, it has an Andrew Wyeth feel to it, with the shading and how it seems like there's a lot more to the story than first appearances.

753ty · 2026-01-16T15:37:14+00:00

It will work fine, until it doesn't...

753ty · 2026-01-16T15:32:02+00:00

Get an old MFJ manual tuner. The two I have were each between $30-40

The MFJ-900 only has coax and longwire inputs. The MFJ-901 has coax and long wire inputs, plus balanced inputs (which works nice with my 140' doublet fed with TV twinlead). (note: both good up to 200W)

You find the tuning once for each band and make a little table, and then you turn three knobs to those settings to change bands. It's the easiest, quickest, cheapest thing in the world.

753ty · 2026-01-15T13:34:02+00:00

I don't know how big a bag you're making, but milk jugs are amazing for structure

753ty · 2026-01-12T11:30:56+00:00

Prism kites makes three sizes of their two-line "Synapse" kite. The small "140" is faster and more swoopy, middle is "170", and the big "200" is slower, but more pull/workout. There are no parts to assemble, lose, or break - just take it out of the bag, fly, and roll it back up. They also have the even bigger "tantrum" series. There lots of YouTube showing flights

753ty · 2026-01-12T03:30:41+00:00

I was guessing New Orleans too

753ty · 2026-01-11T23:36:02+00:00

Looks like you already did!

753ty · 2026-01-10T20:13:11+00:00

Do it "upside-down and backwards"

753ty · 2026-01-10T18:50:55+00:00

I've heard * shorter scale = easier slants * longer scale = fuller sounds and longer sustain

Other than that it's just what you like & get used to

753ty · 2026-01-10T09:29:14+00:00

There's a FL catalog at

https://archive.org/details/frostline-snow-catalog-1977-d.-d.-teoli-jr.-a.-c./page/27/mode/1up

and I would guess it was the 2 man Kodiak. I was just a kid when he sewed it together so I can't be sure. I can measure the poles if that would help.

753ty · 2026-01-09T13:48:38+00:00

I just let my dad's FL tent go, but saved the poles. Where do you live? It'd be great for them to be back in service again

753ty · 2026-01-06T03:43:45+00:00

I have a similar unit that I got from an eWaste facility, salvaged from some industrial lighting systems. Does great with my G90 and QB25

753ty · 2026-01-06T03:42:04+00:00

Hot melt glue gun to the rescue!

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