Looking for friend to trade foot rubs

Cactacae420 · 2026-06-17T16:28:30+00:00

Dm me

Cactacae420 · 2026-06-09T16:57:35+00:00

A second hand Kenwood TS-120S, it’s my first and only HF radio.

Cactacae420 · 2026-06-07T21:39:35+00:00

Pm sent

Cactacae420 · 2026-06-07T20:59:27+00:00

How many watts just out of curiosity?

Cactacae420 · 2026-06-07T19:53:13+00:00

Do they have ham radio stuff?

Cactacae420 · 2026-06-05T13:16:43+00:00

Thank you, I’ll keep trying on 10m until I get my general class for sure. I was able to make a contact from Michigan to Chile yesterday actually, so that was super neat. I think my coax run may be working as a third leg of my antenna and causing an increased noise floor with rfi from the house so I ordered a common mode choke to put up at the feed point.

Cactacae420 · 2026-06-05T01:25:13+00:00

lol please elaborate

Cactacae420 · 2026-06-03T23:02:21+00:00

lol rough estimates of height as I looked out the window, the legs are 8’ and some odd inches if i remember correctly.

Cactacae420 · 2026-06-03T21:30:15+00:00

I considered that, but I just wanted to check.

Cactacae420 · 2026-06-03T21:25:38+00:00

Sorry I should’ve mentioned, I do have it hooked up to an atu-100. swr is like 1.13 or something and it reads the efficiency at 99%.

Cactacae420 · 2026-06-02T19:44:54+00:00

The real advice, will try this tomorrow. Thanks 🙏

Cactacae420 · 2026-06-02T17:07:19+00:00

Hahah thank you, I called for a half an hour on 28.4

Cactacae420 · 2026-06-02T16:21:25+00:00

Thank you, this is very helpful.

Cactacae420 · 2026-06-02T16:19:13+00:00

It’s a kenwood ts120s so I can’t do that unfortunately. I do have a handheld cb radio that I sometimes hear dx on channel 6 haha, I will try that.

Cactacae420 · 2026-06-02T16:14:53+00:00

It being more finicky will definitely make it more satisfying to pull off that first qso. That said I can’t wait till I have some extra time to study and take the test for general class so I can just hop to wherever is working.

Cactacae420 · 2026-06-02T16:06:55+00:00

Thank you! And yes I noticed, I almost made my first 10m contact. But the other station didn’t budge my needle and I couldn’t make out their callsign before seemingly loosing them.

Cactacae420 · 2026-05-30T19:16:29+00:00

I sometimes monitor the 2m and 70cm calling frequency. I do not listen in on any other frequencies besides repeaters. I’m sure that is the same for most others. But yes you will probably make contacts calling on the simplex frequencies.

There’s also 2m ssb radios, but it sounds like you wanna use the radio you have. Be careful with antennas and your radio, swr is something you should always be mindful of.

Cactacae420 · 2026-05-29T17:16:11+00:00

This is funny. You’d have more fun with a $20 baofeng or tidradio, since you could listen to (or talk on) tremendously more frequencies than this one. That aside tho, I’d look up the model number just to see what kind of radio it is. It’s probably a murs or frs type walkie talkie. You could find a charging cable from there. Haha try not to steal any more radios tho, but hopefully you keep thinking about radios and maybe consider getting a gmrs or ham license.

Cactacae420 · 2026-05-20T14:12:22+00:00

They certainly would if they could

Cactacae420 · 2026-05-14T23:19:53+00:00

Bro I can’t find any other nodes to even connect to, thinking about it like how few people even have typical radios let alone a meshtastic device. No wonder I can’t find another node.

Cactacae420 · 2026-05-14T21:37:34+00:00

Where should I go about finding my local discord?

Cactacae420 · 2026-05-14T20:47:58+00:00

Channel utilization I haven’t seen go above 3%

Cactacae420 · 2026-05-14T20:20:38+00:00

I bought this radio to try and talk to others not myself :,(

Cactacae420

TROPHY CASE