Enjoying the southern Ontario weather. HF is very active this morning. Contacts in Texas, and multiple contacts in Kansas, Decided to use my BuddiePole and two stainless steel 5.4 meter arms for my dipole with a 1:1 balun.

Was visiting Ottawa in July and attended the POTA outing held by the Ottawa Valley Mobile radio club. Here is one of their members VE3LC working FT8 mobile with a RasperryPi400 interfaced to an apple ipad for display..

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Was dealing with an older Kenwood TM D700 VHF/UHF mobile. Fan was really noisy to the point of being unusable in the home qth. I googled the problem and found that if you remove the fan from the casing, peel off the fan identity sticker and add a few drops of light oil the noise stops… fyi to all and 73 for now.

Was camping at Carnes Creek Rec Site last week. Camp site #6 set up my Zastone D9000 and a small magnet mount UHF/VHF car mount antenna mounted to a baking ray.

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Does anybody have some ladder line they no longer want? let me know qty and price.

Thanks, Gary VE7GSZ

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looking for a VHF/UHF transceiver. to be mounted in our pickup truck. antenna as well.

Gary

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