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Yeah I know what you're saying about eham.. I only look at the numbers, I also don't really care much for what the reviewers have to say. Ordered 2 this afternoon. I'll have a good impression in about a week and a half.

I think I'm gonna have to pick myself up one of those.. tnx for the review. Based on the numbers, the eham reviews on that one aren't too bad eiter..

Makes perfect sense. It means that he just got his license but he's still brand new to the whole radio thing. Not sure why that's so hard to understand.. maybe you should go use those expert search engine skillz and google up the words "brand new". In order to be new at something, one would...

You'd still need some sort of external antenna.. for VHF and up you'd just need a rubber duck, but for HF you'd need something real, like a G5RV, Dipole, screwdriver, or whatever field gear a typical ham has. The same applies to the 817 too. There's no reason why we can't have...

I'm sitting here looking at my Android phone and as I am I'm thinking that there's really no reason that we don't have incredible full-featured multimode handheld radios other than supply and demand. 2011 technology would easily permit a full-featured software-defined QRP radio in a package just...

Once in awhile, some do both..

LOL that's for sure... politics at their finest: Skew the facts of the matter to placate those who can't handle the reality ;).

@superidgit: There is only one definition of perfect: Perfect means entirely without flaw or variation, calculated to an infinite number of decimal places. Anything outside that precise definition is imperfect, no matter how small the imperfection. It is impossible to have a perfect circle in...

Since there are an infinite number of points, the lines would be infinitely small. Mull that one over for awhile lol.. Along the same lines (no pun intended), a line by it's mathematical definition has no beginning and no end, and it is one dimensional. Zero width and zero height. A line is...

I was wondering about the "constant" statement myself.. any value that does not change is referred to as a constant. The value of Pi never changes, so by definition it is a constant. Not a huge fan of the Tau concept though. Pi has worked beautifully for all this time.. inventing a new term for...

A perfect circle would consist of an infinite number of points, each one equidistant from a central point..

I believe those are "rubber ducks" for HTs. Price isn't always the determining factor when dealing with antennas.. often it is, but not always. For solid reviews of nearly every ham-related item you can imagine you can go to http://www.eham.net/reviews/. Have a look at the Nagoya offerings that...

If you're talking about mobile dual-band antennas I recommend the Comet SBB-5 NMO. It's what I've been using for some time now, although I always recommend a trunk-lip NMO mount rather than a mag mount. It's non-intrusive, it's MUCH stronger than a mag-mount, and it provides a better ground. The...

Dude's got no tact.. and it seems to me that he's not interested in tact. The only thing that guy's interested in is being a jackass to every single person he views as beneath his "standards". To me, people like Channel Jumper rob the hobby of it's pleasure, and in so doing hurt it more than...

@gamegetter: That's true.. much of the responsibility for interference depends on the circumstances surrounding it. In my own experience I've found that offering to filter people's equipment if they complain is a great way to reassure your neighbors that you care about the fact that your signal...

Much if not most of the time it is the equipment that is receiving the bad interference that is at fault. That means that the only way to fix the problem is to either filter at the devices in question (which would be inside your neighboring homes and businesses) or to replace them altogether...

Most RF-keyed amps won't work with a "dead key" on SSB since there is no such thing as a dead carrier when talking about sideband modulation. When you dead-key a mic on SSB, there is no output at all from the radio. Only when you begin speaking is there output, and it's in proportion to the...

Really?? I'd take a solid switcher over a linear supply any day. Lighter weight, more efficient, great regulation as long as the supply is well-designed which most of the newest offerings are. I can't understand it when people refuse to move past the 70s.. technology has IMPROVED people...

Just like cell phones, HTs are generally intended to be part of a larger infrastructure. That's just the nature of the beast.. personally I think my HT is my most practical and useful radio.. particularly at events and during emergencies. Yes the repeater does all the work much of the time, but...

That Maco Mite is an interesting design.. The transistors are the larger sized ceramic package, so they may be able to make close to 200W when driven hard. They could also have very high gain, and require less drive than other types of transistors.