Products in this article:Purchase the Yaesu VX-6R on Amazon or at Gigaparts.Signal Stick Antenna - 440 monobandCoil Leash3d Printed Leash Attachment (Free, or pay somebody $5 to print)It's a story as old as time: What's going on with the part of your group just out of... Read More
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DISCLAIMER: No amount of guns, explosives, ammunition or anything can save me, or you, from ourselves! Every project, writeup, review, opinion, thought, tangent, comment, recipe, instruction or whatever you find herein is to be taken with a million grains of salt and the realization that this is written by a complete amateur with little intrinsic sense of self preservation. Basically, these are the ramblings of a sometimes trained but frequently clueless monkey who can and does get hurt doing this, and you probably won't fair any better yourself! Proceed at your own risk!
For me, the excitement of HAM radio has been all about having a functional setup for communication while doing activites. Generally that focus has been on comms while skiing or driving race cars, which is generally easy enough and the locations known enough I can program in... Read More
Link to Purchase the UV-28+ on Amazon -- $39.99To me, ham radios are purposeful. While many folks get them for personal enjoyment, Myself and my friends use them for communication in situations where cell use is annoying, disruptive, and/or not reliable or possibly even present... Read More
I'm going to come right out and say it: The Baofeng UV-5R mini is going to do more for ham radio than any other product or entity in the past 5 years, if not longer. This is a controversial opinion on an already controversial radio... but stick with me and I think I'll sell you... Read More
Buy it on Amazon - $495Buy it on Gigaparts - $419 (recommended, plus you can get it mars modded without voiding factory warranty)YAESU SSM-17A external mic - $32 (an absolute bargain with exceptional quality)Recommended Antennas (See section at bottom):HYS- 701 - 7.8"... Read More
Link to purchase this radio: Baofeng UV-22 on Amazon Quick Summary: Cheap radio made even cheaper because it includes accessories you may need anyways for other Baofeng. CHIRP programmable, can operate on GMRS* with no modifications or mars mod needed... it's got... Read More
The boat that kicked off the half slice party again: The Jackson Kayak Antix.I know that there's folks chomping at the bit already to tell me how there were a bajillion half slice boats before this, and they aren't wrong... but this one put wind back into the sails of this... Read More
I am blessed with a career where I have been able to work remote for a long time now. It's an amazing luxury that I worked very hard to earn in my life, and it has afforded me amazing work/life balance. This last year or so though I've started to take working remote to... Read More
The new Zen 3.0 comes at an interesting time in kayak development.Every company has it's race inspired boat now. The Pyranha 9R, Dagger Phantom, Jackson Nirvana. The thing about these race boats though is that they're developed by great paddlers, who nail their lines spot on,... Read More
Ebikes are really rad. Haters are going to hate, but after having demod a few, I'm personally pretty sold on them as valuable for whomever choses one for themselves. I can cover more laps, progress fast due to those extra full strength laps, and just get more saddle time while... Read More