You may do well to obtain an external antenna, either omni-directional or directional antenna (if you know for certain where your nearest cell antenna is, and can point it there with a clear line of sight). This antenna would need to be mounted outside your home or office.

That tiny connector there should be called an “SMA” connector, and the specific antenna you need will depend on which cellular technology you are on, 4G, LTE, and so on.

California requires front and rear plates.

Taliban, August 2021: “We’ll be different this time, we swear!”

I have 100% experienced this. It feels a little strange, that emotional distance, when speaking in the other language. The words are much more factual and feel less subject to internal biases.

The best ones are the ones you use. After that, focus on the NRR, and if you need to be able to clearly hear what people are saying to you, there are Earasers; they are a passive ear plug with a bypass membrane which lets speech through.

I use them on airplanes (I fly a lot), and I’ve used them at concerts and they really do greatly reduce excessive noise while still being able to have regular conversations.

This is the same tool @Ghost.org is (was?) using to bring federation to publishers using the Ghost platform.

hunter3 for everything.

Would a chip-scale atomic clock (CSAC) do what you need?

This is akin to keyword-stuffing blog posts, it’s a technique nearly as old as Google itself. They know about it.

Everything old becomes new again.

If you look at $350 as a substantial amount of money, I’d say pass.

On the other hand, if $350 is roughly equivalent to a dinner for two for you, then yolo and see what you get.

You might get something worth it and something you can flip if this isn’t the radio you ultimately want to end up with.

I usually try to find myself on 20m. I like it’s DX-ability at night and appreciate it’s reach during the day. Otherwise 10m is nice because there’s lots of new hams ready to answer CQ calls, or calling CQ themselves.

The person who answered my very first QSO made it extra special by sending me a first-contact certificate; went way above and beyond and I am incredibly thankful for it.

If you’re seeing them go for twice as much elsewhere, then it sounds like it might be a good deal. Bear in mind the old adage “if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”

It’s possible it’s being sold by someone who had high ideas of amateur radio and wants to rid themselves of a basically brand new radio.

It could be part of an estate sale and the seller did not do sufficient research.

It could be inoperable and the seller is not being forthcoming.

It could be stolen and someone is trying to fence it.

At the end of the day, you have to decide if $350 is worth the risk.

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Obligatory: https://youtu.be/G3R4-lj4aaQ

Some banks have them, some don’t. It depends on what’s in stock that day. Tried to ask for a stack of US$2 bills once and they told me I’d need to place an order for US$10,000 in order to get them in because they don’t keep them stocked.

Handle this server-side by scaling the upvote/downvote weight for every subsequent vote.

It still won’t affect bots.

As other commenters have said, disincentivizing downvotes would have a more profound effect.

Do you agree with me? Blink once for yes, twice for no.

This is how extension cables are recharged.

They just used a short one for demonstration purposes.