? Having Trouble viewing? Thank you for subscribing to our emails. You can unsubscribe anytime by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom Main Trading Company 1875 17th St NE Suite 100 Paris Tx 75460 903-737-0773 15 Years of Spreading the Radio Love 4-3-25 No Back Orders , Rain Checks, Prices Good on In Stock items only ? Hello everyone! I am sorry I have some bad news to report. Bad news #1. Belton Hamfest! We will not be there. We were planning on setting up outside again and with the threat of weather and other family stuff going on here we just can not pull it off. Sorry. Ruby Jack and Christine are out of town this weekend. Christine's mother wrecked her car a couple of days ago and I need to hang close to the house. We do love coming to Belton. It is always a blast. Bad News #2. Tariffs! I am sure everyone has been seeing this info. From what I can tell if these are not negotiated in the next few days prices on everything we sell are about to start going up soon. I am seeing emails saying 20 to 54 percent increases are coming. It depends on where it is made, where parts come from to build it and where it is shipping from. It's pretty confusing actually. It looks like significant increases are very possible. There is much uncertainty. However, most imported products arriving in the U.S. after April 5th may be subject to these tariffs unless something is negotiated. Good News #1 We have a load of SPE Expert 1.5K Taurus amplifiers landing tomorrow. They were not subject to the new tariff. We got them in just in time. After we fill our back orders we will have some left but not many. As of this writing we have these models available to ship now 2K-FA x 1 1.3K-FA without ATU x 1 1.3K-FA with ATU x 4 1.5K-FA x 2 1.5K-FA Taurus (six available late on Friday) We did have a pretty good run on them today from folks trying to get them before the 20 percent plus increase. Good News #2 We loaded up on Product for Belton. Since we are not coming I have activated a special coupon code to help get it all out of here. Please know This may very well be the cheapest that you can buy anything in our store or anywhere else for the rest of the year if Tariffs hit on the 5th. Spend at least $1 on our site and enter coupon code 'tariff25" at checkout for a super deal! . Limited to stock on Hand, Everything must ship at the same time to the same address. Order must be placed online. Not Valid on in store or phone orders. (in store deals are already stupid cheap!) Coupon Code Not Valid on Any Orders containing New or Open box Demo Icom?705-905-7300-7610-9700-ID-52A-ID-50a-7100-PW2-7760-2730B or any new Expert Amp This deal is limited to In Stock Items only Hurry, major price increases may be coming April 5th The could be the best deal of the YEAR on new or used radio equipment Looking for a PW-2? Let me know, We have one on the floor and a bunch inbound that should have missed the tariffs. If they have not cleared customs yet they should tomorrow. We sell more PW-2's than anyone else (sources say) and we don't even have them on our website 73 from your friends at MTC Richard and Christine Lenoir ? 903-737-0773 sales@... Free USA Shipping on Most orders over $100 Close Out and Overstock Deals Shop Now Grazioli Tariff Buster deals. We may not be able to bring in any more of these due to the increases Huge Discounts Shown at checkout! Big discount shown when you add to cart ? ? Trade In Your Stuff Check Our Used Gear Subscribe to our Emails Follow us on Facebook We Love this Ham Radio Business. MTC is a small Mom and Pop radio store in Paris Texas. We have been in business for Over 15 years now. We are not the big corporate store. We are like buying from family according to many of our customers. Friendly, familiar voices and people. It's no wonder MTC is becoming America's favorite place to buy radio gear. Thank you all for your business

Main Trading Company | 1875 17TH ST NE Suite 100 | Paris, TX 75460 US | |

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Louis

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Based on some previous conversations, with both HAM folks, and others, I wrote an article about whether it was time to upgrade to Windows 11.?

The article doesn't have any HAM radio specifics, it's definitely more targeted at general business or personal computer usage, but the concepts can apply to us HAM folks, as well.

However, the FAQ section specifically answers Microsoft's Windows 11 Upgrade FAQ with some insights of our own. Feel free to forward it to anyone who might have questions or concerns about the upgrade!?

To be perfectly transparent -- this is my side business, and it's what I do, so the bottom of the post is a little "advertise-y", but not too much.?

Personally, my HAM radio laptop is a Surface Pro Gen 3, which is not eligible for the upgrade, and I'll likely be stretching it for a couple of years more.?

Enjoy!

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Derek Moyes, K1DDM?

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Check out my WPSD & YSF Getting Started!

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For your information, and please publicize:

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FREE ON-LINE AMATEUR RADIO OPERATING CLASS

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A free, weekly, 3-hour Amateur Radio Operating Class on Zoom will begin on Thursday April 3 and run through June 19 at 6:30 PM Eastern time.? The presenters will be various experienced folks in the various subjects.

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A detailed syllabus will be published before the classes begin.? Attend them all, or any that you like, but you must register for the classes.? To receive registration information, contact Rol Anders, K3RA, at roland.anders@.... ? Rol Anders, K3RA, at roland.anders@....?

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Subjects will include:

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All About Operating--A general Introduction

Amateur Radio Organizations—Local to International

Ham Radio Awards

DXing-History and Tips from the Experts

QSLing-How to get that needed card for DXCC or WAS

VHF/UHF Weak Signal Work and “Roving”

Image Operating—Slow Scan and Fast Scan TV

Remote Station control over internet

Learning CW in the no-code era

Digital Modes—From RTTY to FT8 and beyond

Contesting—How to get started, tips for the beginner and intermediated contester

Logging Software—What’s available, how to use

Propagation—A general intro to HF Propagation

Amateur Satellites—How to get started

Portable (backpacking) operation—Tips from an expert

Setting Up a Modern (or not so modern) HF Station

Lightning Protection and Grounding

Traffic Handling

Public Service, Emergency Communications??????

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Thanks,

Rol, K3RA

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