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Hope everyone survived National Eating day, and National Shopping day. Sadly I participated in both.
I have my Raspberry pi sitting on my desk and projects waiting, but pushed that aside yesterday as my Christmas present to my self, for myself (with lots of Love) arrived from ESTONIA. Well, anyone into Ham Radio knows the hottest thing comes from ESTONIA. You know Estonia- the country just south of Helsinki or East Of Stockholm. A peninsula in the Baltic sea..? Yes, My RF Shark Openspot 2 has arrived.? Not the least expensive hot spot on the market, but highly acclaimed. I still am not getting over the $25+ cost of shipping, yet it arrived DHL in 5 days and those Chinese ones take weeks.

I am looking forward to DEMO'ing it for the FEB 29th Leap Year Event. If you want to know more there are almost 20 reviews of the Openspot? on YOUTUBE.
I made 2 contacts yesterday on it. One Fusion and then found out it converts Fusion to DMR and worked a DMR room in Kansas City. it is DMR-FUSION-Dstar-P25-NXDN- POCSAG- and APRS messaging and forwarding. Solves a belt full of radio's..

The Black Friday item I did take advantage of was from Gigaparts. I ordered a NanoVNA.. an VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZER. An Antenna analyzer and more. Again one of these you can find them cheaper on Ebay, some with li-ion batteries or not and varoius versions. Gigaparts has a battery and a quality source. they are good from 50kc to 900mhz. They have a USB connection for interface to? a computer. Just over $50. On sale to Dec 3. Some VNA's are $18,000. So it was a tough decision as to which to buy.

It is amazing now that there are cold nights, the activity on 146.52 every night. Likewise if you have internet, what you can learn about Ham Radio on various YOUTUBE "Videos" Some hams have "Channels" and multiple videos. Reviews, Do it Yourself video's, and comparisons. There are other videos regarding solar panels, building livPo4 battery packs, wind turbines. If you have a "smart" TV and are retired, it beats watching "The Price is Right"?

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TEC-NI-CHAT has a facebook page, they maintain the 146.94 and 444.000 repeaters. Been around since 1963. They have an annual meeting beginning of every December. I do not have a date and time. If you know post a reply. Annual dues at the Annual meeting is $20.

I been following the D4D transceiver kits for $40.. They are single band 80-40-30-20 +? Shipping 5-6 is the same cost as shipping 1. Perhaps a group buy. They work FT8 and JT8CALL (FT8 but keyboard to keyboard) Here is a complete "mini-station setup" by Jim WB2HLP in Michigan. Link has pictures and an equipment list. Can be built for under $200 with all new components and an optional GPS module. Here is the posting:
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