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Posted: 2/18/2015 7:36:50 AM EDT
I'm thinkin'. 
FWIW, either you HAVE one or have ORDERED one and it is on the way. |
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Posted: 2/18/2015 7:55:49 AM EDT
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I'm thinkin'.
FWIW, either you HAVE one or have ORDERED one and it is on the way. Are you kidding me? You're planting seeds in my brain! Yeah, I want one, but need to do some overtime to... Oh forget you, I am NOT ordering one ...yet! I would need to see one in use to learn how they work and play with it a little first. Bill |
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Posted: 2/18/2015 7:57:22 AM EDT
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If you don't stop making posts like this then I will be joining your ranks!
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Posted: 2/18/2015 10:37:49 AM EDT
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If you don't stop making posts like this then I will be joining your ranks! I WILL have one, just cant afford it right now |
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Posted: 2/18/2015 10:46:30 AM EDT
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Let's not drive the price up, I still might be getting a second one
What are you thinking? Arfcom, guerrilla force? |
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Posted: 2/18/2015 10:51:13 AM EDT
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I'm thinkin'.
FWIW, either you HAVE one or have ORDERED one and it is on the way. See, now that's how it always starts. At first it's all "oooh", "ahhh" But soon there will be running. And screaming. 
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Posted: 2/18/2015 4:32:22 PM EDT
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Mine is on the way.
I really want to know what you are conjuring up. I do have my dad's 1954-ish Army uniform, if that would play into it. |
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Posted: 2/18/2015 4:49:16 PM EDT
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If you don't stop making posts like this then I will be joining your ranks! You don't know just how tempted I am to get in on this. |
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Posted: 2/18/2015 5:33:04 PM EDT
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sounds like he has something up his sleeve
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Posted: 2/18/2015 7:47:03 PM EDT
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<------- haz onez
Like theeeeees? 
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Posted: 2/18/2015 8:47:04 PM EDT
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Let's not drive the price up, I still might be getting a second one
What are you thinking? Arfcom, guerrilla force? There are like a billion of them out there, I think the market is GTG for a while yet. |
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Posted: 2/18/2015 8:49:44 PM EDT
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I'm thinking of something when the weather breaks.
I'm not sure yet |
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Posted: 2/18/2015 8:59:26 PM EDT
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So far, three of us.
I thought a couple more of you guys had them. |
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Posted: 2/18/2015 9:02:54 PM EDT
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Whatever it is make it civilized old bean (USB), my radio is original...
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Posted: 2/18/2015 9:59:49 PM EDT
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So far, three of us. I thought a couple more of you guys had them. Pic Dr_Dickie Harlikwin Frostbite ...that is four by my count |
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Posted: 2/18/2015 10:01:37 PM EDT
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Got one!
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Posted: 2/18/2015 10:38:15 PM EDT
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Got one! We gotta rat, that makes 5...
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Posted: 2/19/2015 12:11:58 AM EDT
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I've just been learning about these.
Best place for ordering? |
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Posted: 2/19/2015 12:20:11 AM EDT
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I've just been learning about these. Best place for ordering? Have you tried Ebay? 
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Posted: 2/19/2015 7:09:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Whatever it is make it civilized old bean (USB), my radio is original... The wire get to dang long after that anyway |
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Posted: 2/19/2015 9:19:59 AM EDT
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Keeping it to 20 meters and below shouldn't be a problem (I would think). The wire get to dang long after that anyway
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Whatever it is make it civilized old bean (USB), my radio is original... The wire get to dang long after that anyway
Um, you can run USB on 40 and 80 with no problems, I know guys that do it daily. |
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Posted: 2/19/2015 9:27:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Um, you can run USB on 40 and 80 with no problems, I know guys that do it daily. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Whatever it is make it civilized old bean (USB), my radio is original... The wire get to dang long after that anyway Um, you can run USB on 40 and 80 with no problems, I know guys that do it daily. REBEL!! |
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Posted: 2/19/2015 10:17:59 AM EDT
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Whatever it is make it civilized old bean (USB), my radio is original... The wire get to dang long after that anyway
Um, you can run USB on 40 and 80 with no problems, I know guys that do it daily. REBEL!! Honestly I don't think 40 or 80 would get me out to most of you guys at least during a reasonable hour. |
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Posted: 2/19/2015 6:23:50 PM EDT
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Honestly I don't think 40 or 80 would get me out to most of you guys at least during a reasonable hour. You'd be surprised. When I first got my first 320 I got Nam on 80 meters at about 2200 EST, 0200Z. Incidentally running USB on 40 and 80 can be kinda funny. Once I had a guy break in and tell me we were running illegally because it's illegal to run USB on 40. I asked him why he was on USB if it was so illegal. He didn't know what to say.  
I later looked up his call. He'd been licensed since Marconi issued him his ticket. 
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Posted: 2/19/2015 8:18:59 PM EDT
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You'd be surprised. When I first got my first 320 I got Nam on 80 meters at about 2200 EST, 0200Z. Incidentally running USB on 40 and 80 can be kinda funny. Once I had a guy break in and tell me we were running illegally because it's illegal to run USB on 40. I asked him why he was on USB if it was so illegal. He didn't know what to say.
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Honestly I don't think 40 or 80 would get me out to most of you guys at least during a reasonable hour. You'd be surprised. When I first got my first 320 I got Nam on 80 meters at about 2200 EST, 0200Z. Incidentally running USB on 40 and 80 can be kinda funny. Once I had a guy break in and tell me we were running illegally because it's illegal to run USB on 40. I asked him why he was on USB if it was so illegal. He didn't know what to say.
I later looked up his call. He'd been licensed since Marconi issued him his ticket. Yeah there are a few USB nets I occasionally participate in on 40/80 that get the occasional band cop dropping in trying to tell us we are wrong.... Actually if you check my "most awesome contact of this year story" I was running LSB on 17 which made that whole contact even more miraculous. I had just been on 40 and forgot to switch up. |
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Posted: 2/19/2015 9:46:10 PM EDT
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Isn't the USB/LSB convention just a defacto standard? I mean, all the digital modes use USB, right?
When I tried looking it up there were a few competing theories on why the convention exists, but it seems lost to the ages. |
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Posted: 2/19/2015 9:59:50 PM EDT
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Isn't the USB/LSB convention just a defacto standard? I mean, all the digital modes use USB, right? When I tried looking it up there were a few competing theories on why the convention exists, but it seems lost to the ages. Yeah, it's just common ham practice. You are not really doing anything wrong running USB on 40 and 80. However, it has been custom so long and so few hams run old military gear (often USB only) that when they hear someone running USB on 40 or 80 they assume some kind of crime is being committed and get weird about it. There was a brief conversation about this at a local club meeting. I entered it all wide-eyed and said, "I just got outta da joint for dat. They gimme me tree to five for runnin' USB on 40 meters!" Someone asked, "Really?"
"Think about it," I said. "It's only custom to keep us on the same page." |
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Posted: 2/20/2015 12:11:13 AM EDT
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Posted: 2/20/2015 7:20:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryWay cool, and hard to find. Good job. How does it run? |
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Posted: 2/20/2015 12:06:18 PM EDT
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Isn't the USB/LSB convention just a defacto standard? I mean, all the digital modes use USB, right? When I tried looking it up there were a few competing theories on why the convention exists, but it seems lost to the ages. It's historical. No one in the modern world uses LSB that I know of aside from hams. But back in the 50s some rigs only ran LSB or USB. Usually the ham rigs back then ran on the lower bands (40/80) and used LSB, so from an interoperability standpoint that's why it stuck around. Anyhow that's how I heard it. |
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Posted: 2/20/2015 4:51:57 PM EDT
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<------- haz onez
Like theeeeees? <a href="http://s5.photobucket.com/user/harlikwin/media/603E86F8-F46B-40A6-B7CF-15477BB8361B_zpshfjaglap.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/harlikwin/603E86F8-F46B-40A6-B7CF-15477BB8361B_zpshfjaglap.jpg</a> tell us more about the whip antenna setup please. 
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Posted: 2/20/2015 4:53:48 PM EDT
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I'm thinking of something when the weather breaks. I'm not sure yet 
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Posted: 2/20/2015 5:36:02 PM EDT
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tell us more about the whip antenna setup please. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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<------- haz onez
Like theeeeees? <a href="http://s5.photobucket.com/user/harlikwin/media/603E86F8-F46B-40A6-B7CF-15477BB8361B_zpshfjaglap.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/harlikwin/603E86F8-F46B-40A6-B7CF-15477BB8361B_zpshfjaglap.jpg</a> tell us more about the whip antenna setup please. Plug a gooseneck into the side, plug a 2.4 meter whip into the goose neck, tune and go on the air. Yes, it really IS that simple. My 1st DX QSO with the whip was Northern Ireland. ETA these rigs were designed to make a radio operator out of a complete dummy in the time frame of about an hour or two. |
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Posted: 2/20/2015 6:36:50 PM EDT
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I worked Ireland on my prc320 with the long whip on cw in my front room. Got the qsl card too.
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Posted: 2/20/2015 7:34:26 PM EDT
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I just worked Hungary with the PRC-320 and the whip antenna earlier today.
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Posted: 2/20/2015 8:34:21 PM EDT
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tell us more about the whip antenna setup please. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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<------- haz onez
Like theeeeees? <a href="http://s5.photobucket.com/user/harlikwin/media/603E86F8-F46B-40A6-B7CF-15477BB8361B_zpshfjaglap.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/harlikwin/603E86F8-F46B-40A6-B7CF-15477BB8361B_zpshfjaglap.jpg</a> tell us more about the whip antenna setup please. Its a whip... When the windspeed hits 100mph it bends as show, when it calms down it bends back. There is a spring that makes this magic possible, springs are almost as magical as magnets ...
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Posted: 2/20/2015 8:35:19 PM EDT
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I just worked Hungary with the PRC-320 and the whip antenna earlier today. Damn east coasters... That and all that salwater makes DX easy... |
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Posted: 2/20/2015 8:36:22 PM EDT
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Plug a gooseneck into the side, plug a 2.4 meter whip into the goose neck, tune and go on the air. Yes, it really IS that simple. My 1st DX QSO with the whip was Northern Ireland. ETA these rigs were designed to make a radio operator out of a complete dummy in the time frame of about an hour or two. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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<------- haz onez
Like theeeeees? <a href="http://s5.photobucket.com/user/harlikwin/media/603E86F8-F46B-40A6-B7CF-15477BB8361B_zpshfjaglap.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/harlikwin/603E86F8-F46B-40A6-B7CF-15477BB8361B_zpshfjaglap.jpg</a> tell us more about the whip antenna setup please. Plug a gooseneck into the side, plug a 2.4 meter whip into the goose neck, tune and go on the air. Yes, it really IS that simple. My 1st DX QSO with the whip was Northern Ireland. ETA these rigs were designed to make a radio operator out of a complete dummy in the time frame of about an hour or two. I dunno about that last bit. They are fairly simple to operate though... Antenna theory and field expedieant antennas are another matter (at least if you want a good antenna). |
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Posted: 2/20/2015 10:48:04 PM EDT
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Its a whip... When the windspeed hits 100mph it bends as show, when it calms down it bends back. There is a spring that makes this magic possible, springs are almost as magical as magnets ...
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<------- haz onez
Like theeeeees? <a href="http://s5.photobucket.com/user/harlikwin/media/603E86F8-F46B-40A6-B7CF-15477BB8361B_zpshfjaglap.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/harlikwin/603E86F8-F46B-40A6-B7CF-15477BB8361B_zpshfjaglap.jpg</a> tell us more about the whip antenna setup please. Its a whip... When the windspeed hits 100mph it bends as show, when it calms down it bends back. There is a spring that makes this magic possible, springs are almost as magical as magnets ...
no counterpoise? what frequency were you working there? |
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Posted: 2/21/2015 11:29:51 AM EDT
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no counterpoise? what frequency were you working there? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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<------- haz onez
Like theeeeees? <a href="http://s5.photobucket.com/user/harlikwin/media/603E86F8-F46B-40A6-B7CF-15477BB8361B_zpshfjaglap.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/harlikwin/603E86F8-F46B-40A6-B7CF-15477BB8361B_zpshfjaglap.jpg</a> tell us more about the whip antenna setup please. Its a whip... When the windspeed hits 100mph it bends as show, when it calms down it bends back. There is a spring that makes this magic possible, springs are almost as magical as magnets ...
no counterpoise? what frequency were you working there? I usually use a "tuned" counterpoise with most of my MP's, and I was working 17m that day, not many contacts before I gave up, it was "unpleasant" with steady 50-60mph winds and gusts up to 100mph... |
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Posted: 2/22/2015 4:12:20 PM EDT
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I'm in that 'almost clicking the button to buy 320' mode again.
This thread is not helping.
Neither is being in the UK. |
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Posted: 2/22/2015 4:16:57 PM EDT
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I'm in that 'almost clicking the button to buy 320' mode again. This thread is not helping.
Neither is being in the UK. You're gonna get 0 sympathy from US users about that... You could probably pick up a decent setup for half of what we end up paying. |
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Posted: 2/22/2015 4:35:56 PM EDT
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You're gonna get 0 sympathy from US users about that... You could probably pick up a decent setup for half of what we end up paying. |
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Posted: 2/24/2015 9:12:41 PM EDT
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I'm in that 'almost clicking the button to buy 320' mode again. This thread is not helping.
Neither is being in the UK. Hey, I just got raped by yet another fine UK seller on postage... 100+gbp... 6kg worth of stuff.... |
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Posted: 2/24/2015 9:32:20 PM EDT
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Hey, I just got raped by yet another fine UK seller on postage... 100+gbp... 6kg worth of stuff.... That kind of crap is not allowed here, and you know it! A detailed list of all items purchased must be posted in short order! |
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Posted: 2/24/2015 10:40:00 PM EDT
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I have a PRC-174 ready to join in the fun.
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Posted: 2/24/2015 11:33:49 PM EDT
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I have a PRC-174 ready to join in the fun. Like theees? 
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Posted: 2/24/2015 11:35:53 PM EDT
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Like theees? <a href="http://s5.photobucket.com/user/harlikwin/media/2014-04-18123120_zps3af5210b.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/harlikwin/2014-04-18123120_zps3af5210b.jpg</a> Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I have a PRC-174 ready to join in the fun. Like theees? <a href="http://s5.photobucket.com/user/harlikwin/media/2014-04-18123120_zps3af5210b.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/harlikwin/2014-04-18123120_zps3af5210b.jpg</a> Yup
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Posted: 2/25/2015 12:16:42 AM EDT
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I have a PRC-174 ready to join in the fun. Like theees? <a href="http://s5.photobucket.com/user/harlikwin/media/2014-04-18123120_zps3af5210b.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/harlikwin/2014-04-18123120_zps3af5210b.jpg</a> Yup Its higher up on my milpack list than my 320... Though mine is a bit bitchy sometimes when tuning.
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Posted: 2/25/2015 3:30:54 AM EDT
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There's a PRC-174 for sale on qrz.com right now if anyone is interested.
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Posted: 2/25/2015 3:44:10 AM EDT
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Hey, I just got raped by yet another fine UK seller on postage... 100+gbp... 6kg worth of stuff.... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I'm in that 'almost clicking the button to buy 320' mode again. This thread is not helping.
Neither is being in the UK. Hey, I just got raped by yet another fine UK seller on postage... 100+gbp... 6kg worth of stuff.... Would you like me to leave a flaming bag of poo on his doorstep? |
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