NASCAR Prayer

And thanks for my smoking hot wife.

Baofeng UV-3R: Around the World

Italy: IW0FFK - Italian Amateur Radio station - Mods for cheap FM dual band rig: Baofeng UV-3R

Holland*: Big Dutch Blog - Baofeng UV-3R

*Okay, he may actually be in the US, but he is Dutch and he has a Hello Kitty radio.

Atlas Shrugged IRL

A modern day Ellis Wyatt?

An Alabama business man says he could add 125 jobs to the local economy, but that he's fed up with the anti-business groups and is calling it quits instead.

Via Slim.

Bad Boys, Bad Boys

I think this video of a police stop in Canton, Ohio has a few people upset. My evidence is below the video.

From Ohioans For Concealed Carry



Matt G.
David Hardy
Sebastian
Ambulance Driver
LawDog
Uncle
Caleb
Tam
ENDO
Shelley Rae


Those links represent a huge chunk of my RSS feed.

FCC Search

Here is where you can go to do your ham radio related searches at the FCC website. You can find some interesting documents and pictures of equipment.

Baofeng UV-3R: US Re-seller - NH7QH Radio Supplies, LLC.

Well, I was wrong about who would be the first US re-seller. But we do have NH7QH Radio Supplies, LLC. that looks to be filling that void. The web site is sparse - and reminds me of the original wouxun.us. (I guess Hawaii counts as a US re-seller.)

Baofeng UV-3R: FCC Type 90 Accepted

The Baofeng UV-3R is now Type 90 accepted by the FCC. Documents can be found here.



It helps to know the name of company that is making the application. In this case, it turns out to be FUJIAN NAN'AN BAOFENG ELECTRONICS CO.,LTD..



Via Baofeng-UV-3R.us on the UV-3R Yahoo Group.

NoteSlate - Vaporware

I knew it was probably too good to be true... a $99 digital e-ink legal pad replacement. So, I'm calling it - TOVD (Time of Vaporware Declaration) 5:45PM.

The last couple of tweets from NoteSlate have confirmed it for me - both on the price and technology fronts.

From today:

"We can´t hit the $99 end price for NoteSlate device... is going from low-tech vision to hi-tech reality.Sorry for our preliminary statement."

From July 14:

"We`re still solving prototype, firmware & legals for next web(v3.0) update - vision into reality. Lot of work on table. Sorry for delay."

Rubberized Telescopic Antenna for Hand-Held Radios

Kinda of a neat idea... a rubberized telescopic antenna might get you the best of both worlds - performance and size. I posted about Julian's review of various 2M antennas and that got me interested in the telescoping options.

Phil, G3YPQ, posted to the UV-3R Yahoo Group about an antenna he is selling:

"Now I must declare an interest here as I supply these replacement antennas, but they are ideal for the any Handie including the UV-3R.
Its a rubberised Telescopic that extends to 1/4 wave on 2m and can be used with low SWR on 70cms either Fully down or Fully up.
On the UV-3R the LED and its surround is close to the Antenna socket so for these I shave off the rubber a little and it fits fine. It out-performs the supplied antennas without the need to change, and folds up nicely. I've been into handhelds since the crystal controlled KP202 and this things good, you can set it to exact 1/4 wave on marine band by telescoping the top section down."

He is selling them on ebay for about $28 including shipping.

Here are his notes for the video:

"Replacement for supplied rubber-duck aerials. This has advantages of being able to 'tune' as 1/4 wave as well as to easily clip on an extension for lower frequency reception"

New County Comm Website

County Comm has a new website.

Do NOT go look. At best, you will waste a lot of time looking at all the cool little gadgets and gizmos that you think you need. At worst, you will add a bunch of $5 items and then realize you have a hundred bucks worth of stuff in your cart!