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Congrats on passing the General This weekend is the Field Day contest - very easy exchanges (check ARRL rules) If you can get on HF I think you can have some fun working several stations all over the country.

That's true of most electronics you buy today. Mostly gone were the old days where the radio/TV etc came in a metal box. Now all you get is a cheap plastic one and people wonder why they get garbage pickup from their LED lights and other crap. There is a section on an Anytone D878 site where there are instructions on how to spray a nickle coating inside the case to improve the shielding. You might try this with the IC-7300. AT-D868_D878_Info_and_mods_20240607.pdf

Late to the thread, but bored and going to post anyway. Unless we're all using the same equipment, any circles like this will only cause frustration. I'd be more interested in color coding based on verified last useage. ie: You could drop in and click on it if you recently used it. Then those clicks would age, green to red. It sure would be helpful to see this, and eliminate the guess as to whether the issue with the repeater is your setup, or a now dead repeater. It's not as big an issue here as it is on repeaterbook, but I still see them here and there. (Usually repeaters imported that are older than the site itself)

Terri’s post nailed it. The only thing I would add is that when asking a question like this it’s helpful to include a link to the precise item ordered. There are often several listings for each model, with listings by different vendors. Yes, you ordered “from Amazon” but it’s more important knowing who the actual vendor was. That also greatly affects the return policy. Personally I try to limit my purchases to Prime, but that’s not always possible.

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Those are likely Amazon Marketplace listings (look for "Sold by" on the product listing). There are good marketplace sellers and not-so-good ones. I don't know which exact listing you were looking at, so I can't check. A 15" antenna is not going to fit in the standard Baofeng box without folding it, which will damage most antennas except for the "tacticool" tape-measure ones. So the seller would need to provide Amazon with either an oversized box with the radio box inside, along with the antenna, or securely tape the antenna to the Baofeng box and put a "Sold as a set - do not split" label over it. Both are going to drive up the seller's costs (for increased per-unit warehouse space at Amazon in the first case, or for a non-robotic handling surcharge for the second case). You may need to do an "item not as described" return through Amazon. They will likely ask you to work with the seller to resolve the issue, and the seller may try to drag things out, so start the process ASAP so you don't time-out on the Amazon 30-day return window.

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We are using the Morgan High Performance band pass filters with great success. And the two IC-7300s are sitting one on top of the other in a mini rack in our e-com trailer. I'm not trying to argue or say you are right or wrong. I'm only stating my club's experiences.

@RogerSpendlove I found replacement clips for the GM-15 Pro but they didn't come with screws. Went back and forth with the seller about the screws. It sounded like they didn't understand me. Of course that could have been intentional.

No idea, but if the screw threads don’t match you’re screwed. Pun intended.

It seems to work for everyone else. The only thing I saw was the password reset requirement. The website always resolved correctly within one refresh for me.

I found replacement belt clips on Amazon saying they're compatible with the Baofeng UV-5R series. Can anyone confirm whether the screw hole placement on the UV-5R is the same as on the GM-15 PRO ? My GM-15 PRO unit measures 1 inch on center. They sure look the same, but I'm just trying to be sure before I commit to spending $. Thanks!

Here are a few sweeps of one of my band-pass filters. I'm confident the filter works fine with about -60dB of attenuation on the other bands. The assumption is that key parts of the radio are not shielded well enough. 10m 20m 40m 80m

Check your com settings. Mine defaulted to com 1 but needed com 5. There's a target on or near the top left that say "set" or "settings". It let's you change the com port.

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Welcome to this Forum and I see this appears to be your first post since joining in January... It never hurts to provide us with too much information, such as Model Name, computer OS, etc.

ive done all the drivers,cable works with other radios, software has been loaded and reloaded..it will start then stop. Does anyone know the baud rate? Ive done resets on radio, ive checked the firmware version it matches, i run it in admin mode.....IVE RUN OUT OF IDEAS.......CAN ANYONE OUT THERE HELP?????

They don't help with the IC-7300. If there was a radio within a half mile pushing more than 1w and they were on a frequency below me, I couldn't hear anything but that radio. I made two for 20m and ended up buying a third that was a high dollar commercially made and none of them worked. I ever skipped a patch cable and used a double male barrel connector direct to the radio and the filter did nothing. They all looked great on the analyzer, but the radio just lacks the proper shielding in the IF circuits or some other critical part of the system. Never did figure it out. Just started using mt FT-891 for contesting with the group, since it has a native amp keyer.

Band pass filters are a must when operating multiple HF radios in close proximity to each other. We use them in our trailer for field day with good results. A few of us even use them on POTA if there are 2 or more people close to each other.

Most Ace Hardwares & True Values carrie an assortment of unusually small screws.

im on a 1 Gig fiber service with RACE and a Starlink back up. My 1 GIG is free, part of my retirement agreement with another company. I've noticed this a couple times today. Tried clearing the cache etc. I think its some HTML issues with whoever he uses to host the site..

Absolutely - Here in St Paul, we hear sirens, we rush outside to look for them!. But the guys I know are researchers not tour guides, so they like to keep other ears from getting their info and clogging up their spots!

My two favorite HF radios for newer operators and for people who aren't DX contest junkies are the Yaesu FT-991A and the iCom IC-7300. The Yaesu includes 160m through 70cm (all bands, all modes) and the IC-7300 covers 160m to 6m (all bands, all modes). My personal opinion, the IC-7300 has much better receive sensitivity, but it is more prone to interference because of it. It is almost impossible to use in a group for things like contests or Field Day, but its great if you typically use it at home or with no other operators around. The FT-991A is truly a "Shack in a Box". Good at everything, not great at anything. If you have any interest in 2m or 70cm SSB, its a good choice and one of the few "new" radios that support it. Otherwise you are paying original retail or more for used radios that have been discontinued a decade or more. For example, I have an IC-7000 that was discontinued in 2014. Last known retail price when on sale was $900 from HRO. They are for sale today for between $900 and $1,100 depending on if they have the head separation kit or not.

Alright, I passed my general, so now I can talk to anonymous men across the country instead of just anonymous men in my area. Since I don't have an HF rig yet, I hopped on someone's public KiwiSDR and started poking through the 40m/80m bands and heard... old dudes talking about soup. I can't get away from it. Apparently radios are meant for soup chat.

That's the way I do it these days.