daves been spending...................AGAIN

dave has a lighter wallet after today, w/s are a bit richer i will let dave reveal but nice radio and a good price.

Go Dave Go, Go Dave Go

Good for you Dave.
I have been spending too, purchases include a (100 watt,continuous) dummy load, a low pass filter, a 20 foot swagged mast & a couple of books.

Well it may be quicker if I list the things I did not buy! The main thing I bought was the Yaesu FTM-10E with bluetooth headset / board and charger for £279.99 and I must say it works quite well. The only thing I dislike is the head can't be unplugged from the cable! Not like the 706...

I bought a 100m drum of RG58 and RG213 with PL259s and a Watson W-300 duel band antenna. I also upgraded the power supply to the Watson Power Mite NF and some other things...

The G/F has know kicked me out of the house and am now living in the shed!!! Does she not understand I have my radios in it!!! lol...

Also in the shack is my old computer on XP that I got fixed and upgraded...

I am sorry I have not been on the forum but I have no broadband at home untill Monday so am using the iPhone to view the content.

All the best,

Dave.

nice one david all the best with the radio 73s.

29ci102tony

Thanks Tony.

I have just got the broadband working after spending hours on the phone to AOL and a number costing .50p PM!!! I will be getting the antenna UHF/VHF on the roof this week and will be updating my website over the next few days.

Dave

Also was spending last week at the show here too On a new radio, and sure some of you will hear me with it, seems at the moment the best reports given so far are audio

Its the new Yaesu FT *** (Mick, don't post the numbers here)

I am going down to Radio World today and plan to come back with the Icom IC-E92 D Star handheld and the GPS Hand Mic and maybe some extras for it...

Nice one Simon, glad it's not just me spending all the money...

Now thats a radio am interested in indeed. Please let me know more if you managed to get one. Many radios here at the moment again, fortunately some of them are heading off too soon

Well Simon, I got the Handheld today from Radio World and am happy cos tonight I heard some lads talking on GB3CR trying to setup thair D Star Radios for the NEW D Star repeater GB7WP setup by WADARC and has been put on test today...

Guess what, I mangaged to set the radio up and shouted in on GB7WP and had a nice chat. The repeater is on test for a short time and is not yet setup on the internet - D Star network.

Seems I got one in-time to be part of the boom!!! lol

The radio works really well! It's solid and seems to be well build. The audio is very good on the recieve and the menu layout in my opinion is very strait forward. I was reading bad reviews saying it takes time to program the radio but I found it to be ok for the programs that I have entered. The one thing that is tricky is setting up D Star repeaters but once done 2 or 3 times it should be strait forward...

The D Star will only work on B VFO and not both.

I had a contact from Colwyn Bay in the car today into Blackpool on 70cm with the rubber duck antenna so I am quite pleased about that.

Well I will try and write a little review when I have played with it. Am waiting for the GPS 175 Speaker Mic to come for it.

Dave

Oh man, i went and bought a new 817ND as the price was too nice to refuse. Also have a kl200 for the mountains so now sure some SOTA must be looked into when the rain stops.

D star, oh man can see that coming this way also now. When you make some you tube stuff Dave then let us know will you