Decided I want to try and operate protable with my Yaesu FT-450D. It’s a bit big, but not too bad. First step was buying a battery, I ended up at batteries plus and bought an 18 amp hour 12 volt AGM battery, it weighs about 12 pounds which is a... [Read More]

I started off in HF with an ICOM IC-730, I loved that rig. I had done weeks of research on a good HF starter rig that was in my budget, and the IC-730 kept coming up. Eventually, I lucked out and stumbled across a craigslist ad for one about 30... [Read More]