Yeah it was my birthday... I can't operate anywhere except vhf and uhf portable because I live in an apartmentand quite frankly the local repeaters drive me buggy... or they did the last time I was on the air... I have a bunch of 144, 220 and 440 MHz portables and I am too lazy to re-cap them. Real old school stuff Icom IC02?, IC03?,s and a Yaesu or two. Big OLD thumbwheel programmed transceivers... I bought a couple of AD9850 DDS boards... was going to rip out the synthesizers and replace them with NCO's... Still on my project list though as soon as I can figure out how to modify the Icoms... they used a varactor tuning system for the receiver RF and mixer and would be rather numb at best without that tuning. I have often wondered why there wasn't an Amateur Radio group here... Too
Bob