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ham radio contesting

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tommag, 03-30-2024, 11:20 AM

This weekend is the cq ww wpx contest. I'm not a contester but like to use them to put a few new countries in my logbook.
The speed of these contesters amazes me. One station in Belarus has 8000 contacts in 15 hours! That's in the neighborhood of a contact every 7 seconds!
Now that I think about it, that was a multi operator contest station. They're probably working several different bands simultaneously.

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Pin-Up of the Year!

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specops56, 03-30-2024, 10:32 AM

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Terry

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No licensed Firearms Sign??

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Rampy, 03-29-2024, 07:31 PM

Walked into a restaurant in Amarillo & they had a sign saying possession of non licensed firearms is a crime on this premises

Did not know you had to license firearms in Texas

The hotel had a big sign saying no open carrying of firearms as that’s a crime

These are the first 2 firearms signs of any kind I’ve come across & I’ve been looking

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The Wagon Wheel, Eagle Pass Texas

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Rampy, 03-29-2024, 09:56 AM

Wife got the chicken fried steak and could only eat 1/4 of it 🤣🤣🤣

I got ribs & brisket and the brisket was superb, some of the best I’ve ever had

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Help…..Frustrated Beyond Belief

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Rampy, 03-28-2024, 10:01 PM

So we have a Snowmaster travel fridge & it’s a spiffy little thing. Run it off a EcoFlow solar generator/battery that’s charged by a 12v outlet

Today we stopped around 5pm (in eagle pass Texas) for dinner and the fridge was dead/battery dead and could not get it to run or charge no matter what I did. Could not find a fuse so I said to hell with it

Got to Del Rio tried the fridge again and it powered up, the battery started to charge but then shuts off

Question am I sucking to much power thru the 12v outlet, or is something else at play here

I tried charging at 8 amps, then 6 & finely 4 amps with nothing different