I keep wanting to type "2024" already. Usually I have the opposite problem after the first of each year. Anyway, spurred on by K0NR's Top Five Posts for 2023 published yesterday, and figuring that the 12-month stats aren't going to change much in this last 1/24th of the year, here we go:
- Yaesu FT-70DR Quick Start Programming (2020). It's a simple list of steps. Print a few out, put one in your station manual, one in your backpack. You are going backpacking with your '70, right? ps: You can program it with chirp too, but it's kinda weird.
- Programming a Yaesu FT-60 Radio using Chirp (2017). An oldy moldy goldy.
- Yaesu FTM-7250D Quick Start Programming (2019). An excellent if no longer produced radio. I picked up one for the vehicles on the used market this year, and only paid 25% over what I'd paid for the first one new. Yaesu, take note. People love these things.
- Shortwave Antenna: Vertical or Horizontal? (2020). Practical advice on how to use a relatively short random wire receive antenna for... practically everybody.
- Osprey Synchro 5 Hydration Pack review (2019). No longer made either, sadly. Despite its many quirks, that suspended mesh back was a real innovation. A quick look over at the Osprey packs site shows that they've gone to the same mesh-over-foam-grid as many of their daypacks, which is still pretty darned good and probably enough for anything short of summer dirt biking in the Deep South. Anyway, I'm glad that this list wasn't all radio stuff and that the one item was bike-related.
There'll still be best-of end-of-year month-by-month wrap-up (with extra-hyphens) toward the end of the month. These are just the posts getting all the hits in 2023. Back to K0NR's list, the the first item is Choose Your 2m Frequency Wisely. I very much agree. In 2024 we should all beware of choosing... poorly.
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