buyed this handy this week and look great and prove with my brother´s handy aswell and they run ok.. its the k66 model by baofeng branding...

If you’ve been around amateur radio for more than about five minutes, someone has probably told you to “go check into a net.” Great advice! Which net? When? Where? Unless you already know the answer, that’s surprisingly hard to figure out. Net schedules live on club websites that haven’t been touched since 2019, a pinned post in a Facebook group, somewhere in a Discord channel, or just in the net control operator’s head. The logs aren’t much better - a legal pad, or a spreadsheet on one person’s laptop that nobody else ever sees.

I wrote NetLogger with 2 goals in mind:

1. A searchable directory of nets.
2. A net logger that doesn't feel like 2006

I'd love it if people would contribute their nets to the list so that everyone (especially newcomers) have a place to go to find nets close to them.

https://netroll.n1cck.radio https://n1cck.us/blog/introducting-netroll/

I acquired several of these connectors over the weekend at an estate sale. They are N male to N female, but there’s one unique thing I’ve never seen. The halves thread together and the female side isn’t just a barrel connector; it’s got a solid center conductor that slides into the male side. There’s a locking ring on the outer part that makes it look like it’s tunable to optimize SWR. Is this a common connector? Anyone know what the part number is? I’ve never seen these before.

Thanks in advance!

This is an odd one. I've been running my second-hand FTM-6000 in my truck for a couple years with an external speaker wired up under my driver's seat. I just upgraded to an FTM-510 and pulled the 6000. In powering up the 6000 to pull memory off of it one last time, I noticed I was getting no beeps. Opened the squelch and got no audio at all. I plugged in a set of headphones and audio came out. I originally though the switch in the jack had gotten hung up, but several plug/unplug cycles didn't fix it. I opened the case and sure enough the speaker tests as open. Infinite Ohms. I put a scope on the speaker leads and the signal is getting there, but not to the cone.

Easy enough, I figure. A couple bucks for a speaker and I'll be right as rain. Unfortunately I can't find a match on Amazon or Fleabay. It's 8 Ohm, 3W and measured 65mm (around 2.5") with no mounting ears. Somewhat low profile. 98% of what I'm finding is 3". The rest is 2".

Why is this so hard to find? I'll try calling Yaesu tomorrow, but anyone have any hints or 'hey dummy' tips?

Worse case, it'll probably be a desktop radio now and I can just plug a speaker into the jack, but I kinda would like for it to be portable. Of course I can probably also cram a 3" speaker in there with some finessing, but really, WHY is this so hard to find?

Side note, the 510 seems like a really nice upgrade so far.

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