November 10, 2025 • 15 mins
Discover the top 6 must-have ham radio gadgets crafted by passionate ham radio operators, not big corporations! In this video, we showcase innovative, high-quality tools and accessories designed by the ham community for enthusiasts like you. From compact antennas to custom QRP rigs, these unique gadgets elevate your ham radio experience. Watch now to explore the best operator-made gear, perfect for hobbyists and preppers alike! #HamRadio #HamGadgets #AmateurRadio
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- https://digirig.net/p/1/
- https://qrp-labs.com/qmx.html
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six Ham made products for amateur radio inside of the
Ham Radio world. These are items that are made by
Ham's for Hams. My top six picks for the end
of twenty twenty five. Coming into twenty twenty six, let's
go once again. These are six items that are not
made by Corporate Japan or Corporate America or a corporation,
(00:25):
a big, big company. These are Ham made radio products
that I have used almost all of them. I've used
all but one of them, okay, And I've got a
couple of samples here for you as well. I've used
all but one of them, and these are ones that
I highly recommend. The first one is going to be
the iGATE Mini. Now, we just did a live stream
about this product on one of my Sunday live streams
(00:47):
just a couple of weeks ago, and we sat down,
we plugged this thing up. I showed you how it worked.
I showed you what the web page looked like and
how easy it was to use. This is basically an
iGATE and it act as a digitpeter and or iGATE.
It's only about one what it will digipeate or iGATE
your APRS signal from over FM, from your analog radio,
(01:13):
from your radio that's beaconing APRS over FM. Now what
that means is a digitpeter will take a signal and
just repeat it like like talking on a two meter
or a seventy centimeter repeater in your local area. An
iGATE takes that signaling not only and you can turn off.
You can turn digipeating on and off, and you can
turn igating on and off, and you can do them individually.
(01:34):
You can tell it only to digipeate, only to iGATE,
or do both. Okay, So a digitpeter will increase the
range of your signal if you have it on a
tall antenna somewhere outside something like that, and you know,
you can set this up at a campsite, put it
up on a spider beams or a Poeta twenty master
or something like that. Get it up on an edfong jpole,
get up on a higher antenna, and you can use
(01:55):
it as a digiteter at a campsite in a national
park where there's usually not any cell signals, So you
can use it that way when you're igating a signal.
That means you're taking that signal and you're sending it
to APRS dot FI over the internet, So then you
can use it over a much wider area because you're
incorporating the Internet at that point. So I can send
you an APRS message from Texas to anywhere in the
(02:16):
world as long as you're near an iGATE, and I'm
near an iGATE. I've got my iGATE Mini running in
the truck right now, So send me an APRS message
at KC five HWB dowsh seven. Okay, that's my HT
that I'm monitoring pretty much every day. Got my HT
in my pocket right now. Basically since the Huntsville Hamfest
of twenty twenty five, which was in August of twenty
twenty five, I've been carrying my b tech Pro not
(02:38):
on the list today because it is not it's made
by corporation. I've been carrying my b tech Pro and
monitoring APRS since the ham Fest, and the iGATE Mini
has made it very easy to do and very easy
to send messages to and from an HT running APRS droid.
So the iGATE Mini is our first one we're going
to talk about today. The second one we're going to
talk about today is one that I ran in the
(02:58):
truck for a long long time. I'm currently running a
different version of all Star Node, and we're gonna talk
about that one in another video soon. But I've got
two of these running right now. I've got one at
home and I've got one well, I'll get two at home,
but only one is powered up right now. This is
a Sherry pie hat. These will work for. This is
an all Star node. It's what this does. It takes
(03:20):
a Raspberry Pie and connects it to this PI hat.
This is a PI hat. This is a USB version
up here at the top. This is a PI hat
version for a UHF pie or a UHF The pie
hat is a UHF version. You can get it in
monoband two meters or seventy centimeters either one. These couple
different versions. Here is a version with a fan in
(03:40):
it all enclosed case there or a USB dongle. But
these are made by kitsfour Hams dot com. Kits the
number four Hams dot com not an affiliate link, not
a sponsored link at all. Neither was the Eygate Mini.
And this is one of the best all Star units
that I have used. I ran this all Star. I
ran a PI hat four, a UHF pie hat for
(04:02):
UHF fun seventy centimeters on a Raspberry Pie. Four. Ran
that in the truck for several, probably about a year
and a half actually, and it worked great. And I
really like the compact nature, the compact design of the
sherry Pie hat. And this is one of the best
all Star units to connect your analog radio to all
(04:23):
Star that you can use. I run a constant all
Star hub on four to three one three six. If
you're on all Star, connect to us at four three
one three six and just let us know who you are,
what you're doing, and what's going on in your world
of amateur radio. All Star is great and I really
enjoy being on it. The next one we're going to
talk about today is the Digirig digirig. If you've been
to a Hamfest in the last two or three years,
(04:43):
you've probably met Dennis, creator of digi Rig. He usually
hangs out with the Giga Parts guys at their booth.
This is a very lightweight, low cost, compact designed external
modem for connecting your radio to basically anything, basically anything
you need a digital connection for. So you can use
(05:04):
a digirig to do FT eight connect a radio to
wsjt X, perhaps like an older IC seven oh six
Mark two G or an IC seven thousand, or an
FT eight fifty seven, one of these older radios that
does not have a built in sound card in it.
You can use a digirig to connect it and do
FT eight, JS eight, call PSK thirty one, pretty much
(05:24):
all of your digital modes over HF. You can also
use it to connect to a VHF UHF radio and
it will allow you to do win link and APRS
over a radio that does not have it built in,
so it acts as an external modem. Right up here
at the top of this page is a featured the
digirig Light. This one comes with a USB C connector
on one end and then the radio connector on the
(05:45):
other end. So you take it and you plug it
into say your IC seven thousand, or your FT eight
fifty seven, or even your Jazu vx six or Bowfang
radio something like that, and then you plug the USBC
into a Android tablet and you can run APRS droid
from a Bowfang or if you have an HF radio,
(06:07):
you can send win link mail over HF, or you
can even do APRS over HF. So the digirig is
very robust. Like I said, small lightweight compact ham made
by Dennis I can forget Dennis's call sign K zero NX.
I think that's his call sign K zero NX. Dennis,
great guy if you ever see him at the Gigabarts
(06:28):
booth at a Hamfest. Great product, great guy, very good support.
So check out digirig link for this and everything else
will be in the description. Blow Now, today's video is
not really sponsored, but I started a subscription service for
mystery boxes in May of twenty twenty five. We're just
and these were new every sixty days, so we're coming
up on the fourth renewal of these. I've got some
(06:50):
really exciting products, several of the products that we're talking
about today, including the last one that we just talked about.
What was the last product I just talked about. Hopefully
you guys for paying attention and saw the very last
product I just talked about, So that product will be
included in a future mystery box in one of my
subscription tools. Sometime in twenty twenty six, I reached out
(07:12):
to a lot of different manufacturers, small, large, medium, all
of the manufacturers and I said, hey, I want to
start including some of your products on my mystery boxes,
and most of them replied and said yes, absolutely, What
do you need, let's do it happy to help. These
are products that I am purchasing at a bulk discounted
rate and offering to you in a mystery box, so
(07:33):
that you get value out of your mystery box. The
forty dollars, seventy five dollars and one hundred and ten
dollars boxes usually have anywhere from twenty to fifty percent
of value higher than the price you're going to pay
for them. So that is the goal, and I'm building
that as time goes on. So Ham Radio Camping and
off grid centric mystery boxes three levels right now. Sign
(07:56):
up today, renews every sixty days. Renew in November of
twenty twenty five, and then again in January of twenty
twenty six and every other month for the rest of
that year. Got some exciting new stuff coming up, so
you guys go check that out. The next one we're
gonna talk about today, number four is the QRP Labs
QMX Mini. Now I actually have one of these. I
have one of these QMX Minis that I picked up
(08:19):
at I ordered at Daytonham Mention earlier this year, and
I had picked up a kit for one of these.
I think it was last year. There's several different versions
of this QMX. There's a QMX, which is the latest
model that has They just recently added single sideband to
it through a firmware update. They had the QDX and
the q QDX and QR at QQ something I don't know.
(08:44):
They had one that was FT eight only. They had
one that was CW only. The QMX adds everything together.
It has CWN FT eight, which it had straight out
of the box, and then, like I said, for a
firmware update, they just added single sideband. It is definitely
a q A p rig one hundred and twenty dollars
is the kit assembled is one hundred and fifty two dollars.
(09:06):
You can see all that right here. QMX is available
as either a KID or assembled, assembled, tested and adjusted
transceiver click here for that. And I just went ahead
and bought the assembled product. Now, one of the reasons
I did that is because I know a couple guys
who are much more proficient and see in soldering than
I am. And they said that they had bought the product.
They're like, look, I could, I could build it if
(09:27):
I wanted to, but I don't really feel like it.
I didn't have the time, So I'm like, you know what,
that's that's my problem with kids. I have built kits
before in the past. I really do enjoy it. I
had those sherry Pie hats that we talked about a
little bit ago. There were product number two on today's video.
I've built those kids on a livestream before, invited several
other YouTubers on. We built that kit more than one time.
(09:48):
Built that kit and those that's a pretty easy built.
But this QMX kit was a little bit what I
considered a little bit over my head. So I went
ahead and bought the assembled kit last year. The versions
are sixty eighty, forty three in twenty or twenty seventeen,
fifteen twelve eleven includes eleven meters and ten or you
can get kind of like a combination of those two
(10:08):
CWFSK digital and single sideband modes upper and lower. All
features of the QCX Mini QCX I think was the
CW one. I don't know, Like I said, there was
there was one that was CW only, and there was
one that was FT eight only, and I thought, these
are these are just great kits. These guys are in
four days in May in May before him Vention. They're
(10:30):
in Dayton him Vention. Really good, very well made kits
coming out of Germany, Denmark somewhere over there. Looks like
they're did a little bit of diggy on the website.
Looks like they're currently made in Turkey. Hans Summers Hans
is the guy who makes these. He has a UK
call sign, a Golf zero call sign, but it looks
(10:51):
like currently they are made into originally made in the UK,
but currently made in Turkey. But anyway, either way, these
are very very well made kits. They're number four on
today's list, and I hope that if this is something
if you like a really compact, well made QRP radio design,
this is definitely one you should look at. Number five
today are the batteries and a couple other sestories as well,
(11:12):
but mainly today we're going to talk about the batteries.
The batteries made by W Zero a Zed Kevin and
on my desk right now, I have my Kinwood D
seventy five HT. It's got the expanded five amp hour
battery on the back of it. He does now make
a standoff that you can three D print and put
your belt clip back on there. I need to do that.
I just haven't done that yet. But these batteries are fantastic.
(11:34):
I've used one on my Yazu radio for about a
year and a half. I got this Kinwood one earlier
this year when he started making these, and they've always
been really good. They have a USBC charger on the
bottom of them so that you can charge them via USBC.
No longer needs your desk cradle for these radios. No
longer need the stock barrel connector, which you can still
(11:55):
keep it and use it. But these are all USBC
chargeable batteries. Five vamp hower batteries eighteen six fifties in
a three D printed case, and they worked very very well.
I do have a five percent off discount code on
this website. I believe the coupon code is case five HWB,
but check the link in the description below. I'll share
the link to this and everything else we talk about today.
(12:15):
I don't have a coupon for many of the websites,
but I do have a coupon for this website, so
you can save five percent from the Kinwood battery. This
one right here. You can see he's got my logo
on this one. We work together on that design sometime
last year, so discontinued colors, stay tuned for a new release.
He's working on an update to that, of course. And
he's got a regular FT five battery or he's got
(12:38):
one for the yeah FT five right here, This is
a kit you can get from him. He's got one
for an FT seventy Yazoo and I think that's the
only three radios he makes right now is the FT seventy,
the Kinwood D seventy four, D seventy five, and the
Yazoo FT three FT five series. So all of those
are made, but he does a fantastic job handmade. Geary
makes them all himself. Five percent discount with my coupon code,
(13:00):
so check that out on the link at the link
in the description below. The last one we're going to
talk about today, Number six, This is a through wave intennas. Now,
what is a thor wave intennas? Who is that? You
ever heard of? Eighth or wave intennas? I bet you have,
I bet you have. These are in nine SAB intennas.
These are tim in nine sab. These are his intennas.
(13:22):
And I don't know when he came up with the
name eighth Wave. Maybe he's had it from day one,
I don't know. I found Tim on eBay. He has
an eBay store, doesn't really have his own website, but
he has an eBay store that he's been selling antenna's
handmade antenna's on for a very long time. I bought
a couple of them three or four years ago, used
him on Poda, did really well. Opened the line of
communication with Tim, and he and I talk over email
(13:44):
kind of every now and then, not regularly, but you know,
more than just a few times. So once again, I
had mentioned something a minute ago about my mystery boxes.
So guess what. I am working with Tim to get
some of these eight wave antenna's into some future mystery boxes.
They will not be in the next box, but they
(14:04):
will be in a future box. Been working with him
for the last month or two. It's going to be
an intenda that looks something like this, and it's actually
going to be stamp him Radio two point zero. He's
making a version with an enclosure for me and really
looking forward to getting these into the mystery boxes. You
can find his gear and many other handmade products at
the Comms Depot. I spoke to Austin at Orlando hem
(14:27):
Cation in early twenty twenty five. This is a website
he put together that's sort of like Etsy, but it's
specifically for Ham radio related projects, Ham adjacent many Ham radio,
actual Ham radio products like the VGC radios you see here, antennas,
dummy loads, other styles of antennas, and that kind of thing.
(14:48):
But some HAM adjacent stuff here as well. But eighth
Wave Antenna's N nine SAB Antenna's is number six in
the list today of hanmdmade products. I have used these
antennas multiple times at PO activations and they've always worked well.
I really like the way they're ruggedly designed and small
in compact, how they fold up. And again we're going
to be including those in a mystery box sometime in
(15:11):
early twenty twenty six. Guys, let me know what you
think about the list of these six items. I will
put a link in the description blow for everything we
talked about today. Two of these items are affiliate links
and one of them has a coupon, So the rest
of them are are just included there because they're products
that I've used and I really really like. So if
you think I missed anything, if you think I should
(15:32):
have included anything else, send me an email. You won't
be able to put a link in the YouTube comments
because I've blocked links because of all the spambots that
are out there. But give me the name of a
product you think I should have included, a ham made
product that you really like and enjoy, and maybe I'll
include it in the next video. If you enjoy this video,
check out these videos over here. Which YouTube thinks you
(15:52):
want to watch next? Seventy three
Six Ham made products for amateur radio inside of the
Ham Radio world. These are items that are made by
Ham's for Hams. My top six picks for the end
of twenty twenty five. Coming into twenty twenty six, let's
go once again. These are six items that are not
made by Corporate Japan or Corporate America or a corporation,
(00:25):
a big, big company. These are Ham made radio products
that I have used almost all of them. I've used
all but one of them, okay, And I've got a
couple of samples here for you as well. I've used
all but one of them, and these are ones that
I highly recommend. The first one is going to be
the iGATE Mini. Now, we just did a live stream
about this product on one of my Sunday live streams
(00:47):
just a couple of weeks ago, and we sat down,
we plugged this thing up. I showed you how it worked.
I showed you what the web page looked like and
how easy it was to use. This is basically an
iGATE and it act as a digitpeter and or iGATE.
It's only about one what it will digipeate or iGATE
your APRS signal from over FM, from your analog radio,
(01:13):
from your radio that's beaconing APRS over FM. Now what
that means is a digitpeter will take a signal and
just repeat it like like talking on a two meter
or a seventy centimeter repeater in your local area. An
iGATE takes that signaling not only and you can turn off.
You can turn digipeating on and off, and you can
turn igating on and off, and you can do them individually.
(01:34):
You can tell it only to digipeate, only to iGATE,
or do both. Okay, So a digitpeter will increase the
range of your signal if you have it on a
tall antenna somewhere outside something like that, and you know,
you can set this up at a campsite, put it
up on a spider beams or a Poeta twenty master
or something like that. Get it up on an edfong jpole,
get up on a higher antenna, and you can use
(01:55):
it as a digiteter at a campsite in a national
park where there's usually not any cell signals, So you
can use it that way when you're igating a signal.
That means you're taking that signal and you're sending it
to APRS dot FI over the internet, So then you
can use it over a much wider area because you're
incorporating the Internet at that point. So I can send
you an APRS message from Texas to anywhere in the
(02:16):
world as long as you're near an iGATE, and I'm
near an iGATE. I've got my iGATE Mini running in
the truck right now, So send me an APRS message
at KC five HWB dowsh seven. Okay, that's my HT
that I'm monitoring pretty much every day. Got my HT
in my pocket right now. Basically since the Huntsville Hamfest
of twenty twenty five, which was in August of twenty
twenty five, I've been carrying my b tech Pro not
(02:38):
on the list today because it is not it's made
by corporation. I've been carrying my b tech Pro and
monitoring APRS since the ham Fest, and the iGATE Mini
has made it very easy to do and very easy
to send messages to and from an HT running APRS droid.
So the iGATE Mini is our first one we're going
to talk about today. The second one we're going to
talk about today is one that I ran in the
(02:58):
truck for a long long time. I'm currently running a
different version of all Star Node, and we're gonna talk
about that one in another video soon. But I've got
two of these running right now. I've got one at
home and I've got one well, I'll get two at home,
but only one is powered up right now. This is
a Sherry pie hat. These will work for. This is
an all Star node. It's what this does. It takes
(03:20):
a Raspberry Pie and connects it to this PI hat.
This is a PI hat. This is a USB version
up here at the top. This is a PI hat
version for a UHF pie or a UHF The pie
hat is a UHF version. You can get it in
monoband two meters or seventy centimeters either one. These couple
different versions. Here is a version with a fan in
(03:40):
it all enclosed case there or a USB dongle. But
these are made by kitsfour Hams dot com. Kits the
number four Hams dot com not an affiliate link, not
a sponsored link at all. Neither was the Eygate Mini.
And this is one of the best all Star units
that I have used. I ran this all Star. I
ran a PI hat four, a UHF pie hat for
(04:02):
UHF fun seventy centimeters on a Raspberry Pie. Four. Ran
that in the truck for several, probably about a year
and a half actually, and it worked great. And I
really like the compact nature, the compact design of the
sherry Pie hat. And this is one of the best
all Star units to connect your analog radio to all
(04:23):
Star that you can use. I run a constant all
Star hub on four to three one three six. If
you're on all Star, connect to us at four three
one three six and just let us know who you are,
what you're doing, and what's going on in your world
of amateur radio. All Star is great and I really
enjoy being on it. The next one we're going to
talk about today is the Digirig digirig. If you've been
to a Hamfest in the last two or three years,
(04:43):
you've probably met Dennis, creator of digi Rig. He usually
hangs out with the Giga Parts guys at their booth.
This is a very lightweight, low cost, compact designed external
modem for connecting your radio to basically anything, basically anything
you need a digital connection for. So you can use
(05:04):
a digirig to do FT eight connect a radio to
wsjt X, perhaps like an older IC seven oh six
Mark two G or an IC seven thousand, or an
FT eight fifty seven, one of these older radios that
does not have a built in sound card in it.
You can use a digirig to connect it and do
FT eight, JS eight, call PSK thirty one, pretty much
(05:24):
all of your digital modes over HF. You can also
use it to connect to a VHF UHF radio and
it will allow you to do win link and APRS
over a radio that does not have it built in,
so it acts as an external modem. Right up here
at the top of this page is a featured the
digirig Light. This one comes with a USB C connector
on one end and then the radio connector on the
(05:45):
other end. So you take it and you plug it
into say your IC seven thousand, or your FT eight
fifty seven, or even your Jazu vx six or Bowfang
radio something like that, and then you plug the USBC
into a Android tablet and you can run APRS droid
from a Bowfang or if you have an HF radio,
(06:07):
you can send win link mail over HF, or you
can even do APRS over HF. So the digirig is
very robust. Like I said, small lightweight compact ham made
by Dennis I can forget Dennis's call sign K zero NX.
I think that's his call sign K zero NX. Dennis,
great guy if you ever see him at the Gigabarts
(06:28):
booth at a Hamfest. Great product, great guy, very good support.
So check out digirig link for this and everything else
will be in the description. Blow Now, today's video is
not really sponsored, but I started a subscription service for
mystery boxes in May of twenty twenty five. We're just
and these were new every sixty days, so we're coming
up on the fourth renewal of these. I've got some
(06:50):
really exciting products, several of the products that we're talking
about today, including the last one that we just talked about.
What was the last product I just talked about. Hopefully
you guys for paying attention and saw the very last
product I just talked about, So that product will be
included in a future mystery box in one of my
subscription tools. Sometime in twenty twenty six, I reached out
(07:12):
to a lot of different manufacturers, small, large, medium, all
of the manufacturers and I said, hey, I want to
start including some of your products on my mystery boxes,
and most of them replied and said yes, absolutely, What
do you need, let's do it happy to help. These
are products that I am purchasing at a bulk discounted
rate and offering to you in a mystery box, so
(07:33):
that you get value out of your mystery box. The
forty dollars, seventy five dollars and one hundred and ten
dollars boxes usually have anywhere from twenty to fifty percent
of value higher than the price you're going to pay
for them. So that is the goal, and I'm building
that as time goes on. So Ham Radio Camping and
off grid centric mystery boxes three levels right now. Sign
(07:56):
up today, renews every sixty days. Renew in November of
twenty twenty five, and then again in January of twenty
twenty six and every other month for the rest of
that year. Got some exciting new stuff coming up, so
you guys go check that out. The next one we're
gonna talk about today, number four is the QRP Labs
QMX Mini. Now I actually have one of these. I
have one of these QMX Minis that I picked up
(08:19):
at I ordered at Daytonham Mention earlier this year, and
I had picked up a kit for one of these.
I think it was last year. There's several different versions
of this QMX. There's a QMX, which is the latest
model that has They just recently added single sideband to
it through a firmware update. They had the QDX and
the q QDX and QR at QQ something I don't know.
(08:44):
They had one that was FT eight only. They had
one that was CW only. The QMX adds everything together.
It has CWN FT eight, which it had straight out
of the box, and then, like I said, for a
firmware update, they just added single sideband. It is definitely
a q A p rig one hundred and twenty dollars
is the kit assembled is one hundred and fifty two dollars.
(09:06):
You can see all that right here. QMX is available
as either a KID or assembled, assembled, tested and adjusted
transceiver click here for that. And I just went ahead
and bought the assembled product. Now, one of the reasons
I did that is because I know a couple guys
who are much more proficient and see in soldering than
I am. And they said that they had bought the product.
They're like, look, I could, I could build it if
(09:27):
I wanted to, but I don't really feel like it.
I didn't have the time, So I'm like, you know what,
that's that's my problem with kids. I have built kits
before in the past. I really do enjoy it. I
had those sherry Pie hats that we talked about a
little bit ago. There were product number two on today's video.
I've built those kids on a livestream before, invited several
other YouTubers on. We built that kit more than one time.
(09:48):
Built that kit and those that's a pretty easy built.
But this QMX kit was a little bit what I
considered a little bit over my head. So I went
ahead and bought the assembled kit last year. The versions
are sixty eighty, forty three in twenty or twenty seventeen,
fifteen twelve eleven includes eleven meters and ten or you
can get kind of like a combination of those two
(10:08):
CWFSK digital and single sideband modes upper and lower. All
features of the QCX Mini QCX I think was the
CW one. I don't know, Like I said, there was
there was one that was CW only, and there was
one that was FT eight only, and I thought, these
are these are just great kits. These guys are in
four days in May in May before him Vention. They're
(10:30):
in Dayton him Vention. Really good, very well made kits
coming out of Germany, Denmark somewhere over there. Looks like
they're did a little bit of diggy on the website.
Looks like they're currently made in Turkey. Hans Summers Hans
is the guy who makes these. He has a UK
call sign, a Golf zero call sign, but it looks
(10:51):
like currently they are made into originally made in the UK,
but currently made in Turkey. But anyway, either way, these
are very very well made kits. They're number four on
today's list, and I hope that if this is something
if you like a really compact, well made QRP radio design,
this is definitely one you should look at. Number five
today are the batteries and a couple other sestories as well,
(11:12):
but mainly today we're going to talk about the batteries.
The batteries made by W Zero a Zed Kevin and
on my desk right now, I have my Kinwood D
seventy five HT. It's got the expanded five amp hour
battery on the back of it. He does now make
a standoff that you can three D print and put
your belt clip back on there. I need to do that.
I just haven't done that yet. But these batteries are fantastic.
(11:34):
I've used one on my Yazu radio for about a
year and a half. I got this Kinwood one earlier
this year when he started making these, and they've always
been really good. They have a USBC charger on the
bottom of them so that you can charge them via USBC.
No longer needs your desk cradle for these radios. No
longer need the stock barrel connector, which you can still
(11:55):
keep it and use it. But these are all USBC
chargeable batteries. Five vamp hower batteries eighteen six fifties in
a three D printed case, and they worked very very well.
I do have a five percent off discount code on
this website. I believe the coupon code is case five HWB,
but check the link in the description below. I'll share
the link to this and everything else we talk about today.
(12:15):
I don't have a coupon for many of the websites,
but I do have a coupon for this website, so
you can save five percent from the Kinwood battery. This
one right here. You can see he's got my logo
on this one. We work together on that design sometime
last year, so discontinued colors, stay tuned for a new release.
He's working on an update to that, of course. And
he's got a regular FT five battery or he's got
(12:38):
one for the yeah FT five right here, This is
a kit you can get from him. He's got one
for an FT seventy Yazoo and I think that's the
only three radios he makes right now is the FT seventy,
the Kinwood D seventy four, D seventy five, and the
Yazoo FT three FT five series. So all of those
are made, but he does a fantastic job handmade. Geary
makes them all himself. Five percent discount with my coupon code,
(13:00):
so check that out on the link at the link
in the description below. The last one we're going to
talk about today, Number six, This is a through wave intennas. Now,
what is a thor wave intennas? Who is that? You
ever heard of? Eighth or wave intennas? I bet you have,
I bet you have. These are in nine SAB intennas.
These are tim in nine sab. These are his intennas.
(13:22):
And I don't know when he came up with the
name eighth Wave. Maybe he's had it from day one,
I don't know. I found Tim on eBay. He has
an eBay store, doesn't really have his own website, but
he has an eBay store that he's been selling antenna's
handmade antenna's on for a very long time. I bought
a couple of them three or four years ago, used
him on Poda, did really well. Opened the line of
communication with Tim, and he and I talk over email
(13:44):
kind of every now and then, not regularly, but you know,
more than just a few times. So once again, I
had mentioned something a minute ago about my mystery boxes.
So guess what. I am working with Tim to get
some of these eight wave antenna's into some future mystery boxes.
They will not be in the next box, but they
(14:04):
will be in a future box. Been working with him
for the last month or two. It's going to be
an intenda that looks something like this, and it's actually
going to be stamp him Radio two point zero. He's
making a version with an enclosure for me and really
looking forward to getting these into the mystery boxes. You
can find his gear and many other handmade products at
the Comms Depot. I spoke to Austin at Orlando hem
(14:27):
Cation in early twenty twenty five. This is a website
he put together that's sort of like Etsy, but it's
specifically for Ham radio related projects, Ham adjacent many Ham radio,
actual Ham radio products like the VGC radios you see here, antennas,
dummy loads, other styles of antennas, and that kind of thing.
(14:48):
But some HAM adjacent stuff here as well. But eighth
Wave Antenna's N nine SAB Antenna's is number six in
the list today of hanmdmade products. I have used these
antennas multiple times at PO activations and they've always worked well.
I really like the way they're ruggedly designed and small
in compact, how they fold up. And again we're going
to be including those in a mystery box sometime in
(15:11):
early twenty twenty six. Guys, let me know what you
think about the list of these six items. I will
put a link in the description blow for everything we
talked about today. Two of these items are affiliate links
and one of them has a coupon, So the rest
of them are are just included there because they're products
that I've used and I really really like. So if
you think I missed anything, if you think I should
(15:32):
have included anything else, send me an email. You won't
be able to put a link in the YouTube comments
because I've blocked links because of all the spambots that
are out there. But give me the name of a
product you think I should have included, a ham made
product that you really like and enjoy, and maybe I'll
include it in the next video. If you enjoy this video,
check out these videos over here. Which YouTube thinks you
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