Ebay confessions

[KC9ECI]

Find a seller confessing to a questionable activity with his/her ham radio and post a link.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ICOM-V8000-/250792881031?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a646bab8


THIS HAS THE TX MOD. AND WORKS GREAT. HAD THE MOD DONE SO I COULD USE IT FOR WORK.

[kc7jty]

Who g-i-victor's a shit? A new one ships for free @ $200 from HRO. Any half assed boob can do the tx mod.

[KC9ECI]

Blow it out your ass, I thought it would be a bit of fun on a rainy shitty day.

[NQ6U]

How about this one (http://cgi.ebay.com/ICOM-2200H-65-Watt-VHF-Mobile-Two-Way-Radio-NEW_W0QQitemZ370387827868QQcategoryZ163856QQcmdZVi ewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m8QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DMW%26it s%3DC%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D5%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D79 23095945762822698#ht_4573wt_1141)? Not exactly a confession, rather a rip-off since I bought the exact same radio for $140 about 18 months ago. Then again, I didn't get a $40 mag mount antenna with mine...

[KC9ECI]

Hell, I should start buying them from HRO fro $159 and selling them on ebay for $200 without the antenna. It never fails to amaze me that someone will buy something on ebay, for more than they can buy the exact same thing from a place like HRO, AES, MFJ etc new and under warranty for.

[N8YX]

Let me see how many Connexes, Rangers, Galaxies and other "10M Export" radios I can find on eBay with their frequency counters displaying 26 or 27.xxx ... :whistle:

[N8YX]

Do a search for "SSB" in Electronics. I didn't even make it halfway down the first page before finding this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Voyager-VR-9000-Am-Fm-SSB-CW-10-meter-band-/190512339388?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c5b6b99bc

Comes complete with 10M. How...thoughtful.

[WØTKX]

And distorted on the sidebands, but the AM is good. Lovely.

[KC9ECI]

BSO-

Did you get the Death Star option with that?

[KG4CGC]

And distorted on the sidebands, but the AM is good. Lovely.
Maybe the diode can still be resoldered.

[NQ6U]

BSO-

Did you get the Death Star option with that?

Nah--too expensive and, from what I hear, kind of hard to use most of the features. It's a good basic 2m FM rig for hitting the local repeaters, though.

[kds]

Find a seller confessing to a questionable activity with his/her ham radio and post a link.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ICOM-V8000-/250792881031?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a646bab8

The blue casing and knobs are way too much. Reminds me of the half-ass "mods" high schoolers do to their Acuras, etc.

[NQ6U]

It never fails to amaze me that someone will buy something on ebay, for more than they can buy the exact same thing from a place like HRO, AES, MFJ etc new and under warranty for.

Yeah, me too. When I was in the market for an MFJ-259 antenna analyzer, I checked out eBay and saw used units typically going for $200-225. When I went to Gigaparts, I found I could buy a brand new one for $219. Guess where I bought mine.

[KC9ECI]

Gigaparts? Just a guess.

[N8YX]

Yeah, me too. When I was in the market for an MFJ-259 antenna analyzer, I checked out eBay and saw used units typically going for $200-225. When I went to Gigaparts, I found I could buy a brand new one for $219. Guess where I bought mine.
I got a 269 from DX Engineering at Dayton last year for not much more than that.

[WV6Z]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Galaxy-DX-44V-10-Meter-Ham-Radio-/220756446227?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item33661c0c13

Peaked, tuned and converted and the pix are from 2006...... 10 bidders...... saints preserve us!

[WV6Z]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Ranger-SS-158EDX-10-Meter-RCI-SEE-RIG-WORKING-/110665302811?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19c42a831b

Man you can't miss the video on this one, BWAAAA HAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

[WØTKX]

Mighty Minty. :omg:

Flip flopped, echoed, and tuned 5 and/or 30 watt radio tuned to distraction for the enjoyment of those listening.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bd6xxWdZdxo/Sd-rZxKtPnI/AAAAAAAAEhs/8fZKc_LMcqU/s400/IMG_6622.JPG