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    How's your fabrication skills? Can you solder? Have access to tools? Are you eager to learn? Do you follow written instruction well?

    Answer all of my questions please.


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    Quote Originally Posted by KA9MOT View Post
    How's your fabrication skills? Can you solder? Have access to tools? Are you eager to learn? Do you follow written instruction well?

    Answer all of my questions please.
    Yes, I am pretty decent at making things if I have the tools. I can solder. I have a tool box. I earned a BS and a BA by the time I was 20, so I am eager to learn. I also like making my own over buying something.

    I like board games, holding hands, long walks on the beach and snuggling. You look like a snuggler. I spoon to the right.
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    Quote Originally Posted by EightGodzillas View Post
    Yes, I am pretty decent at making things if I have the tools. I can solder. I have a tool box. I earned a BS and a BA by the time I was 20, so I am eager to learn. I also like making my own over buying something.

    I like board games, holding hands, long walks on the beach and snuggling. You look like a snuggler. I spoon to the right.
    :rofl:

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    Quote Originally Posted by EightGodzillas View Post
    I like board games, holding hands, long walks on the beach and snuggling. You look like a snuggler. I spoon to the right.
    This guy is going to do well here on the Island.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by EightGodzillas View Post
    Yes, I am pretty decent at making things if I have the tools. I can solder. I have a tool box. I earned a BS and a BA by the time I was 20, so I am eager to learn. I also like making my own over buying something.

    I like board games, holding hands, long walks on the beach and snuggling. You look like a snuggler. I spoon to the right.
    Then homebrew it is!

    When I was a new ham my first antenna was this: http://www.movl.net/blog/2009/03/my-...plane-antenna/
    It looked terrible but it worked like gangbusters. It also worked on 70cm (440)

    My next antenna was this: http://www.kf7ote.com/2011/05/our-ne...en-stub-j.html It is a dead copy of the Arrow Dual Band J-Pole http://www.arrowantennas.com/osj/j-pole.html . 2 things on this antenna. It works amazingly well. It is tough. I had mine attached to the right mirror on my Pete when I was trucking and hit an owl or hawk with it @ 80 MPH. It damn near took the mirror off but it didn't hurt that antenna any. http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/1613

    If you want to post your email or PM it to me I will send you the plans for a very good homebrew 5 element Yagi.

    Now, let's talk about that cuddle, can I bring my wife? She's gonna want to play too......
    Last edited by KA9MOT; 12-18-2012 at 01:19 PM.


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