I Apparently Live In A Soldering Replacement Tip Black Hole, So When I Need A New Tip I Have To Buy A

The main element on my 1/4 wave, vertical antenna broke off, regardless of how secure I had made it with electrical tape and coax-seal, the solder just wasn't wanting to hold.

Listened in on 20 meters for most of the day and heard a fine young ham making some great contacts.

Backs are printed!

Learned about the MIDCARs and the ECARs nets from a Facebook group and tuned in this morning. I was encouraged to go ahead and check in, so no need to just listen in until I feel I've learned enough about them. I heard a call for any stations to check in and I got real excited, grabbed my mic, keyed up and got that TX-Error again. I downloaded the Japanese band plan (because this radio came from Japan - see previous posts) and learned that I will not be able to transmit on frequencies above 7.200Mhz on 40 meters. It's all good, I'll just have to save up and try and get a comparable radio with similar capabilities. Meanwhile, I'll just listen in to these great nets.

I removed the other shelf thinking that it would relieve the pressure on the power and reset buttons, but this turned out to be wrong.

As always, there's an adhesion issue, but at least I have it printing again. I started over after adding painter's masking tape which appears to be working...for now.

Got it updated and connected to my phone but it's the only one in the area. Need to build a mesh