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It's an economically confused setup; cheap cabinet, pricey toys. Actually, the economic contrast continues inside the cabinet. You got yer cheap-ass Radio Shack aux speaker (used only with the cheap-ass Radio Shack scanner) and a beat-up old IBM laptop sitting alongside a factory-fresh Icom 756 Pro 2 and a few other quality goodies. They're a happy family. They all get along just fine; no sibling rivalry and no favoritism -- and no stray RF. OK; I do pamper the Pro 2 more than the other kids. And I overwork the Yaesu FT90 micro mobile -- it does double duty in my car and radio cabinet. And the diminutive Astron RS-7A power supply suffers an inferiority complex; it can only provide 35 watts, poor thing. The 50 watt Yaesu is always begging to go out and play in my car where it can operate at 50 watts. I've tried to console the poor Astron; he was purchased long ago to serve a lesser radio. I don't have the heart to retire him, and the snotty Icom 756 Pro 2 power supply won't talk to the other radios. The Rigblaster M8 is the newest kid on the block. He thinks he's special, but the other kids all know he's just an expensive substitution for two audio cables. (shhhh... don't say that too loudly; he might hear you!) The Kenwood TH G71 HT was my first ham radio. He's a bit of a loner these days. I worry about him sometimes. Then there's my oldest kid, the Icom IC A110 crew vehicle airband tranceiver. She's special, maybe a bit too sheltered. Her mic, power and antenna are never connected. She doesn't speak the others' language, and almost never gets used. She serves as an emergency communications option at remote desert fly-ins.
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