The FCC's interpretation is that anyone can purchase the TNC, therefore nothing is encrypted with the intention hiding its contents.

Nobody complained twenty years ago when Kantronics introduced G-tor.

That said, I personally feel that all protocols used on ham bands should be openly published and available for any individual or manufacturer to use.  This would eliminate Pactor II/III and D-Star unless they chose to be open.

-To the original question: Yes, the code matrix they propose is inappropriate and violates the FCC regs.

Advertise it on eham, QRZ, QTH, eBay and the West Coast Military Radio group.

I had an AR-2 Ringo on an iron vent pipe. It was unsupported inside the structure.  That's about all I was comfortable with.  No sense ruining the roof or creating annoying leaks.

N2MG, Mike,
Thanks for taking the time to comment!  Cheers, bill

Particularly on 75m, the groups talk for longer periods, and part of the courtesy and camaraderie is sticking around and developing the relationships, rather than making a drive-bye comment.

In any case, wait for a pause and say your callsign once, and no, 'break', 'break break', nor 'break break break' are not a special procedure used for emergencies.  Just send your callsign. 

Well, if owners choose to hide their problems in order to mislead others in hopes of dumping bad equipment, that is a human behavior problem.

The Palstar problems haven't been hidden, in fact much of it has played out here on the eham forums.  Autotuner problems, manual tuner problems, Commander amplifier problems, parting of ways between a key engineer.....

Regarding disappearing reviews, that is under the control of the website owner.  To be honest, more than a few reviews have disappeared hear on eHam....  Now, there may be valid reasons, but Moderators and Administrators should be upfront about their action, and give at least a brief reason, e.g.  "Review removed; libelous, unfair, inaccurate. "  etc.

Differences in expectation.  I would never have considered re-doing all the small parts.  When you considered all the prep work involved to do tiny parts, $150 is pretty reasonable.  Re-plating a base should be lower cost.

Bayesian CW?  No thanks, I use Tylenol. 

Way over my head, but I enjoyed reading about this fascinating area of statistic/mathematics.  Thanks.  bill

The aircraft band is useful for well, communicating with aircraft.  In particular working with civilian aircraft who might be volunteering in a search, and always as a backup to your own agency aircraft losing public service radio.

122.75  Multicom, is a general use frequency
122.9    Multicom, is used at airports with no assigned frequency and was previously the general use frequency.
123.1    SAR frequency

HF communications are useful for beyond line of sight.  There are several active networks:

FEMA SHARES Net, manned 24/7
CAP
Red Cross
Salvation Army SATERN Net

And of course military units such as National Guard, USCG.  Any of whom could be important for SAR and disaster relief.

I would not consider a SAR comm unit to be fully equipped without these two capabilities.

Sounds like you have a well equipped unit!  Good luck.  bill

Plating shops are widely available in every state. Antique/vintage car hobbyists are folks who use their services.

Look in the phone book or google for 'plating shops' or 'chrome  plating shops'.   Or check with local machine shops, since they too send parts for plating. 

Can you be more vague, please?  

-no brand
-no product
-no review
-no complaint
-no stating how they are controlling whom
-no web sites

As long as we are talking about ham radio, how are the Red Sox looking this year?

A carrier is a signal on a single frequency which has no intelligence impressed upon it.  It is of nominal width. 

That is a carrier considered on it's own.  It doesn't have sidebands, (they imply additional width).   Sidebands are not part of the carrier.  They are related but separate parts of the total transmitter signal.

You have to tune in CW Mode.  

[edit] Ok, I reviewed the procedure, in Section 4.9.  I don't think that it makes any difference, since the final adjustments are made in CW mode, with the meter in RF mode. 

You might be sure you are getting enough Drive, and dipping the Plate I, in USB/LSB mode just gets you into the ballpark, which you are then going to shift to CW mode, and do final adjustments to it again.  shrug.

PAR has been selling these antennas for years, LNR was building them and took over sales.  PAR has a good reputation, and I wouldn't have any trouble buying from LNR based on that association.

I assume you are buying this antenna for convenience of installation vs. better available from other types like dipoles, verticals, etc.  Be  aware of the possibility of RF on the coax or in shack inherent with this design.

Let us know how it performs for you.

There is no special requirements for an ordinary inside SWL antenna.  A piece of insulated wire anywhere between 10-25 feet long will do fine.  Drape it over the curtain rods, pin it to the ceiling around the perimeter of the room, hang it vertically in a stair well, whatever.   You will likely have less man made electrical interference if it is mounted horizontally, but experiment.

If it's silly and it works, it's not silly".    bill