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E1261: Ham Radio Today - Holiday Specials Unveiled

Dec 22, 2023•21 min
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Here are the links for today's specials:
🎅Anytone AT-5888UVIII Triband Mobile Radio - http://hr2.li/2z3dw
🎅American Radio Supply Coupon - https://tinyurl.com/52varmn2
🎅Ham Radio Prep - https://hamradioprep.com
Save 20% off with code JASON20
🎅Radioddity $15 Coupon - https://radioddity.refr.cc/jasonjohnston
🎅LED Lenser Holiday Sale - https://www.avantlink.com/click.php?tool_type=cl&merchant_id=10907f3d-2fd5-4c40-b8ec-fdf268663b19&website_id=8d3b5c00-a0db-481c-bbc6-df9cbf5e03a1&url=https://www.ledlenserusa.com/
🎅Bridgecom Holiday Deals Sale - https://www.bridgecomsystems.com/pages/holiday-deals-2023?ref=kiiqzu1uu7cb
🎅Gazelle Tents Holiday Sale - https://gazelletents.com/
🎅Renogy Holiday Sale - https://renogy.sjv.io/an9Ldb
🎅Isotron Antennas Holiday Sale - https://isotronantennas.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=19
🎅SharkRF Openspot Holiday Sale - https://www.sharkrf.com/
🎅MY Affiliate and Deals Page - https://www.livefromthehamshack.tv/affiliates-and-deals/
🎅MERCH and ANTENNAS - https://grapevineamateurradio.com/

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Thank you for choosing to download the Ham Radio two point zero audio podcast rip. This is the audio taken out of a video or a livestream I did recently. You can catch all my videos on YouTube Ham Radio two point zero and catch us live every Sunday night at seven pm Central Standard Time for a different topic each week. Thank you for the support, and thank you for being a member of the community. Friday, December eighth, one of the

last Fridays in the year of twenty twenty three. This is today's In this week's shopping video, we got a couple of websites that have holiday specials ongoing leftover from Black Friday, not quite Christmas yet. We're gonna see what's available right now. Like I do with most of these videos, we're gonna start with RNL dot com today. However, I am recording this video before Friday the eighth. I'm actually recording it to two days early this time, so

I have no idea what the daily special will be on RNL. But I know for a fact that the any tone tryband mobile radio that I've done a couple of videos about. My last one was called best Tryband Mobile Radio for twenty twenty two I think it was last year when I did that. Anyway, it's back in stock. Somebody was on my Discord server earlier this week and they said, hey, by the way, these are back in stock at RNL. This is the only place that I know that actually carries this

radio. He orders them in bulk, they produce them at any tone and ship them to Roger at RNL, and then he lists them and when they sell out, he orders more. I don't know how. I mean, that's roughly how the process is. But two hundred and forty nine dollars for what I consider to be like one of the best, if not the best, mobile try band radios out there, about fifty watts on two meters, about twenty five to thirty watts on two twenty, and about thirty five to

thirty eight watts on four forty. You cannot ask for something better than this. I have two of these myself. No, I do not want to sell them because every time I do it video about them talk I get asked that question. I'm going to put one of them back in my truck soon for the purpose of having a remote head to twenty mobile radio. So because I'm not aware of any monoband two twenty radios that have a detachable face where

you can remotely mount the face of the radio. So if you are interested in this radio, like I said, I've had a lot of good luck with it. It's one of my favorites. I've got two of them. Go check out RNL before he sells out on this one. American Radio Supply today has a ten dollars off of thirty five dollars or more order with the coupon code of eight for six seven to three nine. I just ordered some connectors for some adapters since my live stream that I did last sundown, I

just ordered them today. I used this coupon code that I just showed you guys to order several items, including some connectors to do better to get a better quality connector on my gu oh headache PMR one seventy one that I did

on the live stream last weekend. We had the smoke and ape on and we were talking to him about doing some tiny SA calculations for spurious emissions on this rate on that PMR one seventy one radio, and the one time we got it to actually work was on twenty meters and the emissions on it actually looked quite good. I was impressed, but then something failed when I think it was one of my connectors failed. So I'm going to order some quality

connectors from American Radio Supply. They've got this connector finder. You can find side A gender SIDEB gender style and they got all kinds of model numbers here. So if you're looking for connectors, I highly recommend this website. Ham Radio Prep still offers classes and bulk discount on packages they have. Let me scroll down all the way there we go. They have these packages right here, Level one, Level one and two, Level one, two and three

Holiday sale. With the Level one, two and three you can get all three technician, General and extra right now for seventy nine dollars. And you can always save a twenty percent discount off of all of these prices in addition to these prices with the coupon code of Jason twenty. Download Ham Radio Prep on your smartphone today. iOS and Android both download it today for free. Get started today for the next license, the next Ham Radio license that you

need, whether you're upgrading or you're new to the Hobby radiodity. Send an email earlier and I couldn't get this to open correctly in the browser, so just open up my email here. They have a holiday sale going on. Looks like a five dollars discount on the GM thirty GMRS radio. They've got this SH nine oh five emergency radio. This is a receive only radio good for a single sideband listening, AMFM, shortwave weather band, SOS alarm,

flashlight, phone charger, that kind of thing. Rady SH nine oh five usually forty four ninety nine on sale for twenty nine ninety nine right now. They've got these other items, the Radiodity GA five ten ten watt duel band HT radio two pack of the GA two S radio, the Merz radio there are two hundred and fifty channel Merz radio and the Baufang BF eight eight ST six pack. And they have the Q sixty restock sixty watt high power ten meter radio. That might be fun to look. Oh, I think that's

that one that got some kind of bad reviews. I don't know. I haven't used that one, don't take my word for that. But Radiodity has all of this stuff on sale, and I do have a ten dollars off discount coupon with Radiodity. I will share that along with everything else in the link in the description below. Led Lenzer has a holiday sale going on right now. Let me get back to the front menu here, twenty percent off of all products except for HF headlamps. Now, I've got three or four

four of these flashlights. I've got three of their headlamps. I've got one, no, two of their lanterns. And I've got a I don't know what you'd call it. Really, it's got a like a shop light here. I found it. They had they were running a seventy five percent off sale on Amazon, and one of their one of their shop lights. I don't really see. I've got two of these things right here. These are cool. These K four are keychain lights. These are really neat. I've

got two of these. I connect it. I don't connect it to my keychain, but I have belt loops on most of the jeans that I wear, most of the tactical pants that I wear that it connects to beautifully, my five eleven pants. That connects to beautifully on those. So those are really cool. Great to have just something to kind of e d C with you if you don't want to carry an actual flashlight in your pocket that it has those things have a two or three settings on the brightness, and then

the last setting is a red light. Red lights weren't great for being out in the dear least because the most game and wildlife cannot see redding green lights. So anyway, that's the there's a K six R. That one's a little bit bigger, I think. And the cool thing about those is that that arm you see on the top right there flips out to a USBA port and you plug it straight into a USBA port to charge it, so there's no extra charger or anything like that. That's pretty cool. This cool light

is cool because you can connect it to your cap anyway. Twenty percent off sale of everything at led Lenser. I met these guys at the More Expo two years ago. The owner of the company is a Ham radio operator and he had seen he had seen my channel, so I'm always happy to support Ham radio owned businesses. Go check them out today. Bridgecom Systems has up to fifty percent off of holiday deals right now, new deals every week from

now until the end of the year, I believe. Now it says six days, twelve hours when you're watching this, so that's going to tell you when I'm recording this video. If you click on the link in the description Blow, it'll tell you the time left. It's going to be a day or two from now. But you can get all kinds of holiday packages on eight seven eight, then Tone eight seven eight dual band dmr HT. My opinion is that is the best HT DMRHT on the market right now for Ham

radio operators. It's got a lot of extra features in it that other radios don't have. They've got their Echo GMRS Holiday special going right now, some new Merge radios. Yeah, that was the That was the one that just came out as a new Merge radio kind of neat and then extra sales and discounts on assessories to some of these radios. Here Ultimate Hamshack Pack one hundred

dollars off freebies right here there you go. Okay, so a lot of good stuff from if you're into the any tone stuff into DMR A lot of good stuff from Bridge comp Systems right now. Go check that link in the description Blow as well. Gazelle Tense has a fifteen percent off site wide code right now. Easy fifteen is the code that they're running. It says exclusive Black Friday Deals but the email that I got where I got this link shows that this is this is a new this is a new page here. There's

still an active page here. The email said, uh, holiday sale extended, so you can get some Gazelle tents, gazebos, backpacks, all trained steaks, footprints, which is a pad you put underneath your tent. Several of us will be using the Gazelle tent at the More Expo next April. I've got two of their gazebos, I need to sell the older one, and I've got their T three tent that I bought it. It was the Overland edition, which basically means it comes with the water waterproof bag was not

available. I bought the T three when it was brand new, so as soon as they came out with a waterproof bag for it, I got that as well, so I could throw that in the back of the truck and i't have to worry about it getting wet and all that. But really good, high quality tents. I've been real happy with mine and highly recommend these guys. Renergie has a holiday sale going on right now. They did a Black Friday sale of course, and now they've got a end of the year

Christmas slash New Year's sale. They're just calling it a holiday sale right now. Up to fifty five percent off of flexible solar panels, portable refrigerator batteries, MPPT solar charge controllers, rigid monocrystaline solar panels, four hundred amp hour lithium iron phosphate battery right there. Look that this their Rego four hundred empower battery. Wow, that's pretty stout. So inverters, MPPT charge controllers, a lot of other stuff. So if you're in the market for renergy,

I have several renergy projects. I've been happy with all of them, and I plan to do some more videos with reenergy upcoming on my Overland and Camping an RV channel. I'll let you guys in on a little secret. I might have found a van for purchase. Want to come on that later. This is not a company I've featured before on this shopping series, but this is Isotronantennas dot Com Beliole company. I don't know what that means exactly.

These antennas like you see at the top of the screen right here, these kind of weird, very low profile, very very small, small footprint antennas. Most of them are monoband he's got a sale that goes through. It looks like February tenth. It's kind of neat. I'm curious about picking up ten meters has been so hot lately, I'm curious about grabbing that ten meter intent of myself and trying it out. They want to try out one of these for a while, and this might be the time to do it.

So Isotron Antenna's If you have limited space in your backyard or wherever you want to put up an HF intenna. You don't have a sixty six plus feet to string out a forty meters dipole or an infed halfway or something, or one hundred and thirty feet to do an eighty meter version. You can grab one of these compromised but very well reviewed antennas for either monoband right here, or you can get ten, fifteen to twenty for contest bands. That kind

of thing. Sale going on right now. Check out the link in the description. Blow sharkf has a sixty euro off sale on the open spot four and four pro. They ran something similar to this for Black Friday and then they updated it to call it their xmus sale, so I assume this will go through the end of the year while stocks last extremely fast shipping. Shop now sharkarf dot com for Slash open Spot four. So probably my favorite hot spot that is on the market right now is the open Spot for I like

the software on it better than the pie Star. The pie Star's fine. I'm not trying to dog the pie Star say anything degrading about the pie Star. Pistar hotspots are great, they work very well. They have features that the open Spot doesn't have, But the open Spot has features that that pie Star didn't have as well, so it's kind of I have I have several pi Star hotspots, and I have one of every open Spot from the original one all the way up to four. So I like the open Spot best.

That's my personal opinion. But either way, it's going to work really well for you, and it's if you're interested in one of these. You can get sixty euros off of either model that's currently available right now. I made some updates to my own website about a week ago, so this is

my affilia. If you go to Hamradio two dot com and you click on Affiliates and Deals here at the top, this link These are all my permanent coupons and permanent affiliate links from various stores that give me that support me, support the channel, and I have supported as well. If you look at this yellow text right here at these are my latest best of videos for the New Handworkshop on my YouTube channel. And if you visit my stand store. This is like a This is like link tree, but it's on steroids,

so a lot of extra stuff here. I put this link in my Instagram posts and my Twitter posts, on a lot of my Facebook posts, and I share it from this paid this affiliates and deals page because it also has has a ten percent off of ABR coax right there, seven percent off better Safe Radio by two Way Radios, all affiliates, deals and coupons. That's going to take you right back to where we were a second ago. So try to link everything from this page that I can. I redid these tables

here and I separated some stuff. This is HAMGMRS and two Way Radios. Here this table, there's an Amazon store link in the middle there. And then I got a second table down here for overlanding, outdoor and camping, and these are all the companies that support me and that I recommend because I have used their products here and there periodically in the field, in the shack whatever better safe radio you can always get a seven percent off coupon there.

Flex Radio has a fifty dollars off coupon code there. Gigabarts has five percent off and ten percent off, and you can get to both of those pages here. I've got extra links down here. This is the five percent off page. Five percent off with the coupon code KC five HWB everything at this page. Right here, this battery box is still on sale, which makes me think it's probably gonna go to the end of December. I was thinking they might turn it off after Thanksgiving Black Friday, but they didn't, So

twenty dollars off of the regular price from that battery box. Get an additional five percent with the coupon code of KC five HWB everything on that five percent page. This is my ten percent off page that they originally started for Coax Cable both ABR and Messiemplumi Koaks Cable ten percent off of all of their cable and products. They recently added their custom led signs five inch, seven inch and twelve inch custom led sign. You get your call sign on it a

unique symbol of some sort. You can see a rocket on that one. You can see a radio in the background of that one, kind of like a heartbeat on that one. So many designs to choose from. If you use the coupon code of HR two HR two cables, you can get ten percent off of those prices. Right there and again. This is linked from my gigaparts links on this page. Ham Radio Deluxe twenty percent off with coupon code of Hem Radio twenty, Hem Radio Prep twenty percent off with coupon code

of Jason twenty. Signal Stuff antenna's I get they don't have a sale going right now or a permanent coupon that I have, But I get asked this question all the time about Hey, what's your favorite HT antenna? And the answer are these The Signal Stuff super Elastic Signal stick available in B and C, SMA Mail and SMA Female. So go check that out radiotity. Here's the ten dollars coupon that I talked about earlier that I will link in the

description below. That's that's a link to it right there. You go here, you click on and it loads. It gives you a oh it's fifty back to fifteen dollars. Okay, it used to be fifteen dollars and then they changed it. I guess maybe they change it for Black Friday because they had all the discounts and deals going. So right now it's fifteen dollars. Good, even better. But that's a link to that right there, and that's they're all always there. And then I put our finder on here,

our finders the main website. They have Android radios, as you guys know, main website link there B one plus Android radio, M six Android Radio. They've got tablets. I got one of their P ten tablets. They've got these as L rotors. These are really cool. These are really cool. Right here, they've got we're gonna be doing some videos on that upcoming. And then if you click on their assessories page right there, it shows

you extra batteries, Bluetooth, microphones, and dongles. This one hundred watt multi USB charger hub quick charge three point oh. It's got one quick charge three point oh on it. It's got one PD five USBC and the rest of them are USB two point zero. Now USB two point zero is not great for I mean, as time progresses you're gonna see less and less stuff

that's applicable to USB two point zero. But all of your HT radios, gmrs and HAM radios that'll try large via micro USB or USBC come with a cable that's USBA on the other side of that cable, so you can plug that into any of these ports and it'll charge just fine. I use the quick charge for your phone and the PD charge for maybe your laptop or your tablet, and then put you plug in your radios to these other ports here and the top there that shows that those rings on the top, this is

a wireless charge. You just lay your phone right on top of there where it says our finder with the blue ring, and it will wirelessly charge your smartphone if your smartphone is capable of receiving a wireless charge, which my Android phone charges fast and well on this. I've got one of these at my Galveston house. I plug all my stuff into it when I'm down there, and I've got one of these on my desk at home, so they're really

cool stuff there. Anyway, that's all the stuff for HM radio down there, and then overlanding outdoor and camping twenty three zero DeVos outdoor. Really awesome led camp lights here ten percent off with the light Ranger if you enter your email address right there. So there's that right there. I get asked about that all the time when I take it out. Twenty three zero. I get a couple of their chairs that really like ready project emergency food right there.

That's freeze dried food with a twenty five year shelf life Rnergy. We talked about them already decked. I've got one of these decked shelves in my truck that I really like. This cargo glide that they have, and they just come out with a brand new draw system. I gotta check that out. I don't think I'm gonna get it, but you never know. Front Runner is the main front Runner is the roof rack that I have on my

truck, and I have a lot of assessories that I'm putting together. See videos for all of that on the new Unplugged channel over there as well. So that's everything on and I just I went through that. I took a little bit extra time going through that because I've recently updated this from what it used to look like. And last thing we're talking about today, the Edfong antenna's are back, and well, the Dfong Antenna's are in stock. They

kind of they sell pretty quickly. They sell pretty quickly. In fact, it looks like these duel bands, it looks like these are out interesting. I must have sold some this morning that I didn't look at yet. Okay, so Ed Fong Antenna's, but I traded emails with doctor Fong earlier this week. I do have a shipment on the way. I got plenty of GMRS antenna's in stock right now, and I will be having more of these PVC and dual band roll up Antenna's coming in soon. We've got the long

sleeve T shirts and the hoodies and stock right now. These are shipping directly. I've got these hoodies here with me. Pre ordered these last year. I've got them in black and navy blue. The navy blue ones are really comfortable. I really like the way they did those navy blue ones. Mystery boxers are sold out. I'm gonna be working on more of those soon.

Don't have any right now. Sticker packs. Frank's got his new sticker pack right there, and then I've got all these sticker packs here that I've updated as well. So more stuff is going to be added to that soon as well. So all of the stuff that you guys buy through this website does help to support the channel. So I appreciate you guys at least coming over here, taking a look around every once in a while and seeing what's on the website. So that's everything for Friday, December eighth. You guys,

stay warm out there. I hope to talk to you soon. I hope to see you in the chat on this coming Sunday's live stream seven pm. And you guys have a good weekend.

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