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E1543: Ham Radio Spring Break Sales

Apr 07, 2025•21 min
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Here are the links for today's video:
📣R&L Daily Deals - http://hr2.li/5fsa3
📣Ecoflow Spring Sale - https://us.ecoflow.com/?aff=668 Save 5% with Coupon Code - 25EFSSHAM5
📣SharkRF Openspot 4 Sale - https://www.sharkrf.com/ 
📣Radioddity Coupon - https://radioddity.refr.cc/jasonjohnston
📣American Radio Supply Coupon - https://mailchi.mp/americanradiosupply.com/american-radio-supply-radio-part-store-03252025-709177-13363283?e=bfd9599bfb
📣Ham Radio Prep - https://hamradioprep.com/license-courses
Save 20% with code JASON20 
📣Impulse Electronics Sale - https://www.impulseelectronics.com/panel-mount-accessories/?utm_source=bayengage&utm_medium=campaign-email&utm_campaign=2nd-follow-up-march-2025-panel-mount-accessories-sale 
Coupon Code PANEL20 
📣Bridgecom March Mania Mystery Deal Sign up - https://www.bridgecomsystems.com/pages/big-deal-vip-opt-in?ref=kiiqzu1uu7cb
📣Bridgecom Giveaway - https://www.bridgecomsystems.com/pages/mobile-mania-giveaway-2025?ref=kiiqzu1uu7cb
📣Ed Fong J-Pole Antennas - https://grapevineamateurradio.com/collections/antennas/products/ed-fong-j-pole-antennas-dual-band-220-and-roll-up?variant=32440756568243
📣FaraJay Antennas - https://vfcomms.com/product-category/antenna/x/jason/
📣My Amazon Store - https://www.amazon.com/shop/hamradio2.0
📣Most popular item on my Amazon Store - https://amzn.to/4hynN51
📣Toughmax USB Drive - https://amzn.to/4ipN1Uo
📣My Gigaparts Page - https://hr2.li/gigaparts
Save 5% with code KC5HWB
📣March Giveaway for an IC-7300 - https://hamradio2.com/march25
📣My Unplug:d Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@UNPLUGD/videos Commissions can be earned on Affiliate Links

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ham-radio-2-0--2042782/support.

Transcript

Speaker 1

Good morning, good afternoon, Happy Friday, Happy spring break. Got some spring break sales to talk to you about today. Good to be back in the shack for the sales videos, So follow along and let's go. We usually start these at RNL dot com. This special today only that you see at the top of this page. This changes every twenty four hours. Today he's got a lightning arrestor one point five to fifty four megahertz, so basically that'll cover the UH one hundred and sixty to six meter bands

all through HF and including six meters there. Good thing to have in your shack, good part of a kit, so always welcome to see those. He's got all of the new icon and Yazu radios up here on his front paging, and also the new Kenwood seventy five, the new icon Ic twenty seven to thirty Bravo, which is a dark screen. I've got one of these. He is going to be making a video on it soon t h nine eight hundred ft eight ninety one, several other

things on the page here. I was in Ohio a few weeks ago and I actually got to walk through the store at his STOREFRONTORNL dot com and his physical store, not his website store, but his physical store. I got to walk through. He's got a really cool shop. There, some neat stuff going on in there, and they've been a sponsor of this channel for a long time. Every time I get comments about RNL in one of my videos, everyone says how great they are. So go out there

and shop RNL today. Check out their daily specials. Open this web page every morning when you first get on the computer and see what daily special has changed. Ecoflow is offering a five percent discount for my viewers right now. They have a spring sale going on right now, and if you go to the link that I will share in the description below, they've got this fifty nine percent

off thing going for basically the general public. And on top of that, you can save an extra five percent with the code of two five ef SS HAM five So two five like the year twenty twenty five ef ss Ecoflow Spring Sale or Echo Foxtrot CRSRA HAM five

So again that's a special discount code. They are giving me and my viewers on several things for their sale that's happening during spring break, and one of those things includes a new smart generator four thousand that they sent me and you'll be seeing a video on that soon. So check out ecoflow in their sale if you have any interest in off grid power power stations, solar generators, solar panels, battery backup systems, all kinds of good stuff.

I've got this Delta Pro right here, been using it a lot lately, very good battery backup system and battery powered system. Use that. I use that for three two and a half to three months at the Hunting Lease this year to power my RV and it worked wonderfully well. So go check out ecoflow today. Shark RF has a spring sale on their open spot for Pro usually two hundred and seventy nine euros down to two fifty nine

euros right now, extremely fast shipping. Shakraf dot com forward slash open spot for They're still offering the mic M one k E standalone transit. It's not really a transceiver. It's a computer with a computer speaker and a computer microphone in that connects to your Wi Fi and allows you to connect to all the different digital voice services. I've got one of these. It's not a real radio since it doesn't transmit R, but it is a way to connect to DMR, Dstar system Fusion P twenty five

and all the other things. And so far I've really been liking mine. I've really been liking the one that I have. But if you just want a normal olde open spot to use in your vehicle or with an HT I use this one in my vehicle when I'm on road trips and talk into a couple of system Fusion rooms in Texas. And so I've got this connected to why SEF Reflector. So you can save twenty euros right now. Go check that out. The link to this and everything else will be in the description. Blow Today,

Radiodity has a March flash sale. Several of these Zygu items are on sale. This dB twenty five mini mobile GD eighty eight DMR radio an HFO eight portable telescoping antenna. I've got one of these. I need to do a review on that kind of a need intent. I'm curious to see how well it will work on HF The Zaigu XPA one twenty five B one hundred wade amplifier. This amplifier is really cool. You can interface this with numerous radios, not just Radiodity. I've used it with my

Icon MAXT seven O five. I've used it with my G ninety. I've used it with my X sixty one hundred, so really cool amplifier, and it'll actually do about one hundred and ten one hundred twenty's depend on what band you're on, So go check that out. I have a fifteen dollars off of twenty five dollars or more coupon that I share with my subscribers. I will share that link in the description. Blow it may or may not work on top of this sale, but there's one way to find out. Go out there, try it and see

what happens. American Radio Supply has a fifteen dollars off of forty five dollars or more coupon right now. The coupon code is five three seven eight two five. They make adapters, connectors, cables, are have switches, power plugs, attenuators, all kinds of good stuff like that mounts. This is new Chevrolet Ram truck and g Ford. Hey, let's go to Ford here and see what those guys offer. But you can see here what they offer. Got it a

lot of good stuff here. I've got a couple of connector kits that I keep with me in my Poda bag, and I've got a couple of I've got several adapters and power plugs, power put Anderson style power poles that I use from them. And it's always good because they they have this coupon that comes up about, I don't know, one or two times a month something like that. This one expires March twenty fifth, so four days from now

at the time of this recording. Go check that out and use that discount coupon if you're in the market for anything like that. Ham Radio Prep still offers a twenty percent discount from all of their courses with the coupon of Jason twenty. Get a gift card right here, send a gift card to somebody who wants to get their amateur radio license. Go check that out. Use the coupon code of Jason twenty on all this stuff too. This go back here. This MCom course has been really

popular lately. I'm not clicking on the right thing, I guess courses, but this one right here, that's what I'm looking for. This Emergency communications one on one course has been real popular lately. Again, twenty percent discount on that as well. Go through that and you might learn a couple of things. I learned a couple of things or two about that MCom course, and I thought it was very well put together. Whether you're new to radio or whether you've been around for a long time, I think

that that is a really good course. HF Masterclass, same story with that and Ham Radio Basics. You can get all of those with a twenty percent discount. Jason twenty is the coupon code on that. Go check them out and don't miss out on their discount that they offer me and my viewers. Electronics. Now, I did a video about one of their battery boxes a year or so ago something like that. Ran into him at the Zion Hamfest out in Utah last summer, and he makes some

really cool stuff. Right now, he's doing a twenty percent discount off of their off of his panel mounts. So like these voltage LED displays, these USB connections, USBA, USBC, triple panel mounts, switches and whatnot, twenty percent discount off of panel mounts. The coupon code is panel Panel twenty and this is an email. If you click on the email, it takes you to this page right here, and this

is all this panel moount accessory. So it doesn't say anything about this on this page, but if you use the coupon code of Panel twenty p A N E L twenty, it'll give you a twenty percent discount off of all these prices. So if you're interested in building a battery box or putting an ext report in the battery box you have, or something like that, or maybe adding some of these to your go kit or to your vehicle, this is a good time to go. Check

that out. Link will be in the description below. Bridgecomb is doing something, something big is coming. Join the vip list for exclusive early access to March's game changing deal. Now, Bridge Comm's kind of they kind of do the same thing over and over again. They just add a lot of packages to a retail price of their any Tone radios because any Tone doesn't really allow them to give many discounts off of the radio itself. Let's see amateur Okay,

get on the vip list. There we go. But they come up with different packages where you can get a lot of free assessories for your any Tone radios, and they're usually a pretty good deal. If you're getting into to dMRI amateur radio with any of these radios, that they offer. I still believe that these any tone radios are some of the best d MR radios for amateur on the market today. They must be out of these, it says. This D one sixty eight, which I've already

done a video about, says pre order. So this five to seven eight, I've got a couple of videos I'm working on With the five seven eight, I had one of those for a while. I bought that new when it was brand new. The eight seven eight UV two plus still my favorite HT and the D one six eight is almost as good as the eight six eight.

It's got a couple less features. The D one say, D one six eight has a couple less features than the eight seven eight UV two plus, but it's a little bit smaller, it's cheaper, a little bit less money. So you can get all of that done today. So check out bridgecom and let's see if they have a giveaway current giveaway. There's a bridgecom giveaway Mobile Mania giveaway. Enter for free. Like to try to keep up with this as much as I can. There we go, Okay,

you got ten days left on this. You can win a five to seven eight trunk lip mount bluetooth speaker the mobile training courses and the triband antenna total value of eight hundred and eighty two dollars. Sign up right here fill this format. I'll share a link to this in the description blow as well, So go check that out Bridgecomb sale going on for March Mania today. I have Edfong antenna's in stock. The dual band in PVC is in stock. The GMRS is in stock, which you

also put into a PVC. The roll up dual bands are out of stock. But I have another shipman. I got a shipment notification from Edfong yesterday, which means and he's pretty quick on shipping. He ships them to me priority mail. He's coming out of California, so I don't expect i'll see that today, but I bet, I bet it'll be here tomorrow. So it's usually about two days to get antenna's from him. So those will be updated on the website once they are received. Got about six

different variations here. These are always really good selling antennas. I usually can't keep these in stock, especially when I mention them on a Friday sales video like I'm doing right now. As soon as I mentioned that, people go out and gobble them up and I run out of stock real quick, so go check that out today. A lot of them are in PVC. Several of them are

roll up. I keep one of these roll ups in my FtM six thousand go bag that I take to hamfests and on camping trips, and it does really well. You just throw it up on the pot to twenty mast or some other mast, or throw it up in tree and get up a little bit higher and have a mobile radio with a roll up intena works really well. Faraja. Speaking of working really well, Farajay has a couple of new offerings. Now they make antennas out of fabric. It's

a Faraday cloth type material which apparently is conductive. A lot of guys are using Faraday cloth for a ground plane on an HF intenna in a park. Now, I gotta try that myself. I haven't tried that yet. But these are made to cut specifically into a J pole for single band Ham radio, well Ham radio and other band. So you got their two meters right there, got six meters right there. He sent me one of these six meters. It is massive. The thing is taller than I am.

It's freaking huge. So I got to go out in the field and do some testing with that six meter intenna because there's a couple of six meter repeaters near me. I just I need to do that fara Ja for seventy centimeters right there. That's great if you have a DMR radio or a GMRS or not GMRS, but DMR radio on UHF or some other stuff on UHF. If you're doing a Scott All Star node like I am, then you can use a seventy centimeter there. He does have a GMRS one right here's the GMRS antenna and

just brand new. He just sent me one of these as well. This is a nine hundred megahertz fara Jay atenna for mesh tastic. So you can add this antenna to your meshtastic node and get out even further with your mestastic node, maybe even hanging the meshtastic node. The most of these nodes kind of they don't weigh very much at all. And these Fara Jay intennas come with the loop and the hook at the top with the islet that you can see at the top of the

picture there. You can hang that in a tree, hang it from your ceiling in a hotel room, which I've done that before several different places. Pretty cool to reach out further with your meshtastic note as well, so check out pharajavfcoms dot com is. The website link will be in the description blow. This is my Amazon store. Sales kind of come and go on Amazon, but every time you guys use the link to my Amazon store, it

can earn me commissions from certain items. Not everything, I don't think, but you know, most everything on Amazon has some sort of commission with it, and the more you guys use that, the more earnings I can make and the more it supports the channel. So I really appreciate you guys using my Amazon link whenever you can. The most popular item for whatever reason, because I haven't talked about this at all, but the most popular item on my Amazon store this month has been this Balfang little

stubby SMA female antenna. They have a five percent or i'm sorry, a thirty one percent discount on that right now. I'll put a link to it in the description blow this month, and this one's still popular this month, not quite as much. I made a video about an off grid Windows ten box, and I was talking about this verbatim sixty four giit tough Max USB drive. I put all of my operating system install on this drive and

I can do it. I made it into a bootable drive where you can boot into to either Linux or Windows from this drive. It's only sixty four gigs, so it's not that big, but you can also store I've got like three of these, honestly. You can also store files on it moving back and forth. And they're a tough Max drive, so they're durable. Great for a poda or a soda pack. Great to keep information on and put it in a pack and not have to worry

about it getting damaged. So that's been a popular thing on my Amazon store for the last couple of months, and you can see it's twenty percent off now as well, so go check that out. To put a link to all that in the description below. Several things have been added to my gigaparts page since the last time I made one of these Friday videos. These are my two Explorer bags here, well technically this one on the far left is my ham Rate two point zero special Edition backpack.

This is a waterproof sailcloth bag very similar to the x Pac brand, which is which is a trademarkdem it's not exactly the same, but it's similar or a Dynama type material, which I believe is I believe that one's trademark two. I'm not sure, but right here it says the ham Radio two point of specially just is made from a multi layer laminate fabric used for racing sailboat sails that is waterproof and highly durable. So I've got

one of these. I got. You know that I helped them design this, so of course they gave me one for free. But I love this bag. You can see it also has red stitching if you can get close enough to it. I can't really enlarge the picture any more than that, but it's a completely blacked out bag with red stitching. Red stitching to signify my my logo that I use. So that one sells for about ninety eight dollars. You can save a five percent discount with the coupon code of k C five HWB And then

they have and this is a limited stock. Once these are gone, they're gone. That once those special edition waterproof bags sell out, they are gone. This one here will be around for a little bit longer. This is the Explore two point zero system to replace their older Explorer bag. This one does not have red stitching, it's all black, it is not made out of waterproof material, and it's about thirty dollars cheaper. You can also save a five percent discount on this bag with the code of KC

five HWB. So these bags are something I've been working with Giga Parts with for a while and they give me discounts to pass on to you guys, So go check those out. They've got the new battery box in stock with the sixty five power delivery USB Sport in it. I've been using this. It works just as well as the old one, works actually better than the old one because of the power delivery system in it. This rig expert stuff. I did videos on all this recently. They're

giving me a five percent discount on all that. You can get five percent discount on most everything from Intelletron. There's this Shark mini hamstick there untilron clock right there. A lot of the Intellitron stuff is on here, and if you find something from Intellitron that's not on here, then let me know. I'll ask them to add it. They're supposed to. They just they've added a lot to their Intellitron line over the last couple of months, and all of that should be on here, but I've found

there's a couple things missing. So I just usually when I find something, I say, hey, add that to my page there, and they'll do it. They'll add that, so you can get a five percent discount on all that stuff as well. All this stuff from power Film, all this stuff from our Finder. Five percent discount off of all of this stuff, Chameleon, Nintenna's Explore qrz ones, Faraday bags, Faraday sleeves, all of the Explorer line, all of the inserts for the Explorer backpacks, both the new and old.

They're all the same because I all have Vilkro inside of them. Here's the Intelligron stuff, a lot of the Intellitron stuff. Pretty much all the Intellitron stuff should be added to this page. Five percent discount case five HWB. You can see this page is like fifteen pages. Wow, they've added a lot of stuff to this page. So thanks to gigaparts for their support. Yeah, nineteen pages worth the stuff. Nightcore all of their flashlight battery systems are

added to that page. You can say five percent discount with KC five HIVV on everything on that page. So go sign up for my giveaway that I'm doing at the end of this month. Actually it'll probably be in the first part of April. We gave away an Icy seven oh five a few weeks ago for the February giveaway, and I gave away a FT eight ninety one for the January giveaway. I did that during the first part of February, so I call it the January giveaway because you have all of January to sign up and we

give the radio away. Actually we actually do the giveaway in February. You had all of February to sign up for the Icy seven o five. We gave that away in March, so right now, throughout the whole month of March, you have opportunity to sign up for this giveaway. It's going to be for an Icy seventy three hundred, brand new in a box shipped directly shipped from me. But

I got it ship directly from icon. Icon most gracious enough to give me a small discount on that radio that I could do a giveaway with, So go sign up for that today at the link of the description blow which is ham Radio two dot com. Forward Slash March twenty five. You'll come up to this page. You sign up, put your name, email addressing, call sign in there, and good luck to you on that. Immediately following this video, I will have a new video on my unplugged channel.

I've been trying to post about once a week on that channel. The most popular one I've done recently is this I'm done with Forest River. I'll get an ad on my own channel. What do you know? I'm done with Forest River Salem FSXRV. That's been a popular one right there. These eco flow videos that I make over here are pretty popular as well, So go check out unplugged. Seems like about two or three times a month I get I mentioned something about this channel and I'll get

a comment and win video. I didn't know you had a off grid and RV and overland type channel. What is it? So I'll put a link to it in the comment for anyone who asks. But starting a week from Sunday on March thirtieth, we're going to start a monthly podcast SLASH live stream just talking about RV stuff RV talk live stream. I invited several other guys onto that live stream that either own RVs or a couple of the guys living their RVs full time. They travel around kind of like what I want to do. So

we're going to start that a week from Sunday. So check out this channel. Add it to your list of subscribe channels so that you can keep up with everything I do on this channel as well. Seventy three guys. Everyone had a good Friday. Hope to talk to you soon. Hope to talk to you this weekend. Twelve meter FT eight is open. I've been working eight on twelve meters for the last two or three days, so come find me on FT eight. Seventy three

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