>>17920
Fuck winter? Fuck you.

>>12240
Where can one get those Gel pads?

>>18038
Mine had the label created for about a week before it shipped. They bring huge batches from the week to USPS so that's why it's sitting there. Ivan is pretty responsive so you could drop him a line if you get nervous.

>>18040

Still waiting. It's been over a month and no change in status. Also no email response from Ivan.

I backed this project from the start, I patiently waited for 4 years.

Today after being informed my order was to ship 2 months ago I finally got a response from Ivan. I had emailed and called for 6 weeks hopefully trying to get a response. So I had no choice but to contact my bank. Here is the response I got.

"I was under the impression we had notified all our customers involved in Rhodie investigations. I have nothing I can say that will make you feel better, but my heart hit the floor when I discovered you were not informed.

As I hope you can understand, we are not in the business of stealing from our customers, but the amount of variables and chaos has basically brought it to that for you.

Here is what is going on.

1. Atlantco, the people who constructed the BDUs, discovered 2 weeks before the end of production, that even with our increased safety margins, they ran out of fabric for the boonie hats. Cutting us short 115 Boonie hats. We dictated who got boonie hats by shipping orders that were Boonie only, then shipping the orders involving boonie hats chronologically. So the last 115 orders for boonies get their money back instead.

The tricky part of refunding customers, is that the payment processor used at the time is now defunct and we can no longer use them to process refunds. The most timely and organized method we had was putting the $19.99 into your kstore account as a temporary form of a refund. This is not us telling you "worry not you can still spend money on us", but the best way to give you some form of your money back while we work out a check or paypal money.

2. We do not have your UBAC in size 2XL-Reg. Ethier Atlantco made a order mistake, or your UBAC was mispacked. Part of what we have been working on, is clearing through Rhodie Returns and order corrections to recover your UBAC in this size to send to you. This is what we have been waiting on currently, but have still not found anything. We have UBACs in 2XL-LONG that I can send instead. Otherwise I can refund you along with the boonie hat.

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I know no one really cares at this moment but, I did want to say that Ivan did correspond with me and we have reached a solution.

Ivan if you read this, I will post pics ASAP... my only question is, how neckbeard /k/ommando should I go?

Sorry if this is an unacceptable post necro, but is there any chance of this still happening? I can't find this pattern anywhere.

This should be in /g/ear...
But my answer is Vietnam War-era tiger-stripe, like this CISCO tiger boonie, issued to recon units, MAC-V SOG & CIDG.

US Army Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) of the 173rd Airborne as they sit, in camouflage, in a helicopter in War Zone C during Operation Junction City in the Vietnam War, Tay Ninh Province

Whatever is applicable to the situation and biome.

Interdasting. I am excited to wear these to the range, I guess the TR22 would be appropriate for outdoors and the TR45s for inside shootan.

I've really enjoyed mine. The lenses were developed with sport shooters in mind, so they've done quite well for me shooting trap.

fuck I broke the nosepiece thing

>>18106
Two months, almost to the day.

The mind boggles.

https://www.amazon.com/Edge-Eyewear-DB116-Banraj-Glasses/dp/B0001YXRIC

My new favorite sunglasses. Pretty much just like older M-Frames, but they're $8 and MIL_PRF 31013 3.5.1.1 compliant.

Bretty fuggin gud.

And remember to keep your guns and powder dry.
Container, Individual, Aerial delivery, Rifle, 1st pattern, (Rigger Modified)
These are the cases also known as the "Modified 1st pattern Griswold bag". Details include authentic snap and grommet closure, cloth loops and snap, interior construction, snap hook and webbing hanger, and military nomenclature ink stamp. Our cases are made slightly longer to fully and comfortably fit the disassembled M1 rifle inside without stretching the canvas. It includes a release cord to close the case. We used custom woven white harness webbing that includes the black ticking with a milspec harness snap hook. The canvas used is the durable and authentic cotton duck in the Od#3 shade. In this rigger-made version we take our standard model container and modify it with the addition of three lift-the-dot tabs to close the container instead of using the lacing closure. This modification was most commonly made by the airborne units fighting in the Southern France campaign. http://www.wwiiimpressions.com/riggershop.htm

the disassembled M1

Since hard plastic rifle cases usually cost a lot, I typically use cheap padded soft plastic zippered rifle bags.

>>18084
yes i do and i love it, not much more to say though its nice quality, but it should be for the price, it is super convenient that it folds up nice and small in its own attached pouch.

if you like ponchos, i would definitely say get this one its the best i have ever owned.

Pilot Officer Paton and Sergeant Pilot Crompton leaning on the barrel of a gun on a tank buster, Tunisia, May 1943.

Looks like a UK Hawker Hurricane with two 40mm anti-tank cannons.

One of the twelve thousand goumiers in the French corps, irregular Berber tribesmen known for their agility and ruthlessness.

U.S. Army Signal Corps, Bell & Howell 35mm Eyemo 71-Q (PH-330-G) motion picture camera used during World War II.

>>17546
>>17545
We should get the guy from the Wound Channel to test it out, I'd trust him to put it through its paces.

>>17547
I actually just sent him a message with the link, we'll see if he's interested.

>>17546
Hate to hear that you hate your carrier so much, because I was just about to buy that exact style. Does anyone have similar recommendations in that price range?

Where do you guys usually get your OTVs? If they work well I guess I'll take a shot at purchasing one.

>>17554
I ended up selling my banshee on ebay and buying a Ferro Concepts Slickster from The Great White North. A little less overt but has a little less working space than something like a banshee, but scale-able from plates only under a cover shirt to a light magazine/essentials loadout to pairing with a chest rig for the full package.

For something with a little more space to work with from the start, I'd look at Beez Combat Systems or Mayflower for a good budget option.

>>17011
Yeah I was thinking of getting a LDG autotuner but ended up going with a MFJ-904, a bit cheaper and I kinda figure I should learn how to use one instead of just pushing a button.

Can anybody comment on the Bearcat 75 or 125? I've decided I'd like to get a scanner so that I can have it monitor the 2m/70cm simplex frequencies, mainly because of how slow the scan function is on Baofengs, and the limited frequency coverage.

One thing I'm mainly interested in is the "close by" function, mainly in how it works, is it effective and can it be set to only respond to memory/band frequencies or does it just respond to anything?

>>17438

I'm not particularly skilled or knowledgeable in the context of amateur radio, but I am a helluva researcher, and your interests happen to at least momentarily coincide with mine, so I'll look into the matter and report back to you.

>One thing I'm mainly interested in is the "close by" function, mainly in how it works, is it effective and can it be set to only respond to memory/band frequencies or does it just respond to anything?

Right off the bat, this sounds prima fascie like something that might operate based on APRS or similar. But again, most of my knowledge is heavily black-boxed, so I'll have to do a bit of reading and get back to you.

Image unrelated and chosen at random nearly at random.

Baofengtech just brought out a triband version of the UV-5. Does 1.25m offer any benefits or is it mainly just a secondary band to 2 and 70?

https://baofengtech.com/uv-5x3
http://www.miklor.com/COM/Review_5X3.php

CB, FRS/GMRS regs are being modernized.

http://swling.com/blog/2017/05/fcc-to-legalize-cb-dxing-and-boost-frs-power/

Amongst other things, FRS/GMRS radios will no longer be licensed, just FRS or GMRS only ones, but FRS will be raised to 2w of power. Digital is now allowed on GMRS. Voice scramblers are banned entirely so get some BF-888s while you can I guess.

US WW2 Colt M1911A1 with sweetheart grips from a crashed airplane over Germany.

This appears to be a Swedish Husqvarna m1887 7.5mm Nagant revolver with sweetheart Ava Gardner grips.

>6m and 10m have extremely variable performance

You got that right. But for long distance.

They have very sporadic long distance performance. On summer days, the E-layer of the ionosphere well, ionizes, and then skips are possible. I think the farthest I got on 6m was Enid, Oklahoma, from basically Casa Grande, AZ.

Same goes for 10m. Farthest was North Dakota on E-layer.

However, despite 10m being HF, they both act like regular VHF. Good for local ground-wave stuff, and plenty stable. I could reliably hear the 'local' 10m repeater, about 50 miles away.

I have a feeling the use of these bands dates back to WWII, when the upper end of the VHF spectrum wasn't all that practical for good cheap day-to-day comms.