Despite having several VHF/UHF portable radios, most of the time I don't carry them with me, but my cellphone I do.
This is mainly because its not always very handy to carry a lot of stuff around , so I was wondering if there isn't a portable ham radio yet that is a cellphone at the same time?

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Recently I was looking for a low budget antenna to use indoor just so I could monitor the local 2m and 70cm repeater.
It had to be an antenna not taking to much space, that I could build with parts that I still had lying around, but nevertheless still had a good SWR so I could transmit on it as well.

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Looking for some spare parts on e-bay by accident I came across this very interesting DIY kit.

The full title on e-bay was "M328 Multi-functional Transistor Tester DIY Kit LCR ESR Meter Signal Generator"

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