The Icom IC-718 is a nice, relatively small and compact transceiver. It may have some sick things, like bad AGC in SSB, big steps in volume control at low levels or very noisy receiver. But overall, it is a very nice transceiver for it’s price.
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Bands are not dead
The bands are definitely not dead, even in the sun activity minimum. Why does it need a contest to bring them alive? Receiving many stations with 9+ on 15m and 10m bands. But only in contest. Why not call on those bands between contests? They do work, even now!
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Just got it online, registration will work today!
Try if you are a ham radio operator!
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PostgreSQL: create a user, a database and grant accesses
The following step-by-step will let you create a user, a database (DB) and grant full access to the user to this DB.
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Want to set Thunderbird to always sort messages in some order?
OK, here’s some off-the-cuff documentation.
Prefs are named as follows; first three apply to Mail and RSS folders, the
second three to Newsgroups.