Many blog readers are quickly jumping to the text looking for photos of gear they absolutely have to have. But my gift suggestion has nothing to do with that sort of gift.
Many of Americans are hurting right now from a job loss or out of work due to the government shutdown. So, instead of buying a new radio or more radio parts how about spending some of that cash to help your fellow Americans by providing resources to organizations that are hosting meals for those affected. Your local Salvation Army, St Vincent DePaul and other church/civic organizations will turn your cash donation into food to feed the hungry. Any amount, even small amounts of cash will help.
We all know this situation is likely to get worse and the end is at least another three years away. It is an impossibility to explain to those affected how tariffs are such a good deal.
If an IC7300 cost $1000 one of those organizations has said they can feed several hundred Americans Thanksgiving Dinner for that amount.
I will have an empty seat at my Thanksgiving table this year and so it pains me to think that many of our fellow Americans will be at an empty table, one with no food. Think about that in the context of the cost of a new 90,000 square foot ball room at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
When we as a nation turn on our back on our own, then we shake the very foundation of our core founding principles.
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Them that know, know we have responsibilities to our fellow Americans who are suffering right now.
73's
Pete N6QW