I bought a pretty basic safety razor from maggard about 10 years ago and still love it. The biggest thing to learn and invest in is what blades and lather you like. I started off buying a blade sampler pack from them and settled on astra blades. i’ll change up my lather/soap sometimes. Also a nice brush is good to have.

Oh no

If you say you have no use for this, it’s because you don’t get out much.

I second what @NO5IG says, @suzyq. Take the test and go get his call sign :)

Ha I have almost the same story. Grandfather talking to people on his radio all day, missing dinner, and my grandma getting mad at him. He’s one of the reasons I got into ham radio! Thanks for sharing your story!

No, this is patrick

If the talking isn’t what you’re interested in:

There’s also digital modes that let your computer do all of the talking through your radio.

Morse code(cw) where you’re not talking so-to-speak, but dit’in and dah’in at someone else.

APRS for geolocation and also a few other messaging services.

Also the fun of building new things.

That urge for a new radio for me looks like comparison hypnosis or rabbit holing.

I’ll see someone post on here/mastodon about a new radio or technology. Then I start checking out the specs. Then I start checking the specs of similar items. On to deciding if I need the newest model though because it has a few more features that I “need”. Oh wait, the other thing has a better this or that.

4 hours later, I have my credit card out and about to check out and then it dawns on me:

Oh wait, do I actually need this?

…yes. Of course. SWIPE

Also the 7300 is great. Congrats and nice find in Japan.