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being a member of the community. Okay, it is holiday time again,
Black Friday, Christmas upcoming, so that means it's time for mystery boxes to
be a thing again. And this is a mystery box I got from Richard
at Main Trading Company. I will share a link. He sold out of
him like half hour after I think he put It wasn't a half hour.
I think he put like five hundred of these things up and he sold out
that same day. It wasn't a half hour. I sold mine out in
a half hour, but I only had had fifty. He had like five
hundred and they're all gone. But I'm told he's going to do another one.
So let's check out what's in the mystery box to see what kind of
stuff you can expect if he puts another listing up sometime before the end of
twenty twenty three. I actually ordered two boxes from Richard, So this is
two boxes put together like this. Now, I will say that I broke
my own rule, because when I do mystery boxes, I put together fifty
or one hundred mystery boxes, and I put them all together, and I
weigh them, and then I put them on the website. And when and
when you guys come along and buy two or three or four at a time,
it kind of messes up my process because I've got them all packaged individually,
and if I have them set at four pounds each, which is roughly
what they are, it costs more to ship two four pound boxes than it
does to ship one eight pound box. So I end up having to take
all the boxes and put them together. Somebody orders two boxes, I don't
ship them two boxes. I combine two boxes and then ship them out.
But that's an extra step. So that's why those that's why those multiple orders
take longer. But I broke my own rule, like I said, and
I order two boxes from Richard because I mean, you know why not.
So we're gonna open this right now. Get my scissors out here. Okay,
there's not a full radio in there. I thought I had gotten an
icy V eighty. Let's switch over to the overhead again. So this is
the first thing I pulled out at the top. Oh no, that is
a that is a full radio in there. Okay, it's very lightweight.
Okay, then VHF Icon radio. That's pretty cool. I think he was
giving these away. He was selling these for like a really discounted price with
the purchase of other radios there a while back. All right, so what
else do we have here? Icon microphone, that's neat. That's a little
antenna for like a hot spot. It looks like it's an SMA female connection
on that. I guess you could put that on a I don't know if
that's dual band or not. It's an Icon antenna though that might be for
this radio. Actually maybe it's just two meters. There's an icon pouch or
you know, leather covering for probably presumably for that radio as well. Oh
wow, there's there's a bunch of stuff in here, a whole bunch of
stuff in there. You see a wallplate in there with with a coaxial cable
connections. So all right, we're gonna go through all this stuff. So
I cause I want to I want to show everybody whatever all was in here,
that icon stuff was on top, so that was a pleasant surprise.
Let's just move that to the side. Another antenna. Let's see, Oh,
that's some Ethernet connections for a wallplate. More icon bags. That is
some kind of larger radio leather case with a belt clip on it, maybe
a moltor roll Its style. Actually, I think that says icon underneath it
too. I see, oh, right there, so maybe that's that's for
a different radio, though I don't know what that would be. For another
one of those cases. There a couple of cases, belt clip for something.
This is a Oh that's like a TV coaxial S video connection or maybe
RCA. No, that's an RCA. Well, that one doesn't look like
RCA RCA male to female. Maybe I don't I'm not sure. Rc extension
cable. More Ethernet connections for a wallplate. Another one of these antennas.
Another IC case. A bunch of these. I got a bunch of these
last year. These are XLR connections for microphones and whatnot. I don't know
what that's used for exactly. I got a bunch of these in his mystery
box last year. I think I put them in my mystery boxes. Most
of this stuff will probably go into my mystery boxes, guys, That's probably
what I'll do with most of it, all right, Shoot more of that.
Oh, there's a right angle. It's like a you put an NMO
mount there and mount this to a vehicle or side of your shack. Maybe,
I don't know. More antennas or battery clips. Another style of case.
I com F twenty one nylon case with belt loop. All right,
this is cool. Two sets of parachord here. I like the color on
that. Been looking for some I'm keeping that and looking at some paracord.
More of the same. Antenna's belt clips these guys here belt clip. This
is from two boxes. I haven't even gotten down the halfway yet. So
these wall plates antenna's antenna's antennas. This is a I don't know if these
are all the same model or not. But this oh Icon Inc. Made
in China, FA like Foxtrot Alpha Dash Sierra eight three, Victor Sierra.
So look that up. I don't know what the heck is that that is
for. I think that they're all the same or no, I'm wrong.
This one is a Foxtrot Alpha Sierra Charlie zero two uniform. So those are
all different. That one doesn't say made in China, that just says Icon
mine. So I'm not sure. All right, more of the same,
just stuff here. Another cool, cool little microphone here, the VS one
MC microphone. I think that's specifically for this radio here. I believe antenna.
This guy, what the heck is this? I think these go make
go with those belt clips I've been pulling out. He's right here. Yeah,
it looks like those are part of a belt clip that came apart or
something. I'm not sure what. I'm not sure what that is. More
of those maybe those go together. They all look the same, so they're
either all broken that Yeah, that looks like it's broken right there. Not
sure? All right? What is this BC? Next thing? This is
some kind of power supply with a UK plug on it. Okay, that's
an Icon power supply. He's got a UK plug on it though, Uh
no, no, adapter's not gonna do me any good. All right,
all right? The second box is uh okay, So what he did was
he taped these two boxes together, but he didn't tape the open ends together
because at the bottom of this first box is a taped second box. Let
me open up the second box real quick. I'm gonna reuse those boxes from
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sponsoring this video. Okay, part two, and it looks like some of
the stuff in this box is a little bit different, although a lot of
it's the same. Obviously, we've got the icon again. It's another one
of those UK style chargers. This is different here, walks and charger.
Okay, yeah, it's just the standard desktop walks on HT charger. So
it does have the DC cable connection in the back, so you could use
this to connect to a twelve system if you wanted to. Okay, more
of these pouches antennas TRS cables. It looks like three point five millimeter TRS
cables. Single ring sleeve there. Uh, there's a splitter of some sort
for your TV stuff. More antennas. That's an Icon OPC two two seven
to four connection cable. I don't know what that goes to, but you
can look that up. OPC two two seven four TV output powers, some
kind of TV cable from Icon. More trs cables. Another one of these
microphones stuff here that another sleeve, more of these. All of these belt
clips of the look like they're missing this piece, but then the pieces are
in the bottom of the box and they look like they're broken. But I
find it highly unlikely that they're all broken in the exact same way. So
there's probably a way that these go together. Here's one right here. This
one's put together. Interesting. I'm gonna have to check that and see more
parachord white this time, okay, white PAIRIC. I'm gonna keep that pair
cord. Yeah. See here these pieces right here. Yeah, see that's
broken right there, because I don't know if you can see that or not.
But this one on this side has the U the complete piece right there.
It is broken and she hasn't fallen off yet. Then that piece is
broken. I don't know if those broken transit or if he put them in
the box that way, I don't know. I mean, realistically, these
are belt clips that go on radios I'd probably never use. And there's a
bunch of other stuff in this bag. So more of these trs cables,
wallplates, a bunch of these wallplates in this box, more splitters, it's
another antenna, these antennas and this stuff. So that's about it. That's
about everything right there. It Yeah, I think that those belt clips are
broken. There's you know, I put between four and six items in my
mystery boxes. There was like thirty, not between twenty and thirty items in
each of these. They're all really small, these small little antennas. There
was a an ICV eight in both boxes. That's pretty cool. I mean,
that's worth the price of the box right there. Honestly, I think
these boxes worth thirty bucks, twenty five or thirty bucks, and that's like
a thirty five or thirty eight dollars radio on you know, retail wise.
Anyway, main trading company mystery box is always fun to uh, unboxed mystery
boxes. I've been looking for a couple others. I saw a mystery box
on County Colm the other day. It was two hundred and fifty dollars and
they say they'll be like four hundred dollars worth of stuff in it, so
I was thinking about it, and then they sold out, so apparently I
was just too slow on that. Apparently people want two hundred and fifty dollars
mystery box, which gives me an idea. Maybe I'll do something like that.
Put a comment below let me know if you got one of these