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Okay, it is holiday time again,

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Black Friday, Christmas upcoming, so
that means it's time for mystery boxes to

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be a thing again. And this
is a mystery box I got from Richard

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at Main Trading Company. I will
share a link. He sold out of

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him like half hour after I think
he put It wasn't a half hour.

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I think he put like five hundred
of these things up and he sold out

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that same day. It wasn't a
half hour. I sold mine out in

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a half hour, but I only
had had fifty. He had like five

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hundred and they're all gone. But
I'm told he's going to do another one.

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So let's check out what's in the
mystery box to see what kind of

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stuff you can expect if he puts
another listing up sometime before the end of

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twenty twenty three. I actually ordered
two boxes from Richard, So this is

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two boxes put together like this.
Now, I will say that I broke

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my own rule, because when I
do mystery boxes, I put together fifty

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or one hundred mystery boxes, and
I put them all together, and I

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weigh them, and then I put
them on the website. And when and

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when you guys come along and buy
two or three or four at a time,

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it kind of messes up my process
because I've got them all packaged individually,

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and if I have them set at
four pounds each, which is roughly

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what they are, it costs more
to ship two four pound boxes than it

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does to ship one eight pound box. So I end up having to take

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all the boxes and put them together. Somebody orders two boxes, I don't

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ship them two boxes. I combine
two boxes and then ship them out.

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But that's an extra step. So
that's why those that's why those multiple orders

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take longer. But I broke my
own rule, like I said, and

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I order two boxes from Richard because
I mean, you know why not.

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So we're gonna open this right now. Get my scissors out here. Okay,

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there's not a full radio in there. I thought I had gotten an

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icy V eighty. Let's switch over
to the overhead again. So this is

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the first thing I pulled out at
the top. Oh no, that is

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a that is a full radio in
there. Okay, it's very lightweight.

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Okay, then VHF Icon radio.
That's pretty cool. I think he was

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giving these away. He was selling
these for like a really discounted price with

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the purchase of other radios there a
while back. All right, so what

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else do we have here? Icon
microphone, that's neat. That's a little

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antenna for like a hot spot.
It looks like it's an SMA female connection

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on that. I guess you could
put that on a I don't know if

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that's dual band or not. It's
an Icon antenna though that might be for

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this radio. Actually maybe it's just
two meters. There's an icon pouch or

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you know, leather covering for probably
presumably for that radio as well. Oh

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wow, there's there's a bunch of
stuff in here, a whole bunch of

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stuff in there. You see a
wallplate in there with with a coaxial cable

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connections. So all right, we're
gonna go through all this stuff. So

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I cause I want to I want
to show everybody whatever all was in here,

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that icon stuff was on top,
so that was a pleasant surprise.

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Let's just move that to the side. Another antenna. Let's see, Oh,

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that's some Ethernet connections for a wallplate. More icon bags. That is

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some kind of larger radio leather case
with a belt clip on it, maybe

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a moltor roll Its style. Actually, I think that says icon underneath it

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too. I see, oh,
right there, so maybe that's that's for

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a different radio, though I don't
know what that would be. For another

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one of those cases. There a
couple of cases, belt clip for something.

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This is a Oh that's like a
TV coaxial S video connection or maybe

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RCA. No, that's an RCA. Well, that one doesn't look like

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RCA RCA male to female. Maybe
I don't I'm not sure. Rc extension

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cable. More Ethernet connections for a
wallplate. Another one of these antennas.

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Another IC case. A bunch of
these. I got a bunch of these

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last year. These are XLR connections
for microphones and whatnot. I don't know

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what that's used for exactly. I
got a bunch of these in his mystery

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box last year. I think I
put them in my mystery boxes. Most

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of this stuff will probably go into
my mystery boxes, guys, That's probably

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what I'll do with most of it, all right, Shoot more of that.

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Oh, there's a right angle.
It's like a you put an NMO

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mount there and mount this to a
vehicle or side of your shack. Maybe,

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I don't know. More antennas or
battery clips. Another style of case.

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I com F twenty one nylon case
with belt loop. All right,

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this is cool. Two sets of
parachord here. I like the color on

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that. Been looking for some I'm
keeping that and looking at some paracord.

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More of the same. Antenna's belt
clips these guys here belt clip. This

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is from two boxes. I haven't
even gotten down the halfway yet. So

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these wall plates antenna's antenna's antennas.
This is a I don't know if these

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are all the same model or not. But this oh Icon Inc. Made

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in China, FA like Foxtrot Alpha
Dash Sierra eight three, Victor Sierra.

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So look that up. I don't
know what the heck is that that is

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for. I think that they're all
the same or no, I'm wrong.

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This one is a Foxtrot Alpha Sierra
Charlie zero two uniform. So those are

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all different. That one doesn't say
made in China, that just says Icon

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mine. So I'm not sure.
All right, more of the same,

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just stuff here. Another cool,
cool little microphone here, the VS one

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MC microphone. I think that's specifically
for this radio here. I believe antenna.

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This guy, what the heck is
this? I think these go make

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go with those belt clips I've been
pulling out. He's right here. Yeah,

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it looks like those are part of
a belt clip that came apart or

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something. I'm not sure what.
I'm not sure what that is. More

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of those maybe those go together.
They all look the same, so they're

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either all broken that Yeah, that
looks like it's broken right there. Not

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sure? All right? What is
this BC? Next thing? This is

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some kind of power supply with a
UK plug on it. Okay, that's

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an Icon power supply. He's got
a UK plug on it though, Uh

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no, no, adapter's not gonna
do me any good. All right,

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all right? The second box is
uh okay, So what he did was

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he taped these two boxes together,
but he didn't tape the open ends together

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because at the bottom of this first
box is a taped second box. Let

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me open up the second box real
quick. I'm gonna reuse those boxes from

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two, and it looks like some of

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the stuff in this box is a
little bit different, although a lot of

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it's the same. Obviously, we've
got the icon again. It's another one

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of those UK style chargers. This
is different here, walks and charger.

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Okay, yeah, it's just the
standard desktop walks on HT charger. So

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it does have the DC cable connection
in the back, so you could use

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this to connect to a twelve system
if you wanted to. Okay, more

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of these pouches antennas TRS cables.
It looks like three point five millimeter TRS

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cables. Single ring sleeve there.
Uh, there's a splitter of some sort

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for your TV stuff. More antennas. That's an Icon OPC two two seven

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to four connection cable. I don't
know what that goes to, but you

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can look that up. OPC two
two seven four TV output powers, some

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kind of TV cable from Icon.
More trs cables. Another one of these

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microphones stuff here that another sleeve,
more of these. All of these belt

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clips of the look like they're missing
this piece, but then the pieces are

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in the bottom of the box and
they look like they're broken. But I

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find it highly unlikely that they're all
broken in the exact same way. So

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there's probably a way that these go
together. Here's one right here. This

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one's put together. Interesting. I'm
gonna have to check that and see more

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parachord white this time, okay,
white PAIRIC. I'm gonna keep that pair

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cord. Yeah. See here these
pieces right here. Yeah, see that's

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broken right there, because I don't
know if you can see that or not.

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But this one on this side has
the U the complete piece right there.

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It is broken and she hasn't fallen
off yet. Then that piece is

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broken. I don't know if those
broken transit or if he put them in

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the box that way, I don't
know. I mean, realistically, these

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are belt clips that go on radios
I'd probably never use. And there's a

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bunch of other stuff in this bag. So more of these trs cables,

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wallplates, a bunch of these wallplates
in this box, more splitters, it's

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another antenna, these antennas and this
stuff. So that's about it. That's

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about everything right there. It Yeah, I think that those belt clips are

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broken. There's you know, I
put between four and six items in my

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mystery boxes. There was like thirty, not between twenty and thirty items in

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each of these. They're all really
small, these small little antennas. There

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was a an ICV eight in both
boxes. That's pretty cool. I mean,

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that's worth the price of the box
right there. Honestly, I think

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these boxes worth thirty bucks, twenty
five or thirty bucks, and that's like

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a thirty five or thirty eight dollars
radio on you know, retail wise.

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Anyway, main trading company mystery box
is always fun to uh, unboxed mystery

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boxes. I've been looking for a
couple others. I saw a mystery box

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on County Colm the other day.
It was two hundred and fifty dollars and

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they say they'll be like four hundred
dollars worth of stuff in it, so

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I was thinking about it, and
then they sold out, so apparently I

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was just too slow on that.
Apparently people want two hundred and fifty dollars

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mystery box, which gives me an
idea. Maybe I'll do something like that.

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Put a comment below let me know
if you got one of these