Speaker 1: Hey, before we get started, be sure to head over
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Speaker 1: me tell you, guys, why you should take a serious
Speaker 1: look at digirig. Digirig dot net sound card interfaces for
Speaker 1: multiple radios so that you can do multiple things with
Speaker 1: your computer over a radio, win Link, APRS, WSJTX, FTA
Speaker 1: FT four, all the like. But this might not be
Speaker 1: a reason you've heard before. I've got another excellent, excellent
Speaker 1: reason of why you should be looking at digirig and
Speaker 1: supporting that company specifically. Let's go. This is from another
Speaker 1: Reddit article, and as you guys probably have figured out,
Speaker 1: I kind of like talking about these. Okay, So I
Speaker 1: saw this article and I didn't recognize the call sign
Speaker 1: K zero TX. Immediately I was like, oh, that looks
Speaker 1: kind of familiar. I thought maybe I had seen it
Speaker 1: on here before. But then as soon as I read
Speaker 1: this first line, many of you are familiar with my
Speaker 1: digirig interfaces. So this is Dennis, the owner of digirig
Speaker 1: that's writing this article, and this is this shows how
Speaker 1: great of a person Dennis is. Okay, So I'm going
Speaker 1: to take you through this. Let me show you the
Speaker 1: digibrig website and to talk about what I read here.
Speaker 1: First of all, I would like to say it I'm
Speaker 1: very blessed with the amazing support from the amateur radio
Speaker 1: community which makes it possible for me to continue experimenting
Speaker 1: with the hobby and offer new gear. Today, I'm dealing
Speaker 1: with a situation which I experienced a lot in my
Speaker 1: previous hustles, but something that has never happened before with
Speaker 1: Ham's Garden Variety return fraud. An eBay buyer with zero
Speaker 1: feedback purchased the digirig interface, initiated a return and mailed
Speaker 1: back an empty envelope. As far as eBay is concerned,
Speaker 1: this completes. The return buyer gets a full refund, and
Speaker 1: I get dinged for shipping both ways and obviously lost
Speaker 1: the inventory. Now let me say real quick, I have
Speaker 1: experienced this exact thing, not this exact thing, something very
Speaker 1: very very similar to myself. Back before I started this
Speaker 1: YouTube channel I used to run. I used to run
Speaker 1: Great Fine Amateur Radio as a radio sales sales website.
Speaker 1: I would sell radios on that website, but I also
Speaker 1: sold stuff a little bit on Amazon and sometimes on eBay.
Speaker 1: I had a buyer one time purchase a TYT MD
Speaker 1: ninety six hundred from me back when these radios were new.
Speaker 1: These were new hot dual band mobile DMR radios, one
Speaker 1: of the first ever dual band mobile DMR radios, so
Speaker 1: they were going for about two hundred ninety nine dollars
Speaker 1: at the time. They were hot, popular, extremely sought after
Speaker 1: radios at the time because the dual band DMR thing
Speaker 1: didn't really exist back then. I had a buyer on
Speaker 1: eBay purchased an MT ninety six hundred from me and
Speaker 1: pay for shipping. I shipped it to him. He had
Speaker 1: the radio for a week or two, initiated never contact me.
Speaker 1: He initiated a return with eBay saying the radio was defective.
Speaker 1: eBay forced me to create a return shipping label for him,
Speaker 1: which I had to send to him, so he shipped
Speaker 1: the radio back to me. Once I got it back.
Speaker 1: eBay issued him a full refund for the radio and
Speaker 1: the original shipping label, which I had already purchased to
Speaker 1: ship the radio to him. So I got ding for
Speaker 1: shipping both ways and had now I got the radio back,
Speaker 1: So that's a little bit better than Dennis's situation. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing. I took that radio and I plugged
Speaker 1: it into my computer. There's nothing wrong with it. This
Speaker 1: guy couldn't figure out how to program a DMR radio,
Speaker 1: and he claims it was faulty. Wasn't faulty. It was
Speaker 1: nothing in the world wrong with that radio. I turned around,
Speaker 1: boxed it back up brand new, sold it to someone
Speaker 1: who actually knew what the heck they were doing, and
Speaker 1: all was good. But I got ding for shipping on
Speaker 1: both ways. At least I got my radio back, and
Speaker 1: I was able to resell it again as new because
Speaker 1: there was nothing in the world wrong with it. So
Speaker 1: I understand where Dennis is coming from here. I have
Speaker 1: never actually seen anyone send back an empty envelope, but
Speaker 1: that's what happened here. Now, the chap is not exactly
Speaker 1: a genius. It took me all of thirty seconds to
Speaker 1: look up his FCC database and find the call sign
Speaker 1: extra class No Less with Vanity call and confirm the
Speaker 1: full match of the shipping address with the Internet. Never
Speaker 1: forgetting it would be a trivial to forever destroy this
Speaker 1: dude's reputation for the rest of his life, make him
Speaker 1: regret the decision to steal sixty dollars from a small
Speaker 1: business in a fellow him. It is natural to feel
Speaker 1: violated when stolen from. But I'm taking a deep breath
Speaker 1: and downgrading this to a close call, an opportunity for
Speaker 1: the purp to self reflect seventy three and happy New Year.
Speaker 1: That takes a really really good attitude to behave that way.
Speaker 1: That takes a lot of respect, a lot of character
Speaker 1: to deal that way, to respond that way to getting
Speaker 1: ripped off. So hats off to Dennis. You guys, go
Speaker 1: out here and visit digirig dot net. But if you've
Speaker 1: never seen his stuff before, he has this digirig DR
Speaker 1: eight ninety one setup. I did a video about this
Speaker 1: the last time I was in Galveston Island State Park.
Speaker 1: This is a very easy interface that connects your yaesu
Speaker 1: FT eight ninety one through a digit through this This
Speaker 1: is specifically made for a yaesu FT eight ninety one.
Speaker 1: This model is He makes several models that will work
Speaker 1: with almost any radio. This one's specifically made for an
Speaker 1: FT eight ninety one connects from your radio to the
Speaker 1: computer and makes plug and play access to the radio
Speaker 1: from your computer very easy. You can use wsjtx FT eight,
Speaker 1: you can use it to set up win link, you
Speaker 1: can use it for all kinds of stuff. It's very
Speaker 1: easy to use. I did it in a video. Did
Speaker 1: some FT eight from Galveston Island State Park work very well?
Speaker 1: Check out the link in the description below for this.
Speaker 1: Digit rig is not sponsoring this video, but I just
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about how awesome his products were in
Speaker 1: today's video. So he goes on right here. First response
Speaker 1: is this is actually mail fraud. Contact your postmaster. If
Speaker 1: he did it to you, he's likely done it to others.
Speaker 1: Very true. A lot of other comments down here. Second
Speaker 1: this if you still have the envelopes. Love my digirig,
Speaker 1: although it has been used for months, We'll go out
Speaker 1: and use it. It's a great, great piece of kit I
Speaker 1: want to take. I want to get a digirig for
Speaker 1: my TS four ADHX that's in my truck, so that
Speaker 1: I can do FT eight when driving, I just click
Speaker 1: a button, call CQ, keep driving, look over, Oh it's done,
Speaker 1: call CQ. Just touchscreen right next to it. So that's
Speaker 1: something I'm going to be working on soon. Why not
Speaker 1: post it to qrz dot com and the scammin theft
Speaker 1: reports for him? It would warn other Hams and give
Speaker 1: the scammer a chance to reply. And this is a
Speaker 1: great response from Dennis. This is the first such case
Speaker 1: in years on eBay and even ham radio buyers on Amazon,
Speaker 1: which he says is an absolute cesspool when it comes
Speaker 1: to a return fraud treating me quite well, He says,
Speaker 1: this is the first case in such the first case
Speaker 1: in years on eBay and Amazon when most people treat
Speaker 1: him quite well. With that in mind, there is a
Speaker 1: lot of good will and gratitude on my end. I
Speaker 1: prefer not to use the situation as an opportunity to
Speaker 1: start another negative trend online with people wasting their emergency
Speaker 1: emotions and time fighting instead of applying those finite resources
Speaker 1: to something productive and creative. This seems like an admirable perspective.
Speaker 1: It's unfortunate. Reality is it's enabling as well. Best of
Speaker 1: luck and whatever path forward. This exposes us the risk
Speaker 1: of dealing with this guy. I would report. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying there. It does you know,
Speaker 1: reporting the guy would be better for the community perhaps,
Speaker 1: But Dennis is taking the high road here, and you
Speaker 1: got to respect him for that. You gotta respect him
Speaker 1: for taking the high road. I think this is a
Speaker 1: very It shows a lot of character for Dennis to
Speaker 1: react this same way. So I really thought that this
Speaker 1: was a great article. I really admired Dennis for acting
Speaker 1: this way. I commented on this video down here, this
Speaker 1: guy right here, how disappointed. I'm very glad to see
Speaker 1: your resilient and positive response to this crappy and criminal behavior.
Speaker 1: I have a few digitirigged devices and some of them
Speaker 1: are set up at multi municipal facilities providing critical emergency
Speaker 1: in occasion's capabilities in my region. I'm the guy who
Speaker 1: shared a three D printed enclosure for the digibrig light.
Speaker 1: Thanks for sharing your great work. Please know that it's
Speaker 1: made a real difference in the world. And Dennis replies
Speaker 1: and he says thank you for the sport. As I mentioned,
Speaker 1: the community is amazing and this situation is a single
Speaker 1: exception in years of operation. Good deal right that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this was just a very positive article, very positive response.
Speaker 1: I mean, Dennis shared what happened to him. He just
Speaker 1: didn't want to flame anyone. I can't blame him for
Speaker 1: that at all. I replied to him, I said, thank
Speaker 1: you for sharing, Dennis, Sorry this happened. I'm a tempted
Speaker 1: to make a video about it, and he's like, knowing
Speaker 1: your work, I figured it would get on your radiar,
Speaker 1: go ahead if it sounds interesting enough. So I do
Speaker 1: not know who this person was. Dennis didn't share that
Speaker 1: with me. I didn't ask him. I kind of don't
Speaker 1: want to know. I just think I think this was
Speaker 1: a very good You know, so many times we're sharing
Speaker 1: articles about sad Hams, salty Hams, people treating each other
Speaker 1: like crap. This was a very positive story. I wanted
Speaker 1: to share this because it was a very positive story.
Speaker 1: If you guys have a chance to support Dennis and digibreg,
Speaker 1: I highly recommend it. The link in the description blow
Speaker 1: is an affiliate link, so I get a small commission
Speaker 1: for things bought through that link. But if you see
Speaker 1: him Dennis, I think he will be at ham Kash
Speaker 1: next month, I think, but he's usually at ham Venson
Speaker 1: and at Huntsville, so he a lot of times. Hangout
Speaker 1: in the gigabarts booth. You can get a five percent
Speaker 1: discount because digirig is listed on my gigaparts page. But
Speaker 1: gigabarts sells digirigs and packages with the cables and everything.
Speaker 1: If you want just single individual items, you can get
Speaker 1: them from the digirig dot net shop. Links to all
Speaker 1: of that will be in the description Blow. But if
Speaker 1: nothing else, if you've already purchased his stuff in the past,
Speaker 1: or if you've never heard of it and want to
Speaker 1: do some research, do that. But if you see Dennis
Speaker 1: at the next Hamfest, go up and thank him for
Speaker 1: his support of the community. Really great guy. He makes
Speaker 1: a fantastic product. You can see the character that he
Speaker 1: displays towards a hand radio community in this article. I'll
Speaker 1: put a link to this article in the description BLOW.
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