Ok so...yeah....I should have posted this stuff a long time ago. I finally snapped some pictures of the J-Pole AE5IR and I built, you can see them here. I recently redid most of the joints with solder vs plumbers goop. I seem to have done a decent job once I figured out that my small butane torch takes a bit to heat the copper to the proper temperature to get the solder to flow correctly.

Also I plan on upgrading to a Kenwood TH-F6A or Yaesu VX-7R soon, so I am selling my IC-24AT, it's listed in several places, if you are interested or care to pass the info along to someone who would be interested the link to the qrz post is here.

I think that's all for now, will try to post more often. Seven Three.