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What's up, everybody, Pafflin here, and welcome to episode 536 of Ask Pat.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week. All right. Here's today's question from Curtis.

Hey, Pat. My name is Curtis. I have a blog at everything ham radio.com. My question for today is on

review posts. I always wanted to write a review post for my blog, and my biggest thing to wrap

my head around is how do I write a review post on something that I don't have in hand? Equipment,

or otherwise, for image radio, starts at 100, 200, 300, and goes up to like 3 or 4,000.

And obviously, I can't afford to buy everything that I want to write a review on.

So the question is, how do I do it without it actually being in hand for me to play with?

Any tips you can give me would be awesome.

Love your podcasts, both this one and your SPI.

I listen to it all the time on the way to work or home or whatever.

Keep up the great work.

Thanks.

Bye.

Hey, Curtis, thank you so much for the question.

This is great.

I know a lot of people who want to do more reviews of things, and for the very reason that you said, because things are expensive, because you have to buy them, they don't do them. Now, that doesn't mean you can't. You could, in fact, do reviews of things that you see online that you don't have access to. Now, it's not going to be quite as authentic. Not authentic that it's not wrong,

but as long as you are up front and you don't say that you had access to it when you really

didn't, then you're okay. But you would be able to base these reviews off of articles that

you read, videos that you watch, and you'd want to make sure you give credit to where you found

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