I found a 10 meter radio (Radio Shack HTX-10 25 Watt). I've never been a fan of Radio Shack Radios, but this one is starting to draw my attention.
Oh yeah, when they say QSL, I heard a video of the guy giving 2 letters and a state, is that the Grid Code thinggy and the state your in?
I seem to
recall a QSO is a status report,
which I need to study up on, most folks
give 3 numbers, of which 1 is the receive quality, another is the signal quality I think and forget the 3rd, which if I'm not mistaken is related to CW.... Kinda silly to give values that don't apply and from what I understand contest just give all 557 or something like that which says your signal was excellent no matter if it was readable or not! (at least according to youtube's videos....)
I found a 10 meter radio (Radio Shack HTX-10 25 Watt). I've never been a fan of Radio Shack Radios, but this one is starting to draw my attention. I may be able to pick it up for around $100. I'll need to pick up some extra parts for it, no mounting bracket or screws. I'll eventually need to pick up second
antenna and will probably want to wire this one straight to the fuse-box. If I
do that, I'll wire my Cobra to the fuse box as well, if I can get it setup to shut the radio off when the truck's not running. Right now the Cobra 29 LTD BT
is wired to the cigarette lighter plug, and I've got one of the few vehichle's
where the friggen cigarette lighter stays running 24/7 regardless of the state
of the ignition... For the time being I'm going to try to use my CB antenna. Later, I'll wire a second firestick or better yet, a full-fledge whip to get optimum reception. I'm wanting to communicate with the Westake Ham Radio club, really close to the texas louisiana border. I'm fairly close to Natchez
Mississippi. Unlike the Export radio's this one is 100% legal (never been modified from what I understand, though it can be modified to transmit on
CB bands, I have no need to....) Unlike the export radios, this has actual frequency display, 5 programmable channels, support for repeaters with shifted
frequencies. No info on PLTones, but that is fine because I've yet to see anyone near me with a 10 meter repeater! The westlake ham club may have a 10 meter around there, but I seem to recall most of their repeaters was 2 meters.
Incidently, It'd be cool if someone would connect a 2 meter repeater to a 10 meter repeater basically, such that 2 meter hams could talk to 10 meter hams in
the area... ;-) I'm kind of thinking with my history of CB use and all I'd be
a little more comfortable on the 10 meter than the 2 meter.... I may be wrong... ;-) Any way, was just wanting to see what you guys think... I've got
the OK to possibly buy it from the misses, once I go over the bills... I'm really wanting to have 10 meter, especially a mobile 10 meter! I get my first
taste of 10 meter Saturday at the Dairy Festival. Incidently, someone said to
remind them... I'll try to make another reminder later, but This saturday is the dairy festival and they'll be on 10 meter bands. More info can be found at
w5wq.net ....
Oh yeah, when they say QSL, I heard a video of the guy giving 2 letters and a state, is that the Grid Code thinggy and the state your in? I figured I'll find out Saturday as everyone will be wanting a QSL... I seem to recall a QSO is a status report, which I need to study up on, most folks give 3 numbers, of
which 1 is the receive quality, another is the signal quality I think and forget the 3rd, which if I'm not mistaken is related to CW.... Kinda silly to give values that don't apply and from what I understand contest just give all 557 or something like that which says your signal was excellent no matter if it
was readable or not! (at least according to youtube's videos....)
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