[jlindseyx42]

Unless you live in a big metropolitan area or are prepared to spend $10,000 for an antenna, you will be wasting your time and money. And by time, I mean lots and lots of time. Don’t expect to drop 4 figures and spend a few hours and start enjoying ham radio. But this is only the conclusion of a computer, prepper geek. Ham radio is an all-in activity, not for the casual user. Flame away.

[DocRock]

$10,000 for an antenna? That's not even close to accurate. I bought an old HF rig for $400 and talk all over the world on a cheap, $40.00 G5-RV wire antenna in an inverted 'V' configuration with $50.00 worth of chain link top rail for a mast.

pics on my home page.

[dragnet2]

Unless you live in a big metropolitan area or are prepared to spend $10,000 for an antenna

You're broadcasting some real bad info there lindsey....

[Hawthorn]

>> Unless you live in a big metropolitan area or are prepared to spend $10,000 for an antenna, you will be wasting your time and money <<

You’ve just made the most ill-informed comment of the year.

For a few hundred bucks, anybody with a license can use a QRP CW rig with simple wire antenna to communicate with virtually the whole world. Been there, done that.