Beautiful Shortwave radio and transciever....arrived this week! Yaesu FT DX 3000. Works as a transceiver with excellent RX and noise reduction and of course General RX for shortwave listening....Antenna is a Multi-Band Vertical DX COmmander from Callum McCormick in England.
“arrived this week!”
What zip are you at ? State ?
I just got my General Amateur Radio license, like 2-3 weeks ago. I picked up a very nice, lightly used ICOM 7300 transceiver, but I don’t yet have a suitable antenna (it’s on its way, an off-center fed multi band antenna that I plan to set up in the back yard).
In the meantime, I’ve got about 30 feet of 14-gauge wire stretched around the room with the end “plugged” into the center conductor of the antenna jack on the back. I do NOT DARE to key up the mike, since it is nowhere near a matched impedance, but I am able to receive (sometimes noisy) generally within about 600 miles, and sometimes, across the country with one guy in Italy coming through pretty clear over the weekend. I just listen for now. 7 and 14 MHZ are really pretty good, a little on 3.5 too, but until I get a proper antenna installed, I don’t think I’m going to get anything excellent.
I’m watching this thread just to maybe become familiar with a few freeper-hams that might be lurking about.
Side question - does anybody know where on the dial, the ultra-conservative hams hang out?
I also have a Yaesu FT DX 3000 along with an Icom 7300.