Ah, OK, you want to listen for beacons and you don't have a receiver. I
misread what you were looking for. I thought you had some sort of
receiver and wanted to listen to 10M and/or 6M. Sorry about that!!
Being a Tech class, you can transmit legally on both 10M (28.1-28.5) and
all bands above 6M, so you really don't have to upgrade if you don't
want to.
Here are a couple websites that may give you places to start...
http://www.af4k.com/mega/megakits.htm
http://radio.tentec.com/kits/Receiver
Good luck and have fun!!
Scott
N0EDV
Andy Ball wrote:
Hello Scott,
SAL Technically, a transverter does both transmit and
receive. Personally, I would build a transverter at
the start. If you hear someone, you will invariably
want to talk to them as well...
I don't want to talk to beacons, but I imagine I'll hear
some hams too and eventually once I upgrade my license it
would make sense to have invested in a transvertor rather
than just a receive converter. I no longer have a radio that
that can receive CW on any band though, so a transverter
doesn't help unless I buy a receiver too...
73,
- Andy, KB9YLW