Oops, it has been pointed out to me that TECH class does not have access
to HF. I forgot about the "new" Tech license, being no-code and thus
not having HF priviledges. I keep thinking back to the days when I was
a TECH class (early 1980s) when the TECH class had to pass the 5 WPM
code test. It's just too hard to keep all the TECH class (Old TECH,
TECH Plus, New TECH) priviledges straight! Sorry about the confusion!!

Scott
N0EDV

Scott wrote:
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