On 2013-02-23, Egg Salad wrote:
Just bought a Realistic DX 440 on Ebay and have discovered SSB. I
understand that my antenna wire should be as long and high as possible
with no particular configuration.

Correct ?

Also...what about grounding ?

Please respond to group.

Thanx

Egg Salad

85032

USA

You can obtain a reel out antenna that will plug into the antenna jack he
http://universal-radio.com/catalog/sw_ant/3184.html
Just plug it in and reel it out. The higher you can get the antenna the better.

In the evenings you can tune in the ham radio 75 meter band 3.750-4.000 MHz
to test it out. Alos do a search for VOLMET stations on google and you can tune into
aircraft weather broadcasting and comms. 11.175 MHz is the USAF SSB aircraft frequency.




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Best Regards, Keith
http://home.comcast.net/~kilowattradio/