"Frank" wrote in message
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I am new to ham radio.

I was given an Icom 735.

Set up radio per owners manual. Using a wire antenna (set up for
10meters), an MFJ tuner.

I am not getting any signals at all. Double checked all connections
and set per manual again.

I could use a few suggestions.

We are
at the low end of the solar cycle, thus 10M propagation is very very poor -
pretty much limited to line of sight.
and not many operating there.

See a neat propagation primer at URL:
http://www.ae4rv.com/tn/propflash.htm

Try tuning the other Ham bands, 20, 40, 80 meters, the latter at night.
The Icom 735 receiver tunes 0.1-30 MHz, so you should be able to hear the AM
Broadcast band and some shortwave stations
The solar cycle will start peaking up in a few years -- see URL:
http://www.dxlc.com/solar/solcycle.html

Then 10M will yield world wide DX.

Lamont