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

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

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

Hello Steve,

SAL 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.

If a "new Tech" passes the code test, does he or she get
Tech Plus priviliges, or are those solely for people who
earned that license when it was current?

- Andy, KB9YLW

In article et,
Andy Ball wrote:

If a "new Tech" passes the code test, does he or she get
Tech Plus priviliges, or are those solely for people who
earned that license when it was current?

The former, as I read the book.

Those who passed the Technician license prior to 3/21/1987, and thus
passed the Element 1A (5 WPM) code test, have Novice-equivalent HF
privileges as part of their Technician license.

Newer Technicians, who pass the Element 1 95 WPM) code test and are
given a CSCE as proof of passing, but who have not passed Element 3
(General written exam), have Novice-equivalent HF privileges
indefinitely. They should retain the CSCE as proof of this since the
FCC doesn't keep track of which Techs have code credit. The CSCE is
valid as credit towards the General license for only one year.

--
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In article et, Andy
Ball wrote:

If a "new Tech" passes the code test, does he or she get
Tech Plus priviliges, or are those solely for people who
earned that license when it was current?

Andy-

It doesn't work that way now. However you can probably pass the General
Class test with only a little more effort than for the Technician test.
Many years ago they were the same test except for code speed. Check out
the practice tests at http://www.qrz.com.

You may be interested to know that the FCC has issued a proposal to
eliminate code from all Ham tests. It will take a while before all the
comments have been submitted and resolved. If you want the HF license now
without waiting, you'll need to pass the code test.

73, Fred, K4DII