Thread: Good news for Hams who want to celebrate the Royal Wedding..
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Old 27-04-2011, 23:30   #26
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Re: Good news for Hams who want to celebrate the Royal Wedding..
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Originally Posted by Kymmy View Post
Where my HF kit and antenna set me back a grand total of £150 : FT80c (commencial version of the FT747GX) going through a half size G5RV and a MFJ versa tuner II. That's got me contacts in Australia, Japan, South America and South Africa.

You don't need to spend a lot to enjoy the hobby.

Russ it might be of interest to you that there is also a QRP side to ham radio which followers use minimal power to get all over the world.. The limits can be 5w for morse and 10w for SSB and equipment is more often than not little home made kits capable of a only a single band.

http://www.gqrp.com/about.htm
500mW WSJT/WSPR into Australia - Sandpiper MV10 short vertical at the end of the garden.
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