Comm Log

First 10 meter contact!

Well, my 10 m radio works after all. So, I didn't blow close to $90 for nothing, and that makes me fairly happy. I did arrange with N7BUS, Cesar, whom I know from the Tumwater, Washington Radio Shack store, to get on the 10 m band so I could find out if the radio worked. We did so at about 9:15 or so this evening, at 28.4 MHz. Went fairly well, except I would have expected that the received audio would have been much clearer, especially from the short distance we are apart. But, there may be properties of this radio and the dipole antenna I built for it, that need some sort of adjustment.