Hi, my name is Jayden, and I am 14. I am a swl, (Perhaps, i've sent you reports). Anyways, I was wonderding where you could buy a HF radio real cheap, and it be still working?

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Jayden Montgomery wrote to All <=-

Hi, my name is Jayden, and I am 14. I am a swl, (Perhaps, i've sent you reports). Anyways, I was wonderding where you could buy a HF radio real cheap, and it be still working?

Take a look at qrz.com (requires registration) and swap.qth.com to get a
look.

I just bought a Kenwood TS-440S that works great for $50 from an
estate sale.

Reminder that you need to have a General class license or higher to
transmit.

73,
Sean KS4TD

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On 05 Jan 2025, Jayden Montgomery said the following...

Hi, my name is Jayden, and I am 14. I am a swl, (Perhaps, i've sent you reports). Anyways, I was wonderding where you could buy a HF radio real cheap, and it be still working?

Welcome Jayden. Good luck on your HAM journey. There's a lot of folks around the BBS community that would be willing to help, unfortunately, I am not one of them. Just wanted to send a shoutout.

-cr1mson

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Re: a question
By: Jayden Montgomery to All on Sun Jan 05 2025 13:57:00

Hi, my name is Jayden, and I am 14. I am a swl, (Perhaps, i've sent you reports). Anyways, I was wonderding where you could buy a HF radio real cheap, and it be still working?

your swl credentials are already quite impressive in the HAM community, people speaking of how you are able to pull peoples callsigns out of pure noise, good work man, keep it up. Check with QRZ, and work on getting that HAM ticket.
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On 05 Jan 2025 at 05:17p, Sean Dennis pondered and said...

Jayden Montgomery wrote to All <=-

Hi, my name is Jayden, and I am 14. I am a swl, (Perhaps, i've sent y reports). Anyways, I was wonderding where you could buy a HF radio re cheap, and it be still working?

Take a look at qrz.com (requires registration) and swap.qth.com to get a look.

I just bought a Kenwood TS-440S that works great for $50 from an
estate sale.

Reminder that you need to have a General class license or higher to transmit.

Not strictly true. Techs have limited HF privileges: phone
and data on a portion of 10m and CW on 15, 40 and 80. Of
course, one needs _a_ license to transmit legally in the US.

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Re: a question
By: Jayden Montgomery to All on Sun Jan 05 2025 01:57 pm

reports). Anyways, I was wonderding where you could buy a HF radio real chea and it be still working?

Like someone else said, estate sales, but also hamfests.

There are some new/modern SDR-based HF radios online, too. Just depends on how much money you can spend.

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Dan Cross wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

Not strictly true. Techs have limited HF privileges: phone
and data on a portion of 10m and CW on 15, 40 and 80. Of
course, one needs _a_ license to transmit legally in the US.

You're correct. I just didn't think about that. I just meant that if you
do not have a license.

I'm marking 2025 my 28th year of being licensed. I think I enjoy the hobby even more now than I did when I was first licensed.

I also obtained a GMRS license recently. My callsign is WSBW961.

73,
Sean KS4TD

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Re: Re: a question
By: cr1mson to Jayden Montgomery on Sun Jan 05 2025 21:47:54

There's a lot of folks around the BBS community that would be willing to help, unfortunately, I am not one of them.

Laddie, don't you think you should rephrase that? ;)
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On 08 Jan 2025, Mortar M. said the following...

Re: Re: a question
By: cr1mson to Jayden Montgomery on Sun Jan 05 2025 21:47:54

There's a lot of folks around the BBS community that would be willing t help, unfortunately, I am not one of them.

Laddie, don't you think you should rephrase that? ;)

who is duplicating these messages on fidonet? it's annoying. i don't need to read them twice!

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On 08 Jan 2025, Mortar M. said the following...

There's a lot of folks around the BBS community that would be willing to
help, unfortunately, I am not one of them.

Laddie, don't you think you should rephrase that? ;)

Absolutely not! lol :)

-cr1mson

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phigan wrote to Jayden Montgomery <=-

reports). Anyways, I was wonderding where you could buy a HF radio real chea and it be still working?

There are some new/modern SDR-based HF radios online, too. Just depends
on how much money you can spend.

I wouldn't mind digging into SDR... I have an Intel MacMini just begging
to be used for something like this. :-)

Right now I'm working on a 25' tower for UHF/VHF.



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