[TenTec] 600 Meters, anyone?

[John Farler]

> Well, Extra would give you only 25 khz more on most bands - all of us were screwed by the shrinking of the CW bands so extremely.  Note that an "old" novice or tech-plus has the same CW priviliges as you do or as a general.  A bigger insult was that digital was put into the cw band instead of into its own slot, and about half of 40 CW band is unusable at night because of all the dwiddling and other racket.

John, K4AVX
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> Well, since the power level is 1 or 5 W, it would probably be a T-kit.
> For a receiver, a direct conversion kit would do or an AM broadcast
> radio detuned and fitted with a BFO.
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> (I'm a bit miffed by the whole thing. As an Advanced Class op, I was
> really upset at losing 3600-3700 kHz CW and 7 kHz at 600 meters is no
> compensation for that loss. I know, I should upgrade to Extra!)
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>                               73,
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>                               Bob WB2VUF
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