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The antenna is a Cobra UltraLite Senior 140' dipole with a ladder line feeder. It's rated for 160 to 10 meters. The trees around my house basically allow me to choose pretty much N/S or E/W. The house will interfere with a diagonal and I don't want to go over the house so I can have the option...

I have a 140' dipole antenna that I'll be hanging sometime this week for use with my Icom I-7300. I'm in southern Maine, so If you guys were in my position would you string the antenna oriented north/south or east/west? It looks like north/south would be good for DX contacts in Europe and here...

Sitting here sipping a glass of spiced rum after returning from tonight's exam session with a brand-new, ink-still-wet Amateur Extra ticket added to my licenses. Now I can get down to the task of really learning all this stuff. Thanks again to everyone for their encouragement, support, and advice.

Thanks. I got my Tech and General two weekends ago, so I've been bearing down on the Extra because I want to get it behind me. Once that's done I can get down to designing and building my station and then actually learning how it all works without the pressure of a self-imposed deadline. Right...

And Monday night I go for the Extra. That'll be a near thing though. Not nearly as ready but worth a shot.

Finally, after a snail mail delay between the VEC and ARRL, the FCC granted my call sign yesterday, KC1IYT.

Picked up a Yaesu FT-60R handheld this week to get on the air while I wait for my tree guy to get the dipole antenna up. Anyone had any experience with this particular radio? It's bare-bones but will get me started.

Thanks, I'm very excited. Time to call the tree guy this week.

Guns and radios.

Well, I'm pleased to say I made some progress this weekend. I was planning to sit for my license exams on February 12, but with all the stuff crammed into my head I decided I couldn't wait. Saturday I drove two hours to a VE session near Manchester, NH, and successfully passed my tests for...

My pipes, being PVC, are not useable, so the ground wire and ground stakes will be the solution, as you suggest. The house ground stake is on the other side of the house, so I'll need a new stake on the house's back side, where I'll be.

HRO sold me an MFJ-912 balun which is 4:1.

Thanks. I got it out of the box yesterday just to drool over it. I'll probably start setting it up next week after I make some room in my new "radio shack" i.e. the spare bedroom.

Guys, Thanks to all of you for the terrific advice. I've gotten so impatient to get started that I'm driving 2 hours this Saturday to take the exam. I'll try to cram a little for the General, but if I can't get it passed I'll have another opportunity locally in two weeks. I've been picking out...

Thanks for the info. Glad to know the store probably steered me in the right direction. I think this will be a good starter rig once I get it set up. I'll be checking in with a local club early next month and I'm sure they'll have plenty of help and advice as well. Hope to start setting up...

Appreciate the feed back. The Icom IC-7300 has a pretty decent antenna tuner built in and the store supplied me with a balun, so I'm sure it's adequate for the antenna (haven't taken it out of the box yet). If the internal tuner isn't adequate, then I'll add an external tuner as necessary.

Well, took me awhile but I finally got a temporary 100' long line antenna strung and it made a world of difference with the Grundig Satellite 750. Picked up Saudi Arabia's Holy Quran broadcast and I think Madagascar. Spent the afternoon listening to contesters on SSB. On another front, this...

I look forward to it.

The antenna is a Cobra UltraLite, manufactured in Northwood, NH, so they're local. Ham Radio Outlet had one strung behind their store and seemed pleased with its performance. The model I have is the UltraLight Senior (160-10 meters, 140'). According to the package, it covers more bands than...

Thanks. It's a lot to absorb. I'm checking in with a very active local club at their meeting early next month, so I'm hoping to get some advice and help.