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That's a good question. At the store we did some rough calculations and this dipole is a bit longer than it should be. I was basically drinking from a firehose for the hour and forty-five minutes they spent with me, so I don't remember what band he was calculating for. It'll take some...

Just came home today from Ham Radio Outlet in Salem, NH, with a brand-new Icom IC-7300 in the backseat. They also fixed me up with a power supply and a 140' dipole antenna. Now the challenge is to string the antenna between two trees on my heavily-wooded lot and hope I can make contact. Still...

Thanks. That might be a good winter project to get me going. It mentions using an antenna tuner and they look pretty reasonable price-wise.

Thanks, still feeling my way around the controls, but I suspect once I can string a decent long wire antenna I'll have a lot more success. Nice to be back in radio again. Now the studying begins for the ticket.

Thanks to everyone for jumping in with help. It's exciting to finally get back into radio again.

Gary, I saw this online but wasn't quite sure what it did or if I needed one. As I mentioned above, I haven't played with SW since I was in high school, but now that I'm retired a lot of my old interests are reawakening, which means financially I'm probably in trouble. Keith

Thanks, Gary. There are a couple of ideas there that might work, but will probably have to wait until warmer weather in the spring. Freezing in Maine right now.

Thanks. Any recommendations for wire type? When I was a kid, I used the old style(?) two lead flat tv antenna wire (do they even use that stuff anymore?). I have a spool of speaker wire, but can get something else if it'll work better. Help is appreciated. Been years since I last listened to SW...

I got a Grundig Satellit 750 for Christmas and was thinking about stringing a long wire antenna around the house. Basically, I was thinking of running speaker wire out of an upstairs window, and then along the west side to the end of the house, then around the full length of the southwest end...