Radio games.
Well, I’ve been bitten by the radio bug it seems. Last week Hannah and I purchased a second hand Yaesu Ft-707 for not much.
It does have an issue with TX, which we haven’t really looked into yet (it could be a broken thermistor on the p.a. board) so we haven’t really tried that yet, which isn’t a big deal as I’m not licensed as of yet.
It does seem that the radio reception though at home is awful, though at my mum and dads place, we’ve been able to receive quite decently using a wire dipole antenna. We are restricted in what we can do at home mainly due to space requirements. Though I am interested in setting up the wire dipole out the back, to see if that could make any difference.
Our other aims are to see what other antennas we can construct and work from there, oh and get myself a vk3 call sign.
~Ivy
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