My Galaxy DX66V is not a 10 meter radio, but every article online says yes it is.

So this explains us common folks perception that it doesn't affect the receive. Good explanation.

 

one thing to remember is that depending on the day,location and weather conditions, you'll get a lot of propagation..or "skip." I have personally talked to Virginia while getting loaded in Eagle Pass,TX..Alabama while rolling along I-80 in west Nevada. Sometimes they can hear you and respond back sometimes they don't. Use the absolute best coax you can get and the best antenna and tune the radio in good with an swr meter and you should get great results.

 

Cropduster: Remember that on the aviation band, you've got some advantages over CB.
First is that at 108-136 Mhz, skip doesn't happen very often, although a special kind of skip, called Tropospheric Ducting, can pop up. When it does, it usually conducts radio signals from fairly small regions to similarly small areas. Another advantage is that VHF is generally Line-Of-Sight (LOS). You've seldom got anything between you & the other station, save miles & moisture. That's part of why you can talk 50 miles reliably whilst aloft with a 3-watt radio. And most airplane engines have shielded ignition systems, cutting down on noise in your receiver.
And don't forget the radio discipline you're used to. Exchanges follow a pretty formal protocol with standardized jargon; think of the last time you said any letters not in a word. Even your tail number, if it ends in a letter, gets the "Foxtrot" treatment, instead of "F".
\ /nd try to imagine the response you'd get if you called the tower with "Shaky Town Approach, this here's the Blue Fever, Maule 1234 Eff, headin' your way at four grand, and I wanna land. Woowee, what's all that brown junk y'all got in your air, anyways?" Especially if you talked over someone else. I'm guessing it would go over like a turd in a punch bowl. Think Flight Service would want to talk to you after you tie down your agtruck?
73, and welcome to the world of HF comms.

 

It'd be like, "Maul N234Foxtrot, call this number when you get on the ground................................"!

GF

 

Yuppers; I got that a couple of times when I was a student, after soloing. I *did* learn to stay "student pilot" anytime I called the tower so they'd cut me some slack. But I can still hear your words echoing in my Setcom headset (couldn't afford David Clark early on).
73

 

Ah ha, so you've heard that before, eh? I'm afraid there's lots of us who heard that at least once. I solo'ed in 1970 with the intent of following aviation as a career, but, alas, it was the Vietnam era, and with, or without, the GI bill, pilots were a dime a dozen! You couldn't get a job flying ducks to a pond out of a grass strip in those days. So after a short time of flyin' solo and with other fellas, etc, I allowed my medical to expire and never got it back. Oh....I thought about it, but marriage, kids---the usual stuff----I never went back to it in any regular basis My last landings (after 15 years) were in the 90's with an instructor friend (C-172), and he scolded me for not picking it back up. Said it was a shame I didn't fly no mo....... since I did a pretty fair job of landing, etc. Actually, it was like it was yesterday. The old routine (beginner's luck?) of landing a Cessna: throttle back to 2000 RPM at pattern altitude (adjacent to runway), 10 degrees of flaps, bleed speed to 90. Then turn Base, throttle back a tad (as needed), 20 degrees of flaps, speed down to 75-80. Turn final, bleed off speed to 70 (or a bit less depending on wind and chop, and load), allowing gradual descent. Upon reaching the rotation point, rotate, using yoke to keep nose up (don't let nose wheel touch), allowing continued descent....Hold 'er off, hold 'er off, EEEEEEEEK goes the stall horn, and..................(if goes well) ERK, ERK! as the mains touch down for a good landing. Yeah, I miss it. I'll always love aviation and everytime I hear the sound of an airplane, I can't help look up to remember back when us young'uns used to go early on a Sunday morning to crank the old J-3 to putt-putt here and there all day long.
"Switch off, brakes"! (Then we'd turn the engine by hand to clear the cylinders and get gas in) "SWITCH ON, brakes, ALL CLEAR!" Then we'd spin the prop by hand, and usually she'd spring to life! And it was off for a day of flying (when av-gas was a buck fifty, and we thot that was expensive!) The old days.........

GF

 

I actually agree with that. And I will take it a step further and advise you that under federal law, you are REQUIRED to hold either a General or Amateur Extra ham radio license issued by the FCC in order to TRANSMIT on 10 meters or higher. I know, because I have held a Technician class FCC ham radio license for 13 years now, and even I can't legally transmit on those bands on the class of license I hold. Now, anyone who wants to-whether they hold a ham radio license or not-can legally LISTEN to any ham radio (and most other) frequencies and bands if they possess or are willing to obtain the necessary equipment that will pick up those broadcasts. But if you TRANSMIT on any ham radio bands, you had better have the proper class of license from the FCC, or you are in violation of FEDERAL LAW and subject to the criminal/civil/administrative penalties enumerated therein.

 

Not true:



As a technician class, you now can now talk voice on 28.300 to 28.500 on SSB.

 

13 years a techie? You should know better.

 

It is a 10 meter radio..if you can talk on regular cab frequencies then it has been converted.