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For anyone in our group looking for NVIS equipment, I noticed these on e-bay at the weekend:

This SGC is a military grade general coverage transceiver.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/QRP-SG-2020-tr...1c2b1dd838

This MFJ is a complete low power station, which includes one of the recommended Antenna tuning units.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MFJ-9140B-PORT...4abbd11e05

Good spot LS.
That's a lot of money though especially if the transmitter is designed for CW only.
There is another option prospective NVIS operators might like to consider.

Buy a basic HF transceiver at a Ham fest ( £120 up ) and add a tone capable key (£35 up)
(For the novices that's a Morse key that generates an audible 'beep' into the mic socket )
and you'll have the best of all worlds.
Voice and CW.

It's quite a common technique with users of "slightly naughty" CB sets.

LS, I could be right off track here but the Anytone 5555 can rx and tx on different frequencies 10 / 11 metres does this rig you've posted the link for work across bands?

Thanks

(10 September 2012, 17:25)Bug_out_Bag Wrote: [ -> ]LS, I could be right off track here but the Anytone 5555 can rx and tx on different frequencies 10 / 11 metres does this rig you've posted the link for work across bands?

Thanks

Hi BOB,

I'm not sure ifthe SGC will do this. Probably yes, but you'd need to study the product manual.

Its quite a rare requirement to be able to do cross manding on HF though.

Sorry I can't be mire positive in my answer.