[Spooks] equipment

[Zack Widup]

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Steven Rowland wrote:

> 
> hi everyone,
> 
> have just joined and keen to get into listening to some of the stations. Am located in Australia so am limited but who knows there are probably alot of undiscovered ones down here. Anyway  my question is what sort of transceiver or scanner to buy.
> 
> I have seen a second hand one: a President HR 2510 10 Meter Amateur Mobile Transceiver. I think it's 80 bucks.
> for sale and am wondering ifthis will do the trick for the right freqs etc.
> 
> Any advice for a new comer would be much appreciated
> 
> best regards
> 

I don't think there are many numbers stations in the 10 meter band.  I 
remember hearing some UTE transmissions there years ago, but the band is 
supposed to be exclusively allocated to amateur radio. Also, since we're 
on the downslide on the solar cycle, that band is going to be pretty much 
useless until maybe the year 2010 or so.

An inexpensive general-coverage receiver that covers 2 to 30 MHz would be 
best.  Most of the numbers activity I've been listening to is in the range 
of 2.5 to 16 MHz.

73, Zack W9SZ