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there is quite a lot of good traffic on the 10m band (28.00mhz – 29.80mhz) mainly in the 28.0-28.5 region which you should be able to get, especially as we are at maximum in the solar cycle, propagation is really good on 10m at the moment
antennas for 2m are easy to make, lookup ladder line J pole, or ladder line slim jim £10 of 300 ohm ladder line a few mtr’s of coax and a plug you are off and running, £40 for a baofeng UV5r or quansheng UV5k / UV5R+ and you are on 2m / 70cm FM
or you could spend the £40 on a RTLSDR.com Software defined radio dongle, so long as you have a laptop / pc to plug it into and then install SDR# (which is free) and you have recieve access to all HF, VHF, UHF and 23cm bands in AM, FM, SSB etc to work out what you want to listen to
make sure you get a genuine RTL-SDR.Com dongle, technofix are a UK distributor https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BMKZCKTF/
depending on how you are with electronics / construction /soldering there are lots of kits like the QMX or QDX from https://qrp-labs.com/ and get on the air with digital modes for under £100 ish
there are always options depending on the budget and time you have to make things
73
Peter
M0PWX (not pete M0PSX who runs this site and essex ham)
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