On Sat, Dec 9, 2023 at 05:39 PM, Terry Hunt wrote:
what would the more seasoned veterans of the x6100 recommend for an initial setup?
I am a neophyte to amateur radio. ?I like learning theory. ?I bought my X6100 during the Thanksgiving Day sale last month. ?I run an antenna made of speaker wire:?. ?It worked good enough to make contact 1750 miles away in Aruba, SSB, on 5W internal battery power. ?As long as the factory software/firmware works, I am not going to mess with it, and I am going to use it as it came. ?I generally leave things alone, until
after the warranty expires, on everything I purchase. ?I keep electronics running for 30 days straight. ?It has been my experience that electronics will either die within 30 days of constant running (I call it a ‘burn-in’ period), or they tend to last forever: batteries and platter hard drives excluded.
