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With a Technician license, you have access to small chunks of 80M, 40M and 15M - some prime territory on HF. The catch is, you have to use Morse code.

I started off as a Novice, back in the middle of the last century (literally!), and the Novice license allowed ONLY CW, on virtually the same little portions of 80/40/15 (plus AM on 2M). I worked all states and over a hundred countries just on 15 and 40 CW. Don't let anyone tell you that a Tech can't "talk" to people overseas. There's no code requirement for amateur licensing any more; the only thing that keeps folks off CW is themselves.

[QUOTE="Beetle, post: 135681, member: 1066"] With a Technician license, you have access to small chunks of 80M, 40M and 15M - some prime territory on HF. The catch is, you have to use Morse code. I started off as a Novice, back in the middle of the last century (literally!), and the Novice license allowed ONLY CW, on virtually the same little portions of 80/40/15 (plus AM on 2M). I worked all states and over a hundred countries just on 15 and 40 CW. Don't let anyone tell you that a Tech can't "talk" to people overseas. There's no code requirement for amateur licensing any more; the only thing that keeps folks off CW is themselves. [/QUOTE]

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