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cobra radio

10 meter refers to the wavelength. It is just above the CB Band and you can expect similar propagation.

I'm not famaliar with the radio, or the band, I'm sure others here would be more helpful than me.
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Get your license first and then worry about the radio. The reason is that your ham ticket gives you access to a range of frequencies and operating modes, something you will learn about as you study. Armed with that knowledge you can then decide what type of activity you are most interested in and can make an intelligent decision about which radio(s) best meet those desires. A multi-band radio that lets you operate on a range of frequencies may be the way to go.

There is a lot of good used gear available at ham fests. You can likely find one near you; show up early and bring some cash and you might walk away with something much nicer than a Cobra.

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That Cobra is a glorfied CB. In todays world a single band low power radio is near worthless.

As a beginner you need a multi band continuous tune radio in the 100watt range.

The 10meter band is totallly dead and for long periods of time depending on sunspots.
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Yup don't limit yourself with a 10m radio which is really just a CB radio with "extree channels" used by 11m bootleggers.

For a couple hundred you can get a real ham radio set that covers all of the HF bands.

Absolutely. I got a Kenwood TS-180S for $300 at a hamfest last June. It's perfectly functional [200 watts PEP on 160-15m, 160 watts PEP on 10m [WARC bands are an option, but not installed], nice audio with my Astatic 575-M6], and I found out later that it has the optional second SSB filter installed. Once you tune the IF bandpass a bit, there's absolutely no 'splash' from S9+40 signals 3 KHz away! Try that with an 'export' CB!

What the bootleg CB radios generally cover is 40 channels below ch1 [illegal to transmit, allocated to US government land mobile] and 40 channels above ch40 [illegal to transmit; allocated to various services]. If you absolutely wanted to use it for 10m, it would have to be un-modified [or is it 'modified'?] for 10 meters. CB radios are not allowed to transmit on ham bands and vice versa.

Thanks for that info. I'll have to go over Part 97 and see what I missed.

N2JTX is correct. It was quite popular years ago to convert CB radios for 10 Meter use. QST, 73, and CQ had numerous articles, and even listed most of the currently available CB radios along with what it took to get them on 10 Meters.
As long as your transmitter meets the spectral purity requirements, and you operate it following the band plans, it doesn't matter what it is, or where it came from.
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I have a couple of them out in my shed that I built just for the fun of it. They are not much fun to use being channelized, and none of them had tuning circuits that would produce full power across the whole 10meter band. One of them is a Teaberry (hows that for a Japanese name) It makes 20 watts on SSB and I did work Australia on it one time.
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