On Sat > Another option, get a small handheld transceiver that you can tune to > the appropriate frequency. > > This also lets you adjust volume levels so that you don't overdrive the > input on the transceiver. Nothing worse than a contact with a garbled > station because the microphone input is being overdriven.
All that is needed for monitoring is a VHF/UHF scanner. CW is to amateur radio much as is CLI to computing. And a microphone is the analogue of a GUI. Russ
