Picked up a new toy today... a Kenwood TS-480SAT. It's an HF rig that can transmit all HF HAM bands and also on 6M. I was looking at an ICOM unit as well but found that I prefer being able to directly enter frequencies, so the Kenwood is what I went with. I powered it up this evening and I've got a little ways to go before it's 100% ready to get up on the air but just connecting some coax cable that was lying on the floor and not connected to antennas, I was able to hear the time clock on 15 MHz. I start my 4 day work week in just a few hours more and likely won't be able to get my antenna tuner properly situated and powered until mid-day Monday. Given that my previous radio worked reasonably well with this setup, I expect at least equal results with my new radio. New radio has an internal tuner but it's a bit limited but the external unit seems to be able to tune darned near anything...
