I plan on having access to all HAM frequencies eventually. Licensing is pretty easy in Canada now (or so I'm told)

You don't think a handheld unit could support DX applications? I've heard of a friend who had a handheld unit that he tossed a wire up into a try and could DX. Lost the contact info for him and any HAM search includes information overload at my current state of ignorance.

Rawles makes reference to a small unit from Elecraft in his new book "Survivors".

My fingers are crossed.

Yours truly,

NIM