[Modern Ham] has a new video ... It turns out that a cheap Chinese radio is all you need on the radio side. You do, however, benefit from having a bit of an antenna. It isn’t unusual for ...

Ham radio covers a lot of ground ... Many hams had directional antennas for the 20, 15, and 10 meter bands (all-in-one antennas called tribanders). A very few would have something for 40 meters ...