Does anyone make a 10 meter single SSB radio and a 6 meter radio?

[SCPD]

Back in the day, "all-band" radios stopped at 10 metre's. Dedicated V/UHF radios were the only way to go if you wanted something on sideband- or you built them yourself as transvert'rs etc.
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I happen to like that my 575 is only 26-56Mhz. It was designed to do a limit'd range of things, which it does very very well. Yes, the new all- band radios do everything nowadays, but I am not a "whistles and bell's" sort of girl.... I strive to keep things as simple as I can- and I like 6 metre's enuff the lack of other bands don't matter.
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(all said with a smile) What is the saying?... to each their own?...
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......................................................and 6 not opening much?... have you ever explored meteor or aurora, tropo scatter...?

 

[K7MH]

Back in the day, "all-band" radios stopped at 10 metre's. Dedicated V/UHF radios were the only way to go if you wanted something on sideband- or you built them yourself as transvert'rs etc.
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I happen to like that my 575 is only 26-56Mhz. It was designed to do a limit'd range of things, which it does very very well. Yes, the new all- band radios do everything nowadays, but I am not a "whistles and bell's" sort of girl.... I strive to keep things as simple as I can- and I like 6 metre's enuff the lack of other bands don't matter.
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(all said with a smile) What is the saying?... to each their own?...
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..................................CF
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......................................................and 6 not opening much?... have you ever explored meteor or aurora, tropo scatter...?

All fine and well but we are not back in that day any longer. So those rigs are around used but there is nothing new like them and hasn't been for many years. There is no market for them or they would still be in production in one way or the other. Production costs are probably too high and it doesn't cost that much more to get an all band rig into production.
If you already have a 575 or similar rig then that is altogether a different thing than finding one now in good used condition at a decent price when you can find a much newer used all band rig for not a lot more perhaps.
Yes I have done all that on 6 meters, used to be on it a lot some years ago. Still it is not a band that a new guy can jump on for a few hours any given day and work a handful of people like on some of the lower bands. I am in Seattle with a pretty large ham population. I had a 6 FM rig for a couple years but sold it due to there being so little activity on FM repeaters or otherwise. The repeaters had great coverage, just very little use, often the same very few people.

Sometimes people leave hobbies for several years and then return somehow thinking things will be much the way they were when they left and they can pick right up from there. It isn't usually so, things march on!

 

[SCPD]

I agree with you K7MH... The new multiband radios are the way to go- and I do have more modern equipment than the 575. I just happen to like that I have one dedicated to 6 exclusively.
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I also agree that 6 is NOT the band for a newcomer to start out on. Again, using the trite "back in the day" phrase this wasn't always the case-- when 6 was 'The Band' for Tech's it swarm'd with activity. Everyone was on it. That is not the case any more, for a host of reason- and not likely it will every return to those glory days of days gone by. Today it is a specialist's band, left for those that like that nether world between HF and VHF....personally, the more exotic the propagation mode, the more I like the band. Aurora is my niche on 6.
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That said, I would heartily discourage a new ham from starting there, especially since a Tech can use SSB on 10 metre's-- not a great choice now with low sun spots- but much better by far than six.
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I think we are the same page......
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[wrath]

There's this:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I53VUEY/

10M, 6M, 2M, and 70cm.

For the price difference if I was going to get something it would be an actual Yaesu FT 8900 quad band , but alas I already own one , it's one of my collection of spare radios all over the house . I was testing a new alpha dipole the other day and found very interestingly that 40 watts on 6 meters smoked my UPS ,unfortunately I had not tested this supply with anything other than QRP.

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[wb6uqa]

10 meters

Most modern transceivers are 160-6 meters, all mode. Good reason to upgrade your license.

 

[jim202]

They are both dead bands. You may not find anyone to talk to until the next sunspot cycle.

Both 10 and 6 meters are not dead. They just have limited activity. Many of the 6 meter repeaters that use to be very active have been put out of operation from the noise floor being raised up by all the computers, cable TV leakage and the many computer network hubs and routers that have been installed all over the place. Unless the repeater was installed away from homes and businesses, it probably has been rendered almost useless. There are a couple of 6 meter repeaters in the Mobile, AL. area that can be active at times.

The 10 meter activity is there, but again it is limited to the active hams in the area. Some areas have a very active 10 meter group and other areas are very quiet.

Bottom line here is don't call them dead. It depends on where you are. Put a receiver on and scan the frequencies. You just might be surprised with what you hear.

When you have storm fronts moving across the country, there generally is ducting activity. It may not last that long, but it does make for a challenge to work the skip it can and will produce.

 

[wrath]

If your on the east coast there is a nice 10 meter machine in the Catskill mountains , cross linked with multiple other bands ,it's kind of a party you never know who or where someone is from .like dstar with out the icom requirement

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[cmdrwill]

Why anyone would want a "just" 6 and 10 meter rig is beyond me. These days most HF rigs all have 6 meters in them so you get all the HF bands plus 6 meters which is more worthwhile to own.

6 and 10 are pretty quiet these days and that isn't likely to change all that much for many years to come.
Occasional openings sure, and some contesting going on but it will be pretty limited and being in the right place at the right time.

They do NOT have FM mode.......

 

[wwhitby]

FWIW, there was a great 10M band opening from Central and South America this past Sunday. I worked four contest stations from Panama, Aruba and Curacao in roughly 30 minutes. I also heard a station in Santiago, Chile, but I couldn't reach him from my QTH.

 

[wb6uqa]

10 meters

I worked Brazil and ST. Martins Island.