Hi Index-
What is your budget? Are you looking for a serious tabletop receiver, a portable, or what? As for transmitting - are you looking to build a transmitter, or buy a ready-made transceiver, or what? IMHO, you should be more concerned with reception of pirate signals at your present level of understanding. To start throwing illegal signals out into the ionosphere without fully understanding the nuts and bolts will probably get you the WRONG kind of listeners - and the associated legal problems along with them. 73...