Jimmy,

JA>Anyway, I think the Baofeng uses SMA Female, if you need an antenna...

  The only frequency I have programmed into it is the main area Skywarn
repeater. It doesn't have enough power to get out from inside the
apartment, and with inspections and antenna prohibitions, I'm out of
luck, RF gear wise.

JA>I'm trying to decide what to do when I get my General... I don't have
JA>a big budget for a nice 'shack' setup, but I'd like to do SOMETHING
JA>more than the HT when the time comes...

  With the General Class license, you have 86.7% of the ham radio
spectrum. Only 500 kilohertz on 80, 40, 20, and 15 meters, are off
limits to you. But, you can become a Volunteer Examiner (VE), to give
and grade the exams. Now, while a General Class VE can only give and
grade the Technician exam...the Advanced Class VE can give and grade the
Technician and General (although the FCC stopped issuing Advanced class
licenses in 2000)...and the Extra Class VE can give and grade the
Technician, General, and Extra exams.

  Note that with the rules change in July, 2014 (if I remember right),
those hams who previously held a Technician Class license on or before
March 20, 1987...or a General, Advanced, or Amateur Extra Class
license...they get partial credit for the exam elements (General, or
General and Extra). But, they have to take and pass the Technician exam,
and that's where the General Class VE's are needed. I prefer the Extra
Class VE's, since they can give and grade all of them, but they have to
have the Technician under their belt before they can go for the higher
exams.

JA> DS>   Or a photo of hundreds of Winnie The Pooh characters around, and the
JA> DS> sign of "Warning!! There's Pooh Everywhere"!! :P

JA>Oh that's good. :-)

  Glad you liked it.

  Sorry I'm so long in replying. I have been working over the last month
to switch BBS software. I went back to Synchronet, due to netmail and
echomail routing issues with VADV32, and node issues with GT Power.
Plus, the one thing Synchronet has that no other BBS package does (from
what I can tell) is a utility to set up non-fossil doors like a regular
door under telnet. That includes some of the ham radio doors done by the
late Dave Perry, W4KGU (SK).

  I still have work to do with the autoposts, some of the QWK
Networking, and some of the doors. But, at least I'm back online. The
bad news, though, is that we're in an unsettled weather pattern here,
and that means thunderstorms much of the week, which equates to extended
BBS and computer downtime. There were Tornado Warnings in my area last
Monday night.

Daryl, WX1DER

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