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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