[jcassity]

Hey jcassity - if you're going to stick with this hobby I think you should get the equipment

Rich

yeah but i dont have anyone to teach me how and not make rookie mistakes along the way.

on this radio i count three mistakes that cost me about 3 extra weeks of fooling around when i could have moved forward.

i spent about a month of digging around before joining here.  I had to learn a lot of simple stuff you guys take for granted like the resistor color code differences where the body color was the 1st significant digit, or  "MM" means milli + milli = uF.  there is a huge generational gap on these radios..  I had to learn that what appears to be a resistor is not ,,, its a bumble bee capacitor! 

I learned a lot, not sure how i am going to get the information down to the boys.