welcome to the list! think you'll find it very interesting, helpful and 
enjoyable. Lots of interesting posts here.

73
Jeff
KC9UIE

On 2/27/2015 3:01 PM, Adrien Collins wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have just joined the list, I have not been on the radio
> for nearly ten years and wanted to get back in the loop so
> to speak. I used to live in Scotland but now live in France.
> The last time I used my hf was back in early 2007. One of
> the reasons I stopped was because my rig started to go wrong
> and I wasn't able to get it fixed. It was a kenwood ts440s.
> I had it from new. The board that switches it between some
> of the bands stopped working and I had no idea what it would
> cost to get fixed but thought it would cost more to fix than
> the rig was worth. I still have my 2 metre handhelds and
> sometimes use that but it isn't the same as hf.
>
> Just to tell you a bit about myself, my callsign is G0mun, I
> still have my license, in fact I made sure of that this
> week. I am visually impaired and in a wheelchair but often
> found the radio was a great equaliser. I wanted to use
> echolink but couldn't get my firewall to work with it, I had
> to open up several ports that would make my pc open to
> threats and wasn't prepared to do that.
>
> One of the reasons for joining the list was to catch up a dn
> find out what else was available like echolink that would
> let me use my pc to communicate and also hopefully catch up
> with some old friends.
>
> Ok that is enough from me on my first post. Looking forward
> to chatting with you all.
>
> 73's
>
> Adrien