you made sure you got the diamond antenna that does all 3 bands right? 
unless you don't intend on using the 220 band?
there is only one diamond HT antenna that is tuned for all 3 bands and that 
is the SRH320a.
There are a few other diamond HT antennas but they're mostly dual band 2M 
70CM antennas.
I am surprised the SRH320 is that cheap.
HF is ok on the f6 as long as you have an external antenna.
The diamond antenna will not hear anything below the FM broadcast band.
The internal bar antenna works ok below 10MHZ, such as on the AM broadcast 
band, but hears nothing on 80M or 40M...if you use even a random wire 
antenna with an SMA connecter on the end, strung up around a room or even 
lying on the floor, you'll be able to hear some HF stuff.
it isn't anything like the receiver on a real HF radio, but it does hear.  I 
had it hooked up to the quarter wave VHF whip on the car and heard some 
activity on 20 meters driving around town.
somethings to look at are the miracle whip antenna, or other HF 
mobile/portible antennas to improve receive if that's what you want.  You 
can get a multi band mobile/portible HF antenna these days for around $100 
or less.
Check on
www.universal-radio.com

and see their selection of multi-band HF to UHF antennas...there are some 
that are really quite inexpensive.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Minor" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 3:50 PM
Subject: Thanks for all the responses: RE: I'm getting a TH-F6A as a late 
Christmas present, a question.


> Hi.
>
> Thanks to everybody who responded to my note.  Looks like Batteries 
> America
> has what I want.  I'll save some money and buy the high capacity battery 
> and
> the drop-in charger.  That way I'll have two batteries that I can use.
>
> I don't plan on transmitting on the radio while it's plugged into its
> charger.  I will see if I can listen while it's plugged in.  One of the
> things that intrigues me is the radio's ability to receive on HF and other
> bands.
>
> I've ordered a Diamond antenna for the radio.  I can't remember the model
> number, but it cost me the same amount as the antenna I got for my Radio
> Shack HT.  If it's what I already have, it looks like a 19 inch whip which
> is coated with rubber.  I figure that will give me some gain over the 
> duckie
> that comes with the radio.
>
> I purchased the Kenwood for $279.99 from Ham Radio Outlet, and the antenna
> cost me $29.99.  I don't think that was too bad a cost, but I figure I'd
> better wait to get the other things for the radio, such as the battery, 
> the
> charger and a speaker mic.  My financial advisor would hurt me.
>
> Handiham does have a 4 part audio tutorial on the THF-6A.  It's done by
> KA0PQW.  I believe his name is Matt.  He did an excellent audio tutorial 
> on
> the TS-2000, and his explanation of the TH-F6A was pretty good, although 
> he
> forgot to describe a key or two.  I've been to IcanWorkThisThing and have
> read the key chart and a little of the manual.  I'll do more of that later
> on tonight and tomorrow.
>
> Again, thanks to everybody for their great help.
>
> I wanna be the disc jockey for WWV.
> 73
> Kevin Minor
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