First try the Hand nodes on Echolink.  Secondly take your hanheld to the 
meeting for help.
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From: "Linda C. Knight" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2012 9:03 PM
Subject: my update


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> Hi all,
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> I still have my 2-meter Wouxun radio, but I am no longer able to use it.
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> There was this one repeater that I was able to work, but due to the 
> ugliness
> of other people, the repeater was shut down.
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> I turned on my radio one day as I haven't been on in a while due to health
> issues and I discovered it was gone.
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> I still belong to a radio club here and will be going to their meeting
> Monday night. It will be great to get back in the swing of things.
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> I am still very proud to have my ham license and I am thinking seriously 
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> going for my general. However, I won't be able to use many of the bands 
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> by the higher class licensees because of where I live.
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> Anyway; there is echo link.
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> There is a problem there too-as I am having trouble finding some good
> repeaters to listen to.
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> And I am having trouble receiving our club repeater on echo link. I heard
> others were having the same issue and I plan to talk about it at the
> meeting.
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> I will try the one in Jacksonville fl that some one suggested.
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> I'd like to get to know more operators and just having trouble getting 
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> with it-and I am getting rusty. LOL!
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> I need to learn to set alarms to who is on and who's off and thanks to 
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> J. Jacques, I now know how to add the callsigns and repeaters to 
> favorites.
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> So if any of you can suggest any repeaters this technician's licensee can
> use, please share.
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> I have had hip surgery in May of this year, and it went well (it was a
> debridment, not a replacement) but even though I am walking quite well 
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> I still have a ways to go. I have trouble with walking long distances.
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> Also, I have gotten eye issues and that threw me for a loop, so needless 
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> say, it was hard to get on the radio.
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> When I attend meetings and get around others with radios, I plan on using 
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> body-worn processors to my cochlear implants as my BTE processors cause 
> RFI.
> So we can't have that. <smile.
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> So I don't know what to do with my Wouxun. Its just sitting there. I may 
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> putting on my body-worn processors this weekend and see if I can hear the
> club repeater. The Behind the ear processors cause RFI for me too. So this
> will be a good way to keep my body-worn processors in shape.
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> Art and our guide dogs JJ and Shirley are doing well and we are finally
> getting to see the light in the tunnel.
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> Hugs and 73
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> Linda C. Knight & shirley
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> CallSign: kk4hrg
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> Please note email:
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