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