Well, I've posted my dilema on what I've been looking for but never got an
answer, or at least one I could take in there so I decided today I WAS coming
out of any rat shack with what I needed.......if I had to go to five of them,
I was.

My two problems:
I needed an adapter or 'sleeve' to consistently keep plugged into my external
antenna jack on my DX398. You'd swear I was speaking another language. After
I spoke s-l-o-w-l-y- for the third time and still saw the constipated looks on
the two faces in there I told them....."guys, go on and take care of the other
customers, there was FIVE standing there with their new (I suppose) picture
cell phones and they were pressing in codes. {?} That's what it looked like.
Every now and then one of them would break away from the desk and go to an
aisle I was in like I was a potential thief or something.

I know a thief can be anyone, but I'm professional and clean cut and after the
FOURTH time of being watched 'kind words' from me were asked to them in the
form of "I'm not gonna rip you off, then preceded to reach in my pocket and
whip out a stack of bills, that got them to leave me alone (I think.) ;-)

But for anyone else that needs or wants to correct the problem I had, the cat#
(that I kept asking for in here to no avail BTW;-) ) is #4202472 for the
adapter or actually a 'sleeve' so you can plug and unplug your antenna without
wearing out your board.

The other problem was with my phones (head phones) my Optimus Pro 40 plugs
into an adapter and I was afraid (because it would have) put a strain on the
headphone chord from being bent at an angle all the time or would have strained
the board. So I found a 'stereo to stereo Right angle'.....so now I have that
new piece plugged in and the other adapter into it....followed by the
headphones plug itself plugged into that. No more strains on any of those
jacks or the board and now I can always unplug my external antenna (like
everyone should) without worrying if it'd be the last time before the jack
would loosen or the board would crack.

Both of them work beautifully and I'm a happy camper, and those workers are
ding dong heads. ;-)