On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:12:05 GMT, notbob wrote:

Another question. Being a big usenet user, but new to amateur radio,
I've been looking at all the groups available. This one appeared to
have the least noise for a general discussion group, so I posted here.
Is this type of question ok, here, or is there a more appropriate
group for rank newbie questions I'm sure to be pestering the ham
community with?


Most of the talk is on qrz.com and articles are on eham.net. There are a
lot of yahoogroups for different radio models and QRP, HFPack operations.