I copied this from an email I sent to a friend: I appreciate any help!

I was the high bidder all weekend on that radio. Then, late last night
someone outbid me right before it was over. I was disappointed.

I did have some questions though. Do you use ssb capabilities alot? I
mean, are there alot of people on ssb? Are there ssb repeaters? Seems
thid capability adds alot of costs into a radio. What about 440 mhz? I
noticed you talked about the skywarn system. I checked into it and it
seems I should be able to acess it. It has several repeaters linked. It
is just a regular repeater system when there is no severe weather.

I noticed some of the older radios dont have the "tone feature". Does
this mean some repeaters can not be acessed?

One of the links you forwarded to me was this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...7063 317&rd=1
It seems to be older, and does not have 440 but has ssb capability I
think. Is this a very good radio? WHat are these worth?

I noticed some of the add's said "just sent to the factory and aligned"
Are there adjustments that have to be made from time to time?

By the way I finially got into the morse code tutor and played around
with it a little. It was hard for me to understand the dot's and
dashes, they went faster than I could recognize them. What is the test
like when you take it? I assume you have to memorize the dots and
dashes for each letter, or do you have a "cheat sheet" where you just
have to figure out what is being played and can refer to something that
is already written down for each letter?

I am sorry for all the questions. Looking at all those radios this
weekend made me come up with alot more than I already had!
Thanks for your help,