On Mar 11, 3:37*pm, notbob wrote:
On 2010-03-11, Michael Black wrote:

amateur radio. *There's a whole hierarchy, rec.radio.amateur.* that's
intended for that. *They cover a wide variety of topics, and there's even
a moderated one.

Thank you for your brief reply. *

Now that you've read my post and know what I'm looking for, would you
care to recommend one of the rra groups that might be more appropriate
for my needs?

nb

Hi, notbob - here is the moderated one, if you are looking for really
clean material...

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...pics?hl=en&lnk

Good luck - first, you may want to read the items in this thread by
Mark Holden and Michael Black.

Bruce

On 2010-03-11, bpnjensen wrote:

Hi, notbob - here is the moderated one, if you are looking for really
clean material...

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...pics?hl=en&lnk

Good luck - first, you may want to read the items in this thread by
Mark Holden and Michael Black.

As a rule, I don't like moderated usenet groups, but will watch it. I'm
watching three other rra groups, but despite enormous server retention, there
seems to be almost no current traffic. I joined eham.net and will
look at other web forums. Thanks for your comments.

nb

On Mar 12, 7:53*am, notbob wrote:
On 2010-03-11, bpnjensen wrote:

Hi, notbob - here is the moderated one, if you are looking for really
clean material...

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...ted/topics?hl=....

Good luck - first, you may want to read the items in this thread by
Mark Holden and Michael Black.

As a rule, I don't like moderated usenet groups, but will watch it. *I'm
watching three other rra groups, but despite enormous server retention, there
seems to be almost no current traffic. *I joined eham.net and will
look at other web forums. *Thanks for your comments.

nb

I don't care for the moderated groups either - but if, as you
suggested, a noise-free group is what you're looking for, moderated is
the way to go. If you posted there, you'd probably get some
responses. In any case, the eham route is also a good one, that
should work out well for you. Best of fortune!

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.