you know what,, screw off, wow you found what you needed!!!!

i worked at the shack to pay my way through college for five years and hated
dealing with customers who couldnt find what they were looking for or even
knew what it was they were looking for. it is not our job to find a magic
piece for you. you apparenlty knew what you needed so why bother the
employees, just let them ring you up

hehe. although i would love to chat wth someone about SWl , etc, i know i
have to make money, so i might even give someone the cold shoulder to go
help a cell phone. hehe you could ask anyone i worked with, i did not push
phones on people, never. if you knew the pay structure you would do the
same. many times idodnt do this and got stuck with a $5 sale instead of
something that could of made me more money.

anyway you shoud of just got an 3.5mm male plug, to a small piece of coax
(RG-174) or even bought the one they sell, and solder the loose ends to what
ever connector you wanted . i did this for my AM loop antenna they closed
out and it works like a champ. i hook it up to my FT-817 and it has the best
BCB reception

dont rip on the shack employees for your short comings. if you have to
complain about them you are just to frustrated with what you needs are, so
yes let them sell phones and make more money than selling $10.94 worth of
connectors, and then you trying to explain to them about radio.

just my honest opinion, now lets see who flames me

-steve, former Shacker



"Dxluver" wrote in message
...
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. ;-)