A few words about Fall shack maintenance and tips on buying used equipment.
Most ham radios can scan hundreds of frequencies including many that are outside of the ham bands. Why not try to use most of the available memory channels in your radios so that you have a better chance of hearing what is going on around you? This post offers some advice about how and why that might be a good idea.
Connectors can get confusing to a new ham, but really there's just a few select ones for each application.
One Ham's story of a mobile install / learning opportunity.