Those Yaesus are looking mighty fine ;) We've only got 2 meter in town but 440 is also popular in the surrounding area -found some dualbanders on ebay for under 200.

New question though...

I dearly love my Hamstick/Hotrod with the convenient bnc connector -surely there is an adapter for the screw on Yaesu type antenna connection and probably only a buck or two at that -I'm just not sure what that connection is even called -any thoughts?

Thanks again for the help -I really appreciate it! ^_^