As I said on an earlier post, I just got my license, too. Since I guess one would want both an HT and a mobile I suppose there is no wrong way to go about it, but I would get the mobile first (I did it the other way around). But then I am in about as rural a country as you can be in, too. I also want to get something where I can do some 6m SSB, but Rome wasn't built in a day.