Greetings, Ralph (and the rest of the gang):
I concur with the comments that I've seen so far: Retain the state abbreviations and discard the full state names,
and reorder the station listings by latest QSO dates, but please continue to list me despite my absence.
No, I haven't been on in some time, and for those of you needing south Florida during the winter/spring, there is hope
in that I will be trying to get my 630m gear back on the air in a couple of weeks or so. I have had to do a lot of bush trimming
but it appears that my antenna (inverted-L using a 30m quarter-wave with a 40 foot top wire running to an avocado
tree at the 16 foot level against a 26 Ohm ground system) is intact as I've been using it to try to finish DXCC on 10m
(and thereby, 5BDXCC and 8BDXCC) as well as the DXCC Challenge. I wasn't able to get around to setting up the
giant coil I have up in Hendersonville, NC this summer as we had a lot of homeowner maintenance issues to plow
through, but I expect to get back on 630m and 2200m up there next summer.
I'll probably continue to use my K3 as the driver for the amp, as I did before, and leave the new K4D alone for HF work :-)
Very 73 and Season's Greetings to all,
Brandy, N1HO (EL96xh)