Don, To be truly welcomed as a new "Ham", you have to somehow put together a transmitter that wipes out your neighbor's TV sets...then you've made it!! The icingon the cake would be to get an Official Observer's "postcard" at the same time.... I'm sure a lot of the oldtimers know what I mean by that! 73, Jack WA2HWJ Radio+Teletype...it don't get no better....