Dear Members, If you are a contester, you may be interested in the fact that there were 18,817 logged participants in 2002 for ARRL sponsored contests. That's a 1.7% increase over 2001's 18,505. While this isn't a whopping increase, at least it shows that contesting is holding its own and growing. For more details, see the ARRL website: www.arrl.org. 73 Al K3ZE