Roy,

You make a lot of good points. I would like to see the return of 220MHz HTs!
I am heartened to see that the stereotype of hams as tightwads has softened to
some degree... perhaps it is all the boomers retiring and finding that buying
a new rig every year or two really doesn't put too much of a dent in their
annual vacation plans.

How many of those 2.5 million hams possess a copy of EZNEC, I wonder? :-)

---Joel