Len Over 21 wrote:
It's also time that the Newington crowd recognized that MOST of
the United States and MOST of the radio amateurs it is supposed
to represent live WEST of the Mississippi.

?? From the FCC license data the AH0A web site finds 364,000 licensed
amateurs live east of the Mississippi and 315,000 live west of the
Mississippi (for the remaining few thousand the state apparently
couldn't be determined).

Dennis Ferguson