Barry spoke about the letter generating program for HR-4969 a few days ago. I have worked with John Proctor K1JMP (ARRL HQ IT) over the last few days tuning up the program. I mentioned on the board list yesterday that the letter it was generating was similar to the one on the www.arrl.org/HR-4969 website, which was accurate, but not quite as compelling as the letter that Mike and Chris gave as an example on their webinar. The program had a few kinks, such as superimposing the generated number field (for number of ham constituents in a district) on the text, which garbled the sentence. Additionally, due to the way HQ computers deal with the current date, the program would originally not run for me. I am pleased to say that John sent me the updated zip file today, and as far as I can tell, it is working flawlessly. It is using the webinar letter template and is properly inserting the number field in the text. FYI, the unzipped file is 10 MB. The zipped file is only 2 MB. It e-mails fine. The Shelby, NC Hamfest is this weekend, and we expect a good turnout. Steve Ewald is coming down as the ARRL HQ rep, and John arranged for Steve to bring an ARRL HQ laptop to the Hamfest. We have a printer, and now it is just a matter of hooking them both together and have the drivers load. I'll send a report as to how everything worked once the Hamfest is over. I definitely want to send KUDOS to John Proctor for his work on this project! '73 de JIM N2ZZ