Again I want to thank you for the many kind comments you made to me in the last few days, and I will relay your regards to Carter. Each one of us has shown devotion to and leadership for Amateur Radio as the lights of our individual consciences and experiences guide us. I don't think there has ever been a time in Amateur Radio's history when the water was smooth and the air was calm. Our predecessors didn't do anything that we can't also do. In another era of my life, I had a friend in the civil rights movement who wrote a song that Dr. King quoted in a speech. The key stanza went like this. One ship sails east, and the other sails west Though the very same breezes blow. It's the set of the sail and not the gale, That bids them where to go. Like the ships on the sea are the ways of our fate, Though the seas are getting heavy and the hour is getting late. If the ship starts seeping water -- you know how to bail. You can't change the weather but you sure can change the sail. And a harbor's so much better when you've made it through a gale, And I guess we've got to keep on keeping on. That we do, and my heart will always be with you and with the ARRL. 73, Kay N3KN P.S. -- I found my coat and car keys