Attentive readers of the IN-Newsletter may have noted that I am leaving tomorrow for Sarajevo. IARU Region 1 EC member Niksa, 9A5W has asked me to accompany him to a promotional meeting hosted by the Minister of Communications of Bosnia & Herzegovina to introduce the new E7 prefix (which replaces T9). The Minister was willing to schedule the meeting according to my availability. It will be held on Tuesday, December 18. I have been involved in the effort to bring the radio amateurs of Bosnia & Herzegovina back together since 2002. Because T9 originally was allocated to one side in the civil war, the new prefix should help -- there are encouraging signs of acceptance from all sides. My presence is intended to underscore the support of the international amateur radio community for greater cooperation among the country's amateurs. I am actually flying to Zagreb and will have dinner with 9A5K, the newly elected president of HRS, the Croatian amateur society, on Sunday. HRS is the host society for next November's IARU Region 1 Conference in Cavtat, near Dubrovnik. Their bid for the conference was organized by the previous president, 9A6A, who 9A5K defeated in his bid for re-election, so it's especially important that his relations with the IARU begin on the right foot. Niksa's professional driver will drive the two of us from there to Sarajevo on Monday and back to Zagreb on Tuesday after the meeting. (Niksa is the director of the company that manages all of the broadcast transmitter sites in Croatia.) I leave Hartford via Amsterdam on Saturday afternoon, December 15 and return Wednesday afternoon, December 19, assuming the weather on both sides of the Atlantic will cooperate. I do not expect to have much email access while I'm away but will sign on as the opportunity arises. 73, Dave K1ZZ