Allen, First: Congratulations on the tremendous press you gained for Amateur Radio. When I view the great results you obtained relative to my limited knowledge of how you went about doing your job (so well), I can only conclude you are the best Public Information guru the League has had - ever! I also congratulate Dave and others who were responsible for bringing you on board. It may be a premature to work through the following; therefore, at your convenience and pending your personal recovery from Katrina, I'd like to speak with you about how we (the Amateur Radio Service) can get much greater PR assistance as a result of critical work we provide through "served agencies." It may be partly out of ignorance that I sense that we (the ARS) continue very deliberately to receive the royal shaft from the ANC and others who are too mentally-small and childish to be able to share that which should legitimately be shared. This, of course, rankles me --- not merely because the ARS typically receives negligible or no billing. Having worked very closely for many years with two such served agencies, I attribute this to their callous, selfish and myopic failure to recognize that their continued reluctance to point out the great good we do will ultimately lead to a dearth of skilled operators needed to carry out the very communication that allows them to perform their work. I am unwilling to sit back and accept a priori that we have no viable options to pursue in rectifying this problem. I am equally willing to accept that a mutually-acceptable, mutually-beneficial solution to this problem can be found. I will appreciate it if you let me know of a couple of times during which I could telephone you to discuss this subject. Obviously, your perspective is very important to understanding the situation. Tnx, 73, Jim Jim Weaver, K8JE Director, Great Lakes Division ARRL; http://www.arrl.org/ 5065 Bethany Rd., Mason, OH 45040 Tel.: 513-459-0142; E-mail: k8je@arrl.org ARRL: The reason Amateur Radio Is! MEMBERS: The reason ARRL Is!