I don't take up reflector bandwidth for these too often, but I thought this was worth relaying. 73, Dave K1ZZ -----Original Message----- From: Texx [mailto:texx@delong.org] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 3:48 PM To: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ Subject: day brightener My present consulting contract has me doing computer support for the USFS. In a recent casual office conversation, I mentioned being a ham. The response "Oh yeah, you and your ham buddies are sure bailing us outta trouble in Idaho & Montana..." brightened my day. Whats interesting is that the hams doing fire support in ID & MT are in a totally different region from our Region-5 (SF Bay Area) but the folks in "FIRE" out here know very well how helpful the hams out there are. The govt grapevine speaks well of us. Please share this message with the rest of the ARRL office and use it any way you feel best helps us in justifying our continued use of spectrum. -texx, R "Texx" Woodworth, kg6ath,