oh! oh! me! me! i'm an operator! i figured i was the only one, i only have my technician license but now that they have taken the code out of the general class test i might study up and go get it. my call sign is KE5BFC. when i first got my call sign the first thing my dad did was start laughing and then told me that the phenetics (spelling?) shoud be KE5big fart champion (this was before i was diagnosed and i was cranking out some really bad ones) i don't oporate much mostly because the only radio i bothered to buy was a 2 watt talkie so i'm pretty limited on what i can do. good luck with getting a net up, i've got some friends that are also oporators (w/out cf) that i can borrow equipment from so i can make the distance it sounds like fun