In an amazing effort at predicting the future, everything (I think) that has been said this week in response to the Feb. '04 QST Op-Ed piece was said by me in NCJ, in 1994! I didn't have the original text file easily available, but here is the 1994 NCJ piece, converted to a .jpg file: http://mysite.verizon.net/vze2g8kb/id1.html Rich K2WR