Thanks for bumping this thread. I will probably join DRC. I hope to make the July meeting and have begun studying for my Extra, which I intend to take at the DRC Hamfest in August. http://www.w0tx.org/

No hobby is immune from people who insist on punishing others for not living up to their own high standards. Please don't let one or two or twenty range nazis take the fun out of your hobby. If you aren't learning...you are dumb or dead.