Thanks, Steve, and will keep you posted.

Hope all goes well with your mother, and will look for you in contests like 
the NAQP later this Winter.

73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "steve" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: recommendations for switching power supply for TS480


> Hi Tom,
>
> Good luck  with your power supply decision.   As for this weekend:  SS is
> one contest I've never fallen  in love with, although  I sometimes just 
> give
> out a few points.  it's only me and my 76 year old mother here and today 
> she
> comes home from the hospital after shoulder replacement surgery.   She's
> pretty frail right now and I'll have my hands full so if I get on at all 
> it
> will be very limited.  Look for you later this season in some of the other
> contests.
>
> 73, Steve KW3A
>