Actually, I had better clarify the above statement. Providing that the
rules committee follows the decision they made in November and posted
on the SRA site under the minutes of that meeting, use of ELT's will be
at the contest organizers discretion - as it was in 2005. If that rule
is finalized during the February meeting, Region 8 will not require the
use of an ELT for the 2006 contest.

I do wish that the rules committee would make their rules final a year
in advance rather than 3 months in advance. I suspect that it could
have saved a number of folks a chunk of change.

Jay