I'll attemp a crash course in club history... Some of this is from actual newsletter bits, and some from my poor memory :-)

1989

On January 10th of 1989, a group of 12 Northern Johnston County Amateurs got together and decided to form a club. Many were already members of other organizations, and were interested in assembling a technically oriented club to interest amateurs in Johnston County and surrounding areas. So TEARA was born.

Early that year, they worked hard to assemble and commission a repeater to support the club’s activities. Many prospective repeater sites were located and tested as a possible location for the TEARA repeater. Felix Killette N4UOB secured a site that seemed to be the best of all. This site was in Clayton. The tower was a privately owned ex-business band system that was 200 feet tall and installed in a geographically high area to the South of town. TEARA would have the top of the tower for it’s very own use!! This type of installation would lend itself to being a nearly omni-directional system. The VHF frequency of 147.39 was co-ordinated by the Southeastern Repeater Association for use in Clayton. Just weeks later, the TEARA repeater was on the air and putting out a beautiful signal. It was being heard and used as far away as Chapel Hill, Kinston, Henderson, Fayetteville, Wilson, Cary, Rocky Mount, Greenville, and Goldsboro. Not bad for a low altitude repeater.

1990

In March of 1990, TEARA was formally incorporated as a non-profit organization and issued an exemption status. I don't know much about 1990, except I had become aware of the club. Debbie AC4QD (then KD4AAP) and I lived in Wilson, NC. I remember TEARA having a hamfest in Smithfield, and a flower sale in Selma as a fund raiser that year.

1991

TEARA was based in Clayton, my home town, and the repeater was on Dairy Road, and the F.W.Lee Logging company location. I had learned of the club previously, had been checking into their Tuesday night nets, and had reached out about membership. I got a call one evening about attending a meeting. I remember thinking, "great!". There were 3 people there, including myself. This was in very early 1991, and I was asked if I had interest in trying to grow the club. Membership and participation was beginning fall off, and there was talk about shutting the club down. I said "sure", and my wife and I jumped head long into the project.

1992

This is from a newsletter:
Hi! I’m Dave Hockaday WB4IUY, the 1992 President of the Triangle East Amateur Radio Association. I wish that I had a way of knowing at what point you are located along the path of time when you read this. Oh well, whatever year it may be, I simply hope that the Association is still alive and well. I’m going to attempt to shed a little light about the creation of TEARA, and how it got where it is as of this writing.

Since the not-so-distant days of foundry, TEARA has grown to a membership upwards of 80 members (as of this writing). TEARA membership has branched out in all directions into the previously mentioned cities and beyond. The club is alive with activities involving the old and new ham alike. On-the-air antenna design projects, commercial equipment conversions, rig troubleshooting, DX hunting, and good old “rag chewing” are the types of things that occupy the repeater’s air time.

TEARA now has a weekly net that meets on Tuesday nights at 8:30 PM and has check-in counts that run in the 20 to 30 check-in range. The nets often last 45 minutes+. Quite an accomplishment from the first days of 15 minute nets with 3-5 check-ins!! The net has become quite informal, with equipment trading, announcements, etc. It is more of a weekly meeting than a traffic net.

In mid-1992, a new UHF repeater was installed in Thanksgiving by Kirk Ellis KK4YP. It is located about 10 miles east of Clayton at about 235 feet on a commercial tower. The frequency is 444.0 and is one of the wider coverage UHF repeaters in the eastern part of NC.

The club now owns another VHF repeater on 147.015 due to be installed in Wilson and plans to link it back into the original TEARA VHF repeater are ahoof. The frequency of 147.015 belongs to Kirk KK4YP, and efforts are being made to coordinate a TEARA frequency for which to permanently install this machine on.

TEARA formed a VE Team in 1992 and, as of now, has given about 120 exam elements. We hold an annual Ham Radio Class (and are about to hold the 2nd class this year!!!). These two activities seem to have fostered growth within the club.

TEARA had its first official Field Day in the summer of 1992. It was a tremendous success and yielded lots of enthusiastic AND tired bodies. Everyone loved it and are looking forward to Field Day ‘93.

TEARA also had its first Fox Hunts in 1992. Many members were involved and built specialized antenna systems for the hunts. As of this writing, the hunters are getting better and show some serious promise as true RF hunters.

Dave Hockaday
1992 President
TEARA

1993

From a newsletter:
Well, it’s been a year since an entry was made here...so I’ll try to bring you up to speed! On January 1st, the new TEARA 2 meter repeater was commissioned on top of the NC Special Care Center in Wilson. During it’s infancy, it operated on 147.015 that was co-ordinated to Kirk Ellis KK4YP at another site. It ran pretty good, with the normal aches and pains of a new system. Before long, the phone patch was operating smoothly, and it’s performance was improving. TEARA got permission from SERA later in the year to try 147.300 as a permanent frequency. All looked pretty good, and before long it was operating on the new frequency under the call sign WA4UQC. Nearing Christmas, the Wilson repeater had a string of problems... controller bugs, duplexer problems, antenna problems, and to top it all...the power amplifier blew up just days before the TEARA Christmas Party was to be held in Wilson. Whew...bad luck..

147.39 in Clayton had it’s share of problems, too. The power regulators for the PA failed twice during the year, but otherwise it ran smoothly. A remotely controllable squelch and voice ID’r were added. Tower noise began to plague .39 from time to time, but the new remote squelch was a big help.

One of our members, Roger KD4MYE, began work on a new repeater system for Franklin County. His 2 meter repeater is on 145.11, and his 6 meter repeater is on 53.37. Both are working nicely and are really fostering amateur growth in Franklin County. There is also a new club forming in that area. The name looks as if it will be Franklin County Amateur Radio Club (FCARC)

A repeater site in Wendell (Lizard Lick) was procured by Hugh Cashion KD4WJD and readied for installation of a few member owned repeater systems. There was a picnic and major club gathering to clean up the property and remove some old CATV antennas from the tower. Hugh plans to install a 440 (it’s under construction now) and a 220 repeater, and I plan to install a 6 meter and 10 meter repeater.

The 2nd TEARA field day was a big success. The Carolina Pottery site was used again this year, and all went smoothly and Field Day was pulled off without a hitch. 2 towers were installed at the site, and antennas were attached for 160 through 2 meters. Everyone had a great time and there were lots of members on hand for the event.

TEARA held 2 special events, complete with HF/VHF/UHF stations, and commemorative certificates were issued to those who made contact with us. One event celebrated the birthplace and birthday of the famous actress, Ava Gardner. The other event brought amateur radio into the famous Spivey’s Corner Holler’in Contest.

The TEARA Fox hunts were sporadic during the year, but were always fun for the group. The fox was especially sly, and getting smarter with each hunt. The Foxhunts are as much an excuse to get together and BS as to build DFing skills.

The TEARA VE team had an excellent year, and gained more member/VE’s to work at the test sessions. Test sessions were held at Johnston Tech the first part of the year, then shifted to the Smithfield Public Library due to the costs incurred at the community college.

TEARA held it’s first General Class upgrade session and produced 15 generals, 1 extra, and 3 tech+’s. It was a very successful class, and made a lot of members happy!

The TEARA Christmas party was held in Wilson this year, and we had a very nice turn out. The party was hosted by Gladys Tallant, and was a smash. Delicious food, music, and fellowship made the party a memorable one.

This was my 2nd year as president, and I was ready to hand the workload to someone else near the end of the year. TEARA had a good year, all in all, and I look forward to many more good years to come.

Dave Hockaday
1993 President
TEARA

1994

TEARA got off to a rough start with repeaters this year. The Wilson WA4UQC repeater was off the air for about a week due to PA problems. A new Aerotron repeater amplifier was retrofitted into the RCA 1000 cabinet, and all was well...for about a week...the dc power supply gave up the game and it was down again. I patched my Astron 50 amp power supply into the system to get it up and running. Then the gremlins of repeater desense came to visit and was found to be a defective coaxial “T” connector. The Wilson repeater ran the rest of the year without a glitch.

147.39 had a good year, with hardly a problem. Minor programming changes and such were about the only maintenance items needed. The transmitter got an alignment when it became a bit intermittent. Otherwise, a good year.

TEARA had it’s 3rd Field Day exercise this year. Again, it was a great event. Antennas were installed for all bands 160 meters through 432! There were VHF/UHF all-mode rigs operating on 6 meters SSB, 2 meters SSB, 220 SSB, and 432 SSB. There were also FM rigs on 6, 2, 220, and 440. HF rigs operated on all bands except 160, where there was too much atmospheric noise. Again, the TEARA field day was a success.

For the first time this year, VHF/UHF contesting caught on. Contests were worked from the top of Bear Wallow Mountain, from the 147.39 tower site in Clayton, twice from Joe Motola N8RQR’s home, and once from my home (but that was an HF contest). TEARA placed 1st in the VHF/UHF contest in our division once, and 1st in division in the ARRL UHF contest. What a year!!

The TEARA meeting site was relocated due to our old site, Truckstop’s of America, closing the restaurant for repairs and renovations. The new site was P.Spencer’s in Zebulon. The membership counts at the meetings dropped a little, but overall it was a good site.

This year, a few more member owned repeater systems went on the air. Kirk KK4YP put up a new repeater in Raleigh on 147.015+. It is on top of the CP&L building. This repeater was later sold to another TEARA member, Roger KD4MYE. Hugh KD4WJD and Steve KD4WIW installed a repeater on 224.80- on the Wendell tower. I (WB4IUY) installed the 29.680 10 meter repeater and the 442.400+ repeater on the same tower. Randy KD4DMS began work on a new 440 repeater for Spivey’s Corner. Tom WA4SIS built and installed a new repeater in Raleigh (near the fairgrounds) on 146.775-. Wow...lots of repeaters popping up!

The club constitution was amended this year to require new members to have a member to sponsor them, and to clean up a few odds and ends.

TEARA’s fund-raiser this year was the club cookbook project. Many members contributed recipes, and the books were produced. They looked very professional and sold really well. There were a few left over to sell in ‘95, too!

TEARA’s membership was down a little from 93. A few members moved to locations beyond TEARA’s coverage. The end of 93 membership count was about 100, while 94 was about 75. Membership numbers do float about a bit, but things are still going strong for TEARA.

Dave Hockaday
1994 Repeater Chair
TEARA

1995

1995 came in with a bang...the sound of thunder was too close to the 147.390 repeater in Clayton this year. The repeater was struck by lightning with a death blow early in January. A backup repeater was supplied by Tom WA4SIS to keep us on the air. It took me about a week to ready it for operation. The backup was struck twice in June, about a week apart. The second strike took it off the air. It was repairable though, and was back on within about one day. Meanwhile, parts of the old machine are being used to build the 3rd generation repeater. The new system will have many links, etc.

The 147.300 repeater in Wilson is still purring along, and work is currently underway to link it to the Clayton repeater full time. It had a new controller software upgrade, new custom built main power regulator rack installed, some much needed hardware work to permanently mount the Aerotron PA in place, 2 additional blowers to keep things cool, and several pieces of linking equipment and antennas installed. The TEARA membership in the Wilson area is still going strong, and should improve when the new linking system is in place. The system is currently linked to 442.400 in Wendell and 147.39 in Clayton nearly full time.

There is a new 440 repeater under construction for the club to be installed at the 147.39 site in Clayton. It is planned to be the TEARA gateway into a new ad hoc 440 repeater network now partially up and running.

The 10 meter repeater in Wendell is now linked to the 147.39 repeater nearly full time. Many of the members have worked much DX through the linking system. The system is finally getting off the ground, and looks like a lot of fun!

Randy, KD4DMS now has his repeater on 442.875 up and running in Spivey’s Corner. He has plans to move it to a 400 foot site to improve coverage.

Kirk KK4YP has a new 2 meter repeater in Pikeville on 145.33-. He is searching for a higher site to install it to improve coverage.

New repeaters are under construction to be installed in both Tarboro and at Kerr Lake. The new TEARA 6 meter repeater is completed and awaiting installation.

This is the first year that TEARA has gone to CTCSS (PL) access on it’s repeaters. It was to control unintentional interference during band openings and was also needed to make the links run more smoothly. We are the FIRST in NC to have a dual squelch system that allowed access to both PL and non-PL users.

TEARA worked it’s 4th Field Day as a joint venture with our sister club to the north - The Franklin County ARC. It was the most fun of all TEARA field days, and there were over 120 present through the weekend! I suspect we’ll do that again...

TEARA ventured back up Bear Wallow Mountain this year for the ARRL VHF/UHF contest. Not quite as many members were free to go this year, but it was still quite an event. There is a group that is planning to go back up in the fall to run a special event station to celebrate the changing of the leaves... sounds like an excuse to go back to the mountains.

The club handbook received a major revision this year...I thought it was time, since it was first published in 1992. Lots of new stuff, new codes for the forthcoming linking system, and a few new operating guides for new hams.

The TEARA fund-raiser for this year was a raffle for a TV or VCR (choice). So far, the tickets are selling like hotcakes and it looks like TEARA’s treasury will really benefit from this project. 1000 ticket’s were printed, and about 1/2 of those are already spoken for.

As of this writing, TEARA is about to relocate it’s meeting to the old site of Truckstops of America. They have completed renovations, and we think it may help improve the attendance at the meetings, being more centrally located to the membership.

Well, those are a few of the highlights of TEARA during ‘95 to date. I hope this isn’t the last entry into the history of this fine club. Since this should be an annual update area, maybe it’ll provide us with a few smiles in years to come when we look back at how far we’ve come...

Dave Hockaday
1995 Repeater Chair
TEARA

1996

1996 was a busy year for the club. We taught ham radio Technician and General classes, formed a VE Team, had fund raisers, membership drives, worked special events, contested, had club projects, held on-the-air CW practice, Fox hunted, had antenna parties, etc. By 1996, the club had a membership climbing in numbers and peaking around 125 members. Field Day was another joint event with FCARC and was a huge sucess. The club returned to Bear Wallow Mountain for the ARRL VHF/UHF Contest and we had a blast! Debbie and I had become heavily involved in, and were travelling for our careers and had to pull back in our amateur radio club activities.

1997

1997 was a crazy year for the repeaters... The Lizard Lick site had sold, so EVERYTHING had to be moved. We got approval to use the old water tower near main street in Zebulon, and began work. We had to pour a pad, build a weatherproof cabinet setup, install tower on the catwalk, move all the antennas and hardline, get power installed, and then work all the bugs out of the new installation. The 224.8, 442.4, 26.620 rptr rx, and the 2m packet nodes were all moved. This took a big part of the year, but all was working by year's end. A bunch got together at the home of Tom W4SIS and helped install his Mosley Classic 36 yagi. TEARA held Field Day jointly with the FCARC in Franklin County.

1998

Gap... looking for newsletters..

1999

TEARA held Field Day with FCARC again in 1999. It was huge fun, and a good piece about it is in the Field Day Archives on this site. The 147.30 repeater in Wilson was constantly off the air. It turns out that a contractor working in the elevator shaft was repeatedly turning off a circuit breaker and shuting the power off to it. Repeated 90 mile round-trips to the site for a breaker reset, was wearing me out. The 147.39 repeater in Clayton had lost output and was very weak. An intermittant tube in the PA was replaced, and the troubles went away :-) . The 224.800 repeater took a massive lightning hit and destroyed the controller. It is offline awaiting repairs. The VE Team was running strong and testing at the Smithfield, regularly.

2000

2000 was another crazy year for the repeaters.. It seemed I spent more of my spare time at repeater sites or in the shop working on repeaters, than I did at any other task outside my regular work :-( . The 442.400 repeater in Zebulon is choking on a rogue carrier on it's input. Fox hunting is underway to locate the source. 147.30 repeater in Wilson took a lightning stricke and is having problems. Have to schedule time to get to the site and make repairs... The 147.30 repeater in Wilson is back up to speed, and the receiver sensitivity issue was traced back to a defective outboard rx preamp. The 147.39 repeater in Clayton had much work done to resolve the TX noise problem that has begun to really drive us crazy. So far, so good... The Zebulon site got a lot of work done. New triband antenna installed, defective 440 antenna removed, and replaced the 220 rptr antenna with a new 10m ant for the 10m repeater receiver. The 147.30 repeater in Wilson had a new PL decoder board installed. Kevin KT4BN took care of the chore and got the repeater back up and running nicely. The 29.62 repeater receive site dropped offline due to a controller failure. The keying device in the controller's output board was replaced, and it is back on the air. Field Day in 2000 was a joint venture with WARA in Wilson, pics are in the archive... The VE Team is running strong!

2001

2001 Field Day in 2001 was another joint venture with WARA in Wilson. The VE Team is running regularly, though applicants are coming in smaller numbers than previous years. 2001 was yet nother crazy year for repeaters...if it could happen, it did. Very tiring to keep up, I must say. A winter electrical storm knocked out the controller on the 147.300 rptr in Wilson. Another storm totally smoked the 147.39 rptr in Clayton beyond repair, so I used some old MastrPro junk and got Clayton back online as quickly as possible. I had to light a fire and finish a new build to replace 39 ahead of schedule. That took abt 3 months and a lot of my personal $$ to complete, and was finished in April.

2002

Field Day in 2002 was at Kerr Lake on property secured by Holt Thornton AC4UD. It was a very unique location and lots of fun. Check out the pics in the Field Day archives. The VE Team is running regularly, though applicants are still coming in smaller and smaller numbers than previous years. 2002 was craziest year for repeaters, yet... so much so, that I refur you to the Repeater Bulletin section to read all of the craziness. These things are fun, but they're wearing me down.

2003

Field Day in 2003 was at the City Park in Wendell, NC . It was a good public location and lots of fun to operate from. Check out the pics in the Field Day archives. The VE Team is still running regularly, with no problems. 2003 also marked the first year of the Ham & Yam Festival Special Event Station in Smithfield, and we used the new club call of WA4UQC Calvin Dempsey. Calvin was SK in 1999, and TEARA was able to get the call as a club call sign. 2003 was a discouraging year for some of the repeaters....After 9 months of negotiations, frequency studies, meetings, writing letters, providing insurance info, etc....the management at the prospective repeater site for 147.30 in Wilson has changed hands. New management declined our ability to install the repeater at the new site. 147.30 has been returned to the frequency pool with SERA and the Wilson repeater retired with no ETA for re-installation. A somber and tiring moment, after so much work has gone into this system.

2004

Field Day in 2004 was at the City Park in Wendell, NC, again . It was a good public location and lots of fun to operate from. Check out the pics in the Field Day archives. The VE Team is still running regularly, with no problems. 2004 was the second year of the Ham & Yam Festival Special Event Station in Smithfield, and we used the club call of WA4UQC Calvin Dempsey. 2004 was a good year for the repeaters. Most things ran smoothly, a welcome change from the pace of previous years.

2005

Field Day in 2005 was the third and final year at the City Park in Wendell, NC. it has become a sketchy location for night time Field Day operations and I thought I was going to have to resort to using a gun about 3am on Sat night when a bunch of thugs came walking up. Shouting, cursing, drinking in public, wanting to tamper with the radios, etc...they finally wandered off. I had no idea we were set up in "that" part of town. Never again. 2005 yielded yet another special event opportunity, the Wake County Relay-For-Life fund raiser. We had a good turnout in Zebulon, and made lots of contacts using the club call of Calvin WA4UQC, from 14:00 gmt April 2 to 20:00 gmt on April 2, 2005. This commemorated the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life fund raiser in Zebulon, NC. Operating frequencies were confined to 20m due to antenna problems, but the show went on! Operations were on Vance Street in Zebulon, held inside of a newly constructed brick building on 106 East Vance St due to rain (as opposed to outside as originally planned). Repeaters were mostly co-operative in 2005, thank goodness.

2006

2006 got off to a great start with our nets. Larry Royster KI4FYR started a new net on 6 meters, on the 53.03 K4ITL repeater. It had been a tremendous sucess, and has people checking in from quite a distance out. He also writes a newsletter, the 6 Meter Chronicals. Some copies of that are archived in the Old Newsletter section. Field Day 2006 was at a new and safer location, the Wendell American Legion building. Using the Club Call of WA4UQC, it was a huge sucess. The 147.39 repeater played nicely in 2006, after repairs to put it back online in April. I'm almost afraid to say it. The TEARA 2m Net was called on Ken KO4CW's repeaters of 147.195 in Raleigh, while 39 was being repaired.

2007

Field Day in 2007 was on the property of Holt Thornton AC4UD. Photos are in the Field Day archives section. 3/5/2007 - The Zebulon repeater site was dismantled, prior to removal of the water tower. We are now in search of a new site for the 10m, 6m, 220, & 440 repeaters, in addition to the packet nodes. Bummer... Moving ahead to 6/5/2007 - The new Zebulon repeater site was approved, and is now being assembled and readied for re-installation of the Zebulon repeaters. Much work has to be done, including installation of a concrete pad & weatherproof cabinet, power, cables, paint, etc. It never ends with these repeaters!! The TEARA Delta-Loop Club Newsletters returned to print in March, and they're great! CW was removed from the requirements of all amateur licenses, and the VE Team is seeing a huge jump in applicants.

2008

We lost Bill K4BWC suddenly on Mar 20, heart attack.. There was no Field Day operations in 2008. The repeaters were a handful this year... 2/24/2008 - The new Zebulon repeater site was finally completed and ready for re-installation of the Zebulon repeaters. 2/25/2008 - The 442.40+ repeater was installed at the new Zebulon site. On-air testing is underway... 3/7/2008 - An intermittant receive problem on 442.40+ repeater was traced down to bad duplexer jumper cable. 3/11/2008 - The 442.40+ repeater has developed a problem with interference when transmitting. An additional pass cavity was installed on the transmitter. 3/14/2008 - The 442.40+ repeater receive interference problem has worsened. All plug-in boards were removed and replaced, as the problem seems to be associate with vibration. No _real_ repair was found. 3/15/2008 - The K4RTP-7 SEDAN node on 145.77, and the W4RAL-7 Packet BBS nodes were re-installed at the new Zebulon site. They are combined into a single antenna with a 6 cavity repeater duplexer and are running nicely. 3/16/2008 - The circulator was found to be defective in the 442.40+ repeater, and was replaced. 3/17/2008 - The new circulator in the 442.40+ repeater has now failed, and was replaced. The problem was traced to a low level transmitter stage that was generating harmonics. The increased current in the circulator was desoldering components. The low level amp stage was replaced and all now seems to be well.

BIG GAP!!!!

I'm currently sifting through newsletters and such, and will be filling this section in as I go....

2022

TEARA's membership began to dwindle in recent years, as folks gradually moved on, joined other groups, became inactive, and some became SK. The repeaters had fallen in disrepair and repeater sites were lost. I think the loss of the regular nets contributed to the loss of interest. Monthly meetings stopped and interest in them deteriorated. The club essentially ceased to exist in 2022. Only the monthly test sessions by the SCARS/TEARA VE Team continued.

ANOTHER BIG GAP!!!!

Other than VE Stuff, nothing else was going on with the group. There was some interest in "fixing" things, but that takes time and work...something most none of us had. Stand by....

2026

Fast forward to 2026. TEARA is back, and TDXA was born. No money is required, membership is free! This is not an attempt to build back the large social club setting, there are several good club choices in the area for that. The new focus on a DX/Contest club idea with those interested in techie stuff, building, HF contesting and operating, mountain topping, local group and/or club contesting. The DX Club concept allows members to work a contest together, as a group....from a common location OR from their individual home stations! See "About TDXA" in the Club Stuff menu for more info.

Most of the repeater stuff has been repaired/rebuilt. Locations to reinstall the repeaters have been secured. My oldest son, Chris KF4DBX, is working on a much more modern control scheme to implement Echolink and the ability to link all of the repeaters and simulcast, like they were back in the 1990's. It was such a blast to be on 2 or 440 and work people around the US via 6m and literally all over the world via 10m. That simulcast was the catalyst that I saw bring people to HF...folks who had never done anything other than work 2 meters, suddenly got revved up and wanted to work HF. The new TDXA concept with a focus on HF is perfect for this.

Our old talking DX Cluster announcements will return to 440 (and possibly via some of the links). This is based on the DXTalker system designed and built by Kevin KT4BN and Dave WB4IUY in the 90's. Jimmy K4CMH called it "Alice", and the name kinda stuck. "She" would announce the DX spot on 442.400, Jimmy K4CMH and Holt AC4UD would chase it.

Chris KF4DBX is piloting Meshtastic in the North Vernon, Indianna area and we'll be bringing it here. This is an amazing license free digital network that also allows for higher power to those with a ham license.

SO, 2026 will be a year of rebuilding and ppreparation for things to come. It's also a year of trying to remember and document all of the things that TEARA was and did. There have been many awesome hams in this club over the years, lots of cool activities, lots of great projects, and many many good memories. Follow along, if you're interested. Updates will also be in the Club Bulletins section.

***Follow along, if you're interested. Updates will be in the Club Bulletins section. Take a moment to Join TDXA! It's free, and you'll help us with our contest footprint. Who knows, you might want to work a little contest stuff with us and you'll be ready to go!