I want to personally thank all of our readers for another successful year. A big hats off to all of the founding members of the Personal Radio Association that joined up to help defend GMRS and sharing in the PopularWireless community.

My gratitude and special recognition goes to RadiosOnline (Advantage Communications.) Scott has been an advertiser at PopularWireless for over seven years now I think. Through thick and thin Advantage Communications has helped keep us afloat. Scott you rock!

My thanks also goes to the Google Adsense Program, Computermail.net, and FX ProCom as well as all of the advertisers that have supported us in the past. You have helped us grow and improve while we continued to provide a unique on-line place for family communicators and wireless aficionados to hang out and share their interests.

I also want to thank the friends of the General Mobile Radio Service at the Federal Communications Commission. Riley Hollingsworth, George Dillon, Kris Anne Montieth, and Scott Stone. It has been a pleasure to work with all of you on issues associated with the GMRS. We have not always agreed on everything but I believe we all understand each other’s passions. We take special note of Riley’s contribution to the GMRS. Riley took on GMRS issues and has handled them with the same aplomb as those enforcement issues in the Amateur Radio Service.

Oh and  as a GMRS licensee I want to thank all those ship’s captains that are doing the right thing by using the agreed upon ITU radio channels while in US waters. I also cannot forget the contribution made to the FSI abatement effort by Dominion LLC.

Thanksgiving is a time to say thank you to our supporters and our readers for allowing us into your homes since 1995. We enjoy doing what we do because of all of you!

To all of our readers and all the ships at sea   Happy Thanksgiving 2007!

Doug and Eileen Smith