well, I'm pretty sure my parents won't approve of my attaching hardware to the microwave, and I don't live in an apartment, so those ideas are moot as well (for now, of course. once I hit college that's all fair game

). I'll probably look into the QRP next week at the ham fest, though, Al, so I'll make sure to read up on that this week. I've also been thinking about figuring out some wireless remotes for my camera (if anyone has suggestions on implementation, I'm all ears), but otherwise all I've done so far is wire a 10kohm pot to my headphones and fix my mom's headset at this point while I wait for some bits and bobs to show up