I want to thank everyone who made suggestions and alerted me to cautions to take into consideration in choosing an outdoor box to house my new preamp. In the end I got to my local Lowes and got the one Drew suggested. It's a very nice quality box and it has loads of room, much more than I actually need right now but I have no idea what else I may decide to mount up there in the future so the extra room is a good thing. I'm slowly but surely plodding along on getting my station going. I was so tired I slept away most of a vacation day today and my XYL insist on dragging me to a church softball game tomorrow even though I have a nagging arm injury and can't swing a bat. She says we can "just watch". To make things worse, rain will move in late tomorrow afternoon. Oh well, Michael, W4HIJ