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Do I qualify as a NuBee? What have I missed?

Getting closer to getting back on the air after over a year of "radio silence". We sold our old home and moved into our camp while building a new home. Home was kinda complete, enough to move in two weeks before Christmas but in the time since we have been finishing up things on the house itself and unpacking and trying to get our life back together again. It's not as bad as it sounds… We sold the house to one of the kids and have been able to store some things there till we had room here and the new house is only 2 1/2 miles from the old house and 5 miles from our camp we lived in. Bad news is all the radio gear is still packed away 6500/66600/PGXL/Maestro A etc and I haven't even decided where to place the tower here. Good news is the tower is here and likely a new rotor before putting it up and we gained a few hundred feet of elevation from the old site and built the house in the middle of a 10 acre field with the nearest neighbor half a mile in one direction. Other direction is 2 miles.' RF noise should be at a minimum because we had to build a power line in most of that 1/2 mile and most of the land surrounding us is a wildlife conservation area. I haven't been off the air this long in over 50 years. Licensed since 1966.. What have I missed? I think my first plan is to set up the 6500 and run a loop around to a few of the old maples in the field and listen around and see whats left of the sunspot cycle. I have internet here finally in the last month thanks to some friends at the local telco I retired from. We worked out a good arrangement and ran fiber out here in the wild.. By the way, 73 is too old for this kind of extreme change!