I have now been able to send the HZ from Bittrex to my wallet fine.

Good to hear. Yes, it is always the same game ;-)

Yep, many thanks to whoever sent the 5HZ to my wallet to get it noticed on the network.
...
I have sent that address 600HZ as a thank you.

Wow, very nice - That is a 11900% reward *lol*

Being helpful pays off.

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For now, I have created this thread: https://horizonplatform.io/topic/manual-faucet-get-initial-account-funding-to-announce-your-public-key/
but inside the "support" subforum. And that looks as if intended to contain only single support cases (because of the the "resolved / not resolved" switch at the top), so

I suggest a new subforum "GETTING STARTED"
https://horizonplatform.io/section/using-horizon/getting-started
in the the "USING HORIZON" section
https://horizonplatform.io/section/using-horizon/

and while you are at it, please see my other suggestion:

What about: ...

a new subforum "running a node"
in /section/using-horizon/ https://horizonplatform.io/section/using-horizon
(similiar to for /section/using-horizon/forging-pools/ ).

e.g. ... https://horizonplatform.io/section/using-horizon/nodes

ant my explanations why that makes sense.

Thanks.