Wonderful band condx! 20 and 15 were open to Europe, Asia and S America at the same time for hour after hour and noise was very low [S0 here] I heard no DX stations request UP or DOWN so there were big pileups smack on the DX freq. I had spotty luck in the pileups [only 500w and a yagi here, not exactly a Big Gun] until I turned on the TX incremental tune - down just a few hundred Hz to get me off the pileup freq - and my luck improved. THis also left the SUB rcvr free for diversity, which helped quite a bit with QSB and picking up callers off the side of the beam. eric VA7DZ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html