OK, good advice indeed. I will check with the guy in town again and see how far he is willing to back it up. Also going to look over in Portland, up to Seattle and places distant on the used side of things and see whats going on out there some more. A big part of my problem is the clock....gotta be operational in about two weeks. I thought this was going to be a lot easier than it has proved to be so far, but anything worth doing is going to be a pita sometimes.

Like antennas...my compromise antenna is compromised since apparently the south pacific and mid europe can hear me on ssb but the rbn cant hear me on cw. WTF?