3-4 hours op'g, temporary dipole made out of aluminum electric fence wire just crimped to coax -- all I had available when found HF6V couldn't be immediately repaired, and glad I had that in my car! 178 Q's, 37 states, 2 DX (P40V & VP2EH) = 15,015. Heard PY0FF in window faintly but just too much noise to copy at around 0200Z. 73 Dave K3ZJ (0006358668 at mcimail.com)