Eastern Mass? Skip the vertical. Find a tree. Put up a sloper on EU. Work everybody you can hear. Call cq and get answers. Stay off my QRG. 73, Jim Idelson K1IR email k1ir at designet.com web http://www.designet.com/k1ir -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest-REQUEST at contesting.com