Glad I only had the 130 ft wire over the tree. With condx like this --- I wouldn't have known where to point any aluminum !! Checked the band after midnight Sunday morn and it was full of 40 over S9 signals. ( well , if everyone had not been asleep, it'd have been full :>) Tnx to all for the Q's. SOLP CW: 337 Q's 80 Mults = 108,800 pts 73, John WA4TT