Here's the page that I regularly look at to determine whether I want to go listen on 160 or 80: http://www.intellicast.com/Storm/Severe/Lightning.aspx And if I want to know if a specific DX location has lightning (could someone there hear me?), I look at http://wwlln.net/TOGA_network_global_maps.htm. 73, Mike www.w0btu.com