Greetings from Bellevue Nebraska, from the bottom of a hill (more like a hollow with hills all around). I put up the usual inverted L,  from a 50 foot tree at the edge of the house lot, meaning all radials (5) were spaced out in a 90 degree area of about 50x50 feet, I did not have any TV twin lead so i used for all radials, feed line and the antenna proper, #26 solid twisted pair telephone wire. surprising to hook a 40 watt light bulb to the end of the feed line and light it up from the hw16 in the house!
 
talk about conditions, they were great from Nebraska. sorry to all of you who called me and did not connect, i would get confused, especially early the first morning. i went to bed at 5am, too many calling i could not write them down fast enough.
the homebrew (6SK7 type) receiver worked well, but i plan to modify the front panel to include a calabrated dial, sorry W4AN, when i did stray into the DX portion of the band.
I did send some RST reports to some of you and (W6AT) did get some back. it added about 3-4 seconds on a contact return so i did only occasionally sent actual reports.
 
sounded a good time was had by all. time to put my 160 meter rig in the daughter's storage shed, until next contest
mike w7dra/0