Hi, everyone.

Well, this evening, I'm happy to report that I appear to be back in business 
on HF!!

Today was one of those nice Michigan Spring days, and one of my good ham 
friends came over and successfully installed my Radio Shack 10-foot mast 
extension on top of my 30-foot telescopic mast.  I need to do a lot more 
checking, but initially, my SWR's look reasonable with both antennas on the 
various bands.  I also will now be in a position to really see if my RFI 
problem with my Heil mic set-up has been resolved, so there will be lots of 
testing ahead for me here.  I'll be out of town tomorrow, but should have 
some time tonight and tomorrow night to get a better feeling of how things 
are working.

If everything goes according to plan here, I should be available to do the 
40-meter east-coast mid-west round table Saturday afternoon.  So, if there 
is enough interest, and if there are no ongoing contests, I'll be on or near 
7.185 MHZ at 4 p.m. Eastern (2100 Z) Saturday afternoon.

If things change, I'll let everyone know, but for now, I'll plan to head up 
the round table if that's ok with everyone.

More later for sure!

73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ