Hi Jim: 

Well was kind of on the tail end but managed to get through and thanks for picking me up. 
There's a fairly length of time before the RX on the iPhone drops out to be replaced with the transmit button and I don't know how to fix that if it can be. 
So I got the Echo Mac program installed on my Mac and hopefully that will work better. LOL Ron great to hear ya and I'm thinking of a push up mast and Hex beam my self later on this spring. If the home brew tuner works out next weekend, that's what I'll be shooting for, that and the remote VFO option for my FT-102 station. 
I'm going to start up the 40 HF sched again hopefully next saturday evening and even though we don't get many, Steve KW3A usually comes up and has a sched with me. LOL Maybe you might be able to join us? 
Can usually hear the mid west pretty well. I usually post the time and freq I'm on in UTC time and have at her. LOL 
Hope you can pop up. 

73: 
Mike VO1AX