Hi Howard, how cool is that! I worked a GI3 near Belfast yesterday on 17 meters with my IC706 and a 99 ten meter vertical with a tuner! I was deffinatly a happy camper, though it took me quite a while to get him! He was an S8 here at times, so needless to say, there was quite a pile-up! GRIN! 73: J. John Jacques Amateur Radio Station: KD8PC "Where Cat Is, Is Civilization!"