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!"