Thanks for the info Wolf, and noted about the warnings to keep the
power down from the 706! I was quite surprised to see it work on MF.

There is another station QRV on 474kHz in Manila, working crossband.
Hopefully a few more will come on and we shall see where it goes from
there.

73 & Happy New Year de George, DU1GM
 
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 09:47:12 +0100, you wrote:

>Hi George,
>
>I use an IC706 as 'signal generator' on MF, and often as receiver, too.
>Mine produces almost 2 watts "barefoot" in the lowest power setting. 
>Details here:
>
>
>http://www.qsl.net/dl4yhf/mf_reception/MF_Reception.html#IC706_on_MF
>
>
>Because the antenna tuner acts like a bandpass filter on RX, the 
>performance is acceptable (but an SDR-IQ with digital narrow-band 
>filtering is much better).
>
>
>All the best,
>   Wolf DL4YHF