Well, Dex that was the good news. The bad news is that, as I 
cautioned earlier, the lower noise level lower in the band was a 
function of my antenna pass band, and not of absolute noise. I re-
tuned to a lower frequency and it wasn't any better. So the current 
frequency seems as good as any. 

Interestingly, I left my SDR plotting a few kilohertz around 74k last 
night with long integration and I could see the shape of my antenna 
passband produced by the night-time static acting as a broadband 
noise generator. At last, I have found a use for that pesky static!

de Mike
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> Mike Dennison wrote:
> > More pics including the XRS/5 caps.
> Thanks Mike!  That's a keeper.
> 
> Dex
>