Markus, Jay, Gary and other thanks for the look. Conditions are still not good to the East or North and my lack of decodes to the West means its probably pretty poor up here. Just have to wait till all the planets, stars, comets are aligned..just can be some time.

At 0500 local (1200Z) and everything was fine - the tuning was still on the nose even though we have warmed up to 0C - power modules are just a couple of degrees above ambient, and the shack lights perceptively  dim reassuringly when the Tx is keyed :-)

  I did have to take the small Mica out of circuit as it was causing thermal/cap drift and ill install a 200pf Sangamo G2 later in the week as Im nearly fully meshed with the vacuum cap. ill redo my current sharing calc and ensure I have the best load configuration in the coupler. We were sitting at around 42A  last night which is fine.

Ill turn off the Tx at around 0900 local 1600Z as we will have "fish and game" officers wandering the forest today removing a dead Moose carcass. On the same vein -  I heard a clunking outside the window last night where the GPS antennae is and it appears one of my young Moose has a taste for thin coax. I persuaded it to move on - I recall Raychem adding something to the coax mix for low temp cables making them taste bad to vermin - we used to suffer from Arctic foxes chewing on them or spans of coax being used as "swings".

Have a super day -
Laurence KL7L  WE2XPQ