Good morning all, The 10GHz beacon on 10368.000 is 70 dB over my noise floor here. Correspondingly, Hepburn shows a thin band of enhancement just wide enough to cover the path between K4TO and K9AYA :-) It is nice to see some improvement. Speaking of my noise floor, I have a new sound interface device. They used to be called sound cards when they plugged into the back of the motherboard on your desktop PC. This one is an ASUS U5 and is a separate small box that plugs into a USB port. It has outputs to drive a Dolby 5.1 powered speaker set, and a stereo mic/line input. I bought it because it has A/D converter sample rates up to 192KB. This allows my SDR, which drives it, to display up to a 192KHz slice of spectrum. The dynamic range and quiesent noise are both supposed to be recording studio quality. After installing it, I noticed that the quiescent noise floor on my SDR was 5 dB lower than when using the onboard audio of the my MAC MINI. The MAC is also limited to 44.1 KB sample rate. All in all, I think I have an improved system. If you are not familiar with what my set up is I will briefly describe it. I select one of six, 144 MHz IF’s coming from transverters for 902 through 10G. I put a power divider on it and send it to the K2/DEMI board combo I use for an IF radio. The other leg goes to the SDR system. I designed and built a small box with RX/TX switching and 144 MHZ preamp to drive a Softrock Ensemble II SDR. The E-II is only good for 1-40 MHz so before the 144 IF signal gets to it, I insert a 144-28 INT DEMI transverter. With this setup, I can display a slice of spectrum while operating the microwave bands. This simplifies finding the station I am trying to work in case frequency calibration is an issue. It beats turning the dial and looking for each other. I like the Softrock kits. I am considering building their 144 Mhz Ensemble model and eliminating the DEMI transverter. I have a post-op appointment with my eye doctor this morning. I hope to get clearance to climb again. 73, Dave,. K4TO