4 beacons heard midday in Spokane, WA: 2100Z 28.225 K6FRC/B4 Angel's Camp, CA (661 miles / 1064 km) 28.23165 N1FSX Simla, CO (891 miles / 1433 km) 28.2365 W0KIZ Denver, CO (830 miles / 1336 km) 28.300 K6FRC Tracy, CA (715 miles / 1151 km) I will be QRT for 6 weeks while on a working vacation in Ninilchik, Alaska, where I grew up. I would like to take my little transceiver with me, but I don't think my Miracle Whip antenna would be able to hear beacons yet at this stage of the return of the sunspot cycle. Back in Spokane early August. 73, Wayne ----- Wayne Leman KL7FDQ Spokane, Washington ____________________ The HFbeacons mailing list information: //www.freelists.org/webpage/hfbeacons