I have to thank Colin for asking me to check my wav files. Sure enough, things weren't quite as bad as I thought. In fact around 13:45, things really picked up again, and I was doing quite well again. 576 was the Russian at 9 level as was 549 in // (an 8 anyway...a lot of splatter from 550 Blaine). 603 only yielded the KK and CC station here, too, Gary. I do hope that some of you guys try for 657 at 14:00. I'm almost certain that there's English here from North Korea. I checked and found the same from one other morning. It's a pretty tough signal with a lot of splatter from 660, but they announce something twice, and then into an ?anthem which lasts over a minute and then talk. Frequency seems to be about 656.94 or so. The band tends to fade shortly afterwards. Help! ...Walt