Thanks to those of you who responded to my questions the other day about client equipment. I was chatting separately with Kyle Burgess (KD7IYT), and he offered to bring his mobile KISMET vehicle with 42+ feet mast and HamWAN setup (Mikrotik RB Metal 5SHPn modem) to my home to see which sectors I'd be able to hit. He and Matt (didn't catch Matt's call sign) showed up for a couple of hours of testing. Home location 48.026167N, 122.121500W Marysville WA (If you Google Map it with satellite view, it's the house with the solar panels.) Unfortunately, we could not establish a connection to the Snohomish County DEM (Paine) sector (about ~15 km away). There are apparently too many tall trees in the way or other obstacles. He tried various mountain top sectors, but I can't see the Cascades from my area, so none of those worked either. For grins, he tried the Seattle sectors (~40 km? away), and we got a weak connection. We weren't sure exactly which sector we were hitting (he said there are two it could have been), but we got the Internet and were able to do some tests. Upload/Download speeds were only a bit higher than 0.3 Mbps. (In comparison, Kyle lives about 3 miles from me in Marysville, and can easily hit the Paine sector and get 16 Mbps.) We didn't try Victoria because his modem wasn't set for their frequencies. I'll need to decide whether it's worth it to try to setup a permanent antenna for such a slow speed, but he said 0.3 Mbps would be plenty for VoIP phone calls which could be worth it in emergency situations. It might be fun to just use the connection to experiment with all kinds of things. Thanks to Kyle and Matt for going the extra mile to see what I can hit from my house. We actually had many neighbors come out to see his truck and ask questions while he was there. 73s, B.J. Guillot KI7ZDF