thanks to everyone for their advice. I appreciate it, and though it
makes me more confident about buying an R-75, it's clear that for
DX I should get the sync det pll filter kiwa mod and the audio mod as
well as the narrower 9mhz if filter...so up to $800...wow..

also to answer someone...my antenna is a 120' end fed sloper with
10:1 balun and a dual ground rod system, i.e. one rod within 8' of the
balun, and another within 10' of the rcvr. the input coax is 50' low
loss r8u.

thnx all, jimg
jimg
Oregon
USA