Thanks. My main goal is to get rid of any unnecessary noise in the receive section and to hear distant stations at night when conditions are quiet. I suppose that when I finally get this radio aligned properly,it will receive a whole lot better. Some of those mods you described,I haven't seen those yet. I've been doing research for three months trying to get enough knowledge about this radio and what can be done to it and to be able to tell the difference between the good,the bad,and the ugly out there in radio land.