davegrantsr,
I can usually be found operating around 27.555 during the day, but, the beam is always pointing over the north pole, so I don't hear to many stations from the states until around noon on the coast.
But, I sometimes just shut the radio down for a couple hours around noon (PCT), because that's when a couple Ham operators from Arizona, New Mexico and Ontario come on and create a lot of problems.
If ya hear 2SD178, yell really loud.