Hi Gerard,
I monitored you on a remote receiver since I like to keep my transmit beacon going too and don't like to overload my home receiver. I control the computer at the remote location with some software across the Internet. The receiver may not be set dead on 10.13870.
But you are not on the bottom of the band or anywhere near it. I just checked your spots and you are being copied by ?a number if stations including some American ones (at around the mid 130s on average, so you are certainly in the band.
I have experimented with c4 and c5 and you can even run without one of them, though if you do this you will raise the frequency a lot. Nevertheless, it can be brought back down with the trimmer. In your case, the way your kit is working, I would leave it alone.
By the way - if you are discouraged by a low number of spots today - I think it is about the conditions. today I have had very few and would say it is the worst for a few weeks.
Best regards
Tony G0BZB
