Fortunately with the gray line I'm almost 12 hours ahead of Europe so my dawn is their dusk. I don't know how you'll get along Ridgy, as your dawn (about 1300UTC?) is about midday in Europe. Perhaps your dusk would be better as then the source will be in the middle of the night. "DX Atlas" works a treat for spotting the gray line.
I have chronic cross-modulation from local broadcast band transmitters but I can get rid of them with my FRT7700 tuner which acts as a bandpass filter at the low frequencies. It peaks up the NDB's a treat too so I'm hoping to hear a carrier soon......:roll:
I'm only using my Kenwood R2000 at the moment, all the good stuff is in a lockup as I'm trying to sell this house!
On reflection.......
as your dawn (about 1300UTC?) is about midday in Europe
Of course it is, what a stupid thing for me to say! Isn't that what UTC is all about - the time at Greenwich Observatory (approximately!) Duh!