while Scotland might be good for MW dx one thing for sure B1 and B2 is a different story and once again dxers in England were enjoying Es on B1 and B2 yesterday with Libya heard by a couple of dxers on B2 and once again transatlantic carriers were received on A2 55.250 while there was nothing up here so i think i will stick with MW dx until the middle of June lol ! 

my D500 arrived back and it turned out the problem was a tuning pot in which when the D500 was switched on ( 12v) the tuning pot went non linear and on the dial when i went to E2 48.250 it was actually on around E4 62.250 and when i tuned to E3 55.250 or E4 it was somewhere around B2 so i am not surprised i was getting a big noise peak around E3 E4 so fingers crossed all is well now and hopefully i get some conditions to try it out.