legend, thank you. All green now 
The height ASL didn’t stick when I’d set it before.
I am surprised I can get a fair distance with my crappy antenna that came with the SDR dongle. I trimmed it down to tune it. It’s just hanging on my blinds, and I live in a valley…and it goes alright.
Next move is to put the crappy antenna on the roof and see how that goes. If it all works well, I’ll get a rasberry pi so I’m online all the time.
EDIT: and I see you have some info on antenna’s too -