I've played with it some more. I put the whole circuit on a circuit board except the tank and the pots. I'm wondering if the 2inch leads going to the RF gain pot are the cause of Q1's oscillation. I changed the base resistor of Q1 to 56 ohms, and the squeaing toned down a bit, but I notice when I adjust the RF gain pot that there is a peak in sound around the middle of the adjustment range, and there are a few spots where it goes real quiet,not quite like a regen, but close in sound. I'll try using copper strips instead of wires to connect my tank circuit and see if skin effect is an issue with the reception, and continue to try to deal with the base of Q1. I'm no engineer, so my interpretation of the schematic probably isn't the best, I can change that around a bit as well. This ain't over yet, not until I set every clock in my house to WWV. I also remember Ron had mentioned putting a ferrite bead on the base lead, I know I have a couple of those somewhere, just need to find them.I will try that as well.