Well, I think it’s alive…
Not so pretty inside…
I’ve hooked it up the the 5-element 2 metre yagi I have put up in place of the old white stick (which needs serious maintenance (or maybe the bin?) 
) but I’ve not managed any contacts with it yet. The yagi’s pointed a smidge west of north, which is the direction in which I have the clearest horizon.
I’ve listened for a couple of activations that I figured might be in range in the last couple of hours ( GW4AZS/P on GW/MW-013 108kms at 335º from here, and GW4HQB/P on GW/MW-009 97kms at 324º) but couldn’t hear either of them, nor (except briefly and confusingly, a snatch of a QSO giving the activator’s callsign, which I guess was aircraft scatter) any chasers.
GW4AZS/P’s spot indicated his antenna was a vertical, so that won’t have helped me, but I couldn’t even hear his CW here. I could see it just fine on Hack Green, though.
As a test I tried listening to myself on Hack Green. I could make out my CW, just, but not any SSB. From the CW, it seems the rig shows an offset of around 500 HZ as seen on Hack Green, but clearly more tests are needed, and I’ve not run it long enough to get warm.