I still cannot come up with a solution as to whats wrong with the A/D converter. I've used Mister E's "PicMultiCalc" to make sure my clock/bits and sampleus are defined correctly, though it was not the ticket. . . Any idea's?

Another thing I'd like to learn how to fix : The seconds counter gets way behind, due to the output of morse code taking time. I've rigged up a way to compensate for the lost time by adding in counter = counter + 3, throughout my subroutines... but feel this isnt the correct way of keeping my seconds counter on track. I'd like to have the counter as accurate as possible.

any light shed is greatly appreciated.

James