diff --git a/geomagio/edge/sncl.py b/geomagio/edge/sncl.py
index 9d2abb189b5433f4d24fe3b9d8718fdb80798fd9..cd2b5ddc1c31c082e173be277efc71c24bd2f3b4 100644
--- a/geomagio/edge/sncl.py
+++ b/geomagio/edge/sncl.py
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ Location
 # components that map directly to channel suffixes
 CHANNEL_FROM_COMPONENT = {
     # e-field
-    'E-E':  'QX',
-    'E-N':  'QY',
+    'E-E':  'QY',
+    'E-N':  'QX',
     'E-U':  'QU',
     'E-V':  'QV',
     # derived indicies