15 meters BPSK31

Found that the best band here in the afternoon (13-20Z) is 15 meters on 21.070 Mhz BPSK. Listen for me there. I am using a battery from one of these little battery booster/air compressor/botox injector portable systems (just kidding about the air compressor). Its battery is not that good and I can only be on for about 30 minutes before it dies. I am going out in the morning to track down a 12 V power supply. Found a 10 amp supply at the computer store, but will look around for more amps if I can find them.

As an aside, I looked over the power strips and wiring here. They had one East African power strip and one European power strip connected together. The European one had no ground pin on the plug and it is wired with the Line (hot) wire on the opposite side of the plug from the E. African plug. Everything on the office desk was hot and you could feel it thru the case of the PC and printers. They have drawers full of adapters that even make the problem worse. I rewired the European power strip so that the Neutral and Line match the E. African configuration and put a 3 pronged plug on it so it really has a ground. I am surprised someone hasn't fried something with this. The only problem is that now the Neutral on the power strip has the overload protection so switching off the power strip still leaves the Line hot. It is much nicer to work on the office desk now!

The standard 3 prong plug here comes with an internal fuse like our christmas lights do in the U. S. There system is 240 VAC and the generic plugs come with 13 amp fuses. The little bedside lights with 15 watt CFLs have a 13 amp fuse. Really! I am going out in the morning to find 1 or 2 amp fuses. I am also rewiring the decorative lamps with real lamp cord because the stuff they use is about 28 gauge and easily broken by furniture--leaving a live 240 VAC wire sitting there.