I am sort of stuck at 65 countries. I am up early (0200Z) on 20 Meters but all of the stations I hear are either in Argentina or Reunion Island. Sort of strange that the same folks are up each morning. Conditions haven't been as good on 10 and 15 for the past few days and I am hoping that the sun starts to make some noise so I can use these other bands. It is amazing how electrically quiet it is here. I can hear many stations that come back to me with "qrm" ... who apparently cannot hear my 50 watt signal.
I am hoping for some more time on the air in the next few days as things have settled down a bit. I hope that the U.S. stations can get on over the Thanksgiving holiday for a bunch of contacts. I don't have Alaska yet but have Hawaii and many of the states.
We continue to have power problems. The power was out 10 hours on Friday, 6 hours on Saturday and on and off on Sunday (during dinner). It is hard to run the FT-897 on candle power. I have a small battery (from an emergency air compressor) but it only lasts a few minutes -- even at 20 watts.
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