Hey! Since the volcano stopped erupting, I gotta find something else exciting to keep me busy. Lately it’s been ham radio as the 40 meter band is open around the pacific and to the mainland around sundown here. New Caledonia, New Zealand, California, Oregon, Arizona bagged in the last couple days on SSB.
Almost nightly I hear Bill in South Africa on 40m. An hour before his sunrise, and an hour before my sunset, we get grey-line propagation to my Antipode on the globe.