Cook Islands Update 8 - Ham radio

Made a successfull contact with Budd, W3FF, in CA and Marty's husband Dick, AA7AF, in OR this morning on 18.157.5 mhz. The conditions were excellent and he had about a 30 minute conversation though Budd and Dick could not hear each other as they were too close. I stayed on frequency for another 1/2 hour so a number of stations could get a Cook Islands contact from me. I plan to be back on this afternoon while conditions are good. Tomorrow, Sunday, remains questionable propagation. I am going to try to get on the air a couple afternoons this coming week at 2300 utc.

73's Jim, ZK1EMT