Not much to report on from here, when your shack is in a pickup truck, you tend not to operate much when the temperature drops into the 20s and 30s like it has here. It's just too cold to sit in the truck/shack, and the MFJ rigs drift like logs in a millrace when they're cold.
But I just received a batch of cards from the F.I.S.T.S. bureau (posted right) as well as a nice card from HC1HC in Ecuador, which almost catches me up in the card department.
So until the weather improves, BCNU.
Maybe I'm just naive, but I was astounded by all the CB dealers offering Cobra "Amateur" 10-meter radios: Cobra 150-GTLDX - Google Search
Of course, hams don't go shopping for their radios at CB dealers, and if they did, it probably wouldn't be for single-banded "10-meter" rigs with only AM capability and a curiously CB-like appearance to the front panel, even including channel numbers (not frequency).
And a little more research finds loads of pages with instructions on modifying these radios to operate (illegally) on the CB band.
Naturally, they are designed so clipping one wire or removing one component will retune the radio to CB frequencies. A truckstop CB store was recently cited for selling these radios, a process which took the FCC two years to grind through, just to cite one retailer. So don't look for any quick action on this any time soon.