You forgot the number one rule of Ham Radio operating away from your home station. Something will either break, get lost, stop working for some reason (but will be working when you get home), or be forgotten! You covered several of those!
Worked 40 meters for about an hour saturday afternoon on a QRP rig at home on emergency power. Made about a dozen contacts and was really happy. Never been one of the die hards that can go the full 24 hours. Even the guys from our local club only did about four hours.
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