By all means try as hard as you can to get your General Licence before you come down here. It’s a lot easier now that you don’t need code at 13wpm. We regularly talk all over the world from here. But unless another ham brings an ht you won’t have anyone to talk to with a tech ticket. There is 24 hour satellite coverage{most of the time) for email so that won’t be a problem. See you in October
mike