If you need someone to talk to on HF in the evenings from the USA then tune in to 14.240Mhz from 9pm mosts nights and you will hear some strong signals from across the pond.
I was able to meet 1 of the stations from the USA last year called Walter K1QS with his wife Mickey.
We were able to call upon G4YRU and M5AAS Graham and Sandy near Worksop and have lunch and a chat.
If you need or want to learn more have a look at Walters site
http://www.k1qs.com
This is Walter,Mickey and our Family when we met in August 2005.