6m is about as short as HF comes. That radio will reach a long way if you combine it with a good antenna. 40m combined with a digital mode should be able to reach your 1/4 of the globe with occasionally reaching out to longer contacts when the ionosphere cooperates. I don't have an 80m or larger antenna but I suspect 80m would also be able to reach out pretty far.
40m using the FT8 digital mode is always busy anywhere near evening, all night, and even a bit after morning. Then the traffic switches to 20m for the daytime, and there are almost always a 1/2dozen people on through out the day.
Build or buy one of these. I built my own, cost about the same, but my cost also included lots of adapters and 50ft of RG8-x coax to feed the antenna. https://www.amazon.com/MFJ-1778-G5RV-Antenna-80-10-Meters/dp/B005OEA88Q/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=80m+dipole&qid=1596479026&sr=8-4
Used radios, G5RV antenna, and a little tuner and you're set.
I run my IC-7610 off of a $30 chinesium power supply I bought on amazon :)
Antenna: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005OEA88Q/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
(You really need the tuner with this one because of how it works)
100W tuner might run you $100 or so, auto tuners are fun but a it more expensive
Here's the PSU I bought: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TZMMZ66/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Some cheap coax: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076SB1HX7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
$320 not counting radio to start, thereabouts.
Lotta good cheap ones, some mobile, some not, and older ones are just as good for ragchewing most of the time, so an FT-101 or an old military radio is just as good!