I just found out why I had zero spots with my 10m WSPR beacon! The positive power lead was open circuit so the beacon, although supposedly connected to the PSU had no power! Doh! I must be so stupid. I check on a lounge PC and although 6m was fine, the stand-alone 10m beacon was not. I must have disturbed the wires when I disconnected it last week. Anyway, it is now on and I am hoping for some spots today.
UPDATE 0925z: Almost immediately being spotted by G4IKZ (18km) and Italians via Es on 10m.
UPDATE 1055z: OE3BUB (1229km) has spotted my 10m 500mW WSPR beacon several times in the last 1/2 hour. This is Es.
UPDATE 1510z: Only local G4IKZ (18km) spotting my 500mW 10m WSPR beacon so far this afternoon. Despite the high sunspot number and the Es season, it is very quiet, so far, here. Maybe things will liven up later? Maybe tomorrow I'll go on 10m RX for a change? It is quite a while since I looked for WSPR spots on this band. As I can only RX on one band at a time, I shall have to go QRT on 6m tomorrow.
Oh dear I have never done anything like that. He lied :-)
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