6m 5W FT8 (Thursday)

 My gear has been on since just after breakfast. 

UPDATE 1914z:  So far, spotted by 5 English stations.

6m 5W FT8 (Wednesday)

 My gear (5W to the V2000 vertical omni) was turned on at about 1015z.

UPDATE 1324z:   18 spots so far. See map.

6m 5W FT8 (Tuesday)

 My gear was turned on at about 0945z. 

UPDATE 2056z: 13 posts. QRT.

6m 5W FT8 (Sunday)

Late Sunday, I went on 6m FT8 with 5W to the V2000 vertical omni antennas. 5 English stations spotted me. Now QRT.

6m 5W FT8 (Friday)

My gear was turned on at about 1425z.

UPDATE 1531z:  8 stations spotting me, with the furthest EI4DQ (580km).

6m 5W FT8 (Saturday)

 My gear was turned on at about 1010z.

UPDATE 1014z:  So far,  6 English stations have spotted me.

6m 5W FT8 (Friday)

My gear was turned on mid-afternoon.

UPDATE 2150z: 19 stations have spotted me. QRT. See map.

6m 5W FT8 (Thursday)

My gear was turned on at about 1300z.

UPDATE  1825z:  18 stations have spotted me. The furthest is ZS4TX/6 (8766km). See map.

No radio today

 As were in London much of the day, I was not on the radio today, but hope to be tomorrow. Probably 6m 5W FT8 and 10m 500mW WSPR.

6m 5W FT8 yesterday

In all, 20 stations spotted me on 6m QRP FT8 yesterday.  See map.  This included several continental Europeans although I am not sure of the propagation mechanism.

6m 5W FT8 (Saturday)

 At about 1645z, I QSYed to 6m QRP FT8.

UPDATE 1650z:  Spotted by 3 English stations.

6m 5W FT8 (Tuesday)

To finish today, I went on 6m 5W FT8  with the V2000 vertical omni antenna.

UPDATE 1904z:   Just the usual English spots.

6m 5W FT8 (Thursday)

My gear was turned on at about 1145z.

UPDATE 1745z:  16 stations have spotted me.  All are in the British Isles.  See  map.

Thursday plans

 Later, I will continue with 500mW 10m WSPR and 5W 6m FT8 probably.

6m 5W FT8 (Wednesday)

My gear was turned on at about 1120z.

UPDATE 1634z: 30 stations have spotted me . See map. It seems that almost all times I go on 6m QRP FT8 TX, I get spotted in mainland Europe.

6m 5W QRP FT8 (Sunday)

 My gear was turned on at about 1008z.

UPDATE 1139z: So far, spotted by 8 English stations. 

UPDATE 1218z:  Spotted by 16 stations including Eire and Germany.

UPDATE 1607z:  24 spots of my QRP today including some in mainland Europe. See map.

6m 5W QRP FT8 (Saturday)

 

As we were in Cambridge, my gear was not turned on until shortly before teatime.

UPDATE 1907z:  18 spots of me so far including 3 in Scandinavia. See map.

6m 5W FT8 (Friday)

 My gear was turned on at 1340z.

UPDATE 1729z: So far, spotted by 28 stations in the British Isles. No continental stations have spotted me yet today.

8m operation

Although I did not renew my UK 8m TX permit, there is still activity with stations in the Caribbean getting licences and Spain getting permits for another 18 months.

Instead, I have QSYed to 6m FT8 and been surprised to find real continental DX stations spotting my 5W FT8 to the omni vertical antenna on every day I have been operating. The moral is do not give up on 6m.

In my view, 8m deserved special permits in very many countries around solar maximum to allow real propagation research. Instead, very very few bothered. I was disgusted.

6m 5W FT8 (Thursday)

 

Yet again, what looks like Es to the Balkans.

UPDATE 1222z: 10 stations have spotted me  today. My gear was turned on at about 1200z.

UPDATE 1820x: 75 stations have spotted me. See map.

UPDATE 2220z: QRT.