Where I was born - NOT amateur radio

After WW2 this was a nursing home. I was born here in 1948. We lived in a very simple council house, but I enjoy telling people I was born in grand house on a big estate!

Sunspots - Thursday June 13th

 Solar flux is 165 and the SSN 145. A=5 and K=1.

Sibling reunion - NOT amateur radio

We are in Lincoln for our 21st sibling reunion. This is a photo of us all outside Lincoln Cathedral before having an excellent lunch in the pie shop.

Still there

Some of you may recall Birketts in Lincoln selling all sorts of radio related stuff with adverts in radio magazines. 

I think the original owner John Birkett died a few years ago and his son ran the business. I was glad to see this still in Lincoln.

Sunspots - Wednesday June 12th

 Solar flux is 165 and the SSN 95. A=12 and K=0.

Lincoln - NOT amateur radio

 

The view from the Travelodge hotel window. We are here for a couple of nights for my wife’s sibling reunion .

2200m beacon

 This was made about 12 years ago . It was later cased and blown up by mistake!! It has been on before but shows things don’t have to be complex.

Sunspots - Tuesday June 11th

 Solar flux is 178 and the SSN 146. A=11 and K=4.

10m 500uW WSPR (Monday)

My beacon was re-synced to internet time this morning.

UPDATE  1945z:  No spots all day.

6m QRP FT8 (Monday)

My 2.5W 6m FT8  to the V2000 vertical omni antenna has been on all day. 

UPDATE 1935z:  87 spots of me today.

UPDATE 2014z:  96 spots of me today.