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.

European Es less good today?

Compared with a few days ago, the impression I am getting is that the Es in Europe is not as good. With Es, things can rapidly change.

See https://www.tvcomm.co.uk/g7izu/radio-propagation-maps/europe-sporadic-e/ .

Busy - NOT amateur radio

Recently, my old bird table blew over in the wind and was damaged beyond repair. As a replacement I bought two smaller bird tables to encourage small birds and discourage larger ones.   Since then, we have had a squirrel, many jackdaws and starlings. 

My strategy did not work!

630m QRP WSPR overnight

6 stations spotted my 10mW ERP 630m WSPR overnight. No great DX, but more spots than I was expecting.

My 630m transverter

ISM experimentation?

It seems many radio amateurs are becoming "appliance" operators rather than experimenters as was the case many years ago. This is sad. 

Experimentation is still happening, although not so much with amateur radio. It would appear the spirit of early amateur radio is still there on the ISM bands.

Personally, I think amateur radio will die a slow death in the next 20 years merging with CB and true experimenters will increasingly not be from the radio amateur community.

Granddaughter and our son - NOT amateur radio

This was our granddaughter with our son yesterday. 

The roses look good too this year.

Sunspots - Monday June 10th

 Solar flux is 181 and the SSN 148. A=5 and K=1.

MF WSPR tonight?

Although my last attempt with 10mW ERP on 630m WSPR was not too great, I am tempted to try again this evening and overnight. Last night I stuck with 6m FT8.