31 Aug 2016

QST - thank you Rupert

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Rupert G4XRV very kindly sent me a copy of September QST. Rupert reads my blog from time to time and saw that I had not seen the magazine i...

Counting Sheep? - NOT amateur radio

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This was one of my grandsons at our local farm shop and cafe. I wonder if he was counting sheep trying to get to sleep? He is eight, nearl...

Fun at the fair - NOT amateur radio

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On Monday we went to the Fenland Country Fair. Our grandchildren (5 and 8 years old) went on the helter-skelter twice. For the younger o...

Operating today

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I decided to go on 10m WSPR (500mW) and 6m JT65 (1W ERP) today. 10m has been very quiet here but I had a number of UK spots of my QRP JT65 s...
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Sunspots and 10m - Wednesday August 31st 2016

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Solar flux is 99 and the sunspot number 64 today. K=2. The forecast for 10m F2 propagation remains "poor".

No Internet

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Yesterday, we had no internet, so no posts were possible. I am very sorry. It is back today, so I hope to post more later, if the internet c...
29 Aug 2016

10m JT65 - South America yet again

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PU2TWU (9572km) spotted me a little while ago on 10m JT65. I spotted EA8 (Canaries) about an hour ago. The latter could have been Es or F2. ...

Fenland Country Fair - NOT amateur radio

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We have grandchildren here this week. Today, we went to the Fenland Country Fair at nearby Stow-cum-Quy, where we have been for several ye...

QRP and QRPclub

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More from Oleg: "Dear Club 72 members and friends, Weekly QRP Rendez-Vous report (August 22 to 28, 2016) Visitors  of  the  week: ...

Sunspots and 10m - Monday August 29th 2016

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Solar flux is 87 today. Sunspot number is 64. K=2 . Yet again, the forecast for 10m F2 propagation is "poor".