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As well as loads and loads of Europeans and 2 stations just north of Mongolia, 4 North Americans spotted on 160m FT8 RX last night using ...

Solar flux is 72 and the SSN 12. A=2 and K=0. Just a hint that the climb has started.

Around this time both my wife and I become 70. My wife's birthday was at the end of November and mine is in a week's time, just be...

This is the "holy grail" of renewable energy. These days solar and wind energy are cost effective, but they are not always there w...

About an hour ago I QSYed to 160m FT8 RX from 10m FT8 RX. As on previous evenings lots of Europeans, although many now seem to have swapped...

Last night was not bad. In total I was spotted by 13 different stations and I spotted 16 different stations.

For the last few minutes, I have been on 10m FT8 RX. So far, just  PA8MC (404km) spotted. UPDATE 1710z:  No further spots today here.

The new edition of Vestnik (Reporter) of the QRPclub is available now online. See  http://club72.su/vestnik/qv16.pdf

Please wake me up - is OFCOM about to do something useful ? Surely I must be dreaming. Yesterday they announced they plan to force broadband...

Solar flux is 71 today and the SSN 0. A=3 and K=1. Am I imagining things or is the sun just starting to wake? Of course, this could just b...