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My QRP 6m FT8 was turned on after breakfast. UPDATE 0824z:   12 stations have spotted me. I think there is some Es. UPDATE 0901z:  IS0AWZ  (...

Quite often I need to change an image on my blogspot blog. I find this very "hit and miss". Sometimes I can do it easily and other...

As well as being spotted in Namibia 🇳🇦 yesterday with 2.5W FT8 to the V2000 vertical omni antenna a PY way down in Brazil 🇧🇷 (Sao Paulo)...

 Solar flux is 239 and the SSN 213. A=10 and K=1.

This was another of my attempts to get something for nothing!  It worked remarkably well, but I struggled with netting the RX onto the TX fr...

Before my 2013 stroke I enjoyed experimenting at optical frequencies and was amazed that I could decode my QRSS CW well over the horizon wit...

Yesterday our son sent us this photo showing Brisbane in winter. Even in winter it was 30 deg C! 

We all take instant global communications for granted.  As an example yesterday we had a (free) video call from our son who is staying with ...

I have just finished reading a book about the RAF Pathfinders. My dad was one in WW2. I had no idea how brave they were. On every mission th...

My 2.5W FT8 has been on most of the morning. UPDATE  1032z:  So far, spotted by 14 stations mostly in England. The spots in Southern Eire an...