Sunspots - Tuesday September 5th 2017

The solar activity is incredible for this part of the cycle. Solar flux is 144 and sunspot number is 122 (incredible). A=18 and K=2.

QRP and QRP Club

Oleg's usual report:

Weekly QRP Rendez-Vous Report (September, 3, 2017)
Visitors  of  the  week:  G3XJS, IK0IXI/p, DK1HW, RW3DF, S57TX, RA1M,
UR5EFD,  UA1CEG, G3JFS, ON6WJ, HA7NE, UY1IF, OM6TC, UR5IFM/p, RU3NJC,
UA6ME,  UR7VT,  YO3BL,  OH6NPV,  US3EN, SM7ZDI, UR5FA, RV3UF, UA1CEX,
RV3GM, F5SYC, R1CAN, UA1AV, ON4ADR, UA0SBQ
Congrats!
UA1AV became Frequenter (regular visitor)
See full Visitors and Frequenters lists on the Club 72 page
Comments (as is, not edited)...
See full WQR Report including a lot of comments and pictures here -
https://qrp-club72.blogspot.ru/
Thanks all for activity and reports, see you on next Rendez-Vous!

Wish you all the best, 72!
Oleg "Mr. 72" RV3GM / KH6OB


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Low noise VLF pre-amp

In recent days there has been quite a lot of work on different VLF frequencies (as low as 970Hz) by amateurs trying to receive carriers and short messages at great range, including from Germany to the UK. In a recent posting DG4RBF gave details of his latest pre-amp. I have no idea if it does the job. The text is in German, so you have to translate if you want it in English. Use Google translate?

See

http://dg4rbf.lima-city.de/Ultra%20Low%20Noise%20AMP%20V1.7f%20_WebSeite.pdf

BBC Local Radio - NOT amateur radio

Southgate News reports a recent outage that affected a lot of the BBC local radio stations.

See http://southgatearc.org/news/2017/september/eighteen-bbc-local-radio-stations-fall-silent.htm#.Wau-cLpFzIU .

10m JT65

From Facebook, I see that I was copying LUs on 10m JT65 last year at this time. I was speculating the propagation was Es linking with F layer nearer the equator. I guess the mode to try now is FT8? With good propagation, I guess this is still possible.

Sunspots - Sunday September 3rd 2017

Solar flux is 103 (high) and the sunspot number 71 (high for this part of the cycle). A=26 and K=3.

Cambridge Leper Chapel - NOT amateur radio

After an age, I have updated the churches blog at https://eachurches.blogspot.co.uk/ with the Cambridge Leper Chapel that dates from the 1100s. We visited this for the first time today, although we have been past it many times.

ICOM IC9700

My thanks to Steve Wigg for alerting me to this new ICOM radio being previewed at the Tokyo Ham Fair this weekend. This will be a VHF/UHF/23cm rig.

See http://www.icomuk.co.uk/News_Article/3508/19388/ .

They still try! - NOT amateur radio

Already, there is hacker activity on this blog again. Should the blog suddenly behave oddly, you will know why. Already this blog has had more visits than it often gets in a whole day. Bots I suspect.

I see another of my blogs also has high visitor numbers.

Usually they look every month, then play their nasty games elsewhere. It always comes from the same sources. I see high numbers, check the map, and I know it is hackers rather than genuine visits.

Sunspots - Saturday September 2nd 2017

 Solar flux is 93 today. Sunspot number is 62 (quite high). A=19 and K=5.