OFCOM has updated its plan of work. See its website for details. I bet you can't wait.
29 Sept 2020
Pye days - NOT amateur radio
In 2008 I retired after about 40 years in the Philips empire. When I started it was still Pye Telecom. The photo shows some of our products. I worked on the design of several.
Old graffiti - NOT amateur radio
Yesterday we were in Norwich Cathedral. On the walls of this fine Norman cathedral is some graffiti that is very very old as the photo shows.
Sunspots - Tuesday September 29th 2020
Solar flux is 74 and the SSN 0. A=33 and K=3. Wednesday could see G2 solar storms.
28 Sept 2020
Thurlestone Devon - NOT amateur radio
Valve QRP
Some years ago a friend of mine, Andrew G6ALB, built a QRP TX with Russian miniature valves as shown in the photo. The first CQ call resulted in a Stateside QSO. from memory the power was less than 1W.
27 Sept 2020
More eHam IC-705 reviews
The last time I looked there were 2 eHam reviews of the ICOM IC-705 transceiver. Last week there were none. As more people outside of Japan get them, we can expect quite a few more.
See https://www.eham.net/reviews/view-product?id=14776
There is more news of this transceiver on: https://www.fbnews.jp/
Views - NOT amateur radio
The weather was better there than here!
How simple can you go and communicate?
Some years ago I wanted to see how few parts are needed to make a viable transceiver that really worked. The result was the FETer transceiver for 80m. This appeared in GQRP "SPRAT" magazine and copies were made. G3XIZ worked as far as Switzerland with his!
See https://sites.google.com/site/g3xbmqrp3/hf/feter-80m-qrpp-cw-transceiver
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