This photo shows the original WISPY 10m WSPR RX, which I want to base the design on, although I am still looking for the actual thing. I am not sure I still have it even! At least the photo will help with pad placement.
7 Mar 2021
10FT8R 10m FT8 RX
IC-705 and FT8
One of the things many ICOM IC-705 owners will want to do is run FT8. As I understand it, you can use the single USB cable for both audio and CAT rig control. I see there is a YouTube video about this.
Schools in England - NOT amateur radio
March 8th sees the return to school of all children in England.
The person in charge of education at ministerial level was interviewed on the BBC and Sky earlier. One option reported as being considered is longer school days and shorter holidays.
One of my sons is a teacher and he has had to do online teaching as well as classroom teaching. I hope they discuss proposals with teachers first!
Yes, school children must catch up, but in most cases teachers are near burn out. Imagine being told you have shorter holidays and longer days. I can see even more early retirements and people leaving the profession. Government in the UK - open your eyes!!!
Ailunce HS2
At this price, it must be Chinese. I would be concerned about quality control and warranty, although on paper it looks good. As this is preliminary data, perhaps they are testing interest?
As I have said many times before, once the Chinese get interested in this market (will they?) the Japanese will really notice.
It is much smaller than it looks. At a guess I'd say it looks FT817 sized.
17m FT8 QRP (Sunday)
At about 0835z I went on 17m FT8 with 2.5W and the tiny indoor loop. It is now 0932z. So far, 2 stations have spotted my QRP TX with the furthermost being UR7IM (2631km) and on RX 28 stations spotted here with the furthermost HL5BLI (9059km) in South Korea.
I remain amazed how well this simple QRP set-up works. Later, if I have the energy, I may try thicker wire for the loop. Somewhere in the garage is the roll of central heating pipe that I might use. Failing that, just thicker copper wire or a parallel stretch of copper wire might make things even better.
UPDATE 1208z: 89 stations spotted so far on RX.
UPDATE 1430z: 138 spots of me in 5 continents today on 17m FT8 RX. 4 spots of my QRP on TX.
Shack
It shows me in the shack checking the birds in the garden with binoculars. Building is done on the left and operating on the right.
The photo makes the room look much bigger than it is.
Did we really have holidays? - NOT amateur radio
Things felt almost normal.
6 Mar 2021
They are coming - NOT amateur radio
See https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/sand-martin/
Flower pot antenna
Steve G1KQH recently sent me an email with some useful links on how to make 1/2 wave verticals. I am sharing it with you in case this gives you ideas.
"The latest G4NSJ video pointed me to investigate..Cheap to make for anything from 28MHz to UHF I guess.. Ideally a starting point is to make one for 2mGain 1dB over 1/4 WaveDetails here:You can even make it Dual band:There is even an online calculator:73's G1KQH"
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