In all 844 stations have been spotted on RX with the V2000 vertical omni antenna in the last 24 hours on 6m FT8 RX . The V2000 is faulty and has a high SWR on TX.
11 Jun 2021
10 Jun 2021
Visit Ely - NOT amateur radio
Recently a free booklet has been produced called, "Visit Ely" promoting Ely as a good base to explore the area.
The world famous university boat race took place here earlier in the year and it has a wonderful cathedral. It makes a good base.
SPRAT 187
They also offer SPRAT 1-184 on a DVD or Flash stick for £5 plus postage - excellent.
If ALL other magazines had to stop, I'd keep SPRAT.
See www.gqrp.com.
Rally news
The East Suffolk Wireless Revival (Ipswich Radio Rally) has been postponed until July and the Junction 28 Rally has been cancelled this year, hopefully on in 2022.
OFCOM appoints new Chief Technology Officer
Apparently OFCOM is appointing a new Chief Technology Officer who used to work at Amazon. This person seems well qualified in business. Let's hope this person really understands technology too.
See the OFCOM website for details.
6m FT8 RX (Thursday)
Since about 0830z, I have been on 6m FT8 RX. It is now 1104z and 41 stations spotted so far. Surprising number of UK stations, suggesting some tropo?UPDATE 1132z: 55 stations spotted on 6m FT8 RX today so far.
UPDATE 1538z: 256 stations spotted so far.
UPDATE 1755z: 427 stations spotted on 6m FT8 RX with the furthermost WP4G (6803km) in Puerto Rico.
UPDATE 1936z: 646 stations spotted today on RX with the furthermost PV8DX (7830km) in northern Brazil. Not bad for a VHF band with an omni antenna with a poor SWR!
Fault finding my Par endfed 102040 antenna
Since taking it down I have realised I can check if the coax was faulty by connecting a 10m dipole (endfed at the shack) and running the wire down the garden. If it is the coax I can replace it and get on 10m, 20m and 40m.
With this antenna I had 10m spots from all over the world (including Australia and Antarctica) with 500mW WSPR.
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