We are celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary today. In some ways that day in 1971 seems like yesterday. I have no idea how those years have flown by. Since then we have 2 boys and 4 grandchildren.
Both of us were several stones lighter then and I still had hair! Most of my hair went when I was in my twenties.
Advice? Enjoy every moment, as time goes by very quickly.
Although I have been spotted by 6 G stations, there is no evidence here of Es yet. I have spotted just 3 Gs this morning on 6m FT8 RX.
As time goes by Es openings become rarer.
For a while I had assumed that most 10m WSPR users had migrated to FT8 instead, but I was so wrong.
In the last 2 weeks I have been spotted by 102 different stations on 10m WSPR with 500mW from my W5OLF 10m WSPR beacon. I have used this for many years and works as well now as it ever has.
I tend to leave the tiny 10m WSPR TX beacon on when I look on 6m FT8 RX.
No spots of me yet today.
I was totally unaware of some of the historical allocations at 8m. It seems there are historical precedents.
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At 0822z, my 10m WSPR beacon was turned on.
UPDATE 1205z: So far today, spots by 20 unique stations.
UPDATE 1304z: I see John EI7GL spotted me 10 times with SNR varying by 8dB. This is typical of Es: sometimes signals can be incredibly strong.
More North Americans than I have spotted all summer. Remember this is just with the V2000 omni vertical antenna. In all, 633 stations spotted on 6m FT8.
When I went on TX briefly, there was no problem being spotted all over Europe with 2.5W.
