As usual when I am monitoring 6m FT8 RX, I am on 10m WSPR TX with 500mW. The TX is 100% but changes frequency every slot to avoid being clobbered by a strong station.
So far (at 0820z) just G2XV (18km) spotting me. No sign of Es here yet.
UPDATE 0900z: DK6UG (633km) has also spotted me. This could have been Es or off aircraft.
UPDATE 1507z: Just 3 different stations spotting me today. Unless things change, today looks disappointing.
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.
Today is my wife's birthday. Before you ask, NO I am not pregnant and don't you be so darn cheeky! 😀😀
