70cm FT8 promising?

According to the Hepburn Tropo Forecast, 70cm FT8 could be promising this evening. 

Rather than use the V2000 vertical, I may try with the horizontal 2m big-wheel antenna instead. Although the vertical V2000 is quite effective with scatter, the big-wheel is probably better with tropo. 

Snailwell - NOT amateur radio

This is a good name for this sleepy village, not far from Newmarket. 

There are very very few churches in this county with round towers. Nearby Norfolk has plenty.

2015 operating

The photo shows me operating in 2015. Since then, I have bought and sold an FT991A and bought a network radio and an IC-705 from ICOM. 

Wymondham, Norfolk - NOT amateur radio

This is a small town west of Norwich. In the 1800s, my wife's family moved to Sheffield from here at a time when agriculture was depressed and times were very hard. You can imagine the squalor they found up there. We go back to Wymondham most years. It is a delightful place about an hour from here. 

Next time, I suspect we'll go by train as I find driving hard these days.

Ultra simple 80m Transceiver

 

Just how simple can you make a transceiver that actually works? This is on my main website. I hope it gives you some ideas.

See https://sites.google.com/view/g3xbm4/home/hf-mf-and-lf/homebrew/80m-xbm80-2

At Anglesey Abbey - NOT amateur radio

This photo was taken yesterday at nearby Anglesey Abbey. 

Sunspots - Sunday January 23rd 2022

Solar flux is 95 and the SSN 22. A=10 and K=3 . 

137kHz experiments some years ago

The photo shows the screen shot of my 137kHz experiments some years ago. I used the earth electrode antenna buried in snow with a small E-field probe on the car. ERP was just a few microwatts. This was January 2013.

10m FT8 QRP (Saturday)

At the moment I am on 10m FT8 with 2.5W. After a very brief period on TX, I am now on RX only. 

UPDATE 1945z: 140 stations spotted today with the furthermost LU6HWT (11348km).

160m FT8 RX in the last 24 hours

As mentioned yesterday, I went on 160m FT8 RX last evening and overnight using the coax to my 2m big-wheel via a ferrite rod ATU. In all, 348 stations spotted including 1 in Japan and several in the USA.