Sunspots - Thursday June 16th 2022

 Solar flux is 140 and the SSN 149. A=20 and K=2.

Barnsley - NOT amateur radio

We're having our 19th sibling reunion in which my wife gets together with her 2 brothers. In the past, we have taken it in turns to meet in each others homes. This year we are staying in an hotel in Barnsley which used to be their home. 

Finningley optical transceiver

This was built in June 2013, but because of my stroke it was not used. With 100mm lenses, it has a range of at least 65km. This was my only SMA project.

Memory costs - NOT amateur radio

It is amazing how far memory has come. Not many years ago we were amazed by CF cards with 1GB of memory. These days you can get 512GB on a micro SD card. I think you can even get 1TB micro SD. In 10 years time I wonder what will be the norm?

Sunspots - Wednesday June 15th 2022

Solar flux is 146 and the SSN 121.  A=8 and K=4.

Window display - NOT amateur radio

This was seen in a shop window in Barnsley, Yorkshire earlier. I suspect this is a display from LAST year's Halloween display!! 

Elderflower - NOT amateur radio

 

This is abundant at the moment. People use it to make homemade wine. 

Guess who forgot?

Last Sunday was the annual PW QRP contest that I totally forgot!! The 2m and 70cm UKAC contests I set alarms for, but this one was overlooked. Doh!! 

8m experiment (Tuesday)

Yesterday my QRP TX on 40.680 MHz USB dial FT8 was spotted by 4 stations. I am unlikely to be active for the next few days. 

10m WSPR (Tuesday)

 Yesterday was fairly quiet here on 10m WSPR TX with just 14 stations spotting my 500mW QRP.  Most of these were via Es.