Miracle Whip

Since my 2013 stroke, I have not been in our loft. Last night, one of my sons brought down a box and in it was my old Miracle Whip antenna! Later, I shall try it on FT8, probably on 15m.

UPDATE 1057z:  I decided to go on 20m FT8 initially. Within a few minutes I have already been reported by 16 stations with the Miracle Whip on the shack windowsill and the FT817ND!

UPDATE 1154z:  Now on 15m FT8 with the Miracle Whip on the shack windowsill. I was only on for a short while but the best DX was a spot of me from 3365km away.

UPDATE 1221z:   Now on 30m QRP FT8 with the Miracle Whip on the shack windowsill. 20 spots of my QRP. Even on 30m it works pretty well.

UPDATE 1221z:  On 40m FT8 with the Miracle Whip. 7 spots of my QRP within the first 3 minutes.

 

UPDATE 2008z:  153 stations spotted on 20m FT8 RX today, so far, with the Miracle Whip.

10m QRP WSPR TX (Tuesday)

Been on for a couple of hours so far with my 500mW beacon. No spots of me so far today.

UPDATE 1302z:   Still no spots of me so far today on 10m WSPR TX. I am quite surprised. Must check the beacon is correctly synced.

UPDATE 1315z:  Resynced "just in case".

8m experiment (Tuesday)

Been on 40.680 MHz USB dial QRP FT8 for a couple of hours. Nothing on RX, but spotted by HC02 (1808km) in Portugal.

Rye, Sussex - NOT amateur radio

This is Rye in Sussex. We visited there some years ago. It is a delightful place. 

Sunspots - Tuesday August 9th 2022

Solar flux is 113 and the SSN 63. A=31 and K=3.

10m QRP WSPR TX (Monday)

Although I am not too hopeful, I am on 10m WSPR TX with my 500mW beacon. The beacon was turned on about 0951z.

UPDATE 1027z:  Just OK2BVG (1232km) spotting me. I wasn't even expecting this! 

UPDATE 1038z:  Now 4 unique stations spotting me. Far better than I was expecting.

UPDATE 1652z:  11 stations have now spotted my 500mW QRP today.

Housework - NOT amateur radio

We always do housework on Monday mornings and have a coffee afterwards.

Funny how we all have routines. 

8m experiment (Monday)

Conditions look quite disturbed today, but I hope to be on 8m TX on 40.680 MHz USB dial FT8 shortly, ever hopeful. 

UPDATE 1000z: Surprise, surprise!  After a very short time, I was spotted strongly by EA3ERE (1153km). Aircraft? Gear turned on about 0951z.

UPDATE 1635z:  EI9KP (649km) spotted strongly on RX. Aircraft?

Sub 9kHz amateur DX

This was 2011 when I was experimenting with earth-mode at extremely low frequencies. Much further should be possible by utilities assisted earth-mode. 

I must be doing something wrong

My free PDF scrapbook is now at issue 2, but for some reason my tinyurl still goes to the issue 1 version despite the issue 2 having the same filename and being in the same directory where issue 1 was. I must be doing something wrong, but as I write this (on Sunday night) I cannot work out what I am doing wrongly. When I have a clearer head, I shall point to the newer version!