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!

Sunspots - Monday August 8th 2022

 Solar flux is 116 and the SSN 87. A=24 and K=5.

Native American proverb - NOT amateur radio

This old proverb was made public yesterday. I like it. 

Home - NOT amateur radio

 

This photo of our bungalow was taken a few years ago from our nearby windmill.