Most of the tomatoes are still green. As you can see, this has not exactly been a bumper year. We had a wet winter and dry spring with a very hot summer. The pears were not bad (if a bit hard) and the crab apples just enough to half fill a small jar with crab apple jelly. Beans? Maybe enough for 1 meal. Tomatoes? If the green ones turn red I may have the same as a punnet from a supermarket. If they stay green I shall have a go at green tomato chutney. Overall, a disappointing "harvest".
Again on 10m WSPR TX with 500mW QRP. So far, only spots by local G4KPX (14km).
UPDATE 1215z: Just G4KPX and HB9TMC (905km) spotted me.
Very shortly, I shall be on 40.680 MHz FT8 TX again with my FT817ND and low wire dipole.
There seem to be fewer monitors on 8m now that the main Es season has ended. Es still has some openings , but these are fewer now. Most openings now are random MS, F2 or aircraft reflections I suspect.
Yesterday, EI9KP (649km) again spotted me on 8m. This is very unlikely to have been Es.
UPDATE 0950z: On 8m FT8 now. Once the Cornish 8m beacon becomes active, I shall start monitoring it on PI4 mode.
UPDATE 1221z: No spots all day. Rig currently off cooling.
UPDATE 1415z: On TX again. EI9KP (649km) has again spotted me. I suspect EI9KP has spotted me nearly every day I have been on 8m!
The queen dying after so long as head of state is sad. We are certainly in a new age now. Whilst in Amsterdam last week every English language channel was about the queen and her long reign.
When we got back home yesterday, we had non-stop queen on the BBC. Now, I know people grieve in different ways and the BBC will have prepared for how it would respond. They probably have had recordings for this eventuality prepared for years and years.
Am I alone in believing there is grieving and their is milking?
In my view, enough is enough. I would like to hear about other things as well in the world. Perhaps some of the news is dedicated to the queen and then other news is covered?
If I was an anchor person on the BBC, I would run out of things to say!
The design is very simple and used low cost crystals either for WSPR or FT8 RX. It is a direct conversion RX so will also pick up signals on the other sideband. It is extremely unusual for this ever to be an issue. Lots of stations have been received.
On a simple PCB, it would make a low cost, simple, and useful club project.
As I am home again, I am again on 8m FT8 QRP with the FT817ND and low wire dipole. No spots.
UPDATE 1207z: EI9KP (649km) has again spotted me. I wonder if this is aircraft reflection?
Now that I am back home, I am on 10m WSPR with my beacon and 500mW.
UPDATE 1353z: No spots of me all day.
UPDATE 1535z: Just a spot by FY5KE (7110km). This looks like F2.
UPDATE 2025z: Seems like all the spots are now by F2 with the furthermost FR1GZ (9724km).
