11m amateur band

Until today, I had no knowledge that the 11m band was allocated to the amateur service in the USA prior to this being allocated to CB. I guess the nearest amateur bands today are 12m and 10m. 

This appeared on the Amateur Radio Weekly email, with the original article being on Bas's blog at https://pe4bas.blogspot.com/ .  

I was aware of the 5m band, but wonder what other allocations were made in the past? Possibly there were other odd allocations made locally such as the 73 kHz band in the UK at one time. In the UK a very few NoV permits were allocated near 9 kHz. I had one of them.

Some other countries had an 11m amateur band.

Sunspots - Sunday October 30th 2022

Solar flux is 134 and the SSN 97.  A=26 and K=3.

8m QRP FT8

As 10m F2 looked promising, I went on 8m QRP FT8 on 40.680 MHz. Sadly no 8m spots. I keep hoping the E-W F2 MUF will creep to 8m.

With the grandsons - NOT amateur radio

The photo shows my wife with our 2 grandsons earlier today. 

Both are young teenagers growing fast.

Network radio

My network radio has been put to good use as a DMR radio. My grandson is amazed that with something so small I can talk to stations across the planet. It is an Android radio, the Inrico T320.

See https://sites.google.com/view/g3xbm4/home/other-amateur-radio/network-radio.

Pumpkin time - NOT amateur radio

Our grandsons working on a Halloween pumpkin yesterday.  

EI7GL blog

John's blog is back and I see he has already posted something today. His blog is always interesting.

See https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/ .

10m FT8 RX

Shortly, I shall again be on 10m FT8 RX. If this is good I shall QSY to 8m FT8 QRP TX.

UPDATE 1229z:  279 stations spotted so far on 10m FT8 RX. So far today, things look average.

Mushroom

We saw this mushroom yesterday on our walk at Brandon Country Park. It is called a fly agaric mushroom.

If eaten it can cause hallucinations.

See https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/fungi-and-lichens/fly-agaric/ .

Sunspots - Saturday October 29th 2022

 Solar flux is 129 and the SSN 87. A= 16 and K=4.