Bellringing - NOT amateur radio

Bellringing is an art that has been around in the UK for many centuries. At the moment they are trying to encourage new ringers so every church tower in England can be rung on the day of the Coronation in May. Our grandson has been ringing for several years and has a YouTube channel. Here he is ringing at Foxton recently.

Sunspots - Friday February 24th 2023

Solar flux is 148 and the SSN 108. A=22 and K=1.

Rather them than me! - NOT amateur radio

 This video of a hiking "path" in Switzerland is sure to raise your blood pressure.

See https://twitter.com/OTerrifying/status/1627562598463082496 .

10m QRP WSPR (Thursday)

 Almost forgot! When on 8m FT8, I can go on 10m QRP WSPR TX with the 500mW beacon as the antenna is available. So for about 10 minutes (it is now 1327z) 6 stations have already spotted me.

UPDATE 1644z: Quite a few spots of my 500mW WSPR from the USA.

8m QRP FT8 (Thursday)

At about 1318z, I QSYed to 8m QRP FT8.  So far, just one spot by FG8OG (6670km). It seems transatlantic reception even of my QRP is almost daily.

UPDATE 1534z: 2 spots of my QRP (again) from the Caribbean. It feels like this is most days. I may try WSPR another day. At 1W on the FT817ND I wonder how this will be?

Rally

This rally has been notified to me. Always worth checking the details are correct before travelling a long way!

Sunday Feb 26th  - West Manchester Radio Club Red, Leigh, WN7 2PJ. 

I have also received news that the Callington (CARS) Rally in Cornwall in March has been cancelled.

10m QRP FT8 (Thursday)

For a change, I am on 10m FT8 with 1W from the FT817ND. After about 20 minutes, 8 spots of my 1W and 42 spots of others.

Stations spotted on 10m FT8 RX today

UPDATE 1025z: 1 QSO, 11 unique stations have spotted me and I have spotted 88 stations.

UPDATE 1106z:  2 QSOs and 108 stations have been spotted on 10m FT8 RX today. At a guess, I would guess the FT8 10m activity is at least 4 times higher than on WSPR.

Unique stations spotting me on 10m FT8 TX at 1300z

UPDATE 1315z:  3 QSOs and 22 stations have spotted my 1W FT8.  On RX, 214 stations have spotted me.

Sunspots - Thursday February 23rd 2022

 Solar flux is 152 and the SSN 100.  A=6 and K=3.

South Devon - NOT amateur radio

The photo shows the view looking from Slapton towards Start Point. 

QDX transceiver

There was a good review of this in a recent QST. Mine is still showing as "being collected". QDX is a QRP, multi-band HF digital transceiver available as a kit or ready built from QRP Labs. It looks like these come from the west of Turkey.

See https://www.qrp-labs.com/images/qdx/QST_QDX_Review.pdf