Tristan da Cunha

Years ago I was fascinated by this remote island in the South Atlantic. I have heard it on 20m SSB, but never worked anyone on Tristan.

630m WSPR RX last evening

No further stations were copied after midnight. I hope to fix the transverter this week. 

Sunspots - Monday October 2nd 2023

Solar flux is 161 and the SSN 136.  A=9 and K=1.

630m WSPR RX (Sunday)

 As usual, I am on 630m WSPR RX. So far (at 0730z) 3 stations spotted.

UPDATE 2107z:  5 stations spotted.

The next solar maximum?

 According to my favourite site for solar data, the peak of solar cycle 25 is still November 2023, which is just next month. The data was only updated today. 

Solar conditions could still be good for several years yet.

See https://www.solen.info/solar/ .

St Ives (Cambridgeshire) - NOT amateur radio

This is a delightful town we visited last Friday on the guided bus from Cambridge. The photo shows the view from the bridge in the centre of the town.

8m QRP FT8 (Sunday)

 Once again my 2.5W and a dipole is on 40.680 MHz FT8. So far, just local G4WSZ (12km) spotting me.

UPDATE 1220z: 3 spots of my 8m QRP FT8 today (2 on PSKr). I see G9PUV has been spotted in S.Africa.

UPDATE 1527z:  4 English stations have spotted me today, 3 on PSKr and 1 emailed a screenshot.  No DX.

UPDATE 1723z:  ZR1ADI (9777km) in S.Africa spotted on 8m FT8. This is the furthermost this autumn.

10m QRPP WSPR TX (Sunday)

Following the experiment yesterday with my beacon PA turned OFF, I am again on 10m WSPR with microwatts (even though the beacon is preprogrammed to say 0.5W). No spots!

UPDATE 0850z:  EA8BFK (2880km) has spotted my microwatts! 

UPDATE 1504z:  EA8BFK has spotted my 10m WSPR microwatts 3 times today.

OFCOM publications

OFCOM regularly updates the figures it keeps on things like licences. They also announce details of new publications. See the OFCOM website for details.

Sunspots - Sunday October 1st 2023

 Solar flux is 159 and the SSN 106.  A=10 and K=2.