Remote beauty - NOT amateur radio

Remote places have a beauty all of their own. This photo from the Shetland Islands was recently posted by a friend up there.

Solar peak (cycle 25)

The month with the highest solar flux and sunspot number is ahead of the peak of the solar cycle with averaging. It looks like the averaged peak is this month. Whatever, we are likely to see good HF conditions still for several years.

See https://www.solen.info/solar/ .

Sunspots - Thursday November 2nd 2023

 Solar flux is 159 and the SSN 105. A=9 and K=2.

630m 10mW ERP overnight

 

Overnight, I was spotted by 18 different stations on QRP WSPR including OH1LSQ (1733km) again.

8m 2.5W FT8 (Wednesday)

Just local G4WSZ (12km) spotting me so far today.

UPDATE 1733z: 4 stations have spotted me including 2 transatlantic stations.

10m QRP WSPR TX (Wednesday)

 My 500mW WSPR beacon has been on for under an hour. So far, 8 stations have spotted me.

UPDATE 1645z: 60 stations have spotted me today.

Sunspots - Wednesday November 1st 2023

 Solar flux is 147 and the SSN 116. A=9 and K=2.

Autumn is coming - NOT amateur radio

 

At last, the leaves are changing and it looks more like autumn. The photo shows the trees on the green this morning.

630m QRP WSPR (Tuesday)

 Most of the day I was on 630m QRP WSPR with the earth-electrode "antenna" in the ground. At 2130z,   8 spots of my 10mW ERP.

40.680 MHz QRP FT8 (Tuesday)

 For a couple of hours, I was on 8m FT8 QRP with my 2.5W. Just G4WSZ (12km) was spotting me.