Solar flux is 127 and the SSN 120. A=4 and K=1.
11 Dec 2023
10 Dec 2023
F2 going "off the boil"?
This last week, I have not been spotted in the Caribbean on 8m with my 2.5W and dipole on FT8. I wonder if the autumn F2 has peaked with more to come in February/March? I am no propagation expert, but a few weeks ago I was spotted almost daily in the Caribbean on 8m FT8.
And so it goes on - NOT amateur radio
The BBC reports that more people in Gaza have been told to avoid the difficult fighting at the centre of Khan Younis. I am ashamed of the USA and UK governments.
Yes Hamas has done evil things, but innocents continue to be badly impacted. All that results is a generation to come that hates Israel. This is sheer madness. Hamas may be defeated. What then?
Jaw, jaw not war, war. Do we never learn?
See https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-67672759 .
VHF activity contests - waning interest?
For several years now, I have been on the Tuesday night 2m and 70cms activity contests (UKAC) organised by the RSGB ever month. If I am able, I usually go on for some of the first hour with my 10W SSB and big-wheel omni horizontal antenna.
Maybe it is just me, but are there seem to be fewer stations on SSB? The FT8 activity sessions seem busy.
Outside our post office - NOT amateur radio
Continuing my 10m QRPP WSPR tests (Sunday)
My 500uW (0.5mW) WSPR TX is on.
UPDATE 1429z: No spots today.
630m WSPR overnight
11 stations spotted my 10mw ERP signal from the earth-electrode "antenna" in the ground with the furthermost SM6BOC (1054km).
Yet more Googledgook - NOT amateur radio
Yesterday, I got another email from Google that I could not understand. It was titled:
"Allow for contextual programmic demand when serving Ads"
.....hmmm.
Plain English? No, Googledgook.
Shetland (again) - NOT amateur radio
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