As I mentioned in an earlier post today, 630m WSPR seems to have "gone off the boil" and I may try something new over the spring and summer.
I want to try 8m QRPP WSPR using 10mW and ISM rules (open to anyone in the UK without a licence, possibly in your area of the world too?). This is mainly a daylight challenge.
Is there a new nighttime challenge? A band that remains good at night. Possibly 160m or 80m using the earth-electrode "antenna" in the ground? I could try FT8 on these bands perhaps.
In the next few days we usually see the return from Africa of swallows which winter in South Africa. This is a very long way. They have already been seen in Devon. I shall keep scanning the skies .
Also about now we hear chiffchaffs calling. Some stay all year and some migrate.
Should I now move on? Another week maybe.
Amazingly, EA8BFK(2880km) has spotted my 500uW (0.5mW) 25 times today to 1717z. Nobody else has spotted me.
One of the pleasures of Cambridge is gliding along the back of the colleges on a punt on the river Cam. Many prefer others to do the puntin...
