Brilliant day on 10m QRPP yesterday

With 49 spots of my 500uW WSPR from the Canary Islands and one from the USA yesterday, this must go down as a very good day. What puzzles me is sunspots were average and A and K indicators were not exceptional. Let’s see what happens today.

UPDATE 0850z:  Already plenty of spots from the Canary Is.  I wonder if EA8BFK (2880km) has got a better antenna recently?

UPDATE 2200z:  Plenty of spots of me by EA8BFK but nobody else today. When it’s good it’s like a pipe between us. I wonder what the path loss should be by F2?

Sunspots - Monday April 8th

 Solar flux is 125 and the SSN 79. A=8 and K=0.

What next?

 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.

10m QRPP WSPR (Sunday)

Today I have high hopes for my 500uW 10m QRPP WSPR. So far, no spots.

Watching for migrants - NOT amateur radio

 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.

More signs of spring - NOT amateur radio

 The green near our village is a carpet of buttercups and daisies.

Worst night on 630m QRP WSPR overnight

Last night was the worst I have experienced this season. Just 9 stations spotted me and no real DX.

Should I now move on?  Another week maybe.

Sunspots - Sunday April 7th

 Solar flux is 123 and the SSN 71. A=10 and K=2.

630m QRP WSPR today

 The usual suspects spotting me this evening, 6 so far.

Our village- NOT amateur radio

These were the buttercups on the green outside our post office today.