Gilbert and Sullivan orchestra - NOT amateur radio

As mentioned before, last Friday evening we went to a local performance of the Gilbert and Sullivan light opera "The Gondoliers". 

The photo shows the small orchestra.

Quantum entanglement - NOT amateur radio

Ever since doing quantum mechanics as part of my university course a very long time ago, this has fascinated me and made me realise how little we really know. 

Our grasp on things is really so poor. You just wonder how things will develop in the next 100 years.

This video may (I say "may") help with understanding quantum entanglement. I think the basic thing is to think of objects as a wave function that exists in all space and all time for everything. We think of things as objects that exist in just on place, whereas they may (just) exist everywhere and always, which is counter-intuitive.

All we can be certain of is the universe is stranger than we even thought.

10m 500mW WSPR (Monday)

If I was going on 6m FT8, I thought I might as well turn on the 10m WSPR beacon!  6 stations have spotted me, mostly by Es.

UPDATE 1915z:  Spotted by 22 stations today. See WSPR Rocks map by Phil VK7JJ. Furthest is Namibia in S.W.Africa.

Change of plan

I took a look at PSKreporter and saw lots of Europeans working Far East stations on 6m FT8.  I thought, "just like me, take a day off and miss all the fun". So, I decided to go on 6m 5W FT8 after all. Lots of Es, but no Far East on TX or RX noticed here. 

I think I was too late.

UPDATE 1933z:  241 stations have spotted me.

Day off radio?

At the moment, I have no plans to go on the radio today. If there is a big opening on 6m I might change my mind later.

Hot work! - NOT amateur radio

Our local museum (across the road) has a blacksmith's forge run by Will, the blacksmith. The photo was taken on Saturday when temperatures were 33 degrees Celsius in the shade and very humid. Not the sort of weather to be in a hot forge!

Sunspots - Monday June 23rd

 Solar flux is 125 and the SSN 80. A=9 and K=3.

Banana warehouse - NOT amateur radio

My wife’s great grandfather was a banana merchant in Sheffield who lived from 1857-1927.

10m QRP WSPR (Sunday)

My 500mW beacon was turned on at breakfast.

UPDATE 0917z:  Spotted by 4 stations so far. Usually, I check for spots on WSPRnet, but accidentally left PSKreporter on 10m. Interestingly, just one of the 4 WSPR stations appeared.

6m 5W FT8 (Sunday)

 

My 5W to the V2000 vertical omni antenna has been on since breakfast.

UPDATE 0932z:   40 stations have spotted me. It looks like most are by Es.

UPDATE 1508z: 350 stations have spotted my 5W 6m FT8 with the furthest UN3M (3553km) in Kazakhstan.

UPDATE 2130z: Now QRT but 355 stations have spotted me today - nearly  all European. See map .