My beacon has been on since late morning.
UPDATE 1502z: Spotted by 58 stations today.
8 Jul 2025
6m 5W FT8 (Tuesday)
My 6m QRP FT8 was turned on late morning.
UPDATE 1630z: 345 stations have spotted me today, mostly via Es.
VLF Sferics RX
Listening to the natural emissions at VLF can be fascinating. Not much is needed as this video shows. Of course, if the recorder does not provide DC power, you will need a source. In this case DC is provided by the recorder, so only 3 parts are needed.
I think this audio recorder is available on Amazon. On the DXexplorer site is another sferics receiver to drive headphones.
7 Jul 2025
Wild blackberries - NOT amateur radio
I usually pick a few to have with breakfast.
They are nearly ready to pick.
UPDATE 1432z: Picked first 6.
10m 500mW WSPR (Monday)
My W5OLF beacon was turned on just before breakfast.
Fossil sponge - NOT amateur radio
Experts at Cambridge University confirmed it.
It is many millions of years old. I had no idea you could get fossils inside flint.
6m 5W FT8 (Monday)
My 6m FT8 was turned on just before breakfast.
UPDATE 1707z: 233 stations have spotted me, most I think by Es. Furthest on RX is Kazakhstan.
Quantum theory and life - NOT amateur radio
One of the counter intuitive aspects of quantum mechanics is that things may be described as a wave function that exists in all space and all time. Things most probably exist in the here and now. Our usual interpretation is that we are here "now".
Oddly tunnel diodes only work because of quantum mechanical tunnelling. There is a finite probability that some electrons exist where they would not with Newtonian mechanics.
It occurs to me that this also applies to life. We may exist in all space and all time. This is definitely counter-intuitive! We may be aware of us being here, now. But perhaps we are everywhere, for ever.
Whatever, we really understand so very little.
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