10m 1W FT8 today (Saturday)

My 1W FT8 has been on since just after breakfast.

UPDATE 1747z: 73 stations have spotted me on 6 continents. 1W FT8 seems quite enough.

10m 1W FT8 yesterday

Stations spotted here on 10m FT8

Having been away for a few days, I went on 10m QRP FT8 yesterday when I got back. There was no Es in evidence yesterday.  On 1W QRP my furthest was Israel although several South American stations were copied on RX . See map. 

More earthmode experiments

 This was in 2011 when I was fitter and went out in the Fens to see to see where my 5W reached. 6km was reached but much further would be possible… then I had a stroke 🥴

Sunspots - Saturday August 16th

 Solar flux is 123 and the SSN 168. A=7 and K=2.

Sunspots - Friday August 15th

 Solar flux is 123 and the SSN 170 . A=8 and K=2 . 

Old QSL cards

Looking through some old photos I chanced on 79 old USA QSL cards. I must have downloaded these years ago. I can’t remember where they were from. This one dates from 1934 .

Unless I missed it, I can’t see the band? 🤔

Football mad?

Last year Liverpool FC were crowned champions in the UK. This is Anfield where they play their home matches.

Radio changing

 Already some countries have switched off Band II FM radio totally and there are far fewer shortwave stations with English language broadcasts. 

Many people do not receive realtime broadcasts preferring to select what they want to receive when they want from services such as iPlayer, Amazon Prime or Netflix. Much of what they want is via the internet rather than “over the air“. 

What is clear is that things are changing. 

Sunrise over Iraq

My  grandson took this shot out of an airplane window of the sunrise somewhere over Turkey or Iraq.

Sunspots- Thursday August 14th

 Solar flux is 140 and the SSN 157. A=15 and K=2.