Sunspots - Friday August 22nd

 Solar flux is 121 and the SSN 76. A=7 and K=3.

Good year for fruit in the UK

This has been a good year for fruit. 

For many weeks I have picked blackberrries for breakfast and this pear tree in our village is heavily laden.

10m 500mW WSPR (Thursday)

Just a few spots from a station in Austria.

UPDATE 1400z: 3 stations spotting me with the furthest V51RS (8481km) probably by F2.

6m QRP FT8 (Thursday)

With just 27 stations spotting my 5W QRP FT8 today, I think we have come to the end of the main Es season in Europe. Many of my spots were from the UK and I cannot say the type of propagation on the few Europeans that spotted me. It is possible even these were aircraft reflections.

UPDATE 1404z: Spotted by just 30 stations.

How do they do it?

Steve G1KQH has told me of the latest Banggood portable .  2 (yes 2!!) for just over £23 . 😉

Sunspots - Thursday August 21st

 Solar flux is 120 and the SSN 59. A=13 and K=2.

End of Es season?

Today was very quiet here on 10m WSPR and 6m FT8 with very few Europeans spotting me. 

The impression is we are coming to the end of the Es "season". There may still be good days but these will become less often and less widespread. Es is always fun whilst it lasts.

Gmail issues?

Both my wife and I are well within our space allocations of 100G for Google. 

These last few days my wife has had issues with sub-mailboxes of Gmail either appearing very briefly or having nothing in them. 

Some years ago I have a similar issue. In my case these sub-folders came back quite quickly. It is the same on 3 PCs so is definitely NOT a local problem at our end.

I am wondering if others have ever experienced this? 

It is a bit worrying when these mail folders contain some vital information that cannot be seen.

Sunspots - Wednesday August 20th

 Solar flux is 116 and the SSN 36. A=19 and K=4.

10m 500mW WSPR (Tuesday)

 My beacon was turned on late this morning. So far just spotted by one station in Switzerland.

UPDATE 1353z: As we get later in the summer any Es gets more patchy and less extensive. Yesterday was good, whereas today I have had only one spot that might have been Es. V51RS (8481km) often spots me. I guess this is F2/TEP.