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EchoLink

Not having access to my radios I tried listening to my local repeater by EchoLink.  Imagine my surprise finding someone on it!

Sunspots- Tuesday September 2nd

 Solar flux is 202 and the SSN 165. A=16 and K=5. 

Amsterdam

 This is a fantastic city. We have been here 7 times and I have been here for work.

Amazing fact - human brains

Yesterday, I read that the capacity of the human brain has been estimated as 2.5 million gigabytes, which is huge.  When you think of a lifetime of memories it has to be enormous. 

It makes our computer memories look tiny by comparison. I wonder if they will work out how to create artificial memories as large one day? Imagine being able to store this much data!  If possible, perhaps we could have "add on" memories to store, for example, a new language.

You could imagine that memory research based on neural networks (much like the human brain) is rich for exploration. I could imagine that in 50 years' time huge memories might be possible making those of today look tiny.  I imagine that the US and Chinese governments are already working on this.

Imagine the computing power of these mega-computers working in parallel. Frightening.

Sunspots - Monday September 1st

 Solar flux is 217 and the SSN 188. A=8 and K=1.

This autumn

As Es is likely to be much less frequent than in the spring and summer, I shall probably switch to 10m QRP FT8 before long, with the occasional outing on 6m FT8. 

I can imagine 10m FT8  being quite good this autumn.

Solar activity - up?

 In the last few days, solar activity seems to have improved somewhat.  I am not sure if this will alter the smoothed sunspot peak, but it will be worth keeping an eye on my favourite site for solar data.

QR codes

These days, they seem to be everywhere! 

If my dad came back now (he died in 1987) he wouldn't have a clue. This was before the internet really and mobile phones. QR codes would be even more amazing. You wonder what our grandchildren will have when we are pushing up daisies!

It seems I have an option to create a QR code for each page. Not quite sure why anyone would want to do this!  

10m QRP WSPR (Sunday)

 My 500mW beacon was turned on just before breakfast.

UPDATE 0811z:  Plenty of spots by 2 stations in the Canary Islands, presumably via F2.

UPDATE 2006z: Spotted by 9 stations with the furthest again being V51RS (8481km). Now QRT.