Sunspots- Wednesday December 3rd

 Solar flux is 200 and the SSN 177. A=9 and K=2..

Sun through the trees

 

This was at nearby Anglesey Abbey earlier.

That season again!

Every year seems to go faster than the last. 

We put our tree up just now. 

I swear its only 5 minutes since we took it down last time!

10m 500mW WSPR (Tuesday)

My beacon has been on since about 0945z.

UPDATE 2100z: 15 spots. See table. Now QRT.

6m 5W FT8 (Tuesday)

 My gear was turned on at about 0945z. 

UPDATE 2056z: 13 posts. QRT.

Tuesday plans

After  breakfast I shall probably go out 6m QRP FT8.

Google spam filter

 

Yesterday I had a very painful lesson. Google puts in SPAM things it thinks are SPAM.  Usually it is correct . 

Daily I get told all my photos are about to be deleted -  but occasionally it gets things wrong.

G3ZQQ had apparently sent me an email that must have ended up in SPAM and been deleted. He sent a second yesterday that ended up in SPAM. Luckily I saw it and marked it as not SPAM.

The answer seems to be always check. I usually do see if anything is in SPAM by error, but his first email must have been deleted before I checked.

UPDATE Monday 1945z:  Since writing this I had an email claiming illness and asking if I shopped at Amazon. Definitely SPAM!! Now back in SPAM! Caveat emptor. There really was a reason it was in SPAM.

Rain

For the last 3 years, I have measured the amount of rain daily. This has been the driest of the three years. For the last few years we have had about 760mm of rain. This year we are on target for about 650mm.

Sunspots - Tuesday December 2nd

 Solar flux is 196 and the SSN 175. A=10 and K=2.

10m 2W FT8 (Monday)

My gear was turned on before breakfast.

UPDATE 0904z:  53 stations have spotted me.

UPDATE  1926z: 488 stations have spotted me today. Even with 2W 10m FT8, spots from across the planet. See map.