Burwell, UK

This is the village near Cambridge where I live. It is mix of old and new buildings. This photo dates from 2007, but not much has changed.

Sunday plans

Later, I shall probably try 10m 200mW WSPR TX with my Zachtek beacon. I have yet to try it stepping through different bands as 10m seems good at the moment.

Once set up the TX does not need a PC and gets all its timing and Maidenhead info from GPS. Ideal for /P operation.

Although the RX has a 400Hz wide audio filter I might try it later on FT8 RX. Some signals will go through the filter towards the middle of the pass band.

630m WSPR RX overnight

Last evening and night I was monitoring 630m WSPR with my Zachtek WSPR RX using the outer of the coax up to my 2m big-wheel antenna via a ferrite rod ATU and a mains plug ground. 7 different stations were copied. The RX certainly works with DX over 1000km with this poor setup.

Although more expensive, I preferred to buy from Zachtek in Sweden although I know there is a Chinese copy of the Zachtek TX and probably the RX now.

Sunspots - Sunday February 8th

 Solar flux is 169 and the SSN 128. A=15 and K=2.

Racism - no place

In my view, racism by anyone has absolutely no place in modern society.  Those in public office must always ensure it is not possible.

10m 200mW WSPR (Saturday)

 A brief TX on 10m WSPR this morning resulted in 14 spots of me by EA8BFK (2880km).

Heathkit HW8

For about a year I owned an HW8 2W CW transceiver. This transceiver covered 40-15m. It worked really well and made some great DX contacts. 

I think it was sold back to the original owner. I wish I still had it!

The image is copyrighted. It will be removed if using it is an issue, but the best site I have seen is at https://wd8rif.com/hw8.htm by William McFadden (who has the copyright), which is filled with useful information.

10m 5W FT8 (Saturday)

 My QDX-M was turned on very early morning before breakfast.

UPDATE  0950z:  Spotted by 4 stations and  I have spotted 3 stations in Eastern Europe.

UPDATE 1053z:  Spotted by 16 stations.

UPDATE 1341z:   Spotted by many stations including some in the USA and Canada. See map.

Network radio?

When I first saw this I was very surprised.  

On further looking it appears it is a network (internet) radio dressed up like a tiny "real" radio, 

It would appear to be available from several sources at various prices.

Sunspots - Saturday February 7th

 Solar flux is 164 and the SSN 132. A=16 and K=3.