A reminder that next weekend sees the Hamvention in Ohio, USA. This is, I think, the biggest amateur radio gathering on the planet.
It is often the place where new radios are seen for the first time. Often these are very early prototypes to test the market.
I have never been and probably never will now.
Some of these have been colourised in part. I hope they are genuine. They look as if they are real.
Some cut their lawns around the edge, but leave the middle to grow. This way lawns look still tended.
The photo shows the green in our close this morning. I hope it is not cut.
UPDATE 0959z: 5 stations have spotted me this morning. See map by VK7JJ of WSPR Rocks.
Yesterday I asked Google AI (Gemini?) about G3XBM. To my surprise it was accurate. Previous attempts have often included mistakes. I guess in the last few years AI must have improved.
Where will AI be in another 10 years?
At the moment in the UK we are in the middle of council elections in some parts of England and elections for the devolved governments in Wales and Scotland. The latter two have only just started counting.
Results in England so far suggest people are turning away for the two parties that have traditionally been in power for about 100 years.
Instead people are turning to Reform, the Greens and Liberal Democrats. Reform is generally considered more right wing than the Conservatives, whereas the Liberal Democrats and Greens are more left leaning.
Often these elections are seen as a protest vote, but we do seem to be seeing a swing in how people vote.
These were very popular QRP CW transceivers some years ago. I owned a built one and had lots of fun with it. As I recall, I mostly used it o...
