6m 1W FT8 (Saturday)

My gear was turned on just after breakfast.

UPDATE 0842z:  Spotted by several English stations and one in Poland.

UPDATE 1950z:  Spotted by 31 stations.

Interconnectedness

In the West we are very dependent on imported food and imported energy. Energy powers nearly everything from water supplies, banking, sewers, traffic lights, the internet etc..  If we were suddenly denied these then society would be very different. We would adapt as we always do. 

I suspect there is an unwritten thing like MAD (mutually assured destruction) for nuclear weapons that if you were ever to hack us we will do the same to you. I hope so.

10m 200mW WSPR yesterday

Yesterday was a good day with 9 spots from Brazil as well as plenty in Europe.  Maybe the Brazilian spots were a combination of F2 and Es? In all, spotted by 37 stations yesterday.

Snapseed experiments

 

I have been experimenting with Snapseed (an app) frames. This photo is of a hummingbird hawk moth that  migrates from Southern Europe to the UK. They are now more common possibly due to climate change? The wings beat at about 75 beats a second so they can hover.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapseed .

Sunspots - Saturday August 29th

 Solar flux is 116 and the SSN 92. A=15 and K=4.

6m 1W FT8 (Friday)

My gear has been on since before breakfast.

UPDATE 1309z:   179 stations have spotted me today (see map).

10m 200mW WSPR (Friday)

My beacon has been on since 0610z.

UPDATE  1311z: 41 stations have spotted me. Es I guess.

Sunspots - Friday August 28th

 Solar flux is 122 and the SSN 76. A=4 and K=1.

The USA in deep trouble?

 It would appear the USA is now seen as an unreliable partner around the world.

6m 1W FT8 (Thursday)

As my son has gone home and the storms are some way away, I am on 6m FT8.

UPDATE 1409z:  Spotted by 13 stations.