Although I have been in for about 40 minutes at 1420z, no spots.
UPDATE 1806z: No spots. QRT.
27 Nov 2022
Internet Archive
If you have not come across this before it is worth a look. The idea is to archive webpages, magazines and books, often well after the actual pages have long gone from the internet. Using this some time ago, I was able to see one of my long gone websites from the 1990s!
Today I uploaded my Issue 2 G3XBM Project Scrapbook. Really I want to add this to the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications. Once I find out how, I shall do this, so it is there long after I am pushing up daisies!
For now, search texts for G3XBM should bring it up.
See https://archive.org/ .
UPDATE 2019z: Both Issues 1 and 2 of my G3XBM Project Scrapbook are now on the Digital Library of Amateur Radio ad Communications. Searching for G3XBM should find it. My earliest website on the Wayback Machine seems to be in 1996 http: /www.lapr.demon.co.uk. If you search for this URL on the Wayback Macine you should find some captures. This was a very long time ago!!
Thoughts on infinity - NOT amateur radio
We live in a universe that is huge. Some think there may be a number of universes.
Just for a moment ponder these thoughts:
- What if there is an infinite number of universes?
- What if everything actually happened? What I mean is that you decided to go on a certain path in life, but there were other choices you could have taken,
- What if in reality all choices made really were made? What I mean is did all paths really get followed, but we are only aware of one?
- What if time is totally an illusion? Maybe we think of us on a path from past into the future, but perhaps every experience is really "now".
We do not have the answers, but we know that we can know so very little. I have the feeling reality is quite different from what we think today.
We find infinities hard to accept.
10m QRP FT8 (Sunday)
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UPDATE 1012z: So far today, 89 stations spotted on 10m FT8 RX.
26 Nov 2022
May I operate 8m beacons legally in the UK without a licence?
Since receiving an email from OFCOM in the UK, I have reread the essential requirements shown in https://www.legislation.
Although if anyone intends to put a product on the market later, there are some onerous requirements including on record keeping, I can see nothing that prevents beacon operation at 10mW ERP without a licence in the UK as long as the essential requirements in the above document and interface requirement IR 2030 are met. Now, I am no legal expert, but if it is there at all, I can personally see nothing at all that prevents us in the UK using the 8m ISM band without a licence at 10mW ERP for beacons. Clearly with QRPP beacons we have no intention of putting a product on the market later.
My own personal view is I very much doubt OFCOM really cares!!
As always, I stand to be corrected.
CQWW CW contest
This weekend is the CW leg of the CQWW contest. This is all weekend and we can expect the HF bands to be very busy.
10m 500mW WSPR TX (Saturday)
Something is wrong. I got no spots yesterday and none today so far on 10m WSPR TX. I checked timing sync and there is power out. Something is amiss.
472 kHz RX last evening
Once again I was on 472 kHz WSPR RX last evening using the coax to my 2m big-wheel via a ferrite rod ATU as the antenna. 5 unique stations spotted including Norway and Germany.
Sunny day - NOT amateur radio
25 Nov 2022
UK fuel prices - NOT amateur radio
In the last month the exchange rate of the UK pound against the USA dollar has improved by about 10%. The wholesale price of a barrel of oil has fallen by about 10%.
This should mean the proportion of the price of fuel due to barrel prices (excluding tax, delivery etc.) should have improved by about 20% resulting in a drop in fuel prices at garages.
What has happened in the real world? Prices have hardly changed.
10m QRP WSPR TX (Friday)
When I go on 8m FT8, I forget that I can still go on 10m WSPR TX with my 500mW W5OLF WSPR beacon. It has just been turned on.
UPDATE 1610z: So far today, no spots of me.
UPDATE 1700z: No spots, so synchronised timing again. WSPRnet issue? Others don't seem to be having a problem. I was expecting some spots by now.
WSJT-X latest version
Apparently there is a new version of WSJT-X available as a pre-release candidate. At the moment on WSPR and FT8 I use V2.5.4, which is the latest fully released version. The latest candidate release is V2.6-rc4. I must download it and try it.
FT8 is now very popular. It is possible the decode sensitivity is slightly better with this newer version.
8m FT8 with 2.5W QRP
Earlier this week I carried out some local tests with 10mW ERP from my low wire dipole. By comparison, 2.5W seems really high power! Shortly, I hope to be on 40.680 MHz QRP FT8. The 20dB pad has been removed and the FT817ND back on 3 bars on TX.
UPDATE 1435z: 8m FT8 QRP TX now switched on.
UPDATE 1700z: I gather Bas has asked the authorities in the Netherlands if he can TX in the 8mISM band legally at 10mW ERP without a licence. If we did this in many administrations we could see a number of new experimenters on 8m in the next Es season. Certainly, WSPR would be more effective than FT8.
Another view of St John's College, Cambridge - NOT amateur radio
10m QRP FT8 (Friday)
24 Nov 2022
Rally on Sunday
The following rally this weekend has been notified to me. It is advisable to check before travelling any distance.
Sunday November 27th - Bishop Auckand RAC Rally, Spennymoor, DL16 6DB. Contact g4ttf@yahoo.co.uk
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