Whilst I am all for skilled people earning a decent wage, I hope these people really earn this. Many who play the markets are no more than gamblers.
£260k a year in 2011 sounded stupid money even then! No wonder locals cannot afford properties where they come from. Angry? You bet! I cannot see how these stupid salaries are ever fair. Don't get me started on footballers pay.
See https://qrp-labs.com/ .
Apparently the green stripes on the left of UK car registration plates indicate the car produces zero emissions from the exhaust pipe. This can only be achieved with electric vehicles (EVs) I think. Maybe hydrogen vehicles can as well, but these are very rare.
Until my son came to stay recently, I did not know this. I (wrongly) assumed the green could be on all new cars, but this makes a great deal of sense.
It still seems to me that non emission vehicles have a long way to go. The main issue is improving the range between charges and making batteries from materials that can be made with cheap, easily available materials. Until these issues are cracked, I cannot see a turning point soon.
These days CRT TVs and photographic films look ancient. Let's hope this soon happens with non emission vehicles. Surely the age of fossil fuel is drawing to a close. The planet badly needs this. If these breakthroughs occur, there really will be a tipping point. I am surprised it has not happened already.
See https://www.carwow.co.uk/blog/green-number-plates-explained#gref.
My wife says I am expecting triplets!
OFCOM is consulting about its 28 GHz allocation to Arqiva. See the OFCOM website for details.
This station in Israel seems to be legal with an experimental permit for the 8m band.
At the moment, I do not know further details e.g. power, frequencies, times etc.. I copied him yesterday on 8m FT8. Robbie Phelan EI2IP worked him on SSB on 8m.
I really hope people in other countries apply for, and get, special permits, if just for the time around the sunspot maximum. With the MUF now exceeding 41 MHz quite often, this year could be excellent.
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After a few minutes on QRP FT8 TX, I am on 40.680 MHz FT8 RX. So far (at 0918z) no spots.
Just before 0900z my 500mW WSPR beacon on 10m was turned on. Spots from a local and an Italian so far.
UPDATE 1512z: 29 unique stations have spotted my QRP 10m WSPR today.26z:
UPDATE 1626z: 35 stations have spotted my 10m QRP WSPR with the furthermost F61695 (9729km).
UPDATE 1921z: 36 stations have spotted my 10m QRP WSPR TX. QRT soon. Spots of my 10m WSPR QRP are shown on the map from wspr.rocks.
My current plan is to go on 10m WSPR TX with 500mW from the W5OLF beacon and 8m FT8 RX.
Continuously, I get amazed by the number of planets in the universe. One estimate puts the number of planets as 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is totally mind blowing.
At the same time SETI has been searching the universe since the 1960s and have found not a single sign of intelligent life. To me, I find this odd. In the early days, equipment was not as sophisticated as today. However, by now, I would have expected to find something.
My only conclusion is that our view of the universe must be flawed or that we are somehow missing something important.
To me, all our religious beliefs are too "Earth centred".
I look at the heavens and feel awe.
See https://www.seti.org/ .
To my surprise I worked 6 stations and some good DX as the map shows.
Once again, my antenna was the 2m big-wheel omni.
Just now, I did a microprocessor reset on the FT-710AESS. Indeed the audio does come out of both speakers, but there still seems far more from the external speaker irrespective of the AESS balance. Overall, I am not impressed with this AESS "feature". The rest of the rig seems excellent. At QRP levels, I doubt I shall hear the fan very often! In fact, I have never heard it yet!
UPDATE 1638z: Must try the transceiver with FT8 soon.
There is no way I would be climbing through narrow, dark, wet tunnels deep underground, but I have always been fascinated by underground c...
