Our Close

As mentioned in an earlier post today autumn was a bit late coming, but is definitely here now!  

The trees on the green in our close are changing colour and losing leaves.

Mizuho rigs

These were Japanese rigs. I still have an MX-2 2m QRP SSB portable, but it has not been used in many years. I think the Mizoho rigs are no longer made.

One was the SB-2M, which was a 1W 2m SSB portable. I think these date from the 1980s?

Mizuho made some great transceivers.

Autumn late

This year, autumn has been late. Many of the summer plants are still doing well, although a frost will probably kill them. leaves are now falling and many more will fall if we have strong winds,

Latest Meidas video

The Meidas Network is definitely anti President Trump. My advise is to seek out a range of views and make up your own mind.

10m 1W FT8 (Thursday)

 My gear was turned on at about 0445z

UPDATE 0753z: Just 1 local station spotting me.e

UPDATE 1541z:  14 stations have spotted my 1W FT8 with the best TL8GD (5586km).  Conditions are poor today.

160m FT8 overnight

Last night I did not go on 160m FT8 overnight. The evening before lots of stations spotted on this side of the pond. 

The map shows the stations spotted the previous night.

Sunspots - Thursday October 22nd

 Solar flux is 115 and the SSN 66. A=19 and K=2.

Sunspots - Wednesday October 21st

 Solar flux is 121 and the SSN 66. A=8 and K=3.

160m FT8 RX (Tuesday)

 My gear (IC-705 and earth electrode "antenna" in the ground) was turned on at about 1655z.  As it is wet outside the effective loop will be slightly smaller so results may be down on yesterday.

UPDATE 1708z:   22 stations spotted.

The start?

There was an outage (allegedly) of some Google Cloud services according to the BBC.  This may be an innocent technical issue or it could be hacking by a foreign power out to do mischief.

See https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c58jd2kjp93xt

UPDATE 1227z:  They claim it was "a power event".  Hmmm.