Useful video

I am unsure if this presenter has been on a presentation course. Perhaps he should go on one! Despite his style (or lack of it, HI) he presents some useful information.

Priorities wrong?

Quite often I go to BBC News to see what is happening around the world. It must be a very hard job deciding the priority of news. Whatever you choose somebody will object.

Personally, I found it odd that the Football World Cup seemed to be more important than the tragic earthquakes in Venezuela where so many people have died or are likely to die under tonnes of rubble.

I realise the Football World Cup is important to many, but is it really the most important thing in the world?

See https://www.bbc.co.uk/news .

10m 200mW WSPR (Sunday)

As we have company, I don't expect to go on the radio apart from my 10m WSPR beacon.  It is also still hot over here in East Anglia, UK.

UPDATE 1700z: 102 stations spotting me around Europe. More wind and less humidity.

Apt?

Maybe we can all think of a few people (mainly world leaders) to whom this applies? 

It appeared as a FB memory, but I have no idea where it originally came from.

Very apt in the modern world where many put personal greed and power ahead of the common good.

Sunspots - Sunday June 28th

 Solar flux is 188 and the SSN 119.  A=7 and K=1.

Ad(non)sense

Every day I see a report from Google Adsense that is supposed to be the number of visits to this blog daily. I am unsure how this calculated, but it seems to have no basis in reality.

Some days I am supposed to have huge numbers, whereas others I am supposed to have had very few. I am not sure why I look still.

Matching bad antennas

 With QRP a good antenna can often help.  At the same time many rigs lack tuners. 

Amateur Radio Weekly reminded me that a 6dB attenuator drops the power 4 times but always ensures that the load seen by any PA is always less than 1.67:1.  

If you can accept this loss and the attenuator is suitably rated, this may be an acceptable solution e.g. for WSPR beacons.

BBC Radio 4 long wave - gone!

 The BBC has turned off its 198 kHz transmitters.

Reflecting Pool - Washington DC, USA

 It is probably better to let the YouTube video do the explaining.

10m 200mW WSPR (Saturday)

My TX beacon was turned on at 0542z.

UPDATE 0550z:  Already spotted by 16 European stations. Amazing this early.

UPDATE 1934z:  Spotted by 79 stations today.   Now QRT.