Armistice Day

During WW2 my dad was a Pathfinder flying night bombing raids over Germany in Lancasters. I am a great believer in talk rather than war, but I never got to tell him how brave he was. He died in 1987.  Every night he must have been terrified.

Guilty or not?

Some crimes are despicable. 

However I hate the "trial by media" in which people are named BEFORE they are found guilty. If they are innocent, it is already too late as their name/career is stained forever. In my view, names should only be revealed AFTER people have been found guilty by a court of law.

It seems the media goes into a "feeding frenzy" if a name is revealed, often months before guilt is proven.

Whilst I understand that power should never be used as a weapon against  lesser people, justice must be done.

POTA with the Pebble at 1W

 VK3YE takes the PebbleHF for a POTA activation powered by a mobile phone at 1W on 40m.

10m 1W FT8 (Wednesday)

 My gear was turned at about  0845z.

UPDATE 0857x: So far, 18 stations (mostly Europe at F2 single hop distance) have spotted me. I have spotted 35 with some Japanese stations.

UPDATE 1653z:  250 stations have spotted my 1W 10m FT8 and 745 stations spotted here. See map showing stations spotting me.

160m FT8 overnight

 Although plenty of European stations spotted, nothing from further afield.

Sunspots - Wednesday November 11th

 Solar flux is 132 and the SSN 91. A=11 and K=0.

160m FT8 RX overnight

At  about teatime I turned on my 160m FT8 RX.

UPDATE 2158z:  112 stations spotted.

6m 5W FT8 (Tuesday)

At about 1450z, I turned to 6m FT8  for a change.  

UPDATE 1454z:  Already 5 stations have spotted me. Is there some Es to Spain?

UPDATE 1654z: 16 stations have spotted me. See map.

Steve Rosenburg

 Steve is the BBC's Moscow correspondent.  He gives a YouTube commentary each day. This is very good.

10m 1W FT8 (Tuesday)

 My gear was turned on at about 0935z.

UPDATE  1406z: So far, 212 stations spotted here. 498 stations spotted here.