Especially with BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) members there has been a move to replace the US $ as the currency of international trades with a digital currency mBridge. There have been disagreements within BRICS members and Saudi Arabia has said it will not do trades in mBridge and stick with the $. Over time I can see this as real possibility.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBridge .
My beacon was turned on at about 0830z.
UPDATE 1452z: Spotted by 3 stations with the best 4X1DA (3592km).
UPDATE 1739z: 8 UK stations spotting me. Are some aircraft scatter?
Although most stations were spotted before midnight, I left my receiver on overnight. As with the evening before, best DX was LA3EQ (769km). 6 stations were spotted. With my loop in the ground I have no problems with local noise.
This is far from a scientifically significant observation.
For months I have been looking for videos in support of the US President Trump. Despite trying really hard almost all videos seem critical of him.
I know that YouTube uses algorithms to show you more videos of the type you enjoy . However, the vast majority seem to be critical.
In my view (only my view) President Xi of China is right that China is in the ascendancy and the USA appears to be a declining force on the world stage. I get the feeling that many in the world are treating the USA almost as a joke.
Personally I find this sad. All the people from the USA I have ever had to deal with have been kind and generous.
A very interesting metric of economic activity in Russia is to look at the nighttime lighting in Russia.
This is another video walk around of the National Hamfest 2026.
Especially with BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) members there has been a move to replace the US $ as the currency of ...
