Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness

As John Keats (the famous poet) once said, this is the season of ripe fruits in the UK. 

Conkers are plentiful. See photo.

6m 1W FT8 (Tuesday)

My gear was turned on just before breakfast.

UPDATE 1501z:  6 English stations have spotted me.

10m 200mW WSPR (Tuesday)

 My beacon was turned on before breakfast.

UPDATE 1236z:  3 stations spotting me.

15 years ago

15 years ago yesterday G6ALB built a valve TX (400mW) with the same type of valves used in Sputnik in 1957. 

A solid QSO was had with a station in the USA was obtained within 10 minutes!

Sunspots - Tuesday September 29th

Solar flux is 95 and the SSN 46. A=4 and K=0.

mBridge

 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 .

10m 200mW WSPR TX

 My beacon was turned on at about 0830z.

UPDATE 1452z: Spotted by 3 stations with the best 4X1DA (3592km).

6m 1W FT8 (Monday)

 

My gear was turned on at about 0830z.

UPDATE 1739z:  8 UK stations spotting me. Are some aircraft scatter?

630m WSPR RX overnight

 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.

Monday plans

Later I intend to go on 10m 200mW WSPR and 6m 1W FT8.