6m 500mW FT8 (Sunday)

My gear was turned on at about 1415z.

UPDATE 1428z:  Spotted by F6BNX (1099km) and EA8JF (2831km).

Next door’s plums

We have just been around to our neighbour who is now 80. It seems many of my friends are now 80!! This was one of his plum trees.

At one time it was weddings, then Christenings. Soon it will be funerals! 

It seems many of my friends are now starting to show the signs of old age. 

6m 500mW FT8 (Sunday) - not yet!

My shack PC is playing up again. 

When I try to enter my PIN, it thinks I am offline. Apparently this is a common issue with Windows.  Last time it just fixed itself, so I shall try again later with fingers crossed.

My intention was to try 500mW FT8 today on 6m.

Darker evenings

In the Northern Hemisphere, after the summer solstice, evenings start to get darker earlier. At first, this is slow, but by September it becomes obvious. This year, rather than long for the return of brighter evenings, I intend to just accept them and enjoy them.

Every season has something good.

At present we have summer to be enjoyed.

10m 200mW WSPR (Sunday)

My beacon was turned on at about 0730z.

UPDATE 1351z:  31 stations have spotted me.

Søren Kierkegaard

 Kierkegaard was a famous Danish philosopher. One of his famous sayings (been on before) was:

"Life can only be understood backwards. But must be lived forwards".

Getting ready for the football last night

This was our local pub yesterday getting ready for the football. 

Despite England being out of the FIFA World Cup final they were clearly hoping plenty would turn out for the third place match which they won 6:4.

I hope that Spain win in the final and President Trump says nothing.

Windows 12?

The trouble with YouTube these days is that it is very hard to tell what is real and what is just AI clickbait. I am still on Windows 10! This appeared yesterday.

Sunspots - Sunday July 19th

 Solar flux is 110 and the SSN 24. A=4 and K=0.

The nature of time

This is a philosophical question.

We experience time as flowing from the past into the future obeying the laws of thermodynamics that things get more disordered following entropy.

All this could be an illusion in our finite brains.

At the quantum level current theories show some things independent of time and that time does not just flow forward.

I think we just have to admit we do not know.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time .