China's car market falls

In China, the sale of cars, especially petrol cars, has fallen dramatically. Cars in China are far lower in price than in the West.

War comes to Russia

The war between Russia and Ukraine has been going since 2022. Recently Ukraine has been attacking targets deep in Russia, so ordinary Russians are beginning to feel the pain.

Italian obesity

After WW2 Italy was praised for its healthy diet and was the model of the world for its Mediterranean diet and very low rate of heart disease.

These days have gone and many Italian children are obese.

See https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33y3151vydo

10m 200mW WSPR TX (Sunday)

 My beacon was turned on at about 0902z.

UPDATE 1715z:   41 stations have spotted me, most by Es.  Best is EA8BFK (2880km). 

Limited activity

 As we have company until later today, I am not currently on the radio.

FT8 on CB

 Although I have not tried it apparently FT8 is becoming a popular mode for CB DX chasers. I have not tried CB for years, but might try monitoring for fun as I cannot TX on the CB frequencies.

Sunspots - Sunday July 26th

 Solar flux is 145 and the SSN 86. A=5 and K=1.

Sunspots- Saturday July 25th

 Solar flux is 150 and K=101. A=8 and K=1.

World crisis?

 It looks like the world is heading into a crisis.

Solid state batteries in EVs?

There has been an announcement made that Samsung is in pre-production with a solid state battery. 

At first these could be expensive. As production ramps up prices will drop dramatically. Range could be huge and charge times fast.