Judging by yesterday, we really are at the peak of the Es season in the northern hemisphere. Over 100 different stations spotted me when I was using 200mW 10m WSPR.
It usually lasts into September but with reducing intensity and frequency. Then we get F2.
I am unsure if this presenter has been on a presentation course. Perhaps he should go on one! Despite his style (or lack of it, HI) he presents some useful information.
Quite often I go to BBC News to see what is happening around the world. It must be a very hard job deciding the priority of news. Whatever you choose somebody will object.
Personally, I found it odd that the Football World Cup seemed to be more important than the tragic earthquakes in Venezuela where so many people have died or are likely to die under tonnes of rubble.
I realise the Football World Cup is important to many, but is it really the most important thing in the world?
As we have company, I don't expect to go on the radio apart from my 10m WSPR beacon. It is also still hot over here in East Anglia, UK.
UPDATE 1700z: 102 stations spotting me around Europe. More wind and less humidity.
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It appeared as a FB memory, but I have no idea where it originally came from.
Very apt in the modern world where many put personal greed and power ahead of the common good.
Every day I see a report from Google Adsense that is supposed to be the number of visits to this blog daily. I am unsure how this calculated, but it seems to have no basis in reality.
Some days I am supposed to have huge numbers, whereas others I am supposed to have had very few. I am not sure why I look still.
With QRP a good antenna can often help. At the same time many rigs lack tuners.
Amateur Radio Weekly reminded me that a 6dB attenuator drops the power 4 times but always ensures that the load seen by any PA is always less than 1.67:1.
If you can accept this loss and the attenuator is suitably rated, this may be an acceptable solution e.g. for WSPR beacons.
It is probably better to let the YouTube video do the explaining.
My TX beacon was turned on at 0542z.
UPDATE 0550z: Already spotted by 16 European stations. Amazing this early.
UPDATE 1934z: Spotted by 79 stations today. Now QRT.
From tomorrow, the evenings start earlier. It will be sometime before we really notice (about mid September) and I can’t tell you how quickly this has happened!! It seems no time since last Christmas 🥴.
AI is the "big thing" at the moment with promises of big profits.
Perhaps people are beginning to realise AI comes with costs like energy, hardware, data centres etc..
The danger is that people invest in big companies and then wake up to the huge risks, much like in the .com crash earlier this century. The danger signs are there that a correction is coming.
Caveat emptor.
We are right at the peak of the Es season in the Northern Hemisphere. Currently I am on 10m QRP WSPR, where it seems easy to get spots right across Europe.
I suspect the P29 is a pirate sadly.
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| Stations spotting my 200mW 10m WSPR this afternoon |
UPDATE 1844z: 99 stations have spotted me.
There are lots of AI generated videos on YouTube, some of which are just clickbait and absolutely rubbish.
As a way of countering this I try to only watch videos from trusted sources. Even then, be sure this is genuine! Sadly, in this time, it is getting increasingly hard to separate fact from AI generated rubbish.
I urge everyone to view everything with a degree of uncertainty. I always advise getting news from multiple sources. What one outlet says may often be biased.
