8 Mar 2016

Enormous Jordanian refugee camp - NOT amateur radio

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The size of this is truly staggering. See https://www.facebook.com/bbcshorts/videos/1140808579272340/ .

2m VHF beacons

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So far, I have not tried listening to the 2m Cornish, N.Ireland and Scottish beacons with the big-wheel horizontal omni antenna. I must giv...

FTSE 100 - NOT amateur radio

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At the moment the UK share index, the FTSE 100, is down 0.83%, although it is trying to come back. Further falls are likely as there is so ...

How did I miss this?

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This is a quote from Wikipedia : In March 2012 Hytera acquired the German company Rohde & Schwarz Professional Mobile Radio GmbH from...

Returned to 10m WSPR

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After being on 630m (472kHz) WSPR overnight with a few new people spotted and spotting me, I returned to 10m WSPR at breakfast time. So far,...

Sunspots and 10m - Tues March 8th 2016

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Solar flux is 92 and sunspot number 61 today. K=2, which is less disturbed than yesterday. The forecast for 10m propagation remains "po...
7 Mar 2016

QSYed from 10m to 630m WSPR

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About an hour ago I moved down to 630m (472kHz) WSPR as 10m seems to have closed for any DX now. Best DX on RX tonight on 630m (472kHz) is L...

K prefix

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Stations in Cornwall are being allowed to use K in their prefix this year only. K stands for Kernow, which the ancient name for Cornwall. ...

10m WSPR - still no spots

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It is now 1542z and I have given and received not a single spot on 10m WSPR all day. Conditions seem to be dire here today. Not even a G st...

Historic Amateur Video

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My thanks to Amateur Radio Weekly and Steve VE7SL for pointing me to this video made in the 1920s.  Although a lot of the video is of peop...