The 70cm FT8 activity contest is tonight starting at 1900z. I can only run 2.5W (10W on SSB) maximum to my 2m big-wheel antenna, but probably will be on for a while.
UPDATE 1656z: Just QSYed to 70cm to check SWR etc. All seems fine. Spotted by M0IEP (155km) on TX. Nothing spotted on RX yet.
See https://www.rsgbcc.org/cgi-bin/contest_rules.pl?contest=70cmsgmac.
At the moment I am on 10m FT8 RX only with 16 stations spotted.
UPDATE 1345z: 257 stations spotted on RX today so far.
This was this evening, although I only stayed on for 28 minutes because of my poor voice. As usual, I was using 10W to the 2m big-wheel omni antenna. My biggest "get away" was a station on the south coast. In all, 4 QSOs were had although many more would have been possible had I stopped on longer.
Using 2.5W and the 10m end fed antenna, I was copied by 4 stations with the furthermost G4MSA (222km). On RX, 101 stations spotted at 2058z, with the furthermost 4X1UF (3513km).
UPDATE 2140z: 147 stations spotted on 160m FT8 RX this evening.
Still waiting any progress update from OFCOM. No email today, despite 2 emails from me in last 24 hours.
As far as I know, this is still on. It is in Orlando, Florida, USA this Thursday. As always, check with organisers first before travelling far. This may be of interest to people in the USA.
One advantage of being near Cambridge is we have a vast choice of courses for our University of the Third Age. Often we can tap into the knowledge of some very clever people.
I go into Cambridge to learn about Medieval History on Fridays and attend a course on Quantum Mechanics at home on Zoom on Tuesday mornings. The course on quantum mechanics is given by a Cambridge Ph.D man. He is a very good communicator, but it is hard.
The important things are the "take away" remarks. Repeated experiments seem to prove that quantum mechanics is right and our "conventional" view of reality is flawed. Indeed, our whole beliefs about space and time may be wrong.
This is as much about philosophy as physics.
