Sunspots - Tuesday July 12th 2022

 Solar flux is 161 and the SSN 134. A=12 and K=3.

Fuel prices in the UK - NOT amateur radio

In the last few months wholesale UK fuel prices have dropped back quite a bit. OK, the US dollar exchange rate has got worse and oil is bought in dollars.

Now, I am no expert, but it seems when prices rise that oil companies are keen to put up prices, but are less keen to put prices down when they pay less wholesale. 

It is interesting that they are very keen to avoid that £2 a litre figure with the diesel price widely at £199.9 a litre.

It would be rather nice if garages dropped their prices/profits when they can.

Burwell Museum - NOT amateur radio

Our local museum next door is vast with many things besides the windmill. It goes on and on!

One of the exhibits is a Nissan hut with things from WW2. I cannot rave it more highly as it is probably one of the best local museums in the UK. Really well worth visiting. 

8m experiment (Monday)

 As I am unlikely to fix things today, I suspect there will be no action on 8m FT8 TX here today.

UPDATE 1927z: reset router and flushed DNS cache, but still no success....yet.

Fixing that FT8 PC

It looks my issue with time sync is more general with DNS addresses. All websites fail to connect with this PC although other PCs work fine. I have found a very good site to systematically work out what's wrong. After lunch, I intend to work through these and fix the problem.

UPDATE 1930z : Flushed DNS cache and reset router, but no success.... yet. 

Sunspots - Monday July 11th 2022

 Solar flux is 153 and the SSN 113. A=7 and K=1.

Coffee - NOT amateur radio

This was on Facebook earlier. I like it!! 

10m FT8 RX

For a change, I am on 10m FT8 RX. Plenty spotted. 

8m experiment (Sunday)

Well, FT8 is working on 8m FT8 RX on a different PC, but not yet on TX. The audio shows TX on the SignaLink USB, but no power on TX.All sliders are at maximum. It must be something stupid I am doing. This PC must be about x20 slower than the machine usually used! 

UPDATE 1236z: No spots on 8m FT8 RX today.

10m QRP WSPR TX

 As I can sync my 10m WSPR TX beacon without the PC, I am able to TX WSPR at 500mW. It is now 1000z and so far today 6 stations have spotted me.

I need to fix the PC as this is needed for FT8.

UPDATE 1225z:  10 unique stations spotting me today on 10m WSPR TX.