Wild blackberries - NOT amateur radio

We are lucky to have a wild blackberry bush within a few metres of our home. 

I usually pick a few to have with breakfast. 

They are nearly ready to pick.

UPDATE 1432z:  Picked first 6.

10m 500mW WSPR (Monday)

My W5OLF beacon was turned on just before breakfast.

UPDATE 1411z:  34 spots of me already, presumably by Es.

Fossil sponge - NOT amateur radio

About 12 years ago I found this fossilised sponge inside a piece of flint in Kent. 

Experts at Cambridge University confirmed it. 

It is many millions of years old. I had no idea you could get fossils inside flint.

6m 5W FT8 (Monday)

My 6m FT8 was turned on just before breakfast.

UPDATE 1707z:  233 stations have spotted me, most I think by Es. Furthest on RX is Kazakhstan.

Quantum theory and life - NOT amateur radio

One of the counter intuitive aspects of quantum mechanics is that things may be described as a wave function that exists in all space and all time. Things most probably exist in the here and now. Our usual interpretation is that we are here "now". 

Oddly tunnel diodes only work because of quantum mechanical tunnelling. There is a finite probability that some electrons exist where they would not with Newtonian mechanics.

It occurs to me that this also applies to life. We may exist in all space and all time. This is definitely counter-intuitive! We may be aware of us being here, now.   But perhaps we are everywhere, for ever.

Whatever, we really understand so very little.

Sunspots- Monday July 7th

 Solar flux is 118 and the SSN 81. A=26 and K=4..

10m QRP WSPR (Sunday)

My beacon was turned on at about 1635z.

UPDATE 1911z: 6 stations have spotted me.

6m QRP FT8 (Sunday)

As the storms seem far away I have turned on my IC-705 at 5W at about 1635z.

UPDATE 1910z:  178 spots of my QRP so far. 

Receiving SAQ CW on 17.2 kHz VLF

This is a video about receiving the 100th anniversary transmission message in eastern Europe from SAQ in Sweden.

I did this some years ago and have a QSL card from them (see photo).

See https://sites.google.com/view/g3xbm4/home/vlf/vlf-converter .

Blog views - NOT amateur radio

According to Google I have had huge numbers of visits to this blog. The trouble is I am sure this is total piffle! 

If I got a tenth of these I would be amazed.  

Perhaps they have a new way of calculating. Maybe it is just an error, again.