My gear was turned on at about 1008z.UPDATE 1139z: So far, spotted by 8 English stations.
UPDATE 1218z: Spotted by 16 stations including Eire and Germany.
UPDATE 1607z: 24 spots of my QRP today including some in mainland Europe. See map.
Simple QRP projects, 10m, 8m, 6m, 4m, FT8, 160m, WSPR, LF/MF, sub-9kHz, nanowaves and other random stuff, some not related to amateur radio.
UPDATE 1218z: Spotted by 16 stations including Eire and Germany.
UPDATE 1607z: 24 spots of my QRP today including some in mainland Europe. See map.
My beacon was turned on at about 1008z.
UPDATE 1612z: So far, spotted by 22 stations. Several from North America with one in Brazil.
The stand-alone beacon was turned on just before tea.
UPDATE 1914z: 7 stations have spotted me with several in North America.
As we were in Cambridge, my gear was not turned on until shortly before teatime.
UPDATE 1907z: 18 spots of me so far including 3 in Scandinavia. See map.
At one time I never missed this as a chance to work a few new countries and states. Since my voice has been poor I rarely go on this contest now. In fact I totally forgot it was on last weekend!
To me DX chasing is no longer important. I worked 10m QRP SSB DXCC back about 40 years ago, so I leave it to others these days.
It is good to see the updated solar data. We are now clearly on the downward slope of the solar cycle, although we can expect conditions on the higher HF bands to be good for quite a while yet.
Recently I have been watching several videos on YouTube supposed to be the sayings of Albert Einstein. The trouble is we can’t be sure he ever said these words!
It is now very easy to make videos, photos and texts with AI, The trouble is these AI generated images and words are often believed. So, disinformation is spread.
I am sure there are lots of good things that become possible with AI where lots of data has to be processed quickly, but there are also great dangers.
We now have to treat EVERYTHING we see with scepticism sadly.
Solar flux is 125 and the SSN just 34. A=25 and K=2.
My beacon has been on since about 1115z. UPDATE 1607z: 12 stations have spotted me. See table.