Sunspots - Thursday August 6th

 Solar flux is 108 and the SSN 86. A=3 and K=1.

Time and memory

As far as I am aware I am not senile, just getting old!

These are the things that affect me:

• Time seems to go faster.
• I forget names of people.
• I get more tired faster.  
• Physical things seem harder.

As my mother-in-law said "don't get old".

10m 200mW WSPR TX (Wednesday)

My beacon was turned on at about 0645z.

UPDATE 1353z: Spotted by 19 stations in Europe.

Trump and Iran

 Yet again, Iran and President Trump are centre stage.  To a casual observer, things are worse.

I seem to recall President Trump claiming he could stop the war in Ukraine in 24 hours? Hmm.

Xiegu G7250 - more photos

China is coming up fast in the amateur radio market. There is a lot of interest in the new Xiegu G7250 transceiver.

Sunspots - Wednesday August 5th

 Solar flux is 118 and the SSN 100. A=10 and K=0.

Blackberries from OUR garden

 

Last night I collected blackberries from OUR garden which we will have for breakfast.

Healthy breakfast

At this time of year, I like to pick the wild blackberries not far from our house up the lane. 

We usually have a cooked breakfast a couple of days a week.

PC issue?

My shack PC (an Asus) runs Windows 10 with updates turned off. My internet provider provides free security so I thought this would not matter. I also have Windows Defender and CCleaner. The PC is only really used for WSJT-X. I browse and email on a Chromebook in the lounge or on my iPhone SE.

Of late it seems to have developed memory faults and tries to reference memory locations it cannot find. It looks like my hard drive is failing.

Apart from moving to Linux, any suggestions please?

Pansies

 

My son is rightly proud of his pansies grown from seed. 

They look stunning.