10m 3W FT8 (Thursday)

 Since returning from a few days in Winchester, I turned on my 10m FT8 gear.

UPDATE 1935z:   Spotted by 6 stations all in the UK. Now QRT.

Sunspots - Thursday April 23rd

 Solar flux is 116 and the SSN 78. A=5 and K=2.

Winchester, UK

 A few days earlier in Winchester. It is a really nice small place .

Lyrids meteor shower

 This meteor shower peaks tonight. Hopefully there will be some VHF propagation by MS saw a result.

Sunspots - Wednesday April 22nd

 Solar  flux is 112 and the SSN 68. A=19 and K=1.

zBitx - v2

 Steve G1KQH has told me about a new version of the zBitx.

See https://www.hfsignals.com/index.php/zbitx-v2/

Sunspots - Tuesday April 21st

 Solar  flux is 105 and the SSN 44. A=24 and K=4.

Copper beech tree

 

This fine tree is in Soham which is about 8km by road. I walk past it most weeks.

Big VHF/UHF signal

When I first came to Cambridge in the early 1970s G8BBB (later G4BEL) was a massive signal from about 10km away. 

He had an excellent takeoff to the south and was very well known. He was the first station I ever copied on 23cm using my tiny indoor 4el yagi smaller than my hand!!

We miss you Roger.

QRP? Life's too short?

This "tongue in cheek" video pokes fun at people who don't believe QRP really works! Certainly with POTA operations a few watts seem plenty. Another later video does it will SSB.