10m 200mW WSPR (Sunday)

My beacon was turned on at about 0730z.

UPDATE 1351z:  31 stations have spotted me.

Søren Kierkegaard

 Kierkegaard was a famous Danish philosopher. One of his famous sayings (been on before) was:

"Life can only be understood backwards. But must be lived forwards".

Getting ready for the football last night

This was our local pub yesterday getting ready for the football. 

Despite England being out of the FIFA World Cup final they were clearly hoping plenty would turn out for the third place match which they won 6:4.

I hope that Spain win in the final and President Trump says nothing.

Windows 12?

The trouble with YouTube these days is that it is very hard to tell what is real and what is just AI clickbait. I am still on Windows 10! This appeared yesterday.

Sunspots - Sunday July 19th

 Solar flux is 110 and the SSN 24. A=4 and K=0.

The nature of time

This is a philosophical question.

We experience time as flowing from the past into the future obeying the laws of thermodynamics that things get more disordered following entropy.

All this could be an illusion in our finite brains.

At the quantum level current theories show some things independent of time and that time does not just flow forward.

I think we just have to admit we do not know.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time .

The Iran war

In my view, President Trump has made matters in the Middle East and the world far worse. 

With Israel, he started a war. I assume President Trump was expecting a more pro-Western government to emerge? This has not happened. Iran has emerged stronger.

Iran has long been known as having a nasty government, but the USA is, sadly, seen by many in the world as a bully. This is so sad as when I have been involved with people in the USA they have, without fail, been warm, kind and generous.

The world has been cushioned by the release of strategic reserves, but these cannot go on for ever.

The world is in great danger of a financial shock as a result of the war against Iran, that badly misfired.

6m 2W FT8 (Saturday)

 My gear was turned on at about 0620z.

UPDATE 1924z: Spotted by 241 stations today. Tomorrow I shall probably try 500mW FT8. QRT soon.

10m 200mW WSPR (Saturday)

My beacon was turned on at 0620z.

UPDATE 1923z: 49 stations have spotted my little beacon. QRT soon.

6m 3W FT8 yesterday

You can tell we’re in the Es season as I was widely spotted across Europe on 6m FT8 yesterday. 

In all, 237 stations spotted me. 

Outside the Es season mostly it’s white noise.