Springtime - NOT amateur radio

In my view this is the very best time of year. The green of new leaves look more intense. This is especially true of the horse chestnuts in our churchyard.

Our Close - NOT amateur radio

The photo shows our close earlier today. It shows the windmill next to our house which is just visible on the left. In the foreground are buttercups.

10m FT8 receive (Sunday)

This morning I turned on my 10FT8R 10m FT8 RX with the tiny indoor loop.

UPDATE 1258z:  So far just  G3YMW (19km) spotted. I can't wait to get my "proper" antenna up.

UPDATE 2007z:  Now 93 stations spotted with furthermost PU4JLV (9202km). If you saw this antenna you would laugh.

UPDATE 2122z: 105 stations spotted today on 10m FT8 with the 10FT8R 4 transistor RX. and the tiny indoor loop. Imagine what another 6dB could do!

Main website changing

As mentioned yesterday, my website has to move to the new Google sites by September. A simple migration did not work! It insisted on being 2018.

Instead, I have decided to create an all new site, hopefully with all the old stuff retained and possibly new stuff added too. I am sticking with Google sites. As soon as the new site is ready, I shall swap over.

As the date is some way off, this gives me time. It was time for a refresh anyway!  😁

10m FT8 RX yesterday

Yesterday I was again on 10m FT8 RX with the 10FT8R and the tiny indoor loop. Some Es evident to Italy and the Balearic Isles.

Someone in the USA has suggested a small improvement to the audio stages of the 10FT8R following CAD analysis. I shall try this later.

Sunspots - Sunday May 2nd 2021

 Solar flux is 72 and the SSN 11. A=5 and K=3.

External 10m dipole

A week early, the coax for the feed to my 10m dipole has arrived. 

Assuming my son can help next week, I have all I need to get this up externally. It should be several dBs better than the indoor loop I am using presently.

Converting my main G3XBM website

In September old classic Google Sites have to convert to the New Sites or they close. So, I attempted to convert my old site, but this attempt failed. This may be finger trouble and I shall try again.  Why is it that things get worse? When I tried to convert it insisted in showing me my website from 2018 - why?!!

"If it ain't broke don't fix it". 

Oh yes!! Like Picasa going and so much else. Why is it that so many things get worse over time and not better?

If all else fails I may revert to my Virgin Media webspace under www.g3xbm.co.uk .

Also, some time ago, Google tried to get all bloggers to use their new editing tool for blogs. This was fine on my PC, but it was sooooo SLOW on a phone it was unusable. They have since fixed it.

The "attempt" at site conversion was dreadful!!

UPDATE 1525z: It appears I am not alone having issues. I may just create a totally new site in New Google Sites as I have several months.

10m FT8 Grabber

 It looks like I can do this on Google New Sites with embedding. For now, I have a temporary page.

See https://sites.google.com/view/grab10a/home .

Sunspots - Saturday May 1st 2021

 Solar flux is 73 and the SSN 35. A=6 and K=1.