160m FT8 RX overnight

Using the tiny Wellgood active loop stuck to the shack window, 216 stations spotted on RX with the furthermost WA1NGH (5427km) in Connecticut, USA.

Sunspots - Monday November 29th 2021

 Solar flux is 92 and the SSN 53. A=9 and K=4.

160m FT8 RX (Sunday)

Since about 1840z, I QSYed from 15m to 160m FT8 using the Wellgood active loop on the shack window. It is now 1852z and so far 25 stations have been spotted with the furthermost ES5MG (1786km).

UPDATE 1915z:  So far this evening 46 stations spotted with the furthermost EA7HY (1829km).

UPDATE 2008z:  68 stations spotted so far with the best DX UT1FT (2204km).

UPDATE 2217z:  130 stations spotted.

Rowan berries - NOT amateur radio

We have several rowan trees in our garden. On some the berries get gobbled up by the birds. Others get left and are still on the trees. I guess different berries taste different and some are not liked and get left. Most leaves have gone, but many still have berries.

Optical communication webpage

In the past, I got lots of information from Clint KA7EOI's Optical Pages, that have many links.  One of the most sensitive receivers by K3KCP was linked to from Clint's optical pages.

See https://sites.google.com/view/g3xbm4/home/optical-nanowaves/over-the-horizon .

15m FT8 RX (Sunday)

My 15m FT8 RX with the active Wellgood RX loop on the window was turned on at 1006z. So far today (at 1217z) 248 stations spotted on RX with the furthermost YD1FRU (11796km). 

UPDATE 1749z:  So far today, 608 stations spotted on 15m FT8 RX. Certainly the Wellgood active loop is allowing me to copy all over the world on 15m FT8 RX.

Illuminated tree - NOT amateur radio

 

This is in our local churchyard.

30m FT8 in the last day

In the last day, 155 stations have been spotted on 30m FT8 RX with the Wellgood active loop on the shack window.

Sunspots - Sunday November 28th 2021

Solar flux is 92 and the SSN 53. A=5 and K=1.

The early medieval period - NOT amateur radio

One of the joys of retirement is learning for fun. One of my blanks is early medieval history, so I am doing a University of the Third Age course on Medieval History. 

We are now well through the autumn term, so I thought it would be a good thing to make a note of the main things that I have recently been made aware of. Not all relate to Medieval History.

• In the early Christian church there were lots of different beliefs
• What was actually included in what we now know as the bible was a distillation done many centuries later.
• In many ways early Islam was more tolerant than early Christianity.
• The modern state of Israel was not what the UK 1917 Balfour Declaration expected. Jewish homeland yes, Jewish state, no.
• Many of the Jews in modern Israel may not be descended from the Jews of old!
• Many Arabs hate the West as our track record is poor.
• Religions have a lot to answer for over the centuries.