My 10mW ERP from the earth-electrode "antenna" in the ground was turned on about 1830z. So far, at 1848z, 6 stations have spotted me.
UPDATE 2212z: 11 stations have spotted me this evening.
Simple QRP projects, 10m, 8m, 6m, 4m, FT8, 160m, WSPR, LF/MF, sub-9kHz, nanowaves and other random stuff, some not related to amateur radio.
My 10mW ERP from the earth-electrode "antenna" in the ground was turned on about 1830z. So far, at 1848z, 6 stations have spotted me.
UPDATE 2212z: 11 stations have spotted me this evening.
My 2.5W 8m FT8 was turned on after lunch. So far (at 1442z) local spots by G4WSZ (12km), but no DX.
UPDATE 1500z: First transatlantic 8m spot today by WW1L (4976km).
For several days, my beacon, with the PA off, was operating without an antenna because of a coax fault. Today, I repeated the 500uW WSPR test (with the beacon PA off), but with the antenna! I was copied, quite well, in Italy. According to my TinySA spectrum analyser the power is 500uW. According to the report I could have been copied at 100uW or less with a low RX noise floor. My beacon is hard programmed to report 0.5W, even though it was producing 0.5mW for this test.
Even though the beacon is hard coded to report 0.5W, it was actually 0.5mW |
Solar flux is 171 and the SSN 164 . A=5 and K=1.
My 10mW ERP WSPR was turned on at about 1715z. So far, at 1746z, 4 stations have spotted me. On recent nights, I have not had spots from really distant Europeans. I wonder if this conditions?
Today, we had our first real frost. We had one the day before, but not as cold. We are more used to mild weather these days, but today is bitter for us. It is about +2 degrees Celsius maximum, which is cold for here in the daytime. I can hear readers in Canada and Scandinavia saying," you think that is cold?". It is sunny and bright, so I don't mind the cold.
For the first time in months I was not on 630m QRP WSPR, when I was at home, last night. Gradually, the number of spots I had received had b...