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  • [G3XBM] Sunspots - Wednesday January 19th 2022

    From G3XBM via rec.radio.amateur.moderat@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 19 03:51:06 2022
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    Sunspots - Wednesday January 19th 2022

    Posted: 18 Jan 2022 11:11 PM PST http://g3xbm-qrp.blogspot.com/2022/01/sunspots-wednesday-january-19th-2022.html


    Solar flux is 115 and the SSN 59. A=18 and K=5.

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    G4PJ's QTH

    Posted: 18 Jan 2022 06:21 AM PST http://g3xbm-qrp.blogspot.com/2022/01/g4pjs-qth.html


    Back in the 1960s my mentor was Bill G4PJ. His shack was right on the
    water's edge in Salcombe, Devon, UK and his earth went straight into the water! The photo shows right outside his old shack.
    No wonder I could copy his 160m AM signals 4 miles away on a crystal set!

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    That 8m NoV application to OFCOM

    Posted: 18 Jan 2022 01:36 AM PST http://g3xbm-qrp.blogspot.com/2022/01/that-8m-nov-application-to-ofcom.html


    It is now over a week since I asked OFCOM for a progress update. What have
    I heard? Apart from those computer generated auto-responses saying my
    question has been received, absolutely nothing!! I get the distinct
    impression they are either (a) totally incompetent, or (b) they have lost
    it and are too embarrassed to say. Another week and then they get phone
    calls.
    I am puzzled why a totally genuine request for a time limited, low power
    NoV requiring 50Hz of spectrum is so hard. This at a time when they can
    doll out 2MHz of VHF spectrum for DATV research beggars belief! My original
    NoV went in in October.

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    10m QRP WSPR (Tuesday)

    Posted: 18 Jan 2022 09:05 AM PST http://g3xbm-qrp.blogspot.com/2022/01/10m-qrp-wspr-tuesday.html


    As the antenna is available, I am again on 10m WSPR TX with 500mW from the W5OLF beacon. So far (at 0923z) just spots from G4KPX (14km).
    UPDATE 1705z: 7 stations have spotted me today. QRT soon.

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    Best ever QSO?

    Posted: 18 Jan 2022 01:20 AM PST http://g3xbm-qrp.blogspot.com/2022/01/best-ever-qso.html



    Way back in 2007, I achieved what I had thought impossible - a real QRP 6m
    QSO across the Atlantic. The antenna at the far end must have helped, but
    Lofty must have had good ears! My antenna? Just the V2000 vertical omni
    fed with CB coax. My power? 1W ERP.


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    70cm QRP FT8 (Tuesday)

    Posted: 18 Jan 2022 11:17 AM PST http://g3xbm-qrp.blogspot.com/2022/01/70cm-ft8-tuesday_18.html


    After breakfast I hope to be on 70cm FT8 QRP with 2.5W and the V2000
    vertical omni antenna. Activity and conditions may not be good until this evening. Nonetheless it will be interesting to keep eyes and ears open. It
    may also indicate what I can expect all the time with scatter.
    UPDATE 0924z: No spots on RX so far. I have not tried TX. The gear was
    turned on at 0824z.
    UPDATE 1244z: Just a single 70cm FT8 spot so far today M7RSG (88km).
    UPDATE 1416z: A brief TX period just now resulted in nobody spotting me.
    No further spots on RX.
    UPDATE 1840z: At the moment, 70cm FT8 has been disappointing. 1 local
    G6KWA (22km) has been spotted and I have been spotted by G6OUA (63km). No
    DX, well yet anyway. According to the Hepburn Tropo Forecast, I was
    expecting better.

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    Sunspots - Tuesday January 18th 2022

    Posted: 17 Jan 2022 11:30 PM PST http://g3xbm-qrp.blogspot.com/2022/01/sunspots-tuesday-january-18th-2022.html


    Solar flux is 114 and the SSN 99. A=9 and K=3.

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