End of week round-up

Been a busy week with non-radio matters!  Even so, the Es season is getting going, with plenty of activity on 10m on many of the past days.  12m is also pretty active now.  Not so much on 6m yet, though.

With persistent northerly winds and cold air, we've seen very energetic convection recently, which always threatens to produce the unexpected bolt of lightning.  Luckily, none has yet occurred!  But it makes for exciting times when I go out flying!

Lots of energy!

A troubling development, down at 14MHz, has been the sudden appearance of very long periods of OHR intereference, which can be very severe.  It seems to be at considerable distance, and is probably Chinese or Russian.

So much for international laws!  OHR interference on 14MHz 07/05/2021.

 

As for the 12m activity, Es persisted beyond 22UT last evening, with good signals into most parts of Latin America, including fairly rare signals from Bolivia.

Not a bad end to the day on 12m!  Terminator correct for time of spots.

In between the radio came walks in our beautiful mountains, made even more spectacular by cold, clear weather:

Above Stwlan hydroelectric dam and upper lake.