Real-World Amateur Radio

After days of exciting build-up, HAARP powered up its Gigawatts of power from 23:40-00:10UT last night. The preceding excitment of the ion...

Here is a reference WSPR spots record for quiet (Kp 1-2) geomagnetic conditions of signals from MW1CFN, heard by TF4M, within the auroral ov...

This should be interesting - HAARP transmitting WSPR!  Power levels 'only' around  80kW of the potentially-available 1.2GW! Ru...

If you've been following this blog for a while, you may recall this post , all about an end-loaded vertical. More recently, I moved o...

Having a science background, I just love analysing WSPR data. But, up until this afternoon, I found it rather difficult to import data fro...

Very usefully, a number of WSPR stations have started operating permanently in Iceland over the past few weeks.  Iceland sits right under th...

6m was absolutely running like a river this evening.  Armed with 'just' a 2 element quad and 30W for this band, I'm not exactly ...