Real-World Amateur Radio
Ham radio on the cheap, encouraging newcomers to the hobby, and a bit of science.
Thursday, 28 February 2019
30m: looking good!
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This is a plot (created around lunchtime) of FT8 stations hearing my ~25W CQs from a hald sloper this morning on 30m, where I was only activ...
Rough conditions return.
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The geomagnetic field was very disturbed overnight, with Kp = 7 for a time. Aurora was forecast to be visible as far south as central UK (n...
Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Simple pleasures.
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Not bad for a £80 SDR receiver (SDRPlay RSP1a) - the only WSPR station hearing the 5W from VE7PGB at 14MHz on the dark side this evening (on...
Monday, 25 February 2019
Strange spots from 2E0XLG
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Very unusual step changes in the 14MHZ WSPR signal (0.2W) from 2E0XLG, who is only 150km or so from me. The geomagnetic field was dead, wi...
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Saturday, 23 February 2019
Anomalous spots from the Canadian west.
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An interesting few DX spots came in from the far west of Canada around midnight on 14MHz WSPR receive here. The geomagnetic field was very...
Friday, 22 February 2019
Delta loop gives me early warning!
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The HF bands have been quite lively today, so I tried a couple of CQs at 28MHz using my 20m vertical delta loop on its first harmonic. This...
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Overnight WSPR Report, 2019 February 21-22
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Things hotted up a little bit overnight, with the geomagnetic field showing a significant, sudden southerly swing in the Z component, and th...
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