Good Evening,
It has been a sunny, mild week. Much less rain than normal; less
fog too. I have been able to see Jupiter rising in the east after
sunset. I took a walk today to explore the SE corner of my property.
Some storm damage along the property line where new growth meets my
older growth forest. Lots of spiders, but few webs; they are
'parachuting' around.
The sun was almost bare on Monday. Today the sunspot number is over
100 with a few threatening areas. Solar wind is coming in at around 700
km/s. There are aurora showing up at high latitudes. Spot number 4341
was flaring before it crossed the limb. Now it is simply threatening.
Tomorrow we can use my antennas to check the propagation.
Please join us on (or near):
14050 kHz at 2300z Sunday (3 PM PST Sunday)
7047 kHz at 0100z Monday (5 PM PST Sunday)
73,
Kevin. KD5ONS
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I woke up in the middle of the night and could not get back to sleep. I
grabbed my laptop and woke it up too. The sky was clear so my net
connection was good. I pulled up websdr.org to find an open band. I
logged onto a link to Half Moon Bay and switched to 40 meters. Once I
found an ongoing QSO I flipped back to watching hummingbirds in Panama.
The CW was coming in while blue and green birds were competing for spots
on their feeder.
Then I thought about describing what I was doing to my dad. He was a
radio amateur in the early 1930s so knew his code. He later used that
skill on B17s and B24s as the radio man. Here I was listening to CW
with a computer on my lap to stations from an antenna in another state.
As I was trying to frame a description for him I thought about the
connection.
My laptop is running a waterfall displaying the whole forty meter band
inside of a browser. I am picking one signal out of that. My laptop is
talking to my access point wirelessly. The AP connects to a switch and
then to my router which connects to the wireless dish on my roof. This
connects to the top of the mountain which relays my signal to Hillsboro
where the signal goes into the net. The signal flows from Hillsboro to
Half Moon Bay via the net. If that station is hooked directly to the
net the next connection is his antenna. That antenna is receiving the
two operators in QSO I mentioned earlier.
So, in order: laptop to AP - two antennas; WiFi dish to top of mountain
- two antennas; WiFi connection from mountain to Hillsboro - two more
antennas; then the Half Moon Bay station's antenna wirelessly connected
to two other antennas of those ops in QSO. If the Half Moon Bay station
is connected to the net directly the antenna total is = 9. How could I
have ever explained this to my dad before his eyes glazed over?
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