The Sun is now in the quietest phase of its 11-year activity cycle, the solar minimum – in fact, it has been unusually quiet this year – with over 200 days so far with no observed sunspots. The solar wind has also dropped to its lowest levels in 50 years. Scientists are unsure of the…
Logging
Earlier on I wrote about logging software. I still use MacLoggerDX from Dog Park software. It’s a fine program and all my logs up to now have been made with MacLoggerDX. However, I don’t like logging in a local application. For a couple of reasons: – local logging makes the logbook unavailable from another location;…
Antenna’s are up!
Last fridaynight after a good Italian meal and a few glasses of nice wine it happend: I’ve temporarely overwon my fear of heights and climbed on our roof to put up the antenna! First I’ve mounted my Diamond V2000A for 6m, 2m and 70 cm. After a few local QSO’s I heard there were extremely…