Day: 26 May 2024

Recent weeks have seen the HF bands at times completely dead due to extreme solar storms. This has proved quite frustrating to say the least. This weekend however has been very different. I fired the radio up on Saturday morning and the CW portion of the band was completely alive with contacts. I’ve no idea…

A few days ago I fired up my FT8 client but instead of it filling with scrolling numbers of FT8 contacts all shouting out CQ, there was almost nothing in the lefthand decode window. Everything worked OK, everything sounded OK but nothing on any band worked. I looked at the waterfall and that was full…