That's all there is to report. So technically an 'Inactivity Report' really. OK, I'll be fair, this doesn't reflect 6m conditions, it's a personal inactivity report. I can't explain how galling it is to see the DX-Sherlock 6m Europe map totally obscured by red lines at going-home time, only to be told that the band is closing by G0LGS as I call in to the local 2m net frequency on my way from the office to home. (A distance of some 6 miles!) Very disappointed, I am.

6 entries in the log book. 5 EA's and a ZB3. Good start, and some nice signals. Proves the beam is working fine. Didn't add to my total squares score though.

With the 6m 'E' season now upon us, it was long past the time that the 6m beam was back up in the air. Thankfully I found the right cross clamp. Very special thanks to Ken G0PDR, without whose help the antenna would still be in the garden. Now all I have to do is wait for an opening. A quick look at the map on DX-Sherlock shows a couple of spots down in EA<>EA8, so there is a little life. I just can't hear anything yet. No matter... there's plenty to come I'm sure.

The 6m beam is built and ready to go up, only one slight snag... I can't find the cross clamp to hold the boom to the stub mast :-( Its boom is a larger cross section than the other antennas here, so the spare clamps wouldn't fit, and the only other one I have is for a round boom. Either I find it or I'm in the workshop fabricating something. Anyway, it's a long weekend here this weekend, so I'll have the extra day to play with. There are some spots starting to appear on the cluster and appearing on the DXSherlock maps, so it looks like the Sporadic-E season is off at last.

OK, with the timestamps of last years entries missing their 'time' portion, I've suppressed printing of 00:00:00 Errant commas also suppressed.

Well, in the absence of activity on the radio, I decided to sort out the quicklinks bar. I think I've managed to get it to work, but just need to sort out the stray commas.

Well, I've managed to get it to look OK, and the quicklinks are back on the left nav-bar. I'm not sure it should really stay like that, so I'll make that my next job. I'd like to get it to look how it did, sorted by month with just the date number as the link to the html anchor. Easier said than done when the page is being created dynamically. :-) But that's all for tonight, it's getting late. I'll try to do more during the week.

The revision log is now incorporated in with the activity log. Much of the work done on the website is 'under the hood'. The 'Blog' is now database based, so it was convenient to put them together. It's not cosmetically appealing, but I've not had a chance to tidy it up yet. New style Blog here, the old one will remain in the left hand nav-bar until I've got it all working.

Time to bring things a little more up to date, and add back in what I can remember of how the old page looked.

Start to rebuild from the old page.
Of course there wasn't a backup, or else I would have restored it wouldn't I? Anyway, now have a taken a backup of the entire webserver so it'll never happen again. ;-)

Well, that would seem to be it for E's 2007 So I've dropped the beam down and packed it away for the winter. I'll be putting the 2m beam back up soon, so watch this space for 2m activity.

Easy like a Sunday morning :-) EA6SX (JM19) for #144 and then this afternoon EH4EED (IM68) for #145

A bit wild and wacky, it's getting late in the season, so E's are very unsettled. Still managed JO31, and 60, and IN93 for a total now of #143

Just seemed to be a bit localised, JN.
So I only got, JN35,52,61 and 83.

Managed to miss the best opening in the afternoon/evening. So the one contact on 6m this morning netted KN18 for a new one, and one contact on 10m for JO28. An unusually named LA1S/LH a lighthouse station on NOR-034. Total is now #139.

A bit of an opening, but did manage a couple of new squares, JO43, and 44. Additionally, JO70,92 and KO00. Bringing the total to 138.

Only mobile working today, had the rig in the car for a drive up north again. Very quiet on Moday on the way up, but a nice opening all round europe on the way home. Managed to catch S51 and S57, OZ0, and SP6.

A very pleasant Sunday morning, JN20, IM66, and 76 Lots of stations working J79PAK, right up until 21.30z but unfortunately it means beaming straight through my neighbours house. So I thought best not to try.

6m in some kind of flaky shape.. but an opening is an opening. The XYL went out, so I got a chance to work a few of new ones, KN07, JM49 and 68, and JN64. Total now 134.

IN69 on 6m enough said :-) Thanks to G0VJG/p

Wait....! I thought I heard something.

Only log entry for a week, 1A0KM during a brief opening, on SSB

At last! Some time to get on the 6m band, and it opens to Northern Europe. Did manage a few contacts into SP and DL; KO00, JO62,72,80, and 91.

No entries in the shack log since 30.6.07 It's still been a good week for radio though. Frustrated at the lack of real activity on 6m, and having to travel 'oop north' I put the FT847 in the car. It was nice to work some E's from mobile. Spent much of Friday PM, and this afternoon sat up on the hill. (Conveniently placed between my Home QTH and my QRL.) Quick run down of prefixes worked, all on 10m; HA,CT,OH,SA,EA,S52,YO,DL,OE,I,T77,F,SV,VO, and finally best catch of the day, N4. (Thanks Rit for your persistence) eQSLs on the way to all stations.

Hopeless! Nothing all day, bad start to July here.

(6m) Good northern European opening, so managed to work JO42, 62, 67, 71, 72, 73, 92 and 94. Most of those were in a pile-up!

(6m) Great opening on 6m to the NA. Got to work some new squares. FN24,33,34,43,53,74 and 85. Managed a couple of new TF squares thanks to TF/G4ODA, IP15 and 34.