Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Ignore what recently published 10m band plans may say - 10m AM is alive and well just above 29MHz with most 10m AM between 29 and 29.1MHz. ...

The RSGB is seeking views on band plans currently via their website forums (hard to navigate to in my opinion) and the outputs will go to th...

I am concentrating on WSPR currently as it does not require me to use my voice, something I find very tiring with my stroke. Just a few sent...

In the new February RadCom that just dropped on my mat at lunchtime there is a copy of the band plans for all bands from 136kHz to 134GHz.  ...

This evening, with little sign of F2 propagation, I ventured out to test the range of the 10m Tenbox TX as it is currently. For the TX anten...

The breadboarding of the Tenbox 10m AM transceiver for local cross-town night-time nattering is almost complete now, with just a receiver a...

Good progress today with the transmit side of my Tenbox 10m AM transceiver. The series  modulator was breadboarded a few days ago, so toda...

With the 10m AM Tenbox design coming along nicely I'm reminded of the fun we had in the early 1980s with 10m FM using converted CB rigs ...

Although I had little time today, I experimented with adding varicap tuning to the Tenbox AM transceiver's RX section. Only problem wa...

The excellent conditions on HF today Just worked K1IED in Connecticut when using 2W AM to my halo antenna. The 10m AM segment is busy w...

Today I had a nice solid AM QSO across the Atlantic to K2WF in Long Island on 29.010MHz when I was running just 4W to the halo antenna. My ...

For the first time in several years I am hearing 10m AM signals coming through from across the Atlantic between 29 - 29.1MHz. Good signals f...

At the moment we seem to be seeing quite impressive sunspot numbers, at last. See http://www.solen.info/solar/ . This bodes well for this c...