Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

OFCOM has just put the latest amateur licence conditions on its website including an EMF calculator. Running 10W or less, I am not too conce...

 Despite a small slot being allocated to the amateur service at a WRC meeting many years ago, this slot is not universally available. As an ...

There is an interesting piece on Southgate News about transmitting out of band. This is particularly important on 60m where the allocation...

This may be worth listening for.    9A5ADI/B is a beacon on 5288.8MHz sending 100mW CW from Croatia (JN95).

Although many countries have allocated the full WRC band to amateurs, the UK has not. Instead, the UK has more allocations, some of which in...

As of now, Australia has not allocated the WRC 60m amateur band. The main concern is sharing the band with commercial users. At present ther...

I rarely use the 60m band. WRC15 (5 years ago!) allocated a 15kHz band at 60m to radio amateurs on a secondary basis. Some countries have ...

Southgate News reports that the 5MHz Westmorland beacon is to close, leaving just GB3RAL active in the UK on that band. I guess these days...

Southgate News reports that France has authorised the use of the WRC15 60m band. See  http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2020/february/wrc-...

Southgate News reports that the 5MHz newsletter is now available for free download. I have tried 5MHz WSPR in the past. See  http://south...

OK, I do not use 5MHz much presently. We have some quite generous 5MHz slots in the UK with power limits greater than in the 15kHz wide inte...

Southgate News has details on how to get the latest 5MHz Newsletter as a free PDF file. See  http://southgatearc.org/news/2018/august/the...

The 60m WRC 15kHz allocation is being widely allocated now, with Finland (OH) joining the growing list. Sadly, the Finns are losing some oth...

Southgate News reports that class A licencees will have access to the WRC band. When will the UK get this band? OK, it is only a secondary a...

According to Southgate News , Hungarian amateurs have been allocated the WRC 5MHz band. Previously (to late last year) they had a 100kHz wid...

Southgate News reports that South Africa has allocated 100kHz to amateurs at 5MHz. This is excellent and enlightened spectrum allocation.  ...

More and more countries are allowing their radio amateurs access to the 15kHz wide 60m WRC allocation. Apparently China is granting access f...

The new frequency allocation table for Canada has been published reports Southgate News . As yet, Canadian amateurs are not allowed to use t...

According to Southgate News , Germany now will get access to the WRC 5MHz allocation and an extension of their 50MHz band. I wonder when t...

According to Southgate News , Canada may end up with the 5MHz WRC15 allocation and the existing 5 domestic channels. At the moment they are...