Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Conditions on HF do not seen exceptional today. I am not expecting to get any spots on my 0.5mW 10m WSPR beacon, but you never know! See  ht...

In the last few days (until today) I had given up on 8m. Today, I am back on the band and have been spotted by 4 stations including 2 in the...

My main HF band is 10m. I mostly go on 10m WSPR TX with 500mW. At the moment conditions on 10m seem to be good. I suspect all the higher HF ...

We can all agree that HF conditions are good on the whole. The higher HF bands are suitable for worldwide contacts and conditions are likely...

It is rare for me to go lower than 28 MHz on HF. Certainly conditions on 10m seem good with loads of spots of my QRP 10m FT8 from the USA. I...

We know conditions can vary day-to-day (some days can be bad), but on the whole things are getting better. We are now well on the upslopes t...

We are now over a year since the end of solar cycle 24 and the start of cycle 25.  So far, we have got off to a slow start. HF conditions ar...

Steve G1KQH and I have been discussing lower cost HF rigs. At the moment it would seem this market is being left to the Chinese and kits li...

Although there is debate about exactly when solar minimum is, we can be sure of one thing: HF conditions on the higher bands are not great. ...

Some people ask what is the best HF band currently? I guess this depends on what you are after. In terms of the best daylight band I guess 2...

At the moment the higher HF bands are not in good shape. There is DX there sometimes, but it is not as easy to find as at the sunspot maximu...

For the next two years we can expect HF conditions to deteriorate still further. The most probable time for the next solar minimum is someti...

Southgate News reports on a website that gives near realtime HF predictions. See  http://www.bandconditions.com/

As mentioned yesterday, the next solar peak is likely to be similar to the last one, although these are just educated guesses at this stage....

A reminder that almost real time HF predictions are available at  http://www.convectiveweather.co.uk/ionosphere/graphs.php?type=live . Earl...

A reminder that almost realtime HF predictions are available at the convective weather website.

Somewhere, I have a Sandpiper vertical made some years ago. I think it is an X80. It is hardly used. It has been up briefly years ago. As I ...

Yesterday, I added a new page to my main website. This is about HF conditions. See https://sites.google.com/site/g3xbmqrp3/hf/hfcondx . ...

For about a day, I went on 20m JT65. It was too easy, with spots all across Europe and the USA even with 2W and a poor antenna on 20m. HF ...

Although we are now well in to autumn, apart from South Americans by what I assume is TEP, I have not (yet) seen a great improvement in HF c...