Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

We have fought wars in Afghanistan of about 200 years. We left ignominiously recently having spent billions along with the USA. The latest c...

In the end, I hope the political situation there settles down and everyone is treated respectfully.  For almost 200 years external forces ha...

Apparently we retreated from Kabul in 1842 as the photo of the picture shows. We never learn from history. Note the date!!! See www.histori...

Why?  We have been fighting wars in Afghanistan since the first half of the 19th century when Victoria was queen. Countless people have been...

In the middle of the 1800s we were fighting in Afghanistan. Recently I read that the Taliban now controls the main city in Helmand province ...

In my early days as a shortwave listener, the various VOA transmitters around the world were popular station targets for reports. I even c...