Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

When I was first licenced in the late 1960s, I wanted a Codar AT5 transmitter.  At the time it was the state of the art.  This was a valved ...

Since the 1960s we have come a very long way. Back then, I thought G4PJ 's AT5 from Codar  was amazing (see photo). This was a valve 16...

Way back in the late 1960s, I had a G8 call and used to operate the station of the late G4PJ under supervision.  Bill had a Codar AT5 1...

How times change! When I was first interested in the hobby we had horrendous noise at the top of 160m from Loran. In recent years we hav...

Image on G3XTZ's Radio Museum website Way back when I was first licenced for VHF/UHF only in early 1967 as G8AWG, I used to operate ...