Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Today, my QRP 6m FT8 has been widely copied in SE and central Europe. At the last count, 89 stations had spotted me. Now Es can occur at any...

From Southgate News I see that back issues of Backscatter (the microwave newsletter) are available free online as pdfs. See  http://south...

GM4WJA (624km) has been spotting my 500mW a few times  on 10m WSPR of late.  This is too far for tropo and aircraft reflections, and far to...

Today, during the day, a couple of GDX stations have been copied around 170km range, but these are no longer being seen. To me, this suggest...

Looking at my 10m WSPR results, there seem to be as many Europeans spotting me and being spotted here as in the summer Es season. The traces...

In along side the "real" DX on 10m WSPR today I notice G3ZTY (232km) and I were exchanging WSPR spots (-22dB S/N for my 2W signal)...

Yet again 10m WSPR has "come up trumps" with several spots of PT2WWV (8873km) in Brasilia by F2 and recently WG2Z (5600km) spott...

Late this afternoon I was very surprised when my 5W to the halo was spotted on 10m WSPR by K9AN 6505km west of me. It is unusual, I think, ...