Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Looking through some old photos, I spotted this one from 2012 showing my beacon for 2200m (137kHz). As I recall it produced about 8W althoug...

Jason M0NYW has a personal 4m beacon. I predict he will see lots of spots this Es season. It is on 70.093 MHz (70.092 USB-D) sending FT8 +...

This beacon on 40.050 MHz began operation this weekend.  It is situated in mid-Cornwall near St Austell. It should be very useful to indicat...

  Amateur Radio Weekly reports that the Japanese hope to put a UHF beacon on the moon. See  https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/omotenashi/JHRCwe...

In PW today (May 2021) is report on the new St Helena 2m beacon ZD7GWM/B being copied in South Africa and Namibia. This is a sea path over ...

At some point we will be allocated some frequencies at 40MHz.  In the coming Es seasons I can see many more applying for limited access to t...

  One of my Facebook memories today was this photo of my 481THz optical beacon. This was made in 2012 I think.  I still have it and hope to ...

To say I am a WSPR fan is an understatement! Nothing compares with the ability to span the globe with QRP, perhaps excepting OPERA. I see th...

Southgate News mentions a new 6m beacon OX6M in Greenland on 50.047MHz. This is worth listening for, especially in the Es season. I have wo...

Last year, I could always hear the Leicester 70cm beacon GB3LEU on 432.490MHz when listening on my 2m big wheel antenna. I can no longer h...

I knew I had to offset my FT817 on 6m WSPR but it helps to be on the correct frequency! I realised I was set to 50.292700 whereas I should h...

This came in on an email from Steve G1KQH. I have not tried the link. Someone sent me this link stops them spying on you! Seems t...

I received this email from Jay W5OLF : "Hi Roger, I was catching up on your blog and saw the comment about how much you like the ...

Although I can copy beacons in Holland and Belgium on 2m and GB3LEU NW of Leicester (432.490MHz) on 70cms with my 2m big-wheel antenna, GB3...

A local, David G0LRD reported that my time sync was well adrift despite me doing a reset against internet time very recently. A hard reset ...

W5OLF - WSPR-AXE-CW beacon There are other solutions around for WSPR (like the Ultimate 3 kit from Hans Summers - excellent I am told) b...

Today I adjusted the turns ratio on my 8.976kHz VLF QRSS3 and 10wpm CW 5W beacon to better match my earth electrodes. At this QTH they look ...

 KB1YMI (5188km) was the first USA station to copy my 500mW 10m WSPR beacon today at 1212z. I went QRT on 10m at around 1920z. At 1916z N...

KE6BID (5295km) was the last USA station to spot my 500mW 10m beacon today at 1716z. It seems the band, which has been open every afternoon ...

W5OLF WSPR beacon - complete - no PC needed This WSPR-AXE really is a very impressive little rig, in my case for 10m WSPR.  Because of m...