Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

This Es season, I was hoping we would see several new countries appearing on 8m. It would have been good if a few stations had been able to ...

Last night I went beacon hunting on 23cm with my tiny indoor 2 element beam. I monitored GB3DUN on Dunstable Downs for several minutes. Thi...

These days, I prefer to look at FT8 and WSPR activity, but some still prefer to monitor beacons.  This link was on John EI7GL 's blog. I...

At the moment, I am not sure which 70cm UK beacons are operational.  Last night GB3LEU at Leicester (432.490MHz) popped up with the indoor ...

Thanks to the blog at EI7GL , this is a list of HF amateur beacons which is regularly updated.  See  http://dl8wx.de/BAKE_KW.HTM  .

It seems to me to be a "good idea" if all beacons had an FT8 transmission slot. A single FT8 TX slot is only 15 seconds, but this ...

With FT8 becoming so popular, I am surprised beacons on HF and VHF don't include this weak signal mode. Perhaps some already do and I ha...

You may not have seen this comment, so I have reproduced it here: Hi Roger, GB3VHF (2m), GB3UHF (70cm), GB3BAA (6m) & GB3SEE (10GHz) ...

From Oleg: Dear QRP Friends, keep in your diaries, please. Friend of mine Igor R2AJA ask me to help in  announce original game - Beacon ...

In the next few days I must continue my search to find out which beacons will be good propagation indicators. I am surprised how well some (...

Maybe tomorrow evening I need to do a good search for 70cm beacons in range under (near) flat conditions. There is a distinct lack of UK 70c...

With Andrew G6ALB 's superb and kind help, my manually turned, Moonraker supplied, dual band 2m/70cm antenna is up and working, no thank...

John F5VLF/G3PAI has brought a very useful website about induction mode communications below 9kHz to my attention. This site is mainly abo...

Looking around for a simple beacon keyer to use with a QRSS beacon, I discovered the ICs sold for $6 (available via Paypal) from K1EL. This ...

G3XIZ's beacon running 15mW on 3.555MHz to his FETer transceiver was excellent copy this morning. At peaks it was running RST569 at a di...

This is the Argo waterfall plot showing the Czech 505kHz beacon OK0EMW on QRSS3 (slow CW, 3 sec dots) coming in well tonight at 1700z. It wa...

There are now some stations appearing on the 500kHz band using WSPR mode which is a clever digital beaconing system allowing reception to b...