Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Most of my 2m activity is FT8 for which I use my big-wheel horizontal antenna.  This works very well. It has a few dB of horizontal gain a...

This has been on before, but I am very pleased with my big-wheel 2m antenna. Some people call them "clover leaf" antennas as t...

As many know, I opted for a 2m big-wheel antenna rather than a beam and rotator. This seems to match my sort of operating well. My noise l...

For several years now I have been using a big-wheel horizontal omni-directional antenna. This has a few dB of gain and does not need a rot...

The first article that I have written since my stroke has been published. This was a 1 page article about my Big-Wheel 2m antenna in the Jan...

It must be my age!  My XYL said last Tuesday "have you got a contest tonight?" I said, "no" thinking it was the end of ...

As an experiment I loaded up my feeder and 2m big-wheel on HF tuned against a mains ground. It matched on 40m, 30m, 20m, 17m and 15m but it ...

Since its erection yesterday in its proper home by David G0LRD all seems to be working well. A quick check this morning and I am able to ...

Thanks to the kindness of G0LRD , David, who selflessly drove out to my home on a Sunday afternoon, I now have my 2m big-wheel installed in ...

Overnight, my temporary mast for the big-wheel collapsed: it was simply resting against the guttering and blew over crushing one of the c...

Stations worked on 70cm tonight with 5W and a 2m big-wheel omni This evening was the September 70cm leg of the RSGB's UKAC contest, ...

2m big-wheel on its temporary mast Overall, this antenna is giving me good service and "fits the bill" well for my kind of cas...

Although my voice was poor I managed about an hour of operating in the 2m RSGB Trophy contest at the tail end of the event today. With the b...

Steve G1KQH has requested that I blog this to say how it performs. As my health is still not good I bought mine from Wimo in Germany, but...

A near local has very kindly offered to erect my 2m big wheel.  I hate having to ask for help, as a few years ago this would have been tr...

After about a year of service, I have taken down my beam for 2m and 70cm which was not working as it did. In the near future I want to erect...

At the moment I am enjoying 2m and 70cm horizontal using a small yagi with 3 elements on 2m and 5 elements on 70cm. Both sets of elements a...