Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Something just occurred to me. We assume time passes from the past to the future. and that we remember things in the past.  Altogether I can...

It is about 10.5 years since I had my stroke and these days I cannot tell what is as a result of this and what is just old age. One thing I...

There about 100 billion neurons in an adult human brain. This is quite staggering. By any analysis the brain is incredibly complex.

This term I am attending (via Zoom) a series of lectures on the formation of the brain. Once we thought of our eyes like cameras and the bra...

On the news yesterday was a piece about brain injury research at Addenbrookes hospital in Cambridge. Two things stuck out to me.  One was br...

Recently, I have had some thoughts about the brain.  In recent years, possibly as a result of my 2013 stroke , I have become very fearful of...

In 2011 I took part in some medical research that involved an MRI brain scan. The photo shows the view of my brain.  Perhaps the fact that p...

This photo dates from 2011 when I took part in some brain research at Cambridge University. 

In the last few years I have noticed some changes. I am unsure if this is just old age or an after-effect of my stroke some years ago. When ...

As reported earlier, I got my E-field probe working on LF.  In the past, this would have been totally trivial, but I am exhausted just putti...

It is nearly 7 years since I suffered a stroke, but a few things have happened recently that have puzzled me. These may be artifacts of my ...

This may just be old age or another effect of my 2013 stroke . Driving has become much harder in the last year. When going 45mph it feels l...

Every Christmas our village church holds a carol service by candlelight. It is magical and usually packed. Whether a Christian or not, thi...

For reasons I don't understand, my brain is unable (at present) to communicate properly to my (fully working) voice box. My voice box wa...

I am still puzzled by my brain functioning. Most mental functions seem fine, but when I do an email or blog post I seem slow to spot erro...

Please pardon my blogging errors. On most posts I make at least one spelling or grammar error, but I try to correct the mistakes as soon as ...

A week ago I had another MRI scan to see how my brain bleed is repairing.  Today I had to go back to get the results. I was extremely reli...

Sorry that my stroke is still making the hardest job near impossible. This has taken 10 minutes.

Yesterday I went to get my brain MRI scanned as part of a Cambridge University research project on speech and language. The result is attach...