Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

As mentioned in an earlier post, we cleaned the car before lunch. We really ought to clean it a lot more often! My wife did the inside and I...

This morning we went for a walk. On the way we saw this car with metallic paint. It looked different colours from different angles. Very fla...

We are still awaiting a breakthrough in batteries for electric cars. Lithium, used in most (all?) electric vehicle batteries is a rare earth...

The Chinese have launched a very low cost electric car aimed at commuters. It is a joint venture with General Motors. It is outselling Tesl...

A few days ago we went to Norwich. This car was parked outside an hotel near the cathedral. I am not sure if this car dates from just befo...

A Member of Parliament in the UK has been found guilty of telling lies over who was driving her car when it was caught speeding and both her...

This car was probably stolen and the driver high on drugs? See  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-46851036 .

On our pre-Christmas lunch walk earlier, we saw this old Volkswagen. I think they enjoy restoring old Volkswagens at this place.

This toy car was seen a few days ago at a National Trust place near Wolverhampton.

A year ago I bought a low mileage diesel car which was about a year old. Fuel consumption is low and a year's road tax (just renewed) wa...

Cars do not excite me - they are pieces of metal to help you get around. We bought our last car, a Kia, in 2010, so we bought the same mak...

This photo was taken in spring 2013 ( before my stroke) and shows me working QRP SSB DX from the car on the edge of Dartmoor, Devon. I gu...

Electric cars have been on sale for years but today I saw my first electric car in use. This was a Nissan Leaf. To me the electric car is no...

For the last few days I have been allowed to drive the car again. It had been 13 months without driving because of my brain bleed. Several (...

For 13 months I have not been allowed to drive because of my brain bleed. I have had to rely on my wife totally . Today, I drove to and f...

Today we travelled back from our son's in Kent - and broke down TWICE. The car and battery were fine when we left but the car would not ...