Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

 At the moment there are very few monitors on the CB FT8 frequency and nothing has been spotted, so I am about to stop monitoring.

Apparently there is a group of enthusiasts using FT8 on 27.265MHz CB. I have not monitored this but might well try soon. My endfed Par anten...

It is many years since I did any CB operation. I think the last time was testing a couple of single channel hand portables. I guess that was...

When CB was first legalised in the UK (1981?) I gave it a try and it was very busy. Since then, I have not really used it. Somewhere (j...

Again, I have returned to 10m JT65 hoping to catch some DX later. For several days the band has opened for real DX. Don't be fooled by...

Until I read this in the Southgate News today, I had no idea that there is a 69MHz CB band in Sweden. Being just below our 4m band, this is...

From Steve G7VFY: Good use for old CB's. There is a Yahoo group, CB to ham. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=oYoI2Q7O3zU St...

The excellent Southgate News page reports that SSB and AM is now legal on UK CB from June 27th 2014 . I have only briefly operated on CB ...

According to the Rocket Radio website , AM and SSB will be allowed for UK CB users (for the first time) from July 2014. There will no doubt ...

With the 10m AM Tenbox design coming along nicely I'm reminded of the fun we had in the early 1980s with 10m FM using converted CB rigs ...

I understand that a recent CEPT (ECC) decision means that 27MHz SSB CB will be permitted in the UK and Europe from October. See http://www.e...

Did YOU realise that we now have to share the 70cm band with LPD433/434 walkie talkies? I understand that Ofcom has recently changed the req...