Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

In the next few days, I have to make a dipole for the 8m band on which I have special permission to TX for 12 months. At my QTH, the most su...

A week early, the coax for the feed to my 10m dipole has arrived.  Assuming my son can help next week, I have all I need to get this up exte...

Small steps.... The first stage was to drill a hole for the coax into the shack.  This needed a long masonry drill bit, which I had. It turn...

One of the simplest antennas is the dipole made of wire.  On 10m this is quite small being only about 5m long. Although I have been very im...

As you will have noticed by now, 10m is one of my favourite bands.  Although quiet at many times in the solar cycle it always comes to life ...