Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

My main aim today is to match my earth-electrode "antenna" on MF. I I can do this, I can try it on FT8 or WSPR TX on 160m or 80m. ...

DX means different things to different people.  To some, it is trying to work all countries available today on SSB, perhaps with the full le...

 I got mine second hand in 1979. It was a 10W SSB and CW rig covering all bands from 80-10m (no WARC bands then!), but with limited 10m cove...

Long ago, I stopped chasing DX. If I work some rare country or QTH square then great, but I do not chase it as if my life depended on it. Th...

Southgate News has a link to the DXCC entities currently available. Having got QRP DXCC on SSB a quarter of a century ago, I do not actively...

Many years ago I ceased chasing DX. If I work DX then great, but I am not prepared to invest in high power rigs, towers, linears and beams ...

DR4K was carrying out an experiment to see how long DXCC would take with modest power and a simple antenna using FT8. The answer is not lon...

According to Southgate News there are 213 active countries. I am not an active DXCC chaser, but I am probably at about 150 DXCC countries w...

Many years ago I stopped chasing DXCC countries. I will not shout and shout to be heard in a rare place, although I fully understand this is...

PA3FQA has posted his DXCC status on Twitter and very impressive it is too. Although my DXCC for 10m QRP SSB is well over 100, I have n...

I have never really been a DXCC chaser, or a serious contester, although I usually enter the low power section of the UKAC VHF/UHF contests ...

Whilst in the shack this morning I turned on the FT817 to hear an unidentified (for nearly 10 minutes) CW station working people and giving ...

There is no way I would call myself a DX chaser at all, preferring to build simple kit and use it to experiment rather than "countrie...

Just noticed that this blog has been visited by people from 102 different countries this year so far.

At the end of the year I've been through the logbook to see how many (few?) countries I worked in the sunspot minimum year with QRP.  Ov...

The following is an extract from a posting on the LF reflector and may suggest getting QRPp DXCC may have become a whole lot easier: "...