Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Until our son accidentally cut it, I used this antenna extensively from VLF to 60m. On 630m (472 kHz) it consistently got reports from Norwa...

As reported last evening, 31 stations across Europe spotted my 2.5W FT8 to the earth-electrode "antenna" in the ground on TX. Over...

At VLF, LF and MF I have used this at 2 QTHs with great success. My own theory is this acts as a loop in the ground which gets bigger with r...

Quite often I hear people tell me they have no space for LF or MF antennas. Rubbish!   For many years I have used my earth electrode "a...

Several people have asked for more details of the "antenna" I use on 137kHz, 472kHz and 1.84MHz. The far end is a ground rod (co...

Several people have asked me about my somewhat unconventional "antenna" at LF and MF. Let me say from the outset, if you can erect...

For some years, I have used earth-electrode antennas of the lower bands such as VLF/LF/MF. I have also tried these on 160m and 80m with less...

Last night and today, my 5mW ERP on 472kHz WSPR from the 12m baseline earth-electrode "antenna" was copied by 9 unique stations wi...

Today I have taken a day off from 10m, but I see the sunspot count is 202 and the transatlantic path is well open with lots of EU stations b...

The yellow line shows the approximate 15m baseline used currently on MF WSPR. The red line shows the proposed new earth-electrode base...