Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Suddenly on 630m, the antenna current meter read 0uA. A check on 160m showed high SWR too.  It looks to me like there is damage to the earth...

As many know, this simple arrangement has given me great success on 1840kHz FT8 and 472kHz WSPR. I am sure a "proper" antenna and ...

As you may know, I have had great success on VLF to beyond 160m with this structure. DK7FC has used such antennas down to ELF! A copy of ...

Earth-electrode "antenna" system - click to enlarge As blog readers will know, over the years I have had great success on VLF ...

Although I have some urgent family matters to attend to first, it is my intention to do a new post about my earth-electrode antenna system f...

630m transverter Back in the spring, my brother managed to cut my 630m earth-electrode "antenna" whilst staking a tree for me...

Some 4 years ago I posted this based on my results at 472kHz: These were my conclusions in Jan 2013: The earth-electrode antenna at 472k...

Since about 1930z I have been using the (short) earth-electrode antenna on 472kHz.  Baseline is at most 15m, probably less and it runs rough...

As mentioned in an earlier post, for the last few days I have been using the 15m earth-electrode and not the same antenna with the far end a...

Well, because of my stroke and bad weather, a few days ago was the first chance I had to go into the garden to inspect the far grounded elec...

I have just started WSPR on 160m with the 15m baseline earth-electrode system, matching the "antenna"  with just the Z817 auto-ATU...

Up to now this winter I have confined my MF activity to receive only as I have had no suitable system of antennas for TX. Andrew G6ALB is o...