Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

 After being absent for a while, John's excellent blog is back. John has one of the best amateur radio blogs on the internet. See  https...

At the moment there are about 6 countries that have granted radio amateurs access to the 8m band. Others have granted access by means of som...

John's blog is always interesting. I note he has a fascinating report of a 23cm QSO in Australia by lightning scatter. The blog is alway...

This blog has not been updated since June 10th sadly.  I do not know why, but I for one miss it.

Details are still very sketchy, but I see John has put a bit about this on his excellent blog. We can only hope this allocation is the first...

First we had reports of a short path 6m opening for Europe to New Zealand. Now we have news of this DX via the long path (22100km). Totally ...

John's blog is back and I see he has already posted something today. His blog is always interesting. See  https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/ .

John posted on his blog after a break of 5 months. I can honestly say it is probably the very best blog I have ever seen. This is a reminder...

It would appear that EI7GL was spotting on 10m WSPR RX yesterday. Assuming this was indeed John and not a pirate, I am puzzled. I have no fu...

John has (had?) one of the best blogs, that I found really helpful, but it has not been updated since May. I wrote to John over the weekend,...

This blog was regularly updated and a useful source of information, but I cannot see any updates since May 22nd. I hope John is OK.

John's blog has not been updated since May 22nd. There is a link to it on this blog as it is interesting and useful. It is one of the re...

The EI7GL blog has quite a bit about this.  Sadly, I cannot see this ever coming to market. Surely the big manufacturers are only really i...

John's blog always seems to have interesting stuff on it. He has news of the 40 and 60 MHz bands as well as much more. On the web versio...

EI2DKH , the Irish transatlantic 2m beacon is off air according to the EI7GL blog . This is partly due to the site and cost of electricity a...

The EI7GL blog has details of a first 8m QSO between Croatia and South Africa. See  https://ei7gl.blogspot.com .

In the last few days the EI7GL blog has been reporting some extremely long distance QSOs on 6m.  These are eye watering distances and al...

John's blog is always a mine of useful data. This week he reports on an apparent pause in FCC approvals of USA 40MHz (8m) permits. It lo...

On EI7GL 's blog is a guest post which makes very interesting reading. This makes the point that newcomers are unlikely to be excited by...

 John's blog is regularly updated and always seems to have interesting stuff on it. Today I noticed he had been hearing the CW from the ...