Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

John EI7GL 's blog gives us the news that Switzerland is to go QRT on Band II FM in 2024, so people will have to use DAB. As time progr...

Surprisingly, considering it was a Bank Holiday, there was a good turn-out this evening for the East Cambridgeshire FM net on 144.575MHz. Af...

Southgate News reports that Newfoundland Band II FM signals were copied in Northern Ireland. See  http://southgatearc.org/news/2018/july/...

Supposedly this guy worked 2m transatlantic in 1982 on FM. I find it hard to believe this was genuine. It seems amazing that this was not ...

Steve G1KQH sent me this link: http://ik1zyw.blogspot.co.uk/ 2017/04/hb100-10-ghz-module- frequency-agility.html You may recall that the...

This is on 144.575MHz FM (yes 144) at 2000z Mondays, vertical, and is open to anyone. Regulars are G4NUA (Cambridge) and G3KKD (Quy). The...

After listening a bit after 2000z on 10m JT65 and taking part in the East Cambs net on 144.575MHz FM, I decided to go QRT on all bands. I sh...

We normally hold an East Cambridgeshire net at 1900z Mondays on 144.575MHz FM. If the channel is busy we move down 25kHz or further.  This e...

Most Mondays, a group of us in Cambridge and East Cambridgeshire meet for a net on 144.575MHz FM. We started as an AM net on 144.55MHz but h...

This evening I listened for G6ALB on 70cm. Andrew is 3km from me. We both have V2000 vertical co-linear antennas. He was using a very low c...

On the internet you can buy a dual-band handheld with antenna, battery, chargers(2), earpiece and belt clip for just £25.29. At this price ...

Every Monday evening at 8pm UK time there is a net on 144.575MHz (note 144.575MHz , NOT 145.575MHz) FM in East Cambridgeshire. The net start...

See http://makezine.com/projects/super-simple-fm-transmitter/ . This is a super simple TX for Band II FM using readily available parts. ...

Every Monday evening a number of East Cambridgeshire locals get together on 14 4 .575MHz FM for an hour between 8-9pm clock time. The usual ...

Today I got back from a week in north Devon where my wife and I had a holiday cottage. The weather was pretty good for the time of the yea...

This afternoon I called CQ on 29.6MHz FM but no-one came back to my call. Going back 20 years or so there was a lot of activity on 10m FM wi...

Just worked GW0LJW in Gwent and G3VEH/M via a 70cms repeater in Somerset tonight when running 5W (actually about 1.5W into the antenna after...

Just after 7pm tonight (Friday) I hope to do some tests with G4NUA in Cambridge around 29.6MHz FM. We will both be HORIZONTALLY polarised (H...