Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

About 6 years ago, I managed to construct a 40m Pixie kit. Doubt if I could do it now, although perhaps I could with care.  It must have bee...

A local amateur has set up a personal beacon on 4m. He is about 3km away. I have no 4m antenna, so I tried reception with the V2000 vertical...

Confession time....    In all my time I have never ever built a valve circuit!   Maybe low voltage HTs might have persuaded me, but all my c...

G8ALB has a site that is mostly about valves. I arrived on the scene just after transistors came in and I never got to build anything with v...

For years I had regular QSOs each week with G6ALB in the next village. It looks like his website has not been updated since 2009! If you ar...

Today we visited the next village, Swaffham Prior, 3km west of here, home to G6ALB where there are 2 churches and 2 windmills. Andrew G6ALB...

Andrew G6ALB is erecting my new VHF/UHF yagi for me as my health is still too poor. He hopes to return later today. Andrew is hoping to fi...

On Tuesday I completed the erection of my tri-band colinear at the new QTH and carried out some tests over a 3km path to G6ALB to see how re...

This evening I came on 80m to listen for G6ALB who was taking part in the valve QRP day. Using my  18mW output FETer transceiver (18 par...

Last week G6ALB made a copy of my Chirpy 14 component transceiver for 28MHz CW . Andrew had access to some better calibrated test equipmen...

This afternoon G6ALB and I got together to build a 2 valve 21MHz transmitter using a couple of Russian valves of the same types used in the...

Well, it is no great DX at 3km away in the next village, but I've now received my first WSPR report on 136kHz from G6ALB . He gave me -2...

A solid QSO this evening with G6ALB (2 miles away) on 6m AM using the 50mW SixBox rig with vertical antennas at each end. In the other dire...