Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Just 5 QSOs this evening on 2m SSB (5W pep) with best DX 204km to G7RAU on the Isle of Wight. As my antenna would still not rotate (bolts t...

After the CQWW DX contest this weekend I plan to take down my Homebase-10 halo and rebuild it. The birds have managed to tear away at  the n...

Homebase-10 antenna on the back of my house. 28MHz (10m) is excellent at the moment. If you are looking for a small, simple, horizontall...

This month I had two objectives:    (a) make my 10m halo into a dual band 10m/6m version.    (b) complete my 481THz optical speech transc...

10m and 6m nested wire halos on the mast The Homebase-10 halo is now a Homebase-10/6 with a second dipole within the first covering the...

All being well I have a window of a few weeks before visiting grandchildren and the like, so I have a couple of new aims: (1) Convert the ...

Homebase-6 50MHz halo prototype indoors ready for tests This afternoon I had a go at scaling my Homebase-10 (28MHz wire halo) down to wo...

After the winter using my pole for the 500kHz antenna, I've now replaced the 500kHz spiral topped wire with my Homebase-10 halo antenna ...

After calling for 15 mins I eventually worked LU1HF on 28.010MHz CW this evening by F2 or TEP. He had been calling CQ for over 15 minutes w...