Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

We all take instant global communications for granted.  As an example yesterday we had a (free) video call from our son who is staying with ...

 We have come a very long way in 30 years. Back then few had heard of the internet. As far I can tell this is the very first webpage: See  h...

When I first had the internet and a website (mid 1990s) my download speed was 2.5 k  and I had to pay for a phone connection (long distance...

About an hour ago our internet came back after about 36 hours. There was a fault preventing our box in the road getting any signal. I hope i...

The Virgin Media man came earlier and thinks he has found a fault with the cabinet. At the moment, things seem to be working. We shall see. ...

Our broadband stopped working last night. I called the helpline and after an hour on the phone to India (where the call centre was located) ...

My apologies for the few postings this last day. My internet packed up Friday morning and I was only able to get on again late today. We als...

Yesterday, we had no internet, so no posts were possible. I am very sorry. It is back today, so I hope to post more later, if the internet c...

10m has not been bad today, but none of my spots are not appearing on WSPRnet as my shack PC refuses to connect to the internet. W1VR and ...

We get very spoilt here with internet speeds approaching 30MB per second commonplace with fibre-optic cable. In some rural areas such speeds...

For the 3rd (or 4th?) time this year we have had problems in our area (not the house) with our Virgin Media cable services. Normally it is f...

Yes, the internet was alive in the second half of the 1800s, albeit in a rather more limited form. It was possible to find out information f...