Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Many years ago I had an Elecraft K1 4 band CW transceiver. This was about 5W output. It was sold some time ago.  In its day, it was quite a ...

Many years ago, I built this 4 band HF transceiver from a kit. A few years ago it was sold. In its day, it was very good. These days, ...

Years ago I built and used an Elecraft K1 CW transceiver . A few years ago it was sold. For its intended purpose, it worked well. These ...

The Elecraft K1 is on its way to its new owner, who I hope gets as much fun from it as I did in past years.  Over the time I had it, it work...

Elecraft K1 Today I will get my K1 off to its new owner in Holland. It worked well, but I have not used it since before my stroke. I pre...

Between tomorrow and Sunday I have 2 major aims. Firstly I need to test my 40,30,20 and 15m K1 rig as someone wants to buy it. It should b...

One of my least used rigs (it has still to be used at this QTH!) is my 4-band Elecraft K1 CW transceiver. This covers 40m, 30m, 20m and 1...

http://www.elecraft.com Since getting my Elecraft K1 out of "hibernation" a few days ago I've had some lovely contacts wi...

G3XBM QRP shack in a bedroom corner Thought readers might like to see what the G3XBM station consists of currently.  In the photo I have...

As I am considering selling my Elecraft K1 rig to fund some other purchases, I decided to fire it up this afternoon to see that all was wel...

For some years I've had the Elecraft K1 transceiver that I made. It covers 40, 30, 20 and 15m with a built-in auto ATU.  This is a ni...

Someone was asking about a stand to angle the Elecraft K1 transceiver at a suitable angle on the operating desk. A commercial version is av...

This evening, for a change, I fired up my little Elecraft K1 4 band QRP CW transceiver that I built a few years ago. Not much doing on 20m o...

After a slow start to the year because of family commitments, today saw some QRP CW contacts around the world. These included RV6HA, HB9ANJ,...

This morning I fired up my Elecraft K1 CW transceiver not having used it for some time. It is such a good little rig. Mine has the 4 band un...