Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

  Pretty sure these first became available in the 1970s. They were based on a 10m rig and they revolutionised 2m.  I got one second hand and...

If you were around in the 1970s, you probably remember the Liner-2. This was the 2m rig that brought 2m SSB to the masses. I had a second-...

When I first started in VHF amateur radio it was in the early 1970s, when most rigs were AM. Gradually people started using FM gear and th...

How many remember the Liner-2? For me, it transformed 2m operation. Back in the 1970s it was the ubiquitous rig for DXing on 2m in the U...

In the 1970s 2m operation was revolutionised. The 10W Liner-2 brought 2m SSB to the masses. Until then I had only used AM and FM and I was a...

A radio amateur in Nottingham,Vic G0RVA , recently bought one of these Belcom rigs. It appears to be an all-mode 70cm rig, although I am no...

Thumbing through some old family photos in a box tonight, I found this one of my shack as it was in 1977 when my son was about 1.5yrs old.  ...