Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

The BBC reports that New Zealand is to reverse moves which (hopefully) would have phased out smoking. They have supposedly done this to fund...

New Zealand has led the way in fighting Covid-19. Essentially it has been largely free of the pandemic that has crippled much if the world. ...

My wife and I were lucky enough to go there in 2009, shortly after we retired. Without any doubt, it is the most beautiful place we have eve...

Next week, my wife and I are giving a talk at our local wine group on New Zealand wines. We are certainly no wine experts and, to be honest,...

In a report today on Southgate News I see that New Zealand is trying to put a stop to the illegal import of unlicenced radios that can go o...

My wife was cleaning a shelf and came across a photo album of our 2009 trip to New Zealand. In those days I was fit! Now, I seem to be tired...

It was interesting that the BBC News this lunchtime on Radio 4 did not even mention the latest earthquake in New Zealand. We are fed what t...

G3XBM in New Zealand (Abel Tasman National Park) Feb 2009 For the second month in a row I have an article in Practical Wireles...

There is to be a DXpedition to Campbell Island (OC-037) in November this year. See http://dx-world.net/2012/zl9hr-campbell-island-dxpediti...

From March, New Zealand amateurs will be allowed to use 505-515kHz. The number of administrations making temporary allocations is increasing...

This is a picture of ZL/G3XBM/P operating from the hotel balcony in Queenstown, South Island, NZ. Nothing heard or worked on this occasion...