Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ is an online software defined radio which up to 50 people can use at the same time. It covers parts of 80...

UR5WD in KO20NC was the best QSO on 6m QRP (5w CW on the small vertical) yesterday. He was quite weak with me on CW and I was surprised to w...

WPX CW contest today and 10m in great shape allowing 4 QSOs just now with just 50mW into the recently built Homebase10 wire halo antenna. T...

Although not super DX, I worked 9H1 this evening with 5W CW on 6m. The band was in good shape with stations from all over Europe audible and...

10m was in good shape at 3-4pm today with plenty of EUs workable including a new country for me on the band in the form of LX1AX who gave me...

10m was open earlier this evening to ZD7X. I was unable to hear him when I got on but did work EA and EA6 on QRP SSB.

Some years ago the RSGB arranged some evening 10m activity periods during a quiet part of the sunspot cycle. It was fascinating to see how f...

Anyone experimented with "through the ground" (earthmode) communications using audio amplifiers and grounded electrodes? I have do...

Just announced this blog on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GQRP/ so it will be interesting to see if anyone now reads it.

What do you think is the simplest possible QRP transceiver? The Pixie or Micro80? Have you built a functional transceiver with even fewer pa...