30 Sept 2008

HF AM excursion - all 9 bands!

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M0BXT and I usually have a natter on 144.55MHz vertical AM on Mondays at 8pm. We were on last night but got distracted doing some tests on a...
19 Sept 2008

Decent DX around despite the sunspots

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This last week has seen some decent DX around despite the zero sunspot number. V51YJ is booming in on 20m CW this evening. VK3PA was audib...
14 Sept 2008

40m in good shape

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Listening on 40m tonight in the contest there was plenty of decent DX around on SSB including PJ4NX, ZW5B, K5ZD (who "QRZ? ed" me ...
5 Sept 2008

Icom IC7000S

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Anyone know if this version of the IC7000 series (10W low power I think) is available in the UK? This would make a nice QRP radio for many.

Interesting solar fact

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August 2008 was the first calendar month with no sunspots since 1913 according to the ARRL propagation report this evening. They also note t...
25 Aug 2008

Simple 432MHz operation webpage

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Just added a new 70cms web page to my site at http://www.g3xbm.co.uk .
19 Aug 2008

501kHz tonight

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Heard G3KEV calling CQ on 501kHz CW tonight and listening for crossband QSOs on 3533kHz. Although I called him a few times on 80m he did n...
17 Aug 2008

6m and 10m lively today

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Both 6m and 10m were lively in Europe today with quite a few QRP QSOs made on both bands via sporadic-E. Nothing heard much beyond Europe th...
16 Aug 2008

Home Base 10 - webpage link fixed

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The link to the Home Base 10 (10m halo antenna) on my webpage http://www.g3xbm.co.uk went AWOL last week. This has now been fixed. The anten...
6 Aug 2008

Good 6m opening tonight

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What an evening! Only worked one EA station on 6m QRP but heard some amazing DX. Firstly D4C Cape Verde Is (working piles of Europeans on C...