Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

My very best wishes for 2009. For a change, I'd like to quote an extract from the last of T.S.Eliot's Four Quartets poems which...

Just worked GW0LJW in Gwent and G3VEH/M via a 70cms repeater in Somerset tonight when running 5W (actually about 1.5W into the antenna after...

The on-line software defined radio (SDR) in Twente, Holland http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ (very useful when testing 80m QRP rigs) tem...

A slight aside from ham radio, I just want to give a plug for the most beautiful part of England where I lived until leaving for university ...

On behalf of his widow, the kit belonging to the late Len Winnert G4IRZ was sold today, as one lot, to a private buyer in East Anglia.

A very happy Christmas everyone. One of my presents was the book called " Radio Nature " by Renato Romero which is a very good i...

Way back in the 1960s I recall making a simple tunnel diode oscillator as part of a lab project and being excited to see such a circuit use...

Well, another milestone passed - I have reached the age of 60 and get a free bus pass for local English buses nationwide as well as a winter...

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...

Some weeks ago I mentioned that I had been asked by a niece of G4IRZ to help with disposal of his (silent key) radio gear which included a...