Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Just tried a PA0RDT designed active antenna (but just used an MPF102 and 2N3904 instead as these devices were to hand) with 1m of wire, la...

Just received my first WSPR signal on 500kHz - from SM6BHZ running 1W erp. Signal first appeared at 1916z and was decoded 6 minutes later....

Just heard quite a good signal (RST569) from G3XIZ on 136.5kHz CW . He had just worked G3KEV before 8am but I could not copy G3KEV (Mal). I ...

It goes on and on and on and on - still not a sunspot in sight and if anything the solar flux is dribbling downwards. See http://www.solen.i...

Just heard SM6BHZ beaconing with 1W erp on 505.5kHz both on CW and on SSB . On CW RST559 and on SSB RS53. This is the first time I have eve...

Having found 10m open tonight as a result of some WSPR reports from the Faroe Islands, Italy and Portugal, I went onto 10m PSK31 and had a c...

Has anyone had any experience of this very compact HF antenna? the designer makes claims of performance well beyond those obtainable with th...

Today, out of interest, I made a list of the countries and distances covered just on 10MHz (30m) WSPR in the last few weeks of intermitten...

The current antenna farm at the G3XBM QTH is shown in the picture. The 10m antenna is a wire halo. 6m, 2m and 70cms vertical is handled with...

T61AA has been a consistent, if weak, signal here all morning on 17m WSPR. His trace was last spotted at 1052z but too weak even for WSPR t...