Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Just got a string of reports from Finbar EI0CF in Eire on 500kHz WSPR. He is in IO65ih some 602kms north west of me. This is my 9th country...

Just had a report from DK8ZJ on 500kHz WSPR from JO54ag at a distance of 685kms. This brings my total now to 51 unique reports on the band ...

All the family apart from my wife Lis and our grandson have gone home after Christmas now, so I've got my shack back again and can do so...

The 500kHz WSPR beacon is running today but is unlikely to be on this week very much as we have our grandchildren coming to stay, so there w...

Today we travelled back from our son's in Kent - and broke down TWICE. The car and battery were fine when we left but the car would not ...

OK1VEN has been building a version of my SAQ converter which up-converts the 17.2kHz signal to HF. He produced a time-lapse video showing h...

A very happy Christmas to everyone reading this blog. Whatever your circumstances, I hope the day is a peaceful and happy one. No ham operat...

This evening, after a brief foray on 40m QRP CW, I returned to 500kHz WSPR whilst getting on with other jobs in the shack. As an example of ...

This evening, for a change, I fired up my little Elecraft K1 4 band QRP CW transceiver that I built a few years ago. Not much doing on 20m o...

Has anyone here built and used a Gnat-1 single transistor transceiver ? This was in SPRAT earlier this year and it was designed by Chris Tr...