Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

500kHz WSPR has gone rather quiet of late with fewer stations on most evenings. So far only M0BMU has reported me tonight, despite my report...

Latest graphs (March 2 2010) from the NOAA space weather site suggest that the smoothed sunspot number predictions are on track with a maxi...

As I sat winding my ATU for 500kHz this evening my thoughts were again turning to 28MHz. Although I've plenty of ways of getting on the ...

This evening, as an experiment, I rewound the tapped coil on on ferrite rod based table-top ATU for 500kHz using 0.56mm enamelled wire rathe...

This evening I put the WSPR beacon first on 20m and then 30m running 1W into the 5m long vertical matched with the Elecraft T1 auto-ATU. Fir...

Jim M0BMU successfully copied signals from DK7FC on 8.97kHz VLF last weekend using a small loop antenna and preamp feeding into a Spectrum ...

Sharing the real fun of ham radio is important to me and so I enjoy giving the occasional talk to clubs on subjects such as QRP, simple radi...

Some parts of the UK appear to have a problem with litter on the roadside verges. In our area this is only collected once every 6 months, so...

Since I was last at home there have been further tests from DK7FC on 8.97kHz . His signal has been received in Germany, Netherlands, Italy a...

Got back from our week in Devon today. Although I packed my VX2 dual band mini portable it only got used to listen to BBC Radio 4 I'm af...