Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Just got back from a few days in Brittany and straight into DIY! The small bedroom used as the operating shack, and a bedroom for my little ...

Today I made the loop antenna for the front-end of my 8.97kHz receiver. This consists of 24 turns on an 80cms square frame (the most I could...

My grandson trying his hand at CW - despite being only 2yrs 5 months old!

All being well, I'll be carrying out some more earth-mode (through ground conduction current) WSPR and QRSS tests on around 1kHz and 8....

For the last 9 days my little grandson has been sleeping in the single bed in my shack, so amateur radio activity was on  hold, especially i...

A talk called "QRP Why and How" by G3RJV is available now on the BATC website. Go to http://www.batc.tv/ and click on the 'Fi...

As we approach the end of April, the first signs of the summer sporadic-E season will be appearing with decent, strong openings to Europe f...

My son, his wife and 1 year old son are currently stuck in Los Angeles: all came down with a virus and were unable to travel back to the UK ...

This morning I saw that the first swallows of the spring had arrived in our village. The swallows fly from Southern Africa all the way to ...

Dave Benson K1SWL has produced a QRP 80m AM rig with a crystal controlled TX and 50kHz tunable receiver. Full details at http://smallwonder...