Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Just got a screen grab from G3WCB 101km away showing my QRSS30 beacon signal being received at his QTH near Windsor. Mine is the lower trac...

My QRSS30 (slow CW) LF beacon has just been started up. I'm hoping that QRSS30 will get me reports from a bit further afield.  Any repor...

The Four State QRP Group is offering the new "HamCan" transceiver kit for sale at just $30.  It is a 2 transistor crystal-control...

Recent tests with earth electrodes at VLF have got me wondering about a simple QRSS HF/VHF beacon TX powered entirely from the rectified ma...

This morning I successfully decoded a VLF earth mode WSPR signal from G6ALB at a distance of 3km. Signal was quite strong, but for some rea...

NASA is collecting names to be put on a microchip that'll be on the Mars Science Laboratory rover heading to Mars in autumn 2011. The ...

David G4AKC has been on his bike and working some excellent DX (like VK/ZL) on SSB and CW on 20m from his bike parked up next to the seasid...

Just a couple of outings on 10m WSPR this week, but some excellent reports from 5 continents using 5W and the small halo antenna. Interestin...

For the first time in several weeks I put my WSPR beacon on 10m this morning. Without any effort, the 5W and the halo got reports from the M...

There is a nice article on the NASA site about the recent upsurge in activity in solar cycle 24. See http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/sc...