Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

There is much excitement about the latest product from Elecraft, the KX3. This was announced at Dayton and it looks like a marvellous additi...

Some time back, the RSGB bought a huge Luso tower - list price £31k, although they got it for less - but are now selling it for £13.5k as t...

As an example of just how strong signals can be on 10m with strong Es conditions take the reports this afternoon from DJ0ABR . With 500mW to...

My colleagues at my old company, Sepura, have just released details of their new ATEX intrinsically safe TETRA portable . From my own experi...

Although I've listened/looked at received signals with this mode, this morning I had my first ever JT65 QSO (using QRP of course) with E...

Just got this very nice email about my 4m transverter : Hi Roger,                My name is Mark (mi0bdz) and I was browsing the net for 7...

Check out recent trends - it looks like the present cycle has already passed it's peak. Or is this just a blip?

Well, the 6m sporadic-E season is in full swing again: yesterday loads of Europeans worked with QRP and the vertical and this afternoon bein...

Clearing the loft today I came across several QSL cards from my first year in Cambridge back in 1971 including this one from Bob G3WKW for ...

Several stations on 137.5kHz WSPR tonight. G4WGT is testing a new rig, M0PPP is getting decent reports and me getting reports from just G3XI...