Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

After last night's thunder and lightning, I hope to resume "normal service" around lunchtime: we are otherwise busy until then...

As there is local thunder and lightning, I've had to abandon 472kHz operation. All antennas, rigs, PSU and the PC have been disconnected...

See http://hamspots.net/10-6/ . I see on Hamspots that 6m has been open to N.America and the Caribbean this evening but there are NO suit...

I have decided to continue using the same antenna for this evening so I build up more data before trying another antenna configuration over...

472kHz WSPR unique reports so far this summer (duplicates NOT shown) So far this summer, a reasonable number of WSPR spots, but an abse...

G8ALS (126km) is consistently receiving me on 472kHz WSPR in daylight . My QRPp signals seem to be a few dB over the noise threshold but h...

See http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en .   For now, the local thunder and lightning appears to be just avoiding us: it has tracke...

G3WCB (101km) and I are currently exchanging daytime spots on 472kHz WSPR. He is just copying me (on the noise floor) and he is generally ...

The current sunspot count is 158 (good) and 20-30MHz conditions are "normal",  so I'd expect some decent N-S F2 propagation on...

The Par antenna (strapped feeders) seems to be somewhat better than the 2m/70cm feeder as an antenna on 472kHz.  I have now received 472kHz ...