Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

From my bank statement I see my 40m Pixie kit from China, that has shipped, cost a little over £7. This includes all parts including crystal...

Today we visited the next village, Swaffham Prior, 3km west of here, home to G6ALB where there are 2 churches and 2 windmills. Andrew G6ALB...

Again, from Steve G1KQH , a link that may well be of interest to UK readers: Did I send you this one Roger? http://www.gridwatch.t...

Lots of USA stations have spotted my 10m 500mW WSPR beacon today. The first USA station to spot me today was KC1AWS (5308km) at 1150z. The ...

Sunspot number today has fallen back to 86. 10m propagation is expected to be "fair". So far this morning VK6XT (14719km) is my...

From Steve G7VFY: Good use for old CB's. There is a Yahoo group, CB to ham. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=oYoI2Q7O3zU St...

The first USA station to spot my 10m 500mW WSPR beacon today was WG2Z (5600km) at 1246z. Although open yet again across the north Atlantic ...

See https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/radio-equipment-directive-proposal . Quite soon this new directive will apply in Europe i...

Sunspot number today is 85. 10m propagation is expected to be "fair".  So far today, just LZ1OI (2153km) and local G4IKZ (18km) ...

A search on eBay has thrown up lots of useful RF transceiver modules, not as low cost as the AM ones found by G6ALB , but nonetheless very l...