Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Overnight, my temporary mast for the big-wheel collapsed: it was simply resting against the guttering and blew over crushing one of the c...

Stations worked on 70cm tonight with 5W and a 2m big-wheel omni This evening was the September 70cm leg of the RSGB's UKAC contest, ...

As I grow older, the seasons seem to come around much more quickly. The long, light evenings are no more as we start the autumn and the run...

I am no politician, but Syria is being torn apart by civil war. An end to the conflict has to be ironed out or the deaths and displacement...

Sunspot number today is 47 (K=6) and 10m propagation is expected to remain "poor" today.  It is very unlikely 10m will be any good...

Not surprisingly only spots by G4IKZ (18km) on 10m overnight and so far this morning. On 630m WSPR best DX was DK7FC (669km) who has an ex...

Today I got an email from Virgin Media saying that this autumn they will be doubling their broadband speed. It is already pretty good but tw...

I received this email today: "Hi Roger                    I just wanted to thank you for the Feter Regen on your QRP site.  I hav...

PA3ABK/2 (306km) and F1AFJ (607km) copied on 472kHz WSPR overnight and my 5mW ERP was copied by PA3ABK (306km) and local G4KPX (14km). I...

2m big-wheel on its temporary mast Overall, this antenna is giving me good service and "fits the bill" well for my kind of cas...