Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Solar flux is 96 today. Sunspot count is 63 today (K=2). The forecast for 10m F2 propagation remains "poor".

As an experiment, I have moved to JT65 on 10m today. I was getting JT65 spots on 6m until just before QSYing about 40 minutes ago including ...

Yesterday Southgate News reported that the WIA (Australia's national society) had expressed an interest in 4m. There is a possibility t...

Today's 6m JT65 results 6m JT65 (1W ERP vertical) continues to give me good results, mainly by Es. Later this week I may leave 6m JT...

Both 10m and 6m have already shown plenty of Es with spots from Hungary and Austria of my 500mW WSPR beacon on 10m and  several spots of my ...

Solar flux is 83 today and the sunspot number 33. K=2. The forecast for 10m F2 propagation remains "poor".

CN8YZ (2233km) in Morocco was just spotted on 6m JT65. Remarkably, this is the first station in Africa that I have copied all summer. In pa...

I am still seeing plenty of 6m Es but very little long distance Es. I am of the view that these (or some) long Es paths are some sort of cho...

Never, ever, in all my life had I seen this before: two bananas fused together. Seen plenty of double yolk eggs but never this, until thi...

As I mentioned yesterday, we had 4 nights with our old friend Pete on the Wirral near Liverpool. As always he was a great host and we visi...