Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

I have no intention of getting involved in the debate, trusting my friends over there to vote wisely. Neither candidate is exactly a saint, ...

Later than usual, I turned on the rig and PC to 10m JT65 (2W QRP) including a manual reset to internet time "just in case". This ...

Both my father and my mother-in-law died in 1987. I often wonder what they would have made of the world now. They died before the end of c...

Solar flux is 75 today and sunspot number 23. K=1 .

This is a great resource and far far more than a PSK tool . It enables you to see where in the world you are getting on various bands and v...

This has been mentioned before: my wife and I do a photo a day as part of 365 Project. We use it as a kind of visual diary.  Don't co...

Solar flux is 75 today and the sunspot count zero. K=4. No 10m spots outside of Europe and with disturbed conditions and zero sunspots, th...

At 0634z I returned to 10m JT65. UPDATE 0934z: With spots already from Russia and Greece of my own signal and spots of others in France R...

Although, with some difficulty, I tried WSPR on 2m, I have never tried JT65 on 2m. As I recall, the main issue on 2m WSPR was drift and gett...

See http://earlyradiohistory.us/1902stu.htm Looking back on my very early blog entries from 2008 I noticed this entry for "Telephonin...