Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

These days I am very poor on ladders, so I was grateful that my son cut a few tall branches from the tree in our lawn earlier this afterno...

Times have changed. When I was younger, girls were wolf-whistled at often. Putting ones hand on a knee was commonplace. Now, I am not sayi...

OFCOM has given details of licences for 2GHz terrestrial base stations. See  http://ofcom.cmail19.com/t/ViewEmail/i/010D3C06D35A5A8B2540EF...

5 NOVEMBER 2017 : WEST LONDON RADIO & ELECTRONICS SHOW (Kempton Rally) Kempton Park Racecourse, Staines Road East, Sunbury on Thames, T...

Overnight 12 unique stations spotted my 10mW ERP. Best DX spot was by DF2JP (448km). In turn, I spotted 13 uniques.

The latest bulletin from Australia is "he's hanging on". Slowly dying, but clinging to life. At times our thoughts for his lov...

As usual, I am monitoring 10m FT8. So far a few Russians and a couple of Israelis, presumably via F2.  Best DX is currently 4Z5UY (3557km)....

Solar flux is 73 today and the sunspot number zero. A=9 and K=2.

Today has been a strange day: my son's brother-in-law is dying in Australia after a cruel accident and yet I seem calm now. Earlier both...

More in hope than expectation, I am on 630m FT8 transceive calling CQ. As yet, nobody has spotted me and no QSOs! Later, I shall try WSPR. ...