Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Solar flux is 69 and the sunspot number 0. A=9 and K=3.

Back in the 1800s, village miscreants were put in the village lock-up. I guess this was a follow-up to the stocks, when rotten eggs and to...

Several people have asked for more details of the "antenna" I use on 137kHz, 472kHz and 1.84MHz. The far end is a ground rod (co...

About 30 minutes ago, I QSYed to 472kHz (630m) WSPR using the earth-electrode "antenna" in the ground (10mW ERP). Even though the ...

Most of the day I was on 10m FT8. At first I went on TX, calling CQ (2.5W) and then on RX. Not a single spot all day! I have now QSYed to 63...

Southgate News reports that the Goonhilly based web SDR for Es'hail2 (Oscar 100) is now live, so you can see activity. Please note: u...

No less than 395 different stations spotted on 160m FT8 RX in the last day, including 23 North Americans and 1 Caribbean station on the eart...

Although I have only just QSYed to 160m FT8, there are already 18 stations logged with best DX UT1AN (2392km). On TX (2.5W to the earth-ele...

The video I made many years ago of my 472kHz transverter was not on my YouTube G3XBM channel, not sure why. It now is. It is also here.

Kings College Chapel (see photo in rare sunshine!) is known the world over for the Nine Lessons of Readings and Carols each Christmas. It ...