Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

John EI7GL in southern Eire has a very interesting blog and he usually posts the DX he is copying there on 10m. This is lots of other stuff...

After yesterday's success, I am again on 6m FT8 RX. As someone said, some of the signals copied here may have been aircraft reflections....

Solar flux is 77 today and the sunspot number 14. A=8 and K=3. If we really are on the way down still, these are still pretty respectable ...

Paul Nicholson posted this on a Facebook group earlier: "After much computing effort by Jacek Lipkowski SQ5BPF , Stefan's 2970.1...

Today my wife took one of our our sons and one of our grandsons to the Zoology Museum in Cambridge. As you can see he was blown away! Th...

As you may recall, the Rev George Dobbs, one of the founders of the GQRP club died recently. To many of us he was an inspiration. Certainl...

Every few days I take a look at narrowband activity on the geostationary Oscar 100 satellite using the web SDR at Goonhilly in Cornwall. Alt...

So the experts disagree! This sounds like BREXIT. One prediction thinks the solar minimum could further deepen. Another thinks we are alread...

Today, I am on 6m FT8 RX on 50.313MHz. I was quite expecting to spot no-one at all. Instead, 6 Gs spotted so far. My antenna is the V200...

Our back garden is probably at its best in spring with blossom and fresh green leaves as the picture shows. Blossom is ephemeral: it lasts...