Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

My occasional listens on Oscar 100 (geosynchronous) suggest slightly higher usage in the narrow-band section. I listened in the early evenin...

Although the recent days have been spotless yet again, the solar flux seems to be above 70 pretty consistently. Are we now on the start of t...

Solar flux is 72 and the sunspot number 0 again. A=5 and K=1.

A few minutes ago I returned to 472kHz WSPR TX using 10mW ERP from the earth-electrode "antenna" in the ground. So far, 4 stations...

Since 2012, my wife has done a poster for the kitchen summarising our year. This is the one for this year.

This photo was on Facebook. The husband is at the bottom of the cake.

Just now I went to the local co-op shopping. The man in front of me at the check-out bought and just gave a scratch-card to the lady behind ...

At about 1025z I switched to 2m FT8 calling CQ initially (10W to the big-wheel). No QSOs, but 4 spots including by  DL6YBF (471km). On 2m FT...

These days there is very little AM on 2m whereas at one time it was the only mode! The RSGB seems to have an aversion to AM and the 2m AM c...

We were treated to a dramatic sunrise earlier over our close as the photo shows.