Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Having owned my little Chromebook for about 5 months now, I am so pleased with it. It boots up almost instantly, the battery lasts at least...

Yet again, President Trump has shared his great wisdom. Aren't we lucky to have such a wise and intelligent man at the head of the free ...

As 10m Es was pretty good yesterday, I have decided to try 10m FT8 again today with my 2.5W and uessthe tiny indoor loop antenna. The rig wa...

Since the coronavirus hit the world, everything feels different. It almost feels surreal and that somehow life will never, ever, be quite ...

When I retired in 2008, I was given a 1920s crystal set as a leaving present. It was in good condition and was a total surprise. See  ...

Way back in the early 1960s, my very first communications receiver was a war surplus DST100 bought for £7 from a local garage. It was huge...

It is often thought that the earliest voice recording was by Thomas Edison, but there is evidence that the earliest recording was in fact ma...

Solar flux is 70 and the SSN 0.  A=5 and K=3.

Although I have yet to see this confirmed, it looks like the biggest oil exporters including Saudi Arabia and Russia have agreed a 10% cut i...

Way back in the late 1960s, I had a G8 call and used to operate the station of the late G4PJ under supervision.  Bill had a Codar AT5 1...