Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

My loop antenna works better than I expected. I stayed off 10m last year mostly as I did not have a suitable external antenna.  At the momen...

 "What goes around comes around". This is a phrase I know well. When I was at work people were always finding newer, better, ways ...

Although not a great football fan, I watched the FA cup yesterday between Chelsea and Leicester.  Leicester won the game 1:0. It was good to...

Stations spotted with the loop on 10m FT8 yesterday Quite late yesterday, I went on 10m FT8 RX using the tiny indoor loop antenna.  Despite ...

 Solar flux is 73 and the SSN 24. A=8 and K=1.

This is a preview of my new webpages. I have not yet connected it to my main web address. I tried, but for some reason it did not work. Mus...

This antenna must be very old now. I have had it for a very long time and it would not surprise me if it was 20 years old.  Either it or the...

Although it was dull here yesterday, it was mostly dry. We used it as a chance to put some bedding plants in.  These are "Busy Lizzies...

Have you noticed this reply when people don't know how to answer? It is a favourite with politicians, although they rarely answer the qu...

All yesterday, when I was on TX, I was using 1W and sometimes 500mW to the tiny indoor loop antenna. 118 stations spotted me and I spotted 1...