Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Since taking it down I have realised I can check if the coax was faulty by connecting a 10m dipole (endfed at the shack) and running the wir...

These flag iris were seen earlier in the week. 

 Solar flux is 79 and the SSN 27. A=4 and K=1. 

Last evening I had to use my homebrew 4el 70cm yagi in the activity contest. This was mounted on a PVC "mast" in the shack and tur...

This is a photo of our garden in early summer.  Sadly the frost has killed the pear blossom and I doubt we will see many this year. 

As usually happens early in the month, OFCOM has updated its Communications Monthly with the latest information it has. See the OFCOM websit...

Since mid morning I have been on 6m FT8 RX with the V2000 vertical with the poor SWR. At 1225z 35 stations spotted on RX so far.  UPDATE 155...

 Seen on our walk yesterday. 

Yesterday and this morning G3TFX tried to fix my very old V2000 triband vertical antenna. Sadly, we could not remove the bottom collar desp...

Yesterday, we did a nice walk through a nature reserve. We saw several orchids and heard 2 cuckoos. I am not sure why, but we have heard mor...