Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

This field in Burwell is full of cow parsley at those time of year. 

From time to time these still appear on auction sits like eBay, commanding ridiculous prices. As a young person these were highly coveted. I...

Following Hugh's ( HC02 ) suggestion, I am now looking at this map of 8m Es in Europe. See  https://www.tvcomm.co.uk/g7izu/radio-propaga...

My beacon was turned on at about 0820z.  UPDATE 0924z:   So far just local spots. UPDATE 1326z:  3 unique spots so far with the furthermos...

Yesterday we went to the exhibition at Norwich Castle Museum of the Royal Gloucester ship. This is the ship's bell. 

As I was not on the air yesterday, I intend to go on 8m FT8 later. As the 10m antenna is available I will be on 10m WSPR TX with 500mW too. ...

Solar flux is 135 and the SSN 103. A=6 and K=1.  Numbers look back to normal.

Today we went on the train to Norwich where we met my wife's brother and his wife. We treated them to high tea as it was their 50th wedd...

The photo shows where I come from in South Devon. It was a Facebook memory from a few days ago. 

  This was my 50uW LF signal 12 years ago.