Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

The Pixie is available as a 40m transceiver extremely inexpensively from China. It is a low power transceiver, but the receiver is a real co...

 Solar flux is 159 and the SSN 91. A=10 and K=2.

At the moment I am being offered a year of Hamsphere at a special price of 9.99 Euros. I am not sure if this is being offered to all new mem...

 My gear was turned on at about 0700z. FT8 is a very impressive mode, although not for chatting. UPDATE 1001z:   84 stations have spotted me...

Overnight I left my IC705 on 474.2kHz WSPR RX again using just the outer of the coax to my 2m big-wheel antenna and mains earth. In all, 11 ...

In years past I was impressed with 10m AM just above 29.0 MHz. I have not listened for a while so must try again.

 At the moment I am inclined to try 10m FT8 at 1W after breakfast.

Autumn  seems to have suddenly arrived. It all seems to have happened in the last couple of weeks.

A few  days ago, I saw an old photo of my dad with his WW2 flying crew. It was black and white. I put it through AI and I was impressed.

 Solar flux is 133 and the SSN 87. A=20 and K=3.