Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Simple QRP projects, 10m, 8m, 6m, 4m, FT8, 160m, WSPR, LF/MF, sub-9kHz, nanowaves and other random stuff, some not related to amateur radio.

29 Jun 2026

Train journey

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 This week I am visiting my brother in Devon, UK travelling by train. The run along the Devon coast is one of the best in England. See  http...

Es season

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 Judging by yesterday, we really are at the peak of the Es season in the northern hemisphere. Over 100 different stations spotted me when I ...

Sunspots - Monday June 29th

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 Solar flux is 188 and the SSN 131. A=5 and K=1.
28 Jun 2026

Useful video

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I am unsure if this presenter has been on a presentation course. Perhaps he should go on one! Despite his style (or lack of it, HI) he prese...

Priorities wrong?

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Quite often I go to BBC News to see what is happening around the world. It must be a very hard job deciding the priority of news. Whatever ...

10m 200mW WSPR (Sunday)

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As we have company, I don't expect to go on the radio apart from my 10m WSPR beacon.  It is also still hot over here in East Anglia, UK....

Apt?

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Maybe we can all think of a few people (mainly world leaders) to whom this applies?  It appeared as a FB memory, but I have no idea where it...

Sunspots - Sunday June 28th

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 Solar flux is 188 and the SSN 119.  A=7 and K=1.
27 Jun 2026

Ad(non)sense

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Every day I see a report from Google Adsense that is supposed to be the number of visits to this blog daily. I am unsure how this calculated...

Matching bad antennas

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 With QRP a good antenna can often help.  At the same time many rigs lack tuners.  Amateur Radio Weekly reminded me that a 6dB attenuator d...
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