Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

I thought HF marine stations had abandoned CW, yet I heard 3 sending CW IDs today: IAR on 8.418MHz , SVO on 8.424MHz and A9M on 8.428MHz.

Just worked CU5T on 18MHz CW in the Azores. He gave me 599 when I was running 5W. This was the S.Jorge DX'pediton 2009 station to Topo ...

Just completed a nice QSO with G3XIZ 45kms away when he was using the FETer 15mW 1 FET transceiver . I gave him RST529. After our contact f...

G3XIZ's beacon running 15mW on 3.555MHz to his FETer transceiver was excellent copy this morning. At peaks it was running RST569 at a di...

When using QRP there are times when all I want is a quick report in response to a CQ and not a long QSO with names. QTH, WX, power, antennas...

This is a picture of G4BYE's version of my own Fredbox 2m AM transceiver design - a neat unit his is complete with proper PCB. Many blog...

Today I hear that Bill Meara N2CQR and Chris Osborn G3XIZ have built FETer, 1 FET, transceivers . Chris was beaconing his 15mW version thi...

Walking home from the bus stop today I noticed a tiny piece of clunch on the ground, a local chalk stone from the Cretaceous age, the perio...

Attached is the 6V6 valve transceiver by Geoff, G3YVF , from SPRAT magazine number 137 (Winter 2008/9). It uses 19 parts in all. Join the ...

Contest operating was a little slower this morning as I had a "little helper" in the shack. This is my 14 month old grandson who i...