Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

 The second Tuesday in the month is usually the UKAC activity contest run by the RSGB starting at 1900z. Activity on SSB is good. 

 Solar flux is 146 and the SSN 157. A=17 and K=3.

 My gear was turned on late morning. UPDATE 1436z:  70 stations have spotted me.

 Last month alone I was supposed to have had about a third of my all time blog visits.  Also yesterday I was supposed to have had far more v...

Many of my best friends are Jewish and I hope I treat every human being the same whatever their faith or none.  What happened on October 7th...

  As part of my experiments with VLF earth-mode was a test in 2011 at just over 17kHz  using my 20m separated earth-electrode "antenna...

 Solar flux is 153 and the SSN 155. A=22 and K=4.

 This was me operating /P at 1W SSB on 10m in my mother’s garden in Devon. I recall hearing a 6m beacon in Northern Canada on a whip antenna...

There was a lot of panic when the Chinese launched their AI model DeepSeek earlier this year.  The West would like to eavesdrop on count...

This is a sleepy seaside village in South Devon , UK.   I can trace my family history continuously in this village back to the mid 1550s.  ...