Quiet Band Radiohttps://quietbandradio.com/A station notebook from northern Lithuania: wire antennas in a small garden, HF band conditions through the seasons, and long winter listening nights.enA contest weekend spent listening more than callinghttps://quietbandradio.com/journal/a-contest-weekend-spent-listening/https://quietbandradio.com/journal/a-contest-weekend-spent-listening/Two days of a busy contest weekend used as an antenna test rather than a score: how it was planned, and what the notebook got out of it.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTReading the solar numbers without pretending to be a physicisthttps://quietbandradio.com/journal/reading-the-solar-numbers-plainly/https://quietbandradio.com/journal/reading-the-solar-numbers-plainly/Sunspot number, solar flux and the K index explained the way a newcomer needs them: what each one changes on the bands this evening.Mon, 24 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMTA tin box, a ferrite ring, and the noise that went awayhttps://quietbandradio.com/journal/a-tin-box-and-a-ferrite-ring/https://quietbandradio.com/journal/a-tin-box-and-a-ferrite-ring/Three winter evenings spent making a common-mode choke and a dummy load from scrap: what changed on the receiver, and what did not.Mon, 05 May 2025 12:00:00 GMTWinter nights on the low bands above the Šiauliai plainhttps://quietbandradio.com/journal/winter-nights-on-the-low-bands/https://quietbandradio.com/journal/winter-nights-on-the-low-bands/What eighty and one-sixty metres really do here between October and March, hour by hour, from four winters of notes kept beside the radio.Sun, 17 Nov 2024 12:00:00 GMTForty metres of wire in a garden thirty metres longhttps://quietbandradio.com/journal/forty-metres-of-wire-in-a-small-garden/https://quietbandradio.com/journal/forty-metres-of-wire-in-a-small-garden/How a full-size forty-metre wire goes up in a garden nine metres too short: where it bends, what the feed point does, and how it behaves.Sun, 21 Apr 2024 12:00:00 GMT