EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

The World Radio TV Handbook (WRTH) has been a valuable source of information for short wave listeners and DX-ing enthusiasts for about 80 y...

Back on the 1st of December 2023, Ireland's first satellite called EIRSAT-1 was launched on a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket from Vandenberg Sp...

It was recently announced that Markus Baseler, DL6YYM has passed away. As well as being a very active QRP and CW operator, he also operated ...

About 20 years ago, RadioShack had over 8000 stores in the USA and sold a multitude of radio and electronic parts and computers.  In his mos...

For the last few weeks, I have been hearing nothing but European signals on the 28 MHz (10m) band. This is pretty normal as we're in th...

Since the start of 2024, I've been trying to see how many QRSS signals I could capture on the 28 MHz band. The QRSS signals are just b...

Oguz, TA2STO in Türkiye has developed a new mode called LongChat to allow radio amateurs to communicate with each other. It's describe...

Since the start of 2024, I've been trying to see how many QRSS signals I could capture on the 28 MHz band. The QRSS signals are just b...

High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is based in Alaska and it's a high-power, high frequency (HF) transmitter for stu...

At the start of 2024, I started a personal challenge to see how many QRSS signals I could see on the 28 MHz band during the year. By the e...

It was sad to hear the news that Dave Court, EI3IO has  passed away. Dave was very active on the VHF bands and was well known to those opera...

Dick, K1HC has been in touch to say that his new 144 MHz beacon in the state of Maine in the USA is now operational. It has been transmitti...

While it's not uncommon to read of reports of Sporadic-E openings on the 144 MHz (2m) amateur radio band, it's unusual to hear of re...

While we are all familiar with the 88 to 108 MHz FM broadcast band today, its origins can be traced back to 1936 with the very first experim...

In late May 2025, a new 40 MHz (8m) beacon in Croatia with the callsign 9A0BEZ was switched on. The location of the beacon is at Malo Slje...