EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

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...

As we continue through the summer Sporadic-E season, the FT8 mode is continuing to show up more really long distance paths on the 144 MHz (...

On the 3rd of June 2025 , there was an extensive opening on the 50 MHz (6m) band between Europe and North America. While we can be almost c...

I came across this info from the DX World website today and I thought it was pretty amazing. Emil, DL8JJ is operating as EA5/DL8JJ on the P...

On the 28th of May 2025 , there was a Sporadic-E opening in Europe on the 144 MHz band. While single hop Sporadic-E openings are of interes...

The antenna company SteppIR has announced that as of the 31st of August 2025, it will no longer be selling antennas to the 'consumer mar...

On the 29th of May 2025, FM DXer Larry Horlick, VO1FOG in Newfoundland, Canada managed to hear FM radio stations 88 to 108 MHz band from t...