EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

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...

On the 13th of May 2025, FM DXer Larry Horlick, VO1FOG in Newfoundland managed to log quite a number of FM radio stations from the Azore Isl...

It's always interesting to read about how the low VHF band above 30 MHz was used over the years for various applications. In the United ...

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

In a previous post from October of 2024 , I reported how ZD7GWM on St Helena Island in the South Atlantic had managed to make contact with ...

In a previous post, I had information about how radio amateurs in Italy had permission to use the 40 MHz (8m) band in 2025. See post HERE Wh...

The Italian regulator has just given permission for radio amateurs to use the 40 MHz band (8m) until the end of 2025. The approval is dated...

SG Laboratory (SG Lab) is a small company in Bulgaria which makes a number of microwave products including transverters for the 1.3 GHz (23...

Back in February of 2025, I had a post up about how the Irish VHF beacon cluster near Dublin was off air for the foreseeable future. In Mar...

The Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) is a private foundation which makes annual grants and scholarships to projects that promote...

On the 22nd of March 2025, a group of Dutch radio amateurs managed to successfully bounce a 23cms microwave signal off the planet Venus usin...