EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

In a previous post in August of 2021 , I outlined how some radio amateurs in Europe plan to experiment with digital ATV (Amateur TV) on the...

Sunday 7th November 2021: Over the last two weeks or so, I have 'heard' plenty of signals from Australia on the 28 MHz band... ...

  In the last few days, I noticed a noticeable drop in the level of activity on 28 MHz as the Solar Flux drops. There is still evidence of ...

  In this months RADCOM magazine from the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB), there was an interesting news article about a new propagat...

Nearly anyone in Europe transmitting on FT8 on 28 MHz in 2020 will have been spotted by DS3SHI who is supposed to be in South Korea. This...

Back in June of 2018, I had a post up about how I had noticed an illegal fishing buoy on the FT8 frequency of 28.074 MHz. Today, I noticed ...

Monday 25th May 2020. For a change, I left the radio on the WSPR frequency of  28.1246 MHz this morning to see what could I hear. At t...

During a Sporadic-E opening on the 20th of May 2020, I came across GW7HDS/B beacon in the south of Wales on 28.2215 MHz . This is a ve...

Friday 15th May 2020. As we reach the middle of May, the multi-hop Sporadic-E paths on 28 MHz are really starting to open up. Japan ... The...

Conditions on 28 MHz on Monday the 11th of May 2020 were very good with some very strong FT8 and SSB signals heard on the band. While the ...

Anyone that uses 28 MHz on a regular basis will have heard illegal driftnet fishing buoys which give out a short carrier followed by an i...

There were plenty of FT8 signals on the 10 metre band on Tuesday the 15th of May 2018 although noticeably fewer than previous days. This i...

Another day with loads of activity on FT8 on 28 MHz. The map below shows what was heard in the 24 hours of the 13th of May 2018... The ...

Another interesting day listening to FT8 digital signals on the 28 MHz band. This is what I heard during the 24 hour period... Signals ...

I left the radio on 28 MHz all day today listening on the FT8 frequency. From what I could hear, the band seemed to be open from early morni...

This morning, I noticed that the 28 MHz band was open but I couldn't hear one single CW beacon on the band. After hearing about the popu...

With the Solar Flux Index down around 75, the 10 metre band is more or less dead every day at the moment. It was a bit of a suprise on th...

Another one from an old magazine article. This design is for a basic folded half-wave vertical for the 11m CB band on 27MHz but it can also ...

Wednesday the 24th of December was another one of those days where the 28 MHz band seemed completely dead but early in the morning, I rec...

Over the years, I have collected many old magazine articles and it seems to be a waste to have them buried away in a folder. This one is for...