EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

The 2m NP2X beacon is now operational from St.Croix in the US Virgin Islands and its primary purpose is to investigate the TEP (Trans-Equa...

I'm always interested to hear about exceptional VHF contacts or reception reports and I like to keep a record of them here on the blog t...

Back in February of 2021, I had a post up about the new 144 MHz on St Helena Island in the South Atlantic. On the 3rd of March, I reported ...

How it all started... After listening for FT8 signals on 144 MHz for a few days, I was suprised to hear some signals that were well over ...

At the end of 2020, I had some posts up on the blog about some remarkable 144 MHz contacts between Argentina and the Caribbean via Trans-Equ...

Every year, the Geminid meteor shower peaks around the 14th of December and many VHF radio amateurs make contacts by bouncing signals off th...

  With Trans-Equatorial Propagation (TEP), zones of high ionization occur either side of the geomagnetic equator in the F layer of the iono...

In this post, we'll look at a recent Sporadic-E opening on 144 MHz in northern Europe and what it might mean for a trans-Atlantic conta...

On Thursday the 2nd of July 2020, there was another remarkable opening on 144 MHz between Cape Verde Islands off the west coast of Africa...

Back in early April of 2020, there was an amazing opening on the 144 MHz and 432 MHz bands across the Atlantic from Cape Verde Islands to th...

A historic contact was made on Sunday the 16th June 2019 when the Atlantic was spanned for the first time on 144 MHz. D41CV on Cape V...