EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

Thanks to short wave listener  Bill Smith, W1-7897  for sending on his reception report for April 2024. Bill who is located near Douglas in ...

As we move further into April, the F2 layer propagation in the northern hemisphere is getting worse on the higher HF bands but in contrast, ...

Thanks to short wave listener  Bill Smith, W1-7897  for sending on his reception report for March 2024. Bill who is located near Douglas in ...

On the 3rd of April 2024 , it was announced that radio amateurs in Spain would be allowed access to the 40 MHz (8m) band with some restrict...

Good news! The licencing authorities in Spain have decided to open up the 40 MHz (8m) amateur radio band with conditions. The national asso...

Chris, N3IZN near San Diego in California reports reception of the Irish EI1CAB beacon on 40.016 MHz on Friday 9th of February 2024. Chri...

Thanks to short wave listener Bill Smith, W1-7897 for sending on his reception report for January 2024. Bill who is located near Douglas in...

A lot of countries allow the use of low power transmitters at certain frequencies without the need of a licence. In this post, we'll loo...

Thanks to short wave listener Bill Smith, W1-7897 for sending on his reception report for December 2023. Bill who is located near Douglas i...

Peter, G8BCG reports that the GB3MCB beacons on 40.050MHz & 60.300MHz are off air due to recent storm damage. This beacon in Cornwall...

I noticed in the last few days that there has been a path open on the 40 MHz (8m) band from Europe to Western Australia in the morning hour...

It looks as if radio amateurs in Belgium are about to get a small allocation on the 40 MHz (8m) band. Update 21st May: This information wa...

Over the last few months, there have been plenty of long distance propagation paths reported on the 40 MHz band but nearly all involve at l...

Bill Smith, W1-7897 is a short wave listener in Douglas, Massachusetts in the USA. For listening on the 40 MHz band, he uses a Yaesu FT-847...

In the last few days, the 40 MHz page on the blog passed 30,000 pageviews!  The chart above shows the monthly pageviews that the page has g...

Monday 13th March 2023: Over the last few weeks, Paul G9PUV in the SE of England and Robbie, EI2IP in the SW of Ireland have been very ac...

Over the last few weeks and months, there have been a lot of excellent openings on the 40 MHz (8m) band ( reports HERE ). While the really l...

Gianfranco, IU1DZZ in the NW of Italy (JN45HK) sends on a short report about the FT8 signals that he heard on 40.680 MHz from the 10th to ...

Sunday 19th February 2023: Due to interference on 10m from the ARRL CW contest, I switched over to the 40 MHz from about noon onwards and h...

Saturday 18th February 2023: Due to some interference from a CW contest on the 10m band, I stopped monitoring WSPR signals there at 14:00 U...