EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

  Thanks to Robbie, EI2IP putting a post up on Facebook, I noticed that a high altitude balloon was crossing over Ireland due to the easterl...

Brett, PJ2BR in Curacao in the Caribbean reports that on the 5th of February 2023 (01:18 UTC), his 432 MHz signal were heard by Javi, LU5F...

While openings via TEP (Trans-Equatorial Propagation) on the 144 MHz band seem to be relatively common in South America, it's a differ...

The GB3NGI beacon transmits on 432.482 MHz on the 70cms band and it is located on the summit of Slieve Annora in County Antrim in the nort...

I came across details of this QSO recently which I thought was interesting. While long distance contacts in the region of 700kms on the 70cm...

On the 16th of October 2020 , there was a remarkable 3000+ km contact made on the 70cms band between South Africa and St.Helena in the So...

The Southern Ireland Repeater Network is made of seven interlinked repeaters on 2-metres and 70-cms and covers the southern half of Ireland...

One of the niche areas of amateur radio and perhaps one of the most difficult is trying to make contacts by bouncing radio signals off th...

On Tuesday the 7th of April 2020 , a remarkable contact was made with the FT8 digital mode on 432 MHz between D4VHF on the Cape Verde Is...

On Saturday the 28th of December 2019 , Ian GM3SEK in the south-west of Scotland managed to work D41CV on 432 MHz to set a new world recor...

Early on the morning of the 5th of December 2019, there was a remarkable tropo contact between Leigh, VK2KRR and Peter, VK6KXW on 70cms ...

144 & 432 MHz Yagi antennas on Cape Verde So far in 2019, the D4C contest team on Cape Verde Islands off the west coast of Africa ha...

This video from the 2018 RSGB Convention shows Sam Jewell G4DDK describing his high performance 432 MHz transverter. Description :   G4...

Working Japan on any band from Ireland is pretty good but what about doing it on 432 MHz? That's exactly what Tony EI8JK did on Monda...

While I was updating the code plug for my TYT MD-380 dual mode handheld, I decided to add the Mt.Leinster repeater EI7MLR on 430.950 MHz. In...

A new 70cms repeater was installed on high ground near the town of Clonmel in Co.Tipperary on Sunday the 4th of December 2016. Here are...

25th Nov 2016... There seems to be a reasonable lift on the VHF bands today as there is a high pressure weather system over the country. I n...

At the moment, I scan the 70cms band on a pretty regular basis and every so often, the radio will stop on  433.475 and 433.525 MHz. The sign...