EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

16th January 2022: Emilio, IK0OKY reports that there was a nice opening on the 40 MHz band on the 16th of January when several amateur ra...

Over the last few months seven stations in the USA have received experimental permits for the 40 MHz band... see previous post. While a few ...

Saturday 23rd October 2021: This seemed like a particularly good day for TEP (Trans-Equatorial Propagation) with signals on the 40 MHz (8m)...

Sunday 17th October 2021: A little bit of radio history was made today when there was a successful two way contact between S50B in Slovenia ...

In the last few months, two US amateur radio stations have applied for and received special experimental callsigns for the 40-MHz band. Lin,...

On the 19th of August 2021, the FCC in the USA allocated the callsign WL2XZQ for experiments on the 40 MHz band from Houston in Texas. Thi...

On the 18th of July, I had a post up about the new US experimental station WL2XUP on the 40 MHz band. Just four days later on the 22nd of...

In June of 2021, the FCC in the USA issued the experimental call sign WL2XUP to conduct tests on the 40 MHz band. The owner of the call, L...

25th May 2021: A little bit of history was made on the 40 MHz band on the 25th of May when the first contact between two stations in Croat...

17th May 2021: There is now a new 8-metre propagation beacon in the west of Ireland using the callsign EI1CAH and it is operating on 40.016...

Tim, EI4GNB reports making a FT8 contact on 40.680 MHz with 9A5CW in Croatia during the big Sporadic-E opening on the 7th of May 2021. Th...

Lloyd, EI7HBB reports that he was active on the 40 MHz band on the 8th of May and caught the extensive Sporadic-E opening. He managed to w...

Andrej, S57RW in Slovenia left the following comment on the blog today under an old post. Rather than leaving it there largely unnoticed, I...

  At the end of January 2021, the 40 MHz page on the site passed the 10,000 pageview mark. Back in 2018, Irish radio amateurs gained access...

  Tim, EI4GNB reports that the eQSL website is now accepting 40 MHz (8m) contacts on their platform. Many radio amateur use this site to con...

The very first contact between Croatia and neighbouring Slovenia on the new 40 MHz (8m) amateur band took place on the 26th of January 2021...

JTDX is modified WSJT-X software that many radio amateurs use for the JT9, JT65, FT4 and FT8 digital modes. In a software update released on...

YU7EF in Serbia is a well known designer of HF and VHF beams and many radio amateurs worldwide use his designs. In this post, we will look a...

  Back the start of December 2020, I had a post up about how radio amateurs in Croatia were now able to get permission to use the new 40 MHz...

Thanks to Dragan, 9A6W for sending on this YU7EF design for a 4-element Yagi antenna for the new 40 MHz (8-metre) band. The design with di...