EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

The Murchison Wide-field Array (MWA) is a radio telescope located in a remote part of western Australia and it's made up of 4,096 anten...

While the WSPR beacon mode is very common on the HF bands, it seems to have been largely ignored worldwide by the VHF community.  The excep...

In addition to the recent Trans-Equatorial Propagation (TEP) openings at 144 MHz from Namibia to Europe, there have also been similar open...

Conditions on the 28 MHz band have been really good for the last few weeks as can be seen from the map above which shows all of the WSPR st...

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...

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is an international radio astronomy project with the object of scanning the cosmos from 50 Mhz to 15.4 GHz...

Monday 20th December 2021: The Great Australian Bight is the area of water just off the south coast of Australia and is well known for prod...

In this post, we'll go back more than 30 years to the years 1988 to 1990 which was around the time of the peak of solar cycle 22. In an ...

There was a news item on the Internet recently about how the Australian regulator was not considering an allocation at 70 MHz for radio ...

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

Over the last few weeks, there have been multiple openings from Europe to Japan at 50 MHz as stations make use of digital modes like FT8 to ...