EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

There are FT8 activity nights on the VHF & UHF bands every Wednesday evening in Europe for the 4th quarter of 2024. The European activit...

Even though I don't use FT8 for making contacts, I find it to be a very useful tool in that it can give me a very good idea of what ban...

On the 8th of May 2021, the PSK Reporter website hit another milestone when it passed the 20 Billion reception records mark. As the image s...

A new report by Michael, G7VJR of the popular  ClubLog website shows that an amazing 84% of contacts on the 50 MHz band over the last 13-m...

  The latest stats from the Clublog website suggests that the FT8 digital mode now accounts for over half of all contacts made on the amat...

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 ...

The Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) held their annual conference online this year and as part of the event, there was a talk by Ron Schwartz ...

This post is now in two parts. The original post is shown in Part 1 below. The updated information with the log from D4VHF is shown in ...

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 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 ...

In a comment on a recent post, Bas PE4BAS in the Netherlands suggested I try increasing the bandwidth on FT8 to see if I could hear more sig...

The conditions on 28 MHz for the last one to two weeks have been pretty awful with slim pickings. There was however a nice mid-Winter Sporad...

On the 10th of December 2018 , the new upgraded version of FT8 was officially released. The new WSJT-X Ver 2.0 version replaces the earli...

Back in July of 2018, I had a post up about how the number of reception reports on the PSK Reporter website had just passed 4 Billion....

Over the last week to 10 days, there has been a dramatic drop in the conditions on 28 MHz. The FT8 signals that I heard on Thurs 1st Nov 2...

Back in early September, I tried listening to FT8 signals on 144 MHz on what a pretty flat band and the results were mediocre at best. My c...

After reading a post on the blog of Roger G3XBM about the possibilities of FT8 on 144 MHz, I tried it out for myself. The results for me on...

I saw a note on G3XBM's blog today that 6m was open to Japan from the UK. I checked the online FT8 log of local station Tom EI4DQ on 50 ...

When I checked the PSK reporter this morning, I noticed that I had heard one lone signal on FT8 on 28 MHz from the USA overnight. It turned ...