EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

The Irish Radio Transmitters Society (IRTS) is the national association for radio amateurs in Ireland. They had this news item on the 12th ...

From the IRTS... The IRTS Examination Board is pleased to advise that the next HAREC examination will be held in the Maldron Hotel, Tallagh...

A new National Shortwave Listeners Club has been established in Ireland to help those interested in going for their amateur radio licence. ...

The Irish Radio Transmitters Society (IRTS) is the national society for radio amateurs in Ireland and in the year 2020, they recorded an im...

  The Mid-Ulster Amateur Radio Club are holding a series of lectures online and their most recent one was from Joe, EI7GY . While the full v...

The Winter 2019/2020 edition of ECHO IRELAND is now available for IRTS members to download in PDF format. Any member wishing to change f...

In April of 2018 , the Irish regulator Comreg gave Irish radio amateurs access to most of the low VHF spectrum from 30 to 49 MHz . In Ma...

In 1978, Irish radio amateurs set up a special event station using the callsign EI0MFT in Clifden, Co.Galway to commemorate the first tw...

Back in April of 2018 , the Irish Radio Transmiters Society (IRTS) announced that Irish radio amateurs had gain access to a huge swathe ...

The Irish Radio Transmitters Society have just released their proposed band plans for the new VHF bands around 40 and 60 MHz. The follo...

At the recent AGM of the Irish Radio Transmitters Society, John Ronan EI7IG and John McCarthy EI8JA made a presentation on the current st...

The Irish Radio Transmitters Society announced today in their weekly news that Irish radio amateurs are to gain access to a huge part of th...

In the most recent newsletter from the Irish Radio Transmitters Society (IRTS), they stated that there was 927 members in the society at the...

The IRTS 80 Metres Evening Counties contest was held on Tuesday the 21st of February. It was only one hour long and ran from 8pm to 9pm (2...

The annual IRTS 80 metre contest was held on the 1st of January 2017 and the full results are now available HERE The chart above shows ...

The Irish Radio Transmitters Society is the national body representing radio amateurs in Ireland and they produce several newsletters for m...

Ofcom is the organisation that is responsible for radio regulation in the UK and they have just released a document for a review of the U...

Four years ....Yes, four long years since I posted anything on this blog let alone turn on the radio. It's hard to exactly why I was...

This is something I meant to post a while back but never got around to it unil now. Back on the 3rd of July, there was some excellent Spora...

This was my first time trying out this contest as I had been off the air for the first 3 ( 2006-2008 ). I repaired my HF doublet antenna on ...