EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

Back in March of 2021, the Irish state broadcaster RTÉ announced that their DAB digital radio service was ceasing. More details in my previo...

This really is a remarkable catch. Paul Logan in Lisnaskea, Fermanagh, Northern Ireland managed to hear a Canadian radio station across t...

I took this photo of noctilucent clouds from my house in Cork on the south coast of Ireland at about 23:08 UTC on Sat 7th July 2018. This...

Both 28 MHz and 50 MHz were wide open on Friday the 6th of July 2018 with plenty of strong Sporadic-E signals on the bands. One of the ...

At the moment, there is very little material or information on the web about any type of 40 MHz activity. As it is likely to become a ne...

A few weeks back, I got a registration number for using DMR (Digital Mobile Radio). Considering DMR has its roots in the commercial world...

I recently came across this old map of the various packet nodes in Ireland back in 1994 (Click on the image to see the full size versio...

From 1st January to 31st December 2017 Irish Radio Amateurs will be on air with nine special calls – EI11WAW through to EI99WAW.  Each call ...

Over the last few weeks, I have been reading up on the various digital radios on the VHF bands. It would seem as if there are three potentia...