EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

On the 22nd of March 2025, a group of Dutch radio amateurs managed to successfully bounce a 23cms microwave signal off the planet Venus usin...

Florian Euchner is a student at the University of Stuttgart in Germany and he recently put up a video on his YouTube channel detailing his...

I recently came across details of this remarkable contact on the 1296 MHz (23cms) band. On the 22nd January 2025 , the PI9RD station at th...

  Over the last few months. I've been listening to some of the back catalogue of podcasts from the Ham Radio Workbench while I've b...

With the development of GPS and other radio navigation satellite systems, the part of the radio spectrum above 1 GHz has become very attract...

On Sunday the 18th of December 2022, ICOM Japan held their own exhibition at their Narayama Research Institute to display some of their new ...

Back in October 2020, I had a post about how the FCC were proposing that radio amateurs in the USA would lose the 3.5 GHz (9cm) microwave ...

It was interesting to see that a contact on 1296 MHz was made between EA5TT in Spain and SV8CS in Greece on the 2nd of January 2022. The ...

As part of their Tonight at 8 series, the RSGB had a video presentation recently from Neil, G4LDR about getting started on the amateur radi...

  The Tasman Sea is an area where there are regular tropospheric ducting openings between Australia and New Zealand. On the 13th of December...

  In a ruling issued on the 2nd of October 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the USA announced that the amateur radio ser...

This might be of interest to those who operate on the microwave bands. Backscatter is a compendium of the best technical articles that hav...