EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

I received an email from Chris, IX1CKN to let me know about an opening on the 50 MHz band on Thursday the 12th of January 2023 . The openi...

Normally the main Sporadic-E season normally lasts from May to August every year but there is also a smaller secondary peak during the Winte...

In a recent article titled ' Detecting Putative Sporadic E Propagation in WSPRNet Spot Records ' for TAPR, Jeanette Zhou, KN6DAD ou...

Wednesday 19th May 2021: The day started with a comment by Joe, EI3IX on a Facebook post that he wasn't hearing the new EI1CAH 40 MHz b...

For every day during the month of April 2021 , I listened from about 08:00 to 22:00 UTC every day for FT8 signals on the 28 MHz band. For ...

I'm always interested to hear about exceptional VHF contacts or reception reports and I like to keep a record of them here on the blog t...

During the current COVID-19 pandemic, the Mid-Ulster Amateur Radio Club are continuing with their successful Tuesday night lecture series. ...

In this post, we'll look at a recent Sporadic-E opening on 144 MHz in northern Europe and what it might mean for a trans-Atlantic conta...

For anyone with an interest in the low VHF bands, Sporadic-E is the main mode of propagation during the summer months. During the RSGB con...

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 ...

Tues 8th May 2018 ... The Sporadic-E season is now well under way with plenty of signals being heard on the 10 metre band. On Tuesday the ...

18th July...... The summer Sporadic-E season seems to be on the wane a bit with more days on 50 MHz with no openings. The 18th of July was a...

Big opening on the 26th of June to North America and the Caribbean. Needless to say, with a 2 element beam in the attic pointing east, signa...

Saturday, 20th June........ In the evening, I noticed that stations in the UK (G/GW) were working EA/CT on 144 MHz on the Dx-cluster. Having...

Now that I have a reasonable aerial again for 10 metres, I am going to record my observations for the month.... Solar Flux figures (Red line...