EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is an international radio astronomy project with the object of scanning the cosmos from 50 Mhz to 15.4 GHz...

VK3DXE in Australia recently posted this article on his Facebook page and it is republished here with his kind permission to reach a wider a...

21st November 2021: Back in October, I had intended to publish a post about reception of a FM radio station on 93.1 MHz in Columbia by Aleja...

21st June 2021: This was a remarkable day for VHF propagation with a very rare trans-Atlantic opening on the 88-108 MHz FM band. As outli...

During the Sporadic-E opening on 144 MHz on the 19th of May , many stations in western Europe made contacts in the region of 1200 to 2300km...

17th May 2021: There is now a new 8-metre propagation beacon in the west of Ireland using the callsign EI1CAH and it is operating on 40.016...

The Irish 4m beacon EI4RF has now been upgraded and is now transmitting on 70.013 MHz . It was previously operating on 70.130 MHz due to th...

Dave N7BHC (Also PJ4VHF & ZR2BI) left a comment on a post recently about VHF propagation in the South Atlantic. There was so much intere...

Radio DARC is a short program broadcast on 6.070 KHz with 100 KW on Sundays at 09:00 UTC (11:00 CEST) about amateur radio with a lot of m...

Foreword... AIS (Automatic Identification System) is used by ships to identify their location by sending out a signal at 162 MHz which is po...

If you're interested in the upper HF bands or any of the VHF and UHF bands then your horizon is all important. On bands like 144 MHz a...

One of my interests is listening for long distance radio signals on the 88 to 108 MHz band which is  otherwise known as Band 2 or as simply...