EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

As part of a challenge for 2024, I've decided to see how many QRSS signals I could capture on the 28 MHz band during the year. On the ...

Chris, N3IZN near San Diego in California reports reception of the Irish EI1CAB beacon on 40.016 MHz on Friday 9th of February 2024. Chri...

In this post, we'll look at the OZ7IGY beacon in Denmark which transmits on 40.071 MHz and how many times it was spotted on the DX Clu...

On the 17th of January 2023 , Rupert N2OTO reported the reception of the Danish OZ7IGY beacon on 40.071 MHz . This is as far as I know the...

The OZ7IGY team in Denmark have announced that their 8m beacon on 40.071 MHz has been turned off due to increased electricity costs. They w...

The 40 MHz / 8m band is one part of the spectrum which is very much experimental in nature be that for checking propagation or equipment. Wi...

Halden Field, NR7V is one of the few US radio amateurs who managed to get a special experimental permit to operate on the 40 MHz band and w...

During the period of the 4th to the 11th of February 2022, quite a number of stations have reported hearing the ZS6WAB 8m beacon in South A...

George, N2CG has one of the seven experimental 40 MHz permits in the USA and was given the callsign WM2XCS . He has just announced that he...

16th January 2022: Emilio, IK0OKY reports that there was a nice opening on the 40 MHz band on the 16th of January when several amateur ra...

  I recently came across this beacon for the 28 MHz band and it thought it might be of interest to others. While most beacons are built fr...

In this post, we'll look at the EI1KNH beacon in Ireland which transmits on 40.013 MHz and how many times it was spotted on the DX Clu...

In this post, we'll look at the OZ7IGY beacon in Denmark which transmits on 40.071 MHz and how many times it was spotted on the DX Clu...

Sunday 7th November 2021: Over the last two weeks or so, I have 'heard' plenty of signals from Australia on the 28 MHz band... ...

Monday 1st Nov 2021: It was a case of Deja Vu as conditions on the 28 MHz band were almost identical to the previous day. A total of 981 s...

Update - 30th Apr 2021: The S55ZMS beacon has now been moved to its final destination and is on air with a full 7 watts to a Halo antenna. F...

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...

Following on from the report last month of the ZS6WAB 8-metre beacon being heard in Portugal, we now have news that the beacon on 40.675 M...

Back in the middle of March 2021, I reported in a previous blog post how F0FYF in the east of France had heard a beacon on 144 MHz that was...

Back in February of 2021, I had a post up about the new 144 MHz on St Helena Island in the South Atlantic. On the 3rd of March, I reported ...