EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

On the morning of the 22nd of Dec 2008, I had a listen for meteor bursts from the GB3RAL beacon on 28.215 MHz during the Ursids meteor showe...

Interesting to see that even at this time of year, 144 MHz can still suprise. On the 22nd of Dec 2008 , there was some nice ducting of 144 M...

This post is mainly for my own benefit so that I can keep track of what I have done and what I need to do. Logbook of the World is the syst...

Back in mid November, I tried a few tests listening to the beacon GB3RAL on 28 MHz during the Leonids meteor shower. For the Geminids, I re...

Considering that this is the only band I am really currently active on, I was on during the 2 days of this ARRL contest to see what would ...

I have been checking how this expedition has been getting on over the last few days and it seemed like he was getting lots of contacts into ...

This is a post that I have been meaning to put up for a while. Now that the peak of the Geminids meteor shower is coming up next weekend (13...

It's strange how you can find information sometimes. Last night, I started out looking at a website for 70 MHz.....found a link for info...

Trawling back through some old IRTS news item's , I came accross this news piece which might be interest to any EI stations who have an ...

A few weeks back while looking through the VHF section of the IRTS website , I saw a notice about the EI 50 MHz Activity Evening on the 1st...

Here is a picture of the Sun today....not a single spotspot to be seen. We are still well and truely at solar minimum. For the record, the s...

After a slightly shorter absence from the airwaves compared to me, Alan EI3EBB is coming back on again. So after he installed a new Watson ...

While I was looking around the Comreg website today, I found some information about the numbers of EI stations. The graph covers the period ...

I found this by accident today when I was looking at something else (...the joys of the Internet :o)) Steve, EI5DD has set up a new website ...

I found this website by accident today. It shows some old QSL cards from EI stations during the 1930's to 1950's. Certainly, workin...

This is a scratchpad for me to keep progress on my editing of the VQLog logbook program. Notes... a) When I examine all of the QSO's imp...

Now that I am getting interested again in the radio scene, I took the time to actually read through the September issue of Echo Ireland prop...