EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

Things have been pretty quiet here on the radio front. The spring gales took their toll and my HF doublet is down at present although it won...

Just came accross this on the IRTS news ....... Missing Saker Falcon. A request has been made by a member of the Public, to try to find a m...

I came accross this video clip on the net. EI100CQD was a special event station that was operational over the weekend of the 23rd to 25th of...

With no antenna for 160m, I had to give the CQWW 160m CW contest a miss last weekend. However, I came accross this gem on the net..........O...

Quick recap....... 1) I had updated my VQLog program so that it now contains just over 23,000 contacts. From this, I could generate an ADIF...

Having recently gone through a backlog of incoming QSL cards, I had the usual few SWL (Short Wave Listener) cards in there as well. I came a...

Now that VQLog is updated, I spent the last few days going through the backlog of incoming QSL cards. Out of the 200 or so cards, there wer...

In some previous posts( here & here ), I had some information about ON5GS's 144 MHz meteor scatter expedition to IO55 square in Dec...

Just came accross this news item..... Oranmore Castle activation Members of the Galway VHF Group will be activating Oranmore Castle from 12...

On the 2nd of January, I worked 9A2009ST thinking he was just a special event station for the new year. Today (13th Jan), I heard a few more...

I started the long and arduous process of checking my logging program, VQLog against my paper logs back in mid-November 2008. Now 2 months...

I didn't have much luck trying to work these guys in Palestine. It seemed as if most of Europe were calling them.....too many for a low ...

A few weeks back, I had a post about the 2007 Scarborough Reef expedition. I came accross a video clip about the 1997 expedition on YouTube...

31st Dec 2008 .......Back on HF.... Spent the day repairing my old Doublet antenna . 3 years of neglect (.......and running over the feedli...

This was my first time trying out this contest as I had been off the air for the first 3 ( 2006-2008 ). I repaired my HF doublet antenna on ...

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 ...