EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

Repaired the HF Doublet antenna today. It had been down for months after getting damaged in the spring gales last March. It's currently ...

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...

Reading through some recent e-mails, I came accross this... NASA Releases New Predictions for Solar Cycle 24......An international panel of ...

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...

Since I put the 2 element up in the attic, I noticed that sometimes I would hear a series of almost musical tones on 50.057 MHz when the ban...

The Sporadic-E season is in full swing at the moment with plenty of European signals on the band. I have been using the home brew 2 element ...

Things have been pretty quiet on the radio front recently....mainly due to a lack of interest on my part as much as anything else. With the ...

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...