EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

Another good day on the 10 metre band with the solar flux at 144. The photo above shows the 57 WSPR stations heard on 28 MHz between the ...

Over the last week or so, I have at times seen an odd looking signal while using WSPR on 28 MHz. It starts off about 10 Hz too low in freque...

Loads of signals on WSPR on 28 MHz today..... While it's nice to see the stations coming through from Australia and the West coast o...

I got an e-mail this morning with the link to new IRTS newsletter. Looking through some of the news items, I came across a link to this vide...

This morning (~8:45 UTC), I heard NH7O in Hawaii on SSB on 28 MHz. His signal was very weak, maybe 4/1 to 4/2 at best. He was working a...

Some more good conditions on 28 MHz on the 17th again. Started off with WSPR station being heard in Australia and finished with ones near ...

Over the last week or so, the solar flux had dropped down to around the 100 mark and there was a distinct lack of good East-West propagation...

I came across this amazing resource recently. 73 magazine was an amateur radio publication that ran from October 1960 to September 2003....

One of the main reasons I have this blog is to act as a scratchpad for myself. If something happens that I want to make a note of, then i...

I came across this video clip recently from the BBC about the vital part that radio amateurs played in wartime Britain by listening in to ...

The Light Emitting Diode started life in October 1962, as a single red illumination in a General Electric research lab in New York state. ...

I left the rig listening to WSPR signals on 10 metres over the last two days and both were reasonably similar.  These were the individual st...

Another day with some good conditions on the 10 metre band. I left the radio on the WSPR frequency for most of the day........which is great...

Interesting conditions on the 10 metre band today. After starting off listing on WSPR for about two hours and then having a quick listen a...

Following on from yesterday, I had a listen on 28 MHz again on Sunday. If anything, conditions were better. Sunday 30th Sept 2012 28289.5...