EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

The Irish Radio Transmitters Society is the national body representing radio amateurs in Ireland and they produce several newsletters for m...

The current high pressure system over the country resulted in some fine conditions on the VHF bands on Wed 28th December 2016. The local ...

The Irish Radio Transmitters Society have just announced that Irish radio amateurs can use the WRC-15 band of 5.3515 MHz to 5.3665 MHz ...

Ofcom is the organisation that is responsible for radio regulation in the UK and they have just released a document for a review of the U...

Wednesday the 24th of December was another one of those days where the 28 MHz band seemed completely dead but early in the morning, I rec...

This is the current IARU Region 1 band plan for 70 MHz band... The Irish allocation is from 70.125 to 70.450 MHz while the British on...

With the ARRL 10 metre contest on this weekend, there was always going to be a chance that something would pop up. Even if there was a weak ...

There was another weak Sporadic-E opening this afternoon on 28 MHz. Strange how there openings  always seems to be the afternoon and not ...

I left the rig listening on the WSPR frequency on 28 MHz on Friday and I heard the stations shown above. FY5KE in French Guyana was F2 wh...

Last weekend, I heard one of the Dublin repeaters EI2PKR on 145.7625 MHz at a distance of almost 200kms. This is located on Kippure which is...

I had a listen to the 10 metre band late this afternoon and I noticed some weak cw beacons around 28.204 / 28.205 MHz. They were very weak...

A new 70cms repeater was installed on high ground near the town of Clonmel in Co.Tipperary on Sunday the 4th of December 2016. Here are...

Over the last few weeks, I have been reading up on the various digital radios on the VHF bands. It would seem as if there are three potentia...

I have been scanning and listening on 145MHz for most of November 2016 so I now have a reasonable idea as to what the level of activity on t...

This post is for my own benefit as I want to put the CTCSS codes somewhere online that's easy to find. CTCSS..... What is it? This is ...

This morning, I heard the GB3WR repeater on 145.600 MHz. It was pretty weak and was 4/1 at best but the CW id was clearly audible. At j...

I've been scanning and listening on a pretty regular basis on 145 MHz FM for the last two weeks so I am getting a good feel of what I ca...

Over the years, I have collected many old magazine articles and it seems to be a waste to have them buried away in a folder. This one is for...

25th Nov 2016... There seems to be a reasonable lift on the VHF bands today as there is a high pressure weather system over the country. I n...