EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

This might be of interest to those who operate on the microwave bands. Backscatter is a compendium of the best technical articles that hav...

This might be of interest to anyone using Rasberry Pi or Arduino boards. HackSpace are offering their magazines for free via this website....

I recently came across this old map of the various packet nodes in Ireland back in 1994 (Click on the image to see the full size versio...

Slowly getting back on air again after a long break of about 9 months. In the meantime, a certificate arrived in the post for the PACC co...

When licencing authorities in various countries are issuing amateur radio call signs, they tend to avoid ones that might be associated wit...

In mid-March of 2017, there was an Irish expedition to Nepal where the 12 man team operated as 9N7EI. They were on air from the 10th of Ma...

Back in late February, a bunch of Spanish special event stations popped up on the HF bands to mark the 14th Annual Antarctic Activity Week. ...

Ever since the 1st of March, the conditions on the HF bands have been pretty poor. 21 MHz struggles to open and even the signals on 7 and 14...

The IRTS 80 Metres Evening Counties contest was held on Tuesday the 21st of February. It was only one hour long and ran from 8pm to 9pm (2...

With the Solar Flux Index down around 75, the 10 metre band is more or less dead every day at the moment. It was a bit of a suprise on th...

The UKEICC run short one hour contests on 80m which are ideal as they don't take up much time. Back at the start of February, I was on...

Back at the end of January 2017 , I put in an entry to support the French HF CW Championships. That time, I managed 138 QSO's spread out...

Pictured at a recent birthday celebration...Charlie EI5FK, John EI6AK, John EI7BA and Tom EI6BA. Charlie EI5FK has been quite on the r...

On Friday the 17th of February 2017, I worked EI11WAW on 80m cw and this was the last one that I needed for the Wild Atlantic Way Award. ...

Just out of curiosity, I had a look at the number of CW spots on the DX cluster for the various Wild Atlantic Way stations... EI11WAW to EI9...

During the last week, I worked RI1ANC on 21 MHz cw. He was located at the Russian Vostok base in Antarctica and the signal was quite weak...

The annual PACC contest was held last weekend the 11th and 12th of February 2017 and is the highlight on the contest calendar for many Dutch...

The VHF/UHF DX Book was written in the early to mid-1990s by a team of experienced VHF/UHF DXers and equipment developers, in an effort to p...

I heard yesterday that Con O'Callaghan EI4CE from Newmarket in Co.Cork passed away.  He was 89 years old. ( Notice ). Ar dheis Dé ...

From 1st January to 31st December 2017 Irish Radio Amateurs will be on air with nine special calls – EI11WAW through to EI99WAW.  Each ca...