EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

After a recent chat with Willie EI7CGB about Medium Wave reception, I did a daytime band scan to see what could be heard on the band using j...

The Southern Ireland Repeater Group maintain an impressive repeater network in the south of Ireland. They have no fewer than 7 voice rep...

While I was updating the code plug for my TYT MD-380 dual mode handheld, I decided to add the Mt.Leinster repeater EI7MLR on 430.950 MHz. In...

It sounded a bit like an April Fools joke but this headline is doing the rounds at the moment. An 80-year old radio amateur in the USA ha...

After a few contacts earlier today on digital radio (DMR), I began to wonder what the DMR activity levels in Ireland was like among EI ca...

After a spell of four years off the radio, I got on air again in late 2016. Once I came back, I found out there were some new developments i...

In the most recent newsletter from the Irish Radio Transmitters Society (IRTS), they stated that there was 927 members in the society at the...

There was a news item on the BBC news website today about some new safety boots that use morse code for signalling purposes! According ...

Over the weekend, I was using EchoLink and I came across a new Welsh repeater there.... GB3UP-R in Fishguard on the west coast of Wales. ...

I came across this video by accident while I was looking for something else. Despite the fact it is over 18 years ago, field days today are ...

A few weeks back, I got a registration number for using DMR (Digital Mobile Radio). Considering DMR has its roots in the commercial world...

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...