EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

The Irish Radio Transmitters Society announced today in their weekly news that Irish radio amateurs are to gain access to a huge part of th...

I saw a news item recently that Germany is to get a temporary allocation on 70MHz again in 2018 from the 2nd of May to the 31st of August. ...

There has been a very interesting discussion on the Medium Wave Circle forum over the last few days about what kind of distances can be achi...

There was an interesting interview recently on commercial radio station Clare FM with Simon Kenny EI7ALB and Alan Cronin EI8EM about the...

Since I did a previous scan of the Medium Wave band in March, I have found several other very weak signals buried in the noise. One of these...

Following on from the day time scan of the Medium Wave band that I did back in March 2018 , I have spent the last four weeks listening to th...

Another one from the archives :o). This is a design for a low pass filter for 29 MHz and would be suitable for anyone on the 28 MHz or 27 MH...

This is a great video! Italian radio amateur Mauri IZ5OVP makes contact with C31CT in Andorra...but without a morse key! :o)) For those ...

What is radio? As time goes by, the fine line between what can be called 'radio' and what is the internet is becoming increasing...

Proposal : Establish EI VHF Activity Nights 17th March 2018 : At present, the activity level on the VHF and UHF amateur bands is very...

I came across this very interesting talk by Joe Taylor K1JT on the latest weak signal digital modes and it can be seen below. It's over ...

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. ...