EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

After seeing a news item on the Southgate Amateur Radio website last week, I had a try this evening at decoding signals on 145.800 MHz from...

Every year, the QRP Amateur Radio Club International hosts a QRP conference called Four Days in May (FDIM) in the United States. This ye...

There was an interesting spot on the DX-Cluster on the 23rd of July 2018 stating that the US beacon WG2XPN/B had been heard in Portuga...

While listening to old previous episodes of the Soldersmoke podcast , I heard many references to the book Solid State Design for the Radi...

The PSK Reporter website  has just passed 4 billion reception reports! Currently, the vast majority of the reports are of course due to t...

I noticed yesterday that none of my FT8 reception reports on 28 MHz were appearing on the PSK Reporter website . I checked all the usual...

In 1978, Irish radio amateurs set up a special event station using the callsign EI0MFT in Clifden, Co.Galway to commemorate the first tw...

Back in April of 2018 , the Irish Radio Transmiters Society (IRTS) announced that Irish radio amateurs had gain access to a huge swathe ...

There was a news item on Southgate Amateur Radio News recently about a balloon launch from the south of Cornwall. As it's about 200k...

This really is a remarkable catch. Paul Logan in Lisnaskea, Fermanagh, Northern Ireland managed to hear a Canadian radio station across t...

There was another big opening across the Atlantic on Sunday the 8th of July with signals on 28 MHz and 50 MHz. This is what I heard on FT8...

I took this photo of noctilucent clouds from my house in Cork on the south coast of Ireland at about 23:08 UTC on Sat 7th July 2018. This...

Both 28 MHz and 50 MHz were wide open on Friday the 6th of July 2018 with plenty of strong Sporadic-E signals on the bands. One of the ...

As of the end of June 2018, there were 126 DMR registrations allocated to EI callsigns. It had looked as if the growth in digital registr...

I saw a note on G3XBM's blog today that 6m was open to Japan from the UK. I checked the online FT8 log of local station Tom EI4DQ on 50 ...

When I checked the PSK reporter this morning, I noticed that I had heard one lone signal on FT8 on 28 MHz from the USA overnight. It turned ...

Anyone that uses 28 MHz on a regular basis will have heard illegal driftnet fishing buoys which give out a short carrier followed by an i...

At the moment, there is very little material or information on the web about any type of 40 MHz activity. As it is likely to become a ne...

Wednesday the 20th June 2018 was another busy day of FT8 signals on 28 MHz with plenty of Sporadic-E signals being heard including China and...

There was another nice opening to North America on Saturday the 16th of June 2018 with quite a number of stations being heard on the FT8 di...