EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

Another post about 40 MHz :o) The ISM (Industrial, Scientific, Medical) band goes from 40.660 to 40.700 MHz and is intended for use by ...

There was a news item on the Southgate ARC website today about a new DAPNET POCSAG Pager Gateway being licensed in the UK. After readin...

Just to make it a bit easier for people to follow the posts on the blog and perhaps to attract a few more readers, I have set up a new ...

See below the video clips showing the latest radios from Japan... ICOM booth...

The Irish Radio Transmitters Society have announced that the next Amateur Station Licence Examination will be held on Thursday 15th Nove...

There has been a lot of interest of late in 'Network Radio' and the most popular app for this is probably Zello. ( See previous po...

I came across a piece on the web today about an Italian CB allocation at 43 MHz. This is especially relevant considering that the proposed 8...

On Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th August 2018, members of Limerick Radio Club activated Loop Head lighthouse in Co.Clare as part of the ...

A short video from Terry G0VRL showing a contact with EI9E/P during the VHF contest in July 2018. The distance was approx 257kms over mostly...

It seems to be a week of new records on 144 MHz. Following on from the new Region 1 tropo record on the 5th of August 2018, a new world reco...

On Sunday the 5th of August 2018 , Mark Turner EI3KD managed to work D4Z on the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of of Africa on 144 M...

For the first time this summer, I have heard a Japanese station on FT8 on 28 MHz. As the map above shows, I heard JA4FKX at 08:39 UTC or ...

Southgate Amateur Radio News had an item today about the number of licences in the UK and how they are broken down. I had a look at the raw...

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...