EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

The following comment was left on the blog by Harry, PE5HV who is interested in conducting some experiments on 40 MHz. "Hello ham r...

After two dismal days on the 22nd and 23rd of January, the 10 metre band finally opened up on Thurs 24th of January. As can be seen fro...

The 70cms repeater EI7HXR at Harney's Cross near Clonmel is currently off the air for maintenance. This is part of the Southern Ireland ...

The special call sign EI19RE will be active for the duration of 2019 to commemorate the establishment of the Dáil, the first Irish parl...

Conditions on 28 MHz have been very poor for the last week with just a few signals from Europe heard most days. The only exceptional day was...

At the end of 2018, a grand total of 143 DMR numbers were allocated to EI stations. This is an increase of 44 for the year and up 7 in th...

Band conditions on 28 MHz on both Saturday the 12th and Sunday the 13th of January 2019 were pretty poor. On the 12th of January shown ...

Well today was a bit of a suprise! It started off quiet enough with just a handful of FT8 signals from around Europe on 28 MHz. It just s...

Conditions were pretty poor on 28 MHz for the last two days with relatively few signals heard on FT8. On Wednesday the 9th of January, the...

An article from the July 2018 issue of Practical Wireless about Network Radios has now appeared on the G7DDN website. He is the author o...

From the IRTS News... CW Tests CW testing will be carried out at the following rallies over the coming months starting with Coolmine on...

Compared to the previous two days, there were a lot fewer FT8 signals heard on 144 MHz on Sun 6th Jan 2019. Best DX heard was IK4ADE at...

Another day listening to FT8 signals on 144 MHz and the map looks like I had been on 80m or 40m. All those shown above were heard with a ...

The map above shows the FT8 signals heard on 144 MHz on Friday the 4th of January. It almost looks like it might have been on say 80m b...

As of the 1st of January 2019, Paul EI5DI has kindly made his SD contest software free. While the appearance may look a bit old fashion...

After spending most of the day on 28 MHz and hearing just a few European signals on FT8, I changed over to 144 MHz at about 18:00. Despi...

The annual IRTS 80m Counties Contest on New Years Day seemed to be pretty busy this year with lots of EI stations on the band. I'm no...

Just like the propagation, my own levels of activity on the radio has been sporadic over the last few years. I was off the air from 2012 unt...

Another day listening to FT8 signals on 28 MHz. The interesting ones today were W2UH and W2VW in the state of New Jersey in the USA. At...

There was a modest opening on 28 MHz on the 28th of December 2018 with a mixture of Sp-E and some F2 signals. The most interesting sign...