EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

For the last few weeks, there has been plenty of discussion about the French proposal to try and share the 144-146 MHz amateur radio ban...

Currently most of the terrestrial radio stations in the USA broadcast either on the AM band from 540 to 1700 kHz or on the FM band from 8...

W3LPL in Maryland is a well known contest station and it's hard to miss the strong signal when they are on the HF bands. I came acro...

I came across this news item from the American Radio Relay League a few days ago... ARRL Contest and DXCC Rules Now Prohibit Automated C...

I saw JX7G spotted on the DX cluster on CW on 17m on the 26th of August 2019. It looked interesting so I had a quick listen and found a s...

There was interesting item on the Southgate Amateur News recently about a new web based software defined radio (WebSDR) based at Goonhilly i...

As the Sporadic-E season in the northern hemisphere winds down, we'll have a quick look at what conditions might be like on 28 MHz for t...

There are currently three stations from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on air to mark the 30th anniversary of the Baltic Way protest which...

While checking the long term weather forecast, I noticed that there was some high pressure building off the south-west of Ireland at the s...

144 & 432 MHz Yagi antennas on Cape Verde So far in 2019, the D4C contest team on Cape Verde Islands off the west coast of Africa ha...

I recently came across this article by John, G4SWX on the possibilities of regular 3000+ km contacts on 144 MHz. It can be viewed HERE ...

QRP-Labs have just announced that they have sold their 8,000th QCX CW Transceiver kit on the 31st of July 2019. The kit which sells for...

One of the huge developments in Amateur radio over the last few years have the development of digital modes like FT8. The software (WSJT-X) ...

Over the last few weeks, there have been multiple openings from Europe to Japan at 50 MHz as stations make use of digital modes like FT8 to ...

On Tuesday the 23rd of July 2019 , there was another remarkable opening on 144 MHz from Cape Verde Islands off the west coast of Africa to ...

With the growth of digital modes like C4F System Fusion, D-Star and DMR, some radio amateurs have opted to set up personal hot spots so th...

Over the last few weeks, there have been several remarkable openings on 144 MHz from Cape Verde Islands off the west coast of Africa. On t...

The Irish Radio Transmitters Society (IRTS) is the national organisation for radio amateurs in Ireland and is a member of the Internatio...

This video by Andy EI5JF gives a flavour of the 2019 VHF Field Day for the Tipperary Amateur Radio Group.

As an experiment, I made a recording of the activity levels for each of the HF bands on the WSPRnet website on Sunday the 7th of July 201...