EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

For the months of May & June 2019, I left the radio listening to FT8 signals on 28 MHz and fed the reception reports up to the PSK Repor...

The 30th of October was one of those days when I could hear some weak FT8 signals coming from the loudspeaker of the radio and not really...

Every Tuesday evening, we have a local VHF net in Cork and a few of us get together for a chat. We use the the 6m, 4m, 2m and 70cms bands...

Even though it was late October, there was a Sporadic-E opening on 28 MHz from around Europe. As can be seen from the map, the band ope...

I came across a news item recently with a chart showing the remarkable rise of FT8. The data for this chart came from the ClubLog syst...

An interesting day on 28 MHz. Even though the solar flux was way down at 66 and we're at the sunspot minimum, it does show that the 2...

Courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams. At the moment in October of 2019, we are the bottom of the sunspot cycle ...

The BBC recently released this old television clip from 1949 explaining how an amateur radio station in Cape Town, South Africa had received...

In a 45 minute video presentation, KC1HTT in the US shows how it is possible to make contacts on 144 MHz by bouncing signals off the moon...

I left the radio listening to the FT8 frequency on 28 MHz yesterday and I was suprised to see there had been a reasonable opening. Not to...

Just a quick post to say that D41CV in the Cape Verde Islands managed to work G7RAU in the SW of England on FT8 on 144 MHz this morning, ...

On the evening of the 14th and the morning of the 15th of September 2019 , there was a very good tropo opening on 144 MHz from the Azore I...

Thanks to Rob, PE9PE who sent on an interesting link recently about a US government report about the low VHF spectrum from 32 to 42 MHz . ...

Just a note to say that there is a nice high pressure system over the eastern part of the Atlantic at the moment and there is a possibilit...

Congrats to Tom EI4DQ who recently achieved an 11 band DXCC! While a number of EI stations have 10 band DXCC, Tom is the only one to ge...

I recently across this news item based on a scientific paper which was released in May of 2019. Despite the huge differences in size, the...

I came across this website recently which I think some readers might find of interest. It's a story of one persons antenna project in...

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...