EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

There was a pretty good mid-Winter Sporadic-E opening on 28 MHz on Sunday the 1st of December 2019 with the band open to most of Europe....

Dave, EI3IO, reports that the Falkland Islands Telecoms Regulatory Body has granted access for radio amateurs to the 4-metre band from 70...

On the fourth Tuesday of every month, we have a local net on 70cms about digital radio. While its primary purpose is to generate some a...

Regular visitors to the blog will know that I try to promote more interest in the low-VHF part of the spectrum by having a dedicated page re...

The World Radio communication Conference WRC-19 has just approved an allocation in the 50 MHz band for radio amateurs in Region 1 which ...

Sunday the 17th of November 2019 was an interesting day on 28 MHz. In the morning, there was a modest Sporadic-E opening in Europe with a...

Normally the Sixty Symbols video channel on YouTube from the University of Nottingham covers some serious subjects on physics and astronom...

Galway Radio Club in the west of Ireland have recently launched a new 48 page newsletter which covers some some recent club activities as...

Monday the 11th of November 2019 was a pretty quiet day on 28 MHz for the most part. Other than a handful of European stations, the best ...

Sunday the 10th of November 2019 was a pretty quiet day on 28 MHz with only one South African station being heard on FT8 here as well as ...

An interesting day on 28 MHz with some mixed propagation on the band. There seems to have been some Sporadic-E between Ireland and Spain ...

There was an interesting opening on Thursday the 7th of November 2019 with 3B8CW in Mauritius in the Indian Ocean being heard on FT8 on 2...

On the 1st of November 2019, SDRplay announced the release of their new RSPdx model. This is a software defined radio intended for recept...

The IRTS 80 Metres Evening Counties Contest was held on the 8th October 2019 and the results show an increase in numbers taking part. W...

It wasn't the best of days for propagation on 28 MHz but it was still interesting to see stations from Africa coming through on 10-met...

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...