EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

The Yaesu FT-650 transceiver was manufactured in the 1990's and operated on the 24 MHz, 28 MHz and 50 MHz bands (12, 10 & 6m). ...

The map above shows the FT8 signals that I heard on 28 MHz on Tuesday the 25th of February 2020 . The big suprise was the signal from VU...

It was a pretty quiet day with just a few FT8 signals heard on the band. The most interesting signal was TZ4AM from Mali. 104430 -13 -0....

My first encounter with a numbers station was many moons ago while I was tuning across the short wave bands on a very old radio. I came acro...

This might be a trip down memory lane for some. This video clip from RTE is about the Lough Erne Radio Rally in Enniskillen back in 1990. ...

Things have been very quiet here on the radio front of late. With the recent storms of Ciara and Dennis passing over, I lowered my vertica...

NASA’s MAVEN Explores Mars to Understand Radio Interference at Earth From a NASA press release... NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Vol...

The Solar Wind is constantly streaming out from the Sun and can have a huge impact on radio propagation. The In Our Time programme on ...

The last two days on 28 MHz have been very poor. Mon 3rd Feb 2020 - This was was unusual because I didn't hear one single FT8 signa...

At the end of 2019, there were 63,070 amateur radio licence permits in Germany, a drop of 1,406 or 2.2% on the figure of 64,476 for 2018...

After a very quiet week, there was a modest Sporadic-E opening on 28 MHz on Saturday the 1st of February 2020. In total, 36 stations in 8...

This 39 minute talk about Amateur Television was given at the Cardiff Microwave Roundtable in the Spring of 2019 and it has just been uplo...

After a quiet two weeks on 28 MHz, the band finally opened up on Sunday the 26th of January 2020. While the signals didn't seem that...

The RF10 is an old type of Czech military radio operating on FM with 400 channels from 44.000 to 53.975 MHz . The output power is supposed...

There are a large number of commercial and utility companies making use of the low VHF band in the USA from 30 to 50 MHz . Several manufactu...

The Winter 2019/2020 edition of ECHO IRELAND is now available for IRTS members to download in PDF format. Any member wishing to change f...

In an effort to reach out to more people, the American Amateur Relay League (ARRL) have produced a new magazine aimed at beginners and th...

RADMOR are a Polish company who manufacture radio transceivers for the commercial and military markets. One of their products, the Mobile ...

The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) has announced it hopes to introduce a number of low cost kits in an effort to spark some interest i...

28 MHz was wide open to Europe again today with loads of Sporadic-E signals on the band. Despite the fact that it's the middle of Ja...