EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

The trans-Atlantic path from Cape Verde Islands to the Caribbean on the 144 MHz band opened on Sunday the 5th of April 2020 and closed on ...

Friday 10th April 2020 . Another pretty quiet day with just a minor Sporadic-E opening to Spain and Portugal. These are the stations hea...

Thursday 9th April 2020. Another pretty quiet day with just a handful of stations heard on FT8 on 28 MHz. Txmtr Band Mode Distance Ti...

The incredible tropo conditions between Cape Verde Islands and the Caribbean continue to amaze with trans-Atlantic contacts on 144 MHz and 4...

Wednesday 8th April 2020. This was a quiet day on 28 MHz with just four stations heard on FT for the whole day. 095215 -14 -0.1  959 ~  ...

Tuesday 7th April 2020. This was one of those days where there was hardly a murmur out of the radio on the FT8 frequency on 28 MHz yet th...

Monday 6th April 2020 . Another quiet day on 28 MHz with just a few FT8 signals via Sporadic-E from Europe.

Sun 5th Apr 2020. Another reasonably quiet day on 28 MHz with 18 stations heard on FT8. Txmtr Band Mode Distance Time (UTC) IS0FWY ...

As we bounce along the bottom of the sunspot cycle in the Spring of 2020, the big question now is when will cycle 24 end and when will cy...

Sat 4th April 2020. A pretty quiet day on 28 MHz except for a few signals on FT8. The highlight was Canary Islands and ZD7JC from St.Helen...

Friday 3rd April 2020. There was hardly a murmur from the radio on the FT8 frequency on 28 MHz for most of the day except for  two local s...

Thursday 2nd April 2020. There was a modest opening on 28 MHz today but most of the FT8 signals were buried in the noise. The map above...

Every Tuesday evening, we have a local net here in Cork on the VHF bands. This follows the following pattern... 1st Tuesday of the month (2m...

Wednesday 1st April 2020 . This was a quiet day on 28 MHz with just four stations heard on FT8. The two signals from the Netherlands an...

This video was recently posted on YouTube by Steve Nichols, G0KYA and it gives a good introduction to understanding the basics of propaga...

Tuesday 31st of March 2020 . The FT8 frequency on the 28 MHz band was eerily quiet all morning with just one signal from Poland heard. N...

Monday 30th March 2020 . I had the radio on in the background all day and it seem pretty quiet with only a few FT8 signals on 28 MHz audi...

Sunday 29th March 2020. This was one of those days where the FT8 frequency on 28 MHz seemed pretty quiet with just low level signals heard...

Saturday the 28th of March 2020 was pretty similar to the previous day with a Sporadic-E primarily to Spain and Italy with some more DX f...

During the months of April, May and June of 2019 , I did many scans of the 28 MHz beacon band from about 28.160 to 28.340 MHz. This post ...