EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

The RSGB have recently put a video up on YouTube entitled "Antennas for small gardens with Steve Nichols, G0KYA" Most radio a...

The Southern Ireland Repeater Network is made of seven interlinked repeaters on 2-metres and 70-cms and covers the southern half of Ireland...

I recently came across details of a remarkable 70 MHz contact that was made on the 18th of June 2019 between EA8DBM in the Canary Isla...

The RSGB recently released a video on YouTube which outlines the basics of VHF propagation. While it doesn't go into any great detail,...

It has been reported that there was a Global Magnetic Anomaly on the 23rd of June 2020 . Starting at about 06:30 UTC, there was a period of...

On the 23rd of June 2020 , the VHF path from Cape Verde Islands off the west coast of Africa to the UK opened up again. The following sta...

Up to now, I've seen videos online of some of the beacons on the 40 MHz being heard. This is I believe the first reception video of ...

Following the postponement of the exam scheduled for May, exams have now been arranged at venues in Dublin, Cork and Galway. Dates for ...

Back in  early 2018 , the 60 MHz (5-metre) band was allocated to radio amateurs in Ireland (EI) on a secondary non-interference basis. Now ...

Regular visitors to the blog will have noticed that I had Google Ads enabled on the site. When someone clicks on one of those adverts, G...

The AGM of the Irish Radio Transmitters Society was scheduled to take place in April of this year but it had to be cancelled due to the C...

As of June 2020, just three countries in Europe have access to the 40 MHz band... Ireland (EI), Lithuania (LY) and Slovenia (S5) . At the...

At the end of April 2020 , LY2YR in Lithuania made a contact with EI4GNB in Ireland for the first LY-EI QSO on the new 40 MHz amateur ban...

On the morning of the 10th of June, I left the radio monitoring the WSPR frequency on 20m to see if I would hear anything special. I noted t...

The PDF version of the Summer 2020 edition of ECHO IRELAND, the IRTS newsletter is now available for members to download... www.irts.ie/e...

Back in June of 2018, I had a post up about how I had noticed an illegal fishing buoy on the FT8 frequency of 28.074 MHz. Today, I noticed ...

There was a nice trans-Atlantic opening on 28 MHz and 50 MHz late on Sunday the 7th of June 2020 . I had no real interest in trying to ma...

I'm always interested to hear about other users of the low VHF bands and it was brought to my attention recently that there was a lic...

There is annular solar eclipse coming up on Sunday the 21st of June 2020 and the track is shown above. An annual eclipse is where the mo...

In October of 2018, six radio amateurs from the UK activated Christmas Island which is to the south of Indonesia in the Indian Ocean. A pres...