EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

  As part of their ongoing lecture series during the COVID-19 pandemic, the RSGB had a presentation on Monday the 28th of September 2020 fro...

The IRTS recently had a news item about a 4-metre gateway in Galway in the west of Ireland. Galway Analogue 4 Metre Gateway - Following the...

Steve Wright, EI5DD has now compiled a comprehensive manual for anyone in Ireland with an interest in the DMR, C4FM and D-Star digital mode...

At a press conference on Tuesday the 15th of September 2020, scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (N...

During the current COVID-19 pandemic, the Mid-Ulster Amateur Radio Club are continuing with their successful Tuesday night lecture series. ...

  I recently got a small batch of QSL cards from the bureau and one was from a short wave listener in Germany. The only problem is that this...

As outlined in a previous post, a new DMR repeater on 70 cms should be on air near Cork City in the next few week. It will be co-sited with ...

Bit by bit, the DMR amateur radio digital network around Ireland is gradually improving. The digital EI7WCD repeater in the east of Waterfor...

In a previous post , I reported on the first ever trans-Atlantic contact between the Canary Islands and the Caribbean on 144 MHz . As with m...

It looks as if there is a remarkable tropo opening in progress at the moment with EA8CXN on the Canary Islands making contact with several s...

Long distance contacts on 144 MHz that are in the region of 3000kms are always of interest as that is the distance across the North Atlantic...

A recent video presentation by Steve Wright, EI5DD on the principles of DRM radio and the network in Ireland is shown below ........ If anyo...

The above map shows the digital DMR repeaters across the south of Ireland. The cluster in the west gives coverage across large parts of Galw...

Nearly anyone in Europe transmitting on FT8 on 28 MHz in 2020 will have been spotted by DS3SHI who is supposed to be in South Korea. This...

In a recent post , I reported on the first Slovenia to Slovenia  40 MHz contact between S50B and S59F on the 9th of August 2020. The distan...

In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, there are no Hamfests or Amateur Radio expeditions being held anywhere in 2020. As an alternative...

  My HF radio is monitoring the WSPR frequency of 28.1246 MHz most days and feeding the reception reports up to the WSPRnet website. As 10...

  The Irish 8-metre  EI1KNH beacon on 40.013 MHz is located just to the south of Dublin and became operational in May of 2020 . Due to the...

  The Mid-Ulster Amateur Radio Club are holding a series of lectures online and their most recent one was from Joe, EI7GY . While the full v...

  As shown in the graphic above, the GRAVES radar system in France is used to detect satellites that go over France. The transmitter on 143...