EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

The Mid-Ulster Amateur Radio Club are continuing their successful lecture series for 2020 and on Tuesday the 27th of October, they had a pr...

  On the 5th of October 1976 , the Irish postal service issued special stamps commemorating the 50th anniversary of broadcasting in Ireland....

  In the past, traditional good quality superhet receivers have tended to be somewhat expensive as they required a fair amount of hardware i...

  EIRSAT-1 is due to be released from the International Space Station sometime in 2021 and this will be Ireland's first satellite in sp...

  South Dublin Radio Club had an interesting Zoom presentation on the 20th of October 2020 about the historic SAQ transmitter in south-wes...

  With Trans-Equatorial Propagation (TEP), zones of high ionization occur either side of the geomagnetic equator in the F layer of the iono...

The SAQ station in Sweden is a low frequency radio station that uses a mechanical alternator to transmit on 17.2 kHz . This was established...

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the annual RSGB convention was held online on the 10th of October 2020. They had two video streams goi...

  The above chart shows the number of DMR (Digital Mobile Radio) registrations by EI stations for every quarter up to the end of Q3 2020 ....

  This might be of interest to anyone who monitors or listens to traffic on the Marine VHF band . The channels / frequencies for the Irish C...

EIRSAT-1 is Ireland’s first satellite and a team of students in University College Dublin (UCD) are designing, building, testing and will ...

  In a ruling issued on the 2nd of October 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the USA announced that the amateur radio ser...

  Amateur Data Interchange Format (ADIF) is an open standard for the exchange of data between various amateur radio software packages from d...

The amateur radio digital network of repeaters on the 2m & 70cms bands in Ireland is gradually changing and evolving and it is sometime ...

As part of the ongoing Cork VHF Group nets on Tuesday evenings, we hold an experimental night whenever there is a fifth Tuesday in the month...

  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. ...