EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

Hot on the heels of the last post about the 5400km TEP opening on 144 MHz between Argentina and the island of Aruba , we have details of som...

In two recent posts, I covered some recent 144 MHz TEP openings from Guadeloupe to Brazil during October 2020 and from  Curacao to Argentin...

After a long solar minimum slumber, the sun has really begun to wake up in the last few weeks. On the 24th of November 2020 , the solar flux...

  At the virtual Radio Amateurs of Canada conference last September, teacher Kelly Shulman, VE3KLX gave an interesting presentation about l...

The Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) held their annual conference online this year and as part of the event, there was a talk by Ron Schwartz ...

  Ofcom is the licensing authority for the radio spectrum in the UK and in a response to an informal query, they indicated to the Royal Soc...

 The map below shows the FT8 signals heard on 28 MHz on Friday the 20th of November 2020. There was evidence of some Sporadic-E to central ...

  In this months RADCOM magazine from the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB), there was an interesting news article about a new propagat...

  As can be seen from the map above, there was a pretty good opening on 28 MHz on Saturday the 14th of November 2020 . Even though I have h...

  The conditions on 28 MHz on Friday the 13th of November 2020 weren't great but the band did open up to the USA. There were some Spor...

  As part of their ongoing presentation series online, the Mid Ulster Amateur Radio Club  recently had an interesting talk on Amateur Radio ...

On the 16th of October 2020 , there was a remarkable 3000+ km contact made on the 70cms band between South Africa and St.Helena in the So...

  While the main Sporadic-E season occurs mainly from May to July every year, there are still smaller openings at other times of the year. O...

 After reading reports of recent activity on 28 MHz , I started listening again on FT8 on the 10-metre band to see what conditions were like...

 In a recent post , I reported on a Trans-Equatorial Propagation (TEP) contact between Guadeloupe and the south of Brazil on 144 MHz which h...

In November of 2019, Galway Radio Club released Issue 1 of their annual newsletter and it was read by radio amateurs all over the world. Th...

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...