EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

13th June 2021: Over Back on the 2nd of June, there was a 16,200km opening on the 50 MHz band between the Canary Islands and the north of A...

Friday 11th June 2021: Another day and another list of 3000km plus contacts on the 144 MHz band. First, we'll look at the reports and...

10th June 2021: When the events on a day have to be broken up into three posts then you know something special must have happened! 😄 This ...

Friday 11th June 2021: There was an interesting opening on 28 MHz on the morning of the 11th of June between Europe and Alaska . This is p...

Thursday 10th June 2021: In this second of three posts, we will look at some of the extraordinary paths on 144 MHz that were in excess of ...

Thursday 10th June 2021: This was a pretty remarkable day in Europe for long distance 3000km plus openings on the 144 MHz band. There is a L...

What is VOACAP?:   VOACAP (Voice of America Coverage Analysis Program) is a popular and free professional high-frequency (HF) propagation ...

7th June 2021: There was another example of a 3000km+ opening on 144 MHz between the Canary Islands and Italy. Here are a few spots from the...

On the 3rd of June, I was on the 40 MHz band listening for the new EI1CAH beacon in the west of Ireland when I noticed some very distinctiv...

  5th June 2021: Just as European stations are currently experiencing multi-hop openings on 50 MHz to Japan & China, stations in North A...

Almost but not quite:  On the 5th of June 2021, Stamen LZ1KU in Bulgaria and Oleg A65BR in the United Arab Emirates almost managed to com...

This will probably be my last post about the openings on 50 MHz between the north of Australia and Europe . Even though 15,000kms is a re...

Thursday 3rd June 2021: There was a remarkable opening on the 3rd of June from the Azores in the North Atlantic to Europe with paths in exc...

Thursday 3rd June 2021: Another day, another 15,000km opening on the 50 MHz band.... well almost. This time the longest opening seen on the...

Wednesday 2nd June 2021: Another day and yet another opening on 50 MHz between Europe and Australia.  The longest path on the day however ...

Tuesday 1st June 2021: Over the last week or more, there have been openings from Europe to Japan on 50 MHz with distances in the region of...

  Tuesday 1st June 2021: Yet another opening on 50 MHz from Australia to Europe but this one was perhaps not as good as previous days. Updat...

Following on from the weak opening on the 29th of May, there was another 50 MHz opening between Europe and Australia on Monday the 31st o...

Sat 29th May 2021: It looks as if there was a weak opening from Europe to Australia on the 50 MHz with a few weak FT8 signals making it thro...

Friday 28th May 2021: I left the radio monitoring the WSPR frequency on 28 MHz for whole day and I heard signals from all over Europe inclu...