EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

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I read this morning the sad news that Richard Brunton, G4TUT from Rayleigh, Essex, England, passed away. He was 77. Richard was the editor ...

EIRSAT-1 stands for the Educational Irish Research Satellite 1. It is a satellite about the size of a shoe box, called a CubeSat. It is a s...

It's been about five months since I last posted on the blog as I've taken a break from the radio scene.  I've had my radio liste...

In 2021, ICOM announced that they were developing a transceiver for the microwave bands. At the time, it seemed like a highly unusual but we...

There was an interesting opening on the 18th of May 2022 when the FT8 signals from the US experimental 40 MHz station WM2XEJ in Georgia we...

Borut, S50B in Slovenia reports that on the 16th of May 2022, his FT8 signal on 40.680 MHz was heard for the first time in South America! ...

It was announced this week that the Irish trans-Atlantic 144 MHz beacon EI2DKH has ceased transmissions. Operated on behalf of the Irish R...

Following on from a recent post about some long distance openings on the 50 MHz band, Charlie TI5CDA has been in contact to report on anoth...

I was informed that there was a pretty good opening on the evening of the 3rd of May 2022 from Ireland to South America on the 50 MHz band...

On the 28th of April 2022 , Chris SP4K in Poland reported that there was an opening on the 50 MHz to South Africa, a distance of almost 90...

Thursday 28th April 2022: The Summer Sporadic-E season has started to get into full swing in Europe with openings being reported on the ban...

I was alerted recently to an unusual APRS report which suggested that there might have been an opening on the 144 MHz band between Brazil a...

Monday 25th April 2022: It was was interesting to see there there was an 18,760km opening on the 50 MHz band between Trinidad in the Cari...

A little bit of radio history was made on the 21st of April 2022 with the very first contact ever between Ireland (EI) and South Africa (ZS)...

As an experiment, the EI1KNH beacon which is on 40.013 MHz will use the following sequence for the duration of the Lyrid meteor shower fro...

Sunday 18th April 2022: During the afternoon, WM2XEK in the state of Georgia in the United States was heard across the Atlantic by EA8BFK on...

On the 14th of April 2022 , there was an interesting Transcontinental opening on the 40 MHz band in the USA. There are currently seven US r...

This really is an amazing reception report. Read on... On Sunday the 10th of April 2022 , Phil EI9KP was carrying out some experiments on t...

Thursday 7th April 2022: There was an extensive opening on the 40 MHz band and it was great to see so many stations active. The map above ...