EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

The OZ7IGY team in Denmark have announced that their 8m beacon on 40.071 MHz has been turned off due to increased electricity costs. They w...

Just a post of some notes for my own benefit although others might find it useful as well. Even when I wasn't updating the blog for the ...

The GB3NGI beacon transmits on 432.482 MHz on the 70cms band and it is located on the summit of Slieve Annora in County Antrim in the nort...

HF & VHF Ocean Radars - 26 MHz to 43 MHz I received an email recently from Rob, PE9PE looking for the email address of Des, EI5CD to pas...

Four Days in May (FDIM) is an annual QRP convention that is held in Dayton, Ohio. A series of talks are usually given and for the 2022 even...

Back in the first half of 2022, I was following the progress of what was termed the ' ICOM SHF Project '. ICOM first announced this ...

As the title of the post says, I recently passed the 1,000 followers mark on Twitter. Just search for EI7GL there if you want to follow. Th...

Back in December of 2021, I had a post titled " More information about the proposed Amateur TV experiments at 29.250 MHz & 51.7 MHz...

Just a quick post. As a storm passed over Ireland this afternoon, I dropped my vertical antenna for 28 MHz to protect it from the high winds...

Just a quick post to say that there was a F2 layer opening between Europe and North America on the 40 MHz band on Friday 4th Nov 2022 . Wit...

Every day, I leave my HF radio on the 28.1246 MHz to listen for WSPR signals. My PC then decodes these and sends the reception reports up ...