EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

Before we get too far into 2024, I had a quick look back at the traffic to the blog in 2023. As can be seen from the chart above, the averag...

The American Radio Relay League ( ARRL ) is the national society for radio amateurs in the USA and is one of the largest if not the largest...

Salvadaor, EA5Y near Madrid in Spain recently carried out some interesting tests on the 21 MHz (15m) band at the start of December 2023 an...

The IRTS president Enda Broderick, EI2II recently gave a presentation to Engineers Ireland about amateur radio titled 'From Signals to ...

There has been some remarkable tropo conditions in Europe over the last few days with some stations completing contacts on the 144 MHz band ...

In this post, I'll outline how I used an amateur radio beacon 500kms away to find the peak of the 2023 Geminids meteor shower and what e...

RemoteQTH is a small company in the Czech Republic and they have just announced the release of a new receiver for WSPR.  It can be used fro...

Back in February of 2023, we had the 3Y0J expedition to Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic which promised a lot but disappointed many. The...

The Geminid meteor shower is one of the biggest of the year and meteors from this shower should appear from the 4th to the 20th of December....

Radio amateurs in the USA have access to an unusual band at 902 to 928 MHz which is known as the 33 cm band. Due to its unusual nature, muc...

I recently came across this morse code oscillator kit which some clubs or beginners might find of interest. While it is designed for JOTA ( ...