EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

Bernie, ZS4TX reports that a new 144 MHz beacon has started in South Africa to investigate the possibility of Trans-Equatorial Propagation...

The most significant VHF amateur radio news at the moment in Europe is without doubt the TEP (Trans-Equatorial Propagation) openings on 144 ...

As outlined in this previous post, there was a TEP (Trans-Equatorial Propagation) opening on the 144 MHz band between Namibia and Greece ...

  Over the last few years, there have been many reports of contacts on 144 MHz from South America to the Caribbean region via Trans-Equator...

In a previous post , I outlined how the BBC Radio 4 service on 198kHz on the Long Wave band was likely to close in the summer of 2025. It n...

From the IRTS... " HAREC Exams on May 11th in Dublin and Tralee, Co. Kerry The IRTS Examinations Board is pleased to announce that it h...

Conditions on the 28 MHz band over the last few weeks have been excellent and using the WSPR beacon mode, I have heard 20 stations in Aust...

I managed to work the 7P8EI in Lesotho today on 28 MHz CW, my first DX contact in about 12-months! I have no idea if it's a new country...

VY0ERC is an amateur radio station located at a weather station on Ellesmere Island at 80 degrees north in the Canadian Arctic. They operat...

Over the last few weeks, I have been listening on the WSPR frequency of 28.1246 MHz and feeding the decoded WSPR signals to the WSPRnet we...

Robbie, EI2IP reports that there was an unusual opening on the 28 MHz band on the 21st of March 2024. At the moment, the 28 MHz band close...

The second edition of my new newsletter is now up on Substack.  EI7GL Amateur Radio Newsletter #0002 - 22nd March 2024 Summary: - Intro HF B...

The Long Wave Band covers frequencies from 144 kHz to 281 kHz and was once a popular band in Europe for broadcasting. Over the last decad...

If you were to ask a member of the public about the subject of 'radio', they'll probably answer that it was some old technology ...

Lightning scatter is one of those exotic propagation modes that sometimes get a mention in books and articles but there seems to be very fe...

 In a previous post , I looked at the Low Interference Potential Devices ( LIPD ) Class Licence in Australia and how it allowed individuals ...

I was recently looking at the website of Bert Modderman, PE1RKI in the Netherlands and I noticed that he is selling cavity filters for the ...

As we approach the equinox, there are some really good openings on the 50 MHz (6m) band. On the 9th of March 2024 , there was a path open fr...

First a note... this story is from March 2020! However, I only came across it today and I think some might find it of interest. Extract from...

7th March 2024: It's time to try something new! I have just started a new amateur radio newsletter with an emphasis on radio experiments...