EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

I recently came across details of this remarkable contact on the 1296 MHz (23cms) band. On the 22nd January 2025 , the PI9RD station at th...

High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is based in Alaska and it's a high-power, high frequency (HF) transmitter for stu...

The 145 Alive Group are organising an activity period on the 2m amateur radio band in the UK & Ireland on Sunday the 26th of January 20...

While the summer Sporadic-E season from late April to early August is well known, there is also a much smaller Sporadic-E season during the ...

Every Tuesday evening, there is a local net here in Cork on the VHF bands where a few of us get on air for a chat for about an hour. Over th...

Over the last few years, I've reported on many Trans-Equatorial Propagation (TEP) contacts from South America to the Caribbean on the 1...

On the 7th of December 2024, PY1MHZ in Brazil and ZD7GWM on St Helena Island managed to complete a contact on the 144 MHz (2m) band. The ...

Oguz, TA2STO in Türkiye has developed a new mode called LongChat to allow radio amateurs to communicate with each other. It's describe...

Thanks to Rob, PE9PE for sending on this following news item. Omroep Venlo is a relatively low powered FM radio station in the south of the ...

In November of 2024, Carl, K9LA gave a presentation titled "Review of Propagation in the First Half of Cycle 25, and forecast for the S...

Paul Logan in the north-west of Ireland is one of the most active FM DXers in Europe and on the 10th of Nov 2024, he caught an interesting ...

Back at the end of September 2024, I had a post on the blog about the first TEP contact on the 144 MHz band between Spain and St Helena in...

Tuesday 5th Nov 2024 - I had a quick listen to the FT8 frequency of 50.313 MHz today and almost straight away, I got FT8 decodes from Indi...

  Over the last few months. I've been listening to some of the back catalogue of podcasts from the Ham Radio Workbench while I've b...

The ON4KST 'CHAT' website is a very popular tool for radio amateurs on the VHF & UHF bands as it allows them to exchange real t...

There's an expression in the English language called 'CAN'T SEE THE WOOD FOR THE TREES'. Sometimes DX on the VHF bands can b...

Now that we're at or near the peak of the sunspot cycle, there are plenty of reports on the 50 MHz (6m) amateur radio band. While north...

Thanks to short wave listener  Bill Smith, W1-7897  for sending on his 40 MHz reception report for May to August of 2024 . Bill who is locat...

A week ago on the 16th of Oct 2024 , I reported on how there was an opening on the 40 MHz (8m) band from the north of Australia to the sout...