EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

Florian Euchner is a student at the University of Stuttgart in Germany and he recently put up a video on his YouTube channel detailing his...

It was recently announced that OFCOM, the UK regulator has given permission to talkSPORT to close down 7 of its 18 AM transmitters on the M...

Back in March of 2021, the Irish state broadcaster RTÉ announced that their DAB digital radio service was ceasing. More details in my previo...

The Murchison Wide-field Array (MWA) is a radio telescope located in a remote part of western Australia and it's made up of 4,096 anten...

For the last few years, the EI1KNH , EI0SIX and EI4RF beacons have been operating from a site to the south of Dublin with an excellent tak...

In a recent video on his popular Oxford Shortwave Log YouTube channel , Clint, M0OXF lamented on how few stations are now listed in the 202...

While the WSPR beacon mode is very common on the HF bands, it seems to have been largely ignored worldwide by the VHF community.  The excep...

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers from all over Europe to meet, share ideas and collaborate and it held this year in Brussels ...

Thanks to Amateur Radio Weekly, I came across a recent contact on the 10 GHz band that took place between the states of Tennessee and Virgi...

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 ...