EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

In a previous post from October of 2024 , I reported how ZD7GWM on St Helena Island in the South Atlantic had managed to make contact with ...

In a previous post, I had information about how radio amateurs in Italy had permission to use the 40 MHz (8m) band in 2025. See post HERE Wh...

The Italian regulator has just given permission for radio amateurs to use the 40 MHz band (8m) until the end of 2025. The approval is dated...

SG Laboratory (SG Lab) is a small company in Bulgaria which makes a number of microwave products including transverters for the 1.3 GHz (23...

Back in February of 2025, I had a post up about how the Irish VHF beacon cluster near Dublin was off air for the foreseeable future. In Mar...

The Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) is a private foundation which makes annual grants and scholarships to projects that promote...

On the 22nd of March 2025, a group of Dutch radio amateurs managed to successfully bounce a 23cms microwave signal off the planet Venus usin...

On the 16th of March 2025 , there was an interesting opening on the 40 MHz (8m) band between New Zealand and the UK. ZL28M is an 8m beacon...

I recently came across a video on YouTube titled ' Understanding VHF Propagation ' by Rohde & Schwarz, a company synonymous with...

A few weeks back, I had a post up about how the EI1KNH , EI0SIX and EI4RF beacons in Ireland had to shut down due to a change of ownershi...

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...