EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

As we continue through the summer Sporadic-E season, the FT8 mode is continuing to show up more really long distance paths on the 144 MHz (...

On the 3rd of June 2025 , there was an extensive opening on the 50 MHz (6m) band between Europe and North America. While we can be almost c...

I came across this info from the DX World website today and I thought it was pretty amazing. Emil, DL8JJ is operating as EA5/DL8JJ on the P...

On the 28th of May 2025 , there was a Sporadic-E opening in Europe on the 144 MHz band. While single hop Sporadic-E openings are of interes...

The antenna company SteppIR has announced that as of the 31st of August 2025, it will no longer be selling antennas to the 'consumer mar...

On the 29th of May 2025, FM DXer Larry Horlick, VO1FOG in Newfoundland, Canada managed to hear FM radio stations 88 to 108 MHz band from t...

On the 13th of May 2025, FM DXer Larry Horlick, VO1FOG in Newfoundland managed to log quite a number of FM radio stations from the Azore Isl...

It's always interesting to read about how the low VHF band above 30 MHz was used over the years for various applications. In the United ...

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...