EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity

On the 18th of November 2025, the Spanish national broadcaster RTVE issued a press release stating that they will be closing their AM netwo...

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

Note that the chart starts at 120k to make the annual change clearer The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national society for radi...

In the last few months, there has been talk on the Amateur Radio media channels about something called ' Polar Modulation '. A lot o...

Even though we have passed the peak of the current sunspot cycle, conditions on the higher HF bands and the low VHF region are still very go...

Richard, VE2DX operates a small company in Canada which designs and sell products for the amateur radio market. These include a variety of i...

Frank Donovan, W3LPL gave a presentation recently to the Madison DX Club titled ' Understanding 6 Meter Sporadic E Propagation '. Th...

Over the last few days, the conditions on the 28 MHz (10m) band have really improved as we approach the equinox. The map above shows the sta...

The World Radio TV Handbook (WRTH) has been a valuable source of information for short wave listeners and DX-ing enthusiasts for about 80 y...

Back on the 1st of December 2023, Ireland's first satellite called EIRSAT-1 was launched on a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket from Vandenberg Sp...

It was recently announced that Markus Baseler, DL6YYM has passed away. As well as being a very active QRP and CW operator, he also operated ...

About 20 years ago, RadioShack had over 8000 stores in the USA and sold a multitude of radio and electronic parts and computers.  In his mos...

For the last few weeks, I have been hearing nothing but European signals on the 28 MHz (10m) band. This is pretty normal as we're in th...