End of the road for the International Reply Coupon (IRC)... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/12/end-...

2225 km opening on the 70cms band from Madeira Island to Ireland - Oct 2023... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/12/2225...

10m QRSS Challenge: - K4BYN & KQ9RSS in the USA - 1st December 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/12/10m-...

Digital Amateur TV experiment between Belgium and Greece on the 29 MHz band - Nov 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/11/digi...

FM radio stations on 79 MHz from Brazil are heard in Portugal - 19th Nov 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/11/fm-r...

Spain allows radio amateurs access to the 40 MHz band for another 18-months... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/11/spai...

Norway 145 Alive event gets off to a flying start - 1st Nov 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/11/norw...

National Broadcaster in Spain to close its AM network on Medium Wave at the end of 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/11/nati...

Notice: Upcoming HAARP ionospheric tests from Alaska - 17th to 22nd Nov 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/11/noti...

A very basic overview of Polar Modulation and the implications for Amateur Radio... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-ve...

Opening on the 40 MHz (8m) band between the UK and Australia - 8th Nov 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/11/open...

Improving conditions on 28 MHz at the equinox - Sept 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/09/impr...

The last print edition of the World Radio TV Handbook will be in 2026... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

It looks as if Ireland's first satellite EIRSAT-1 re-entered the atmosphere sometime around 16:00 UTC on the 4th of Sept 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/09/irel...

10m QRSS Challenge: - DL3PB in Germany - 12th August 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/08/10m-...

Update: The LongChat Activity Periods for 2025 are the first Saturday and Sunday of every month... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2024/11/long...

On the 20th of July 2025, I 'saw' my 28th QRSS signal on the 28 MHz band (ON4CDJ)... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/07/10m-...

Notice: Upcoming HAARP ionospheric tests from Alaska - 23rd & 24th July 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/07/noti...

Nice short skip Sporadic-E opening on 28 MHz today with these three QRSS signals coming in from the east coast of England... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/07/10m-...

New 144 MHz beacon in Maine is beaming towards Europe - July 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-...

Sporadic-E opening reaches as high as 162 MHz in North America - 4th July 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/07/spor...

Unique FM broadcast from WA2XMN on 42.8 MHz on Thursday 19th of June 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/06/uniq...

New 40 MHz beacon in Croatia - 9A0BEZ... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/06/new-...

3700km opening on the 144 MHz band between Madeira Is and Greece - 11th June 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/06/3700...

SO3X reports working into the USA from Milton Keynes in England on the 50 MHz band on CW... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/06/open...

One of the more unusual activations. Emil, EA5/DL8JJ is operating in a tent hanging off a pole on a tiny Spanish island (IOTA EU-151)... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/06/ea5d...

There was a 3000km multi-hop Sporadic-E opening on the 144 MHz band in Europe on the 28th of May 2025 ... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/06/3000...

SteppIR to stop selling antennas to the radio amateur market... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/06/step...

4000km Trans-Atlantic opening on the 88-108 MHz FM band from Spain to Newfoundland - 29th May 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/05/4000...

FM radio stations on the Azores heard in Newfoundland... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/05/fm-r...

Unusual 5560km TEP opening on 144 MHz from St Helena to Madeira Is - Apr 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/04/unus...

Italian radio amateurs can use the 70 MHz (4m) band until the end of 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/04/ital...

Review of the new SG Lab 5.6 GHz Transverter... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/04/revi...

The Irish VHF beacon cluster is now operational again - Apr 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/04/iris...

ARDC award grant of roughly €51,000 to develop a 'New Packet Radio' network in the UK & Ireland... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/04/ardc...

Dutch radio amateurs bounce 1299 MHz microwave signals off the planet Venus... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/03/dutc...

Opening on the 40 MHz band between New Zealand and the UK - 16th March 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/03/open...

Nice video by Rohde & Schwarz covering the basics of VHF Propagation... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/03/vide...

New site found for Irish beacon network - March 2025 ...https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/03/new-site-found-for-irish-beacon-network.html

Novel use of ESP32 modules to 'see' microwave Wi-Fi signals... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/02/nove...

talkSPORT in the UK to close 7 AM transmitters on the Medium Wave band... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/02/talk...

New DAB+ trials to commence in Ireland in 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/02/new-...

Aircraft Scatter causes interference to radio telescope in Australia... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/02/airc...

Irish VHF beacons off-air for the foreseeable future - Feb 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/02/iris...

A look back at the Long Wave band in 1991... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-lo...

It's great to see the guys in Australia testing long distance paths with WSPR on the 144 MHz band. Plenty of paths over 2500kms during Dec 2024 & Jan 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/02/ongo...

A bit of light reading... #ROTHHAMMEL #darc #antennabook

Some of the presentations at this years FOSDEM 2025 included talks on Hamnet, M17 and Meshtastic... #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2025 ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/02/fosd...

Interesting 190km contact on 10 GHz FM from Tennessee to Virginia in the United States via what looks like a knife-edge diffraction path... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/02/190k...

Successful contact on the 1296 MHz band by bouncing signals off Geostationary satellites - Jan 2025... ei7gl.blogspot.com/2025/01/succ...