2017 TSM Index
FEATURE ARTICLES
The month and
page number follow each entry.
Air Monitoring
2017 Air Show
Preview Mar 12
Blue Angels and
Thunderbird Crashes Mar 2016 Air Show Season Mar 17
2017 Frequency
Guide to Air Show Monitoring Mar 19
ADS-B Monitoring
with a Raspberry Pi Mar 25
2017 Air Show
Schedule Mar 27
Amateur Radio
Going Portable
with Amateur Radio Satellites Apr 13
Using Weak
Signals to Reach for the Sky Jun 19
Rocky Mountain
Ham Radio Microwave Backbone and DMR Repeater Network Aug 10
Using Weak-Signal
Modes for Propagation, RFI and Antenna Analysis Aug 23
Rocky Mountain
Ham Radio Inc., the Dayton Hamvention 2016 Club of the Year Sep 18
A Visual Tour of
the Tokyo Ham Fair Oct 16
Entry Level HF
Transceiver Comparison Oct 23
Shortwave Radio
Living the
Shortwave Broadcasting Dream at WTWW Jan 9
Going Mobile
with SDR Jan 18
The “Russian
Woodpecker” HF Demon of the 1970s—80s Feb 12
Over-the-Horizon
Radar Today Feb 15
TSM Reviews:
World Radio TV Handbook Feb 28
DRM—Digital
Radio Mondiale Spectrum within a Spectrum May 19
Equipment Reviews
SteppIR BigIR MK
IV: Going to Great Lengths Jan 14
Klingenfuss
Shortwave Utility, Broadcast and Frequency Guides Jan 31
Putting My
Hand-held Antennas to the Test Feb 23
QRP Labs
Ultimate 3S Transmitter Kit May 9
DX Engineering
HF Portable TW Antennas May 16
Yaesu FTM-100
DR: Amateur Friendly Digital Operating Jun 10
W4OP Loop
Antenna Aug 19
Icom IC-R8600
All-Band All-Mode Software Defined Receiver Sep 10
Digitech ARI780
Oct 20
Yaesu FT-891
All-Mode HF+6 100 Watt Transceiver Nov 9
SpyVerter V2 Nov
13
Yaesu FT-70DR
Dec 24
Over-the-Air AM/FM/TV and Free-to-Air
Satellite TV
Basics of
Motorized Satellite Reception: Part 1 Jan 28
Big Dish Movers:
Horizon-to-Horizon Actuators Feb 34
Motorized
Ku-band Satellite Reception Apr 30
Results of FCC
Incentive Auction and Repacking of US TV Spectrum May 22
TV Band
Re-packing Report: New Channel Assignments by TV Markets from #1 to #57 June 29
TV Band
Re-packing Report: New Channel Assignments by TV Markets Part 2 Jul 34
TV Band Re-packing
Report: New Channel Assignments by TV Markets Part 3 Aug 30
Impact of the
FCC’s TV-Band Repack Sep 23
General Interest Radio
The Extra Punch
of SSB on CB Jan 24
Computers and
Ham Radio—Part 001 Feb 29
Community
Emergency Response Teams: Are You Ready for a Disaster? Apr 17
Outernet Update:
Free, One-way Internet now via L-Band Satellite Apr 22
Computers and
Ham Radio Part 010 Apr 25
Tuning Out?
History and Legacy of Longwave Broadcasting in Europe May 13
FCC Rewrites
some Rules for CB/FRS/GMRS/MURS and Amateur Radio Jun 25
The Voice of
America at 75 Jul 9
Xenia, Ohio,
Hamvention: The Good, the Bad and the Muddy Jul 29
Introduction to
Scanning Today Aug 14
Sputnik
Remembered Oct 10
The European DX
Council at 50 Oct 25
Trans-Equatorial
Propagation: Pillows in the Sky Oct 29
Annual Scanner
Buyer’s Guide Nov 16
The Brief and
Colorful History of Private US Shortwave Giants Dec 13
Vintage Radio
Boy’s Life Radio
Club: The biggest SWL club of the 1950s nobody’s heard of Feb 17
The Junior Radio
Club Feb 21
Early Radio
Broadcasting: Publicity Stunts and Unusual Broadcasts Jun 14
Heavenly Fires
and Lights without Wires Jul 15
‘Modernizing’
the TV7/U Tube Tester with Sencore, Hickok, or Homebrew Adapter July 19
Electrical
Pioneers: The Life and Times of Guglielmo Marconi and Ernst Alexanderson Sep 14
The Beginnings
of Sports Broadcasting and Radio’s First Sports Broadcasters Dec 8
Meter Matters:
Modern vs. Vintage Meters in Radio Restoration Dec 18
REGULAR COLUMNS
Scanning America
New Digital
Modes for Some Scanners Jan 32
TETRA, LTR and
two New York, Texas Counties Feb 37
A Look at
OpenSky and Scanning Counties from Indiana and Virginia Mar 34
Marin County
(CA); N. Dakota and Radio Shack Goes Bust (Again) Apr 33
Charlotte County
(FL) and Dallas County (IA) May 27
Details on
Whistler’s Legacy Scanner Upgrade Offer Jun 36
Washington
County, Oregon; Minnesota Refinery Jul 42
Winnebago County
(IL), Broward County (FL) Aug 36
Dubuque County
(IA) and RACOM Sep 26
Post Falls and
Kootenai County, Idaho Oct 33
Scanning Midwest
Utilities’ DMR Services Nov 27
Interoperability
Update; Orange County, Virginia Dec 27
Federal Wavelengths
A New Year in
Federal Monitoring Jan 36
Scanning Los
Angeles Feb 41
Scanning Super
Bowl 51 Mar 38
Federal Aviation
Administration Apr 37
Shifts in
Federal Trunked Radio Systems May 31
Federal use of
Wireless VoIP Jun 40
Scanning Arizona
Jul 46
Joint Base Lewis
McChord, Washington Aug 41
Portable WHCA
Trunked Systems Sep 30
Eclipse, Weather
Provide Scanner Action Oct 37
New Kennedy
Space Center Trunked System Nov 31
Urban Area
Security Initiative Dec 31
Milcom
Twenty-First
Century Military Monitoring—This isn’t Your Daddy’s Milcom Anymore Sep 35
Introduction to
Military Monitoring: What Equipment do you need to Monitor HF Milcoms? Oct 42
Who’s Who in the
Milcom Radio Spectrum: Monitoring HF OR Frequencies Nov 36
Intro to
Military Monitoring: VHF Low Band—the Forgotten Military Band Dec 37
Utility Planet
U. of Twente
WebSDR Featured in Popular Video Jan 39
FEMA Planning
Exercises with Hams and others for 2017 Feb 47
DVA: Now They’re
Talking Mar 42
New Life Evolves
on MARS Apr 43
New Insights
into North Korean “Numbers” May 35
Historic NSS
Call Sign Returns to the Air Jun 44
Let’s Listen to
Russia Jul 52
Watching the
Eclipse with a Radio Aug 47
Tracking the
Buzzer: The World’s Most Popular Radio Station? Sep 39
Summer 2017:
Nature Gets the Last Word Oct 46
Rethinking HF
Emergency Communications Nov 41
North Korea
Resumes HF Numbers Broadcasts Dec 42
VHF and Above
Aurorasaurus.org:
Aurora Tracking in Real Time Jan 49
The Find Feb 56
SDRs, Free Books
and Ham Radio at West Point Mar 51
New Radios and
Antennas for VHF and Above Apr 52
Kenwood’s New
TH-D74 May 44
TW Antennas and
6-Meters: Part Two Jun 52
TW Antennas and
6-Meters: Part Three Jul 57
Honey, I Shrunk
the Loop! Aug 55
Honey, I
Repurposed the Loop! Sep 44
A DIY Hardware
Store 2-Meter GOTA/EMCOMM Antenna Oct 51
The Leonids
Meteor Shower Nov 46
The Geminids and
Ursids Meteor Showers Dec 48
Digitally Speaking
The Advantages
of DMR on VHF Jan 45
Looking out over
the Horizon Feb 52
Do You Already
Own a Digital Repeater? Mar 47
The Ground We
Talk On Apr 48
Feeling Like a
Kid Again May 40
The DV Landscape
in Xenia, Ohio Jun 49
Feels like the
First Time Aug 52
System Fusion II
Dec 52
Amateur Radio Insights
A Vertical in
Winter Jan 53
Big Sammy’s
Bulging Caps and the Fickle Flicker of Hope Feb 58
Talk This Way!
Morse Code: The
Original Digital Mode is Still Hanging On Apr 54
The Truth about
Lightning: Most of us are Unprepared May 45
Six-Meter
Success: You Don’t Need Much! Jun 56
‘Brit-Style’
Two-Element Yagis—Tiny Powerhouses from Across the Pond? Jul 61
RG-6: It’s Still
a Steel! Aug 59
Are Hams
Well-Meaning Scofflaws? Sep 47
The Twists and
Turns of Amateur Radio Rotators Oct 56
Antenna Tuner
Secrets Nov 51
A Vertical
Hospice! Dec 56
Radio 101
FTA Satellite TV
Part II: “Hidden Signals on Satellite TV Jan 61
How to Prepare
for the FCC’s Repacking of the US TV Bands Feb 63
TSM Reviews:
Como Audio Duetto Wi-Fi Radio Mar 59
Baseball on the
Radio: 1921 and 2017
Cord-Cutting
Update: Options for your FTA Satellite and OTA-TV Systems May 50
Over-the-Top and
Cord-Cutting Part 2 Jun 62
String Trimmer
Powered Transceiver and other Field Day Oddities Jul 66
Connection
Complications: Troubleshooting 101 Aug 63
The Ups and
Downs of Antenna Installations Sep 52
Monitoring
Emergencies via FTA Satellite Oct 61
Cruising the FM
Band with a Little Help from the Web Nov 56
AM Band DXing
Circa 1964 and Now Dec 61
Radio Propagation
Solar Cycle 24
Downgraded (Again) Jan 67
Storm-Triggering
Holes Feb 67
The Ionosonde
Mar 63
An Ice Age and
Disappearing Sunspots? Apr 65
Setting it
Straight… May 54
Summer
Tropospheric Propagation and VHF DX Jun 66
Breakthrough in
Solar Science Jul 69
Coronal Mass
Ejection Science Aug 66
Historic Event
in Cycle 24: the GLE Sep 56
A Last Hoorah?
Oct 65
The Sun Blasts a
Hole in Earth’s Magnetic Shield Nov 61
Dec 66
The World of Shortwave Listening
SW DX Contest,
SWLFest and Global HF Weekend Feb 70
HFCC B16
Coordinating Conference in Miami and Okeechobee Feb 71
Not the Last of
Radio Australia Mar 67
Radio Australia:
A Possible Return? Apr 70
The Shortwave
Scene in the Middle East May 58
Pirate Shortwave
Radio Mysteries Jun 69
Radio-Television
Hong Kong: 20 Years after the Handover Jul 72
The Use and Abuse
of SINPO Aug 70
Shortwave
Broadcasters Meet on the West Coast of N. America Sep 60
AM and SW
Pirates: Then and Now, Plus: Global HF Pirate Weekend Oct 70
Rick O’Shea: An
American DJ in Asia Nov 65
Making Shortwave
Audio More Listenable Dec 70
The Shortwave Listener
Radio Australia
Leaves Shortwave Jan 78
Interesting
Programming via Shortwave and Internet Feb 74
Eclectic
Programming is Everywhere! Mar 71
VOA at 75; WBCQ,
RRI and RNZI Apr 75
Korea (North and
South) on SW; New BBC Programming May 63
Changes in
International Shortwave Broadcasting Jun 73
RAE on WRMI and
BBC/DW Programs Jul 76
Radio from Four
Continents via Shortwave and Internet Aug 74
North vs. South
Korea on Shortwave: CFRX, BBC Programming and More! Sep 66
BBC Programming
for October and More Oct 75
BBC Broadcasts
to North Korea; Reach Beyond Australia and Religion on Shortwave Nov 69
2017 SW Review
and New Programming Dec 76
Maritime Monitoring
The Old and the
New Jan 81
A System for a
System Apr 78
Great Lakes:
High Water, High Traffic Jul 79
Nothing Remains
the Same Except Change! Oct 77
Amateur Radio Astronomy
Back to Basics
Feb 77
1420 MHz Band
Interference May 66
New Callisto
Devices Aug 77
Solar Eclipse
VLF Effects Nov 72
Amateur Radio Satellites
Amateur Radio
Satellite Gatherings Plus: AMSAT Update Mar 74
Portable Amateur
Radio Satellite Antennas in Action Jun 76
Spotlight on
Chinese Amateur Radio Satellites Sep 69
A Wealth of New
Amateur Radio Satellites Dec 79
The Longwave Zone
More LW
Information Sources and Readers’ LW Logs Jan 84
630-Meter Action
and Readers’ Reports Feb 80
The
Longwave-Aviation Legacy Mar 78
Turning the
Tables: Reverse Beacon Network Apr 82
Introducing a
New Band: 630 Meters! May 69
Next Up:
2200-Meters Jun 79
Portable
Picker-Upper Jul 83
630-Meter Band
Plan Takes Shape Aug 80
Gear up for a
new Season Sep 73
Get it in the
Log! Oct 81
220m/630m: Are
You Registered Yet? Nov 75
Primetime
Arrives! Dec 83
Adventures in Radio Restoration
Hallicrafters
S-38B: the UL-Approved Basket Case Jan 88
Raymond Loewy
meets Rube Goldberg: the Hallicrafters SR-75 Feb 83
A 1940 Bakelite
Radio: Zenith 6D510W Mar 82
Philco 46-350:
The “Tambour Door” Portable Apr 86
Philco 48-360:
Last of the “Woody” Portables May 73
Restoring a
Heathkit DX-60 Transmitter Jun 82
Heathkit HR-10B
Receiver Jul 86
Heathkit HG-10B
VFO Aug 83
The “Moving
Coil” Radio: National NC-100 (RCK Version) Sep 76
Re-converting a
Radio for the Summer of ’42 (Motorola 50P for Pontiac) Oct 85
Putting the
Spark back into a Sparks-Withington (Sparton 141X) Nov 78
What’s an
“Acoustic Labyrinth?’ The Stromberg-Carlson 240M Dec 86
Antenna Connections
Sunspots Maybe,
Part 2: Hey Dan, What About Stealth? Jan 93
Antenna 101: A
Timely Review of What We’ve Learned Feb 90
Transitions:
Getting from A to B (or 50 to X) Mar 87
HF: Antenna
“Comfort Zone” Apr 91
Balanced
Feedline: Ace in the Hole May 77
Closer to
Daylight: Antennas at VHF and UHF Jun 87
Antenna
Polarization: Which Way is Up? Jul 90
Stealth: A
Philosophy and a Methodology Aug 87
Antenna 101: A
Nuts and Bolts Review Sep 83
Getting High:
Antenna Effects and Oddities at UHF and Up Oct 91
Transformations:
Getting from X to 50 Nov 83