TSM Reviews: Xiegu X6100
By Thomas Witherspoon K4SWL
Xiegu has become quite a household name among HF field operators and TSM has reviewed the G90 and X5105 transceivers in past issues. In fact, many newly licensed amateurs have turned to Xiegu products as economic alternatives to other more expensive HF rigs. Thomas looks at the pros and cons of this new Xiegu model.
MFJ Line-Noise Interference Locators
By Bob Grove W8JHD
Most of us face an endless barrage of interference generating sources, which detract from listening to radio communications. Much of this noise is related to the AC electric wiring inside and outside the homes as well as myriad devices that may also be noise culprits. Tracking these sources down can be easy with several devices from MFJ. Bob puts the MFJ-852 and 5008 to work in his own home.
Mistaken Identity: Will the Real J-38 Please ‘Key Down’?
By Richard Fisher KI6SN
For decades, Richard used a cherished Morse key that he had always assumed was another of the ubiquitous J-38 keys cranked out by the tens of thousands for most of the last century. Closer scrutiny proved it was not. Looks can be deceiving and in his quest to identify his key, Richard entered the world of Morse key experts—even they were stumped.
KDKA Pittsburgh: Listen to What They Started
By Mark Haverstock K8MSH
Like many early American broadcast stations, KDKA is a direct descendant of an amateur experimental station. 8XK was operated by Frank Conrad, who was more than just a radio experimenter. With more than 200 patents to his name over the course of his lifetime and his connection to the Westinghouse Electric Co., Conrad set a blistering pace for everyone else to follow.
Amateur Radio and Computers: A Divine Intersection Part 1
By Cory GB Sickles WA3UVV
If you’re a relatively new ham, you might believe that computers have always been a part of amateur radio. Not so, notes Cory. There was a time when computers were little more than a curiosity of circuits with little to do. But from the mid-1970s computers leaped with the speed of rockets into our shacks and radio would never be the same.
Scanning America
By Dan Veeneman
Scanning Santa Monica, California
Federal Wavelengths
By Chris Parris
Super Bowl 54
Milcom
By Larry Van Horn N5FPW
Anderson AFB, Guam
Utility Planet
By Hugh Stegman
Ukraine War on HF
Shortwave Utility Logs
By Mike Chace-Ortiz and Hugh Stegman
The World of Shortwave Listening
By Rob Wagner VK3BVW
Shortwave from Solomon Islands, Taiwan, Australia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Philippines and DPRK
The Shortwave Listener
By Fred Waterer
Ukraine News on Shortwave
Radio 101
By Ken Reitz KS4ZR
SWLing Eastern Europe Déjà vu
Adventures in Radio Restoration
By Rich Post KB8TAD
The Smoke Got Out: Hammarlund HQ-170
Antenna Connections
By Robert Gulley K4PKM
Feedline Nuggets
Digitally Speaking
By Cory GB Sickles WA3UVV
Need a Duplexer? Maybe Not
Propagation
By Tomas Hood NW7US
Season of Lights
Amateur Radio Insights
By Kirk Kleinschmidt NT0Z
Signs of the Times or We Get Cards and Letters
VHF and Above
By Joe Lynch N6CL
Remembering the Sarajevo Siege 1996