2021 TSM Index to Articles and Features
Feature Articles
General Interest Radio
Monitoring the Chinese Manned Space Program Jan 7
VoA: The Voice for Democracy Jan 13
Take Five (MHz): The Allure of 60 Meters Jan 13
Are You Ready for a Power Outage? Feb 18
Solar Power for Electronics Feb 24
DIY Battery Backup Power System Feb 26
The World of Amateur Radio Astronomy Apr 18
Shipborne Communications from Spark Gap to Satellite Apr 22
FRS and GMRS: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Apr 27
KiwiSDR Shortwave Listening Network Apr 31
A Cold War Demon Has Returned May 7
Hydronic Communications May 17
Anatomy of a Field Radio Kit: Part 1 Jun 7
Anatomy of a Field Radio Kit: Part 2 Jul 30
AFMARS Today Jun 13
SDR vs. Analog: Which is Better? Jun 21
Microwaves: An Introduction to Amateur Radio’s Open Frontier Jun 26
Solar Cycle 25 and 2021 Field Day Propagation Forecast Jun 30
Talking to The World via Amateur Radio Digital Voice Aug 12
Choosing an Electronic Logging Program Aug 19
How Low Can You Go? Sep 13
Electronic Logging Part 2: Online backup and so much more! Sep 18
Batteries for Amateur Radio Portable and Emergency Power Sep 23
Aviation
Air Show in the Time of COVID-19 Mar 6
2020 Boston Fly-by and the New York Airshow Mar 13
Annual Guide to Monitoring Air Shows Mar 16
Scaled-Down Aviation Action on 2.4 GHz Mar 25
Inside the Civil Air Patrol Mar 28
Radio History
Axis Radio Propaganda During WWII Part 1: Lord Haw-Haw Feb 28
Axis Radio Propaganda Part 2: Who was ‘Tokyo Rose’? Mar 32
Axis Radio Propaganda Part 3: The Voices Behind ‘Axis Sally’
Vatican Radio: 90 Years on Shortwave May 13
WLW: Zero to 500,000 Watts May 19
Cold War Communications and the Hunt for K-129 May 24
A Foot in Both Worlds: Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge Jun 17]
Shortwave Station W6XBE/KGEI at the 1939 Golden Gate Expo Jul 8
Colonial Radio and its Last Tombstone Jul 13
Radio Coverage of a Tragic Day that Changed History Jul 20
The Falklands War: Radio Broadcasting from the End of the Earth Aug 25
Legacy of HCJB After 90 Years Sep 8
Australian Trailblazer: Ruby Payne-Scott Sep 28
Amateur Radio’s Lost Tribe: The ‘Blue-Collar Scholars’ Who Started it All Oct 7
AM Band DXing Today Oct 13
Ultralight MW DXing with Ferrite Sleeve Loop Antennas Oct 17
Feeling the Geomagnetic Pulse: Antennas for the ELF and VLF Bands Oct 21
CB Radio: Six Decades of Utility and Fun Oct 27
WGEO and WGEA: General Electric’s Twin Pioneer Shortwave Stations Dec 7
Restoring 3-Way Portable Tube Radios: Two Motorolas an Automatic and RCA Dec 13
Great Novice Rigs Remembered Dec 21
The Role of Submarines in Breaking the ‘Electronic Iron Curtain’ Dec 25
Reviews
TinySA Spectrum Monitor Jan 22
Icom-705 Feb 7
RF-Kit RF2K-S Linear Amplifier Feb 13
Portable Power for Your Radios Apr 7
Blue Tail P25RX SDR Receiver Apr 13
AOR AR-DV10 Hand-Held Digital Receiver Jul 28
Field Testing the XIEGU X5105 Aug 6
Baofeng UV5R Handheld VHF/UHF Transceiver Aug 30
Yaesu FTDX10 Nov 7
Tecsun H-501x Nov 11
DMX-40 Morse Code QRP Transceiver Oct 16
2021 SDR Radio Buyer’s Guide Oct 19
2021 Annual Scanner Buyer’s Guide Oct 28
Monthly Columns
Scanning America
Sumter County (FL), Wallowa County (OR) Jan 24
The Trouble with T-Band Feb 32
Asking the FCC for 800 or 700 MHz Waivers Mar 38
800 MHz Rebanding Apr 36
Marin County, California May 29
Monitoring NXDN in New Mexico; Florida SLERS Update Jun 34
Scanning the Twin Counties in Virginia Jul 35
Richmond County (GA), Douglas County (NV) Aug 33
Santa Barbara County, California Sep 31
A Tale of Two Counties: Branch and Hillsdale (MI) Oct 32
Foresthill, California Nov 36
Michigan Public Safety Communications System Dec 30
Federal Wavelengths
Federal Monitoring 2021 Jan 28
TSA on UHF for 2021 Feb 36
Super Bowl 55 Mar 38
Finding Federal Frequencies Apr 40
IWN Updates Continued May 34
Federal Frequencies in Use Jun 38
More Federal Frequency Mysteries Jul 40
Mt. Weather and other Mysteries Aug 37
The Government Master File Revealed Sep 34
TSA UHF Update Oct 37
US Park Police Nov 40
San Diego, St. Louis, and TSA Updates! Dec 34
Milcom
The World of Strange Military Stations Jan 33
The World of Military Call Signs Feb 42
Monitoring the Coast Guard’s 911 Network Mar 49
Monitoring UHF Military Satellites Apr 44
The US Department of Defense Satellite Networks May 39
A Military Land Mobile Radio Systems Primer Jun 42
Monitoring Cutters of the Coast Guard Jul 45
Monitoring MARS Aug 41
The NTIA GMF is Public Again (Sort of)! Sep 39
More Government Master File Diving Oct 41
Prowling the DoD VHF Hi-Band Frequencies Nov 46
Little Rock Air Force Base Dec 39
Utility Planet
The Strangest Fake ‘Numbers’ Station Ever Jan 38
Norwegian Coastal Radio Feb 47
In Search of KPH Mar 53
Cuban ‘Numbers’ Revival Continues Apr 48
The 2021 ‘Numbers’ Survey May 45
Yet More on ‘Numbers’ Stations Jun 46
STANAG 4285: How NATO Rules HF Jul 48
A Quick Look at Russian HF Aug 47
US Government Releases Frequency File Sep 44
KiwiSDR ALE Scanner Goes Live Online Oct 45
New Russian ‘Numbers’ Broadcast Mystery Nov 51
NATO on HF: Tracking the NSS Mystery Dec 44
VHF and Above
Arecibo Radio Telescope: Lost to the World—Update Jan 44
Re-Branding this Column Feb 52
QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo 2021 and HamSCI Workshop Mar 58
Amateur Radio Gets a Partial Reprieve on 3.5 GHz Apr 53
FCC, ARIS, Contests and More May 50
Extraordinary VHF Openings in June Jul 53
Conferences, Achievements and Meteor Showers Aug 52
Major EME DXpeditions coming this Fall Sep 49
ARISS Space Station Contact Opportunity Oct 50
The Growing Popularity of LOTA, POTA and SOTA Nov 56
Amateur Radio Digital Communications Grants Dec 49
Digitally Speaking
Original Digital Jan 48
D-STAR Becomes more Inclusive Feb 54
Does Anybody Really Know What Time it is? Mar 62
Spring into Action? Apr 56
HF Digital Voice May 52
DMR VAR Jul 55
Zen and the Previously Owned—Part 1 Aug 56
New Radios, Old Friends Sep 53
VHF AM: The Rediscovered Country Oct 53
What’s the Big Deal about Digital? Nov 58
Rear View Review: IC-7100 Dec 51
Amateur Radio Insights
Does Your Antenna Need a Feed Line Choke? Almost Certainly. Maybe Two! Jan 52
Coax and Connector—Hacks and Recommendations Feb 58
Is 60 Meters the New Freeband Mar 67
Whither QSLing? Apr 61
We Must Call CQ! May 57
Dead Bands Tell Anomalous Tales Jul 59
Portable Power Generators—the Basics Aug 60
Don’t Let Power Outages ‘Interrupt’ Your Operating Sep 57
Shack Screens: BIG is Beautiful! Oct 57
Junk Boxes, Antiques and Parts—Fine and Fraudulent Dec 54
Radio 101
American High School Radio 2021 Jan 59
Ku-Band Free-to-Air Satellite 2021 Report Feb 65
Digital Radio Mondiale 2021 Update Mar 71
Listening to Baseball on the Radio 2021 Arp 66
Who’s Number 2 in US Broadcast Radio Licenses? May 61
An Inexpensive Field Day Antenna for All Seasons Jun 52
The Upgrading Amateur Today Jul 65
Maunder, Schmaunder and Who Needs FT8 Anyway? Aug 65
Amiko Mini-4K UHD FTA Satellite Receiver Sep 63
OTA-TV and FTA-TV Update Oct 63
Chasing HF DX Today Nov 62
Doing More with Less: Put out a Big Signal with Just 100 Watts Dec 59
The World of Shortwave Listening
AWR Wavescan: A Collaborative Effort among Shortwave Listeners and Broadcasters Jan 67
Shortwave Pirates for Turbulent Times Feb 69
Radio Veceremos; Pandemic Radio Educación in Latin America and Vladimir Herzog on the BBC Mar 75
Antennas…BIG Antennas! Apr 70
Shortwave’s Place in International Broadcasting May 65
George Zeller Tribute and Latest EU-US Pirate Loggings Jun 56
AM-FM Migration in Brazil and other News from South America Jul 69
Collecting and Honoring Old Technology Aug 70
More Virtual Shortwave Meetings and other Odds and Ends Sep 68
HF Pirates Sail on the Shortwaves Oct 67
From Mexico to Argentina via Cuba: The latest developments in Latin American Radio Nov 67
New Radios, New Stations, New Solar Cycle Dec 63
The Shortwave Listener
New Year’s Shortwave Lineup Jan 73
Radio Prague, Radio Slovenia, Texas Shortwave Radio and BBC Fare for February Feb 72
Radio Japan; Blue Radio International, CFRB, WRMI and BBC World Service Mar 80
WWCR, WRMI and BBC Fare for April Apr 74
WRNO, WTWW, WRMI May Programs May 69
RSI, TSWR, OTR and Canada D’eh! Jun 61
Pop Shop, Canada D’eh1 and More! Jul 74
Radio Tirana’s Surprising Longevity; Radio Exterior de España; BBC Fare Aug 75
Canadian Elections; Texas Shortwave; BBC Fare for September Sep 72
Fall Shortwave Programming Oct 71
60s Music, Vintage Recordings and More! Nov 72
The Festive Season on Shortwave Dec 68
Amateur Radio Astronomy
Resurrecting SETI@Home Feb 75
Interferometer Radio Astronomy Telescopes May 72
GnuRadio and Monitoring the Galactic Hydrogen Band—Part 1 Aug78
Monitoring 1420 MHz H1: Part 2 Nov 78
Amateur Radio Satellites
Amateur Radio Satellite Primer IX: More Analog (and Linear) Satellite Operating Mar 83
Amateur Radio Satellite Primer X: A ‘Really Cheap’ Portable Satellite Antenna Mount Jun 64
Amateur Radio Satellite Primer XI: (or: The ‘Gizmo’ Revisited) Sep 75
Amateur Radio Satellites: Optimizing Your Portable Satellite Station Dec 71
The Longwave Zone
Back-to-Basics (B2B) Monitoring Mar 87
Summertime Strategy June 67
Swan Song for NDBs? Sep 78
Holiday DXing Pursuits Dec 74
Adventures in Radio Restoration
The Command Receiver: Reviving an ARC-5 and a Navy ARA Jan 76
Command Receivers Part 2: Powering the Set Feb 78
Rediscovering George Grammer’s Simple Receiver: 1930s Homebrew Regeneratives Mar 90
The Universal Modulator: WRL Globe UM-1 Apr 77
The Swap Fix: A Tale of Two National NC-109 Receivers May 75
A Correspondence School Kit: A National Technical Schools KL-9 Jun 70
RCA’s Personal Jukebox: The 45-RPM Player Jul 77
The Montgomery-Ward Catalog Set; Airline Model 62-256 Aug 81
Novelty Radios: Master’s Art RT-200 and Guild 484 Sep 81
That Jukebox Sound: Wurlitzer 530 Audio Amp Oct 74
The Metal Tube Mistake: Philco 38-7 Nov 78
The Simpson Sears ‘Superpower’ Set: Silvertone Model 4165 Dec 77
Antenna Connections
A Look into Antenna Traps Jan 82
Emergency Preparedness Feb 83
Surfing Big Waves with Small Antennas! Mar 96
Harmonic Antennas Apr 82
Antennas off the Beaten Path May 80
Examining Load and Source Jun 76
Antenna Connections: Finding the Right Match Jul 83
Antennas: Breaking Bad Aug 87
Some Antenna Lessons Learned the Hard Way Sep 86
An Ounce of Prevention Oct 79
DIY Wire Antennas Nov 83
Ferrite Bars, Loop, and Magnetic Loop Antennas Dec 81