Kilocycle Palaces: Network Radio’s Opulent Studio Buildings of the 1930s and 40s
By John Schneider W9FGH
By the 1930s radio had shed its experimental nature and became a big business. Both NBC and CBS had become immensely popular and profitable businesses. With nearly unlimited advertising money flowing into the network coffers, no cost was spared by either network on lavish new studio facilities around the US.
The R. L. Drake Company: Ahead of Their Time
By Mark Haverstock K8MSH
Drake radios are really an icon in ham radio history. The audio quality is outstanding, the selectivity first rate, and you can put out a big signal—300 watts PEP. And, though many that you’ll find used are more than 50 years old, they’ll still hold their own with the modern radios in your shack. Mark looks at the history of this much-loved radio manufacturer.
70 Years of the Historic CK722 Transistor
By Richard Fisher KI6SN
With the invention of the transistor in June 1948, came the dawn of a new era of electronics. In 1953 Raytheon, the maker of the CK722 transistor, was offering $10,000 in prize money to hobbyists who come up with “the most ingenious applications of their junction transistor.” Richard celebrates the 70th anniversary of the introduction of this electronic marvel to the world’s radio hobbyists.
Politically Inspired Radio Traitors of WWII
By Fred Waterer
Longtime shortwave listener and author of TSM’s The Shortwave Listener column, Fred Waterer, looks at the long list of WWII radio personalities whose broadcasts to troops and supporters on both sides earned the wrath and ridicule of listeners worldwide. Their short-lived celebrity status sometimes ended in obscurity, prison, or execution.
A Towering Ambition: Tesla at Wardenclyffe
By Georg Wiessala
Nikola Tesla was an ambitious dreamer of extravagant projects that walked the thin line between science and fiction at a time when the public couldn’t tell the difference. Georg takes up the tale of Tesla’s scheme to radiate electrical energy through high-frequency waves propagated through the earth itself with funding from no less than J. P. Morgan, the great industrial tycoon.
Vintage Radio’s Social Legacy
By Chrissy Brand
This month Chrissy examines how radio of the past can play a role in society today, in public spaces from art galleries to cafes and in old-time radio broadcasts as well as recent revered weekly shows that entertained as well as educated. Best of all, she finds that they are still heard today, sometimes on podcasts and sometimes even on the air.
Scanning America
By Dan Veeneman
Scanning Walton County, Florida
Federal Wavelengths
By Chris Parris
Airport Travel Monitoring
Utility Planet
By Hugh Stegman
WRC-23 World Radio Conference Begins
Shortwave Utility Logs
By Mike Chace-Ortiz and Hugh Stegman
The World of Shortwave Listening
By Rob Wagner VK3BVW
Anniversaries, Indonesia, Myanmar, Vanuatu and B23 Changes
The Shortwave Listener
By Fred Waterer
Holiday Shortwave Programming
European Radio Scene
By Georg Wiessala
A Month of Jubilees and Mediterranean MW
Radio 101
By Ken Reitz KS4ZR
The World of Digital AM/FM/SW Reception
Amateur Radio Satellites
By Keith Baker KB1SF/VA3KSF
Spotlight on DOSSAF-85 (RS-44)
Adventures in Radio Restorations
By Rich Post KB8TAD
The Megacycle Meter—Measurements Model 59 and other GDOs
The Longwave Zone
By Kevin Carey N2AFX
Receiver, Radio, BC-453-B
Digitally Speaking
By Cory GB Sickles WA3UVV
Mobile Antennas in Compromising Positions
Amateur Radio Insights
By Kirk Kleinschmidt NT0Z
Science is Always Wrong—End-Fed Edition
VHF and Above
By Joe Lynch N6CL
GPS Spoofing Grows in Frequency as Wars Break Out