Volume 2 Number 2 Table of Contents February
2015
Monitoring the Russian Navy (Part 1)
By Tony Roper
In previous articles, military monitoring specialist, Tony Roper, took
us inside NATO war games (TSM July 2014) and showed us how to monitor the
Russian Air Force (TSM October 2014). In the first of a series, Tony
turns his attention to the Russian navy and shows you how you can listen in CW
and, amazingly, even track their positions.
The
Amateur Radio Parity Act is Down, But Certainly Not Out!
By Richard Fisher KI6SN
The Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2014, proposed last June by U.S.
Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-Illinois), never got out of the House Energy
and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. To paraphrase American
author-humorist Mark Twain, the death of H.R. 4969, “is an exaggeration.”
Proposed to protect radio amateurs and other communications hobbyists from
private communities’ unreasonable antenna restrictions, it is expected to be
back in play in the newly minted 114th Congress. Think of the
legislation as merely hibernating.
Listening for WWII POWs
By Rich Post KB8TAD
It wasn't the New Year's Eve he had anticipated.
Twenty-two year old Second Lieutenant George Klare was navigator on a B-17G bomber
based in England. As part of the 418th squadron, he was at the navigator's
table reviewing the flight path of the bomber in the direction of Hamburg and
its synthetic oil refineries, which were so vital to the German war machine during
World War II. He had no idea that this might indeed be the last time he would
see London during the war.
W9GRS: Middle School Amateur Radio Station Update
By Troy Simpson W9KVR
Teaching junior high science can never be accused
of being boring, at least here in rural Illinois. Coming off what I would call a “rebuilding
year,” in my last article, the 2014-2015 school year has seemed to hit its
stride and halfway through we can say it has been a very eventful year! The
school station W9GRS has settled into its new home in Room 115 with the sounds
of PSK31 tones and voices often filling the air during the last class period of
the day.
D-STAR – its History and its
Future
By Cory GB Sickles WA3UVV
In 1999, about 10 years after the genesis of P25, the Japan Amateur
Radio League (JARL) began developing a new standard for digital voice and data
operation. Predominately funded by the Japanese government, in a similar – but
different – way we might find a project funded by a grant allocation, the JARL
committee’s work was released in 2001 and the Digital Smart Technologies for
Amateur Radio—D-STAR was created. But why has the second oldest and
first digital voice methodology created specifically for amateur radio taken so
long to take hold and what is its future?
Scanning America
By Dan Veenaman
Boseman, MT, Becker County, MN,
and Phase-II
Federal Wavelengths
By Chris Parris
New York City Federal Monitoring Continued
Utility Planet
By Hugh Stegman NV6H
Cuba Intrigue Continues
Digital HF: Intercept and Analyze
By Mike Chace-Ortiz AB1TZ/G6DHU
North Korea Diplomatic HF
Operations
HF Utility Logs
By Mike Chace-Ortiz and Hugh Stegman
Amateur Radio Insights
By Kirk Kleinschmidt NT0Z
Interference? You Ain’t seen Nothin’
Yet!
Radio 101
By Ken Reitz KS4ZR
Cuban Baseball, International
News and World Music
Radio Propagation
By Tomas Hood NW7US
Fundamentals: the Ionosphere
The World of Shortwave Listening
By
Andrew Yoder
2015 Winter SWL Fest
The Shortwave Listener
By Fred Waterer
Central European Shortwave
Broadcasts
Amateur Radio Astronomy
By Stan Nelson KB5VL
Watching the LWA at Home
The Longwave Zone
By Kevin O’Hern Carey WB2QMY
What can be heard on Longwave?
Adventures in Radio Restoration
By Rich Post KB8TAD
The Admiral Bean-Counter Special
The Broadcast Tower
By Doug Smith W9WI
The All-Important Ratings
Antenna Connections
By Dan Farber AC0LW
Down to Earth: An Overview of RF
Ground Principles
Radio Horizons
“Shortwave Receivers Past & Present: Communications Receivers 1942-2013
By Fred Osterman N8EKU; Bose SoundTouch™ Wi-Fi Radio; “The Challenging Crystal Set”
By Ray Cole; DXtreme Station Long – Multimedia Edition, Version 11.0
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