The Scorpion Antenna: An All-Band Antenna for Space or HOA Restricted Hams
By Gordon Bousman NW7D
If you are one of the many hams who have moved into a Home Owner’s Association (HOA) community with antenna restrictions, you probably think that your ham career is over. The answer is: maybe not! Gordon details how enterprising hams in a large community with very restrictive antenna rules have persuaded the powers-that-be to allow amateurs (and other radio enthusiasts) to erect a modest appearing outside antenna that really performs.
Forecasting Space Weather: A Complex Challenge
By Tomas Hood NW7US
It’s a new year. Solar Cycle 25 is spinning up, with an ever increasing number of sunspots. What is the state of propagation on shortwave frequencies throughout this year? And why are we tracking space weather if we are mostly interested in conditions directly involved in our transmission and reception of radio waves in the shortwave spectrum from 3 MHz to 30 MHz?
KQV: 100 Years in the Shadow of KDKA
By Ken Reitz KS4ZR
KQV is the legacy Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, radio station that history forgot. With a similar amateur background to its better-known rival KDKA, KQV traces its radio roots through FCC records back to mid-1921. The station officially went on the air 100 years ago January 9, 1922, and is still on the air today—barely—as a whisper of its former self.
Edward R. Murrow: Inventor of Broadcast Journalism
By Scott Caldwell
Born into poverty in rural North Carolina and relocated to an equally rural home in northern Washington State, legendary newsman, Edward R. Murrow, had a humble beginning. But a favorite speech professor at college taught him the advantage of using his voice for communicating ideas. Not long after graduating, with war looming on the horizon, Murrow soon became CBS radio’s Director of European Operations. The move would allow him to take advantage of the immediacy of radio broadcasting and invent radio journalism.
A Beginner’s Guide to AM DX
By Loyd Van Horn W4LVH
It’s easy to do and a great way to while away a long winter’s evening—AM band listening for the most distant station you can hear. But be forewarned—it’s addictive! Loyd, a thirty-year AM band DXer shows us that after 100 years, the broadcast band still delivers the DX.
TSM Reviews:
The Worldwide Listening Guide by John A. Figliozzi
Winter 2021-22 Global Radio Guide by Gayle Van Horn
Reviewed by Ken Reitz KS4ZR
John Figliozzi’s Worldwide Listening Guide is a spiral-bound 168-page paper book that is not only an important guide for new world-band listeners but handy for longtime shortwave listeners as well.
Gayle Van Horn’s Global Radio Guide is a Kindle e-book listing all mediumwave and shortwave broadcasters and their frequencies by UTC around the clock. If you know what time it is, you’ll know what frequency to find your favorite international broadcasters.
Scanning America
By Dan Veeneman
Kent County, Michigan
Federal Wavelengths
By Chris Parris
Scanning Nebraska, New Mexico and El Paso
Milcom
By Larry Van Horn N5FPW
Mystery Russian HF Military Stations, Part Two
Utility Planet
By Hugh Stegman
On the Trail of MARSCOMM RTTY
Shortwave Utility Logs
By Mike Chace-Ortiz and Hugh Stegman
The World of Shortwave Listening
By Jeff White, Chairman, HFCC
Shortwave and the Utah Connection
The Shortwave Listener
By Fred Waterer
January on Shortwave and ‘Marion’s Attic’
Radio 101
By Ken Reitz KS4ZR
ATSC 3.0 Progress; HD Radio and Expanding Satellite Radio
Adventures in Radio Restorations
By Rich Post KB8TAD
Eico ST-40: An Integrated Hi-Fi Stereo Amplifier from 1961
Antenna Connections
By Robert Gulley K4PKM
The ‘L’ Antenna Option
Amateur Radio Insights
By Kirk Kleinschmidt NT0Z
Bad Weather Blues
VHF and Above
By Joe Lynch N6CL
IC 705 After Market Item: A Go Box