The Voice of
America at 75
By Richard
Fisher KI6SN
The Voice of America first took to the air via shortwave in 1942 to
bring reliable news to people in war-ravaged and oppressed societies around the
world. 75 years later, some 240 million still listen each week via shortwave,
local AM and FM stations as well as online to programs in their own languages
about topics of interest to their particular regions of the world.
Heavenly Fires
and Lights without Wires
By Georg
Wiessala
Nikola Tesla,
originally from Serbia, and Kristian Birkeland, from Norway, were noted
eccentrics in their time whose work influenced a wide range of scientists in
many fields, but the two remained largely forgotten after death. Georg traces
the backgrounds and accomplishments of these two famous contemporaries whose
studies in magnetism, electricity and propagation excited great comment at the
time.
‘Modernizing’
the TV7/U Tube Tester with Sencore, Hickok, or Homebrew Adapter
By Rich Post
KB8TAD
Like many antique radio enthusiasts, Rich Post has a
military TV-7/U tube tester, designed by Hickok and built to military
specifications. However, Rich notes that all versions are limited in that they
cannot directly test the last generation of tube types such as Nuvistors,
Novars, and Compactron tubes. Find out how he ‘modernizes’ this tester to do
what he now needs it to do.
Xenia, Ohio,
Hamvention: The Good, the Bad and the Muddy
By Thomas
Witherspoon K4SWL
After decades of
residing in Dayton, Ohio, the Dayton Amateur Radio Association’s Hamvention
moved to nearby Xenia, Ohio, for 2017. Thomas Witherspoon K4SWL was on hand for
this historic change and gives us a complete report on what turned out to be a
much better attended event than the previous one.
TV Band
Re-packing Report:
New Channel
Assignments by TV Market Part 2
By Mike Kohl
Information has continued
to be released by the FCC on the repacking of TV channel frequencies across the
US. This has given Mike the opportunity to create some listings by TV market on
what the local spectrum should look like at the end of the process. In this
installment, TV markets begin with #58 Dayton, Ohio and end with #150
Rochester, Minnesota.
Scanning America
By Dan Veeneman
Washington
County, Oregon; Minnesota Refinery
Federal
Wavelenghts
By Chris Parris
Scanning Arizona
Utility Planet
By Hugh Stegman
Let’s Listen to
Russia
Shortwave
Utility Logs
By Hugh Stegman
and Mike Chace-Ortiz
VHF and Above
By Joe Lynch
N6CL
TWAntennas and
6-Meters: Part 3
Amateur Radio
Insights
By Kirk
Kleinschmidt NT0Z
‘Brit-Style’
2-Element Yagis—Tiny Powerhouses from across the Pond?
Radio 101
By Ken Reitz
KS4ZR
String Trimmer Powered
Transceiver and other Field Day Oddities
Radio
Propagation
By Tomas Hood
NW7US
Breakthrough
Solar Science
World of
Shortwave Listening
By Keith Perron
Radio-Television
Hong Kong: 20 Years after the Handover
The Shortwave
Listener
By Fred Waterer
RAE on WRMI and
BBC/DW Programs
Maritime
Monitoring
By Ron Walsh
VE3GO
Great Lakes:
High Water, High Traffic
The Longwave
Zone
By Kevin O’Hern
Carey WB2QMY
Portable
Picker-Upper
Adventures in
Radio Restoration
By Rich Post KB8TAD
Heathkit HR-10B
Receiver
Antenna
Connections
By Dan Farber
AC0LW
Antenna
Polarization: Which Way is Up?