TSM 2017 Air
Show Preview
By Brian and Jo
Marie Topolski
Get ready to
experience high-performance jet teams, prop planes, WWI and II aircraft,
parachute jump teams, wing-walkers, helicopters, jet-powered trucks, boats and
fascinating static displays In all manner of combinations, these components are
designed to thrill, enlighten and inspire. Veteran air show attendees, Brian
and Jo Marie Topolski, tell you what to expect, what to bring and how to
position yourself to get the most out of the show. Don’t forget to bring your
camera and scanner!
Blue Angels and
Thunderbird Crashes Mar 2016 Air Show Season
By Kevin Burke
2016 was a trying year for
air shows, with both of the Thunderbirds and Blue Angels having crashes on the
same day. While the Thunderbird pilot was able to eject to safety
the Blue Angels pilot, Captain Jeffrey M. Kuss, USMC, was killed as he was
starting a practice demonstration in Smyrna, Tennessee. Kevin takes a closer
look at the mishaps.
Frequency Guide
to Air Show Monitoring
By Larry Van
Horn N5FPW
Milcom specialist and aeronautical radio author, Larry Van
Horn N5FPW, gives us all the frequencies we’ll need to monitor air shows this
season. He writes, “With a radio scanner in hand, you will experience a whole
new perspective of the show that few attendees will get to experience—radio
communications from the aircraft cockpit of the show performers.” Even if you
don’t go to an air show this season, you can use these frequencies to monitor
what’s happening in the air all around where you live.
ADS-B Monitoring
with a Raspberry Pi
By Stan Nelson
KB5VL
TSM’s Amateur
Radio Astronomy columnist goes near-space as he shows us how to monitor
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) transmissions from aircraft
flying over your house within a 200-mile radius using a dedicated Raspberry Pi
computer and an ADS-B antenna.
2017 Air Show
Schedule
There’s an air
show coming to your area of the US and Canada this season. TSM presents the
schedules of some of the more popular air show participants including, USAF
Thunderbirds, USN Blue Angels, US Army Golden Knights, RCAF Snowbirds, RCAF
C-18 Hornet, and Goulin Aerosports.
Scanning America
By Dan Veeneman
A Look at OpenSky and Scanning Counties
from Indiana and Virginia
Federal
Wavelenghts
By Chris Parris
Scanning Super
Bowl 51
Utility Planet
By Hugh Stegman
DVA: Now They’re
Talking
Shortwave
Utility Logs
By Hugh Stegman
and Mike Chace-Ortiz
Digitally
Speaking
By Cory GB
Sickles WA3UVV
Do You Already
Own a Digital Repeater?
VHF and Above
By Joe Lynch
N6CL
SDRs, Free Books
and Ham Radio at West Point
Amateur Radio
Insights
By Kirk
Kleinschmidt NT0Z
Talk This Way!
Radio 101
By Ken Reitz
KS4ZR
TSM Reviews:
Como Audio Duetto Wi-Fi Radio
Radio
Propagation
By Tomas Hood
NW7US
The Ionosonde
World of
Shortwave Listening
By Keith Perron
Not the Last of
Radio Australia
The Shortwave
Listener
By Fred Waterer
Eclectic
Programming is Everywhere!
Amateur Radio
Satellites
By Keith Baker
KB1SF/VA3KSF
Amateur Radio
Satellite Gatherings Plus AMSAT Update
The Longwave
Zone
By Kevin O’Hern
Carey WB2QMY
The
Longwave-Aviation Legacy
Adventures in
Radio Restoration
By Rich Post
KB8TAD
A 1940 Bakelite
Radio: Zenith 6D510W
Antenna
Connections
By Dan Farber
AC0LW
Transitions:
Getting from A to B (or 50 to X)