Bear Hunting:
Tracking Russian Air Force Flights
via CW and SSB
By Tony Roper
When Tony Roper
talks about bear hunting, he’s not referring to tracking furry
creatures around the countryside using sophisticated radio devices as aides. He’s referring
to monitoring the Russian Air Force Strategic Bomber
networks on HF. The Bear networks
use both CW and USB for communication; CW is Duplex with ground stations
on one frequency and the aircraft on another;
while in USB mode, the networks are
simplex. Tony shows you when,
how and where to find
these bears of the air.
Free-to-Air C and Ku-band Satellite Signals in North America
By Ken Reitz KS4ZR
As the current solar cycle continues
its fade and international shortwave broadcasters continue chiseling away at their budgets and on-air
schedules, wouldn’t it be great to have a radio that picks
up the latest English broadcasts from around the world in full fidelity audio, without
fading, static and other
atmospheric problems and cost
less than $200 with no
monthly fees or Internet
connection? And, what if this same system could tune in dozens
more TV and radio signals? That’s the advan-
tage of Free-to-Air C and Ku-band satellite monitoring in North America.
The Summer
of ’42 Radios
By Rich Post KB8TAD
Rich Post had promised
a fellow ham, to whom he owed several favors,
that he would look at an old radio that he would like to have working again.
Rich had just opened the front door as two friends were carrying
a small console radio up the sidewalk to his house when he glimpsed
the back of the cabinet
and immediately recognized the Philco
from a distance. “It’s a
Summer of ‘42 special,” he yelled out. The radio
was a Philco model A-361,
first sold in April 1942. His friends understand-
ably looked a bit puzzled
at his comment, so he proceeded to explain the history behind the set’s existence.
Pirate Radio Superlatives
By Andrew Yoder
Over the years, radio listeners have asked Andrew, “Who was the first pirate?”
or, “Who was the first pirate
to broadcast from a ship?” Unlike Major League Baseball, which has kept meticulous records for more than a century,
pirate radio is a largely
empty record book, with few dots to connect.
But this article
isn’t cast in bronze,
like the plaques
at the Baseball Hall of Fame. It’s more like the senior
superlatives from your old high school yearbook.
Andrew has been researching old loggings, newsletters, magazines, and books for information and here are a few of the things he’s found.
Scanning America
By Dan Veenaman
History of
Rebanding, PCWIN and the PA Turnpike
Federal Wavelengths
By Chris Parris
Hiding Federal
Communications
Utility Planet
By Hugh Stegman NV6H
More on Cuban Hybrid
Numbers
Digital HF:
Intercept and Analyze
By Mike Chace-Ortiz AB1TZ/G6DHU
The NATO STANAG4285
HF
HF Utility Logs
By Mice Chace-Ortiz and Hugh Stegman
Amateur Radio
Insights
By Kirk Kleinschmidt NT0Z
Thoughts on Stealthy
Operating, Part 1
Radio 101
By Ken Reitz KS4ZR
Highs and Lows of
DXCC and QSLing
Radio Propagation
By Tomas Hood NW7US
Researching
Propagation using JT65A: Part Three
The World of
Shortwave Listening
By Thomas Witherspoon K4SWL
Does Shortwave Have
a Future?
The Shortwave
Listener
By Fred Waterer
The German Language
on Shortwave
Maritime Monitoring
By Ron Walsh VE3GO
Once an SWL, Always
and SWL
The Longwave Zone
By Kevin O’Hern Carey WB2QMY
A Cure for PPHD
Adventures in Radio
Restoration
By Marc Ellis N9EWJ
The RCA “12,000
Miler” Comes to Life
The Broadcast Tower
By Doug Smith W9WI
Filling out the
Forms
Antenna Connections
By Dan Farber AC0LW
Understanding
Polarization: Which Way Did They Go?