Index of Feature Articles and Columns Published in 2024
Amateur Radio
The Many Consequences of QRP (Jan)
Medium Frequency Antennas and Transmit/Receive Switching (Feb)
‘Cheap and Cheerful’ the Ultra-Portable Venue SW3-B QRP CW Transceiver (May)
23-Centimeters: Your Gateway to the Microwaves (May)
2024 Hamvention Report (Jun)
Six Meters = Four Megs of Fun! (Jun)
An Experimental Approach for Measuring Antenna Gain Due to Counterpoise Orientation (Jun)
A Closer Look: US vs. Canadian Amateur Radio Licensing Systems (Aug)
Two Portable Vertical Antennas (Aug)
The MFJ Story: Something for Every Ham (Aug)
Using WSPR System to Estimate the Performance of Telescoping Whip Antennas (Sep)
Using an Inexpensive Chromebook for Ham Radio (Sep)
Building a Sense of Accomplishment (Sep)
A Visit to Japan for the Tokyo Ham Fair 2024 (Oct)
Operating a Special Event Station (Oct)
Air Show Monitoring
2024 Air Show Special (Mar)
How to do Air Show Photography (Mar)
Notes from the 2023 Air Shows (Mar)
Shanwick Oceanic: The Radio Gateway to Europe (Mar)
Radio Propagation
Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances (Jan)
Ionospheric Storms and Propagation (Feb)
The Solar Particle Events: Solar Radiation Storms (Mar)
Solar Cycle 25: HF Madness in May (Jun)
General Radio
From the Basement Band: The VLF Hobby in Europe (Jan)
Monitoring Canada’s Saint Clair River (Feb)
Innovation and Performance: A Look Back at the Kenwood R-5000 Receiver (Feb)
GMRS: A Seriously Useful Citizens Band (Apr)
SDRplay RSP1B and Stampfl Stressless HF Receivers (Apr)
WF-100SE Weather Station: Checking Your Weather from Wherever! (May)
Radiant Days at Radiodays 2024 (May)
Radio Waves, Secrecy and Ciphers (Jun)
Many Flavors at the Radio Fest (Jun)
Cornwall Radio and a Cape Cod Connections (Jul)
Quick Looks: Stmpfl WAVEBLCOK Preselector; Icom IC-4 AOR AR-DV10 (Aug)
Lively Listening in Latvia (Aug)
Summer Sounds and Celebrations (Sep)
Radio’s Rich Pickings (Oct)
Transforming Your Radio Shack: Designing a Radio Room for the Modern Era (Nov)
Radio During Autumnal England (Nov)
The Rise of the New Shortwave Radio (Nov)
Satellite TV
Deep Dive into Multi-Satellite Reception: Part 3 (Jan)
Ku-Band Reception with Multi-feed and Motorized Satellite Antennas (Sep)
C-Band Satellite Reception Today: Channel Charts for the CONUS (Oct)
Ku-Band Free-to-Air Satellite Today (Nov)
Television
Where is American Broadcasting’s NextGen TV? (Apr)
Locking Up NextGen ATSC 3.0 Broadcast TV (May)
NextGen Emergency Mass Communications (Jun)
Datacasting with ATSC 3.0 (Aug)
Understanding ATSC 3.0 Part 5: Datacast Internet Offload (Sep)
Vintage Radio
Those 3-Tube, Band-Switched, Regenerative Kits (May)
Signal Tracing: Those Kits from Allied, Eico, PACO and Heathkit (Jul)
Heathkit HR-1680 Solid-State SSB/CW Receiver Restoration (Dec)
Radio History
The Extraordinary Life of John H. DeWitt, Jr. (Jan)
Science, Performance and the Paranormal: Oliver Lodge (Feb)
CONELRAD: How the US Prepared for the Unthinkable (Feb)
The Pioneering Chicago Radio Laboratory (Mar)
The Tragic and Forgotten Story of Leo John Ainsworth (Jun)
The Hi-Fi AM Radio Stations of the 1930s (Jul)
Decoding Arthur Scherbius: Inventor of the Enigma Machine (Jul)
100 Years of Radio: KFRB and the Rialto Theater of Beeville, Texas (Jul)
The 1935 Explorer II Expedition: Flight to the Edge of Space (Jul)
The Dream of a Maverick Genius (Sep)
Vive la Radio: Paris, Wireless, and the Eiffel Tower (Oct)
The Battle for the News: The Press-Radio War of the 1930s (Oct)
Marconi at 150: A Year of Celebration and Reflection (Nov)
The US Navy Station NAA Arlington, VA 1913-1941 (Dec)
The Radio-Aristocracy: Count Georg von Arco (Dec)
The Channel Master Story (Dec)
A Radio Tower, an Inventor, and a Raconteur (Dec)
The Office of War Information (Dec)
Regular Columns
Scanning America
Scanning Los Angeles County, CA (Jan)
Nevada Shared Radio System (Feb)
Durant, Oklahoma, P-25 and Analog Systems (Mar)
Limestone County, Alabama (Apr)
Oakland County, Michigan (May)
Prince Edward County; Cumberland County, Virginia (Jun)
Jasper County, Missouri (Jul)
Wisconsin Scanning Update (Aug)
Montgomery County, Virginia (Sep)
Washington County, Maryland (Oct)
Colquitt County, Georgia (Nov)
Elko County, Nevada (Dec)
Federal Wavelengths
Monitoring Federal Radio Frequencies (Jan)
Federal Wavelengths Goes Exploring (Feb)
Preparing for the Big Game (Mar)
Covering the Big Game (Apr)
Campaign 2024 (May)
Federal Potpourri (Jun)
Florida Road Trip (Jul)
Federal Monitoring Mysteries (Aug)
Federal Monitoring at Home (Sep)
Radio Monitoring Day Trips (Oct)
CBP Aircraft Networks (Nov)
Federal Emergency Management Agency (Dec)
Utility Planet
Whatever Happened to VHA RHFRN? (Jan)
Final WRC-23 Wrap-up (Feb)
Global HF Net Expands Weather Broadcasts (Mar)
Strong Solar Activity Lights Up HF’s High End (Apr)
Numbers: Halloween is Early this Year (May)
Great Balls of Fire: Cycle 25 Gets Serious (Jun)
Europe: Utility Happy Hunting Ground (Jul)
Is China Building HF Intercept Stations in Cuba (Aug)
East Asia: Land of the Rising Fax (Sep)
Weather in Space, Weather on Earth (Nov)
Introduction to HF Sea Surface Radar (Dec)
Milcom
HAVE QUICK Radio: Air Show Frequency Updates
Coronet Missions (Sep)
Hampton Roads (VA) Regional US Naval Facilities (Nov)
The World of Shortwave Listening
HFCC B23 in Australia (Jan)
Seasonal HF Pirate Radio Stations (Feb)
Radio News and History from Latin America and Asia (Mar)
Hams Honor Broadcasters from the Past (Apr)
Shortwave Takes to the High Seas (May)
European and North American Pirate Shortwave Activity (Jun)
Brazilian Floods; Argentine Media Shakeup; Radio Problems in Costa Rica (Jul)
Saudi Arabia: Broadcasting Troubles in the Kingdon (Aug)
A Visit to the Armenian Radio Center at Noratus (Sep)
Global Shortwave Pirate Activity (Oct)
AM/FM/SW News from Latin America (Nov)
Philippines: A Powerful Broadcasting Voice to the World (Dec)
The Shortwave Listener
A New Year of Shortwave Listening (Jan)
February Shortwave Highlights (Feb)
Real Oldies on Shortwave + BBC Shows (Mar)
New Spring Shortwave Programming (Apr)
Canada on Shortwave (May)
Maranatha! (Jun)
July Shortwave Programming of Note (Jul)
Olympics, ‘Proms’ and BBC Summer Fare on Shortwave (Aug)
September on Shortwave (Sep)
October SW Listening Fare (Oct)
November Programming on Shortwave (Nov)
Christmas on Shortwave Around the World (Dec)
European Radio Scene
New XHDATA D-109WB a CB HT and HF Weather Radio (Jan)
Klingenfuss 2024 Publications; Propagation Routines and News (Feb)
New SD4play Receiver; ATS max-Decoder and More! (Mar)
Radio ‘Ravens in the Tower’ and the BBC Time Pips (Apr)
The Enduring Fascination of Shortwave Sounds (May)
SDRplay RSP DX2, Marconi at 150 and the 1,000-Year Radio (Jun)
A Light Show ‘Up North’ and Electronic Warfare (Jul)
‘El poder de la corta,’ Anniversaries and an SDR Troika (Aug)
Towering Ambitions in Sports and Radio (Sep)
From Droitwich with Love (Oct)
The Nauen Transmitter and Georg von Arco (Nov)
HF Radio Astronomy: The European Low-Frequency Array (Dec)
Bits & Bytes
Asia, Africa, India Programming on Shortwave and Medium Wave (Apr)
Shortwave Programming News from Around the World (May)
BBC Special Broadcast: VOH-Africa; RFI and RTI Schedules (Jun)
International Shortwave Update (Jul)
The Dog Days of Summer and Radio (Aug)
Prepping for the DX Season (Sep)
News Items from Around the Radio World (Oct)
Shortwave Shockwaves from Austria and Beyond (Nov)
Wavescan Lives; LRA36 Update; Cuban Blackouts; Spain to Add Transmitters (Dec)
Radio 101
Improving Your Shortwave Experience (Jan)
Technician Class Voice Privileges on the 10-Meter Band (Feb)
The QT40 Gets Some Muscle (Mar)
Baseball on the Radio 2024 and Winter Term SCR Report (Apr)
Global Hearts and Minds: Who’s Playing (May)
Communications During the 2024 Hurricane Season (Jun)
Zinwell NextGen TV Set Top Box (Jul)
Streaming CBC Radio; FTA Satellite Changes, and a Field Day Report (Aug)
OTA-TV Antenna Woes; Following Hurricanes on Roku (Sep)
The Lost Art of QSLing (Oct)
Ku-Band FTA Reception: Size isn’t Everything! (Nov)
Vintage Radios and Vintage Radio Programs (Dec)
Medium Wave Radio
DXing Las Estaciones de Radio en Mexico (Apr)
FM Band DX: Is this thing on? Where are all the Es? (Jul)
From Your Antenna to the Rest of the World: The Amazing KiwiSDR (Oct)
Amateur Radio Astronomy
ezRA (Easy Radio Astronomy) (May)
Using Radio-Sky Spectrograph (RSS)
Adventures in Radio Restoration
The Socket Power Transition: RCA Radiola 18 (Jan)
‘The Pilot’s Preference’ Learavian RM-402C Receiver (Feb)
The ‘Personal Portable’ RCA BP-10 (Mar)
Those Linear Power Supplies: Astron, Pyramid and Others (Apr)
Continental Model 55, Chassis A7: An Admiral Table Model Radio (May)
The Gonset G-50 6-Meter ‘Fixed Station Communicator’ (Jun)
Four-Eyed Signal Tracers Part 1: RCA Rider Chanalyst (Jul)
The Four-Eyed Signal Tracers Part 2: Channalyst Meets Analyst (Meissner 9-1040) (Aug)
The HP-23 Family; Heathkit’s Transceiver Power Supplies (Sep)
The ‘Hot Water’ Transceiver: Heathkit’s HW-101 (Oct)
What’s a Distortion Meter? A Look at the Barker & Williamson Model 410 (Nov)
The First Post-War Zenith Trans-Oceanic Model 8G005YT (Dec)
Amateur Radio Satellites
The Looming Problem of ‘Space Junk’ (Mar)
AMSAT’s GOLF Project (Jun)
New Amateur Satellites! (Dec)
Kits and Kit-Building
An Oscilloscope Multimeter Kit: 2024 Young Ham of the Year (Oct)
Making a Good Radio Better (Nov)
Our Electronic Future: A loot at CES 2024 and 2025 (Dec)
The Longwave Zone
Medium Wave Excursion (Jun)
A GEOsat for North America? (Sep)
Retro 1959: Bringing Back Another One (Part 1) (Sep)
Retro 1959: Bringing Back Another One (Part 2) (Dec)
Digitally Speaking
Digital Voice Radio Buyer’s Guide Part 2 (Jan)
Thoughts on Icom’s New D-Star Repeaters (Feb)
Lessons Learned from an AM Workshop (Mar)
Wanted: Software Developers (Apr)
Opportunity (Jun)
A Summer Potpourri (Jul)
New to Me (Aug)
New Rigs Revealed at the Tokyo Ham Fair (Oct)
Digital Voice Radio Buyer’s Guide (Nov)
Uniontown, (PA) Vintage Radio Museum and Workshop (Dec)
Amateur Radio Insights
Rotator Roulette (Jan)
Can JS8Call Take the Sting out of K1JT’s Deadly Legacy? (Feb)
Contesting During the Solar Cycle Peaks (Mar)
Modern Mentors (May)
More Mentoring, More Success! (Jun)
Underground Experimentation (Aug)
Vintage Equipment Safety (Sep)
More Vintage Radio Tidbits (Oct)
Practice Safe Radio: Enjoy Hobby Radio without Risking Life, Limb or Eye (Nov)
Thoughts on (un)Soldering (Dec)
VHF and Above
Pico Balloons (Jan)
Was K9Y0-15 Shot Down? (Feb)
Tracking the Last Solar Eclipse for a Lifetime (Mar)
ESA Unveils Proba-3 Mission: Artificial Solar Eclipses on Demand (May)
NASA Looks at Northern Lights: The Meteor Shower Nobody Saw; China’s Lunar Mission (Jun)
Al Katz K2UY Career-long Electrical Engineering Professor and EME Pioneer (SK) (Jul)
Current Transcontinental 6-Meter Propagation Fulfills Last Year’s Predictions (Sep)
Solar Cycle 25 Rolls On! (Oct)
Solar Cycle 25 Continues to Outperform its Expectations (Nov)
Something Nice and Silver Under the Tree This Christmas (Dec)