2025 Index of Feature Articles and Columns
Air Band Monitoring
2025 TSM Air Show Special (Mar)
2024 Air Show Photo Essay (Mar)
Tuning in on the Air Band (Mar)
The U-2 Story: The Curiously Long Life of a Cold War-Era Spy Plane (Mar)
Book review: “Operation Overflight” by Francis Gary Powers with Curt Gentry (Mar)
Equipment Reviews
Raddy Malahit SDP2: A New Kind of Portable SDR (Jan)
World Radio TV Handbook 2025 (Feb)
The SDRplay nRSP-ST: Remote-ability—Reliability—Performance (Mar)
Choyong LC90: A New Multiband Internet Radio (Apr)
Uniden UBCD160DN Digital Scanner (Jun)
Uniden U/BCD260DN Digital Scanner (Sep)
Vintage Radio
Heathkit HR-1680 Sold-State SSB/CW Receiver—a Restoration Dream Machine Part 2 (Jan)
Heathkit HR-1680: A Restoration Chronicle, Part 3 (Feb)
Heathkit HX-1681: A Deep Dive into a Rare Classic (Part 1) (Apr)
Heathkit HX-1681: A Deep Dive into a Rare Classic (Part 2) (May)
Heathkit HX-1681: CW transmitter Restoration (Part 3) (Jun)
Atwater Kent and the One-Dial Radio (Jul)
Restoration and Remodeling of a Viking I Transmitter (Dec)
Radio History
The Bliss Radio School: 1893-1950 (Jan)
Radio: The Voice of Beatlemania (Feb)
KFWB/6XBR The Radio Voice of Warner Bros. Pictures (Feb)
Brooklyn Technical High School (May)
I Found a Piece of Radio History (May)
Early Radio Healers and Huckster (Jul)
Marconi and All the Ships at Sea (Jul)
Harold H. Beverage 2BML: A Communications Genius (Jul)
The Bengali Polymath: Jagadish Chandra Bose (Jul)
Those Litigious Wireless Pioneers: The Bare-knuckle Fight for Airwave Supremacy (Aug)
WOC: A Midwestern AM Radio Trailblazer (Sep)
United Nations Radio: A Global Voice of Hope (Oct)
4U1UN: Amateur Radio at the United Nations (Oct)
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923) (Nov)
WRVA: The Voice of Virginia (Nov)
100 Years of Radio: How Canada Found its Radio Voice (Nov)
The Brief and Brilliant Life of A. H. Grebe (Dec)
Juniors, Seniors and Master: RCA’s VoltOhmysts of the Vacuum Tube Era (Dec)
AM vs. SSB on the Ham Bands: How Single Sideband Changed Amateur Communications (Dec)
Radio Spins its Web: The Beginnings of America’s Radio Broadcasting Networks (Dec)
Radio Operating
Strange Signals and the RTL SDR Blog V.4 USB SDR (Jan)
HF Radio Monitoring Professionalized: Driving the HF Bandwagon Once Again (Feb)
UK Medium Wave DXing Today (Jun)
Scanning with GPS, ACARS and AIS: The Alinco DJ-X100T/E Digital Multimode Receiver (Aug)
Ham Radio or GMRS: Which Tool is Right for You? (Sep)
Radio Myths and Misunderstandings: Then and Now (Sep)
The Significance of SWaP: At Home and in the Field (Oct)
Amateur Radio Digital Voice Buying Guide (Nov)
Over-the-Air TV
For ATSC 3.0 This Moment is Critical (Apr)
General Radio Topics
Innovation and Ingenuity at Radio TechCon 2024 (Jan)
Atlantic 252, Boom and TechCon (Feb)
Clandestine Radio: A Legacy of Defiance (Apr)
Sounds a Snowbird Heard (Apr)
Radiodays Europe 2025 in Athens (May)
Radio and Maps—Mapping Radio (May)
Weather Disasters in Uncertain Times (Jun)
Albanian Audio Adventures (Jun)
Radio Innovations, Insights and Italy (Jul)
Is the Death of US AM Broadcast Radio Exaggerated? (Aug)
Washington State Radio Road Trip (Aug)
The Heath Effect (Aug)
Oregon Radio Road Trip (Sep)
Radio and Maps – Mapping Radio Part 2 (Oct)
Summer of Love Warbler (Oct)
ELF: How Low Can You Go? (Nov)
Radio in Unexpected Places (Nov)
The UK Shipping Forecast (Dec)
Eastern European Radio Tales Part 1: By Bus to Brno and Belgrade (Dec)
Free-to-Air Satellite TV
C-Band Free-to-Air Satellite Charts 2025 (Jun)
Ku-Band FTA Satellite Charts Update (Sep)
Free-to-Air DBS, C- and Ku-Band Satellite TV and Radio Channels (Oct)
Free-to-Air Satellite TV: Extreme Eastern Atlantic Region (Nov)
Scanning America
Bandera County, Texas (Jan)
Southern Methodist University (Feb)
Dawson County, Georgia (Mar)
Kern County, California (Arp)
Authentication (May)
Douglas County, Oregon; Hamvention 2025 (Jun)
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Jul)
Oklahoma Highway Patrol Coverage (Aug)
Union County, Kentucky (Sep)
Alliance, Nebraska (Oct)
Augusta County, Virginia (Nov)
Paulding County, Georgia (Dec)
Federal Wavelengths
Federal Use of State Systems (Jan)
The Demise of Whistler (Feb)
Super Bowl 59 2025 (Mar)
New Trends in Federal Communications (Apr)
The 163.3 Mystery Continues (May)
What Should I Scan (Jun)
Rose Festival 2025 Fleet Week (Jul)
Federal Users Everywhere (Aug)
US Customs and Border Protection (Sep)
Federal Frequency Interlopers? (Oct)
What Should I listen to? (Nov)
December Round-up (Dec)
Milcom
US Air Force Command Posts (Jan)
2025 Annual Guide to Monitoring Air Shows (Mar)
The US Coast Guard: “Semper Paratus” Always Ready (May)
USAF Aerial Refueling (Jul)
USAF Aerial Refueling Part II (Sep)
North American Search and Rescue (Nov)
Utility Planet
2024’s Strangest HF Signals (Jan)
Bottom Feeding in 2025 (Feb)
Chinese Maritime Radio: A Blast from the Past (Mar)
HF Radio in ‘Interesting Times’ (Apr)
What Happened to UrgentLink (May)
Canada Discontinues Gander VOLMET (Jun)
The Ongoing Mystery of French Military Morse (Jul)
Summertime and the Listening is Dreadful (Aug)
What’s Up on MF/HF Maritime Mobile? (Sep)
There’s a Buzz on the Russian “Buzzer” (Oct)
2025 ‘Numbers’ Station Update (Nov)
2025 Year End Wrap-up (Dec)
The World of Shortwave Listening
Shortwave Broadcasters and Listeners Meet in Canada and Uzbekistan (Jan)
Shortwave Pirates: AI, Space and Friday Night (Feb)
Radio and Brazilian Politics; Power Problems in Cuba; LRA36 Update and Latin American Radio Clubs in Japan (Mar)
DXing the Great Outdoors and Taiwan’s Enigmatic Numbers Station (Apr)
DRM and World Radio Day on the Agenda at HFCC A25 in Abu Dhabi (May)
EU-US Shortwave Pirate Activity (Jun)
Brazilian SW Update; Radio in Time of Need (Jul)
Indonesia on Shortwave: Then and Now (Aug)
Trans World Radio Host NASB Annual Meeting (Sep)
The Usual and Unusual Shortwave Pirates (Oct)
Latin American Radio Report (Nov)
The Changing Korean Broadcasting Landscape (Dec)
The Shortwave Listener
Christmas on Shortwave Around the World (Jan)
Old-Time Radio on Shortwave and Much More (Feb)
Spring Shortwave Schedule (Mar)
Brazil, France, New Zealand on Shortwave (Apr)
Portuguese on Shortwave, Classic Rock, and BBC Fare for May (May)
WWII Remembered in Radio (Jun)
Shortwave Programming for July (Jul)
RNZI, Texas SW, and BBC Fare for August (Aug)
September Shortwave Programming (Sep)
Halloween Shortwave Programming (Oct)
Spooky Shortwave Offerings (Nov)
Shortwave Holiday Listening (Dec)
European Radio Scene
Catch Some Cosmic Communications (Jan)
Face the Facts on Fax (Feb)
The Tecsun S-2200x Portable HF Receiver and Other Radio Delights (Mar)
Revisiting the bhi ParaPro EQ20B-DSP Parametric Equalizer (Apr)
Signals from Another “ERA” (May)
Brams, Graves, Grimeton, and LOFAR: Transmitters you may not have heard of (Jun)
Music of the Spheres and the Voice of the Planet (Jul)
Vintage-Quality: The Signal Communications Corp. Airband Receivers (Aug)
OmniRF OTG Antenna and Other Radio Curiosities (Sep)
Distinctive Shack Accessories and Resonances from Aether Days (Oct)
The Deshibo WV-601 Passive Loop Antenna (Nov)
Beautiful and Informative: Data Cards from Radio Magazines (Dec)
Bits & Bytes
Shortwave Addition, Deletions and Change for the New Year (Jan)
Changers in the Air and On the Air (Feb)
Apple Radio, FCC Changes, VOA in Limbo and More (Mar)
Indonesia, Spain, Nigeria Shortwave Updates (Apr)
The Future of International Broadcasting (May)
Shortwave Programming Guide (Jun)
Afghanistan Radio Shocker: BBC Payments to Taliban; the End of Bro. Stair on Shortwave (Jul)
When the Bands Heat Up: Summer Listening from the Cool Indoors (Aug)
Cuba Hanging On; Brazil SW Shrinks while AM Shifts to FM (Sep)
The Countdown to DX Season: October Signals Ahead (Oct)
Tuning into Change (Nov)
Tuning into the Season: Radio’s Warmest Time of The Year (Dec)
Radio 101
AFMARS Contest and DRM on Shortwave (Jan)
AM/FM HD-Radio Today (Feb)
Adventures in Over-The-Air-TV (Mar)
100+ Years of Baseball on the Radio (Apr)
FM Reception on Big Wire Antennas (May)
Vatican Media Today and a DRM Update (Jun)
Antenna Man OTA-TV Signal Meter (Jul)
Getting Started in Aeronautical Listening (Aug)
GT Media FTA Satellite V8 Finder 2 (Sep)
NextGen TV’s Big Black Eye (Oct)
Birth of Monitoring Times and the Scanner Beam Antenna (Nov)
Scanning the Bands with Various Antennas and The Case of The Missing Rotators (Dec)
Amateur Radio Satellites
Happy (Belated) 50th Birthday AMSAT-OSCAR 7! (Mar)
Transceivers for Analog Satellite Operation (Jun)
Spotlight on JY1Sat (JO-97) (Sep)
Antennas for Satellite Work (Dec)
Amateur Radio Astronomy
Perseids Radio Meteors: December 13-14, 2024 (Feb)
Medium Wave Radio
Did You Know ‘Digging in the Graveyard’ Can Actually be a DXing Thing? (Jan)
DXing from DC: Can a YouLoop Bring in DX in the Capital of RF? (Apr)
Meteor Scatter Rocks! Taming the Biggest Challenge in FM DX (Jul)
AI for DXers: The Next Great Advancement in DX Technology (Oct)
Adventures in Radio Restoration
The Very Tall Clock Radio: Crosley 124 Playtime 1-M (Jan)
The Roto-Tenna and Magnatenna Portables: Motorola 56M and Arvin 8583 (Feb)
National’s Entry-Level Shortwave Radio: The ‘Mighty Midget’ SW-54 (Mar)
The Multi-Elmac PMR-8 Mobile Ham Receiver (Apr)
Two Hot-Chassis AM-FM Sets: Zenith 7H820Z and General Electric C-502D (May)
The Hot-Chassis Skyrider Marine: Hallicrafters S-22R (Jun)
A Classic Signal Generator: Precision E-200C (Jul)
“What Fuse?” The Hammarlund H1-110 (Aug)
The 20-Pound Portable Radio: GE Model 250 (Sep)
A Morale Radio for WWII: Hallicrafters RE-1 Sky Courier (Oct)
The Last of the Hallicrafters AC-DC Tube Radios: Models S-210, WR-600W (Nov)
The Scarce Gonset G-33 Receiver (Dec)
Kits and Kit-Building
One Step at a Time: Building a Kit Stage-by-Stage (Jan)
A Simple Dipole Kit: A Look at a Fun Group Project (Feb)
A Visit to CES…Just Plain Wow! (Mar)
A Powerful Topic: A Few Easy Kits for Field Day and POTA/SOTA (Apr)
A CES Surprise! Two Radio Kits (May)
The 4SQRP ‘Cootie’ (Jun)
A Trip to the Annual Dayton Hamvention (Jul)
Good Things Come in Small Packages; A Visit to SEA-PAC (Aug)
A Compact, Portable 20-Meter POTA Antenna You Can Make Yourself (Sep)
A Great Antenna Deserves a Great Radio (Oct)
Holiday Kit Builder’s Delights: Gifts for the Builder (Nov)
A Visit to a QRP Kit-builder’s Paradise: Pacificon Brings Kit Fun (Dec)
The Longwave Zone
Retro 1959: Bringing Back Another One (Part 3) (Mar)
Visiting Beacon Sites (Sep)
Digitally Speaking
High Altitude Appeal (Jan)
A New Look at NXDN (Feb)
Finding Your Digital Voice (Mar)
PSK31 (Apr)
With Open Arms (May)
News from Xenia (Jun)
Digital Nature (Jul)
Repeating Repeaters (Aug)
Digital Potpourri (Sep)
More New Stuff – More Old Stuff (Oct)
Amateur Radio Insights
You Have Enough Antenna—What You Need is Height (Jan)
A New Era for RG/6? (Mar)
Spring into Safety (Apr)
Sourcing “Tariffic’ Parts in the Modern Era (May)
You Don’t Need an UNUN, But You Do Need an RF Choke! (Jun)
Is Your Transmit Audio ‘Cool Jazz’ or ‘Tin Can and a String?’ (Jul)
Where Does Our (Radio) Stuff Go When We Die? (Oct)
Practical Hoarding; Farewell to a Cherished Mentor (Nov)
Antenna Launchers and Adulting (Dec)
VHF and Above
A Deep Dive into WSJT Pioneering Software (Jan)
The Parker Solar Probe (Feb)
A Second Chance for a Solar Cycle Peak? (Mar)
Stranded Astronauts Return from ISS (Apr)
Summer HF and VHF Propagation (May)
VHF and Above Amateur Activity Abounds in June (Jun)
Arecibo Radio Telescope: Lost to the World for Good (Jul)
Echoes in the Sky: The Perseid Meteor Shower and its Longstanding Bond with Amateur Radio (Aug)
Shedding New Light: Photonics in the World of Amateur Radio (Sep)
Photonics and Amateur Radio Continued (Oct)
Supermoon, Superlink: Exploring Photonic EME During November’s Perigee (Nov)
Geminids Plus Cycle 25’s Extended Max: A Winning Combination for December VHF (Dec)