TSM 2025 Air Show Special
By Brian KA1VCA and Jo Marie Topolski
TSM’s long time air show veterans look back at the highlights of the 2024 air show season providing tips on attending air shows in 2025—what to expect, what to bring, what not to do and, above all where to listen for the best of air show sight and sound.
2024 Air Show Photo Essay
By Kevin Burke
Action at any air show, no matter how well planned, can change dramatically with so little as a change in the weather prediction. An air show photographer has to be nimble to adjust. A few of Kevin’s best air show photos are displayed in this collection from 2024.
US Navy Blue Angels and USAF Thunderbirds 2025 Schedule
Tuning in on the Air Bands
By Cory GB Sickles WA3UVV
Whether you’re an air show regular or just interested in monitoring air traffic where you live, there are a lot of great options—in features and price. Cory looks at the history or air band listening and explains what to look for in a scanner that you can take to the air show or just listen in at home.
The U-2 Story: The Curiously Long Life of a Cold War-Era Spy Plane
By Ken Reitz KS4ZR
It’s hard to overstate the impact of a formerly top-secret, single-seat, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft that bridged the spy gap between awkward and wayward reconnaissance balloons and spy satellites 60 years ago. Even though the operational details of this plane were spectacularly exposed, this plane still flies daily intelligence gathering missions.
“Operation Overflight” by Francis Gary Powers with Curt Gentry
Reviewed by Ken Reitz KS4ZR
U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers recounts his life as a USAF military and civilian pilot in “Operation Overflight,” published in 1970 and reprinted in 2004. Details of flying the peculiar spy plane, his time in one of Russia’s most notorious prisons, his return to the US to face a barrage of indignation from politicians, the press and citizens is a tale of intrigue and naiveté well told.
The SDRplay nRSP-ST: Remote-ability—Reliability—Performance
By Georg Wiessala
Billed as an all-in-one, plug-and-play Software Defined Radio (SDR), Georg takes a look at the SDRplay nRSP-ST, one of the latest entries in this expanding lineup of radios. Georg notes it’s got a lot going for it, “In terms of the signal range it covers, its ease of use, shielding and construction, openness to experimentation and radio education and expected future developments.”
Scanning America
By Dan Veeneman
Dawson County, Georgia
Federal Wavelengths
By Chris Parris
Super Bowl 59 2025
MilCom
By Daniel O. Myers K3NXX
2025 Annual Guide to Monitoring Air Shows
Utility Planet
By Hugh Stegman
Chinese Maritime Radio: A Blast from the Past
Shortwave Utility Logs
By Mike Chace-Ortiz and Hugh Stegman
The World of Shortwave Listening
By Valter Aguiar
Radio and Brazilian Politics; Power Problems in Cuba; LRA36 Update and Latin American Radio Clubs in Japan
The Shortwave Listener
By Fred Waterer
Spring Shortwave Schedule
European Radio Scene
By Georg Wiessala
The Tecsun S-2200x Portable HF Receiver and Other Radio Delights
Bits & Bytes
By Gayle Van Horn W4GVH
Apple Radio, FCC Changes, VOA in Limbo and More
Radio 101
By Ken Reitz KS4ZR
Adventures in Over-the-Air TV
Amateur Radio Satellites
By Keith Baker KB1SF/VA3KSF
Happy (Belated) 50th Birthday AMSAT-OSCAR 7!
Adventures in Radio Restoration
By Rich Post KB8TAD
National’s Entry-Level Shortwave Radio: The ‘Mighty Midget’ SW-54
The Longwave Zone
By Kevin O’Hern Carey
Retro 1959: Bringing Back Another One (Part 3)
Kits and Kit-Building
By Joe Eisenburg K0NEB
A Visit to CES…Just Plain Wow!
Digitally Speaking
By Cory GB Sickles WA3UVV
Finding Your Digital Voice
Amateur Radio Insights
By Kirk Kleinschmidt NT0Z
A New Era for RG/6?
VHF and Above
By Joe Lynch N6CL
A Second Chance for a Solar Cycle Peak?