ELF: How Low Can You Go?
By Mark Haverstock K8MSH
Extremely Low Frequencies are those that occupy the very bottom of the radio frequency spectrum. While household electrical current oscillates at 60 Hz, that’s still 20 times faster than a 3 Hz ELF signal. Mark explains who uses this spectrum and why.
Amateur Radio Digital Voice Buying Guide
By Cory GB Sickles WA3UVV
Transmitting in digital voice mode for VHF, UHF and HF operations is a rapidly evolving area in amateur radio. Cory looks at the latest developments, what’s available from manufacturers and what’s on the horizon. He includes the latest prices on equipment from the various manufacturers.
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923)
By Georg Wiessala
The late 19th century was a period of almost incredible promise. Brilliant new discoveries seemed a daily occurrence. Advances in every aspect of science were simply breathtaking. Georg explains that when Wilhelm Röntgen discovered, “eine neue art von strahlen,” a new kind of rays—the X-ray, suddenly it was possible to see into the human body.
Radio In Unexpected Places
By Chrissy Brand
Wherever Chrissy is exploring, she has a way of finding a radio connection. And as often happens, vintage radios sometimes find their way home with her. She also found herself in the coastal town of Whitstable, looking out to sea—where the WWII antiaircraft defenses later served in the 1960s and 70s as the operating base for pirate radio stations.
WRVA: The Voice of Virginia
By Ken Reitz KS4ZR
Larus and Brother, Co., was a tobacco company in Richmond, Virginia, that rode the first wave of radio entertainment in the mid-1920s. The station also rode the Country and Western music craze in the 1940 and 50s, with their own live Saturday music shows. Along the way, the station built a 55-station statewide news service, a 200-kW FM station and even an early TV station.
Free-to-Air Satellite TV: Extreme Eastern Atlantic Region
By Mike Kohl
This month Mike takes a look at the C- and Ku-band Free-to-Air satellite services available in the extreme southeast and eastern part of the Atlantic Ocean Region from almost all of the countries in Latin America, the Caribbean and Mexico that can be received throughout most of the US—with the right equipment.
100 Years of Radio: How Canada Found its Radio Voice
By Dr. Scott A. Caldwell
As early as 1909 there were radiotelegraph stations all across Canada. By 1919, a station owned by the Canadian Marconi Company in Montreal received an experimental license to broadcast as XWA. Throughout the 1920s Canada radio stations joined American radio networks and the issue of Canadian content came to the fore.
Scanning America
By Dan Veeneman
Augusta County, Virginia
Federal Wavelengths
By Chris Parris
What Should I Listen To?
Utility Planet
By Hugh Stegman
2025 ‘Numbers’ Station Update
Milcom
By Daniel O. Myers K3NXX
North American Search and Rescue
Shortwave Utility Logs
By Mike Chace-Ortiz and Hugh Stegman
The World of Shortwave Listening
By Valter Aguiar
Latin American Radio Report
The Shortwave Listener
By Fred Waterer
Spooky Shortwave Offerings
European Radio Scene
By Georg Wiessala
The Deshibo WV-601 Passive Loop Antenna
Bits & Bytes
By Gayle Van Horn W4GVH
Tuning Into Change
Radio 101
By Ken Reitz KS4ZR
Birth of Monitoring Times and the Scanner Beam Anteanna
Adventures in Radio Restoration
By Rich Post KB8TAD
The Last of the Hallicrafters AC-DC Tube Radios: Models S-210, WR-600W, and S:214
Kits and Kit-Building
By Joe Eisenberg K0NEB
Holiday Kit Builder’s Delights: Gifts for the Builder
Amateur Radio Insights
By Kirk Kleinschmidt NT0Z
Practical Hoarding; Farewell to a Cherished Mentor
VHF and Above
By Joe Lynch N6CL
Supermoon, Superlink: Exploring Photonic EME During November’s Perigee