"Telamon" wrote in message
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I was looking for Monitoring Times but apparently my local Barns &
Nobles is to lame to carry it anymore. I did find an issue of
Popular
Communications though.

Coincidentally, I was at their store in Palmdale looking for MT,
didn't find it either, but bought Pop Comm for the first time in
perhaps a couple years. (The bookstore is spelled "Barnes & Noble", by
the way.)

I'm thinking about getting back into shortwave after many years away
from the hobby, so I was mainly interested in the listener loggings to
see what's on nowadays. As a Southern Californian, I was struck by the
dominance of reports from the east half of the country. Maybe it's a
regional cultural thing, or maybe propagation favors the East.

Every dozen years or so the urge hits me. Last time was the mid 90s, I
think. A guy I worked with -- big time radio buff -- was buying a
Drake R8, and tried to convince me to do the same. For reasons I can
no longer remember, it never happened. But I've been reading the
receiver reviews in the 2008 Passport to World Band Radio, so maybe
this year.

Like the OP, I couldn't get into that bizarre KLFF story in Pop Comm.
I only read part of it. The straightforward radio history stories they
used to run were more to my taste.

At least there's some technical depth to the magazine, as in the
propagation article. I suspect it mainly rehashes what's on the web,
but there's more incentive to study something thoroughly if it's in a
magazine I paid for!

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Paul Hirose
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"Paul Hirose" wrote in message
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Coincidentally, I was at their store in Palmdale looking for MT,
didn't find it either


Went back to Barnes & Noble today and found the Feb. issue of
Monitoring Times right there on the rack near Pop Comm. I guess they
must have been sold out on my previous visit.

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Paul Hirose
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"Paul Hirose" wrote:

"Paul Hirose" wrote in message
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Coincidentally, I was at their store in Palmdale looking for MT,
didn't find it either


Went back to Barnes & Noble today and found the Feb. issue of
Monitoring Times right there on the rack near Pop Comm. I guess they
must have been sold out on my previous visit.

I think they do still carry it but I must have come in after they sold
out the last couple of times I was looking for it.

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Telamon
Ventura, California

Paul Hirose wrote:
"Paul Hirose" wrote in message
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Coincidentally, I was at their store in Palmdale looking for MT,
didn't find it either


Went back to Barnes & Noble today and found the Feb. issue of Monitoring
Times right there on the rack near Pop Comm. I guess they must have been
sold out on my previous visit.


The Santa Clarita store has MT.

It is good that some other people in the Ventura area like Monitoring
Times.Probally those gals over there whom are reading the magazines
while they are skateing around on their roller skates or sun bathing out
there on the beach.Bull Frog is the best suntan lotion.
cuhulin

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It is good that some other people in the Ventura area like Monitoring
Times.Probally those gals over there whom are reading the magazines
while they are skateing around on their roller skates or sun bathing out
there on the beach.Bull Frog is the best suntan lotion.

I've found that have a SW portable in hand is a good conversation
starter. Beach babes are a curious lot.

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Telamon
Ventura, California

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"Paul Hirose" wrote in message
...

Coincidentally, I was at their store in Palmdale looking for MT,
didn't find it either

Went back to Barnes & Noble today and found the Feb. issue of
Monitoring Times right there on the rack near Pop Comm. I guess they
must have been sold out on my previous visit.

I think they do still carry it but I must have come in after they sold
out the last couple of times I was looking for it.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

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