Best magazines for shortwave listener ?
 

What do you suggest are the best monthly magazines for shortwave listeners ?

I like "Monitoring Times". It has some Shortwave related articles and
content, but then also covers a broader audience of "monitoring" (ex.
hams, people with scanners, etc...)

One reason I like Monitoring Times, is that I'm from Canada, and they
do try to include a bit of Canadian content too.

Mike Chatel

aristotle wrote:
What do you suggest are the best monthly magazines for shortwave listeners ?

aristotle wrote:

What do you suggest are the best monthly magazines for shortwave
listeners ?

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On 17 Aug 2004 18:50:35 -0700, (aristotle)
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What do you suggest are the best monthly magazines for shortwave
listeners ?

That depends on where you are. In the UK, 'Shortwave Magazine' and
'Radio Active' are two reasonably good titles.

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What do you suggest are the best monthly magazines for shortwave listeners ?

Monitoring Times tops the list for me. I also enjoy reading Popular
Communications (aka "PopComm").

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Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
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Monitoring Times tops the list for me. I also enjoy reading Popular
Communications (aka "PopComm").


I used to read "Popular Communications" years ago. Then I stopped for various
reasons. One was that I no longer had a working shortwave radio and couldn't
get another one for a long while. Well,

I recently picked up a few issues of both magazines, and today, I also like
"Monitoring Times" better.

I very vaguely seem to recall some shortwave communications magazine before
Popular Communications started, but I can't recall what the name of that
magazine was. It went out of business years ago.

I don['t remember if it stopped before Popular Communications started or if it
lasted a while longer and stopped after Popular Communications had started for
a while.

Maybe some other "old timers" can recall what it was or at least what it might
have been.

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Monitoring Times tops the list for me. I also enjoy reading Popular
Communications (aka "PopComm").


I used to read "Popular Communications" years ago. Then I stopped for
various
reasons. One was that I no longer had a working shortwave radio and
couldn't
get another one for a long while. Well,

I recently picked up a few issues of both magazines, and today, I also
like
"Monitoring Times" better.

I very vaguely seem to recall some shortwave communications magazine
before
Popular Communications started, but I can't recall what the name of that
magazine was. It went out of business years ago.

I don['t remember if it stopped before Popular Communications started or
if it
lasted a while longer and stopped after Popular Communications had started
for
a while.

Maybe some other "old timers" can recall what it was or at least what it
might
have been.


I vaguely recall one called "Communications World".

I vaguely recall one called "Communications World".


That vaguely seems to sound familiar to me. I think that was probably it. That
that was probably the one I read regularly before "Popular Communications" ever
came along.

Monitoring Times is also my first choice, and I also subscribe to Pop Comm.
Occasionally I pickup a copy of Shortwave Magazine (British) at the
newsstand.

Jay
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What do you suggest are the best monthly magazines for shortwave
listeners ?

Monitoring Times tops the list for me. I also enjoy reading Popular
Communications (aka "PopComm").

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Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
Email:

"Stereophile22" wrote in message
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I vaguely recall one called "Communications World".


That vaguely seems to sound familiar to me. I think that was probably it.
That
that was probably the one I read regularly before "Popular Communications"
ever
came along.

I remember having one around 1976-1978, when I first got interested in
SWL'ing.

The Shortwave Guide from Lawrence J. Miller Publishing was a favorite of
mine in the 1980's. Larry Magne did some nice receiver reviews.

Don

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"Stereophile22" wrote in message
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I vaguely recall one called "Communications World".


That vaguely seems to sound familiar to me. I think that was probably
it.
That
that was probably the one I read regularly before "Popular
Communications"
ever
came along.

I remember having one around 1976-1978, when I first got interested in
SWL'ing.

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Steve Silverwood wrote:

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says...
What do you suggest are the best monthly magazines for shortwave listeners ?

Monitoring Times tops the list for me. I also enjoy reading Popular
Communications (aka "PopComm").

I did not think much of the September edition. It had an article on
Srilanka that was good and the usual SW schedules were of interest to me
but that was about it. The rest was satellites, scanner stuff and an
article written by some PH.D. on digital radio that was deathly dull.
I'm not sure I will buy it again for $6 bucks unless they start having
more articles about SW stations.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

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wrote:

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Steve Silverwood wrote:

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says...
What do you suggest are the best monthly magazines for shortwave
listeners ?

Monitoring Times tops the list for me. I also enjoy reading Popular
Communications (aka "PopComm").

I did not think much of the September edition. It had an article on
Srilanka that was good and the usual SW schedules were of interest to me
but that was about it. The rest was satellites, scanner stuff and an
article written by some PH.D. on digital radio that was deathly dull.
I'm not sure I will buy it again for $6 bucks unless they start having
more articles about SW stations.

When I was getting back into radio listening a couple of years ago I tried
to find a good magazine. I got samples of all the club newsletters I
could, a couple of PopComms, the BBC mag On Air, very nice but BBC only,
and Monitoring Times.

I ended up getting a subscription to MT. Although there's a lot of non SW stuff
I still found it the best for the money. Even though it costs me $60.00
Canadian per year.

I would like to see a copy of Shortwave Magazine though. Any comments on
that one?

Norm

I would like to see a copy of Shortwave Magazine though. Any comments on
that one?

I buy Shortwave Magazine each month (I live in Ireland, so the content
is pretty relevant). As you might guess, it is very UK-oriented (eg.
reception logs) but it does have good general articles, too. It has
regulars like what's happening on SW in the different continents, both
about radio and TV (under the columns 'Bandscan region' and
regularly features transmitters of interest in the UK and occasionally
Ireland. There are also other articles each month of interest to the
radio amateur reader. While it's called 'SWM', it does cover more
than the 0-30MHz spectrum, for example, it also has articles relating
to the air band.

I buy my copy from a newsagents (it sells for €5.80 = US$6.90 at the
moment, rate of sterling dependent), their subscription rates seem to
be pretty reasonable as far as magazines go, probably because it's not
bulky like a computing magazine. I don't know how much it retails for
in the US (and have never seen Monitoring Times for sale here) so I'm
unable to compare the two. Not sure if the magazine is as relevant in
the US (wrt some of its articles) but I'd certainly recommend buying a
copy to see for yourself - if you can find it on sale somewhere!

...Francis

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(byrnefm) wrote:

I would like to see a copy of Shortwave Magazine though. Any comments on
that one?

I buy Shortwave Magazine each month (I live in Ireland, so the content
is pretty relevant). As you might guess, it is very UK-oriented (eg.
reception logs) but it does have good general articles, too. It has
regulars like what's happening on SW in the different continents, both
about radio and TV (under the columns 'Bandscan region' and
regularly features transmitters of interest in the UK and occasionally
Ireland. There are also other articles each month of interest to the
radio amateur reader. While it's called 'SWM', it does cover more
than the 0-30MHz spectrum, for example, it also has articles relating
to the air band.

I buy my copy from a newsagents (it sells for €5.80 = US$6.90 at the
moment, rate of sterling dependent), their subscription rates seem to
be pretty reasonable as far as magazines go, probably because it's not
bulky like a computing magazine. I don't know how much it retails for
in the US (and have never seen Monitoring Times for sale here) so I'm
unable to compare the two. Not sure if the magazine is as relevant in
the US (wrt some of its articles) but I'd certainly recommend buying a
copy to see for yourself - if you can find it on sale somewhere!

..Francis

Thanks for the info, I'll try to find a copy.
By the way, I'm in Canada not the US. Just across the pond
from you in Nova Scotia.

Norm

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Steve Silverwood wrote:

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What do you suggest are the best monthly magazines for shortwave listeners ?

Monitoring Times tops the list for me. I also enjoy reading Popular
Communications (aka "PopComm").

I did not think much of the September edition. It had an article on
Srilanka that was good and the usual SW schedules were of interest to me
but that was about it. The rest was satellites, scanner stuff and an
article written by some PH.D. on digital radio that was deathly dull.
I'm not sure I will buy it again for $6 bucks unless they start having
more articles about SW stations.

Sorry for the late reply. If you subscribe, the cost per issue goes way
down. And they are doing a lot of articles about various shortwave
stations, although I don't think they have enough material coming in to
do one a month. They try to vary the content enough to keep it
interesting and to address the interests of their fairly broad
subscriber base, so there will be times when they're chock full of stuff
that's interesting to you, and times when things are a little lean.
Same goes for just about every other publication to which I subscribe.
Sorry, that's just life....

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Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
Email:

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says...
When I was getting back into radio listening a couple of years ago I tried
to find a good magazine. I got samples of all the club newsletters I
could, a couple of PopComms, the BBC mag On Air, very nice but BBC only,
and Monitoring Times.

Many of the international broadcasters put out newsletters that have
some great content -- naturally, they're specific to their station
and/or country, but they make for some entertaining reading, plus they
include programming info and schedules. Radio Netherlands, NHK (Japan)
and China Radio Int'l are the first that come to mind. I send reception
reports in to them and others whenever I can, and they keep me on their
mailing lists. CRI also includes some interesting booklets about
various subjects. I get a cool desk calendar every year from Radio
Kuwait, too!

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-- //Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
Email:

Many of the international broadcasters put out newsletters that have
some great content -- naturally, they're specific to their station
and/or country, but they make for some entertaining reading, plus they
include programming info and schedules. Radio Netherlands, NHK (Japan)
and China Radio Int'l are the first that come to mind. I send reception
reports in to them and others whenever I can, and they keep me on their
mailing lists. CRI also includes some interesting booklets about
various subjects. I get a cool desk calendar every year from Radio
Kuwait, too!

I get the CRI stuff too, pretty interesting. I'm still trying to win one
of those free trips to China!

I'll have to send out some more reports to see what else I can get.

Norm