Kachina 78 wrote:
A recent order from Grove Enterprises included a copy of the July, 2004
Monitoring Times. I have been a subscriber of Pop Com, since it used to be
Popular Electronics, so how's that for aging oneself. Monitoring Times is
impossible to get at any local store that sells magazines, in my midwest
location. I must say that unless this edition of Monitoring Times was an
exception, I liked it a lot more than Pop Com. I am interested in knowing what
my fellow SWL's feel about The Monitoring Times, and is it worth the extra
expense, when compared to Pop Com? Good DXing to you, Gary.

Well, I'm biased but I certainly prefer MT!

Seriously I think the shortwave section is very well organized and
readable, and Glenn Hauser's shortwave news always very informative.
(it's the first thing I read, even before my own columng!) The
station profiles are always interesting, and the news items up front are
well done and readable.

It's difficult to keep anything specialized in the local stores, and
since MT is the only magazine Grove publishes it's that much harder.
(PopCom is - or at least was, last I looked - co-owned with the ham
magazine CQ)
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Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com
("American Bandscan" editor, MT...)