We were asked what we listen to while updating The Listener's Guide so here is our rather upbeat offering.
Your chance to say how degraded the signal is by interference, noise and propagation effects.
In an article for AOR UK, we look at hiding antennas from those complaining neighbours
In an article for AOR UK, we think about the cost of getting a station to us to ignore
In an article for SWM we remember a radio screwed to the roof and too much more
In an article for SWM we think the smart phone generation never had it so good
The paper version of The Guide gets a review in a long-gone radio journal
In an article for SWM, we go from HMV's iconic dog to the shortwave radio reaction to 911
In an article for SWM we ask why do you run features about boat anchors and the sad folk who insist on keeping them
In an article for SWM, we look back at a lifetime by the radio and the memories that come back
Some shortwave radio stations receivable in Australia in the late 1970's.
See inside a Gates BC-250-GY broadcast transmitter from the 40's era. Lots of big Tubes, Transformers and Capacitors!
Jarvis Cocker on a night voyage across a sea of shortwave he meets those who broadcast, monitor and harvest electronic radio transmissions after dark.
This complete video has been produced as part of a joint partnership between NATS and the Safety Partnership Agreement.
Hard to admit it, but these days we do most of our listening online.
The inshore forecast and closedown read by Eugene Fraser. We wonder how long long-wave has to go in the digital age.
First time out from the Waynesville Hamfest for this software defined radio package.
A detailed list of technical terms used in solar forecasting.
This film shows the start-up of the transmitter and the transmission of a message, filmed on Alexanderson Day 2015.
Made for the BBC's One Show, Skelton Short-Wave Transmitting Station - Its Role in WWII and the Cold War.
Video about the Strategic Service Transmitter-Receiver Number 1 from around 1943.
While trying to figure out SDRPlay's Radio Spectrum Processor, we came across the most unusual transmission on one of the Amateur HF bands.
We are getting used to shortwave stations leaving the air but it was Switzerland who lead the current rush to close down AM Radio across Europe.
The BBC Radio 4 shipping forecast is a British institution and still relevant for today's mariners.
After months of listening to me whine about the poor reception on shortwave radio, the bands are popping with stations tonight.
Using a small AM transmitter to get an idea what it was like listening in back then.
Tells the story of how Hallicrafters developed the WWII SCR299 military shortwave radio from the pre-war HT-4 amateur ham radio transmitter.
Great to see these classic receivers in a rather unfair competition.
These mysterious broadcasts are found on shortwave bands with no definite purpose.
Good introduction to SDR. Our communication receiver is now just another app.
The earliest known version of The Listener's Guide from the book of the same name.
This back-to-basics radio really performs and sounds good too.
We do sometimes come out into the daylight but not for long.
Software Defined Radio makes high-specification receivers affordable at last.
While we are flying up here, good to know they are down there.
We feel we should ask as there are so many other ways to listen.
The Six-Band Sagger is an aerial system and not a medical condition.
We present a Listeners Charter to be quietly ignored.
Spike Milligan died having fulfilled his greatest ambition.
Nation shall speak peace unto nation, they say.
As broadcast stations closed, we moved towards listing amateur, marine, search and rescue, aeronautical and some military frequencies still operating on HF.
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