Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Like many, I started my hobby as a short wave listener (SWL) on medium and short waves. Hearing the sounds of the interval signals of distan...

As a child, we had low noise levels (apart from LORAN on the top part of topband) and lots of shortwave broadcasters, many in English. These...

Thanks to Phil G4HFU (see earlier post) I have been reacquainted with the old PW adverts that got me dreaming over 50 years ago. I wonder if...

Back in 1961/62, when I first got interested in shortwave listening, a friend of mine and I had an intercom across our back gardens with a l...

Monitoring Monthly , the UK magazine catering for SWLs and scanner enthusiasts, ceased publication last month with May 09 being the last edi...