Radio User – January 2019

• News & Products - Uniden Bearcat SDS-100, Icom SatCom, the British DX Club, radio resources and background reading.
• Airband News - Doncaster Sheffield Airport, enhanced conspicuity and airband Brexit myths
• World War One & the Development of Radio - How the war at sea, in the air and on the ground propelled forward the development of new radio technology
• DXTV – Special - The 20-year history of Channel Five.
• Maritime Matters - The technology behind the Maritime VHF Data Exchange System & Racons.
• The Torrey Canyon Disaster: A Personal Radio Record - Radio memories of the Torrey Canyon disaster.
• Digital Radio - An in-depth review of the John Lewis Octave radio
• 2018 Annual Index - Every article, review, column and news item published in 2018
• Software Defined Radio - The key computer specifications required for operating your SDR radio.
• Network Radio - NR during the recent RSGB Convention and looks at UHF spectrum changes.
• Scanning Scene - Some SDR receivers for scanning, captures pirates from Brazil and ISS SSTV.
• Michael Faraday - How Michael Faraday turned ‘natural philosophy’ into ‘enlightenment-science’.
• International Radio Scene - Reception logs, shares tips on broadcast radio listening and celebrates the welcome return of Radio Exterior de España
• Aerials Now! - Examining popular ‘rubber-duck’ type aerials.
• Book Review - A new book on German codebreaking
• Utility Monitoring - The fascinating, contemporary, possibilities of receiving traditional Morse code transmissions
• Emerging Issues in Radio - A report from the 2018 International Radio Festival in Malta.
• History of Radio - Radio communications and the RMS Lusitania
• Farmer Radio - A short introduction to the ‘Farmer Radio’ initiative
• Off the Record - The extended medium wave band, visiting a ‘happy-hippie’ station on the air and compliments to Radio Caroline