Keylines
Don covers various topics relating to this issue, including a reader suggestion for a Twitter/X section in PW.
Book Review
David Harris reviews a book about a pioneer female broadcaster with quite a life story.
The G3RJV SCD QRP Transceiver Revisited, Part 5
Steve Hartley G0FUW completes the build of the SCD QRP transceiver, describing the transmitter module and how the various modules interconnect.
Got a lot of Antennas and Receivers?
Dr Samuel Ritchie EI9FZB tackles the age-old problem of connecting multiple receivers to multiple antennas.
HF Highlights
Steve Telenius-Lowe G4JVG has another full column of HF news, despite us heading into the summer propagation ‘doldrums’.
The Morse Mode
Roger Cooke G3LDI reflects on Field Days past and present.
Antennas
Keith Rawlings G4MIU tries out an alternative HF antenna that he hopes will solve some of the challenges he faces.
Data Modes
Mike Richards G4WNC has some interesting new goodies to tempt the wallet, including the official Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ and two new SDR receivers. He starts with an examination of data modes software utilisation.
Amateur Radio on a Budget
Daimon Tilley G4USI describes how to build a 10m Moxon beam antenna for pennies.
A Field Strength Meter
Alpar Cseley HA8KT has a design for a handy shack test instrument.
Demonstrating amateur radio communications – the 2024 way
Roger Dowling G3NKH visits the RSGB’s National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park and meets some of the large team of volunteers explaining the mysteries of radio.
What Next
Colin Redwood G6MXL covers several topics, starting with an overview of changes to the licence exams’ syllabus.
The World of VHF
Tim Kirby GW4VXE reports a bumper month for VHF/UHF propagation, via a variety of propagation modes.
In Focus: The ISWL
ISWL President Dick King M5DIK shares some history of the International Short Wave League, starting from its birth in 1946.
Vintage Television & Radio
Keith Hamer and Garry Smith continue the special series looking back at the BBC’s coverage of Coronations since 1937. There is also a Coronation vintage television advertisement from the archives featuring two Murphy receivers. A PW reader has requested more information about bygone equipment manufacturers, including Ekco. There are more unique details about Roland Pièce, the pioneer of Swiss radio broadcasts, from family archives supplied by his Grand-Nephew Pierre-Yves Pièce. The series charting the rise and fall of BBC 198kHz transmissions focuses on the ‘Luzern Plan’. Coverage detailing 60 years of BBC-2 looks at some technical aspects involved. They also continue their series about the development of Swiss Radio and Television since 1922, with a last look at the Sottens transmitter before it was demolished!
Valve & Vintage
Dr Bruce Taylor HB9ANY describes a versatile classic communications receiver, the Eddystone 1990R, covering 25-500MHz.
Adventures with the Quansheng UV-5K(8)
Tim Kirby GW4VXE looks at some of the recent developments with respect to the popular Quansheng UV-5K(8) handheld.
Readers’ Letters
This month’s Letters cover magnetic loop antennas and amateur TV.
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