Readers’ Reference Library

= Articles from the MT Archives of the first 10 years of publication.
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AMATEUR

• Amateur Radio & the Grenada Invasion - Fred Maia W5YI
• Amendment to Amateur Radio Service Rules FCC-06-178A1

BROADCASTING

• “International Voices of Faith” by Ken MacHarg - A feature article on the growth of religious shortwave broadcasters (from March 1988)
• KUSW Newest SW Broadcaster (January 1988)
• KUSW lasted only until December 1990 when it was sold to the Trinity Broadcasting Network. It is now religious broadcaster KTBN.
• Outer Limits September 1987 - Dr John Santosuosso, Scott McClellan, Havana Moon
• SW Station Julich T-Systems A-07 Schedule
• Tuning into Baseball - Ken Reitz (from July 2006)
• A Turning Point for International Broadcasting? John Figliozzi (Jan 1999)
• Those “Notorious” Out-Of-Band CB’ers - Bill Cheek (March 1984)
• Unlicensed Broadcasters - Dr John Santosuosso
• Who’s Listening to Shortwave? An interview with the BBC’s Graham Mytton (May 1989)

GENERAL REFERENCE

• CConspiracy Theories - Editorial by Bob Grove
• The Millennium Dilemma: Myth or Monster? By Bob Grove (Jan 1999)
• In the Beginning - Uncle Skip’s Corner (Nov 1988) Children’s Guide to AM DXing
• Understanding Radio Waves - Beginners Corner (Nov 1998)
• Propagation, Space Weather, and You - Tomas Hood
• What Time Is It? (Greenwich Centennial) - Don Schimmel
• National Interoperability Field Operations Guide - DHS

NOSTALGIA

• The Evolution of Television - Suzanne Cushman
• Confessions of a Radioist - Clem Small
• Confessions of a Scanner Collector - Bob Parnass (August 1988. By the way, the unidentified culprit is MT’s current art director Bill Grove, Bob Grove’s son!)
• An Interview with Larry Van Horn
• Flying with MAMA - Rachel Baughn
• MT’s 25th Anniversary, Interview with Bob Grove, Growing Up with Radio
• Wild West Radio - Jock Elliott
• Bill Cheek and his S9 publication are both gone, but “freebanding” can still be found, 20 years later. Read this as a 2-page spread
• Who Said Marconi Invented Wireless? - D.K. deNeuf
• The rarely-told story of Dr. Mahlon Loomis

SATELLITES/SPACE

• Signals from Space #1 - Larry Van Horn
• Join in the Search for SETI - By Paul Shuch
• Monitoring NASA and Space Communications
• CSTS-116 Press Kit
• The Launching Pad: “Is this Mess Necessary?” Ken Reitz
• Whispers from the Cosmos -Larry Van Horn Guide to the radio astronomy spectrum
• View from Above: Using Primary Data - Lawrence Harris (Feb 1999)

SCANNING

• Airshow Schedules and Frequencies 2008
• Confessions of a Scanner Collector - Bob Parnass (August 1988)
• Illinois STARCOM21 Site Numbers Map
• Implementing a Nationwide, Broadband, Interoperable Public Safety Network in the 700 MHz Band - FCC-07-132A1
• C*Milair Band Spectrum Hole List 225-400 MHz
• C*Pacific Northwest Interagency Aviation 2003 Frequency Guide
• CScanning Philadelphia’s Constitutional Celebration - Bob Kay
• UHF Milair Nationwide Frequencies
• CUS Bureau of Prisons Radio Systems - updated March 09
• What’s in the Back Room? annotated pictures of equipment at dispatch center (supplement to Aug 2008 feature)

TECHNICAL

• AGC: What Does It Mean? - John Dorsey
• Bob Grove’s ANTENNA FACTBOOK
• Antenna Special
• Ideas from an Experimenter - BD Snell
• Build the SWL LPMA Antenna - Al Smith
• A Simple (but Super) Ground
• Underground Antennas
• How Long Should That Antenna Be?
• A Compact SW Antenna
• Below 500 MHz September 1992 - Includes plans for a box-frame loop antenna for receiving low frequency signals, as referenced in June 2008 column.
• Build the FlexTenna for Wideband Reception - Bob Grove
• Building the Ultimate Receiver - Bob Grove
• Build a 224-400 MHz Beam - Henry Ponder
• DeMaw’s Workbench “Transistor and Crystal Testers You Can Build” - Doug DeMaw (April 1989)
• Digital TV - Truths & Myths - Doug Smith W9WI (April 06)
• Hi-Def Radio versus Deathstar - Ken Reitz (April 06)
• Digital Radio Equipment - Ken Reitz (April 06)
• The Dynamic Duo - Ken Cornell (Feb 89)
• Plans for a small active antenna plus regenerative preamplifier
• Largest-Smallest Antenna Contest - Clem Small
• Let’s Talk About Antennas (basic antenna theory) - Clem Small (Sep-Nov 2008)
• License Free Low Frequency Transmitter - Ken Cornell (January 1988)
• Cornell, author of the “The Low and Medium Frequency Radio Scrap Book” series, died in 1997.
• Making a Good Antenna Better - Clem Small
• Radio Restorations first column - Marc Ellis
• RF Interference Filters - Bob Grove
• TV DXing, MT Beginner’s Guide - Gayle Van Horn (April 06)

UTILITIES

• CIA Spy Station Uncovered in Nicaragua - Vito Echevarria
• CCOTHEN / ALE Networks and Frequencies - Mark Cleary (updated Jan 08)
• Cryptography - Bob Russ
• Hawker and the OSS - anonymous
• HF ACARS with PC-HFDL - John Catalano (September 06)
• KKN39: A Federal Mystery is Resolved (May 1989)
• Making and Breaking Codes with a Home Computer - Chris Williams
• C MT Government and Military Frequency/Designator List
• C MT Military Communications on HF Report - Updated 6/07
• NORAD - MT Goes Inside “The Mountain” - Larry Van Horn
• Radio at the End - Larry Van Horn
• Unbreakable Codes - The Lazy Dog
• CUSCG List of Assets - Mark Cleary (updated July 08)
• US Numbers Station Found! - Bob Grove

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