Radio User

The best-selling radio listeners’ magazine in the UK. It covers all forms of broadcast and two-way radio, but not amateur radio.

Radio User • April 2022 Vol. 17 No 4

Aerials Galore and the Value of Short Wave

YOUR SUBSCRIPTION YOUR WAY • Pick the rate that suits you and your budget!

Attention Antenna Modellers: AN-SOF 7 • Have you got something new to tell our readers about? If so, then drop a line to wiessala@hotmail.com

Klingenfuss: News & Products

Artemis: The WiNRADIO NG69DDC is now the Excelsior Ultra

HanRongDa HRD-747

Discover Stampfl Pre-Selector Kits

Nevada: New 10m Mono band Beam from DUAL Antennas Serbia

New at Moonraker: Malahit 50kHz-2000MHz 3.5 inch DSP SDR Receiver

Runbo P5 4G DMR VHF/UHF Tablet

Sentimental radio every track takes you backs!

European Private Shortwave Stations

Radio News

Cradle-to-Grave: The BBC in Our Time – and Before

The Magic Bands

OTH 0100: A Powerful Brazilian Radar Facility • Martín Butera returns to RadioUser to let us into the mystery and workings of the Brazilian Over-the-Horizon (OTH) Radar system, known as ‘OTH 0100’.

North Atlantic Changes and Stratospheric Research • David Smith covers a fundamental change in North Atlantic traffic handling, looks at the end of a Scottish remote towers scheme, investigates satellite comms and profiles Boscombe Down ATC.

RAF and MoD ATC Profiles: 12 Boscombe Down

Beacon Hunting: From Both Sides of the Channel

BBC 100 Years: 1950-1959 • Keith Hamer and Garry Smith continue exploring 100 years of the BBC, looking at the expanding radio and TV transmitter network and remembering some key technological advances and memorable programmes.

Reuter RFA1A Active Ferrite Antenna & RWS4 Remote control Unit • Keith Rawlings has had an excellent month, in terms of aerials. He returns to cast his critical eye over an innovative new active HF indoor loop aerial from Reuter Elektronik.

How Radio Stays Relevant, Today and Tomorrow • In the final part of her article on how Public Radio retains its relevance, Chrissy Brand examines some of the world’s leading public radio broadcasters, funding models, and broadcasting strategies.

Radio from Ukraine and a Global Community Radio • Chrissy Brand goes scientific, surveys radio from Ukraine, travels on country roads, evaluates a ‘global community radio’ in the US and offers her latest monthly listening recommendations for all forms of radio.

Radio News

Digital Radio Mondiale: Discover Your DRM Funklust • Kevin Ryan shows how you can listen to Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) broadcasts, using the DRM Extension of the KiwiSDR Network, a dedicated App, the DReaM Decoder, and a selection of other software.

The Moonraker/d-SHBo GA-450 • The editor takes a look at the Moonraker/d-SHBo (‘Deshibo’) GA-450, a new compact indoor loop aerial and tries it out on some radios, both traditional and of the SDR kind.

PRACTICAL WIRELESS • A monthly magazine aimed at the licensed radio amateur that caters for the amateur radio hobby.

The CCW LAA++ Loop • Keith Rawlings reviews the Cross Country Wireless (CCW) LAA++ Loop, explains Numerical Electromagnetics Code (NEC) and enjoys the most recent updates in some of the top aerial modelling software packages.

Hotspot Radio • This month Tim Kirby uses a Digital Hotspot to make connections around the world, finds that long-distance contacts are being established regularly on CB and hears about a ‘kite-assisted’ signal across the English Channel

Rallies & Events • All information published here reflects the situation up to and including 21st March 2022. Readers are advised to check carefully with the organisers of any rally or event,...