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 • May 2022 Vol. 17 No 5

Radio Technologies: Traditional, Emerging, and Evolving

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

Introducing the Icom VHF/UHF Dual-Ban d FM Transceiver • Have you got something new to tell our readers about? If so, then drop a line to wiessala@hotmail.com

Military-Grade 10" Tablet with DMR Dual Band Radio

Spring Product Preview 2022

Moonraker: Nevson Triple Suction Window Mount

ZUMspot RPi

New Products at Martin Lynch

Military Communications: Aircraft Tracking & Ukraine • David Smith reports on the NATO activity over Eastern Europe as gleaned from flight-tracking sites, outlines changes at Luton Airport, reports on Amsterdam’s efforts to reduce emissions and profiles RAF Benson.

RAF and MoD ATC Profiles 13 Benson

Airshows • David Smith presents this year’s Airshows, Flight Fests, Historical Re-enactments, Flypasts, and related Aeronautical Displays. Visit and enjoy, with and without your scanner.

Music and Radio - Red, Green & Yellow • David Harris has read a book detailing the recent – and largely unknown – political and radio history of Vietnam, revealing the mechanisms through which music and broadcasting work in autocratic regimes.

Internet Radio Today • Kevin Ryan shows how internet radio developed, explains audio streaming and radio portals, shows you the different ways in which it is possible to listen to online radio content and evaluates the future of DAB radio.

Rallies & Events • All information published here reflects the situation up to and including 14th April 2022. Readers are advised to check carefully with the organisers of any rally or event, before setting out for a visit. The Radio Enthusiast website will have updates, please check here regularly. To get your event onto this list, please, e-mail full details as early as possible: wiessala@hotmail.com

WiNRADiO WR-G69DDCe Excelsior Ultra • Clint Gouveia makes a welcome return to RadioUser, to take an in-depth look at WiNRADiO’s new flagship Software-Defined Radio receiver, the WR-G69DDCe Excelsior Ultra.

Radio News

New at Moonraker: The Malahit-DSP SDR MDS2000 • The editor’s latest ‘guest radio’ is the Malahit-DSP SDR. This touchscreen, portable, wideband receiver offers great customisation and features that will please travellers, SW listeners, utility fans and radio experimenters.

The Radio of the Future – The Future of Radio • In the first of a two-part mini-series, Chrissy Brand envisages how the world of radio may look and sound in the years ahead, discussing the future of specific formats and technologies over the next two decades.

Business, Music, and Inspirational People • Chrissy Brand expands her listening habits with classical, folk and electronic music, and current affairs programmes, and she offers top recommendations for this month’s best international radio programmes.

Radio News

Early Stations and the True Father of Radio Broadcasting • Tony Currie takes a look at the early radio stations with such callsigns as 2MT, 2LO, 2MG, 2BP, and 2ZY and introduces a pioneering figure from the foundational era of UK broadcasting.

Radio News

European Private Shortwave Stations

Radio News

BBC 100 Years: 1960-1969 • Keith Hamer and Garry Smith consider the BBC in the 1960s, looking, amongst other things, at experimental colour television broadcasts, the opening of Television Centre, and the launch of BBC-2.

An Aerial for Ukraine and a Trap Dipole • Keith Rawlings makes an aerial for the BBC’s Short Wave broadcasts towards...