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 • June 2022 Vol. 17 No 6

Welcome From Ukraine to Antarctica

BEAT THE PRICE RISE

Radio Currents • Have you got something new to tell our readers about? If so, then drop a line to wiessala@hotmail.com

Nevada: AOR DV10 Scanning Receivers

BDXC: Broadcasts in English (A22)

Global Radio Guide (GRG) Summer 2022

XIEGU GNR1: Digital Noise Reduction and Audio Filtering

AN-SOF 7.10: Now available for Download

New in @ Moonraker

Leaping over the Barriers of Loneliness

Radio User Archive CD 2021 Index

Calling the Antarctic • Alan Pennington goes far South and takes a look at the history, target audience and practicalities of the BBC World Service’s annual Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast, which will, once again, be transmitted later this month.

Airspace Risks and Traffic Jams • David Smith assesses the effects on European air traffic of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, spots surveillance aircraft monitoring the conflict, reports on Prestwick and RAF Northolt and profiles Warton ATC.

Airshows • David Smith presents Part Two of our seasonal RadioUser Guide to UK airshows, aerobatic displays and flypasts, including themed events, special days, and commemorative celebrations.

Cosmic Calls from the Crimea • Martín Butera outlines the History of an enigmatic Deep Space Communications Center (DSCC) on the Crimean Peninsula, from where the very first radio transmissions to extra-terrestrial civilizations were sent.

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

One Happy Competition Winner • The editor offers a selection of e-mails, letters and posts received from our readers.

Bonito AntennaJet AAS-300DP • The Bonito AntennaJet AAS-300DP is an active, dualpowered, lossless, RF signal splitter made by Bonito in Germany. It arrived in the editor’s shack last week and was used with diverse receiving equipment.

War and Radio in Ukraine • Chrissy Brand looks at how the ongoing war in Ukraine has changed the radio landscape, in Ukraine itself, neighbouring countries and the wider world.

The Marcuse Memorial Bench & Amberley Museum • David Reynolds G3ZPF, the President of the Radio Amateurs Old Timers’ Association (RAOTA), remembers a visit to two significant sites of UK radio history and commemoration in the South of England.

An Introduction to HD Radio • Kevin Ryan looks at the HD Radio / IBOC digital transmission format in use in North and parts of South America through the mediaU Portal, looks at NAB 2022 and tests the Auna IR160 Internet Radio.

Vloggers: A New Form of Free Radio? • Chrissy Brand looks at independent Russian vloggers who shed new light on the country and argues that this new form of media may well be the independent radio of our time. She then extolls the calming virtues of radio use while driving.

BBC 100 Years: 1970-1979 • Keith Hamer and Garry Smith outline the continuous development of the BBC during the 1970s. The decade saw the extension of BBC local radio, the Open University and Ceefax, plus many memorable new programmes.

The ‘All-Band’ Doublet • Continuing with his investigation of some basic aerial types, Keith Rawlings explains the making and main functions of a simple dipole aerial that can be used on multiple...