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 • August 2022 Vol. 17 No 8

A Small Milestone

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

A Brand-New Perseus SDR

McIntosh High-End AM/FM Tuner

ICOM SHF-P1 and IC-PW2 at the Dayton Hamvention

The Surprising Silence of Brazilian DRM Transmissions • Martín Butera interviews South American DRM expert Francisco Braccini, who compares the development of DRM technology in Brazil and India and explains why DRM might make Brazil less unequal in the long term.

The Magic Bands

The Tecsun PL-368 FM (Stereo), LW, MW, SW-SSB, Receiver • The new Tecsun PL-368 portable multi-band radio offers – among other features – SSB reception and the new Enhanced Tuning Mode (ETM). The editor has given it a test whirl and is surprised by the results.

Win this Tecsun PL-368

AI Monitoring, Emergency Comms, and Spaceport-1 • David Smith comments on the Jubilee Flypast and airborne monitoring of the war in Ukraine. He describes airspace control during emergencies, reports on a spaceport in Scotland and profiles RAF Mildenhall.

Airshows • David Smith has compiled the fourth part of our popular Airshow Guide. Don’t forget to take your scanners and cameras, and let us know what you have spotted.

The Jetvision Air!Squitter ADS-B, MLAT & FLARM Receiver • The editor has been lent the jetvision Air!Squitter, a high performing, ADS-B, MLAT and FLARM live flight tracking radio device that will integrate seamlessly into your shack.

Radio News

Citizen Astronomers and Radio Waves • Andrew Thomas makes a welcome return to RadioUser to explain how meteor observations, monitoring solar flares and detecting cosmic rays and muons can intersect with, and complement, the radio hobby.

Digital Selective Calling (DSC) • Robert Connolly provides an overview of Digital Selective Calling, looking at the technologies and user scenarios behind the mode. He then demystifies some of the number-designations used in shipping.

European Private Shortwave Stations

The BBC Under the Microscope • David Harris reviews a new book on the BBC. It joins a crowded field and combines a concise historical narrative with a trenchant political analysis of the current and future challenges for the Corporation.

Chelmsford: Home of a Wireless Revolution • Scott Caldwell looks at Chelmsford in Essex (UK) and the famous Guglielmo Marconi Hall Street Works. It could be said that this was the birthplace of the Marconi Empire, which was soon to girdle the globe.