{"id":14078,"date":"2015-07-17T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=14078"},"modified":"2015-07-17T08:38:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T12:38:08","slug":"fine-tunings-proceedings-on-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/fine-tunings-proceedings-on-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine Tuning’s “Proceedings” on CD"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Proceedings\"<\/a><\/p>\n

SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Ken (KD5XN), writes:<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if you are familiar with the books \u201cFine Tuning Proceedings\u201d that were published during the late 80s and into the 90s. They were and are a great read and source of information for the advanced hard-core shortwave DXer. There are equipment reviews, hints, suggestions on antennas, recorders, atlases, propagation etc.<\/p>\n

A lot of information may be \u201cdated\u201d today, but for someone who travels and wants to kill some time reading about SWL, they are a great resource. It\u2019s like sitting down with a veteran DXer and picking his\/her brain. The authors were \u201cgiants\u201d of the hobby back in the day.<\/p>\n

All the books are available on a single CD for $10 from the ODXA if anyone is interested. (http:\/\/www.odxa.on.ca<\/a>) I personally have the CD. I used to have all the books but unfortunately they didn\u2019t survive many moves over the years.<\/p>\n

They aren\u2019t particularly pretty, they were published back when the internet and computers weren\u2019t as robust as they are today. I imagine it was quite a chore to scan 6 books into PDF files.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many thanks, Bill! Actually, I was unaware that those issues of Fine Tuning’s Proceedings<\/em> were on CD.<\/p>\n

I just purchased a CD via the ODXA website. It’s quite simple: simply send Harold Sellers\u00a0a PayPal amount of $10 and he will ship the CD to you.<\/p>\n

Instructions can be found on the ODXA website: simply click the FT Proceedings menu item.<\/a><\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Jonathan Marks, adds:<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an interview with John Bryant of Fine tuning in this edition of Media Network:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/jonathanmarks.libsyn.com\/mn-18-08-1988-poland-and-radio-solidarity<\/a><\/p>\n

[There are also]\u00a0two other programmes with John Bryant which we did:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/jonathanmarks.libsyn.com\/mn-11-09-1995-turkish-police-radio-and-zenith-sw-radios<\/a> covered the Zenith Transoceanic<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

http:\/\/jonathanmarks.libsyn.com\/mn19091991-drake-r8<\/a> which went into some depth about the Drake R-8.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SWLing Post reader, Ken (KD5XN), writes: I don\u2019t know if you are familiar with the books \u201cFine Tuning Proceedings\u201d that were published during the late 80s and into the 90s. They were and are a great read and source of information for the advanced hard-core shortwave DXer. There are equipment reviews, hints, suggestions on antennas, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,43],"tags":[3983,3985,3987,3986,3984],"class_list":["post-14078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-fine-tuning-proceedings","tag-ft-proceedings","tag-harold-sellers","tag-odxa","tag-proceedings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3F4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64257,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/some-really-inexpensive-ways-to-perhaps-improve-your-shortwave-listening\/","url_meta":{"origin":14078,"position":0},"title":"Some really inexpensive ways to perhaps improve your shortwave listening","author":"Jock Elliott","date":"October 13, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 By Jock Elliott, KB2GOM Just yesterday morning, I was reminded that sometimes really small things can make a significant difference SWLing. 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