{"id":59532,"date":"2024-04-21T07:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=59532"},"modified":"2024-04-21T07:22:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T11:22:00","slug":"guest-post-pre-internet-sources-of-shortwave-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/guest-post-pre-internet-sources-of-shortwave-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post: Pre-Internet Sources of Shortwave Information"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following guest post:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sources of SWL Information \u201cPre-Internet\u201d<\/b><\/h1>\n

by Dan Greenall<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I first discovered the world of shortwave listening, many years before the internet, access to hobby related information was mostly available through over-the-air DX programs, monthly DX club bulletins, as well as a number of books and electronics magazines.\u00a0 I joined a few clubs including the Midwest DX Club, SPEEDX, and the Ontario DX Association, and eagerly awaited each issue of Electronics Illustrated and Popular Electronics (early 1970\u2019s) on the news stand.\u00a0 Later, in the 1980\u2019s,\u00a0 Popular Communications and Monitoring Times came along, though these were not always easy to find here in Canada.<\/p>\n

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Ironically, nearly all issues of these magazines can be read today, over 30, 40 and even 50 years later, thanks to David Gleason\u2019s not-for-profit, free online library<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.worldradiohistory.com\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

You can also find the semi-annual (and eventually annual) Communications World (1971-81) which contained the popular White\u2019s Radio Log.<\/p>\n

As well, five issues of the Communications Handbook can be found;\u00a0 1963, 1966, 1967, 1974 and 1977.\u00a0 It only came out once a year but was still a favourite of mine, so much so, that I still have my copies from 1971 and 1972.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I have scanned parts of these and put them on the Internet Archive.\u00a0 You can find them here:<\/p>\n

Communications Handbook 1971:\u00a0https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/page-09<\/a><\/p>\n

Communications Handbook 1972:\u00a0https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/page-20<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are links that will lead to some of the other magazines:<\/p>\n