Re: [Swlfest] SWL Fest Field Trip on Sunday 1:00pm - Private tour of 100 beautiful antique Catalin radios
Hi Jef, No worries, Jef. I'm just glad you made it to the 'Fest and back home okay. It was great seeing you again! A few folks showed up at the radio museum and we enjoyed it. But hanging out with radio friends Friday-Saturday felt really good. I'm taking to heart your upbeat demeanor after all you've been through. Thanks! -Ed At 07:47 PM 5/13/2024, Kb3gty wrote: Thanks for organizing this. Sorry I couldn't make it, I decided to leave early, and it turned out to be a good thing I did. Jef On Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 09:13:38 PM EDT, Ed Cummings wrote: On Sunday at 1:00pm, SWL Festers have a rare opportunity to get a free private museum tour of a collection of one hundred incredibly beautiful antique Catalin radios--in Philadelphia, only a half-hour drive from SWL Fest hotel. (Some of us share could share transportation, or SEPTA can get you there in less than an hour.) If you don't know, Catalin is a 1920's thermosetting polymer made in brilliant colors that was used by many table radio manufacturers for exotic radio cabinets in the 20'-30's-40's. <https://www.thekeencollection.org/artworks/categories/11-catalin-radios/>https://www.thekeencollection.org/artworks/categories/11-catalin-radios/ The Keen Collection of Outsider Art is a world-class private museum that's not open to the general public. Its owner, philanthropist Victor Keen, is generously allowing SWL Festers to ogle his amazing radio collection, which is probably valued in the six figures. It is curated by Victor Keen, who I met in his museum months ago and proposed a private tour of his radio collection by our group of knowledgeable radio enthusiasts. He was receptive to the idea, and he has arranged for one of his staffers, Tom, come in on Sunday to show us the collection. This could be be your once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see such a unique and beautiful radio collection. Photographs ARE permitted! There's otheLOGNULL NowTransReader::ReadIt() JJFileMT::Truncate(1365901339) LOGNULL NowTransReader::ReadIt() JJFileMT::Truncate(0) r interesting collections of objects in the museum you should check out while there (browse the website for more info.) The Keen Collection of Outsider Art is located at 1527 Brandywine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130. Street parking shouldn't be a problem on Sunday on Brandywine Street, or on Spring Garden Street one block away. There's several inexpensive dining options around the corner should any of us want to grab lunch afterwards before heading home. It would be best if everyone can be at the door at 1:00 sharp when we'll be welcomed inside, because the door is kept locked for security reasons and there'll only be one staffer there to show us around. I don't want him to have keep running to the open the locked door for stragglers while he's inside showing us the collection. We'll be trusted guests at a private museum that's not open to the general public. If you have any questions, please email me off-list or see me during the 'Fest, where I'll make an announcement and show pictures of this radio collection on the big screen in the conference room. I hope you can take advantage of this unique opportunity to see this amazing collection of beautiful antique radios. I was astounded when I saw it! Cheers, -Ed Cummings ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
[Swlfest] Well wishes for a good fest
Hello fellow festers, I had every good intention of attending the first post-COVID in person fest. I think I have only missed two fests since 1996. However, the change from a Winter SWL Fest to a Spring SWL Fest took the fest from probably the slowest time of year and plopped it in the middle of the busiest time of year for me not to mention that it is Mother's Day Weekend. Since we last met in person I became a grandpa, those who I am connected with on Facebook are acutely aware of that. How did that happen? Well, I know how it happened but how did it happen? Kenny Chesney was right, don't blink. I went from being a single guy on the prowl when the bar at the Kulpsville Holiday Inn turned in to a night club after dark, to a step-dad, then a dad, and now a grandpa. The "baby" leaves for college in mid-August. During the COVID era it became way to easy to make a few clicks on the Amazon App and grow the collection of SDR radios as well as cheap Chinese portable SW radios. Chinese SW portables are proliferating the market yet there is less and less to listen too, go figure. If you think about it, it's really amazing that now you can hold a device in the palm of your hand that took up half the desk and weighed thirty pounds back in the 60's. Here's wishing you a good fest and safe travels. Yours in DX, Ed Muro Long Island, NY ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
[Swlfest] SWL Fest Field Trip on Sunday 1:00pm - Private tour of 100 beautiful antique Catalin radios
On Sunday at 1:00pm, SWL Festers have a rare opportunity to get a free private museum tour of a collection of one hundred incredibly beautiful antique Catalin radios--in Philadelphia, only a half-hour drive from SWL Fest hotel. (Some of us share could share transportation, or SEPTA can get you there in less than an hour.) If you don't know, Catalin is a 1920's thermosetting polymer made in brilliant colors that was used by many table radio manufacturers for exotic radio cabinets in the 20'-30's-40's. https://www.thekeencollection.org/artworks/categories/11-catalin-radios/ The Keen Collection of Outsider Art is a world-class private museum that's not open to the general public. Its owner, philanthropist Victor Keen, is generously allowing SWL Festers to ogle his amazing radio collection, which is probably valued in the six figures. It is curated by Victor Keen, who I met in his museum months ago and proposed a private tour of his radio collection by our group of knowledgeable radio enthusiasts. He was receptive to the idea, and he has arranged for one of his staffers, Tom, come in on Sunday to show us the collection. This could be be your once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see such a unique and beautiful radio collection. Photographs ARE permitted! There's other interesting collections of objects in the museum you should check out while there (browse the website for more info.) The Keen Collection of Outsider Art is located at 1527 Brandywine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130. Street parking shouldn't be a problem on Sunday on Brandywine Street, or on Spring Garden Street one block away. There's several inexpensive dining options around the corner should any of us want to grab lunch afterwards before heading home. It would be best if everyone can be at the door at 1:00 sharp when we'll be welcomed inside, because the door is kept locked for security reasons and there'll only be one staffer there to show us around. I don't want him to have keep running to the open the locked door for stragglers while he's inside showing us the collection. We'll be trusted guests at a private museum that's not open to the general public. If you have any questions, please email me off-list or see me during the 'Fest, where I'll make an announcement and show pictures of this radio collection on the big screen in the conference room. I hope you can take advantage of this unique opportunity to see this amazing collection of beautiful antique radios. I was astounded when I saw it! Cheers, -Ed Cummings ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
[Swlfest] In-Person Registrations still available online?
Hi Rich & John, I'd like to invite some new folks to this year's SWL Fest. How many in-person registrations are still available online? -Ed Cummings ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Registration is now available for the Fest
Hi Matt, I share your concern about the efficacy of a Listening Lounge at this years' SWL Fest. It's been one of my favorite features of the conference. For decades, the SWL Fest was held at the Best Western Hotel in Kulpsville (Landsdale exit of 476-N) where our listening lounge was in a 2nd floor conference room with a large window that couldn't be opened. Hotel management got wise to folks who made a hole in their unopenable hole room window screen to drop a longwire antenna out of it. Stiff fines were levied upon guests who left a hole in their window screen. The management even posted a sign at the front desk during 'Fests warning us that leaving a hole in our window screen wound earn us a stiff fine. Ah, memories... When the 'Fest was moved to the Hilton DoubleTree Suites in Plymouth Meeting for financial reasons (its new management decided to start price-gouging us, despite our bringing them lots of business every year) I noticed the spacious top-floor Presidential Suite was being renovated and had an accessible balcony--just below the roof. And I found a way to access the roof and found antenna-mounting options and a way to drop feedlines to the balcony. A perfect venue for our future Listening Lounge needs! So I suggested to Rich and John that they look into renting the Presidential Suite as a listening lounge for future 'fests. To their credit, they did that and made it a combination Listening Lounge and Hospitality Suite, which was a wonderful success. Volunteers set it up with tables and refreshments every year, antennas were erected on the balcony and rooftop, and people generously brought and set up their impressive receivers--some of which many of us only dreamed of having access to. I will miss that dearly. I'm going to drive up to the Holiday Inn Express & Suites in Fort Washington and do some covert reconnaissance to explore potential options for a Listening Lounge there, and will report them here. With luck, we'll have at least one usable option. To quote veteran SWL'er Mick Jagger, "You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes,well, you might just find, You get what you need!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef9QnZVpVd8 -Ed Cummings At 02:20 PM 4/6/2024, Matt Blaze wrote: Also, will there be a listening lounge? It doesn't appear the hotel has any balconies or obvious places for antennas. On Apr 6, 2024, at 13:52, Richard Cuff wrote: Sometime in the next week or two, Ill go ahead and create the zoom meeting and that can generate calendar entries. Probably also create an ics file for folks that dont speak Google. RC On Sat, Apr 6, 2024 at 11:54â¯AM Risto Kotalampi <<mailto:ri...@kotalampi.com>ri...@kotalampi.com> wrote: Unfortunately I won't be making in-person but will attend through Zoom as usual. For those who use Google Calendar and wants to see these events integrated into your calendar: you can subscribe to the public calendar with known program here: <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=OTJmZWE3ZmQ4NTQxYzI1N2YwNWIxYTg3OTA5MDVkNmFlMTViZGY5Y2NkYjlmYzYxZjcwYWM0OGU2NjYxNzRlM0Bncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t>https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=OTJmZWE3ZmQ4NTQxYzI1N2YwNWIxYTg3OTA5MDVkNmFlMTViZGY5Y2NkYjlmYzYxZjcwYWM0OGU2NjYxNzRlM0Bncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t 73! Risto On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 7:51 PM Richard Cuff <<mailto:rdc...@gmail.com>rdc...@gmail.com> wrote: Registration for the 2024 "Winter SWL Fest" is now available! The Fest will be a combination in-person and Zoom event, and will be held at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania - just north of Philadelphia. We have a block of rooms set aside for the Fest at a special rate; this block will only be available until April 18th, 2024. After that date our special rate may no longer be available, and the hotel itself may sell out. In-person registration is limited to 65 participants, so register early if you don't want to get shut out; there is no limit to the number of Zoom participants. Start your process at the Winter SWL Fest website: <http://www.swlfest.com/>http://www.swlfest.com You can find out more information there, and access the group reservation link for the hotel and also register for either the in-person or the Zoom event. We apologize if you're seeing this announcement in multiple places; we wanted to get the news out there as quickly as possible since we have tight deadlines this year. We look forward to seeing you there! Richard Cuff and John Figliozzi, co-Festmeisters ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] [odxa] Informal Poll of Past and Future SWL Fest Attendees
1: YES 2: YES (closer to $50 than $100) 3: NO 4: NO 5: I could do without the silent auction and the swap meet. I would retain the convention atmosphere with 1 or 2 days of forums and the raffle. Possibly do away with the banquet and have the raffle results pulled at a luncheon or at a specific time in the hospitality room. * Ed Muro -K2EPM- Long Island, NY From: o...@groups.io on behalf of John A. Figliozzi Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2024 11:45 PM To: Discussion list for the Winter SWL Fest ; na...@groups.io ; odxa yg Subject: [odxa] Informal Poll of Past and Future SWL Fest Attendees Since the advent of COVID, we’re maintained an annual Fest by using the ZOOM platform. This has proven popular and successful and will continue. However, we have always considered a return to an “in-person” Fest something desirable if at all possible. This year we decided to move the dates for the Fest to May to address two potential weather-related roadblocks to doing so: ease of travel and the likelihood that the potential for illness lowers as the weather moderates. This “unscientific” poll with help us determine the best course of action for the “‘Winter’ SWL Fest” this year. We hope that everyone on these three platforms interested in the Fest will participate in this poll. Just number your answers according to the template below and e-mail them to both of us by January 21 directly. We’ll let you know what we’ve learned immediately thereafter. Here are the 5 questions: 1. Yes or No. I would be willing to once again attend an in-person Fest. 2. Yes or No. To demonstrate that willingness, I would be willing to make a nonrefundable upfront payment of $50 to $100. This would ensure enough participation to cover unavoidable fixed costs like a meeting room(s) and electronic costs. 3. Yes or No. Would a significant increase (say 25%) in costs (for travel, lodging, food) to attend affect your decision? 4. Yes or No. Should ALL of the features of past Fests be retained? These include: the Forums, the convention atmosphere by holding the event for two days in a sizeable hotel, the Banquet, the Raffle, the Silent Auction, the Swap Meet, the Hospitality Room. 5. If you answered “No” to #4, what features could be done without? Please feel free to add any further comments you deem helpful. Thank you for your help. If you have any questions, please feel free to send them along as well.. Richard Cuff h...@naswa.net John Figliozzi jfigl...@nycap.rr.com Fest (Dis)Organizers -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#43449): https://groups.io/g/odxa/message/43449 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/103733252/954702 Group Owner: odxa+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/odxa/leave/4433449/954702/1836293941/xyzzy [k2...@hotmail.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] THE WINTER SWL FEST IS MOVING DATES !!!!!
The 'elephant in the room' in this email thread is the stark reality that without a sufficient number of booked hotel rooms, we can't have the conference facilities we want. That's how hotel/conference facilities do business. Rich and John have ably juggled these requirements for many years--and a lot of other SWLfest organization details--extremely well, in my opinion. It's a huge labor of love for them. The industry term for this business model is often called "heads in beds": a group of people must book a certain minimum number of hotel rooms to subsidize the conference facilities the group wants to use. Example: If we have 100 people pre-pay their hotel rooms at the DoubleTree, (I'm guessing on the actual number this year; it varies) then we can afford to use the conference facilities we want. Otherwise, the conference admission fee would have to increased high enough to cover the unsubsidized cost of the conference facilities we want. And if that higher admission fee is more than a certain number of people are willing to pay, then we can't have an in-person SWLfest there. The virtual conference model we used in 2021-2023 (necessarily due to the pandemic) taught us it brought attendees who otherwise couldn't afford to come, including some new presenters who made excellent presentations. So that's why Rich and John are considering a 'best of both' hybrid model this year with both in-person and virtual attendees. Doing that would bring even more operational and logistical challenges. Pulling all this off so an in-person SWLFest is affordable for enough people, and has a full schedule of interesting presentations, seems more complicated than a Rubik's Cube! If anyone's curious, here's the URL for a web page showing diagrams and specifications of the DoubleTree Plymouth Meeting conference facilities. (The Presidential Suite that we've used for our Hospitality Room since 2014 after I first suggested it in 2012 is not shown.) https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/phlghdt-doubletree-suites-philadelphia-west/events/ So if we're looking at alternative venues, this info could be helpful in determining what might work for us. -Ed Cummings At 12:47 PM 1/13/2024, Dennis Dura wrote: I'll add another 2¢ to what Fred said. Knowing the Double Tree has had bumps over the years, and it wasn't their fault there was a Blizzard... it served well. Plenty of decent eating nearby... Breakfast accomodated SWL Fest groups forming... You could chat with folks out in the common areas, and your room was right upstairs if you wanted a break. Radio-Hospitality suite too! tpo pay, I'd say that a place like, if not exactly that place, would work best for the diverse attendees we have, that some of the other suggested venues could not offer. Dennis PS: Yes we would come down with the WinterFest crud from time to time post event too... but that's a function of groups of people together in the Winter. On Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 16:32 Fred Zalupski <<mailto:fzalup...@gmail.com>fzalup...@gmail.com> wrote: My $0.02... I would like to attend live and very much enjoy the "convention" model. Call me conventional. I have complete faith in the Festmeisters' judgement and will be happy with the outcome, even if it's unconventional. Happy New Year, Fred On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 2:40â¯PM John A. Figliozzi <<mailto:jfigl...@nycap.rr.com>jfigl...@nycap.rr.com> wrote: Its not, really. The event hLOGNULL NowTransReader::ReadIt() JJFileMT::Truncate(1332873208) LOGNULL NowTransReader::ReadIt() JJFileMT::Truncate(0) as always had a hospitality suite where snacks and beverages including beer but also several non-alcohol options including water have been stocked. Thats why it came up. This is a different challenge this time. In the pre-covid era covering about 30 years, the event was held convention-style self-contained in a hotel where most registrants stayed and included a banquet the last night. Now that we only had a virtual event on Zoom for the last 3 years were trying to gauge interest in having a hybrid event virtual and in-person and trying to figure out how extensively if at all we should follow the convention model. Cabeesh? :)) Sent from my iPhone On Jan 12, 2024, at 2:30â¯PM, Henry Mensch <<mailto:he...@n6hcm.com>he...@n6hcm.com> wrote:  Not having attended before, I have to ask why booze is required... On January 9, 2024 08:32:07 Ron Hunsicker <<mailto:ronhu...@ptd.net>ronhu...@ptd.net> wrote: Public schools almost certainly will not allow booze. ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: ½ Send an E-mail to <http://swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe>swl
Re: [Swlfest] THE WINTER SWL FEST IS MOVING DATES !!!!!
Rich and John, You may have already considered this idea, but some churches have decent event facilities that they sometimes rent out for much less than money than conventional conference venues charge. Since the SWLFest will be over on Saturday night (before Sunday, when the church will need their space back) this might be a good, low-cost option. If the church is very near a low-cost hotel and eateries, that would be ideal. Perhaps some folks on this email list know of a church like this in one of the geographic areas you mentioned, and which might be interested in doing this with us. The bottom line, obviously, is that with a likely smaller attendance than past SWLFests, we need a lower-cost venue (very near affordable lodging and dining) to keep ticket costs affordable. -Ed Cummings. At 07:35 PM 1/8/2024, Eric A. Cottrell wrote: Hello, I plan on going and any place around Philly or northward would be fine. In fact I could go further west as far as Bellefonte. I am also willing to help out and looking forward to see y'all again in person. 73 Eric On 1/8/2024 6:52 PM, Richard Cuff wrote: Hi Marc - We don't have a specific location picked yet -- We expect it will be somewhere in the northern Philadelphia suburbs, anywhere from Plymouth Meeting (to the west, where it was for its most recent venue) to the northern suburbs (e.g. Lansdale / Kulpsville) to the northeastern suburbs (e.g. Bensalem). Public transit access is also a variable in the mix. Once we have a sense of how many would be willing to participate in an in-person event, and what that event would look like, we'll then look at relevant hotels. Watch this space for more details as we flesh things out. Hosting a hybrid Zoom / live event will be a new challenge for us. Richard Cuff co-Festmeister On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 6:42â¯PM Marco Vanzetti <<mailto:familyf...@msn.com>familyf...@msn.com> wrote: Where is it being held?? Get <https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg>Outlook for Android -- From: Swlfest <<mailto:swlfest-boun...@hard-core-dx.com>swlfest-boun...@hard-core-dx.com> on behalf of Richard Cuff <<mailto:rdc...@gmail.com>rdc...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, January 8, 2024 4:29:04 PM To: Discussion list for the Winter SWL Fest <<mailto:swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>swlfest@hard-core-dx.com> Subject: Re: [Swlfest] THE WINTER SWL FEST IS MOVING DATES ! Philly's Amtrak station is adjacent to Center City Philadelphia. Not a cheap neighborhood by any means. Commuter rail from that location does exist to areas where we have held the Fest in the past, though not next door to the hotels we've used. Some Festers in years past took the commuter rail to the nearest station and either took a taxi or finagled a ride with friends. RC On Fri, Jan 5, 2024 at 12:12â¯PM Jack Amelar <<mailto:jame...@yandex.com>jame...@yandex.com> wrote: 04.01.2024, 22:11, "Maryanne Kehoe" <<mailto:atlanta...@gmail.com>atlanta...@gmail.com>: Or maybe a hotel at or near the airport? Or an Amtrak station ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <http://swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <http://swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <mailto:swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://
Re: [Swlfest] THE WINTER SWL FEST IS MOVING DATES !!!!!
John and Rich have been doing a superb job for decades finding and wrangling suitable venues for the SWL Fest. I'm confident their experience doing this for so long makes them well aware of what attendees want and need. Suitability, location, and cost are very difficult criteria to juggle. Willingness of enough people to buy in is essential. But IF it can be feasibly pulled off (a big IF) then our Fine Festmeisters can do it! -Ed At 11:49 AM 1/5/2024, Bob Lauer wrote: But, please, near the Pennsylvania Toll Road In a message dated 01/05/2024 10:56:16 Eastern Standard Time, jame...@yandex.com writes: 04.01.2024, 22:11, "Maryanne Kehoe" : Or maybe a hotel at or near the airport? Or an Amtrak station ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <mailto:swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe,>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] THE WINTER SWL FEST IS MOVING DATES !!!!!
THANK YOU Rich and John for examining the possibility of holding the first in-person SWLFest in four years with 'virtual' participants. I'd definitely attend and would encourage others to come as well. -Ed Cummings At 11:47 AM 1/2/2024, John Figliozzi wrote: THE FESTMEISTERS" IN CONSULTATION WITH THE NASWA EXECUTIVE BOARD HAVE DECIDED TO SHIFT THE DATES OF THE 2024 FEST TO THE WEEKEND OF MAY 10-11 (Yes, we know thats shouting", but we figure big news deserves a big, noticeable announcement.) Stay tuned for further information. We also are examining the possibility of once again holding an in-person event in cooperation with the current online Zoom event. Better ease of travel and the potential for fewer health concerns in spring as opposed to winter were partial considerations for this decision to move the dates. It will now be known as: THE (Ahem) WINTER SWL FEST even though its not in winter and covers far more than shortwave. (What can we say but we cant come up with a better identifying moniker after more than three decades.) Thank you for your continued support and interest. Well be back in touch shortly. For one thing, well want to poll past and potential attendees on their own interest and ability to commit to participating in an in-person event. Richard Cuff John Figliozzi Fest Ringleaders ___ Swlfest mailing list http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] History of WWV Tonight
Jeff, What an terrible set of bad circumstances you've experienced in recent years! Not everyone is on Facebook, so would you please post here on the swlfest list the link to the GoFundMe page created by your daughter, so we can help? We'll miss you and your excellent loop antenna talks year, but hope things turn around for you so we can see you next year. Best wishes, -Ed Cummings At 10:23 AM 3/3/2023, Kb3gty wrote: unfortunately I will not be attending this years zoomfest. I had yet another dissaster in my life my house burnt down on feb. 5th. i lost most of my vintage musical instrument collection (which was both my retirement and my source of income) almost all of my (and Charlyne's) radio gear. Included in that was four new loop antennas that i was planning to bring to the next live fest. If anyone wants more details there are several news broadcasts and news articles attached to my facebook page along with a go fund me page set up by my daughter. I was, of course underinsured (getting insurance on anything vintage is an expensive nightmare), and settling Charlyne's estate and my medical bills wiped me out. I will very much miss "seeing" you all this year' and hope we can get together in person again soon. I hope the fest goes well and everyone has a good time. Keep on listening Jef Eichner/kb3gty Mr. Loop P.S. My son is now handling my email, untill I can get direct access to it again, but the address is still good. Any one who wants my phone # can email me (my son will respond) -Original Message- From: Dennis Dura To: Discussion list for the Winter SWL Fest Sent: Fri, Mar 3, 2023 12:24 am Subject: Re: [Swlfest] History of WWV Tonight Tonight's broadcast is there in the Live category, so can be watched at your leisure. Don't know about the rest of the days Ed. Dennis On Fri, Mar 3, 2023, 00:17 Ed <<mailto:bern...@panix.com>bern...@panix.com> wrote: Thanks Dennis. Do you know if these WWV Frequency Celebration lectures March 2-4 are being recorded and archived online? -Ed At 05:36 PM 3/2/2023, Dennis Dura wrote: Join the WWV Amateur Radio Club, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery (FCMoD), and the HamSCI for two excellent lectures to be live streamed on March 2, 2023 at 5:00PM Mountain Std Time ( UTC): The History of WWV Frequency Broadcasts - Glenn Nelson, WWV Staff, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) WWV as a Beacon for Citizen Science - Dr. David Kazdan and Rachel Boedicker - Case Western Reserve University/HamSCI Aidan Montare - NIST Boulder/HamSCI The event will be streamed via the Northern Colorado ARC YouTube channel: <https://www.youtube.com/NCARC>https://www.youtube.com/NCARC ½ . Follow and choose the LIVE link, sit back, and enjoy! (Note:½ The lectures may not start exactly at the top of the hour - so be prepared to 'stand by' until the speakers take the stage.) The lectures are being presented as part of Tune In: The WWV Frequency Celebration, being held on March 2-4 at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, 408 Mason Ct, Fort Collins, Colorado, and throughout the month of March on the ham radio airwaves. Additional details on the activities from Fort Collins, as well as announcement of a week long on-the-air event featuring the WW0WWV callsign, can be found here: <https://wwvarc.org/WWVFrequencyCelebration>https://wwvarc.org/WWVFrequencyCelebration This information is also available at the <https://hamsci.org/WWV-Freq-Celebration-March-2-2023>HamSCI website . ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <http://swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com/?subject=unsubscribe>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com/>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <http://swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com/?subject=unsubscribe>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com/>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <mailto:swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.co
Re: [Swlfest] History of WWV Tonight
Thanks Dennis. Do you know if these WWV Frequency Celebration lectures March 2-4 are being recorded and archived online? -Ed At 05:36 PM 3/2/2023, Dennis Dura wrote: Join the WWV Amateur Radio Club, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery (FCMoD), and the HamSCI for two excellent lectures to be live streamed on March 2, 2023 at 5:00PM Mountain Std Time ( UTC): The History of WWV Frequency Broadcasts - Glenn Nelson, WWV Staff, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) WWV as a Beacon for Citizen Science - Dr. David Kazdan and Rachel Boedicker - Case Western Reserve University/HamSCI Aidan Montare - NIST Boulder/HamSCI The event will be streamed via the Northern Colorado ARC YouTube channel: <https://www.youtube.com/NCARC>https://www.youtube.com/NCARC½ . Follow and choose the LIVE link, sit back, and enjoy! (Note:½ The lectures may not start exactly at the top of the hour - so be prepared to 'stand by' until the speakers take the stage.) The lectures are being presented as part of Tune In: The WWV Frequency Celebration, being held on March 2-4 at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, 408 Mason Ct, Fort Collins, Colorado, and throughout the month of March on the ham radio airwaves. Additional details on the activities from Fort Collins, as well as announcement of a week long on-the-air event featuring the WW0WWV callsign, can be found here: <https://wwvarc.org/WWVFrequencyCelebration>https://wwvarc.org/WWVFrequencyCelebration This information is also available at the <https://hamsci.org/WWV-Freq-Celebration-March-2-2023>HamSCI website . ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] WGY 810 Schenectady NY
Fascinating article about WGY's history, Tom. Thanks very much for sharing it! -Ed At 07:35 PM 12/22/2022, Thomas Sundstrom wrote: Oops. Back and knee pain is distracting and I forgot to include the URL in an earlier email. Thanks, Dennis and Ed. This clear channel 1A broadcaster on 810 kc is more than a century old. This article details the early years as a GE test lab and has interesting photos. <https://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/roots-of-radio/wgy-a-centennial-radio-station>https://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/roots-of-radio/wgy-a-centennial-radio-station Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. Tom <http://w2xq.com>w2xq.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
[Swlfest] Nielsen Ratings Media Study - Shortwave Rating Data
Today I received in the U.S. Mail a media survey from Nielsen in Allentown, PA, along with $2 cash for my time. They promised to mail me another $5 cash for completing their survey. For those who don't know, Nielsen is the largest TV & Radio ratings company in the U.S. Nielsen's reports can significantly affect media makers' decisions. Among Nielsen's study methods is scientifically selecting a small "sample" of households to obtain their data from. So a single household's survey answers could represent thousands of households. I think it's hilarious that Nielsen chose my household! (Check out my answers to the 6th question below.) While I have no idea if or how my data will reflect in Nielsen's report, I do enjoy media hacking. Nielsen asked me the following survey questions. (My answers appear in parentheses.) Which types of TV shows do you watch regularly? Comedy (Drama) (News) Sports Other In a typical day, about how many hours of TV do you watch? 0 (1-2) 3-4 5-6 7+ What is your favorite TV show or channel? (Better Call Saul - on Netflix) In a typical day, about how many hours of radio do you listen to? 0 1 2 (3-4) 5-6 7+ What type of radio programming do you listen to most often? (News/Talk) Music Sports Other What is your favorite radio station or program? (Le Show by Harry Shearer - on WBCQ) Do you have access to the Internet? (Yes) No Do you have a cellphone? (Yes) No Do you have a landline phone in your home? (Yes) No If "Yes" to question 9: When at home, how frequently does anyone answer the landline phone in your home? Always Often (Sometimes) Rarely Never Do you does anyone in your household work for a radio, TV or cable company? Yes (No) Is anyone in your household of Spanish, Hispanic or Latino origin? Yes (No) If "Yes" to question 12: Which language is spoken most often in your home? Only Spanish Mostly Spanish, but some English Mostly English Only English Is anyone in your household? (White) Black or African American Asian Other Race Including yourself, how many people living in your home are? AgesNumber of People 0-11(0) 12 or older (1) Including yourself, please indicate the total number of people currently living in your household that fall into each category below: AgesNumber of Males Number of Females 12-17 (0) (0) 18-24 (0) (0) 25-34 (0) (0) 35-44 (0) (0) 45-54 (0) (0) 55+ (1) (0) ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Why Reviving Shortwave is a Non-Starter - Radio World
Tom, thanks for sharing this article by two folks we know in our SWLfest community. The dearth of shortwave broadcasts to shortwave receivers seems like a chicken-or-egg problem to me. If there was a good selection of good content broadcast on shortwave around the world (like there used to be) then more people would get shortwave radios to hear it (like they used to do before the content dried up due to most governments deciding the internet was the shiny new way to reach their target audiences around the globe.) This is a problem that DRM has been running into. Without content, there's no market to consume it, and there's no market for HF/MW/FM DRM receivers, and no financial incentive for their manufacture. HF DRM transmitters and exciters are readily available from Nautel and others, and HF DRM receiver manufacturers have ready-to-go designs and production facilities to make lots of radios for anyone who comes to them with a check. If just some of the tens of millions of U.S. taxpayer Dollars being squandered on some USAGM contractors were instead spent on 'seed money' for the production of DRM broadcasts and hundreds of thousands of low-cost portable HF/MW/FM DRM receivers for free distribution in target audience areas, that might jump-start HF DRM, which has impressive potential for conveying digital information around the world without all-too-easy internet censorship. Somebody has to take the lead on this. I'd rather see a tiny fraction of my tax dollars spent on such an initiative than on even a small fraction of the many Billions spent on waste, fraud, and abuse... Does anyone agree with me on this? -Ed At 10:56 AM 4/6/2022, Thomas Sundstrom wrote: <https://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/guest-commentaries/why-reviving-shortwave-is-a-non-starter>https://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/guest-commentaries/why-reviving-shortwave-is-a-non-starter Tom W2XQ ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
[Swlfest] Previous Fests
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Re: [Swlfest] First Draft: 2021 34th Annual Winter SWL Fest Program
Jef, That's great news you might be able to join the 'fest this year from your friend's internet-connected QTH. I hope to 'see' you online February 26/27! -Ed At 07:37 PM 1/30/2021, Kb3gty wrote: Thanks Ed Unfortunately cancer forced me to retire from two such organizations. However, a friend who has been trying to attend for the last several years says he can take off work those two days and we may be able to attend from his place, so I might make it this year. JEF On Thursday, January 21, 2021, 08:25:38 PM EST, Ed Cummings wrote: Jef, we'll really miss you and your loopy presentation this year. And of course, we all miss Charlyne. Your comment about being unable to participate in this year's SWLFest (because your internet connectivity is unreliable and sporadic) made me want to share a solution that too few here know about--even on this SWLFest discussion list that includes many knowledgeable radio communications enthusiasts. Unlimited wireless high-speed accounts are available at very low cost to 501(c)(3) organizations that apply for it through a special program. So if you have an affiliation with a 501(c)(3) organization, and are willing to facilitate their participation in this program, then you can probably get this deal, too. (I don't think NASWA is a 501(c)(3) but maybe I'm wrong.) Over the past decade I've helped several 501(c)(3) organizations qualify for this low-cost wireless internet service. At least one of them has a user on this SWLFest mailing list. The service uses the Sprint/T-Mobile 4G LTE Band 41 spectrum (2496-2690 GHz) which the FCC had long ago allocated to the Instructional Television Fixed Service (aka Educational Broadcast Service). For over a decade it's been used for wireless internet service via low-cost dedicated 4G LTE WiFi 'hotspot' devices. Through a special FCC-approved 20-year agreement between some of the original ITFS/EBS licensees of Band 41 spectrum and Clear>Sprint>T-Mobile, this spectrum must be shared with those licensees by providing unlimited wireless internet accounts--which are then shared by participating 501(c)(3) organizations with their staff, members, volunteers, and the people they serve. As a volunteer for a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization, I use this service and routinely get 80 Mbps download speeds through an Inseego MIFI 8000 LTE modem/bridge/router (your mileage may vary.) The required Sprint/T-Mobile Band 41 (2.5 GHz) network only exists in certain geographical areas, so it's unlikely to work in rural and some other areas. The ITFS/EBS licensees charge participating 501(c)(3) "Direct Users" an annual admin fee of $120 for each of line of service, which can then be provided at cost (or more) by each 501(c)(3) to their staff, members, volunteers, and people they serve. The required LTE modem/bridge/WiFi routers costs less than $100 or less than $200, depending on the model and features. The bottom line is that unlimited internet connectivity $10/month is a remarkably good deal, especially if you can carry around with you as a high-speed WiFi mobile hotspot. I just got off a flawless Zoom conference on my laptop using this internet connection. If anyone on the SWLFest discussion list is interested, I can help point you in the right direction. But here's a link to a consortium of ITFS/EBS licensees called Voqal that offers these accounts and the requisite modem/bridge/router equipment to 501(c)(3) nonprofits. While this may all sound to good to be true, it's no scam--it's a clever repurposing of a defunct FCC service that allocated 2.5 GHz spectrum for educational purposes. They just don't advertise it. <https://mobilecitizen.org/about/overview/>https://mobilecitizen.org/about/overview/ -Ed At 09:51 AM 1/19/2021, Kb3gty wrote: This is the first I've heard about the fest this year. I haven't gotten a newsletter since Nov., and my access to the internet is unreliable, and sporadic. Because of the internet issue its not likely that I'll be able to join you this year. I hope it goes well, and will look forward to next year. Jet Mr loop Kb3gty On Saturday, January 16, 2021, 03:21:51 PM EST, John Figliozzi wrote: The answer is yes, Sheldon. Still figuring out where it will best fit in. John > On Jan 16, 2021, at 11:15 AM, Sheldon Harvey <<mailto:ve2...@yahoo.com>ve2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi, John. Thanks for the draft schedule. > > Do you still want to have me do the "In Memoriam" segment? > > Sheldon Harvey > Greenfield Park, Quebec > > Enjoy birds and birdwatching? > <http://www.birdprotectionquebec.org>http://www.birdprotectionquebec.org > > > On Saturday, January 16, 2021, 1:10:21 a.m. EST, John Figliozzi <<mailto:jfigl...@nycap.rr.com>jfigl...@nycap.rr.com> wrote: > > > As st
Re: [Swlfest] Pancho
At 07:28 PM 1/24/2021, Thomas Sundstrom wrote: In the spirit of the 'fest. Tom This begs the question: If one were to know, will Pancho Villa ride again--virtually on Zoom? ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] First Draft: 2021 34th Annual Winter SWL Fest Program
As Arnie Coro explained to me, a prerequisite for his coming to speak at the SWLFest is his receiving a formal letter of invitation from a bona fide organization in the U.S. inviting him to a speaking engagement. In other words, he'd need formal letter of invitation from an 'Organizational Sponsor' that meets with the approval of his employer--the Cuban government. Separately, I was told that NASWA would not provide a formal letter of invitation offering to be Arnie's Organizational Sponsor. I don't know what criteria the Cuban government uses to determine acceptability of an Organizational Sponsor (it's probably subjective) or if NASWA would've met those criteria anyway. As I mentioned earlier, my most recent attempt to find a Organizational Sponsor was with the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, which seemed likely to meet with the approval of the Cuban Government because its academic reputation would complement Mr. Coro's history as a Professor of Broadcasting at the University of Havana. So it seemed like a good match to have Arnie scheduled to speak there the same week as the SWLFest, and tangentially he could be brought to nearby Plymouth Meeting to informally meet up with some old radio friends ;-) After some back-and-forth inquiries and negotiation through my contact, a tenured Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, a sticking point of an apparently geopolitical nature arose--not from my contact, but from Penn administration bureaucrats. Subsequently, my Penn contact left to teach at another university. If anyone knows a faculty member or administration staffer at a university in the greater Philadelphia region who'd be willing and able to lobby their institution to be an Organizational Sponsor for Arnie Coro to speak there on the same week as a forthcoming SWLFest, and write a formal letter of invitation to Arnie Coro for his government to review, and if it seems that Institution would likely meet with the approval of the Cuban government, please let me know and I'll provide more details on how I this can be made to work. For years I've been asking around about a suitable local Organizational Sponsor, and nobody has offered a realistic proposal. You'd think this would be easier, but for a number of frustrating reasons it's not. The financial resources needed to pay for Arnie's travel expenses to the SWLFest are available, notwithstanding fickle U.S. foreign policy complicating both travel and the legal transfer of funds to Cuba for that purpose. Perhaps in 2021 the geopolitical winds of change will blow in a more progressive direction. The goal to bring Arnie Coro to speak at the SWLFest has long been a moving target. As for this year's virtual SWLFest, Sheldon Harvey noted below that Arnie recently told him the Cuban government does not allow access to Zoom meetings--the specific medium chosen for this year's SWLFest. So any suggestion that Arnie could call into one of Zoom's telephone numbers to access the 'phone' channel of the SWLFest Zoom meeting seems unworkable, as that would still constitute access to a Zoom meeting which is disallowed in Cuba. -Ed At 07:51 AM 1/22/2021, Richard Cuff wrote: For what it's worth, I don't believe either John or I have ever received personal correspondence from Mr. Coro. The Fest website, which has contact information available, would be a vehicle that Mr. Coro could use to reach out to us if he's interested. Ed is correct -- Zoom does allow participation via a phone call for an audio-only experience; if someone were to participate that way and -- during the relevant time of a session -- wish to ask a question, they could contact me (or whomever is acting in the host capacity at that thime) and open up their audio for the question. RC On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 3:01 PM Ed Cummings <<mailto:bern...@panix.com>bern...@panix.com> wrote: While the Cuban government's internet firewall probably blocks access to Zoom's servers, it might not block phone calls to Zoom's many telephone numbers set up to allow people to participate via audio only. But obviously Arnie isn't going to violate the laws of his government to do that. Sometimes some of us in North America take our freedoms for granted and assume other global citizens enjoy the same freedoms. -Ed At 02:42 PM 1/18/2021, Sheldon Harvey wrote: I had correspondence from Anrie Coro last week. He told me that the Cuban government does not allow access to Zoom meetings. Our club (CIDX) has monthly meetings on Zoom and Arnie gets a complimentary copy of our bulletin each month. He received the invitation to our January meeting, but responded saying that he is unable to access Zoom Sheldon Harvey Greenfield Park, Quebec Enjoy birds and birdwatching? <http://www.birdprotectionquebec.org/>http://www.birdprotectionquebec.org On Monday, January 18,
Re: [Swlfest] First Draft: 2021 34th Annual Winter SWL Fest Program
Jef, we'll really miss you and your loopy presentation this year. And of course, we all miss Charlyne. Your comment about being unable to participate in this year's SWLFest (because your internet connectivity is unreliable and sporadic) made me want to share a solution that too few here know about--even on this SWLFest discussion list that includes many knowledgeable radio communications enthusiasts. Unlimited wireless high-speed accounts are available at very low cost to 501(c)(3) organizations that apply for it through a special program. So if you have an affiliation with a 501(c)(3) organization, and are willing to facilitate their participation in this program, then you can probably get this deal, too. (I don't think NASWA is a 501(c)(3) but maybe I'm wrong.) Over the past decade I've helped several 501(c)(3) organizations qualify for this low-cost wireless internet service. At least one of them has a user on this SWLFest mailing list. The service uses the Sprint/T-Mobile 4G LTE Band 41 spectrum (2496-2690 GHz) which the FCC had long ago allocated to the Instructional Television Fixed Service (aka Educational Broadcast Service). For over a decade it's been used for wireless internet service via low-cost dedicated 4G LTE WiFi 'hotspot' devices. Through a special FCC-approved 20-year agreement between some of the original ITFS/EBS licensees of Band 41 spectrum and Clear>Sprint>T-Mobile, this spectrum must be shared with those licensees by providing unlimited wireless internet accounts--which are then shared by participating 501(c)(3) organizations with their staff, members, volunteers, and the people they serve. As a volunteer for a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization, I use this service and routinely get 80 Mbps download speeds through an Inseego MIFI 8000 LTE modem/bridge/router (your mileage may vary.) The required Sprint/T-Mobile Band 41 (2.5 GHz) network only exists in certain geographical areas, so it's unlikely to work in rural and some other areas. The ITFS/EBS licensees charge participating 501(c)(3) "Direct Users" an annual admin fee of $120 for each of line of service, which can then be provided at cost (or more) by each 501(c)(3) to their staff, members, volunteers, and people they serve. The required LTE modem/bridge/WiFi routers costs less than $100 or less than $200, depending on the model and features. The bottom line is that unlimited internet connectivity $10/month is a remarkably good deal, especially if you can carry around with you as a high-speed WiFi mobile hotspot. I just got off a flawless Zoom conference on my laptop using this internet connection. If anyone on the SWLFest discussion list is interested, I can help point you in the right direction. But here's a link to a consortium of ITFS/EBS licensees called Voqal that offers these accounts and the requisite modem/bridge/router equipment to 501(c)(3) nonprofits. While this may all sound to good to be true, it's no scam--it's a clever repurposing of a defunct FCC service that allocated 2.5 GHz spectrum for educational purposes. They just don't advertise it. https://mobilecitizen.org/about/overview/ -Ed At 09:51 AM 1/19/2021, Kb3gty wrote: This is the first I've heard about the fest this year. I haven't gotten a newsletter since Nov., and my access to the internet is unreliable, and sporadic. Because of the internet issue its not likely that I'll be able to join you this year. I hope it goes well, and will look forward to next year. Jet Mr loop Kb3gty On Saturday, January 16, 2021, 03:21:51 PM EST, John Figliozzi wrote: The answer is yes, Sheldon. Still figuring out where it will best fit in. John > On Jan 16, 2021, at 11:15 AM, Sheldon Harvey <<mailto:ve2...@yahoo.com>ve2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi, John. Thanks for the draft schedule. > > Do you still want to have me do the "In Memoriam" segment? > > Sheldon Harvey > Greenfield Park, Quebec > > Enjoy birds and birdwatching? > <http://www.birdprotectionquebec.org>http://www.birdprotectionquebec.org > > > On Saturday, January 16, 2021, 1:10:21 a.m. EST, John Figliozzi <<mailto:jfigl...@nycap.rr.com>jfigl...@nycap.rr.com> wrote: > > > As stated previously, COVID-19 has forced cancellation of an in-person Fest. But undaunted (well, mostly ) the Fest sshall go on with a âvirtualâ event, courtesy of the Internet and the ZOOM platform. Interested? Consult www.swlfest.com for registration instructions and further particulars. Hereâs the program schedule: > > > 2021 34th âVIRTUALâ WINTER SWL FEST PROGRAM > > All sessions except the âShindigâ nominally one-hour but may run longer or shorter at the option of the presenter. > > This schedule,LOGNULL NowTransReader::ReadIt() JJFileMT::Truncate(1048739014) LO
Re: [Swlfest] First Draft: 2021 34th Annual Winter SWL Fest Program
While the Cuban government's internet firewall probably blocks access to Zoom's servers, it might not block phone calls to Zoom's many telephone numbers set up to allow people to participate via audio only. But obviously Arnie isn't going to violate the laws of his government to do that. Sometimes some of us in North America take our freedoms for granted and assume other global citizens enjoy the same freedoms. -Ed At 02:42 PM 1/18/2021, Sheldon Harvey wrote: I had correspondence from Anrie Coro last week. He told me that the Cuban government does not allow access to Zoom meetings. Our club (CIDX) has monthly meetings on Zoom and Arnie gets a complimentary copy of our bulletin each month. He received the invitation to our January meeting, but responded saying that he is unable to access Zoom Sheldon Harvey Greenfield Park, Quebec Enjoy birds and birdwatching? <http://www.birdprotectionquebec.org/>http://www.birdprotectionquebec.org On Monday, January 18, 2021, 2:08:44 p.m. EST, Mano Guha wrote: I will reach out to him after the 20th. Mostly Receiving On Jan 17, 2021, at 15:08, Ed Cummings wrote:  That is my hope as well, Mano! Interestingly, last week VOA reported the current U.S. administration redesignated Cuba as a "state sponsor of terrorism" just 9 days before the end of that administration. So that's an additional hurdle to overcome in order to get Arnie Coro to come and speak at the SWLFest. <https://www.voanews.com/usa/us-returns-cuba-list-state-sponsors-terrorism>https://www.voanews.com/usa/us-returns-cuba-list-state-sponsors-terrorism My guess is that Arnie is now an octogenarian, and (as with all of us) time is running out... -Ed At 01:56 PM 1/17/2021, Mano Guha wrote: I for one would love to welcome Arnie Coro to the SWL Fest via Zoom. Many years ago, he facilitated my visit to Radio Havana which was a memorable one. With the changing political landscape, we should be able to invite him to the fest in the coming years. 73s Mano Mostly Receiving ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <mailto:swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] First Draft: 2021 34th Annual Winter SWL Fest Program
That is my hope as well, Mano! Interestingly, last week VOA reported the current U.S. administration redesignated Cuba as a "state sponsor of terrorism" just 9 days before the end of that administration. So that's an additional hurdle to overcome in order to get Arnie Coro to come and speak at the SWLFest. https://www.voanews.com/usa/us-returns-cuba-list-state-sponsors-terrorism My guess is that Arnie is now an octogenarian, and (as with all of us) time is running out... -Ed At 01:56 PM 1/17/2021, Mano Guha wrote: I for one would love to welcome Arnie Coro to the SWL Fest via Zoom. Many years ago, he facilitated my visit to Radio Havana which was a memorable one. With the changing political landscape, we should be able to invite him to the fest in the coming years. 73s Mano Mostly Receiving ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] First Draft: 2021 34th Annual Winter SWL Fest Program
Dave, that's a good idea. But John Figliozzi has advised me that the two-day schedule is already full. For years I've tried to get an organizational sponsor (not a fiscal sponsor; I can arrange that) to 'legitimize' Arnie's trip to the Philly area so he could also speak at the SWLFest. Arnie has welcomed the opportunity, but the administrative and geopolitical challenges have been difficult to say the least. The closest I came to making this happen was a couple three years ago with the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication being the potential organizational sponsor. But that fell through due to apparently political reasons. And as of last year my contact at Penn is no longer there. Arnie Coro is a shortwave icon with more six decades of international broadcasting experience and several decades of producing a DX'ers program. Regardless of anyone's political biases, I think he'd be a good and fitting SWLFest presenter. Frankly, my biggest concern about this (aside from maybe not ever being able to successfully arrange this) is how Arnie might be treated here by some in our community. -Ed At 12:46 PM 1/16/2021, Dave Marthouse wrote: If he has the internet infrastructure to support it maybe you can get Arnie CO2KK from RHC. Dave Marthouse N2AAM <mailto:dmartho...@gmail.com>dmartho...@gmail.com On 1/16/2021 12:39 PM, tankgirl wrote: I m sure Gilles Letourneau would be happy to do a forum, he does the sw show on you tube and co hosts the International radio report with Sheldon. It might be fun to hear some people who are overseas who cant normally come in person. Janice Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Original message From: John Figliozzi <mailto:jfigl...@nycap.rr.com> Date: 1/16/21 01:10 (GMT-05:00) To: <mailto:na...@groups.io>na...@groups.io, Discussion list for the Winter SWL Fest <mailto:swlfest@hard-core-dx.com> Cc: odxa yg <mailto:o...@groups.io>, <mailto:w...@groups.io>w...@groups.io Subject: [Swlfest] First Draft: 2021 34th Annual Winter SWL Fest Program As stated previously, COVID-19 has forced cancellation of an in-person Fest. But undaunted (well, mostly ) the Fest shall go on with a virtual event, courtesy of the Internet and the ZOOM platform. Interested? Consult <http://www.swlfest.com>www.swlfest.com for registration instructions and further particulars. Heres the program schedule: 2021 34th VIRTUAL WINTER SWL FEST PROGRAM All sessions except the Shindig nominally one-hour but may run longer or shorter at the option of the presenter. This schedule, accurate as of January 16th, is subject to change. Friday February 26th, 2021 1800 UTC / 1300 EST / 1000 PST / 1900 CET / 0500 (Sat.) AEDT The Well-Equipped Scannist - A Scanner For Every Purpose Tom Swisher . . . and the gadgets, doohickeys and trinkets to enhance your scanning pleasure. 2000 UTC / 1500 EST / 1200 PST / 2100 CET / 0700 (Sat.) AEDT Easy Antennas for SWLs Who Want to Become HF Hams Skip Arey Communicating is just as much fun as listening. Can your shortwave receiving wires do the job or should you be rethinking your station's antennas? Uncle Skip will show you how to get on the air without mortgaging your house to do it. 2300 UTC / 1800 EST / 1500 PST / (Sat.) CET / 1000 (Sat.) AEDT The Annual Free Radio Forum Larry Will Including: -- News, FCC actions or lack thereof -- Shortwave free radio year in review -- Everyone's still doing the 6850-6980 area -- But! There's been a noticeable diversity in frequency use because of lousy DX -- Noticeably in the 4000-4100 KHz and 5100-5200 KHz areas -- Most active stations -- Gallery of interesting QSLs and SSTVs from the past year -- Medium wave free radio, the world above 1700 -- North American Pirate Radio Hall of Fame inductees for 2021 -- Resources for the free radio listener -- archive.org -- swlpost.com -- hfunderground -- free radio network -- Free Radio Weekly (25 years!) Preparations are underway to simulcast this forum on WBCQ 6160 kHz. Watch this space! Saturday, February 27th, 2021 0100 UTC / 2000 (Fri.) EST / 1700 (Fri.) PST / 0200 CET / 1200 AEDT The Shortwave Shindig in Exile David Goren From a secret location, Davids annual freeform celebration of the medium. This time it shapes up like this: 0100 Shortwave-related music videos, a look at the recent Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map update, and a review of radio-related bits and bobs from the past year. 0200 Live on WRMI! (frequencies TBA) - with music, Meet the Archivist w/ Thomas Witherspoon and other special features. 0300 A Replay of Shortwaves/Long Distance - the 2017 two-hour broadcast featuring the top submissions to NASWAs and Wave Farms call for shortwave-related music and sound compositions. 1800 UTC / 1300 EST / 1000 PST / 1900 CET / 0500 (Sun.) AEDT QRP Gene
Re: [Swlfest] Fwd: Another Fester Gone
A friend just told me that Allan and 9 others at WDEL were laid off by Forever Media (the new owner of WDEL) on March 26th--one month after the SWLfest. Talk about kicking a guy when he's down. https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2020/03/27/wdel-lays-off-staff-advertising-dwindles-shops-closed-pandemic/2927387001/ -Ed At 10:41 PM 7/7/2020, you wrote: Extremely sad to hear of Allan's passing. We spent many hours looking and talking QSLs. His mother was from Dauphin Manitoba, a couple of hours north of my hometown of Brandon,Manitoba. RIP my friend. Mick Delmage On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 8:58 PM Richard Cuff <<mailto:rdc...@gmail.com>rdc...@gmail.com> wrote: Anyone who is with us in February could see that Allan had gone through some health issues, but he was optimistic at the time that he was on the mend. Follow the link below to a nice tribute and summary of Allan's experience and enthusiasm. RC -- Forwarded message - From: Robert Crain <<mailto:static...@comcast.net>static...@comcast.net> Date: Tue, Jul 7, 2020, 3:23 PM Subject: RE: Another Fester Gone To: Ed Muro <<mailto:emu...@gmail.com>emu...@gmail.com> Cc: John McColman <<mailto:john.mccol...@gmail.com>john.mccol...@gmail.com>, Lee Reynolds KD1SQ <<mailto:l...@eddystone.org>l...@eddystone.org>, Lynn Burke <<mailto:lburk...@gmail.com>lburk...@gmail.com>, Mark Meece - N8ICW <<mailto:n8...@monix.org>n8...@monix.org>, Mike Eilers - AC4XS <<mailto:md...@yahoo.com>md...@yahoo.com>, Tom Swisher <<mailto:wa8...@gmail.com>wa8...@gmail.com>, Uncle Skip - N2EI <LOGNULL NowTransReader::ReadIt() JJFileMT::Truncate(0) to:tja...@gmail.com>tja...@gmail.com>, David Jones <<mailto:jone...@insight.rr.com>jone...@insight.rr.com>, Richard Cuff <<mailto:rdc...@gmail.com>rdc...@gmail.com> Damn. A fine guy, proving the best go first. BC From: <mailto:emu...@gmail.com>Ed Muro Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 3:14 PM To: <mailto:static...@comcast.net>BobCrain Cc: <mailto:john.mccol...@gmail.com>John McColman; <mailto:l...@eddystone.org>Lee Reynolds KD1SQ; <mailto:lburk...@gmail.com>Lynn Burke; <mailto:n8...@monix.org>Mark Meece - N8ICW; <mailto:md...@yahoo.com>Mike Eilers - AC4XS; <mailto:wa8...@gmail.com>Tom Swisher; <mailto:tja...@gmail.com>Uncle Skip - N2EI; <mailto:jone...@insight.rr.com>David Jones; <mailto:rdc...@gmail.com>Richard Cuff Subject: Another Fester Gone A fitting tribute <https://www.wdel.com/news/longtime-delaware-radio-newsman-allan-loudell-has-died/article_c1574ffc-c06b-11ea-b489-f7c28dd89291.html>https://www.wdel.com/news/longtime-delaware-radio-newsman-allan-loudell-has-died/article_c1574ffc-c06b-11ea-b489-f7c28dd89291.html Ed Muro Long Island, NY ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <http://swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] [Internetradio] SIGINT CHATTER: Radio Moscow and the Cold War
John, thanks for sharing that interesting history about WNYC. Last spring a memorial service for our departed SWLfest friend Michael Pool (the 'Radio Professor') was fittingly held outdoors at the former transmission site of WNYC-AM in what's now known as 'Transmitter Park' in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City. Note the link below to the audio and transcript of a 1937 broadcast by WNYC about the dedication of its new transmission facility there, during which the New York City "Police and Sanitation Bands" played live on the air! https://www.wnyc.org/story/dedication-of-wnyc-transmitter-site-in-greenpoint/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNYC_Transmitter_Park -Ed At 11:28 AM 5/23/2020, John A. Figliozzi wrote: The 1960s were pre-NPR by a significant measure. WNYC then was municipally owned by the City of New York (WNYE was and may still be owned of the New York City Board of Education) and its output more resembled that of present day Pacifica (which owns WBAI today) than present day NPR. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia famously used WNYC to read the comic pages to children during one of the citys lengthy mid century newspaper strikes. John Figliozzi May 22, 2020, at 4:51 PM, Richard Cuff wrote: > > https://rijmenants.blogspot.com/2020/05/radio-moscow-and-cold-war.html?fbclid=IwAR0h0PM8BDQB6vbdMJXsqJPxblp96MhlzxylbRlPAQuSmQDR68kXIJI2wFI > > Note the existence of archives at WNYC! > > RC ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Fwd: Bill Cole
Sad indeed. We can honor the memory of our late friends in the SWLfest community by getting newer (and perhaps younger) acquaintances to come to future SWLfests. The SWLfest community isn't sustainable unless we do this. Over the past several years I've brought new people to every SWLfest. We can all try to do the same, and we'll be richer for it. Plus, our friends will appreciate our welcoming them into this amazing community. -Ed Cummings At 06:51 PM 5/6/2020, Eric A. Cottrell wrote: Hello, Another sad piece of news. Unfortunately I think Sheldon's list will get longer each year as we all get older. I hope the fest will not fall victim to Covid-19 and we can find a way to continue it safely into the future. 73 Eric On Wed 5/6/2020 2:01 PM, Richard Cuff wrote: From Ed Muro...Bill was a regular at the Fest and always had a laugh and a smile, proudly wearing whatever tin hats / matching shirts were the theme for the Scum at the banquet each year. RC --- It is with heavy heart and great sadness that I post this sad news that Frederick "Bill" Cole (N2CSA) entered Eternal Rest on May 4, 2020 at home with his family. Bill was a loving husband, father, and grandfather. *A Lifelong radio hobbyist, one of the founding fathers of the Scanner Scum, Bill was a member of the Cape May County Amateur Radio Club and the Cape May County RACES. His services will be greatly missed by the Club and RACES. Bill was an Army veteran who served in the Panama Canal Zone. Bill enjoyed Civil War Reenactments and he was an avid shooter who shared his love of shooting with his grandchildren. He will be missed by all. ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Radio Technology Museum - Sunday Field Trip after SWLfest?
I've already heard from multiple SWLfesters who say they want to visit the Radio Technology Museum on Sunday. (I'll be driving Dave Marthouse there.) Just to be clear, this is not an official NASWA or SWLfest field trip; I'm just asking if people want to meet up to do this since we'll all be in the general area geeking out over radio stuff anyway. Please know there's a $7 admission fee for the InfoAge Science Center, where the Radio Technology Museum and many other related museums are located. Personally, I think that's worth spending to see and support all these amazing museum exhibits built by volunteers for that nonprofit organization. Let me know if you're interested in joining us for this interesting opportunity. Details are below. See you tomorrow! -Ed Cummings At 04:28 AM 2/25/2020, Ed Cummings wrote: Anyone willing and able on Sunday to caravan about an hour east of the SWLfest to see the world-class Radio Technology Museum in Wall, NJ, is welcome to come along. Museum curators there are welcoming us to see their amazing and large collection of beautifully restored radios going back a century--many of them working! http://www.rtm.ar88.net/ Although their website is nothing special, the exhibits truly are. There's also an impressive section on audio recording technology, with working antique speakers, microphones, and wire recorders. The Radio Technology Museum is on the grounds of the former Camp Evans where RADAR was developed, the first moonbounce achieved, and where Marconi first achieved transatlantic radio communications. It's an amazing place for radio history hobbyists! Several SWLfesters who've already been there and can attest to what an excellent experience this is. The museum is open Sunday from 1pm-5pm, so after brunch a group of us could caravan there around 11:30 and be there when it opens. (I can transport two people there and back to the hotel.) Let me know if you're interested, and we'll see about organizing a caravan on Sunday morning. -Ed Cummings p.s.- The site also hosts a number of other excellent museums, including: * <https://infoage.org/exhibits/electronic-warfare/>Electronic Warfare The Association of Old Crows is a professional organization dedicated to educating the public about the importance and means of electronic warfare on the modern battlefield to protect U.S. soldiers. Such equipment involves sophisticated scientific and engineering principles. The historical development of these systems and their connection to Camp Evans are presented here. * <https://infoage.org/exhibits/fallout-shelter/>Fallout Shelter In our original Cold War-era fallout theater, you can see period rations/supplies and watch an educational video about the threat and preparations for nuclear attack. * <http://www.isec.space/>ISEC (Radio Astronomy) This exhibit, located at 2300 Marconi Rd. (a short walk from our main campus), teaches visitors about radio astronomy and its local connections. You can hear your own voice bounce off the moon! * <https://infoage.org/exhibits/cdl/>Makerspace Computer Deconstruction Lab is the Jersey shore makerspace. Activities include Microcontroller Mondays, 3-D printing, a podcast studio, robotics, CNC machining, metal/wood working, amateur radio, and IT support for the InfoAge community. * <https://infoage.org/exhibits/marconi-room/>Marconi Room Quarter Century Wireless Association made this exhibit of Marconis wireless leap across the Atlantic. Learn how wireless telegraph works along with Morse code. * <https://infoage.org/exhibits/military-vehicles/>Military Vehicles The Military Technology Museum of New Jersey has the largest exhibit at InfoAge. Youll see Jeeps, tanks, half-tracks, amphibious vehicles, weaponry, and even a horse! * <https://infoage.org/exhibits/model-railroad/>Model Railroad Garden State Central Model Railroad Club has a massive and intricate HO-scale layout and Lionel layout. The HO layout is computer-controlled and the Lionel layout is operated by push buttons. * <https://infoage.org/exhibits/radio-television/>Radio & Television The New Jersey Antique Radio Club museum traces the development of radio from before sparks to beyond cellphones. * <https://infoage.org/visiting/national-broadcasters-hall-of-fame/>National Broadcasters Hall of Fame - Hear beloved old-time programs in their entirety. See and touch vintage radios, microphones, earphones, photographs, and memorabilia of famous broadcast celebrities. * <https://infoage.org/exhibits/shipwrecks/>Shipwrecks New Jersey Historic Divers Association has an exhibit showing artifacts found and curated from the sea floor. These include a cannon, ships wheel, cutlery, and much more. They also display a map of local wrecks, diving gear, and models. There is a
[Swlfest] Radio Technology Museum - Sunday Field Trip after SWLfest?
Anyone willing and able on Sunday to caravan about an hour east of the SWLfest to see the world-class Radio Technology Museum in Wall, NJ, is welcome to come along. Museum curators there are welcoming us to see their amazing and large collection of beautifully restored radios going back a century--many of them working! http://www.rtm.ar88.net/ Although their website is nothing special, the exhibits truly are. There's also an impressive section on audio recording technology, with working antique speakers, microphones, and wire recorders. The Radio Technology Museum is on the grounds of the former Camp Evans where RADAR was developed, the first moonbounce achieved, and where Marconi first achieved transatlantic radio communications. It's an amazing place for radio history hobbyists! Several SWLfesters who've already been there and can attest to what an excellent experience this is. The museum is open Sunday from 1pm-5pm, so after brunch a group of us could caravan there around 11:30 and be there when it opens. (I can transport two people there and back to the hotel.) Let me know if you're interested, and we'll see about organizing a caravan on Sunday morning. -Ed Cummings p.s.- The site also hosts a number of other excellent museums, including: * <https://infoage.org/exhibits/electronic-warfare/>Electronic Warfare The Association of Old Crows is a professional organization dedicated to educating the public about the importance and means of electronic warfare on the modern battlefield to protect U.S. soldiers. Such equipment involves sophisticated scientific and engineering principles. The historical development of these systems and their connection to Camp Evans are presented here. * <https://infoage.org/exhibits/fallout-shelter/>Fallout Shelter In our original Cold War-era fallout theater, you can see period rations/supplies and watch an educational video about the threat and preparations for nuclear attack. * <http://www.isec.space/>ISEC (Radio Astronomy) This exhibit, located at 2300 Marconi Rd. (a short walk from our main campus), teaches visitors about radio astronomy and its local connections. You can hear your own voice bounce off the moon! * <https://infoage.org/exhibits/cdl/>Makerspace Computer Deconstruction Lab is the Jersey shore makerspace. Activities include Microcontroller Mondays, 3-D printing, a podcast studio, robotics, CNC machining, metal/wood working, amateur radio, and IT support for the InfoAge community. * <https://infoage.org/exhibits/marconi-room/>Marconi Room Quarter Century Wireless Association made this exhibit of Marconis wireless leap across the Atlantic. Learn how wireless telegraph works along with Morse code. * <https://infoage.org/exhibits/military-vehicles/>Military Vehicles The Military Technology Museum of New Jersey has the largest exhibit at InfoAge. Youll see Jeeps, tanks, half-tracks, amphibious vehicles, weaponry, and even a horse! * <https://infoage.org/exhibits/model-railroad/>Model Railroad Garden State Central Model Railroad Club has a massive and intricate HO-scale layout and Lionel layout. The HO layout is computer-controlled and the Lionel layout is operated by push buttons. * <https://infoage.org/exhibits/radio-television/>Radio & Television The New Jersey Antique Radio Club museum traces the development of radio from before sparks to beyond cellphones. * <https://infoage.org/visiting/national-broadcasters-hall-of-fame/>National Broadcasters Hall of Fame - Hear beloved old-time programs in their entirety. See and touch vintage radios, microphones, earphones, photographs, and memorabilia of famous broadcast celebrities. * <https://infoage.org/exhibits/shipwrecks/>Shipwrecks New Jersey Historic Divers Association has an exhibit showing artifacts found and curated from the sea floor. These include a cannon, ships wheel, cutlery, and much more. They also display a map of local wrecks, diving gear, and models. There is a conservation laboratory. * <https://infoage.org/exhibits/vcf/>Vintage Computing Vintage Computer Federation is a national organization for collectors and hobbyists. Exhibits include 1940s-1960s mainframes, 1960s-1970s minicomputing, 1970s-1990s microcomputing, and modern technology. * <https://infoage.org/exhibits/wireless-operators/>Wireless Operators The Veteran Wireless Operators Association has a history of life-saving heroism on ships in jeopardy. Every seaman and passenger depended upon the wireless operator to listen for warnings of danger or to send messages for help if disaster struck their ship. Many an operator went down with the ship transmitting calls for help until the last moment possible. * <https://infoage.org/exhibits/world-war-i-technology/>World War I Technology During th
Re: [Swlfest] Regrets
We'll miss you, Rob! I look forward to seeing you in 2021. -Ed Cummings At 02:39 PM 2/24/2020, Rob de Santos wrote: SWLFest Friends: I regret to say that unless something unexpected happens, I will miss the Fest this year. There are several reasons, but the most important of which is that I have a pretty full travel schedule coming up including 3 other trips in the coming months and I need to conserve some resources. It wasn't an easy decision and I waited until now to make the decision. I will see everyone in 2021. -- -Rob de Santos ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Final 2020 Winter SWL Fest Update! (We Think.)
Thanks John and Rich for setting up this special movie screening. The documentary looks like an interesting after-dinner film to digest. See you all in about 10 days! -Ed Cummings At 08:45 PM 2/16/2020, John Figliozzi wrote: The swlfest.com web site has been updated to include the addition of a documentary screening to the Friday evening program and a small change to the list of prizes for Saturday night's raffle. See you all in about 10 days Richard Cuff John Figliozzi 2020 Winter SWL Fest Co-Coordinator ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-request@hard-core-dx.comsubject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] SWLfest reservation deadlines?
To say that the hotel reservation clerks sometimes make mistakes (usually in the hotel's favor) would be an understatement ;-) There must be an actual deadline date, and everyone should be advised what it is, both here on the SWLfest list and on the swlfest.com website. Same goes for the deadline date for buying a conference admission ticket at a lower rate than the onsite price. Maybe this info was already posted and I missed it. If so, I'd appreciate it being posted again. Thanks! -Ed Cummings At 12:42 AM 2/3/2020, Mark Fahey wrote: When I booked my room last week the hotel booking site accepted the "SWL" code and showed it attached to the booking but said the special rate was not available. I just put it down to maybe it had expired (ie the date for the special rate had passed). I just accepted my fate! This will be my sixth visit to the SWLfest and every year I have never succeeded in getting the SWL rate with the included breakfast. I just unlucky I guess! :) Mark On Mon, 3 Feb 2020 at 4:30 pm, Ed Cummings <<mailto:bern...@panix.com>bern...@panix.com> wrote: What's the deadline for getting a hotel room at the special SWLfest rate, and for buying a conference admission ticket at a lower rate than onsite price? Thanks! -Ed Cummings ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <http://swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
[Swlfest] SWLfest reservation deadlines?
What's the deadline for getting a hotel room at the special SWLfest rate, and for buying a conference admission ticket at a lower rate than onsite price? Thanks! -Ed Cummings ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] DoubleTree Online Room Reservation
Jef, I'm sorry to hear that Charlyne needs skilled nursing care, but I'm glad you're coming back to the SWLfest this year. We missed you! -Ed Cummings At 04:34 PM 1/16/2020, Kb3gty wrote: Will do. I'll probably send in a paper registration. Charlyne won't be coming this year. She wound up back in the hospital and just got transfered to a nursing home today. Also I had a problem booking a hotel room again, it seems they have us listed as the American shortwave association, and had no idea who naswa is. Jet -Original Message- From: John A. Figliozzi To: Discussion list for the Winter SWL Fest Sent: Tue, Jan 14, 2020 05:37 PM Subject: Re: [Swlfest] DoubleTree Online Room Reservation Yes. Please do. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 14, 2020, at 2:10 PM, Kb3gty wrote: Dumb question. Do I still have to register for the fest since I'm one of the presenters. I don't remember Jet -Original Message- From: Richard Cuff To: Discussion list for the Winter SWL Fest Sent: Mon, Jan 13, 2020 01:25 PM Subject: Re: [Swlfest] DoubleTree Online Room Reservation Thanks to all who got back to me. The hotel has made the necessary adjustments in the records so we now have the rooms properly credited to our group. If anyone has made a reservation but not using the group rate please let me know viaLOGNULL NowTransReader::ReadIt() JJFileMT::Truncate(900873065) LOGNULL NowTransReader::ReadIt() JJFileMT::Truncate(0) e-mail if you haven't already done so -- so we can get proper credit. Thanks again! RC On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 10:04 PM Ian <<mailto:n3...@hotmail.com>n3...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > John/Rich, > > Tonight, using the SWL Group Code on the Double Tree website <https://doubletree3.hilton.com,>https://doubletree3.hilton.com, instead of the expected $125 per night rate my choices were Quick Book Flexible Rates that included > TWO ROOM SUITE WITH TWO DOUBLE BEDS, DELUXE ROOM FEATURING KING BED, or TWO ROOM SUITE WITH KING SIZED BED for $109 and > TWO ROOM SUITE LOCATED AT END OF HALLWAY or TWO ROOM SUITE LOCATED ON A HIGH FLOOR for $123. > > Maybe the SWL Group Code is not being applied. > > > Ian Millett > > > ___ > Swlfest mailing list > <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <mailto:swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. > > For more information on the Fest, visit: > > <http://www.swlfest.com>http://www.swlfest.com > http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <mailto:swlfest-request@hard-core-LOGNULL NowTransReader::ReadIt() JJFileMT::Truncate(900873065) LOGNULL NowTransReader::ReadIt() JJFileMT::Truncate(0) dx.com>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <mailto:swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Swlfest Digest, Vol 162, Issue 6
Perhaps it would be helpful if specific instructions are posted here and on swlfest.com for exactly how to make reservations to ensure the event gets the badly needed credit for those reservations. And clarify if such reservations include a breakfast ticket. The pared-down breakfast options offered by the hotel in recent years (no more custom omelets!) may have decreased the incentive for people to pay a higher price for SWLfest-sanctioned reservations than they can buy through an aggregator (or alligator) such as Hotwire / Expedia / Google / Hotels.com / Booking.com / etc. -Ed Cummings At 08:48 PM 1/12/2020, Richard Cuff wrote: Bruce (and anyone else) -- if you do reserve a room outside of the Fest block, please send me an e-mail so I can attempt to get the room credited to our group. John's metaphor of the balloon is appropriate - if we don't meet our hotel room commitment, it would cost us more for the forum / silent auction / registration & exhibit space, which would necessitate a higher registration fee. This used to be much easier before the days of online reservations and Hotwire / Expedia / Google / Hotels.com / Booking.com... Rich C ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
[Swlfest] Good news from Jef Eichner
Hi All, I just wanted to share some very good news from our friend and loop antenna expert Jef Eichner, who posted here in December that he could not attend the SWLfest because he was being treated for esophageal cancer. Today when I asked how he's doing, he said: "Still in recovery from the operation, but now cancer free. I still have a jong road ahead of me but at least I am getting better slowly. It will be a long time till I'm back to normal. Thanks for asking. This information can be shared with the SWLfest membership." I told Jef he was missed at this year's SWLfest, and that we hope to see him in 2020. If anyone wants to email Jef off-list, his address is Best, -Ed Cummings ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
[Swlfest] Concordia transmission artist launches a high-frequency project in Alaska
Our friend Amanda Dawn Christie, who at last year's SWLfest presented her film Specters of Shortwave and performed vocals with her theremin, will be using the HAARP transmitter next week to transmit art in SSTV, CW, and other modes on HF between 2.7 - 10 MHz. (Specific times and frequencies TBA soon.) -Ed Cummings https://www.concordia.ca/news/stories/2019/03/21/concordia-transmission-artist-launches-a-high-frequency-project-in-alaska.html Concordia transmission artist launches a high-frequency project in Alaska By <https://www.concordia.ca/news/authors/meagan-boisse.html>Meagan Boisse In the shadow of Mount Sanford, surrounded by Alaskan wilderness, youll find the most powerful radio transmitter on earth. With 180 antennas spread across 33 acres, the <https://www.gi.alaska.edu/facilities/haarp>HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program) facility is one-of-a-kind. It was designed by the United States military, and transferred in 2015 to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, to study the powerful potential of the ionosphere an electrically charged layer of the earths atmosphere. On this remote site, scientists use a unique tool called the Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI) to create radio-induced aurora, also known as airglow. But its never been used by a Canadian artist to transmit art until now. The IRIs man-made northern lights inspired interdisciplinary artist <http://www.amandadawnchristie.ca/>Amanda Dawn Christie to create Ghosts in the Air Glow: an upcoming transmission art project that will use the IRI to play with the liminal boundaries of outer space. I was so fascinated by these airglow experiments and the relationship between the ionosphere and radio communications I felt compelled to create an artwork specific to the site and its history, says Christie, assistant professor in Concordias <https://www.concordia.ca/finearts/studio-arts.html>Department of Studio Arts. Interdisciplinary artist Amanda Dawn Christie. | Photo by Conco Interdisciplinary artist Amanda Dawn Christie. | Photo by Concordia University She will be embedding her own encoded SSTV images, audio compositions and propagation tests into IRI experiments from March 25 to 28. The facility, which was used by the military, has an air of mystery about it and has been the subject of many conspiracy theories over the years thats something I reflected upon when creating the piece. Ghosts in the Air Glow will consist of an hour-long transmission containing eight movements, each created for a specific frequency and intended to explore different concepts related to radio science and the HAARP site itself. From Arctic wolves meeting the aurora to poetic texts written in Morse code and the NATO phonetic alphabet, the motifs covered by this transmission art work address issues related to military research, surveillance, political territories, ionospheric science, and conspiracy theories. Embedding ghosts into the airwaves The common thread weaving each segment together is the idea of the ghosts, or rather the esoteric activity that inhabits our airwaves, says Christie. She explains that when radio was first discovered in the 1800s, spiritualist movements of the era believed the souls of the dead occupied the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum. Radio communications are all around; theyre an invisible force constantly moving through us. I liked the connection made by 19th-century spiritualists between matter, energy and EM waves on both a poetic and metaphorical level, Christie adds. By embedding images and sounds into the airglow, Im also in a way embedding my own ghosts into the EM spectrum, an unseen yet highly active realm. Ghosts in the Air Glow is officially the first Canadian-funded Ghosts in the Air Glow is officially the first Canadian-funded project to take place at HAARP. | Photo courtesy of UAF Space: a meeting ground for art and science The idea for the project came about when Christie met Christopher Fallen, the chief scientist at HAARP, at a hackers conference earlier this year. Fallen, who is an amateur radio operator, was intrigued by Christies proposition to use the IRI to create site-specific transmission art. He agreed to open the facility to her, and when she gained backing from the <https://canadacouncil.ca/>Canada Council for the Arts, Ghosts in the Air Glow officially became the first Canadian-funded project to take place at HAARP. Art and science are often seen as separate efforts but they actually share many of the same inspirations and techniques. Im excited to see HAARP, a unique scientific instrument, used for a comparably unique artistic performance, says Fallen. Amandas project will be a valuable contribution to the 50-year collection of scientific work in the field of ionosphere radio modification, and also to the brand n
Re: [Swlfest] Change in procedure regarding printed programs going green (sort of)
Thanks Tom! Nice job on the SWLfest program schedule PDF. The computer I'm using to correspond for this email thread doesn't have a good PDF creation tool on it right now, so that's why I asked if anyone else can make a PDF of the SWLfest schedule. Rich, would you please post a link to Tom's PDF on the SWLfest.com website and host it where people can download it for printing or copying to their tablet or smartphone? This method (posting a link to a PDF copy of the program schedule) can be used this year and in future years if you're no longer going to make a printed program available. For what it's worth, a biennial conference I help organize called HOPE (which several SWLfesters attend and speak at) hosts over a hundred talks and panels over three days, costs about the same as the SWLfest for admission, and since 1994 still includes a printed program booklet with dozens of pages. Even though it's a hacker conference whose attendees bring fancy laptops, tablets, and mobile electronic devices, we still recognize that a printed paper program is of great value to our attendees--and they appreciate it. Printed text on recyclable paper is still a very practical and useful medium in 2019. -Ed p.s. - If anyone reading this is curious about the content at HOPE, here's a listing of the 100+ talks and panels from last year's conference. You can click on any of them for a description of the presentation and the speakers' names--some of which you may recognize ;-) http://hope.net/grid.html At 11:07 PM 2/21/2019, Thomas Sundstrom wrote: Geez Ed. Not that tough to make a PDF. 10 minutes... enjoy. Tom On Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 9:45 PM Ed Cummings <<mailto:bern...@panix.com>bern...@panix.com> wrote: Personally, I'll miss getting a purple paper program at registration which I use to make handwritten notes on by some of the talk descriptions. If I print a paper copy at home, there's no net savings of paper and trees. If anyone doesn't have a working computer printer at home, they might be able to use the hotel's "Business Center with Complimentary Printing Service" to print their SWLfest program. Is anyone willing to make a well-formatted PDF of the SWLfest schedule that Richard would put up a link to on the SWLfest.com website for people to print or copy to their tablet or smartphone? -Ed Cummings At 08:25 PM 2/21/2019, Richard Cuff wrote: Hi everyone - As your Festmeisters are getting older and lazier, we've decided to streamline the registration check-in process a bit. First, since the Fest program is already available on the website, we're not going to print out paper copies for the registration envelopes. You can go ahead & print a copy off yourself if you need a paper copy; the program also renders adequately on tablets and smartphones, so you can go paperless and cut down on the paper we all throw away each year. Second, if you pre-purchased raffle tickets, your registration envelope won't contain the tickets themselves. It will contain a card that you can then exchange for the tickets at any time the registration table is open. That saves us time in preparing the envelopes for everyone. Your registration envelope will, as usual, have your name badge, souvenir pen, and a dinner card (if you are joining us for dinner). We'll print up some copies of the program for those who don't have computer or printer access. Come to think of it, folks without computer access won't see this note anyway... See you all next weekend! RC and JF ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <http://swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com/>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <http://swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com Content-Type: application/pdf; name="2019-Fest-Schedule.pdf" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="2019-Fest-Schedule.pdf" Content-ID: <16913633bd85071dd411> X-Attachment-Id: 16913633bd85071dd411 ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscri
Re: [Swlfest] Change in procedure regarding printed programs going green (sort of)
Personally, I'll miss getting a purple paper program at registration which I use to make handwritten notes on by some of the talk descriptions. If I print a paper copy at home, there's no net savings of paper and trees. If anyone doesn't have a working computer printer at home, they might be able to use the hotel's "Business Center with Complimentary Printing Service" to print their SWLfest program. Is anyone willing to make a well-formatted PDF of the SWLfest schedule that Richard would put up a link to on the SWLfest.com website for people to print or copy to their tablet or smartphone? -Ed Cummings At 08:25 PM 2/21/2019, Richard Cuff wrote: Hi everyone - As your Festmeisters are getting older and lazier, we've decided to streamline the registration check-in process a bit. First, since the Fest program is already available on the website, we're not going to print out paper copies for the registration envelopes. You can go ahead & print a copy off yourself if you need a paper copy; the program also renders adequately on tablets and smartphones, so you can go paperless and cut down on the paper we all throw away each year. Second, if you pre-purchased raffle tickets, your registration envelope won't contain the tickets themselves. It will contain a card that you can then exchange for the tickets at any time the registration table is open. That saves us time in preparing the envelopes for everyone. Your registration envelope will, as usual, have your name badge, souvenir pen, and a dinner card (if you are joining us for dinner). We'll print up some copies of the program for those who don't have computer or printer access. Come to think of it, folks without computer access won't see this note anyway... See you all next weekend! RC and JF ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] RIP Michael Pool
This is so sad. Only two weeks ago I exchanged emails with Michael and offered to drive him to the SWLfest and back home every day (if he wasn't staying at the hotel) because I knew he was unwell. He said he certainly hoped to go, but that his health was varying wildly. Michael really loved the SWLfest and the people there. We'll miss him. -Ed Cummings At 11:10 PM 2/17/2019, Richard Cuff wrote: Originally posted by Thomas Witherspoon over on Facebook: Friends, It is with great sadness that I announce the passing of our friend Michael Pool (a.k.a. The Professor). Michael was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in early January. He passed away Friday, February 15 in Hospice care. He had every intention of attending the Winter SWL Fest this year so he could see everyone once againI dont think any of us would have guessed the disease would take over his body so quickly. Michael was a very dear friend and Im still in shock. David Goren and I plan to include a tribute to Micahael at the Shortwave Shindig. Rest In Peace, dear friend... RC ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Ham Frequency For Fest Comms
Great idea, Jeff. Are you willing and able to do that, and then post those hotel frequencies here? -Ed At 04:53 PM 2/17/2019, Jeff wrote: We can run Spektrum with an rtlsdr dongle and find out what freqs are in use at the hotel. <https://www.dropbox.com/s/r6k35gf9fuk1cpl/Screen Shot 2019-02-17 at 4.41.33 PM.png?dl=0>https://www.dropbox.com/s/r6k35gf9fuk1cpl/Screen%20Shot%202019-02-17%20at%204.41.33%20PM.png?dl=0 Jeff K2SDR On Feb 17, 2019, at 4:21 PM, Ed Cummings <<mailto:bern...@panix.com>bern...@panix.com> wrote: Yes, definitely not 2M FM. But those hotel business frequencies might be interesting and potentially useful to monitor. I'd be surprised if no SWLfester hasn't mapped them out. If anyone has, please post them here. Thanks! -Ed At 02:43 PM 2/17/2019, Richard Cuff wrote: Not 2-meter FM... RC On Sun, Feb 17, 2019, 12:37 PM Ed Cummings <<mailto:bern...@panix.com>bern...@panix.com wrote: At 11:48 AM 2/17/2019, Dave Marthouse wrote: What are the frequencies used by the hotel for Security, Management, Maintenance, and Housekeeping? -Ed Cummings On 2/17/19, Dave Marthouse <<mailto:dmartho...@gmail.com>dmartho...@gmail.com> wrote: >à à à à à It worked out well last year so I am proposing the same for this > year's Fest. > > > Those of us who attend who are radio amateurs should use the simplex > frequency of 146.535MHZ for communications in and around the Fest. > > > The two meter band is the most popular VHF band and equipment for the > band is plentiful and cheap.à You can get a Baofeng hand-held from > Amazon for around $30. > > > See you at the Fest in two weeks. > > > 73 and good dx. ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe:à Send an E-mail toà <http://swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com/?subject=unsubscribe>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com/>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <mailto:swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Ham Frequency For Fest Comms
Yes, definitely not 2M FM. But those hotel business frequencies might be interesting and potentially useful to monitor. I'd be surprised if no SWLfester hasn't mapped them out. If anyone has, please post them here. Thanks! -Ed At 02:43 PM 2/17/2019, Richard Cuff wrote: Not 2-meter FM... RC On Sun, Feb 17, 2019, 12:37 PM Ed Cummings <<mailto:bern...@panix.com>bern...@panix.com wrote: At 11:48 AM 2/17/2019, Dave Marthouse wrote: What are the frequencies used by the hotel for Security, Management, Maintenance, and Housekeeping? -Ed Cummings On 2/17/19, Dave Marthouse <<mailto:dmartho...@gmail.com>dmartho...@gmail.com> wrote: >     It worked out well last year so I am proposing the same for this > year's Fest. > > > Those of us who attend who are radio amateurs should use the simplex > frequency of 146.535MHZ for communications in and around the Fest. > > > The two meter band is the most popular VHF band and equipment for the > band is plentiful and cheap. You can get a Baofeng hand-held from > Amazon for around $30. > > > See you at the Fest in two weeks. > > > 73 and good dx. ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <http://swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Ham Frequency For Fest Comms
At 11:48 AM 2/17/2019, Dave Marthouse wrote: What are the frequencies used by the hotel for Security, Management, Maintenance, and Housekeeping? -Ed Cummings On 2/17/19, Dave Marthouse wrote: > It worked out well last year so I am proposing the same for this > year's Fest. > > > Those of us who attend who are radio amateurs should use the simplex > frequency of 146.535MHZ for communications in and around the Fest. > > > The two meter band is the most popular VHF band and equipment for the > band is plentiful and cheap. You can get a Baofeng hand-held from > Amazon for around $30. > > > See you at the Fest in two weeks. > > > 73 and good dx. ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] 2019 Winter SWL Fest Schedule Updated!
What a great 3-day lineup of speakers and topics! Bravo to John and Rich for putting this all together.. -Ed Cummings At 02:57 PM 1/31/2019, John Figliozzi wrote: There is a new forum session added, an adjustment to the schedule to accommodate it, and some time adjustments and text corrections. We also now have a fine banquet speaker discussing a topic about which all will be interested. See it all at www.swlfest.com Richard Cuff John Figliozzi 2019 Winter SWL Fest Co-Chairs ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] One more day for reduced registration fees!
David, what are these "fear room rates" you speak of? Some of the Kulpsville rooms were pretty scary (Tip: Don't use a UV lamp there to look for traces of body fluids on the bedding and rug) but I never felt fear at the DoubleTree in Plymouth Meeting--except last year when there was no power and my room was very dark. I feared that that I'd trip over something--and did! -Ed At 12:24 PM 1/25/2019, david goren wrote: He mentioned that since one of fear room rates was sold out. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 25, 2019, at 12:08 PM, Eric Cottrell wrote: > > Hello, > > I remember that being a problem one year where people found a lower rate, but did not realize that it did not include breakfast until they checked-in. > > 73 Eric > >> On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 12:01:09 -0500, Ed Cummings wrote: >> >> Rich, you said there's a room rate that doesn't include >> breakfast. Is this a new development? I thought *all* registered >> fest attendees get a breakfast ticket for each day they're paying for >> a room at hotel, but maybe that's a misimpression on my part. >> >> >> At 08:31 AM 1/25/2019, Richard Cuff wrote: >> >>> Wednesday January 30th is the cutoff date. Better to beat that date. >>> I believe the $129 (2 queen beds) rate is already sold out at the Fest >>> rate, but I found a lower rate (without breakfast) searching Google. >>> >>> RC >>> >>>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 12:37 AM Ed Cummings wrote: >>>> >>>> Rich, when does the special hotel room rate expire? >>>> >>>> -Ed Cummings >>>> >>>> >>>> At 09:49 PM 1/24/2019, Richard Cuff wrote: >>>> >>>> Tomorrow is the last day for early registration pricing for the >>> Fest. Rates go up for registrations sent in after Friday. >>>> >>>> If you can't make it to the post office in time, consider using >>> PayPal. You don't need to have a PayPal ID to register for the Fest. >>>> >>>> Check it out at the Fest website, swlfest.com. >>>> >>>> RC >>>> ___ >>>> Swlfest mailing list >>>> Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com >>>> http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest >>>> >>>> To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail >>> to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit >>> the URL shown above. >>>> >>>> For more information on the Fest, visit: >>>> >>>> http://www.swlfest.com >>>> http://swlfest.blogspot.com >>>> >>>> ___ >>>> Swlfest mailing list >>>> Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com >>>> http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest >>>> >>>> To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail >>> to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit >>> the URL shown above. >>>> >>>> For more information on the Fest, visit: >>>> >>>> http://www.swlfest.com >>>> http://swlfest.blogspot.com >>> ___ >>> Swlfest mailing list >>> Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com >>> http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest >>> >>> To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail >>> to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit >>> the URL shown above. >>> >>> For more information on the Fest, visit: >>> >>> http://www.swlfest.com >>> http://swlfest.blogspot.com >> ___ >> Swlfest mailing list >> Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com >> http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest >> >> To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. >> >> For more information on the Fest, visit: >> >> http://www.swlfest.com >> http://swlfest.blogspot.com > > > ___ > Swlfest mailing list > Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. > > For more information on the Fest, visit: > > http://www.swlfest.com > http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] One more day for reduced registration fees!
Rich, you said there's a room rate that doesn't include breakfast. Is this a new development? I thought *all* registered fest attendees get a breakfast ticket for each day they're paying for a room at hotel, but maybe that's a misimpression on my part. At 08:31 AM 1/25/2019, Richard Cuff wrote: Wednesday January 30th is the cutoff date. Better to beat that date. I believe the $129 (2 queen beds) rate is already sold out at the Fest rate, but I found a lower rate (without breakfast) searching Google. RC On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 12:37 AM Ed Cummings wrote: > > Rich, when does the special hotel room rate expire? > > -Ed Cummings > > > At 09:49 PM 1/24/2019, Richard Cuff wrote: > > Tomorrow is the last day for early registration pricing for the Fest. Rates go up for registrations sent in after Friday. > > If you can't make it to the post office in time, consider using PayPal. You don't need to have a PayPal ID to register for the Fest. > > Check it out at the Fest website, swlfest.com. > > RC > ___ > Swlfest mailing list > Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. > > For more information on the Fest, visit: > > http://www.swlfest.com > http://swlfest.blogspot.com > > ___ > Swlfest mailing list > Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. > > For more information on the Fest, visit: > > http://www.swlfest.com > http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Article in IEEE Spectrum about SWLfest presenter Amanda Dawn Christie
Hi Dennis, The audio of the approximately one hundred HOPE Talks and Panels of 2018 <http://hope.net/schedule.html>can be downloaded free from here. There's several radio-related talks that would interest many SWLfesters. HOPE videos from 2018 aren't free yet, but can be downloaded for a small fee from <https://store.2600.com/collections/hope-downloads/>here and might be free in the future. We don't record the dozens of Workshops held at HOPE due to the lack of AV resources to do all that (recording three simultaneous speaker tracks for three long days is challenging enough.) So unfortunately Amanda's workshop was not recorded. The concert performance Amanda did at HOPE was recorded, and we're working on getting releases from all the performers before putting that online for free (probably on YouTube.) -Ed At 04:39 PM 9/29/2018, Dennis DeMarco wrote: Hey, Is Amanda's HOPE presentation online? I haven't seen any HOPE presentations online from this year's conference so far amd I'd love to see hers. 73, Dennis KA3QOT On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 2:56 PM Ed Cummings <<mailto:bern...@panix.com>bern...@panix.com> wrote: Our filmmaker and multimedia performance artist friend at this year's SWLfest, Amanda Dawn Christie, just got an article about her film and her work published in IEEE Spectrum, a magazine edited by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the world's largest professional organization devoted to engineering and the applied sciences. An abbreviated version of the article was published online today <https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/this-artist-made-a-radio-out-of-a-kitchen-sink>https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/this-artist-made-a-radio-out-of-a-kitchen-sink A more extensive article with more content and images will be published in the upcoming print edition of IEEE Spectrum. Some SWLfesters probably get it. The article describes her documentary film project at RCI Sackville, and some of her other work. It's worth reading. At the SWLfest, Amanda was talked into presenting at <http://hope.net/schedule.html>HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) in July, where she performed and held a workshop (several SWLfesters presented at HOPE this year.) The editor of IEEE Spectrum attended HOPE and was intrigued enough by Amanda's workshop to want to publish an article about her work. So this all stems from the SWLfest, where good things happen! -Ed Cummings ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <http://swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Proposed closure of WWV/WWVH
I wonder if a phone call and letter-writing campaign to NIST and members of Congress would help save WWV & WWVH. I've talked with their staffs before; the stations are run on a shoestring already. -Ed At 07:33 PM 8/10/2018, John Figliozzi wrote: So... instead of actually supporting fundamental measurement dissemination, they are spending $6 million plus to end it. Sounds about par for the course in the funhouse mirror world we've been forced to live in in the last 20 months. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 10, 2018, at 6:24 PM, Thomas Sundstrom <<mailto:trsc...@gmail.com>trsc...@gmail.com> wrote: A Twitter posting by Kim Elliott includes... "$6.3 million supporting fundamental measurement dissemination, including the shutdown of NIST radio stations in Colorado and Hawaii" ... in the FY2019 budget proposal. <https://www.nist.gov/director/fy-2019-presidential-budget-request-summary/fundamental-measurement-quantum-science-and>https://www.nist.gov/director/fy-2019-presidential-budget-request-summary/fundamental-measurement-quantum-science-and A 1958 verification card: <http://w2xq.com/qsl-usa-md-wwv.html>http://w2xq.com/qsl-usa-md-wwv.html ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <mailto:swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Data Breaches
Dan, thanks for facilitating an alternative to Facebook for the SWLfest group. Personally, I think choosing between the social networking platforms Facebook and Google+ is like choosing between the devil and the deep blue sea (of data.) I never established a Facebook account because I never trusted its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg--who once wrote that people who entrusted their personal data to his social networking platform are "Dumb fucks." https://www.esquire.com/uk/latest-news/a19490586/mark-zuckerberg-called-people-who-handed-over-their-data-dumb-f/ Seven years ago Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange (who I dislike personally) was interviewed by RT and quoted saying, "Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented." He said, "Here we have the world's most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations and the communications with each other, their relatives, all sitting within the United States, all accessible to U.S. intelligence. Facebook, Google, Yahoo -- all these major U.S. organizations have built-in interfaces for U.S. intelligence. It's not a matter of serving a subpoena. They have an interface that they have developed for U.S. intelligence to use." https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/05/wikileaks-assange-facebook-is-appalling-spying-machine/238225/ Frankly, I don't trust Alphabet (Google+) much more, so I never established a Google+ account, either. They have similar-data sharing arrangements with demonstrably untrustworthy entities, and market forces compel these corporations to exploit users' personal data because they have a legal mandate to maximize profits for shareholders. People can choose to decline these corporations' onerous Terms of Service--which frequently change and aren't honored anyway. I prefer using this SWLfest mailing list and email to exchange info with my fellow SWLfesters. It's much safer ;-) -Ed Cummings At 11:34 AM 3/21/2018, Daniel L. Srebnick wrote: Some folks have resisted the use of Facebook because of security and privacy concerns. Perhaps the Cambridge Analytica incident shows their wisdom. As more folks have become uncomfortable about the use of Facebook, in light of the Cambridge Analytica story, I've created a shadow group for us over on Google +. Consider it an experiment to see if we can gain enough critical mass on an alternative platform... Facebook and Google + address privacy a bit differently. If you want to try it, here is the URL to join the group: https://plus.google.com/communities/111414717109465458271?sqinv=MHdOTzJ 2Vk1XUVV6eDNnUFBTLW9XbGRkLTBNVFJR ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
[Swlfest] Thank you for a wonderful 31st SWLfest!
I want to publically than Rich and John and everyone else who made the 31st SWLfest a wonderful experience. Each of the several new people I convinced to come this year said they really enjoyed it and plan to come back. -Ed ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Portuguese Pirates on UHF MilSats
Matt Blaze's web page about this says: "an outdoor antenna with a radiation pattern favoring the satellite is virtually mandatory. A specially-designed circularly polarized directional antenna (such as are used by the military) is ideal but not essential. I have not found receiver preamplifiers, however, to be especially helpful, at least within the satellite footprints." So maybe that will work better than your old discone. -Ed At 02:15 PM 3/5/2018, Eric A. Cottrell wrote: Hello, I thought I would give listening to the UHF Milsat listening a shot with the R8600 and old discone. I had to turn on the preamp in the R8600, but I was able to hear the Brazilian pirates on 255.550 MHz FM. The signals are not quite full-quieting with some not that strong. The signals are barely showing up on the waterfall and a really small peak on the spectrum display. I cannot see the transponder noise floor. I tried the SDRPlay RSP2Pro and got similar results with the LNA Gain of 0 and Gain Control of 49. I can adjust the Spectrum Controls in HDSDR to see the signal peak, but it is still a weak signal. This is the link Matt gave at his talk. http://www.crypto.com/misc/uhf-sats/ 73 Eric --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Celebrating the world of radio in Plymouth Meeting, PA
Michael, it was a pleasure spending time with you again this year, and I'm sorry to hear about your bag with radios being lost in Germany (temporarily, I hope!) What an unlikely turn of events. There's probably a song in this story somewhere. Please know that people are with you in spirit. Let us know how you make out. Cheers, -Ed Cummings At 12:29 AM 3/5/2018, The Professor wrote: First I want to say it was great to be back at the Winterfest, and an honor to spend time with all of you. Camaraderie beyond compare. Y'all know what I mean. I won't say much more. Thank you. That last session of shortwave memories was really something. Now the downside, at least for now. I already posted something about his on facebook, where I guess I don't wanna say much more about it there. But through a strange and unexpected turn of events at the end of a bus out of Philadelphia, my bag is now in Germany, and I have a very similar looking bag full of a stranger's sweaters and Doritos and cookies, and my grand prize from the raffle and a number of important items of mine ended up with somebody leaving the country. The woman who bought the ticket for this German traveler has assured me that my suitcase will be shipped back to me as soon as possible. I hope that's true. But these are strangers, and this is a strange situation. At this point, I don't know what to expect. Whatever happens, I will post on this list and let you all know. Meanwhile, thanks for the memories of this weekend. I'll say this - Rich, and John, all of you, even if I've lost my prize, along with my prized GE portable that was in that bag, and everything else, this last weekend will remain a prized moment in time for me, despite all that. Still, I'm sad (Remember the Yardbirds?), and frankly stressed. But again thank you, for the good times. ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] 2018 Winter SWL Fest Program and Forums Schedule Further Updated!
Rich and John, Thanks for all your efforts to put together what's looking like will be another excellent three-day event! -Ed Cummings At 11:12 PM 2/20/2018, John Figliozzi wrote: Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64This is to notify that the 2018 Winter SWL Fest Program and Forums Schedule, to be held 1-3 March 2018, has been finalized (insofar as such things can be) and a prize list for the Saturday night raffle have been posted on the Fest's official web site-- www.swlfest.com. Richard Cuff John Figliozzi 2018 NASWA Winter SWL Fest Co-Chairs ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
[Swlfest] Discounted hotel room rates
What are the SWLfest discounted hotel room rates, and what are the normal rates? -Ed Cummings At 10:31 AM 2/2/2018, Richard Cuff wrote: Already fixed, just checked. RC On Friday, February 2, 2018, Richard Cuff <<mailto:rdc...@gmail.com>rdc...@gmail.com> wrote: Just spoke with the hotel. Should be re-opened by 1050 am ET and extended until Monday 2/5. Group code is NAS. Thanks - Richard On Friday, February 2, 2018, Andrew Yoder <<mailto:ayo...@hobbybroadcasting.com>ayo...@hobbybroadcasting.com> wrote: >Discounted hotel room rates valid only until this Friday, February >2nd. If you haven't reserved yet, please do so ASAP! We'll also keep >online registration fees at the "early" price until Friday as well, in >case it's slipped your mind... BTW, according to the online registration & the telephone customer service rep, the NAS code isn't good at this point ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] First Casting Call for the 2018 Winter SWL Fest
Indeed, it would be interesting to see a side-by-side performance comparison of the Icom IC-R8600 and the IC-R9500. I'll ask Matt Blaze if he'd be willing to bring his IC-R9500 back to next year's SWLfest (I transported it there for him.) -Ed Cummings At 03:28 PM 11/17/2017, Eric Cottrell wrote: I am looking forward to the Fest, now under 15 weeks away! I am planning once again on helping Dan Robinson with The Listening Lounge. I am sure Dan will setup some interesting radios for your listening pleasure. Besides the usual loop antenna and bits, I plan on bringing a recent radio purchase, an Icom IC-R8600. It is a SDR based radio with more traditional controls and very good HF performance. I am interested in comparing it to the much more expensive Icom IC-R9500 that has graced our modest listening post in past years. 73 Eric On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 16:58:22 -0500, John Figliozzi <jfigl...@nycap.rr.com> wrote: > Yes, its (already!) that time of the year again. > > We invite one and all to be a part of the 2018 Winter SWL Fest on > March 1, 2 and 3 at the Doubletree Guest Suites in fashionable > Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. That's just 105 days away as I type this. > > This will be the 31st such annual gathering and due to popular demand > we have added an extra half day, opening the event on Thursday > afternoon and continuing through all of Friday and Saturday. Details and > background info from . > > One of the centerpieces of the Fest weekend is our line-up of informative > and entertaining forums. How do we get them? These excellent sessions > are put together and presented by you and people just like youpeople > with a deep and abiding interest in radio and a willingness to share what ^IÝH^erienced, learned and know. > > So, how about it? Have you a topic that you think Fest participants Ú[[d interesting and would be willing to present? Tell us about it. If > youve already contacted us, chances are we have your e-mail on file. ÝÙ]\Ú[Ù\È\H[ÛÈthat we dont. So, please re-contact us at > this time just to make sure. ÷W"&övÆÂòÆVBöæRhour session forum. That means > preparing about a half-hour presentation that leaves plenty of time > for audience questions and interaction. It can be anything from a Ù\[Ý\È ÜÛÛZXÊHXÝ\H ÜÝ HÈH][[YYia extravaganza. [Ý\ÚÚXÙHB ¹ ÌÍÑÕɽappreciation (and perhaps some measure of small ÛÛ\@nsation for your efforts), the Fest will comp your registration > fee if your proposal is accepted by the Organizing Committee (which ÛÛÚ\ÝÈÙXÚÝY[Ý\È@ly and a Magic 8 Ball we found in Richs ]XÈÚ[looking for old Fest printed programs and giveaways. We are > seeking your help in fashioning a balanced and diverse line-up of topics > and speakers. Ö¶R÷W"7Vvpestion/proposal to John Figliozzi at <jfigl...@nycap.rr.comb÷RfRçVW7Föç2ÂvRvÆÂFòFscuss them with you. And ][Y[ÝIÝH]\YHÀrum before, don't hesitate. We've learned > that people tend to unfairly and inaccurately minimize their own abilities. ÙHÛÝÈ[ÝIÛHÜX]][ÝH]HÈlet us in on what you're thinking! > We promise a quick turnaround on your proposal once we are able to Ý\@y the field. > > Be a part of the 2018 Winter SWL Fest program! s2æBFòFRÆFW2vFGVRöÆövW2to Ian McFarland) > John Figliozzi XÚ\ÝY#Winter SWL Fest (and apparently for life) Co-Chairs > ___ > Swlfest mailing list ÝÛ\Ý\XÛÜKYÛÛBGG¢òöÖöçG¦°otalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest FòVç7V'67&: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. > > For more information on the Fest, visit: GG¢ò÷wwrç7vÀfest.com > http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] First Casting Call for the 2018 Winter SWL Fest
At 11:37 AM 11/17/2017, janice laws wrote: > I would really like to hear Paul Kaltenbach from ABC, dont know if this email gets to him, ... Janice, perhaps Richard Cuff or John Figliozzi has Paul Kaltenbach's email address, since Paul was a SWLfest speaker a few years ago. Maybe one of them can forward your email to Paul, or give his email address to you. I found Paul's SWLfest talk about broadcast engineering in conflict zones fascinating and informative, and would love to for him to do another SWLfest talk next year. If nobody else wants to reach out to Paul to ask him if he'd be willing and able to speak at the 2018 SWLfest, I'd be happy to do that if nobody objects. (Of course, I'd need his email address to do that ;-) -Ed Cummings ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] First Casting Call for the 2018 Winter SWL Fest
Sal, It behooves all of us to forward John's email message to anyone we think would give a good presentation at next year's SWLfest, along with a solicitation and encouragement for them to do so. Sometimes this requires gentle prodding and hand-holding, with an explanation that the SWLfest is an informal, fun event that warmly welcomes new speakers and attendees. I've been doing this for several years which has brought several good speakers to the SWLfest--some of who had never heard of the SWLfest but who are now regular 'festers. John and Rich need ALL of us to help bring in good speakers and new attendees for the SWLfest to survive and thrive. We will ALL benefit from this. It's really up to all of us. Typically, John and Rich receive more talk submissions than there's time to present, so they have to vet them all and pick the best ones each year--which is a lot of work. I've already reached out to some new people about speaking at next year's SWLfest. I hope you do the same! Best, -Ed Cummings At 05:14 PM 11/15/2017, Sal Fili wrote: John: I would say that the fact that I received this email is a pretty good clue that you have my email address on file. On the other hand, if you don't have someone's email on file, then how are they supposed to receive this message and respond to your request to provide their email address? So either you have my email address and therefore I received this message so there is no need to respond with my email address, or you don't have my email address and I never receive this message and do not know you need my email address, which will net you zero additional email addresses for your records. Unless of course there is someone in this mailing loop who knows of a like minded individual whose email address they believe you don't have, but they do, and forwards this message to them. But, you neglected to ask your readers to do that. Just sayin' Emoji On Wednesday, November 15, 2017, 4:58:56 PM EST, John Figliozzi <jfigl...@nycap.rr.com> wrote: Yes, itâs (already!) that time of the year again. We invite one and all to be a part of the 2018 Winter SWL Fest on March 1, 2 and 3 at the Doubletree Guest Suites in fashionable Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. That's just 105 days away as I type this. This will be the 31st such annual gathering and due to popular demand we have added an extra half day, opening the event on Thursday afternoon and continuing through all of Friday and Saturday. Details and background info from . One of the centerpieces of the Fest weekend is our line-up of informative and entertaining forums. How do we get them? These excellent sessions are put together and presented by you and people just like youpeople with a deep and abiding interesst in radio and a willingness to share what they've experienced, learned and know. So, how about it? Have you a topic that you think Fest participants will find interesting and would be willing to present? Tell us about it. If youâve already contacted us, chances are we have your e-mail on file. However, chances are also that we donât. So, please re-contact us at this time just to make sure. Your role will be to lead a one hour session forum. That means preparing about a half-hour presentation that leaves plenty of time for audience questions and interaction. It cLOGNULL NowTransReader::ReadIt() JJFileMT::Truncate(614377377) LOGNULL NowTransReader::ReadIt() JJFileMT::Truncate(0) an be anything from a serious (or comic) lecture (or both) to a multimedia extravaganza. Your choice! And as a gesture of appreciation (and perhaps some measure of small compensation for your efforts), the Fest will comp your registration fee if your proposal is accepted by the Organizing Committee (which consists of Rich Cuff, yours truly and a Magic 8 Ball we found in Richâs attic when looking for old Fest printed programs and giveaways. We are seeking your help in fashioning a balanced and diverse line-up of topics and speakers. Make your suggestion/proposal to John Figliozzi at <<mailto:jfigl...@nycap.rr.com>jfigl...@nycap.rr.com> If you have any questions, we'll be happy to discuss them with you. And even if you've never led a forum before, don't hesitate. We've learned that people tend to unfairly and inaccurately minimize their own abilities. We know you'll be great...but you have to let us in on what you're thinking! We promise a quick turnaround on your proposal once we are able to survey the field. Be a part of the 2018 Winter SWL Fest program! 73 and 88 to the Ladies (with due apologies to Ian McFarland) John Figliozzi Richard Cuff 2018 Winter SWL Fest (and apparently for life) Co-Chairs ___ SwlfeLOGNULL NowTransReader::ReadIt() JJFileMT::Truncate(614377377) LOGNULL NowTransReader::ReadIt() JJFileMT::Truncate(0) st mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfe
[Swlfest] Bucks County Hamfest - Sunday May 7th
SWLfesters who live in the area might be interested in attending the annual hamfest that's happening on May 7th this year. Lots of antique radios and other interesting radios, parts, etc will be available in the flea market. Early birds get the best worms! -Ed Cummings http://wp.k3dn.org/hamfest/ Hamfest Date: Sunday May 7th, 2017 New Location: Bucks County Community College Lower Bucks Campus Address: 1304 Veterans Highway (Rt. 413), Bristol, PA 19007 Bucks County Community College-Lower Bucks Campus, Bristol PA (Rt. 413 entrance turn on Rockview Dr.) We will be hosting the ARRL EPA Section Convention this year with ARRL Norm Fusaro, W3IZ as Guest Speaker. The WARC Hamfest will be held on Sunday May 7th, 2017 at the Bucks County Community College Lower Bucks Campus Bristol, PA Open at 7 A.M. (Vendors at 6 A.M.) held rain or shine! Hamfest GPS Coordinates are: Latitude: 40.112755 | Longitude: -74.876504 ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Restaurants
Technically, it's Persian cuisine. Due to western influence, Persia was renamed as Iran in 1935. I'm sure the culinary history of the cuisine at The Persian Grill dates back well before then. -Ed Cummings At 09:17 AM 3/16/2017, Ron Hunsicker wrote: Thanks, Ed. Iranian, now that's one cuisine that I didn't expect! Ron Forwarded Message Subject: Restaurant for SWLfest.com list of suggested restaurants Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 21:28:26 -0400 From: Ed Cummings <mailto:bern...@panix.com><bern...@panix.com> To: Ron Hunsicker <mailto:ronhu...@ptd.net><ronhu...@ptd.net> CC: Richard Cuff <mailto:rdc...@gmail.com><rdc...@gmail.com> Hi Ron, Thanks for offering to compile a list of restaurants near the SWLfest that 'festers have found to be especially good. For the past four years, numerous SWLfesters have been dining at the The Persian Grill in nearby Lafayette Hill (about 12mins drive from the hotel) to enjoy truly excellent and authentic Iranian cuisine, drinks, music, and decor. Without exception, everyone I've been there with has raved about this place. Pricing is reasonable for the quality, and making reservations is a good idea. When I was there this year Friday night with about ten other 'festers, our table reserved about one hour in advance was ready when we arrived. But while we were there, walk-ins came in and waited for the better part of an hour to get a table--salivating while watching us eat. The Persian Grill 637 Germantown Pike Lafayette Hill, PA 19444 (610)825-2705 Fri-Sat: 11 am - 10 pm Sun-Thurs: 11 am - 9 pm <http://www.persiangrillusa.com/>http://www.persiangrillusa.com/ Thanks! -Ed Cummings -- Ron Hunsicker 1238 Cleveland Avenue Wyomissing, PAÂ Â 19610-2102 610.478.0371 ronhunsi at ptd dot net ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Restaurant List
I'm compiling a list of suggestions for local SWLfest resources such as restaurants that 'festers really like, where batteries can be purchased nearby, etc. Please keep sending suggestions, and I'll format a page of text for addition to the swlfest.com website. Thanks! -Ed Cummings At 06:21 PM 3/15/2017, janice laws wrote: Love the place, awesome family resto we started going to when we were in Kulpsville when the dinor closed across the street. We went in search of chicken croquettes, which they now no longer have. But such curious dishes like chicken Quebec are always a hit. They remember us every year. good Italian food and awesome cannolis. Janice Laws From: Swlfest [mailto:swlfest-boun...@hard-core-dx.com] On Behalf Of Ron Hunsicker Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 9:01 AM To: swlfest@hard-core-dx.com Subject: [Swlfest] Restaurant List March's CIDX Messenger had a photograph of a mid-appetizer group at Valentino's Bistro in Lansdale. Anybody enjoy the meal and want to add Valentino's to the list? Ron -- Ron Hunsicker 1238 Cleveland Avenue Wyomissing, PA 19610-2102 610.478.0371 ronhunsi at ptd dot net <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email_source=link_campaign=sig-email_content=emailclient> [] Virus-free. <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email_source=link_campaign=sig-email_content=emailclient>www.avast.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Fwd: [New post] Shortwave Shindig rebroadcast via WRMI tonight!
So is the Shortwave Shindig rebroadcast tonight or Saturday? The email's Subject line and Body seem to contradict each other. -Ed Cummings At 03:47 PM 3/10/2017, Richard Cuff wrote: FYI RC -- Forwarded message -- From: "The SWLing Post" <<mailto:donotre...@wordpress.com>donotre...@wordpress.com> Date: Mar 10, 2017 2:56 PM Subject: [New post] Shortwave Shindig rebroadcast via WRMI tonight! To: <<mailto:rich...@thecuffs.us>rich...@thecuffs.us> Cc: Thomas posted: " Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Richard Cuff, for sharing the following details: Repeat shortwave airing of the Shortwave Shindig on WRMI -- Saturday 3/11 0300 UTC, same time as last week; same frequencies (9395 aimed north, 6855 aimed west)." New post on The SWLing Post [] <http://swling.com/blog/?author=15> [] <http://swling.com/blog/2017/03/shortwave-shindig-rebroadcast-via-wrmi-tonight/>Shortwave Shindig rebroadcast via WRMI tonight! by <http://swling.com/blog/?author=15>Thomas <http://swling.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/DavidGoren-Shortwave-Shindig.jpg> [] Jess Puglisi of WGXC (Wave Farm) and David Goren at the 2017 Shortwave Shindig live broadcast. Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Richard Cuff, for sharing the following details: Repeat shortwave airing of the Shortwave Shindig on WRMI -- Saturday 3/11 0300 UTC, same time as last week; same frequencies (9395 aimed north, 6855 aimed west). Thanks to David Goren and Jeff White for arranging this!! Will update as on-demand / streaming availability is determined. <http://swling.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/DavidGoren-and-Richard-Cuff-Shindig.jpg> [] David Goren (left) and Richard Cuff (right) during the Shindig live broadcast. Note that for those of us in North America, the Shindig rebroadcast will take place at 22:00 EST tonight (0300 UTC Saturday) on 9,395 kHz aimed north and 6,855 kHz aimed west from WRMI. I plan to record the broadcast tonight as propagation was so poor last week, very few listeners could enjoy it. <http://swling.com/blog/?author=15>Thomas | March 10, 2017 at 3:55 pm | Tags: <http://swling.com/blog/?taxonomy=post_tag=space>Space | URL: <http://wp.me/pn3uc-6nC>http://wp.me/pn3uc-6nC <http://swling.com/blog/2017/03/shortwave-shindig-rebroadcast-via-wrmi-tonight/#respond>Comment    <http://swling.com/blog/2017/03/shortwave-shindig-rebroadcast-via-wrmi-tonight/#comments>See all comments <https://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=896e725c38ee49ca07a2b503599ec5d6=richard%40thecuffs.us=Cse6tnY%26VsvJlY-F%5BgF%7E9cbgNN%2FOE5t_EiQM%2B%2BfqGsWBSa%2C9vG>Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from The SWLing Post. Change your email settings at <https://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=896e725c38ee49ca07a2b503599ec5d6=richard%40thecuffs.us>Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: <http://swling.com/blog/2017/03/shortwave-shindig-rebroadcast-via-wrmi-tonight/>http://swling.com/blog/2017/03/shortwave-shindig-rebroadcast-via-wrmi-tonight/ ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Restaurants near the Fest hotel
Maybe it would be useful to SWLfest'ers if the swlfest.com website had a page devoted to "Local Resources", such as reportedly good restaurants and places where batteries and such can be found, etc. Thoughts? -Ed Cummings At 12:06 PM 3/10/2017, Mickey Delmage wrote: Hi Ron We also (the CIDXers) along with Rich, John and a few others found the amazing Korea Garden at Village Square 732 DeKalb Pike, Blue Bell, PA. It had BBQs in the tables that we cooked our on food. The girl serving us was amazing and hugged everyone on our departure. 73 Mick On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Ron Hunsicker <<mailto:ronhu...@ptd.net>ronhu...@ptd.net> wrote: Ladies and Gents, Friday night, we found a great Korean restaurant a few miles from the hotel. Likely, you found a restaurant that you could recommend, too. Email me the name of your favorite and I'll compile a list for next year's fest. My recommendations: To Dam Gol Korean Restaurant 1341 E Township Line Rd, Blue Bell, PA 19422 Fat Daddyâs Deli 405 West Germantown Pike Plymouth Meeting, PA   19462 (Closed Saturday and Sunday) Send your recommendations to the email address shown below. Ron p.s.   What a great Fest! -- Ron Hunsicker 1238 Cleveland Avenue Wyomissing, PA  19610-2102 <tel:(610)%20478-0371>610.478.0371 ronhunsi at ptd dot net ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <http://swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Train to Hotel
Or, if you mean you have a car and want to pick someone up at the Norristown Transportation Center and drive them to the hotel, that would be very nice of you. Anyone needing such a ride can post that request here or contact Mano directly. On Friday I'm picking up one of our speakers at the Norristown Transportation Center like I did last year. -Ed Cummings At 02:29 AM 2/16/2017, Ed Cummings wrote: Hi Mano, There's no need for anyone at the SWLfest to coordinate your train transportation to Norristown, and your taxicab (or Uber or Lyft) ride from the nearby Norristown Transportation Center to the hotel. All the information you need is posted below. Good luck, -Ed Cummings At 11:04 PM 2/15/2017, Mano Guha wrote: Great idea, Ed! If the Fest wud coordinate, I am happy to do a train to hotel run. 73s Mano Seeking signals across the world... On Feb 15, 2017, at 17:39, Ed Cummings <<mailto:bern...@panix.com>bern...@panix.com> wrote: Rich, thanks for making that useful airport shuttle update to the <http://SWLfest.com>SWLfest.com website. The Tropiano airport shuttle to the hotel costs $29 (one-way) plus mandatory gratuity. You have to call them well in advance at (215) 616-5370. I you enjoy traveling by train, a cheaper and more interesting option is to take the SEPTA airport line from PHL airport to Philly's Jefferson Station (formerly Market East) and then transfer to the Manayunk-Norristown Line to the Norristown Transportation Center (which is a 15-min cab drive from the hotel.) The train fare for the full trip is $9.00 and you can buy your ticket from a machine on the PHL airport train platform (or for a bit more on the train.) At Jefferson Station, tell the train conductor that you're deboarding at the Norristown Transportation Center. Here's the URL for SEPTA's "transportation planner" which can create a train itinerary for you: http://www.septa.org/m/maps/trip.html From the Norristown Transportation Center you can take Uber or Lyft for about $15 (or a taxicab for a bit more) to the hotel. (Or if you have a friend at the hotel with a car, they might be willing to make the short trip to pick you up ;-) If you're coming from Philadelphia's 30th Street Station from anywhere, for only $7.00 (pay on the train) you can take the Manayunk-Norristown Line to the Norristown Transportation Center, and then take Uber or Lyft for about $15 (or a taxicab for a bit more) to the hotel. (Or if you have a friend at the hotel with a car, they might be willing to make the short trip to pick you up ;-) I hope folks find this transportation info useful. Maybe it can also be added to the <http://SWLfest.com>SWLfest.com website. Best, -Ed Cummings At 04:49 PM 2/15/2017, Richard Cuff wrote: Hi folks! Ed Cummings pointed out that the link posted on the best website for Tropiano Transportation had changed and we hadn't updated it. That oversight has now been corrected, and if you are looking for transportation from the Philadelphia Airport, or 30th Street Amtrak, and are not renting a car, then Tropiano Transportation may be an option for you. See <http://swlfest.com>http://swlfest.com for more details. See you in about 2 weeks! RC ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <mailto:swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <mailto:swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Train to Hotel
Hi Mano, There's no need for anyone at the SWLfest to coordinate your train transportation to Norristown, and your taxicab (or Uber or Lyft) ride from the nearby Norristown Transportation Center to the hotel. All the information you need is posted below. Good luck, -Ed Cummings At 11:04 PM 2/15/2017, Mano Guha wrote: Great idea, Ed! If the Fest wud coordinate, I am happy to do a train to hotel run. 73s Mano Seeking signals across the world... On Feb 15, 2017, at 17:39, Ed Cummings <<mailto:bern...@panix.com>bern...@panix.com> wrote: Rich, thanks for making that useful airport shuttle update to the <http://SWLfest.com>SWLfest.com website. The Tropiano airport shuttle to the hotel costs $29 (one-way) plus mandatory gratuity. You have to call them well in advance at (215) 616-5370. I you enjoy traveling by train, a cheaper and more interesting option is to take the SEPTA airport line from PHL airport to Philly's Jefferson Station (formerly Market East) and then transfer to the Manayunk-Norristown Line to the Norristown Transportation Center (which is a 15-min cab drive from the hotel.) The train fare for the full trip is $9.00 and you can buy your ticket from a machine on the PHL airport train platform (or for a bit more on the train.) At Jefferson Station, tell the train conductor that you're deboarding at the Norristown Transportation Center. Here's the URL for SEPTA's "transportation planner" which can create a train itinerary for you: http://www.septa.org/m/maps/trip.html From the Norristown Transportation Center you can take Uber or Lyft for about $15 (or a taxicab for a bit more) to the hotel. (Or if you have a friend at the hotel with a car, they might be willing to make the short trip to pick you up ;-) If you're coming from Philadelphia's 30th Street Station from anywhere, for only $7.00 (pay on the train) you can take the Manayunk-Norristown Line to the Norristown Transportation Center, and then take Uber or Lyft for about $15 (or a taxicab for a bit more) to the hotel. (Or if you have a friend at the hotel with a car, they might be willing to make the short trip to pick you up ;-) I hope folks find this transportation info useful. Maybe it can also be added to the <http://SWLfest.com>SWLfest.com website. Best, -Ed Cummings At 04:49 PM 2/15/2017, Richard Cuff wrote: Hi folks! Ed Cummings pointed out that the link posted on the best website for Tropiano Transportation had changed and we hadn't updated it. That oversight has now been corrected, and if you are looking for transportation from the Philadelphia Airport, or 30th Street Amtrak, and are not renting a car, then Tropiano Transportation may be an option for you. See <http://swlfest.com>http://swlfest.com for more details. See you in about 2 weeks! RC ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <mailto:swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <mailto:swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] VOA is 75
It's working fine for me on a ten year-old computer. -Ed At 08:39 PM 2/9/2017, Sudipta Ghose wrote: Ed, Something is going wrong while opening the webpage! Regards and 73, Sudipta Ghose, VU2UT On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 3:12 AM, Mano Guha <<mailto:mano.guha.ra...@gmail.com>mano.guha.ra...@gmail.com> wrote: Nice! Was this from the HF transmitted from Long Island near Jones Beach? Mano Seeking signals across the world... > On Feb 9, 2017, at 16:08, Ed Cummings <<mailto:bern...@panix.com>bern...@panix.com> wrote: > > VOA is 75 and they put up a nice web page where you can hear their first broadcast (from NYC to Nazi Germany via a London relay) and explore an amazing timeline of VOA's progress (and regress) over the years: <http://www.insidevoa.com/p/5829.html>http://www.insidevoa.com/p/5829.html > > -Ed Cummings > > ___ > Swlfest mailing list > <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <http://swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. > > For more information on the Fest, visit: > > <http://www.swlfest.com>http://www.swlfest.com > http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <http://swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com -- One of those ... ... ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
[Swlfest] SWLfest group room rate still available via social engineering workaround
If you missed yesterday's deadline on the SWLfest group room rate, don't despair...there's a workaround to still get the $109 rate instead of the $132 rate they charge now: First, sign up for the free Hilton Honors program (which is a good idea anyway to get free hotel perks) and write down your new HHonors number: https://secure3.hilton.com/en/hh/customer/join/joinHHonors.htm Call Reservations at (800)445-8667 and make your reservation at the current rate of $132.00. Give them your HHonors number. Get a Reservation Confirmation Number. Then call the hotel at (610)834-8300 and ask to speak with their Sales Manager. Tell the Hotel Sales Manager that you're a Hilton Honors member and that the block of rooms is sold out for the "NASWA Shortwave conference." Ask them if they'd be kind enough to retroactively apply the $109 sold out block room rate to your reservation (give them your reservation number and HHonors numbers.) The Sales Manager will almost certainly grant your request. They did for me ;-) Good luck, Ed Cummings ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
[Swlfest] Broken link to airport shuttle website on swlfest.com
The link on the SWLfest website to the airport shuttle is wrong. It takes you to a domain name squatter. The hotel told me Tropiano is now their airport shuttle operator. When I called Tropiano, they said their website URL is http://tropshuttle.com/ BUT they said their website has been compromised with malware (which I verified is true!) So it's probably best to not link to it from swlfest.com. Folks needing transportation between PHL and the hotel can call Tropiano at (800)559-2040. Maybe the bad link on the SWLfest website can be replaced with that good phone number? Hope this helps! -Ed Cummings ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
[Swlfest] FREE antique Zenith radio/phonographs to a good home (Philly area)
Hi Everyone, Before I put these two antique Zenith radio/phonographs up on Freecycle.com for a friend, I thought I'd offer them here to any SWLfest folks who might be interested. A very old physician's estate was liquidated and she owned two beautiful Zenith entertainment centers--one shortwave with the Rotor Wavemagnet antenna, and the other mediumwave only--and both have Zenith phonographs. I told my friend who inherited these units to not apply power to them lest the caps explode, so they're ready for reconditioning. The SWLfest mailing list won't allow large image attachments, but if anyone on the list in the Philly area is seriously interested, I can email you pictures and facilitate your acquiring these units for free. The present owner is pregnant and due today(!) and needs more room in her small house, so she's looking to find a good home for these classic Zenith radio/phonos. They're much too nice to discard as junk. Please email me off-list if you're seriously interested in taking both of these units, which appear to have been well cared for. Thanks much, -Ed Cummings ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
[Swlfest] Hotel Reservations
Gary, Code: NAS worked for me. Good Luck, Ed K2EPM PS: Anyone coming from the East Coast...I saw a familiar bridge linking the NJ Tpke and the PA Turnpike at the Delaware River has been closed because of a structural defect ( a crack) I suspect a temporary fix will be in place long before the fest or a decent detour. ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] BBG to go away?
Maybe a President Trump, who arguably has more direct experience in broadcast media than any previous U.S. President (Ronald Reagan not withstanding), will appoint an International Broadcasting CEO to develop a media network similar to RT (Russia Today) to play catch-up with his pal Putin. RT has been a very successful propaganda outlet. I can envision a President Trump wanting to be a regular face on such international broadcasts. He's very media-savvy and loves the spotlight. Maybe Dan Robinson or Kim Elliott would be interested in doing an SWLfest talk talk about U.S. state media in a Trump administration. (If they'd dare ;-) -Ed Cummings At 12:45 AM 12/14/2016, Thomas Sundstrom wrote: I was unaware until seeing a story on RT tonight that the US' BBG may be on life support. Tucked into a defense spending bill is a provision that the Broadcasting Board of Governors would be transformed into a CEO position reporting to the President. <http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/defense-bill-would-abolish-bbg-governing-board/161487>http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/defense-bill-would-abolish-bbg-governing-board/161487 I've long thought the BBG lost its way with multiple "voices" and administrative units. From my external view of government efficiency ⺠I always thought one voice (the VOA) could better serve the world in a coordinated, cohesive fashion. If this change comes to pass, perhaps sanity will prevail. ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
[Swlfest] Radio Caroline applies for broadcast license
If Radio Caroline get a mediumwave license from OFCOM, I hope they also apply for a shortwave license shortly afterwards. -Ed Cummings http://www.waterford-news.ie/2016/11/30/radio-caroline-aims-to-rock-radio-waves-again/ Radio Caroline aims to rock radio waves again Wednesday, November 30, 20 The famous ship-based pirate radio station Radio Caroline has applied for an AM waveband licence from Ofcom. Peter Moore, who runs Radio Caroline, wants to broadcast from its ship the MV Ross Revenge on the River Blackwater in Essex. He hopes to hear the outcome of the application next year, the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Marine Broadcasting Offences Act that was intended to scupper the pirate broadcasters. The station, immortalised in Richard Curtis film The Boat That Rocked, was founded in 1964 to play pop music all day in a time where broadcasting was dominated by the BBC and pop was played for an hour a week. After the law was passed in 1967, Radio Caroline continued to broadcast until the Ross Revenge was shipwrecked off the Kent coast in 1991. Mr Moore said the vessel is "mostly fixed" and open to visitors. Radio Caroline currently operates as an internet and digital radio station, with many shows broadcast from the Ross Revenge, which has a gadget fitted to its wheelhouse to give it a 4G signal, and also from its presenters' home studios. "We think it would be very fitting that, 50 years after the law intended to silence us once and for all, we show that it didn't work," said Mr Moore. The proposed AM signal would serve Essex and Suffolk, an area served by the station in its early years, with the transmitter based on land and connected to the studio on the ship and presenters' homes. "The Suffolk application is in hope of returning to what was always our heartland," added Mr Moore. "We would broadcast on AM just like long ago to entertain the people who grew up with Caroline and maybe cannot listen just now. "The presenters would be in part the same ones they listened to from our ship at sea." An Ofcom spokesman confirmed an application from Radio Caroline was being reviewed. ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] New SDR Coming Soon???
Yup, in 2017 it's the 30th SWLfest. Time flies. Thanks for the correction! -Ed At 11:45 PM 11/16/2016, craig.51...@juno.com wrote: I think we all missed it. Isn't this year the 30th? -- Original Message -- From: Ed Cummings <bern...@panix.com> To: SWLfest mailing list <swlfest@hard-core-dx.com> Subject: Re: [Swlfest] New SDR Coming Soon??? Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 14:15:33 -0500 Hi Dave, Would a portable radio with a large touchscreen in lieu of tactile knobs and switches pose major problems for a blind user? Coincidentally, I'm in communication with PantronX Titus II product developer Mike Stone about doing a talk about and demo of this exciting new radio at the 25th annual SWLfest. Stay tuned! -Ed At 11:25 AM 11/16/2016, Dave Marthouse wrote: >I saw this on another list and I thought I'd pass it on. > > >It will be interesting to see if this receiver makes it to market at >the proposed price point. > > >http://www.rtl-sdr.com/the-titus-ii-complete-sdr-solution/ > > > > > >-- > >Dave Marthouse >dmartho...@gmail.com > >___ >Swlfest mailing list >Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com >http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest > >To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail >to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit >the URL shown above. > >For more information on the Fest, visit: > >http://www.swlfest.com >http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com <http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3142/582d361de2c17361d0212st04vuc>3 Signs You May Have a Fatty Liver [Watch] <http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3142/582d361de2c17361d0212st04vuc>livecellresearch.com <http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3142/582d361de2c17361d0212st04vuc>http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3142/582d361de2c17361d0212st04vuc SponsoredBy Content.Ad ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] New SDR Coming Soon???
Hi Dave, Would a portable radio with a large touchscreen in lieu of tactile knobs and switches pose major problems for a blind user? Coincidentally, I'm in communication with PantronX Titus II product developer Mike Stone about doing a talk about and demo of this exciting new radio at the 25th annual SWLfest. Stay tuned! -Ed At 11:25 AM 11/16/2016, Dave Marthouse wrote: I saw this on another list and I thought I'd pass it on. It will be interesting to see if this receiver makes it to market at the proposed price point. http://www.rtl-sdr.com/the-titus-ii-complete-sdr-solution/ -- Dave Marthouse dmartho...@gmail.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Slightly OT: Article featuring dedicated Fester Ed Cummings
Hi Rich, In my opinion, the Philly Inquirer has gone way overboard with website ads like the one that prevented you from reading the entire article about WPPM-LP 106.5 MHz FM in Philadelphia. That portable radio you saw a photo of me using in that article is my Eton Satellit that I won at a recent SWLfest. It has a hot FM receiver and had no trouble picking up WPPM from a bench in Washington Square Park. It also has a RDS decoder and I'm trying to convince WPPM station management to implement RDS so casual listeners can see what station they're listening to. RDS could also be used more creatively than that. I lament that RDS isn't used anywhere near how it could be used here in the states. Over a decade ago in eastern Germany I monitored a Saturday night techno dance show (on an FM station I can't recall the name of) with my Sangean ATS-909 and marvelled at the DJ's creative use of RDS to send shout-outs and other real-time comments to listeners. It was a perfect melding of forward-facing radio broadcast technologies. Cool! -Ed Cummings At 07:04 PM 8/10/2016, Richard D'Angelo wrote: Interesting picture of Ed tuning a portable radio too. Nice article although my reading was interrupted by a chance to win a free iPhone 6. Couldn't get out of that loop no matter how much I tried. Rich Sent from my iPhone On Aug 10, 2016, at 6:20 PM, Thomas Sundstrom <<mailto:trsc...@gmail.com>trsc...@gmail.com> wrote: Nice piece. But on air next month? That explains why on my travels to Center City (medical stuff) yesterday and today I heard nothing. WTHJ-106.5 is part of "Thunder 106" -- <http://thunder106.com>http://thunder106.com -- with its 1,450w off an antenna at 208m on WWSI-62's tower -- 39°3753.00N 74°21â1â²12.00W -- in southern Ocean County. WTHJ has a quieting signal oon the car radio until about 2 miles east of the Airport Circle (intersection of US 130, NJ 38 and 70), Pennsauken. Earlier in the fest thread I commented earlier on the 106.5 LPFM channel congestion. I now see there won't be any chance of hearing the results of Ed's work out here on the fringe of the Pine Barrens. Tom Sundstrom On Aug 10, 2016 4:33 PM, "david goren" <<mailto:shortwaveol...@mac.com>shortwaveol...@mac.com> wrote: <http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20160809_Philly_s_new_radio_station_may_carry_talk_of_legal_pot__salsa_music_and_Tribbles.html>http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20160809_Philly_s_new_radio_station_may_carry_talk_of_legal_pot__salsa_music_and_Tribbles.html ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <http://swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list <mailto:Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to <mailto:swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com>swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: <http://www.swlfest.com>http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Bluegrass could disappear from Washington airwaves
Hi Thomas, I remember "WiFi 92" in Philly very well. University of Pennsylvania's WXPN-FM later did a bluegrass show, but that was cancelled when they brought in a commercial Program Director named Mark Fuerst. Then WHYY-FM had Gene Shay due a bluegrass show, but that was also cancelled. But there's hope for bluegrass in Philly: WPPM-LP (People Powered Media) is a community LPFM that went on the air last weekend after a good year of planning I was involved with. There's room in the schedule for a real bluegrass show, so anyone knows anyone in the area who'd be willing and able to produce it, please put them in touch with me. We're also looking to fill a GM position, so if anyone on the list knows anyone in the Philadelphia area who might be interested in that, let me know ASAP. (The application deadline will likely be extended.) https://spiritnews.org/articles/tag/wppm-106-5/ http://technical.ly/philly/2016/06/14/phillycam-community-radio-station-wppm/ https://phillycam.org/wppm-lp-1065-fm-radio-station-manager-job-posting Thanks much, -Ed Cummings At 09:10 PM 7/9/2016, Thomas Sundstrom wrote: <https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/after-nearly-50-years-bluegrass-could-disappear-from-washingtons-airwaves/2016/07/08/d0bccf74-448e-11e6-88d0-6adee48be8bc_story.html>https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/after-nearly-50-years-bluegrass-could-disappear-from-washingtons-airwaves/2016/07/08/d0bccf74-448e-11e6-88d0-6adee48be8bc_story.html Say it isn't so. Good bluegrass music programming may come to an end in Washington unless WAMU can sell its station by year end. I came around to bluegrass music through Philadelphia's WIFI-92.5 airing wonderful folk music in the early 1960s when I was in college. ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] The Fight for the Future of NPR
Yeah, but how much personal info about you does that 'NPR One' app harvest and sell to its business 'associates', and why does it require access to your smartphone's microphone? -Ed At 05:39 PM 4/12/2016, Richard Cuff wrote: That's one neat thing about the NPR One smartphone app. Don't like a segment? Dump it...fast forward to the next one... In this political season, I do that a lot...I frankly don't have personal patience for the day-to-day minutiae of the political campaigns... RC On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Fred Zalupski <zalup...@comcast.net> wrote: > Agree entirely. They used to be the best domestic news reportage on radio. > After they purposefully "restyled" themselves and let go of Bob Edwards > there was a steady spiral toward "fluffy" content. They lost me as a > listener years ago. (Not that Edwards was the sole keeper of the flame, but > it was for me the start of the end.) > ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] The Fight for the Future of NPR
When NPR moved their Weekend All Things Considered (Saturday and Sunday) production from DC to Culver City, California, I knew something was afoot. They put Rachel Martin on as Sunday host, who is doubly painful to listen to as she presents so much 'fluff' and not much news for an hour. NPR News has fallen far over the decades. It's also noteworthy that NPR successfully lobbied the FCC in the late 70's to phase out low-power "Class D" school/university/community FM broadcasting (established in 1938) so NPR could grab those 20 "reserved band" spectrum channels from 88.1 to 91.9 MHz for its own growing network. NPR did great harm to diverse community radio across U.S. and replaced much of it with their cookie-cutter and now mind-numbing programming. -Ed Cummings At 09:18 AM 4/12/2016, Fred Zalupski wrote: Thomas, Good post. In my opinion, the program content and presentation is stupefying dull. Agree entirely. They used to be the best domestic news reportage on radio. After they purposefully "restyled" themselves and let go of Bob Edwards there was a steady spiral toward "fluffy" content. They lost me as a listener years ago. (Not that Edwards was the sole keeper of the flame, but it was for me the start of the end.) And Richard's comment, no longer do we hear Baxter Black, cowboy poet / large animal veterinarian, nor Andrei Kondrescu... Wow, Rich, I'd forgotten about them. Liked them a lot, too. On 4/11/2016 1:09 PM, Thomas Sundstrom wrote: In my opinion, the program content and presentation is stupefying dull. ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Candidate receiver for the next Listening Lounge
Eric, congratulations on your Racal RA-3791 acquisition. I'm looking forward to seeing it (and your WJ-8711A) at the hospitality suite next year. As for how they'll stack up against each other, for what it's worth, my WJ-8712A (which came out of BBC Monitoring) overall beats my Racal RA6790/GM (which came out of NSA.) -Ed Cummings At 06:22 PM 4/1/2016, Eric Cottrell wrote: Hello, You never know what will show up next year in the hospitality suite, but this is currently a likely candidate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w4WMaoP_gU I considered getting a Racal RA-3791 before I got the WJ-8711A. This DSP-based receiver is similar to the WJ-8711A, with interesting features like up to 100 user-programable IF filters. A nice Racal RA-3791 recently became available and I pulled the trigger. I should get it within the next two weeks. It is going to be interesting comparing the Racal to the Watkins Johnson. 73 Eric ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] If one were to know...
An excellent digital recording of the HF signal was made in the hospitality room with a Rohde & Schwarz spectrum analyzer/receiver that's designed to record intercepts. I tried posting it as a 1.8 MB mp3 file to the swlfest mailing list, but a 40KB attachment filesize attachment prevented that. I'd be happy to send a copy to anyone who emails me directly. It was great seeing everybody this year at SWLFest, which had a really excellent lineup of talks. Please try to bring someone new to next year's 30th Anniversary SWLFest. They'll thank you for that, and will probably become a regular! Thanks again John Figliozzi and Richard Cuff and all the other people who made the 29th SWLFest so excellent and memorable. Cheers, -Ed Cummings At 10:32 AM 2/22/2016, Richard Cuff wrote: I believe one will be available, at least of the FM version audible in the hotel. Â Strong signal noted in Alberta, CA and noted in Glenn Hauser's logs of the day in the ODXA YG. Richard On Sunday, February 21, 2016, Duane Whittingham <<mailto:radiod...@logonix.net>radiod...@logonix.net> wrote: Hope someone got a recording of the ride. ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Scanning Beyond The Scum
Sounds like a good scanner talk you have planned, Eric. I'm looking forward to learning about various information sources that you use to find out what to listen to above 30 MHz. I'd like to learn about some of the SDR hardware and software that hobbyists are using to monitor various digital voice modes above 30 MHz. If you have any pictures of that stuff, that would be great. Even better, a live demo! See you at the SWLFest.. -Ed At 01:41 PM 2/17/2016, Eric A. Cottrell wrote: Hello, I do not mean any disrespect to the regulars who do the Scanner Forum, but I just love the title of my presentation "Scanning Beyond the Scum". It reminds me of the titles used for the sequels to 1970s disaster movies. I appreciate the opportunity and hope to present a forum that meets Scum standards. Being in many aspects of the radio hobby since the 1970s, there were many topics I could present. Discussing changes of the past year was a given. As I worked on my presentation over the past weeks, it grew to add a discussion about information sources that I regularly use for listening above 30 MHz. There were paper guides, like Police Call and the Scannermaster Guides, in the old days. Now there are mailing lists, message forums, and various websites. Scanning above 30 MHz is mostly a local activity, and what a person can hear depends on the radio and the location. I like to explore the radio spectrum and see what is around me. Looking forward to a great fest. 73 Eric ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Scanner Forum Session
SWLFest speaker slots are very limited and valuable. So I think any person who wants one should be required to submit a detailed proposal themselves to the SWLfest organizers stating specifically what they'd like to talk about. Automatically granting a SWLfest speaking slot to a group of people that no member of has lifted a finger to step up and submit a detailed proposal for seems a like a waste of precious time resources at the SWLfest. I pay for my SWLfest ticket to hear informative content that someone took the time to adequately plan a presentation of. If there's a scanner talk then I'd like to hear a detailed presentation about new developments in the hobby, such as how new low-cost SDR's (like the SDRPlay) and free software are being developed and used by hobbyists to demodulate and record APCO25.DMR/Mototrbo/NXDN/ProVoice/etc and other digital modulation schemes being used by more and more public safety agencies. If no member of the 'Scanner Scum' (a very knowledgeable group of people, BTW) is willing and able promptly submit a detailed proposal for the good use of a valuable time slot, then I'd like to see that time slot used more productively by someone else. Just because something is a "tradition" doesn't mean it's in the best interest of the SWLFest. Better content will bring in more paid attendees, which are badly needed for the survival of this wonderful event. I'd be interested in reading anyone else's opinions about this. The SWLfest has some excellent content, but should any of its valuable speaking slots be reserved for any group or person who hasn't bothered to submit a good plan to use it? -Ed Cummings At 01:50 PM 1/13/2016, Mark Meece wrote: Neither Tom Swisher or myself are able to make it to the Fest this year. If none of the other attending Scum want to host, I believe Eric Cottrell expressed some interest in doing it. Eric certainly knows a myriad of aspects on Scanning, if he would like to do it, he has the official endorsement of the Scanner Scum (not that he needs it). Mark On 1/13/2016 12:45 PM, John Figliozzi wrote: Still waiting for someone to step up and lead this annual session. It's been a tradition, so we're holding a slot open for it. However, if we don't hear from anyone in the scanner community in the next week or so, we may have to do without one this year. So, just let us know, ok. ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Casting Call for the 2016 Winter SWL Fest
This sounds very interesting and I'd definitely attend such a forum. I'd love to hear recordings of some of these interesting intercepts played at the forum.. Thanks, Sheldon, for offering to put this together. -Ed Cummings At 05:12 PM 12/10/2015, Sheldon Harvey wrote: Hi, John. Just got off the phone with Alan Roberts, the master of the lows and highs of the HF spectrum! Alan spends a lot of his DXing time on frequencies below 500 kHz. and above 25 MHz. Living in an extremely noisy environment in a suburban area just 10 minutes or so outside of Montreal, a city of now about 4 million people (and only about 5 minutes away from me!), Alan has had incredible success over the years digging out signals on longwave for example. He has often called me to say the band is open at his place and I can hear the incredible signals he is picking up over the phone! I tune in the frequencies here, just 5 minutes away and I don't hear a thing! His secret to success seems to be his use of home-made small vertical antennas! Most people think success on longwave (not just broadcast stations, but beacons as well), is very long, beverage style antennas. Alan has succeeded in proving that's not necessary and it is possible with very short, easy to construct and install antennas to have great success. He has also spent many, many hours digging out all sorts of odd and interesting signals in the HF spectrum 25 MHz and up. A number of years back, he was able to find a network of FM stations being used by ski-lift gondolas at a French Alps ski resort using the French service Radio Neige. He has also logged a number of television studio to transmitter link signals (STL's) throughout the US that use 26 MHz FM mode Comrex transmitters. He was also recently able to pull out the experimental signals from a Moscow based technical university, with students broadcasting once a week. He religiously checks for activity in the lows and highs of the HF spectrum and through his creative and unique work at designing and constructing antennas he has been able to come up with some amazing DX catches in areas of the spectrum that few DXers spend much time in. The low periods of the sunspot cycle and the increasing noise floor generated by all the weird and wonderful RF generating devices around us have made his DXing efforts more challenging, but Alan looks at it as a new challenge, sort of a cat and mouse game. So, Alan and I have discussed it, and we're thinking that we'd like to propose a new forum at Winterfest 2016, perhaps called something like "DXing the Lows and Highs of the HF Spectrum". I will be working on a audio/visual presentation of photos of his equipment, antennas, etc. as well as some recordings of the signals he hears (providing we can catch some in the next couple of months! Alan is a little bit nervous in front of crowds and seems a little unsure of being able to fill the hour, but I have agreed to help him out and run the graphics, photos, sound clips, etc. He has done my radio show on a number of occasions and is aware of just how quickly a half-hour goes by on the radio. I told him that giving the talk at Winterfest is much the same, and once questions start flowing, it will be over before he knows it. So, if you think this would be of interest to our audience, we should be able to pull it off. I think it would be something unique for Winterfest. Let me know your thoughts. If you want to go with it, we'll get working on it quickly. Sheldon Harvey Radio H.F. <http://www.radiohf.ca/>http://www.radiohf.ca Enjoy birds and birdwatching? <http://www.birdprotectionquebec.org/>http://www.birdprotectionquebec.org From: John Figliozzi <jfigl...@nycap.rr.com> To: Discussion list for the Winter SWL Fest <Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com>; *NASWA <na...@yahoogroups.com>; ODXA yg <o...@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2015 10:25 PM Subject: [Swlfest] Casting Call for the 2016 Winter SWL Fest We invite one and all to be a part of the 2015 Winter SWL Fest on February 19 and 20 at the Doubletree Guest Suites in fashionable Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. That's just 81 days away as I type this. As you know, one of the centerpieces of the Fest weekend is our line- up of informative and entertaining forums. How do we get them? These excellent sessions are put together and presented by you and people just like you--people with a deep and abiding interest in radio and a willingness to share what they've experienced, learned and know. So, how about it? LOGNULL NowTransReader::ReadIt() JJFileMT::Truncate(411713788) LOGNULL NowTransReader::ReadIt() JJFileMT::Truncate(0) Have you a topic that you think Fest participants will find interesting and would be willing to present? Tell us about it. Your role will be to lead a one hour session forum. That means preparing about a half-hour presentation tha
[Swlfest] Worlds first all-digital radio on a chip
This new technology seems to have promise for leading to better, smaller, and cheaper radios. -Ed Cummings http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/first-all-digital-radio-transmitter/ Cambridge Consultants demonstrates a world first in radio design 3/03/2015 Technology innovation firm Cambridge Consultants has successfully completed initial trials of the worlds first fully digital radio transmitter a turning point in wireless design and a real enabler for the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G technology. Its a radio built purely from computing power, using the same familiar digital technology youd find in a computer microprocessor in your home or office. Unlike software-defined radio (SDR), its not a mixture of analogue and digital components for the first time, the radio is completely digital, which can enable new ways of using spectrum intelligently. The innovation is set to be hugely disruptive, like a previous Cambridge Consultants breakthrough the development of the first single-chip Bluetooth radio, which led to the spinout of the global short-range wireless and audiovisual giant CSR. The latest breakthrough codenamed Pizzicato unlocks the potential of the IoT. It opens the door to a new dynamic way in which the predicted 100 billion IoT devices can operate together in a crowded radio spectrum. And it will enable the creation of 5G systems, with multiple radios and antennas. The Pizzicato digital radio transmitter consists of an integrated circuit outputting a single stream of bits, and an antenna with no conventional radio parts or digital-to-analogue converter. Patented algorithms perform the necessary ultra-fast computations in real time, making it possible for standard digital technology to generate high-frequency radio signals directly. Our first trial of the technology has created 14 simultaneous cellular base station signals, said Monty Barlow, director of wireless technology at Cambridge Consultants. But it is the potential which is so exciting. Like mainstream microprocessing, a Pizzicato-based radio would directly benefit from Moores Law shrinking in cost, size and power consumption with each new generation of silicon fabrication. If were going to get high-speed broadband to every mobile phone in the world, well need lots of tiny, high-performance radios in those phones. The radios will be squashed together in a way that analogue just doesnt tolerate. Whereas a Pizzicato-like digital radio can follow Moores Law to smaller size and lower power consumption. It could also be programmed to generate almost any combination of signals at any carrier frequencies, nimbly adapting its behaviour in a way that is impossible in conventional radios. It is early days for this technology but we believe radio design has reached a turning point. In recent decades, wireless design teams such as Cambridge Consultants have employed extensive digital techniques in radios and such SDRs have provided a tenfold improvement in the data rate that can be squeezed into a radio channel. But a more dramatic improvement is needed to cope with the growth in mobile broadband and the IoT. Good radio spectrum is a scarce resource only low frequencies (1GHz or lower) propagate well over distance or through walls, so they are in great demand. Greater efficiency requires the use of dynamic or cognitive wireless techniques to sense the radio environment and switch parameters on the fly. This could give access to more of the estimated 90% of the allocated spectrum which is not in use at any one time. Making use of the higher carrier frequencies of 10GHz and beyond, however, will require techniques such as meshing and beamforming to circumvent the inherently poor range and the analogue parts of radios are becoming an increasing bottleneck. Crowding 50 analogue radios together on one chip, switching their operational parameters every few microseconds and expecting them to work at 60GHz is an analogue designers nightmare, said Barlow. With Pizzicato, we have created a glimpse of future disruptive technology a radio built purely from computing power. Cambridge Consultants has one of the worlds largest independent wireless development teams, with more than 120 experts working in areas ranging from ultra-low-power short-range wireless connectivity to global satellite communication. During its 55-year history, the company has helped clients develop technology ranging from the worlds first wireless implanted pacing system to the ground-to-air radio system controlling air traffic over the majority of the planet. Cambridge Consultants is demonstrating Pizzicato athttp://www.mobileworldcongress.com/ Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, March 2-5, stand 7B21 in Hall 7. ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http
Re: [Swlfest] Arrived home already!
Hi Eric, Do you use any software to control your WJ-8711A? I have a WJ-8712A and am always looking for new options to get the most out of it. Cheers, -Ed Cummings At 08:10 PM 3/1/2015, Eric A. Cottrell wrote: I got home about 5PM. There must be some truth about antennas performing better when put up in rain or snow storms as I am listening to Morocco on 171 KHz using the WJ-8711A and the Wellbrook loop. Currently snowing and another 3 to 6 inches expected by tomorrow noon. Unfortunately I stayed up late and the sun, that awakened me at 6:50 AM the past two mornings, was a no show. So I got on the road a little later than planned. No snow until just before the lunch stop in Norwalk, CT. The snow was very light and turned to light as travel progressed along Route 15. The slowest part was around New Haven as it looked like it snowed lightly for longer and the road was slippery. Conditions improved on I-84 in NE CT, but there were still icy spots underneath overpasses. The Mass Pike and the Boston area was good as the light snow had just started. From what I heard from later travel information, it got worse in NY and CT several hours after I drove through, so I am glad to be home. Thanks again for a wonderful fest. I hope everyone gets home safely. 73 Eric On 3/1/2015 5:12 PM, Daniel L. Srebnick wrote: We make it back here at about noon. No snow on the drive until we got into our immediate home area and now probably a couple of inches deep of fluffy stuff, beginning to be covered by ice crystals. ]Ø\ÈHÜX]][[Àe definitely enjoyed ourselves. Thanks to Rich and John for another fine mess, er I mean fest. X\ÈØYHravels back to VK land and it was definitely our pleasure to make sure you were well taken care of are you regaled us with tales of your adventures, tech and otherwise. Mark P, thanks for keeping us all time synchronized and for the astronomy conversation that you and Tina had. 73 to all, Dan SÜYÚ[[Y\ÜØYÙKBÛ@: Swlfest [mailto:swlfest-boun...@hard-core-dx.com] On Behalf Of Mark Fahey Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2015 2:51 To: Discussion list for the Winter SWL Fest ÝXXÝ@: [Swlfest] Arrived home already! Im going to claim bragging rights to be the person last home (arriving back home Wednesday) - err actually the Finn contingent will beat me to that, they have another week here. Ù[Im still at the hotel and it has transformed in a winter wonderland with a nice blanket of fresh snow now covering the grounds. Too cold for a Aussie to be out in that stuff today. Thanks to Richard and John, and my wingmen (wingpersons) Thomas, Ed, Dan and Tina who make sure I am introduced to everyone and also keep my glass topped-up. What a great friendly community all you guys have, everyone is so friendly. Its sure worth the trip, so I will see you all again for sure ÚY\ËX\È ]\Ý[XJB@realmarkfahey ÛX\MK] NH[KX\Èhillips g7...@g7ltt.com wrote: I know some of you are still sleeping but I thought I'd claim bragging rights on being the first one home :) rFæ·2f÷Richard and John for putting in yet another sterling effort. 6VR÷RÆÂBFöÒw2WfVçBöâä2ÆFWF2Vr? Mark âð__ ÝÛ\ÝXZ[[È\Ýâ7vÆfW7DBÖ6÷RÖ@x.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest FòVç7V'67S¢6VæBâRÖÖÂFò7vÆfW7BÐrequ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. f÷Ö÷Ræf÷ÖFöâöâFRfW7@, visit: http://www.swlfest.com ÝÛ\Ýlogspot.com ___ ÝÛ\ÝXZ[[È\ÝÝÛ\Ý\XÛÜKYÛÛBhttp://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. Ü[ÜH[ÜX][ÛÛH\Ý\Ú]£âhttp://www.swlfest.com ÝÛ\ÝÙÜÜÝÛÛB£â___ Swlfest mailing list ÝÛ\Ý\XÛÜKYÛÛBGG¢òöÖöçGVl.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest È[ÝXØÜ@be: Send an E-mail to swlfest-request@hard-core-dx.comsubject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. Àr more information on the Fest, visit: ËÝÝÝÝÛfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] RadioShack to Launch First Wave of Store-Closing Sales
Veteran bargain DX'er Saul Broudy turned me on to this internal Radio Shack document showing 1784 stores slated to close soon. If one of these stores is near you, it might pay to check it out. I agree that some stock is likely to be sold off wholesale to liquidators, but there'll still be some pretty deep retail discounts in stores slated for closing. Apparently the store inside the Plymouth Meeting Mall has already closed. http://radioshackcorporation.com/pdfs/RS-Store-Closure-List_020415.pdf -Ed At 10:54 AM 2/8/2015, Mark Phillips wrote: I was in my local RadioShack yesterday expecting to find the whole place on sale. Although it was looking rather empty despite nothing being on sale,the staff there were of the firm opinion that they weren't going anywhere. I've seen this before. During the last 2 RS down sizings product was moved either to other stores or to wholesalers for a better price than they think it will fetch in the store - and then the store closes. I wouldn't be holding my breath I went to the sale near me in the Short Hills Mall. They had nothing but cellphones and satellite TV. Al of their hobby Maker stuff was gone but they labels on the pegs it was on did not show sale prices.However, if you were in need of a cordless phone or a microphone cable you were in luck. On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 11:54 PM, bern...@panix.com wrote: Radio Shack carried a variety of decent shortwave receivers, and many stores probably still have some in stock at blowout prices (or soon will.) This Wall Street Journal artâicle below has a link to an interactive map of Radio Shack stores having liquidation sales. Good luck to everyone on their search through stores near them! http://www.wsj.com/articles/radioshack-to-launch-first-wave-of-store-closing-sales-1423257675 -Ed Cummings ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] 2015 Forums Schedule Updated
Eric, Yes, please bring your Elad FDM-S2 and laptop computer to the SWLfest. I'm sure quite a few festers would like to see and hear it in action. We'll have a monitoring post set up in the presidential suite (hospitality suite) with rooftop access to antennas, and a multicoupler. If anyone has a decent antenna switch, please bring it! Thanks much, Ed Cummings At 11:55 AM 1/21/2015, Eric Cottrell wrote: Hello, I really like the Elad FDM-S2. I am thinking of bringing it to the fest as well. Some SDR hardware also provide a standard API through an External Interface DLL. The allows usage of the same hardware with multiple PC SDR programs, and the same PC SDR program with multiple SDR hardware. One recent thread on the Elad list discussed using a RDS decoder with the Elad FDM-S2 to receive FM stations via Meteor Scatter. The DXer records a 5 MHz chuck of the FM spectrum, and plays it back multiple times looking for the busts. A program like RDS Spy is used to see if the RDS can be decoded to identify the station. 73 Eric On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 07:51:24 +1100, Mark Fahey mfa...@bigpond.com wrote: Hey Eric, Thanks for the Elad links and info, I think I will walk your journey as well - listen to the sample files and then I'm sure I will be spending some money on a new box! See you next month in PA! Cheers, Mark Sent from my iPad On 21 Jan 2015, at 3:01 am, Eric Cottrell wb1...@runbox.com wrote: Hello, The program looks great, as usual. Looking forward to the Fest. The Radio on the Road talks by our unnoted world traveler has great pictures and sounds of various places in the world. Always an interesting talk. I will be bringing an USB drive to Thomas' and Mark's talk. Before I bought my Elad FDM-S2, I downloaded the software and 4GB! of spectrum recordings from DK8OK. I was able to figure out the software before I got the radio. It was interesting to hear what listening was like in Europe, like no WWV on 10 MHz. Video highlighting some of the stations in the DK80K files. http://sdr.eladit.com/Sample%20wav-files%20how%20to%20and%20applications/DK8OK/Video/elad_fdms2_6mhz.mp4 Elad FDM-S2 Software http://sdr.eladit.com/FDM-sw2%20Software/ Sample Files http://sdr.eladit.com/Sample%20wav-files%20how%20to%20and%20applications/DK8OK/10MHzCF_5MHzWidth_1700UTC/ I did a talk at the fest years ago about HF Utility listening and played recordings of some of the various modes active at the time. Now there are even more digital modes. It is amazing how you can recognize digital signals by how they sound. I can identify various trunked radio control channels on VHF/UHF/800 by how they sound as well. 73 Eric On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 13:31:06 -0500, John Figliozzi jfigl...@nycap.rr.com wrote: Correcting some typos and adding info on a Friday night broadcast on WRMI. ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
[Swlfest] Designing Wheel-Tuned, Digital-Display Radios with Next-Generation Radio ICs
Today I received this interesting applications note from Mouser Electronics which specifically mentions some technical challenges that designers of AM and shortwave radios face using DSP technologies. This paper might interest some SWLfest list subscribers. http://www.mouser.com/applications/next-gen-radio-ics-audio/?utm_medium=emailutm_source=january2015utm_campaign=cm-audio-enutm_content=article2rm Cheers, Ed Cummings ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
[Swlfest] Hospitality Room and Listening Lounge
Will the top-floor Presidential Suite again be our Hospitality Room and Listening Lounge? That worked out extremely well last year! -Ed Cummings At 05:19 PM 1/14/2015, Richard Cuff wrote: Request fulfilled...thanks! RC On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Richard Cuff rdc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks - In years past I have had access to a PC projector, but it looks like I won't be able to extract the same favor in 2015. If you have access to a PC projector and you're willing to bring it down to the Fest could you let me know off-list? It will save us from having to rent one... Thanks! RC (co-Festmeister) ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
Re: [Swlfest] Access to PC projector for Fest?
That was fast! Will someone be able to bring a mobile internet hotspot so we'll have internet connectivity in the conference room, exhibit/banquet room, and lounge area? Or maybe the hotel has free WiFi now? If nobody else is already planning to bring one, I might be able to borrow one that uses Sprint's (formerly Clear's) WiMAX network and bring it. But it's limited to 8 simultaneous connections. Interestingly, Clear's old area headquarters were right at the bottom of the street leading to the hotel. Now it's vacant since Sprint bought Clear. That WiMAX network is scheduled for sunset by the end of 2015 (replaced by Sprint LTE.) -Ed Cummings At 05:19 PM 1/14/2015, Richard Cuff wrote: Request fulfilled...thanks! RC On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Richard Cuff rdc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks - In years past I have had access to a PC projector, but it looks like I won't be able to extract the same favor in 2015. If you have access to a PC projector and you're willing to bring it down to the Fest could you let me know off-list? It will save us from having to rent one... Thanks! RC (co-Festmeister) ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com ___ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
