NEWS RELEASE
Date: January 24, 2014
NASWA DETAILS ITS 27th ANNUAL WINTER SWL FEST PROGRAM
NASWA, the North American Shortwave Association, has announced
preliminary program details for its 27th Annual Winter SWL Festival to be held
at the Doubletree Suites Hotel in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania on March 14
and 15, 2014.
The Winter SWL Fest is the largest and longest-running annual
meeting of shortwave radio enthusiasts and hobbyists in the Western Hemisphere.
Beyond the opportunity to renew old friendships and make new contacts, the
conference serves as a forum for discussion of radio-related matters of
interest and import to the attendees, which have numbered in excess of 200 in
some recent years.
This year’s program of forums features two presentations by
Australian Mark Fahey, who has travelled North Korea extensively in recent
years. Over four successive trips to each province of the country, he has
smuggled in and out monitoring and recording equipment enabling the capture and
analysis of hundreds of hours of domestic radio and television broadcasting.
Scheduled for successive afternoons on Friday and Saturday, Behind
the Curtain: North Korean Broadcasting and Propaganda, will extensively discuss
and feature audio and video examples of North Korean internal and external
broadcasting, international and clandestine broadcasters that manage to
penetrate through the regime’s jamming, as well as descriptions and photographs
of the media infrastructure used by the North Korean regime as the prime
instrument of control over the population.
In addition to the ever-popular annual forums on scanning and
unlicensed broadcasting (otherwise known as pirate radio), the 2014 Fest
program also will feature the following sessions and presenters (subject to
revision):
Radio Broadcasting: The Earliest Years – Dr. Harold Cones
Navigating a Future for the Radio Hobby – Sheldon Harvey, President of the
Canadian International DX Club
Internet Radio 2.0 – Rob DeSantos
A Practical Guide to Loop Antennas – Jef Eichner
Developing a Shortwave Radio Archive – Thomas Witherspoon, President of Ears to
Our World
Whatever Happened to Digital Radio? – Mark Phillips
Ionosounders and Other Real Time Propagation Aids – Tracy Wood
Ham Radio Tools for SWLs – Skip Arey
There’s also David Goren’s Friday night Shortwave Shindig radio
studio party, as well as brief talks by Paul Ladd on World Christian
Broadcasting’s shortwave transmitter projects, Allen Loudell of WDEL radio on
trends in U.S. commercial radio, especially news/talk radio; and Sheldon
Harvey’s annual tribute to those who departed us for a “higher station” over
the last year. Not to mention: the Saturday night banquet and Grande Raffle!
Why not join us at the 27th Annual Winter SWL Fest? Details on
location, registration, meals and lodging are available from the official web
site: swlfest.com
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