Hello,
Looks like a great lineup. I guess I have to start calling Mark, "The
Doctor". :)
73 Eric
On 1/18/2015 4:52 PM, John Figliozzi wrote:
Fest Forums 2015 (Tentative, still subject to change)
Friday, 27 February 2015
Fri. 0830
Radio on the Road 3
Janice Laws
Janice recently returned from Haiti and will have some updated material, and
some old classic recordings, along with pictures of her travels and radio
listening while there and elsewhere around the world in this third installment
of her very popular “Radio on the Road” series.
Fri. 0945
The Year in Pirate Radio
George Zeller
Your host informs that, among the events during this sitting, will be the
announcement of the 2015 inductees into the Pirate Radio Hall of Fame and a
robust discussion about recent trends in “the only growth area of SW
broadcasting”. He also vows not to go across the street to the Mexican
restaurant before the session as he did last year.
Fri. 1100
Time Travel, Teleportation & Spectrum Hoarding for the Contemporary DXer
Thomas Witherspoon & Mark Fahey
Software-defined radios (SDR) have revolutionized radio monitoring providing
DXers with receiving options that were only theoretically possible a few years
ago.
Mark has travelled to exotic Pacific and Indian Ocean locations with SDRs to
capture the local medium and shortwave spectrum and enable others to experience
a listening session in a location to which they may never physically travel.
Thomas and Mark will demonstrate and present the recording techniques used and
the plans to record spectrum further afield in the coming year.
[N.B.: A library of spectrum files will be available for attendees to copy!
Bring your own NTFS formatted USB drive (typically each file is 50GB or
greater) and you will experience how the bands sound in China, New Zealand,
Tasmania and both very remote and city locations in Australia. They will play
on a Windows PC with commercial (but free-of-charge) software.]
Fri. 1330
Coast to Coast - Geographically Enhanced Mediumwave Reception
Bill Whitaker
Things learned from experiencing DXpeditions to Grayland, WA and Lubec, ME over
the past 5 years. An overview, not initially technical in nature, but could
become so if such questions come up. Sound sample included!
Fri. 1445
Ultralight Mediumwave DXing
Gary Donnelly
It sure helps to have a great antenna farm and an expensive radio that dims the
lights in the neighborhood when turned on. But there is a group of SWLs who,
with small inexpensive radios, are using just the built-in ferrite or
telescoping antenna and are getting impressive performance. This talk with
introduce the attendee to the SWL niche knows as Ultralight Radio (ULR) and
discuss some amazing reception records obtained with these pocket-sized
receivers.
Fri. 1600
Crisis Radio
Michael a/k/a The Radio Professor
This forum will focus on radio as it sounds locally during crises--including
recordings and airchecks captured during natural disasters, terrorist attacks.
civil unrest, and the like.
They are intriguing as they offer a snapshot of immediate human emotions and
opinion, fresh and occasionally naïve, regarding some really serious stuff that
the reporters and presenters have really had no time on which to reflect.
Fri. 1900* (tentative – still awaiting confirmation)
Remote Receiver DXing
Bruce Churchill
Fri. 2015
Kicking It Old School - A Return to Regenerative Receivers
Skip Arey
A radio design at the very roots of RF Technology is experiencing a resurgence.
Learn about this classic circuit and how to use it to bring new excitement to
your SW listening.
Fri. 2130 - ?
The Annual Spectacular Shortwave Shindig with David Goren!
Saturday, 28 February 2015
Sat. 0830
The View from Europe
Risto Vahakainu
Reporting on the state of the hobby in Europe and in Finland. The impact of
SDRs will be noted as will the “Irish church listening” that is now popular in
Finland, the decreasing number of European MW stations, the statistics of
stations heard in Finland from NA, Asia, Pacific and other continents, along
with a look at the fantastic remote DX sites and “shacks” of northern Finland.
Sat. 0945
Scanner Session
Tom Swisher
(Further information forthcoming….maybe.)
Sat. 1100
Monitoring Dusty War Zones and Tropical Paradises - Being a Broadcast
Anthropologist
Mark Fahey
Mark presents a tour of his monitoring station, where 100's of thousands of
digital audio and video channels arrive into his home. He can listen to
domestic radio or watch the domestic television from most parts of the world.
Want to watch breakfast television from Tibet, or maybe the nightly news from
Wallis and Futuna - then it’s available in perfect studio quality. The
presentation also includes visits to remote broadcasters and examples of rare
and unedited video sent by journalists that capture the tragedies and joy
served up by our planet.
Sat. 1330
The Keeping of Time
Mark Phillips
With the ever-constant transfer of our hobby to digital modes, the keeping of
accurate time becomes crucial to preserve both audio quality and network
connectivity.
Topics covered will include an explanation of the difference between all the
usual time sources and why they are different, why you need an accurate time
base in the studio and why broadcasters need accurate time within their
broadcast networks.
Sat. 1445
Digital Sounds of HF - Recognizing Digital HF Signals: Eyes and Ears
Mike Ortiz
There are hundreds of different digital signals that you can encounter during
any scan through the HF bands. While you can spend thousands of dollars on
software that might identify a particular mode you are hearing, there’s still
an awful lot you can do with just your eyes and ears. We’ll take an interactive
audio-visual tour around shortwave and get acquainted with many different modem
signals, Over The Horizon RADARs, ionospheric sounders, ocean sensing systems
and various other digital oddities that can be heard today.
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