Excellent-looking tentative schedule. Thanks, John & Rich!
Only 35 days to go...
-Ed Cummings
At 09:50 PM 1/24/2017, John Figliozzi wrote:
2017 WINTER SWL FEST EVENTS AND FORUMS SCHEDULE
(As of 24 January 2017. Tentative and Subject to Change)
Thursday, 2 March 2017
1200 Registration Table and Exhibit Room Open (until 1700)
1300 Broadcast Towers I've Known and
Photographed" Scott Fybush provides a visual
tour of broadcast transmitter sites including
several shortwave facilities hes had the privilege of visiting lately.
1430 Radio on the Road Once again, travel
the world of radio with Janice Laws and Steve
Karlock in this popular continuing Fest series.
Janice has now visited 84 countries and made many
recordings and videos of local stations shes
heard during her travels. Including hot tips on
how to make the most of your vacations and radio
listening hobby, updated for this 30th Fest!
1600 Getting Started with RTL-SDR - RTL-SDR
refers to a class of hardware devices based upon
a particular DVB-T CODFM demodulator with a USB
interface. While designed to receive off air
digital television outside of the US ATSC system,
hobbyists have found for several years that it
makes for a great receiver for VHF and up. Dan
Srebnick covers how to get started with free(ly)
available software, and describes some
interesting uses of this low-cost receiver platform.
1700 Dinner on Your Own
1930 Registration Table and Exhibit Room Re-Open (until 2100)
Hospitality Room and Receiver Demonstrations Open (until 2400)
2000 Radio 101 - The Past, Present and Future
of Radio for Newbies and Significant Others of
Radio Geeks" -- Charles Hargrove introduces the
uninitiated to the history and science of radio,
describing what is out there to hear and what new
developments are on the horizon. From shortwave
to scanners, satellite TV to covert
communications, there is much to receive and view
the world without having to wait for "film at 11" from your local news outlet.
Friday, 3 March 2017
0800 Registration Table Opens (until 1200)
Exhibit Room Opens (all day)
0830 Whats Up at RFA< Our good friend,
Radio Free Asia Program and Operations Support
Director AJ Janitschek, returns with a report on
how RFA is faring in its efforts to provide
reliable news and information to Asian nations
lacking free media. Hell also unveil a little
surprise for DXers on the occasion of the 30th Fest!
0930 Internet DXing -- Radio listening is
changing. We can now stream global broadcasters
and those former tropical band stations on our
smartphones, tablets and desktop
computers. However, there are many stations that
the big aggregators like TuneIn, vTuner and
Shoutcast miss in their postings. Tracy Wood
demonstrates how to hunt down those illusive
Internet DX targetp 'H\Ú[ÈÙX\Ú[Ú[\ËSY\@ves,
packet sniffers, scripts and online geospatial
tools The Joy of DXing truly has returned, albeit its now Internet-style!
1100 "Pirate Radio Year in Review" George
Zeller leads our annual discussion of the year in
pirate radio--oriented both toward veteran pirate
DXers and also newcomers to this aspect of the
radio hobby--including official announcement of
the 2017 class of inductees into the North American Pirate Radio Hall of Fame.
1200 Lunch on Your Own
Hospitality Room and Receiver Demonstrations Open (until 1330)
1315 Registration Table Re-Opens (until 1500)
1330 Going Digital: Better Scanning in the
21st Century -- Tom Swisher leads our annual
session devoted exclusively to scanners where
up-to-date methods for scanning modern
communication systems will be demonstrated and discussed.
1500 Farewell to the BBG: What's Ahead for
U.S. International Media and the VOA8
'HKHKËÛÝ\@ent-funded media -- VOA, RFE/RL,
RFA, Radio/TV Marti, and MBN -- are all impacted
by legislation signed by Barack Obama in one of
his final acts as president. Our good friend and
former VOA White House, Congressional and Foreign
Correspondent Dan Robinson reviews recent events
and offers his views on where things are headed.
1630 "Defining Radio in Software -- Mark
Phillips provides a 1000 mile viet 'HÙÚ]Ñ
ÛÙØ\HY[YY[ÊHis, what it does, how we use it
all the time without realizing and why it's
really quite a significant milestone in SWLing.
1730 Dinner on Your Own
Hospitality Room and Receiver Demonstrations Open (until 2400)
1900 Informal Radio Swap Meet Starts (in the Exhibit Room)
2000 Zenith Long Distance Radil &H@nd the
Highway to DXing -- The early (1919-1925) work
of Zenith Radio Corporation poured gasoline on
the flames of early DXing and helped spread the
fire to the masses. With a description like that,
there has to be an interesting story in there
somewhere and Harold Dr. DX Cones, one of the
notorious Gang of Three who invented the Fest, is just the one to tell it.
2115 THE ANNUAL SHORTWAVE SHINDIG! David
Goren. (Description pending; will include a live
broadcast via WRMI Radio Miami International, times and frequency TBD.)
Saturday, 4 March 2017
0800 Registration Table Opens (until 1000)
Exhibit Room Opens (all day)
0830 SWLing in Japan: Past, Present and Future
We are pleased to welcome once again our friend
Toshimichi Ohtaké, joined this year by Sakaé
Obara, representing Japan Shortwave Club (JSWC)
and discussing the current state of the hobby
there. SWLing was very popular among teenagers
in the country during 1970s-1980s, and that influences the hobby still today.
0945 FM Broadcast DXing Russ Edmunds (description pending)
1000 Silent Auction Opens (location TBA)
1100 "Pirate Radio in Continental Europe - A
Personal View Andy Walker returns with Chris
Ise, who have crossed the pond to discuss the
free radio scene in Europe of the last 25 years.
Chris has operated 'pirate station' Crazy Wave
Radio (CWR) for around 24 years and was one of
the main organizers of Level 48, a network of
European pirate operators broadcasting on public
holidays in the mid-90s. He was also involved
with the infamous Radio San Marino broadcast of
1998. In 1999 he was part of the crew on
Offshore 98, the last illegal broadcast station
from the North Sea. He will be more well known
to American DXers as the 'DJ' voice of Mystery
Radio which broadcast on 6220khz a few years ago.
He has visited most of the major pirate stations
throughout Europe over the years and has many
photos, plus some video footage of their set ups.
We are honored that they chose to join us for the 30th.
1200 Lunch on Your Own
Hospitality Room and Receiver
Demonstrations Open (until 2400 or later)
1330 Espionage and Numbers Stations: Behind
the Numbers We're all familiar with "numbers
stations", which have broadcast, encoded messages
to spies since the start of the cold war. Web
sites have been devoted to cataloging the
broadcasts, which appear to originate from almost
every major (and many minor!) world powers. But
who actually are these numbers stations intended
for? Matt Blaze will examine (declassified) spy
cases, how numbers stations have been used, how
the messages are encoded (and why it's considered
both secure and practical), how they sometimes
fail, and why they've endured for so long.
1500 Collective Intelligence, Augmented Technologies and Super-Dark Denim --
We lament that as a breed we are dying out. Radio
Australia has gone, interference is high and
Norway is switching off all of its FM
transmitters - for good! With such decay surely
this must be the time of Armageddon. Actually, no
says Mark Fahey who honors us again by returning
from Oz for the 30th. Never before has so much
been happening, he argues. There is a tsunami of
super-dark denim wearing people, with cool
haircuts using our receivers and antennas in
amazing ways. Their ideas leverage a blend of
technologies and there now are many thousands of
SDRs deployed on the planet doing all types of
cool things. The range of applications is
amazing. This presentation will be a real
eye-opener to the power of low cost shortwave
radios and their amazing application when
augmented with other datasets and technologies.
1630 Silent Auction Ends
Exhibit Room Closes
1800 Cocktail Party
1830 Annual Banquet
Keynote Speaker: Thomas
J. Skip Arey, N2EI -- ARRL
Southern
NJ Section Manager and Author of Radio
Monitoring:
A How To Guide and longtime contributor to
various
radio-related publications.
Topic: A 30 Year Retrospective of the Fest
2100 The Raffle
2400 The Midnight Ride of Pancho Villa (
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