Hi John Once again I will be making my "every 5 year trek" to the Winterfest. I will be bringing along with me a hi def video shot via a drone from the VE6JY Don Moman antenna farm. One is a short 10 minute version and then a longer 1 hour video that I plan to show on a continuous basis at the CIDX table. You might want to think about using the short version before some of the presentations while people enter the room. It would look real good on the big screen. We can talk more about it when I get there. Looking forward to seeing everyone.
73 Mick On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 2:50 AM, John Figliozzi <[email protected]> wrote: > The first iteration is up on the swlfest.com web site. Be advised that > this schedule is tentative and subject to change. A less annotated version > appears below. > > ———————————— > > 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 he’s 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 she’s 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 “What’s 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. He’ll 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 targets” using search engines, HTML deep dives, packet > sniffers, scripts and online geospatial tools The “Joy of DXing” truly has > returned, albeit it’s 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 VOA?” -- U.S. government-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 view” of what SDR (software defined radio) is, 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 Radio’ and 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 (?) > > _______________________________________________ > Swlfest mailing list > [email protected] > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-request@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 >
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