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The Radio Society of Great Britain Members' magazine is sent free every month to Members of the Radio Society of Great Britain.

RadCom has the largest amateur radio readership in the UK and is respected throughout the World.

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News & Reports

6          RSGB Matters
"Where has the year gone?" asks RSGB General Manager
Peter Kirby, G0TWW

10        News
All the amateur radio news.

11        Club News

61        Sport Radio Round-up. Winter 2008

98        Index 2008


Features

14        Centenary at No. 23
Giles Read, G1MFG visits a very unusual radio museum.

51      AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2008
Trevor Hawkins, M5AKA reports on the events at the University of Surrey last summer.

59        Understanding Propagation
Steve Nichols, G0KYA reveals more of the ionosphere’s secrets.

Technical Features

51        Homebrew
Eamon Skelton, EI9GQ gets back to basics with a couple of very simple projects to build.

46        Electricity, Meters and a few green thoughts
John Pink, G8MM discusses the possibility of erroneous electricity readings and interference.

48        SDR
Steve Ireland, VK6VZ and Phil Harman, VK6APH look into state-of-the-art SDR hardware for their final column.

86        Experiments with a Regenerative Receiver
David Sumner, G3PVH describes how a burst of nostalgia resulted in building a valve project.

78        In Practice
Ian White, GM3SEK deals with earth contacts and good RF shielding.

 
Front cover image:Paul Reiter, WY7I, lives in Colorado at 8300ft elevation in the shadow of the San Juan Mountains. He has installed a US Towers HDX-572 72ft tower with a Cushcraft 2-el 40m beam and a 4-el SteppIR beam. The cover shows the tower and antennas a few months after installation – it turned out to be the hardest winter locals can remember. Paul says the installation has proved to be an excellent system for working DX.
 
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Reviews

42        DV Dongle
Mike Richards, G4WNC explores what happens when you connect the DV Dongle to the international D-Star gateway network.

76        Book Review
Whether it’s antennas or the ‘magic band’ of 6m that interest you, there are new books to add to your Christmas list.

Regulars

26        Antennas, Peter Dodd, G3LDO
100      Club Calendar
90        Data, Andy Talbot, G4JNT
24        EMC, David Lauder, G0SNO
41        IOTA, Martin Atherton, G3ZAY
38        GHz bands, Sam Jewell, G4DDK
32        HF, Don Field, G3XTT
39        LF, Dave Pick, G3YXM
104      Members Ads , Silent Keys,
           Rallies & Events, GB Calls and Congratulations
86        Propagation, Gwyn Williams, G4KFH, Helplines
42        QRP, George Dobbs, G3RJV
78        Sport Radio, Tim Kirby, G4VXE
108      The Last Word
34        VHF/UHF, Norman Fitch, G3FPK




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Readers are also reminded that the use of radio transmission and reception equipment (including scanning) is subject to licensing and the erection of external aerials may be subject to local authority planning regulations.

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