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What's New on this Site!

What has changed!

AIS Decoder Added March 2010
Alinco DX-SR8T HF Transceiver (30 Khz-35 Mhz Receive)
Added November 2009
Anjan DTS-10 High End Portable LW/MW/SW Receiver (Link 1)
Added October 2009
Anjan DTS-10 High End Portable LW/MW/SW Receiver (Link 2) Added February 2010

Antennas US (USA)

Added April 2009

AOR AR-2300 40 Khz-3150 Mhz Computer Controlled Receiver
Added February 2010
AOR AR-5001 High End Wide Band (40 Khz-3150 Mhz) Communications Receiver
Added February 2010

AOR AR-7070 DSP Communications Receiver (Due Early 2010) Link 1

Added August 2008

AOR AR-7070 DSP Communications Receiver (Due Early 2010) Link 2

Added April 2009

AOR AR-7070 DSP Communications Receiver (Rough Sketch)

Added May 2009

Amesys HFR-30 Professional Receiver (198 Kb.pdf)

Added October 2009

At The Tone: A CD plus booklet celebrating HF TIME Signal Stations
Added February 2010
Aurora Virtual Radar
Added March 2010
Ausfreq (Radio Scanning) Added October 2009
BCL Home (Hobby website from P.R.of China) Added October 2009
CCRadiotech (Free Radio Scanner Control for Uniden UBC-3300, 780, 785) Updated November 2009
Chile Earthquake (March 2010): Ham (Amateur) Radio operators establish Communications
Added March 2010

CIAO Radio Loop Antenna L-101 0.1- 30 Mhz

Added January 2009

Cubic 3280 Professional Receiver (720 Kb pdf)

Added October 2009

Degen DE-1106 High End Portable Radio Receiver Added October 2009

Degen DE-1125 AM/FM/SW Portable Receiver with DSP, 2 Gig MP3 Player/Recorder USB

Added August 2009

Degen DE-15 FM MW SW 2.30-23.00 Mhz, 245 Memories

Added January 2009

Drake R8 Communications Receiver Modifications by DL7MAJ (Germany)

Added July 2009

DXtreme Reception Log (Shortwave Listening software)
Added March 2010
DZ ((Sienna) (Radio Receiver Transceiver Manufacturer)) Added November 2009
Ears to Our World (Charity that donates SW Radios)
Added November 2009

Five Below - Blog for owners of Perseus Software Defined Radio

Added September 2009

Fldigi Digital Decoder (CW, DominoEX, Feld-Hell, MFSK, MT-63, PSK-31, OLIVIA, RTTY and Thor.)

Added October 2009

Genesis Radio Software Defined Transceiver Kits (Australia) Added December 2009
Gre PSR-700 Analogue Portable Trunking Scanner Added January 2010

Grintek Ewation MRR-8000 Professional Receiver

Added September 2009

Grundig Eton Satellit 750 LW/MW/SW/AIR Receiver Link 3

Added February 2009

Haiti (January 2010) Earthquake: HF (Shortwave) to the rescue again!
Added January 2010

Hagenuk_HF3000 Professional Receiver (361 Kb pdf)

Added October 2009

Ham (Amateur) Radio Resource Guide Added March 2010
Hilberling PT-8000 High End Radio Transceiver (Due Mid 2010)
Added February 2010

Icom IC-9100 HF/VHF/UHF DSP Transceiver

Added August 2009

Icom R-6 Wide Band Portable Radio Scanner (Due 2010)
Added January 2010

JVComm (Weather Fax, Synop, Sstv and Navtex Decoder)

Added September 2009

Kchibo KK-6110 DSP Portable Radio Receiver Added October 2009

Kchibo D96L DSP 900 Memories Portable Radio Receiver

Added August 2009

Kozitsky R-397P2-215 Professional Receiver

Added October 2009

Marine Traffic (World Wide AIS-Greece)

Added September 2009

McFarland Publishing (Canada)

Added September 2009

MFJ-8310 200 Memories Conventional Scanner

Added October 2009

MFJ-8322 Hand Held 1000 Memories Trunking Scanner

Added October 2009

Monitoring Matters (On-line only magazine) Added November 2009
MP Antennas (Wide Band VHF/UHF Antennas)
Added October 2009
N4PY  (Receiver and Transceiver Control) Updated March 2010

OH1SDR Software Defined Receiver (Requires SDR Hardware)

Updated February 2009

On-Line Icom R-75 Shortwave Receiver via EI7DAR (Ireland) Added February 2010
On-Line Software Defined Receiver (Mainly Amateur Radio Freq & Requires Java)
Added February 2010

Palstar LA30 110-7500 Khz Receiving Ferrite Loop Antenna

Added June 2009

Radio Dust Covers
Added December 2009
Radio Shack Pro-107 iScan Analogue Computer Programmed Trunking Scanner Added November 2009

Rapidm.RM6 Professional Receiver.(640 Kb pdf)

Added October 2009

Raremono USB MW/SW/FM Radio Receiver (Very basic USB receiver) Added December 2009

Reuter-Elektronik RDR54 1 Khz- 30 Mhz Communications Receiver

Added June 2009

Rig Reference (Radio Scanners, Receivers and Transceivers)

Added April 2009

Rohde & Schwarz EK4100AD SDR DSP Professional Receiver -Transceiver (2.75 Mb pdf)

Added September 2009

Rohde & Schwarz EM510 Professional Receiver (258 Kb pdf)

Added October 2009

Sangean ATS-909X High End Portable Shortwave Receiver

Added August 2009

Scanner Museum (Radio Scanner Photos)

Added May 2009

Shortwave Central Blog Spot (SW Info & News)

Added October 2009

Sienna SF-100 HF Communications Receiver (500 Khz to 30 Mhz) Added November 2009
Sienna SF-100 Series HF Transceiver (500 Khz to 30 Mhz) Added November 2009

Solar Cycle 24 (Space Weather) (Canada)

Updated January 2009

SRL QuickSilver QS1R VERB Software Defined Receiver

Added April 2009

Sunair RT-8100 SDR 100 Khz -60 Mhz Communications Receiver-Transceiver (1.2 Mb pdf)

Added September 2009

Tecsun PL-360 DSP Portable Receiver with built in MW loop antenna
Added January 2010
Tecsun PL-380 DSP Portable Receiver Added October 2009

Thales MSN-8100 SDR Professional Receiver-Transceiver (530 Kb pdf)

Added September 2009

Thales TRC 2556 VLF LF Professional Receiver

Added October 2009

Thales TMR-6100 Professional Receiver (655 Kb pdf)

Added October 2009

Uniden BC-346XT Trunking 25-1300 Mhz Analogue Scanner

Added August 2009

Uniden BC-355C Analogue Scanner
Added November 2009

Uniden.BCD-996XT Mobile Radio Scanner

Added May 2009

Uniden BCT-15X Trunking Radio Scanner

Added July 2009

USSR/CCCP Portable Radios (Many Photos - Site 01)

Added May 2009

USSR/CCCP Portable Radios (Many Photos - Site 02) Added May 2009
Vega RP-007 Russian Army issue Shortwave Receiver Added February 2010
Web SDR On Line Radio Receivers (Mainly Amateur Radio and requires Java)
Added February 2010
WSPR: Weak Signal Propagation Reporter (Software)
Added November 2009
WiNRADiO WR-G31DDC "EXCALIBUR" Receiver (9 Khz to 50 Mhz + 50 Mhz wide real time analyzer)
Added December 2009

WiNRADiO WSS-420 HRPT-CHRPT Weather Satellite System

Added October 2009

Yaesu FTDX-5000MP HF Transceiver
Added November 2009

Yaesu FTM-350 Wide Band Receive/Transceiver (Due 2010)

Added September 2009

Yaesu VR-160 Wide Band Receiver (0.1 -1299.990 Mhz) Added November 2009

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