THE LISTENING POST
A QSL from past pirate Radio Merlin International. Cool as long as he doesn’t trip over his beard hooking up Rudolph.
~ The mainland Chinese seem to be moving away from labeling their domestic services numerically. Instead of CNR-1 through 17, they’re being given actual names. Thus, CNR-2 has evolved into China Business Radio; CNR-7 becomes Greater Bay Area Radio; CNR-14 the Voice of Hong Kong, and so on. Maybe someday a wizard will come along and sort it all out; for now, it won’t be me.
~ Now that we’ve reached December, things seem to have gone quiet in the GLD shack. Except… comes now another new book by a longtime SWBC DXer. Bruce Churchill has authored , , a two-part story about listening to exotic radio stations on the shortwave bands. Essentially a beginner’s guide, it deals with the whats, whys, and wherefores of shortwave. In Part Two, Churchill offers examples of
