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Popular Communications Magazine

The technical side of broadcasting. Think IBOC is a sham? Talk about it here! How about HDTV? Post DX reports here as well.
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Popular Communications Magazine

Post by Turkeytop » Wed May 22, 2019 3:39 pm

For those of you who were readers of Popular Communications, as I was, here is a link to a web site I found that has archived every single issue of the magazine, since it began in 1982, until it ceased publication in 2013.

Enjoy.

https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Po ... ations.htm


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Re: Popular Communications Magazine

Post by k8jd » Thu May 23, 2019 11:42 am

I liked reading that magazine, had some Good SWL reports,



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Re: Popular Communications Magazine

Post by CK-722 » Thu May 23, 2019 1:12 pm

You could spend every waking hour for 10 years and not even scratch the surface on WCCW alumnus David "Eduardo" Gleason's website.

https://www.americanradiohistory.com


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Re: Popular Communications Magazine

Post by Turkeytop » Thu May 23, 2019 9:03 pm

I want to go back through them to 2003 or 2004. There was an article showing how to receive weather FAXes that are broadcast on short wave and then decode them on your computer.

I downloaded the software for it and had some fun doing it. But, at some time, I lost everything I had on that computer. I want to find out again how I can get it.


Here is one of the charts I copied back then.





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Re: Popular Communications Magazine

Post by SolarMax » Thu May 23, 2019 11:09 pm

A free program called fldigi (fast light digital) from W1HKJ will decode and display WEFAX broadcasts, as well as dozens of other digital communications modes used in amateur radio, including Morse, RTTY, and PSK..
Documentation is pretty decent as well. Versions available for Windows, macOS, Linux.
download at w1hkj.com
online user manual at w1hkj.com/FldigiHelp/



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Re: Popular Communications Magazine

Post by Turkeytop » Fri May 24, 2019 8:41 pm

Thanks. That's the one. I remember it now.

Arnie Coro, who does a DX program on Radio Havana sometimes sends text messages that can be decoded with that.


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Re: Popular Communications Magazine

Post by k8jd » Sat May 25, 2019 2:24 pm

I have heard about the program FLDIGI bur never knew what all the letters meant !
Just not interested in Amateur Radio DIGI modes here.



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