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Lots of stuff to look through. Thanks!

Is there anything you can do about making more time available, to actually read these things? :)

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Lots of stuff to look through. Thanks!

Is there anything you can do about making more time available, to actually read these things? :)

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Absolutely, my pleasure, what's your bosses phone number? ;)
 

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For those of you who want to go beyond back issues (which in itself is great fun) here is a link to a current magazine that covers all things in the monitoring world. Enjoy.

The Spectrum Monitor
While it's appreciated, I'm not sure we need to include magazines that people can see in any ad online and have to pay for. I don't want this thread to fill up with a bunch of links to current items requiring payment.

The point of my post was to bring back some memories for people and do it for free.... but thank you.
 

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I have a subscription to the Spectrum Monitor but to tell you the truth, it just isn't the same as those glossies in your mailbox every month. Reading through those archives sure does bring back memories. Sitting here going 'oh I used to have one of those' or 'yup, I had that radio' etc etc. I think I bought just about every scanner accessory Bob Grove had to offer. I still have his Grove TUN4 hf preamplifier/selector altho it is dormant. He used to sell an audio speaker filter accessory called the Grove SP200, basically a speaker with filter adjustments enclosed in a handsome wood cabinet. I sure wish I could find one of those on eBay one of these days, I'd jump on that thing like a duck on a junebug.

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Well, I bought and paid for the CD-Rom of "Monitoring times" (1999 - 2013)

Guess it's good that's "Free" now
 

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I have a subscription to the Spectrum Monitor but to tell you the truth, it just isn't the same as those glossies in your mailbox every month. Reading through those archives sure does bring back memories. Sitting here going 'oh I used to have one of those' or 'yup, I had that radio' etc etc. I think I bought just about every scanner accessory Bob Grove had to offer. I still have his Grove TUN4 hf preamplifier/selector altho it is dormant. He used to sell an audio speaker filter accessory called the Grove SP200, basically a speaker with filter adjustments enclosed in a handsome wood cabinet. I sure wish I could find one of those on eBay one of these days, I'd jump on that thing like a duck on a junebug.

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My OMG moment in all that was seeing and being reminded of the converter I bought from Grove to allow me to hear military air band on my regular VHF air band scanner... and I had several of his scanner beams.

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I used to subscribe to '73' back in the 70's and 80's before it got so expensive to mail magazines from the US to NZ. Wayne didn't have many kind words for the ARRL! Some great construction items - and I remember a great programme that I keyed in to my Commodore 64 that worked out bearings for a beam given the callsign of the other guy, told you his location and the local time and I think it gave some propagation info too.
 

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I used to subscribe to '73' back in the 70's and 80's before it got so expensive to mail magazines from the US to NZ. Wayne didn't have many kind words for the ARRL! Some great construction items - and I remember a great programme that I keyed in to my Commodore 64 that worked out bearings for a beam given the callsign of the other guy, told you his location and the local time and I think it gave some propagation info too.

Yes, early on 73 was approx 175 pages and eventually dwindled down to 68 pages before shutting the windows. QST today has maybe one tech article in it and the "The doctor is in" section and the rest is an infomercial/ads... 73 had 10-20 tech articles PER MONTH.. it's pathetic what's become of ham radio magazines... they don't deserve to exist sadly.
 

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He used to sell an audio speaker filter accessory called the Grove SP200, basically a speaker with filter adjustments enclosed in a handsome wood cabinet. I sure wish I could find one of those on eBay one of these days, I'd jump on that thing like a duck on a junebug.
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Sorry, this is the best I can do for you. :)

GROVE SP200 SOUND ENHANCER SPEAKER OPERATING MANUAL (COPY) Free Shipping | eBay

It sure is pretty though.... and watch, boy does it work great, I'd buy one too.


 
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Yeah, to me at that time, I thought the SP200 was the ultimate dedicated shortwave speaker. I had one for over 10 years that I used with a Drake R8. That speaker sounds as good as any Bose I've heard that are the same size and specs. When I sold the Drake, the guy was adamant, he wouldn't buy the R8 w/out the SP200 so I threw it in there, something done in the heat of a move that was a later regret. That is one cool speaker. Ahhh...thanks for the memories...
 

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Yeah, to me at that time, I thought the SP200 was the ultimate dedicated shortwave speaker. I had one for over 10 years that I used with a Drake R8. That speaker sounds as good as any Bose I've heard that are the same size and specs. When I sold the Drake, the guy was adamant, he wouldn't buy the R8 w/out the SP200 so I threw it in there, something done in the heat of a move that was a later regret. That is one cool speaker. Ahhh...thanks for the memories...

I wouldn't stress, one of those videos is someone demo'ing it for an ebay ad so set an alert on ebay to notify you when one pops up.

No problem, glad to help.... a friend I lent money to for breast implants said that to me today as well..... "thanks for the mammories".. small world... I think that's what she said, sucks getting old. :)
 

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I suspect a bidding war? (I don’t need one, but I wish I had one to ebay ;-) )
 

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Notice the spelling on the video titles... Gove and SP 200, they both got the names wrong so make sure to check all your possible name scew ups when you look on ebay
 

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Yes, early on 73 was approx 175 pages and eventually dwindled down to 68 pages
I also liked the early '73 as well as some of Wayne's other publications. Plenty of variety for all levels of interest. Also amusing was Wayne's continued needling of the ARRL.

Thanks for taking me down memory lane with those links!
 

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Great posts about past magazines. How about S9 magazine for CB'ers? That was another of Tom Kneitel's publications, those were great too. I subscribed to that in the early 70's when CB was becoming the early form of social media. Another one was Ham Radio Horizons although it didn't have as long a life as other ham magazines.

Here's another - Ham Trader Yellow Sheets, a periodical typed on yellow paper that was mailed to subscribers looking for used ham equipment. Back then buying/selling was conducted by mail or over the phone.

Great memories, thanks for all the comments.
 

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Great posts about past magazines. How about S9 magazine for CB'ers? That was another of Tom Kneitel's publications, those were great too. I subscribed to that in the early 70's when CB was becoming the early form of social media. Another one was Ham Radio Horizons although it didn't have as long a life as other ham magazines.
A number of S9 issues can be found at S9 CB RADIO MAGAZINE INDEX and Ham Radio Horizons Magazine : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive has most all Ham Radio Horizons. I grabbed PDFs of most of my w2xq.com Bibliography writings from the websites given in this thread. HTH.
 
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