Monitoring Monthly June 2008

The Third Year of Best Selling Radio Listeners' Magazine!

In Your Local News Agents Now! The June issue on sale 13 May for 28 days. Or available direct via the MM webstore you can subscribe and buy many radio text books there too.

Volume 3 Issue 6!

What are your interests? New products, VHF/UHF, Broadcast or utility DX, satellite news feeds, Military communication and excercises, Earth observation satelites, airbands, data modes, space, Motor sport comms, news of what's happening in the radio arena around the world, then monitoringmonthly is the magazine to keep you informed.

This month in monitoringmonthly you can find the following.

• WIN RAF Waddington International Airshow Family Tickets - Worth £100 ea!
• MONEY SAVING OFFER - Save on RPF TalkSafe BlueTooth Handsfree
• Win Once Again With MM - Over £90 worth of prizes!
• Yet another free to enter competition.
• As reviewed in the August 2006 issue of monitoringmonthly, the Bearcat UBC72XLT, is on offer in our free prize draw.
• As we say - you can't WIN if you don't enter!

The Features Include:

• Review - eBay Purchased Classis JRC NRD-515 Evaluated
  Jack Weber continues his look at classic radios of yesteryear. eBay and other similar auction sites can provide a very useful source of hardware, that at one time, would have needed a mortgage to purchase. See whether Jack thinks this famous JRC offering is the radio to tempt you.
• Saving With MM - Special Offer
  You can save with MM when you buy an RPF Communications TalkSafe BlueTooth Handsfree unit as reviewed in MM August 2007.
• Chirpsounder?
  Every radio enthusiast is aware of propagation and its importance for the successful transfer of radio waves between the transmitter site and that of the receiver. Professional communication links mostly use frequencies where success is very likely. Jules Smith G0NZO, looks at how such users can be sure of the link.
• Scanning Update
  Dave Roberts provides both a light hearted and a serious view of the latest insight into the fascinating world of scanning and related subjects.
• Signals From Space - Part 17 Inmarsat Std D
  Alexander James has been away for a while, pursuing other orbiting objects. In this issue of monitoringmonthly, he continues his look at current Inmarsat systems in use and catches up with some other satellite news.
• Digital Radio Explained
  Kevin Ryan looks at the new schedule of DRM broadcasts, as he continues his regular look at the fascinating world of digital broadcast radio in the UK and around the world.
• Hands On With Hardy - Pixie In A Tin Transceiver
  Are you shy about construction and looking for a project to cut your building teeth on? Clive presents an ideal opportunity for such budding reluctant soldering iron wielders. The Pixie transceiver is perfect and is housed in a novel container begging to be recycled, in more ways than one...
• Mode-A-Month Part 2
  In preparation for our look at different transmission modes employed on the radio bands that MM readers can hear, Clive continues familiarising himself with a handy and affordable SDR tool, the RF Space SDR-IQ.
• Waddington 2008 Competition
  How would you like to visit this year's RAF Waddington International Air Show? Well, thanks to the generosity of the organisers and monitoringmonthly you could. Enter our prize draw and you could be the lucky winner of one of the two family tickets. 

Amongst the monthly regulars you'll find,

• Martin Peters - Readers' Logs & News - What MM readers have received.
• Andy Lyass - Flight Path - Our regular look at airbands and aviation, Mainly civil.
• Keith Hamer & Garry Smith - TV DX - All the latest TV news and reception reports from afar. 
• Dave Roberts - Scanning Update, the lastest
• Clive Hardy - Amateur Scene - A taste of amateur radio.
• Pat Carty - Ops Normal - The fascinating world of Mil-Coms, exercises and more, right from where the action happens! 
• Ben Hogan - HF Utility radio.
• Jacques d'Avignon - HF Propagation Forcast around the globe. 
• Paul Beaumont of ENIGMA 2000
• Greg Baker - Brings a quarterly look at the radio scene in Australia and South Pacific area.
• Roger Bunney - Satellites View - a regular look at  Clarke Belt News Feeds
• Tony Currie - A Broadcasters View - The perspective from the other side of the transmitter.

...to name but a few! Our aim is to be at the forefront of the hobby - and that's where you say we are!

Make sure you don't miss the next issue of monitoringmonthly! We've set about making sure that the best authorities in the hobby are writing for monitoringmonthly. Our massive 100 page issue is jam packed with radio essentials! In every issue, we provide practical wireless and radio advice from our knowledgable authors and whether you are just a radio user, or a keen enthusiast - MM has something for you!. Brought to you by the the team you can trust to bring you the very best!

You get much more with monitoringmonthly. Our downloadable PDF subscriptions for £29.95 per year or just £4.95 for subscribers to our paper version, are becoming very popular indeed! We continue to bring you the best radio magazine in the land! If you are looking for quality covereage of radio related subjects, then this is the place to be. The magazine of choice for real listening enthusiasts just keeps getting better. MM is the best selling and best loved radio listeners' magazine in the UK. Produced by the Team You Can Trust to bring you what you want!

Don't miss this exciting new radio magazine. Make sure that you keep an eye on the news stands for the current issue of Radio Communications Monitoring Monthly. If your favorite retailer can't find us, then tell them the ISSN 1747-7809. The magazine trade refer to us as 'Radio & Comm'.