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Well, I’ll admit that it’s been a while since we last sat down and compiled our survey results, so let’s get right down to business. First, our sincere thanks to the hundreds of you who have taken the time to fill out the survey card every month, spending your own money on the postage and waiting patiently for me to report the results. It’s been quite busy since early summer—putting ideas together for the 20th Anniversary Contest and working on my new antenna “farm” (a fantastic two-element Yagi by Fluidmotion which we’ll be talking about soon) and, well, you know how it goes! Naturally we need to know your basic radio interests, from monitoring your local police and fire departments to tuning international shortwave—it’s the core of the coverage in Pop’Comm. Sixty-one percent of you reported that listening to international shortwave broadcasters is your primary interest, while the main focus of your radio activity remains scanning, specifically scanning public safety (police, fire and medical), followed by civilian aircraft (40 percent of the respondents), scanning military aircraft (26 percent), and rail comms (25 percent). Interestingly, about one-fourth of you report being interested in pirate radio broadcasts (despite some of the rather irate letters we sometimes get about pirates). We believe—and your survey responses confirm this—that if it’s out there on the radio, you want to hear it. It certainly doesn’t mean you’re about to open up a pirate station! |
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