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The world's leading magazine for communications enthusiasts, Popular Communications has been the first choice for shortwave listeners, scanner monitors and other radio enthusiasts for nearly 30 years. Each monthly issue delivers a broad spectrum of the latest information of interest to communications hobbyists and professionals alike, in the fields of broadcasting, public service, ham radio, CB Radio, aviation and marine communications, clandestine and pirate radio and more.

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Current Issue Highlights

In February’s edition, Pop’Comm SWLing expert Gerry Dexter, WPC9GLD, takes readers on a safari to Africa, where the listening opportunities are as vast as the continent itself. ALSO: Gordon West, WPC6NOA, tells how FRS, GMRS and the Amateur Radio Service can work together to vastly improve emergency communications. Plus, Shannon’s Broadcast Classics unravels a radio Valentine’s mystery and Ham Horizons looks around the radio amateur’s shack and stresses safety is no accident.

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Coming Up...

Readers will get Part I of the restoration of a 1934 vintage Atwater Kent receiver, compliments of craftsman Manfred Mornhinweg. ALSO, Gordon West, WPC6NOA, shows readers a trio of radios and a battery-charger splitter that are new on the scene. Gerry Dexter, WPC9GLD, writes about the voices of opposition on the shortwaves and sky-wave expert Tomas Hood, WPC7USA, offers a primer on gray-line propagation.