Popular Communications

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'''Popular Communications''' is a monthly printed magazine based in the United States. The magazine, sometimes called "Pop'Comm", covers shortwave listening and DXing, scanners, mediumwave broadcasting as well as utility stations, pirates and clandestines.  
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'''Popular Communications''' was a monthly printed magazine based in the United States between 1982 and 2013. The magazine, sometimes called "Pop'Comm", covered shortwave listening and DXing, scanners, mediumwave broadcasting as well as utility stations, pirates and clandestines.  
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The magazine is produced by [[CQ Communications]]. They have published since 1982, and replaced the earlier ''S9'' magazine which was published from the early 1960s until 1982.  [[Tom Kneitel]] edited both magazines during their heyday.
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The magazine was produced by [[CQ Communications]]. They started publishing it in 1982, and replaced the earlier ''S9'' magazine which was published from the early 1960s until 1982.  [[Tom Kneitel]] edited both magazines during their heyday.
Columns of interest include:
Columns of interest include:
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* "Clandestine Communique", with [[clandestine]] loggings
* "Clandestine Communique", with [[clandestine]] loggings
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The magazine in the past has run several articles on the [[Spy Numbers Stations]] phenomenon, some of them authored by [[Havana Moon]].
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The magazine has run several articles on the [[Spy Numbers Stations]] phenomenon, some of them authored by [[Havana Moon]].
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They announced in December 2013 that the print edition of the magazine will be discontinued.  Popular Communications will continue as an electronic supplement to ''CQ'' magazine.
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They announced in December 2013 that the print edition of the magazine would be discontinued.  Popular Communications continued for a while as an electronic supplement to ''CQ'' magazine.
==Website==
==Website==

Latest revision as of 07:22, 12 November 2017

PopCom sample cover.jpg

Popular Communications was a monthly printed magazine based in the United States between 1982 and 2013. The magazine, sometimes called "Pop'Comm", covered shortwave listening and DXing, scanners, mediumwave broadcasting as well as utility stations, pirates and clandestines.

The magazine was produced by CQ Communications. They started publishing it in 1982, and replaced the earlier S9 magazine which was published from the early 1960s until 1982. Tom Kneitel edited both magazines during their heyday.

Columns of interest include:

  • "Pirates Den", with shortwave pirate loggings
  • "Clandestine Communique", with clandestine loggings

The magazine has run several articles on the Spy Numbers Stations phenomenon, some of them authored by Havana Moon.

They announced in December 2013 that the print edition of the magazine would be discontinued. Popular Communications continued for a while as an electronic supplement to CQ magazine.

Website

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