Listening On The Short Waves, 1945 To Today And Broadcasting On The Short Waves, 1945 To Today

摘要

In Listening on the Short Waves, 1945 to Today and its companion Broadcasting on the Short Waves, 1945 to Today, author Jerome Berg has created a rich trove of information unlike any I've seen to date. I must confess to being more than a little biased when it comes to the topic of short wave listening. Like many veteran hams, I found my way to Amateur Radio through the fascination of monitoring short wave broadcast stations. My first radio was a decrepit Hallicrafters S-40B that I used to eavesdrop on short wave powerhouses such as Radio Moscow. (In my parents' home, listening to Radio Moscow at the height of the Cold War was something akin to sneaking out behind the garage to smoke a cigarette-fascinating, yet risky.)