A recent order from Grove Enterprises included a copy of the July, 2004
Monitoring Times. I have been a subscriber of Pop Com, since it used to be
Popular Electronics, so how's that for aging oneself. Monitoring Times is
impossible to get at any local store that sells magazines, in my midwest
location. I must say that unless this edition of Monitoring Times was an
exception, I liked it a lot more than Pop Com. I am interested in knowing what
my fellow SWL's feel about The Monitoring Times, and is it worth the extra
expense, when compared to Pop Com? Good DXing to you, Gary.

Kachina 78 wrote:
A recent order from Grove Enterprises included a copy of the July, 2004
Monitoring Times. I have been a subscriber of Pop Com, since it used to be
Popular Electronics, so how's that for aging oneself. Monitoring Times is
impossible to get at any local store that sells magazines, in my midwest
location. I must say that unless this edition of Monitoring Times was an
exception, I liked it a lot more than Pop Com. I am interested in knowing what
my fellow SWL's feel about The Monitoring Times, and is it worth the extra
expense, when compared to Pop Com? Good DXing to you, Gary.

Well, I'm biased but I certainly prefer MT!

Seriously I think the shortwave section is very well organized and
readable, and Glenn Hauser's shortwave news always very informative.
(it's the first thing I read, even before my own columng!) The
station profiles are always interesting, and the news items up front are
well done and readable.

It's difficult to keep anything specialized in the local stores, and
since MT is the only magazine Grove publishes it's that much harder.
(PopCom is - or at least was, last I looked - co-owned with the ham
magazine CQ)
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com
("American Bandscan" editor, MT...)

I subscribe to both MT & Pop Comm although I like them for different things.
MT is more useful for the SWLer as a frequency guide but I really like the
restoration articles in Pop Comm. I'm not (yet at least) into all the
scanner stuff they both offer but I still read much of it to have an idea of
what its all about. Since you asked specifically about SWLing, I would have
to choose Monitoring Times.

My general information for sw listening consists primarily of Monitoring
Times, Passport To World Band Radio and Prime Time Shortwave. I tend to be a
program listener rather than hard core DXer and these three sources
generally provide the bulk of the info I need. Additionally I visit the
websites of the major stations I listen to and print out their frequency
listings...that's useful for, say, being able to find a listenable BBC
signal at any hour of the day or night.

Other listeners with different interests can recommend other sources of info
for serious DXing, utility monitoring, listening to HAMS and stuff like
that.

Jay

"Kachina 78" wrote in message
...
A recent order from Grove Enterprises included a copy of the July, 2004
Monitoring Times. I have been a subscriber of Pop Com, since it used to be
Popular Electronics, so how's that for aging oneself. Monitoring Times is
impossible to get at any local store that sells magazines, in my midwest
location. I must say that unless this edition of Monitoring Times was an
exception, I liked it a lot more than Pop Com. I am interested in knowing
what
my fellow SWL's feel about The Monitoring Times, and is it worth the extra
expense, when compared to Pop Com? Good DXing to you, Gary.

I like them both; usually look at the covers & what equipment reviews /
articles they have;

Great graphics on MT...
& more frequencies..

Dan / NYC


In article ,
(Kachina 78) writes:

Subject: Monitoring Times vs. Popular Communications?
From: (Kachina 78)
Date: 31 Oct 2004 07:16:59 GMT

A recent order from Grove Enterprises included a copy of the July, 2004
Monitoring Times. I have been a subscriber of Pop Com, since it used to be
Popular Electronics, so how's that for aging oneself. Monitoring Times is
impossible to get at any local store that sells magazines, in my midwest
location. I must say that unless this edition of Monitoring Times was an
exception, I liked it a lot more than Pop Com. I am interested in knowing
what
my fellow SWL's feel about The Monitoring Times, and is it worth the extra
expense, when compared to Pop Com? Good DXing to you, Gary.

Kachina 78 wrote:

A recent order from Grove Enterprises included a copy of the July, 2004
Monitoring Times. I have been a subscriber of Pop Com, since it used to be
Popular Electronics,

Pop Com was never Popular Electronics. Popular Electronics became Computers and
Electronics.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

In article , kachina78
@aol.com says...
A recent order from Grove Enterprises included a copy of the July, 2004
Monitoring Times. I have been a subscriber of Pop Com, since it used to be
Popular Electronics, so how's that for aging oneself. Monitoring Times is
impossible to get at any local store that sells magazines, in my midwest
location. I must say that unless this edition of Monitoring Times was an
exception, I liked it a lot more than Pop Com. I am interested in knowing what
my fellow SWL's feel about The Monitoring Times, and is it worth the extra
expense, when compared to Pop Com? Good DXing to you, Gary.


Pop Comm has been, IMO a total waste for years. I subscribed to Pop Comm
from the first issue to about 1997 or so, MT is better in every way, but
the paper it's printed on maybe.

Pop Comm never saw a radio they didn't give a good review to.

BDK

(Kachina 78) wrote in message ...
A recent order from Grove Enterprises included a copy of the July, 2004
Monitoring Times. I have been a subscriber of Pop Com, since it used to be
Popular Electronics, so how's that for aging oneself. Monitoring Times is
impossible to get at any local store that sells magazines, in my midwest
location. I must say that unless this edition of Monitoring Times was an
exception, I liked it a lot more than Pop Com. I am interested in knowing what
my fellow SWL's feel about The Monitoring Times, and is it worth the extra
expense, when compared to Pop Com? Good DXing to you, Gary.

MT is an excellant radio mag, and an additional attraction, of you
prefer is -- you can subscribe to the internet version which is
downloaded as a pdf file. You can burn a year's worth of MT issues to
one CD. Really saves on space!

Thanks to all for the comeback. I had a chance to read through the entire copy
of Monitoring Times since my post, and I have to agree it has a lot more to
offer SWL's. Good DXing to you, Gary

Kachina 78 wrote:

A recent order from Grove Enterprises included a copy of the July, 2004
Monitoring Times. I have been a subscriber of Pop Com, since it used to be
Popular Electronics, so how's that for aging oneself. Monitoring Times is
impossible to get at any local store that sells magazines, in my midwest
location. I must say that unless this edition of Monitoring Times was an
exception, I liked it a lot more than Pop Com. I am interested in knowing what
my fellow SWL's feel about The Monitoring Times, and is it worth the extra
expense, when compared to Pop Com? Good DXing to you, Gary.


I subscribe to Monitoring Times, Popular Communications, Listening In
and the Messenger. (In addition to the HAM magazines).

If taxes keep increasing, and I have to make a choice, Monitoring Times
will be the last to go. For my money it covers more subjects in more
depth and the content tends to be more current.

Dave

I am interested in knowing what
my fellow SWL's feel about The Monitoring Times, and is it worth the extra
expense, when compared to Pop Com? Good DXing to you, Gary.

You've got to hand it to Monitoring Times -- even though it's published by
Grove, and you would expect a serious conflict of interest to slant their
equipment reviews -- their equipment reviews remain very objective. I
prefer to use MT's program guide over any other source, in particular,
Passport.