![]() Bring your own personal experience and questions to share. What can you do and what can’t you do with these systems? The internet radio and international radio still live but they live inside the speaker. We will examine the impact of “smart speakers” on the listening experience. The quiz is open to anyone with the courage to participate.Ġ830 – HOW DO SMART SPEAKERS CHANGE YOUR LISTENING HABITS? – Rob deSantos In the end we will crown the first Winterfest Trivia King (or Queen!). How well do you know radio? AM, shortwave, utilities, transmitter sites, station names, call letters, frequencies, interval signals, radio personalities, program names, and more, we’ll have questions from all categories. Time permitting, he will start on loop phasing techniques.Ģ030 – THE 1st ANNUAL? WINTERFEST TRIVIA QUIZ – Sheldon Harvey This popular series resumes with Jef covering terminated loop theory and construction, along with some new (and old) toys for show and tell. ![]() MORE CHEAP FUN WITH RTL/SDR with Dan Srebnickġ645 – TERMINATED LOOP ANTENNAS – Jef Eichner double hop and equipment and technique tips. Instead of new states and provinces, we’re logging new countries! Includes video clips of single hop vs. Few US stations are using those channels now making DOUBLE-hop e-skip reception possible, something very few experienced before 2009 but a number of us in the northeast US and Canada have observed quite a few times now. TV DXing via sporadic e-skip and tropospheric propagation, from an historical perspective in the 50s-80s when there were many analog DX targets available in North Americ, to today’s low VHF (Channels 2-6) scenario. We’ll also give you some ideas on how to make use of a Raspberry Pi with the RTL stick, providing yet another source of cheap radio fun.ġ530 - THE GOLDEN AGE OF ANALOG TV DXING…IS NOW! - Rich McVicar We’ll hear how that works, along with a look at how to decode amateur APRS packet and display weather alerts on a map, and how to decode NextGen ATC on the cheap, without having to feed data to Flight Aware. You CAN decode FM IBOC, thanks to a researcher who figured out the protocol. Bring your own sangría.ġ415 - MORE CHEAP FUN WITH RTL/SDR – Dan Srebnickĭan follows up last year’s presentation by telling you what he got wrong. He’ll also reflect on DX climbs at the Rock of Gibraltar (UK) and Veleta, the third highest peak in Spain (11,142’). Included are slides from his tour and interview at Madrid’s Radio Exterior de España highlighting their amazing audio vault. From longwave to DAB, community radio to big national networks–even foreign language FM stations–it’s true that the Spanish dial remains impressive. Our own “fiestero” reflects on his trips to Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar experiencing the complicated radio scene there. THE IBERIAN BROADCASTING SCENE with Tracy Woodġ300 – THE IBERIAN BROADCASTING SCENE – Tracy Wood
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