Forums & Events
Quicksked
- Thursday – travelers arrive – hospitality room opens (pm).
- Friday – registration (am) – forums – exhibits – swap meet (pm).
- Saturday – forums – exhibits – silent auction – luncheon – banquet – raffle.
- Sunday – travelers depart.
2010 Winter SWL Fest Forums and Activities Schedule
All times EST.
The following schedule is the 2010 calendar of events. (Subject to change.)
Friday, March 5th
- Registration Table Open (Stockholm Room)
0815-1030 Fri. - Exhibit Area Open
Radio HF Sales, Demos, Club Tables
(closes promptly at 1600) - Announcements and Directions (Stockholm Room)
0850-0900 Fri. - Forums (see below) 0900-1145 Fri.
- Lunch on your own
1145-1330 Fri. - Hospitality Room open
1145-1330 Fri. - Registration Table Open (Stockholm Room)
1300-1400 Fri. - Announcements and Directions (Stockholm Room)
1320-1330 Fri. - Forums (see below) 1330-1730 Fri.
- Dinner on your own 1730-1930 Fri.
- Hospitality Room reopens
1730-? Fri. - Swap Meet in the Exhibit Room
Exhibit Area Open
Radio HF Sales, Demos, Club Tables
Hospitality Room Open
1930 Fri. - Forum (see below) 2000 Fri.
- The Shortwave Shindig (nee The Listening Lounge) …will reconvene Friday night at 2045.
Saturday, March 6th
- Registration Table Open (Stockholm Room)
0815-0930 Sat. - Exhibit Area Open
Radio HF Sales, Demos, Club Tables
(closes promptly at 1600) - Announcements and Directions (Stockholm Room)
0850-0900 Sat. - Forums (see below) 0900-1130 Sat.
- Silent Auction (Rooms 153 and 155)
1000-1615 Sat. - Pizza and Salad Luncheon
1200-1245 Sat. - General After Lunch Discussion
including In Memorium, Sheldon Harvey leads a reflection on those who departed from our midst over the past year; and Tom Witherspoon informs us on the activities of Ears to Our World.
Those not registered for the luncheon are cordially invited back at 1245 to take part in the discussions!
1245-1330 Sat. - Forums (see below) 1330-1600 Sat.
- Silent Auction Ends!
Collect your treasures and pays your monies. 1615 Sat. - Hospitality Room open
1645-1800 Sat. - Cash Bar
1800-1900 Sat. - Fest Banquet
Those not registered for the banquet are cordially invited back at around
2015 to hear the speakers and participate in the raffle which follows!
1900-2100 (approx.) Sat. - The Grande Raffle
approx. 2100-? Sat. - Hospitality Room reopens
after raffle Sat.
2010 Winter SWL Fest Forums Schedule (Final…. At least we think so.)
All times EST. All forums 60 min. unless otherwise noted.
Friday 5 March 2010
0900 – Netbooks, Smartphones and Cloud Computing: New Tools for the Hobby (Skip Arey) - The forward thinking DXer needs to run with the times and use all the tools available. Uncle Skip covers the new technologies and how it can and does help us to play radio better.
1015 – The Free Radio Forum (George Zeller) – The volume of “pirate” broadcasting set new records during the past year. Learn how to hear these intriguing signals–even during the Fest, if one were to know. This year we are pleased to feature a veteran of licensed broadcasting and the Free Radio Network, Pat Murphy, as well as a representative from WBCQ, the chief 50 KW relay source for pirate radio programming via the Area 51 block on 5110 kHz. License optional. [90 min.]
1330 – Scanning for Fun and Profit (Tom Swisher) – Join those lovable (?!) scamps, the Scum, for an exploration of the wide and varied possibilities from DC to Daylight. It could be anything, so stay tuned…
1500 – SW and Ham Radio in WWII (Lisa Spahr) – The author discusses her book, World War II Radio Heroes: Letters of Compassion, about the Short-Wave Amateur Monitors Club (SWAM). More than 60 short-wave listeners and hams sent word to her family that her grandfather had been taken prisoner in N. Africa in 1943. Spahr set out to find them and highlight their role.
1630 – Archiving Radio: Documenting the Present, Perserving the Past (Dan Robinson) – Richard Cuff, David Goren, Dan Robinson, and Michael Pool explore the art and history of capturing the sounds of the medium and shortwave bands, using examples from their personal archives. Topics include: Recording techniques and equipment; time-shifted listening; rescue & preservation of collections; online repositories; thoughts about establishing a permanent home for medium & shortwave audio recordings.
2000 – Radio Free Asia – Today and in the Future (AJ Janitschek) – Many (hopefully all) of you have heard of Radio Free Asia. Here is your chance to hear it from one of their own. Find out more about RFA’s frequencies, QSL cards, and jamming but don’t ask about the location of their transmitter sites! (Aw, go ahead. Ask.) [45 min.]
2045 – The Shortwave Shindig, formerly The Listening Lounge (David Goren) – Can a Listening Lounge by any other name sound as sweet? 10-4 Good Buddy! Grab a quart of your favorite tuning oil and open your ears to the finest in archival audio. We’ll have a roundup of the most interesting sounds of the past year featuring Radio Zanzibar, Iran’s Voice of Justice, Radio Canada’s Northern Quebec Service, All India Radio, as well as stations from Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru. But wait! There’s more! We’ll also feature audio memorials for radio-art pioneers Maryanne Amacher, & Max Neuhaus; live musical performances from Saul Brody, Skip Arey, and Jack Widner; plus special presentations and gems from the Shortwaveology archives. [Warning: Could last til dawn!]
Saturday, 6 March 2010
0900 – Global Tuner Network/Remote Internet Radios (Tim Lemmon) – Tim explains and demonstrates the many benefits of FREE online Internet radios for all who can’t receive shortwave from their homes. The audience will decide which global radios to use, and what frequencies to hear. He’ll wrap up with a live two-way HF contact using an Internet remote base radio.
1030 – International TV DXing via the Web (Joe Buch) – The growing availability of broadband internet access now allows those of us who once tried to listen to foreign SW news broadcasts to view English language TV newscasts from places like Canada, Ireland, BBC, Russia, China, France, and (if you pull your blinds and turn out the lights) the infamous Al Jazeera. All this is free with a low speed DSL connection, no antennas, and a netbook computer that sells for less than some SW radios. Learn how easy it is in this live demonstration.
1330 – The Radio St. Helena Project (Robert Kipp) - Live (!) from Europe (!!) via Skype (!!!), Robert discusses the radio construction project on St. Helena, takes us on a visit to the BBC Ascension Island relay, and perhaps even a little sightseeing on St. Helena and Ascension. If all goes according to plan, you might even be able to ask Robert a few questions and thank him personally for Radio St. Helena Day. [75 min.]
1515 – The Digital Cacophony of HF: Intelligence in Noise (Greg Majewski) – A presentation to inform listeners of the sounds of HF digital communications with descriptions and demonstrations of the signals and their use. Now, you will have an idea of what that terrible QRM covering the station you’re targeting is! [45 min.]