- Looking Back
- by Tom Williamson
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Tom Williamson of Hamilton, Ontario produces this regular column for the Ontario DX Association's monthly bulletin, Listening In, wherein he looks at various aspects of shortwave history. His columns always contain interesting QSLs or other graphics. Henceforth we will be posting these columns in ontheshortwaves. Thanks to Tom and to ODXA Executive Committee member and LI Managing Editor Harold Sellers for making them available to all who are interested in shortwave history. We will post new columns as they are published.
2008
January 2008 - "Musical Memories Pt. 3 - Samba Time"
April 2008 - Listener Friendly Radio
May 2008 - Pennant Fever
2007
January 2007 - "Dominican Days"
February 2007 - "New Year Cards"
April 2007 - "Dutch America"
June 2007 - "The DX Programmes"
July 2007 - "Micro Europe"
October 2007 - "Musical Memories Pt. 1 - Big Band Swing"
November 2007 - "Musical Memories Pt. 2 - Latin America's Tropical"
December 2007 - "Musical Memories Pt. 3 - Mountain Music"
2006
March 2006 - "Duty Free Radio," about Tangier, Trieste, Andorra and the Caymans
April 2006 - "Days of the Radio Clubs," about early ham-broadcast activities and some of the interesting Portuguese "Radio Clubes"
June 2006 - "The Tango Trio," about Radio El Mundo, Radio Belgrano and Radio Splendid, all in Argentina
July 2006 - "Generation X," covering some of the early U.S. "X" stations
September 2006 - "French Colonial Empire"
October 2006 - "Cuba Libre," on early Cuban stations
November 2006 - "Martian Madness," about the 1938 martian landings in the U.S. and Quito
December 2006 - "The Z Callsigns," about early British Empire stations