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Books, blogs, YouTube, podcasts and live shows — edited Sep 5, 2026 by Unknown editor
Compared with the version from Aug 31, 2026. Note: Imported from content/wiki
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- **CQ Amateur Radio**, **The Spectrum Monitor** (digital), **RadCom** (RSGB), **Practical
Wireless** — worth a look, particularly for construction articles.
- **QRP Quarterly** and the **SPRAT** journal of the G-QRP Club for low-power work.
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- **[The Communicator](https://ve7sar.blogspot.com/)** (Surrey Amateur Radio Communications) — a
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free bi-monthly club magazine with unusually good technical and operating articles; the
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- **[The Communicator](https://ve7sar.blogspot.com/search/label/SARC%20Communicator)** (Surrey
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Amateur Radio Communications) — a free bi-monthly club magazine, over a hundred pages an issue,
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with unusually good technical and operating articles; the
[May–June 2025 issue](https://ve7sar.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-communicator-may-june-2025.html)
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covers the [WARC bands](/wiki/operating/warc-bands).
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covers the [WARC bands](/wiki/operating/warc-bands). Every back issue is on that page.
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## Newsletters worth subscribing to
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A club newsletter is often better written than the commercial press, and free. These are the ones
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read well outside their own membership:
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- **[Amateur Radio Weekly](https://hamweekly.com/)** — a short Saturday email of the week's news,
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projects, videos and events. The single best way to keep up without reading forums.
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- **[The Logger's Bark](https://www.w7dk.org/about/get-the-loggers-bark-newsletter)** (Radio Club of
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Tacoma, W7DK) — a monthly club magazine that reads like a commercial one; issues are also posted
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on [QRZ](https://static.qrz.com/w7dk/February2025-QRZ.pdf), and the archive runs back to 1963.
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- **[Ham Radio Ireland](https://galwayvhfgroup.blogspot.com/2022/06/connacht-regional-radio-newsletter.html)**
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(Galway VHF Group) — a bi-monthly Irish magazine, free as a PDF or a flip-book, covering clubs and
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special event stations on both sides of the border.
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- **[Zero Retries](https://www.zeroretries.org/)** — a weekly newsletter on digital and data modes
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for people who think amateur radio's future is in packets rather than voice.
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## YouTube channels
- **Ham Radio Crash Course (Josh, KI6NAZ)** — beginner-friendly reviews and projects.
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