Showing posts with label The Milcom Files. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Milcom Files. Show all posts

Friday, March 08, 2024

Milcom Files still available at Amazon

 

The Spectrum Monitor - February issue 2024, has featured two of Larry's books from Amazon. Both remain timely and are now an heirloom. Do you have your copies yet? There are many at Amazon, including these three at: 

Sunday, January 22, 2023

The 2022 Milcom Files - TSM Edition - Now Available on Amazon

  




Recent world events continue to draw many radio listeners into their radio shacks to tune in on the action using their shortwave radios. software-defined radios, and programmable VHF/UHF scanners. In many cases monitoring the HF/VHF/UHF radio spectrum offers the radio hobbyist an opportunity to hear what is really going on behind the scenes without the filters imposed by news media outlets. Most radio listeners quickly learn that when the world has a crisis, disaster, or tensions rise between countries, the military will usually be the first organization called upon to intervene. It pays to monitor military frequencies when international events heat up.

There is a big radio frequency spectrum out there to monitor if you know where to listen, you can eavesdrop on some of the most fascinating radio communications you will hear on a scanner or shortwave radio.

Teak Publishing Company is pleased to announce the release of their latest eBook in the TSM Milcom Archive series – The Spectrum Monitor Volume 5 (2022) by Amazon best-selling author Larry Van Horn.

Some of the topics covered in this new book during 2022 include:

• Monitoring the Russian-Ukrainian War

• Mystery Russian HF Military Stations

• Monitoring Russia's Long-Range Aviation HF Nets

• Monitoring NATO Stanag 4285 digital transmissions

• U.S. Navy's Area 51

• A Sky Full of E-6Bs Command Post

• E-4B “Doomsday” Aircraft Serve as National Airborne Operations Center (NAOC);

• Fill'er Up and Don't Forget the Green Stamps (US Aerial Refueling Freqs, Routes, and

Anchors)

• Monitoring the U.S. Coast Guard Aviation Fleet

• DoD VHF High Band Air Ops Assignments

• Milcom Military Base Profiles

• Military Callsigns and ADBS Hex Codes

• Bonus Material: The Spectrum Monitor 2022 Air Show Guide

• Bonus Material – The Teak Action Bands (LW-MW-HF) Military Frequency List –

  Hundreds of discrete U.S. and some foreign military frequencies. 

The latest Milcom Files - TSM Milcom edition 273-page eBook is available now on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSB39NFV/ for just US$4.99.

A complete index to all pf Larry’s TSM columns and links to each year’s Milcom Archives E-Books is available on the Milcom Monitoring Post blog at http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/p/the-spectrum-monitor-e-zine-milcom.html

 Larry Van Horn N5FPW has been a radio hobbyist for nearly 60 years listening to world events and monitoring military radio communications. He has spent over 41 years documenting activity in the military radio spectrum in his monthly Satellite, Utility World, and Milcom (Military Communications) columns in the pages of Monitoring TimesSatellite Times, and now The Spectrum Monitor magazines.

During this time, he has published a treasure trove of military communication monitoring information. All his early MT columns have been published into two e-Books by Teak Publishing. The first two books in the Milcom Files series cover his columns published in Monitoring Times and have previously been published at Amazon. Book one of The Milcom Files covers the columns published from 1998 to 2006 and Book Two covers the period 2007 to 2013

In 2017 Larry joined the Spectrum Monitor writing staff where he continues to chronicle military monitoring in his monthly TSM Milcom column. Now he is publishing all his monthly TSM Milcom columns (2017-2022) at Amazon in the Kindle eBook format. All the books in The Milcom Series archives are available at https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078MNXGND.

If you are interested in monitoring military comms. own a scanner, shortwave radio, or have an Internet connection for web software-defined radio (SDR) monitoring, then the Milcom Files are a “must” reference for the radio library shelf.

For additional information on this and other Teak Publishing radio hobby books is available on the company website at https://www.teakpublishing.com/. Information on other publications by Larry is available on his author’s page at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00G1QMO4C.

 Other Milcom Internet resources by the author include:

Milcom Monitoring Post blog http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/

Btown Monitoring Post Blog http://monitor-post.blogspot.com/

From the Static YouTube site https://www.youtube.com/c/FromtheStatic-83

From the Static Twitter feed @MilcomMP

 Customer review of a previous edition of the Milcom Archives:

 “Larry has done an excellent job in his books, each and every one of them is excellent material for listeners. You will find nothing better.”

 

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

The Milcom Files - MT Editions - Are Now Available on Amazon




Mention the words "Monitoring the Military," and most radio hobbyists will immediately think of military air shows, sporting event Military Aircraft Flybys or a whole host of other military activities they would like to hear on their radios. There is a big radio frequency spectrum out there to monitor, and if you know where to listen, you can eavesdrop on some of the coolest radio communications you will ever hear on a scanner or shortwave radio. Military communications monitoring is the one segment of the radio hobby that has exploded in growth in recent years and is getting more popular among the listening community every day.

Larry Van Horn N5FPW, spent 15 years documenting activity in the military radio spectrum in his monthly Milcom column in the pages of Monitoring Times magazine. And now for the first time ever, he is publishing and making available all those columns here at Amazon in the Kindle E-Book format.

Teak Publishing is pleased to announce the release of their latest Kindle e-books -- the first edition of the Milcom Files – Monitoring Times edition by Amazon Bestselling author Larry Van Horn, N5FPW.

The Milcom Files edition one covers the 15 years of Military Communications (Milcom) columns that Larry wrote for the now defunct-Monitoring Times magazine from 1998-2013.

Volume one (ASIN: B077NN7RQ5) of the Milcom Files covers columns published between 1998 to 2006. The column was bimonthly from September 1998 to November 2002, and monthly from January 2003 to December 2006. Volume two (ASIN: B077NQXH3C) covers columns published between 2007 to 2013. These columns were published monthly during this period. A complete index to all the columns is available on the Milcom MP blog at http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html.

The MT Milcom columns documented the U.S. military conversion to narrowband LMR systems, the move from conventional to trunk radio systems, the 225-400 MHz band plan shift, including the new 380-400 MHz sub-band, and HF military frequencies, both foreign and US. This two-volume set of e-books has over 327,000 plus words, and nearly 1,000 pages of frequencies, call signs, and how-to style articles.

Even though these columns were originally published from 1998-2013, you will find a lot of material that is still valid even today. All US military services, HF. VHF. UHF, military satellites, FAA Air Route Traffic Control Center frequencies, base profiles, foreign military frequencies, airshow frequencies, equipment, and a lot more are included. Each column will be presented as it was published in MT in this e-book except for photographs.

If you are interested in monitoring the military, own a scanner and/or shortwave radio, then the Milcom Files two volume set is a must reference on your radio shack shelf.

Teak Publishing’s The Milcom Files Monitoring Times edition is now available for purchase worldwide from Amazon.com.

Volume one is on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077NN7RQ5.
Volume two is on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077NQXH3C.

The price for each e-Book edition is US$7.99. This book is being released internationally. Amazon customers in the United Kingdom, Germany, France Spain, Italy, Japan, India, Canada, Brazil, Mexico and Australia can order the e-Book from Amazon websites directly servicing these countries. All other countries can use the regular Amazon.com website.

You do not need to own a Kindle reader to read Amazon e-book publications. You can read any Kindle book with Amazon’s free reading apps. There are free Kindle reading apps for the Kindle Cloud Reader, Smartphones (iPhone, iTouch, Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry); computer platforms (Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 and Mac); Tablets (iPad, Android and Windows 8), and, of course, all the Kindle family of readers including the Kindle Fire series. A Kindle e-book allows you to buy your book once and read it anywhere. You can find additional details on these apps at this link on the Amazon website at www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771.

For additional information on this and other Teak Publishing radio hobby books, monitor the company sponsored Internet blogs – The Military Monitoring Post (http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/), The Btown Monitor Post (http://monitor-post.blogspot.com/) and The Shortwave Central (http://mt-shortwave.blogspot.com/) for availability of additional e-books that are currently in production.

Information on other publications by the author is available on the author’s page at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00G1QMO4C.