Booklets, guides and club publications about SW, DXing and related subjects.
Short run journals, one-of-a-kind local program schedules and single issues of magazines that do not fit on the other of our Short Wave and DX pages can be found here. All are from the early days of radio from the 20's to the present day.
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Nomenclature
"Short Wave" or "Shortwave" are both used. This site employs both depending on the publication being referenced.
Short Wave
ABC's Of Short Wave
Listening
Buckwalter
1962
Short Wave Listening Guide
Helms
1993
The Manual of Short Wave
Radio
Vol. II Book 1932
Short-Wave
Listener's Guide
Woodruff 1980
Short-Wave Listener's Guide
Woodruff 1974
Shortwave Listening
Guide
Barden
1987
Short Wave
Listener's Guide
from Radio Shack
1978
Shortwave Listening
Belt 1975
Questions & Answers
on Short-Wave Listening
Woodruff 1970
Newnes Television &
Short-Wave Handbook
By F J Camm
Short Wave Log and Call
Winter 1934
From Hugo Gernsback
Short Wave
Listener's Handbook
Fallon 1972
RSA Calling
The Voice of South Africa
One issue from 1971
Radio Free Europe
Portugal transmission project 1952
Shortwave
Propagation
Leinwoll
1959 Rider book
Radio West Short
Wave Catalog
World DX Guide
Vastenhoud
1978
SAMS Short Wave Listener's
Guide
1971
Shortwave and DX Club Magazines
Short Wave Reporter from Quixote Radio Club.
1938
ARRL Amateur Radio Handbook
1931
ASWC August 1976 Club Bulletin
ARRL Amateur Radio Handbook
1934
Monitor
August 1965
International Short Wave League
Short Wave Reporter
Quixote Radio Club
1937
SWL
American Shortwave Listeners
Club
1959
SWL
American Short Wave
Listeners Club
1970 Jan to Aug.
Guides, Handbooks and Logbooks
How to Tune the Secret Short Wave Spectrum
Helms - 1981
Operating an Amateur Radio Station
ARRL 1934
Amateur Radio Stations of the U.S. 1929
Short Wave Equipment and Catalogs
Gilfer Catalog 1981
Shortwave Receivers Past and Present 1997 2nd Edition