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| Reviews Summary for Monitoring Times |
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Reviews: 28
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Average rating: 4.5/5
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MSRP: $25.95 a year
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Description: 108 pages of news, information, and tips on getting more out of your radio listening. In fact, it's the most comprehensive radio hobby magazine in the U.S.
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More info: http://www.grove-ent.com/hmpgmt.html
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N2QQF
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Rating: 5/5
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Nov 11, 2008 05:44
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Good Reading
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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I must admit this is one of the best radio publications out there and still left. I enjoy the articles written and some of the stories published. I think it is a well rounded magazine for the radio hobbyist. There is truly something out there for everyone. From the scanner listeners, Shortwave listeners to hams operators there is something for everyone everyone to enjoy. A good read and well worth the money.
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KC8SLC
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Rating: 5/5
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Dec 24, 2007 10:11
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Excellent!!
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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Great magazine!! Love the price on the e-magazine version that I get!! The detailed articles on the radio rebuilds are excellent. Thumbs up on this magazine. Tim.
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OE3SGU
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Rating: 5/5
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Nov 28, 2007 10:24
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Great magazine
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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I am a new subscriber to the electronic edition of MT. For the price, its a real steal! And its a great magazine. Unfortunately I discovered it only now. Had I known about it, I would have been a regular reader for a long time before....
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KE5LDO
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Rating: 5/5
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Apr 30, 2007 06:53
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Great Mag!
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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For those who may not be aware of it, MT can be delivered by email download for $20 a year.Usually around the 20th of the preceding month. I have subscribed since the first issue.
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W6LBV
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Rating: 5/5
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Apr 29, 2007 20:16
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A Mag for All Seasons
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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MT is a generalist type of publication, covering a vast territory spread across the entire wireless communications field but delving into each topic at only a modest depth. It is oriented more toward the "beginner" end of the ham population rather than the advanced, and it should be of help to newcomers.
But it has a special utility not found in QST, CQ, RadCom, etc., which should make it almost mandatory reading for hams of all skill levels. Many hams, and perhaps more so the younger ones, have little idea of what occurs in the RF spectrum above, say, 14.350 MHz, or below 14.000 MHz. In actuality, Amateur Radio operations are but a tiny, tiny fraction of everything that is occurring on the entire RF spectrum. MT opens up, for its readers, this "everything else" world.
Through MT one is exposed to shortwave broadcasting (the station listings and current schedule printed in each month’s center pages is outstanding), military communications, aircraft and marine communications, commercial and public safety land mobile communications, satellites, government communications, radiolocation services, and just about everything else that travels on electromagnetic waves between 30 kHz and visible light. There are a raft of regular monthly columns including construction pieces and equipment reviews, historical pieces, and some general news of recent governmental/regulatory actions.
What occurs in the RF spectrum outside the established ham bands can profoundly affect the Amateur Radio Service, and hams need to be aware of the rest of the radio world. While MT can never be complete in its coverage of the entire RF spectrum, it certainly provides a good introduction for those hams who are sufficiently curious to stick their beaks outside the chicken coop. Curiosity can be a valuable attribute to a ham, and it is too often in short supply now. MT both stimulates and satisfies curiosity.
Even with forty-five years' experience with the RF spectrum, I still discover new things in MT. It's a good read and I always look forward to its consistently on-time arrival by mail each month. It performs a very valuable educational function and hams should read it (or similar material) in addition to the ham-only publications.
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N2OAM
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Rating: 5/5
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Apr 3, 2007 20:26
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Excellent Magazine / Ontime Delivery!
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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Perfect combination of Scanning, SWL, Vintage restorations, Ham & reviews. As far as ontime delivery, PAY UP & get it delivered first class. In 20 plus years of subscribing to MT, just two lost issues that were quickly replaced.
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KC2JFS
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Rating: 2/5
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Apr 3, 2007 17:00
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The Great Unreliable Magazine
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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This magazine deserves a 1 for fulfillment and a 5 for content hence my score of 3. Their delivery of this magazine is mediocre at best. I still have not gotten the April issue, but just yesterday December 06 showed up. I got March but had to call about February missing. Don't you just love how the bookstores and chains have every issue 1-2 months in advance? Screw the subscribers’ right? You know what I am changing my rating to a 2.
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VE3ES
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Rating: 5/5
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Apr 3, 2007 16:24
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The bible for all things radio...
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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Ham radio ops have QST and CQ, CB'ers have toilet paper and for everybody else there is Monitoring Times. I have been an avid reader of MT going back to the days when it was printed on news print. Bob and the gang have put together what can truly be said is the bible for all things radio. Excellent publication.
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N2JSG
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Rating: 5/5
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Sep 7, 2006 23:22
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The Best Magazine Ever Written For The General Radio Hobbyist
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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The title of my review is quite a statement, and one that I do not make lightly. In my opinion as a long-time subscriber, Monitoring Times is the best I've read and I've been an SWL for 36 years and a licensed radio amateur for 17 years. What makes them earn such high praise?
---Knowledgeable writers with top credentials consistently produce quality articles and regular features brimming with useful information in all aspects of the radio monitoring hobby.
---The content of each monthly issue is such that if it were to contain only half of what is published, the magazine would still blow away its closest competition with respect to the quantity and quality of useful information provided.
---MT caters to all proficiency levels of hobyists, whether beginner, intermediate or advanced, w/o bias towards any one of these levels.
Anything negative about MT? Well, one critcism that on occasion I have heard from fellow radio enthusiasts about MT is that since it is published by a leading mail-order radio products dealer (Grove Enterprises), they tend to promote their sales of a given product or service at the exclusion of other dealers who offer the same things. I have, over the years, never been keenly aware of any conspiracy or ulterior motive on the part of Grove to use the magazine as SOLELY a glorified advertizing brochure. Far from it, by virtue of the contents. Too, if the above criticism held a valid point, MT would hardly, if at all, advertize and promote the products and services of competitors that they do include in every issue. Nonetheless, the criticism may be reconstructed to point out that Grove does in fact promote their company whenever possible. A debatable point indeed.
Overall I highly recommend MT to the radio monitoring hobbyist.
73, Dean
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KB2NAT
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Rating: 5/5
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Aug 26, 2006 14:46
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More than just good
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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MT has been an enjoyable magazine to read. Articles cover most issues for a radio bum: re-doing old radios, ham, SWL and freqs, pirate radio, technical questions, etc. it is definitely worth the money.
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