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Practical Wireless is aimed at the licensed radio amateur and caters for the amateur radio hobby.

Practical Wireless is a ‘doing’ magazine focusing on the practical and constructional side of amateur radio and appeals to all ages.

Written by expert authors and contributors, Practical Wireless reflects developments in the technology, participants, activities and licensing framework of the hobby.

Every monthly issue features:
- The latest news
- Reviews of the latest radio equipment and ancillaries
- Regular practical constructional articles and projects
- Features from the UK and around the world
- What Next column is aimed at recently-licensed newcomers
- Software-defined radio
- Satellite operation
- Technical, operating and historic interests
- DX-ing and DXpeditions
- HF (High Frequency), VHF (Very High Frequency) and UHF (Ultra High Frequency)
- QRP
- Transceivers and Antennas
- Rallies and club news
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Practical Wireless

January 2026 · Meet the RSGB President – Bob Beebe GU4YOX. · Results of the seventeenth PW 70MHz Contest. · A Morse Code practice oscillator with echo. · Build a capacitor ESR meter. · A look at the story of Oliver Heaviside. · Monitoring radio wave propagation (Part 1 of 2). · A low-cost cable rack. · PW end of year quiz. · The Delta Vee Auto Loop antenna. · Build a MilliOhm meter. · A Compact QRP Antenna Tuner and SWR Meter · The final part of the Selectone, a receiver from the PW archives. · More vintage TV and radio. · Plus, all the latest news, letters and regular columns.


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Practical Wireless  |  January 2026  


· Meet the RSGB President – Bob Beebe GU4YOX.
· Results of the seventeenth PW 70MHz Contest.
· A Morse Code practice oscillator with echo.
· Build a capacitor ESR meter.
· A look at the story of Oliver Heaviside.
· Monitoring radio wave propagation (Part 1 of 2).
· A low-cost cable rack.
· PW end of year quiz.
· The Delta Vee Auto Loop antenna.
· Build a MilliOhm meter.
· A Compact QRP Antenna Tuner and SWR Meter
· The final part of the Selectone, a receiver from the PW archives.
· More vintage TV and radio.
· Plus, all the latest news, letters and regular columns.
read more read less
Practical Wireless is aimed at the licensed radio amateur and caters for the amateur radio hobby.

Practical Wireless is a ‘doing’ magazine focusing on the practical and constructional side of amateur radio and appeals to all ages.

Written by expert authors and contributors, Practical Wireless reflects developments in the technology, participants, activities and licensing framework of the hobby.

Every monthly issue features:
- The latest news
- Reviews of the latest radio equipment and ancillaries
- Regular practical constructional articles and projects
- Features from the UK and around the world
- What Next column is aimed at recently-licensed newcomers
- Software-defined radio
- Satellite operation
- Technical, operating and historic interests
- DX-ing and DXpeditions
- HF (High Frequency), VHF (Very High Frequency) and UHF (Ultra High Frequency)
- QRP
- Transceivers and Antennas
- Rallies and club news

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Good articles on amateur radio construction projects Reviewed 11 April 2023

Really good read

Great for all those fans of Radio Reviewed 25 April 2022

Practical Wireless

GREAT MAGAZINE. Reviewed 04 March 2021

Practical Wireless

I feel PW has more practical and interesting readable content than a number of other publications on the subject. Reviewed 06 February 2021

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excellent Reviewed 05 February 2021

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