[MilCom] Pop'Comm Magazine & Military Comms?

[Ken]

Appears that we might see more info on military communications in upcoming 
issues of "Popular Communications" magazine.

The Website shows that the September issue
http://www.popular-communications.com/Sept%2005%20Highlights.html

Has a Steve Douglass authored featured article "Inside The Osprey's Nest" 
(with the magazine front cover showing a picture & headline "The Osprey, 
Floats Like A Butterfly, Stings Like A Bee!!!, a Pop'Comm exclusive!!!"... 
not sure if there's any frequencies provided......

Additionally Douglass' monthly column "Utility Communications Digest" starts 
off with "Iraq--The Next Nuclear Threat..." and perhaps some good HF 
frequencies to monitor them on???

Furthermore, we've got  Rich Arland's "Homeland Security" monthly column 
that starts out with a "Pep Talk" about our brave military in Iraq... & his 
views on why we should stay the course in Iraq -- not sure how this relates 
to topics in a communications hobby magazine..... BUT  I can just imagine 
that environmentally & operationally this is just a 'living hell' for anyone 
that is over there!!! (hey it's 98 degrees here in Springfield MA today with 
45% humidity, where over there it's 110 to 120+ degrees, 60 to 80% humidity 
with low temperatures only in the mid 80's....  check out the Iraq forcasts 
at http://weather.yahoo.com/regional/IZXX.html  to get an idea....  Also 
operationally, the overall stress related with proceeding in a convoy/ground 
transportation must almost be overwhelming not to mention the 
sporadic/constant threat of urban type search/fighting taking place!!!!

Notably missing in action MIA for the past quarter was Bill Hoefer's "Plane 
Sense" column, which covered primarily civilian aero comms (but also listed 
UHF ATC radio changes), but provided info that could help in monitoring 
military comms.  I had hoped that the column would have been expanded to 
include more military aero radio communications information.

>From my viewpoint it also appeared that Steve Douglass was attempting to 
move the "Utility Communications Digest" column to include more military 
VHF/UHF logging information (as mentioned in his plea for loggings in the 
January, June, July column editions) BUT so far I haven't seen anything 
loggings in print (probably about a 2 to 3 month lag time from when a column 
is submitted to actual printed edition).

I know that "Monitoring Times" magazine continues to devote a monthly column 
("Milcom") dedicated to military/military aero communications, as well as 
rotational subjects ("Boats, Planes, & Trains") column.....

BTW are there any other hobby magazine's that devote space to military 
communications related subjects?

Ken