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About Larry Van Horn

Larry Van Horn was first licensed as an amateur radio operator in 1973 with the call sign WH6INU. He later upgraded to general class and spent my early ham days operating out of the world famous KH6SP (KH6 Salty Peanuts) ham shack in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, chasing DX and contesting. I worked at various military ham radio stations in Long Beach and Memphis on subsequent duty assignments, but due to my Navy career and a few other distractions, I really didn’t have a permanent ham type of operation. We finally settled down after I retired from the Navy 1993 with the rank of Chief Petty Officer. By then I was married and we moved to Brasstown, North Carolina, in the mountains in western tip of the state.

I started as a free lance writer with Monitoring Times magazine in 1984 and book author with the parent company Grove Enterprises were I published several print and e-books. In 1993 when I went to work full time with Grove/Monitoring Times staff as the assistant / technical / review editor, advertising manager, and staff journalist or the staff boy Friday.

My monitoring specialty is monitoring military and HF utility communications. In 2006, I started the Milcom Monitoring Post blog (http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/) and it now has had over 2 million visitors worldwide. If you want the latest military monitoring news and frequencies - then pay me a visit on the MilcomMP blog. I also have a twitter feed for real late breaking news @MilcomMP. If I find something of particular interest to a wide audience in real time you will see it on my twitter feed. I have my general monitoring blog where I post general monitoring “stuff” and it is called the Btown Monitoring Post. You can visit that blog at http://monitor-post.blogspot.com/. If you are interested in shortwave broadcasting be sure to visit Gayle’s (W4GVH) excellent blog at http://mt-shortwave.blogspot.com/. She also has a twitter feed for late breakng info at @QSLrptMT.

About Gayle Van Horn

Gayle Van Horn is a native of San Antonio, Texas. In 1977, while living in Memphis, Tennessee, she logged and verified her first shortwave radio station. She currently holds a Technician class amateur radio license W4GVH. Over the last 36 years, she has logged thousands of shortwave stations, and had verified over 230 countries.

Her radio hobby writing career began in 1986, when Larry Miller, editor of World Radio Report, asked her to write the Broadcast Logs column for that publication. In August 1988, she began her first QSL Report column for Monitoring Times magazine, and continued her logging column as well.

In April 1993, she was promoted to the Frequency Manager’s position for Monitoring Times, and was in charge of the reorganization of the English language Shortwave Guide. This resulted in being voted the most popular section in Monitoring Times, by reader surveys.

In August 2009, she expanded the Shortwave Guide to include a worldwide multilingual listing in M.T.’s electronic version MT Xpress, which extended to December 2013. She continues to cover the shortwave scene in her blog Shortwave Central and on Twitter.

She is the author of World QSL Book, and International Call Sign Handbook-1st edition, published by Grove Enterprises in 1992, co-authored International Call Sign Handbook-2nd edition, withLarry Van Horn, published by Teak Publishing. She was a regular features writer for Monitoring Times, covering a wide variety of radio-related topics. Gayle specializes in shortwave tropical band and clandestine DXing, and enjoys monitoring local scanner activity.

She is the business manager and co-owner of Teak Publishing company.