Bruce Elving
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Bruce F. Elving is an author and DXer from Duluth, Minnesota.
He is the author of the FM Atlas, a directory of FM radio stations and translators throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The FM Atlas has been published approximately every 18 months since 1972, and is currently in its 20th edition. Elving also publishes FM Media, a monthly set of updates for the FM Atlas, compiled from FCC and CRTC data along with information contributed by subscribers.
Elving is also noted for his mail order sales of radios modified to receive subcarrier signals emanating from FM radio stations. These little-known signals, which require special receiving equipment to hear, often consist of background music for retail establishments, newsfeeds, and reading services for the blind. Elving has advocated these services as superior to newer technology such as HD Radio. Elving also advocates expanding the FM broadcast band below its current 88 MHz limit following the transition from analogue to digital television frees up the frequencies currently used for television channels 2-6, and even reinstating the original 42-50 MHz FM band for hobbyist and community broadcasting. This band is currently assigned to a seldom-used two-way communications service. The FCC has issued a long-term experimental license to one broadcaster, WA2XMN 42.8 MHz, to use this band.
