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• "What is Open Spectrum?" - a brief introduction (2005).
• A Light Deployment Regime for Small-Area Wireless Access Points (SAWAPs) - with Simon Forge, Colin Blackman and Erik Bohlen, for the European Commission (2020)
• Fixed and Mobile Convergence in Europe: Quality Measurements for 5G and Network Densification - with Simon Forge, Sven Lindmark, Erik Bohlin and Colin Blackman, for the European Commission (2018).
• A Case Study of ONA: East Africa One Network Area Roaming Initiative - with Simon Forge, for the International Telecommunication Union (2016).
• Is Commercial Cellular Suitable for Mission Critical Broadband? - with Simon Forge and Colin Blackman, for the European Commission (2015).
• Perspectives on the Value of Shared Spectrum Access - with Simon Forge and Colin Blackman, for the European Commission (2012).
• "Towards an Open ITU" - a guide for NGOs and spectrum reform advocates (2009).
• "Marconi's Legacy: National Sovereignty Claims in Radio" - presented at the first COMMUNIA Workshop on Technology and the Public Domain, NEXA Center for Internet and Society, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• "Beyond Licenced vs. Unlicenced: Spectrum Access Rights Continua" - for an ITU Workshop on "Economic Mechanisms for Spectrum Management," Geneva, Switzerland, 22-23 January 2007.
• "Frequency Conversion and New Technologies" - speech given at the Center for Strategic Research in Moscow (20 June 2006) on the conversion of radio spectrum from military to civilian use.
• "Post-Communist Local Radio: An Overview" - for a symposium in Austria on "International Models of Free/Private Radio" (1996). It describes the situation in Eastern Europe at a time when broadcasters' innovations and problems were greater than they are today.
• The first half of this "Media Network" program from Radio Netherlands (originally aired on 14 November 1991) includes an interview with me recorded just after I moved to Prague, about the local radio scene and my new job as radio director at the Center for Independent Journalism. The interview is split into short segments so it could be mixed with other source material.
• The Local Radio Handbook (1991). This how-to guide was published by Internews to accelerate the development of non-state broadcasting in former communist countries. Much of the information is outdated now, but it described how to build and operate a low-power FM or AM station. Translated into Armenian, Czech, Hungarian, Macedonian, Romanian and Russian, it went through multiple editions.
• The Woodpecker Project Report (1987). Results of a worldwide monitoring campaign that I organized to assess the interference caused by over-the-horizon radars based in the Soviet Union. The report was presented at the ITU's World Administrative Radio Conference on the High Frequency Broadcasting Service.
• "Over-the-Horizon Radar" (1986). A chapter written for Gerry Dexter's book, Shortwave Radio Listening with the Experts (Howard W. Sams & Co.).
• "Interview with the head of Radio Abdala" (MP3, runtime 7:03) - Radio Abdala was an anti-Castro clandestine station run by Cuban exiles, which broadcasted into Cuba from Florida. This report on Radio Netherlands' "Media Network" program (aired on 3 May 1984) features my interview with Abdala's leader, Manuel Santana.
• "The Truth Behind Radio Truth" (MP3, runtime 4:04) - for Radio Netherlands World Service's "Media Network" program: my investigation into who was behind Radio Truth, a clandestine radio station broadcasting into Zimbabwe from South Africa. Originally aired on 26 November 1986.
• A few slides from a presentation at FAMU in Prague in 2017 titled "Radio in Art."
• Beata Pozitiva interviewed me on Tilos Radio's "IceCream Show" (90.3 FM in Budapest, 16 September 2023)
• "Why Radio" (5 August 2000).