**Thomas Witherspoon** (@SWLingDotCom) is the founder and curator of the Radio Spectrum Archive and the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive. He’s also the founder of the nonprofit organization, Ears To Our World (ETOW), which distributes useful technologies like self-powered radios and DIY flashlights to schools and communities in remote impoverished parts of the world. Thomas has been a passionate supporter of shortwave radio, amateur radio, international broadcasting, and free press for many years, and actively blogs on The SWLing Post, an educational and hobbyist radio website. He holds the amateur radio callsigns K4SWL and M0CYI.