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CONTENTS

t:Jnitpring
Vol.lS, No.1

Jonuory 1996

Broadcasting in Gabon ...... 14

By Colin Miller
S ituated nea r the heart of "t he dark
co ntine nt" is French- speak ing Gabo n.
hom e 10one of A frica's mo st successful
broadcasters. Africa No. I.

Poor Richard's Guide to Frugal Scanning........... 18

By Rich Ar/and
Do you ass ume you must have a scanne r hot o ff the assembly-line with
the lates t be lls and whistles in orde r to listen to modem-day public sa fety
age nc ies? Think again . Yo u ca n till your hours very sa tisfactorily listen ing to
a c rys ta l-co ntro lled scanner (or three o r four of them ) bought for a so ng at the
local flea market.

COl'er Sl0O'

The Subtle Art of

ElmeTing
By Don Daso
II Elmer" is ham radio slang for
anyhobbyistwithexperience who
shares with a newcomer the benefit of his or her knowledge and
experience.Sometimesthis is done

sosubtly we don't even recognize

who our own "Eimers" were until
we find ourselves in the same po-

sition.
The an of guiding a beginner
isn"t limited to amateur radio: you
can "network" with others for encou ragernent and sharing infor-

mationno matterwhat yourlistening target or level of expe rtise . In

our cover picture by Don Daso,
WORLX and K4UEE work sideby-side ina DXpcditionto achieve
more than a lone hobbyist ever
could. See page 9 for the story.

Cable TV' Signal Leakage

20

By John Wilson
Wh en C NN and HBO and T N N start appearing in porti on s of the
spe ctrum whe re they don 't be lo ng. yo u can suspect leakage from yo ur local
cab le TV sys te m. T here is so me thing that can be do ne about it; the re are a lso
some ways you can have fun w ith it. Mo re over , after reading this feature,
yo u' ll know exactly how to ide ntify this source o f rad io freque ncy interference .

Monitoring Times 1995 Index of Articles

National Weather Service

25

28

By Ken Reitz
Begun in 1870. the Nationa l Weather Service ju st cel ebrated its 125t h anniversary. The
construction and technological advances now
almos t co mple ted are the most ambitiou s in its
histor y. Th e di fferen ce can already be ex pe rie nced by the public it ser ves .

DEPARTMENTS

In this Issue:

Lellers

Two themes stand out this month: The

benefits of InlCmCI as a resource for the

rad io hob byist is one . "Digital Dige st"
vis its so me sites of interest to utility

monitors. "American Bandscnn' only

scratc hes the surface o f the medi umwave
broadcas ters using the multi-media
capability of the Web. and there ..ire new,
reco mmended sites to be found in " Net

News:'
The seco nd topic you' ll find colum nists

talking about is used or even antique

equipment "Beginner' s Corner" will take
yOll all the way back to the ' 20s with a
crystal set you can build yourself:
SI.',IIlIlt:f Eq uip ment " has yo u pulling

those co llectible crystal scanners off the

shel f and putt ing them ba ck into service :
" O n the Ham Band s" e ncourages yo u to

co nsider discarded commcrcia l trtmscciv crs, which may be modifiable for ham usc.
From crys tal-co ntrol to co mputercontrol. you"lt find the same variety in
Monitoring Times as you"Il find in the real
world of radios.

Communications ..... 6

Beginner's Corner
Scanning Report
Utility World
Shortwave Broodcosting
QSL Report
English Long SW Guide
Club Circuit
Propogotion Conditions
Below 500 kHz
Making a logsheet
American Bandscon/DX Tests

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34
38
42
46
47
75
76
78
80

Intern et Reso urce s

Outer Limits
Quebec Clandestine
On the Ham Bands
New From Old
Special Events Calendar
DeMaw's Warkbench
Broadband Amplifier
PlaneTalk
Volmet; Identifiers
Federal File
Dept of Agriculfure

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86
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90

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Satellite TV
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Hiding your sotel/ite dish
Experimenters Workshop
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Upgrading your computer'Par/ III
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96
Paperless publishing
Computers & Radio
98
SotPro
Net News
100
Web: more /han computers
What's New
101
Review: Sony SRF42 Wolkmon
Magne Tests
106
What do lob specs mean?
Scanning Equipment
108
Add a Crystal Sconner
Antenna Topics
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The Sloper Dipole
Digital Digest
114
Internet Interludes
Ask Bab
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PRO2042 vs, PRO2035
Stock Exchange
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LETTERS

Looking Forword; Looking Back

II wu s hard no t to be sta rtled whe n Montloring Times' vo lume number chang ed (his

mo nth to vo lume 15! Especial ly si nce I' ve

bee n associated with the magazi ne for most

of those years. Bill Grove-s-son of Bob. computer wh iz.md no w an AfT staff writerwas n' t ev en in high schoo l the n.
Over recent years the ho bb y has bee n
c hanging at an ever-acc e lerating pace. and

our intentions are ( 0 help our readers keep upIO -U;;ltC. Each regular department helps you
stay current with new developme nts in its
own 'IrC;:1ofcoverage. For technology so new
it didn 't e ven have a slo t in the mag azine. we
h .IVC added " Net Ncws.v cditcd by Bill Grove.
an d "Skyli nk." by Wayne Mishler. which
debu ts in this issue.
We still do a little constructive looking
ba ck . as we ll. Intere st in co llecting older
eq uipme nt is growing. But. hobbyists are
finding that a lot of yesterday's technolog y
isn' t ready for the display case j ust ye t. Rich
A rt and' x fe ature thi s mo nt h o n " Poor
Ric hard ' s Guide to Fruga l Sca nning" is a n
e xa mple o f wha t can he do ne with inex pe nsive , se co nd- ha nd eq ui pme nt. Ric h will be
ed iting a quarte rly ,.column. begin ning in
Murch. on other suc h " low-tec h" solutions to
toduy's liste ning .

Chicago Fan
AIr has a ne w supporter in Ed Sc hwa rtz.
late night progra m host o n WL UP FM 97. 9 in
C hic ago . He w rite s. "r ill overjoyed with thi s
magaz ine . As a rad io talk show ho st, a sc anner nut. and form er CB an d a mateur radio
operator with an interest in S \ \' Ling. it give s
me e verythi ng. Th e co lum ns are info rmati ve
and I have greatly incr ea sed my libra ry with
boo ks a nd info rm ation offere d in MT. l enjoy
ante nna artic les. :\0'1)' resid en ce is ato p a 600foo t Chicago highri se. I can pick up weak
sig nals wi th a paper c lip: IFor 'his you need
all1nltl Cl article:; ?1 I' m al wa ys ' hig h' whe n
scanning. I' d like re read more abo utCh icago ' s
'radio acti vity .' ..
Kidd ing aside . thank s for the kind wo rds ,
Ed . The re 'Ire a co uple of C hicag o-a rea clubs
listed in Mr s "C lub C irc uit" (whi ch read er s
wi ll note ha s been mo ved to a new locatio n
fo llo wing the "S ho rtwave Guide " ) that sho uld

II
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yield some co ntac ts fo r loca l freq uencies . A

featu re o n C hica go -ba se d sc..mnin g wo uld be
welco me. however. \ Vho ha sn't spe nt some
time at lea st pa ssing through Chicago' s air po rt? Ho w abou t it. wr iters '?

Needed:
Good
Home lor
a Lost Kit
Do
have

you
<I n

ICOM R71
and a n itc hy
so lde ring g un?
H e rb er t r o ster.
A D-lUA , of Melbo urne.
Florida , has- a Pha sed Locked AM
Opt ion kit.m anufactured by Esku & Edvis of
Swed en , to give aw ay to the righ t pe rso n, and
yo u llIay be it. Her b ord ered the kit several
yca rs ago. "The pric e , i fill y mcmory is COfrcct, wa s abou t $ 150 ." By the time his or der
W:'IS filled and he had time to devote to the
instal lati on . his inte rest had turn ed 10 ham
rad io ..md the R71 was trad ed awa y.
" During so me rece nt re mod el ing of the
shac k this kit and the man ua l tu rned up, sti ll
in its o rig ina l bo x. I would like In g ive this kit.
free of c harge. 10 a nyo ne w ho wo uld like to
ha ve it. and will g ive it a good ho me: '
Th e kit is here :'lIlvlT headquarters. Any on e wishi ng the PL AM op tio n may write.
fa x. or e -m ail yo ur name a nd shipping addre ss to i\IT EDITOR. mentioning the PLAj\'l

OFFER in the text. On.la nuurv 19th . 1"11 put

..III n'II11CS- into a po t a nd dra w o ne .
Th e re is o ne c atch: " I would like o ne th ing
in retur n: I'd like some word regarding ho w
it goes tog ethe r and ho w it wor ks whe n
co m pleted ..,
Fa ir en ough: l' m sure our readers wo uld
be inte rest ed in its performa nce. as wel l.
Hc rcs a brie f de sc ription of wh at the PLAl\.l
opt ion doc s, from the man ual .
Pha se lock ed A M re-ce ptio n e lim inates
di storti on du rin g se lec tive fadi ng. which ocnil'S frequent ly o n most sho rtwave AM station s. T he AM reception in thc PLAM mode
beco mes Il11H..h cl ea rer a nd mo re stable. The
PI.I\ t\1 option con victs of the fo llo wing c irc uits : (al Phase detecto r. (h ) Le ve l co nverter.
w ith loopgain co ntro l a nd o utput relay. (c )
Loc k detecto r w ith LED driver. (d) Filter
se lec tor a nd aud io respo nse circ uit.

Volunteerism
Ste ve Ree se o f Lckoy. New York . sent
thi s suggestion in res pon se to Ouo Muller' s

article "T he Secret of Well-Informed Scannin g" in the December issue. " I'd like to add
ano the r idea to enhance your scanning know ledg e and enjoyme nt. Ratherthanjust chatting
w ith local firefighte rs , policemen. and so
fort h. wh y not j ust join th em '! I rea lize that
ma ny MT readers may already be involved in co mm uni ty volunteer o rganizations. but if yo u' re not, it' s a g rea t way
to mcet people wi th sim ilar interests and
learn more abo ut your hobby.
" Eve n if you don 't plan to be a smo keea ter o r an EMT. your part icipation in a
loca l vo luntee r fire depart me nt. a mbu lance
corps. REACT c hap ter . ne ig hborh ood watch
group. Red Cross . etc.. can be nefi t yo u and
yo ur co m munity, Many organizations will
offer tra in ing free of charge rig ht in yo ur ow n
town . Yo ur hobby and professio nal in terests
co uld also be of be ne lit to the gro up, as is the
c usc with many memb er s of the a mbulance
corps I be lo ng to.
"Vo lurucer organiza uon s across the country arc havin g a to ug h ti me finding peo ple to
spe nd just a few hours eac h wee k or mo nth
he lpin g the ir com mu nity. so for those of you
"vho aren't already in vo lved but enjoy scanni ng as a hobby. give a nearby vo lunteer
organization a call: '

Static in the Neighborhood

After reading B.W. Ballin' s Octobe r feature abo ut static from power lines. Bruce
Elving, owner of FM Atla s Publi sh ing in
Es ko. Minnesota. recolle cted a n expe rience
o f his o wn so me 20 yea rs ago.

"1 had been trying to tunc in WLOL-FM

99 .5 Minneapoli s in Duluth. MN. using a yagi
a nte nna to sco o p the weak sig nal into my
Harrnan- Kardon tun er. I noticed a ' bloopbloop ' type interference coming through the
class ica l mu sic. T aking a po rtable AM -fl.J
radio on a walk led me to a certain ho use. rig ht
in line w ith my ya gi's beam -s-and to a charact er I' ll c:'11I ' Electric Bla nke t Ma n:
" W hile a ll the other ne igh bo rs were hel pfu l. al lowi ng me in to see what ap pl iances
the y m ight ha ve . Electric Blanket Man refused. ev en after I told him that I suspected he
had an electric blanket tha t wa s arcing and
caus ing radio inte rference , and which co uld
cause- a lire. I e ven noticed wha t times the
lights wen t o ut in the po rtio n the ho use m y

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ministrutivc Radi o Co nference. T he Rad io
Society of Great Brit ain is protesting , though .
saying that the deci sion is co ntrary to the
wishes of U K ham s.

Satellites Win Again

milli on. tech nica lly ca lled a " vo luntary co ntrib ution to the U.S. Treasury: ' was said to be
the highest eve r le vied. But d id it hurt? Ap parentl y not too much . Infinity ju st shelled
out $275 million 10 purchase seven more AMI
FM radio stations. T he group now has 34
stations. 28 in top -te n markets.

An othe r potent ial DX tar get has been lost

to space -age tec hnol ogy . Accord ing to thc
Smithsonian Institu tion. Ma laysian wild life
will henceforth be
track ed by surcllite. " It' ll be rhc
sa m e m eth od
u se d to t ra c k
ships on wate r
a nd tru c ks o n
suys
ro a d s : '
Smith sonian research assoc iate
M ic hae l St uwe.
" \Ve will catch a
rog ue e lepha nt.
st ra p a coll ar
with a tran smittcr ro und its
nec k. and track
its mo vem ents
with a satel lite."
Darn ; and I
j ust bou ghI 4(XlO
bumper stickers to
WILD X-Ih e
laun c h
Wildlife Internat ional Liste ne rs DX
Club.

More Vanity

Everybody's Gone Country

Ham rad io operato rs in the U.S. have been

wor king out a system of so -ca lled vanity ca ll
signs. Like va nity lice nse plates for cars. they
are e xpect ed to not only be popular but somethin g of a revenue ge nerator for the go ve rnment.
Were you aware. howe ve r. that vani ty
addresses arc nowbeing issucd on the Internet '!
Th is ca me to our atte ntion wh en it wa s revea led that Proc tor & Ga mble and Kraft Food s
beg a n a mass ive "buy" o f such names as
"fl u.com " and "din rrhc u.co m," It now costs
$ 100 to register an Int ernet dom ain name.

Ac cord ing to the Katz Radi o Group. co untry forma ts arc now " king" of U.S. rad io,
althou gh the forma t is a ppa re ntly splitt ing
into two diffe rent ca m ps. Two gro ups of
count ry radio Iistcn crs havccmcrgcd: younger.
roc k-ba sed listen ers and olde r. so ft/gold liste ners. Th e report track ed pro gramming per for mance over the past 10years an d involved
so me 4.065 statio n in 16 1 di ffe re nt markets.
Interestingly. howe ver. if yo u co mbi ne the
plethora of Christian formats (conte mpora ry.
Go spel. ct c .) listed in the M 511"('el Rad io
Directory. rel igiou s statio ns arc # 1 in the
United Stares.

Two Way Quack Up

You think U.S. radio regulationsarc tough?
A man in Laun ceston . Au stra lia. was fin ed
52.000 for quac king like a du ck on his two-

way. According to the Reuters News Agency.

Do n Desmo nd Dave y wa s co nvic te d for
"broadca sting something that was not speec h.
was not und erstandable. and co uld cause co n-

fusion." Davey pled guilty and was ordered to

turn in his rad io .

How Much Did It Hurt?

Infinity Broadcasting finally paid up the
fine levied by the FCC for obscenities air ed

on the Howard Stern talk show. The S I.7

No Morse on HF, either?

T he a nti-Mo rse code move ment is continu ing to ga in gro und . New Zea land recen tly
pro posed to elim inate the intern ational code
requirem ent fo r HF (shortwave }amate ur opcru tion . Now the Uni ted Kingdom is apparc mly joi ni ng the Kiwi s and pla ns to support
the New Zea land prop osal at the Wor ld Ad6

MONITORING TIMES

January 1996

Police Scanning
Pol ice in Row ley. Ma ssach usetts. almo st
c a ug h t a burg la r be c au se a n off- duty
Georgetow n o ffice r happened to be liste ning
to his sca nner. T he office r. who po lice refuse d to iden tify. apparen tly mo nitored what
appeared 10 he a cellular phone co nve rsation

abo ut the cr ime. " [T he offi cer] heard them

saying that a cruiser had j ust passed them . and
a few othe r thin gs that led him to believe there
was a break in progress:' said Rowle y pol ice.
Police late r sto pped a ca r in Have rhill and
found three people "a nd a va riety of ce llular
pho nes and radi os" but d id not make an arrest.

Scanning to the Rescue

The Frede ricksburg. Virginia. Free-LanceSlar re port s that "a call fro m an alert scanner listener led to the arrests of two men
accused of bre aki ng into two homes yeste rda y in Spotsylvania Co unty:' Poli ce responded to a bu rglar ala r m and saw three
men com ing out of the house. Wh ile they
were able to grab one of the men . the two oth er
took off. A sea rch, using dogs. was unable to
turn up the two.
Som e time later. the two suspec ts were
seen at a pay phone by so meo ne who heard
their de scriptions over the sca nner. Police
stopped their ca r a sha n time later and mad e
the arrests.
T his. and doze ns of other ex amples of
c itizens using their sca nne rs to assist la w
e nforce me nt. e nds whe n publi c safety offic ials dec ide to "scram ble" or di gitalize the ir
sig nals w ithout g iving the pub lic access .

Scanning Rescue /I
It was a tense moment in a Westmin ster.
Maryland . bank. A man walk ed in, " acted
suspiciously. and left as soon as another customer wa lked in. Th e pol ice were ca lled and a
desc ripti on of the man and his vehicle was
broadca st over po lice radi o. Accordin g ( 0
po lice spo kesman Gre g Sh ipley . it
wasn' t long be fore area sca nner listoners pitch ed in to he lp. Police
recei ved se veral calls from resid ents w ho he a rd th e
a nd
Ir an smi s si o n
he lped po lice pinpoi nt the vehicle' s
location .
\Vhe n the man
was stopped by police. they found .1
pipe bomb. a fak e
bomb. sev e ra l gun s.
a nd ne w spa pe r cl ip ping s on the Ok lahoma C ity bombing. He was
arrest ed and c ha rged with atte mpted robbe ry.
handgu n po ssession . manu factur ing and possessi ng a pipe bomb. a nd possessing a devi ce
that rese mbles a bomb.

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The Whole Truth

When Ken ya Broad-

cas tin g Co rporation

(K BC) viewers tuned
in to a rebroadc ast of
the BBe's 'T he World
To day," the y we re
greeted with the following announceme nt : " \Vc

wish to inform our viewers that we have no t been

able to recei ve the

BBe' s Til,' World To
{lay news program

0 11 suc h a narro w band widt h that the number

of freq uenci es can he dramatically inc reased .

Th ere see ms to be no "dow n" side to digital

... except that right now. there is no audience. Accord ing to the Financial Times,
there are only 30 digital receivers in all o f
England . That's not likel y to change dramatical ly in the ncar future. Manufucturcrs are skeptical abo ut the potenti al o f
dig ital radio saying that the qualit y of
existing broad casts are so high that
co nsumers may not want to spe nd the
money to upg rade their old radios.

IOCC:'lUSC of! technica l c hanges that

took p lace in the

relay of the signal
affecting the region .
KBC will therefore not be ab le to relay the
program for some time: ' Meanwhile, back at
the ca pital. the Kenyan Minister o f Infonn alion and Broadcasting announced the KBC
had cancelled its ag reeme nt to rebroadcast
World Serv ice because London was
airing "hostile" programs abou t Kenya.

sse

Technical reasons. eh? Yeah: Crossed

w ires.

Czech TV Bingo Cancelled

Bad news forTY viewe rs in Prag ue . Nova
TV' s on-ai r bing o games han : been suspend cd by the fina nce minister. The move
cernes in reaction to po lice investigations of
fraud . According to rep orts. someo ne became
suspicious when an " R " was ca lled out.

Silent Voices
Sultry-vo iced radio pione er Alison Steele
has died after a l O-year battle with stomach
ca nce r. Steele . who no urished on New York
airwaves as the " Nightbird." began her career
in 1968 when she was hired as part of an
experimental all -fcrnulc staff'on WNEW . Th e
expe riment failed. but Steele succeeded in a
then-mal e dom inated industr y. She rem ained
on the air for ove r 25 years , most recently
doing o verni ght s o n KROCK . She was 58.
Sidney Shure. chairman and fou nder o f
Shure Brothers. Inc.. died at the age of 9 ~ .
S.N. Shu re. as he was know n. started the
Shure Radio company in 1925 as a who lesale

parts sup plier for hom e radio set builder s.

Today. 70 years later . it is the world' s largest
manufacturer of microphones.

"Cornm u nlcatic ns" is written by La r -ry

M ille r with help from Rachel Baughn and the
fo llow ing readers who are members o f the
Communications Mo nitoring Team : Dave
Alpe rt, New York , NY; Ha rry Baughn ,
Brasstow n. NC; Ge orge Beard. Kansas City,
KS; J.R. Berry , Jr.. Columbus. OH; Bob
Fraser. Cohasset. MA; Charles Gossett. Nashville. TN: Peter Hassell, Los Angeles. CA:
Maryanne Kehoe , Atlanta. GA ; H. Kelle y;
Brian Lawrenc e. San Fru nci so. CA ; Davi d
McBe th, Amesbury, MA; Hugh Miller. Salt
Lake C ity. UT: Les Robert s. Baldwinsville.
NY; Richard S klar, Sea tt le, WA ; Kurt
Soko lowski. Fredericksburg. VA :Jim Sutton.
Mr. Morri s, NY ; Robe rt Thomas II, Bridgeport . Cf'; Than ks. too . to the monitori ng team
members who wish to remain anon ymous .
We also co nsulted the followi ng sources and
list their nam es in app reciat ion: BHC World
Broadcast Inf ormation. Chuck Shepherd' s
Ne ws ofthe Wl'ird, Natio nal Scanning. Radio
World, W5YI Report.

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I'll Pay! 1'/1 Pay!

Chuck Shepherd reports that Paragon Cabl e
in New York has com e up with a new wa y to
ge t customers to pay their bills. Instead of
cutting off service altoge ther. Paragon instead fills all 77 channels on the system with
C-SPAN . C-S PAN televises such delicacies
' IS lon g-winded speeches by co ngressmen
and live Se nate hea rings on cock roach research in Honduras. Paragon says that the
projec t has been success ful.

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of 'flmerlng'
How did you get started in the hobby?
Do yo u rememb er w ho helped yo u
along th e way? In amateur radio, such a
mentor is called an "Elmer. " but the
principle is not limited to hams. The
follow ing story may remind yo u of your
own start in radio ... or if you're new to
the hobby it may encourage you to
know thats its okay to ask for help!
Story and Photos By Don Daso

he big fl oor model Zenith sat in o ne corner of our living room.

Mostly. we listened 10 ball games on it- provided there was
time from the farm chore s. We especia lly tuned in 10 night
games. when the re' d be time to sit back and rela x.
One night-when a game W :'IS over and spinning the big we ighted
dial aro und failed to turn up anything interes ting- I reached o ut and
moved one o f the knobs. labeled BAND. The Clevela nd India ns we nt
away for good . The sounds were totally di fferent . To my 12-ycar old
imagination. it see med sort o f like a sc ience fict ion movi e soundtrac k:

squeals a nd whistles and pops and strange \' Oi l"C S and music and
noi ses . An advent ure in so und .
The big black rot ary dial wa s labeled in bold white print at various
poi nts. Short-wave bro adcast, London. Paris. Tokyo. AMATEUR. At
so me spots in my rotatio n of the dial. you could ac tually hear sounds
from whe re the label snid-e-tor instance.the BBe. whic h tur ned ( JU[ 10
rea lly be in London . I thought th is was pretty terrific. co nsidering I was
sitting in Oh io in my farm ho use living roum on a wa nn summe r night.
As was o ften the cusc. I went to the library to read abou t wha t I was

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doing . Radio. it turn ed out. was u very big

dea l. In 1960 radio wa s a com mercial e nte rprise. a cultura l phen ome non. an historic al
prcscnce. ut echn ologicul marve l. and a hobby .
It \ \ '3S thi s latt er as pec t which cau ght my
attention.
Within a yea r o f reading a nd ask ing questio ns. I had lau gh I myself a lot abo ut ea ch of
those area s. I wa s liste nin g. more and more
reg ularly . to those bands marked AMATE UR
instead of the shortwave bro ad casters. I was
begin ning to und erstand these "h a ms: ' as I'd
learned they were ca lled . and some o f their
language.
I' d co nv inced my fol ks to let me have the
Zen ith. It had tak en me most of an afte rnoon
to work up the co urag e 10 rem ove the back
from the big conso le and look into the works
of the set. T he radio itsel f was relative ly
sma ll. a ltho ugh it had a huge circu lar d ial. a nd
a big speake r mounted und erneath the c hassis. By even ing. that c hass is and speaker we re
se t up. alo ne. on a sma ll desk beside my bed .
and the lovely woode n cabinet releg ated to
the scra p heap . T he radio would occ upy marc
and mo re of my time .
Finally . I found out there was anot her ham
in my sc hoo l. in the cl ass ahead of minc oWe
became friends . \VA 8ATG helped me le arn
the code. lei me listen to Q SO s (convcrsution s). le t I11C ta lk to peo ple on the ai r, let me
know there we re other ham s in the sma ll town
near where w e lived .
Finally . a fte r a practice sess ion late one
Dece mber eve nin g. he turned to me a nd said.
"Congratula tions. you' ve ju st passed your

So me aspects of the 11Obb)'

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WORLX studies the ass emb ly of a
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XF-IDX expedition.

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No vice code test !" H ~ was m)' first Elmer,

although this term hadn 't co me into popul ar
usc yet. (An "Elmer" is an ex perienced ham
who personall y teaches Y(HI ab o u t the hob by.)
It ce rtainly didn' t take IIl C long to ge t the
writ ten exam out of the way after that. The
long wait for my license bega n. And of cou rse .
I would now need a station of my ow n. The
Ze nith was woe fully inadequate. without a
BFO or any select ivity to speak of. But how
was I going to afford equipment? I was 13
years old. 1Od my folks didn 't have man e)' to
buy me equipment.
Well. like all hams. I improvised . I took
my only income and squirreled it awa y, I
saved up my lunch money. I really didn ' t
ha ve a plan . but I kne w I need ed a radi o
station i fl was go ing to be a real ham This was
a step in that dire cti on-OIl the stagge ring rate
of 35 cen ts a da y.
One day. unot her stude nt walked up to me
afte r gy m class and sa id he' d heard I was a
ham . His dad used to be a ham . he said. and so
did he. but bo th of them we re no longer
licen sed . What kind of gear d id I use? he
wan ted to know . Patientl y. I explain ed my
situation. The next day. he: asked me if I
wa nted to huy his Dad ' s o ld receiver, wh ich

he caut ion ed me didn 't work, but was still a

ti ne receiver-som eth ing called a BC348.
Again, I read some book s and d id research. It see med the BC-348 was usable in
hamm ing. Indeed. there were several articles
ava ilable abou t "con vening surp lus" which
refe ren ced this particular radio . O nce I' d figured out "surplus" a nd wha t "convening"
meant. I co ncl uded the asked-for S 10 price
tag was probab ly wort h it.
Enter Elmer nu mber two . Pete, ' ATG,
conv inced me to call \V8SG H and as k for his
help. He' d been a radioman in the war and
knew lots about surp lus gear. Lou agreed to
help me gCI the radi o up and running in his
spare lime. He stressed he'd help me, but that
I' d he doin g the work.
\Vell. it qu ickly became ob vious that while
I might have passed a test. I really didn 't
know anything about this aspect of the hobb y.
Indeed. I had a health y curiosity abou t it,
co uld read a book about it and memorize facts
and li gures, but had never so ldered two wires
together. My educati on begun. Proceeding so
slo wly and subtly that I wonder wheth er or
not he plann ed it this way . I lea rned something abou t the myster ies o r elec tron ics. I
learn ed not to be afraid . I learned what com -

po nents did , what symbols stood for what on

a schematic. I lea rned. in short. something
more about being a ham . Togeth er . down in
his basement workshop. over the co urse o f
so me night s and wee kends. we "converted"
that BC-348 .
I used the 348 in QSOs made during the
co urse of the Novice Rou ndup-which is
when my licen se ca me: \VN8HJW. It was a
real thrill and quite a challenge, getting on the
air and mak ing your first contacts during a
co ntest.
Pete and I bec ame me mbers of our local
rad io c1ob-the Medin a Cou nty (O hio) Radio Club. Again. the proce ss was subtle. yet
real. Ma ny o f the mem bers of this group o f
mostly o lder. retired guys gave us the bene fit
o f their ex pe rience and know ledge- real
"two-letter call" hams ex plain ing so mething
abo ut the history of the hobby, sharp rf techniciun s talking through transmi tter design ,
acco mplished DX ers describing operating
tech niques. We had a wealth of Eime rs hel ping us out . Maybe it was the timcs (who won ' t
agree the 60s we re uniqu e" ). maybe it was the
fact we we re the on ly youngsters around
(so meo ne even had 10 drive li S 10 meetings),
mayb e it was ou r ow n eager enthusiasm, but

What a view! Pilots Iohn and Bob. XEl l KP, WORLX, K9Aj and Wlt 8MA Z at the highest point 011 Socorro

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where I wa s living. to see what I was doing.

And that he wa nted to tha nk me.
I wa s. to say the least. surp rised . Pleased .
but surprised . Yet. I had thi s ove rwhel ming
me mory of hav ing felt exac tly the sa me way
back there in the I960 s. when Lou ie or Ev or
A I or Sam or Wil lie or Doc or any of my first
rad io club gang gave me their advice.
As we stood there am id the tho usa nds of
slow-moving. shoving hams. tim e slowe d
down. and the co nvention floor see med to get
kind of quiet. As we shoo k hands. I said it was
no trou ble at all. It was reall y my pleasure .
the thi ngs
And hel ping out was ju st one
ham rad io was all about- som et hing I had
lea rned a long time ago. in a radio club far. far
away . From my ow n ma ny Eime rs.
"Th ank you !" I said .

or

Daso beca me WN8 HJlV in the early 60,'1.

Upgrading to WA8MAZ a year later. he
quickly became inte rested in traffic handling
(Inti the quarte rly CD Pa nv Contests . Finally. aft er nUIIlY ye ars, he snnde the leap to
"bigger contests. bigger radios. bigger alltl'",Ill S " and today. as WZJ Q. finds him self
co ntributing to co ntes t totals as both a sing le
01' and as pa rt ofmu lti -mu lti stations: "A big
club which hasn 't lost sig ht of many of the
valu es addressed ill this article. " he says, He
enjoys writing and H OllO I' Roll DXing-tlw t
cOll1l'.fl for rery stow operators.
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during co llege. buiIding electronic equipment
for the Unive rsity physics lab. So me of it' s
got te n me tem porary jobs duri ng periods of
une mployme nt. It' s enabled me to repair gear
I use in my busi ness today-film and telev ision production . It' s made it po ssible to bui ld
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Most ly. it has meant I would so me how
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Beaming Lig ht through The Heart of Darkness'

By Colin Miller

vcr a per iod of YC;.Irs. we 've gradua lly added to a seri es

of articl es o n A frica n broadcasti ng . T he spotlight thi s
month falls on the Central African country of Gabon. It
is here wh ere th e famo us missio nary A lbe rt Sc hweitzer in 19 13
es tablish ed hi s m ission hospita l at Lamburcn c. Ga bo n is loc ated right
o n the eq ua to r o n the Atl antic co as t of We st Ce ntral Af rica . It is
bo unded o n the no rth by Eq uator ial G uin ea a nd Ca me roon. and on the
eas t and so uth hy the Congo Rep ubl ic.
T he offi cia l langu age is Fren ch. but othe r languages include Fang .
spoken in the no rth. Omienc in rural areas , a nd Bantu di alects in th e

south. The Fang people an: thought to originate from the Bahr-elGhaza l rcgic nofSudan . An other gro up. the Mpon gwe. settled aro und
the es tua ry o f the Gabon riv er ; they we re the c hief so urce of ed ucate d
labo r before inde pen den ce wa s ach iev ed . Oth er groups a rc the Bakot a
in the no rtheas t. fam o us for the ir reli giou s ca rvings. and the Eshi ra in
the so uthwes t. About 60lJ(' of the po pulati on are C hristians. main ly
Roman Cathol ics.
Th e to tal area of Gabon is a little more th an 10 3.000 sq uare mile s.
nea rly the size of Colorado. or a litt le sma ller than New Ze ala nd.
Howe ver . the po pulatio n is o nly abo ut l .2 m illio n. This is because the
co untry is heavily fore sted. w ith coasta l lo wlands. platea us in the
northeast an d so uth. and mou ntain s in the no rth. so utheas t and ce nter.
Most o f the co untry is drained by the Og uuc and Gab on rive rs.
Gabo n is o ne of th e most prosperou s Africa n co untrie s. thanks to
abunda nt natural reso urces suc h as timber and oi l. About 80 7c of the
co untry is fo re sted . Th e mai n c ro p:>. incl ude co ffee. rice. cocoa.

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pea nuts and palm prod ucts. T he

main minerals mined include manga nese, oil, and uran ium . Mos t of
the man gan ese is ex ported to the
United Stales. Before oil was dis-

covered. the main industry was lum-

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by microwave. VOA made use of

Africa No. I in 1990 follow ing the
c losure of its Monrovia. Lib eri a. station afte r the outbrea k of the c ivil wa r
there. In addition. the tra nsmitt er is
used to re lay some of Radi o France
International' s broadc asts to Africa
and leases time to Radio Jap an.
Africa No . I is keep ing ab reas t of
modern techno logy. Dur ing the past fe w yea rs
the station has bee n a vailab le on the Inte lsa t
60 5 sa tel lite . e nabling the signa l to he d istributed to ground sta tions in Africa . FM stations
ha ve been establishe d in ei gh t Franco phone
cities in Africa. incl udin g Bamak o. Ma li:
Dakar . Senegal: Brazza vil le. Congo : Abidj an.
Cote d ' Jvoire: as we ll as Paris. France . Africa
No. I is th e mo st po p u la r s ta tio n III
Fra ncop hon e Af rica. with an estima ted 17
mi llion listener s.
In early 199-t. the sta tion's Boa rd of Directors met to discu ss fina ncial matters following (he de va lua tio n of the CFA franc. It
decided to inc rease the bud get. as we ll as to
continue de ve lo pin g the FM ne twork . O n a
Media Network broa dcast. Louis Bart he lemy
Mapangou , the President of Africa No. I .

AFRICl\ NI

bering . Other factors lead ing to

Gabo n' s pro sperity arc foreig n privale investme nt and gove rnme nt
devel op me nt programs. Mo st o f the tour ists

visiting the country head for Lamburcne. loca ted in the west on the lowe r Ogu uc Rive r.
T his cou ntry wa s formerl y part of French
Eq uatori al A frica. A lthou gh it wa s disco ve red by Span iards in the 15th century. it was
the Fren ch who se tt led the re in Ise . At that
time the slave trade was at its he ight. In 1849
Boue t Will uurnez inter cepted slave ships off
the coast and put the ir huma n ca rgo ashore at
the site of Li bre ville. or "free to wn ." Duri ng
the Second \Vorl d War in 19m . after the
co llapse of France. G abon supported the ca use
o f the Free Fre nch under Ge ne ral de Ga ulle.
It atta ined its inde pendence o n 17 Aug ust
19 6 0 . O n 11 M arc h 19 6 8 the P a rti
Demo cratique G abon aise wa s es tab lished (La
Re novation) and a one party governme nt formally institu ted.

National Broadcasting
Gab on was the last o f the equatorial
Frunco phonecountries to obra in its ow n broadc as ting se rv ice . The fir st bro ad c ast o f
Radi od iffu sion Na tionale Gabonai se wa s
made in 1959 fro m Librev ille. the capita l. and
in 196 1 the sys te m was equipped by the
Fre nch co m pa ny SO RAFOM w ith its standa rd se nding co mplement of I kW . 4 kW . an d
30 k\V tran smitter s. In that year a ll programs.
60Ck of which were devoted to music. were in
Fre nc h.
By 197 1 the Radi odiffusio n T elevisio n
G abonaisc, as it had come to be known . had
und e rgo ne co ns ide rable expansion . Program s
in loc al languages were introduced .T he main
statio n at Melone near Libr ev ille has bee n
suppleme nted by med ium wa ve region al repeate r stations at Oyc m. Fra nccvi llc-Epila .
Tch iba nga. and Port Gentil. These were we lldi sposed in relation to the c apita l. which is
situated on the coast ncar the north ern bord er.
Fruncevi llc. at the extre me opposi te corner
towards the southeas t. had two shortw ave
tran sm itters of 20 kW an d -t kw , hu t these arc
now inac tive .
T oday. RTG has one regiona l and two
nati ona l network s. broadca stin g da ily in
French and local languages. T he main natio nal net work is on the air fro m 0455 to 2300
UTC. bro ad cast on three med ium wave tran s-

millers. as we ll as sev e ra l PM station s. It is

relayed via a lOa kW shortwave transmitte r
on 4777 and 7170 kHz (sec Table 1). T ry the
4777 k Hz frequ ency aro und sign on at 0455.
The interva l sig na l is an indi genous m usica l
instrument. an d is fo llowed by the national
amhem. "La Concorde ." T his cha nne l sho uld
a lso be audibl e on the Eas t Coast du ring: the
winter afte r sunset.
T he provinc ial networ k RT G-2 bro adc asts fro m Frunccvil le. Oyc m. an d Tchi bungu
on medi um wave. in Fren ch and vernacu lar s.
A network of 13 FM sta tions was co nstruc ted
a few years ago.

Africa No.1
T here is an eas ier way to log Gabon on
shortwave. In 1977 the T homson CS F company of Fra nce co m ple ted installations at the high power tran smi tt ing s ta t io n of M o y ub iMoand a. T his sta tio n is loc ated
on a 2.000 fee t plateau in so utheastern Gab on in the heart of
tropi cal forest. Th e site. which
cos t 16 billion CFA fra ncs. originally consisted of four SOO kW
shortwa ve tran sm itte rs a nd 22
c urtain an te n nas . c a pabl e o f
beaming in seve n d iffere nt d irec - "'
tions. Full sca le tests we re made
in Septem be r and October 1979 i
and regular bro adca sting began ,
in Fe bru ary 19&I.
ill
In Februar y 1990 a fifth SOO :
kW tran smitter was inau gurated ~
e
at a second site. Moya bi 2. near
the origina l site (a further 500 c
k\V transmitte r is pla nned) . Th at 11:I
yea r the station mad e a profit of -t
million Frenc h fra ncs.
Th e Moyubi- Moand a site is
used to car ry the programs of
Africa No . I. 135% Government
ow ne d co mme rcia l sta tio n.
broa dca sting for 18 ho urs a day
to Franco phone Centra l and west
Afric a. Progra ms o f Africa No. I
o rig i na te fro m s t ud io s i n
Fra ncevi lle and are fed to Mo yabi

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Jonuory / 996

MONITOR ING TIMES

15

No. I progra ms.

TABLE 1
Radiodiffusion Television Gabonaise
04550800
08001600
16002300

4777
i270

f rench
French
French

4777

GA8
GAB
GAB

Africa No.1
0500-2300
00001600
16001900

rrercn

9580

French
French

17630

15475

AIG
AfW
AfW

..}

the tr a nsmit te r.
w h ic h is t he n
give n to the na tio nu l
broa dGisler. whic h in
tu rn rents ai rtim e
buc k to A fr ica

,~

~().

gave additio na l det ail s abo ut the starions

plans for the futu re. A frica No. 1 plans to

submitapplications for FM ficcnscs in Benin.

Togo. Gu inea Re public. a nd Eq uat oria l
Gu inea . Th ey are also intere sted in Ca meroon.
hut the lcg n.lau o n the n: still o nly a llows the
Gove rn men t-ru n statio ns to broadcast. As
soon .IS authorization is rece ived . the planned
FM stat ions c an he 0 11 the a ir almos t im mediate ly. bec au se the eq uipme nt was ord e red in
a dVJ IKC .

Afri ca No . 1 has a sate llite switching

syste m which a llows loca l stations 10 break
away fro m the sate llite fee ds. insert local
an no unce men ts. and rejoi n the network . Th e
station ha s a du al ~ t ra te g y wh en operat ing the
FM stat io ns. Firstly. they haw "p assive relay s," which simply rebroadcast the A fric a

Africa No. I buys

I. Secondly.

~\

Y..

th ey have "d ua l
a c t ive re lays."
like the one i n
Pari s. In th is ca se.
Afric a No. I buys
a m ino rity share
in thc F~l slat io n. hu t it isj ust enough to block
a ny decisio ns that wo uld go ag ainst the
station's inter est. Unde r [his type o f ag ree me nt the loc a l slation can bro adcast its OWI1
pro g ra ms fo r a ce rtai n period . T he aim ha s
always been to broadcast these loc all y prod uccd progra ms 0 11 the e ntire netwo rk. exce pt
fo r local items suc h as weather and spo rt.
Af rica No . I is also stud ying the possib ility of starting up :'111 FM statio n in Belg ium.
whic h is horn e to a large Africa n co mmunity.
Th e statio n is o n the air da ily in Fre m.. h to
Ce ntra l Africa from 0500-2300 o n 9580 k Hz.
and to West Africa from 0800-1600 0n 17630
k Hz and 1600-1900 on 15475 kH z. Since

pro paga tion co ndi tions on high er freq ue ncie s

arc deterio rating . lower freq uen cies may be
used d uring the curre nt lo w e nd of the sunspot

cycle.
Radio France Internatio nal and RFI Plus
Afriq ue arc re layed fro m Pari s betwee n 0300
and 23 00 in Fre nch (sec T ab le 2). English is

carricd from 1200- 1.100. 1400- 15IXl and 16001700 . a nd Port ugue se from 1700- 1800. Some
o f the se tra nsm issi o ns and freq ue nc ies are
subjec t to change wit ho ut not ice. A color T V
service was int rod uced in Dec embe r 1975
using (he French SECAi\1standa rd. Program s
arc trans m ined to o ther Africa n cou ntries by
satell ite.

TABLE 2: Overseas Relays from Moyabi

lBOO-1900
2130-2200
2130-2200

Radio France fnternat iona le (RFI}:

0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0600-0700
1100-1200
1200-1230
1200-1300
1300-1400
1400-1 500
1600-1700
1600-1700
1700-1 800
1900-2130
1900-2130
2200-2300

5945
7135
9790
9805
6175
9845
21520
9790
15325
9790
17560
11700
Enqlisn
12015
Portuguese 12015
French
7160
French
9790
French
9790
French
French
French
French
French
French
French
French
English
French
English
English

AlE/ME
AlE
Al/M E
ME
AlE/ME
AIW
AIG
AI
AfW
AFc
ME
AfW
AIS
AtS
AIG
AIW/G
AfW(winter)

(summer)

16

french
French
French
French
French
French
French
French
French

MONITORING TIME S

6175
7135
4890
11700
15135
11700
7135
9790
7160

AIG/E
AlE
AIG
AlE
AINIME
AI
AIG
Al
AlG
Janua ry 1996

9790
9790
7160

A1W
AfW
AlG

Since RFI uses multiple sites on some of its frequencies; it is not always
possible to know which transmissions are carried by MoyabL Although the
transmittersarerated al 500 kW, they areonly using 250 kWat present.

(winter)

Radio Japan Regional Service

(summer)

0145-0215
0330-0400
0430-0530
0530-0545
0545-0600
0600-0630
0630-0700
1100-111 5
1115-11 30
1130-1200
2030-2100
2100-2200

RFI Plus Afriqu e:

0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0600
0500-0600
0400-0600
0600-0Boo
0600-0700
1230-1300
1800-1 900

French
French
French

Swahili
Arabic
Russian
Swedish
Italian
German
French
Swedish
Italian
German
Spanish
English

71BO
11785
11785
11785
11785
11785
11785
17780
17780
17780
l 1B35
11865

Al
ME
Eu
Eu
Eu
Eu
Eu
Eu
ME
ME
Eu
Eu

('119515)

(,11 15195)
(' " 11 925)

Radio Japan General Service

(summer)

0700-0800
0800-0900
0800-0900
1000-1100
1500-1600
1600-1700
2100-2200

English
Japanese
Japanese
Japanese
English
Japanese
English

15335
17760
15335
11785
15355
21700
11865

ME/Eu/Al
ME/EulAI
MElEulAI
AIS
AIS
Eu
Eu

(, " 21640)

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Poor Richard's Guide to Frugal Scanning

By Rich Arland, K7YHA 1

lU
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t never ce ase s to amaze me ho w

. wrapped up in techn ology we ca n become. Everv time a scanner or rad io
releasesanew wh iz-bang
model. hundreds (if not thousands] of scannists
and rad io listeners arc ready (0 sell off their
current recei vers in favor of the newe st offe ring.
Bells and whi stles as ide. ex actly how much
flex ibility doc s o ne need ? Is this que st for the
new est and best radio equi pment reall y rooted in
the desire to hea r d ifferent and more d istant
stat ions or co uld it possib ly be traced 10 a
neu rotic urge 10 possess what others do nor!
Recen tly I needed to upgrade my sca nners
and was lookin g through the Grove Cat alog at
all the va rious o fferings from Unide n/Bearcat.
Radio S hack. lCOM and AO R. One thi ng for
s ure: scanners arc not chea p. Good sca nnersones thai will let you do so me serious scan ning-c-start at about S300l
Th is latest excursion into the netherworld o f
new scanners started me thinking . I earn a reasonably good wage . yet I have to think twic e
about plunk ing down 530{) o r more for a new
scanner. How is someone j ust starting into th is
hobb y going to be able to ju stify spending 5300
o r more for a radio ? What if the newcomer find s
that he/she doesn 't enjoy ca vesdropping o n the
local EMS , lire , and po lice frequencies'?
Over the lust 30-p lus yea rs as a ham rad io
operator . sho rtwave listener. and scannist. I
have been ahle to have fun. e njoy the hobby. ami
further my electronics and communicat ions ed ucat ion. all witho ut go ing into the poo rhouse.
How'? S imp le: by using my brai n. By defining
wh at I need versu s what I wan t. I have been able
to outfit my shack with all sorts of electro nic
gadge try at minimal cos t. After a while . this
beco mes a game o f cre ativ ity . What Can I press
into service that will do the jo b at minimal cost?
The answers may surprise you . The rad io hobby
need no t be expensive.

_I rnanuf'lClur~r

Six Cost-Saving Approaches to

Scanning
#1: Yo u do not need the latest in techn ology
to enjoy the hob by. The underlyi ng philosoph y
in Zen. " less is more: ' can be imported into the
rad io hobby. Don't spend mo ney o n IOYs yo u
don' t need. Remember the old bump er st icker :
" He who d ies with the mos t toys wins !"? Here
is my version: " He who d ies with the mo st toys
is still dead! " Life is too short to be clu tterin g it
up with "needful thi ngs.,.
-0 #2: You call utilize o lder equip ment to do
the same j ob as some new wh iz-bang sca nner.
-0

18

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Study yo ur scanning habits,

Do some homework. find out
what you want versus what
you need. and buy according ly. Set a do llar amo unt on
how much you arc going to
spend for a piece of gear. It
docsn'tmake sense for som eone unending co llege o r living
on a fi xed inco me to inves t
5400 or more on a new scanncr. when all they plan o n doing is listening to the loca l fire.
EMS , and pol ice agencies.
Co nve rsely, if you arc hea vy
into survivalist preparations,
you migh t not besatisfied with
a four-channe l crystal -co n- The sh ack of K7 rllA consists of -15% recycled equipme nt.
Top shelf L to R: Rotor control box , two Bearcat scanners, MF]
tro lled scanner.
pack et radio and TNC atop speaker, /lallicrafters SX~ I 30 II F
-0 #3: Time and effort spent
in doing so me in-depth re- recei ver. Bottom shelf: MFJ antenna tun er, Ten-Tee Argonaut
search prior to purcha sing any 515 QRP transcei ver, digital readout fo r th e Argonaut and power
piece of radio eq uipment wiII JUpply, two active audio filters, and a Heath GR9-1 SU' recei ver.
keep you fro m making a regrettahlc mistake . T ry the Ham Trader Yellow
ham rad io fleamurkets. trading post pape rs and
yard sa les. Most o f the time. these receivers will
SIIt't'I.\-=, classified ads in Mo nitoring Tim es. CQ
Mll~ll:. ilU" QST. and othe r period ica ls. local
have many o f the local EMS . fire. and police
"tra ding pape rs:' and various users groups and
freque ncies al ready installed.
lists on the Intern et. Th e re yo u will find all sorts
You migh t have to add one or two more
of good ies at great savings. For instance. eigh tc rystals in o rder to co ver addi tional services;
channel . cry sta l-co ntro lled Bcurcat-Iv (Hi/Lo
however. <It ;:1 cost of abo ut 55 per cry stal. these
VH F & UHF) scanners normall y show up for
scanners arc st ill a bargain. Any Rad io Shack
around S 15 to$30- a tremendous savings. Older
store can order Bcurcat crystals, as we ll as
synthesized scanners ( Bearcat 2 lOs. 250s. etc)
furnish cry stals for thei r ow n prod ucts. Ju st be
arc reg ularly found for about S50 to 575! Who
sure to specify to the Radio Shack sales perso n
says you can't enjoy the sca nning hobby on a
thc type of crystals you need. Most of the ea rly
crystal scanners feature rock solid cons truc tion
budge!'!
-0 #4: Research the models you wan t to purand se ldo m develop term inal problems.
chase . Look at hack issues of MT and other
One add ition al benefit of using :1 cryst al
magazin es for produ ct revi ews and adve rtisescanner is the lack of interm od recep tion . Since
mc ms about the o lder equipment. Read and ask
the RF fro nt ends on these ea rly scanner s arc a
lot tighter and less sensitive than many of the
question s of other scaunists in your local area .
Find {JUt ift hey curre ntly ow nor have ow ned the
current cro p of super wideband recei vers. the
mod clt s ) you wa nt to buy. Ask them what the y
eve r-present intermodulation d istortion and adthought of the rig' s performance and for any
jacent channel interfe rence is not a problem.
nasty habits that the rad io might have displayed .
Most o f the time. the lack of super se nsitivity is
In short, beco me an inform ed buyer. This is a
all asset when scanning in high RF stress envig reat W<lY to lin d ex tra cry stals fo r the older
ronments. like major cities. Also the crystal
scanners, too. Man y times. so me o f the local
mixing. sche me found in cry sta l scann ers has no
sca nnists will have a few cry stals silting around
phase no ise- so mething which plag ues synthcfrom the days when they had a crystal scanner.
sized scan ners and lowers their perfo rma nce
-0 #5: Cry sta l sca nners are a good bargain.
standa rds.
despite the fact you might have to put 5:!Oto 540
-0 #6: You ca n obtain extended freq uenc y (,: 0\'.
into crys tals. (Ed. '101t': see Sca nning Equip .
cragc on old er synthes ized scan ners hy using
I//t'm cohnnn for mort' Oil using rrvstal-vnnconverters. Grove Enterp rises and GRE both
trolled .\'( W II/ l' r .\'. ) I regularly find older Bcarcut.
offer (while the supply lasts ) scan co nverte rs
Regency. E.F. Johnso n. and Cra ig scanners at
that allow rece ption of band segments not nor-

Jonuory 1996

mully co vered by the older scanners. Th is is a

cos t-effective way of o btaining extended hand
cove rage for the aeronaut ical. military. and X(J{}
MHz bands. Presto ! Instant extended frequency
coverage. Even if the commercial supply dries
up. these band co nverters are not that hard to
bui ld. There arc circ uits in various maga zines
that will do the job at a fraction of the cost of
buying a commercial unit.

Poor Richard's Listening Post

Do I follow my o wn advice? You bet! My
current scanners include a Bearcat-IV set up for
the local EMS. lire. and law enforcement Irequc ncies. Granted, there are a few addi tional
frequenc ies tl1'11 I would like to be able to
receive. so I have recently purchased a BeurcatIII that will be used exclusively for sca nning law
enforcement age ncies. T he Bearcat-Iv will be
recrystalled to rece ive only EMS and fire frequen cies. My IOIaIco st is small compared 10 the
co st of a new Radio Shack PRO-2035 ! Besides.
I dou bt that I would ever use all the features of
a PRO-2035. so why do I need it? Vanity has its
price!
In addition to these aforementioned scanners, l ha ve my trusty. 20-year old . Rad io Shack
PRO-4 rocked lip on the local PDfFD and EMS
frcqs. My Sub uru has a Radio Shack PRO-20l 6
synthesized mob ile scanner perm anentl y installed. And for those "se rious limes." my ICOt\.l
I C ~24 AT (dual-hand ham ) hand- held, modified
for wide band cove rage. will scan -to ham and
E~ tS . lire, and police frequencies in the HilLo
VHF & UHF spectrum.
If I were to expand my scanner collectio n.
one Rad io Shack PRO-20ll (2oa -channel synthesized ) scanner would be my first choice. I
have seen these on the used market for about
S IOO. which is another bargain.

We have focused O il using older scanning

equipment to pro vide a cost-effective means of
pursuing the scanning hohh y. I want to stress
that our intended goal is general scanning of
public service agencies (EMS, police. fire. EMA.
airport tower , RAPCON. elc ) in the VHF LoIHi
and UHF band s-not highly specialized weak signa l work. surveillance scan ning, or 800 MH z
trunked system listening.
I hope that my ideas regarding a frugal
approach to scanning have stimulated yo ur interest and ingenui ty. Don' t he intimidated by
others who have more money than common
sense. Remember. this is on ly a hohhy. T he idea
is to have fun. not spend tons of money j ust to
imp ress the crowd at the doughnu t shop.

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You j ust programm ed yo ur ne w scanner to

search the 13K to 144 M Hz range ho pin g to
capture som e e lusive military tra nsm ission s.
Suddenl y. yo u ge t a hit o n 143.750 M Hz. A
chec k of your fn..eque ncy lists shows that it" s
possibly a Civil Air Patrol (CAP ) signa l. Yo u
listen hut so mething: doesn 't so und right.
Sud de nly it strikes yo u that yo u arc not
hearing a udio from CAP but from CNN . Wh y
arc yo u hea ring CN N audio on yo ur sc anner'!
you ask yoursel f Congratu lations-c-or deepest

sympathy-are due. depending upon your listenin g per spective. You are exper ie ncing signal lcakage reception from one of cable TV's
<CATV) own created TV c hannels. In th is
circumstance the ca ble syste m decided to transmit CNN video and audio on Mid Ban d C hanne l D (UH - 144 M Hz).
If yo u do ubt me. tune to 139.25 00 MH z
Alvl. You sho uld hear a n o bnox io us annoy ing
hum. similar to 60 cycle AC. Thi s is the vide o
portion of tile tran sm ission and its signa l ca n be
detec ted by mos t scanne rs/ rece ive rs .

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The abundance of
ads for leakage detectors (such as th e
Trilithi c ad above)
suggests the prob-

lem is extensive. The

author suggests
there may be other

What is cable TVsignal leakage?

Cable TV sig nal leakage is a spec ific. me asura blc amount of unwa nted radio frequenc y
(rf) ene rgy tra nsmitted fro m the ca ble trunk or
branc h coaxi al cab le sig na l distri butio n sys -

20

MONITORING TIMES

January 1996

ways to deal w ith

this matter.

te rn. Your cable prov ider doc s not wall! a ny

le akage to occ ur. Bu t tod ay' x tec hnology co ntain s many rf electrical compo ne nt interfaces.
T hese inte rfaces incl ude mult i-amplification o f
TV c hannel sig na ls a nd hund reds or tho usan ds
of coax ca ble co nnec tio ns. A ca ble TV sys te m
is similar in conce pt to your home. s c los ed loop.
pressurized water plumbing syste m. Like plumb ing sys te ms. leak s can and do occ ur in time.
The FCC take s a kee n inte rest in e nsuri ng
that ca ble TV systems do not e xceed FCCestablished rf radiation le ve ls. It hold s cahle
syste ms to strict accounta bi lity and re spo nsibi lity by req uir ing per iodic document ed proof that
complia nce is be ing ma intained. Thi s re po rti ng
req uirem ent has c rea ted ;,1 unique busi ness o pportun ity for co mp anies tha t can pro vid e thi s
specialized ce rtifica tio n service. One such sophisticated serv ice uses ae rial surveys co mbined with co mpute r gra phics tec hno logy. Interfaced wit h globa l po sitio ning equ ipme nt, a
color-coded det ai led map g raphica lly depicting
vari ou s signa l leak age leve ls within geograph ica l loca tion s c an he crea ted , Th is specialize d
service is not cheap. but doc s sa tis fy the FCC
certificatio n req uirem e nt.
One reason for the FCC ' s concern is that a
c able TV sys te m 111;'1)' create its own TV channe ls using freq ue ncie s assigned to other FCC
lice nsees. Excess sign a l leakage co uld pose
dan ger and risk to life in so me case s, For e xamp le. cab le T V cha nne ls '\-2 thro ugh M id-

Band Channel C comprise five cable T V

chan nels of 6 M Hz band width. each beg inning all 08M Hz and ending al1 38MHz.The
108 - 118 M Hz range is po pulated heavil y by
aviation navigatio nal beacons. T he 118 -136
MH z po rtion is active thou sand s of times
dai ly w ith aeronautical a ircraft/ground com municat ion s. If e xcess signa l leak age should
occ ur on an aircra ft contro l frequ ency that is
stronger than the grou nd statio n the aircraft is
atte mptin g 10 hear. or vice versa, the lives of
the air craft c rew and passe ngers including

other aircraft in the area arc at significant risk.

The FCC acts q uickly 10 shut down any
ca ble TV sys te m e xpe rienci ng excess ive signal leakage in these frequ e ncy range are as
until the problcm(s ) is correc ted. Many cabl e
sys tem ope rato rs. if given the op tio n. wise ly
c hoose not to operate in these frequ ency
ranges . Howe ver. if the ca ble TV sys te m
channel capaci ty is grea te r than 12 c hannels.
the choic e of these freque nci es is te mptin g.
The alternative requires using UHF frequ encies for signal distributi on . but due to incre ased signal loss a nd high er equipme nt
costs for this range. the UHF option is not an
attractive one. eit her.

I Is this a new problem?

No; ca ble TV signal leakages have been
occ urring in va rying degrees fro m the first
day syst ems were operational. The differe nce
now is that recent state-of-the -art sca nnersl
receiv ers have much grea ter se nsitivity than
olde r electronic equ ipme nt. and leaking signal s are detected more eas ily ,
The rf interfere nce problem is not lim ited
to the private mon itor e nthusiast. Ca ble T V
sys te m signal leakages also may cause interfere nce to other FCC licen sees. incl uding
po lice. fire. rescue. and business user s. Signal
leakage problems are a con ce rn nati onwid e .
For example. the two -meter ama teur frequen cy 145 .250 MH z se ldo m is used for
repeat er or simplex com mun ication s becau se
of possible inte rfe rence from ca ble TV M idBand Chan nel E video that tran smits on the
same freq uency.

I How does a cable TV provider find

leaky signals?
There a rc sev eral ways a ca ble TV compan y ca n de tect signal lea ks in its sys te m. Th e
first way is ge ne rally a tele phone call er co mplaining about receiv ing intcr ference on other
rad ios suc h as FM rad ios a nd scanners/ recei vers.
T he cable TV syste m's best mea ns of
detec ting the site of signal leakage is via the

YOIi don't ha ve to live with cable 11'

leakage; a techn ician call "slliff' out th e
source of th e interference (as sho wn in this
Wm'etek ad }-or yo u can ha ve some [un
with your o wn DPillg!

"s ni ffer' process. It works like this: T he

cable TV sys tem tran smit s many radio Ireque ncy carriers on its coaxial ca ble syste m.
O n one Frequency. which typi cally is on an
unused frequency in (he 106 - 108 M Hz
range. an FM modulated ca rrier with wa rbling high freque ncy audi o is bro adc ast con tinuou sly, T he ca ble TV syste m in my geographical area uses 108.62 5 1I.1Hz.
T he loca tion of a leakage proble m can
ofte n be pinpoi nted by a cable tech nician in a
vehicle equipped with an Ff\..l receiver fixed
on the "sn iffer" freq uency . when it picks up
the sniffer signal. he can note the location for
troub leshooting.
T he so und is uniqu e. and the re is no
confusing it with a ny other type of aud io
you' V\: ever heard before. It is similar to the
aud io transmitt ed on e me rgency locator transmitter beacon s carri ed aboa rd airc raft and
ships. If you should eve r hear this transmission when mo nitoring. contac t yo ur cable
compa ny imme diately as excess signal leakage may be present in yo ur area.

I II happened to me-it can happen to

you.
Several yea rs ago I upg raded my towermounted V HFIUHF mon itorin g antenna co nfi guration ( 0 inclu de low noise preamp lifie rs.
Approximately a wee k later. I began recci ving very stro ng sign als on freq ue ncies that I
could not rela te to other lice nsed FCC or
know n military/govcrnment users. At fi rst. I
thought I was recei ving image interfere nce
from one or more of the area ' s YHF/UHF TV
stations. Howe ve r. the closest transm itters
we re 15 to 20 air mile s dista nce from my
mon itor ing locat ion and prov ed not to be the
cau se.
Continua l close monitoring of the audio
on several of these frequencies co nfi rme d I
was heari ng a udio from CNN. HBO. TNN.
and other cab le TV services. Th ese signa ls
we re radia ting from the trunk line ca h le
mounted un the powe r po le that passed by the
front of my ho use. My tow er. ante nnas. a nd
pream ps were located approx ima tely 75 tee t
awn)'.
A c heck of my refe rence file of cable TV
frequ encies and subsequent tuning o f my
scanners/ recei vers to selec ted freq ue ncies
January 1996

MONITORING TIMES

21

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varying only in levels of signal strength. I

was annoyed at receiving HBD audio on
167.7500 MHz as I frequent ly mon itored the
167 MH z range for FBI and /or othe r governme nt users. I rel uctant ly acce pted I would
have to live with the inte rferenc e and assumed such wus the trade-off fo r the increased signal stre ngth level s of de sired signals.
App roximatel y a ye ar later I noticed a
ca ble TV repairman o n my stree t. I spo ke
with him abou t my reception proble ms. By
coinc ide nce he wa s re pai ring the sig nal leakage source wh ic h was ca using my problem s.
Th e "s niffe r" recei ver in his truck a lert ed
him to a high sig nal lea kage si tuatio n. His
immediate troubleshoo ting re vealed a bad
electrical co nnecti on in an in-line trunk sig nal amplifier loc ated approximately 500 fee t
from my hou se. As a resu lt. high leve ls o f
sig nal rad iation fro m va rio us freq uen cies
were spe w ing forth in an o m ni-directio nal
patt ern . Upon re turni ng ho me a nd tuning the
prev iou sly pro blem freq uencies. I was very
happy to lind no th ing but white noise and
de sired signa ls.
I also no lon ger hear d the " sn iffer" tra nsmission on 106JQ5 MH z. whic h was ano ther good sign that the problem s had been
correc ted . An an noyi ng so urce of radio fre quency interferenc e had bee n el imi na ted and
imm edi ately made my mo nitoring e xcursions mo re pleasu rab le. Th e lesson learn ed is
that if I had co ntac ted the c able TV company
earl ier . the problem wou ld have been discove red and corrected earli er .

So me mo nitors ac tua lly view ca ble TV

system sig na l leak age as a weak signa l
monitoring c ha llenge. Receiving such cable
TV sys tem audio prog ramm ing is like tu ning in more TV statio ns wi tho ut thc pictu re.
T hough I have nodctnil s from personal kno wledg e and have ne ver tried any suc h c reati ve
sche me s. over th e yea rs I have heard of vario us rece ption techn iques. On e of the more
inno vative o nes invol ved mast-mo unt ing a
high gai n VHFTV antenna. eq uippe d with rf
prea mp. perpendicular to an d at the sam e
height a s a powe r-po le-mounted T V coaxial
ca ble loc ated abou t 20 fee t away .
T he prea mp o utput was co nnec ted to an
ICOM R7000 in put using the o ptio nal TV
ada ptor und tuned to the ce nter of the video
sig nal in the AM moue . T he R7000 TV adapto r video und a ud io o utputs connec ted to a
color TV accepting ba seband inputs. Recep tion result s varied in direct pro port io n of the

January 1996

Theoreticall y. c able TV channe ls can be

ope rationa l from 7 throug h 806 MH z in an
FCC-ass ig ned fre q ue ncy c ha nne lizatio n
sche me. Unfortunately.a fmost evcrything that
so meo ne \..-ishcs to listen 10 transmi ts within
this freq uency range. Sh own at Tab le I is the
re latio nship of standard c able TV vide o an d
a udio frequenc ies to se rvice s sharing those
sa me appropri ate freque ncy ran ges and to
w hich ca ble TV sig nals may cause interfcreI1L'C whe n mo nito ring . Sc lcctcd CA T V ch annel figures shown in pare nth ese s repre sent
nume rica l c hannel de signations.

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was de sired. then the TV adaptor was not
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Cable TV Signals Producing Possible Interference to other RadioflV Services

CATV
Channel

T7
T8
T-9
Tl0
T11
T 12
T 13
2
3
4
A8
5
A7
6
A6
A51(95)
A' 4I(96)
A' 31(97)
A'21(98)
A' 1I(99)

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BI(1 5)
Cl116)
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El118)
FI(19)
G/120)
Hl121)
11122)
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Jl123)
KI(24)
U125)
Ml(26)
Ni127)
0/128)
P/(29)
01130)
RI(31)
S/(32 )
TI(33)
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Vi(35)
WI(36)
M/(37)
B8/(38)
CCI(39)
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EElI41)
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GGi(43)
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70000
13.0000
19.0000
25.0000
31.0000
37.0000
43.0000
55.2500
61.2500
67.2500
73.2500
77.2500
792500
832500
85.2500
91.2500
97.2500
103.2500
109.2750
115.2750
121.2625
127.2625
133.2625
139.2500
"5.2500
151.2500
157.2500
163.2500
169.2500
175.2500
181.2500
187.2500
193.2500
199.2500
205.2500
211.2500
217.2500
223 2500
229.2625
235.2625
241.2625
247.2625
253.2625
259.2625
265.2625
271.2625
277.2625
283.2625
289.2625
295 2625
301.2625
307.2625
31 3.2625
319.2625
325.2625
331.2750
337.2625
3' 3.2625

Possible Affected
MonitoredServIces

HF Shortwave tSWI
HF Shortwave (5W)
HF Shortwave (SW)
IP
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IBiIS

None - TV en. 2
None - TV eh. 3
None TV en. 4
LM
None- TV eh. 5
None - TV eh. 5
None- TV eh. 6
None - TVeh.6
FM Broadcasting
FM Broadcasting
FM Broadcasting
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AB
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AV/FA
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TV Ch. l 0
TV Ch .l1
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TVCh. 13
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17.5000
23.5000
29 5000
35.5000
41.5000
45.5000
59.7500
65.7500
71.7500
77.7500
81.7500
83.7500
87.7500
89.7500
95.7500
101.7500
107.7500
113.7750
119.7750
125.7625
131.7625
137.7625
143.7500
149.7500
155.7500
161.7500
167.7500
173.7500
179.7500
185.7500
191.7500
197.7500
203.7500
209.7500
215.7500
221.7500
227.7500
233.7625
239.7625
2'5 .7625
251.7625
257.7625
283.7625
269.7625
275.7625
281.7625
287.7625
293.7625
299.7625
305.7625
311 .7625
31 7.7625
323.7625
329.7625
335.7750
341 .7625
347.7625

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MonitoredServices

CATV
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HF Shortwave (SW)
HF Shortwave (SW)
Hf Shortwave (5\\1)
AM 110 Mlr)
IS/MTlPG
AGiARlGV
Pl/FP
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None- TVeh. 3

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MMI('9)
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PPI(52)
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SSI(55)
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WII; 8)
WW/159)
XXI(60)
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ZZI(62)

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None- TV eh. 5
None- TV eh. 5
None- TV en 6
None - TVen 6
fM Broadcasting
FM Broadcasting
FM Broadcasting
FM Broadcasting
AB
AVIFA
AVIFA
AV
NOINA
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TVCh.8
TVCh. 9
TVCh.l0
TVCh. 11
TVCh.12
TVCh.13
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AM1220 MHz)
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NVIML
AFIAR

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AFIML
AFIM L
AF/NVIML
AFlMl
AF/NVIML

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AFIML
AFIFNML

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AFINVIML
NVIML

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' 1(65)
'1(66)
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' 1168)
' 1(69)
' 1(70)
' 1(71)
' 1172)
' 1173)
' 117')
' 1(75)
'1176)
' 1(77)
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- 1179)
- 1180)
' 1181)
- 1(82)
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- /185)
- 1186)
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- 1188)
- 1189)
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Video

Possible Affected
Monilofed Services

Carrier
(MHz)
3-'9.2625
355.2625
361.2625
367.2625
373.2625
379.2625
385.2625
391.2625
397.2625
403.2500
409.2500
415.2500
421.2500
427.2500
'33 .2500
'39 .2500
445.2500
451.2500
457.2500
463.2500
'69.2500
475.2500
481.2500
487.2500
493.2500
' 99.2500
505.2500
511.2500
517.2500
523.2500
529.2500
535.2500
541.2500
5'7.2500
553.2500
559.2500
565.25~J

571.2500
577.2500
583.2500
589.2500
595.2500
501.2500
607.2500
61 3.2500
619.2500
625.2500
631.2500
837.2500
643.2500
649.2500
655.2500
661.2500
667.2500
673.2500
679.2500

AFINVIML

NVIML
NViM L
AFINV/ML
AFiML
AFIFNML
NVIML
AFIML
AFINVIML
GVINOIMLJWX
CGJGViJO
AFIAGltO
AM (440MHz)
AM (440MHz)
AM (440 MHz)
AM 1440 MHz)
AM 1440MHz)
IFnpmUlWITC
LX
18
IB
TV Ch. "
TVCh. 15
TV Ch.16
TVCh.17
TVCh. 18
TVCh. 19
TVCh.20
TV Ch. 21
TVCh.22
TVCh.23
TV Ch. 24
TV Ch. 25
TV Ch. 26
TVCh.27
TVCh.28
TVCh. 29
TVCh.30
TVCh.3 1
TV Ch. 32
TVCh.33
TV Ch. 3-'
TVCh. 35
TVCh.36
TVCh.37
TVCh.38
TVCh.39
TVCh. '0
lVCh.41

TVCh.42
TVCh. 43
TV Ch.44
TV en 45
TVCh.46
TVCh.47
TV Ch. 48

Audio

Possible Allecled

Carrier
(MHz)

Monitored Services

353.7625
359.7625
365.7625
371 .7625

AFIFNML
NVIML
AF/Ml
AF/Ml
AFIML
NVIML
AFIFNML
AFIFNML
GVINO/MUWX
AR
GViIMiJO
GVnOISS
AM 1440MHz)
AM 14' 0 MHz)
AM 1440 MHz)
AM 1440 MHz)
AM 1440 MHz)
BA
18
18
TV Ch. 14
TVCh. 15
TV Ch.1 6

377.7625
383.7625
389.7625
395.7625
401.7625
407.7500
413.7500
41 9.7500
425.7500
431 .7500
437.7500
443.7500
449.7500
455.7500
461.7500
467.7500
' 73.7500
479.7500
485.7500
491.7500
497.7500
503.7500
509.7500
515.7500
521.7500
527.7500
533.7500
539.7500
5'5 .7500
551.7500
557.7500
563.7500
569.7500
575.7500
581 .7500
587.7500
593.7500
599.7500
505.7500
611.7500
617.7500
623.7500
629.7500
635.7500
641.7500
647.7500
653.7500
659.7500
665.7500
671 .7500
677.7500
683.7500

N Ch.17
TVCh 18
TVCh. 19
TVCh. 20
TVCh.2 1
TVCh.22
NCh.23
TV Ch. 24
TV Ch.25
TVCh .26
TV Ch . 27
TVCh. 28
TVCh.2 9
TVCh.30
TVCh. 31
TVCh.32
TV Ch. 33
TVCh. 3-'
TVCh. 35
TVCh.36
TVCh.37
TVCh.38
TV Ch. 39
TVCh.40
lVCh .4 1

TVCh. 42
TVCh. 43
TV Ch. 44
TVCh. 45
TVCh. ' 6
TVCh. '7
TVCh. '8
TV Ch. '9

(Continued on next page)

January 1996

MONITORING TIMES

23

CATV

Channel

Video
Carrier
(MHz)
685.2500
691.2500
697.2500
703.2500
709.2500
71 5.2500

721.2500
727.2500
733.2500
739.2500
745.2500
751.2500
757.2500
7632500
769.2500
775.2500

781.2500
787.2500
793.2500
799.2500
605.2500
611 2500
617.2500
623.2500
829.2500
835.2500
841.2500
847.2500
853.2500
859.2500
8652500
871 2500
877.2500
883.2500
869.2500

Possible Allected

Audio

MonitoredServices

Carrier
(MHz)

TV Ch. 49
TVen. 50
TVCh. 51
TVCh. 52
TVCh. 53
TVCh. 54
TVCh. 55
TVCh.56
TVCh. 57
TVCh.5 8
TV en 59
TVCh. 60
TVCh. 61
TVCh. 62
TVCh. 63
TVCh. 64
TVCh 65
TVCh. 66
TVCh.6 7
TVCh .66
TVCh.6 9
Cellular Mobile
Cellular Mobile
Cellular Mobile
CellularMobile
Cellular Mobile
Cellular Mobile
CellularMobile
Cellular I runked
CellularTrunked
Cellular Trunked
CellularTrunked
CellularTrunked
CellularTrunked
Cellular Trunked

Possible Affected
MonitoredServices

689.7500
695.7500
701.7500

707.7500
71 3.7500
71 9.7500
725.7500
731.7500
737.7500
743.7500
749.7500
755.7500

761.7500
767.7500
773.7500
779.7500

785.7500
791.7500
797.7500
603.7500
809.7500
815.i 500
821.7500
827.7500
833.7500
839.7500
845.7500
851.7500
657.7500
863.7500
869.7500
875.7500
881.7500
687.7500
693.7500

TVCh.50
TVCh. 51
TVCh. 52
TVCh.53
TVCh. 54
TVCh. 55
TV Ch. 56
TV Ch. 57
TVCh.5B
TVCh. 59
TVOn. 60
TVCh. 61
TVCh. 62
TVCh.63
TV Ch.64
TVCh. 65
TV Ch. 66
TV Ch. 67
TVCh 68
TV Ch. 69
Cellular Mobile
Cellular Mabile
Cellular Mobile
Cellular Mobile
Cellular Mobile
Cellular Mobile
Cellular Mobile
Cellular Trunked
Cellular Trunked
Cellular Trunked
Cellular Trunked
Cellular Trunked
Cellular Trunked
Cellular Trunked
lM

CATV

Video

Possible Affected

Channel

Carrier
(MHz)

Monitored Services

895.2500
901.2500
907.2500

LM
IB
AM
AM
AM
AM
PG
ISlPG
BA
6A
IB/IS/IWIPS
AV
AV
AV
AV
AV
AV
AV

913.2500
919.2500
925.2500
931.2500
937.2500
943.2500
949.2500
955.2500
961.2500
9672500
973.2500
979.2500
965.2500
991 .2500
997.2500

Possible Allected

Audio
Canler

Monitored Services

(MHZ)
899.7500
905.7500
911.7500
917.7500
923.7500
929.7500
935.7500
941.7500
947.7500
953.7500
959.7500
965.7500
971.7500
9n.7500
963.7500
969.7500
995.7500
1001.750

IB
AM
AM
AM
AM
PG
IB/IS/PG
GV
BA
IBiISilWIPS
AV
AV
AV
AV
AV
AV
AV
AV

l egend
AB = Aeronautical Beacon
AF': Air Force
AG =AgricultureDept.
AM ::Amaleur
AR ~ Army
AV ::Aviation
BA ::: Broadcast Auxiliary
Bl ::: Bureau of land Management
CA ::: CIVil Air Patrol
CG ::: CoastGuard
EN::: D..:Kt. of Energy
FA ~ F
FE ~ FEMA
FO ::: Forestry (Federal)
GV ::: Government
HF::: High Frequency
IB::: Business
10 ::: Interior Dept.
IF::: Forestry(Commercial)
1M ::: ImmigrationService
IP::: Petroleum
IS::: Industrial Scientific

IW = PowerUtility
IX = Manufacturer's Service
JO ~ F81
LM = land Mobile

l U,. Buses(Urban Passenger)

LX:: Taxicabs
ML::: Military
MR::: Marine
MT ::: MobileTelephone
NA ~ NASA
NO ~ NOAA
NV ~ Navy
PG ::: Pagln~
PK::: Park ervice
Pl ::: l ocal Government
PO ::: Forestry (StateA.ocal)
pp ::: Police
PS::: Special Emergency
SS::: Secret Service
TC::: TelephoneCo.
VA ::: VeteransAdministration
WX ::: WeatherBalloons

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depending upon the frequencies chosen by yOUT cable company. Cable efficiency and leak
detection are big business, as the ads by Corning (abo ve) and Mas terack attest.

24

MONITORING TIME S

Jan uary J996

~
I'

SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC

'W'
71'

'I

''1'''''

Tower-Hunting Tips
Mobile Dxing
Recording Your OX
OX Tests - what, why. and when?

.~

ANTENNA TOPICS

'j

JAN

-fmes-

Bilal lsotran resonant circuit

antenna: Autek Research RF Analyst
Choosing a Feedline
Selecting an Anten na - 1
(antenna characteristics)
Selecting an Antenna - 2
(bandwidth, tuners, noise vs.signal)
Selectingan Antenna - 3
(right antenna for thejob)
Grou nds: Real , Substitute, Artificial
Using wire radial to improve
hand-held reception
Utilizing Familiar Objects
as antennas
Diversity Reception: A limp radial
quarte rwave antenna
Easy-Up Antennas
AEA IsoLoop
Su rvey of Loop Antenna Types

FEB
MAR

APR
MAy

1995 Index ofArticles

JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP

Edison, NJ , Gas Explo sion

Emergency 9-1-1!
15Mistakes in Buying a Scanner
Informed Scanning
Project 25: Scanner Lockout?
Scanning at the Airport
Scanning Beautiful Bermu da
Scanner Collecting Primer
Scanning Kilauea
Shadowing Houston's Traffic
Trunking: Listeners Keep Pace
Trunked Scanning Laws
Try Searching
:

FEATURES:

Broadcast:
A Logical Future for Shortwave ..,
Argentina: Radio with a Past .,
BBC Atlantic Relay Station
Brazilian Voices on SW
Eq. Guinea: History & Mystery
Independent SW BCin Canada-l
Part II
Kol lsrael: Changing Strategy
Mediumwave Mini-OXpeditions
"Miraculous" Reception? (MW)
OKC: The Radio Aftermath
Radio in Botswana
Shortwave in Latin America
Shortwave History in S. Africa
SwissRadio International
The Course of Int'l Broadcasting
VOA's Moroccan Relay

Sep
Jan
May
Mar
Oct
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Apr
Jul
Feb
Aug
Nov
Dec
Jan
Sep

Human Interest:
Bletchley Park,WWII code-breake rs
Hooked on Scanning
Joe Adamov: 53 Yrs at the Mike
Leroy Schum: Homefront Hero
Scanning Investigator
Sixty Minutes in Cairo
Victor Goonetilleke - OXer
When Rescue Fails

Dec
May
Oct
Jul
Feb
Mar
Sep
Aug

Miscellaneous:
FEMA's Mu ltiple Radio Vans
GMOSS: Safety at Sea
Grove Expo, Vol Vi
tow-Power AM Transmitters
Preparing for the Worst (batteries)
Russians in the Savannah
The FBIS is Listening
The Internet via Radio
The Shuttle's Mir-acle Mission
To IDor Not 10?

Jan
Aug
Dec
Aug
Apr
Jul
Jan
Sep
Jun
Oct

Scanning:
Contro l Tower on Wheels ......
Cruising the VHFMarine Band

. Jul
Jun

Mar
Sep
Nov
Dec
Jul
Sep
Jan
May
Aug
Feb
Oct
Nov
May

Technology and Technical:

Antenna Grounds
May
Apr
Antenna Location: Fact & Fiction
Backbonein Your Dipole
Mar
Earthquake Monitoring (EMF sensor) ..Aug
Elemen ts ot Antennas Selection
Mar
Feb
Exorcising Computer RFI
FM-l0 Review
Jun
FM KiVICOM R7 1 remote system
Jun
Man v. Static
Oct
Modern Receivers (Collins 95S)
Nov
Propagation Modes
.. Oct

OCT
NOV
DEC

BEGINNER'S CORNER

JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAy
JUN
JU L
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC

Hi-Tech Learning Tools

Computer Shows
Parts Procurement
Scanner Books
Volunteer Testing
..
Monitoring Skills
..
Last Chance QSLs
Ham Awards and Contests
..
Battery Operation
Radio Hobby Not Dead
My Alaskan Adventure
Mobilizing Mobile Mobility
..

BELOW 500 kHz

JAN
FEB
MAR

Utilities:
GHFS: MacDiIi AFB
Greenpeace High Seas Drama
MT Goes Inside NORAD
Sailing Through the Ham Bands
SAREX: Astronauts on ham radio
,

JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAy
JUN
JUL
AUG

Feb
Dec
Nov
..Apr
Mar

AMERICAN BANDSCAN

Listen in on Remote Broadcasts

Landing that Wallpaper (QSLing)
Books for Domestic DXer
Time Tips for DXing:
Expanded Band Broadcasters
Es Skip Time'
Digital Radio - onthe way?
International OX - on AM ?
Who was on first?

APR
MAy
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP..........
OCT ......
NOV .........
DEC

You Tell Us: listeners' letters

AWOS Stations;
Homespun Loop Revisited
Wintertime OX; ELFgrows
trees; Tesla books
Beacon Troub leshooting;
Fix for WR-3; usingvaricaps
Who's onthe Band?
Name That Sound; Navtex
Summer Strategy
. Survey Results: Mac map
function; W7FG Vintage Manuals
..........GPS Meets Longwave;
unique beacons
... Trip to Newington (ARRL)
..... LF Eng L-400BAntenna;
Longwave in the Pacific
A Visit to "Old CC"

BOB'S TIP OF THE MONTH

JAN. PRO-51 modi fied again; Hold for RS Freq

Ctr: Beller Knobs for BC200XLT
January 199 6

MON ITORING TIMES

25

FEB
MAR
APR
MAy
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC

Realistic Antenna Battery Saver;

MRB100 Cell Mod
SW Reception on Scanner Antenna
Upside Down Antennas
PRD-2035 knob fix; Sony 2010 test
Cellular Image Reception
Cableand Adaptor Losses
Increase IF level on R7000171000
DX390 & 440 Tuning Improvements
Full coverage on AR8000, PRO-46
Reducing Scanner Intermod
Zap-proof receiver from
external antennas

CLOSING COMMENTS
JAN

Where are the Trunk-Tracking

Scanners?
FEB
One More Anti-Monitoring Law
MAR
Bits and Pieces
APR
Passing of the Clubs
MAy
Is the FCCabandoning us?
JUN
Freedom from the Press
JUL
Musings re Tom Kneitel retirem ent
AUG
Internet Phone; Successor to
Ham Radio
SEP
A Look Back in Time
(good old days not necessarily better)
OCT
Flim Flam Audio
NOV .....
. Is the FCCWorth Saving?
DEC
Holiday Greetings

COMPUTERS & RADIO

JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAy
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC

PC FM Radio Card
Grove FCC Database
Bus Mouse Installation
Optical Scanning
ScanCat Gold
Radio vs. the Internet
Copycat Pro; Hoka Code3
Scan Manager Pro
Scan Star Pro
Collins PropMan
Mail: Intern et v Hams
AEA Faxlll; OCR Revisited

DEMA",SWORKBENCH
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAy
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC

Tape Recorder Intertace

DC Voltage Regulators
Understanding Transmitters
(with out a license)
Using Op Amps to Aid Reception
SWR
Dealingwith Man-Made Noise
Looking for Parts?
Understanding Your SMeter
Beginning Circuit Design
Multiband Reception I'll
Tuned Antenna Feeders
Using theMFJ-259 Multitester
Intro to Crystal Osciltators

HIGH SEAS

DIGITAL DIGEST
JAN
APR
JUL
OCT

ARO Modes
Third Shift Cyrillic RTTY
Worldwide Ute News Club;
French Forces message
French Forces Naming
Conventions and Vessel Suffixes

EXPERIMENTER'S WORKSHOP
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAy
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC

Inside the PRO-2035

PRO-2035 Extended Memory
Tape Recording and Volume Control
Battery Backu p & Memory
Preservati on
Easy Dataloggerfor Home & Shack
Great CircleSpreadsheet
Radio Shack and Metex PCintertace
meters; Enhanced Zeromatic
for PRO-2004 series
Free Space Radio Path Analysis;
MAX471 measures battery charge
Rolling Your Own Resistors
Antenna Switching; Ground-Wave
Propagation Analysis
Buildingor UpgradingComputers
Upgrading Computers - Part II

FEDERAL FILE
JAN
FEB

Bug Hunting; Border Patrol

Summit of the Americas;
Boston frees: Strange Signals
MAR
Postscripts(Secret Serviceat
Sum mit); C31Data Links; federal
realignment proposal; fed loggings
APR
Top Agencies' Securenet System ;
Whitman AFB; US Customs;
US P.O; seismic monitor
treqs: US Geologic Survey
MAy
FCCdownsizing; Drug
Entorcement and related ops
JUN
Federal comms in strange places;
diplo comms; monitoring UN & A-bomb
anniversaries; US So Command
moving to Miami
JUL
BATF and FEMA trequencies
AUG
Summer VHFActivity;
backpack radios; NASA HO, Argonn e
Natl Lab, Arnold AFB, GA Forestry
Comm, FAA, Amtrak on 900 MHz
SEP Scanning the Big Apple; Boise idaho River
Festival, BLM, US Forestry
Service; Assoc of Am Railroads;
morehidden media freqs
OCT
Who's where and who's moving projected reallocations
SWLing the Feds
NOV
(SW back-up systems)
DEC
Federai protection details,
presidential campaigns, Olympics,
and nuclear terrorism

JAN
MAR
MAy
JUL
SEP
NOV

New York Harbor

KFS World Communications
adds VCT; Visuai Morse; mlv Polydoros
radioman saves lives
Petroleu m Industry
Globe E-mail and telex freqs;
USCG final CW
TheNavy's New Boat (guest feature)
Comings and Goings (history
of maritimecornms: final column)

MAGNETESTS
(Reprints of Magne Tests arenotavailable.)
JAN
AR3030
FEB
Best Receivers to Buy
MAR
Sangean SG789A
SonyICF-2010
APR
MAy
ICOM R71; Satellit 700 price hike;
W-J HF-l 000 difficulties continue;
SG789A antenna
JUN
Drake SW8 Improvements,
Drake R8A Coming; Sangean
drops ATS-803A; Grundig changes NAm
lineup; W-J stilt promises improvements
JRC NRD-93
JUL
AUG
Yacht Boy 305; News - Drake R8A,
Lowe HF-250
SEP
Lowe HF-250
OCT
AromaSED-EDL88C
NOV
Watkins-Johnson HF1000
Looking Ahead: Should you buy now?
DEC

ON THE HAM BANDS

JAN

Propagation Tips; New Videos;

Mini-Regen receiver schematic
FEB
Straight Key Night sending
good CW; Low Band Activity
MAR
Three Short Antennas;
Casio watch tor OXtool
APR
Ten Meters; observations
abou t antennas; homebrew tilt-over
tower and coil-winder books
MAy
New Products: Amateur Radio
Newsline, No Code License Program.
Buckmaster Electronics Software
Compendium, Power Pocket, ORP Plus
JUN
Are You Ready? Field Day,
VHFContest; Hambrew magazine; Antique
Electronic Supply; Atlas 400X transceiver
JUL
Value ot old gear; ICE
DigiField FS meter
AUG
RS HTX-21 2; Ramsey SX-20
SEP
Winter Preparations; Iso-tip
cordless soldering iron
OCT
6 Meter FM; Alinco DR-M06
NOV
46, 160, 80 m; Antenna Compendium
DEC
Stocking Stutters

Reprints are available fo r $2 per article plus self-addressed. stamped em -elope .

A comp rehensive index is also available 0 11 the MT Iwm epage at www.grove.n et,

26

M O N ITO RING TIM ES

January 1996

OUTER LIMITS

Frente Nacional Cubano Busted

Twice; Pirates on 43 meters; Clansin
Ru ssia; Radio Free Berkeley
FEB
Radio Caiman CI A op?; Radio Patria
Libre; Radio Democracy OSL; Books
MAR Pirate Activity Record Broken; Trummel's
Black Book; Iran
Clandestine OSL; Best OSL?
APR
FCCLoses one. winsone (Radio
Free Berkeley, 3 busts); La Voz de Chiapas,
La Voz deGuatemalan Mayan; KIWI
MAy
Pirate Bust Developments; Eropirate
bulletin; Mexican clans; Taiwan pirates
JUN
PirateJams Iran; Aum Shinrikyo;
Super OX Edge; So Music Radio;
Spectrum beasts trom Winterfest
JUL
"Patriot" Programming; RNI returns;
Polish pirates; Iranian clandestines;
WRMI Email
AUG
CID using satellite feed; NASWA
covers pirates; Radio Pirana; 41 /43 Meter
Notes; more foreign pirates
SEP
Increasein pirateactivity; WINBin
limbo; KI WI still active; RN t quits; Radio
Marti on WHRI; Iran clan heard
in Brasstown
OCT Chiapas Libre; RFree Berkeley Fined; SID
Codes; RPirana Moves; Black
Book e-mail; New ACEPu blisher
NOV
Israel Busts Pirate; SRS Email;
4143m 2-way Spanish
DEC
Iranian Clan loses funding;
Mexican clans; Local FM pirates

NOV

JAN

PlANE TALK
FEB
APR

Oakland Oceanic Control

The Black Box and Cockpit Voice
Recorder; HFNets serving MWARA;
Softwa re offer Final Approach
JUN
LOOC; New HF Datalink HFDL being
tested; Atlantaaero freqs
AUG
Flight of the Concorde
OCT Brush Up Your Basics; Observation Decks;
MonitoringtheComics
DEC
San Fran ATC Tower; Oakland
Center; St Louis freqs; World Air Carrier
Cal/sign Directory, readers' corrections,
additions; LDOCverifications

Medical Ouackery
SATELLITE TV

JAN
Trade-efts- Choosing aSystem
FEB
World Radio Network
MAR
World TV for Newshounds
APR X' pre ss Information is Ingenious; AM SAT
30 treqs; WRN; KJAZ
MAy
TVRO Shopping via Satellite;
Russian RS15; Digital Audio Radio
Service; Equip needs for InmarsaU
Wxsat, & SCPC
JUN ....... World Sat Yearly; SCPCon 18' dish?
Minimum equipment requirements
for SCPC
JUL
Peaking Your Dish
AUG
View from Europe, European
experimenters; AMSAT news;
Ingenius update
SEP
Rebroadcast audio thro your
house with FXWave; DMX update,
New Old Stock supplier, sat talk shows,
BBCnews feed; satellite predictions
OCT
Ethnic Programming; BBCfeed;
Bloomberg on Ku; DigiCipher rcvrs
delayed, etc.
NOV
1995 World Satel/iteAlmanac;
industry news
DEC
SCPC On a Budget
SCANNER EOUIPMENT

JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAy
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV

PRO-2035 vs. PRO2006

PRO-62; RadioMap
BC9000XLT
BC3000XLT
Uniden BC860 XLT
PRO2036/BC890XLT
PRO2037
PRO26
PRO60
AR2700
Comparison of scan rates,
current consumption. modulation
acce ptance beween AR8000 and other
handheIds; RU 2700 recorder option
for AR2700; portableantenna allernatives
DEC
PRO2040
SCANNING REPORT

PROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT

JAN
MAR
JUN
SEP
DEC

VOA Inaugurates Talk Radio

BBCin Transition (split streaming)
Radio onthe Internet
Shortwave Simulcasting'
Kl BN & WEWN
RADIO REFLECTIONS

FEB
MAy
AUG

Working at WAD
100Years of Radio (Marconi)
Revivea Five! (restoration)

FEB
MAR
APR
MAy
JUN

Scanning Ouestions; NOAA weather;

new aero freqs; taxi cabs
Scanning Savvy; cellular newsclips
Beyond UHF; Oualcom cellular
contract: protection from cellullar
clones; TV bands
Spring cleaning (scrounging);
news clips
Listening Post Improvements;
cordless mikes; bumper beepers;
news clips
Mapping antennas in your
neighborhood; briefcase satellite phone;

newsclips; extending cordless range;

Goodyear Blimp freqs
JUL Computerized Scanning; OKC active frees:
bugs in retaurants; PO scanning;
new aero freqs
AUG
August scanning (shopping malls,
sat freqs, winterizing); NYTV/public
safety; list of cellular restorable scanners
SEP
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FEMA Support Communications
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British Royal AirForce
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Hurricane Season, NOAA and
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US STRATCOM Network Freqs;
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Coast Guard Pacific Operations,
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Ready for
the Next
Atmospheric
Century
As ea rly as 1902 the We ather Bure au was
sending fo reca sts in Morse Co de via wirele ss
telegraphy to ships at se a. By 1905 ships were
eq uip ped with wire less tran smit ters and twoway we ather e xc ha nge s co uld be made.
Tec hnol og y moved rapidl y as the sc ience
of me teorolog y advanced and o bse rvation
tech niqu es beca me marc so phisticated . Airho rne o bse rvatio ns of temperature . relati ve
humidity. and wind s in the up pcr atmosphere
we re mad e with instru me nts carried a loft by
kites.
Follo win g \Vo rld War II the U.S . m ilitary
gavc the weather Bureau 15 sur plus rada rs
(so me o f whic h are still in usc toda y) whi ch

Story and photos by Ken Reitz, KS4ZR

s. rou te 460 East is the stra ightest road in Virginia. It strike s de libe rate ly throu g h
the flnt. sand y farm la nd of the easte rn part o f the state. He n: the land is neatl y

.0- car ved into vas t lidos of pea nuts . tobacco . and ext en sive stands of tal l loblo lly

pine s. T he high way links small old towns, with fl ames like New Bohemia and Disputant a. to
th e fad ing indu st rial ci ty ofPctcr xburg to the west a nd Suffolk . o n the C hes apeake Bay. to the
cast.
In the mid st of this unlikel y scui ng. Oil a s I11.111 ac reage of land donated by Susse x Co unty
nc ar the to wn of W akefield . Virginia. the Nati ona l Weath er Service h ;'IS built o ne of its new .
protot yp ica l. modem weather statio ns.

NWS al 12 5
In 1995 the Nationa l w eather Service celebrated its 1251ha nniversa ry. Begun duri ng the
Admini str ation o f Ulyss es S. Grant in 1870 . lilt: We ath er Ser vice spe nt it ~ first 2 1 yea rs as a
bu reau in the office of the Secre tary Of W'IT. Ob se rva tio ns we n: mad e by mem bers o f the Army
Sig na l Serv ice known as " o bserver se rge a nts." Fro m 1891 to IIJ-HJthe Weather Bureau ca rne
unde r the o ve rsight of the Dep artm en t of Agr icultur e.

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January 1996

The NEXR,\ D radome. l nside is (I 2Rfoot

parabolic dish with (I 360 degree vision out
to 2S0 m iles.

la unch ed the mod erni zati o n

of the Weather Ser vice . The
prog re ssive usc of com pute r
tec hno logy . hi gh a t mo sp heric ba lloons. and . eve nwall y. geos tatio nary and polar or biting wea ther sa tell ite s ha ve bro ug ht t he
Weathe r Se rvice to th is e nd
of the 20th century.

ru nning fo ur NOAA Weather

Radio stations- is quite a task.
We wen t to the Operation
Center to meet so me of the
meteo ro logi st s and lake a look
at the NE X RA O radar sc ree ns .
T he ce nte r. ' IS wi th the who le
building. is spacious. clean.
and we ll IiI. Equ ipment is <I
blen d of o ld Weat her Service
equipment in the familiar Air
NWS Today
Force Blue a nd the ne w gear in
the beige color ty pically faThe c urrent moveme nt
vored l1y office machin e manutowa rd mo d erni za tio n is
fac ture rs.
seen mo st clearly in the de,\ctual NE XRA D doppler radar image ofeastern Virginia and th e
Th e mctco rolog lst on dut y
ployment of the new DopDEl..1HAR VA p eninsula. Data at right indicates image status.
wa s Greg Noonan. who dempier rad ur refe rre d to as
o nstrated the N EX RAD sys Nextflc ncnuio n w eather Rad ar (NEXRAD).
sta ff is headed by Meteo rol og ist in C harge .
how
se
ve re weather wa rnings arc
tcm
and
To ny Sie bers.
NEX RA O systems will be: installed in I IY
do ne. Noonan deftly manipulated a co mp ute r
S iebe rs. like mo st of the rest of the sta ff.
Weath er Forecast Offices ( \VFO) a round the
progra m designed speci fi ca lly for the alert .
United State s.
is not from Virginia. In fact . 12 states <Ire
Wi
thin 60 seconds o f spotting se vere sto rm
N EX RA D is co mple me nted by a new
re p re se nte d i n the newl y-a s se mb le d
co
nfig
uratio ns o n the scree n. co mputer-ge n.
sys te m of Auto mated Surface Observing Sy sWakefield staff, A ll. ho wev er . arc from within
crated
warnings cou ld be issued to a ll sit es
terns (ASOS ) whic h au tomatically take rouIhc National Weath er Service and rep resent a
hoo ked into the syste m inc luding public sa fety
co m bined dept h of wo rki ng e xpetine surface observat ions a nd se nd the dat a
back via te le ph on e lines to the regio nal W FO .
Th is data. co mb ined with NEX RA O imnecrv
and da ta from weather sate llites . is se nt th~
Advanced Weather Interacti ve Processing
Sy stem (A\V IPS ). which is an " interactive
wor kstat ion" th at also rece ives information
fro m the three notio nal cente rs : the Nat io nal
Metco rulo g ica l Ce nter. the Na tional Severe
Stor ms Fo recas t C e nter. and the Na tiona l
Hurricane Ce nter. T his e normou s amou nt of
data is used to hel p in wa rning the ge nera l
public of potential threatenin g we ather. as
we ll as lo ng und sho rt runge forecast ing.
T he impl ementati on of this ne two rk o r
We ather For ecast O ffice s is in the fina l five
ycarsof'construction and re prese nts the great e st si ng le peri od o f techn olo g ica l adv ance in
the hi story of the Weat he r Se rvice .

t;

NWS. Wakefield
W hile th e s ite sur ve y for the NWS
Wake field was co mpleted in Jun e I QRR. con struct ion o f the bui ld ing did not begin until
the fall of 199 3. By J une 199--l. the bu ilding
W'I S com ple ted an d the fi rst fo recasters hired
with rou nd-t he-cl oc k o pe rat ion s com me ncing one mo nth late r. By Fe bru ary I. 19 95.
W ake fi eld ass umed County Warn ing Area
Resp o nsib ility. Hyd ro log ic Serv ice Are a Respo nsihility. and progr am min g for four NOAA
Weat he r Radio sta tio ns.
T he staff at W ake field. typica l of sim ila r
WFO s. tot a ls 22 . includ ing e igh t meteo ro logists. li ve hydrcmc tco rolo gi st tech nic ians.
a nd three me teorol og ical interns. Wa ke field

ricncc no t o bviou s from the ir

yo uthful appearance .
Indi vidu a lly. it' s a wc ll-travele d staff. Two year s o n anyone
asstgnmcm is normal. S ta ff meteo ro log ist G reg Noo nan c ame to
Wak efield fro m Ka nsa s and still
ca n', get o ver those tall Virginia
pines: Hydro - M e te o rol o gi c a l
Te chnician C hristy S m ith ca me
to Wakefi e ld from the Nevada
Te st Site where she made the tra nsitio n fro m Ai r Force to ci vilian
we athe r service : Meteorol og ist in
C ha rge (M IC) Siebers came fro m
Milwau kee where he was a Deputy
MIC. Compa red to W iscon s in
wi nter s. he can't be lie ve ho w m ild
ea stern Virgin ia w inters arc . As to
the hot . humid summers. Siebe rs
is less surprised. hav ing weathered severa l sum me rs d uri ng a
st int with the We athe r Se rv ice in
Washingto n. D.C .
A Tour of t he Cenler
S iebe rs too k rue into his office
and . swive ling a co m puter mo nilor in my d irec tion. gnve me his
co mpute r-ge nerated slide show .
Brin gi ng up a se rvice a rea map he
sho wed why Wak e field is uniq ue
in the N\VS : kee pi ng trac k o f the
we athe r along 500 mi les of coastline . parts of th ree states. a nd the
C hes apeake Bay- in add itio n to

The pride of Wak efield, VA. Entrance 10th e Ilew

National w eath er Service Office. Doppler NEXRAD
radom e ill background.
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office s, and a warn ing message broadcast on

the four NOA A Weat her Radi o stations under its co ntrol.
T he sophistication o f the NEX RAD system includes the abili ty to process the rada r
returns to dete rm ine rainfall intensity within
a storm ce ll, as well as gradie nts o f wind
ve loci ty. In addi tion, the co mpute r capa bility
allows meteorologists to de termi ne rainfa ll
acc umulation and storm tracking ove r speci fied period s.
The re are four NEX RA D sc ree ns which
arc about the size of a 19 " T V. A ll fou r
Virginia NEX RAD sites can be brought up on
anyone scree n. A special sw itc h panel measuring roug hly 2' x 2' is d ivided into a grid o f
sw itching possibil itie s whic h arc controlled
by a co mpute r mo use . Moving the mo use
fro m square to square and click ing produ ces
a nother NEX RA D image, It' s possible to
examine each image minutely as 10 the conte nt as we ll as the chro no log y of the imagery.

I Four Stations In One

A small, sound-deadened room j ust off
the op era tions roo m holds the bro adcast consoles for the four nearby NOAA Weath er
Radio stations. Ad vanced techn o logy is again
ev ident: the old-style broadcast cartridge tape
consoles have been rep laced by totally digi tal
recorders. Ea sy to operate, taking up less than
a quarter the space, and virtua lly mai ntenance
free, these new digi ta l rec orde rs e xe mplify
the ne w high-tech image of the Weat her Service.
C hri sty Smi th , Hydrom e teo ro log ical
Techn icia n, wa s in the radio roo m while 1wa s
visiting a nd de mo nstrated the ne w gear. She 's

o ne o f man y on staff who record the weather

report s for broadcast ove r the Weath e r Rad io
sys te m. It' s a j ob she clearl y enjoys. Smith,
who joined the Air Force at the age of 19, was
asked by the recru ire r wh arjob she' d like to be
trained for. It wasn't a questio n to which she
had give n a lot of co nside ration, but. reflecting that he r Dad was always watc hing The
Weather Channel a t hom e, she signed up for
me teorology .
Transm ission s from the dig ita l co nso les
arc fed by tele phone lines to the various
transmitter sites aro und eastern Virgin ia and
southern M aryland . These transm itters are
usually co -loc ated with other public service
tran smi tters and sha re tower space. Ty pica l
reception range is unde r 40 miles.

I Severe Weather Warning

Aside from the obv io us wea ther gathering and disseminati ng acti vities for ag riculture, aviation. and the general pub lic. the
Weather Service cou nts as its most important
mis sion the protecti on of life unde r threat of
se ve re wea the r. So impo rta nt is this aspect of
the Weather Servic e that there is a position for
Warni ng Coordi nat ion Mete oro logist. At
Wakefi eld, Bill Sammle r fills that position .
Sammler works with state and loc al authorities to coordin ate rea ction to pending
se ve re weather. In this part o f Virginia it' s
likel y to be seve re thunderstorms fro m the
spring throu gh the fall seas ons, w ith tropi ca l
stor m ac tivity thro ughout the summer. and
poss ible icc storms in the winter. Eac h storm
activity req uires different eme rgency reaction.
In add ition, Sammler wor ks c losely with

Th e Operations Center. NEXRA D screens ill hack. Computers link consoles with various
other sites and weather services.

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January 1996

the Sky Warn Se vere Storm Sp otter Program ,

Thi s program e nta ils train ing members of the
ge nera l public to be able to spo t pote ntia l
severe wea the r as it' s deve lo ping a nd to report actual weather eve nts such as high wind,
hail. heavy rainfall, and flooding. Part icipants in the program arc typica lly trained in a
t\I,'O-or three- hour classroom co urse in se vere
weath er, taught by staff meteorologists. Upo n
finishing the cla ss, parti cipan ts are given a
Spo tter 10 nu mber and a toll free phone
number di rectly to the Wakefield O perations
Center to relay eme rge ncy weather info nnation .
Sanunler stresses the import ance of the
Spouer program even at a time ofNEX RAD ' s
sophisticated and tire less visio n: .....\Ve need
to hear the 'ground truth ' from spotters on the
gro und: ' It' s a matter of data input. With
seve re weat her, you can neve r have too much
informat ion . Sammler also coordinates the
Amateur Rad io Sky Warn networ k which has
a 2 meter amateu r radio sta tio n with its own
desk in the operation ce nter. In threate ning
weather, a n Am ateur Radio Con tro l Operator
signs on the statio n and opens the Sky Warn
ne t.

I Inside The Radome

It was a clear day in early October when I
visited Wakefield and the wea ther couldn' t
have bee n bett e r. That' s why I had no trouble
asking to go inside the Radomc.Siebers agreed
and as ked Noonan to sho w the way . After a
small amounrofvhousekccping' ttoshut do wn
the NE XRA D, we went through a series o f
loc ked, c hainlink fence s and gates . Al l poev-er
to thc Radome was killed and we started to
c1imh the tower.
It hadn ' t see med that tall fro m the ground.
but w ith eac h fligh t of stai rs I noticed my legs
ge tting a little wea ker. It did n' t help that the
entire steel support structure was nearl y tran sparen t, eve n the steps. Th e final fligh t rese mbled a narrow step ladder at a steep a ngle.
At this heigh t (over hundred fee t and considerably taller tha n the pines ) the wind seemed
to be howling,
G reg Noo nan un locked the steel trap door
at the base of the Radome a nd we ente red. Th e
NEX RA D a ntenna is a 28-foot parabolic d ish
inside a 30-foot radome. T he stee l, sec tioned
dish is po inted nearly perpe ndic ula r to the
horizon and spins 360 deg rees, its pow erful
beam stre tching invi sib ly ac ross the countryside for up to 250 miles. Wit hin 125 mile s it
can "sec" to a n elevation of 17.000 feet.
Returni ng to the main buildin g. we pass
two se para te sma ll buildings whic h Noo na n
explains arc the ge nerator back-up s to the

wh ole syste m: one fo r th e N EXRA D a nd the

o ther fo r the rest of the o pe ratio ns. ln the
e ve nt of a pow er o utage the two big Cu mmi ns
die se l-fir ed gener ators co me to life. The e ntire sys tem co uld ru n on batt ery ba ck up for lip
to 20 minut es.
Inside the main buildin g. in a se parate and
spacio us roo m, arc the main computers for
the Ad vanced Weath er Interactive Proce ssing Sys te m (A W IPS) made by Unisy s a nd
featu ring racks of o ptica l \Vrite On ce Read
Ma ny (WO RM) di sc drives. Thi s is the info rmat ion wh ich ca n be acce ssed by a ny of the
subsc ribers to the Weather Statio n' s services
such as the Depart ment o f Defense , Depart mcnt of Transportati o n, and o ther Weat her
Service sites.
Ente r WRSAME
Upgrades and ne w tec hnol og y is not limited to the fo recasting of weather, Anot he r
notab le change wi ll be th e add ition of encod ed wea the r ale rts se nt via the NO AA
We ather Radio Ne two rk. Dubbed WR SAM E
(W eather Radi o Spec ific Are a Message Encode r), this techno logy will allo w e merge ncy
me ssag es 10 be sent to speci fic area s of a
particula r NOAA Weat her Radio service area .
w akefield ' s Sarnm ler c xplains that the wors t
thing that can happen is fo r the pub lic 10
ign ore emerge ncy we ather broadc asts. In the
pa st, suc h bro adcasts o pened the sque lch o n
a ll Weather Radi os 10 broad ca st th e impe ndingc mcrge ncy. It was fo und thai peo ple wo uld
shut off the ir Weather Radi os to avoid he aring emerge ncy me ssage s which were n ' t di rectc d speci fica lly to the m.
WRSAM E allow s the: \ VFO directing the
NOAA broadcasts 10 targe t the specifi c area s
for a wa rning. T his techn ol ogy will be built
into all new W eather Radi os . T here arc e ve n
plan s to include th is tech nolog y in ca r radios
and cab le telev ision rece ivers to allow fai r
warning to {hose in the affec ted areas. In thc
case of cable sets, a short te xt me ssa ge wo uld
identify the loc ati on and type of emer gency.
According to Stan Joh son , Pro gram Manager
for NOAA We ather Rad io, th e WRSAM E
syste m will rep lace the old Eme rge ncy Broadcast Sy stem (EBS ) and be ready for imp leme nta tion by July 1996. Joh so n says the re a rc
currently 375 statio ns in the NO AA We athe r
Radi o Networ k, and it' s es tim ated that an
additional 350 will be need ed to achieve
co vcrage to -B pe rcent of the U.S. po pul ation .

Mission Accomplished
Barry Reichen baugh of thc NOAA Pub lic
Affa irs Offi ce said , ".;We 're more than half-

Hydrom eteorological Technician Christy Smith records the latest weather an noun cement
for olle of'four NOAA Weather Radio Stations under Wakefield 's direction. Th e three writs
ill the rack at the left are digital audio consoles, Each aile replaces the gear ill the rack to
the right,
way thro ugh the modern izat io n of the Nation al \Ve ather Se rvice: ' Even so , it' s no t too
early to ju dge the success of this venerable
old se rvice.
Th e Weat her Se rvice has a new alt itude,
and the Wak e fie ld exam ple sets a hig h standard . Here. the Se rvice is not j ust inte re ste d in
its payi ng c usto me rs but in those: w ho have
a lrea dy paid via taxe s. The e mp ha sis has
shifted to public dis se m inatio n of wea therrelated info rmal ion , and the publ ic is invi ted
to part icip ate . Eve n if yo u don't ha ve a
Weath er Rad io or arc too far away for good
recepti on . Wa kefi eld ha s a toll free numbe rto
gel the same Weather Rad io broadcasts o n the
phon e. T he y eve n publish their ow n ne wslcrrer for Volunteer Sto nn Spotter s, keepin g in
touc h with th ose they se rve an d th ose they
need . As far as the ge ne ra l public is co ncerned, this unde rscores the " se rvice" in the
Nation al We ather Service.

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T~ 7

Uncle Skip's Guide to Monitoring

BEGINNER'SCORNER

Skip Arey, WB2GHA

TJARfY@delphi.com

Getting Back to Our Roots

omebod y once asked me: " If yo u co uld write any

othe r column for AfT. which one wou ld it be?" You
may be su rprised to hear I' ve kno wn the answer to
that questio n eve n before my name e ver graced a ll MT
ma sthead . I UW It tunv Ma gil l' 'J jo /J.'
Don 't get me: wro ng: N obody el se in the radio hobby

The crystal set i s

the simp lest radio
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co uld do the exce llent j ob o f revi ew ing rece ive rs that

Larr y does . But you have to admit. Larry gets 10 have all
that fun playing with all th ose neat rigs . Wh o wouldn 't
want the c hance to do that gig'?
Well . my chance 10 play at product re viewer c ame
thi s mo nth when a co uple of rec eiver s of spec ial intere st
to beginners ca me my way. w hile my thoughts here are
110 sub stitute for the in-de pth analysis accorded by the
"Magne Tests" column or the "RDI W hite Papers:' I
couldn' t pass up the opportunity to introdu ce heg inning
radi o hobby ists 10 radio gear designed to ge t folks back
10 the ver y root s of radio .
Ra dio can be
trncedto thecarly 1800 s
whe n M ichael Faraday
and Joseph Henry de veloped the theory that
a c u rre nt fl o w in g
through o ne wire co uld
induce a c urren t to Ilow
in a separa te wire. In l 8~O Hans Christ ian Oersted
succes sfully dem onstrated this princi pal c lcctromagne tic indu ction . The Germa n physic ist Henri ch Hert z
was the first 10 form ulate a rea so nable ex plan ation of
wha t was go ing O il with his demon stration o f the ex isteIH:C of ele ctromagnetic wa ves in 1887. In 1892, Fren ch
Physici st Edouan l Bran ly developed the first "re ceiver"
of electromagnetic wa ves. which he c alled a "Cohe rer."
The expe ri me nte rs of the wo rld now poss ess ed the
science on wh ich to build their ideas . lt was a yo ung
Mar coni who follow ed these de velopment s a nd c reated
his first succ essfu l wireless sys tem in IX95, After pat ent ing his invent io n in England in 1896. he we nt on to pursue
the co mmercia l .ISpcCtS of his inve ntion throu gh install ing his syste m 0 11 ships and at shore stations. As radio
sig nals became more commonplace. mo nito ring W'I' not
far behind. Folk s begun to experiment with im proved
"detccto rs't-c-dcviccs that would a llow better reception
and use of tho se tran smitted radi o wa ves.
In 1908 G.\\'. Picka rd pate nte d the cry sta l de tector .
His system was based o n the se miconduc ting prop erties
of thc min era l Galena. If yo u have been playing with
radio for any length o f time. you ma y have run ncmss

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January 1996

" crys ta l set s" de signed aro und co mmon semiconductc rdiodcs such us the I N2700r the I NJ..t. But wo uldn 't
it be neat to buil d a "re al" cry sta l sc i using yo ur own
hunk of Galena'? Whut wou ld it be like 10 use .1
rece iver like those used by ma ny folks back in the
192()" s to hring in those early rad io stations such as
KDK i\ . WWJ , KQW and W2XR ?

No power or solder required

T he fo lks at Ramsey Electron ics. Inc.. have co me
up with a great ed uca tional kit that also gives C\'Cf)' one a c hance to become 1920' s style rad io mo ni tors .
Th eir CS - I Crys ta l Radi o Set co mes with e ve ry thing
yo u need to bui ld a genuine Ga lena crystal dete cto r.
Thi s "Learn-As-Yo u-Bui ld' kit is designed to te ach
yo u about how rad io sig nals arc recei ved . detected,
and turn ed into usefu l audi o signals. T he ki t is designed to go toge ther with out any soldering. All yo u
nee d 10 get thing s togethe r is a sma ll knife to scrape
away ins ulatio n and a sc rew driver to attach a few
fahn cstock cl ips-probably the same tools your gra ndfather used to build his fi rst crystal se t.
The components in the kit are a lso of the same
na ture 'IS those thai Grumpu prob ab ly used to pull his
rig togeth er : some wood. some wire. and a ch unk of
Gal ena , T he only con cessi 011 10 the mode rn wor ld you
wi ll lind is a commo n 260pf tun ing ca paci tor like
those found in mod ern tran sistor rad ios. Thi s is an
acce ptable substitu tion because old- style air-va riable
capac ito rs arc somew ha t ra re and ca n be very expensi vc, (If you want 10 he tot a lly trad itional I'll te ll you
later about a resource that desc ribe s how to make yo ur
ow n capaci tors out of C0 l11 111011 materia ls.) All provided materi als arc o f good quality and the instruction
boo k b ea sy to follow. You a nd/ or you r pro tege
sho uld bnvc no trouble ge tting the kit toge the r an d on
the air in the same ev e ni ng.
T he instruc tion book 110 t only lake s you step by
ste p thro ugh the assembl y process. a long the way you
will begi n 10 learn how radio recei vers work . W hen
you' re don e you w ill be the proud ow ne r of a cry sta l
rece ive r capable of tuning through the stan dard A~'l
broadcas t hand. Furt he r, yo u will be able to amaze
folks wi th a rad io thai ope rates with no power source
othe r than the fe w microvolts it draws out of the
de tec ted rad io signa l.
In my ow n house ho ld. Numbe r O ne Son has
already brou ght the recei ver in to his Physica l Scie nce
class to con tribute to the di scussion orgeo logy . N um-

ber T wo Son has even bro ught it in to his elemen tary science cla ss for
"sho w and tell : ' Who sa id yo u can 't get kids a\vay from their
Ninte ndos?

Tweaking
But why should the kids have all the fun? I decided 10 try my hand
at some good o ld- fas hioned medi umwu vc monitoring. I logged abo ut
half a dozen stations in spite of a strong local broad cast signal. Then
I succumbed to the ever-prese nt desire to tinker.
Th e manu al gives direc tio ns on how to tap the coil in the ci rcuit to
allow you to tune ac ross the 75 meter shortwa ve broadcast band . Now
that"s fun! Yo u will find that "tickling" the cry stal to get a good " hot"
spot takes some prac tice. For this reason . the kit allow s you to build
the circuit so that you ca n switch between the Galena crys tal and a
modern diode for compariso n. Perform ance is more or less subject to
signal streng ths.
O kay. it's no Watkins-J ohn son, but you' re goi ng to have a lot of
fun for a lot less than it costs to take the famil y out to a movie without
popcorn . And , there ' s a bonu s thrown in! The instruc tion manual
shows you ho w to construc t a \Vorld War Two "Foxhole" receiver.
Get yo urse lf a cou ple o f razor blades and a pencil lead . You will be
totally amazed.
The CS- I Cry stal Radio Set ca n he purch ased direc tly fro m
Ramsey Elect ron ics. Inc. 793 Cann ing Parkway. Victor, NY 14564 1800-446-2295. The price for this kit is $ 19.95.

The next step: regeneration

Moving down the radio rece iver time line. the next impo rta nt
dev elopment in receiver design involved a process known as "regenoration." Si mple detector s. such as the crystal set, could only dem odulate relativ ely strong RF signals . Folk s began to ex periment with
feedi ng the detected signal back to the input. Once this process was
fully harnessed. a sig nal could be boosted many times. allowing
weaker signals to become listen ab le. A delicate balance of feedback
and oscillation was further improved by rad io and audio frequency
amplifica tion that allowe d for "a rmc hair " listen ing for our grand parents .
Regenerati ve receivers ca n be a lot o f fun to use. O nce you get the
hang of tunin g the regeneration contro l. you can listen to j ust abo ut
anythi ng that so meo ne with a more sophisticated receiver can. Even
thou gh the "s uperheterodyne" technology used in most modern rece ivers was perfected in the 1930' s, the regenerative receiver de sign
never really died o ut. Many of us got o ur start in the radi o hobby by
build ing inexpensiv e regen erati ve shortwave recei ver s in the ea rly
1960' s. You could log yo ur first fifty countries on a rece iver that cos t
well under 520 , Tha t fit into a paper route budg et j ust line and you
learned something abo ut rad io as well.
Now, thanks to the folks at MFJ Enterprises. Inc .. you can relive
the 1930' s or the 1960"s by way of the MFJ- 8I oo World Band
Rece iver. This receiver is available ill eith er kit or wired form . My
sugges tion is to build the kit if at all possibl e. It is a simple, first project
requiring only a few common electro nic too ls. Further. yo u can learn
so much more abo ut how the signal gets from the antenna to the
earpho nes by building the circui t along the way .
Instead of going with a trul y tradition al des ign. the MFJ folk s have
applied some aspects of modern engineeri ng to the regenerative
receiver conce pt. Thi s produces a receiver that is much less diffi cult
to man age when compared to regen radio s of the past. I don 't recall
ever runnin g ac ross a regener ative rece iver that was as stable as the

MFJ -8100. Th is stability. coupled with a vcry smoo th regeneration

ci rcuit that doc s not surprise you by go ing into over-osc illa tion. makes
this design eas y for eve n a total begi nner to mast er in a very short time.
Once yo u lea rn to use the regeneration control to peak sig nals. you will
d iscove r that this lill ie recei ver is rea lly ca pable of so me fairly high
performance .
Many of those 1960 ' s vintage regen receivers required rep lacing
co ils for each band yo u want ed to tunc. Th e MFJ- 810 0 uses LC tuning
with no coi ls to plug in or tap. A simp le bandswitch allows you access
to five frequency ranges . 3.5 to 4.3 MH z. 5.85 to 7.40 MH z. 9.5 to
12.00 MH z. 13.2 to 16.4 MH z and 17.5 to 22 MH z. Th is provides for
a good mix of both shortwave broadcast and amateur radio freq uen -

des.
I wired this pupp y up to a wire ante nna and proc eeded to get
abso lutely nothin g: else done around the hou se for several evenings!
Thi s is real radio: No punching up frequencie s on a keypad . You have
to go on the hunt fur sig nals. and then you have to help them along by
adj usting the regen erati on control. You will probably even find a few
signals yo u may have missed on yo ur murc modern recei ver. becau se
d igital tun ing ca n make eve n the most ded icated DXe r a bit lazy when
it comes to tuning aro und .
If yo u are looking for a receiver to teach a young person about
mon itorin g. this rig eve n co mes with two headphone j acks to allow
yo u to both listen to what is goi ng on. The receiver is designed to make
usc of inexpensive " personal rad io" style headph on es. Th is is in
keeping with the ove rall cost-co nscious de sign .
The recei ver can be purchased dire ctl y from MFJ Enterprises. Inc.
P.O. Box 494. Mississippi State. MS 39762; 1-800 -647-1800 . Th e
prices are $59 .95 for the kit and $79 .95 for the wired version ,

Starting from scratch

Chances are that owning one or both of these recei ver kits might
just get you even more excited about build ing you r own recei vers . If
this is the case . Old Uncle Skip has yet anot her resou rce for your
bookshelf;

Radio Receiver Proiects You Con Build

by Ho mer L Dovid son
312 Poges

$18.95

Tab 800ks
Blue Ridge Summit, PA
ISBN 0-8306-41 90-4
Thi s is one of the most enjoya ble books [have read in a long time !
Adm itted ly I have alwa ys been on e to warm up the solderin g iron. I
have never bee n shy about ripping into the innard s of my equipment.
and I al wa ys have a small proje ct or two on the workbench in somc
state of partial comp letion .Uyou have eve r had the urge to either bui ld
something orto get a "h ands on" idea of how these magic boxes we ca ll
radio s work. this is the boo k for you. Just as the fro nt cover states .
inside yo u will find thirt y-th ree co mplete recei ver projects that will
take yo u fro m con struction of a basic crys tal radio up through a high
performance. superheterodyne, shortwave recei ver co mplete with
ce ramic filters. In each case, David son lead s you by the hand, step by
step .
One of the most enjo yab le rewa rds the mo nitoring hobb y has to
offe r is to log statio ns on a receiver you built with your own hand s.
Give some tho ught to giving it a try. Make it a New Years ' resol ution
to melt some solder in 1996. And do n' t forget to have fun!

January 1996

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The World Above 30 MHz

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Bob Kay, c/oMT, P.G. Box 98, Brasstown, N.C. 28902

Antenna Farms
he number and va rie ty of an tennas that " rad io buff u~c~ 10
mon itor the uirwayv is affe ctionately referre d to as the "ante nna
farm ." And a ltho ugh an ten na articles a rc genera lly pub lished
du ring the spring and summ er mo nt h.... your leiters indi cate thai
re ader interest ill antenna... pea ks J uring the winter mo nths. T he cold
a ir a nti ea rly night fall restrict s o utside ac tivities anti we spe nd mor e
time listening ( 0 the scanning band s. As OU T monitoring time incre ases . we bcgin ro ask ourse lves " W hat if' qu est io ns. What if I put
up another anten na? What i f I put an antenna in the attic? What if I
b uild Ill )" O W I1 scanni ng ant e nna-e-wi lt it wor k ao.; well as a com mc rc ially-availabl c an tenna"
Buildi ng your own scanni ng ante nnas is fun. eco nom ical. ,1I1d
efficient . Yo u c an ...-oncrruct ;'1 grou nd plane antenna for the XfXI
mega he rtz hand fo r less than two dollars. Best of a ll. you dont ncc d
special too ls or skills. If yo u' re handy with a rev.' hand tools (dr ill.
ha mm e r. wr en ch . e tc) . you G ill bui ld a va rie ty of an te nnas that will
pe rfo rm as well <IS any sca nning. ante nna Oil the mark e t.
The ROO f\..H ll ground pla ne ( SCI.' Fig I ) is made from five len gths
o f co at han ge r w ire sold ere d In an SO':'!.19 c has vis mou nt. Radio
Shad #278- 20 I. S lip the SO -2.W o\"e r a len gth o f met al pipe or PVC
a nd there you ha ve it: <I q uick and e asy ante nna mo unt . T he form ula
In co nstruc t a qu arter
Figure I
W <l\"C ground plane .111tcn nas is:
" Lengt h in fee t = 2.1-ld ivi ded in to the Ire rtjuc nl')'.
For an SOD mcgahert z ground plane the
formu la provides a vcrtical c lement length of
npp roximu tcl y thre e
inches.
To build an antenna for a spec ific band or gro up of freq uen cie s.
the mil: o f thumh is. to se lect the mid-point freque ncy a nd incorporate
that figure into the form ula. For e xa mple. suppose you wa nted 10
mo nitor the airc raft hand bet ween lOS and 1J7 megahert z. T he
approximat e mid -frequen cy wo uld be 122.5. To find the len gth of II
qua rter wave ground plan e. divide 2.1-1- into 122.500. Th e overal l
len gth of your uircruf hand ant enn a wo uld measure -l--l- inche s.
Con structing a hom cb rew antenna beco mes especia lly e asy wh en
yo u realize that a va riety ofmate rials G ill he used . You don 't need to
lise coppe r wire. nor is it necessa ry [ 0 usc bare wire. I' ve seen
cffcctivc longw in: ' 111 11..-nnas made from plastic-coa ted clothes line !
To construct a long wire anten na for the cordle ss pho ne band . so lde r
a 10' sectio n o f wire onto a chass is mount " F ' j ac k, Rad io Shack
#27X 2 12. Attach yo ur coax to the con ucc tor jsce Fig 2 )and you have
a handy cordless phone hand a ntenna tha t is co mp lete ly portable .
A luminum tubing {avail able in hard ware an d home supply CCIl tc'r s ) is the num be r one choice for anten na projec ts. T he tubin g is
available in various len gt hs a nd diam eter s and it c-an be used for
f ..' pairing anti/or (o nstn ll.:ling new ante nnas. Antc llna rcp a ir and

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January 1996

construc tio n has a lso bee n made e asier by the availability of

low heat, a luminum snider. T he specia l so lde r is stoc ked by
N
a varie ty ofh ardware sto res and hom e improveme nt ce nters.
~
Th e usc of dissi mil ar metals during antenna co nstruc tion ::I
at
is pro bably the only area that merit s spec ial co nsideration. u::
Th e usc o f alumin um and steel for ex am ple, wi ll cause an
ad verse reac tion tha t w ill e ventua lly corrode the connec tion
point. Ma ny o f today' x co mm erc ially av ai lable an ten nas
utilize stee l rivet s wi th a luminum tubin g. Ove r a per iod o r
time, the stee l rivet bec o me rusted and the e lectrica l connection that is needed to receive a strong signa l is co m promised . To co rtec'1 the prob lem , drill through the rivers a nd
rep lace the m with bra ss or stai nless stee l mils a nd bo lts . Also
re me mber to usc non-corrosive hard ware duri ng ne w antenna co nstruc tion as well,
In additio n to bu ildin g new a ntennas . it' s also po ssible to
modify a televi sion ante nna for usc Oil the sca nning ba nds.
Al tho ugh the procedure is diffi cul t to ex plai n witho ut pict orial diagra ms, hcrcs the ba sic concept: ( II Remove bot h
UHF defl ec tors from the antenna boo m: (2 ) Locat e the
longest c lement -me asure from the boom and mark this
cle me nt at 21"'; (3 ) Locate the shortest cle ment a nd mark it
at 16- 1/2" from the boo m. T ic a string to hoth marks and usc
the siring as a c ut-o ff gu ide for the rem a ining cleme nts-s-do
this for both sides of the antenna: (-t l Hold the antenna
ve rtical ly. determi ne the new ce nte r poi nt of the boom a nd dri ll two
mounti ng ho les ut that location : ( 5 ) Last ly, rem ou nt the anten na,
attac h a ba lun to thc feed points and use RG-6 U coa x cab le.
Findin g the ans\.. -crs to yo ur "w hat if?" ante nna qu estions call be
a lot o f tun-c-e speci ally if yo u' re building c ustom an te nnas at home.
If you wa nt 10 try ne w an te nna s at new locat ions. winter is the pe rfect
tim e to stay ind oor s, stay wa rm, and to build your very ow n c ustom
antenna farm .

Treasure Hunt
To kick o ff the ne w year. Grove Enterprises is pro vid ing their new
FCC Databa se on both C D RO M a nd l ligh Den sity Diske tte . T he
database conta ins lice nsees from the FCC Master File. Yo u' ll ge t
Public Safety , railroad. bu sine ss. ind ustrial. broad ca st. mar itime .~nd
mallY ot he rs. You ca n sort through field s like c ity, serv ice, slate.
cnl lsign. antenna he ight, and OUlpUI po wer, or you ca n c ustom tailor
the program to lit yo ur pe rsonal search need s. T o w in the Gro ve C D
RO;\,1 Datab ase. simply lind the a nswer s to the fo llow ing :
11
21
31
4)

5)

BrieRy descr ibe the Radio Sha ck #25-020 2.

BrieRy de scribe the G rove #ACC 14 3.
What is the U.S. one year subscription price to MT?
Ca ller ID provides the call signs for rad io tra nsmissions.
True or Fa lse?
The Grave SDU ' 00 is compatible with the [CO M R
700 0 . True or Fa lse?

Th e G ro ve C D RO I\.. Databa se a lso offe rs a un iqu e mapping

pro gram. The program d ispl ay s a map of maj or roa dways in yo ur mea
.1I1d it actua lly shows you whe re the tran sm itter site is located. T o wi n
the C D-RO M Da taba se . send yo ur a nswe rs via post card or let ter 10
Tr easure Hun t. P.O . Box 98. Brasstown . NC 28902. Sorry. no hulk
mailings o r faxed entries will be acce pted.

Frequency Exchange
Ja nuary is a great mo nth to return unwanted C hristmas gift s. The
ho liday c ro wds arc go ne. the re ' s plenty of park ing space . and if yo u ' 11
he retu rning those gifts in At la n ta . Geo rgia. M ichael Lawre nce has
prov ide d the mall freq uencies .

464.375
464.575
464.6625
464.825
464.975

Northlake Mall

8RMC lifeRigh.
Fort Hall Iire
EMS

MadisonCounty Ambulance

Aberdeen Police
Pocatello Police
Bannock CountySheriff

Fire
154.16
Police
154.76
Police
155.22
Memorial Hos. 155.415
Police
156.075
Fire
465.25

Fire
Police
Rescue squad

154.725
154.85
155.40

811.4375 812.2125
815.2125 815.4375
857.4375 858.2125
860.2125 860.4375

Pol ice
Police
Ambulance
812.4375 81 4.2125
856.2125 856.4375
858.4375 859.0125

bo nes. w elcome to Bloomington.

45.65
153.82
154.875

151.40
154.05

Police
Fire
Police

Fire
Fire

Trunkcd
811.9625
814.9625
858.9625

812.7125
815.9625
859.9625

812.9625
856.9625
860.9625

813.7125 813.9625
857.7125 858.7125

470.7375
Th e Frequ en cy Exchang e is willing to tra ve l thro ug ho ut the U.S.
an d abroad. Se nd yo ur freq uency invitatio ns to the Frequency Ex change . P.O . Bo x 98 . Brassto wn. NC 28902.

America's # J Scanning Maga zine is

National
Scanning
Report

Willi/SOT Locks
Police
Fire
Police

153.935
154.95
170.15

Roods
Police
Fire

Fire
Ambulance
Police

453.475
453.80

Police
Fire

Windsor
33.94
453.60
465.075

Fire
Police
Rescue squad
Police
Prison
Pol ice

Our last sto p during this co ld. wi nter mo nt h will sure ly c hill yo ur
~linnesota ! Scott Glidcrc lives
nea rby. and to keep warm. Scott listen.. to the fo llo wi ng hot frcq ucn cres :

Chubbuck Poke

State Police car/c or

Pocatello Valley Fire
BRMC ambulance
BRMC ambulance
Pocatello Police
Bannock Co. Sheriff

Since we 're alre ady in New England. let' s stop to visit wi th Ga ry

Park s. Ga ry live s in w indso r. C o n nect icu t. a nd in add itio n to
pro vid ing c\'l'ryolll..' with co ffee and do ugh nu ts. here arc Gary ' s
favorit e freq ue ncies :

45.85
154.0 1
155.60

Cony. Cen.
Fi re
Comm. Col.
Fire
Fire
Animal cntrl.

An ano nymo us rea de r from C o n way, Suuth Carolina. se nt in the

fo llo wi ng:

811.21 25
814.4375
857.2125
859.4375

Stote University police

ChubbuckPolice

470.6875

153.935
154.43
155.76
453.10
453.40
453.825

Trunkcd System

8ig Butte 81M

470.6625
470.91 25

Cony. Cen.
Fire
Detent. Cen.
Ct. Hse Sec ,
Fire
Ja il
Police

Shelly Ph ipcr say s forg et the gambling tables: she inten ds to stay
pu t in Anderso n Cou nty. So ut h Ca rolina . and enjoy monitoring
these frequenc ies.

154.40
154.80
155.235

Jefferson Co, fire

Pocatello transit

Gorde n Le ster lives near the Massachusetts Ba~ area ami he has
prov ided a frequency list for the Massachusetts Bay T ra ns portatio n
Au tho rity.

470.6375
470.7875

153.845
154.37
155.685
158.925
453.15
453.625
460.40

153.95
154.71
154.85
155.265
155.565
453.55

Phipps plaza
Cumberland Moll
lenox Square
PerimeterMoll

Ou r ne xt sto p is Jefferson County, Idaho. A n ano ny mo us

co ntr ibuto r provid ed the fo llow ing:

154.11 5
154.16
154.415
154.965
155.28
155.385
163.75
453.225
453.525
453.95
460.175
460.225
460.35
460.525
460.625
463.025
463.1 0
465.075
465.275

idea i!'o to w in at the gam bling tables and pa yoff your hill s! Here arc
Barry ' !'. favorite frequ e ncies.

Is yo ur c redi t ca rd over-loa de d fro m hol ida y shopping ? Barry

She ldon has invited e veryone to co me to Las Vegas, Nevada. T he

1-800-423-1331
P.O. Box 360 ,
W a gon tow n, PA
19376

But don't lake our word for it Check if out

yourself.$3.00cash will getyouasamplecopy
rushed10youby First ClassMail. Or subscribe
for just $19.90 and you'll get a free custom
frequency print-out for your county.
January 1996

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(continued)
Cellular Clones
Cellular cloning involves deco ding the ESN/M IN data bu rst and
then clo ning a new EPRO M chip to make a ne w phon e. The " new
phone" can then be used 10 make illegal phone calls. The device
needed to decode the data burst is calico a " phone reade r:' T he goo d
new s is that pho ne reade rs arc also being used to catch c rim inals.
Phone readers arc bein g used by law enforce me nt agencies to
obtain the suspect's telephone number and to access the cell ular
phone habi ts of kno wn criminals. T he sta ndard Curtis ESN ce ll ph one
reader ca n read the ESN the phone number of the ca r pho ne and the
number dialed from a distance of 30 feet.
The special model phone reader. however . can he used to pinpoint
fra udu len t cellular uperations a nd the det ecti on o f phones in speci fic
areas for up to two miles! Law enforceme nt o fficia ls ha ve been using
the new mode l to track cloned phones and to arre st cellular bandi ts.
T he ne w spec ial mod el, with improved se nsitivity, is only ava ilable
to law enforce ment age ncies. (News cl ipping fro m Dave Page ).

Beeper Monitoring
The monitori ng of voice pagin g syste ms was made illegal by the
ECPA . But as many of you have begun to realize, voice paging is on
the declin e. O n the increa se is the annoying sound o f digital paging
devi ces . O ne o f the advantages of d igital pagers o ve r voice pagers is
the amount of air time actually used . Voice page rs transm it in "real
ti me" and they usc a sizable chunk o f ai r time for ea ch transmi ssion.
Digit al pager s call transmi t a large amo unt o f infor mation and
store it in a fe w mill isecond s. Th is is especi ally important when the
message is via satellite. Mi llions o f digi tal messages could be relayed
by satellite in the time that it would take one real-time vo ice message
10 be sent. T he digital. co mputerized signal is the wave o f the future .
A computer ass igns numeri c values to voice messages a nd sends the
e ncrypted informat ion over the air. At this writing. it is not possible
to decode digital signals.

RF & Alcohol
A Hu ron. Oh io. resident had his drunk drivin g conviction ove rturned becau se the Huron po lice had not c hecked the breathalyzer for
radio interfere nce . A state regu lation requ ires the radio interfere nce
test when breath testing un its are located within 30 feet of a radi o
antenna.
The police adminis tering the test we re unaware that the poli ce
radio transmitti ng tower was locat ed within 30 feet of the building and
the brea tha lyzer. According to the court . failing to co nduc t the rad io
interfere nce test made the breathalyzc r results unreliable. (N e ws
cl ipping fro m the Morning Joumol.)

Antenna Safety
Erecting an antenna on or ncar your homc is a dange rou s task. It
becomes especially dangero us during the winter months. T he co ld
wind, snow, a nd ice makes it impo ssible to erec t or to re pair an
e xisti ng ante nn a. But. natu ral ly. your a nte nna refu ses to fail du ring the
wa rm lazy days of summe r. Unfortunately, winter repairs arc so metimes necessary.
Before yo u cl imb onto your roof or ante nna tower, here arc a few
safety tips to reme mber : I ) Wea r a safety bel t: 2) Ask a friend to watch
yo u from the gro und: 3) Keep away from pow er lines; 4 ) Don ' t climb
and carry tools at the same tim e. Hoist your too ls to the antenna site

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January 1996

with a strong rope. If yo u need additional too ls or othe r items on the

roof. use a rope a nd a can vas bag 10 hoist needed item s to the antenna
site.
Another item yo u ma y not have thou ght of that can save you time
is a cordless phone . If yo ur ladder fall s, or if you need e merge ncy
assista nce, you ca n phon e for help from the rooftop.

IF Explanation
O ne of the basic princip les in scanning is knowin g how ( 0 find
image frequencies. As most of yo u already know . images arc always
a mullip le ofthe inte rmed iate freq ue ncy (IF) o f yo ur scanne r. Scanner
radios typ ically operate on the follow ing intermediate frequ encies:
10.7. 10 .8 or 10.85 MHz.
But what is an intcnnediate freq uenc y'! Here ' s a brief, nontec hnica l e xplanat ion: In yo ur scanner radio, (he re are two frcquenciesone from the signal picked up by the antenna a nd one generated by a n
osci llator in the receiver. Both o f the signals arc co mbined in what is
ca lled a " mixer circu it:' T he mixer output wi ll contain the origi nal
two frequencies and the sum and dif ference of ho th frequ encie s. Th e
differe nce is ca lled the intermediate freq uency.
A scanner radio (hat chang es the original frequency to the IF
freque ncy in one step is ca lled a sing le-conve rsion ci rcui t. Wh en two
ste ps are involved- two mixers and two IF"s- that' s ca lled a doubleconve rsion receiver.
Now , before all you tcchn oids write in 10 complain, I'll be the first
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you can co me up with a sho rter, clearer ex planation ofan IF ci rcuit and
how images are crea ted. I inv ite yo u to write the Sca nning Report ,
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VOA Utility Station On-The-Air

ho rtwave liste ne rs are verv fam iliar wit h th e Voice of America

( VOA) as an inte rnationa l broadcaster . but no w th ey have a utilit y
statio n on HF.
Du ring the last mont h. l received a numbe r of logs regard ing
seve ral AS C II le st transmi ssion s monitored in the 49-mcter interna-

tional shortwave broadcast band. My initial reaction W :'IS that maybe

the US IA ( Uni ted Stal e, Inform ation Agency)/V OA had brou ght back

the old continental press file broadca sts that disappeared off shortwave in the late 19ROs. T hose transmi ssion s were mo ved to sate llite
audio su bcarricrs 0 11 US IA Wo rldnct tran spo nders. Furthe r inve stigatio n proved that these tra nsmi ssio ns were something quite diffe rent.
T he continuous test tape broadcasts mon itore d o n 6 165 kHz
co ntai ne d th e following informa tion:

VOAOuternet
This is a test transmission From the Voice of Ame rica in Washing ton ,
D.C. using A SCII 300 baud A FSK, 170 Hz shin (M or k=21 25 Hz,
Spoce=2295 Hz]. Receptio n report s or e welco med a nd should be

a dd ressed to the Voice of Am erica, 330 Indep e nd enc e Ave nue ,

S.W. Washi ngton, DC 20547, A llen: Dr. Robert Everett, Room
4 238 .

freq ue ncy ) e nco untered seve re interference from tactic al milita ry

communications from the Cari bbe an. T hey no w seem to have se ttled
on a ne w frequency o f 11 193 kHz.
T he 4 MH z freq uen cy has a lso been j umping arou nd. T hey we re
o n 4722 k l-l z, had mo ved to 4740 kl-lz, but no w seem to have se tt led
o n 471 5 kH z. 47 40 kH z is a well-kno wn numbers frequency . and I am
sure they hav e had interference problem s.
What is even mo re bizarre is their ch oice fo r the 6 MHz Vo hnet
bro adcasts: 6739 kH z-a G lobal HF System rGll f'S) house channel.

During the late afte rnoon and even ing. they do ca use sig nifi ca nt
interfe re nce to G HFS communications here in the State s. Du e to the
decl ine in high fre q uen cy co mm unicatio ns (low sunspo t num ber s ) a
lot of mi litary G HFS traffic no w uses 6739 kHz in the evening aftc r
11175 kH z propagation shuts do wn . I have heard o pe rato rs o n more
than o ne occ asion complai n about the interferen ce .
Th ese RAF Volme r broadca sts can be used as exce llent pro pagalio n bea cons for paths into Euro pe , If yo u hea r the broadcast at the to p
of the hour o r on the half hour. then you know you have a propaga tion
path to Eng land. In fact . 1usc the com me rc ial Vohnet bro ad ca sts from
Ncw Yor k. Gande r, Ho nolu lu. T o kyo. etc. as propagatio n beacons . A
co m ple te list of the se Vo lmet broadcast. frequen cie s. and sc hed ules
can be found in the 8th edi tion of the Grove Shortwave Directory
avai lable fro m Gro ve Enterprises .

Several of our readers wan ted to kno w what the se broad casts we re
AWACS Cal/signs Revealed
do ing in the 49 me ter S\V broadcast band . I co ntacted Dr . Everett at
AfT Ute n'orld reg ular. Bo b Le we llyn fro m Te xas. rece ntly
the VOA . who provi ded Utility World w ith so me bac kgro und on the ir
rep ort ed on the W UN Inter net ne ws gro up tha t so me hard info rmation
experi me nta l program, VO A Outernet.
has come to light re gardin g the U.S. Air Force A \ VACS ca llsigns
Th e pri mary purpose of the tran smi ssio ns, according Dr. Everett .
co
mmo nly heard on HF. He rec eived his info rma tion courtesy of
is to "evaluate the fea sibility of usiug HF frequencies for wo rldwide
Scott. also in T e xas. who talked with the air crc w of a n E-3
Brian
broadca st o f m ultime di a tran smissio ns." In a nu tshell. the VOA is
AW ACS at a recent m ilita ry ai r sho w. Spec ifical ly. the air crew
co nside ring using the Hf spec trum as ;'1 medi um to se nd a ll sort s of
co nfirmed tha t the Handsaw. Chal ice . e tc. calls that we hea r used hy
high speed computer information (e .g.-di git a l voice. graphics. new s
the A \V ACS de signate a n air craft of a parti cul ar sq uadron. Bria n a nd
bu lletin s. etc.I.
Soh offer the list of ca lls fou nd in Tabl e I ,
T he se tes t tran smi ssio ns may have cea sed by the
time yo u read this, hut I wou ld watch 6 165 kHz very
clo se ly for future experime nta l tran smi ssions . T he c urTABLE I: AWACS Callsigns
rent sc hed ule for these broadca sts is 1315-2000 UTe o n
6 165 kHz using 111l131l1l baud A SC II from the VOA
Tinker AFB. O K
Bondsow
E3 AWACS
964th AACS. 552nd ACW
tran smitt er site at Gree nville. NC.
KodenoAB, Okinawa
Brigham
E3 AWACS
96 1,I AACS. 18th Wing
E3 AWACS
963rd AACS. 552nd ACW
Tinker AFB. OK
Chalice
Dr. Everett sa id he will ve rify all co rrec t rece ptio n
Current Ops
AWACS Exercise Controller
Tinker AFB. OK
rc port s at the add ress noted in the tran sm issio n test ta pe.
Da rkstor
E3 AWACS
9651h AACS. 552nd ACW
Tinker AFB. OK
Tinker AFB. OK
Dragn et
TC 18E/ E3
9661h AAGS. 552nd ACW
RAF Volmet Trying 10 Find a New Home
Elmendorf AFB. AK
E3 AW ACS
962nd AACS. 3rd Wing
Focus
nnker AFB, OK
Supervisor of Flying
Ramrod
Since th e Dece mbe r 1994 reorganizatio n of the aeronautica l OR (O ff Rout e ) freq uen c ies (sce the Febru ary
Notes:
Airborne Air Control Squa dron
AACS
1995 Un' co lum n) the British Royal A ir Force has been
Airborne Air Controland Training Squadron
AAG S
trying to find a ne w home fo r the ir H+OO/H+30 Volmer
Airborne Wa rning an d Control System
AWACS
wea ther broadcasts. Ori ginally. the 11 MH z broadcast
Airborne Control Wing
ACW
was o n 11200 kHz. A mo ve to 11178 (a new OR
38

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The uircrew also stated that the suffix words which follow the
aircraft calls (c.g.-Bandsaw Go lf. Chalice Bravo. etc) arc randomly
allocated and do not alway s des ignate the same co nsole position on the
aircraft,
Many thanks to Brian and Bob for forwa rding this informatio n to

UIV.

Mystic Star Update

Not a month goes by that I don't get a letter from someone wanting
my latest Mystic Star frequency list. As I have stated before in this
column. as soon as we get inform ation o n a particular subjec t. we try
to get it into the column as fast as we can. I personally do not (nick

Mystic Star des ignators. but several of our VWreade rs do. When they
pass along updates to me. I pass them on to you.
UlVregular Jeff Jone s has passed along his latest list of Mystic Star
VIP network designators: usc it to replace the one we ran in the column
in August 1994. The frequencies/des ignators listed in Table 2 have
been noted since the Apr il I, 1994. change of Mystic Star freq uencies.
Many thanks to Jeff for keeping MT readcrs up to date on the Mystic
Star system.
If you have any add itio nal freque ncies/de signato rs to confirm
some of the above information (do not supply any freq ucncy/dcsig nator discovered priort o April I. 1994 ). we would like to hear from you .
You can reach the Ute World column at the usual Brasstown addre ss
or at: I11t @grove.net.

TABLE I: Mystic Star frequenciesIDesignators

F.Q03 ...._.... Positively known to be on 8
MHzfrequency
F-005
9120.0
F-OQ7
Pcssiblea MHz
FOO9
Day use, moved here from II
MHz probably higher than
I 1MHz
F-Q20
Probable 7 to 13 MHz range
F-oSA ._.._.__. Possible 9 MHz frequency
F-Q57
Uoknown
F-Q58
4742.0
F06 3 _ Possible 10760.0
F064
112 14.0
F077
Unknown
F078
Probable 15 to 18 MHz range
or hi,gher
F-080 ..._..... Confirmed 11 to 12 MHz
,ooge
F-Q86
Uoknown
F-Q89
13204.0
F-Q9O
6716.0 (00' "';~edJ
F094
9017 .0
F098
Unknown
F099
,.. 13247.0
Fl 02
11118.0 (not veriFied)
F l 03
11488.0
F11 4
6986 .0
F117
6683 .0
Uoknown
F128
F 13.4
Possible 11159.0
F-136
Unknown
F146
9027.0
F153
8063.0
FI 73
Possible 11MHz
F 186
30.46.0 (nol verified)
F 194
13825.0
4982 .0
F197
F211
11056 .0
5435 .5
F226
F236
15041.0
5020.0 (00' ""ri~ed J
F243
F248
5398 .0
F2.49
Night use, possible "'MHz
F251
13217.0
F 26.1
!YIoved here from 8 MHz
interference, possible 8 MHz
F265
F266
F267
F268
F-271
F287
F29O
F291
F-292
F295
F302
F311
F322
F327

~513:i:6

7997.0
6730.0
7325 .0

fv\oved here from the I I MHz

range
11226 .0
8026 .0
13960.0
_ Possible 9 MHz frequency
11460 .0

Uoknown
11220.0
11153.0 {not verified}
18716.0 (not verified)

F350
F354
F356
F3 65
F372
F380
F382
F395
F400
F-406
F.417
F-419
F-432 .,
F.437
F.452
F.453
F461
F-463
F465
F467
F.481
F-.486
F.489
F496
F4 97
F498
F-499
F-500
F505
F-517
F52 1 ,
F523

Night use. moved here from the 6 m-tz

"'''9.
11053.0

F532
FSAO

Moved here from the 8 MHzrange

11059.0
Unknown
3 144.0
15094.0
9057 .0
6728 .0
18393 .0
Unknown
11407.0
673 1.0
7910.0 (nol verified)
Possible 8077 .0
Unknown
13211.0
4610 .0
8040.0
9023.0
Movedhere from the 11 MHz range
Positively known to be a 5 MHzfrequency
Data moved here from the 6 MHz range
11059.5
54 11.0
8032 .0
4442 .0
8989 .0
Moved here from the 13 MHzronge
9270.0
11484.0
Movedhere from 9 MHzinterference,
possible 9 MHz ~uency
18003.0 (nol verified)
Night use, movedhere from a 6 MHz

F542
F-548
F-551
F56 1

18331.0
Nighl use, moved here from a 6 MHz

F567
F574
F575
F576
F595
F600
F-601
F-611

~motverified)

18400 .0100tv.ri~edJ

~equ,",,,,

13565.0
114 13 0
Night use
11153.5
Nighl use
13878.0
Unknown
~ use, movedhere from a 7 MHz
!reQu,",,,,

F61 4
F616
F-622
F623
F624
F631
F633
F639
F642
F644
F646
F649

.4.448.0
9320.0
Nightuse, possj b!~ .4MHz frequency
18317.0 (nol venfied)
1324 1.0
18755 .0
18290.0
Dato (voice in use on 6.9,11,ond13 MHz)
182 18.0
15821.0
13440.0
805 3.0

F-662
F-667
F-673
F677

F700
F702
F703
F-706
F707
F708

F-7 17
F-719
F-722
F-723
F-728
F731
F732
F73.4
F736
F-7.41
F748
F-752
F-754

Fm
F778
F784
F785
F-79O
F821
F823
F832
F864
F867
F868
F869
F873
F875
F877
F895
F-904
F-909
F9 10
F-912
F9 15
F918

F920
F92.4

15048.0
6817.0

Uoknown
Night use, moved here from a 6 MHz
frequency
Unknown
Night use, moved here from 0 6 MHz
frequency
pay use, moved here from 11 MHz
~equency

Mo;.d here frnm

6 MHz !<equency

Moved here frnm 6 MHz ~equency

Data moved here from a 13 MHz

frequency
Night use, moved here froma 9 MHz
~equ."'Y
13822 .0 (not verified)
11 to 13MHz range

18323.0
11236.0 (oot ve<i~edJ
6683 .0
150 11.0
Moved here from a 6 MHz frequency,
proboble 6 MHz or lower frequency
Night use
Possible 9323.0
6756 .0
8047 .0
Moved hen. frnm 6 MHz ~equency.
possible 7 MHz ronge
Nighl use
18023.0
9043 .0
15687 .0
13MHz
Unknown
11229 .0
Moved here from 6 & 11 MHz ranget
Data moved here from a 13 MHz
f,-equency
6830.0
9218.0
Possible 1163.1.0
13248.0
67 17.0
472 1.0
57 10.0
10202 .0
7687 .0

Uoknown
Unknown
12107.0 (not verified)
Par use, moved here from 0 8 MHz
frequency
Unknown
Data moved here from a 13 MHz

f,-equ.ocy
F9.1Q ........ Possible 23.433.0
F948
1503 8.0
F95 7
6761.0
F965
11466 .0
F974
10586 .0
F987
10583.0

January 1996

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39

Utility Loggings
Lony Van Ham
A b b re vla ttnns us ed in t h is co l u m n

4341.0
4387.0

Automatic Link EstabliSh

ALE
ANMCC

10C
LOOC

Alternate Nalional Military

Command Center

ARO
Synchronous transmission
andautomatic repetition
teleprinter system(in

general)
AROE

Single-channel ARC
teleprinter system
Single-channel ARQ
teleprinter system

ARO-E3

ARO-M2

Mulliplex ARO teleprinter

AROM4

system WIth 2 datachannels

Mult,plexARQteleprinter

GHFS
HF
HKTI

system with 4 datachannels

American Telephone and
Telegraph
Civil Air Patrol
Controlede Voie
Morse Code
Department 01 Energy
EmergencyAction Message
Eastern Test Range
FrenchAir Force
Facsimile (drum speed-rpm.
10C)
Federal Communications
Commission
Forward error correction
teleprinter system
One-waytrattic FEC
teleprinter system
Federal Emergency
Management Agency
French Forces
Federal Highway
Adminislralion
Global HFSystem
High Frequency
Hong Kong Telecom

10

Identification

AT&T
CAP
CdeV

CW
DOE
EAM
ETR
FAF
FAX
FCC
FEC

FECA
FEMA
FF
FHW,\

lnrematronar t tc

MAP
MARS

index 01Cooperation
Long DistanceQperahonal
Control
Maghreb Arabe Presse
Military AHiliate Radio

System
MFA
MOO
MOl
mJv
NAS
NATO

Ministry of Foreign Allairs

Ministry of Oetense

Ministry otln tcrmauon

PACTOR
PIAB
POl-ARQ
Piccolo
RAF
RPM

arrv

SAM
Selcal
SITORA
SITOR-B

TACAMO
Unid
USB
USCG
USN
VOA

WPM
XIN HUA

46660
4703.5
47150
4721.0
4738.5

4742.0

Molor Vessel

4932.0

Naval Air Station

North AUanlic Treaty

51110

Orgranization
NCA

NationalCommand Authority
Teleprinter system
combining certain
characteristicsof packet
radio and SITaR.
Presse- und
lntormanipuiaucnsamt dieser
unserer lugenregielUng
Polishdiplomatic ARO
teleprintersystem
6- or t z-tone multi frequency-shift keying
teleprinter system
Royal Air Force
Revciuncns per minute
Radioteletype
Special Air Mission
Selective Calling
Simplex tetepnntmc over
radio system. modeA (ARO)
Simplexteleprinling over
radio system, mode B (FEC)
TakeCharge and MoveQut
(USNE6 aircraft)
Unidentified
UpperSideband
US Coast Guard
US Navy
Voice 01America
Wordsper minute
New China News Agency

5858.0
5616.0
5628.0
56580
5696_0
5700.0
6167.1
6375.0
6387.0
6586.0

6659.0

6673.0
6683.0
6707.5
671 2.0

1608 0

67280

1609_5
2965_0
29980
3321.8
3455_0
3542.7
3386_3
3832.7
3852.4
4023.5
4077.0

4101.0

8Ci

JapanAir 80 '.vorkin g Honolulu Aeradio. HI.at 1439. (Jerry Brockma n-Kenai.

AK)
R-Single tetter HF marker. ustmcv. Russia. in CW at 1731 . (Boen der-Nethl
Polish Army. Warsaw. sending 50 baud RnY at 1602. ~ R Y PGH4 de KTH6 ~
followed by encrypted messages. (Boender-Nethl
GKE2-Portishead Radio. England. with SlTOR A'CW transmission at 0240.
(Fred Hetnennqtcn-Ormond Beach. Fl )
RFL ID-FF PointsaPitre(AR I) using ARO -E3t oRFll-FortdeFrance. Martinique.
on 3753.24 (IRA) at 0230. (Hetherington-FL)
RFFpMOD Paris. France with AAQ-M2 messages to RFFVAY-Sarajevo at
1630. (Boender Neth)
MOl Wlesbaden. Germany. with AROEtraffic to MOlBonn (HFVBK)at 1806.
(Boende r-Neth)
3BZBigaraPlaisance Air. Mauritius.withARQ-E3 (PTA) to5AST-Antananadvo.
Madagascar. on 7834.5 at 0150. Onthis frequency rather than 4014.6. the
usual correspondent's frequency. (Hetherington-Fl )
WA4659 Medusa Chalfenger (cement bulker) working WlC -Rogers City
Radio. MI. with weather observationsat 0236. WYZ3931-Stel'lartJ. Cort (ore
carrier) at 0604andWYP8657James R. Baker (laker) at 0532 both working
WlC . WE3806 -John G. Munson (Iaker) at 0530 and WB 4520Calcite If at
0247 working Wl C with weather observations. (JSMBC)
UONZ-mlv Volga 4006 working Helsinki Radio. Finland. at 1649. (Robin

Hood-UK)

4180.5
4211 .0

40

UOUZ-mlv Zarachensk working uostence Radio. Belgium . in SITOR-A at

1955. Vessel in ballast from Vlissingen to Murmansk (Hood-UK)
ZLA-Awanui Radio. NewZealand. with SITOR-Asigning CW now ontheair in
theGlobalWirelessNetwork in mantirne telex service.At 1000veryweak. but
betier on 6315 .0 Also on 8417and 12580. (HelheringlonFl )

MONITORING TIMES

January 1996

WOO-AT&T Ocean Gate Radio. Manahawkin. NJ. with an automated voice

traffic list at 2200. (Melcalle-KY)
Norlhwestl0 working Honolulu Aeradio. HI. at 1446. (Brookman-AK)
Presumed link 11 cata channel at 0507. (Jell Haverlah Houston. TX)
RAF volmet with weatherreportsat 1657 trnovedt rorn 4739). (HOOd-UK)
Air Force One at 0417 working Andrews AFB . MD. with communications
check.IRickBaker-Austintown.OH ) AF 1working Andrewsat 0615. [HaverlahTX)
Presumed link 11 data channel at 0231 . [Haverlah-TX )
WAR46-ANMCC Raven Rock Mountain. PA. at 0424 workingNightwatch 01
with communications checks on X-209. (Baker-OH)
MFA Warsaw. Poland. with "ClAR IS Nr 2029" bulletin in 100 bd POlA ROat

1707_(Hood -UK)
KGA93-FCC Washington. DC. andGoldenrod36-CAPAlbertville. AL.working
WGY9 12-FEMA Winchester. VA. for emergencytraffic at 1520. tMetcalfe-KY)
USNMARS traffic: NNNOPSX witha briefmessage for NNNOJOM in PACTOR
at 2148. tMetcalfe-KY)
Aerollot 431 working Gander Aeradro, NF. and Shanwick Aeradio. Ireland.
relaying message from RAF Ascol 9295 at 2245. (Hood-UK)
Honolulu Ae radio. HI. working Singapore 1and Asiana 272 a11406. (Gordon
l evine-Anaheim, CAl
Speedbird 3571 working Karachi Aeradic. Pakistan, for sercat check (FJ-BG)

at 1622. (Hood-UK)
Della 2 Della (P-3 from NASWhidbey Island. WA) workmg Rescue 1709at
0330. (Levine-CA)
Presumed ALE pulse at 0300. ALE pulses now heard on occasion on this
frequency. (Haverlah-TX)
VOA-Washington. DC.withatest transmissional 1525 using 110 baud ASCII.
The text 01 themessage indicated 300baud . butonly 110 wasmonitored. For
the VOt.. Outreach program . (Metcalfe-KY and many others)
WCC-Chatham. MA. with COCW marker at 0033. (SueWilden-Columbus. IN)
Actual window frequency. Sue. is 6375-Lar'Y.
WNU42Slidel1 Hadto. lA. with CO CW marker at t005. (Wilden-IN) Actual
window frequency is 6389.6-Larry.
American 658 working New York Aeradlc. NY. for selcal (BP-EJ) at 2155.

(Hood-UK)
6628.0

,\ " times a f{' ill UTe. ollfrrq ucncivs ill kH:... and (lit transmissions art' ill
USB Ill/leu otlwswis e indica tnl
DHJ59-German Navy Wihelmshaven. with 75 baud encrypted messages at
2218. (Ary Boender-Netnertands)
lGBRogaland Radio, Norway. with CWmarkerat 2217. (Ary Boender-Neth)
Bangkok. Thailand. volmet withaviation weatherat 1312. (SieveMcDonald-

Twoweak US military stations attempting secure mode communications at

2158. (J.l. Melcalfe-KY)

6730.0
6736_0
6738.0
67390
6741.5
6746.0
6750.0
6761 .0

6809.0

68845
6915.0

Santa Maria Aeradio. Azores. working Lutthansa336 at 2344. (Fred DodgeAlbany, NY)
MIW14-Call preceeded by Delta 11. Delta 12. Delta13up to Della 21 at 0000.
Areyou familiar with this transmission? (Doug Vaznaian-North Kingstown.
RI) Welcome aboard. Doug. This is an IsraeliMossadnumber stationyouhave
reported-Larry.
San Francisco Aeradio. CA. workingNorthwest 27 at 0101. (Dodge-NY)
SAM 202 working Andrews AFB. MO (Mystic Star). at 1536. (Dan MichelKennesaw, GA) Air Force One working Andrews at 1700. (Patrick GrifflthDenver. CO) AF1 at 2005 working Andrews. (JSM-BCl
Presumed Link 11 data channel at 0153. (Haverlah-TX)
Andrews GHFS . MD meeting its sometimes nightly 0617 scnedule with an
EAM pulled from a 0500++ GHFS EAM transmission cycle. (Haverlah-TX)
SAM 677(oneof the E-4Baircraft) pulling SAM duty - whooutsidethe NCA
rates anE-4B?Cal ling SAM 200andraisingAndrews at 0108. (Haverlah-TX)
AirForce Two\'IorkingAndrewsAFB. MD(Mystic Star). at 1355. (Michel-GA)
S7Aworking Sidecar 2 - FT activityat 2351 . (Dodge-NY)
Rain 27'/IorkingThuleGHFS . Greenland. withaphone patchto Nordic Control
at 0145. (Duke Rumley-Madison. NC)
Ascot 3221 calling Architect at 0540 witn no reply and gone . lajes GHFS .
Azores. with a Foxtrot broadcast at 0517. (Haverlah-TXl
TSBDPlM La Galite (501) TunisianNavy combattante III M-classlast attack
missileboat at 0559in SlTORAwith "routine secret" traffic inFrench. (BakerOH )
Presumed Link 11 data channel at 0108. (Haverlah-TX)
Gordo 11 working Lales GHFS. Azores. with data transmissions for injection
to Autod in. Movedhere from 9023 at 023L Apparent training for the Laies
operator. (Navertah-TX)
SAM 202 working Andrews AFB . MD (MysticStar] at 1435. (Haverlah-TX)
Conllnuous24-hour tratuc WIth WGY901 (net control). WGY912 . 952 (on 51.
Croix). 962.965. 992 (in Puerto Rico ). 2VI (on 51. Thomas - possibly a ham
operator). 2VIB (lD'ed as 285th--military). VYI, WWV60. AAAU SA. FEMA
trattic on both sidebands . (Dodge-NY) 901is Maynard, MA: 912is Winchester. VA: 952 and 962 areprobably transportablestations: 2VIis the National
Guard at St. Croix. VI(full calfis AAC2VI) and2VI8 is probably a mobilesetup
for them-Larry.
RFH I-FF Noumea . New Caledonia. with ARO-Eidling at 1111. (HetheringtonFL)
BAP46-XINHUA Beijing. China. with 75 baud English RTTY news at 11 40.

(Hetnennqton- Hj
69660
69930
73i 1.0

FDYFAF Orleans. France. with 50 baud ATTY RY lest tape at 1648. (BoenderNeth)
Air ForceOneworking Andrews AFB. MD(Mystic Star). at 1600. (Griffith-CO)
FDYFAF Orleans, France, witn 50 baud Any RY test tapeat 1538. (BoenderNeth)

7322.0

FOYf Af Orleans. France. with 50baud Any RY testtape at 1442. (BoenderNeth)

7383.0

Polish Embassy Copenhagen. Denmark. in POl-ARO with messages for

Warsaw at 1443. (Scende r-Netn!
MFAWarsaw, Poland. wilh POL-ARQ messages lathePolish embassy in Paris
at 1512. (Boender-Neth)
AC4 -Assault Unil4. USN l ittle Creek. VA, at 151 8 working Hopper 54 (lCAC
54) calling on radio two. tater Hopper 49and 51 each calling on radio 11'1 0 no
joy. (Baker-OH) Gladyou solved this oneRick-Larry.
RFGW-MFA Pa ris, France. with FECAmessages at 1557 to the following
embassies: W5E . D7A. G7M. G8T, SSF. A9E , l4N and K4X, (Boender-Netn)
MOD Pans, France. \'/llh ARQM2 messages at 1514. (Boender Nelhj
CNM2011XMAP Rabat. Morocco, with French 50 baud AnY news at 1010.

7474.0
7536.5
7634.0
7642.7
7842.4

7963.5
8026.0
8120.5
8192.0
82400

RFVIJV-French Oceanographic Ship Jules Verne working RFVIC-Marine Reunion Island, in ARO -Eat 171 0. (Robert Hall-Ca petown, ASA)
Unid militaryat 1230. American male operatorsaid they would not be up on
this frequency Ihat even ing. (Baker-OH) Rick. / shol'/ this oneis a USMC/USN
tactical channel/or the record-Larry.
Air Force One workingAndrews AFB, MO(Mystic Star), at 1302. (Michel-GAl
Presumed link 11 datachannel at 0645. (Naverlan-TXj
9MR-MalaysianNavalRadio,Jonor Baharu . Malaysia. with RY/SG ID(RMMJ)
in 50 baud RTTY at 1645. (Hood -UK)
UWWK-Freezer carrier Serebryanskworking UIW-Kahningrad Radio. Russia.

at 0831. (Hood-UK)
8279.0
8404.0
8431.0
85330
8549.0

J8F06-mlv Gill working Helsinki Radio, Finland. with phone patch from
Istanbul roads at 0700. (Hood-UK)
EOYW-mlv Arabat(Ukrain ianfactorytrawler) workingCNP-CasablancaRadio.
Morocco. in CW at 1510. (Hood-UK)
KEJ-Hoolehua. Mofakai, HI, part of Global Wireless Network with SITOR-B
sports reportat 101 8. (Hethennqtcn-H]
WlO-Mobile Radio, AL, with SITOR-B mode transmission with weather
information at 1750. (Wilden-IN) The actual window frequency is 8534.0Larry.
UCE-Arkhangesk Radio, Russia, working UZUH-Arseniy Moskvin in SITOR-A

8967.0
8971.0
8992.0
9014.0
9016.0
901 7.0

9023.0
9031.0
9040.5
91 20.0

Caledonian 1419 calling Speednird london (l ODC), Eng land. at 1715. no

answe r. (Hood-UK)
USN Foxtrot Tango networking F6Easking him to take FT and EAEat 0358.
(Tim Dobbms-Ft ]
Blackhawk01(probable USCustomsaircraft) al2252VlorkingShark 44(WPB1344 USCGC Block Island) on a Customs mission, relay of commu nications.
Odd they were up here on the Navy Safety of Flight frequency. (Baker-OH)
HOG working Ascension GHFS with phone patch to COMSUBlANT for an
"Exercise Esteem Highly Alpha" at 0254. (Havenan-TX)
Vaccuum working Raisin Onewith threat information at 1443. (Haverlah-TX)
SAM 200working MacOillGH FS, FL , at 141 2. (Haverlah-Tx)
PAceOM 01 on F-094 (Mystic Star) working Andrews AFB. MD, then moved
to F-295 (11460)then to F-99 for radio checks. Sametime Andrews working
Nightwatch and Bag Money on X-904 then moved to F-467 (9023) for nel
continuity checks at 1808_Niqhtwatch working Roadcrew with checks then
moved to W-l08 (12070) at 2255 . (Paul Swietek-Gtlbert. Al )
Deerhunter workingDragnet Yankee on seu ttre o 8-29transmitting 5 tracks
at 1641 . (Swietek-Al l
RAF Cyprus Flightwatch with weather for Lamaka at 161 5. (Hood -UK)
Presumed link 11 data channel at 1553. (Have rlah-Dq
And rews AFB, MD, at2145with comm checkon "live upper," F-005 withSAM
Unid station with Piccolo transmission noteda12155. (Hethennqton-H }
Unid station with Piccolo transmissionnoted at 2150. (Helherington-Fl)
CW test tape at about 18 wpm around 1731. Transm ission looks like code
practiceor worseyet. practicein carlYing ona aso, only thisguywasplaying
both sides, Crummyprocedures being used . Callsignsnotedincluded : Eag le,
Hydra. Tiger, Moray. and Raven . The messages were 5-letler/number code
groups sentin 50and 100 groups . Q-signals were standard commercialtypes
exceptonewascommonto thesea goingcommun ity(I have/haveyou
leftthedockyel l. (Jeff Johnson-Ozark. MO) Theonlyrhing thatmight beclose
neteJett is a Coast Guardttec. but theynormallyuseRTTY hereandthey are
supposed to be out 0/ the CWbusiness-Larry.
Tommy Gun (possible TACAMO aircraft) in commu nication with WGY91 2FEMAWi nchester,VA, 3t 1625. Tommy Gunalsoatte mpted10 reachWGY906FEMA Denton. TX. for a "HF connectivity chec k," but failed. (Metcalfe-KY)
l OL-ArqentineNavy, BuenosAires.at2345 using 75baud Rm with"COAMAS
95- exercise tratncto PWX -Brazilian Navy, Brasilia. IBaker-OH)
WGY946-FEMA Baton Rouge. LA, with voice coordination prior to 39-tone
2400-baud data transmission. (Metcalfe-KY)
Cape Radio-Cape Canaveral. Flo working ARIA 2 (Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircrall ) lor Alias launch on the ETR , weak. Ascension Radio began
workingARIA 1and had bothaircrafl loudand clear. Alsoheard ARIAcontrol
at 021 1. (Dobbins-Fl)
RFTJ-FF Dakar, Senegal. at2329in ARO-E3 withcocev circuit run. (Baker-OH)
NOJ-USCG Kodiak, AK. barely heard wrtn a SHARES exercise message for
WWJ82-FHWA Grand Isle. NE, at2140. Heard KBW49-DOE las Vegas, NV, at
2138also. (Metcalfe-KY)
HB020-MFA Berne, Switzerland. with 5-leller SITOR-A groups at 1537.
(Boender-Netn)
Desperate working Hammerat 1451, NGF control primary.. (John RobinsonNashville, TN) Yes. from what J have seen. Ihis does look like a USN Naval
Gun/ire Support frequency in the Caribbean -Larry.

oro

10493.0
10515.7
105880
10780.0

10869.3
10891.0
10971.0
11022.0

11460.0
115182
12165 0

Presumed link 11 data channelat 0032. (Havertah-Tx)

RFGW-MFA Parts,France. With FEC-Amessagestoembassies 06l (Budapest.
A9C (Bucharest) and U3H (Moscow) at 1426. (Boender-Neth)
RFGW-MFA Paris.France,withFEC-Amessages toembassiesG8T (Belgrade)
and A1G at 1506. (Boender-Neth)
Wise82 working AndrewsGH FS. MD. with phonepatch to Plantation (DSN
579-5764) at 2327. (Mr. T-UKj Reac h 12261 (self IO'ed C-17 aircraft)
working Andrews GHFS , MD, WIth phone patch to Oove r AF B, DE . at 1955.
(Haverlah-TXl
PACCOM 01 working AndrewsAFB , MO, with SAM 970also on frequency.
did checks on F-646 (13440). F-752 (8047) and passed along preflight
freque ncies 01 F-311 (11220) pnmary. F-732(15011) secondary and F-633
(?) backup at 1838. (Swietek-AZ) F-633 is 18290.0-Larry.
RFFP- MOD Paris, France, with ARO-M2 messages to RFFVAY-Sarajevo at
1456. (Boender-Nett n
SAM 049working AndrewsAFB, MD (Mystic Star) at 1512. (Michel-GA)
RFFP-MOD Paris. France. with ARO-M2 messages to RFFVAY Sarajevoat
1351.(Boender-Neth)
RKB78-Moscow Meteo, Russia. with a nice tax chart (90/576) at 1652.

(Hall-RSA)
12308.0

12439 0

ESAF-mlv Sompa \'Iorking Helsinki Radio, Finland, lor phone patch to

Tallinn at 0700. (Hood-UK)
UUlU -m/v Vega working WCC-Chatham Radio, MA. with message for
Turkeyin CW at 1745. (Hood-UK)
3EE06-mlv SunCrown working XSW-Kaoshuing Radio. Taiwan. in CW at

12579.1

NRV-USCG Guam, West Pacific weather and typhoon warnings in SITOR-

12428.0

0800 (Hood-UK)
8 et 1530. (Hall-RSA)
12652.0
12660.0
12697.0

13204 0

13206.0

13373 45

SAB-Goteburg Radio. Sweden, with SITOR-A and signing CW at 1530.

Another newstation in the Gobal WirelessNetwork. (Hetherington-Fl)
S70-Seychelles Radio. with CW marker at 0702. (Hood-UK) Now if WLD
would go away I couldlog that one. Nice catch-Larry.
UTW/USU-Mariupol Radio, Ukraine, with general information and navigation warmngs (PRI PS)en Ukrainianusing 50 baud RTIY. Repeatedat0714
in veryfast CW. (Hood-UK)
HZY-Ras Iannurah Radio, Saudi Arab ia. with announcement for traffic list
next even hour on 12811.3 and 16960 kHzin CW at1 148. (Hood-UK)
Control workmn S11 . S11 advised fly-by ok, coming around ready to land
at Ama rillo at 5 pastthehourat2052. (Swietek-AZ) t knowsome 8-18 flight
testing was done onthis one. aswellassome other R&Dtesting: interesting
comms, to saythe least-Larry
Plantation Ops (16th SOW Hurlburt Field, Fl ) at 1608calling Goose 01,
Goose01 calling themon Fl , neither could hear theother. l ater Goose01
worked Goose 99 and 99 called Plantation Ops. Turned up later on 9019
(apparently F4 ). (Baker-OH)
5YD-Nairobi Air. Kenya. with 50 baud Any RY test tape at 2107.
(Hetberinqton-H )

13572.5
13839.7
14458.7

RFFX-MOD Paris, France.withARO-E encryptedmessagesat0950. (Boe nderNelh)

RFFA MOD Paris. France. with ARO-M2 encrypted messages at 0940.
[Boender-Neth)
OF046l-P IAB Bonn. Germany, with FEC-A German news nunetms at 1634.

(Hall-RSA)

14575.0
14685 9
14710.0

204. (Baker-OH)
9845.7
9937.8
10223.8

11220.0

12811 .3

at 1820. (Hood-UK)
8921.0

11173.5

11175.0

1141 5.2

(Hethennqton-H )

7946.1

11080.5
11085.0

14731.7
14985.8

RFGW-MFA Paris, France, with FEC-A s-iener coded groupsto Embassy at

1400. (Hethertnqtcn-H]
V5G-MFA Bucharest, Romania. with RQU -FECtransmission at 1410. Can't
read ROU-FEC, but tpe d by CW marker. (Hetherington Fl)
Echo andGolf confirming "All events cancelled." Also heard here: AB/AGI
BFIlDIH /KIW/Bayrider. Callsign Mike=XAE and callsign R8l=XCB. (larry
Fowler-MA) I havenothing in my filesonthisone; maybeit is NATOorsome
such-Larry.
RFVITW-FF SI. Denis, Aeumon Island, ARO-E message to Pongendmobil
Mayotte (Police) at 1230. (Hall-RSA)
lE N69-HKTl VictoriaIsland. Hong Kong, with ARQM4 idlingat 1210. (Hall-

RSA)
16340.2
16350.0
16851.8
169775
170490
17443.2

ClP8-Cuban Embassy. Conakry. Guinea. with s.retter groups lor ClP l Havana at 1125. (Hall-RSA)
Unid station sending 5-lelter/number groups at 1430 in CWo (Roger
Parmenter-Hsanms. MA)
SAB-Goteburg,Sweden, with SITOR-A,signingCW at 1525. (HetheringtonFl )
3BM 6-Port l ouis Radio, Mauritius. with CW traffic list and beacon trequency info in CW at 1210. off frequency. (Hall-RSA)
utn-cuessa Radio. Ukraine. working UFSJ-Kapitan Kaminskiy using 50
baud Am at 1600. (Hall-RSA)
BlG48-XINHUA Beijing. China, with 50baud RnY French news bulletins at

1201. (Hall-RSA)
17921.5
18034.1 6

18057.5

18257.0
18308.5

Spanish Embassy with SITOR-A transmission. 011 at 1758with Zl S(We are

suffering from lightning storms). (Hethertnqtcn -H)
CLP1 -MFA Havana. Cuba, with 50 baud Rl lY messag e in Spanish and
English to rrreacuoas Tanzania and Uganda from Fidel Castro to the
presidentsot the twocountries onthe33rdanniversaryof theirrepublics at
2000. Went to CW at 2030. (Hetheringlon-Fl)
Unid station sending Piccolo transmissions at 1810. (Hetherington-Flj
HBD73-Unid SwissEmbassy with SITDR-A S-tettermessages. one for well
overan hour and off at 1848. (Hetherinqton-Fl.)
RFGW-MFA Pa ris, France , with FEC-A S-tetter code group messages to
Embassies, end at 1425. (Hetnerinqton-H ]

January 1996

MONITORING TIMES

41

The Global Forum

Glenn Hauser, p.o. Box /684-MT, Enid, OK 73702

lax: (405) 233-2948, or (704) 837-2216 ATT: Hauser

ALBANIA For a " new mus ic experience" unlik e any thing yo u've
heard before. go to R. T irana. evenings o n 7270 k Hz ( Kevin Hecht. PA.
World ofRadio ) Loc al folk mu sic. Albanian tal k 00 15 0300 + w ith tw o
wobb ly. un stahle spurs varying 200 Hz around 7254 .7 and wea ker o n
7285 _2. //60 80 (Brian Alexander. PA. WOK )
ANGUILLA Caribbean Beacon' s new SW tran smi tter and antenna
installed . Illay stan testin g by Janu ary after govern ment freq ue ncy
selection delays (Paul Hunter. C B.. via Stig Hart vig Nielsen. DX
Focus. via AWR W a \'e .H"CII1 via SDXC Communication) 100lh" Gene
Scott'!
ARGENTINA 20276 .0 active week ends. bel ieved for Argentine
UN troo ps in Europe: ar ound 1300. R. A merica progr amming on USB .
phone pat ches o n LSB ; at J 200. R. Co ntine nta l (Harald Kuhl . Gcnnany.
HCJB lJX Panvltne vA Sund ay 1800- 2100+ 20276 LSB bad sports with
Caraco l lDs for Colombian net (Alan Robert s, PQ)
AUSTRALIA R. Australia budget redu ced by AS2 mi llion 10 belp
ba il ou t ATV tot a llin g AS 1S milli on (VO A Communicatio ns World)
Plans to dOSL: Carnarvon site. wh er e elect ric ity cos ts four tim es as m uc h
as Shep parton. but will lose 56'7c of Asian ca pacity. So me transfe rred
to Darwin. but docs not ope rate at night and is 100 clo se [0 Indonesia
unless new transmitt ers. ae rials reco nfigured for below 6 MH z (R.
Nether lands Media Network) Heard 125()1J37+ on 6060. RA in
C hinese w ith echo a word apart ; two unsynchron ized sites'! tgh . OK )
BELGIUM To escape Mart i on 60 30. RVI 1111 0 . . . .. . .. "
moved NAill service to 5900 at 2230-0100. En- YU l I lI , . " . . UIU
"' 11111~ 51_ l I n IIn MI
glish from (X)30 (Diane ~..lauer. Brian Ale xande r,
Bob Tho mas. Steve n Clinc ) Weak but better except for ute 0 11 high side (gh)
BOLIVIA R. Estacion Co lonia. 6557. is in
Yapacunf. San ta Cruz. at 2.32.5-()(.wO*. R. Aba roa
adj usted to 4719.6. implying that Bolivians try to

I
keep at Icast 15-20 kl-lz apart. R. Mauro Nunez
disappeared from 6142 (Hcnrik Klemetz. Colombia. W.O.R.)
BRAZIL Radiobrds started new Spanish service to C & N America.
da ily 1330- 1450 on 15445. Also
a new program to Brazilian UN
so ld ie rs. Boa No i f(' An gola .
schedule unknown. and thereis a

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dom estic program for truckers,

Br Camio nciro on hundreds of
A ~'I & Fr\!1 stations Mon -Fri 0700-0800, also on Amazonian service
6 180 & 117&0. with tell- free ca ll-ins. RNB ex ter nal service manager
Oct:ivio Bonfim told me seve ral month s ago that new 250 kw transmitters and !lC V,' antennas. mo re effect ive in directionalit y. would be
operational about the beginning of 1996. (Arsenio Fom aro. i\'Y)
CANADA Crass- Country Checkup. Sun 1 109-2259 0 11C BC 9615.
now has a single number. 1-800 -363-1632 (gh)
CFCX. 6005.

Rudiot'hile via Bill w estenh avcr)

CHINA V. of Russia in Engl ish at 1700- 1757 is believed to be relay
from here. since before 1700 is Beijing: in Vietnamese. both on 6590 :
likewise 1100-1157 on 17850 with typical Chi nese-site clos ing at :57 (S.
Aok i and Y. Kate . R. Japan Mcd iu Roundlll' )
COLOMBIA Among many MW har monics. Fre cue ncta M usica l.
Quimbaya, Quindfo. is a lways dependable aro und 11 00 on 3225: also
aro und 2200 on 4845. R. Cat6lica Nacjona l. 3579.7. Sa n Carlos.
Td querres . Narino. is active 2 or 3 nights week ly 2200 -0400 with 2. kw .
La Voz de la Sel va. 6170.3. has been ren amed Caracol Florencia or
Curacol 1090. reactivated. (Henrik Klernetz, Bogota. WO.R.)
COSTA RICA RFPI. 73S5 sometimes fades dowo evenings as MUF
plummets : also hit by co-c hannel from n VR Albani a at 06 15 and later:
China in English 1200-1500; with World of Radio arrivin g earlier in
week. RFP I may make pennancnt schedule changes from Jan I; listen for
announ cements (gh) Spiritual Awakenings is now da ily at 2355. 0755;
also on WWCR Mon-Fri 1610 on 15685 (Jim Bean ) Reportfrom the
Desert , Wed 1840. Thu 0240. 09..mis abou t veterans und their problem s.
not the Gulf War itself (Ric hard McCathy. AI.)
Aftermissing for week s. TIAWR resumed Wm '('JClm Sun at 1300 but
an old tape joined in progress. 15460. 13750.9725 (Diane Maue r. gh)
Also ran acro ss it Mon 1223 on 9725. 5030. borin g and outdated (George
Thurman )
CUBA R_Relnj rela yed on 9830 USB at 0748. after Rfi C ended at
0700 (gh. OK) [non] R. Marti relay via WHRI e nded N o v 14 due 10
budget (Se ifert. VOA. Jihad OX via HCJB lJ XPL l
CZECH REPUBLIC R. Prague bas pecul iar flutter at 1400 on 13580.
also heard at times eve nings on 5930. 7345 (Joe Hanlon. PAl Perh aps two
tran smitters not precisely sy nchronized (gh) R, Prague. aga in in dan ger
of being abolished. has been app ealin g for letters of support.md
recep tion reports (Jo hn We lls via Marie Lamb. HCJB DXPL I
R. Ropa remains on LW . FM, and cab le. but shut down SW 59801
5975 due to poor recepti on (Eugene Gebr eurs, RVI Radio World via
Cline)
DENMARK Look forR . Den mark' s new mo nthly English hourly via
Norwa y on first Sunday. UT Monday such as Jan 7-8. Feb 4-5. around
1345 on 15605. 1445 on 11840. 2245. 2345. 0045 . 0 145.0245.0345 on
6200 . 7465 (gh }
ECUADOR Th o it has a 500 -kW transmitter. HCJB ' s frequ ency
schedule show s maximum now is 250( gh)C layto n & Helen Howard. OX
Partylin e hosts 196 1-1984. are now living in Ok lahoma (Rich Mcvicar.
lJXPL)

La Voz de Su Amigo. Esmcr aldas, 4019.9 = 3 x 1340. good from

* 1100 and local evening with new s (Henrik Klemetl.. Col omb ia )
GERMANY [non ] Co ntrary to RCI relay schedule showing ow at

0 100 on both 5960 and 6 145, the two are not synchronized. so 6145 must
be from some whe re else (gh. OK )
GOA A IR sked from Panaj i site: Urdu mO O-1 130on9595. Bunnese
IK
l-O130 on 11620. Nepali 0 130-0228 on 7250. 0700-08IX) on 9595.
0
1
M ontre al. o ff ,J~~
Northern
since August. WOlS '!!S~
1330- 1430 on 11850. Tibelan 0 I30-0200 on 9595. 12 15- 1330 nn 117 10
Quebec Service
back in Nove m"Y
(Wolfgang Btlsch el. HCJB lJXPL l
ber, at 1200 mH.I 1530. fair 10 good here in daytime. but slaughtered by
GREECE For 0 -95. V_nf Greece at 0000 -0350 on 6245. 7448. 9420.
Europeans eves and late afternoons (Kevin
1300- 1450 on 9420. 15650 (John Rabb is.
Hecht , PAl But where is C KO I in Fren ch;
MO. \V.O.R.)
it' s re lay ing C IQC in Eng fivh (De nis
GUYANA Mich ael in Aruba is hearing
All times UTe, All frequencies kHz; bef ore I1r =
Pronovost. '!71(' Wure) C IQC fall sch edule
5950 mornings and evenings. sounds like
sign on, * aft er hr = sign off; /1 = parallel
includes E/I'iJ Hour Sat I9(XJ. Jewish Var i program min g; + = continuing but not m onitored;
100 watts (Kirk T rumm el. l i/uu/OX via
ety stu. S U Il 2 100 -2300 (Lt' Guie/t,
2 x freq = 2nd harmonic; W95 = Wimer season
DSW CI SW Newsy GBC faxes that it' s off

CBC

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MONITORING TIMES

January 1996

no w, but buck in Ja nu ary with 10 kW o n 3290 . 5950 (HCJB Latest

we hear the sa me thing go ing by tw ice a few seco nds apart ; don 't
Catch)
confu se with BBC actuall y on 5H75 in Spa nish 10 0 130' (gh, IV.O.R.)
INDONESIA VOl is an new 9525 in English", llHllll-09 00 (John
NEWZEALAND Rudi Hill ex pec ted 10 und ergo cardiac surgery in
Mainland . ~Z. RNMlv) Also at 20002 100 . ex-dom estic service (EuOct ober : he may not ge t cards unless sent to home add ress: 49 8- B
ge ne Gcb rcurs. RV I Rad io World. via C line . Mauer) Site is Cimanggis
Adelaide Rd. Ber Hamp orc . We llington (Gig i Lytle. via Diane Mauer)
(Andy Sc nniu. Ri'MN) But best chance for us to hear English is Tue
Subsequentl y heard him do ing Hymns for Today. NZ church choir s.
1230-1 257 on RRI do mes tic service 9680. Austra lian-or iented lanMon 0730 -0800 on 97(X); his oth er sho ws include 011 the March. Thu
guage practice show (gil. O K)
09 10-()950: and -t-weekly Around the World. Tu e 0930 - 1OOOconfinned
IRELAND [no n] RTE. lacking any SW transmitters of its own.
No v, 14. repeated Fri 04 30 on 1511 5 (gh) R NZ I mod ified sked in No v:
tested via BBe last fall. but chose WW C R ford aily broadcast s from Nov
M-F 1650- 1750 o n 596 0. dail y J750- 1950 o n 9HIO. occ as io nal 12073ll. wee kdays 19 30-2llll0. Sa l 2llll0-2030. Sun 2 1Oll-2 130 on 12 160.
1649 on 5960: still o n 11735. 15 115. 11900. 9700 at othcrt imes (Adr ian
from WRN feed at 1830; and for Austral ia. weekdays 100 0-1030.
Sains bury. RNZI via George T hurman )
weekends 1100 -1130 on 5065. delaye d fro m last ava ilable feed 312200;
NIGERIA V, of Nigeria. ex terna l service o nly o n 7255. unheard
mostly news and sports (Chuc k Adai r. W\VCR )
since Sept 26 ( B B C ~ I) Back o n Nov 8. *0500 in Eng lish (BBC M via
ISRAEL Kol Jsrael nn 74 18 ex-74 15 incl udin g
DXPL) Also hrd here aro und that date, but go ne again o n
Eng lish at 2000-2030 . fightin g it Qui with VOA
Nov 15 chec k. Don 't you believe imaginary freque ncie s
Bot swana o n 74 15 (Ed Raus ch. NJ) Awful heteroVON pub lishes inq uarterly schedulc- 7225. 9690. 11770 .
d yne ; also Rcshct Be l o n 7498 cx-7495 at 0 120 (Kevin
15 120 as pu t unquestionin gly o n pack et (gh)
Hecht. PAl
Bundscun of home services confirmed these o n air :
VOICE OF NIG ERIA
ITALY RAI W-95 in Eng lish : 0050-0 110 11800 .
4770.
6050. 6090. 6100. 72 75. 95 70. possi bly 6145 : not
. . . the BUlhorlts llve choIce
9645.6005: 042 5-().l.l0 on 7275 . 5990: 19 35-1955 o n
heard : 3325. 3970. 499 0. 60 15. 7285 (Rocky Vermani.
7235 . 603 0: 2200-2225 I IHI5. 9 710 . 5990 (BBC M )
Port Harcourt. via John Fisher . Fine Tuning v
NORWAY R. Nor way changed many frequenc ies Nov, I due to
A law was passe d author izin g no n-commercial entities 10 app ly for
ex ternal SW licenses. allow ing po litical. cultura l and reli gio us stations
pro paga tion . inte rference. inclu ding: DOD-WOO on 7465 ex-6040.
to broadcast legally. Prior 10 this there were no regulat ion s (AWR via
60)(\.5940.6030 (Olav Grimdaleo. NT RA via Bob Th omas) Also in
BDX C ) AWR For i; operated in limbo since 19H4. and will now apply
same time peri od 6200 rep laced several frequ encie s, Gr imd alen tells me
for license. exci ted after six yea rs of petitionin g (AWR via BBCM)
new ant ennas for 13- 17 MHZ being insta lled at Sve io; and will install
KAZAKHSTAN [non] R. Almaty. 9560. 06 3 1-0659 in Eng lish.
second tra nsmitte r there by end of 1996. pe rhap s rep lac ing 20- year-o ld
poor co py due 10 co-channe l Turkey (Brian Alexand er, PA. Wo.R . ) Is
Fredr ikstad (Joe Hanlon . PAl
via Ukra ine. a lso at 1700-1 72 8 o n 5940 (Wo lfga ng Buscher . HeJB
PAKISTAN R. Paki stan is intere sted in a N. American service o nce
DX!'I.)
additional fun ds are ava ilable ( B B C ~..l via HCJB Latest Catch) 0-95
KOREA SOUTH So me new progr am s on RKI. Mon Notes af
Engl ish: 023 0- 024 5 on 729 0. 151 90. 17705 . 17725.21730: 0800 -0847
Nos talg ia, Korean co urt, fo lk. and trad itional mu sic (Gi gi Lyt le. TX )
and 1100-1 120 on 17895. 15470: 1600-1630 on 9485. 97 85 .1 1570 .
11 745. 13590. 15555: 1700- 1800 o n 5H25. 11570. Oct programs inAlso so unded like Music Trap, Kor ean pop mu sic on Sat (g h)
MALDIVE ISLANDS YOM hack nn S W. new I IHI5 hea rd briefly
d ucted Pak istani Literat ure/Feminist Wri tings, Sun: Paki stan Valley
in lute Sept at 1026. 192 6 {Takunaka. S W OX Guide via WRMI
and Culture. Mon: Wild Life and Natura l History of Paki stan. Wed;
World Me dia and Kashmi r. Fri-all at 0815 and 17 ~7 (via Gi g Lytle .
Wm 'ts~wl) Anyone confirm latel y. or eve r?
T X)
MEXICO XER~IX. R. Me xico lntern acio nal. a.k.a. La Voz de
Mexico, is pa rt of 1 ~'I E R , and relays so me pro gram s from XEB 1220;
PERU 4 154 .7. R. Nuyl amp on new frcq, poor aroun d 0000. 41 83.1.
add ress: Margaritas IX, Col. Florid a. 0 1030 Mexico, OF. o r Apartado
R. Sa n Ignacio 0 2 10-0 3 16* from San Ignacio. Sinsicup dis trict . La
POSlaI1 9- 737.03900Mcxico. Dr. Tel +52-5-534-52 10 : fax +52-5-524Libe rtud dept .. ncar Mcmbri llur. where R, Mem hrillar once used 4 183.
pre sumably sam e tran smit ter ; announces 4200. and sign-o n *09 30,
175H. Sk cd is 2000-0500011 97 05v. 5985v . 1300- 17tx> on same or
6089,6v. R, San Miguel, Caju ma rca. 07 25- 0838 in unexpected abse nce
alt ernate 11770; news daily at 0 I00 -0 130. O4lX)-0455. wee kdays 13001400. weekends 1400- 1430, wee kdays 2000 -2100. wee kends 2000 of Brazilian . 6 28 1, 1. R, Huancubamba. reactivated in Oct. {Hc nrik
20 30. a ll in Spanish ( BBC M) does conta in occasional brief Eng lish
Klemctz. Date line Bogoui ) R. Altura on new 5956,7 at 1221 (Hara ld
Kuhl. Ec uador. HCJB TLC ) Secon d harmonics heard aro und 14 15: o n
seg me nts (gh )
12 190. R, Nacio nal. Lim a; on 12230. R, Union (Rich McVi car. EcuaMOROCCO RTYM had Eng lish on I nl 5 Sunday +184 2- 1900
dor. J;had~DX)
( Kevin Hecht. PA. W.o.R ,) Checked next Sunday . 1802 - 19{)() oI: nonPHIUPPINES FEBC R. International. Ocl. guide : English 0000stop US pop mu sic . 1830 with .t m inutes of Eng lish news: previou s
0200 dai ly o n 15450.0930-1 100 on 11635 . 1300 - 1600 on I 1995. IJX
Sunda y English at 14()()-1500 o n 17595 had changed to Arabic ( Brian
Alexander. PA. W.o. R,)
IJi"I SaI 0940. Wed 13 15ap prox. Mail",,~ Th u ()l)45. Fri I345. Sal 1540
NEPAL I visited R. Nep a l, met engineering direc tor who expected
to usc 100 kW o n 3 230 instead of 7 165 fro m mid-November to end of
OX Listening Digest
April. but eX:II: t dates depen d o n propagatio n: also with 40 kW on 500 5.
Because of mail theft. do not send do llar bills as return postage but three
More broadcasting intormation by country compiled
IRCs to R. Ne pal. P,O , Bo x 634, Si ngha Durb ar. Kathm andu : o r to his
by Glenn Hauser
per sona l address: M r. Ram S, Kurki. P.O. Box 4946, Kathmand u
(Wi lliam A, Ma tthew s. RK I S lY Feedback )
Review of International Broadcasting
NETHERLANDS RN documentari es UT T hu (X)52 & 0452. Fri
2352 : Ja n. 18-26. " Bringing Ho me the Beef'; Feb . 1-8. G reenland (0 "
SW Prog ramming, opinion, equipment, satelli te monitoring.
Target. via Steven Cli ne. Bob Thom as)
Samples 52.50 each (outside North Am erica US 53or 71RCsj
NETHERLANDS ANTILLESWh m' s the mi x of Sp ani sh stations o n
10 issuesubscriptions 526 in USA. or both lor 549
5875 arou nd ~OO ? (G eorge Thu rman. TX ) RN Bo naire on 6 165 and
Glenn Hauser. Box 1684-MT. Enid . OK 73702
6D20. at 145 kHz separatio ns, with aud io de liberatel y offset so on 58 75

Jonvory '996

MONITORING TIMES

43

the Global Forum (continued)

, FEUCI

PORTUGAL RD I' 1", 1' 1 puts a spur on 9470

at 2 100-2400 + : ca n'!

fiuure out ho w this deri ves fron t 6095. 9570 . 96 35 wh ere also heard at
ot)()( ) (Kevin Hecht . P/\ ) QS L curd is a bea utifulli tho o f a 15th century
sailing sh ip: a keeper . g reat printin g. Winni e Alme ida ab o sends a SSpag\.' travel brochu re on top -nigh t enamel paper <J ohn T. Wagner. OIL
\\'. ( U I.)

RUSSIA Spec ial New s for Po lar Reg io ns. W 95: 1500 1530 Tuc &
Thu frnm6025 & 6 190 NoHl'..ibirsk IOOkW ,:U 5, 7255 Samara IOOkW
1-1 0" (N ikolai Rudncv. A ust rul iun IJX Nt'H 's) A mi d the- VO R A rabic
service is a pro gra m at 2()()O-2030 dail y called I1ismillll As Sabokh,
address in Eng lis h ,I I end. P () Bo x 72..to. Lima sso l. C yprus: on 59 35 .

7-120. 7-1 25. all HU 'i"i,1I1 site.... and maybe 6095 (Ivn Ivanov. Rumen
Pankov via Buechel. Dan :' Kcunv. BD XC )
SCOTLAND Be-sem er Hruad castin g. R&D
station at Sheffield. Engla nd . has resumed 2-l0-1.5
k il l from new ... ite (Dave Port er. ,\In' Nl'II ',\' via
IICJ B TI .C J Nc.tr Pc tcrhcad , Sco tland. 2-l hours
(Porte r & Stew Whitt. ,"' Wi\' via I{N M N) Has 12mo nth an t...' una test licence , I watt ( Dave Kenn y.

lTIN6

IIK. .Iilwd -DX )

SLOVAKIA BBC has ann oun ce d a rel ay via

~50

1\'" Rimavska Sobota to

--

Pakistan ISOO-19 00 on 12 ~'1 Hz band

(AWR \\'C/\'eSCtIIl via WR1\tI via Diane Mauer)
SPAIN R. Liberty site ;11 Pa ls was to close OCI J I: it had sta rted in
1t)51) I EI Pai.," via RN Rttdio l:'ulaCt') No longe r any need for it: station
tak cn O Wl' bv VOA ( REE Distance Unk"mm )

SWEDEN

R. Sw eden at I-lJ O o nly sh ifte d 15 2-l0 to 15245 du e to

WEW N 152J 5 (Magn us. R. Sweden via Gcorgc Thurman ) Strange ly

eno ugh. no \\' E\\' ~ heard here (gh} Latin A merican serv ice at OOJU is
pretty good here o n 6065111u il W YFR COIllCs on at 0() 5 ~ (T hurman. T X)
SWITZERLAND SR I news report ed that rcxidcuts ofSch war zen burg.
wh...-rc S RI has -l x ~ 5() and 2 x 100 kW transmitters, have ca lled for a
shutdown. saying it g in: ... oil " harm fu l elec tronic s mog:' Auth or ities
o nly adm it tha i resident , ' slee p is dis turbed (Bob Thomas. CT)
THAILAND R. T ha iland. O()JO in En g lish bad on 11905 this wi nter
(.Joe Hanlon . PA. \V.O.U.J A nd Engfish at 1900 -2000 . ]:O.'O20-l5 on
I I XO:' and 96 55 tho anno unci ng 118.35 (j oe Barry . O R )
TURKEY VOT re:p1<Ked 7 190 with 9655 fnr Eng lish to us at 2.30 0
and (>-tOO. as of \ Iid-Nu\' (G"" org e Poppin. C A. vi.l Jot: Il an lon. and Bob
Th omas)
UGANDA R. Uganda O il new 7201. 1 al *0 245 -,ylo IS. 0 300
Ellgl i ~ h tD. then bloc kt:d by VOA (Ed K u ~ al i k . Ah a.. NU via HCJ B
T1.C ) Art:n' t A fg hanista n and S ud<ln eno ugh around 7 200 7
UAE A bu D hah i. Eng lish OIl 2J 22 good o n tW(lll t:\\' winte r freq uen.
c ies. 9770 and 9605 with prt:ss rev iew (Dary l Rochr. C ltet Doughert y.
Roge:rC hamber s. ~\"lVS \\' LC DX Ca mp. N Y) Eng lish run s 2200-2400
+ a third frequ t:ncy. A wt:t:k's skcd in Sept showed same titles se \'en
d ay, : 220{) Holy Qurctll . 22 15 Stories of till' Prop hl'ts. 1230 Fl'v1
Programme [Clpiw.1 Radi o ]. 2 ~ ()0 A rabic' Writing of Today . 23 30
I:f.!itoriak Mll;)ic. Mail !fox. 23-l0 /Jl'!m ed Salld.\"(ASW LCl in mid -No v
h.IlJ patrio tic UAE so ng in Eng lish al :B ~ 5 . WOllll'lI in l/zl' Qunm a123-n
(gh . O K) Also on 969 5 (Gehrt:urs. RV I Radio Wor ld via C line )
URUGUAY R. Em isora r\ilo llte video o n Ilew 6 145 until HCJB
* ()9~ 5 . mayb e v ia SOD RE (Ern... t Krug e r. RG S. HCJB IJXPL )
USA W \vCR plannt:t.I to have #4 Iransmiller 0 11 by Jan. or Feh al
lalt:sl. 9 ~7 5 d'l)'. 7435 dmm/d usk . new 120 mb channe l 011 n igh t.
t\1 eanw hik # I o n 33 15 o lltpro pagates highcr channels from 00 00 . but in
dcfe f"" nce to DX ers. goe s h;l\.k lip to 7 ~ 35 at 0900 - 1100 to kt:ep DX
wind ow opc n o n 90m. When programming permi ts. mainly on #3
da yti me on 12160. WW CR presen ts live cu\"cragt: o f White Ho use nt:ws
co nferencc s and briefings. Fro m J;,m 1. WWeR add s T"( ' Olympic
Nt'l ,on . dai ly entcrtainme nt fea ture thru Aug . 25. excl us ively on S W.
44

MONITORING TIMES

January 1996

morn ing. midday. and afternoo n. On Hallo ween . WW C R bro adca st

Viking T rad ing ' s W(/ f"( ~1' til(' w orlds parod y on c'oflapse of the doll ar:
despite lot s o f discl ai mers.man y irate listeners too k it se rious ly. M undo
Radial. ghs mo nth ly Spanish DX repo rt. retuned to 2."15 certain
Mund ay- (1Il 9475. \\It/rlel t~r Rudin nmy rem a in as given last mont h. hut
the Sal 1130 airin g o n 5065 may start at 112X in unticipution o f
freq uency- c hange exc rc isc at 1159 {gh. W\VCR ) sec <l lso IRELAN D
Wo rld of Radio o n WS UI. 9 IO. Io wa Cit y. moved 10 Sun 10 :.30 pm
Central. now = (l-UO UT M Oil .
Wt /l '('S{'(// l on " worm y" WRM J. 9955. anno unced sked in Nov : Sat
22 15. S un 0 100. 1245. 14-l5. Mou DIDO. 02 15 ( Diane Mauer. WI)
WGTG. 9-H 5 co ntinues with not hing bu t Bro . Stai r. and ex panded
10 ~1 0 n d ay (G eorge T hu rman. TX >We hear that B.S _is gcuing WG TG
time at bargai n rates. no where ncar the kilodoll ars per mo nth he wa s
raising for this (g h) WGT G was bei ng built for (he Overcomer bro ad c-u... l , i....111 lega l and approved. soo n 10 be 24 hours (Overcome r via
M auer )

W Ii\B \vas still da rk o n Oct. J I when John Stoc ksdale there to ld me

thcy planned to be back by Jan . I (G eorge Thurm an. T X . lV.o.R .)
WV HA lo st its ca se. must pay loca l pro pert y tuxes (Ji m Bean . M E )
mo ved live Sabbath broad cast to 15745 at I ~()O -I X(K) IJi m Moats. O H )
Stan ley Lein wol l has bec o me WVHA freque ncy manager (David
Mays. WDXC Ccmwct)
KVO H may be next to approac h 60 meter band. o n 5W)5 (\ l'.O .R. l
WI-I RI had 10 tum 5 7~5 had to VOA after 03 (K>. and W B Rl to 5760
(Gco rgc Jacobs via George Thurman )
FCC International SW frequency skcds now avail able on Iutem ct:
0 11 WWW via Mosai c and Nctscupc: http: //www.fn.~o\'/nlirea us/
I n lerna li onal/'" \ " \\.I II F _ b r o a d ca st! n ~/h f.h Im I- a lte rn at ivc Iy
hltp :llw ww . fcc. ~O\I\\'d c f)m e.h l ml or using FrP if WWW browser
unavailable. flp.fcc.g()\- Iogin as "a nonymo us" and usc you r E- ma il
addruv pass word . HF file s can be do wn loaded fro m the: " pub/ Bureaus/
Inle m alio naI/WW\ \'/H r _h roadc asti ng" dire ct or y (F CC via Bruce

Elving j
VOA has been test ing variou s d igit al mod es. daytimes 011 6 165 via
Greenvi lle : may increase hit-rate. eventuall y voice -cap able. high potcntial fo r new mode of iutcmntiunal broadcasting (Bob Everett. VO A
COl1l11l1l11icatioll.'l Wo rld ) W.IS ASC II. 300 baud . 170 li z ... hift. OK fur
hohtly RTfY or dccoder . computer. but abo \'c J OO baud breaks do w n
on HE no goo d ( Fr~ d O, ten na n. Un iversa l. VOA Cn') Also hrd hert:.
and much stronger o n 9 7-l5. 15 170-- p1easc get this noise outside th ~
hn )ad....ast ba nd s! (gh) 6165 at IJ 15-200 0: a nd De lano at I ~OO -1 600 ()fl
9745. 16(X)':2000 on 151 70 (VO A CW ) Du ring gm t dos""dow n in S o\'.
VO A was able to mai nta in normal sked for a few days. wi lh rc-runs or
ad vance productio ns. tho 201" o f hroa dcast employees anll 83 % o f
adm inistrators we re furloughcd (Geoff Cow an. VO A Director on
Ct, mt11w l ;cal iom; \\'o rld )
UZBEKISTAN R, T ash kent. r==":o:::--"'""" ' "
------,- - - - c
Engli , h at + 1 2 06~ I 22g* on 97 15.
unde r Bon ai re: wherc e1st: a rc
they'! ( Roge r C ha mbe rs. ~ Y )
Wint er a lso on 5060. 59 75 . 60 25
announced. plus 1330-1 ~ OO. hlH
hest here o n 97 15 (Edw in So uthwe ll, Eng land. W o.U .)
Th e Ch ristian pro grmn in n.. . ng;,l li o rig inally on 15-l70 ;u IJ3 0- 1400
ilntl nn", on 7400 is be lieved 10 be via Ta!'ohkCnl. rt:gi!'oterc-d 200 k W .
130 0 ( Niko lai Rudn e\'. S im ile:! . RlI...... ia. Af)XN )
ZANZIBAR R. T;ulI.ani.1 Za nz ibar. Dole. 60 1-l.65 a t 11)25 20 00*
in Swahili. ~'lE voca l..;. not 11 5050 . men lion ed Tan l..lI1 ia Zanzihar at sl
o ff (Ed Rausch. NJ) O n 60 1-U H al 19 30-2000* 10c.11folk music. 19 59
.lI1tht:m. vcry wea k (Brian Alt:xander. PA. U'.O.R.)

lImil (he Next. Best oI DX and 73 de Glenn!

Broadcast Loggings
Gayle Van Ham
0015 UTe on 11780
BRA ZI L: Radio Nacic nat Amazonia. Portuguese . Sign-on with "La Voz da
Brazil" 10 to anthem . News reports from foreign correspondents. Promos
into Braz ilian mu sic at 0022. (Jerry Wilham , Keaau , H I)

0018 UTe o n 13760

NO RTH KO RE A : Rad io Pyongya ng . Text on North Korea's army, 1/ 15130

a 5 &.7, // 11335 a 55 . Script included the role of the army for the 90's .
Station 10 at 0027 and intra for music program in hono r of "our dear
leader." (Sam Wr ight , Biloxi , MS)

0055 UTe on 6280.09

LEB ANO N: Voic e of Ho pe . English. VE RY weak signal! Lady's regional

topics about Lebanon. Middle Eastern voca ls 10 Arabic announcer's

new script to 0104. No sig n tonight of Lebanon's W ings o f Ho pe on 9960.
Signal im proved by 0107 with vocalist tunes and talk to 0 115. {Wright, MS}

0159 UTe on 4790

PERU: RadioAtlantica. Spanish . Political speeches 10 Latin tunes. "Canned"
IDs and public service annou nceme nts at 0225, to station slogans.
(Giovanni Serra. Rome, Italy)
0226 UTe on 6726
PERU: Radio Satehte. Spanish. Lady sending out message "comumcados"
to 0230. "Canned" station ID with frequency quote and regional items for
City of Santa Cruz . Commercial for a market and publ ic service announcernen ts. Peru's Rad io Laj as heard on 5498 at 0240. Folk vocals to time
check and greetings. Upbeat regiona l music-VERY weak but a nice catch!
(Gayle VH, NC)

0227 UTe on 4799. 76

GUATEMALA : Radio Buenas Nuevas. Spanish. Male host ID sounded
like, " e s to el ca rason d el ar e a mam en Sa n Seba sti an d e
Huehuetenango...Radio Buenas Nuevas, en 4800 kilociclos en la banda
de 60 metros ...buenas neches," anthem and 0228 . (Serra. Italy)
0235 UTC o n 7210.12
QATAR: Qatar Broadcasting Serv ice. Arabic . Signal carrie r noted at 0235.
Very wea k string instrument interval signal at 0243-0245. Male hos t with
sign-on lD and brief news item. Holy Koran recitations audible to 0314,
covered by amateur radio CO ca ll at 03 15. (Gay le VH, NC)
0458 UTe on 5047
TOGO: Radio Togo. French. Weak signal lor interva l signal, anthem and
0500 sign-on ID . (Witham, HI)
050 0 UTC o n 7330
RUSSIA: Voice 01 Russia. Sign-on into world and regio nal news to 0510.
Featured report. Commonwealth Update. (Witham, HI) Program on Tolstoy
heard on 7180 at 2330. (Fraser, MA)
0550 UTe o n 96 05
JA PAN: Radio Japan. Radio Japan Magazine program to 0555, followed
by ID and Japanese service at 0600 . (Witham. HI)
0710 UTe o n 7140
RUSSIA: Radio Rossii. Russian. Male monologue to ID at 7320. Delightful
Russian folk music heard on 72001/72 10. 7320, 7345. 744 0. (Witham. HI)
Station heard on 4485 at 0057 with newscast, and weather forecast.
(Se rra, Italy)
1130 UTC o n 13730
AUSTRIA: Radio Austria Intern ationa l. Report on the post Wo rld Wa r II
Austrian film-making. (Bob Fraser , Cohasset, MA)
1151 UTC on 15530
AUSTRALIA: Radio Australia . Music show Aus tralian Count ry Style.
Station ID/frequ ency sche dule to Moon River musical pau se. World
newscast. (Se rra, Italy)
1235 UTe on 13625
FRANCE: Radio France International. Spotlight on Africa program with
report on the anti -military movement in Nigeria . (Fraser. MA)
1410 UTC on 13670
BELGIUM: Radio Vlaanderen International. Belgium Today program
cov ering the expansion of the high speed train system, and a planned
protest strike. Station heard in French at 2230, 6030 with Press Review.
(John Her tz. Old Bridge, NJ)
1445 UTe on 1n15
GERMANY: Deutsche Welle . German . Beethoven piano recital to 10 at
1500. Worl d new s heard on 17765/ /15275 . {Hanz, NJ}
1515 UTe on 1199 5
PHILIPPINES: FEBC. Religiou s se rmon to contemporary Christian vccats. Musica l bridge to 10 and wo rld newscast. (Serra. ftaly)
1550 UTC on 1158 0
GUAM: KTWR. Religious text amid "gurgling water dripper" lnterterence.
Station ID and QSl address at 1600. (Hanz, NJ) To those still wondering
what that "gurgling water dripper" noise is. it is an "over the nonzon "
transportable radar system. used to spot drugrunners. etc. and is run by
the U.S. Navy! (Gayle VH, NC)
1605 UTe o n 15240
SOUTH AFRICA : Channel Afri ca. African news about Tanzania. and

Burundi suspe nds the World Food Program because of Ihievery . Great
signal! (Hanz. NJ)
162 5 UTC on 4790.6
PAKISTAN: Radio Pakistan. An address on the quality 01life in Pakistan.
as related to the protection of the environment, thru the use of Environmentally Friendly technology. ID aI 1645. (Witha m, HI)
1650 UTe on 3912
CLANDESTINE: Voice of the People. Korean. Male/female alternating
with presumed po litical messages. App eared to be jamm ed, but easily
copied on LSB. (Witha m. HI)
1705 UTC o n 4635
TAJIKISTAN: Tajik Radio.Tajik or Uzbec. News with mentions of Dushanbe.
Interview at 1710. long pause at 1715. then into Middle Eastern music
accompanied by a dramatic reading. (Wilha m. HI) Station heard on 4635
at 0134 in Tajik . (Serra, Italy)
1710 UTe on 5020
SRI LANKA: SLe C. Presumed Sinhala. Regiona l music hosted by a "Iaid back" announcer. Time pips and prayers at 1730, with anthem at 1735 .
(Witham, HI)
1800 UTe on 9200
SUDAN : RadioOmdurman. "The Englishserviceol Radio Omdurman" ID.
Regional news and mai n points review at 18 10. Press Coverage program
reviewing worl d and national headlines. QRM by RTTY at 1814. (Witha m,
HI)
1810 UTe on 4965
ZAM BIA: Chr istian Voice. Various male/female religious sermons. Religious tune s to worl d newscast. Musical pa use to statio n 10. heard on LSB
to avoid RTTY . (Serra, Italy)
1840 UTC on 9780
YEMEN: Yemeni Rep. Radio. DJ format with "lite pop" music prog ram.
Audio hum present and interference from Radio Portu gal's Portuguese
service . News briefs on the Middle East. Closing ID 10 national anthem at
1858. Arabic service at 1900 with 10 and news formal. (Frank Hillton,
Cha rleston. SC)
1852 UTC on 11990
KUWAIT: Radio Kuwait. Pop voca ls to instrumental ballad. Pop Sessions
Specia/ program from male/female hos t. Music featured from U.K. artistCoun t Indigo, Free Power, and Out of My Hair! S-10 signal.{To m Banks,
Dallas, TX)
1905 UTe on 13710
BOTSWANA: Voice of America relay. Male newscas t with correspondents, including sports roundup and ID. Major news points to VOA cu rrent
affairs p rogram about war in former Yugos lavia. heard on " 9760, 15410,
7415. (Serra. Italy)
1921 UTC on 11620
INDIA: All India Radio-Bangalore. Music al intros for instrume ntal sita r
music program. Editorial on Islamabad summit 10 station ID. Frequencyl
target area schedule at 2045 . Subconti nental sita r music accompanied on
tabla (drum s) and la mbura (drone lute), (Gayle VH. NC)
1945 UTC on 9605
MADAGA SCA R: Radio Netherlan ds relay. African Season featuring an
exhibit of African metal art in London, " heard on 11655. (Fraser, MA)
1950 UTC on 9534.7
ANGOLA: Radio Nacional de Angola. French/E nglish. Pop voca ls to
French OJ. Vibraphone bell chime tone at 1955. "Radio Nacional" twice
and bell chime repeat. Text on Luande in French. English news al 2oo0
with 10 . Portuguese pops from DJ format , audible at 2220 recheck . Great
S8 signal quality! (Gayle VH, NC)
2010 UTe on 15160
ALGERIA: Radio Algiers International. English world news at tune-in.
English service ID at 201 2 with continue d news to 20 16. Rock mus ic from
Robert Palm er to Press Review program . Heard 10 2101 (Banks . TX;
Wright. MS:)
204 6 UTC on 15190
EOT. GUINE A: Radio Africa. Contemporary Christian voca list. Bible
course offer with Pa . address . (No ll heard on 7190. 720 3) Religious text
on Moses wi th signal overmodutauon. heard to 2105. (HUlton, SC)
2200 UTC on 6160
CANADA: CKZN-$ t. John's Newfoundlan d. Interesting discussion on the
maritime provinc es. RCl' s Sunday afternoon program Mailba g noted at
2205 on 980 5. 11945, 13690. CS C N. Qu eb ec Serv ic e heard on 9625 at
0010 in French. (Taylor, FL) Canada 's CFCX heard on 6005 at 222 0.
(Frase r. MA)
2330 UTC on 5975
CANADA : BBC relay. Seeing Stars feature s finding a brown dwarf.
(Fraser. MA)

n umb

10 our contributors - Haw' vou sent in YOUR logs?

Send 10 Gayle Vall Hom, do Monitoring Times.
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The QSL Re rt
Gayle Van Ham

Radio Stamp Collecting?

lette rs? Saved as \\'11.11'.'1 kno wn as a "cover: '
Perhaps it ' :" the purdy vis ual appe al. or the diversity of
mal1Y stamped envelopes rep resent varied
intriguing topics. bUI stamp collecting rem ains one of
subjects and beauty. Ho we ver. have
the most po pular hobbies among fI~;:;;::-yOll considered co llecting rad io-rcDXcrs around the \'...o rld.
latcd stamps?
Many philatelists speciali ze in
Issued in J 96..J as a tribute to Amateur Radio . the US
topical collections represent ing a
Posta l Service ho nored the "hams" and it was an instant hit.
group of stam ps with the same
In 1995. the Roya l Mail of Grea t Britain ho nored Gugliel mo
theme- space travel. wildlife.
Marconi. o ne hund red years afte r he sent the first wirele ss
sports. or en tertainers. The top ics
message,
arc as endless as yo ur imagin ation! Have y O ll
Wh y not co mbine yo ur hobby w ith RAD IO stam p col lec ting !
not iced the stamps on yo ur QSL card or

...:....

AUST RA LIA
Radio Australia. 11800 kltz. Full data QSL card
signedby Arie Schellaarv-Asst.T ransmission Manage r. Station calender and souvenirs e nclosed.
Recei ved in lu days for an Eng.lhh report and o ne
IRC [returned with reply). Station address : P.O.
Box -l28G Melbourne victoria . 300 1 Austral ia .
(Eric M. Walton, v ancouver. BC Canada)
A ustmliu Defense Force s RatliolNorth West Care
NA VCO MMSTA. 87-l3 kHz , Fulldata QSL on
statio n lette rhead. signed hy Adam lffhm d for
Hugh Mc ke nzie-Mana ger. RAAF stickers and Oz
Travellers pamp hlet enclosed. Rex eived in 30
days for an English report and one IRC (returned
with reply). Station addres ..: Anzac Park West
Offices. APW I-B-07 REID ACT Au strali a.
(Walton. CA N)
VIM-Telstra Mel bourne Marit im.., Radio , 829 1 kH l
US B. Full data QS L on station letterhead. signed
by Roger Boyden-Ma nager. Rcce!ved in 23 days
for a utilit y audio ca ssette.....iew card. person al
letter and one U.S. dolla r. Station address : Bonco
Rd .. Cape Schanck VIC 39.39 Australia. (Wa lton.
CAN )

by Stephen Cannery. Rece ived in 28 days for an

English report. QSL :lddre ss used c/o Official QSL
Man ager. Ontario OX Association. P.O. Box 161.
Station A_ Willowdalc. 0;-..,. M2N 55 8. Ca nada.
905-8 533169 VokclF AX.(Don Taylor. GrL"'CnCovc
Springs. A.. )
C RO AT IA
HRT/C ro:llian R:ldiu. 7370l/5X94/19830 kHz. Full
data QSL un HRT station letterhead. unsigned. Rcccive d in 48 day s af ter firs t Eng lish folt ow-upreport.
o ne U.S. dollar and :1 selt- add ressed-cnvclo pe (no r
us..-d for reply ). Station uddrcvs: Hrvatska RadioTclevizjja.Od asiljaci I v eze.a l fXlOZagre b. Prisa vlje
3. Croatia. Be advised PWB R / 995 & / 996. list an
additi onal addre ss for the w ashin gton Bureau :
Croa tian-Am erican :\",.....c tauon. This address is not
valid, and was returned to me as; " Return to Send erMo ved NO I Fo r wa rded." (G a y le Van Ho rn.
Brasstown, NC)

ECUA DOR
HCJB . 9745 k il l.. Full data "llapingucho s" QSLt; :lrd
unsigned . Recei ved in 32 d:lys Ioran English repo rt.
Station address: c/o Engli!oh Section. Ca silla 17- 1769 1, Qu ilo. Ec uador. (w ashburn . ~I E : George
Knight. Garfie ld. NJ ; Brian Bagwe ll, St. Lo uis. MO )

BRAZIL
Radio Nac io net Bras. 15""' 5 kHz. Part ial data
QS L form unsigned and perso nal leuer from
Gabriela Braga, Receiv ed in 1:!8 days for an
Engllshrepon and IWO IRe s. Sta tion addre ss: P.O .
Box 088-l0. Pt.ht:ll Zone 709 13-790. Brasilia. DF
Braz il. (G lenn R. Bowman. Sa line. ~11 )

IC E L AND
Icelandic Nationa l Broadcasting Sen'icc. 1386OkHz .
Full data Icela ndic scenery QSL card unsigned .
R..-ccivcd in 39 day s f..lr an English repo rt. Station
address : Efstaleh i J. 150R eykja'l' ik.lceland. (Knight.

Swi ss Radio lntc mational reluv. 5885 kHz. Full

data QSL card with "tranvmiucr site" notation
unsigned . Received in 19 d'lys for an English
rqxm. Stal ion :lddrcs.s: Gi:lCOlllcttistmsse 1, 3000
Ber n 15 , S witz crJallll. (C ha rli e W a.sh hurn .
Robbinston . ME; Piltrick M. Griffith, Fedcrul
Heights. CO)

RUSSIA
Th e v ci cte of vi etnam via Tbllisskayc relay. 7250
kHz. Full data map/logo QS l. card unsigned and
silve r station sticker enclosed. Recei ved in 10 weeks
li)r an English report . Stalionuddress: Dai T ieng No i
Vic i N:lm, 58 Q U:ln Su Stre c, II:lno i. (Ste....cn
Go ldm:ln. Roselle. IL; GV H, NC)

C ANADA
Radio CanaJ a Inlern:ltio nal. Fu ll daUl50t h Anni\ ersar)' QSL card un..igncd. Sta tion so u\enirr;and
freque ncy/pw~ram schedule enclose d. Receh ed
in thfe'('....eeh for an Englio.h repoll and one IRe.
Sial ion addre !'> ..: P.o. B\):\ bOon. Montrea l PQ .
H3C JAB Canada . (Stevt: Call t:r-KC5 NA R. via
Intenlt:l. ml@gmve.llell

Voice o f Russia. 151 1\0 . 9720 kll z. Fu ll d:lta Krem lin scenery QSL card unsigned. Recched in 63 d:ly!o
for an English report . Slation addres.s: Pyanmil ska)'a
ul. 25. Mo"co...... Rusl>ia. (Rand}' Sle.....art. Springfield. MO : Knight_ :-.In

CF RX. 6070 kHz. Full dal:t QSL nw p card signed

46

MONITORING TIMES

January 1996

N J)

S III I'TRAFFIC
/' oly Ken WG26HH. 156 .H MH1.
Hand wriuen leller frum H.B.
Note incl uded thai the Capta in
license al a illerI.' HO years young !

11939 Wheeler).
Kinc:lde,C:lptain.
j usl renewed his
Rt:ceived in eig ht

days for an English utility report and return

mint postage. Shi p address : c/o Cap tain H.B.
Kincade. 252 I WCM Ixrh St.. Wilm ington . DE
1 9 ~06. (Hank Hol brook . Dun kirk, MO l
Sw l, Helluland EU Z7. 156 .7 MH z (Chemical
Ta nker). QSL le tter und photo o f vcsse t. Received in 60 days for un Eng lish utility report
and return mint postage . Ship address: c/o
Sroh-Niclscn Inc . 8 Sound Shure Dr.. Gree nwich. CT (Holbrook, MDJ
M/ \'Am bassador KR FK, 500 kHz. (RolI-On/ Ro lIOm . Full data ca nal)' yello w with black lette ring station QSL card sig ned b ~ Rich ard
Mcnju re-Radio Office r. R..xeiv ed in 33 days
for an English utility report and return mint
postage . Shi p address: c/o Cro w ley Ame rica n
Transport, P.O. Box 359004. FI. Lauderdale.
A.. 33335. (Holbroo k, MO l Halik reports thru
this commercial ship. is O lle' ofonly a fe w that
make up a spr d al QSL ca rt! [ar DX reports.
and this practice is noted 1I.f \'el)' rare among
ship s. -ed.

Mf.DlUM WAVI-:
KTIVO. 1030 AM kHz. Full data statio n antcnna QSL car d unsigned and station sticker.
Rece ived in 380 days for an English AM re port. Station addre ss: 150 No rt h Nic hols.
Cas per. WY 8260 1. (l\l:lrk Redfox. Seattle.
\V A)

WHZ. 1030 A~lkH l . Full dat a QSL info on

station letterhead signed by Mark Manuclian Manager. Received in 26 day s for an English
AM report. Station addess: I 170 Soldiers Field
Rd., Bosto n. MA 02 134 (Knight. NJ)
WGHT. 1500AM kl l7.. No QS L dat:lolls ta tion
lellerh cad signed by John Silliman -Gen. M:ln
ager. Stat io n cove rage map enclo sed. Recei ved
in the days for :III Engli sh AM report and
prog ramming caf>SClle. Slation address: P.O.
Box -W15. Wayne. NJ 07-l7-l. t Knighl, :-oIJ I
UNITED STAT Kti
KFS/G1obl: Wire J,:~s. ~5 58.5 kll z USB. Parti al
dala (no fRoquent;y) st;ltio n logu pos":lrd with
illegi ble signature. Received in 26 days fo r an
English ulility report :lnd relurn mint po"t:lge
(unu sed on reply ). SlaliOIl :lddre ss: c/o Engineering Dept.. O ne Meyn Rd . H:llf Moo n Bay,
CA 94019. (Ste wHn, MO )

How TO USE THE SHORTWAVE GUIDE.

1:

Convert yo ur time 10 UTC.

Eastern and PacificTimes are alreadyconvertedto Coordinated

Unive rsal Time (UTC) at the top of each page . The rule is: convert
you r local time to 24 -hour format ; add (du ring Standard TIme) 5 , 6,
7, or 8 hours for Eastern, Ce ntral, Mountain or Pacific Times , respe ctively.

Note that all dates, as well as times. are in UTe ; for example, a

The frequency listing uses the same day codes as the program
listings ; if a broa dcast is not daily, those day cod es will appear before the station name. Irregular broad casts are indica ted "tent" and

programming which includes languages besides English are coded

"vl" (various lan guages).

Choose a program or statio n you want to hear.

Some selecte d programs appea r on the lower half of the page
for prime listening hours- spac e does not permit 24hour listings
excep t for the "News line" listing , which begins on the next page .
Occasionally program listings will be followed by "See X 0000 :
This info rmation indica tes that th e prog ram is a rerun. and refers to
a previous summary of the program's con tent. Th e lette r stands for a
day of the week, as indic ated below, and the four digits represent a .
time in UTC.
H: Thu rsday A: Saturd ay
5 : Sunday T: Tuesday
M: Monday W: Wednesday F: Friday

4: Choose th e mo st promising frequencies for th e time,

locati on and c ondition s.
Not all stations ca n be hear d and none all the time on all frequencies. To help you find the most promising frequency. we've included informa tion on the ta rget area of each broadcast. Frequencies beamed towa rd your area will gene rally be eas ier to hear than
those beam ed elsewhe re, even though the latter will often still be
audi ble. Every frequ ency is followed by one of thes e target cod es:
am: The Americas
as:
Asia
na : North Ame rica
au:
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pa :
Pacific
sa: South America
va:
various
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do:
dom estic broadcast
af: Afr ica
om : omnidirectio nal
me: Middl e East

3: Find the frequen ci es fo r Ihe prog ram o r station you

wa nt to hear.
Look at the pa ge wh ich correspond s to the time you will be
listening . Comprehensive freq uency inform ation for English broadcas ts can be found at the top half of the page. All frequencies are in
kHz .

Consult Ihe propaga tion cha rts.To fur ther help you find the righ t
freq uency, we've included cha rts at the back of this sectio n which
take into account cond itio ns affecti ng the audibility of shortwave
broadcasts. Simply pick out the region in which you live and find the
chart for the region in which the station you wa nt to hea r is located.
T he chart indicates the optimum frequencies for a given time in UTC.

a show which mig ht air at 0030 UTC Sunday will be heard on Saturday evening in America (7:30 pm Eastern. 4:30 pm Pacific).
2:

HOT NEWS AND HOT SPOTS

De moc rat ic voice of Bur ma
( Democratic M YIl JlII/Or ll -Than ) via

Radio ;":urway is dail y I UX)I un

on 15 170 . IBn 15lX) o n 11850.
says BBC ~I o n i tor i n g . It is now
believed that the suui o n is run by
Burm ese stude nt act iv ists acc ounta ble to the Norway-Burma Co uncil
but no lon ge r with an y form al
con tro l by [he Na tio nal Coa liti o n
Gove rnm en t of the Union of Bu rma.
Add ress is PO Bo x. 6 7:!O. St Olu vs
Pla ss. 013 0 O s lo : fa x. +-l7 2 114988.
On "'t'ilia N~'nmd.. Vict or
Go on c rillckc report ed tha i Snrat b
w cc rnkoon had heard the long si le nt K. Kawthoolc i of tbc Ka re n
National Unio n. back a t * I030-1 :230
and 00.10-02.'\0 on 6J55 .5.
co untered by the go vernment statio n
for the same audi ence . ~1a ya w a d i
Bro adcasti ng nn 5\)73 a t 113() 1330.
1"',lO- 15.'\0 . In Colorado. Han s
Jo hn so n also hea rd thi s. presumably.
wih low modulation a t 1J3 0 * and
'" 1...:!9 0 11 5972. 9. pe r Jihad IJX via

DX Pan ylinc .

sl.ue re ported that the

clande stine s ta tio n (If the Libe rati on
Ti ger s (If Ta mi l Edam had been o ff
the air fu r nea rl y s ix. day s in la te
October andmay haw been hit
during a military o ffe ns ive ur
Nir vcli . rep o rts B13C:-.,1.

.
R. Dncstr lntcmutionul.

Ti raspol . En gl ish Oil 6 205 at 2 130220 0 is sbowu by BB Cf\! as on

~ I nn . Wed . Tim onl y, bUI Sund a y at
:!:!OO-:!:!J O. though Ke vi n Hec ht
bear s no trace o f the 22IX)
broadcast.
Abkha/i a' s separat is t sta tion
was beard on 9...9.... 75 fro m 050 1 in
Russian w ith I D ~ a.. Go vori t
Sukhumi, c horal m usic unt il 065 0
sign -o ff a mid jamming : was best on
lowe r s ide band ...ays Rich Mc Vicu r.
Ecuador on IICJB ' s [.t IIl .11 Catch,
Two Communist cl nndcsunes
for Ira n co ntin ue 10 usc the sa me
frequencies but al di ffe rent time s.
indicati ng the y share fac ili tie s. says
BB C t>.t. Recently. both vary J&75 J 890 . an d V. of the Ira nian
Revol ution also announce s ...J OO
and 6-t:!O. It signl"o o n ;11 I"'JO.
wh ile V. o f the Co m muni st Party o f
Ira n opened at l7on. IDs a re Sed a.n' Ih':IH' J.,,'mI/lJl/h t( , t run for
Voe PI in Pe rsi an . and I/'{/ Da ng ;
Sfll m nlJi I ran fo r VO IK in Kurdish.
Al so for Iran . V. HI' the Mojahed
comin ually vari es frequencies 10
escape j am ming: for ex ample one
day a t 19"'5 ti ll 6U:!0. a nd dela yed a
few mi nu tes o n 5......55 ...65 ; 5 wee ks
1.III:r at OJilO a nd 1)700 O il 6 175.
IXOO O il 5...75: 70 75 ne xt day at

MORESW NEWS COMPILED BY GLENN HAUSER

1600 on :'i 170 , 5765 : ja m mi ng is
eit her noise 01" rela ys of V IR!.
Iranian o ffic ial rad io . the latter
hea rd Oil ilO:!O. 707 11.
A new Kur di sh station is De ngc
Med ya / Voice o f the l .and of the
~ 1c de s . an ancicm name fo r the
Kurdi sh People ). It wa.. fir sl
me nt io ned hy M od-T v , Lon don. bu t
app a re ntly ther e is no conn ec tion
except inname. Sc hedul e was give n
as OMl)(I- 1 lOl l und IJ O{)I 500 on
9855 . 119X5 an d 15255 in Tu rkish.
Ku rd ish and Arabic. hut hea rd o nly
in Kurdish a nd o nl y nil 9M55. wh ich
hOI'" been pinpointed 10 RlI..via. It
op en .. with the Kurdi sh nati ona l
so ng "'\ (1 Ra(jih:' Typi cal Russ ian
lest tone s precede the broadcast. a nd
sc hedule is an no un ced in Mo scow
lime . says B BC~1.
Voice of Iraqi Kurdi sta n. Salah
at-Din. e xpanded sched ule on
...I Rlh', n llllirlll ed by HB C~ 1 as:
OJ "'5{)5flO Kurd ish. 0500 060 0
Arabic . 10 30 1200 & 16"'5 IMOO
Kurd ish . IMOO 1900 Arabic . 1900 19JO Kurdish and Arabic . so merim es later as also for Europe.
Voice of the Palestinian Isla m ic
Re volut ion wa s urigina lly a
program w ithi n Ir.lIls Ar ab ic
se rv ice. hUI now it seems 10 he a
separate stat ion 1111 Freq uencies used

by Iran at other times: 0...0 0 -0...3 0

on 96 70 . 5995. I(J()() 1930 on
15:!J O. 7:!J O. re ports BBC M .
Republ ic o f Su dan Radi o begun
us ing 90 :!5 for all its broadcasts. no t
j ust those blocking clandes tine
Voice of Sudan a t 1300 1500 : then
VO S moved to 9/XlO whe re it was
dea r briefly until ROSR followed it
the re too . says B BCM . Ed win
Southwe ll in En gland hea rd ROSR's
Engli sh ho ur a t 1MOO o n 9000 . still
an no unci ng 92 00 hut the next day it
was not Oil either freq uen cy ; w hile
one or the other was in A rabi c ut
1"'57 on ooo. BB C ~ I fo und a n
add itional VOS mo rning broadca st
at 0300 ()60 0 on 9(){)O . also jammed .
O n a day when A rthu r Cu sh en . NZ .
liste ned fur Engli sh ut 1800 . he
hea rd RO SR o n Y020 .
An go la ' s VO RG A:\ shifted
fro m 7 100 10 7U90. hea rd at 1830
2000+ by Don Moma n. Alb ert a. OX

PartylilU',
Th ere's littl e cla ndes ti ne
activit )' re por ted fro m Lati n
Ame rica. hut in October. He nrik
Kl cmct z bud no t he a rd the FA Re
statio n fo r Colombia s ince June 30
w hen il broadcast two 20- minu tc
progra ms twice a t 22IKI-22..u ) on
62 59 .2. cntlc d Su Estncion l-uriuna.

January' 996

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Gayle Van Horn, Frequency Manager

North Carolin a

Dave Dalko

Jell Demers

California

New Hampshire

MT MONITORINGTEAM

Jim Frlmmel, Program Manager

Te xas

Next Reporting Deadline

January 20, 1995

Jacques d'Avlgnon
Propagation Forecasts
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NEWSLINE

"Newsline" is your guide to news broadcasts on the air. All broadcasts are world news reports unless followed by an asterisk, which
means the broadcast is primarily nationaf news. All broadcasts are daily unless otherwise noted by the day codes.
0000 UTe
(7 :QOp M EST 4 :.0.QPM PST)
AW R Latin America fT-Fr
BBC (am) (Newsdesk)
BBC (as pac) (Newsdesk)
BBC (south as)
Ca nada (North-Quebec) (S)
Ch ina Radio lntl
Croatian Radio
Monnor Radio lntl [T-A]
Radio Australia
Radio Bulgar ia
Radio Canada Inll
Hadtc Exterior de Espana
Radio New Zealand InU
Radio Prague
Ractio Thailand
Radio Vilniu s
Voice of America (am)
Voice of America (as)
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Voice of Myanmar (Burma)
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1431
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1435
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1445
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1303

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Radio Pyongyang

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Monitor Rad io Inll [M -Ai
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Radio France Inti
Rad io Jordan
Radio Korea
Radio Pakistan
Radio Tanzania
Voice 01Ame rica (af) [A-S]
Voice of America (as)
Voice 01Ameri ca (me)
Voice o f Ethiopia
Voice 01 Kenya
Voice of Russia
Voice 01Vietnam
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WYFR (Sateune Nelwork ) (AJ
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0000-0100'II
0000-0100 vi

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0000-0100

Australia. Radio
Australra. VL8AAlice SP\I
Australia. Vl 8KKatherine
Australia. VlSTTent e lk
Bulgaria. Radio
Cambodia, NatlVoice 01
Canada. esc N Quebec svc

961035
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1194035
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Canada. CFCXuooueat

6005<10

0000-0100
0000-0015

Canada. CFRX toronto

Canacla. CFVP calgary
Canada. CHt,XHatilax
()()()()-01 00
canaca.CKlNSl John's
0000-0100
Canada, CKZU Vancouver
0000-0030 mtwhfa canada, RCI Montreal
00000100
canada. RCI Monlleal
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China. China Radio Inti
lJOOO.0100
CosU Rica. AWRAla:luela:
0000-0100
lJOOO.Ol00

OOOOOl(lO

0000-0005
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0000-0030
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Croatia, Ooauen Radio

Czecll Rep. Radio Prague
Egypt. Radio Cairo
Ghana, Ghana Broadc Corp
India. AllIndia Radio

lJOOO.0100
00000100
0000-0030 sm
OOOO-{)l00
00000100
0000-0100
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lebanon. VOICe 01Hope

lebanon. Wings 01Hope
lith uania, Radio VIlnius
Mara"sia. Ral:lio
Malaysia, RTM KuchlOg
Netherlands. RadiO
New Zealand. R NZ Inti
NorthKorea. R PyOflgyano
Palau, KHBN!Voite 01Hope
PtlllJpplOes. f EBCiR Inti
RUSSia. Voice 01

OOOlHlOSO
lJOOO.0100
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5930na
9900na
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151453s

13605pa

1374Sas

00000000
00000100
00000100
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00000100
00000100
9535am
9755na
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Sundays

Mondays
0013 Spain, R Exterior deEspana: Visitors Book.
0015 Bulgaria, Radio: Answering Your l etters.
0020 China, China Radio Inll : ChinaScrapbook.
0023 Spain, A EXleriol de Espana: Flamenco.
0025 China, ChlOa Radio Inll: MusiCAlbum.
0030 Bulgaria. Radio: Plaza BUlgaria
0030 Sweden, Radio: Sounds Nordic (biweekly).
0030 UK, BBClondon(ali as pac/eu): TheMultitrack Sessions.
SeeS 0445.
0032 Russia, Voice 01:FOlk Box
0035 Nemertands. Radio (am): Sincerely Yours.
0036 Belgium. RVlaanderen Inn: Radio Work!.

Tuesdays
0000 USA, WWCR 13 Nashville TN: The Voice 01liberty(live).
0012 florth Korea, R Pyonqyang: Commentary.
0015 Spain, R Exterior deEspana: Panorama.
0019 China, China Radio Inti: currentAffairs,
0030 USA, VOA Washington QC (ca): MusicUSA(Standards).
0031 China, ChinaRadio InU: China's Open Windows
(biweekly)

52

MONITORING TIMES

January J996

Thailand. Radio
United Klngdom,BBC Lonuon

7370eu
7345na

11715na
73i5am

9725am

13830eu

491 5do
99,""

1174Sas

6165na
13760na

7125na

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USA. KAIJ Oallas TX

USA, KlBN 5alllkCity U1

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA, MOM O!Radio Inti
USA, VOA wasnmcronDC

11940am

151 3Qna

7180na

137503s

00000100
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USA. WHRI tJoblesvllle IN
USA. WJCR Uplon KY
USA. WRMIIR Miami Inll
USA.WRNONewOrleans LA
USA. VvWCR Nashville TN
USA, WYFR Okeechobee Fl
YUljoslavia. Radio
Iran. VOIRI Tehran
Australia, Radm

00300100Irreg
00300055
0030-01 00
00300100
0030-0100
0030-0100
0030-<l100
00450100
00500100

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Belgium, R vtaanoeren Int
Ecuador. HCJB Quito
Netnertands. Radio
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Sweden. RadIO
Thailand, RadIO
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naly, RAI Rome

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SELECTED PROGRAMS.
0005 UK. BBC t cnucn (South as): Science andTechnology. The
Planets. See H 0135
0011 Spain, R Exterior de Espana:Spanish Hall01Fame.
0020 China, China Radio InU: Travel Talk.
0025 Spain, R Ertenor de Espana: DistanceUnknown.
0029 China. ChinaRadio InU: The Cooking Show.
0030 Australia. Radio: correspondents' Report.
0030 Ecuador. HCJB QUito (am): MusicalMailbag
0030 USA, VOA Washington OC (ca): Communications World.
0033 Spain, R Exterior deEspana: Whal's CookingToday?,
0035 China. China Radio Inti: Music from China.
0039 Belgium. R viaanceren InU: Music Irom randers.
0045 Spain. R ExIerior deEspana: Getting to KnowSpanish
Wine.

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97000a

99650,
15450as
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0032 Russia, Voice 01: YOUfs lor theAsking

0040 Spain. R Exterior deEspana: Cultural Encounters.

Wednesdays
0000 USA. \YWCR 13 NashVilleTN: The Voice of liberty (Ihie).
0009 Czech Rep, Radio Prague: r-.ta:gazlOe '95.
0015 UK. BBC l ondon (scutnas): New SCieOO! Series. See rot

0630
0016 Spain, R Exltrior deEspana: Panorama.
0020 NorthKorea. R Pyollqyang: Music.
0030 North Korea. R Pyongyang: Feature Report.
0030 UK, BBC lo ndon(am): ClassicalMusic, The High-C Hero
(3rd,101h,17th). The slory 01 the tenor, featuring
recordings by some 01 the greatest performers.
0030 USA. VOA VJashioqlon DC (ca): xcw Music USA.
0032 Russia. VOIce01:TheJazzShow.
0035 China, ChinaRadio Inti: Orient Arena.
0036 Spain, RExtencr deEspana: Entertainment in Spain.
0040 China, China Radio tntt listeners' Letterbox.

Thursdays
0000 USA. VfflCR #3 Nashville TN: TheVoice01Liberty (live).

wnte rs

0005 UK. BBC l ondon (SOUlh as):

in aNutshell. Miriam
Newman guides youthrough themajor themes and
preoccupationsof some 01 this cennnv's greatest writers.
0012 North Korea, R Pyongyang: Commentary,
0015 UK, BBC l ondon (south as): Pick01the World. See S
1130.
0029 Spain. R Exterior deEspana: As umers See Us
0030 UK, BBCl ondon (aUeuiaS pacj: ClaSSicalMusic. The
High-C Hero (4lh.11Ih,18th).Seew 0030.
0030 USA, VOA Washington DC (ca): Now
Music
USA.
0033 China, China RadioInll : Profile.
0039 Belgium, Rvtaanceren InU: Belgium TOday.
0039 SI)Jin. R Exterior deEspana: The NaluralWorld
(biweekly).
0041 Spain. R Extenor deEspana: ScerceDesk (biweekly).
0050 Belgium, R VlaanderenInU: The Arts

0054 Radio Netherlands: Documentary. Homosexuality in Japan

(4th), See W 1154.
0054 RadioNetherlands: Documentary. Japanese Youth (11th).
SeeW1154.
0054 Radio Netherlands: Documentary. The Coming 01Age01
G ree ~ la nd (Feb 1). SeeW 1554.
0054 Radio Netherlands: Oocumentary. TheComingof Age of
Greenland (Feb 1). See W 1554,
0054 Radio Nethertands: Encore aocumentarr. Bringing Home
Ihe Beel(lBth), See W 1154
0054 Radio Netherlands: Encore Documentary, Bringing Home
the Beet (25Ih). See S 0154,

Fridays
0016 Spain. R jxtencr deEspana: Panorama
0022 Spain, R EXleliol deEspana: PressReview.
0030 USA, VOAWashington DC (ca): NowMusic USA (Top
Ten).
0032 China. China Radio Inti: Focus.
0032 Russia. Voice 01:The JazzShow.
0038 Spain. R ExIerior deEspana: Cultural Clippings.
0039 Belgi:Jm, Rvtaanderen IntI:Betgium TOday.
0041 ChiOil. China Radio IntI:Culture in China.
0043 Belgium, R v la anderen Inll: International Report.
0049 Belgium, R vtaanceen Inti: Economics

Saturdays
0012 Czech Rep, Radio Prague: Calling All l isteners.
0029 Spain. R txtenor deEspana: Windowon Spain.
0030 Australia. Radio: Indian Pacific.
0030 USA. VOA WashlOOlon DC (ca): Country MusicUSA.
0032 Russia. Voice01: Folk Box,
0035 China. ChinaRadio Inti: lile in China.
0039 Spain. R Exterior deEspana: Artsin Spain
0047 Iran, Voice of: Polilical Commentary.
0049 Belgium, Rvtaanceren Inll: Tourism.
0057 Iran. Voice01:l isteners' Special.

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Australia, Vl8AAlice Spg

Australia, Vl8K Katherine
Australia, VL8T TentDrk
Aastrana.aerenserorces R
canada. CBC NQuebec Svc
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada.CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNXHalifax
Canada. CKZN Sl John's
Canada.CKZU Vancouver
costa Rica.RF PeaceInti
crcaua. croauan Radio
Cuba. Radio Havana Cuba
Czech Rea. aenc Prague
Ecuador. HCJB QUitO
Germany. Deutsche Welle

010l)-O115
01000200
0100-0130
0100011 0
0100-0200

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Guatemala, Radio CullUral
Iran,VOIRITehran
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Japan, NHKlRadio

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Spain, R [ x1enor Espana

Srilanka, SLBC Colombo
SWitzerland. Swiss R Inll
Ukraine. RUkrame Inti

5915na

6010na

6055na

01000200

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5975va
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15360as

6175na
9915sa

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0101).0200
01000200
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USA. KlBN sanLkCit'/ UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Monitor Radio Inll
USA.VDAWashington DC

7405na
15205as
215503s
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15250as

01000200
01000200
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Philippines. FEBGlR Inll
Russia. Voice01
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74650a

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0100-{)200
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0101Hl200
USA. WRflO New Orlt!ans LA
01000200
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01000200
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01300200
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Sundays
0102 l ta ~/. RAI: Tunesfor Whislling.
0105 Sw,tzerland. Swiss R Inll: Newsnet Ten minutesof
comment and backurcunoers from ccrresponoeets. 15
minutes on whafs happening in Switzerland.
0109 ECLador, HCJB OUrlo (am): OX Partyline.
0111 Spain, R Exterior de Espana: Spanish Hall of Fame.
0116 SwItzerland. Swiss R Ifr.I: Caprtal letters (14th,28th). SRI's
bimonthl'/ mailbagand j stener contactproo'am.
0124 Spain, R Exterior de Espana:DistanceUnknown.
0130 Austria. R Auslria 1011: Report Irom Austria A magazine
prcgramcovering all aspects of Austrian nteand events in
fhe news and opening with lhe latest news bulletin.
0133 Spain, R Exterior de Espana: What's Cooking Today?
0137 Austria. R Ausl ria Inll: Postbox, RadiOAustria's mailbag

proaram

0140 Vietnam. Voice 01vemen Review of fo.\ajor Developments.

0145 Spain. R Erteno r de Espana: GeltJog to Know Spanish
Wi:'!e.
0154 Raj io Netherlands: Documentary. Homosexuality in Japan
(7lhl See IN 1154.
0154 Raj io Netherlands: Documentary Japanese Youlh (14th).
See W 1154.
0154 Ra:fio Netherlands: Documentary. The Comirlg of Age 01
Greeoland(Feb 4). SeeW155t
0154 Raclio Netherlands: Encore Documentary. Bringing Home
the Beet (21st). SeeW 1154.
0154 Radio Netherlands: Encore Documentary. Btinging Home
lhe Beef (28th). The UNyearhighlighting the problems of
people who choose to live on their own, or are forced to
do so by circumstances.

Mondays
0100 Slovakia, R Slovakia In1l: Slovakia Today
0105 Switzerland, Swiss R Inti: Newsnet See SOlOS
0109 Ecuador, HCJB Ouito (am): Saludcs Amigos
0114 Cuba,Radio HavanaCuba: TheMailbag Shclw
0115 UK, BBC l ondon (at'as parJeu): RedDwarf. A sci-Ii

comedy Ilrst commissioned for BBCTVis a space odyssey

ecvemure series.
0118 Germany, Deutsche Welle: living in Germany.
0125 Japan, Radio: Media Roundup.
0130 Austria. R AUslria Inll : Report from Austria.See S 0130.
0130 Guatemala, TGNA: Music in the Post Meridian.
0131 Cuba, Radio HavanaCuba: The Jazz Place.

0110 Ukraine. RUkraine IntI: Ukraine Today.

0119 Yugoslavia.Radio: People andEvents.
0120 Ukraine, R Ukraine Inti: Closeup.
0130 Ausfria, RAustria Inti: ReportIrom Austria.See S 0130.
0130 Ecuad or, HCJB Ouno(am): Ham Radio Today.
0135 UK, BBC l ondon (as pac/etl): SCienceand TechnOlOgy.
ThePlanets. RolandPeasetakesa look at thesolar

system.

Tuesdays

0141 Spain, R Exterior de Espana: SCience Desk (biweekly).

0100 USA, WWCR '3 NashVille TN: Protec1lr1g Your Wealth (live).
0105 Switzerland, Swes R Inti: Newsnet SeeSOl OS.
0106 Slovakia, R Slovakia Inll: Tourism.
0115 UK, BBC london (alIas pac/eu): Man, Machine and Music
Rick Wakeman exploresthe major inventions whichhave
produced the evolution 01 popular music,
0118 Cuba. Radio HavanaCuba: Spoliight on me AmeriCas.
0120 Yugoslavia,Radio: Cultural Report
0122 Yugoslavia, Radio: Sports Roundup.
0130 Austria, RAustna Inti: Report from Austria. SeeS 0130.
0140 Spain, R Exterior de Espana: CulluralEncounters.
0140 Vietnam, voce 01vemam. Current Affairs.
0148 Vietnam,Voice01Vietnam: Vietnam-land andPeople.

0105 SWItzerland. Swiss R lnll: Newsnet, See SOl OS,

0109 Germany, Deutsche Welle: European Journal.
0110 Ukraine. R Ukraine lnll: Ukraine Today.
0119 Cuba. Radio Havana Cuba: Spo!1ighl on theAmericas,
0120 Ukraine. R Ukraine lnll: Closeup.
0121 YugOSlavia, Radio: Cultural Report.
0129 Spain. R Exterior de Espana: People 01Today.
0130 Austria,R Austria Inll: Report from Austria. See S 0130.
0130 Ecuador, HCJB Quilo (am): Whars Cooking in the
Andes?
0138 Spain, R Exterior de Espana: Cultural Clippings

Wednesdays

Saturdays

0100 USA, KWHR Naalehu HI: Music.

0105 Switzerland, Swiss R Inti: Newsnet. SeeS 0105.
0109 CZech Rep, Radio Prague: Magazine '95.
0110 USA. VOA Washington DC{cal: Report to theAmericas.
0118 Cuba. Radio Ha'I3r13 Cuba: Spotlight on theAmericas.
0130 Austria. R Austna loll: Report from Austria_SeeS 0130.
0130 UK, BBC London (as pac/eu): MusIC Feature. Ports of Call:
The Islands (5th,12th,19Ih). see S 0330.
0135 tuna. Radio Havana Cuba: DXers Unlimited
0136 Spain, R Exterior de Espana: Entertainment in Spain.

0105 Switzerland. Swiss R Inti: Newsnel. see S 0105.

0107 Ukraine, R Ukraine Inti: TheWeek.
0110 Australia. Radio: OzSounds.
0110 Vietnam, Voice 01v emam. Important Events in North
Vietnam History.
0117 Vlelnam. Voiceof Vietnam; Talk 01 theWeek.
0120 Slovakia, R Slovakia IoU: SlovakKitchen (biweekly).
0130 Auslrla. R Aesma lnll: Report from Austria. See S 0130.
0130 Ecuador, HCJB Ouilo (am): Musica del Ecuador.
0140 Cuba, Radio Havana Cuba: Cuban Music.
0140 Vietnam, Voice olVielnam: Important Events in North
Vielnam History,
0147 Vietnam, VOice of Vielnam: Talk of the Week.

Thursdays

0105 Switzerland, SWISS R Inll: Newsnet. SeeSOlOS.

0107 Slovakia, RSlovakia Inti: Business News.

Fridays

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0215 Iajwan, Vol Free China: The Adventures of Taiwan. A
young couple's escapades in Taiwan.
0217 Romania, Radio Romania lnll: World of Culture.
0228 Romania. Radio Romania tntt Radio Pictures.
0230 Austria, R Austria Iflll: Report from Austria. See S 0130.
0235 Taiwan. V of Free China: MailbagTime. letters lrom
jsteners and musicrequests.
0237 Austria. R Austria InU: Postbox, See S 0137.
0240 Albania. RadioTirana: Reality.
0243 Romania. RadIO Romania rr ut BucharestAlongthe
Centuries.
0247 Taiwan, V 01 Free China: ters leam Chinese. Chinese
lessonswilh commentaryandtranslation in English.
0249 Romania. Radio ROm.1nia tr ut Radio gomana OXMailbag.

Mondays
0211 Russia. Voiceof: Music anel MusiciaflS.
0215 Taiwan, V ol FreeChirla: Jade Bells and Bamboo Pipes
Chinese lolk andtemple music.
0230 Austria. RAustria Intt Reportfrom Austria. See S 0130.
0230 canada. RCI Montreat: The Mailbag.
0230 Cuba. Radio Havana. Cuba: Breakthrough.
0230 Sl'IeGen. RadiO: Sounds Nordic (biweekly).
0238 Albania. Radio TIrana: Current Affairs.
0243 Albania, RadiOTIrana: Music at Your Request.
0249 Taiwan. Vol f reeChina: t ets Learn Chinese. SeeS 0247.

0215 Taiwan, V of Free China: Music Box. Some of thepopular

musicof Taiwan.
0226 Romania , Radio Romania InU: Romanian Anglici sts.
0230 Austria. RAustria lnll: Report from Austria. See S 0130.
0236 Costa Rica. R for Peace tntl: Hightower Radio.
0236 Romania. Radio Romania Inti: Youth Club.
0243 Albania, Radio TIrana: POBoxRadio Tirana
0245 Portugal. Radio PortugalInti: Musical Kaleidoscope.
0251 Taiwan, Vot FreeChina: let's learn Chinese. See S 0247.

Taiwan.
0215 Yugoslavia.Radio: Press Review.
0220 Yugoslavia. Radio: Cultural Report.
0222 YugosfaVla. Radio: Sports Roufldup.
0230 Auslria, R Austria Inti: Report Irom Austria. See S 0130.
0232 Russia, Voice 01: Folk Box.
0233 Taiwan. V of Free China: Maifl Roads and Byways. Hopa
tourbus to a Taiwanattraction.
0236 Costa Rica. Rlor PeaceInti: Hightower Radio.

Wednesdar.;
0215 Romania, Radio Romania Iflll: Busiaess Club.

Janu ary 1996

0217 Vie tnam, Voice of Vielnam: Talk of the Week.

0230 Austria, R Austria Inti: Report lrom Austria. SeeS 0130.
0232 Russia. Voice of: The Jazz Show.
0240 Albania, Radio Tirana: horizon.
0240 Vietnam, Voice of vtemam' lmcortant Events in North
Vietnam History.
0247 Vietnam, Voiceot Vietnam:Talk 01 theWeek.

Thursdays
021 5 Taiwan. V ol FreeChina: Perspecnses. Issueslacirtg tne
lives and conversationsof Taiwanese people.
0219 Yugoslavia. Radio: People and Ivents.
0230 Austria. R Austria Inll: ReportIromAustria. SeeS 0130.
0232 Taiwan.V 01FreeChina: Journey jmoChineseCulture.
Conversation about a partc uiarcultural activity m Taiwan.
0252 Taiwan. Vol Free Chma: le t's t eamChinese, SeeS 0247.
0254 Radio Netherlands: Documentary. HomosexualityIn
Japan (4th). SeeW 1154.
0254 Radio tietherJands: Documentary Japanese Youth (1111l).
See W ll 54
0254 Radio Netnenands: Documentary. The Coming 01Age 01
Greenland (Feb 1). see VI1554
0254 Radio Netherlands: Encore Documentary Briflging Home
theBeef (18lh). See W 1154
0254 Radio Netherlaflds: Encore Documentary. Briflgiflg Home
theBeef (25th). See S 0154.

Fridays

Tuesdar.;

0200 USA.WWCR 'I r~ashville TN : Protecting Your Weal1h

(live).
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(live).
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0221 Yugoslavia. Radio: Cunural Report.
0230 Auslria. RAustria lnll: Report from Austria. SeeS 0130.
0232 Taiwan. Vol FreeChina: NewRectlrd Time, The latest
releases 01thepopularmusic 01 Taiwan.
0236 Costa Rica. Rlor Peace Inti: HightowerRadio.
0241 CUba. Radio Havana Cuba: Cuba Today.
0246 Portugal. Radio Portugallntl: SpOtlight on Portugal
0247 taiwan. Vot Free China: le t's learn cnmese. See S 0247.

Saturdays
0210 Australia. Radio: Feedback.
0210 Vietnam, Voiceof Vietnam: tmocnant Events in North
Vietflam History,
0215 Taiwan, V ol Free China: Benect'ons. See S 0315.

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Sundays
0300 USA. WWCR #3 NashvilleTN: Spectrum (WWCR) (live).

0309 scum Africa. Channel Africa: Gospel Music.

0310 Jacen. RadIO: Hello lrom Tokyo.
031 5 Tal\\an. V ol FreeChina: Reflections. The best of Chinese
literature.
0330 UK. BBC London (am): Music Feature. Portsof Cali: The
Islands (1st,8thl. A newserieswhich explores music
within island groups and on specific islands around the
world.
0330 UK. BBC l ondon (aspac): NewScience Series. See M

0630.
0331 South Africa, Channel Africa: Religions 01theWorld.
0339 scum Africa. Channel Africa: Choral Music.
0347 Iaiaa n, V 01FreeChina: l et's l earn Chinese. See S 0247.

Mondays
0308 Germany, Deutsche Welle: Mailbag
0311 Russia, Voice of: Moscow Mailbag.
031 4 CUb3, RadioHavana Cuba: The Mailbag Sho......
031 5 Taiwan, V 01FreeChina: The Advenlures of Taiwan. See S
0215_
0331 CUb3.RadioHavanaCuba: The Jazz Place
0332 Russia. Voiceof: Il melires.
0335 Taiwan. V of Free China: Mailbag Time. See S 0235.
0340 China. China Radio Inti: Listeners' tetteroox
0347 Taiwan, V ol FreeChina: t ers l earn Chinese. See S 0247.

Tuesdays

0305 USA. WVoICR #3 tlashvilie nt Radio Free America (live).

0306 New Zealand, Radio NZtntt In Touch with NewZealand
0306 USA. WHRI Noblesville IN: For the People (repeat) (5.745).
0J08 Soulh Africa. Channel Alrica: DatelineAlrica.
0315 Taiwan. V ol FreeChina: JadeBells and BambooPipes. See
M0215
0318 Cuba. RadiOHavana Cuba:Spotlight on the Amencas.
0323 South Africa, Channel Alrita: BusinessDateline.
0334 scun Alrica, Channel Africa: Dateline Sports

Wednesdays
0303 CZech Rep, Radio Prague: Current Affairs,
0309 Czech Rep, Radio Prague: Ma\lazine '95.
0315 Taiwan, Vol Free China: Kaleidoscope. See T 0215.

0318 Cuba, Radio Havana Cuba: SpoUight on the Americas.

0330 UK,BBCl ondon (am): Pick cu heWorld. See S 1130.
0333 CzechRep, Radio Prague: Curren! AHairs.
0333 Taiwan, V of FreeChina: Main Roads andByways. SeeT

0233.
0335 Cuba. Radio Havana Cuba: Dxers Unhmited.
0339 Czech Rep, RadioPrague: Magazine '95.
0349 Taiwan. V ol Free China: let' s learn Chinese. See S 0247.

Thursdays

0304 Vatican Stale. vatican Radio: Postcards ucm Rome.

0305 USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN: Radio FreeAmerica (live).
0308 South Africa. Channel Africa: DatelineAfrica.
031 5 Taiwan, V of fr eeChina: Music Box. See W 0215.
0323 South Africa, Channel Alrica: BusinessDateline.
0334 South Africa, Ctlannet Alrica: DatelineSports.
0342 Japan,Radio: JapanDiary.
0351 Taiwan, V 01 FreeChina: Lets l earnChinese. SeeS 0247.

Fridays

0305 USA. WVoICR #3 Nashville TN: Radio Free America(livel.

0315 Japan, Radio: Radio Japan MagazineHour.
0315 Taiwan. Vo t FreeChina: Perspectives. See H 0215.
0319 Cuba. Radio HavanaCuba:Spotlight on the AmeriCas.
0330 Japan. Radio: Close Up.
0332 China. China Radio Inti: Focus.
0332 Taiwan, V 01FreeChina: Journey into Chinese Culture. See
H 0232.
0333 Germany. Deutsche Welle: SCience and Technoloqy.
0341 Chilla. China Radio lnll: Culturein China.
0342 Japan,Radio: JapanDiary.

Saturdays

0308 South Africa. cnannerAfrica: Alricaand All That Jazz.

0310 Australia. Radio: Soundatwut.
0310 Japan, RadIO: This Week.
0312 czeen Rep, Radio Prague: Galling All listeners.
0315 Taiwan, vet Free ct nna:tonirontaton. See F021 5
0332 Taro...an, V01Free China: New Record Time. See F0232
0333 South Africa. Channel Africa: Historical Almanac.
0334 CZech Rep, Radio Prague: Current Affairs.
03.l0 Cuba. Radio Havana Cuba: Cuban Music.
0342 Czech Rep. Radio Prague: Calling Alllisteners.

HAUSER'S HIGHLIGHTS

UKOGBANI: BBC
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Sat
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Tue
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1715- 1745 on 17840 ..ia A n ti gua :
Sat
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Sun all Screen, 0" the Move
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Tue
Discoverv
Wed Coun terpoint
Thu Focus 011 Faith
Fri
\!image Chart Show
1830- 1900 0 11 17840 via A n tigua :
Sat
Multitrack: Altern at ive
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T hu Multitrack X Press
Fr i
Andy Kershaw's World of Music
178-10 in partic ular offers good fad ingfree . interference-free aud io for
music prog ram s.

uu.u

January 1996

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Canada. RCI Monlfeal
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0415 Turkey, Voice01: TheWorld01 Science (br.veekfy).
0415 Turkey. Voiceof: VOl OX Comer (biweekly)
0416 Switzerland. Swiss R Inti: CapitalLetters (14th,26th). See
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0430 switrertanc. Swiss R Inll: Network Switzerland. Thelop
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0433 Turkey, Voice of: Blue Voyage.
0445 UK. BBClondon (as pacleuJsouth as): The Multitrack
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0450 UK. BS(; l ondon (am): Science andTechnology. The
Planets.
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Mondays
0400 USA, VWlCR #3 NashvilleTN: The ExtraordinaryScience
Radio Hour.
0405 SWitzerland, Swiss R tntl: Newsnet.
S 0105.
0413 Turkey, Voice 01: Tastes Irom Turkey.
0420 Turkey, Voice01: Turllish Music.
0430 SWIUeriancl, Swiss RInti: Network Switzerland.
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see

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0430.
0430 Turkey. Voice01: Magnil lcenl Istanbul.
0430 UK, BBC London(south as): Classical Music. The High-C
Hero (1st.8Ih.15Ih). See W0030.
0440 Turkey, Voice01: Turkish Music.
0445 Switzerland. SwissR Inti: EaprtalLetters (8th.22nd).
S
0116
0445 UK. BBC london (eu/south as): Red Dwarl . See T 0115.

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Tuesdays
0405 Switzerland, Swiss R Inti: Newsnet. SeeS0105.
0408 South Africa. Channel Alrica:Historical Almanac.
0409 Turkey. Voice of: Reviewof theTurkish Press.
0412 Turkey. VOice 01: LastWeek.
O4 t8 South Af.ica, Channef Alrica: Did You Know?
0418 Turkey. Voiceof: Tolerance 01Virtue.
0423 SouthAfrica, Channel Africa: English lor Africa.
0426 Turkey. Voice ot: Noles from Turkey.

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0430 Switzerland. Swiss R Inll: Network Switzerland. See S

0430.
0433 Turkey. Voice 01: Turkish Songs.
0435 South Africa. Channel Africa: Olllhe Press.

Wednesdays
0405 Switzerland. SwissR Imt. Newsret. See SOlOS.
0405 USA. VfflCR,3 Nashville TN: Radio Free America (live).
0407 Turkey, voice of: Review of the Turkish Press.
0408 South Africa, Channel Africa: Regoae and Rock.
0410 Turkey. Voiceof: Turkey: A Havenin Ihe East.
0419 Turkey, Voice of: PopularTurkish Music.
0429 South Africa, Channel Alrica: NetlS Summary
0432 Turkey, Voice of: Economic Panorama (biw~kIy).
0440 Turkey, Voice of: Turllish Music.

Thursdays

0405 Switzerland. Swiss R Inll : Newsnet. See S OlOS.

0407 Turkey. Voice 01: Review01 theTurkish Press.
0410 Turlley. Voice 01: Review01the fQreign Media.
0414 Turkey. Voice 01: Letter BOK.
0429 Turkey. Voice ot In Your()y,11 Voice.
0430 Switzerland. SwissR Inll: NetwQlk Switzerland. See S
0430.
0444 Turkey. Voice ot rumsnMusic.
0454 RadioNetnerlands: Documentary. Homosexuality in Japan
(4th). See W 1154.
0454 RadiONetherlands: Documentary. Japanese Youth (11th).
SeeW 1154
0454 Radio Netherlands: Documentary. The Coming 01 Age 01
Greenland(f eb 1). See W 1554.
0454 RadiONetherlands: Encore Documentary. Bnnging Home
the Beel (18Ih), See W 1154.
0454 Radio Netherlands: Encore Documentary. Bllnging Home
the Beet (25Ihl. See S 0154.

Fridays

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0405 Switzerland. SwissR tnn:Newsret.

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0409 SouthAlrica. Channel Alrica: Datenne Africa
0409 Turkey. Voice 01: Review01 theTurkish Press

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0418
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Soulh Alrica. ChannelAtrica: Hislorical Almanac.
Turkey, Voice of: Turkish Music.
Scum Alrica. Channel Africa: ThePriceof freedom.
GUO SWitzerland. Swiss R In:l: Businessas Usual. S\'liss
economic newsand business report.
0435 Turkey. Voice01: Ambassadors 01 Art.
0439 Soulh Africa. Channel A!rica: Sports Profile.

Saturdays
0400 Costa Rica, R for Peace InU: Worldof Radio.
0405 Sw:tzerland. SwissR IntI: Newsnet. See S 0105
0408 South Africa, Channel Alrica: First light Africa.
0412 Turkey. Voice 01: Review 01tile Turkish Press
0415 Turkey, Voice01: TurkishAlbum.
0422 Soulh Africa, Channel Alrica: Focus on Africa.
0430 Swillerland. Swiss R Inll: Swiss Scene. People and polilics.
0431 South Alrica. Channel Alrica: The Hit Parade
0432 Turkey. Voice01: TheAtalurk History.
0442 Turkey, Voiceof: TurkishMusic.

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Sundays
0509 Ecuador. HCJB Ouito lam): OX Partyline
0509 Soul h All ica. Channel Africa: Talking of Books.
0511 Spain, R EKierior deEspana: Spanish Hall 01Fame.
0524 Spain. R Exterior de Espana: DistanceUnknown.
0525 Japan. Radio: Media Roundup.
0530 Australia, Radio: The Auslralian Music Show.
0530 Austria. RAustria Inti: Report Irom Auslria. SeeS 0130.
0533 Spain, R Exterior deEspana: What's CookingToday?
0537 Austria. RAustria InU: Postbox. See S 0137.

Mondays
0500 Cuba. Radio Havana Cuba: Sunday Edition.
0508 Soulh Alrica. Chant1el Africa: DatelineAl rica.
0509 Ecuador, HCJ8Ouito (am): saiuccs Am i~os.
0514 Cuba. Radio Havana Cuba: TheMailbagShow.
0523 Spain. R Exterior deEspana: Flamenco.
0530 Austria. RAuslria Irtl: Report from Austria.
S 0130.
0531 Cuba. Radio Havana Cuba: The Jazz Place.
0532 Russia, Voice 01: TheJazz snow.
0540 Spain , R Exterior de Espana: Radio Club.

see

Tuesdays
0500 USA. WWCR 13 NashvilleTN:TheHour of the Time(live).
0508 SouthAfrica. Channel Africa: DatelineAfrica
0515 Spain. R Exterior deEspana: Panorama.
0518 Cuba. Radio Havana Cuba:Spotlighl on lheAmericas.
0519 Chlfla. China Radio lnll: CurrentM airs.
0530 Auslria. RAustria Inll: Report Irom Austria. See S 0130.
0535 South Africa. Channel AIJica: Sports.
0540 SpaIn. R Exterior de Espana: Cultural Encounters.

Wednesdays
0500 USA. WWCR ;3 Nashville TN: TheHour 01theTime (live).
0508 South Africa. Channel Alrica:Dateline Alrica.
0518 Cuba. Radio HavanaCuba: Spotlight on meAmericas.
0520 Auslralia. Radio: Pacific Beat.
0530 Auslralia. Radio: Pacific Women.
0530 Austria. RAustria Inti: Report from Austria. SeeS 0130.
0530 Ecuador. HCJB Owlo (am): EI Mundo FUM o.
0535 Cuba. Radio HavanaCuba: OXersUnlimited

58

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0536 Spain. R Exterior de Espana: Entertainment in Spain.

0540 China. China Radio tntt ustenerstertertcx.

Thursdays
0500 USA. KWHRNaalehu HI: Music.
0500 USA. WoNCR i 3 Nashllille TN: TheHour ollheTime(live).
0508 South Alrica. Channel AJnca: Dateline Africa.
0520 Australia, Radio: Pacilic Beat.
0525 CostaRica. R for Peace tntt Hightower Radio.
0529 Spain, R Exterior de Espana: AsOthers See Us.
0530 Austria, R Austria Inti: Report from Austria. SeeS 0130
0530 Ecuador. HCJ8Ouilo (am): Ham Radio Today
0532 Russia. Voice of: Folk BOll.
0533 Germany. Deutsche Welle: German Tribune.
0541 Spain, RExterior de Espana: Science Desk (biwef!kIy).
0545 UK. BSC lonclon feu): Classical Music. The High-GHero
(4th,11th.18th). See '110030.

Fridays
0500 USA. WWCR #3 Nashville TN: The Hour of tile Time(live).
0508 South Africa. Channel Africa: Dateline Africa.
0520 Australia, Radio: Pacific Beat
0522 Spain, R Exterior de Espana: Press Review.
0528 Spain. R Exterior de Espana: People of Today.
0530 Australia. Radio: Beat of the Pacific.
0530 Austria. R Austria Inti: ReportIrom Austria. See S0130.
0530 Ecuador. HCJ8 Ouito (am): What's Cooking in me An(les1.
0538 Soam. R Exterior deEspana: Cullural ClipplfIgs.
0540 South Africa. Channel Africa: Lenerbox.

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0510 South Africa, ChannelAfrica: Focus on Africa
051 5 South Africa, Channel A1rica: Good Viblalions.
0522 Spain, R Exterior de Espana: Press Review,
0529 Spain. R Er'ertcr de Espana: Window on Scam
0530 Austria. R Austria InU: Report trem Austlia. See S 0130.
0530 Ecuador. HCJB Ouito (am): MusicadelEcuador.
0532 Russia. Voice ot nmeunes.
0539 Spain. R Exterior de Espana: Artsin Spain.
0554 South Africa. Channel Africa: ThiS Dayin History.

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0630 Austria, RAustria Inti: Report Irom Austria. See S 0130,
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0611 Australia. Radio: Pacific Beat.
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G)'orgyi Lak obi, Senior Editor; (sifting on table)
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Charlie COUWi, head of English section; (at th e
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Nic holas Je nki ns , cultural editor; and Balint
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USA. W\\'CR ~~ashvllle TN
Zimbabwe. IBCfRadio 4
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Germany. Deutsche Welle
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USA. WHA t Noblesville IN
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USA. WlJHA Greenbush ME
USA. WWCR NashvilleTN
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Austria. RAustna lntt
China. ChinaRadio lnll
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Iran. VOIRITehran

1130-1200
11301200
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Netherlands. Radio
Souttl Korea. R Korea Inti
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Sundays
1100 Radio E. Al rica. Equatorial Guinea: WayneA'/enue Church
of God (Irom 1045) (J. C. Wilber).
1105 Swille rland. Swiss R IntL Newsnet. See SOlOS.
1110 Japan, Radio:Hello Irom Tokyo.
1115 Radio E. Africa. EQuatorialGuinea: Camp Meeting (l eon
Lewis).
1130 Auslraha. Radio: FineMusic Australia.
1130 Austria. RAustria IntI; Report Irom Austria. See S 0130.
1130 Radio E. Africa. Equatorial Guinea: l ast Day Outreach (S. C.
Pai ne).
1130 UK. BBClon don (am/as pac): Pick of the World. Back by
cceutar demand is the pr01lram thatbringsyou thevery
bestof BBC World Servce each weee.
1130 USA. VOA Washmgton DC(as pac): Issues in tile News.
1145 Radio E. Africa. Equalorial Guinea: World Vision lor Christ
(Albert ChamberS).

Mondays
1100 Ecuador. HCJB Ouito (pac): Nighlsounds.
1105 Switzerland, Swiss R lnll: Newsnet. See SOlOS,
1110 USA. VOA Washington DC (ea): Stateside.
1113 ~jort h Korea. R Pyongyang: MusiclCommentlfy.
1130 Australia. Radio: mncvancns.
1130 Auslria. A Austria Inti: Report trom Austria. See S 0130.
1130 Japan, Radia: Radio Japan MagazineHour.
1130 USA. VOA Washington DC (as pacj: Music USA
(Standards).
1142 Scum Korea. Radio Korea Inti: Seoul Galling.
1144 Japan. Radio: Japan Diary.

Tuesdays
1100 Ecuador, HCJB Ouito(pac): Nighlsounds.
liDS S..vitzertand. Swiss R InU: Newsnet. SeeSOlOS
1110 USA, VOA WaShington DC(ca): Stateside.
111 5 NorthKorea, R Pyongyang: Music.
1121 NorthKorea , R Pyongyang: TheImmortal Slory.
1126 t~orth Korea. R Pyongyang: Truth Idea
1130 Austria. RAustria lntt: Report from Austria. See S 0130.
1130 USA. VOA Washington DC (as pac): NowMusic USA.
1131 Japan. Radio: Japanese Culture Today.
1139 Czeth Rep. Radio Prague: Magazine '95.

Wednesdays

1105 Switzerland. Swiss R Inti: Newsnet See S Ol OS.

1115 North Korea. RPyongyang: Music.
1120 North Korea.R Pyongyang: The Reminiscences 01the
Great l eader.
1130 Austria. R Austria lnll: Report tram Auslria_See S 0130.
1137 SouthKorea. Radio Korea IntI: News Commentary.
1139 North Korea. R Pyongyang: TheGreat Man ot meCentury.
1142 SouthKorea. Radio Korea Inti: Pulse01Korea.
1154 Radio Netherlands: Documentary. Homosexuality in Japan
(3rd). Thegayandlesbian struggle lor civil rights.
1154 Radio Netherlands: Documentary. Japanese Youth (10th).
see S 2354.
1154 Radio Netherlands: Documentary. TheComing of Ageof
Greenland (31st). See W 1554.
1154 Radio Netherlands: EncoreDocumentary. Bringing Home
the Beet (17Ih). PartI of MariJke V3F1 der Meer's awardwinning series
1154 Radio Netherlands: Encore Documentary.Bringing Home
the8ee! (24th). See S 0154.

Thursdays

1105 Switzerland. Swiss R InU: Newsnet. SeeS 0105.

1109 Germany. Deutsche Welle: Newsnne Cologne.
1110 USA. VOA WashingtonDC(ca):Stateside.
1130 Austria, R Auslria lntl: aepcm rcm Austria. SeeS 0130.
1130 UK. BBC London (al/eu): Man, Macnine andMusic. See T
0115.
1130 UK. BBCLondon (as pac): New Science Series, See M

1130 Austria. RAustria Inti: Report Irom Austria. See S 0130.

1130 Japan. Radio: Radio Japan Magazine Hour.
1130 USA. VOA Washington DC (aspac): Counlry MusicUSA.
1131 NorthKorea, R Pyongyang, Music.
1138 NorthKorea , R Pyongyang: The Great Man of me Country.
1144 Japan. Radio: Japan Diary.

Saturdays
1100 Radio E. Africa, EQual0riai Guinea: SI. Paul's A.M.E. Church
(Irom 1045) (Leroy Attles. Sr.).
1100 USA. WvVCR 13 Nashville TN:TheOld Record Shop.
1105 Switzerland.Swiss R tntt Newsnet. See S Ol OS.
111 0 Japan, Radio: This Week.
1113 NorthKorea. R Pyongyang : Music'Commentary,
1115 RadioAlrica. Equatorial Guinea: CountrywideFull Gospel
(John&l1oot).
1116 Switzerland, Swiss R Inti: C3pitalletlers (13th,27th). SeeS
0116.
1130 Austria, RAustria Inti: geocrt frcm Auslria. See S 0130.
1130 USA, VOA WashingtonDC (as pacj: Press Conference USA.
1130 USA, VQA WaShington DC(ta ): Music USA (Standards).
1137 South Korea. Radio Korealnll : From Us to You.

rrrouus e x roMJ'Ul~.:-~"",
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0630.
1130 UK. BBC London (aspac): Pick01 theWorld. SeeS 1130.
1130 USA. VOA Washington DC(as paC): NoVlMusic USA(Top
Ten).
1133 Germany, Deutsche Welle: Halla Africa
1144 Japan. Radio: Japan Diary.

Fridays
1100
1105
1113
1121

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Ecuador, HCJB nuno (Ilac): ~j i9 htso u nds .

Switzerland. Swiss R Inti: Newsnet. SeeS 0105.
North Korea. R Pyongyang: Music.
North Korea. R Pyongyang: ImmortalIdeas 01 the Great
Leader

January J996

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5995pa
9610<15
23Hklo

12001300vl

AUStf3hl. Vl8AAllee Spg

Austtana. Vl 8K Katherine

120Q13rlO v(

Ausnana. Vl 8Trent Drk

2325do

12001330
1200 1215

81'IllI, Radiobras
Camb()(ha. Nail voc e 01
Canada. CBC NQuebec Svc
Canada. cee N neetec Svc

15-1450a
11940<1s
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600500

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1200-13lO vI
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Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada, CKl NSt John's
canada, CKl UVancouver
cmna . ChinaRadiOInU

12001230 vi

cr nna. China RadiOmn

1200 1300
12oo 13JO
120013JO
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1200 1300
1200-13JO

Costa Rica, AWRAlaluela

Costa Rica.RFPeace IntI
Ecuador, HCJB OuilO
EDT GUinea, R E, Africa
f inland. YlE/R Finland
f rance. Radio f rance Inll

1200-1230

Iran. VOIRI Tehran

1200-1330
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300vi
1200-1250
1200-1JJO
1200-1206
12{)O-1330 vi
1200-13JO vl
1200-1300

lraq. Radio lraqln tl

Italy. IRRS Milan
Malaysia. Radio
Malaysia,RTMKotaKinabalu
Myanmar. VOICe 01
Netherlands. RadiO
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Palau. KHBtl 'Voice01Hope
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Bussia. VOice01

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11800pa

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5ELEmo PROGRAMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sundays
1200 Radio E. Africa. Equatorial Guinea: Wayne Avenue ChUfth 01
God (from 1045) (J. C. Wilber).
1215 R:ldio E. Alrica, Equatorial Guinea: Hour 01Faith (Joseph
V\'iglal1 ).
1215 Taiwan. Vol Free China: TheAdventures01 Taiwan. Set! S
0215.
1223 France. Radio France Inti: Paris Promenade.
1228 France. Radio France Inll: Counterpoint (biweekly).
1228 France, RadioFrance Inti: Everyvloman (biweekly).
1230 Radio E. Alrica, Equatorial Guinea: Amazine Miracles (Etta
Haynes).
1234 France. Radio France tntl: Club9516.
1235 Finland, Radio: Business Roundup.
1235 Taiwan. Vol Free China: MailbagTIme, See s 0235.
1247 Taiwan, Vo l FreeChina: Let's l earn Chinese. SeeS 0247.
1248 Finland, Radio: EconomicCommentsin theFinnish Press.

Mondays
1200
1210
1210
1215

Brazil. Radiobras: Brazilian Panorama

Ailstralia. Radio: Australiana.
USA, VOA Washington OC (as pac): Stateside.
Taiwan. V ol Free China: Jade Bells and Bamboo Pipes. See
M 0215.
1231 France. Radio France Int1: RFI Europe,
1239 Vietnam. Voice01 vietnam: Commentary.
1241 France. Radio France Inti: RFI Sports.
1247 France. Radio France IntI: Arts in France.
1248 Vietnam, Voice 01 Vietnam: Music.
1249 Taiwan. Vo l Free China: ters l earn Chinese. See S 0247.

Tuesdays
1210 Australia, Radio:Australiana.
1210 USA, VOA Washington DC (as pac): Stateside.
1215 Taiwan. Vof Free China: Kaleidoscope. SeeT 0215.
1230 UK, BBC l ondon (eu):Plck 01theWond. See 5 1130.
1232 Russia. VOice01:Folk Box.
1233 France. Radio france Inti: RfJEurope.
1233 Taiwan, V ol Free ct nna: MaIO Roads andByways. See T
0233

64

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Janua ry 1996

1200-1300
1200-1300
12001300
12001300
1200-1300

Singapore. S8C Radio One

SlOgapore.RSingapore Inl

6155<:10
9530as

South Korea. RKorea Inti

72853S

Taiwan. VO Free Cllina

United Ki ngdom.BBCl ondon

7130au

120(H 3OQ
12001300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300

21660at
USA.KAlJDallas TX
USA, KTBN Sall l k City UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Momlor Radio Inti
USA. VOA WashingIon DC

1200-1300
1200-1300 irreg
1200-1300
1200-1300
12001300
1200-1300 a
1200-1300
1200-1300
1206-1228
1215-1300
1230-1300
12301300
1230-1300
1230-1300 w
1230-1300 a
1230-1255 s
1231H300
1230-1300
1230-1300
1230-1300
1240-1250

USA. WEWN Birmmgham Al

USA. WGTG ~lccaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA,WJCR Upton KY
USA,WRMI/R Miami Inti
USA. WVHA GreenbushME
USA. INWCR NashvilleTN
USA. WYFR Okeecho ~ Fl
uzreustan. R Tashkent
Egypt RadiOcairo
Bangladesh. Radio
Bulgaria. Radio
Canada. RCIMontreal
Indonesia, RRI Sorong
Monaco. TransWand RadiJ
Monaco. Trans World RadlJ
Russia. VOiCe 01
South Korea. R Korea Inti
Sweden. Radio
Vietnam. Voice 01
Greece. Voice a!

9610a5
6190al

9seoas

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9410va

9740as
11955<1s

5965na
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11940al

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15220va

17640va

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581Qam
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. . .. .. . . ..

1242 France, Radio France Inll: Books.

1249 France. Radio FranceInll: Science Probe.

Wednesdays
1200 Brazil. Radiobfas: Brazilian Panorama.
1215 Taiwan. Vol f reeChina: Music Box. See W0215.
1231 France, RadIO FranceInt1: Rfl Europe.
1237 South Korea. Radio Korealnll: News Commentary,
1242 France. Radio France Inti: TheBottom Une.
1242 South Korea, Radio Korea lnll: Pulseof Korea.
1247 France. Radio FranceIntl: land 01f rance.
1251 Taiwan, V 01Free China: Let's l earn Chinese. See S 0247.

Thursdays
1200 BraIil, Radiobras: Brazilian Panorama.
1215 Taiwan, Vo l Free China: Perspectives. See H 0215.
1215 UK. aBC l ondon (am): MUSiCFeature. Ports of Call: The
Islands (4th,l l lh,18th). SeeS 0330.
1232 Taiwan, V of Free China: Journey into ChineseCulture.
See H 0232.
1234 France, Radio FranceInU: RFI Europe.
1235 Finland, RadIO: Media Review.
1244 France. Radio FranceInU: The Americas Magazine.
1249 Finland, Radio: Background on the News.
1249 France. Radio France Inti: Norttv'South (biweekly).
1249 France, Radio France InU: Planet Earth (biweekly).
1252 Taiwan, V 01Free China: l et's t eam Chinese. See S 0247.
1255 f inland. Radro: Finnish Press Review

Fridays
1200 Bru ll, Badiobras: Branna n Panorama
1215 Taiwan. V of f reeChina: Confrontation. See F0215
1230 UK. BBC Lennon (SOUlh as): Man. Machineand Music.
SeeT 0115
1231 France. Radio France Inll: Rf l Europe.
1232 Iarwan, Vo l Free China: New Record TIme. See F0232
1241 France. RadiOfr ance Inti: Film Reel.
1247 Taiwan. Vo l FreeChina: Let's learn Chinese. See 50247.
1248 France. Radio France tntl: Made in France.

Saturdays

. .

..

1531Qas
17830al

718035
117503S

12095va
15575va
17885a1

9430au
9760va

9455sa
11715\1a

?o:353m
7355na
5975eu

15685am
11830na
6025eu

11970na
9715eu

96ol8as
11605as
117303S

13615as

9640as
13740pa
98-10as
11645af

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9355as
9645va
15425va
94753m
61853m
13595na

. .. .

1200 Brazil, Radiobras: TheBest of Brazilian Popular Music.

1215 Taiwan. Vo l Free China: Reflections. See S 0315.
1220 China. China Radio Inll: Travel Talk.
1228 France. Radio FranceInti: Spotlight on Alrica.
1229 Chma. China Radio Inti: TheCOOking Show.
1230 Radio Al nca. EQuatonal Guinea: foursquare Gospel Trdmgs
(J.E. Chartier).
1230 USA. VOA Washinglon DClas pac): Communications Wortd.
1235 Finland. Radio: f ocus.
1247 Taiwan, V ol Free China:t ers l earn Chinese. SeeS 0247.
1254 Radio Netherlands: Oocumentary. Homosexuality in Japan
(6Ih). SeeW 1154.
1254 Radio Netherlands: Documentary. Japanese YOL1h (131h).

See W1154.
1254 Radio Netherlands: Oocumentary. The Coming 01fuJe 01
Greenland (Feb 3), See W 1554.
1254 Radio Netherlands: Encore Documentary, Bringing Home the
Beef (20th), See W 1154,
1254 RadiO Netherlands: Encore Oocumentary. BringingHome the
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Canada. RCI Montreal
China. China RadiOInll
Costa RICa. RF Peace Inll
Ecuador. HCJBQuito
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Finland. Y18RFinland
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lebanon. Wings 01Hope
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Palau. KH8NIVoice01Hope
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1300-1400
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Auslria. RAuslrlaInti
Belgium. R vaanoerentnt
Canada. RCI Montreal
India. All IndiaRadio
Netherlands. Radio
SWeden. RadiO
Tut1<.ey. VOICe 01
UAE. RadiOOubai
Uzbeklslan. R Tashkenl
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Vatican Stale. Vatican R

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Sundays
1300 Radio E. Africa, Equatorial Guinea: Victory Baptist Church
(David Robinson).
1305 Canada. RCI Montreal: Quirks andQuarks.
1305 SWItzerland. Swiss R tntt Newsnet. See S0105.
1305 Switzerland. Swiss R Inti: Newsnet. SeeSOlOS.
1330 Austria. RAustriaInti: Report Irom Austria. See S0130.
1330 Radio E. Africa. Equatorial Guinea: Moments01Praise
(Calloll A. Baltimore).
1335 Finland. Radio: Business Roundup.
1336 Belg;um, R Vlaanderen lntt Radio World.
1345 Belq.um, Rvlaanderen Inti: PO Box26.
1348 Finland, Radio: EconomicCommentsin the FinnishPress.

Mondays
1300 UK. BBCl ondon (af): New ScienceSeries. See M 0630.
1305 Sl'Irtzerland. Swiss R lntkaewsnet See S 0105.
1305 Swrtzerlanll. Swiss RInn; Newsnet See SOlOS
1310 USA VOA WaShington DC (as pac): Spotlighl on Business
andFinance
1330 Australia. Radio: The AUSlralianMusic Show.
1330 Austria. R Austria Inti: Report irom Austria. See S0130.
1331 cnma. ttnna Radio Inn: China's Open Wmdows (biweekly)
1334 China. ChinaRadio Inn. Investing in China.
1340 Philippines. FEBC: Computer Corner.

Tuesdays

1305 SWitzerland. Swiss R Intl: Newsne!. See S 0105.

1316 r~orth Korea, R Pyongyang: Music.
1328 North Korea. RPyongyang:The Reminiscences or Ihe
Great l eader.
1330 Austria. RAustria tntl: Report from Austria. See S0130.
1339 North Korea. RPyongyang: The Greal Manof theCentury
1354 Radio Netherlaoos: Documentary. Homosexuality in Japan
(3rd). See W 1154
1354 Radio Netherlands: Documental)'. Japanese Youth (10th).
SteW 11$4.
1354 Rar hu Netherlands: Documentary. rre Comil1l;j of Age01
Greenland (31st). See W 1554.
1354 Radio Netherlands: Encore Documentary. Bringing Home
the Beef (17111). See W 1154.
1354 Radio Netherlands: Encore Documentary. Bringing Home
the Beef (24th). See S0154.

Thursdays
1305 Switzerland. S.,.Jiss RInti: Newsnet. SeeS 0105.
1305 Switzerland.SwissRInti: Newsnel. See S 0105.
1325 Costa Rica. Rlor Peace Inll: Hightower Radio.
1330Australia. Radio: AustralianCountry Style.
1330 Austria. R Austna Inti: Report Irom Austria,See S0130.
1335 Finland, Radio: Media Review.
1345 Vatican Stale. Vatican Radio: Pilgrim City (biweekly).
1352 Nethellands. Radio: Media Nelw ork.
1359 Vatican Stale. vatcan Radio: POSlcards from Rome.

1305 Switzerland. SWISS A Inll: Newsnel. See SOlOS

1305 Switzerland, Swiss R Inti: newsnet. See S0105.
1315 Romania. Radio RomaniaInli: 8usiness Club.
1326 Romania,Radio RomaniaInti: RomanianAnglicists.
1330 Auslria. RAuslria Int1: Report trorn Austria. See S0130.
1330 USA WWCR!l1 Nashville TN: World of Radio.
1335 Finland. Radio: Cultural Topics.
1342 Finland. Radio: Environment Report.
1347 Finland. Radio: Music.
1350 Finland. Radio: Health ToPiCS.
1354 Finland. Radio: Finnish Pless Review_

1305 Swrtzenand. Swiss R tnn: Newsnet See S0105.

1305 Switzerland. Swiss R Inti: Newsnet See SOlOS.
1310 Australia. Radio: Asia Focus.
1310 USA, VOAWashington DC(as pac): Perspectives.
1325 Costa Rica, Alor Peace InU: Hightower Radio.
1330 Australia. Radio: Music Deli.
1330 Austria. RAuslriaInll: Report lromAustrra. See S 0130.
1345 Va tican State, vatcanRadio: Then and NO\v.

Wednesdays

1300 Radio E. Alrica. Equatorial Guinea: N8wl ove Alive

Broadcast (HenryMoore).

1305 Switzerland. Swiss R Inll: Newsnet See SOl OS.

Fridays

Saturdays

1305 Swrtzerland. Swiss RInti: Newsnet. SeeSOl OS.

1305 Switzerland.Swiss RInti: Newsnet. See SOlOS.
1310 Romania. Radio RomaniaInll: The Week
1316 Switzerland. Swiss RInti: Capital l eiters (13Itl.27th). See S
0116
1317 Romania. Radio Romania lnll: World of Culture.
1328 Romania. Radio Romania Inti: Radio Pctures.
1330 Austria. R Austria IntI: Reportl rom Austria. SeeS0130.
1330 Radio E. Alrica. EquatorialGuinea: le t ue Bible Speak
(le slieCurran).
1335 Finland. Radio: Focus
1343 Romama. Radio Romania Inti:Bucharest Along the
Centuries
1349 Romania, Radio Romania Inti: Radio Romania OX Mailbag

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Canada, CfCX Monlreal

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1400- 1500
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Canada. CI1'lXHalrla~
Canada, CKZN SIJonns
canana.CKZU Vancouver
Canada, RCI Montreal
China. Chma Rad io Inll
costa RicaRFPeace lntl
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Ecuador, HCJBQuilo
EOT GUlIlea. R E. AlrlCa
France. aaoo France IntI
India. AMIndia Radio
Italy. IRRS t,\llan
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MalaYSia, Radio
MalaYSia, RTM Kuching
MalaYSla.RTM KOlaKinabalu
Netherlands. RadiO
New Zealand. R NZInU
Norway. Radio Norway fnll
Palau. KHBN/Voiceof Hope
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713035
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6155do
9445eu
5965as

9610pa

11695pa

11800pa
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1400-1500
1400-1500

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USA. KJES MesQuite NM

USA, KlBN sall l kCity UT

USA. Moflllor Ra[!lOInt!
USA, VOA WashlllgtonDC

11955na
978535
9400am
176':5al
1511Sam

21~55am

1203Das
137SOas

15405as
151203s

17560me

9535na

96953S

11705na

1370Qas

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USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WR ~JO NewOrleans LA
USA. WVHAareenousnME
USA. WWCR NaShville T~
USA. WYFR OkeechObeeFL
vatcan State. vaucan R
Bhutan. Bhutan BC Service
Nepal. RadiO
Australia. RadiO

1430-1500
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1430-1500 vi
1430-14-10 mlwhl

Austria, R AustrtaInti
Canada, RCI Monlreal
China, China Radio lnn
Indonesia. RRIUJ Panda1g
t43O1500

151503s
15335as
1436-1500
1430-1500

7165as

9630.15
5990.15

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6190.11

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UMedKingdom,BBCl ondon
14 35- 1~ 5O
Greece. VOICe ot
lU0-1SOQ
Myanmar. Voice of
14-15-1500
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1458-1500 mlwhla Seychelles. f EBA Radio
1458-1500 s
Seychelles. FEBARadiO

. . . . . ..

Wednesdays

1400 Radio E. Africa. Equatorial Guinea: Gospel Crusade

Ministries (Roger Hedderick).
1401 UK. BBC l ondon (SOulh as): Pick of IheWorld. SeeS 1130.
1405 UK. BBC l ondon(am): Science and Technology. The
Planets, See H 0135.
1418 Czech Rep, Radio Prague: What's Up.
1425 Japan, Radio: Media Roundup.
1430 AliSlt ia. R Austria Inti: Report from Austria:. SeeS 0130.
1433 France. RadiOFrance Inti: Club 9516.
1437 Canada. RCI Montre.ll: The Mailb.ag.
1445 Radio E. Africa. Equatorial Guinea: GospelOutreach.
1454 Nemenancs. Radio: Siren Song.

1400 India. All India Radio: Radio Newsreel.

1409 Belgium. R vtaanderenlntl: Belgium Today.
1415 Japan, Radio: Radio JapanMagazine Hour
1416 Belgium. R v laanceren Inll: livingin Belgium.
1421 Belgium, R vlaanoeren Inti: Green Society.
1430 Auslria. RAllstria Inti: Report lrom Austna. See S 0130.
1431 France. Bado France Inll: RFI Europe.
1443 France. Rad:o France Inll: The Bottom l ine
1446 FIance. Rad:o France Inll: l and cl France

1400 testa Rica. R for Peace Inti: The Far RighI RadiO Review
1400 Jordan. Radio: Onthe Air II You Dare.
1415 Japan. Radio: Radio Japan Magazine Hour
1420 Japan. Radio: Close Up.
1430 Austria. RAuslr ia Inti: Report lrom Austria. See S 0130
1430 UK. SBCl ondon (af): flew ScienceSeries. See M 0630
1431 France. Radio France Inll: RFI Europe.
1440 Japan. Radio: Japan Diary
1445 UK. BBC london (am/as pac]: TheMultitrack Sessions. see
S0445
1447 France. Radio France tnu. Arts in France
1401 UK. BBCl ondon (al): Pick of theWorld, See S 1130.
1409 Czech Rep. Radio Prague: Magazine'95
1415 Japan. Radio: Radio Japan Magazine Hour.
1430 Austria. RAustria InU: geocrnrom Austria see S 0130
1430 UK. BBC l ondon (south as): RedO,.,.arf. See T 0115
1433 France. Radio France lntl. RFI Europe
1442 FIance. Radio France Intl: Books.
1445 Romania. Radio Romania tnu: Business Club.
1449 France. Radio France Inll: SCience Probe.
1456 Romania. Radio Romania Inll: RomanianAnglitists.

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15160"3

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15105am
13595na

15235sa

13845am
11830na
1162Sas

15685am
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12095va

15310.15

15575'13

1783Qaf
11715na
751Qam

935535

!}.l55na
9370am
6040am
7~gOna

154203m
1169SaI
7435am
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95OOa,

502Sdo
32JOdo
5OOSdo
6060p,
6080pa
7260as
11660as
11695pa
6155eu
11780as 13730eu
9555eu
11915eu
11935eu
11 ~ 45as
8660as
15135as
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Romania. R Romania lnn 117403s
11650na
1s.;0Qa1
~ 2Oeu

599Odo
75JOas
98103s
11670as

9710pa

15325eu

11610as

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9740,15
15070va
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Thursdays
1415 Japan, Radio: RadIOJapan MagazineHour.
1430 Austria. RAuslria Inti: Report from AlIslria. See S 0130.
1435 France. Rad!oFrance Inll: RFI Europe
1443 France. RadiOFrance Inll: North/South (biweekly).
1443 France. RadiOFrance Inti: PlanetEarth (biweekly).
1443 France. Hadiu France InU: The Americas Magazine (5).
1445 UK. BBC london (.11): The Multitrack Sessions. See S
0445.
1448 France. Bado France tmt Made in France.

..

.... . .. .

1410 Belgium. R vaaooeren Inll; Musicfrom Flanders.

1410 Czech Rep. Radio Prague: Calling Aillisleners.
1425 fi ance. Radio f rance lntl; Focus on France.
1430 Ausl ria. R Austria Inll: Report tromAustna. SeeS 0130.
1430 Radio E. Africa. Equatorial Guinea: God Speaks Today (Roy
Beasley).
1434 France. Radio f rance lnll: Asia f ile.
14m Romania. Radio Romania Inti: The Week.
1445 Radio E. Africa. EQlIatorial Guinea: Eternal Good News
(Germainel ockwood).
1447 Romania. RadiO Romania Inti: Wortd01 Cul1ure.
1454 RadIONetherlands: Documentary. Homosexuality in Japan
(61h). set W 1154.
1454 Radio Nethenands: Documentary, JapaneseYou1h (13th).
SeeW1154.
1454 Radio Netherlands: Documentary.TheComing of Age of
Greenland (feb 3). See W 1554.
1454 Radio Netherlands: Encore Documentary. Bringing Homethe
Beel (201h). See W 1154.
1454 Radio Netherlands: Encore Documentary. Bringing Home the
Beef (27th). See S 0154.

Fridays

1411 Belgium. R vaanceren Inll: Belgium Today.

1415 Japan. Radio: Radio Japan Magazine Hour.
1416 BelgIUm. RvaancerenInn:North-South.
1430 Austria. RAustria Inll : Report i rcm Aus1ria See S 0130.
1430 UK. BBC london (scumas): Classical Music, The HighC
Hero (5th.11th.19th). See W 0030.
1431 France. Bade France tntt RFI Europe.
1441 France. Radio France Inll : Film Reel.
1446 France. gaoo France tnu: Silk Roads (biweekly).
1452 Netherlands. Radio: From SapphIre to l aser.

Saturdays
1400 RadiO E. atrca. Equatorial Guinea: let the Bible Spe.lk
(from 1330)(l eslie CUllan).
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1500 1530
15001600

l ebanon. Wings 01Hope

Mala~'Sia. Radio
Mala~'Sia. RTM Kuching
Mala~'Sia. R T M KotaKinabalu
Monj;Olia. R Ulan Bator
Myanmar. VOice01
Netherlands. RacllO
New Zealand, RNZlnll
North Korea. R Pyongyang
Norway, Radio Norway Int!
Palau, KHBNN oice 01 Hope
Philippines, f EBCiR Inll
Romania. R Romania Inll
Russia. VOice ot

151)0.1600

15()().lGOO vl
1500-1600
1500-1600

1500-1 600

SELEaED PROGRAMS .

5995pa
7260as
1166Qas
8743al
9625do

613Odo
616Odo
616Odo
9640n3
978S<ls
6200am
12005am
1519Oa1
11580as
7125eu
6090 as
15355al

,-,

7295do
7160do
5980do
7530as
599Odo
9895as
6100pa
9325eu
9485me
99653S
11995a5
1174Qa5
-1 740as
9470va

60SOpa
9615as
11800pa

60""",
971Dpa

vews.

Mondays
1500 Guam, TWR/KTWR:Hour 01Freedom.
1505 Switzerland, Swiss R Inti: Newsnet SeeS 0105.
1510 Auslralia, RadiO: Asia Focus.
1515 Japan, Radio: TOday"s Top News Asia_
1519 China. China Radio IntI: Current Mairs .
1525 Japan, RadIO: Prctue.
1530 Australia, Radio: Innovations.
1530 Guam. TWRt1<TWR: Thru theBible.
1534 China, ChinaRadiojnu:tnsesnnc in China.
1546 Portugal, Radio PortugallntJ: vsnors' Notebook.

Tuesdays
1500 Guam. TWRlKTWR: Telling the Truth.
1505 Switzerland, Swiss R Inti: Newsnet. SeeS0105.
1516 Romania, Radio Romania Inll: Youth Club.
1530 Guam. TWRlKTWR: Thru the Bible.
1530 USA. VQA WaShington DC(me): Now Music USA.
1540 China, China Radio Inti: listeners' t etterecx
1545 Portugat, Radto Portugal Inti: Musical xaeeo scooe.
1555 Japan, Radio: Tokyo Poe-m.

Wednesdays
1500 Guam, TWRlKTWR: Good TiclingsHOUf.
1505 Switzerl.1nd. Swiss R Inti: Newsnet See S0105.
1505 UK, BBC l ondon (am): Wrilers in a Nutshell. SeeH 0005.
1510 South Africa, Channel Africa: Yours and Mine.
151 5 UK. BBCl ondon (am): RedDwarf. SeeT Ol l S.
1530 Aus tralia, Radio: Science File

Jonvory 1996

1500-1600
S Alrica. Channel Africa
15001600 miwnta Seychelles. FEBA Radio
1500-1530s
Seychelles, FEBA RadiO
1500-1600
Sin9<lPOfe. SSCRadiO
15001 600
Sri lanka. SlBGColom!J.J
15001 530
Switzerland. SWISS R Inll
lS0IH 600
UlUled Kmgdom.SBC london

nne

. .
11945a5

12055a5

7240al

9545al

11955na
11815as

15165as

9400>m

15050am

15115am

21455am

72403s

953Sna

13700as

151503s
9977na
11730me

naioas
4975as
9635va

15335as
711 5va
9905as

UnitedKlngdom.BBC London

1500-1 600
15001600
15001600
1500-1 600

USA. KlBN Sail LkCityUT

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Monitor Radio Inll
USA. VOA Washington DC

9695as

9950as

9540eu
9520me

1500-1530

13785me

713Clva
11765va

1500-1600
150016oo lrreg
15001600
15001600
15001600
15001600a
1500-1600
15001600
1530 1545
15301600
1530-1600
1530-1600
14301500mtwhl
15301600

USA. WEWN Birmingham Al

USA WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville I ~
USAWJCRUplon KY
USA. WRNONew Orleans LA
USA, \WHA Greenbush ME
USA. WVlCRNashvilleTN
USA. WYFR OkeechobeefL
India.All India Raclio
Iran. VOIRI Tehran
Italy,lRRS Milan
Netherlands, Radio
Portugal. R PortuqalImt
United Kingdom,BBCl ondon

. . .. .

1554 Radio Netherlands: Documentary, Homosexuality in Japan

p rdl . See W 1154.
1554 Radio Netherlands: Documentary. Japanese Youth (10Ih).
1154.
1554 Radio Nethertands: Oocumentary. TheComing of Age ot
Greenland (31st). PartI 01a seriesaboulone01the
world's last frontiers
1554 RadIONetherlands: Encore Documentary. Bringing Home
the Beet (171h). See W 1154,
1554 Radio Netherlands: t rcore Documentary. Bringing Home
the BeeI124th). See S 0154

see w

12065me

9610a5
l1S7aas
6155do
972Das
9885.1s
5965.1s

94' ....
12095va

.. . . . . .

1500 Guam, TWRlKTWR: The WorshipHour.

1500 Radio E. Africa. EQuatorial Guinea: Heaven's Peace Plan
(Nicholas Grunner).
1505 SWltzertand, SwissR Inti: Newsnet. See S 0105
1510 Australia. Radio: Oz Sounds.
1510 Japan, Radio: Hello Irom Tokyo.
1511 Russia, Voice 01:News and
1520 China, China Radio Inll: China SCrapbook.
1525 China, China Radio InU: Music Album.
1530 Australia. Radio: FineMusic AUslralia.
1540 China, ChinaRadio Inll: usteners'Lenertcx.

MONITORING TIMES

6060pa

9560pa
11695pa
1062331

6OO5d0
607Odo
603Odo

Sundays

68

I~:~~:~:~~

177QSva
21660al
11860at
1788Oa!
7510am
9930as
9355as
61103s
964Sas
152553s
94S5na
93703m
13760am
7490na
1542Dam
15665al
12160am
11830na
7410as
11875as
3985eu
9895as
21515me
7180as

15425<1s
12075.15
S99O.>s
9515na
15070v3
17830af
11940a1
2149Oa1

7125as
9700as
15395as
llB75na
947Sam
15105am
13595na

13625a~

619<la1
974Das

619Sva
11750as

15260na

'S4(,. ...

17B4lh>a

2147Qaf

15-=OQeu

15-=2QaI

7215as

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15205as

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13s.=5am
1521 5na

15685am
17760eu

15260as

17750as

15150a5

.. . . . . .. ..

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151 9 Romania. Radio Romania Inll : Radio RomaniaDX Mailbag

1525 Japan. Radio: Entertaining in Asia.
1529 China, China Radio Inti: The Cooking Show.
1530 Guam, TWRlKTWR: In Touch.
1530 RadiOE. Africa, EquatorialGuinea: Bwana Nasema
(Francine l ovelll
1535 China, China RadiOInll: Music Irom China.
1545 Radio E. Africa. Equatorial Guinea: Christ Gospel Broadcast
(B. R. Hicks).
1546 Jap;ln. Radio: Asia Kaleidoscope.

Thursdays
1500 Guam, TWFVKTWR: Hour 01Decision.
1505 Switzerland, SwissR Inti: Newsr et. See S 0105.
1515 Japan. Radio: Today's Top NewsAsia.
1530 Australia. Radio: Couchman.
1530 Guam. TWRfKTWR: Thru theBit le.
1532 China, ChinaRadio InU: Focus.
1546 Portugal. Radio Portugal Inti: Spotlighl on Portugal.

HAUSER'S HIGHLIGHTS
KUWAIT:

Fridays
1500 Guam, TWIVKTWR: Words of Hope.
1505 Swrtlertancl. Swrss R IntI: Newsret. See SOlOS.
1510 Australia. RadiO: Asia Focus.
1525 Japan, Radio: Music andBookBeat.
1530 Guam. TWRlKTWR: Thru theBible.
1542 Portugal, Radio Portut;taJ tml: ViSitors' Notebook.
1553 Nemenends. Radio: A Good Lile.
1555 Japan, Radio: TokyOPcp-ln

Saturdays
1500 Guam. TWR/KTWR: search lor Truth.
1500 Radio E. Africa. Equatorial Guinea: Words of t ne(Richard
Ramsey).
1505 Sl'Iillerlancl. Swiss R Inti: Newsnet. See SOlOS.
1506 Soulh Africa, Channel Africa: Yours for theAsking.
1513 Romania. Radio Romania Inti: Bucharest Along the

centunes.
1515 Guam, TWRlKTWR: Masterdesign.
1516 Switzertand,Swiss R lntt cemta ner ters (13th.27th), See
S 0116.

R.

KUWAIT

English at 1ROO- 2 100 on 11990

Sat

Sun

included as of Sept:
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1SO:! K uwait II/(' H OI11t' am/

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Tuc
ISO:! Hlsto rv of l ournalissu
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:!O()() Varil'ly SluJ\I'
Thu
IROO- 2 100 Rday r ~1
SupcrStation l)9.7
Fri
IXO:! Our IJ l ' .\I Frien d
Fri-Tlic :!()OO Nohk Hh llll'lI of Islam
FriTuC' :!()JO Gm n st, of lslam
(via Kevin Hecht !

fREQUENCIES .
1600-1 700

. .

Australia. Radio

1600-1613
1600-1700 vi
1600-1700
16001700
16001700
1600 17OC
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-17OC s
1600-1700
16()().1700
1600-1700
16001630
16001700

Canada.CFVPCalgary
canada. CHNX Halilax
canada. CKlN 51 Jcnns
Canada, CKZU vancouver
Canada. RCI Monl/ eal
cuna. Chllla RadIO inn
Costa Rica,RFPeace Inll
Ecuador. HCJB QUitO
EthIOPia. aenc
France. Radio France InU

1600-1650
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1615mt
1600-1630I'lhfas
16001630
1600- 1700
1600-1 700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1 625
1600-HH9 occsnar
1600-1 630

Germany. Deutsche Welle

Germany. Deutsche Welle
Guam. AWR!KSDA
Guam. TV.'RlKTWR
Guam. TWRlKTWR
Iran. VOIRI Tehran
Italy. AWR Europe
llaly. IRRS Milan
l ebanon. VOICe 01Hope
Malaysia. Radio
Netherlands. Badm
Ilew Zeala1d. RNZ Inti
Pakistan. RadiO

16001100 'II
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
16001700

Palau. KHBMtoice 01Hope

Russia. VOIce of
S Africa. Channel Alflca
S Africa. Trans World R
Singapore. SSC RadiO One

Bangladesh, Radi o
Canada. CBe NQuebec Svc
Canada. CFCX MOnlreal

Canada. CFRX t oronto

SELECTED PROGRAMS . . .

5995pa
9580pa
11695pa
1552035
9625do
6005do
6070do
6030<10
613Odo
616Odo
6160<10
9640na
4130at
6200am
1200Sam
7165al
6175eu
12015af
6170as
7195al
9370as
11580as
11580a5
11875as
7230eu
3985eu
6280va
7295<10
9895as

6060pa
97 1 0~a

609Op.
977035

7260Js

l1660pa

11800pa

1195Sna
11575as
91l10am
1511 5310

1511 0af
15050310
21 455310

151303t

948seu
15210al
7225as
9735al

11615<11
15460al
1305as
11965al

11100al
1553031
9585as

152603s

17750as

137003s

15150as

9485al
1555531

1157031
17660at

11710at

7330eu
9545al

9905as
15240al

11945me

9655",
7425af
1359031
996Sas
1180as
1240at
9500af
6155do

Sundays
1600 Guan. TWR/KTWR: Verse by Verse.
1609 Scutn Africa. Channel AfrICa: AfricaThis Week.
1615 UK.BBC lo ndon (af): Music Feature. Ports of Call: The
lstanas(7th,14th). See S0330.
1622 france, Radio France Inll: Paris Promenade.
1630 Austria, RAustria Inll: Report from Austria, See S 0130.
1630 UK, 8BC london (south as): NewScience Seres. See M
0630.
1631 France. Radio France Inti: News Headlines,
1632 France. Radio France lntt Club 9516

Mondays
1600 Guam. NJ RlKT\\'R: Ansv.ers.
1608 South Africa, ChannelAfnca: NeVIs watcn
1615 Guam. TWRlKTWR: Pacific OX Report
1615 UK. EBC l ondon (am): Pick of theWorld. SeeS 1130.
1627 South Africa, Channel Africa: Sports Watch.
1630 Austria, RAustria Inll: Report from Austria. See S 0130.
1631 France. Radio France lnll : Rfl Europe.
1634 South Africa, Channel Alrica: BusinessNews.
1647 France, Radio France Inti: Artsin fr ance
1648 South Africa. Channel Alrica:Techno Watch.
1650 Radio Africa, Equatorial Guinea: Spiritual Warfare (Diana
Taylor).
1655 Radio Africa, Equatorial Guinea: Way to life (Dick
Saunders).

Tuesdays
1600 Guam. TWRiKTWR: Searchfor Truth.
1608 South Africa. Channel Africa: NewsWatCh.
1615 Guam, TWRlKTWR: SncrteaveBible SchOOl.
1630 Austr..a. R Austria lou: Reportfrom Austria. Set S 0130.
1630 South Africa. Channel Africa: Sports Watch.
1635 South Africa. Cnannel Africa: BusinessNews
1642 France. Radio f ranceInti: Books.
1647 France. Radio fr ancelnll: Drumbeat.
1650 Radio Alrica.Equatorial Guinea: Spiritual Warfare (Diana
Taylor).
1655 Radio Africa.Equatorial Guinea: Way to tne (DiCk
Saunders),

... .

. .

1600-1700
1600-1630
1600-1700
1600-1640
1600-1700

Soulh Korea. R Korea Inti

Sri Lanka. SLBGColombo
Swaziland. Trans WorldR
UAE, Radio Dubai
UnitedKingdom.BBCl ondon

Unileci Kingdom.BBC t onccn

USA. KlBN san u CityUT
USA. KWHA Naalehu HI
USA. Momtor Radio lnll
USA.VQAWashinoton DC

1600-1615
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-17))

1600-1700
1600-1700 ineg
1600-1100
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700a
1600-1700
1600-1700

USA. WEWN Blrmmgham Al

USA. WGTG McCaysvilleGA
USA. WHRI NoblesvilleIN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA, WRND New Orleans LA
USA. VNHAGreenbush ME
USA. \V'NCR NashvilleTN
USA. W(fR meecncbeeFl

1600-1 630 a
1600-1 620 smtwnt
1600-1630
161 5-1625
1615-1 100
1630-1700
1630-1651
1630-1700
1630-1700 mtwhfa
1645-1700mtwhl
1650-1700mtl'lhl

Vatican Slate. vatcanR

vatcan Slate. vatcanR
vietnam. Voiceot
Egypt. R.:IdioCaIIO
United Kingdom.BBC l ondon
Auslria. R Auslria Inti
canada. RCI Montreal
Egypt. Radio tano
USA. WRMIIRMiami Inti
Canada, RCI Montreal
NewZealand. RNZ tnn

.. .

597535
97203S
9500.1!

1600
1610
1615
1626
1630
1630
1631
1641
1641
1646
1650

Guam. TWRlKTWR: Bread 01life.

South Africa. Channel Africa: News Walch.
Guam. TWRlKTWR: The Macedonian Call.
South Africa. Channel Africa: BusinessNews.
Austria, RAustria tntl:Report from Austria. See S 0130.
South Africa, Channel Africa: Sportswarcn.
france.Radio franceInt1: RFI Europe.
France, Radio FranceInti: The Bottom lin e.
South Africa. Channel Africa: Eco Walch
France, Radio FIance Inti: la nd of France.
Radio Africa.Equatorial Guinea: Spiritual Warfare(Diana
Taylor).
1655 Radio Alrica. Equatorial Guinea: Wtrj10 l ile (DiCk
Saunders)

Thursdays
1600 Guam, TWFVKTWR: Friendsin focus.
1610 South Africa. Channel Africa: News Watch.
1615 Guam. TWRIK1WR: The MacedonianCaI1.
1615 UK. BBC l ondon las pac): Man, Machlfle and Music. See
T 011 5.
1626 South Alrica. Channel Alrica: Business News.
1630 Austria, RAustrialnll: Report from Austria, See S 0130.
1630 South Africa, Channel Africa: Sports Watch.
1635 Finland. Radio: Media Review.
1646 France. Radio France ltul:Science Probe.
1649 Finland. Radio: Backglound on the News,
1650 Radio Africa. Equatorial Guinea: Spiritual Walfale (Diana
Taylor).
1655 Finland. Radio: f innish Press Review.
1655 Radio Africa. EqualorL31Guinea: Wtrj to lile (Dick
Saunders).

9870va

15575eu

21605me

13675eu

15395me

17825me

39153S
71353S
9740va
lS070va
21470va
5990as
1559Qam
61203s
935531
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596535
7205.11

6190.11

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941Ova
117SQeu

951503

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12040af
15395.3s
13615na
9310am
13760310
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15665eu
12160310
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17760eu

1175035
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17830af

71 80as

17705va

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91OO3s
13710al
15445al
15340na
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12095va
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1164lNa

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Wednesdays

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1215as
119203f
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15566eu

9550as

11935eu

15325eu

1182Deu

..... . .. ..

1631 france. Radio franceInU: Rfl Europe.

1638 France, Radio Francetntt News Headlines.
1641 france. Radio France Inti: fi lm Reel.
1646 france. Radio franceIntl: Made in France.
1650 Radio Africa. EquatorialGuinea: Spiritual Wartare (Diana
Taylor).
1655 Radio Africa. Equatorial Guinea: Wayto
(DiCk
saunders).

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Saturdays
1600 Guam. TWRlKTWR:The Word Today.
1609 South Africa, Channel Africa: rodays Dream
1614 fr ance, Radio f rance Inti: f ocus on France.
1615 Guam. TWRIKlWR: Hope lor Todtrj.
1630 Austria. RAustria Inti: ReportIrom Austria. See S 0130.
1631 France. Radio France Inll: Spotlight on Africa.
1635 Pinland. Radio: Focus.
1639 South Africa.ChannelAfrica: Music in theSun.

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1610 SoulhAf rica. Channel Africa: News Walch.
1615 Guam. TWRlKTWR: WOlldelflll Words
1620 SouthAfrica. Channel Africa: Business NeI'lS.
1630 Austria.RAustriaInti: Report from Austria See S 0130.

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Australia. Radio

6060pa
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11660pa
1100-1800 vi

Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc

1700-1800

Canada. CFCX MOnlleal

1700-1800

1700-1800as
1700-1800
17001727
17001800
1700-1800
1700-1730
1700-1730
1700-18(0
1700-18W

Canada. CFRX Toronto

Canada. CFVPCalgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada , CKIN 51John's
Canada, CKZUVancouver
China. China RadiO lnll
Costa Rica, AWR Alajuela
Costa Rica,RF Peace Inti
Czech Rep, Barno Prague
Ecuador. HCJB Dutto
Egypt. RJdlo Callo
France. RadiO France Inti
GeorgI,} Georgian RadIO
Italy. IRRS "",Ian
Japan, NHKtRadlo

1700-17j O
1700-1800
1700-17j0
1700-1800mtwhl
1700-1750
1700-1800
1700-1800vi
1700-1 800
1700-1800
1700-1800
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1700-1800

Jordan, f:{adio
l ebanon. VOice 01Hope
Lebanon. Wings 01Hope
New Zealand.R NZ Inll
North Korea , R Pyongyang
Pakistan. Radio
Palau. KHBNNoice 01Hope
RUSSia. Voice 01
S AlrlCa, Channel Alrica
Slovakia. AWR
SWaziland. t rans World R
SWltzerlaml, SWISSR Inll
UflIlel:llCingdOm.BBC London

1700-1800

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1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800

1700-1745
1700-1800
1700-1 800
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1700-1800

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USA. KTBN Sail l k City UT
USA. KWHRNaalehu HI
USA. Monrtor RadiOInll
USA. VOA Washington DC

17001Boomlwhl

USA. VOA WashlflglonDC

1700-1800
1700-1800 irreg
1700-1800
1700 18-)0
1700-1800smrwnt
1700-1 830
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1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1 800
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171 51730
171 5-1730
1730-1800
1730-1800
1730-1745
1730-1 800
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USA. WEWN anmmonem AL

USA, WGTGMcCaysville GA
USA. VIHR I Notllesville IN
USA. WJCRucton KY
USA. WMLKaemerPA
USA. WRMVR Ml.3mi Inti
USA. WRNONew Orleans LA
USA, 'NVHAGreentlushME
USA. \W/CR NashVIlleTN
USA. WYFR ceeecr ct ee fl
zambia ChristianVoice
Altlania, RTiranaInti
vancan State. vaucan R
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17451800

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Algeria RAlgiers Inti

eustrare. Radio

1800-1 900
1800-1 900
1800-1900
1800-1900
1800-1 900
1800-1900
1800-1900
1800-1900
1800-1827
18001900
18001830

Brazd. RadlObras
Canada. CfCX t.loolreal
Canada. Cf RX toronto
Canada. CFVPCalgary
Canada, CHNXHahl3.l:
Canada. C KZt~ SIJohn's
Canada, CKZUvancouver
Costa Rlca.RF Peace lntl
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Ecuador. HCJB Ouuo
Egypt. Radio Caifo

70

MONITORING TIMES

11715me
6060pa
9860pa
15265eu
6005<10
607Odo
603Odo
613Odo
6160110
616Odo
6200am
58j5eu
15490eu
15255al

January 1996

741Qeu

Italy. lARS Milan

3985eu
11990na
6280va

11935al

1800-1825

95353S

11575al

940Qam
943Deu
15115am

1505Qam
21455.3m

11 61531

1521 0<11

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964031
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13785me

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Swaziland. Trans World R
United Kingdom,BBC london

18Q(}1830
1800-1900
18OG-1900
1800-1900
1800-1 900
1800-1 900

Klngdom,BBC l ondon
USA.KJES MesquiteNM
USA,KlBN Sali n City UT
USA, KWHR Naalehu HI
USA, Monitor Radio inn
USA, VOA wasruncton DC

1800-1900mtwhl
1800-1900
1800-1900irreg
1800-1900
1800-1900
1800-1 900
1800-1 900
1800-1900
1800- 1900
1800-1900
1800-1900
1800-1830
1800-1900
1800-1900
1802-15OO s
1830-1900

USA, VOA Washington DC

USA. WEWN Burningham AL
USA, WGTG McCaysvilleGA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR uctcn KY
USA. WMLK Belhel PA
USA.WRMliR Miami Inll
USA. WR tlONew creansLA
USA. VNHAGreenbushME
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
vemam Voice 01
Yemen, Yemeni Rep gaoc
Zambia. Chli5tian Voice
Morocco. RTVM Maroca ne
Bangladesh. RadIO
Nelherlands. Radio

1830-1857
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1830-1900
1830-1900
1830-1900
1833-1900
1840-1850
1645-1900 irregs
185'3-1 900

SAlrica. Trans WorldR

Somalu RadiOMogadis, u
Soulh korea. R Korea Inti
Sweden. RadiO
United Kingdom,BBC t onccn
Cote D'!voire, RDN
Greece, Voice 01
Mali, RON Matenne
New Zealand, R NZ Int!

181~-1900

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le banon. VOICe of Hope
nenenancs. Radio
NewZealand. R " l lntl
Palau. KHBNNoICe 01Hope
Poland. Polish RWarsaw
Russia. VOice 01

1800-1900
18001 830
1800-1900

1546D.a1

1800 UTe
1800-l g00
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1800-1849 mtwhl
1800-1900 vi
lS00-1855
1800-1900

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1900 UTe
2:00 PM EST/I 1:00 AM PST

fREQUENCIES
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19002000

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15345eu

Argentina. RAE
Australia. Radio

6060lla
72603S
11660p a

19001930

Azerb,;ll<1 fl. voce ot

1900'1 ~5

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19001930

Blglum. Rvuanoeren tnt

Bralii. R.ldlobras

19001920
1900-2000
19002000

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1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
19002000
19002000 vI
19002000
1900-2000
1900-1930
1900-2000
1900-1950

Canada CFVP Calgary

Canada.CHtlX Halifax
Canada CKZN StJohn's
Canada, CKIU Vancouver
China,cmna RadIO lnll
Costa Rica. AWR AlaJuela
Costa Rica,RF Peace lnt!
Cole D' Ivolfe. ROW
Ecuador, HCJB QUito
Germanv. Deutsche Welle

1900-1910
1900-2000
1900-1945

Greece. VOICe 01
Guatemala. AWR
India. All nuna Baom

1900-2000
1900-2000

Italy. lARS Milan

Japan. NHK/Radlo

1900-2000vi
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2DOO
1900-2000

Kenya, Kenya Broadc Corp

Kuwait Radio
teta ncn Wmgs 01Hope
utere . RadIO ElSC
teere. BadmELVIA
Netherlands. Rallio

1900-2000
1900-2000
1900H30s
1900-2)00
19QO-2JOO

New Zealand, R NZ Inll

Nigeria, FRCNNoice 01
Norway. RadiO NOfway InlJ
Romania. R Romania Int!
Aussia, VOice01

1900-2JOO
1900(2)00
1900-2JOO
1900-2lOO

1900-2000
1900-2000

Canad3 CFex Monlreal

South Korea. R Korea lntl

Swaziland. Trans World R
Thallaflll. RadiO
umteo Krnl}lIom.BBC t onecn

1900-2000

USA, KTBNSalllk City UT

USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. MonllOI Aadlo inn
USA, \'OAWashmglon DC

1900-2000
1900-2000IIrllg
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-1930
1900-2000
1900-2000
1930-2000
1930-2000
1930-2000
1930-2000
1930-2000
1930-2000
19302000
1935-1955
1945-2000

USA. WEWN Bllflliogham Al

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHAt Noblesville IN
USA, WJCAuotonKY
USA. WMlK Bethel PA
USA.WAMI/ RMiami Inll
USA.WRND New nrreans LA
USA. \WHAGreenbush ME
USA. WWCRNashVille TN
USA WYFR O~eechobee Fl
ve tnam VOICe 01
Zambia, crmstenVOICe
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Albanl3. R Tirana Inll
Austria. RAustria Inll
han. VOIRI I ehran
Mongolia, A Ulan Bator
Slovakia, A Slovakia Inti
Turkey VOice 01
'ruqosavra. Rallio
Ilaly. RAI Rome
Togo. game

1 900- 2~0

12

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. . . .
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591Deu
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2000-2H)Q vi
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100

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94""m

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956035
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2000 UTe

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Angola. Radio Naclonai
Australia. Radio

ALlstraha, Vl 8Kxamenne

A\lslraha. VL8T rent Clk

Billgalia. Radio

Cloada. CFCX Montreal

2000-2 100
2000-2100
2000-2100
20002100
20002100

canaua. CFRXToronto
Canada, GFVP Calgary
Canada, CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKIN SI John's
Canada. CKIUVancouver
China, ChinaRadio Inti

2000-2U)0
200D-2HJO
2000-2050
2000-2030
2000-2 100
2000-2030
20002100
20002030
2000-2030

C:lsla RiCa.Rf PeaceIrll

Eqt GUinea. Radio Atnca
Germany. DeutscheWelle
Ghana. enana arcaoc Corp
Gualemala, AWR
Hungary. Radio Budapest
Indonesia. Voice 01
Iran. VOIAI Tehran
Israel. Kollsrael

2000-2100
2000-2100 vi
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-211JO
2000-2 1lJO
2000-2030
2000-2025

ItaIV. IRAS Mrlan

Kenya, KenVa arcane Corp
Kuwait RadiO
Lebanon. Wings 01 Hope
l iberia. RadiOElBG
teena. RadIO ElWA
tenueua. RalllO Vilnius
Nelherlands. Radio

2000-2100
2000-2005
20002100
20002050
20002030 mlwhl
2000-21 00

New Zealand. A NZ Inti

Nigelia. FRCNIRadio
Nigeria. FRCNNoice 01
NorthKorea. A F1'ongyang
p,)r1ugal. R Portugallnll
nussa . VOICe 01

.. . .
11715me
9534do
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uaanoa. RadIO
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2000-2100
20002100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100

USA. KAlJ Dallas TX

USA. KTBN salllk Cit! UT
USA. KWHRNaalehu HI
USA. Mofllfor Badm Inll
USA. VOA WaSlllll9ton OC

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2000-2100
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USA. WHR I Noblesville IN
USA. WJCA Upton KY
USA. WMl K Bethel PA
USA. WRM I/R M13mi Ifill
USA. WRtlO New Orleans LA
USA. V'NHA Greenbusn ME
USA. w\VCR NashvilleTN
USA VIYFR Okeechobet!Fl
VaticanSlate. vancan R
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21mbabwe. I BCtRadio 3
Syria, Radio Damascus
Swaziland. Trans Worlll R
Jlaly, RAJRome
Egypl, RadiO Cairo
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FREQUENCIES .
2100-2200
2100-2130vl

2100-2130 vl
210Q2130vl

2100-2110
2100-2200v
2100-2200
2HlO-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
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2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
21002130
2100-2200
2100,2200
2100-2127
21002200

Auslrall.1. RadiO

Australia. VlBAAlice Spg

Australia. VLBK Katherine
Australia. VlBT Ten! erk
Bahrain, Radio
Canada, eBC NQuebec Svc

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607Odo

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516Odo

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21002200
21002150

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2l(lO-22oolas
2100-2200

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Japan, NHKlRadio

2100-2 115
Japan. NHK,/Radio
2100-2 110vl
Kenya. Kenya arcaocCorp
21002200
lebanon. Voiceof Hope
21002200
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21002200 rnlwh!a Liberia, Radio ElWA
21002200
New Zealand, R NZ lnll
2100-2200
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2100-2125
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2100-2200
Bumama, RRomania Inti
2100-2200
Russia, Voice 01

21002130
21002200
21002200
2100-2200s
21(10-2200
2100-2200

2l(lO22oo
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21002200
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2100-2200
2100-2200
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Spain, R Exterior Espana
Uganda. Radio
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USA. KlBN Salt lk CityUT
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USA, Monitor Radio Inll
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USA. WGTGMcCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
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USA.WRMliR Miami Inti
USA, WRNONew Orleans LA
USA. WVHA Greenbush ME
USA, WWCR Nashville TN
USA, WYFR Okeechobee Fl
Zimbabwe, ZBCiRadio 3
Syria. RadiO Damascus
Egypt. RadiO Cairo
uuteo Klngdom.BBC London
Estonia, ESlonian RadIO
Armerua, VOICe 01
Australl3. Radio
Austlall3. Vl6A Alice Spg
Austlalia. VUlK xamenne
Austl alla, VUlT Tent Crk
Iran. VOIAI Tehran
Latvia, Barno
liberia, Radio ELWA
Moldova. R Dnester Inti
Russia, Voice 01

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2200-2300 vi
2200-2300 vi
2200-2300 vi
2200-2230
2200-2300
2200-2300 vi
2200-2300
22002:300
22002300
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22002300
22002300
22002230

Ausl ralla. Vl8A AlICe Spg

Australia. Vl8K Katnenne
Australli. Vl8T tent Crk
Belgium. R vaanceen Int
Bulgaria. Radio
canace.CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada, CFC XMontl eal
Canada,CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada, CHNXHalifax
Canada, CKZN StJohn's
Canada,CKZUVancouver
Canada, RCI Montreal

2200-2230
2200-2300
22002300
2200-2300
2200-2245
2200-2300
2200-2215
2200-2300
2200-2230
2200-2230

China.China RadiO 1011

China. ChinaRadiO Inll
Costa Rica.RF Peace Inti
Cuba. Radio Havana Cuba
Egypt. RadiO Cairo
Eqt Guinea, RadIO atnca
Ghana. GhanaB,oade COIP
Guatemala. AWR
Hungar/. RadiOBudapest
India.All IndiaRadio

2200-2230
2200-2300 las
2200-2225
2200-2300
2200-2330
2200-2330
2200-2225 mlw!ll
2200-2205
2200-2235
2200-2230 s
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Iran. VOIR I Tehran

Ilaly, IRRS Milan
BOIly. RAI Rome
Lebanon, Voice01Hope
Lebanon, Wmgs 01 Hope
Malaysia. Radio
Moldova, R Moldova Inll
New Zealand. RNZInll
Nigeria. FRCN/Radlo
Norway Radio Norwa'/Intl
Russia, VOICe 01

2200-2215
22002300
2200-2230
2200-2300
2200-2205
22002300
22002300
22002300

Siena leone, Sl BS
Slovakia.AWR
South Korea, R Korea Inti
Spain. RExtenOI Espana
Syria, Radio Damascus
Taiwan, VO Free China
UAE, Radio Abu Dhabi
Ukraine, R Ukraine nut

2200-2300

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2200-2230
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USA, WEWN anmmanarnAl
USA,WHRI Noblesville IN
USA,WJCR Upton KY
USA. WRM IIR Miami Inti
USA,WRNDNewOrleansLA
USA,WtlHA G,eenbush ME
USA, WNCRNashville TN
USA, WYFROkeechobee Fl
Yugaslavia, Radio
New Zealand. R rll inn
Austria,RAustria Inti
Czech Rep, RadIOPrague
lithuania, RadiOVdllluS
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India. AllIndia Radio

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Chma, China Radio Inll
Costa Rlca,RF Peace Inll
Cuba, RadioHavanaCuba
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Egypt. Radio Cairo
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Germany, DeutscheWelle

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FREQUENCIES.
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2300-0000
2300-0000
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Australia.Vl8 KKatherine
Australia, VL8T Tent Crlo:.
canada. cae NDuetec svc
Canada. CFCX Montreal
Canada. CFRX rcrcnto

2300-0000

Costa Rica, AWRAlaluela

2300-0000
2300-2305
2300-0000
2300-2350
2300-0000
2300-0000
23000000

Cosla RItd.RF PeaceInU

Crooll3, c oaten Radm
Egypt. Radio Cairo
Germany. Deutsche Welle
Guam. AWR,iKSDA
Guatemala. AWR
India. All India Ramo

23000000

Japan. NHK/Radio

2300-0000
2300()()()()
2300-0000
2300-2325 mtwhf

l ebanon. Voice01Hope
lebanon. Wings 01Hope
MalaySia. RadiO
Moldova. R MoldovaInti

Canada. CFVP Calgary

Canada. CHNX Halllax
Canada , CKZN 51 Jcnns
Canada,CKZU Vancou ver
Canada. RCI Montreal

4835do
5025do
491Odo
9625do
6005do
607Odo
60JOdo
6130do
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6160do
5960am
119-l0am
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9660pa
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Nigen3. FACWR adlo
NOr1t1 Korea. RPyongyang
Russia. Voice of

2300-2317

Serra leone. Sl BS

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2301Hl00lJ
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Turkey. VoICe Of
UAE. Radio AbuDhabi
UOIIedKingdom,BBC London

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2300-2315
2300-2330
2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000
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United Kingdom.BBCl ondon
USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. KlBNSaltlk CrtyUT
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USA. VOAWaShington DC

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USA. WHAI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR ll pten KY
USA. WRNDNewOrleans LA
USA. VNHA ereennusn ME
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SELEaEO PROGRAMS
Sundays

2300 Guam, AWR/KSDA: wavescan

2308 Turkey. Voice 01: Revie..... Of theTurkish Press.
2310 UK. BaC l ondon (am): w ntee in a Nutshell, See H 0005.
2313 Turkey, Voice 01; Tastes IromTuMley.
2323 Turkey. Voice01:Turkish Music.
2330 TuMley. Voice of: Magmficent lslanbul.
2340 Netherlands. Radio (am): Wide Angle.
2340 Turkey, Voice of: TurkishMusic,
2354 Nelherlands, Radio (am): Siren Song.

Mondays
2300 USA, WRNONew Orleans LA: Latmo USA.
2300 USA, WWCR ;3 Nashvine TN: TheNorm Resnick Snow
(live).
2312 Turkey, Voiceat:la st Week.
2318 TUl key. Voice 01: Tolerance of Virtue.
2319 TuMley. Voice 01: HistO!)' of theTurkish Press.
2326 TuMley. Voice 01:Notes IromTurkey.
2333 TUlkey, Voiceof:Turkish Songs.
2349 USA, Monitor Radio Inti: Letterbox.

Tuesdays
2300 USA. WWCR 13 NashvilleTN: The Norm ResnickShow
(live).
2300 Vatican Stale, Vatican Radio: Postcardsfrom Rome.
2305 Turkey. Voiceof: Review
Turkish Press.
2319 Turltey, Voice at Popular Turkish Music.
2332 Turkey. Voice ot EconomiC Panorama(biweeklyl.
2340 Tur1o:.ey. Voiceof: TurkishMusic
2355 Japan, Radio: Tokyo Pup-fn,

cure

Wednesdays

2300 USA, WWCR; 3 NashvilleTN: TheNOlm Resnick snow

(live).
2306 Turkey. Voiceof: Review ottne Turkish Press.
2310 Turkey. Voiceof: Review01thef oreign Media
2314 Tur1o:. ey, Voiceof: Let ter Box.
2329 Tur1o:.ey. Voiceof: In Your Own Voice
2344 Tur1o:.ey. Voice Of: TurkishMUSic.

Thursdays

2300 Guam, AWRI1<SDA: Sounds cnnscnaton

2300 USA, WWCR i3 Nashville TN: TheNorm Resnick Show
(live).
2309 Turkey, Voice of: Reviewof the Turkish Press.

14

MONITORING TIMES

January 1996

2312 Turkey. Voice 01: Headinglor Europe

2318 TuMley. Voice of:Turkish Music.
2335 TUrKey. Voice 01: Ambassadorsof Art.

Fridays
2300 USA. WWCR '3 Nashville TN: TheNorm Resnick Show
{live).
2312 Turkey, VOIce 01: Review ormeTurkish Press
2315 Turkey, Voice01: Turkish Album,
2315 UK, BBCl ondon (am): RedDwarf, SeeT Ol l S.
2332 Turkey, Voice 01: The Alalurk History
2342 Turkey. Voice01: Turkish Music.

Saturdays
2300 Guam, AWRIKSOA: Wavescan.
2300 USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN: TakingBack America (live).
2309 TUrkey, Voice01: Review oune Turkish Press.
231 0 Turkey. Voiceof: Turkey: A Haven in theEast
2312 Turkey, vcce ct Outlook.
2315 Turkey, Voice ct VQT OX Corner (biweekly)
2330 UK, BBCLondon (as pac): Pickof theWorld. SeeS 11 30.
2333 Turkey. Voice of: Blue Voyage
2354 Radio temenanos: Documentary. Homosexuality in Japan
(6th). See W 1154.
2354 Radio Netherlands: Documentary. Japanese Youth(13th).
The changingface of family lifein Japan.
2354 Radio Netherbnds: Documentary. TheComingof Age ot
Greenland(feb 3). See W lSS4
2354 Radio Netherlands: Encore Documentary BringingHome
the Beef (20th). See W 1154.
2354 Radio Nelhellands: Encore Documentary. Bringing Home
theBeef (27th).See S01S4.

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All Oh io Sc anner Club : Dave Marshall, 50 Villa
Rd., Spr ingfield. OH 45503 1036. U.S. north ea st
of the Mississippi; VHF/UHF/HF utilities. Net Mon
9 :30 pm 146 .940 . American Scannerg ram. $18
U.S. 52 1 Ca n'M ex. 528 ww. $3 sample . Annual
summer meeting.
Am erican SW Li st en er 's Club : Stewart
Macx en zte. WO X6AA. 16182 Ball ad Lan e,
Hunt ington Beach. CA 92649, (714) 846 1685:
wdx6aa @aol.com . We stern US, Pac ific, Asia .
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US, $2 5 Can/Mex . $2 sample ($3 ww) . Meets1 st
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A ssociatio n of Cla nd estine Enthu sia st s
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Mission, KS 66 207. US. Europe and Mid dle
East; Pirate and clandestine. The A.G.E. $20 US,

USS21 Can/Mex. USS27 ww.

Association of Manitoba OX'ers (AMANOX):
Shawn Axelrod, 30 Becontree Bay, Winnipeg.
Manitoba, R2N 2X9 Canada, (204) 253-8644.

NORTH AMERICAN CLUB LISTINGS A-C

Manitoba; l W, MW. SW, and VHF/
UHF. Meets monthly. $2.
Bay Ar ea Scann er Enthus iast s:
Bruce Ames, P.A.O., 105 Serra Way
#363. Milpilas, CA 95035. (408)2673244. Weslern U.S.; 25+ MHz.
Listening Post (bi- monthly) . Meets

2nd Mons. 7:30 Milpitas Police Admin

Bldg. S25 US. $2 sample. or SASE lor
info.
Bayo nne Emerge ncy Radio
Network (BERN): Ray Baron/Bob
Frasca, P.O. Box 1203, Bayonne. NJ
07002-6203. 1800-2862876. Metro
NJ. NY; Fire/disaster, pub safely.
Bearcat Radio Club : Larry Miller,
Box 360. Wagontown, PA 19376, 1
800-423-1331, National. Scanning
only. Na tional Scanning Report (bimonthly). $17.50 or S29.90, $5 more
Can. $3 sample.

Dispatchers from th e Mountain Ne wsNet (all

emergency incident paging notification network )
send their seasoll 's greetings. Their lI e h' address is
P.O. Box -1-188, Estes Park, CO 80517-1-188.

Listener's Nets
You are invited to post your North Amer ican ama teur radio net in this bi-month ly listing if its
primary emphas is is devoted to the radio mon ito ring hobb y (not amateur radio).
Capitol Hill Monito rs
146.91 MHz t st & 3rd Mon 7;30pm ET. DC.
Md, N.Va. S.Del; Scanning and amateur
radio
Frequency Forum BBS 7032 0796 2218 N 1j
Net Mgr: N3RDC, John Korman
Call Alan Henney 30 1-270-2531 or John
Korman 301-299-5455 for info
Newsletter S8; 6912 Prince George's Ave.
Takoma Park. MD 20912-54 14
Cent ral Florida Listeners Group
146.730 MHz, Sun 8pm ET. Central Florida;
any radio communications outside amateur
bands
Net Mgr: Andy Fountain. KD40KJ
Telephone gateways announced; CFLG BBS
conference on LASER BSS 407647003 1
Call Andy Fountain. KD40 KJ. (407)8986784
for info
Larkf ield 's ARC SW-Sc anner Net
147.2 10 MHz. Fri 8pm ET. Long Island. NYC.
NJ. Conn; Shortwave BCers & utes, MW.
amateur radio. scanning
Net Mgr: Hank Lukas. N2GCN
Open to all amateurs on air; by tetter for
scanner listeners
Contact: PO .Box 115, Plainview. NY 118030115
Listening Post
147.03. 224.96. 447.725 (W3 DID/R). Sun
8pm, Baltimore and metro area; non-amat eur
transmissions DC to Daylight except ECPArelated items or tacticals
Net Mgr: Mike Agner KA3JJZ
Open to all amateurs on air; by maildr op at:
6710-F Ritchie Hwy #236. Glen Burnie, MD
21060.
Packet: KA3JJZ @ WS3FFV.md.ena.usa
Montreal OX listeners Net
146.910 MHz. Sun 8: 15 pm ET, Montreal PO
area; MW SW, & Scanner
Net Mgr: Sheldon Harvey VE2SHW
Telephone gateways anno unced
Monitoring the Long Is land Sounds Net
146.805 Tues 8pm ET, l ong Island. NY;
Primarily scanning
Net Mgr: WB2R VA. 2134 Decker Ave. North
Merrick, NY 11566

Mon l x SW and Scanner Listen ers Info Net

146.835 MHz. Thurs. 9:30 pm ET; Cincin nati/
Tri-State Area; All band
Net Mgr: Mark Meece. N8ICW.15 13) 77729 09
(no co llect calls)
Open to all amateurs; Telephone gateways to
net mgr up to 1/2 hr before net; The listening
Post BBS (513) 474-3719
New York OX Asso ciat io n
146.880 Man 9pm ET. NYC area; "DC to Light"
Net Mgr : Charles Hargrove N2NOV. 723 Port
Richmond Avenue. Staten Island. NY 103021736
Voice mail 112 hr before net: 2 12-978-3375:
Compuserve 73167,312
Northeas t SW Listeners and Scanner s Net;
Rip Van Winkle Society
147.21 MHz (WB2UEB) Wed Bpm. Albany. NY.
area.
Net Mgr: Ray Loeper N2RAD
Ont ario OX As sociation - Listeners Net
442.375 ' (VA30DX; 103.4Hz CTCSS tone).
Sun 8:30pm ET; Toronto area coverage; l W.
MW. SW, FM, VHF/UHF topics discussed
Net Mgr: Stephen Canney, VA31D
Open to all; repeater used daily by O OXA
members
Rocky Mo untain rJl onito ri ng Net
147.225, 224 .980 Denver; 145.460 Boulder;
145.160 Colorado Springs Sun 20:00:
communications monitoring
Brian Gould. KBOMEP, Mt. News Net
Sho rtwave Listeners Net , Association of
North American Radio Clubs
7.240 MHz l SB. Sun lOam ET. Eastern US;
Shortwave broadcasts and utilities
Net Mgr : KW3F. 238 Cricklewood Circle.
l ansdale. PA 19446
Telephone gateways announced
Southern Wisconsin SW LIsteners Net ;
MARA
147.150 MHz, alt 146.760 MHz. Madison, WI.
area
First Sun 8pm CT. Shortwave. scanning. dc to
daylight, equipment note s and comments.
Net Mgrs; N9LTD. KA9S RU. N9EWO
Contact: N9EWO. Dave ze ntow. 1609 Ontario
Drive, Janesville. WI 5354 5

Bost on Ar ea OXers: Paul Graveline. 9 Stirling

s i., Andover. MA 01810-1408, (508)470-1971.
50 mile radius Boston: 3-30 MHz. Meets 3rd
Fris 7:30pm. The Lexinqton Club, Rte 4/225 1/4
mi W of Rte 128_
Canadian Int'l OX Club: Sheldon Harvey, 79
Kipps St., Greenfield Park., Quebec, Canada
J4V 3B1. (514)462- 1459. Canada nationwide/
membership open to all: General coverage. The
Messenger. $26 Can. 525 US. SUS28 or
SCan35 ww. $2 sample. Meets 2nd Tues 7pm
Montreal: several annual events.
Capitol Hill Monito rs: Alan Henney, 6912
Prince Georges Ave, Takoma Park, MD 209125414. (301) 270 253 1/5774 fax. DC. MD.
No.VA, SO.DE. Scanner bands. Frequency
Forum BBS 703-207-9622 (8-N-1) Net 1st & 3rd
Mons 7:30pm 146_91. Capitol Hill Monitor. $8 .
Meets irregularly.
Central Flori da listeners Group : Andy
Fountain KD40KJ. (407)898-6784. Central
Florida; All bands. Net on 146.73 MHz Sun 8
pm. Meets 2nd Sats 12 noon. Conf#10 on l aser
BBS (407)647-0031.
Centr al Indiana Shortwave Club: Steve
Hammer, 2517 E. DePauw Road. Indianapolis,
IN 46227-4404. Central Indiana; SW broadcasting. pirates. and the offbeat. Short wave
Oddities.

Centra l VA Radio Enthu siast s: Richard

Rowland, POB 34832. Richmond, VA 232340832.
Metro Richmond and vicinity. VHF/UHF. SASE.
No newsletter. no dues. Meets quarterly in
Richmond.
Chic ago Area OX Club: Edward G. Stroh, 53
Arrowhead Dr., Thornton. Il 60476. 300 mile
radius of Chicago; DXing all bands. DX
Chicago. $17. $1 sample. Meets irregularly.
Chicago Area Radio Monitoring Asso ci ation
(CARMA): Ted & Kim Moran. 6219 N.
Greenview, Chicago. Il 60660- 1815. Chicago &
midwest. Public safety & general coverage.
SCUG/CARMA BBS (708)852 '292. CARMA
News/etter. Meetings (Sats) and newsletter bimonthly on auemate months.
Colorado Shortwave listeners Club: Rob
Harrington NONNI , P.O. Box 370593. Denver.
CO 80237-0593. 303-756-9455. Colorado
residents. Longwave. shortwave. Colorado
Shortwa ve Listener (4x) 50 cents or 10 cents
plus SASE for info and latest newsletter or
Internet YABX92A@prodigy.com. Meetings
cancelled remainder of '95.
Communications Research Group: Scott
Miller, 122, Greenbriar Drive, Sun Prairie. WI
535901706. Wisconsin area. Scanning.

January' 996

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B ELOW
SOO KHZ
DXING THE BASEMENT BAND

Kevin Care , WB2QMY

kac@mdsrac.cam

logging On

t' s a new \!Ca T and the lonuwuve DXing

conditions have reached their traditional

perspe ct ive. it' s helpfu l to know the transmining pow er of the station . Fo r instan ce.

peak. Wh at better time for mak ing a reso-

he arin g a 2000 -\\,.ltl beaco n S(Xl miles away

may be fairl y ro utine. but pulling in a 25-watt
beacon at rhut d istan ce wou ld ce rta inly be a
go od c atch by ..my standards .

lution 10 explore radio' s basement hand for

the first time-of to re-disco ver if !
A lcg sbect is a lime-tested way 10 chan
your DXing progress. This 1110nth, we' ll dis-

cuss 110\\/ to m ake a logshcc t that suits th e

specia l need s o ft he long wa ve DXc r. Thi s will
giv e yo u so mething to show for yo ur efforts
and help you spo t changes that occur on the
ba nd from year 10 yea r.
A log doe sn' t have to he anyt hing fanc y.
You ca n make up a ru led shee t. nnd run
photocopies of it as needed . O r. for those
w ishing 10 go first class. a log ca n he kep t
"o nline" usi ng a spreads hee t o r word process-

ing program.
What categories sho uld your log co ntain?

Se r vicc-c- ln this space. yo u co uld ha ve a

co de kiter to sig nify the type of be acon you
heard : Aeaeronautical. Memari nc. Pepri vate,
Le lowfcr. e tc.

IDs per minute-This is the number of

complete iden tificati on s th at are sent by the
beacon in one mi nute . Thi s is. in effec t. the
"fingerprint" of the statio n. It ca n he vcry
he lpful to include this info rma tion in a veriIication leiter as proof of reception .

JUSI as w ith shor twave logs. it' s import ant 10

sho w the date . time . freq ue ncy. ID. sig na l
stre ngth and loc at io n of th e statio n hea rd. BUI
that ' s pretty much where the similarity ends.
Here are so me ad ditiona l entries for lo ngwavc
work:

Rcmarks-A space should he len to note

spec ia l in fo rm ati on about a loggin g s uc h as
whe the r or no t the transmi ..sion included a
voic e messag e (now a ra re thi ng). ID errors
noted. loc al \VX co nditio ns at the ti me of
recept io n. QSL information. an d so o n.

Seria l N umber -Many beacon chasers like

to assign a seq ue ntia l number to each log
entry. Thi s make s it easy to keep track of yo ur
total loggings at a glance a nd pro vid es a
co nvenient reference point when searching
for a spec ific e nt ry later o n,

A n almo st indi spensable tool for determ ining the o utput power. exactlocation. and
o ther detail s ah OU I a bea co n is 111l' Aero/
Marine n euron Guide . It lislSco mplete data
for thou sand s o f beacon s and co nta ins a
hand y c r~ )ss re fere nce sec tion tha t allows
yo u 10 lind an entry as lo ng as yo u know
e ithe r the ID o r freq uency . Th e g uide is

II) IJilch- Th e two to nes yo u' II hear fro m

mos t nav iga tio n be acon s arc 102 0 Hz and 400
Hz. T rad itiona lly . U.S. beacons usc the 1020
Hz tunc a nd Ca na dia n be ac ons usc th e -tOO HI.
ton e. There arc so me exceptions to the rule .
ho we ver . where j ust the o ppos ite is true . a nd
these arc co nsidered somewhat rare catc hes-c.
all th e mo rc rea so n to ha ve it do wn o n paper!

Dlstance-c-Th e airline distan ce in m iles (or

kilometer s) fro m yo ur statio n 10 thc beacon

site is very usefu l information forDXing. O ne

tec hnique fo r determining di stanc e is to have
a map posted in yo ur shac k w ith yo ur loc ati on
mark ed by a thumbtack . Atta ched to the thumbtac k is a mo vable strip of pa per that has been
marked off in miles (or kilom eters ) for quick
measurement o f distances.
Beacon Power-T o put a logging in th e right
78

MONITORING TIMES

January '996

available for S15.00 (S20.(X) Foreign) postpa id from Ken Stryker. 2856-G We st Touhy

Avenue. Dept. MT. Chicago, IL 60645.

Beacon ,l)')' (2-11 kl/: )-East Syracuse, Nr

(Th e V~s haped all1('1II1a beside the buildi ng
is f or a 75 MHz. m ark er beacnn.} Photo by
Philip Gentile
so yo u shou ld bcgin rece ivi ng messages from
the listscr vc r.
A pape r co py of th e \V UN news lette r is
a lso available, Sen d S 1.50 to T im Bra un (Pub-

lisher), WUN International HQ, P.O. Box

16533, Washington. DC 22(1-11 -6533.
If yOll surf the Internet World wide Web.
the re' s anot her LF-rclated site that has natural radio . W A V fi les yo u can down load and
hear o n a pro perl y equipped I'C. The add ress
fo r
t h is
weh
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Thi s page has bee n set up by natural rad io
e nthusiast Step hen P. ~kGrce\ y . If yo u' ve
ne ver heard a "dawn cho rus : ' or "w histler "
thi s is the place to go.

Loggings
Log g ings this month are brou ght to yo u by
Philip Ge ntile of E.ISI Syracuse. NY. His
eq ui pment lineup include s a Yucsu FRG- IOO
rece iver . a Ti me W<lVC DSP -59+ digital signu l processo r. a nd .1.) foot home bre w tuned
loo p. Philip doesn't limit his mon itor ing to
ju st New York Stale. Som e ca tches wer e
made while tra vel ing in Ocho Rios. Jamaica.
Th e se are mar ked \\ ith an aste risk ( *) .

TABLE 1

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Th e LF column. Swjing thcLong waves.
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Beacon loggings
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ID

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216
230
232
242
248
275
315
329

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353
346
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AMERICAN BANDSCAN
THE WORLD OFDOMESTIC BROADCASTING

Dou Smith, W9WI

72777.3 143@compuserve.com

Internet resources for the domestic-band DXer

ryo u haven' t heard abo ut

Thi s modem fac ility is home /0

1.. (11): Island 's WAL K 1370 A.M
and 97.5 FJI . Tire single lower
serves as the antenna for the
mill -directiona l AM station.

the Inte rnet this year.

yo u' ve be en hiding unde r

a roc k ! The "information su-

pc rhig hway " was the big sto ry

o f 1995, a nd Inte rnet growt h
show s no s ign of s lo w ing
down . Th e Nct is full of rc -

160G-1700 kHz no te s

sources for all kinds of pursuits. both commercial and

ho bby. It sho uld co me as no
surprise thai plenty o f infor mati on for the do mestic-ba nd

DXcr can be found as well.

FCC in formati on
Proba bly the most imp ort a nt information
o n the Int erne t arc the FCC bro adcas t database s. The tech nical database s fo r U.S. AM .
roM. <.II1d TV sra ric ns arc avail able for free
down load: sec the ...idcbn r to r the deta ils.
T he FCC in formatio n is co mp resse d in
.GZ files. T here an: a number of PC utilit y
prog ram s avai lable for uri-co mpressin g the
informatio n. One e xample is WI NZI P.EX E.
available on several forums o n Compu serve,
including PCUTIL . lfyou re active 0 11 3 local
BBS, I' m sure yo u ca n find an ap pro pria te
program there as we ll.
If yo u' re a Co mpusc rvc subscri be r. yo u
can dow nload a free W indo ws progra m fo r
view ing th e AM database : GO HA r\!lNET.

Look in lihrury 2 1 for AMDB.EXE. This

exce llent program a llows yo u to brow se by
freq uency. di sp laying all tec hnica l informatio n for U.S. und Ca nadia n stations . Among
the information displayed is a plot of the
rad iatio n patt ern o f the antenna. providing a
grap hic ex pla na tion of why you receive ce rta in statio ns on a frequ en cy an d not ot he rs.
Wam;ng : these file s are HUGE! The AM
du tubasc is rou g h ly 17 me g a byte s
uncompresscd . T he FM and TV da tabases ar c
so me what sma ller, but they still wo n't fit o n
a flopp y di sk . Thi s may be a good time to buy
a larg er hard disk , if yo ur ba nk acco unt survivcd the holiday s.
Unfort unatel y. I know o f no viewer prog ram s for thc FM a nd TV da tab ases. If you ' re
capable of writing sim ple BAS IC progra ms.
you can easily co nve rt these dat ab ase s to a
fo rm at that can be read by co mmon spreadshee r or dat ab ase programs. T his is not a task
for the co mpu ter novice .
80

MON ITORING TIMES

allo w the DXer 10 sa m ple radi o in di stant

place s. but it makes it possib le to co mpare
programming between a pote ntia l DX ca tch.
and its live. interference-free simulcas t !

January 1996

Tbc Conun issio n posts decisio ns and pub lic not ice s of variou s types 011 the ir \ Vorld Wid c
Web page s. While this information can be intere sting for o bse rving ch an ges in the regul ations. the routine public not ices
of new statio n applications and
technica l c hanges arc no t posted . You ca n
find th is in form ati o n on the Com m ission's
automated fax se rver . Ca ll (202) 41 8- 2830
from a to uc h-to ne telephone. an d foll ow the
instructio ns. T he documen ts you wa nt are
numbers 4 103~ 4 1 1 2. Public notices will be
a uto matically faxed to you.
Canadian gov ern ment in formation
I've not bee n able to loc ate the Canad ian
database s on the Inte rnet. You c an, however.
access pu bl ic notices of app lica tio ns for. a nd
actions on . new statio ns and facilit ies cha nge s.
You ca n download a specific week' s documen ts. or yo u G ill "s ubscri be" 10 the ch ang es.
If yo u choose to subsc ribe. yo u'l l auto matically recei ve an e -mail message approxi mately
wee kly. Again. sec the side ba r for the addre sses to usc.

The WorldWide Web

As the Worldwi de w cb grc ws. so doe s the

list of broadcast station s wit h ho me pages.
Th c easiest way to find statio ns is to start at
Ya hoo (www. yahoo.com] and look und er
Entertain me nt. Th is resou rce m ay he particu larly valuable to the T V DXer. who ca ll see
logos of di stant stat io ns . and match them
aga inst his/h er DX. Another valuable \ VW\V
page bclon gst olhe CB C (www.cbc.caj. wh ich
lists a ll their tran smitter s.
In thc future , the Internet I1my become
even more va lua ble to the do mest ic- ba nd
DXcr. The tech nol ogy already exi sts for transmi ssion of live a udio a nd video . a nd a few
radi o statio ns- KJ HK 90 .7 FM in La wrence.
Kansas, was the first-c-are alread y simulcas ting on the Net. No t o nly docs thi s techn ology

By the time you read this. WJDM- 1530

Elizabeth. New Jer sey , w ill have become the
first statio n in the ex panded band . Numerous
DX er s in the East have heard the statio n
testin g o n 1660 k l-lz. and station per son nel
say reg ular broa dca sts we re to sta rt in Nove m ber o r December 1995. WJDM sho uld
be a n ea sy cat ch fro m a rare state.
Kintronics o f Bluff Ci t)', Te nne ssee. ha s
been restin g o n 1680 kl-l z und er :'1Il experimental licen se. A few DX ers in the South
have heard te st ton es o n thi s freq uen cy during the day . I don 't thi nk this statio n is
operating at night.
Fina lly. a number of DX er s ha ve be en
hearing a rel igio us station o n 1630 kHz ,
sig ning \ VTJ S FM 108. Th e bearin g seems 10
point to a loc ation in Flo rid a. No sign of th is
statio n (e ither o n 1630 01'" FM ) appears in an y
of the da tabases . My g ues s is th is is an
unl icen sed statio n- such thi ngs do happen
frequentl y in thi s hand . Cat ch \VTJ S before
th e FCC doe s-a-bu t do n't count o n a QSL!

Odds and Ends

O n thc orh cr cud of'thc dial . Ro bert Kni ght
of Ga rfie ld . New Jer se y. has rece ived a veri fica tion for his reception o f high way ad visory radio station WPAM592 . T he statio n
o pe rates on530 kH z from th e intersection o r
highways -l. and 17 in Para mus. NJ . T his fleapowered statio n uses o nly 10 watt s of po wer,
and claim s a normal coverage of about 3
mi les. Howe ver. I' ve heard suc h stations
from as far as 40 m iles away, a nd ot he r
DXer s have done; e ven belief. Ro ber t' s verificuu on carne fro m the Ber ge n Cou nty Di vision of Eme rge ncy Managemcnt .
Digital rad io broad cast ing has ste ppe d o ut
of the labor ato ry and into consume rs" homes
in Eng land . Th e BBC has install ed fi ve d igital transmi tters around Lo ndon . Eac h tra nsmitter can ca rry severa l prog rams sim ultaneo usly. Fo r the time bein g. they' re sim ulcas ting th e BS C' s five regul ar radio services.
but se ve ra l add itio na l prog ram s arc under
deve lopme nt.

A total of approximately 2300 kbps of data

can be transmitt ed . T his da ta is allo cated
amo ng the various programs. Talk and inforIllation programs require less data. and can
usc as little as 32 kbp s: music progTi.IJ11S can
use as much as 38-t kbps . Lef tover capac ity
ca n be used to broadcast addi tional progr ams,
or to tran smit other types of data .
In Sacrame nto. th ieve s try ing to steal copper chose a dangerou s victim. FM station
KYMX 96. 1 wa s knocked off the air when
someone cut all fo ur guy wires on one side of
a 200-fo ol tower in KCTC AM"s array. Th e
low e r collapsed into the 5 Hl-foot tower support ing KYl\lX ' s a nte nna. ca using it to co llap se as well. Sacrament o Co unty Sheriffs
Depart ment official s say the suspects had
previo usly been arrested for stealing copper
at another site. using similar tools.
If you read the DX Test fi stingseach month.
you know BCJB is instituting monthly OX
tests on their AM transmitter on 690 kHz. Of
you aren't reading the DX Test listings. you
should') Remaining tests will be on Sunday
mornings UTe - Saturday night ill North
America - on January 7. Feb ruary 4. March 3.
April 7. May 5. June 2. July 7. August 4. and
September I. HCJB may be an easy Jogging
on the shortwave hands. but a 690 kll z logging is quite an acco mpl ish me nt. If yo u suc ceed in hearing one of these test s, please let us
know . Write me at Box 98 . Brasstown NC
::! 8 902 ,
o r viu
th e I nte rn e t at
72777.3 143@compuservc.com. Good DX!

INTERNET ADDRESSES
FOR THE DXER
The FCC'c FTP server is at ftp.fcc.gov.
look for the broadcast databases in

/pub/Bureaus/Mass Media/Dolobases.
Or, on the WorldWide Web, attach to
www.fcc.gov and look in /Burea us/
Moss Media / Databases . An au tomated
fox server for Public Notices is avai lab le

at (202) 4 182 830 .

O n Compuserve , a Microsoft W indows
prog ra m for un-compressing .GZ files is

available in the PCUTlL forum; the

filename is WINZIP.EXE. Also on
Compuserve , a program for viewing the
AM database is in the HAMN ET forum;

the filename is AMDB.EXE.

Can a d ian information is avai lab le on
Industry Ca nada' s server a t inlc.ic.qc.cc .
The d irecto ry cha nges from time to time,
but the filena mes are of the form a t 11-1095,e. The .e files a re in English; the .f a re
in French. To subscribe to regu lar
Canadian updates, send an e-ma il
messag e to listpr oc @info .ic,gc,co. The
subject is ignored. The first line of the
messoge should read subscribe gaz ette
list Doug Smith. (Of course, replace
"Do ug Smith" with your nam e!)

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These specia l test broadca sts provide a

unique opportu nity to hear a nd identify
the following slatio ns. If you hear their
broadcasts, please let the eng ineer know

C.R. Bernth of Ea stport, New York, ha s been

dean ing up:
540 WDAK
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670
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920 WMEL
Melbourne, Fl
1180 Radio Tcine
Cuba
1290 CJBK
london, Ontorio
1360 CJVL
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at the addre ss provided.

Sunday, Jon 7 . HOB690, Casillo 17
17-691, Quito, Ecuador, will conduct a
DXtest between 33: 15 am EST. The test
will include Morse code ID's an d "othe r
unique items." Co rrect reception repo rts

will be verihed with a specia l QSLcord.

Accord ing to the station , if yo u hear
code, you must report exactly when yo u
heard itand what characters you heard.
Tope recordings a re welcome, but ta pe s
conno l be returned. Please include o ne
internatio nal reply coupon or first class
postage in US or Ca na d ian stomps for a
reply to your reception report, which
may be sent to: Mr. Rich McVicar

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cond uct a OX test between 1-1 :30 a m

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Monday, Jon B WARM590, 600

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18702, w;1I conduct a DX test beteen
1:302:00 am EST. The test will include
Morse code IDs, and ma rch music.
Reception reports may be sent to: Mr.
Bob le nio, Tech nical supervisor.

Monday, Jon 15 . WWLS640, 2020

East Alameda, Norman, OK 73071 , will
condu ct a DX test between 1-2:00 a m
EST. The test will include Morse code IDs
and voice IDs. Reception reports may be
sent to: Mr. To ny Sellors, O perations
Manager.

Monday, Jan 3 . KLTC1460 , P.O . Box

1478 , Dickinson, ND 586021478 will
conduct a OX test between 2:30-3:30 om
EST. The test will include Morse code IDs
o nd voice IDs. Reception repo rts may be
sent to: Senato r Roy David, Ow ner a nd
General Ma nager.
The se tests were arranged by J.D.
Stephens for the Interna tio na l Radio Club
of America Courtesy Program Committee

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THE CLANDESTINE, THE UNUSUAL, THE UNUCENSED

George Zeller
ew088@c/eve/and./reenet.edu

Quebec Clandestine Makes

Surprise Appearance

new. pro- fede ralist Eng lish lang uage

cland estine mad e a surprise appeara nce in the 41 meie r bandj ust prior to
(a nd a fter) the late October refe rend um o n
Qu ebe c ' < pot en tial se paratio n from Canada ,
ldcnti fyin g itsel f as J ohnny Ca n uck . the
station operated un 7415. 2 kHz. Th ree broa dca sts we re lo gged by vario us DXcrs at 1700,
ISOO. and 1900 UTC 0 11 Octob e r 29. the day
prior to the Q uebec refe ren du m .
Am o ng tho se hearing this sh ow we re MT
readers Robert Ross of London . Ontario, and
Neil Wol fish ofToronto. Ont ario. and John T.
Arthur of Bel fa st. NY . Your col um nis t also
fortunatel y heard (hem from his shac k in
Cleveland. Th e new cla ndesti ne return ed Nove mber 5 o n the same frequen cy to ce leb rate
the elec tion re sults.
T he sta tion too k its name from a we llk now n Wo rld War II era Ca nad ian hero .
A ltho ug h so me folk mu sic wa s played. pro gram conten t wa s a vigo rou s me ssage that
Quebec vot ers should reject the se paratis t
referendum at the ball ot bo x. All program min g wa s in Englis h, with no Fre nc h segments. Alth ou gh no correspondence address
wa s an no unc ed during broadcasts. the stat ion
informs MT that it wi ll verify reports se nt viu
the Mer lin. O ntario mai ld ro p (sec below ).

New Black Book Edito r

Thc Black Book com prehensive list of
unli ce nsed broadcasting statio n ma ild ro p ad dre sses has been a valuab le res ou rce for yea rs.
Lon gt ime edit o r KirkTrumme l has announced
that the c ho res have been transferred to M ary
Jo Ondrcchcn . otherwi se known as "M a rn a
DX: ' If you wo uld like a copy o f this very
he lpful f i le . an e -mail a d dress o f
maryj o es neu.c d u will send yo u to the rig ht
place .

Winter Propa gation

No rth Ameri can pirate activity ha s o hvio usly main tain ed an e normous le vel late ly .
Our readers se nt in le ggin gs of more th an
th ree dozen different statio ns this month.
which is an all -time record. Note tha: ma ny
statio ns arc moving their broa dcast times
earlier in the <.I<lY. Dur ing winter propagatio n
co nditi o ns. the 43 me ter hand near 6955 k Hz
will fa ll abov e the Maximum Usable Fre82

MONITORING TIMES

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Kl'l.A 's QSL emphasizes

rock oldies

H Ul/tlH 'UIl. 1101

qucn cy 0 11 Illany nigh ts. In addi tion to time

changes. it' s possible that so me pirates w ill
mo ve down 10 90 mete rs between 3400-3500
kH z. o r even dow n to the med ium wave ba nd
aro und 1620 kHz . It will pay to tun e arou nd!

More Local Pirates

Ju st abo ut every month we he ar about loc al
A!\'1 medium wave or FM pirates fro m o ur

readers. Exa mples th is month incl ude multip le pirate s 0 11 91.9 MHz in the New Yor k
C ity area. and a rac ia lly offe nsive pirate in
Sy rac use , NY. tha t has been pic ked up by
Inmates at the O non daga Co unty j a il. T han ks
go to George S team s of S yracuse Ior acopy o f
Syracuse Nell' Times pirate coverage, and to
Jo hn Neves of New York . NY . for New Yo rk
Daily Ne ws pirate cov erage.

What We Are Hea ring

You r pira te loggings are always welcome
for this co lumn via PO Box 9H. Brasstow n.
NC 28 902 . You c a n a lso u sc ew ORH
@c1c Yei and. frce ne l.cd u if yo u have Inter net
access .
Maild ro p addresses used by pirate statio ns
reported this month include PO Box -t52 .
Wel lsvill e. N Y I ~S 9 5; PO Bo x 109 . Blue
Rid ge Summit. PA 17214 : PO Bo x 146 .
Stoneham. MA 02 I80; PO Bo x 28-t 13. Provideu ce . R I 0290S; PO Box 605. Hunt sv ille . AL
35S0~ ; 770 S ycamore Ave. #1193. Vista. CA
92 0S3 : PO Box 293. Merlin . O ntar io NOP
IWO; Postfach 2 203 42. D - ~ 2 3 73 W uppert al,

Germany: an d c/o SR S. a stra Port en 29. S-

+t25-t Yt terby. Sw ed en . \Vhen writ ing to

pirate stat ions. you mu st encl ose three 3 2 ~
sta mps in th e e nve lope to USA add resses; $2
US or two Inte rn atio nal Rep ly Coupon s go to
fo reig n drops.
Altered States Radio' 6955 at 2100. William
Hurt's rock music program ming is usuolly
supplemented by dr ama sketches. Add r: Merlin.
(David Chapc huk, Scranton , PA; Barry Williams,
Enterprise, ALI
Bob Dylan Rodia- 6955 at 2200. It' , been a
while since this one has been on . You get three
9ues~s as to wha t artist' s music is featured on
this station; first two gue sses don 't count. Addr :
None, but verifies some I~s printed in The ACE.
(Michael Prindle. New Suffolk, NY)
Free Hope Expe rience- 6955 a t 0445. Major
Spook's sta tion mixes music with commentary on
vorious social and politica l issues. Addr: None. (J.
C. Mello, North Scitua te, RI; lsc oc Kelly, Houston,
TX; Gigi l ytle. l ubbock. TXI
Friday Radio- 69 55 a t 2345 . Dick seems to have
bee n one of the few DXe rs to hear this new one.
lis rock music forma t celebra ted the foct tha t it
was Friday, and tha t the weekend had the refore
started . Addr ; None . (Dick Pearce, Brattleboro,
VT)
He Man Radio- 6955 at 2300. He Man still
broa dcasts in upper sideband, the "ma nliest of all
modes ." In the past he has run sports prog rams
from Clevela nd , but he's been rela tively sile nt
about the Browns' move to Ba ltimore. Addr: Blue
Ridge Summit. (W illia ms)
K-2000- 6955 at 0 115. Their recentO. J.
Simpson tria l parody was an elabora te tale about
the acqu ittal of ACEcolumnist John T. Arthur,
who is now a free man . Ma ny feel that the
production sta nda rd s on this DX parody station
a re the best in pirat e radio tod ay . Addr:
Stanehom . (William Hassig, Mt. Prospect, IL;
ChrisLobdell, Stoneham, MA; Chapchuk;
Williams; Prindle)
KDED- The station forwa rds informa tion from the
Kitt Pea k observatory a t the Unive rsity of Arizona,
indicating thai on as teroid ha s been na med after
Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dea d. (Direct from
the sta tion)
KICK- 69 55 at 0 100. Isaa c submitted this one as
unidentified, but it appears that he hear d Pete
Moss with a prog ra m of diverse music. Add r:
Huntsville. (Kelly)
KMCR- 6955 a t 0030 . Mag ic Mike a t Mag ic
Ca rpet Radio is stilloctive. recently with a
program of classic rock and Ca jun music. This
one is a ve ry tough catch in eastern North
America, but Donald had a good signal in
California . Add r: Blue Ridge Summit. (Dona ld
Tomkinson, Huntington Beach, CAl
KNBS- 6955 at 23 45 . Phil Muzik' s marijua na
advocacy shows, spo nsored by the Ca lifornia
Ma rijuana Cooperative, have now bee n hea rd on

the pirate bonds for len yea rs. His shows ore
enterta ining, rega rdless of your feelings a bout
the stcticn's politics. Addr: We llsville. (Pot

Radio Fusion Ra dio- 6956 at 1400. This rop

music pirate ha s added comedy to its program ming lineup. Theyclaim thol their tronsmiHer
Murphy, Chesapeake, VA; Ross; Chopchuk;
gen eral es 900,000 walts, bul this is questionable.
Pearce; Hassig; Prindle)
Addr: Providence . (Jesse Rose. Hampton, VAl
KOLD- 695 5 at 0130 . This new "B;9 Bend"
Redic Halloween- 6955 01 2130. Hcllcw eenis
forma l station pul oul a good signa l, and was
alway s a very act ive holida y for pirat es, a nd
wide ly hea rd . It features well-known artists like
1995 was no exception . Among the stations
Guy lombardo, Count Bosie. and Glenn Miller.
hea rd wa s a return of this one, featuring
Add r: Stoneha m. (CliffWatt s, Dickinson , TX;
Halloween music and sca ry drama s. Add r:
Sam Hevener, Richlield, OH; Kelly; Murphy;
wellsville. (Pr;ndle; M ello)
Redic M;ndweb,- 7412 0 1 2300 . M;choel' , log,
Mello; Prindle: Lytle; Chcpchok: RO$$; W;lI;om,)
KTlA- 6955 at 2130. The music on this one
of seve ra l pira tes this month on 41 meters should
consists of anci ent rock and roll o ldies hit tunes,
remind us tha t a ll unlice nsed broadca sting ha s
but the parody commercicls are all phony. Their
not moved to the orec around 6955 kHz. The
QS l that we see here was not for a Ha llowee n
station's broadca st was dominated by a radio
show. Addr: Providence. (Pearce)
dra ma . Addr : Wellsville. (Prindle; Mello)
North American Pirate Relay Service- 74 15 a t
Ra dio Titanic Inte rna tional- 69 55 a t 20 15. This
1400 . Although Richa rd T.
Europirate' s rock music and memorials to the m/v
Pistek's NAPRS rema ins a
Titanic are gene ra lly hea rd in
very active rel~ transm itter
North America by a NAPRS
r "e 'T\ g eet .c Am o l.{l f"l;';' 'O
v'
site, especially or Europira te
rela y. Addr : Wuppe rtal. (Ross)
programm ing, he occasion~
VaWo'lNG l'OUIl.R:i'OA:T
r
Radio USA- 6955 at 001 5.
ally produces a show of his
~
NA ",.t: (7f c' --:: '; .::C f (t',- 0
Mr. Blue Sky may be the
'"
OAT t: : ;; ~"'/ 1'fhT
~
longes t running currently
own. A recent exa mple was
his third a nniversary spec ial
a
T H-: t: ; [ 'N: - 1'..'''(. .(fT('

a ctive pira te, since his punk

J
~ R 1: Co \,) E N C. '( ; f 'gG ,<,.:.'] ~
rock and comedy format
with pa st highlights of the
station 's tran smissions.
~
S I N P c: :' ~4 ry /
r
traces its origin all the way
Add r: We llsville. (Mello;
i h o" ~ '" rOO" y:."" r l:l'::>r t OI"lQ 13\ f ,.~m'
boc k to 1983. Willia m notes
Prindle; Hassig; Chapchuk)
tha t their AM ca rrier was
POLKA- 6955 at 0000. The
wa rbly, ma king exalted carrier
happy shortwave voice of
recep tion d ifficult. Addr :
polka music ha s mode
Wellsville. (Hassig; Murphy;
Prindle; Pearce; Kelly)
numerou s broadca sts this
yea r. Their inte rva l signal is
The logica l Altern ative- 6955
an instrumental version of
a t 2315. This new one made a
"shove a nd a haircut, two
co uple of broadca sts in ea rly
bits." Addr : Stoneham .
November with a soothing
(Mello; Ross; W illiams;
new a ge music interval signa l,
Prindle; Chcpchckl
Dr. Tequila 's Radio Ama:m,;a is
multiple identifications by a

QSL

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appears around the November 22 an niversary of

President Kenned y' s ass ass ina tion, but it showed
up three weeks ea rlier this yea r with a memorial to
lincoln, King, and Kennedy. Addr : No ne, but
sometimes verifies log s in The ACE. (Zylka)
WKIK- 741 5 a t 0030 . From on an nounced
Jc cksonville loca tion, this one programs rock
music. Their announcer always apologizes for a
"dela y" in O Sl ma iling s. The fa ct is tha t they have
never issued a QS l, a lthough they an nounce a n
address. Add r: Wellsville . (Rose)
WUS- 741 5 at 144 5. Joc k Boggin's distinctive
broadcasts alwa ys fea ture actua l inte rva l signals
used by licen sed shortwave broadcasters. Jock
ploys them as if they we re hit tunes. Note that
some sta tions are still using 74 15 kHz at times
whe n WEWN is not broadcasti ng on nea rby 7425
kHz. Addr: Blue Ridqe Sum mit. (Prindle)
WMPR- 6955 at 1800 . This one wcs widely heard
during the fall with on a nnounced test transmission
featuri ng electronic music. We pictured their
ela bo ra te OS l des ign in the March 1995 issue of
MT. Addr: None , but sometimes responds to
logging s in club bulletins. (Pea rce; Prindle)
WPN, Wo rld Parody Network - 6956 at 0030 . At
first this one tested with a music farmat, but since
then it has lived up to its ann ounced purpose a s a
sa tire station. Addr: Huntsville. (Pa ul Rooles, Tulsa ,
OK; Kelly; W miom, )
WRV- 69 55 at 22 00. Pete the Pirate mixes
comedy with rock music, using a sloga n of, "The
Radio Virus, the stction thai nobody wants to
catch: Addr : Wellsville. (Prindle)
WREC- 695 5 at 0 100. I tentofively heard P. J.
Spc rx' s Halloween broadcast, but J. C. Mello
provided a de finite ID for a prog ram heavily la ced
with holiday content. Add r: Wellsville. (Mello ;
Williams)

;r:r~~n~f~~~r~~ckd:uSiC

at
verifying fro m Europe
some music on this station, its main focus is calm
Not much is known about it yet Addr . None
feature s on health advocacy issues . Addr : Blue
(Ross; Mello; Prindle)
Ridge Summit. (Willia ms)
The Purple Pumpkin - 6956 a t 0445 . This sta tion
Radio Airplane- 6 955 a t 0000 . Captai n Eddy,
na me ha s a long history in pira te radio,
who had been relatively quiet lately, has returned
especia lly around Ha lloween . This yea r' s
with his traditional mix of rock and comedy
example omitted "The Voice" tha t ohen wa s pori
tra nsmitted from an a irplane in Right. Addr :
of the ide ntifica tion in the po st. Addr: Non e.
wellsville. (William ,)
(Kelly; RO$$)
Radio Ama zonio- 6955 a t 02 00 . Mr. Teq uila of
Up Agai nst the Wa ll Radio- Ows ley ma iled out
this Europirote has moiled severe! QS l's for
numerous QS l's lately, including one to Grove
reports on their rela ys via NAPRS. Isaa c's verie
Communica tions Expo attendee Dione Mauer.
said tha t the station expects to be active a gain
Another fancy design a rrived here a t MT; it is a
during the next coup le of months. Addr : Ytterby.
dig ital QS l tha t is on a 3.5 inch Hop py disk. You
(Dove Joh nson, Durha m, NC; W illioms; Kelly)
need a computer 10 see this one, which is
Radio Azteca - 6955 at 2230. Brom Stoke r ha s
impressive. Addr : Providence. (Dione Ma uer ,
prod uced mor e tha n a dozen differe nt pa rody
Pulaski, WI; direct from the station)
shows that hilariou sly po ke fun at DXers and
Voice of the Dcle ks- 6955 ct 2 100 . The garglyDXing . Station QS l's still come with a gr ee n frog
voiced lead er of the intergo lactic Dclek war is still
sticker atta ched . Addr : Wellsville. (Jeff
hea rd on the pirat e bonds, as he attempt s to
Richardson, Dover, DE; Chapchuk; Prindle;
esta blish the New Dclek Order. Addr: Wellsville.
Pea rce )
(Williams ; Ross)
Radio Bcmycrd- 6 95 5 a t 2230. Captain
Voice of the Dead- 6955 at 1500. This one's
Cowpi e's new sta tion fea tures a very well
slogan is, "All dea d people, a ll the time." All
produced country music format, alo ng with
musical selections are by deceased artists such as
clucking chicke n noises in the bac kground . But,
Bob Ma rley a nd Beethoven, and a similor po licy
nobody knows how to contact it yel. Addr: None.
applies to comedy bits. Addr: Vista. (Wolfish;
(Williams; Prindle; Hassig; lytle)
W illiam s; Prind le)
Radio Free Speech - 6955 at 0015. Bill 0 Rights
Wikh City Radio - 69 55 at 20 45 . As is the cas e
still an nounces a commitment to open d iscourse
most yea rs, this ope rotion from Solem, MA,
via radio, but he always mixes some tongue in
tra nsmitted Halloween fore oround tha t holiday.
cheek comedy segments into his broadcasts. He
Addr : Wellsville. (Cathy Zylka, North
uses Af.A mode exclusively. Addr: We llsvi lle.
I onowondc . NY; Wolfish; Wi lliams)
(John son; Richa rdson; Mello; Prindle; Williams)
WJFK 69 55 a t 2300 . This seasona l station ohe n

Make . one an tenn a wo rk li ke three .

Chang e patterns with a co ntro l s wit c h.
Gel besl recepllon for any stati on .5-30 MHz.
ConSlslS 01 the MSB-3 balun and a contro l box . The
balun goes In the center 01 your " bent rnpote". On e
leg north- SOUlh; the olh er east-west. Or one leg horizontal; the other vertIcaL
The cc mrct box SWItch connects the balun 10 1) both
wires as a ce nt dipole . 2) one wir e as a Iongwire, 3) the
other wire as a longwlfe . This gives three directional
patte rns thai you can select et will lor the best signal
for the Ireq<Je1'lCy and time 01day. Use RG- 58 or similar
coax between balun and control box .
Model MSB-3 SUS + $6 shipp inglhandhng U.S. &
Canada . Tax In California . FOI l t 5v AC. (Antenna wore
and coax cable not ,ncluded .)

Send lor FREE catalog that s hows our com plet e lin e
of ante nnas, bal un ! and more .

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PALUMAH

ENGINEERS

BOX 462222, ESCONDIDO, CA 92046

Phone: (619) 747-3343
FAX : (619) 747-3346

January J996

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83

ON THE HAM BANDS

Ike Kerschner, N31K

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF AMATEUR RADIO

New from Old

have often talked about restoring older

ham gear to lise. hut this 1110n lh let' s look
at surplus commercial FM gear used as

ham rigs. Alm ost e very bnmtcst has HT' s or

mobile commerci al rigs for sale at reason ab le

prices. In many cases these rigs go for little or

nothing. simply because the ave rage ham

does not want to bother modifying the unit.

For the most part commercial FM gea r
make super ham rigs. du e 10 their higher
power. better se nsitivity. and rugged design .
On the negati ve side . the average commerci al
rigs have fewer channels. cover a smaller

bandwidth. often are in two Of more pieces

(c.g.. transceiver. control head. and power
supply), a nd are c rystal-con trolled or computer-pro grammable.
Since most o f us only operate on a handful
of frequencies (if we ' re honest about it) a nd
price is an importa nt co nsideration. the lack
of mega-freq ue ncies shouldn' t be of importance when co mpared to the minimal ex pense
to gel on a new band.

siblc. a service ma nu al. Be sure

you know how the rig is set on
freque ncy . If it must be Progra mmed using a computer <\I1l1 i'i
speci al so ftwa re/ha rdware, be
su re you have access to the req uire d mat e rial. C rys ta l-co ntro lled rigs natur ally req uire the
proper c rystals to operate (reudiIy
availab le for most rigs). Be sure
to tell the crys ta l manufacturer
the brand and model of rig: if you
ha ve a manual. stick to the crystals it recommends.
If a rig has obvious damage or
is disco lored (signify ing wa ter
damage) keep wa lking. So me times a piece of
co mmercial gea r has been reti red beca use the
ow ner has gotten tired of lugging it to the
service shop every other wee k. T hese duds
arc fai rly ob vious with lots o f fresh solde r
blob s a nd nice ne w parts scatte red throughout the c hassi s. along with we ll-wo rn screws
a nd nuts on the covers.

Should the seller say, "Uh. well l rhink it

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Ken wood produces m any II Ts suitable

f or VH F/U H F ham use (computer
programmable)

What t o look for

Stic k (Q we ll-known brand names suc h as
Motorola. Ke nwood . GE . M idland. Unide n,
Regen cy. Maxon . Part s and manu al s are usually available for the better-known name s.
Know the freq uencies on which you want
to operate. beca use many commercial rig s
are set up for specifi c frequen cies . For exa mple. ma ny low band rigs come in one of
two splits-c-either 30 to 40 M f-l z or 40 to 54
M Hz (or thereabout ). Changi ng a sp lit ca n be
very d iffi cult - some time s imposs ible. so
c hoos e the rig that covers yo ur range of
interest.
Alwa ys try to get a sc he matic or , if pox84

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January 1996

works:' or. " You sho uldn' t have any trouble

doin g whatever you want with it: ' be wary .
Buy used commercia l gear from someone
who knows the score . and if possible take a
friendl y 2 way se rvice tech along to spot the
phonics.
On the other hand. simply loo king worn is
not alway s a sign of probl em s: ofttime s gea r
is retire d d ue to freq uency c hange s or syste m
upgra des, and ma ny o lder pieces o f gea r are
exc ellent candidates for modifi catio n. A lot
o f two-way shops go o ut of their way to make
such rigs ava ilable to hams at dece nt prices
along with some kind o fguarantee . T hey may
e ven offer help ge tting it on the air.
lf yo u fee l competent. and you ca n acquire
the necessary sche matic or se rvice ma nual.
yo u should be able to get yo ur rig going
with out too much trouble . Acce ss to a service
mo nitor is a big plus. alth ough it is possible to
usc fairly simple gear to test and alig n the rig .
Be sure your shop supply is heav y e nough to
power the unit under tra nsmi t condi tions.
If you r abi lity to work 0 11 gear i, not
parti c ularly strong. check aro und for- the local
exp ert. Eve ry community has at least one
ham who has go od savvy on com me rcialgear
and is willing to share his ex pe rtise and test
gea r with his fe llow hams.

Motorola "stostar... ill plentif ul supply at

bomfe sts, mak es a good mobile base.

Modifying HTs
Hand i Talkies are ofte n available very
ine xpen sively on the humfcst circuit. Be
a ware. though . that batteries for these rigs
ma y be hard to find and expensive. On the
other hand. cobb ling together <I butter y pac k
isn' t di flicu lt.
HI" s pose a who le differe nt set of problem s when mod ifying beca use of their size .
Specia l too ls to wo rk on these midget s a ren' t
necessary. but the y sure help . The greatest
problem is find ing test probes small enoug h
to sit on one point at a time instead of straddli ng two or ma rc.
Whe never possible . replace that often hard to-find ante nna co nnec tor with .1 good BNC
con nector- it' ll be we ll wo rth your while.
T he second modificatio n I make to an HT is
to provide a me thod of pow e ring it with an
ex ternal supply.
As yo u progress in your ab ility to work on
these rigs, you' ll begi n to d isco ver ma ny
ot her imp ro ve me nts that ca n make yo ur co mme rcial rig more enjoyable a nd easier to use
on the ha m han ds. For- the most pun .cornmc rcl al two-wa y gear is ine xpe nsive. fun ( 0 get
goin g. a nd a great way to learn .

A Moving Experi ence

Over the past six mont hs I ha ve mov ed
three diffe rent times: co nseque ntly much of
my mai l has bee n misd irec ted . misse nt. and
misplace d. So if yo u have written to me a nd
have not received a rep ly. please forg ive me.
1.1111 sett led at last. so do write again. Happy

New Year to all' 73 de Ike, N3IK

SPECIAL EVENT CALENDAR

Date
Jan 67

Jan 7

Jan 13

Loc ation

Ft. Myers, FL

South Bend , IN

Loveland . CO

Jan 13

Ma rathon NY

Ja n 131 4

Sa raso ta, FL

Jan 14

Ja n 20

Dover. Dl-i

Sp ringfield, LA

Jan 20

SI. Joseph. MO

Jan 21

Yonkers, NY

Ja n 21

Nelsonville, OH

Jan 28

V illa Park . IL

Ja n 28

Odenton , MD

SBORTWAVE LISTENING
COURSE

Clu b/Conta ct Perso n

Ft Myers ARC I Jackie Kampfert
KA4MZ. 1533 SW 53rd Ln.
Cape Coral, FL 339 14 , 941 -5426675
M ichiana Valley Hamfest AssnJ
Denny Denniston KA9WN R ,
21970 Kern Ad. South Bend , IN
46614,219-291 -0252
No Colo ARC Winter Superfast I
Michael Robinson, AAOUa, 2236
Silver Trails Dr, Ft. Collins . CO
80526,970-282- 1167 , Location :
Larimer Co Fairg rounds. gamSprn. 53 , Tal k-in 44.515/145 .115
Skyline AAC / Barb MUdge
KB2 TIK, 3364 At 221 West,
Ma rathon, NY 13045.607-849675 1
Sa rasota Ham fest I Samuel
Everts , KE4B XF , 555 1
Ca melfo rd Terr, Sarasota, FL
34233,941-927 -8999. Locati on :
Robarts Spo rts Aren a , Sa rasota
Fairgroun ds, gam - Spm. $7.
Talk-in 146 .31/9 1, 444 .925/
449.925
Tu sco ARC I How ard Blind
KD8KF, 62 88 Echo Lake Ad NE ,
New Philadelphia , OH 446 63802 3 , 2 16-364-5258.
Hamm ond Hamf est, SE LA ARC
/ POB 442, Springfield , LA
70462. Locati on : Un iversity
Cen te r on Co lumbus Drive. 8am,
talk-in 147.000 NW M isso uri Win ter Hamfest I
John Wi nkle r. W BOVRA . Ro ule 1
Box 53A. Gower. MO 64454 .
816-424-6484. Location :
Ramada Inn, 129 and Frederick
Ave .S3. Tal k-in 146 .85 ,444 .925.
Metro 70cm Network l Otto
Supliski WB2SLQ , 53 Hayward
St, Yonkers , NY 10704, 914969- 1053
Sunday Creek AR Federation I
Allan W ithem KC8VA, O ld SI. At
78 , Glouster, O H 45732, 614
767-2766
Wheaton Comm RA I WC RA.
PO Box OS Lo Wheaton. lL
60189,708-545-9950
Maryland Mobileers ARC I Bob
Andersen W3H EI. 601 Elizabeth
Rd , G len Burnie. MD 2 1061 .
410 -766-348 1

COMING SOON TO KINGSTON, ONTARIO

WHA"I'S OUT THERE TO HEAIl

WHAT EQUIPMENT YOU NEED

'"lHE BASIC

'IHE WISH

usn

WHAT REFERENCE BOOKS TO CONSULT

A 2o-llour evening COI8"Se, open to anyone Interested In tile

habby or who wants to know More about .hortwave
listening, will be offered In

February 1996.
11Ie course instructor has been InVOlved In .hortwave
IiItenIng protessIonaIly and as a IIobI>y for many years. He
presently prepares radio propagation forecasting tor
several magazines In Nort/I America and abroad and writes
extensively on tile subject.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
JACQUES d'AVlGNON

(613) 634 1S19

Monitoring Times is pleased to run brief announcements

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85

DEMAW'S WORKBENCH
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS AND TIPS

Dou Demow, WIFB

Build a MUltipurpose Broadband Amplifier

here arc cou ntless appli cati ons for a

linear. small -sig nal. broadband. soli dstate a mplifie r. For example. yo u call
usc o ne of th ese hand y gad ge ts to incr ea se th e
o utput powe r o f a sig nal ge ne rato r when the
ge nerator docs not provide suffic ie nt o utput
for certain lab tests . If you place a tuned

circuit ahead of the amplifier youcan usc it as

a recei ver prea m plifi er for a spec ifi ed part of
the radi o spectru m. An othe r co mmon a pph calion fo r a broadband amplifier is its usc
bet ween a weak-signa l so urce and an osc itlos(,: ope whe n the unamplified signa l lack s the
amplitu de to sufficiently deflec t the wavefor m o n the scope di splay screen.

There arc munyother uses for a broadhand

am pli fier du rin g routine ex pe rime nting a nd
tes ting in the hom e worksho p. Thi s mo nth I
w ill de sc ribe an ine xpen si ve and easy to bui ld
broadband ampli fie r. You w ill learn ho w it
may he used as a workbe nch too l. or in
co mbina tion w ith a sho rtwave rece ive r 10
boost incom ing sig nals.

all' turn s ratio fo r usc at T I. An Am idon . Inc . I

Ff-J 7-4J ferrite to roi d co re is fi ne for this
purpo se . Remember that the imp edance ratio
of" tr an sformer is the sq uare ofthe turn s rat io.
i.e .. a 2: I tu rns ratio yields a 4: I impedance
rati o.
In o rder fo r the Figure I a mp lifie r to have
.1 broadband resp o nse it is necessary 10 use
what is known as "s hunt feed back." Co mponen ts C2 a nd R3 arc used for th is pu rpo ..e .
They feed so me of the outpu t e nc rgy (co llec tor) . which is 180 degrees o ut of pha se wit h
the base -inp ut sig na l. back to the QI ba se .
Th is network hasu dec lin ing effect o n the Q I
ga in as the o pe rati ng frequent..'y is rai se d. Thi s
unique actio n e nsure s that the stage gain from
500 kHz to 50 MH z is relatively con slant
(des irable ).
In ord er to make the QI input ex hibit a 50o hm im peda nce we have added R4. It creates

what is known as "degene rative feedback:"

RF byp assin g is do ne at the bott o m end ofRd
rat her thai .11 the top in order to accomplish
thi s effec t.
Forward bi as (a sl11,,11 + volt age ) is ~ up
plied to the Q I base through R2 and RJ . from
the collector. T he va lues ind icated in Figure
I ca use Q I to operate as a linear class-A RF
amplifier. A linear amp lifie r produ ces vc ry
lo w sig na l distortion .1I1d fa ithfu lly re pro duces the S:'lI11e wa veform sh ape at the amplifier output :'IS is fed 10 the input term ina l at C 1.

Increasing the Gain

As m an y as four Figure I am plifie rs may
be used in c ascade if udditionul broadban d
amplifier ga in is need ed . If you decide 10 do
this yo u sho uld o btain ~5 d B of ga in from two
stages, and approximately 50 dB fro m four

J . 3 t<

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One Transistor - 18 dB of Gain
A si ngle tran sisto r can be used 10 provi de
18 d B (dec ibel s) of sig na l gain frum50n kHz
to 50 M Hz , Many Inexpensive NPN ge ne ra lpurpose tra nsisto rs are sui tab le for this project ,
The so mewhat generic 2i':2222 or 2N2222A
arc fine devices to usc . O ther tran sistors. suc h
as the 2N44fX) and 2N+tO I. arc ex ce llent
ch o ices. too . If the re is an ideal transisto r to
usc for thi s applicatio n it is the 2N51 79.
whi ch is des igned to provide ga in 10 1000
MHz, but the se units are not as ea sy to o btain
as the o ther types menti oned.
Fig ure I shows the ci rcuit for our broadband amplifier. Th ere can be no tuned c irc uits
at the input or-output of the a mp lifier if we arc
to have it provide broadband performance.
Res isto rs and ca pac itors. exce pt for RFCI.
arc used throughout the c irc uit. The amp lifi er
has a 50-ohm in put im pedance , T he Q I 1,:01lector impedance (Zc) is 200 ohms wi tho ut
TI included to tran sform the c haracteristic
200 o hm s to 50 o hm s. T I m.IY be el imi nated
ift he ampl ifie r is used 10 loo k into a 2 00 ~o h m
load .
If the load imped ance (inp ut port of the
c ircuit that foll o ws the amplifier) is gr eate r
than 200ohms, yo u can wind a toroidal broadba nd step-up tran sformer with the uppro pr i-

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useful when using small loo p a ntennas for
recei ving. since the amplifier ga in will compcnsatc for the inefficiency o f the loo p. Two
or th ree stages an: my choice fo r th is task. An
am plifier o f thi s type is handy a lso fo r use
with a sho rt ac tive ant enna.

Fig ure 1 Example of how a tuned circ uit is added to the Figur e J amp lifier to mak e it
suitable as a recei ver preamp lifi er, L2 and Cl provide reson ance at the desired operating
frequ en cy, Th e tap on L2 is selected to ens ure a 50- oh m m atch to Q I. Th e design example is
f or operation from 7 to 22 Mil:. e l i... a J{)O-pF trimmer or air variable capacitor. U (5.3
J.lH) ha s 3J turns 0/ 110, 26 enam, wire 011 all A mido n 1~:;O- ltoroid, Tap at 5tums above tire
grounded end. LI ha s oJ tu rns 0/110. 26 enam, wire, Adj ust C I f or maximum signal response
at th e desir ed freq uency.
c2

Narrow-Band Use
If you plan to use the Figure I circuit as a
recei ver preamplifier. for so me portion of a
short-wave band. you cun adopt the c ircui t in
Fig ure 2. The inp ut of QI co nta ins a tuned
c irc uit to prov ide se lect ivity (rejection of un wa nted nearby sig nals) at the o pe rat ing freq ue ncy , Although a second tuned c irc uit can
be used at the amplifier o utput, it isn 't necessary to incl ude o ne . It would inc rea se the
sel ec tivity of the amplifier. bu t wo uld c omp licare the desi gn and stag e adjustment,
I do no t recommend this circuit as a recclvcr preampl ifie r ab ove 14 MH z. Thi s is
because the a mp lifier no ise figure is fairl y
hig h. and above 14 MH z the ampli fie r noi se
ma y be greater than the le ve l o ra we ak incom ing sig na l. thereby maski ng it.

Instrume nt Amplifier
l.cts .;uppose yo u have a tunable or c rystal -cont roll ed mar ker ge ne ra tor for usc as a
receiver calibrator. Perh ap s thc o ut put sig nal
fro m your generator (w he n used wit h a sho rt
whip anten na) prod uce s weak sig na ls in your
recei ver. Adding the c ircuit of Fig ure I be twe en the osci lla tor and the whip antenna wi ll
greatly inc rease the a mplitude of the marke r
sig nal. In a like man ne r, the ampl ifier ca n be
used between a circ uit un de r test a nd yo ur
oscilloscope to boos t low le vel sig na l energy.
Th is \ \-'i11 provide greater waveform heig ht o n
the screen of your scope, If the amplifi er is
be ing coupled to a high -impedance circ uit
during test ing . such as the gate of'un FET. usc
a 5- o r IO-pF co upling ca paci tor between the
test pro be a nd the circu it sam pling point. Thi s
w ill preve nt the 50-o hm input o f the amplifi er
fro m loadin g the circ uit to w hic h you attac h
the test probe.
A linear bro ad band am plifier is an excelkill c ho ice fo r usc as an inte rmediate. lowle vel stage in a ho me -made so lid- state tra nsm itter, es pec ially whe n the ei re.-uit is designed
tor mul tiband usc . Broadbandumplifiers elimina te the need for han d switching in the part of
the c ircuit where they arc used.

Construction Tips
Yo u need no t huil d the Fig ure I c ircui t o n
an etched PC hoard . It c..111 he tacked tog ether
on a piece of pe rforat ed boa rd. or e ven o il a

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sc rap of plas tic or Form ica , It is important.

howe ver . that yo u kee p all sig nal leads as
short a nd d irect <IS yo u ca n. Th e pigtai ls on the
c apac ito rs and resistor s mu st be sim ilarly
shor t. T hi s wi ll hel p to prevent unwanted
instabilit y (potential se lf-osci llatio n) and a
loss of ga in. T he com pleted unit sho uld be
ho used in a metal bo x to prevent the pic ku p of
stray RF e nergy fro m nearby bro adc ast station s or RF-ernitt ing appliances in yo ur horn e.
A n inexpensive box may he made from pieces
o f copper -c lad PC boa rd. T he mating surfaces
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Closing Remarks
T hi s call be a short-term fun project for
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MONITORING TIMES

87

~LANE TALK

MAKING SENSE OF CIVIUAN AERONAUTICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Jean Boker, KIN9DD

Haws the Weather?

elcome aboard and Happy New

Year to everyone. To start the New
Year off with a bang. Plane Talk

w ill now be a mo nth ly co lumn!

First on o ur age nda Imlay is a look at
v ol mc ts. T he se stat ions a TC tra nsmit-o nly.
broadca sting airport wea ther forecast co nd i-

tions for various parts of the world (usually

two to three times an hour) on specific frequencies. The word "Volmer" is .1contraction
of the French word for "fl ying weather:"
Broadca st time s vary fro m station 10 sta tion.

though it' s quite common for several stations

in o ne region to share the same frequencie s.
Starting this month. wcH publish a brief.
bi-mo nthly listin g of vol mc ts fro m d iffere nt
pa rts oft he g lo be for all th e Vo lme t freq uen cy
co llecto rs our there.

No r th Atla ntic Volme ts: 34X5. 6604.

1005 J. 13270. Gander. Canada - broadcasts
20 and 50 m inut es a fter the hou r: New Yor k o n the hou r an d 30 minutes ha lf past.

Euro pea n Volme ts: 34 D . 5505. 5640.

8957. 13264 . Shannon , Irel and - o n the ho ur.
25, 30. a nd 55 minutes a fter.

Pacifi c Volmels: 2863. 6679. 8828. Honolu lu - broadcasts o n th e hou r a nd 30

minutes after: T okyo - 10 m in. and 40 m inut es
afte r the ho ur ; Ho ng Kong - 15 and 45 m inut e s
after the hour: Auckland - :20 an d 50 m inutes
after the hour.
Middl e- East Volm e ts : Bei rut. Lebano n -

300 1. 556 J. 88 19 - at 15 alll145 minutes past

the hou r. Damascus. Syria- 299 2. 5667. 89 18.
1331 2 - o n the ho ur an d 30 min utes pas t.

Karachi. Pakistan - 343 2. 66 80. 1001 7: 15

and 45 m inutes past the ho ur.

City/Airport Identifiers a nd Codes

Se veral atte ndees at the recent Grove Expo
as ked us 10 inclu de so me thing about c itya irpo rt ide ntifiers or codes. as they're so me tim e s kno wn . Here is a brie f overv iew of wh at
the y arc and the ir usage.
A city code o r designator is com pos ed of
three letters a nd indicate s eithcr a ciry o r. if the
ci ty ha s more th an o ne maj or airp ort . a spe c ific airpon . These ac ro ny ms a rc the basis of
e very thing fro m the a irline ind ustry's reservation syste ms to ca rgo rou ting and accou nting, bagga ge han dling. and more. A co de may
spe ll O UI th e first three letters of a city's

88

MONITORING TIMES

January 1996

na mc- for e xam ple. IN D for Indianapolis. or

ATL fo r At lan ta. Ot her tim es- wel l. o nly the
PA A or IC AO kno ws for sure.
Occasio na lly. these codes e ven co nfuse
airport curbs ide check-in baggage ha nd lers.
Back in 1990. whe n we had o ur first co nve ntio n in Kno xville. thc cu rbside c hec k-in atten dant at Indy Internation a l \ \ '3S relatively inexpe rie nced a nd co uldn ' t locate the pro pe r baggag e tag 10 for Knoxvill e. Attempting to be
helpful I pointed it ou t as TYS . He shoo k his
head a nd m uttered " Alph abet soup--you gotta
try to fig ure ou t what is whe re and who is
wh at!"
II wo uld be ea sy to assu me (dangcrousl)
that Knoxville ' s (TN) identifier wo uld be
so me thing like KNO-wr ong ! lr' s TYS fo r
McGh ee -T yson Airport . Co nse q uently. it
sho uld co me as no surprise if yo u' re go ing to
Me l (Kan sas City ) tha t YOllr ba gs may go to
M IA (Miam i). Incidentally. no identifiers c an
he duplicated or even appear to be sim ilar to
an y other in a 200-m ile rad ius. <IS a d up lication o f this so rt co uld (.10<.1 ha s) co nfused
private and co mme rcia l pilo ts a like.
Ju st for fun . here ' s an exa m ple of so me o f
the codes and wh at ci ties/ airpo rts they rep resent (i n no partic ular o rde r):

Baltimore
Hartford (G)
Chiccqo-O 'Hc re

BWI
BDl
O RD
MID
MSY
EWR
FAT
lAX
BNA
YYZ'
ABO
PDX
PWM
YUL
YMX
APF

Chicago'Midway
New Orleans
Newark
Fresno
Los Angeles
Na shville
Toronto
Albuquerque
Portland lO R)
Portland IME)
MontrealDorva l
Montreal-Mirabel
Nap les (H)
*Almost every de sign ator in Canada starts
w ith a Y.

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Readers' Corner
On a sad note. lon g-t ime MT subsc ribe r
Do n Dettenmcycr (O hio) passed away last
October, Some of yo u m ay hav e met him at
past Monitoring Time!; con ventio ns as we ll as
recognizing his name as a co ntributor. Th is
co lumn ow e s muc h to Do n-he pre sented me
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Fu or ,

w:

Food Fight Monitoring

here has been a lot o f pr ess lately in

02

SIMPLEX

415.3000

our Sout h Flor ida papers regardi ng

the abuse and do w nr ig ht fraud re g ard ing fo od sta m p lI SC. Th is is a m ultim il lion do llar rip-o ff ag a inst the A mer ican
ta xpayer a nd aga inst the person who leg it imat el y need s and uses food stam ps in the way
in w h ich th e)' we re inten de d .
Th e fed era l food stam p is under the direc-

A n acti ve agcn cy u nde r the Dep ar tment of

Ag ric u lture out in C alifo rni a an d Ne vada is
the So il Co nse rv atio n S ervice . Thi s fed era l
pro gram is de signed to develo p and carry o ut
a nati on al so il and water co nse rva t ion p lan in
coo peration with land owners. T he ir frequen cy
assig nm en ts are :

tion of the U.S. Department Il l' Agric-ulturc. A

101 of the u nderco ver o per atio ns nrc C O Jl ~
du el ed by the Office of the Inspec tor General

loca ~ o n

o f the Dept. o f Ag ricultu re .

A check wi th the Departmen t or Ag ricul lure o ffice s ind icated th at the O ffice o f Inspec tor G enera l is re sponsi b le for- the in ve stigation of fraud . ar so n, c rime s and other
o ffe nses co mm itte d against federal property
un der the co ntro l of the Department of A gr icu lt ure or pro gram s o f the Department o f
Agriculture. Th ey ar c a lso res ponsi b le for the
sec urity of the Secretary o f Agriculture,
The fed era l dat a bas e shows the foll m ving
as the ch anne l plan for the Dept. o f Ag ricul ture/Offi ce of Insp ecto r Ge neral.

Frequ ency
NAT. ASSIGNMENTl69.9750
171.0750
171.0750
172.2250
TEHACHAPI, CALI f . 171.4250
172.2750
172.2750
LOMPOC, CALI f . 164.1500
GILROY, CALI f .
49.67000
49.97000
STA. BARBARA, CA.171.4250
172.2750
172.2750
RENO, NEVADA
171.1000
169.4750
169.4750

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RPTROUT
SIMPLEX
SIMPLEX
SIMPLEX
SIMPLEX
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RPTR OUT
SIMPLEX
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SIMPLEX

Wired for Bugs

Cha n

m
02
03
04
05
06
07

Use
Frequen cy
CAR-TO-CAR
168.6000 SIMPLEX
CAR-TO-eAR
168.7000 SIMPLEX
REPEATER INPUT 170.9750
REPEATER OUTPUT1 68.7000
RPTR IN
168.1750 P/ L 1B
RPTR OUT
168.6750
RPTR IN
164.6250 PI LlA
RPTR OUT
166.1 250
169.9750
RPTR IN
RPTROUT
170.9750
170.5000
RPTR IN
RPTR OUT
169.9000

A ffili ated als o w ith the Departmen t o f

A gricultur e is the Fed era l Grain Ins pectio n
Service . Thi s branch o f the Depart me nt of
Ag ricu lture has respon sibili ty for es tab lishing the officia l Un ite d S la te s sta ndards for
gra in and other com mo diti es and for the e stabl ishme nt for a nat io nwide stand ard of s talldurds and insp ect ion s.
T his mi g ht be especi ally inte resting to
monitor if yo u live in o ne o f the large commodity tra d in g ce nte rs such as C h icag o or
Kansas C ity. He re is the rad io pla n for the
Federal G rai n Inspec tion Se rv ice:
Chann el
0
- 1 --

90

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Freq uency
411.3000
415.3000

MONITORING TIMES

Januar; 1996

T he fo llo w ing is a quote from the Pa lm

Beach . F la .. P OSI Times W ire Serv ices dated
N o vembe r 15. 1995.
MIAMI An ap hid that ca rries a citrus virus
ha s bee n found in the United Stoles for the [irst
time, turning up in Ft. lauderdale and Miami.
The pest, ca lled the brown citrus a phid, wa s
first seen on on ora nge tree in Davie, Florida , in
Broward County on November 2, the Florida
Department of Ag riculture said.
Since then the a phid ha s spread to a t least II
other places in Browa rd and Dade County,
Florida .
The a phid is a d estructi ve little pest. Wh en
it is fo und. the Department o f Ag r icu lture
ag ent s (both state and fede ral ). u nder law .
have the re spo ns ib ility for the co m ple te des truc tio n o f the infec ted trees. There is no
vac ci na tion of th e trees. T he pest. if left un con trolle d. can and wi ll w ipe o ut the c itrus

industrv.
The Unit ed States Dep artm ent of Agricullure A n ima l an d Plan t Inspec tion Se rvice is
the enfo rcemen t branch rluu is resp o ns ib le for
the A p his Eradic atio n Program. In addi tio n to
o ffi ces in the c itr us area s o f the coun try . there
ar c also o ffice s a t the major in ternat ional

port s. Th e fo llo w in g is a Iist o f the offices and

the associated radio freq ue nc ie s.
location
Frequency
NATIONWIDE
APHIS NET
171.5250
BALTIMORE, MD
171.5250
TAMPA, f L
171.5250
SAVANNAH,fl
171.5250
TWIN f ALLS, ID
171.5250
GROTON, a
171.5250
BOSTON (LOGAN
AIRPORT)
171.5250
NEW ORLEANS
CUSTOMS
169.1500
WASHINGTON, D.C.
AIRPORT
169.1500
MOBILE, AL
171.5250
LUBBOCK, TX
171.5250
OAKLAND, CA,
AIRPORT
162.2250
LOS ANGELES
AIRPORT
171.5625
173.5625
HONOLULU AIRPORT411 .3000
41 4.6500
DODGE ISLAND, f L 164.9375
171.5250
MIAMI INT'l AIRPORT 164.9375
171.5250
fT. LAUDERDALE
AIRPORT
164.9375
171.5250

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Feds Around the Country

A corres po nda nt w ho w is he s to remain
anonym o us se nt in the radio p la n of a littleknown federa l age ncy . It is the M ineral s M an agemen t Se rvice. a bran c h of the Department
o f the l utcnor. Their fun ction is to ass ess th e
m ineral s tha t ar c on the o ute r co ntine nta l s he lf
and to ens ure the recove ry o f m inera l rcsources . The ir rad io pla n is:
l oca tion
Frequ ency
NATIONWIDE 164.2500
164.7500
164.7500
417.2250
419.8750

Use
RPTR IN
RPTR OUT
SIMPLEX
CONTROl LI NK
CONTROL LINK

No individual locations an' gi ven.

By no w we have a ll the dat a burs ts on the
main federa l c hanne ls. such as C us to ms M ain
( 165.2375). \Ve no w kno w the se to he for
prog rammin g o f the radi o s n ut in the fi eld.
T he radi o s ar e updated e very few hours. or at
least once d aily. wit h the au thori zed rad io s.
freq ue ncy se tt ings. etc .
I hav e bee n keepin g tra ck o f the repealer

outputs dow n here in Florida. wh ich ca n be

app lied to any metro area . Plug in all of the
repea ter output chan ne ls for a part icular
age ncy. such as I did with DEA . I started
hearing very strong (full qu ieting ) data bu rsts
on DEA channels. though I have never heard
any activi ty. Th is will mea n tha: base stations
(re peaters) have been placed in an area. bUI
yo u are not ca tching the acti vity on these
cha nnels. Th ey may be for future use or tactical activity, but at least someone has taken the
time and money to install these units.
I wou ld imag ine that if yo u plugged in all
of the FBI channels. spaced 12-1/2 kHz apart .
you could find all of the cha nnels in yo ur area.
whether or not they are currently in usc . Simply liste ning to and loggi ng the channels with
data bursts on them is informat ive.
An anonymous repo rt from a reader in
Bethesda. Maryl and. prov ide s the sec urity
frequencies for the Natiunalln stitutes ufHcalth
(Bet hesda Medica l Ce nte r) as fo llows:
406.1750 repea ter in ; 411.4500 repe ater out.
I received OJ letter the other day from a
friend o f mine in the United Kingdom. As you
may or may no t know . the scan ner mon itoring

we take for gra nted ove r here is a crime over

there. Unless yo u are specifically authorized
to mo nitor OJ particular frequency . j ust hav ing
the frequency in yo ur radi o is gro unds for
prison and/or a hefty fine. The police have the
authority to stop and inspect any ve hic le that
has a scanner in it. Although sca nning is very
popul ar over there. is understa ndab ly kept
very low-key.
My friend was writing to tell me that the
military police and ba se ope rations have
moved fro m the 70 MH z band up to the 406420 MHz ba nd . (Ye s. an ent ire land mobile
band is located on 70 MH z along with an
amateur radio band. ca lled 4 "mctrcs 't-i-t hc
equivalent o f o ur 30/50 MHz band.) To wrap
up this month ' s co lumn. here are his reported
frequencies fo rt he U.S. Army 's Armed Forces
Police. Th e frequencies arc re ported to be the
same here as over there "across the pond."
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SATELLITE TV
Ken Reitz, KS4ZR

ADVENTURES INTHE CLARKE BELT

Stealth TVRO: Hiding Your Satellite Dish

he nevcr the subj ect o f freed o m is

bci nc dis cu ssed (usuu llv eve r a six
pac k of beer), co nve rsatio n ge ne rall y drifts to the pecul iaritie s of the T hird
World. and someone e nds lip offe ring. " Wel l.
I see where the go vernm ent of Iran is outlaw-

ing satellite TV systems:' wh ereupon fo lks

aro und start clu ckin g and sha king the ir heads
and some o ne e lse suys." ? cah. they're headed
down the Information Hig hway 10 the S to lle
Age ~ .. And there follows a healed exchange
about whe the r or not to watch "G craldc ."
" Hard Copy.' or "C ourt TV: '
Am erican s ha ve trou ble o ve rlook ing the
de mocrat ic shortcomings of ot her co untries.
but the re nrc gaping blind spo ts in our own
vision of freedo m . Each ye ar thou sand s of
A me rica ns are den ied the opportunity to
c hoose the ir ent ert ainm ent deli ver y sys tems
ju st as sure ly as thos e in " Iess de moc ra tic"
co untries we decry . Here the reg ulat io n is the
result of narro w ly writte n zon ing ord inances
an d restrict!ve re sid ent ial covena nts which
act to suppress the freedom of its c itiz e ns.
T hese re stricti o ns are do ne ill the nume o f
"arc hitectural integrity" or other vag uely defined "ae sthetic' go a ls. It wo uld he ea sy 10
imag ine suc h loca l ordinance s being writte n
by cable ope rators who, for insta nce . might sit
o n a loca l Board o f S upe rv iso rs o r be oth e rw ise invol ved in keepi ng ou t the co m petit io n
of wi rele ss enterta inme nt de live ry sys tems .

desir e to enj oy sate llite TV has bee n sho rt

c irc uited by -ncigh bo rph o bia." yo u Illay be
interested in the spec ial pati o um bre lla co ve rs
de sign ed for sa te llite T V d ishe s.
Manu factured by a co mpa ny called "U nde r Co vcr't locatcd in Ind io. C a liforn ia. the se
prod ucts o ffer an ingeniou s di ..g uise fo r thos e
whos e hobby wo uld otherw ise be thwarted by
nosey ne ighbors intent on dem andi ng obed ie nce to the ir o wn pe rsonal wo rld view .
Unde r Co ver ' s president G il Rob er ge says
that the umbrel las ' variou s sizes and co lo r
sc he mes have made them q uite popul ar for
suburba n locale s. As indicated hy the phot og rap h. Unde r Co ver's di sg uise s inclu de tab le
and cha irs to co mplete th e ruse . Prices for the
kit sta rt at S3SS. But the n. wha t price freed om ?

Where '.\' th e "full view " satellite dish Y

Under the umbrella ! (courtesy: Under
COI'er Satellite :""ystem s)

Going "Under Cover"

Th ere are few th ings tha t Am er ican s enjoy
as mu ch as twea kin g the nose of Autho ri ty.
And what bett er way to do it than e njoying
sate llite televi sion rig ht in the middle of a n
ex cl usive re sidenti al de velopment. If yo ur

Where '.\" the J)SS di.\!I? Ins ide that sm all

boulder! (courtesy: Rock.On t nc.)

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DSS? "Rocll" It!

T he w ildl y popul ar ISO< DSS sate llite system s ha ve also been fro wned upon by the
"appearance po lice ." In so mc cases residents
must plan t thei r little di sh es in the front ya rd
in order to ge t decent recep tio n. So, let' s d o a
littl e land scapin g! Just slip the neat. boulder shaped fibergla ss "roc k" o ver the di sh and
yo u' ve go t the ma kings of a catc hy land..caping centerp iece.
Th e co mpany mak ing thi s produ ct is ca lled
Rock, O n Inc. an d is located in Bell e vie w.
Flor ida. Co mpa ny Pre side nt GaryChoscwo od
says the item is part icul arl y po pular with
se nior cit izens in " pla nned re tire ment COIllmunitics,' where stric t ad he rence to sharplyd raw n reg ula tio ns is de ma nded. O ne <Illva ntage to the DSS sys tem is that it is eas ily

Look, the
neig hbors have
a new skylig ht.
Wait a m illut e,
th ere 's a J)SS
dish ill there!
(cuurtesty:
Satellite
Enclos ures,
lnc.}
transpo rted from no rthern ho me to so uthe rn
ho me a s the seas o n changes . Rock . On ' s " bog us bou lder" we ighs on ly '2 7 pou nd s anti is
equa lly mobil e . Or. better yet. buy o ne for
e ac h hom e! Manufactu rer' s sugges ted re ta il
pr ice is S259.

I Satellite Skylight
Dubbi ng itsel f "nei g hborho od friendl y."
Sa tellite Enclosures. Inc . o ffe rs its "SkyDome" alterna tive to mak ing the DSS insta llatio n more attrac tive . Thi s approach use s a
sky l ight sty le sec -th ro ug h pl a stic d o me
mounted o n the co nsumer' s roof.
As show n in the mock-up pictured here.
the DSS syste m stays unobt rusive ly o ut o f'tbe
way of bo th weat her and the kee n sc rutiny of
q ueru lo us nei ghbors. Sat el lite Enc losure' s
C EO Dale Co ntant is e xc ited ab ou t this ne w
prod uct whic h has j ust hit the market. W ith
more and mo re custo mer s in to wn hou se-style
co ndo s w ith sma ller and sma ller yards. he ' s
hopi ng thi s Georg ia-b a sed co mpany's product may be the an swer ro DSS sate llite receptio n for those plagued by zo nin g and cove nant
re strict io ns.

Additiona l Attract ions

Eve n if you live in a rural locat ion whe re
re str ictio ns aren 't an issue . the se three prod uct s pre se nt wa ys to kee p yo ur sate llite sys tem o ut of the ra vage s of se ve re weat her and
the cl utc he s o f va nda ls.
For mor e informat ion o n these product s
write or ca ll:

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Transponder Notes
l n rhe if-a t- first-y o u-do n' t-succecd de pa rtme nt: AT &T' s T e lsta r 402R wa s success-

fully launched into its geostationary orbit

September 23 from Kourou, French Guiana.
T he Ariane roc ket to ok j ust 20 m inut e s to do
the j ob it co uld n' t do one ye ar earlier. whic h

resulted in the loss ofthe originalT402 which.

this day. orbits crazily in an elliptical orbit
of use to no one.
JCSAT- 3. an eight tra nsponder. digital.

to

mu ltichanne l satellite owned by Jap an Satelli te S ys tems Inc .. was la u nc he d at C ap e

Ca navera l, Flor ida . at the e nd o f Aug us t.
Using a digi tal co mp ress ion sc he me. tilt: L:0111pany w ill offer 50 channels of p rog ram min g
to Japanese c usto me rs next Ap ri l.
A nd. th e the m e is spread ing . Ga lax i
Latin o America is the name o f the new sate llite launched in Decem be r whic h will o ffer
144 cha nne ls o f vide o pro g ramm ing and 60
stere o audi o channe ls to custo me rs throu gho ut Latin Ame rica. Fund ed by a co nso rtium
of Mexican, Ve nezu elan, and Brazi lian companie s in assoc iation with Ame rican sate llite
manufacturer Hu gh e s, the serv ice w ill be
broa d cast to receive rs using 60 e rn d ishe s,
YLE Radi o Finla nd is now fou nd in Fi nnish , Swed ish, and Eng lish on the 6.20 M Hz
aud io channe l o fTB S Supc rstation on Galaxy
5. Broa d cast ing d irectly fro m Finland e ight
hours a day . YLE in augurates the new Wo rld
Rudie Ne tw or k :2 aud io service . Also slated
for ex tended bro adc ast is RT E in Iri sh.
Rep ort s o ut of Russia indi cat e that cou ntry
may crea te a di git al sa tellite te levi sion broad cast ing se rvice in Russia. Us ing a G als satel lite laun ched late last Janu ary , ex per imen ts
using di g ita l co mpres sion have bee n termed
success ful. T he sate lli te is sa id to be capa ble
o f co ve ring the whole o f Euro pe an Ru ssia. A
second sate llite will be lau nche d to cover the
re main ing e as tern te rr itorie s.
And. finall y. this item : A re port from PTI
News Age ncy. New Delh i. mo ni to red in Eng land sugg es ts that in late 199H or 1999 the
Earth is to pass th rou gh the worst me teo r
sto rm in ov e r th ree decades. Th e report q uot es
Do n Kessler of NASA as say ing that the
Lco nid x. as the sto rm is know n.... ..presen ts

abou t three years' wo rt h of deb ris in abo ut an

hou r..... Ho ld Oil to yo ur m om en tum wh eel.
Slim. this co uld be a ro ugh one:

Not es From Readers

A num ber o f read er s have se nt in cl ippings

from th eir local newspape rs deta iling th e cf'fort s o f "wireless cublc" enter pr ises to offer
ca ble T V Iurc to a local aud ience which may
o r may not he presen tly se rved by tradi tiona l
ca ble T V. Th ese systems. known as MMDS
(Mu lti-cha nnel Mu lti-po int Distrib utio n S ystems) we re . be fore the advent of the DirectTo-Horne sate llite a nd DSS sys tem s. the o nly
cha lle ng e 10 ca ble's mo nop o ly ,
Using m ic ro wa ve frequencies. these scrvices transm it 20 or40 c ha nne ls of cable fare
and loca l networ k affiliate s a nd typically
charge ca ble rate s. T he se rv ices requ ire the
install atio n o f sma ll (u sua lly 12" ) m icro wa ve
a ntennas whic h an: mounted on po les o n to p
ofth e ho use as o ne wo uld a VHf-T V antenna .
Th e services are sc ra mbled and the rece ive r is
a lso the de scr amble r. T he big d raw back to
such sys tems is that they have a fairl y lim ited
fu ture . Wi th less tha n a third the nu mber o f
c han ne ls offered b y DSS (a t nearl y the sa me

pr ice ) there' s j ust little room fo r ex pansion. I n

add ition. the regi o na l cove rage strategy is
cum bersome and ak in to a patchwork of overlap ping coverage and du pl icat ed se rv ices , It' s
har d to sec a futur e for suc h sche me s in the
sma ll d ish di g ital wo rld.

II Not e Of Thank s
Thi s is the fir st o ppor tuni ty that I have had ,
since the Oc tober 1995 G ro ve Expo. to thank
th e man y mo nito rin g enthu siasts who br a ved
the rainy weathe r that wee ke nd and atten de d
what I co ns ide r to ha ve be e n the best co nve ntion Bo b Grove has ho sted in the past six
years . T he enthus ias tic respon se to all the
se m inar topics wa s grati fy ing . I had the opport un ity to meet a nd chat with ma ny M T
readers and it' s a lw ay s g reat to be ab le to put
a nam e and a fa ce on so me o f o ur readers and
to entertain q uestio ns about sate llites wit ho ut
tim e or space co ns tra ints. It was a pleasure. as
well. to meet the many o f the A1T and ST sta ffs
as we ll as ;,111 the har d working fo lks fro m
G ro ve Enterprise s. I hope yo u' II con sider
mak ing the trip to Atlanta ne xt ye ar in wha t
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Building & Upgrading Computers- Part 3

COUld n ' t have lime d it any bette r. Just as

\vc reach the: cli ma x 10 thi s se rie s. it is
o ffic ial: the dea th kne ll has bee n so unded
for the 80486 cla ss of C PU. T he last 486
computer by a major manufacturer has been
shipped. Th ere nrc no more ! Th is mea ns
drastica lly red uced prices 011 all 486 CP Us

..ind 4 86 moth erb oard s. and sharp ly redu ced

price s on 4S6 co mpute rs from sma ll manu factu rers and pro-shop s.
Sadl y. Inte l. AMD. and Cyrix will curta il
product io n o r the 4X6 C PU som e time within
the next year or two . Just as supplies have
dw in d le d to exi sti ng stock s of 386
motherboardv or CPUs. the venerable 486
will suffer the same fate.

The TIme to Upgrade is NOW

Thi s isgood ne w.\' fo r us radioi sts who arc
al ways loo k ing 10 shave a buck fro m the
o perat ing costs of o ur ho bby. Lo w pr ices and
the raw horse powe r of the 486 chip breed a
fert ile opportu nity for the radio hob byist. The
486 is c xtrem ciy powerfu l despit e being overshado wed by the Pent ium series. In fact . the
486DX2I66 (and highe r) riva l the slower
Pentium 60 and 75 in perform a nce an d w in

hands down in cost! Despite us de ath kne ll. a

4R6DX2166 o r faster wi ll be all e xtremel y

usefu l ge ne ra l purpose co mputer for at least
another two to th ree years.
Th e idea l comp uter to be up graded is a 38 6
of any type. since: 1110S ( o f the pcri phc ralsinclu din g disk dri ves . var io us COni rolle rs.
case. power- supply. RA;\l. etc.-arc comparible wit h and tra nsferab le to a new 486
mot herbo ard und C PU . There i ~ a cha nce thai
yo ur on ly purc ha se ne ed conxi st of .1
moth erboard and 486DX 2I66 (or better) CP U.
th ereb y holding the cost of the upgr ade to
well under $200. Modem -da y co mputing ca lls
for R- ~ b o f RAM tmi ni mum} . so you Illay
ha ve to pur cha se more . Some may wa nt to
upgrade lhe video and co mmu nicatio ns co ntroller s as we ll. \Ve ' IIge t inlo th:'11 nc xlmon th.
For now. our focu s is o n the mech:'lI1ics o f
upgmdin g 386 compute rs. The bc nelit s arc
low cost with a n eye 1O pcrfomlance. T he 4 86
is chea p. po we rful . :'Ind huck ed by a wea lth {)f
~tandard technology and a V:'lst rc s ern~ of
:.ldd-on part s. co m po ne nls. and :'Icccssories .
Th e PCllliu m C PU is ulle rly supe rb. but il is .1
cosily, ncw c rlcc hno logy that docs not have a

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doze n years of tradi tio n and compati bility

he hind it.
My position fo r the 486 upg rad e is ba sed
o n lo w co st and hi gh performance : shortes t
po ssible learning c urve; highest probability
of success; a nd wides t suppo rt oft he techn ol ogy. hard ware. an d softwa re. Past. pre sent.
and mid-term future software will run lin e 0 11
a 4 86. Accesso ries and add -on hardwa re will
be av ailable for so me time to come at fa lling
prices.

Upg rade What with What?

huge varie ty of 486 types and speeds. O lder

486 moth erbo ard s were not so Fl exible .
Don't fall prey to the " chip upg rade" for a
38 6 o r 286 mo therboard . T he cost is high. a nd
performance suffers . Th ere is no way a 286 o r
386 moth er boar d ca n be tu rned into a firebrea th ing . rip-sno rtin g 486 . tho ugh yo u may
find claims to that effec t. em'eat Empto r'

Tools and Skills

Thi s is wher e it gets cool.... hardl y any
too ls arc required . A co up le sizes of Phillipshcad scrcwdrivers: a 1/4" soc kct o r nutdrive r:
a mediu m sized fla t-b lade screw d ri ve r; and
maybe a pair of forc ep s or sm :'11I pl iers are
abou t a ll you reall y need . A volt me ter is
hel pful. but not mandato ry : pen cil and pa pe r
on which to take notes. is.
Mechani cal savvy is nic e . bu t the ability to
make basic not es and d iag rams is vital. Se t up
a video reco rder to " watc h" yo ur work ify o u
luck co nfi de nce . That way. yo u ca n play back
the video later to sec where something we nt
wrong. Ho wev er. if yo u fo llow my plan and
have o nly basic skills. there is no rea son why
yo u ca n' t work a little "magic" and have
som ething to tellthe gru ndkid s someday.

O ur foc us is on upgradi ng. 386's, hu t this

co uld leave the door ope n 10 late versions of
the A1'1286 where the disk drives . video co ntrolle rs. and RAM m ig ht be compatible with
mode m standards . To ward the o ther-extrem e.
there is a certain cl ass of4 g6' s thai ca n ben efit
fro m <I n upgrade, too . \ Ve ' rc talk ing about the
486SX / xx . 4 X6 SLlxx . 4 86 SLC ./ xx and
486 DX133 and slo wer C PUs. many of which
arc o nly ma rgina lly bett er than a fast 3g6
ch ip.
In looki ng for lo w-cost/hi gh-pe rfo rma nce.
yOIlsho uld at least upg rade to Ihc 486DX2I66
or better. If yo u already have :'1 ~ g6 [)X/50 .
thats fine .j ust don 't upgr ade to a 4 86 DX/50.
Yo u rea lly s ho u ld
move to a 4 S6D X2 /66
FIG-1 : BOARD HOLE LAYOUT & FINAL INSTRUCTION S
or better. w ith no rea"~ioItSlolOpt"'ltt l
so n to sto p sho rt of the
REAR EDGE
po w er ful 4X6 DX 41
Conhnued fro m text
JOO. T he refore. a 386
9 . Po..ition!h. eese 10 yov cen I how !h. mo!h.rboerd il movnted . For d .J,;top
etll.1, tNl il!h. btltttlm, tlnd for tow.r COIOI, !h. right lid e. Yov will typicolly
of any type, 486' s of
2, 3, e r A m.tollCT.w, a nd ......ral .lo tted plodic b\,l lhingl thol hold !h.
the in fe rio r SX/SLI
me !herboord to !h. from . Al'emQI. Yo\,lr 'ti_ fro", obo .... Ih. ma !h.rboard to
id.ntify the lCT.whee d l, to !h. o!hltt'lid. of !h. from. wh. r. !h. lerew l p.n.trcle,
Sl.Ccrypc. or those of
\,Iwally wi!htlvt n\,ltl. Nol. how if !h. r. witt'. no 1Ct_I, !h. mQlherbocrd collld
.tid. e holf.inchor 10 and b.lihed away from the from . (Th .totted plollic
any speed less th an 50
.tondoff b\,llhing l hold th. board a way from th. ITom. ond y. l lOcur., thonks to
1'\'1 Hz arc prim e fodd er
the .lOti .) CarllN lly r.mo .... the few .C:reWI I+.ot hold th. moth. rbotl rd to the
fro m. , tlnd .l id. it 0 littl. \,Inti l th. bushing l co m. 0 \,11 of !heir hoi... Lihthe boord
fo r upgrade .
01,11 of the COlOa nd loy il olid e. R.mo.... Ih. bushing l lTom !h. board . Th.y ' ll
The up gra de co nprobably b. nee d.d for the n. w board.
sis ts o f a sw a p o f
(!)
mothe rboard s in mo st
10. Now do 1O.... rel practi ce rum a Fpl<lci ng yo ur n. w math.rboard in the ca l . Sam.
ltud y and preporation ma y be requ ired . 5urpri..ingly, the lizo l tlnd m<l unting hoi..
ca ses, though if yo u
of 011 modem mo!h.rbo<lrdl <lr. ltondardl Your new molh.rbo<l rd should .tid.
h:'IVCa wca ke r 486 you
righl in and malch up, hoI. for hoI . Traubl. ii, th.r. may not bnough holl11 in
s ho u ld check lh e
the from. to <lccomrnoclat. a ll the hoI in !h. ma tnerl>oord. Sometim. 1 thil do
no t mon.r. Th. importonl tning ;1 that the motherboard b. mounled with 01 lee"
Illother hoa n.lf()r possitwo m.lal lCtew. and . no ugh nylon b\,lwngl 10 01 10 IUPPOrt the boa rd ateech
bililies of simply swapco m. r; hal fway a long eedl .dg. ; and in th. c.nl.r ar ee by 0 1 100 11 o n. a nd
pr eferab ly two or mar. poi nt. . Hard ware kit. o r. avoilabl. for pod..kha ng .
ping CPUs <lnd c ha ngX
H'*"
in I~ MNs.,... u UI .. I", m.I'*' IOT ~v iKn'WI. tcou eM /HI br IM~.il rill! OFrim
ing a fcwjumpers. The
..round 1M heho in mnfr,uf 10 Ilwnf. intMCkd irK I~ phM~ ....ndo"bushingsWith no ttIfI'f.. I
c urre l1l c ro p o f 4 86
rein/DrCWrPnt .iTOUnd 1M hoho. r~ nJI"I.. I SCTftn providr .. eh..~ Braund lor I~ bo.Ird.
M..~ nett- of m-/M old bo.Ird if in.... fhod,-1M""" om!' (' .. n ulU..tty lIIf' moun/HI I~ s.ltrIl'.
m ot he rboa rds se e ms
Only two rm-Idl Kf'WS dtT! tT!CIuirPd, though. PI~'ic sl..ncfoff bushings c..n suppo rt 1M 1"PSt.
cnp:.lblc of ;ll'L'cpting a
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 The Job
Th is pro ced ure con sists of a motherboard
swa p. Yo u co uld alm ost build ;'1 co mputer
fro m sc ratch by read ing between the lines a
little. But I don 't have the space to write
between the line s. so lise co mmo n sense and
clear thinkin g if yo u need ( 0 depart fro m my
proced ures . Read the November and Decem ber installme nts o f this seri es fo r additio nal

information,
1. Turn off power . Diagram and label all
external cabling to the computer. then disconnec t <1 11 ca bles .

2. Remove the cover-usually six 1M" hex

or slotted screws .
3. Diagra m the layout o f accessory cards
ins talled in the co m puter: know th e purpos e
of each before rem oving it. T ypi ca lly . the re
will be a hard/ floppy disk contro ller cu rd: a
vide o dri ver card ; and may be a ser ial I/O ca rd.
Some: co mpute rs co me with these func tion s
built into the mot he rboard. T his is unfo rtu na te. becau se those upgrades w ill req ui re the
purc ha se of sta nd-a lone ca rds fo r eac h of
these function s.
C urrent 486 mo the rbo ards ha ve no fri lls,
fo r good reason. When suc h functions arc
bu ilt into a motherb oa rd. they are a lmost
never " high performance ." Fo rtunately. hig h
pe rfor ma nce disk. vide o. and comm un icatio ns con tro lle r ca rds arc not very ex pe ns ive.
Label any cables (and their polarity ) tha t
plug into a ny o f these accesso ry c ards. Disco nne-c t any suc h ca bles and remove all acce ssory ca rds plugged into the ex pans ion slots o n
the motherboard.
t Diagram all internal cabling that goes from
the moth erboard to conn ectors o r acce ss poi nts
o n the rear panel of th e co mputer. T his ma y be
moot in some co mpu te rs . Possibi litie s inc lude se rial I/O (comport) ca bles. and ma ybe
a vide o cable. Ob viously. if yo u hook a mou se
and a modem to DB-9 co nnec tors o n the rea r
panel. these are " co m ports" or se rial I/O
functions . Cables behi nd these connectors
may go to the moth er bo ard ins tead of acc essory ca rds . Just be sure to label eve ryt hing.
There wo n' t be many. if any. but pay atte ntion . T hen. d isco nne ct the se cab les fro m the
motherboa rd . no ting polarities a nd ho w they
are co nnec ted .
5 . Diagram a ll inte rna lca bling that goe s from
the moth e rboard to inte rna l acc esso ries incl ud ing ha rd d isk d ri ves . fl op py di sk d rives.
C D-ROM d ri ves. e tc . Lab el an y suc h cables
and po larity. Disco nnect the se c ables fro m
the mo therboard.
6. Diagram the two powe r supply c ables that
go to the rea r corner area of the motherb oard .
Th ey ha ve a wei rd c la mp/ luc k tab. so be
ca re ful until yo u see ho w it wor ks. Not e the
co lor codes of the wire s. Study the co nnector s

clo sel y a nd ge ntly rock/ re move them fro m

the m otherboard .
7. Dia gram the w ires and sma ll wir e bund les!
co nnec tors that go fro m the fron t edge of the
mo ther board into the front panel of the com puter . Label eac h with the ir co lor co des . 10
for the se w ires is alway s ma rked on the
moth erboard . Disconnect each wire bundle
from the mo the rboard.
H. Make sure there is no thing le ft connected
to the motherboard . If there is. trace. di agra m. and label it: the n disco nnec t it.
St'e FiK" 1'(' I for Steps C) & 10.

If Problems Arise
Fo r 111<lI1y of you. this will be all the
instruc tion yo u need . because the re st o f the
job pretty m uc h entails a re versal ofthe above
ten steps . There a rc a fe w det ails a nd eso teric
subj ec ts that I will wrap up next mo nth. so if
you are still unsu re of the sco pe o f the job.
wait unt il the n to actua lly remove a scre w.
You sho uld . ho weve r. lau nch yo ur campaign

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I will be hap py to provide timely tec hnica l
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SKYLINK
EXPLORING WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY

WayneMishler, KG5BI

Steam, dead trees, and wireless wonders

O
Wireless technology is 110
longer j ust a concept. It is
reality . It is h ere, A nd tile
development of lIew wireless
systems, produc ts, and
services is beginning to affect
millions of p eople worldwide.
Tile MT staff lias been
monitoring tile evolution of
til is technology and we f eel
tile lime is right for a new M T
column exploring
developments of int erest to
radio hobbyists.
As you might expect, this
technology is as complex as it
is fascinating, so to produce a
column you will enjoy
reading we turned to a writer
with a jlair for turning
abstract data into fun
reading. Way lle Mishler, who
lias writt en several articles
f or MT in th e past, and who
currently writes two COIIlIllIlS
f or our sister magazin e,
Satellite Times, will be
writing our new wireless
technologies column,

"Skylink."
We 've given Wayne a
broad range to cover. He'll be
telling liS about lIew
technologies and exp laining
1I0w th ey work and 1I0w tlley
aff ect our li ves. If y ou have
ideas yOIl would like him to
report 0 11, or if )'011 come
across n ewspap er clipp ings or
oth er reports y ou f eel would
be helpful, please send th em
directly to Wayne at Editorial
Concepts, P. O. Box 157,
Beaver, A R 72613-0157.

ne of the courses I rem ember laking

in co llege \V' IS ca lled "descript ive
phy sics." ! ne ver knew w ha t the title
meant. but in the co urs e we studied the effect s
of indu stria l poll ution on our environment.
Po llution from e lectrical po\I,'cr plan ts was
one ex ample . Conve ntional plants. of cou rse .
bum d irty emili o hem water to make stea m to
turn tu rbine gen era to rs. Nuclcarplan ts. on the
other hand . crea te po ison ous nucl ea r rc uclions to heal Willer to make stea m (0 tum
turbine gen erato rs. That' s progress ?
A more recen t technology. closer to my
heart. empo wers anyo ne with a com puter,
software, a nd lascr pri nrcr to pro duce ca mera ready pages o f te xt and graphics that. j ust a
fe w years ag o. would ha ve required sophisticate d pre-press equipme nt with a six-figure
price tag. For some rea son the indu stry ca lled
it " desktop publi sh ing: ' It was supposed to
revolut ion ize graphics co mmunicatio n. So
wha t' d we do with it'?Wh y. we put it to work,
of co urse . sme ar ing ink 011 dcud tree s. as Ben
Fra nk lin d id a coup le of cent uries ago.

Wireless technology
But no w, at long last, co mes wi re le ss tech nol ogy which invol ves thc tra nsmiss ion and
reception of d igita l information thro ugh sate llites and radi o. T his ne w techno logy promises many wondro us thi ngs, inclu di ng thc
advancement of sc ience. the imp rovement of
living stan dards . and, ah yes, even a way to
use desktop publi shing for prod ucing dectronic pub licati ons .
As we speak, publishe rs a rc hiring writers
to cra nk out fiction and non -fiction books to
be dig itized and so ld on-line to readers. Digi tized books and publi cati ons. inexpensive to
produce, g ive ne w meani ngtot hc idea ofse lfpubli shi ng. Inform at io n passe s from the
wr iter' s mind through a compute r 10 reade rs'
computer screens aro und the world . No ink.
No dead trees. Ju st inform ation witho ut mass.
Elec tronic publishing e nab les a nyone w ith
.1 com puter, modem, telepho ne line, a nd the
yen to \..Tile 10 become a se lf-pub lished author. Soon they wo n' t even need the phon e
co mpa ny. wi rele ss tcch onolo gy .11 lows electro nic pu blishing th rough satellites and radio .

Getting your newspaper by

shortwave
T hin k of what this mC;'I IlS. T hink o f rccci v-

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ing electronic pu blicat ions by sho rtwave radi o . The idea of cour se is not new . Many of
you will rem e mbe r a daily ne wspape r that
wa s broadca st not long ago in three languages
by Sw iss Radio Inte rnatio na l. T hat endeavor
was sho rt-lived. hut it proved tha i anyo ne
with relative ly inexpensive eq uipment could
tunc in and do wnlou d un electro nic new spa pe r or magazinc a nyw her e in the world .
One d rawback to rec eiv ing your daily
ne wspaper by rad io is that y(m ha ve to tunc in
whe n the newspaper is tran sm itted . in rea l
time. not un like stan ding in you r driveway in
a robe ev er y mo rnin g wa iting for yo ur hurd,-'o py paper to be thrown.
But sate llites which rel ay T V progra mmin g to subsc ribers arc alrea dy c arry ing maj or publicat ions in elec tro nic for mat. Colin
Haynes, a uthor of a M cr.Imw-Hi! l hook elltitled Paperless Publishing , tells us thai the
USA Today ne wspaper is transmitted hy radio
10 print ing plants in the U.S. , Euro pe, a nd the
Far Ea st as: co mp uter data . Ot her ne ws papers
lise similar processes. Haynes po ints out.
Th e po ssib ilities go bey ond the prod uctio n and distribution o f book s and period icals. Entire Iihraries with millions of boo ks
arc be ing di gitized for wo rldw ide distribution
th rough persona l com m unic at io ns sys te ms

u-csi

On e ofr he arg uments for di stri buting clccIronic publi cati ons by rad io rather than 011line computer ser vices is to avoid infringemcnt of our fundamental freedoms by co mme rcial interests.
Lawren ce ~l a l:m e . in Passpo rt 10 World
Helm! Radio. compares the fut ure of e lectronic pub lishin g via radio to the fa xing: of
documents, which busine sses ha ve cotuc 10
regard us es se nt ial. "Sh ort-wave radio. unlike
other inte rnational media. disseminates new s
di rect and uncut hy ga teke epers." says Magno.
"Short-wa ve-de livered ne ws co mes primarily in audio form : world ha nd rad io broad casts . But its nonseque ntia l form. boc k. megazine. or ne ws pap er c re ation via radio teletype
;'1I1d fax. is potenti ally so cost effe ctive for
organizat ions to tra nsmit and fo r indi vidu als
10 receive that it reca lls where office fa xing
stood le n yea rs ago. It is po ised 10 take o ff.
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COMPUTERS &RADIO
RADIORELATED SOFTWARE REVIEWS

John Cot%no, P 0

Things Are looking Up - A Review of SatPro

he n I first sa w S alPro ad ve rtise d in

the Grov e ca talog. I questioned
why anyone would pay S150 for a
sate llite trac king program whe n there a rc
some: powerful shareware trucking program s
around ? So it was with great ske ptici sm thai
I loaded Sa tPro into my 4 X6. W ha t I found
surprised e ve n me.

The SatcllitcPro (SaIPro) versio n

a floppy drive. a nd 2 Meg of hard disk space.

But, it is "h ighly recom mended" by Zephyr
Se rvices. mak ers of Sa tPro . that a math coprocessor is installed . A lso. they me ntion the
advi sabi lity of 5-t5k of R A ~l and a threebutt on mouse. C learly. the faste r your co mpeter the less wait time you wi ll experience.
Insta llation takes a bit of time but is a
han ds-o ff effort. Th e main sc ree n of the program is see n in Figu re O ne wit h its now
familiar to p co m ma nd line and pu ll-down
menu forma l. F I g ives so me ver y basic he lp
det ail s. hut kee p the manu al nearby,

1.5 .~

co mes with a ver y we ll-w ritten and com ptehc nxivc ci gh ty-ci g ht page instruction manu al .
Be advi sed : the print type is qu ite small. It
co ntain s 11 0 illustration s or inde x. both o r
which arc sorely missed . However. it docs
co ntain j ust abo ut eve ry thi ng yo u wo uld
wa nto r need to know abo ut trackin g ce lestia l
bod ies. fro m artificial earth satel lites to plan ets. Th is tota l treatment of thc subject is
eq ually imp leme nted in the program . O K.
Let ' s get it run ning.

Usin g SatPro

I wondered. " Co uld a program wh ich cos ts

so much and promises even more be controlled from such a sim ple sc reen?" C lick ing
0 11 the "Station" com ma nd brings the name o f
2500 locat ions aro und the wo rld . Se lec ting
the on e clo sest to yo ur location loads longi SatPro's System Requiremen ts
tude and latitude data into the program . Yo u
The min imum IBivl PC sys tem should
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h a n~-l5 0 K ofSntl'ro- usa blc R A ~ 1. DOS 33.
of yo ur location. Prett y nifty. C licking on the
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lites and the ir or bita l para metersover 370()! Let' s USI: Boston. MA . as
our statio n a nd try tracking a few
weather sat el lites . We can defin e a
group of sate llites for simulta neous
tracking .
Clic king on the " Ele me nts" co mmand in Figure O ne. we can c reate a
grou p c alled WXSA TS. Lead ing fi ve
NOAA spac ecraft. four GEOS.1Xim b us7. a nd Co smo l Ot S in to th e
\VXSAT S group. we huve our targets
defi ned . T his data base ca n a lso be
added to or mod ified by the user.
Now. re turn ing to the ma in sc ree n
we have a di fficul t c ho ice to make .
How do we wa nt the information prese nted'! Sa tPro gives us four graph ic al disp lays : Full map. Zoom map.
Alt itude-azimu th. and Space view .
Eac h has its own uniqu e value. which
wc'I l exa mine in a moment.
But first. WI: must a lso dec ide if we
wa nt the ca lcula tion s of signal acquisition to be based on rad io rece ption
or visible ob servations. Due to different refrac tor y prope rties o f e lectromagnetic waves of di ffer ent wave-

lengths, the d iffe rence in signa l acq uisitio n

(ADS) a nd loss o f signal (LOS) can he qui te
di fferent. Le t' s usc rad io rece ption.
Nex t we have to decid e the time pe riod we
want to displ ay. Sa tPro allow s us to view the
re al time. future, or past time positions oft he
sate llites. Lcts sec where the lill ie lykes an:
rig ht now at 17: IO:-W. \Vc can choose a n
inte rva l of t ime 10 watc h their movc menr-ssay. three hou rs until 20 : IO:-l-t--giving us
lot s of c ho ices and lots o f po werful analysi-,
tools. Let ' s sec the results.
Figure T wo is the Full map at approx ima tely 17: I() sho wing a ll e le ve n weathe r sate llite positions. their names. and the ir paths at
17:::!O. Imagine this view as one which results
fro m l1 ane ning o ut the ea rth. pre-Ch ristop he r
Co lumbus style.
T he Zoo m map is a piece of the map in
Figure O ne at higher magnificat ion and cellter cd abou t our Bosto n sta tion. T he c losest
satell ite of our c hose n ele ve n is ~O A A 12.
which is thou sands o r mi les cast o f Bosto n.
som ewhe re ou t in the At lanti c Ocea n a mi
tra ve ling no rt h towa rd Ca nada.
To lise the altitude-azimuth Illap you have
to hold the Illap o ve r your head and or ient it
using its co mpass coo rdi nates. Think of it as
printed o n the inside of a bow ler hat. Th e bri m
is at the horizon and yo u arc holding the hat
above yo ur head look ing into it. (Hey. g ive me
a break her e. I' m trying !)
Th e space view. Figure T hree, is sel fe xp lanatory ,IIHI the easiest to unders tand.
tha nk goo dness. T he vie w is from a positi on
above yo ur station. out in spac e. far e nough
away to view the g loba l eart h. In this view the
relative altitudes of the sa te llites can be obse rved as they pass fro m the from face to the
back .

The Sky is th e Limit

Another ve ry useful plot. Sky Ma p. is
accessed from the "Re view" co mmand at the
top right of Figure One. It d isp lays II sky map
which shows you exactly how the sky wil l
look. ind icating the nam e of'obscrva hlc maj or
stars. planet s. and chose n sate llites . Sec Fig.
urc f our. Th e names of stars, planet s. and
sate llites ca n be disp layed or omitted. T he
direction of view and the e lev atio n ca n he
c hosen to fit the use r' s ac tua l view ing situation . Mos t of these co mmands arc ea si ly perfor med via the mouse .

.- _ _

:m~_ i ;::r_~';'::

(Lefl)

: If.;tf:l:~

.1:11,.. '

Figu re 3: Space
d ew of weather sal
gro up

-=----

&01

., _.

..:.-

ta~r

, : 1U:1 = litH:

~~/

(Righi )

Figure -I: Sk)' map " Wllat call I see?

and where? ,t rrow
indicates horizon.
I fo und this plot indi sp en sabl e for o ptical
loc at io n and viewi ng . Using the S ky Map. I
located and (rac ked the Russia space statio n
M IR on a number of eve nings. Sin ce it is a
lar ge object. it is sometimes visible with the
nak ed ey c .

So Much More
Sutl'ro let s yo u co ntro l many add itio na l
local statio n parameters such as blockage of
view to the horizon . T his is very useful if yo u
live in a city with tall buil di ngs. or in a thi ckl y
wooded area w ith tall trees. T he prog ram
a llows the user to cu sto m ize a lmost every
para me ter . As with all im po rta nt par amete rs.
the authors of Sutl'ro ha ve built in default
va lues which a llo w yo u ge t up and runni ng
quickly . Th e de fault for this is ten degree s"In
other word s. it as sumes that yo ur view of the
hori zon is o bstruc ted fro m the hori zon until
ten degree s o ver it.
Alt hou gh a picture really doc s say a thou sand words. there arc time s whe n the wo rds
are a ll we need . Fo r these cases the program
let s you di spl ay the sate llite data in tabl e
form, for a g ive n interval o f t ime . highlighting objects wh ich arc . o r wil l he . in ra nge o f
the chosen stat ion . I found that thi s tabl e . in
co njun ctio n with a plot. give me all the data I
req uired to go sate llite hunting ; e ithe r optica lly o r by rad io. All sc ree ns can be prin ted
for field usc. And the fea ture s of SatPro keep
on co m ing.

which Satellite Tim es tell s me are still in o rbit.

the pro gr am said the data wa s o ut of date . or
the o rbit had decaye d and the object was
erased by the program.
A check of the da te o n the files ind ica ted
that they are from September 1993 ! Not exactly useful for obtaining the pro gr am ' s advertised " hig h accuracy sa te llite predictions."
A lthou gh S T can be used to update the o bject
database ma nua lly a nd th e pro gra m has a
feature that allows import ing dat a fro m a fi le.
for $ 150 I be lieve a more u p-to- da te objects
parameter tile sho uld be inclu ded in the prog ram. T rue . NASA o n-line data is available
a nd the manu al giv es othe r so urces of orb ital

data . But. the ad ve rtiseme nt for the program

sho uld not high light that it "i ncl ude s more
than 650 orbita l e leme nt se ts.." with out saying that they are now o ve r 18 month s o ld and
o nly reall y useful for geostatio na ry sate llites.
Even so. I fee l Sa tPro is an exce llent prog ram and probably wort h the mon ey to a vid
sate llite en thus iasts , thou gh the price may be
a bit steep for the casual sky tracker . As a
pro gram I rate it as o ne of the bes t I have seen.

Satellis ct'ro. lry Zephyr Services. is available

[rom Gro ve Enterprises. Inc, (800-438-8155)
[ or S / .J9.95 1'Ius $.J shipping and handling.

Timestep
The Weather Satellite System
Images avail able as often as
cvery 4 minutes.
Full scree n co lor anima tio n
of up 10 1000 frames.
Direct temperature reado ut.
Latitude I Longitude and
po litical boundaries.
Easy

10

use mouse opera tion.

3D Clo ud images.

Is It Worth $1507
Well . let me say th at I am very impressed
with Sa t Pro. I le arned ano ther subtle feature
of the program eac h lime I ran it. Th e print ed
scree ns are as well pre sented as the CR T
scree ns. Even thou gh the pro gram has many
layers o f co mple xities. it wa s operational o n
a ba sic level within ten m in utes of first being
loaded. so it' s o fi mmediate use to the no vice
as we ll as the seaso ned sate llite professional.
The database of o rbi tal obj ec ts is staggering. Ho we ver. this is a lso one of the progra m ' s
sho rtco m ings . Wh en I tried to load objects

Automatic o peration .

If you want to see the world's weather righ t now from anyw here in the world. including
the A mericas. Europ e, the Middle East. Jap an and Austra lia. then wc huvc a system for
you. Watch local weather syste ms or track hurr icanes and trop ical storms. We can supply
simple sys tems for beginners or advanced HRPT systems fo r enthu siasts. All component
part s are available separately. Systems and satellites avai lable inc lude IIR PT. WEFAX,
APT. NOAA. Meteor. Okean . GOES, Meteosat and GMS . Co lor broc hures availa ble.
Spect rum International Inc. PO Box 108.. C oncord Mass. 0174 2 USA
Tel. (508) 263 -2145 Fa x. (508) 2637008
Manufactured hy: T imcstcp PO Box 200 ! New market CBS 8XB England
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NET NEWS
A JOURNEY THROUGH CYBERSPACE

Bill Grove
bill@grove.nef

The Web: Its More than a Computer Link

ngc nuity is ofte n o ne of the key notes of

the World W ide Web. Jeff C hilton has
c reated ;'1 sire that rep resen ts the ep itome

of ingenuity \I..'hen blending the worlds of

shortwave and Internet. This site. appropriate ly ca llcd " The Listening Post: ' has linked
a Dra ke R8 recei ver with the WW\V so that
simply by si lti ng at yo ur co mputer. yo u can
ac tua lly tUIl C the receiver and listen to rea l-

time audio!
Th e pag e spe lls nul what equ ipm ent goes
into thi s liste ning po st. so yo u know just what

you' re tuning: Mr. Chilton has the RBhooked

to a 25 foot. top-fed . vertical ant enna. and
offers you fu ll contro l ofthe recei ver. Also on
the page is a rev iew of th e R8 hy Radio
Net her land s.
T his type of page design is exactly wha t the
\V\VW is a ll ubo ut-e-cc mhining techno logies , Con grat ulatio ns. Jeff. on a page we lldon e. Th an ks to Roge r \V . Hchcmau n for the

URL
Doing it right
A graph icall y att ract ive \ V\VW page needs
a few elements to he success ful: ple as ing
co lor s. qu a lity graphics. ca vy-to -read in formati on. and mo st of a ll. speed. Radio fo r
Peace Internationa l (RFP I) has a page that I
feci meet s these q ualities . Eve n thou gh the
horn cpagc takes a bi t of time 10 do wnload .
what yo u ge t whe n it' s done is a clean . pert inent site. RF PI ha s links 10 their sc hed ules.

times. and eve n sam ples of whnts a va ilabl e

d uring the ir broadcast.
Th e qu arterl y prog ram sc hedu le g rid is an
ideal for mat in which to display _I broadca st
sche dule . T his page m ust be viewed wit h a
program c apa ble of view ing tables. like
NcrSca pe or the ne w Intern et Exp lorer. Se t
up with day/rim e o n the grid . eac h ite m c an be
indi vidua lly se lec ted 10 view add itio nal info rmat io n o n the prog ram. For ex am ple . if
yo u arc look ing thro ugh the list and sec a
sho w that loo ks imcr cstin g-s-l ikc "Ste ppi n'
OUI of Babylonv-c-you click o n tha i list ing.

an d a whole pa ge comes up ded icated to that

one show . T his site sho ws ju st wha t ca n be
accomplished when so meo ne takes time 10
link techn ol ogi es.
Nex t mont h. we 're goi ng to foc us in ju st
how 10 get to these and man y ot her site s on a
spe cial " Introd uction 10 the Intern et" art icle.
We will focu s o n the most po pular prog rams
and give you the fact s you need to get connec ted to cy berspace! For those already o n the
Web . links to the sites we have visited th is
1110n th ca n be found at W \ ...w.gro \'e. ne tJ

netn ews.htrnl .

Li'n: audio - 40K b>111 ~Of!tf audio _ 120K I LUI 2S fu:guttlCles ITuning tont!'0lt
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WHAT'S NEW?
BOOK REVIEWS AND NEW PRODUCTS

by Larry Miller
Guest reviewers: fl ll h Grave, Raclwt Baughn, Karl l uk

HS-TSSOO
Shortwave/Cassette

the installation of higher-grade

wide and narrow filters.
According to Craig . the stock
wide filter on the DX39.t meaJohn Chillon of Chillon Pa- sures 9 to 12.5 kHz (-6 dB BW j.
cific. Ltd. says that
The Kiwa replacement is 6.5. The
stock narrow filter is
hcs found an inter4.5 to 5 .5 kHz (-6 d B
est ing new 4 ba nd
s hortwave
BW ); the Kiwa rera d io / ca splacement 3.2 kHz.
The purpose of the filsette playe r.
M ad e by
ler up grade is to
AIWA.it ' s a
greatly enha nce the
rece iver 's se lectivity.
w al k m a n
The Kiwa kit ($60
s ize
un it
w it h AM,
plus $4 s/h) consists
FM. and two Fron t (lop ) and back (bottom]
of wide and narrow
s ho rtw a ve views of the H S -TS S()OO
re plac emen t fi llers
with step-by-step inba nds-2.2J to 22 MHz with no
break s. Although it's a single- structions.
I f you' rc not comfortab le wit h
co nve rs io n-typ e super hetero dy ne rece iver. John says that the a so ldering iron. Kiwa can perHS-TS500 "seems 10 do pretty form the 1110ds for you. For more
we ll for its size and price:' The info and pricin g. give C raig a call
monaural sound quality produced at 800-398- 1146. or write him at
by the monitor speaker is accept - 612 South 141h Ave.. Yakima,
able and the stereo sound pro- WA 98902 .
duced through the headp hone s is
quite good . A pair o f headphones
is included with eac h unit.
The only drawbac k 10 the HSTS500 is that it ca n' t record offTo the ave rage sho rtwave lisair. Ot her than that. the HSTS500 is recomm ended as an tener. it' s a di stressing noise. BUl.
inexpensive mult ipurpose radio like many ofthe noises that screech
the
for camping. trave ling. or as a ac ro ss
gift for your non-shortwave lis- s h o r t wa v e
tening friend s and family. Sug- bands. it' s a
ges ted retail for the HS-TS500 is d at a strea m
around $99 .95. but you can get packed w ith
one from Chilto n Pacific for in fo rmat io n.
$67 .95 plus $8 shipping. To or- The particular
der. call 800-7 17-7780 or write noi se wc vre
5632 Van Nuys Blvd.. Suite 222. s pe a king of
th is t im e is
Van Nuys. CA 9140 1.
amateu r Slow Scan TV (SSTV)
and it' s a whole other world of
monitoring. generally reserved for
ham s.
Now any shortwave listener
Have you been thinking about with a co mp ute r ca n monitor
gett ing one of Radi o Shack 's new SST V. All you need is Harlan
DX-394 portables" This latest Techn ologies' Color Slow Sca n
Rad io Shack shortwave looks TV for the Sound Blaster Sou nd
pretty nice. but \....hy settle for Card. Hookup is casy. You plug in
nice'!Craig Siegenthalerof Kiwa the card into your co mputer. The
Electronics can take your DX- sound from the receiver is con394 to an e ven higher level with nected to the microph one input of

Monitor TV on
Shortwave

Hot-Rodding the DX-

394

the so und car d.

Pictures arc displ ayed on yo ur
computer
monitor.
Req uirements arc a
PC with 286
or be tt er.
DO S 3.3 or
:.-;": ..........
'c ...
higher.640k
"- ~
a..
m emor y .
hard d rive .
VGA display capable of 640x480
-256 colors. and a Sound Blastercompatible card. SSTV can range
from pictures of QSL cards. to
shots of local events. parades.
acc ident scenes. people -whateve r catche s the ham ' s intere st.
You ca n join in the action for
$79.95 plus $5.00 shi pping. Send
your order to Harlan Technologies. 593 1 Alma Dr.. Rockford,
II. 6 1t 08. The phone number is
8 15-398 -26 83. A shareware version (SSTVB L.Z IP) is avai lab le
onComp uservc. America Online.
and the ARRL BBS (860-5940360).

....

~ ;.u..

It's a Scanner. It's a

Radar Detector
T ha i
the
new Unide n
BCT- IO "Beartracke r" is a
scanner with a
d if fere nc e is
clear from the
mo m ent yo u
first see it. The
thing loo ks like
a radar dete cto r. And it's really
.\"IIIa ll- a pa lm-size d 53/8" x 3"
x t -I I4".
The BC T - I O is
billed by Unide n as a

VH F Lo w (37 .02 to
46 .0 2 ). VH F H igh
(138 .3450 10 172.02(0)
and UHF (4 23.000 to
band s.
50 8 .4 875 )
There' s no keypad for entering indi vid ual frequen cies. You just set the
state (or Ca nadia n Province). and the scanner
willdo the rest-your choice
o f state or local police .
The BCT- IO' sreal twist
is that it not o nly thinks it' s a radar detector. it acts like o ne.
too. Here' s how: In order to give
you warn ing that a police officer
is up ahead. the BCf - 10 scans
for mohile extenders. What' s a
mobile extender? When highway patrol officers step away
from their vehicles. sig nals from
the patrol car are se nt to their
portable radios by a mobile extender (repealer). The mobil e
extender operates on its ow n frequency and when the BCT- IO
picks one of these up. it sounds
an alarm . So there you have it. a
non-radar radar de tector. Suggested retail price is 5289.95.

Nitelogger "
For year s. Monitoring Times
carried an advertisement for the
Niteloggcr. The Nitelogge r was
a de vice that went betw een your
scanner and yo ur tape recorder.
Whe n a frequency became active. the Nitelogge r turned the
tape recorder on. It was a big hit.
Now co mes Nitelogge r II.
Imp ro ved fea tures incl ude a
man ual/auto switch to allo w
manual operation of the recorde r
without the need to disconnec t

"hi ghway inform ation

system: ' It' s a fully

pre-programmed scanner. With the touchofa
butto n. the BCT-IO
w il l au to m ati ca lly
search for active police frequencie s in the

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c ables. A "recordTamp ha s bee n

add ed to pro vide positive indication of record er activi ty. It still
features an internal spe ake r for
" listen while recordin g" operalion. with vo lume control for silent o per atio n. if desired . T his is
a real nice unit. pro ven in a lmo st
u decade o f lise.
T o get yo ur Nlteloggcr II. Gill
1-800-4 38-81 55. It' s carried by
G rove Enterprises a nd co sts j ust
S69 .95 plus S6.50 shipp ing .

bu siness and often spicy per sonal

beeper me ssages. If you mo nitor
pho ne cu lls in the privacy of yo ur
own home-which the fede ral
go vern ment has declared illcgalthi s is the book o n 110 \1.: to do it
wel l.
Yo u can ge t you r co py o f the
new TUI/ l' ill 011 Telepho ne Call...
forS 16.95 plus shipping fro m virtually every rad io dealer in the
co untry. including Grove En terprises. Th e ne w ed itio n ships in
the midd le of this month.

codes . a co nsolida ted ta ble of fre qu e ncy alloca tio ns, and lists of
nati o nally-all ocated frequen c ies
for variou s se n 'ices .
Polin ' Call Plus is available
fro m G rove Enterprises ($ 12.99
plus S6 shi pping) at 1-800-4 38Hl55. or at yo ur local Ra d io Shack
o r radio book store, Police Callit' s always been exc e lle nt. No w
it' s bette r.
LM& IIG

Victor - ee in
Tune in on Telephone
1996 Police Call Plus Connecticut
Calls
If you 're fortunate e noug h
Last yea r. Gene Hughes. pubHe ' s buaauck ... " He ' is To m
Kne itcl and "it" is a new 3nJ
edi tio n o f

lisher of the best- selling. awardw inning Police Call frequency

directorie s surprised thc scanTII1 It' i/I 011
ning wo rld when he intraTun. In
Tetephone duced Beyond Police Call.
On
Telephon. C.II. I Call ...
Beyond Police Call was a
n OTC is . sepa rat e
b o ok
t ha t
witho ut a suple mc ntcd the po pula r
doubt , o ne
frequency di rectory wi th
of the most non-pub lic safe ty frequc np opu lar d es. From all rep ort s Bescanne r and
yond Polin ' Call was vcry
sho rtwa ve well received indeed.
g uides ever
But Hugh e s sur prised us
pub lis he d . aga in. T his yea r whe n the ne w
It' s bee n a bestsell er. ga rnering
33 rd edition o f Police Call arrived ut stores. sc anne r listen e rs
att ention on national TV . network news-s-even in the co urt- fo und the two book s co mb ined
roo m. II is the unofficia l hand into o ne superdirectory . As bebook o f the eve r-growing legi on
fo re. the new ed ition is divided
of recr eati on al eavesdroppi ng
into mul ti-s tate regiona l vol umes.
fans who spe nd their time listen- and lists de ta iled puhl ic safety
ing 10 "privatc' ce llular. cordless.
ass ignme nts from 25-960 MH z
a nd o the r phone calls from ca rs.
for law enforce ment. tire. resc ue.
port ables. homes, offices. ev en
fore stry. highwa y departmen ts.
aircraft. sh ips. an d tra ins.
airc raft. and ra ilroa ds . But now
Inside the 3rd edi tion is lot s of the pub lica tion also incl udes adne win fo-l ik e 900~IH z cordle ss
ditional tab les for sports. utililies.
phone channels and the new f rc- amu sement s. hotel s. sc hools. se quencies availab le for4 6/49 M Ill
curity. tran sportation . and man y
cordless phon es; an acce ssor y
other services as wel l.
unit t h at cl a ri fie s
A lp habetize d by
scamblcd conversta te and c ity . and
sations ; incxpen cros s-refere nc ed bv
siveDT f\. IFdccod. ~'k
~~ frequ e nc y . listin g:s
...
.
d
.
c rs th a t d isp la y
:.t '
t~
1
inclu c l ic e n see
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'..:""4.
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'
phone, PIN co de .
~_
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naI.ne. C<III.s lg n. typc
c redit ca rd. bank ac.
~
~. _ ~il 0 1 se r vic e.md
.~
=.; ,~~ _ numbcrof mobi le
co unt. and ot he r num bers people send from
'.~ .~, a nd ba se units.
p u sh b utt o n ':.~ ~
~~ -.....,..- An exc e lle nt tuth eir
,',, "'~
phones.Th eres even in- .~~~":"'~ ;.ioo:"ronial
a cchaprcr .IS
for mation o n ho w to de- '-.~-:
o ffe re d. a long
cod e and read non-voice - '"
\vith appe ndice s ofradio " ten"

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sc anning is how to ge t info rmatio n o n a ll of the loca l ltl-codes.

While a 10-20 may me an o ne
thin g in one town. it doe sn't nec essarily mean the sa me thin g in
another co mm unity. Fortunately,
while the re are local va riat ion s,
man y IIf-codes arc based on wh at
is call ed the APCO Hl-code list.
AP Ca sta nds for the Assoc iation o f Police Communicat ion s
Officers.
In the fu ture . AP CO hop es
that all po lice de partme nts will
usc th is sta ndard. You can ge t a
co py uf the e nt ire AP Ca 10Code list o n a hand y. lam inated.
waller-sized card from National
Scan ning m agaz ine. To order
yo urs. se nd $3 .00 to Nat io na l
Sca nning. Bo x 360. Wagon town.
PA 19376. Te ll them that MT
sent you.

live in Connecticut. th ere' s good

ne ws. Th e new. 5th cd ilio n ofthe Off ic ia l Co n1ll,(ticut Vreqm'lIcy Guide
is now avail able . Written hy
Kei th Victor and
By the time you read th is. the
e d ited hy !Jo b
new Monitor America will prob Coburn . the new
ably be o n store she lve s. The
editio n is a co m arrival of this long-awaited. monpre he nsive. 240stcr frequency directory ha s been
p;'l ge
hoo k co nta in ing
heightened by reports that it abover 14 .576 frequ en c ie s. a ll of
solutely bu lges at 1. 120 pages.
them good . Victor. who ofte n
Accordin g to publ isher Rich
kno ws more abo ut CT
Barn ett-w ho . inci d e nt a lly .
public safety tha n some ""'Y";A;==~ j oin s th e MT sta ff
of the age ncies. reall y
sta rting next iss ue-c.
shines.
this editio n eve n inS ix ty -two pa ge s
clude s AM and FM
arc crammed wi th in broadcast statio ns. as
form ation o n state and
well as PL tones a nd
natio nal sys te ms. indeta iled descr iption s
cludin g m ap s and
of rad io systems ,
charts. Coverage inGrove Ent erprise s
eludes the new update
will becarryi ng the new
statewide em er gen cy
e d i tio n. fro m 5MB
med ica l serv ice di sPubli shing . for $ 29.95
patc h c hanne ls, the
pl us S5 shipping. To get
new 800 M Hz RAFS sys tem. and
yo ur co py of Monit or America.
the ne w state HA Z~'IA T sys tem.
ord er toll-free at 1-800 -438-8155
Frequ encies arc arranged by co mo r write P.O . Box 98. Brasstown.
munity for-easy loo k-u p. Th e new
NC 28902.
5(h edition o f the Official COil-

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10-Code Card
One of th e biggest prob lem s in

AEA ACARS Package

Advanced Elec tronic Ap plic ations. Inc.. bus introduced a
ne w AC A R5 pack age fo rrccc iving digi tal air craft co mmunication s. ACA RS is an acro ny m for
Air cr a ft Com muni cati on s Ad -

d ress ing and Rep ort ing Sy ste m.

Th e informatio n that goes o ut over
ACA Rs varies wide ly . It ca n
ran ge fro m simp le arriva l/de parture repor ts and perform ance data
to a "the re's a gorilla loose in
c arg o" message for co mpa ny
headquarte rs.
Yo u need a sca nn er ca pa ble of
129- 132 MH z rece ptio n and a
comp uter (386 o r bett er IBMco m pa tible ) to use the AEA
AC AR S pac kage . It co me s with
demodu lator. soft ware, a nd detailed manual. T he price is j ust
599.00. Yo u ca n get yo urs fro m
yo ur fa vorite de aler or ca ll AEA
at 800-432-8873 for more information .

Global Broadcasting
Systems
Years ago . there was a book
o n wo rld broad ca sting by.
I thi nk, so me o ne na med
Hilli ard. It m ight ha ve been
a Tab Book. I'm not sure.
Th e book was pre tty good;
good enoug h for me to buy
and pu t on my ow n shelf.
So mewhe re a lo ng the line I
lost it. Whe n Focal Pre ss annou nced that they had co me o ut
with a book ca lled Global Broadcas ting Syste ms b y R o b e rt
Hill ia rd and M ich ael Keith . 1
called to ask if th is wa s the sa me
author . bu t I got vo ice m ail.
In any case. Global Broadcasting Systems presen ts the hi stor y, key issues. trends. and status of radio. tele visio n, cab le. and
satel lite broadcas t fac ilities. thei r
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the wo rld . For the tru e stude nt of

internati ona l
broadc as ting ,
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exc el l e n t
g ro u ndwork
from which to
unde rsta nd a
par tic u la r
c o unt ry's
co m m u n ica tio ns sys te m.
H ill iard i s a
c o l lege profe s so r w ho
for me rly worked as chief of pub lic bro adcasting at the FC C.
The book. Global Broadcasting System s, is 200 pages and
will co st you S29.95. To or de r o r
for mo re infor matio n. call 80036 6- 2665. Me nt ion MT to the
voice mail.

New Heathkit
catalog
Ever y once in a while, a new
Heath kit catalog arrives in the
ma ilbox and my he ar t leap s. No.
it' s no t the Heathk it cata log of
old. fil led wit h build- it-yourse lf
shortwave rigs and the like .Train ing is king. no wadays. a nd the
emp has is is de finite ly away fro m
th e ho b by ist and toward educatio n.
T he focus is
still e lectron ic s . t ho ugh .
He ath kit o ffers han d s o n tra ini ng
i n e ve ry thing fro m
core (fund u m cn tal s. c irc u it s .

AC.
sem ico nd ucto rs). advance d
(d ig ita l. m icro processo rs }. a nd
ma ste r e lec tronics . to applied
elec tron ics like VCR and TV se rvicing . laser an d e lec tro-opt ic
tec h no logy. T he o ld days are no t
c o m p le te l y go ne . howeve r.
Heath kit does o ffer a po rtable
AM rad io kit ($39.95) . a we at her
statio n kit ($899.95), and a cloc k
with an acc uracy level of +/- 10

m illisecon ds ($349.95). It ' s

neat stuff. Ad mitted ly. we' H
al wa ys have a warm spot in our
hearts for Hea thkit.
To ge t a copy of the la test
catalog. ca ll He athkit at I- XOO253- 05 70 . Te ll the m that M T
sent yo u.

Yo rkshire . S7 2 8RN . Eng land .

-BG

Homebrewer's Grab
Bag
C apaci tors, induc tor s,d iod es.
resisto rs. integrated c irc ui tsth ese arc all a vailab le fro m
Grove Enterp rises in commonlyused asso rtments for the experime nter and hom e bu ilder. Co mpIetc contents of the part s kits
ca n be v iewe d on l ine a t
www.g ro ve .ne t. Th e bags vary
fro m $ 19.95 for over 400 pieces

Ham Radio Above

SO MHz
Th ere ' s a new ha m ra d io
magazin e in tow n. It' s ca lled

VHF: Ham Radio Above 50

MHz and its publi sher s (CQ
C o mmu n ica t io ns)
say that it's for " a ll
ham rad io operato rs
\v 110 are active or inte rested in op erat ing
on the amateur bands
above 50 MH/.... Features on repeate rs and
FM, opc ra ting techniqu es. packe t. sate llite s. an d project s
a re pro mi sed . You
ca n s ubs c ribe for
$ 19.95 and get l2 issues . To order , ca ll
1-800-R5 3-9 79 7.

UK Callbookon-Disk

1"....

J.,..."",

Ha m
D X e rs
sho uld a pprec iate a
ne w set of 3 ~ I/2" d isks co ntain i ng am a teur ca l l s ig ns
thro ug ho ut the United Kingdom. Iast updated Aug ust 1995.
Requiring at least a 286. VGA
mo nitor . DS- HD di sk driv e . 14
M B of free space. and MSDOS 3.3 or higher , th e fi les
may be acce ssed by ca llsig n.
to wn , surna me, wild card. repea ter freq uency. co unty. or
posta l code . Ad ditiona l lists include all repeaters. nodes. HF
beaco ns, and ma ilboxes, as well
as a Euro pean re pea ter data bnse .
Ca llbook -On-Di sk is $25.
ai rmai led fro m GOLOV &
G4 LUE A mateur Rad io So ftware , 8 Hil d Aven ue ,
C udwort h. Ba rn s le y, So uth

January

1996

'0<i0 . AmaI~'

FM. Pack..
ml"llilo,. Amalow fo!&vtslon VHF/UHF
~wealt ai;nOI ond much moxel

of m ixed-value surface 1110 unt

capac ito rs, to 5 69.95 fo r approx ima tely 70 IC s. All part s
arc iden tified . so yo u can' t go
wro ng by taki ng adv antage of
thi s pa rts liqu idat ion. Ca ll Grove
at 1 - ~ O O-4 3 8 - 81 5 5 or write PO
Bo x 98. Brasstown. NC 289 0 2
for a G ro ve catalog.

- RB

Hooks and equ ipme nt

{o r (l/lflO uncemeJlt or

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Affordable and Fun!

The Sony SRF-42 AM Stereo Walkman
By Karl J. Zuk

uem ion. lovers of AM radio! FiSony jam all its sophisticated electronics into
such a tiny box? Even with two AA size
nally, there is a w alkman designed
with you in mind. Sony' s entry into
batteries and its plastic belt clip installed. it
the world of AM Stereo, the SRF-42 FMlAM
weighs only 5-1/2 ounces. Packed with each
Stereo Walkman. is a simple little gem. LisWalkman is a set ofSony T RH- 1headphones
tening in high fidelity stereo to broadcasts
that sound a little shrill and lack bass response. Try the SR F42 with a professional
originating hund reds of miles away is a treat
you won 't want to miss. Happily. you won't
set of ' phones to truly appreciate its high
have to.
fldelitypotential . Better still.c onnect the headphone output jack to your living room stereo
At the low price of $30, it would be diffi cull to match the qualit y and value of Sony' s
and try 10 distinguish ~t stereo from AM
SRF-4 2. Housed in an impressive sleek black
stereo reception.
plastic case, it provides all you need for casual
AM stereo has one bizarre artifac t. Aflistening. Two small black knobs give you a
terover ten years ofh eatcdcontTOversy,bruadhandle on its analog tunin g and volume concasters around the worldselected the Motorola
CQUAM system as the standard method of
trois. A large stylish gray slide switch on the
frontpane lt urnsthe unitonand off.Thethreeencoding stereo audio onto AM signals. Cposition bandswitch will make medium wave
QUAf\.t depends upon solid signals that remain in phase. Unfortunately. when medium
DXers smile: FM Stereo, AM Mono, and AM
Stereo. It' s one of the only radios you' ll ever
wave signals skip in from hundreds or thoufind with the National Association of Broadsands of miles away at night, they are anycasters' AMax stereo seal of approval!
thing bU I phase co nstant. As a result, these distant signals have a
The SRF-42 features good sensitivity and selectivity co nsidering its
tendency of producing a stereo image that rotates constantly from left
$30 price, A built-in ferrite loop antenna for AM reception produces
to right and ca n easily make you seasick! When two or more stations
are received on the same frequency. you' ll hear a cat and mouse chase
nice nulls for pulling out weak signals adjacent to strong locals. For
example, I could easily enjoy stereo WLS 890 Chicag o only 30 miles
known a" "the merry-go-round effect." You'll hear the stations literaway from WCBS 880 New York's antenna tower every night. Typical
ally spinaroundandaround ,o neafterlhe olher, To n D'Xer withtrained
of simple single-conversion AM radios, sensitivity is noticeably reears. this effec t might be an advantage to pulling out an otherwise
buried ID. Most casual listeners will switch to mono or look for aural
duced below abo ut 1000 kHz. Even so, solid receptio n of Nashville' s
WSM 650 can be heard in stereo traveling throughout the East and
sanity on another frequency.
Midwest. Its analog tuning cove rs 530 through 17 10 kHz, all ready for
Another quirk is the disparity between American and
the new expansion band stations above 1600 kHz, if they ever
Canadian AM broadcasts. Amer ican medium wave broad.
~~\O caslshavea limitedaudio bandwidth rollingoff dramatically
go on the air!
AM stereo reception of weak AM signals tended to
above 10 kl-lz, with the intention of minimizing adjacent
sound a little hissy, and would "motorboat" right before
channel "splatter" interference between stations. Canadian
SSE'stations are not required to filter their audio, and broadcast
you reached noise level. Obvious is the change in audio
bandwidth when switching modes from " AM stereo" to
~s~~
audio frequencies out 10 15 kHz and beyo nd. Listen for a
Canadian transmission of an old Beetles song, for examp le, with
"AM mono ." Flip the bandswitch to "AM stereo" and
both stereo and mono signals can be enjoycd in high f ide lit Y
dramatic stereo separation. You'll love the results!
Switch to"AM mono" and the audio bandwidth seems tobc reduced to
Listening 10 AM stereo is a delight. and the SRF-42 makes it
affordable. Baseball games gain a realistic ambiance ; the Grand Ole
about 6 kHz, ca nceling any audible hiss. Listening to a co uple of hours
of rock standards via Detroit' s stereo WJR 760 one Saturday afternoon
Opry in stereo will make country music fans smile; late night classical
was a rare trent!
music on d ear-channel e BC outlets will refresh as never before. Ifyou
The FM section co uld he slightly more selective. Missing is the
wonde red how 10 spend that Christmas money, Sony' s SRF-42 FM
ability to manually switch 10 monophoni c reception. You are at the
Sterco\AM Stereo Walkman is a box of magic.
mercy of the preset level where the radio automatically switches to
Th e Jail/F eb Grove catalog is 110 M' o Ul, If
mono--a slight annoyance. FM sensitivity is not bad, and the analog
you are 1101 011 th e Grove Enterprises
tuning allows reception ofTY Chan nel 6 audio at 87.75 MHz, as well.
mailing list. call fo r the fr ee catalog al
The lack of a tone control reminds you that this is a basic radio!
j8(JO438 8 155. For our Internet
Don' t be led astray by the red LED, seen to the left of the tuning dial.
cu
stomers, Grove is offerillg reduced
Listening to FM, the LED lights when a broadcast is in stereo. On AM,
prices
and special packag e deals O il
the LED acts as a signal strength meter, lighting when strong stat ions
scanners, recei vers and accessories,
arc tuned in, and does not indicate AM stereo reception. What was the
Chec k out our new World Wide Web site:
logic behind this?
www.g rove .ne t
Holding a SRF-42 in your hand will pique your curiosity. How does

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SHORTWAVE EQUIPMENT REVIEW

Lab Measurements and Features:

What do they mean?

he old .limv that ligures lie and liars

nc l rejcc tio n- selec tiv ity- is e xtreme ly impo rta nt. Synch ronous se lectable sideband is
a new tec hnol ogy that he lps notice ab ly in
rejecting interfere nce from anyone side band
(but not bo th at the same time ), so c hoos ing
a modcl with this feature is a strong step in the
right direc tion.

figu re a pplies sple ndidly to wo rld

band radio. As with any num ber of
electronic products there arc so many variah lcs to measure. and so many means by
which they may be measured and the resu lts
expres sed , that in the han ds of rog ues the
outcome can be comp letely misle ading.

The same holds true for listings of features.

One fe ature may be o f cons ide rable importance. another esse ntially mean ingless. Yet.
on a list or char t all arc give n equa l we ight.
Lik e one fla ke in a blizzard. a key feat ure tha t
may be deficien t te nds to get lost in the snow
j ob .
Or lake how features arc e xpres sed. Ye ars
ago, radios we re o ften adve rtised as havi ng a
" genu ine A linco four-in c h spea ker:' Sou nds
pretty impressive . e xcep t that at that time this
was virtually the c heapes t speaker tha t cou ld
be used. But it sure sounded better than . "We
usc the cheapest speaker:'

I Portables: what to consider

If yo u' rc co ns ide ring a por table . yo u real ly
don ' t need lO pore ove r much more than the
ke y var iab les. For e xa mp le. dou ble-conversion mod els (two IF stages for the A M mo de)
are more desirable tha n are the single -conversion varie ty (o ne IF stage ): if it doesn't say.
it's almos t ce rta inly sing le co nver sio n. as
otherwise the man ufactur er wo uld be bragging about it.
A ba ndwid th in the 5 to 6 kHz ra nge is
de si rable. Bett er yet is a mod el wit h two
band wid ths: one 01'5to HkH z. another arou nd
.3 t0 6 kH z. Look for digital frequ en cy read out
a nd handy tun ing featu res . suc h as a key pad.
And ifyou ca n try the radi o out befo re making
an irre vocable purc hase, listen to how it sounds
to yo ur ow n ears. Ifit "s shrill anti disto rted. try
something els e.
Sync hro nous select ab le sideband ? Few
po rtable s have it. but it' s a real plus and one of
the man y reasons the So ny le r -20 10 is considere d to be the Big Enchilada of shortwave
portables.

I Tabletops and portatops: what to

consider

Wit h "seriou s" radios. though . it he lps to

106

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January 1996

Rejecting adjacent-channel
inte rference

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lo o k carefull y under the hood .

F irst. deci de w heth er you 're loo ki ng for a
"stick shirt" or an "auto mat ic: ' Mode ls such
as the Watk ins-Johnson H F ~ 1000, Dra ke RS.
and J apa n Radio N RD-5.35 arc designed for
folks who wa nt to con tro l man y var iables
manu ally . DX e nthus iasts usually prefer this
approach, ju st as sports car huffs go for the
more hands-on mo de ls. But serious SW Ls arc
often more comfor table with the simpler appro ac h pioneer ed by Lowe Electronic s in the
U.K.
Second. weigh your priorities. Ergo no mics. for example , are usua lly important to
serious SWL s. but less often to DX hound s.
A nd rem em be r that good e rgonomics does
not necessarily correlate with pauc ity of contro ls. The Japan Ra dio NR D-5.35 has bette r
ergo nomi cs tha n any Lowe mo del , yet has
more co ntrols. Ditt o aud io qu ality. But DXe rs
arc unusua lly interested in the quan titative
find ings from a good series of labo ratory
me asu re ment s, For be tte r-rated tabletop and
portab le mod els, these num bers can be found
ill the RO! Whitt' Papers sold by vario us
sho rtwave dea ler s a nd the pub lishe r. International Broadcasting Services. LId.

I Specific measurements: what they

mean

With world ba nd rad io signa ls ope rati ng

on cha nne ls o nly 5 kH/.apa rt. adja cent-cha n-

Th ree perform ance var iables can be measure d to hel p you know how well a give n
model w ill rej ect adjace nt-c han nel interference: bandwid th, shape factor and ultim ate
rejection (a/k/a ultimate se lectiv ity) . Thi nk
of bandw idth as being the width of the top
part of a doorway; the sha pe fact or as the
ratio of the ope nings at the bottom and tar of
a trapezoida l doorway; and ultimate rejection as the height of a doorway.
Look for a rece iver having a ba re minimu m of IW O ba ndw idths su itab le for worl d
band receprion.If'thcr c are only two . look for
one to be rough ly 2 to 4 kHz and the othe r
roughly 5 to 6.5 kHz. If there are seve ral,
look for them to be spre ad through the 2 to 8
kH z range.
Shape factor is the ratio bet ween the bandw idth (measured at -6 dB ) a nd selec tivity at
-60 dB. a nd the smalle r the rat io. the better. It
used to be tha t a bandw idth of 1:2 was co nsidered ex traordinary. but nnw some rece ive rs co me w ith band w idt hs we ll under I : 1.5.
Still, too much can be made o f these numbers. whic h sometimes co me at the expense
of ultim ate selec tiv ity. So look for rece ivers
tha t have skirt selectivity under rough ly 1:2.
Ult imate rej ecti on is import ant whe n
yo u' re listening to a faint stat ion one cha nne l
aw ay from a supe rpower sig na l. So it' s rclative ly less important to most S\VLs and trop ic al-hand DXe rs. but it is definitel y relevan t
to tho se DXing w ithin the powerful intern ational ba nds . suc h as 49 , .3 1 and 25 meter s.

I Avoiding "overloading"
Dynami c rang e stems from the sa me pro blem of cop ing with weak signa ls in the pre sence of powerful signa ls on near by frequenc ies. If it's inade quate. yo u get "overloading," wh ich, whe n you dia l up and down the

band, sound s like murmu ring in a TV co urtroo m scene. Th e catcha ll norm is to measure
dy na mic rang e with sig na ls 20 kHz apa rt.
Thi s tell s a lot, but becau se worl d band sign a ls
a rc ofte n 5 kH z ap art, a 5 kHz se par ation
(which is used by International Broadcasti ng
Services), provides more reali stic result s. Dynam ic range ca n be ex press ed in and of itself
or more meaningfully as the third-order interce pt point (T OI P).
T he rule of thumb with dynamic range and
TO IP is the larger, the better. If you live
where signals are unu sua lly strong- Euro pe,
say- a nd you also usc a first -ra te outdoor
ante nna, you' ll need a receiver with first-rare
dynam ic range. Look for dynamic range me asure me nts of at least (5 kllz ) 76 dB or (20
kH zl 90dB. and 5 kl-lz TOIP of at least -20dB
(20 kHz TOIP nf at least 0 dB ). If you live in
North Ame rica, particul arly if yo u' re inland
or out west, dynamic ra nge is much less im portant. Look for dyn ami c ran ge of at lea st (5
kHz)65 d B or(20 kHz) 78 d B. Yo u mig ht add
a bit to those figu res if you live along the
easte rn seab oard.

Keeping strong signals from

desensitizing
Strong sig nals on nearb y frequenc ies ca n
do more tha n ju st caus e o verloadi ng . T hey
ca n also cause the rece iver to beco me desens itize d to wea k sig na ls . We measure a
receiver' s ability to cope with th is as its blocking ability. Thi s is not a me asur eme nt worth
con siderin g if yo u' re a sophisticated S\VL or
a tropical-band DXer (exc ept when you 're
trying to he ar so meth ing we ak on a freque ncy
not far from \V\VCR 's Goliath tropi cal-ba nd
signals) . But it can be important when yo u' re
trying to sna re a faint DX cat c h in, say. the49
meter band. So, for tho se Dxcrs. look for
bloc kingofat lcast l 15 dB ifyou re
in Nort h America , at least 125 dB
if you' re in Europ e.

Licking pha se noise and

heterodynes
Rccently,agroupofDXers
went on a DXpcditio n with
all manner of sophisticated
tabl etop rece ivers. plus an
o ld tube-type R -390A
wh ich had bee n modified.
Th e veteran '3 90A man aged
to dig out some fa int statio ns the
oth ers could n' t. and the probable reason is
that it is unus ually quiet. so fa int signals can
actua lly be heard and cop ied .
Wh ile the re arc a number of reasons for
this, in this e nvironmen t the di ffer ence was

probably due to an arcane mea surement: the

phase noise of the local osci llator. T oday ' <
fanc y digita l circuits still can't equa l old er
circ uit design s in th is regard . So. if yo ur idea
of a per fect day is to ge t up at 4:00 am to catch
the sign-on ofRadio Cucurucha in Las Moscas,
Peru . then look for phase noise of 120 dBc even 130 dBc--or grea ter.
With sig nals in part s of the shortwave
spec trum shared w ith othe r (non-broadcasting) ser vice s. suc h as utilities and hams, yo u' 11
occas iona lly e nco unter loud howls-c-hcterodync s-e-that make reception diffi cult . Se lectab le-sideband reception (ma nua lly or with a
synchronous detector ) will clear th is up. but
sometimes the non-heterodyned side band has
other slop to contend with .
Ent er the notch filte r. which reduces the
howl. O n so me receivers. such as the Japan
Radi o NRD-535. these are in the IF stage.
which is optimum. In others, suc h as the
Drake R8 and R8A , it is in the AF stage. wh ich
has certain adva ntages bu t is ge nera lly less
desirab le. In eit her event. a key mea su rement
is how deep the notc h filt er ing is. as the deeper
the notch, the stro nge r it is in killing hctcrodyne inter fe ren ce. Look for a depth of at least
-25 dB. prefe rab ly -40 d B or more (negat ive).
By the way. the notch Oil the Dra ke R8/ R8A
require s a safecrac ker's touch to operate, to
the point where ma ny users simply don't
bot he r to usc it!

Avoiding signals from oth er parts of

the rad io spect rum
The radio spectrum is broad as a bam doo r.
includ ing much more than j ust short wa ve.
Go od radi o design keeps the se " a lien" signa ls
from bothering the shortwa ve station yo u' re
trying to hear. Among the measure ment s of
this ab ility are from-end selectiv ity. imag e
rejection, and first IF rej ection .
Fro nt-end se lecti vity ca n be im portant, as some ow ne rs of the ot herwise-ex ce llent Low e HFISOha ve discovered.(Lowe
' ISOo w ne rs living nea r AM
statio ns often lind those local
station s bei ng audible throughout much of the shortwav e spec trum .). But it's virt ually impossible lO mea su re. so at IBS we
assi gn it a grade.j ust like in sc hoo l:
A. B. C. and so forth . depending
upon its de sign characte ristics. No
matter where you live, he leery of
ob taini ng a radio wit h an " F ' ra ting ,
bu t if po ss ible go for a he" or bette r.
Im age rejection used to be an im portant
co nsidera tion. but these days virtually a ll tabletop and portatop models arc adequa te. Never-

the less, look for image reject ion of -70 dB or

more (negative) if you want yo ur mone y' s
worth . Dill o IF rej ection .

Sensitivity to weak signals

A nother o nce-im porta nt measurement (hat

is less important nowad ays is sens itivi ty to

weak sig nals. Sti ll, for serious DXe rs se ns ltivity is releva nt, and espec ially whe n it is
ex pressed as a noise- floor measurem ent. Look
for a no ise floor of - 130 dB or gre ater (neg ative) for exce lle nt result s.

Overall distort ion

W hile there arc yet othe r measurem ents of
co m munications rec eiver s we make at IBS .
few are so important as overall distortion,
so me thing appa rently not me asu red in this
wa y except by us in the RDI Whil e Papers.
Tradi tional me asurement s arc confined to distortion in the audio stage. Howe ve r. this
doe sn't take int o account distortion that may
take place s in the recei ve r he fore this stage.
T hus. we measure tot al distortion of a signal's
qu ality from the time it ente rs the rece iver
until it goes into the spea ker.
\Vith synchro nous detection now av a ilable on se ve ra l mode ls. at least so me shortwave signa ls have real pote ntial to sound
qui te pleasant. In ord er to best take advantage
o f thi s improve ment in fideli ty. loo k for a
rece iver with synchro nous det ection (preferab ly with sy nc hronous se lectable side ba nd )
and o verall distorti on of under 1<.

This equipment review is performed independe rutv by t.a wrcnce Mugne and his co lleag ues
ill tlccordcmce u'ilh ttie policies and proccdurcs oj lnternutional Broadcasting Services.
LId. II is completely indep endent oj rile policies and procedures of Grove Enterprises.
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107

SCANNER EQUIPMENT
EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES FOR YOUR MONITORING POST

Bob Pornoss, AJ95

Add a Crystal Receiver to Your Arsenal

n the 1960s and 1970s. thou sands of

fire men and ambulance sq uad member s came to rely o n (heir singlechanne l. transisto r Plcctro n and Motorola
A lert Mo nitor rece ivers. Th cy ha ve since
been replaced by por table pagers. a nd
arc often avail abl e at ha mfcsts in the $5
- $25 ran ge.
Cr y sta l-co urro l lc d Pl c ctron an d
Motoro la A lert Mon itor rec e iver s are
exce lle nt for ded icat ed mo nitoring of

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local frequencie s-a task for which you

wo uld n' t wa nt to lie lip yo ur 400-c l1aonc l pro gra m ma ble sc anner. Th ey can be
powered fro m 117 VAC or 12 VD C with
the prop er mohil c co n..l. Th e aud io q ual ity
o f a Plcctro n P I , Plcctro n R70 0 se ries.
a nd Motorola A lert Mo nito r is better than
"
m ost co ns ume r g rudc sc a nne rs, and
intermod im m uni ty is o utsta nding whe n
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a ligned properly.
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Even thou gh the o ld " firema n's ra - ",
e> 6
dios" ha ve a low fir st IF, their image .20_
rejecti on is far supe rior to the typical
scanner, whic h c mploys a varica p diode
o. z
tu ned front end de sign ed to preser ve se no
sitivity over a wide band of frequencies at
the ex pe nse of se lec tivity. Sc anne rs with
a wid e front end and a lo w first IF arc
prone to recei ving images ofui rcraf transmission s o n the VHF-high han d.
I measur ed the V HF -hi g h ba nd image rej ection and se ns itivity of the tc n sc anne rs and
moni tor s listed in Tabl e I . As Cha rt I shows.
the Mo torol a Alertan d Plcctron R7 20 sarnples
ha ve e xcelle nt image rej ect ion whe n a ligned
fo r a sing le freq uen cy- a s good or better than
so me up-co nversion sc anne rs . C ha rt 2 shows
the Alert Mo nito r and Plectron arc about as
se nsitive as the co nsume r grade scanners.

-ISENSITIVITY @155.5MHZ, 12 DB SINADI

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TABLE 1:Receivers measured for

VHF-high band image rejection
Motorola Alert Monitor, model M0 3CNB11OOA,
si n 237AGN0058
Plectron Chief,
si n R720B2-43569
Radio Shock PRO-2006,
sin 00 3736
Radio Shock PRO-2022,
si n 920966
Radio Shock PRO-2040,
si n 5500B120
Electro/ BeorcatBC IV,
si n 1189 15
Electro/Bearcot 8C 12,
si n C005038
Electro/Bearcat BC-300,
si n 15464
Uniden/Bearcot BeJoooXlT, si n 450004 33
Uniden/Beorcat BC9OOOXlT, si n 5500065 1

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are sing le band rece iver s: VHF-lo w. VHFhigh . or UHF. Becau se they e mploy a se lective front end, no sing le P lcctron or Motoro la
A lert mo nito r can co vcr the en tire 30-50 M Hz
band . so there arc vers io ns o pt im ized for each
portion of the VHF-1m!'! band. T here arc di ffer ent ve rsions to co ver low a nd high "s plits"
in the VHF-h igh band . too.
Althoug h UHFvcrs io ns were
mad e. they are so mewhat
rare and cov e rage is limitcd to 470 MH z ..md be-

T he P I series (Ta ble 2 ) arc hou sed in

black cabine ts wi th a blue -gre en an d silve r
color sche me used on the fro nt pan el. Th ey
we re mad e in the C hie f. Patrol. an d Se ntry
mod els. Th e Se ntry mode l lacks a carrier
squ elc h and therefore is of little usc 10
hobbyists ex cep t for sc av eng ing parts.
Model number a nd freq ue ncy info rm ati on
appears on a g umme d lab el on the rea r
panel .
Th e R70 0 series (Ta ble 3) ha ve black
cabinets with brown from panel s and are
slig htly sma ller than the P I receiver s.
R700s we re made in the Ch ie f (to nc decode r and carri er sque lch) and Patrol (ca rrie r sq ue lch o nly) mo de ls. Th e Plectron
FM Rece iver/Recorder is a co llector's
item . It is e ssent ia lly an R700 se rie s C hief
recei ve r w ith a built-in cassette tape reco rde r. T he recor de r is carrier ac tiva ted
and ca n ta pe tra nsmi ssio ns while the recciver is unattended . A co nnecto r o n the
rear panel all o ws for all kinds o f re mote
co ntrol possibilities.

How many is enough?

I use two Plcctron P is and four R700 s

in my living roo m. seve n R700s down the
basement. and keep se veral Plcc trons and
A lert Mo nitors stored in reserv e. T he base ment Plectron s a re tu rned o n auto matica lly
when I walk ne arby. Po we r to the m is co ntro lled by a modi fied Radi o Shack Sa fe Hou se
infrared moti o n detector . orig inally sold as an
intru sion a larm . Wh en a rescu e squad from
Mi sso ur i a dve rtise d a num be r o f u se d
Plectron s, I bou gh t them -c-o ver 20 of the m in

10\1,' .

Plec tron mad e se vera l

mode ls with do ze ns of diffe rent op tions. Bot h the
origina l PI an d later R700
series arc suitable for re storat io n. a ltho ug h I prefer
the ne wer R700 model s.
Th e
P lec t ron
50 0
"economy " se ries is less
de sirable.

Top: Plectro n R 720 Chief. Bottom: Plectron PI Patrol

Radio

T his affords best aud io

quality and se nsitivity.
Cry stal nettin g is accomplished by a trimmer capacitorin the Alert Mon itors and an adju stable coil
in the Plectron receivers .
Because ma ny mo nitor receive rs arc in rough
condi tion and need repair. a ham fest special is
better suited for hobbyists who like to fix their
ow n radios .

Two stotorola Alert Monitors

all. I cleaned. fixed . and restored eac h one .
Afte r recry sta lling them on local freque ncie s,
I distribute d the m to mem be rs of my sca nner
cl ub who were glad to get the m.
Motorol a and Plcctron receive rs require
speci al cr yst als . I so me times use Rad io
Sha c k' s generic 3rd ove rto ne scanner cry sta ls
in the Plectr on s, hut they osci llate on frequencies far away from their marked frequ enci es.
T hat ' s because the Plcctr on oscillator is designed to be used with ' a c rys ta l which osc illates on its fundam ental . not overt one . frequ ency.

A rare Plectron FIll receiver/recorder

In contrast to most older sca nners. the
crystal osci llator s in both Ale rt Mon itor s
and Plectron s must be tweaked on frequency .

Mor e po w er to y ou
Many Plccr rons and Alert Mo nitors we re
equipped with an internal NiCd battery pac k.
inte nded to power the receive r if the AC
powe r fails. lt' s unusual to find a used moni tor rece iver with the NiCd pack still capable
of holdin g a charge. More ofte n. the batt eries
have die d and the se ries charging res istor has
ove rheat ed and burn ed . Be sure 10 re move the
dead batte ries. as they o ften lea k.
AC pow er cords for both types o f receivers
use unique co nnectors a nd are scarce. You
can try to buy them ne w. hut it' s much cheaper
In drill a hole in the rear panel
and au ac h a permanent power
cord . Make sure you use a
gro mme t in the hole to preve nt the metal c hassis from
cha fing the line cord.
If yo u find the sq uelc h on
you r Plectron R700 series rece iver has too muc h hysteresis . replace R96-a 180K
resistor- with a 560K resi stor . On the P I. the resistor is
desig nated R81.
I ha ve not us ed th e
Plectron tone -a lerti ng Ica ture s so I ca nnot address that
exce pt to say tha t the special
co ils a nd capacitors for the
dual tone decoders vary depen ding: on the tone freque ncie s and are somewhat d ifficu lt to obtain . Plectron reccivcr repair service is offered by many twoway radio se vice shops. as we ll as:

TABLE 2: Plectron PI models

Band
(MHz)
25-54
148- 174
450-4 70

Chief
(tone decod er & carrier squelch)
RI9
R20
R23

Patro l
(carrier squelch)
R I5
R I6
R2 1

Sent ry
(lone decoder only)
RI 7
R I8
R22

TABLE 3: Plectron R700 models

Band
(M Hz)
25-5 4
148- 174
450-470

Chief
(tone decoder
& carrier squelch)
R7 19
R720
R723

Patro l
(ca rrie r
squelch)
R7 15
R7 16
R72 1

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Alert Mon itor parts arc ava ilable from
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Plec trons or Motoro la Alert Monitors for sale.
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109

ANTENNA TOPICS
W. Clem Small, KR6A, CET

BUYING, BUILDING AND UNDERSTANDING ANTENNAS

Easy Gain and Directivity:

The Sloper Dipole

or mo st practi cal install ati ons th e receptio n patt ern of an ordi nary hal fwu ve
d ipole anten na is almost non -di rec-

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tional. The ante nna ' s reception pattern docs

theore tica lly ha ve nulls o ff the ante nna 's ends.
but w he n the a nten na is mo unt ed relative ly

close to the eart h. as most of our practical

inst al lation s arc . thes e nu lls are not deep and
lose much o f their effec t. If the an tenna ' sends

",/

arc drooped lower than its ce nter to make an

in vert ed -V ant e nna . then the d irecti onal patte rn beco mes essent ia lly no n-directiona l. In
man y cases thi s is jusr what we want in a n H F
monitoring antenna- good response to sig-

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nals coming from any dire ction.

But many of us will. from rime to time. li nd
that we wa nt a direct ional anten na in order to
recei ve im pro ve recept ion in a particu lar di rect ion. Beam ante nnas arc we ll-k nown for
the ir abi lity to he lp in suc h situ atio ns; they
usu ally provide a useful am ou ntofgain w h ich
incr ea ses the streng th o f signa ls arr iv ing from
the dir ec tion o f their ma in beam. and thc y a lso
redu ce the streng th o f noi se and ot he r no nd esir ed sig na ls co m ing fro m di rect ion s o ff
that main beam , Both of these factor s- i nc rease d s tre ngt h of the desir ed sig na l a nd
decr eased respo nse to the und esired lnrc rfcrcnc c-c-c o m binc to e nha nce rece ption of the
de sired signa l. T his can oft en mak e pos sib le
the reception of DX signa ls w hic h are ot he rw ise too wea k and covere d wi th no ise to
prov ide good lOpy.
Wh e n beam ant en nas are mentioned we
may im medi at el y think o f a Vag i or qua d o n
a tower wit h an e lec trica lly-cont ro lled ro tor.
T his so rt of bea m is exc e lle nt if you ha ve thc
money to bu y o ne. and the t ime to ins tall it. On
the o ther hand . fixed wire bea ms. suc h as the
d ipo le sloper w hich we featu re th is month .
can o fte n do a good job w he re a bea m is
req ui red. In o ne situat ion w he re I wanted to
keep a regula r week ly sc hed ule with anoth er
ha m almost 200n mi les away. I worked wit h
an ord inary dipol e at firs t. Bu t it was ofte n
di fficult for him to co py my signa ls . Aft er
build ing a slo per dip ole as d escribed be low.
inst alled to po int to ward s h is locatio n, my
sig na ls wen t up abo ut two Scunits dB above
the dip o le ' s signal stre ngth as indi ca ted by hi s
S vmetcr . T ha t' s un usua lly high for s uch a
co mpariso n; a 1110re co m mo n increa se o ver a
d ipo le is 0 11 the order of 3 to 6 dB .

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January 1996

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Fig. J. A sloper dipole. See text / or details.

O ne ad van tage o f wire beam s. such as the
slo pe r, is that they req uire co ns ide ra bly less
in te rm s of both tim e and mo ney . Another
co ns ide ratio n is that rot atab le beams, suc h as
the Va g i and quad. tc nd to be so large as to be
impractica l at frequencie s be low about 10
M Hz. So. if yo ur req ui rem ent s for a dir ection a l H F ant en na ca n be sa tis fie d w ith a
fixed directi o n beam. you Illay want to g ive
this mo nth ' s anten na a try .

The Sloper Dipole

The ba sis of the slo pcr's beam -formi ng
actio n is its int eracti on with the ground.
Also . if the suppo rting tow er used is metal
then the re may be so me additi o nal ga in du e
to the to wer acting so mewhat as a refl ector,
W ith one end o f the slo per mou nted close to
the gro und. and th e o the r end e lev ated. thi s
anten na ' s maximu m resp on se is in the di rec tion o f a line drawn o ut from the poi nt
direct ly below its high end 10 a point directly
bel ow its lo w e nd. In ot her wor ds. if yo u
stand di rectl y u nder the ant enna ' s h ighe r e nd
and look horizont ally o ut " th ro ug h" the anten na wire, yo u are look ing in the di rection
of the ant enna 's maxim um ga in. its ma in
lobe . This is the direct ion fro m which the
antenna will recei ve be st.
With thi s ante nna . m aking the high e nd
rea lly h ig h lo wers the ang le of the ant enna' s
directi onal pattern. Elevat ing thc higher en d
like th is wil l a lso red uce the antenna' s d irec-

tiv ity, T h us. if the ant en na were moun ted

complet ely vertica l -that is. with the hig h
e nd di rectly ov er the low c nd- thi s would
maximize its lo w-angl e rad iati on. In th is vertical orientation it wou ld a lso lo se all its
ho rizontal d irectivity.

Let's Build One

For thi s ante nna yo u will nee d a len gth of
wire for the anten na e le ments. three ins ulator s. a leng th of coa xial cable for thc lead- in.
and a male co ax ia l co nnec tor for attac h ing the
lead -in to your rig.
1. Determine the approp riate leng th o f the
ant e nna cle me nt from the formula gi ven belo w. Cut the ante nna ele me nt-wire to be ab ou t
a foo t lo nger tha n thi s leng th ; the ext ra length
is to allo w for the wire loo ped aro u nd the
insul ators as in fig. I . Yo u may usc wire so ld
spec ifica lly as " ante nna wire" or an y other
co pper , al uminum. stee l. or any othe r meta l
wi re. insu lated or non- insul ated . as lo ng as it
is suffici ent ly stro ng to hol d up in usc. Soft
dra wn copper wire, suc h as used in hou se
w iring . is more likely to bre ak tha n hard er
w ires w he n used for len g th s in exce ss of 50
feet.
The fo rmulas bel o w w ill give the approx imat e length for th e ante nna : th e exact re so nan t len gth wi ll vary dependi ng on the slo pe
ang le and the nat ure o f the object s in the
nearby s urro und ing enviro nme nt. Usua lly the

length given by the form ula is close enoug h

for satisfac tory performance , but if you want
to know the anten na' s exact resonant freque ncy a good wa y is to usc one of the
automated SWR meters made by MFJ (reviewe d in this co lumn 8/(3) . AEA (rev iewed
5/94 ), or Autek (reviewed 1/95 ).

leng th (in feet) = 468 / frequeney

(MHz) or

than doe s the tann en baum antenna, but I

haven 't yet hea rd tbe LPDA called a "Ch rislmas tree anten na:' On the other hand. there
arc vario us report s, includ ing oncofmy own.
of act ually using live trees as antenn as. So
next Christmas yo u co uld have a rcal t'Christmas Tree Antenna" if yOll like.

This Month:
It is co mmon know ledge that a dipole

ante nna has more gain than a qu arterwave

gro und plane . and lots more gain than the
theoretical iso tropic antenna . How then can
it be reasonable 10 say. as is ofte n said. that
the halfwave dipo le has 0 dB ga in'?"
You ' IIlind the answer to this mont h' s ridd le.
and much more, in next month' s issue of
Monitoring TiW t' S. Ti l then Peace. DX. and
73.

length (in meters) = 143/frequency

(MHz)
For exam ple, at 10 MHz the antenna 's
overall length would be 468/ 10 =
46.8 h. o r 46 h. 9.6 in.
2. Affi x the anten na to the three insulators as
show n in fig. I . If possible. solder the wires
together where they overlap when loo ped
arou nd the insulato rs. Likew ise. solder the
coax co nnections to the antenna as shown in
tig . I.

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putcr int erface and accompany ing so ft w are

to w atc h the port ab le se is mo me te rs in my
area. I hoo k the D ~l ivl me te r to the s pea ker
ter m ina ls of the scan ne r and le t her go ! T he
so ftwa re pro d uces a chart m uc h li ke the o ne
tha t the USG S receives . Ma yb e no t so so phisticatcd. hUI at least it wor ks. (Sec the acco mpany ing ch ar t. )
"B y the way. the po rta b le se ismog ra ph
s ig nals an; horizontally po la rized and h ig h ly
d irection al. Try using a L'lH dow n T V ante nna
w ith p ro per ma tch ing net wor ks for the coax.
Mo st sig nals wi ll be in the 165 *167 M ll z
range, USG S in M enlo Park arc the o nes
respon sib le for these. although C a l S late and
Ca l Tcch h ave been contract eLI to take care of
the m . Fun d ing is va nish ing . so these interesting dev ices may be go ing away soo n:'

s leuthi ng had shown the inte rfe rence CO Illin g from . w h ich cor re lated w it h the o nset o f
the int erfer e nce eac h night .
" A man who lived ac ross the a lley from
Elect ric Blan ke t M an had la id me he tried to
hea r Radi o Finl and on hi s Ze nith T ran sO ce an ic rad io on a S und ay mo rning o nly to
ha ve the sig na l drown ed nul by the lo ud
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" Like B.W.. I called the electr ic utility

w hic h se nt a tru ck an d di sab led po we rt o th at
c ity blo ck. Li stenin g 0 11 a portable rad io ncar
the: truck. I not iced the no ise d isappear. T he
noi se ne ve r cam e ba c k. e ve n tho ugh the
nei ghbor cla imed 11 01 10 have a n e lec tric
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" I kne w no t 10 co ntac t the FC C but to try
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fa iled at that. the electric utili ty solve d the
problem to my satisfact ion . I ho pe 1 was no t
to o for ceful. for all this princi pals in that
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It wa s asked in a past issue o f M T if it wa s
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ANSWERS TO YOUR RADIO QUESTIONS

What does the new FCC spectrum "refarming" plan mean to

radio hobbyists? (Numeraus inquiries)
Q.

Nothing. No existing licensees arc being

forced off the ai r or into strange bandplan
spacings. Spectrum re farrning simply acknow ledge s tha t licen see s are running out of

room. so the FCC is merely adding new channel s between the old . Th is has been done
se veral time s in the past.
By Aug ust I. 1996. new ly-ce rtified two way radios must be ca pab le of 12.5 kH z ste ps.
and by Jan uary I, 2005 . 6.25 kHz steps. in
bands presently allowi ng 25 kHz intervals.

Many services will remain a ll 25 kHz intervals. especially if theyconform to narrowband

technology 10 keep thei r ba ndwid ths small to
avoid interfering w ith co-c hannel users.

I recently heard a TV station

audio identification as "Warner
Brothers WB61 " around 503 MHz

Q.

Bob's Tips of tile MOl/til

Radi o Shac k' s PRO-2035 desktop sca nner held much promise. but wa s replaced in
less than a year by the upgraded PR O 2042.
Is the newer un it that much better? Yes.
Let's take a look at the improveme nts:
-T uning speed inc reases by a factor of
three when the tuning knob is rota ted
rapid ly
-Empty memory channels are uutomatically skipped duri ng the sca n function
-Up (Q 200 frequenc ies can be locked out
in searc h and scan func tions
-Duplicate frequencies an: not me morized
in the auto matic search/store routine
Attempted duplicate frequency entry alerts
the user to ignore or store the frequency
-Frequ encies in uny mem ory bank can be
sorted in asce nd ing or descend ing order
-An amber backlight incre ases display co ntrast for eas ier visibility

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Jan uary 1996

Bob Grove, WA4PYQ

bob@grove .net

tunable radio. Is that likely?

(Robert E. Brock, Phoenix, AI)

on a

The ca llsig n W B6 1 ind icate s a UHF-TV

lice nsee on channel 61. 757.75 Mj-lz audio.
Perhap s you were hearing a retransmission .
possibly a tran slator (repeater). on chan nel 18
or 19 (499.75 or 505 .75 M Hz) on that little
portable rad io. Just as like ly. howe ve r. is that
the inexpe nsive portab le is rife with imag es
and is succumbing to the powerful transmi ssion of the 1000ai transm itter on another frequcncy,

I need a 13.8 volt, 20 amp

power supply; can I connect two 10
amp power supplies in parallel?
(MichaelOreskovic, Burlington, Ont)
Q.

A Yes, if the two supplies arc ident ical , equal

c urrent will be drawn fro m eac h po wer supply. If one power supp ly is inade quate, its
c urrent llow will be limited by its inte rna l
resistance whic h drops its te rmin al voltage

PRO 2042 vs. . .

PRO 2035: Is ~
There a
Difference?
It is rea ssuring to kno w that Radio Sh ack
has respected cus tomer criticisms of a product by improvi ng it. Th is type of respon se by
a company adds immeasurably to its cre dibility. A similar conce ssion wa s exe rcised
by Un iden when they te rminated prod uction o f their wide ly-promoted BC25 00X LT
hand-held and BC8500 XLT desktop/mobile scanners, replaci ng the m with the im pro ved BC3000X LT and BC9000X LT.
Thi s ne w image of approachability is'
evide nced by a noticeab le dro p in negative
co mments from sca nner ent hus iasts who
formerly ex pressed stro ng dislikes of one or
the other of these two leading co mpanies .
With suc h imp roved cu stomer relat ions, thc
c ustomer a nd the manufactu rer bot h come
out winners.

below 12 volt s. then all c urre nt wi ll be drawn

fro m the other power supply . When excessive current drain from the hu skier power
supply drops its vo ltage down to the voltage
o f the other supp ly it. too . resumes cu rre nt
delivery. But by this time. c urrent demand
exceeds the ratings for bo th pow er supplies.

Will an antenna tuner

(transmatch) help reception of
shortwave signals as it does transmission? (Jam es Watson,
Woodbridge, VA)

Q.

No, On transm ission. a transmatch assures

minimum reflec tio n losses in the transmission line hy ma tching the relative impedances of the transmitter a nd the ante nna sys tern , but on reception. impedance misma tc hes
are o f little co nsequence on the shortw ave
bands.The slight- probably imp crceptibleattenua tio n whic h may be ex perienced will
reduce both sig nal strength and recei ved atmospheric noise (background hiss and sta tic)
the same am ount , so the net resu lt is thai you
will still have the same sig nal-to. noise ratio:
slightly turn ing up the vo lume co ntro l will
restore the original reception level.
Frequen cy-t unable prcselectors. however.
arc anothe r matter. T hey arc not im ped ance
ma tc hers. the y a re freq uenc y-adj usta ble
"gates:' allowi ng only a narrow swa th of
frequencies through . while attenuati ng all
frequ encies o uts ide that range , thus reducing
stro ng-sig nal ove rload and improving the
receiver' s RF selectivity. Such devi ces would
be excellent for scanners as well . but have
ne ver bee n avai lab le 10 the hobbyist.

Q. Are there any noise filters that

can be added to my mobile scanner
that will reduce electrical noise on
all frequency ranges? (Alan
Ammann, Raleigh, NC)

A Your ca r gene rates three basic kinds of

e lect rical noise: (A) ig nitio n. (8) altern ator,
and ( e ) microproce sso r. Ign ition noise ca n
o nly he correc ted by reducing spark rad iation
(resistor plu gs, resistor leads. shie lded leads,
shielded distributor ); ah e m uror whine is easily c urbed w ith a filte r c ho ke and bypass

capac itor in the DC power line ; micropr occ ssur noise can so metimes be alle viated by
add ing bypass capac itors to the lines on the
control box or by shie ldi ng the box itself.

Jun e 1995 issue of A'll' on page 6. and arc all

in the 044 ~.Ht L ran ge.

Some local experimenters are

developing CTCSS squelch tones of
ultrasonic frequency (200 kHz on
the 450 MHz band) so they cannot
be heard. What is the frequency
limit of such tones? (Dennis Kruger,
North Platte, NE)
Q.

Q . Have you heard of the Shinwa

remote-controlled scanner? Ihave
one; are they any good? (Tim
Yeany, Rimesburg, PA)

A M anufactu red bri ell y in 1991by a promi nen t Ja panese land- mobi le radi o co m pany .
the Sh inwa SR-OOI was rev iewed in the Se pte mber 199 1 issue of MT. It fea tured no-gap.
25- 1000 MH z freq ue nc y coverage . 200
memory channels. and a bright fluorescent
display. It was a hefty. three-pound mobile
uni t with unfa miliar lege nds C'skip." " band
sca n:' "t imer :' and " groups" instea d of loc kout. sear ch. delay . an d hanks ) a nd busy panel
(26 button. jacks and ke ys: 36 key s on the
rem ote cont rol: and 25 separate ico ns o n the
dis play'). Th e factory preset frequencie s follo wed the Euro pean bandp lan . requiring the
Ame rican user to defe at it.
It wor ked we ll bu t it was pricey at $479
and wa s not rece ived we ll by the Ame rican
public: therefore. it was qu ick ly discontinued.

The November MT had an

article entitled, "Understanding
Trunk Radio Monitoring Laws"
which said that Larry Gass was
modifying Standard brand sca nners; where can I buy one of these
sca nners? (Joseph Thorn ton, Ft.
Myers, FL)
Q.

A For narr owba nd mod ulation. voice frcqucn c ics (3 kHz) is about it. T he)' aren't
modu latin g at 200 kHz legall y ut 4S0 M Hz
unless thc v are usin g vcr y lo w pow er o n a
pure ly ex pe rimental basis. T he presence of
200 k l-l z ton es would dr am atically expand
bandwidth to I megahert z or so . way too wide
for standard co mmunica tio ns purpo ses and
even bro ad ca st speci fic ations. A receiver for
this sys te m would suffer considerable interfe rence from co -channe l use rs.

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Read the article aga in. Gas s wa s modifying Standard bra nd (a nd oth er ) trunked radio s: that is. two- way trans....elvers. not scanners (w hich Standard doc s not make ).

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INDEX OF ADVERTISERS
Antique Radio C la ssifie d
81
ARRL
__
1 15
Atlantic Hom Radio
97
Austin Ante nna
1 13
13
Buckmaste r Pub lish ing
Cellu lar Securi ty G roup
19
Commun icat ions El ectron ics
3
Computer Aided Tech nol ogi es17, 113
CTP
7
Da ta me trics
51
51
Delta Resea rch
56
OX Co mputing _ _
Electronic Bo ok Clu b
57
Electron ic Distribut ors
11 , 37
Erie Avia tion
109
Gllfer Shortwave
89
G le nn Ha user
43
G rove Ente rp rises
8 , 5 1, 6 1, 67,
..... ... ...... ....
_
7 1, 79 . 97
G rund ig
Cover IV
Hollins Rad io Data
10 5
Index Publi shing
__ 9 7
Ja cq ues d 'Avig no n
66
1. Martin Syste ms
81
K&L Technol ogy __
111
KC4ZGL.. .__ _
10 5
KIWA Electroni cs
109 , 1 12
Kling enfu ss
89
Le ntini Communica tion s
79
Lo g ic Limite d
41
Micr ocroft
1 13
Mon itoring Time s
38
Motro n Ele ctronics
95
Not ion al Sca nning Re po rt
37
O ptoElectro nics
Cover II, III
Palomar Engineering
8 3, 93 . 11 1
Pioneer Da ta
1 11
Radio Accesso ries
63
Radiomop
_
69
Radio Prog ressive
31
R.C. Distrib uting
93 , 11 1
10 7
R.D.1. White Papers
Sa te llite Times
38
Sheffie ld Electronics
1 13
Sig na l Inte llige nce
79
Skyvision._
_. 9 3
Software Systems Consulting
89
Stcrtek
_
5
Timestep
__99
Tronsel Tec hno log ies
91
87
Unive rsa l Rad io
U .S. Rad io
91
U.S. Scan ne r Pub lica tions
105
Viking Inte rnotio na l
95
Wo rldco m Te chnolo gy
31

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ex tra ch annels (totaI 200) . One has remote
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WANTE D: Phillips DC-777 SW in-dash.

Ma rcus (4 14) 297-93 10.

FOR SALE: Grundig Satellit 700. four

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oth er pertinent produ cts and pub lica tion s is
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mercha ndise , or trippin g ove r the cord as I
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