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Vol 16, No. 10

October 1997

Cover Story

HR2369: Another Specter Looms for Radio Usteners

An editorial feature by Bob Grove
lfHR2369 has its way, verbo1e11 wi ll be tuning in to business band frequencies (goodbye NASCAR). public safety frequencies whi ch share trunked frequencies with SM R
(good-bye 83% of 800 MHz public safety communicat ions). and anyone caught manufacturing, selli ng. or importing a n:ceiver which picks up these freque ncies would be subject
to a whopping fine and impri w nment.
This Bill goes on to crimin alize merely li stening lO- ratha than misuse of- prohib ited
frequencies. And exactly which freque nc ies arc affected is ex treme ly unclear. II' thi s Bill' s
intent was to furth er protect cel lular and paging communications. it is li ke trying to hit a
mosquito with a salvo of buckshot.
As creati vely illustrated on our cover. Congress fa ntasizes that it can surgicall y carve
out spec ific frequencies without killing the scanner industry. It ~ 11ot that s irnpk. Cel lul ar
and paging services need to e ncrypt. and Congress needs to take down the fence and listen
to the voices of its constituent s. See page 8 for background.

Late news item:

BNN Accused ol
Illegal Interceptions
See page 62

Reviews:

Radio That's Out of This World............................... 14

By Philip Gebhardt
Rad ioastro no my may sound like a hobby that's out o f the
league of the average hobbyist, but you m ay already have heard
meteor s ignal s o n your s ho rtwave, FM. or TV rece iver without
knowing it. With several major showers due thi s fall, s tay warm
and dry while watching meteors-by radio.

Emergency Medical Services ................................... 20

By Ed Muro

Is the Lowe SRXlOO an HF-

150 for half the price? Afraid not,

says Magne, but it still has some
excellent features going for it.
See page 92 for the bottom line.
Parnass pronounces the Radio
Shack PR0-67 portable a fast
scanner with the good image rejection expected of triple conversion circuitry (page 94).

The Emergency Medical System has transformed our health care system s ince it
was inaugurated in 1966. lls effective ness is due in part to the close coordination with
other medical and rescue serv ices. EMS rad io traflic is prime listen ing fur off-duty
personnel, lirst-responders, vo lunteers, and many pri vale citizens.

Shortwave & Sate/Htes & Cyberspace ...................... 23

By George Wood
When George Wood 's S1reden Calling DXers evolved into
Media Scan , it was a s ign of the limes-no! necessari ly o ne o f hi s
choosing. In the interven ing years the changes have taken broadcasting onto the ln ternc l as well. Wood 's ins ig htful a rti cle looks
at the evo lutio n o f internati onal broadcasting fro m a ll perspecti ves and finds everyone has someth ing to gain.

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PCS Front Line ...................................... 28
Brand names for PCS standards
Scanning Report .................................. 30
Acts of Congress//
Utility World ....................................... 34
Military Frequency Bonanza
Global Forum ...................................... 38
Respect for NA Neighbors
QSL Report ............... ........................... 42
English Lang SW Guide ........................ 43
Propagation Conditions ........................ 63
Let's Talk the Some Language//
Beginner's Corner ................................ 64
When Any Q Won't Do
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We Hove Winners!
American Bandscan ............................. 68
Myths of the Domestic Dials
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FM Pirates Increasingly Active
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Lectrokit SP I B Spider
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Plane Talk .......................................... 76

Windsheor The Unseen Enemy
Federal File ......................................... 78
"Privatizing" Federal Comms
Satellite 1V .......................................... 80
Satellite Radio for Your Car
Experimenters Workshop ..................... 82
WiNRADiO SMT Device Primer
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Rodioraft, SWRLupdates
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Moior Protocols
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Opto Micro DTMF Decoder
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Magne Tests ........................................ 92
Lowe SRXIOO/Torget HF-3
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Radio Shock PR0-67
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Hex Conversions Mode Easy
Antenna Topics ................................. ... 98
Thoughts on Multibond Antennas
Ask Bob ............................................ 100
Repairing Smudged Displays
Stock Exchange ................................. 102
Closing Comments ............................. 104
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MONITORING TIMES

LETTERS

AFond Farewell to Larr Miller

Larry Miller has decided it 's time to tum his attention to o ther
e ndeavors and has submitted hi s resignatio n to Monitoring Times
with thi s issue (see p. 6). Althoug h Bo b Grove, as founder of
Monitoring Times, initiated the magazine ' s basic approach and
style, it truly came into its o wn when La rry Miller j o ined the team
in Ju ly 1986. He courted and won a to p-notch sta ff of write rs most of who m are still with the magaz ine today. Additional ho urs
were spe nt hamme ring out MI' s c haracte ristic philosophy and
approach in countless phone call s with the writing staff.
The groundwork la id by Larry Mille r made it a relative breeze
for me to step into the editor's position, but the fac t that he stayed
o n to edit two columns was the greatest g ift he cou ld have give nboth to the magazine and to myself. A ltho ugh Larry' s tale nts were
somewhat stifled in the What's New section, his c reati vity was
obvio us in hi s sometimes off-beat tre atment o f radio new s in
Communications. I have appreciated hi s help, his humo r, his

Ocean Hopper
Sc::v..:ral of you were inspir..:d to write regarding the August "Ocean Hopper" artic.: le.
Let's start w ith a no te from the author, A l
C i ka~ . KA9GDL. who found a few omissions
in o ur r..:drawn sche matic . He says, " First. the
unmarked g rid resistor o n the 6 AT6 detector
is I megohm . Second. the g rid <1nd cathode
pin!. of the 6AQ5 are un marked as wel l. The
grid is tied to pins I and 7. the cathode is tied
to pin 2."

perspective o n life and o n radio, and his frie ndship. We w ill all miss
you g reat ly, Larry.
Bo b G rove , as publi sher and fi rst M T ed ito r. has hig h praise for
Larry .
" It' s al ways hard saying ' Goodbye' to an o ld friend, and Larry
Mille r has been a professional colleague for more years than either
of us would care to admit. But I unde rsta nd his decisio n. Larry has
an active, inquisitive m ind; he is a lways looking fo r new avenues,
new oppo11unities, new challenges . I commend hi s enthusiasm for
writing, admire his abil ity in front of a computer (reme m ber when
it was a ty pe writer, Larry?), and wis h him all the best in his new
direction. Most of a ll, I thank him for sharing his w isd o m, dedicati o n. and frie ndship fo r all these years."
Monitoring Times and the rad io ho bby owe you a big debt of
thanks, Larry. May you never lose yo ur love for rad io-it 's in your
blood, yo u know it is -

Letters fro mJac kRo ubie K2JDD. E. Syrac use. NY : B ruce C amlin N3TSQ , Baden. PA:
a nd Ross Sm ith , Fallston. MD. a ll agreed
that . <1 lt houg h each writer owned a <lifferent
mode l of the rad io, a ll models we re unsafe.
Here are excerpts from Ross Smith s lette r: " I purc hased an Ocean Hoppe r ki t in the
late I 950s ... As you stated, the Ocean Hoper
doc~ not have e no ug h volume to drive <1
spt:a ke r o n all but the strongest statio ns. I
replac.:ed the ban<l set di al with a vern ier di al

The Athens (Georgia) Radio Club needs your help.

We use an o ld converte<l ga rage ow ned by the county for meetings a nd a place to house our
two meter repea te r. We also used an o ld tower at the county ~ it e fo r our repeater antenna . Not
too long <1go, the tower was <lcemed uns<1fe a nd the county took it down. leaving us no tower
for our repeate r.
For years, we have he lped ~ hu ttlc eme rgency workers d uring ice storms. acted as seve re
weather spotte r~. prov ided com municatio ns and emergency su ppo rt for publi c events -the
s<1me things many dubs a ll over the count ry do tu he lp their fe llow c it izens.
We asked tu go on the county's curre nt public service communieations tower or even a water
ta nk. The county ' s new emergency d irec to r said ''No."
We approached a commi ss ioner w ho's o n o ur side. He q ueried the d irec tor. In a nutshe ll.
the e n1crgency director said o ur free. volunteer sc.:rvit:es are nu lo nger nc.:eded o r wa nted !
The consolidated c ity and county gove rnment of A thens/Clarke C ount y. Georgi<1, lrns pl<1ns
fo r <111 800 MH1. trun ked pu bli c safe ty radi o system at a cost o fo ve r $4 millio n. The county will
install th ree towers to ~ u pport the system. T he director. in his re bu ttal. said the planned
redunda ncy o r the new syste m woul d eliminate the need for other communicatio ns.
Anyone who k nows the least bit abo ut trunked systems knows they are n' t fai l sarc . Co uld
any or your rea<ler~ w ho hav..: ru n up against this type of attitude in the ir gov..:rnme nt offer any
sugg..:stion!."!
T hanks fo r your he lp.
u 11-rr Cole. N-1/WP

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October 1997

and ad<led a I 2AT7 d ual triode stage between

the I 2AT6 and th..: 50C5. The 35W4 w<1s
remov..:d. the 50C5 circuit was nmved over to
the 35W4' s fo rmer locatio n. and the 12AT7
was wired in the 50C5's fo rmer location. A
300 ohm resister wa~ substituted for the 200
o hm res ister in the fil <1111ent ci rcuit, a se lenium rectili er re pl aced the 35W4, and a potentiometer was added between the two triodes as a vol ume control. W it h the added
a mpli ficatio n the set now had room tilling
volume on a lmost any stat io n.
"The Ocean Hopper has s urvived several
move~ and was packed away in the baseme nt
whe n the latest issue of Monitoring Times
came in the mail. After reading your article. I
took my modifit:d Ocean Hopper out ofmot hballs. attached an antenn<1 a nd speaker a nd
turned it o n. It sti ll works.
" I have to <1gret: with you tha t it is an unsafe
piece of equipment. I try to keep one hand
behind my back whe n measuring volrnges.
etc. with the cover off. Your redesign of the
circu it using a power transformer and a 6AQ5
is a tre me ndous improvement. A I 2AT7 or
one of its relati ves (stronger I 2AX7 o r wcaker
I 2AU7)can be added to your c in.: uit usi ng it s
6 .3 volt fib me nts in paralle l o r in series fu r
12.6 volts .
Tha nks fo r bringi ng back fond memories."

Breaking the Cellphone Habit

Dave Srnrk. NF2G. editor of Scanner
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"Actually, Debbie,
since you 're going to
be in school all day,
how about droppinK
me at Ken 's house?"

Thanks for the Memories

Before we get started th is issue, I wanted to let you know that I have handc<l in my
resignation from Monitoring Times. To say that this was a difficult decision is a major
understatement. I have wriuen for this magazine and its predecessor, /11tematio11a/
Radio, for fifteen years.
The truth is that I could write a hundred pages about my ex periences at MT I' d want
to tell you about Bob and Judy Grove, the ir compassion and integrity. These are some of
the finest folk I have had the pri vilege to meet and knowing them helpe<l mdt my
cynicism about people. Please continue to support the Groves in whatever they do.
Editor Rachel Baughn has become of friend of ten years. We have been through much
together. We even flip-flopped jobs. At one point she worked for me; several years later.
I was writing for her! The time together was all too short ; r will mi s~ having a reason to
talk with he r.
And you! We may have met al oneoftheconventions. It 's possihle that we exc hanged
a fe w letters or maybe you were kind enough to call or send in a newspaper dipping.
Maybe we never crossed paths in any other way than in the fact that you subscribed to
this magazine. No matter: please accept my thanks. It is rare in<leed for a person to be able
to work in the hobby that they love, to wake up every mornin g and know that they arc
going to have fun . You, by your participation. gave that gift to me. Please allow me to say
thank you. It's been a wonderfu l life. Thanks fo r being a part of it.
- Larry Miller

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t hought~.

Not only doc~ the talking Barbie expound upon subjects or intcre~t to those who
program hcr but hcr lips move in sy nc wit h
the \\'ord,. Thc doll i ~ due in ~ to res November I and is cxpcctcd to sell fur $89.

Radio Garbage
Burning Bridges
The BBC is known for its fo rmal ism. eve n
starchiness. So when veteran BBC-TV broadcaster Alan Towers did a little cdi torial izi ng.
it took viewers - and no doubt rnanagcme nt
- by surprise. At the conclusion ol'thc 5:25pm
newscast. Towers announced hi s rcsignation.
"After 25 years I' m leavi ng thc BBC. Whcn
I joined. it was led by giants. Now it' s led by
pygmies in grey suits wearin g. blindfolds.
How that'!" You could hear a pin <lrop.
The eight-second outburst took the sh ow~
producer by surprise as the broadcast wa~ not
sc hed uled to be Mr. Tower' s last. All of that
probably changed rather quickl y, though.

One Adam 12, 10-99 in Progress

Pandemonium rulcd on West South Street
in Frederick. Maryland. when two baby duckli ngs tumbled into a storm drain. The mothcr
duck paced nervously nearby as Micha..:!
Vlahos, who witnessed the eve nt. called police.
Before long the news was di spatched out
over the airwaves: baby ducks down sewe r
.

"How l111111iliating-rescuedfro111

Scanner Listener is Hero

Workers in th1: dowmown Rirmingha111.
Alabama. Bell South bui lding may ha,c a
scanner listener to than k for thcir Iives. Sheron
Hal mark sai<l that the bu ilding, fi re alarms
didn 't go off and thc only way -.hc knew thcrc
was a fire \\'as from the sca nncr 'hc kcc p' at
work.
Halmark alcrtcd her boss. who ca lled sccurity and the n told workcr' to leave thc
bu ild ing. Mcanwhi lc. heat wa-. coming out or
the ai r vents: the light s soon we nt out. 1!10.
" Instead of Iistening to th1: radio ... Halrnark
told rc portcrs. " I li,lcn to my policc
scanncr hecausc you ncvc r know
a {
w h at~ going to happcn ... Like ba h ~
ducb in a ~t orm drain. The fire wa,
con l'i111:d to one room. o injurics
wcrc rcportcd.

.f ~" d'~AJ,d -,.'- -~J

,; -=-

__ _

\ :C:C-~ - ,,.-

drain ' Olfo:cr Joc Bourke arri\'cd. but c\cn

Frede r ick ~ fincst was hclph.:ss to assist unti l
Oscar Shan kle arri vcd with hi' tow truck .
Shanklc. who heard the report on hi s sc;1nncr.
backc<l the truck up to thc ' tor111 grate and
pul led it l>ff wi th thc tow hook. lkfore long.
the baby ducks wc rc rcuni tcd with mama
duck.
Smilc~ wcrc all around as a photographcr
fo r Tlw Fnderick Ne1rs took congratu latory
picw res. Anothcrtriumph for scanning. Front
page nc"' in Maryland. it w;h.

c=c;o ~ S

MONITO RING TIMES

October I 997

-=-

An Ohio man i' in hot watcr after in vcsti saw him dump a radio in the garbagc
can hchind a fast food restaurant. Gary
Goodmanson. formcr presid1:nt o f the International Brotherhood of Elcctrical Worker'
local in Mcnt1lr wa' the suspcc t in a thrc1:111onth long string or phoney distress call s
that plagued the Coa:-t Guard ' Fairport Harbor -.iation cast or Clc,cland. Onc of the calb
brout:ht rcscuer' out in 30 mi le-an-hour winds
to ri ; ltt 15-l'oot la ll waves during a search for
;1 ~i 1 ;!..ing ~hi p wi th '.! I pcopk aboard . Air and
\\'at1:r rc~cuc crc"' from thrcc ' tatcs wcrc
in volved.
The Fcdcral Cnmmun ications Commi s-.ion tr;1ckcd -;01111: or the hng us calls to
Good 111anson s condomin i11111. In vest igators
suh,1:q ucntly look a 'canncr. radi o transmit ter. and other 111arinc equipment from the
ho111c. Goodman-.on was a rrc~tcd about ..i
hour' aftcr the Coa't Guard re1:1:i vcd a cal Io n
th1: nrn rin c ban<l fro m a man report ing that hi '
boat was out of ga' and dril'ti ng on Lake Eric.
A two-hour 'earch or 36 sq uare mi lcs of
\\'ater turned up nothing. Mentor police thcn
~aw Goodman ~ on leave hi s hou ~e . go to a
restaurant. and du111p the rad io in a garbage
can.
Goo<l man.;on ph:d guilty to th rce mi sdc mcanor charge~ in municipal Court then was
takc n to U.S. District Court in Cleveland
whcrc hc \\'a~ charg1:d with intc rfc rin g with
go\crnmcnt co111111unicatio11'. Ir convicted
g a tor~

COMMUNICATIONS
"Wow, when MT
said that some
people wanted to
trash scanning, they
really meant it.'''

on the federal charge.

Goc.xJm;mson
co uld
be
subject tu six
ye<ir~
in
pri son and a 5250 .000 fine. I le w uld al su be
required to pay for the need less sea rch of
Lake.: Erie.

variety out over the.: air ... I can' t believe that

nobody can fi nd \\'hat they wa ll! tn Iisten
10 ... 0 11 the l ice n ~ed stations."

Quick Cash
Want to rnake $5 .00()') K7.ZU in Spokane.
Washington. says it" II pay that rnuch to anyone who helps them catc h the radio jammer
that' s plaguing their a irwavc~. Since May,
so meone has bc.:en adding "editori al comments like " KZZU sucks.. to the stati ons
roc k music lineup.

Conversation with the FCC

Pirate radi o was the tupic of reporter
Michael Canning"!> article. Included were.:
these interesting qu otes from Ralph Barlow.
Tampa di rt:ctor of the Federal Commu nication~ Commiss ion.
FCC agent s dun ' t have.: the authori ty to
burst into a house and make arrests or confiscate equipme nt. '"Our normal proLedure
is ... ad minist rati ve ... We basicall y tell the m to
stop. and if they dun t stup we I forwa rd the
case to the U.S. attorney' s office.I""
The.: U.S. allurnc.:y"s office could i~s u e arn.:sl and seizure warrants. whi ch would be
carried out by U.S. marshals wi th FCC age nt s
accompanying as advi sors. Regarding the
possibility of this happening. Barlow re lat e~
that '"I It is l a prohi bitive amount of red tape
for the FCC. You have to consider that the.:
U.S. auorney has othc.:r things to deal wi th drugs and everything e lse under the sun besides thi s. So they handl e these.: cases in
accordance.: with thei r pri orities. ju ~ ! like we
do."
"We !the FCC ! have pri orities in investi gations. Safety or life naturally co m e~ first.
Thal means ensuring the non-in1erfc.:re nce of
fire. police. Coast Guard. and other emergency service radio frequencies."
In the Tampa area. Barlow says there arc
three cases against pi rates with the U.S. auorney: 87X. I02. 1. and 96.7 FM. But nobody is
holding the ir brc.:at he. at l ea~t not until a U.S.
District Court in California rules on the controversial Radio Free Berke ley case. Twice in
1995. the judge refused lo i s~ ue an injunction
against that pirate.
Barlow admits some pu zz lement about
pirate.: radio. "As for these people who arc.:
th umbing their nm e at federal authority. I
can' t rc.:ally answc.: r for thc.:111. Thercs such a

There was one las! broadcast, though. The

jammer announced that if listeners wanted to
hear more of what he had to say. they should
tune in to Channel 7 or 13 on their CB radios.

Accord in g lo program di rector Ken

Hopki ns. the messagc.:s arc probably taped
since they repeat o ver and o ver. " I j ust got a
call fro m listener who said he was driv ing
wit h hi ~ ki d ~ when s uddenl y. over the.: air. he
heard a st ring of obsceni tic.: s and then an
announcc.: mc nt 1ha1 Santa C laus had just been
sho1.
K7.ZU originall y tried lo take o n the.: jammc.:r by ma king fun of him on the air and
aski ng listeners to try and catch him o n tape.
The jamme r has bee n "dark" fur a while, a
reaction to annuum;cments on local TY that
the station would aggressivc.:ly pursue him.

Communications is written by Larry

Miller with editorial a ~s i stan cc.: fro m Rachel
Baughn. Larry Yan Hurn . and the MT art
depar!mc.:nt. We al so receive he lp from the
loyal members of ou r communications..
monitoring team who clip out and sc.:nd in
interesting items about communications. the
absurd. and the world at large: Dave Alpert.
New York. NY: Anonymou s. Albany. NY:
Harry Baughn. Brasstown. NC: David Beck,
Birmingham. AL: Bill Craig. Burbank , CA;
Maryanne Kehoe. Atlanta, GA: Elbert May,
Grayville. AL: Oflicc.:r John Mall oy. Brouk
Park. OH: Ken "Quack, Quack" Martin,
Thurmont. MD: Daryl Symington, Holland,
OH: Dr. Sue Pennington Ill. Philadelphia,
PA: and Wil bur Yancy. Claims Depo, AZ.
We also consulted the following publications
and list their names in appreciatio n: Di.I-patch
Monthly. Radio World. Satelli1e Ti111e.1 and
the W5 YI Report.

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A re the sca1111er listeners in the cro wd at this NA SCA R event doing something
illegal? Th ey will be if HR236~ becomes law. Th is ban 011 tile business ba~1d_ ~ould
make listening to NASCA R drivers and even tile ma11ufa ct11re of such radws illegal.1

Another
Specter
Looms for
Radio
Hobbyists

An Editorial Feature by Bob Grove, Publisher, Monitoring Times

R2369 is the broadest-sweepin g a1_1~i ~sl:anner Bil.I eve1: writ1e n
in the name of prival:y protec ti on; 1t l1tcra ll y enforl:ed 1t would
vinua lly eliminate the scanner industry. and impact on the
shortwave and satellite commu nit ies as well .
Even a generous interpretation forbids reception of frequcnc ii.:s
used by NASC /\R teams. re moves police and fire communications in
some commun ities. and aff..:cts agenc ies such as the Civil Air Patro lcommunicat ions which the public uses on the job. in commu nity
volunteer work. for entertainment. and for educati on.
The penalty fo r any person who manufacture-. mod ilie~. imports.
exports, or sells any device capable of recei ving the prohibi ted frequenc ies a lso seems excessive- up to a $500,000 fine and five yea rs in
prison! Also, no prov ision is made in this new !Ji ll fo r grandfat hering
in older receivers. Is this the end of hobbyists swappi ng out o lder
scanners and ge neral coverage n.:ceivers at a hamfest in order to
upg rade to ne wer equipment?

MONITORING TIMES

October 1997

A Little History

In 1986. the Cellular Te lecommun ications Industry Associ ati on

(CT IA) s uccessfully lobbied for legislation lo prohibi t the deli berate
mo nitoring of mobile te lephones. The re~u lt i n g Electronic Communications Privacy Act (EC PA) did little to di ~rnu ragel: u r i o u s scanner
list..:111.:rs from tu nin!! in on cellul ar and other mobi le t<.:lcphones. At
that time. the CTIA l1rn111ised it wou ld soon offer dig ital encryption
to provide pri vacy to it s customers.
In 1993. again prompted by the CTI A. Congress directed the
F..:deral Co mmun ica ti o n ~ Commission (FCC) to deny certification to
any scanner which r<.:l:<.: ived. or rnuld be n:adily alter..:d to rece ive,
cellular telephone freq uencies .
However. because of the number of cdl11lar-capahle scanners o n
the market. and the ready alterat ion of man) new models whi ch were
al ready certified. scanner listc n..:rs sti ll had an op..:n line to phone
call s. The lo ng-pro mised encrypted com munications were still not

avai lable except as an expensive add-on, paid

for by the consumer.
On February 5th, 1997, hearings at the
House Subcomm ittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection convened, focussing on the continued vu lnerability of cellular telephones to scanner eavesdropping. The hearings were prompted by the
embarrassi ng disclosure that one oftheirown,
Newt Gingrich, had been overheard on a cell
phone conversation which implicated him in
a strategy to evade a provision of the Ethics
Committee. The conversation was overheard
and recorded by a Florida couple using an
unaltered Radio Shack PR0-51 scanne r.
Rather than recognize the failure o f the
cellul ar industry to utilize readil y-available
voice encryption technology-eleven years
after it was promised- the blame fo r the ease
of interception was once again placed on
scanner owners who were categorically characterized as " hi gh-tech eavesdroppers." Representative Edward Markey (0-MA), the author of the 1993 amendments and the most
an imated and vocal of the Subcommittee
members, promised we would "see scanner
sales drop precipitously.'' He appears to be
keeping hi s word by introducing HR l 964(see
September 1997 MD.
It is clearly less expensive (though less
effecti ve) to try to get Congress to repeal the
laws of physics than to implement encryption .
Th is became apparent during the February
hearing in which CTIA spo kesman Tom
Wheeler was invited to dominate the proceed-

CTIA spokesman Tom Wheeler (left) and Subcommittee Chairman Bill Tauzin
discuss the modification of a scanner during the February Congressional hearings.
Oddly enough, the radio chosen for "restoration" was a Radio Shack PR0-26 - a
scanner 110 one else has succeeded in restoring.
ings while other witnesses were denied the
courtesy of reply or rebuttal.
During that hearing, a carefully-rehearsed
demonstration between Wheeler and Subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-LA) purported to show how easy it was to restore
cellul ar coverage on a scanne r- in thi s case,
according to a Radio Shack official. a PR026. Curiously, thi s model has not been reported restored by anyone else and. although

withdrawn from the market because of the

hearing. remain s FCC certified!

I Legislation Looms over the Industry

On June 19th, Markey submitted 10 Congress HR 1964, a Bill intended 10 prov ide
sweeping changes to both Internet practices
and scanner enforcement. Much of the wording. including the substi tution of "Commer-

The Target: Commercial Mobile Radio Service

Rep. Tauzin says it's not true that his Bill will deny racing fans their
radios, but the case seems pretty clear. Let's take Jeff Gordon' s team, for
example. They've been heard on 467.0625 and 469.4875 MHz. Do you
sec those frequencies listed below under the prohibited Commercial
Radio Service? Of course you do ' The new law will prohibit the
manufacture, sale, or even listening to any radio that covers these
frequencies!
I) Private Paging Services
Private carrier paging system (PCPS): 929-930 I 93 1-932 MHz
2) Business Radio Services
VHF low band: 30.76-31 .24 (9 discrete freqs ) /33. 14-33. 16 I 33.40 I
35.02-35.1 4 /35.18/ 35.7-35.72 I 35.88-35.98 I 42.96-43.00 MH z
VHF Hi-band: 151.625-1 51.9551154.570- 154.600 MHz
UHF band: 457.525-457.600/ 460.650-462. 1875 I 465.650-467. 1875
I 462.750-462.925 I 467.750-467.925 I 463.200-465.000 I 468.200470.000 MHz
There are also a number of chunks of the 470-512 MHz that will be
removed.
3) Specialized Mobile Radio (SMR) Services
85 1-866 (806-82 1 MHz)/ 935-940 (896-90 I MHz)

4)
5)

6)
7)

8)

(home to many public safety agencies for whom there wasn't room in
the 866-869 MHz portion)
Land Mobile Services in the 220-222 MHz region (recent regulations
have turned th is over to the CMRS)
Public Mobile Services
A) Paging and Radiotelephone Services
35.2-35.66 I 43.2-43.66 MHz I 152.030- 152.240 I 152.480-152.840
MHz
154.625 / 157.740-158.100 I 158.460-159.700 MHz
B) Cellul ar Radiote lephone Service
869-894 MHz (824-849 MHz mobiles)
C) 454 MHz Ai r-Ground Radiotelephone Service
454-455 MHz (459-460 MHz mobiles)
D) 800 MHz Air-Ground Radiotelephone Service
894-896 MHz (849-851 MHz mobi les)
Offshore Radiotelephone Services
Satellite Mobi le Services
137-1 38 MHz NYNG ( 148-150.050 uplinks) I 399.9-400.050 I 152515591 1610-1660.5 MHz
Personal Communication Services (PCS)
901-902 I 930-931 I 940-94 l I 1850-1990 MHz

October I 997

MONITORING TIMES

cial Mobile Radio Se rvice .. ror ''domestic

cellu lar radi o telecommun ications service,"
in Markey's Bill appears to have rnme from a
sllldy by the Center for Democracy and Tec hno logy, released in June 1997. entitl ed ..Communicati ons Pri vacy in the Digital Age."
Nearly every endorsing organi zatio n for
th is study is a lobby for the paging. ce llular. or
w ire line tele phone companies. Jerry Berman.
head of the Ce nter (whic h was formed in Dec
1994). was instrumental in drafting the ECPA
of 1986. It is ironic that this organ ization, so
principled in its fight for free access to informati on on the Internet. should have- in the
name of privacy-so dramatically c urtailed
publi c access lo the airwaves.
Fortun a te ly for the sca nner indu stry,
HR 1964 has not at this writing found a ny cosponsors. nor is it scheduled for a hearing.
However, on Jul y 3 1, Tauzin introduced
HR2369, a nightmarish proposal which not
onl y includes all of Markey' s scanne r-related
prohibition s, but even changes the provis ions
of the original 1934 Communications Act
(see accompanying Bill tex t). The simple expedi el1l of replacing the word .. and .. w ith the
word "or" now criminali zes the mere act of
overhearing a communication protected by
the Bill. even though it' s transmilted wi thout
e ncryption, rather than pe nali zing the illegal
use of such communi cation .
lflilerally enforced. HR 2369 w ill virtuall y
e liminate lhe scanner indust ry. an est imated
$200 million annua l market: additiona ll y. its
ambiguous language impacts on the shortwave co mmunit y as we ll s ince ut il it y
(nonbroadcasl) communi cations occ upy 78%
of the freque ncies bel ow 30 MHz.

I Accidental or Insidious?
Perhaps HR2369's autho rs s imply do n' t
understand the ir own Bill. We li ve in a technical era and fe w. if an y. me mbers of the
Subcommiltee are trained in te lecommuni cati ons . Errors of commiss io n. omission. and
contradict ion are rife in the Bill. Admiltedly.
Part A would seem to a ll ow monitori ng of
public safety communi cations. bul Parts B
and C do not. If remova l of public safety
communicati ons from Ameri cans' radios is
nol an in lent. as we are reassured by Tauzin 's
offi ce, the n why remove freque ncies allocated to these services?
According to a Tauzin spokes person. the
Bill' s intent is to ban any sca nner capable of
rece iving mobile phone freq uenc ies used by
the Co mm e rc ial Mobil e Radi o Se r vice
(CMRS). But, as seen in th e accompany ing
si debar, CMRS inc ludes a great deal more
th an cel lular pho nes and paging services. Of
10

MONITORING TIMES

October 1997

HR 2369 IH
1OS th CONGRESS
1st Session
{Original text has been inserted where needed for meaning, with strikeol/ls and new text in bold.}
To amend the Communicati ons Act of 1934 to strengthen and clarify prohibitions on
electronic eavesdropping, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIV ES

July31 , 1997
Mr. TAUZIN (for himself, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. OXLEY, Mr. GILLMOR. M s.ESHOO.
and Ms. MCCARTHY of Missouri) introduced the follo wing bi ll; whic h was referred to
the Committee on Commerce
A BILL
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to strengthen and c larify prohibitions on
electronic eavesdropping, and for other purposes.
Be it e nacted by the Senate and House of Representatives o f the United States of America
in Congress assembled.
SECTION I. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the 'Wi re less Privacy Enhanceme nt Acl of 1997'.
SEC. 2. COMMERCE IN EL ECTRONIC EAVESDROPPING DEVICES.
(a) PROHIBITION O N MODIFICATIO N- Section 302(b) of the Communications Act or
1934 (47 U.S .C. 302(b)) is ame nded by inserting before the period at the end thereof the
fo ll owing: , or to modify any suc h device. equi pme nt , or syste m in any manner that causes
such de vice, equipme nt, or system to fai l to comply w ith suc h regulations' .
TO REA D: No person shall ma nufac lUre, import, sell , offer for sale. or ship devices or home
e lectronic equipment and systems, or use dev ices, whic h fa il lo comply with regulations
pro mul gated pursuant to this section, or to modify any such device, equipment, or system
in any manner that causes such device, equipment, or system to fail to comply with such
regulations.

(b) PROHIBITION ON COMMERCE IN SCANNIN G RECEIVERS- Section 302(d) of

such Act (47 U.S.C. 302(d)) is a me nded to read as fo llows:
(d) The Commission shall prescribe regulations den ying eq uipme nt authorization (under
part 15 of title47, Code of Federa l Regulations, or a ny other pa rt of that titl e) for any scanning
rece iver thal is capable of-( 1) receivi ng trans missions in the freque nc ies allocated to [the clo111e~t ic cellul<11 1<tdio
teleeo111111u11ic,1tio11s ser ice] any commercial mobile service (as defined in section
332(d),
(2 ) readil y be ing altered [b y the um J lo receive transmi ssions in such frequenc ies. !ml
(3) being equipped with decode rs that convert !digital eelluh11 t1 11 11 s1ui s.~io11s] digital
commercial mobile service transmissions to analog voice aud io, or

(Continued on next page )

(4) being equipped with devices that otherwise decode encrypted radio transmissions for
, . the purposes of unauthorized interception.'
(c) IMPLEM ENTI NG REG ULATIONS- Within 90 days after the date of e nactment of thi s
Act, the Federal Communications Commission shall prescribe ame ndments to its regulations
fo r the purposes of implementing the amendments made by this section. In presc ribing such
ame ndments. and in response to subsequent changes in technology or be havior. the Commission shall review and revise its de linition of the te rm 'capable of readily being alte red as
necessary to prevent commerce in devices that may be used un lawfu lly to inte rcept or divulge
radio comm un ication.
SEC. 3. UNAUTHORIZED INTERCEPTION OR PUBLICATION OF COMMUN ICATIONS.
(a) AMENDMENTS- Section 705 uf the Communications Act of 1934
(47 U.S.C. 605) is amended-( I) in the heading of such section. by inserting ' inte rception or afte r unauthori zed';
TO READ: Unauthorized Interception or Publication or Use of Communications
(2) in the second sente nce of subsection (a). by striking and di vulge' and inserting 'or di vulge';
TO READ: No pe rson not being au thorized by the sender sha ll intercept any radio communication [amt di 11lge I or divulge or publish the existence, conte nts. substance. purport, e ffect.
or meaning of such intercepted communication to any person.
(3) in subsection (e)( I)-(A) by striking fined not more than $2.000 or'; and (B) by inserting or lined under title 18.
United States Code,' after '6 months,'; and
TO READ: Any person who w illfully violates subsection (a) of this section shall be [lined 1101
11101e tl1a11 $2.00001 l imprisoned for not more than 6 months or fined under title 18, United
States Code, or both.
(4) in subsection (e)(3), by striking any violation and inserting any receipt, interception.
divulgence, publication, or util ization of any commun ication in violation; and
TO READ: (3)(A) Any person aggrieved by [any 1iolaticm] any receipt, interception,
divulgence, publication, or utiliwtion of any communication in violation of subsection (a)
of this section or paragraph (4) of this subsection may bring a c ivil action in a United States
district court or in any other court of competent j urisdiction.
(5) in subsection (c)(4). by strik ing any other activi ty prohibited by subsection (a)' and
inserting 'any receipt. interception, divulgence, publication, or utili zation of any communication in violation of subsection (a)'.
TO READ: (4) Any person who manufactures. assembles, modifies. imports, expo11s. e lls, or
distributes any e lectronic, mec hanical. or other device or equ ipment, knowing or having reason
to know that the device or equipme nt is primari ly of assistance in the unauthorized decryption
of sate llite cable programming, or is intended for [,my otlie1 acti vity p1olribited by .~11b .~ec tio11
Wl any receipt, divulgence, publication, or utilization of any communication in violation
of subsection (a) of thi s secti on, shall be fi ned not more than $500,000 for each vio lation, or
imprisoned fo r not more than S years for each violation, or both. For purposes of all penalties
and remedies established for violat ions of this paragraph. the prohibited acti vity established
herein as it applies to each suc h device shall be deemed a separate violation.
(b) RESPONSIB ILITY FOR ENFORCEMENT- Notw ithstanding any other in vestigati ve or
enforcement activities o f any other Federal agency. the Federal Communication~ Comm ission
shall investigate alleged violations of section 705 of the Communications Act o f 1934 (47
U.S.C. 605) and may proceed to initiate action under section 503 of such Act (47 U.S.C. 503)
to impose forfe iture penalties with respect to such violation upon conclusion ofthe Commission s
investigation.

most concern are public sa fety systems. w hich

arc currently legal to monitor. and which
share frequency spectrum wi th Specia lized
Mobil e Rad io Services (S MR ).
SM R a nd Bus iness Band systems are c lassified in the Commercial Mobi le Radio Service because they both interface w ith wire
commun ications which are protected. With
passage of thi s bill the reception o f po lice,
fire. ambul ances . local gove rnme nt, and
NASCAR rac ing teams ut ilizing 800 MHz
freque nc ies wou ld become illegal: scanners
receiving those frequencies woul d lose their
type acceptance.
With the passage of HR2369. 83 percent of
the 800 MHz public safety frequenc ies would
be lost. drastica ll y lim iting the use of tru nk
tracking scanners. Wou ld ma nufac turers find
it worth their while to produce scanne rs already a minor market-if they arc fo rced to
om it the frequenc ies of greatest interest?
T he impact on news med ia is a lso obvious:
there is a we ll -established liaison between the
med ia and publ ic safety organ izations for
news gatheri ng. W ith mon itoring of these
services outlawed. suc h leads would become
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T e ll your local news medi a they are al so pu blication of G ing rich's phone conve rsation
th is source of leads. C itizen watch teams a nd
off-d uty fi re fi ghte rs w ho mo nitor w ith lo w- be ing targeted. Agent Kallstrom. F B I Ass is- should not be used as justificat ion fo r broadtant Director. NY Di visio n. c laimed mo ni to r- e ni ng the scope of ''iIlegal" freq ue ncies. To do
cost scanne rs wo uld be a th ing o f the past.
ing by the press fo rced the Federal Bureau of
so damages leg itimate uses of radio and reAdd itio na lly, the Bi ll appears to prohibi t
Investigatio n to abando n use of cell ula r phones
the mon itoring o f o ther serv ices no t intended
moves the responsibi lity from those who should
for publ ic reception. apparent ly inc luding during the TWA 800 c rash investigation. Laws bear it: the com municatio ns services which
many sate ll ite services. Would we Jose C and a lready o n the books prohibit such invasive owe it to thei r customers to provide encryption. and those who are violating existing Jaws
listening.
Ku band downlinks. NASA shutt le audio.
T his a lleged inc ide nt and the improper
regarding use of rad io com mun ications.
pe rhaps eve n weather sate ll ite mo nito ri ng?
A mate ur rad io wo uld be severe ly restric ted .
since transceivers cou ld no longe r incorpo rate
w ide-coverage receiver sec t io n ~. severe ly
ha ndicapping M il itary Affi li ate Radio Service ( M ARS), C ivil Air Patro l (CA P). and
o ther auxi lia ry publ ic service e ffo rts d uring
natura l d isasters, plane crashes. and public
we lfa re and mo rale communi catio ns .
The Bill is pe rpl ex ing . Was it written
The Honor<1blc - by someone so ine pt and inexperi . senate
United s rn1es c 2os 10
enced that it is almost tota ll y unusWashington. D. .
n 1e Honorable ~f
Representatives
able? Does the writer s imply no t underHouse o
Unite~ S1a1es C. 205 I 5
stand the radio spectrum and its users?
Washington. D.
Is the broad sweep intentional. designed

Going to Bat for Radio Monitoring:

A Suggested Letter to Congressmen

-------

for negoti ationa l room w it h its oppone nts? Is it merely w ritte n to pl acate the
C TI /\ so that, if it fa ils, the Subcomm ittee
me mbers can still te ll the ir speci al inte rests. " We ll , we tried! "?
Or is it really an inte ntio na ll y punitive
legis lati o n. inexpertly ''desig ned by a com m ittee."' mak ing their j ob easier by catering
to thcircontributors and mandating the strugg li ng FCC with itsenforce ment?This would
be a c haracte risti call y sim plistic. althoug h
unconsc io nable, solut ion to a complex techno logical proble m.

Call to Action
We strong ly believe in ou r c itizens' right to
privacy. but the o n us of privacy protect io n is
o n the service provider, not the hapless ho bby ist who could face an extended prison sentence and Joss of hi s life sa vings afte r he
ove rhea r~ a ny o ne o f an overwhe lming num ber of c lear vo ice transmiss ions.
Action o n the Bill could come at any timercmc mbcr. the 1993 censori ng of full -freq ue ncy-coverage scanners was de liberate ly
added o n as an e leventh- ho ur a me nd ment to
ano the r Bill in front of a weary Cong ress
cager to adjo urn . If we all ow thi s ty pe of
underhanded . PAC-funded mani pulation to
be repeated. we deserve to lose o ur tradi tiona l
right of access to the a irwaves.
W rite. call. o r e-mail you r Congressio nal
represe ntative and voice your opposit ion to
HR2369. We re print a letter by Rachel Baughn
as a sample; several other letters can be fo und
at the KyScan web site http://www.uky.edu/

- hpcach/congress/locate.htm
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. /Senator.
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c)and
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HR I964 (The Co11111111'.'.":b\e of recepti? n of

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am writing to urge
bSa)n
Wi reless priv(lcy
1
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bile radio services
. e bi\\.
.
f CMRS in scanners.
the commercial ~o an even more repr~ss~~e same prohibition o R drivers. and o~er
11/J(l11ce111e11t Ac l)HR I 964 both contain r
fire. rescue. NASCA share frequencies
HR 2369 and . who tune in \ocal Po ic~, ws just because they ently-a\\owable
~ monsofhobby1s1s
Id be branded o~I a . ' to any ofthcsecurr
1n 1
. traffic cou
. \y b sten1ng
. d a fine.
1wo-way radio
n services. S1mP
m risonment an '
reception of any
with cc\\~lar _and ~~~~\~ make yo~ subje~~~o~;e~ely ban _1hir~-p~~i can pick up noncommumca11on~2369 goes even I urther
facture of receivers~ arrow or re\auve\y
However , H d"o reception, and t~e manhu1ch maY be extreme yhn' Bi\\'s a1nbiguous
dcasl ra 1
p1wns w
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non-broa .
broadcast s1gna sd.. " on hoW the FC
. 1 ed for listening 10
depen mo
imtna iz.
h 6generous,
h bbyists could be er d" operators; event e
language. . .
reading. shortwave o BBCoramateur ra '.o eel to this \aw . The
ln its stnclCS~ n broadcasts such as th; h owners may b~ su~J bad in its aneinpt to
anythingothert a d Ku-band sate\\1te isthe oood along w11h_1 c lo ies.
million C-band an . e of this bill dumps ; munications t~chno groviders who are
ovcrly-bro~d \an~~~;e evolving pers~na~i~~s private lies w~h t~ee ~romise they ~ad~
rovide pnvacy
n1ake coinmumca
should be he\ to
. formation game
p The obligat~on l~d the equipment, and :h~ior a third party w u~e '~criminal act. I ask
se\\ing the serv1~~~ do so. 11is a\ ready i\\:f:nal for pro lit or to a~d~~1 penalize h an_nlessf
e\even years ag tion of a non-broadc~sl tly prosecuted; but o y reception outside o
through intercep f e)(.isting \aws be JUSby outlawing all two-wa
.
that offenders o bl" c service volunteers
. . 10 enhance privacy
hobbyists and ~1~ rt:dio.
9 . lfthc intent of bot~ b~~\~~ \ 964 doe~ no_11akc
CB and amatc . HR \964 and HR 236
both miss the mark: . frequencies in the
Please oppose nications systems, they f services th at uuhz~ oes even further 10
in pcrsom~l co~~::~1 the enormous vari;li3~9 re peats the error ::'orfd.
into cons1~cra b" \c Radio Service. H_ I is\ation in the free
rc1al Mo 1
. ve radio eg
Comme U S the most rcpress1
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Radio That's Really...

A woodcut
illustrating the
famous 1833
Leonid meteor
storm.

lJlJT []f TH~S L\JlJRllJ

By Philip Gebhardt, VA3ACK

or decades, bo th rad io p rofessionals and radio e nthusiasts

sought ways to e nhance des ired signals while suppress ing
both ex traneous s ig nal s and noise.
Some of that no ise included extraterrestrial radiat ion: noise from the
Sun, the planets a nd the Milky Way g al axy. Included in the unex pla ined sources were signals from meteors.
Eventually things turned aro und and radio ante nnas were pointed
toward the sky to detect no n-terrestrial signals. The resu lt was the
begin ning of radio astronomy.
Unfortunately, radio as trono my is associated with huge parabo lic
antennas; ex pensive, sophisti cated rece ive rs; cooled, low-noise ampli fiers; ultra low-loss transmission lines: and ex treme ly hig h frc4uenc ies. In s hort , everything beyond the a mateur enthu. iasl s reach. But.
in fact. rad io astronomy need nut be expensive nor complicated for the
amateur.
While must amateur radio astronomers arc aware of the work of Ka rl
Jansky and Grote Reber I I I in the I 930s. radi o astrono my has even
earl ier roots. Researc hers were using radio to detect meteors in the

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Oclober 1997

I 920s. H. Nagaoka appears to he the first scientist to suggest that

111eteors might cause sufficient d isturbance in the E region of the
ionosphere to affect radio waves. 12 1 Nagaoka's findin gs appeared in
the l'roce'di11gs r~(lhe l111paial Academy of Tokyo in I 929.
Later. E. Quaeck and G.W. Pickard set out to find the connection
between meteors and d istu rbances o n lo ng-distance shortwave transm i ~s i o ns. In Japan. T. Minohara and Y. Ito invest igated the e ffect o f
the 1932 Leon id shower. Their work was followed u p in India b y S.K.
Mitra. P. Syam. and B.N. Gimse during the 1932 Leon id shower.
Work during the 1936 Leon id ~howe r was carried out by J .N . Bh ar and
reported in the /11dia11 Jo11mal r~l Physics w11/ in Na1ur'.
/\sit turn~ ou t. there isn" ta much eas ie r project (these days) in radio
astronomy than the rad io detection of meteors. Just imagine-if
Nagaoka could detect meteor~ u~ing the technology and information
avai lable in the I 920s. how ea~y it ~ho uld he for you to detect meteors
w ith the receivers a nd antennas avail able today.
In fact. you may have already heard meteor signals on your
shurtwave. FM. or TV rece iver wi tho ut knowing w hat you were

heari ng. Fig ure I shows w hat happe ns .

There is no bette r, more e xciting t ime to get
invol ved w ith radioastrono my than right now.
Why? Because the Leo ni d me teor shower is
abo ut to peak. W ith a known period of abo ut
33 years and the last reco rded peak in 1965
and 1966, we are d ue fo r a spectacul ar return .
How spec tac ul ar is spec tac ular'' Ro be rt
Hawkes of the Ph y ~ ic s, Eng ineering and Geo logy Department at Mo unt Alliso n Uni ve rsity in Sack ville , New Brunswic k. states in the
1997 editi on of Observer 's Handbook (3 J that
for a o ne -hour, hig h- peak period du ri ng the
1966 Leonid sho wer, meteors were detected
visually at the rate of 150,0 00 per ho ur' And
if that doesn' t im press you. P. Clay S herrod
makes the statement in A Complete Ma nual of
Amateur Astronomy 14 ] that " ...at so me times
as many as 500,0 00 pe r ho ur- 140 per seco nd- were seen. "
T he magic d ate this year w ill he Nove mber
17 . Ho wever, the shower has a duratio n of
four days, so you sho uld listen at least two
days before and after this date .
Fo r radi o enthus iasts. th is is an o p portun ity
to hear sig nal s you might othe rwi se no t be
able to recei ve. It is also a sim ple way to learn
about sig nal propagation and the io nosphere.
Although much of the available information is based o n recepti o n in the F M broad cast
band, the lower VHF TV band (cha nne ls 2
throug h 6 ) and the 6- and 2- meter amateur
rad io bands, meteo r detectio n has been successfull y atte mpted as low as 6 MHz 151.
Powerful sho rtwave statio ns were used in the
early days of meteor detection. Laureni.:e
Man ning described 16 1hearing the signal fro m
a 50-kW , 15.340 M Hz sho rtwa ve broad i.:ast
station o n the ni ght of Septe mber 16, 1946.
Manning and o ther re searc he rs were also using radar techniques and C W tran sm itte rs in
their search for meteors .
Amate ur rad io o pe rators ha ve been involved sini.:e the early days. Oswald G . Villard.
Jr., W6Q YT. described a techn ique fo r hearing d o pple r whistles from meteor trails in a
QSTartide 171.
Both Villard and Manni ng were associatc<l
with the Electronics Research Laboratory of
the De partment o f Electrica l Eng ineering at
Stan ford Uni ve rsity during the clays o f meteor
research.
A ltho ug h interest in meteor detectio n a n<l
meteor communicati o ns waned as resean.:h
fu nds d ried up a nd sate lli te comm unicati o ns
flouri shed, there has been a resurgence of
interest and activity recently. Th is is an opportuni ty for ra<lio enth us iasts to make a va luable
contributio n and enj oy the ho bby at the same
time.

320 km

FIGURE 1
As a meteoroid enters Earth's atmosphere, it ablates at a height of I 20 to 60 km.
The meteoroid produces a meteor which includes a visible streak of light and an
ionize</ column which can reflect radio signals. The height of the meteor is
comparable to the -layer of the ionosphere so FM and TV signals can be heard
from distances similar to sporadic E signals.
I Why Radioastronomy?
From an astrono mer' s perspective, the c lassic argume nt for the radio detectio n of meteo rs is that you can observe o n ni g hts w hen it
is raini ng (o r j ust c lo udy). Howeve r. the re arc
several othe r reaso ns to pursue radio detectio n techniques. Moo nlig ht can impede vis ual
o bservatio n. but not rad io obse rvat io n. The re
is also the problem o f sunl ig ht. No visual
o bservations are poss ible during the day be ca use the sky is ge nerall y too bri ght to sec
m eteor~. Radio detection. o n the other hand.
can be used nig ht and day. As Gerald Hawk ins
put it. ...astrono me rs engaged in th is work
apprei.: iatc the full meaning of 24 ho urs per
day . 365- 1/4 days per year.'" 181
T he re is also the w nsideratio n of what you
can sec an<l what your radio can hear. Table I
shows the number of meteors w hich enter
Earth 's atmosphere each day c lass ified by
meteoroid particle s ize. Not o nly ca n you
gather more informati o n abo ut me teors by
radio observatio n than you can h y visual observatio n because radio methods work 24
ho urs per day. but radi o tec hniques can detect
fa inter meteo rs (weaker sig nals) than eithe r
visual or photograph ii.: methods. The end result is that o n a typical ni ght d uri ng whic h a
visual o bserver mig ht see perhaps I00 me teo rs, 500 to 1000 meteors ca n be recorded by
radio means. ]4 ]
A n<l fo r those of us who live in the no rth .
there s the added be nc lit of rad io observing in
the warm th o f your rad io shack rather than
visual observing in the biller i.:o ld outdoors. It
may no t seem important now. but next January yo u'll apprec iate the d iffere nce!
So, how does this affect MT rea<lers? Le t s
start w ith what you are li ste ning for. Unlike

the Sun. Jupitcr o r o thc r galac tic so urces which

generate the ir o wn sig nals, me teors are passive re llec tors ofsig nals . T herefore, you won' t
be li ste ning fo r c rackl es. hisses. or swi shing
sounds . You will be li ste ning for terrestria l
sig nals which arc re fl ei.:tcd by the mc teo rtrail.
(See Fi gure I.)
As a meteoroid fro m o uter space enters
Earth's at mosphere. it not o nly produi.:es the
fa mili ar streak of light known as a meteo r (or
shooting star), it a lso produces an io ni zed
trail. Joh n Pierce , a rcseari.:hcr in the earl y
days of meteor detectio n by radio, estimated
that a meteor we ig hing o nl y o ne-quarter gram
would produce a n io ni zed trail I km (3280 ft.)
in di ame ter and I 00 km (60 mi .) long. Just li ke
the io ni1.cd gases of the D. E. a nd F layers in
the io nosphere , the io nized meteor trail is
ca pable o f rc fl ei.:ting te rrestrial sig nals . As
sho wn in Fig ure I, a sig nal fro m a di sta nt FM
o r TV stat ion whii.:h is no rmall y beyond li ste ning range will be re fl ected by the ionized
me teor trai I and returned to Earth- and possibly to your FM o r TV receiving antenna .
Just like the visual streak of lig ht associa ted with meteors, the radio refl ectio n takes
place very quic kly. It may last anywhere fro m
a frai.:tion of a secon<l up to several seconds.
Figure 2 shows the profile of a typical mcteorretlectcd sig nal. The sig nal ri ses very qui ck ly
o ut o f the no ise and the n d isa ppears quickly.
Abo ut 90 pe rcent of meteors fo llow this pattern. The o ther I 0 percent w ill pro<luce longer
re flecti ons- in some i.:ases 15 to 30 seconds.
Altho ug h eve ryone' s attenti on is on the
u pcoming Leonid me teor shower. you d o n' t
need to wait fo r a meteor showe r to hear
s ignals. /\ !tho ug h there are dozen s o f major
meteor showers each year, you can hear me1eor sig nals an y day o f the year by li ste ning fo r

October 1997

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15

TABLE 1: Properties of sporadic meteors

Sporadic meteor data. Many meteors enter Earth's atmosphere and ablate every day. Many are too small for visual
detection. but can be detected by radio means. The mass distribution is such that the total mass of each of the
particle sizes is constant. For example. notice in the table that each day 109 particles of 10-4 g mass ablate.
However. during the same period 1010 particles of 10-5 g ablate. From this. it can be seen that the number of
meteors detectable by radio means far exceeds the number detectable visually. Courtesy of Meteor Communications Corporation. Reprinted with permission.
Mass
Radius
Number Swept Up
b~ Eat:lb Q!lt D~~
l.!l.l
Wn1
Particles that suNive
passage through
Earth's atmosphere
Visual and
radio
detection
Particles totally
disintegrated in
Earth's upper
atmosphere

Radio
detection
only

10'

10

1(}'

4
2
0.8
0.4

102

0.2
0.08
0.04
0.02
0.008
0.004
0.002

105
101
10s
109
1010
10"
10' 2

0.0004 to
0.0002

about 1D'

102
10
1
10
10-2
10 3
10"'
105
1Q-6

10'
Particles that can't be
detected by radio

10~

to 103

1()3

10'
105

sporadic meteors. (For an expl anatio n of s poradic meteors and meteor showers as we ll as
othe r astronomy terms used in thi s article. sec
"An Astronomy Primer" accompanying thi s
artic le.)
Meteor showers have the advantages that
the meteoroids ( within a single showe r) are
traveli ng along paralle l paths and that. for the
durati on of the shower, the meteor rate is
higher than it is for sporadic meteors. As a
result. you have mo re cha nce that successive
meteors in the shower will continue the rcn cction process and you will be able to hear the
refl ected sig na l for a lo nger period than a
second or two.
Table 2 gives data fo r some upcom ing
showers to get you started.
Wh ile meteor showe rs occur annually at
predi ctable times. sporadic meteors appear at
unpredictable times from unpredictable directio ns in the sky. Nevertheless. there is a
predic table daily variatio n in the numbe r of
sporadic meteors detected. As show n in Figure 3. a peak in the number occurs in the early
morning hours (norma ll y around 6 a.m. local
time) as meteoroids are swept up by Eart h. A
mini mum occurs in early eveni ng (about 6
p.m. loca l ti me).
It sho uld be no ted that in overall numbers,
spo radic meteors o utnumber s hower meteors
by 4 to I.

freque ncy in the FM broadcast band . Re member that in North Ame rica the band starts at 88
MH z and ends at I 08 MH z. However, the
lowest assigned frequency is 88.1 M Hz and
the highest frequency is I 07.9 MHz. Frequencies are assigned at 200 kH z inte rvals. that is
88.3, 88.5, 88.7 MH z a nd so o n. In North
America, there are no statio ns on 88.2 MH z.
fo r example. Tuning to a frequency used by a
loca l station is easy; tuning to a fre quency on
which there is no statio n to be heard can be
tricky . Having a rece iver with a d igital readout makes the task easy . If you use a receiver
with a di al and poin ter. you' ll need to estimate
where the freq uency is o n the dia l.
If you live in a large metropolitan area
where clear frequencies arc as scarce as hen s
teeth, you may have to sett le fo r a frequency
with a weak signal.
You can connect a n FM or FMffV outdoor
beam to your receiver. If you s ubscri be to
cable T V and do n' t have an o utdoor antenna
o n a tower. you can co nnect a dipole or fo lded
dipole to your FM receiver. (See Figu re 4.)
But where do you aim the ante nna? If you

How, Where, and When?

Signal
Level

Now that you know how meteors re flect

terrestria l radio signa ls and what you arc listening for, you ' II need to know how to hear the
s igna ls, where to li ste n and when to listen.
T he " how" part is easy: Tu rn on your FM
receiver and li ste n. Well. it' s perhaps not
q uite that easy. but a lmost. Select a c.:lc ar
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FIGURE 2

Peak
Amplitude

Time

use a dipole and you want to detect spo radic

meteors. string the antenna in a n cast-west
direction so your best reception will be no rthsouth. T his also applies to a fol ded di pole and
to the collinear a ntenna.) If you use a beam
antenna. point the amcnna south.
Now you can si t back (earl y in the morning
fo r best result s) and li sten for sporadic meteors. You'll know whe n you hear a meteor,
because the signal will qu ickly ris1.: out of the
noise and then disappear. Yo u may hear a few
notes of music or a few words. If you couldn ' t
lind a clear freque ncy and had to choose one
wi th a weak. background statio n. you may
li nd that the weak sig na l is e nhanced briefly.
In o ther cases. the weak signal wi ll be mome ntaril y swamped by another. more d istant
station.
When detecti ng sporadic meteors, the type
of antenna you choose is academic. Beam
a ntennas have higher gain than di poles and
therefore allow you to hear fa inter meteors.
On the other hand. beam ante nnas achieve
gain by sacrific ing heamwidth and so they
see less of the sky than dipoles do. Conversely. dipoles can on ly detect strong meteors, but because d ipoles see mo re of the sky.
they detect strong meteors that arc outside the
beam of an FM beam antenna. Depending on
your location and the ti me of day. the advantages of beams and di poles balance out. In
stud ies of meteor ve locity conduc te d by
Villard. Mann ing, and Peterson at Sta nfo rd
Un iversi ty. a half-wave dipole mounted a
quarter-wave length above the ground was used
as a receiving antenna. 12)
Beam a ntennas have the advantage when it
comes to meteor showers. That' s because
these meteor trails re flect s ignals l'rom predictable directions .
If you arc using an FM or FMffV beam o n
a tower, you can leave the antenna poi nted at
the horizon j ust as you would fo r normal
receptio n. If you are considering dedicating a
beam ante nna to meteor detection. you mi ght

Th e signal reflected by most m eteor trails

lasts up to a f ew seconds. As shown here,
th e signal rises out of the receiver noise
quickly and disappears almost as fast. A
small percentage of meteors will reflect
signals for longer periods of lime. Often
the reflected signal will be loud enough
lo sound like a local station.

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+
+

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Hourly RatesSporadic Meteors

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FIGURE 3

04

12

08

16

20

Local Time

The rate at which sporadic meteors are

detected varies throughout the day. The
diurnal variation shown here clearly
shows th e maximum and minimum
times as described by McKinley and
Millman in their research [12/. Note
that the detection rate does not drop to
zero, but simply to a minimum value in
the early evening.
consider setting the antenna at an elevation
angle at 45 above the hori zon. Japanese astronomers in the Nippon Meteor Society even
pointed their beams straight up f9 I tn reduce
noise from terrestrial sources.
You can get results using a 4-element beam;
the Nippon Meteor Society astronomers used
5- and 7-ele me nt beams.
If you want to detect showers othe r than
those listed in T able 2. you need to determine
where to point your beam. You'll need a
planisphere or a computer program designed
for meteor work. Michael Owen, W91P/2, has
writte n om: such program- apt ly named

Meteor-which is ava ilable on the In ternet or

through amateur radio BBSs.
Using a plani sphere, you can track the
meteor's radi ant as it travels across the sky.
The best time to listen is when the radiant is
between 30 and 60 above the hori zon. The
best direct ion to po int your beam depe nds on
the meteor s radiant. When the rad iant is in
the northeastern sky. listen for stations from
the northwest and southeast. When the radi ant
is in the northern s ky, lis ten for stat ions rrom
the east and west. When the radiant is in the
northwestern sky. listen for s tat i on ~ from the
northeast and sou1hwest. This paue rn conti nues around 1he compass.
Usi ng 1hi s 1echnique, you will need 10
know where the mc1<;or radi an! is. An aslronomy reference. such as Obsen-e1-'.1 /-la11dbook f2], wi ll provide you with the n;q uired
info rmatio n. Alternarivcly, vis i1 1hc International Me1cor Organiza1ion s web si1e (http:/
/www.imo.net ) whe re you will find information about meteor detection. To obtain informat ion about specific !>howers look up 1heir
calendar (http://www.imo.nct/calcnd a r/
cal97.html) where you will find information
about meteor showers in general as we ll as
dayt ime (radio) s howers.
Although much of th is article has foc used
on the FM broadcast band. the detect ion
method appl ies eq ually we ll to the lo wer VHF
T V band (channels 2 to 6).

TABLE 2: Meteor shower data

Meteor shower data for selected 1997 showers. Although emphasis is often placed on peak dates, many showers
last for several days. The duration of a shower is defined as the period during which the activity is 1/4 peak or more.
For these showers, detection should be attempted on several days. The directions listed in the Optimum Path
columns indicate the directions from which signals can be received at your location. The times in these columns
should be considered as broad guidelines only.
Shower

Orionids

Peak Date/
Time
(Note 1)

Duration Optimum Path

(Note 2)
NS

(days)

NW-SE

E-W

SWNE

There arc 1wo poin ts to keep in mind. First.

if you opt h l listen o n the FM band and use a
T V beam. verify that an FM trap has not been
inscned in 1he feed line. I rthere is one. remove
it. Second. receiving meteor signals on a TV
receiver precludes using cable T V. There will
he no unoccupied channe ls tu mon iwr. ir you
connect to cable.
Although listening on the FM o r TV band
is a comprorni se. thcy have major ad vantages.
First. many stati ons arc running hi gh power25. 50. or 100 kW. The strength of the rellec1ed signal and 1hcduration of the ~ig n al are
dependent on trans mitter power and transmitter antenna gain. Second , many FM and TY
stations operate 24 hours a day. This means
yo u should be able to ht:ar a signal whe never
a suitably-posi1ioned meteor trail forms. Some
of the early rnctcor research was conducted in
the 60-70 Ml-l z range. I IOI
It is po~siblc. and from a 1heoreti cal perspective des irable. to listen on lower frequcncies. lts theoretical" becau st: you won't find
an y high-power s tati o n ~ with predictable
schedu les until the frequency dips to the imernatio na l shortwave bruadcas1 band~. You ca n
listen to thl.'. mobile band (29.7-50 MHz). but
transmitte r power is low and operating times
arc unpred ictable. The I 0-rneter amateur radio band is wcll- ~ ui tcd to meteor detcc1ion
and communication- arnateurs can u ~c I 000
watts and Vil lard. Manning. and Pc1erson
used CW tran smi ssions on 23. 1 and 30.66
MHz in their tests. I I I I Unfortunately. the I0meter band is underuti li1.ed fo r mctenr work.
(Sec 'Investi gating Meteoric Radio Rc llections on 10 Meters'" accompan ying thi s article.) You can miss a lot of meteors while no
o ne is 1ransmitting !
T he dis tance between you and the station
you hear depe nds on your recei ver and antenna. Using a beam antenna on a high tower
poin1ed al the horizon , you can expect to hear

Oct22
1h

0000-0200
0600-0800

0430-0800

03300430

02000330

S Taurids

Nov 3
lh

30

22302330
05000600

03300430

0400-0530

2300-0100

NTaurids

Nov 13
Oh

30

2300-0030
05300700

05000630

2330-0030

Leon ids

Nov 17
11h

2200-2330
0500-0630

0430-0530

23000000

Geminids

Dec 14
6h

20002200
0330-0530

21302300

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The quickest way lo get set up to listen for meteor

signals is to connect an outdoor FM or FM/TV beam
on a tower to your receiver. For those who do not have
a11 outdoor antenna, a simple, half-wave dipole (a) or a
fo lded dipole (b) will bring in sig11als. For tlwse who
want a11 anlemia with a little gain, the 3-elemenl
collinear (c) can be used.
).'1

Zo:::300U

ZI 300U

In each case, the length 112 in centimeters can be

calculated using 14550/f where f is the frequency in
MHz. (Use 5728/f if you prefer to work in inches.) This is
based 011 the use of #14 solid or stranded wire although
other sizes can be used. Th e length 114 in centimeters of
the two phasing s//lbs for the 3-elemenl collinear can be
calculated using 4950/f (if you use 300-ohm TV f eed/ille
with solid polyethylene dielectric) or 7125/f (ifyou use
open-wire parallel line).

B
Zoz75n

For inches, use 1949/f and 2805/f respectively. A 300175-0/1111 balun as shown can
be used lo comert between 75-ohm antennas and 300-ohm receiver input or 300oh111 antennas and 75-ohm receiver input. If the antenna impedance (Zr) and the
receiver input (lo) match, you won 't need the balun.
>.r2

>.r2
Zr 300U

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M BC transmitters run I00 tu IOOOO watts

into yagi or log periodic antennas. Although
lower frequenc ies would produce longer
echoes and hi gher ampli tude echoes. freque ncies in the 40-50 MHz range are used to avoid
problems with multi path ing and fading associated with the HF bands. While frequencies
above 50 MHz have the advantage of smaller
antenna size, these higher freque ncies arc
subject to higher path loss.
In one system. a master transmi uer sends
out a conti nuous signal to the remote si te.
When a meteor trai l appears, the remote site
senses the renected signal and it in turn transmi ts a burst of data.
Amateur radio operators have played a
major role in meteor communications and
many sti ll attempt communications via meteors. In the past. amateurs used the message
pieci ng' tech nique. That is, one station would
repeated ly se nd a message and the receiving
station wou ld piece together the informat io n
unt il thecontacteould be confi rmed. Recently
however. amateu rs have applied packet radio
techniques to meteor communications.
A liule practice with s poradic meteors and
the Orionid meteor shower wi ll prepare you
fo r the poss ibili ty o r a spectacular show during the Leonids over the next few years.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY
I1) Bob Grove ...Tuning in lhe Stars: Monitormg Tunes. February
1987. p. 8

Zo 75U

121 Lovell. A.C.B . Meteor Asltonomy. Oxford University Press.

London. 1954

l3J 81shop. Roy L. (edilor). Observers Handbook 1997, The Royal

Astronomical Society of Canada. Toronto. 1996
stati ons between I :mo and :WOO km (800 and
1250 mi.) away. An antenna which will receive signa ls from a hi gher ang le of radiation
(such as a half-wave dipole ) will enable you to
hear closer stations.
As Laure nce Ma nn ing did in 1946. you can
try listening fo r short wave stations via mt.:teor
trail rellet:tion. The stati on cannot be more
than 2000 km away (and preferably it shou ld
be closer): however. it mu st be far e nough
away that you cannot receive any more than a
weak groundwave signal. In addi tion. you
must be listeni ng at a time when normal Flayer propagation bet ween you and the station
is not a poss ibility. Since there wo uld be no
reason for a shortwave station to be on the air
if F-layer propagation was not present. this
dictates th at you must he inside the sk ip zone.
(Outside the skip 1.0ne. the station s signal
will be so strong. it will mask any meteor
signals.) If you try this approach, start with
stations in the 13-meter band. Later. you can
try stations on 16- and perhaps 19-meters.
Now, with al l this ta lk of researc h at
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Stanford University and scientists trying to

determine the co nnecti on between meteors
and shortwave communications. you might
thi nk that meteor detecti on is simply an academ ic pursui t-something that only researchers would be interested in.
Not so. There are practical applications
that have made all thi s "time we ll spent"' as
they say on A&E.
There were military appl icat ions for communications via meteor trails unt il satell ites
came along. But there arc other uses too. One
company- Meteor Communications Corpora ti un ~uscs meteor burst communications
(MBC) in applicat ions where very low data
rate and wai ting time do not prese nt problems.
By low data rate. they mean tens to hundreds
of bits per second. Using this techniq ue. the
company can se nd data over links up to 1600
km ( 1000 mi. ).
Applications include the remote sensing of
meteorologica l and seismic conditions. One
~ys te m monitor~ snowfall and accumulated
~ n owfal l.

141 Sherrod. P. Clay. A Complete Manual of Amateur Astronomy.

Prentice Hall Press. New York. 1981
151 Oswald G. Villard, Jr.. "Clocking meteors by cw radar;
Eleclronics. April 1950. pp 120 121
161 Laurence A. Manning, "The theory of the radio detection of
meteors. Journal of Applied Physics. August 1948. pp 689699
171 Oswald G. Villard. Jr.. "Listening in on the stars." OST. January
1946. pp 5960. 120. 122
18] Hawkins. Gerald S., Meteors. Comets, and Me1eo11tes.
McGrawHill. New York. 1964
191 K. Suzuki. N. Nagafuji and M. Kinoshita. "Recordmg meteor
echoes by FM radio: Sky & Telescope. May 1976. pp 359362

I10) A.C.B. Lovell. "Electron Density in Meteor Trails: Nature.

November 15. 1947, pp 67067 t

I11 I L.A. Manning. O.G. Villard. Jr.. and A.M. Peterson, ..Radio
Doppler Investigation of Meteoric Heights and Velocities: Journal
of Applied Physics. May 1949. pp 475-479

I12) O.W.R. McKinley and Peter M. Millman. "A phenomenological

theory of radar echoes from meleors." Proceedmgs of the l.R.E.,
April 1949. p.366

FURTHER READING
Oswald G. Villard. Jr. and Allen M. Peterson. "Meteor scatter:
OST. Apnl 1953
Walter F. Bain. VHF meteor scatler propagation." OST. April 1957
Walter F. Bain, .. VHF propagation by rneteortra1l 10111zation ... OST,
May 1974

Investigating Meteoric Radio Reflections on 10 Meters

One way to learn about meteor detecti on is to follow the lead of lhe pionc:ers and
experts.
Some of the experiments arc within the
capabilities of beginners; othe rs are not.
T he ones which are best le ft out arc those
which re ly on radar techniques.
The re are many "easy" techniques to
in vestigate, however. Thi s fall and winter,
I will attempt several me teoractivities with
the assistance of Ontario OX Association
membe rs. You can try some on your own or
help us with ours by liste ning for our signal
and sending re ports.
You can start by mon itoring sporad ic
meteors. You can record the reflected s ignals on audio tape, stripe hart pa per, or your
computer. You can tht:n prodm:e your own
graphs of daily mean hourly rates of reflected signals . A variati on of this is to
produce a graph of average monthl y median echoes per hour.

AN

Similarly, you can select a meteor s hower

and dett:rmine lhc average hourly rate at
wh ich you detect me teors during the shower.
This information can stand on its own or be
compared to the daily mean hourly rate for
sporadic meteors.
My planned activities include detecting
meteor whistles. Using the amateur radio
callsign V E3AC K,a CW signal will be transmitted on 29.050 MHz each Saturday and
Sunday morning between 5 a. m. and 7 a.m.
EST during October. November. a nd December. As with the experiment conducted
by V illard, Manning, and Peterson at Stan ford
Uni vers ity, lhe output of lhe transmitter wi ll
feed a half-wave dipole. A similar dipole
wi ll be used at the receiver site several ki lometers away. Although we will be li ste ning
for whi stles, we will welcome reports from
anyone who hea rs the signal.
We will also be transmitting du ri ng several meteor showers. including the Leonid ~
in November. Howeve r. our major ~ bower

ASTRONOMY

The followin g li st of astrono my terms will explain the te rms used

in thi s article as well as te rms related to meteors that you will
e ncounter in astronomy books and anicles.
Dcdination :just as you can locate any point on Eanh by specifying
its longitude and latitude, you can locate a star (or in the case of
meteor showers, a radiant) by specifying the ri ght ascension a nd
dec lination on the celestial sphe re. Right ascension is given in hours
and m inutes; declination is g iven in degrees. For example, fo r the
Leonid meteor show, the right ascension (a) is !Oh I Im and the
dec lination (d) is +22*.
Duration: most meteor showers last for several days. The duration
is the period during w hich the meteor rate is I/4 or more of the rate
at the peak date and time.
Meteor: the streak of li ght (and related phenomena such as ion ization) produced when a meteoroid e nters Earth' s atmosphe re
Meteoroid: a n interplanetary particle which may be as small as 1013 g or as large as 104 g. When a me teoroid enters Earth s
atmosphere, it ablates at 120-60 km above Earth and produces a
meteor.
Meteor stream: a group of meteoroids traveling in high ly correlated orbits (parallel paths)

ac ti v ity will take place during the

Geminids (December 13-15).
A poss ibl e meteor shower activity
w hi ch we will undertake (and which you
can attempt as well) is to set up two beam
antennas (preferably narrow-beam ante nnas) pointing at the horizon. The anten nas will diffe r in azimuth by 30. As
Earth rotates, a large number of echoes
will first appear in Antenna I indicating
the presence of a group of meteors (the
shower). As Earth conti nues to rotate,
acti vity in Ante nna 1 wi ll diminish and
echot:s will be heard in A ntenna 2. The
transfer of activity from Antenna 1 to
Antenna 2 confirms the ex istence of the
meteor s tream. Th is method was used
primaril y for studies of major showers,
such as the Pe rseids or the Geminids.
For updates on VE3ACK meteor acti vity. frequenc ies. a nd dates, visit the
ODXA web site- http://www.grove.neU
-odxa/

PRIMER

Meteor shower: the increased meteor rate which occurs when

Earth intersects a meteor stream
Peak date and time : the date and time (i n UT) at w hich the
meteor rate will be maximum. Note that in astronomy, the time
scale used is UT not UTC. They are closely related however. so
don' t fre t about resetting your clock depe ndi ng on w hether you
are liste ning to the BBC World Service or listening to meteors.
Planisphcrc: a chart of the sky showing the location of stars and
constell ations. The chart has a clear. plast ic overlay which turns
so you can set the date a nd time to get a view of the sky as it
appears at th at time.
Radiant: d ue to perspe<.:ti ve. the paralle l paths of me teors during
a shower appear to meet at a point in the sky called the radiant.
(The effect is sim il ar to para lle l railway tracks thal appear to
meet in the distance.) The meteor shower is usuall y named for
the constellation in w hic h the rad iant is located. Forexample, the
Leon ids' rad iant is in the l:onstellation Leo: the Perseids' radiant
is in the constellation Perseus.
Right asce nsion: sec Declination above
Sporadic meteor: a meteor produced by a random meteoroid
traveling through space on its own

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MERGENCY
EDICAL

ERVICES
Story and photos by Ed Muro

Transforming
Health Care One
Life at a Time

s the piercing sounds of s irens wail in the a ir everyone w ithin earshot knows so meone
is in need of dire assistance. With today' s EMS syste m in place. we can be assured
help is on the way. T hat help--often vo lunteer help-saves li ve s. Its avai lability
de pends on full communi ty support.
The Eme rgency Medical Services System is the newest profess ion in the pub lic safety
fami ly which inc ludes fire protectio n services and the police department. Th is vital commun ity
se rvice receives around 15 million calls each year for emergency medica l aid. It has been said
that the ave rage American wi ll have to summo n the Emergency Medical Service twice in their
li fctimt:: .
Unti l the mid-sixties, ambulances were lill le more tha n fast moving mt::al wago ns . They
afforded very lillle medical care a nd only promised rapid transit to a hospital. T he only
requiremt::nt for the job was to be able to drive we ll at high speeds and to be s trong eno ugh to
lift the stretcher.
However, advances in med ical technology- much of it pioneered d uring the Vietnam
con flict- led to great changes in how patients were transported to hospitals . The se ga ins made
it possible to deliver more care at the scene of an emergency and o n the way to tht:: hospital. It
also created the need fo r more highly trained personnel to operated a co hesive syste m.

National Standards are Set

7111! Star uf life wm registered in 1977 by

NHTSA. t:ach of the six "points" of the star
represents an aspect of the t:MS System:
detection, reporting, response, 1111 ~ cene
care, care in transit, and trall.\fer to
deflnitille care. The staff represents
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Recogn izing thi s, the Cong rt::ss directed the U.S . De partment of T ranspo rtation to establi sh
national EMS standards . In 1966, the Natio nal Hi ghway Safety Act was enacted. wh ich
inc luded fund s and standa rds for the EMS syste m. The result ing c urriculum of instructio n and
clinica l experience, now averaging about 1 10 hours nationwide. has become the principle
model for the basic train ing of Eme rgency Medical T echnicians (EMT. ).
Noting that EMS is an entirely new service in the c ivilian strncture of this nat io n. the
ational Hi ghway T raffic Safety Administratio n declared that it was imperati ve that EMS be
distinctl y identified for the benefit of not only those working in the servi ce but al so the general
public. Thus. in 1973 the " Star of Life" became the offic ially recogn ized ins ignia of EMS
personnel a nd equipme nt o n a national basis.

Alt hough often the fi r~ l tu arri ve al the

scene of an emergency. EM Ts sometimes fi nd
that emergency care has already been started
by a first responder. such a~ a fire fighter.
pol ict: officer. or o ther official trained in CPR.
First Aid. and other basic life su pport techniques. Las t year the New York Cit y Fi re
De partment imple mented its own first 1T sponder program by training m ember~ from
several eng ine companies as EM Ts. in order to
supp leme nt the city's ability to provide timel y
care.

I Standard Procedure
On the scene. re~ pon s ibil ity fo r a victim i~
assigned to the EMT wi th the highest certifi cat ion. In cw York State there arc seve ral
levels and they arc basicall y the same in ot her
states.
LEVELS OF CERTIFICATION
EMT: Emergency Medical Tcchnieian: Ineludes ba~i c Li fe Support Skills and the
ability to ex trac t vietims from vchic ks.
AM T (Or A-EMTJ: not rea ll y u ~ed an ymore. it means Advanced EMT: may or
may not b1.: a paramedic.
EMT-CC: EMT-Critical Car1.:: that s the
new name for AMT. at least in N. Y. State.
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the fire departme nt or police department. hut

ii. too. carries li fe and death s ignificance. The
Emergency Medical Servin: has be.:ome the
third leg o f the triad of Poli.:e. Fire. and EMS
serv ices. It is an indi spensable scrv i.:c to the
security of a ll U.S. reside nt s.
Wh ile there are many freq uenc ies used IO
dispatch li fe support services around the country (refe r to your favo rite local frequency
directo ry for the frequenc ies in use in your
area). once on their way wi th a patient in
tra nsit to the hospital many a mbu lances u ~e
sta nda rdized national frequencies set aside
fo r bi omedi cal telemetry. Common ly referred
to as Med- I thro ug h Med-!l. the frequencies
are:

Used on a nationwide basis:

Mobile:
!!fil:

Med-1
Med-2
Med-3
Med-4
Med-5
Med6
Med-7
Med8

463.00
463.025
463.050
463.075
463.100
463.125
463.150
463.175

468.00
468.025
468 050
468 075
468100
468 125
468 150
468 175

Popular EMS dispatch frequen cies used in

the New York Metro Area Nassau County,
New York:
Fire Department Ambulances:

46.100 (Countyl'lide
Dispatch: F1reCom)
Volunteer Ambulance Corps :
154.115
(Allanlic Beach. Malverne. Mineola. Wantagh-Levittown
Ambulance Dispatch)
Bellmore-Merrick Ambulance
37.94
Garden City Ambulance
155.340
Emergency Ambulance Service Corp. 463.300
Five Counties Ambulance Service
47.54
935.0t 25-939.9875
TransCare Ambulance
(trunked system)
Med-Com (Medical Control)
462.975
Police Ambulances are dispatched on local police precinct
frequencies
Both Police Ambulances and Volunteer Ambulances notify
Med-Com of the patients vital signs when in trans1110 lhe
hospital. They also inform Med-Com of what hospital lhey are
transporting to. Med-Com then notifies the app1opriate
hospital of the incoming patient. Med-Coms HO is located at
the Nassau County Medical Center (NCMC). where there is
staff on hand to instruct the paramedics on what procedures
10 lake should it be necessary. However. even though the
headquarters is located at NCMC. not all patients are
transported lo that facility.

Suffolk County, Ne w York:

155.235
155.280
155.325
155.400
155. 175
Other Freqs:

Cammack Volunteer Ambulance Corps

Med-Com (County EMS Dispatch)1
M.C I.
Central Islip V.A.C.
Huntington Community F.A S./
B.S.B.RWVAC
154.325. 154.385. & t54.415

Putnam County EMS Senices:

154.815 MHz

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As EMS becomes ( /II i11cremi11gly important part 1~/" ou r m edical sy.\tem , so /i as

interest in its co1111111111icatio11s increased. \111l1111teer.~, first-responders, shut-ins, ojfduty personnel and au e 1er-g rowi11g 1111111/Jer uf priwtte c iti~e ns reg ularly t1111 e in

local EMS radio traffic.

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NYC is composed of 5 counties called borouglis. dispatched
111d1vidually.
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Services:
H84120
C1ly\'11de
854 987 1Convent1onal)
Brooklyn South & Staten Island
Brooklyn Central
477.862
478.262
Brooklyn North
478 262
Queens
478.21 2
Bronx North
477 837
Bronx South
Manhattan South
860 737 1Conven11ona11
855 487
Manhaltan North
Manhallan Central
856-860 987 (Trunked)

s HORTWAVE
s ATELLITES
c YBERSPACE
By George Wood

atellites ha ve compl ete ly changed poss ible to hear the more exoti c stations th a1 lions World sudde nly became accessible in
inte rn ationa l broadcasting. That used to be under the interference before. After
Europe and other locat ions where shortwave
much is uncon tro vcr~ i al. Whet her all. most DXers don't seem to care much
reception had been difficul t. There's also a
about listening to ..easy" European broadthe change has been for lhc better depends on
whole new hobby hunting satell ite DX and
casters. 1hey hunt for the rare signals from
who you are. I have a feeling lot of ~ hon wave
on-the-spot news feeds.
lilllc transmitters in the tropics.
listene rs and hardcore DXcr~ arc not terribl y
For DXers. satellites are wonderful.
However. even 1he 'easy" stati ons have a
pleased about how sate llites have changed
few programs of interest. One of 1he first
their hobby over 1hc pasl len yea r~ or ~o.
I The End of the Cold War & the
Certainly when ;.Sweden Call ing DXers..
applications of satelli tes to international broadBeginning of the Satellite Era
I urned into .. MediaScan .. and sh ifled its focu~
ca~ t i ng was to provide direct links to relay
Aside fro m feeds to relay stations by major
stati ons. That meant 1hat Radio Netherlands
from shortwave to satellites. 1hcrc were a lot
broadcasters like the BBC World Service.
could broadcast live from its stud ios in
of letters denounc ing the c hange.
VO/\. Deutsche Welle. and Radio Nether1-1 i lvc rsum. rather than send tapes for rebroadBut for a broadcaster. sa1clli1es arc wonlands. the real impact of satellites on interna1:ast three weeks later. DX Jukebox becaml!
derful.
tional broadcasting came in Europe at about
Media Net1mrk. wi th up-to-the-minute news
For years we vc struggled with :-.uns pots
the same ti me the Cold War was ending, in the
about unusual new stations or shifting propaand the ionosphere. shifting frequencies to
l!arly
90' s. Wi th the launch fi rst of satellites
gati on. Simil ar programs like Glen n Hauser's
fo ll ow the illusive whims of propagati o n or
from
Eu1cl sat. fo ll owed by the ti rst Astra
Worfd
of
Radio
or
the
VOA
'
s
C
111111111111ica
to avoid acc idental or in tentional interfersatellites. several radio sigence. Now, not only t.:an our pronals could ride along on each
grams appear on Iistencrs reTV
transponder. Suddenly
ceivers in perfect FM quality.
there was a relatively inexbut !hanks to satell ites, they arc
pensive way to reach all of
also reaching far more listeners
Europe with an FM qual ity
directly or via rebroadcasts from
signal. For European shortlocal rad io stati o ns and cable
wa vc broadcasters thi s
systems.
scemed too good lo be true.
We can also turn off some of
In a way it was. It turned
those huge 500 kilowatt shortout that there were a nu mber
wave transmitte rs that ha ve been
of problems. For one thing,
consum ing massive amounts of
the audience wa differen t.
e lectricity. and rely instead on
Shortwave listeners area hobmuch lower-powered uplinks and
byist communi ty. and shortsolar-powered space down Ii nks.
wave program ming was deFor the sake of the planet" s
signed for them. cozy. not
resources. satell ites arc wondertcrribly slick. and put together
ful.
with potential poor condiWith so many sho rt wave
tions. interference. and fadbroadcasters movi ng to sate IIill!S. Although the BBC is deeply interested in alternative 111ethods of
ing in mind. Satell ite listenthe overcrowded sho11wave spl!c- delivery, it re111ains co111111itted to shortwave broadcasting. Sh own
ers were perceivecl. in contrum is opening up. making it is the BBC's Asia relay station in Thailand.
October 1997

MONITORING TIMES

23

for the satellite aud ience d idn't work o ut.

Partl y it was a matter of reso urces. as you just
could n' t do tw ice as muc h radio with fewer
peo ple. But it also turned o ut tha t the sate llite
aud ie nce was not as 'normal" as management

The new "Sturman "

technology utilizes
compressed digital
signals and a
special digital radio
to expand th e music
and message back
to its original form.

trast, to be " no rmal' " people, no t hobbyists.

Rad io Swede n's manage me nt dec ided that
the sate llite program fo rmat had to sound
more li ke domestic radio. and sudde nl y we
were o rdered to produce extra sate llite shows
in a new format. with the same sta ff resources.
or less.
Less ... that was the o ther repe rcussion of
the e nd of the Col d War. Mi litary budgets
were slashed . but it a lso turned o ut that sho rt w ave radio was considered by some politi c ia ns to be an obsolete re mnant o f the strugg le
between East and West. whose purpose had
gone the way o f the Berlin Wa ll. At: ross
Europe and No rth Amerit:a. fu nds fo r inte rnatio na l broad casting wae c ut back. Si nce sate llite transpo nder ren tal was c heaper than the
e lectric ity burned up by half a megawatt sho rtwa ve transmitte rs. o ne way a statio n could
reduce costs was to switd1 to sate llite de li ve ry.
Radio Finland is a good example of a small
statio n that's gotten hea vily in volved in sate llites, yet still re lies on sho rtwa ve. But Managing Director Juhanii Niini stoe says he ' s not
abo ut to g ive up sho rt wave comple te ly :
"The two forms of deli very comple ment
each othe r. Satellite rece ption is for fi xed
location listeni ng o nl y, while short wave offers mobility. T he indi vidual to uri st will carry
a po rt able SW for immediate news serv ice.
but may a lso e njoy hi -ti radio in hi s or he r
hote l. delivered by satell ite ."
At Radio Swede n separate programming

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first tho ug ht. A particul ar part of the general

po pulation bought sate lli te d ishes. and then
most of them just watc hed T V. The few who
did ex plo re the o ppo rtunities o n rad io turned
out to be ano ther kind o f hobbyist, no t that
muc h diffe re nt fro m the SWLs (shortwave
li ste ner) and DXers (a person who liste ns fo r
di sta nt sho rtwave stations) on sho rt wave.
The satell ite tu rned o ut to be j ust another
type of transm itter.
Tho ug hts turned fro m using satell ites di rec tl y to reach li stene rs, to using the m instead
to feed local stations for rebroadcast ing. For
years sho rtwave statio ns have had T ranscription Services. sending recorded programs o n
tape to statio ns around the world . (Back when
I worked in college radio at UC San ta Barbara. we loved thi s stuff, si nce o nce we 'd
played the programs, we could e rase the ree ls
and a void having to buy new tape.)
Sate llites co uld de liver prog rams in real
time to statio ns providi ng up-to- the- minute
news, ratherthan " time less" features. At ma ny
inte rna ti o nal broadcasters. the overall programming form at began to gradua ll y change.
away fro m the cozy sho rtwave community o r
the past towards some thing a little mo re mode rn and fast-paced ; something that fit ted in o n
lot:al s1ations, yet ho pefully still worked o n
s ho rtwa ve.
Initiall y there was a bo nanza fo r some or
the larger stations. As Eastern European countries regained their freedom. the ai rwaves
o pe ned up and people h ungered for uncen-

sored n ew~ and e nte rt ainment from abroad . In

the ea rl y days ii wa~ easy fur s t a ti on~ like the
Voit:e of America. Radio Free Europe. or the
BBC whic h had been regarded as fri end~
duri ng 1hc det:adc~ of rep re~~iun-to a<.:4 uire
local 1 ran~111i t ter~ in 1he former Wa r~aw Pact
countries. Sa t e ll i t e~ made rel ays from ho me
countries poss ible. Bui 1 hi ~ brief era had to
end .
As the new de mocracies redist:ovcred and
re built 1he ir j ou rnalistic 1 rad iti on~. the re was
mo re interest in the ir ow n sta ti o ns. and less in
listening to o ut ~itlers. no matter how important
those voit:es had been d uring the years of
dark ne,s. The d isappeara nce earlie r this year
of VOA Europe . w hi ch had mixed America n
rock w ith news anti fea tures from Washingto n.
marked the e nd o f that e ra.
Nort h Ameri ca was hard to get in1u a ~ well.
There was the N PR sa1e llitc system. of t:oursc .
If you rnuld get your ~ i g n a l at:ross the Atlanti c
(wh ich was s till ex pe ns ive in the days be fore
IS D N). you <.:uuld pay NPR to pul your prog ram s on the satellite. But the re was no g uarantee at a ll that the loca l artil iates. fat:cd w ith
16 t:hannels o r aud io fro m NPR. Ameri can
Public Radi o (now PRI ). a nd numerou s independe111 prod ut:ers. woul d run the materia l
from abroad . A numberof stations bough! time
anyway. Others boo ked ordinary aud io c han ne ls o n regul a r TV transponders and ho ped
so me of the I or 2 mi ll ion TVRO fan\ would
listen in.
The n there was <.:ab le. Cable systems were
already we ll estab li, hed in North America.
and were opening up aero'~ Europe. in connec1io n with the sate ll ite explosio n that broug ht
in so many new TV sta1ions from around the
worl d. Most cable n etwork ~ <.:arry radi o. altho ug h that side of 1he o pera1ion is not a l way~
we ll -develo ped in Europe.
T he proble m was that o nly the maj o rbroad<.:asters li ke the BBC. Rad io France, and
Deu1sc hc We ll e t:ould a fford 24 ho ur sc r v i t:c~
in a s ing le lang uage. S ma ller sta ti ons leased a
s ingle ~o u nd c hanne l to carry the ir ent ire o utput in a variety of lang uages. But no <.:able
syste m was li ke ly to re lay a chan nel 1hat
switd1cd every hal I' ho ur fro m Engli' h to French
to Ge rman to Russian. c t<.:./\ <.:able ne lwork in
Britain would w ant a 24 ho ur c hannel in Eng lish. just as the Parist:able system would o nl y
be interested in re lay ing a 24<.:hanncl in Frend1.
Even d iret:t sate llite li ste ners may o bj ec t to
the m ulti -lingua l approat:h. Rad io Fi nla nd's
Ju hani Niin istoc t:omme n1s: " I have a lencr o n
my desk fro m a Fin nish p ro fes~o r de manding
an explanatio n for why we a ir French o n ou r
Eutel~at c ha nnel ... ! wi ll try to explai n it to
him ...

Swiss Radio International took the ambitious route. It was easy to set up 24 hour
satell ite channe ls in the country's national
languages, German. French, and Itali a n. But
S RI expanded its English programming as
well into a 24 hour operati on.
Most smalle r stations couldn ' t afford that
kind of expansion. T he solution. best expressed by Uwe Schoop, then head of the
Swedish service at De utsc hl andfunk, w ho
called it " time-sharing," was fo r stations to get
together to put a ll their programs in a single
language on one satell ite sound channel. The
idea was obvious; the only proble m was doing
it , considering the nature of European public
broadcasting. Large media bureaucracies just
coul dn't work together that way.
The " Ga ng of Four" o f Radio Netherlands.
Rad io Sweden, Radio Canada International,
and Swiss Radio International discussed the
idea, but couldn 't agree on its implementation. The European Broadcasting Union belatedly set up a spec ial forum for international
broadcasters, which also ta lked about the concept. but couldn' t make anything happen either.
Who would run the system ? Who would
decide who got to broadcast in prime time?
How would be costs be di vided up? Who
would pay for lines to the uplink site? The re
were lots of questions, and no experience in
actually working together on that le vel.

WRN Runs With the Ball

In the end, three de fectors from the BBC
made it happen. Karl Miosga, Jeff Cohen, and
T im Ashburne r ke pt the ir day jobs whi le they
talked to stations about their World Radio
Network. They got UPI to provide temporary
fac ilities by doing some work for the m, and
talked British Sky Broadcasting into providing a free sound c hannel as a test. For a week
stations from all over Europe, and as fa r away
as Is rae l a nd India, s hared a common satellite
c hannel. The s igna ls poured into a tiny room
at UPJ 's headquarte rs in London's Doc klands
by sate llite link. expensive broadcast c irc uits,
ISON, and even off shortwave.
It looked li ke c haos with cables running
everywhere into equipment just patched together for the week, but it worked. Some
weeks later, supported by a contrac t from
National Public Radio to bring its programs to
Europe, WRN Network One we nt on the air
on Astra, re lay ing some 20 international broadcaste rs . Separate deals to re lay Vatican Radio
and Radio Canada International/CBC to Europe fo ll owed . The n WRN turned towards
North A merica, and began re laying its European broadcaste rs on the WTBS transponder

on Galaxy 5. That was foll owed by a second

channel, WRN 2, which turned things inside
out by carrying program s in various stations'
native languages for their nationals in North
America.
C-SPAN has re layed international broadcasters on its Secondary Audio Programs fo r
several year: one c hannel for the BBC World
Service, another for a varlet y of stat ions, most
of which have been avai lable in Nort h America
via some satell ite re lay . Rece ntl y. several

hours a day of that service has relied on WR N

I.
One ofWRN' s bi ggest s uccesses was talk ing Canada s CBC. beset by budge t cutbacks.
into taking the WRN I service to provide al lnight programming on one u f its nationa l AM
networks. Suddenly international broadcasters really were be ing heard by " nonnal" people.
that is. normal insomni acs a nd normal night
shi ft workers . (Thi s has had interesting repercussions . One way Radi o Sweden has dealt

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with budget cutbacks has been to regularly

recycle various interviews and reports. That" s
worked on shortwave. where few people seem
to listen to eve ry broadcast. But numerous
complaints about the repeats have come in
from the Canadian night owls.)
More rece ntl y. WRN has expanded to Africa and Asia. The African service is on Intelsat
707. and is then relayed on the Mu ltichoice
DBS package on PAS-4. A deal similar to that
with CBC Overnight has been worked out.
and WRN I programs are carried in the middle
of night across South Africa on a national
network called SAfm.
The Asian service is part of a package of
European radi o broadcasters on Asiasat-2.
Both the Afri can and Asian re lays differ from
those to Europe and North America in that
they are digital. That means right now the
average home listener can' t tune in. Instead
they are intended for local and cable rebroadcasts.
I've de voted a lot of space to the World
Rad io Network story. because WRN is probably the most important tool fo r smaller international broadcasters to reach listeners on
satellite. There's simply nothing better right
now. The larger broadcasters. of course. have
their own 24 hou r channels. NPR was so
pleased with its response in Europe that it
leased its own c hannel, America One, toge ther with PR I. However, both continue to
provide programming on WRN as well.

The New Generation Broadcasters

The internatio nal radio broadcasters curre ntly on satell ite have all started with shortwave. But the comi ng digital age in broadcasting will see new stations that have never used
an y other medium. Europe is just introducing
Digital Audi o Broadcasting. The first regular
transmissions began in September l995 in
Britain and Sweden. Canada. Denmark, Norway. Finland. Germany, France, and Belgium
have all followed suit. and DAB is also testing
or planned in the rest of Western Europe,
India, Australia. and Russia.
European services are not expected to take
off until the first consumer receivers arrive on
the market thi ~ fall. Ultimately, DAB receivers wi ll pick up transmissions from both terrestrial and satell ite transmitters. In preparati on forth is. the BBC World Service, Deutsche
Welle. Radio Net herlands. and Radio France
International have, together with a number of
sma ller stations. organized EuroDAB. Right
now the co-operation involves a number of
weekly programs called Radio E carried on
sate llite and short wave by the stations involved. The intent ion is to provide WRN-type
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ervices in English. German, and French lhat

would run on DAB channels in each of the
participating countries. as well as via satell ite.
This goal seems rather remote, as DAB
spectrum wi ll he limited until the FM band is
phased out after the tu rn of the cent ury: most
countries wi ll be fill ing their current DAB
allocations with their own stations and are
unl ikely to make room for Radio E. While
DAB transmissions are possible fro m Astra
and Eutelsat. a proper service that coul d
seamlessly fit in with terrestrial DAB and
portable receivers will have lo wait for loworbit digi tal satellites.
Followi ng the time-honored "Not Invented
Here" philiosophy the National Association
of Broadcasters has rejected DAB in the U.S.
in favor of an alternative system combining
FM and digital signals. Meanwhile, the FCC
has granted licenses to Satellite CD Radio and
American Mobi le Radio Corp for digital satellite radio services to the US. This OARS
(Digital Audio Radio Service) wi ll use spectrum above 2310 MHz fo r broadcasts from
low orbit satellites. So Europe and America
will be fighting out the NTSC/PAL wars once
again, over digital radio, with receivers of
limited geographic functionality.
One new digital international radio project
is defin ite ly moving forward. WorldSpace
was founded by Noah Samara in 1990, and
has its headquarters in Washington, DC. The
plan is to launch three geostationary satellites
which will provide programming specifically
to Third World countries: AfriStar to Africa
and the Middle East, AsiaStar to Asia, and
AmeriS tar to Latin America and the Caribbean. Each wi ll provide 100 digi tal audio
channels to the entire coverage area.
The first satellite to be launched will be
AfriStar in June 1998 on Ariane. It will be
followed at six month interva ls by AsiaStar
and AmeriStar. All three are being made by
Alacatel Espace of France. Broadcasters who
have signed up so far include some familiar
names to the shortwave and tropical band DX
community, such as the Voice of America,
Radio Netherlands, Colombia s Radio Cadena
Nacional, the Ghana Broadcasting Corporati on, and Kenya Radio and TV. along with
Korea s New World Sky Media, and Nigeria s
Ray Power 100 FM.
The plan depe nds on the deve lopment of
affordable receivers. By using economies of
scale. the goal is produce new sate Ilite recei vers costing between $20and S30. These would
be truly portable, with antennas the size of
credit cards.
WorldSpacc and similar projects may be a
threat to traditional tropical band DXing. Some
of those exotic stat ions may di sappear from

the shortwave bands if local listeners can tune

into one hundred stations on cheap portable
receivers. On the other hand. some of the
exotic stations may become accessible for
listeners over an entire conti nent, or even a
hemisphere. (Some interesti ng DX prospects
here?)

From Satellites to Cyberspace

The digital age could open up the planet
for thousands more rad io stations over the
Internet. When Radio Sweden (and Sweden
Calling DXers) changed focus from shortwave to satellites, SCDX fo under Arne Skoog
was very skeptical. Arne was sure satelli tes
would never replace shortwa ve, and pointed
to the cost and size of receiving equipment,
and the lack of portability as the main reason.
I always thought Arne was forgeuing the
history he had been a part of. In Britain the
simp lest Astra dishes and receiver pac kages
sell for under I 00 (around $ 150 doll ars).
That's cheaper than almost any decent shortwave receiver. Even in Scandinavia, where a
satellite package may cost 5000 kronor
(around $800), that"s sti ll less than a quality
professional DX mach ine.
Satell ite receivers admitted ly aren't very
portable. But unti l very recently shortwave
receivers weren' t portable either; they were
boxes at least as large as a modern satellite
receiver, and just as fi rmly connected to antennas as the connection to the satell ite dish.
But this is about to change. The upcoming
generations of DAB and WorldSpace receive rs will be just as portable as any current
pocket Sony shortwave model.
But then there's the Internet. Soundfiles
have been available over the World Wide Web
since its inception, but the drawback was the
long time required to access the file-perhaps ten
minutes of download for every minute of audio.
That changed in April 1994. when Seattle's
Progressive Networks introduced Rea!Audio,
which allows an audio file to be played wh ile it
downloads, more or less instantly. Since then
Real Audio has progressed to versions 2.0 and
3.0, and the Real (V ideo) player and competing
systems like Streamworks have appeared. providing both audio-on-demand and live broadcasts. Right now there are hundreds of radio
stations around the world you can listen to on
the Internet, including many international broadcasters and the entire World Radio Network
output. See p. 56 for our exclusive WRN I
schedule on Internet compiled by Jim Frimmel.O
For a small station like Radi o Sweden this
is wonderfu l. Swedes and interested nonSwedes anywhere in the world can access
programs whenever they want. from wher-

ever they are. The quality initi all y sounded

worse than AM radi o. and RcalAudio 3.0
doesn' t a lways live up to its claim of sounding like FM . But what does that matter to an
internatio nal broadcaster? It's sti ll better than
shortwave. and hi gh-speed permanent Internet
access and a Real Audio server cost a lot less
than a 500 ki lowatt transmitter.
Juhan i Niin istoe of Radio Fin land says the
Internet has some definate advantages over
satell ite d istribut ion: "In parts of Afri ca the
Internet is ve ry popular due to the large size
of the di sh requ ired for our Intelsat relay
there, and due to the short length of our
shortwave tra nsmissions."
Oddly. whi le Arne Skoog is critical of
satellite radio, he approves of radio on the
Internet. This may have so mething to do with
his granddaughter in Australia be ing able to
listen to Swedish Radio on her desktop co mputer. But that' s as good as reason as any.
So far, though, the portability is miss ing.
I wrote a n art ic le about In ternet Radio for the
1995 World Radio TV Handbook in which I
fantasized cutting off the mode m connection
to the co mputer and somehow transmitting
all the Inte rnet bandwidth into the air. It was

service from Richoc het and other companies,

at speeds and costs about the same as ordi nary
Internet Service Providers. Wi th such a connec tion you can listen to Web radio on a
laptop anywhere in the coverage area. (Final ly a use fo r Newtons and other PD As?)
Better still. after the turn of the century the
planned Internet access fro m low orbit satel lite
networks like Iridium and Te lcdcsic will make
Internet Radio as portable as modern FM. This
is where things can get a bi t mixed up. as DAB,
tencstrial or satellite. also carries images and
text information using the standard HTML code
used on the World Wide Web.
ls li stening to a Tclcdes ic re lay of a
RcalAudio streaming audio program or accessing a DAB-stati on's Web page via Iridium satellite radio or cyberspace radio? Or
wi ll there be a diffe rence?
Hopefull y even in that networked fu ture
the re will sti ll be a fe w tropical radio stations
fo r the DXers to chase. But (assum ing the
politic ians a nd bureauc rats ca n work o ut the
royalties !o r global netcasts) the rest of us will
be able to listen to virtually any rad io station
in the world, from anywhere in the world.

a vision that betrayed a less than perfect

understanding o f the way the Internet works.
Where an analog cable T V network has to
provide bandwidth fo r all of its TV and radio
channels, an interactive digital network essentially only has to prov ide one signal at any
given moment. You can have access to thousands of radio stations out there o n the Net.
but genera ll y you only ask for one at a time.
and then receive j ust one at a time over you r
ex isting bandwidth.
Right now yo u can take a laptop co mpute r
and access the Internet over a dig ital GS M
tele phone in most of Europe, as well as parts
of Africa. the Midd le East, and Asia. So yo u
can tune into a Real Audio radio stati on . The
only problem is that. currentl y. GSM worh
at 9600 bps and RealAud io reall y req uires
28.8 kbps or bette r. and the signal tends to
break up a lot at slower speeds. GSM calls arc
also very expensive. so mobile listening to
rad io on the Inte rnet can be pretty costl y.
GSM man ufac ture rs arc working to improve the speed fo r dig ital access, a nd perhaps the cost of the calls will co me do wn. but
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Dan Veeneman
don@decode.com

The Names the Thing

hrc.:e standard s have emerged as the front runners in a con tinuing technologica l battl e of wireless air interfaces. An alphabet
soup of acronyms arc being used to differentiate new serv ices
as proponents a nd foe~ of each standard form alliances to market thei r
choi ce to the consume r.
Cod1.: Di vision Multiple Access (CDMA). G lo bal System for
Mobiks (GSM). and orth American Digital Ce llular (N ADC) arc
a ll cnmpcting in the marketplace for acceptance in u pgraded ce llul ar
and n1.:w PCS networks. No lo nge r content to ad verti se pricing and
fca tur1.:~. major service provide rs arc now us ing brand names to build
consume r confide nce and loyalty.

I Code Division Multiple Access (IS-95)

C ode Di vision Multipk Access is a method by whic h a number of
callers sha re the same frequency at the sa me time but are kept separate
by the use or pseudo-noise ( PN). or spread ing, codes. Us ing these
codes. a rece iver can "'de-spread .. th1.: desired s ignal and recover a
particular ca ller's data (see the February 1997 PCS Fro/I/ Line
co lumn for an introductio n to C DMA).
The c urrent CDMA . pcci fi cat ion. termed IS-95. was o riginal ly
developed by San Diego-based Qualcomm. Inc .. and became an
approved Telecommunications Indu stry Assoc iati o n (TI A) standard
in July of 1993. Early CDMA systems were establi shed in Ho ng
Ko ng and Korea. but a re no w rapidly being built in the United States.
Many ex isting ce llu lar carrie rs are conve ni ng porti ons of the ir 800
MI Iz spectrum from analog to digita l C DMA service, and according
to the C DMA Development Group (COG), a n industry association of

PCS Infrastructure Market Share

Qualcomm 2%
Others 1%

Nortel 19%

Lucent 36%

Ericsson 23%
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IS-95 propone nts. o f the nearly 3.000 PCS licenses g ranted by the FCC.
s lightly more than hair of the li ce nse holders have c hose n C DM A.
while GSM was se lected by 28 percent and TOMA by 20 pe rce nt.
The C OG is also attempting to "brand .. IS-95 networks under a
s ingle term - cdmaOne . This trademark is s uppost.:d to serve as a
catc h-all term for the fami ly of w ire less products using the IS-95 air
interface. including cellular. PCS. and wi reless loca l loop.
Maj or CDMA vendors Lucent Technologi es. Motorola. Nortel.
and Qualcomm are a lso workin g with COG to develop spcc i fi cati ons
for a next-generati on w ider-band'" IS-95-based CDMA tec hno logy .
It sho uld be no ted that not all proposed CDMA ne t work ~ follow the
IS-95 standard. Ericsson and Nokia. two major European suppliers. arc
testing a .. wideband C DMA .. (W-CDMA) not related to IS-95. Optimized for such high speed data applications as In ternet access. multimedi a electronic mail. high qu ality voice. and even video. W-CDMA
uses a C DMA a ir interface linked to a GSM network in fras tructure .
In Japan. N ippon Telephone and Telegraph s DoCoMo is performing ex pe rimental fi eld tests o n both Ericsson s W-CDMA and an IS-95
fo llow-on developed by Lucent Technologies.

I Global System for Mobiles

The G lobal System for Mobiles (GSM) is an international ai r
interface and network standa rd that has been deve lo ped and refined
over the past decade. primarily in Europe. Several North American
GSM serv ice prov iders ha ve recently formed the GSM Al lia nce to
jointly market digital w ire less voice and data services on PCS frequenc ies ( 1.900 MHz) and w ill be working to provide uniform katures.
roaming rates. and other services across the count ry.
The GSM Alliance includes Aerial Communications. Bt:llSouth
Mobilit y DCS. Microcell T eleco mmuni cations. Inc. (Canada ).
Omnipoint Communications. Pacific Bell Mobi le Se rvices. Pocket
C ommunications. Powcrte l. and Western Wireles~. Microprocessor
gia nt Intel is also support ing the alliance th rough its Mobile Data
Initiati ve in an attempt tu boost growth in the wireless data market.
The first comme rcial PCS network in the Uni ted State~. American
Personal Communications' S print Spectrum, uses the GSM standard
and will be in volved in the A llia nce. but is also affil iated with Sprint.
which has selected CDMA.
The use of GSM in North A me rican has been limited to PCS
freque ncies in part because of it s 200 kHz wide channe ls. which cannot
be easily retrofitted into the 800 MHz cellul ar band allocat io n of 30
kHz wide channels.
GSM has also introduced the Subscriber Ide ntity Module. or SIM.
to U.S. consumers. conta ining sec urity. identi ty. and o the r informatio n. These programmable !.mart cards can be easi ly tran~fcrrt.:d from
one w ireless handset to ano ther. allowing a subscribe r to qu ickly
change eq uipment whi le retai ning the same access number and service
features.

 North American Digital Cellular

Wireless Infrastructure

North American Digital Cell ular <NA DC ) is based on IS-136. an

enhancement of an older standard that makes use of Time Division
Multi ple Access (TOM A) techniques. NA DC was originall y ~la ted to
be the singlc digital standard for the Un ited Sta t e~ priorto Qualco mm ' s
IS-95 proposal. and has been in u~e for several years.
The largest proponent of NA DC. AT&T Wi rdess. is using TOM A
in both new PCS freq uenc i e~ and upgraded analog cellular area~.
creati ng ~ome additi onal confu sion by marketing their SOO 1v1I11
NA DC sc n ice as ''Digital PCS ."' Puri ~ t s would claim PCS refers to
services in the 1.900 MHz band. but AT&T coun ters that consumers
arc int e re~ t e d in feat ures and capabilities. not operating fre qu cncic~.

Li ke the go ld rush or the rnid- 1800' s. the ones making the mo ney
arc the equi pment pro vid er~. PCS and cellular infrastructure revenue
in 1996 reached $5.1 bi llion. up from $3 bill ion in 1995. PCS
equipment alone went from S510 mi llion to $2.8 hi Ilion during that
period. Luce nt Technolog ies led the pack with more th an a th ird of the
market. followed by Eric~~on and Motorola. Nortel had nearly 20
percent of the market and was the o nly pro\ider to wi n holh CDMA
and GS M contrach of ~ i gn i licanl si;re.

Customer Acceptance
All three standurds promise increased user capacity. improved
sound qualit y. fewer dropped calls. and broader coverage area than
the ana log eq ui val ent. The digital nalllre or the air interface al so
all ows additi onal services. such a~ caller ID and paging. IO be ea~ il y
incorporated into the system.
At the end of June there were an e'timatcd 6-16.000 GS I rnstome rs and -120.000 CDMA cus t omer~. In the near term. GSM o pera to r~
appear w be growin g quickly. For exa mple. Be llSouth Mobi lity DCS
and Paci lie Bell Mobile Services both daim more than I00.000
c ustome rs.while in seven and a ha!f months Omni poi nt has ~igncd up
42.000 customers.

PCS LICENSE HOLDER SERVICE AREA STANDARD

AT&T Wireless Services, Inc.
AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS,
KY, LA, MA, Ml, MN, MO, MS, NC, NE, NV, NY, OH, OK, PA,
PR, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WYTDMA

NextWave Personal Communications Inc.

CA, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, Ml, MO, NH,
NJ, NM, NV, N Y, N C, O H, OK, PA, RI, SC, TX, UT, VA,
WICDMA
Omnipoint Corp.
AL, AR, CO, DC, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, Ml, MO,
NC, NH, NY, OH, OR, PA, PR, RI, TN , TX, VA, WV
GSMPacific Bell Mobile Services
CAGSM

Cellular and GPS

The Globa l Po~ it ioning System (GPSJ. operated by the United
States Department of Defense. is a constellation of 24 low earth orbit
satellites wh ich provide accurate position and time informatio n to
military and civilian users. GPS first gai ned fa me during Operation
Desert Storm hy providing pinpoint accuracy for soldiers and guided
muni tions. Peacetime w.es for accurate location information are now
qu ite numerous. and eve n more will he fo und as GPS iscomhined with
wirc lc s~ communicati on network . .
Automobi le manu fac turer' arc incorporating GPS and cellular
technology to provide security. safety. and peace of mind to their
c ustome rs. The OnStar di vision of Ge neral Motors c urrent ly provides
ce ll ular commun ications units and service to more than 12.000
customers. and hopes to insta ll as many as two mi llion OnStar units
in more than twent y o r GM 's 1998 models. At $270 a year for
unlimited service and $900 for installati on. the service is not c heap.
hut provide' 24 hour moni tori ng and the ability to remotely loc k and
unlock doors as well a~ perform e ngine diagnosti cs. Lincol n offers
their ,ersion. termed remote emergency satellite cell ular unit ( RESCU).
in Co ntinental s at a retail price of S 1995.
Cons umer studies ha ve shown that the primary reason for purchasing a ce ll ular phone i~ safety. and adding accurate GPS location
in formati on tu a dist re~s cal I has clea r value. Further ad vancements in
these technologies inc lude sendin g a cellular message if the air bag is
deployed or a major mec hanical malfuncti on occurs.
Smaller devices arc al so currentl y in development to provide
personal security in a handheld pac kage. When the user presses a
pa nic butto n the internal GPS receiver se nd s curre nt posi tion information via a tiny cell ular digital packet data (C DPD) modem lo an
ope ration' center. which can then di spatch emerge ncy se;:rvices or
assistanci;: lo the proper location.
That, all for t hi ~ month. Kt:ep that electronic mail coming to
dm1@)decode.co111. or check the PCS Front Li nc websi te at http://
www.grovc.net/- dan . Until nex t mont h. happy moni toring!

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AR, HI, IL, IN, KS, LA, Ml, M O, NE , NV, O H, TXGSM
PrimeCo Personal Communications
LPAL, FL, HI, IL, LA, TX, VA, WICDMA
Sprint PCS
AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA,
MA, Ml, MN, MO, MS, NC, N E, NM, NY, O H, OK, OR, PA, PR,
SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV, VICDMA
Western Wireless Corp
AR, AZ, CA, CO, HI, IA, ID, IL, KS, MN, M O, MT, ND, NE, NM,
O H, OK, O R, PA, SD, TX, UT, VA, WA, WIGSM

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Richard Barnett
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Acts of Congress - Part II

ast month thi s editor heaped a good dea l of criticism upon

Congressman Ed Markey and his infamous bill HR I%-1. I
wrapped up that piece wi th the comment that Cong rl!!>~ m an
Markey was an obviously intel ligent man bu t pe rhaps had mi sunde rstood the ramifications of the scanner-re lated secti on of hi s A<.:l.
By August 13th I had become so con<.:erncd about the pe ndin g
legislation, both Markey"s and Billy Tauzin s. that I dc:cided to make
so me calls and hopefull y attain a better understanding of the situation.
What suddenly hit me was the fact that my company is based in
Congre ssman Markey"s 7th di stri<.: l. So I dc<.:ided to <.:all my
Congressman s office.
I had a long discussion with Colin Crowell. Congressman Markey'
staff aide on telecommunications. Mr. Crowe ll spent nearly one hour
o n the phone wit h me and was most respectful and patient. He
clarified a great many alleged mi s<.:onceptions about the intent of the
bilI. Herc's the gist of our conversation as I interpreted it. (A n c- mai I
copy of these points was sent Mr. Crowell for hi s comments. Should
he wish to make any corrections later. I wi ll incl ude them nex t
mo nth .):
I. Congressman Markey"s bill is not li ke ly to go anywhere. At
present, it has no co-sponsors and i ~ not under consideration fo r
heari ngs.
2. The intent of the bill (HR 1964) is to ex tend the same pri vacy
ri ghts lo CMRS (commercial mobile rad io service) users, who
may utilize telephone interconnect services, as the cellu lar users
are afforded in the ECPA and its follow-on legislation (i.e.
prohibi tion on moni toring ce ll ular calls, and no scanne rs are to be
manufactured with the cellular frequenc ies).
3. The FCC has forbearance in these situations and may provide
excl usions from any frequency proh ibi ti ons. (r m not totally clear
on th is provision. which needs further clarification.)
4. The Congressmen (Tauzin and Markey) are not interested in
marching scanner or shortwave radio users lock-step off to pri,on
or in pu tt ing scanner manufac turers out of business.
5. Mr. Crowell said that if an agency fee ls a great desire to have their
communications monitored. it should have that right. (Thi ~ stateme nt does conce rn me. Perhaps I don' t understand the exact
meaning.)
6. I informed Mr. Crowell that s<.:anncrs arc u'ed by volun teer
firefighters. law enforcement (i ncluding every State Police <.: rui-,i:r
in Massachu setts). emergency manage me m and others. !\Ir.
Crowell appreciated my argument that if onl) public servant'
were allowed to use scanne rs. and Unidcn and Radio Shack Jo;.t
the opportu ni ty to sell to the ge nera l publi<.:. s<.:anncrs would ei ther
no longer be produced or the ir wst would ri 'c expone ntiall y.
Public safety would ei ther lose the ability lo purchase scanner;. or
their <.:Ost to the taxpayer would be enormous.
7. The Congressman rerngnizes that there arc thou,ands of NASCA R
fans, for example, for whom this legislation could be <.:ripp ling to
their enjoyment of their $200 or $300 scanner in vestment. (This

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Markey s slq/f insists it is 1wl lhl'ir infl'lll IU s/1111 d11 1111 !he scc11111a
industry.

i;. but an example. There arc 'horl\1 a1 c li;.tencr,. marine radio

two-ll'ay users. the elderly and lli;.ahled who u'c s<.:anncrs a;. a
perfect hobby for the 111111,c bound. a' 11el l as genera l radio
hobbyist' who ut il i/C their ;.canner' in com.tructi vc and enjoyable
way;.- al l of whom arc in da nger or Jo,ing their hohhy if the hi lls
pa>s a' writte n.)
8. Most importamly. as Mr. Croll'cl l >talcs. these bilb ha1c been
propo1,ed to encourage d i 1,rns~ion1, and hearings. so that the
nin<.:crn'> of the public ,afct) <.:ommunil) . the hobbyi-.t rnmmunit y. and other-, may be heard. and the language of the bill
>ubscquently adjusted.
9. The crux of the i'~uc may be that the FCC need' to refarm so that
public interconnect frcqucn<.:ic;. arc not ;.hared with public ;.afcty .
The'e hearings may a<.:celcrnte that proccs,.
I0. T V Channels 60-69 nwy be made ava ilable to publi<.: ;.al"cty
age n<.: ies sho rtl y. A;. agencies migrate to th is band. pe rhaps
scann...:r:-. woul d be permitted to in<.:lude this range of dedi<.:ated
police. fire. E\IS. and local government frcqucncic-, a' there
11ould not then be a <.:on<.:ern of publi<.: interconnect i"uc.;.
l\lr. Cn)llcll listeni:d to all Ill) argument~ carefull y and engaged
in a u,cful debate over many or the point' I outlined in Ja,t month s
artic le.
While I told Mr. Crnll'cll that I rc-,pe<.:l the desire to honorably
consider and debate the hcncfih of offering privacy to puhli<.: intcrcon ne<.:l user, . I could not understand how Co ngrc> ~man Markey
wou ld co-sponsor Mr. Ta111in'> HR 2369. It's one thing to prc,cnl a
hill wh ich has somL' pro blem~. but which can be marked -up and
amended durin g a hearing. It i, qu ite another thing to prnpo'c or <.:o'JllHl'or 'n dra<.:onian a mca,tirc a' I JR 2169. Thi, bill tal..e' (i.1 year'
of worl..ahlc. 'en,iblc lcgi,Jation (the Communication' Act of 19.\-1 J
and lllrn' it in,idc out.
I 11 ant 10 reiterate. though. thll artLr ta ll.. rng I\ ith tvl r. Crowe II and
ot he r;. in Congre,sman Maile)' ' olli<.:c. I 11 as left mn't impn;,,cd . I
wa;. impre-,;.ed wit h the L'agcrne" 11 hich wa' shown in trying to
undcr,tand and rc<.:oncilc 111y po,ition ll'ilh the Congrc~;.ma n., . After
this phone call I can only hclic1c that :vlr. Markey wil l do the right
th ing and c nfor<.:c cxi-,ting law. pcrhap' double the pcnaltie' ror
crimina ls mal..i ng i1wppropriatc use ofa 'canner. requ ire that CMRS
telephone intcr<.:onncct prov ider' ofk r more encrypt ion opt ion' to

their custo mers. and the like. There a re actions that ca n be ta ken which
would o lTcr complete security (rather than the illus ion of security) 10
an y two-way radio user w ho desires it. but at the same timc maintain
the rights of hobbyists as we ll as public scrvan ts to rnnnitor the
airwa~cs as they have done s ince the dawn of radi o.
I appl aud Congressman Mar-key's staff. I look forward to thc day
when I can applaud the Congressman himself for recog ni zing the
faults in Billy Tauzin's broad-brus h bill and taking action to set it
straight.

Seattle Area Trunking

One of the most complex. but also one of the mmt interesting.
trunk ed systems in the country is located in the Seattle/King Cou nty
area of Washin!!to n state. According to FCC records. therc arc
numerou~ trunked syste ms in the Seattle area. many of which operate
oil of mo re than o ne site (probably due to the hill y terrain which
requires fill -in. zonal-type transmitters).
From ~000 mil es away. we had heard stories that the agencies in
the Seattle a rea which owned the trunking syste ms had been swapping around frequencies. trying to find the right combination for the ir
res pect ive an;as . Uniden Trunktracker BC-235 customers had been
reporting on TRUNK COM , and through www.trunktrnckcr.com email contacts, that they were having diffic ulty fi guring out which
frequ e ncies matched up with the appropriate data c hannels . With so
many transmi tter sites in the region. it was unclear w hat data c han nels
fed whi ch freque ncies.
You r scanne r edito r just made a trip to Seattle to try to wade
throug h the confusio n and ma ke sense of the area ' s syste ms. Using
the new TrunkTracni software. as well as the BC-235 . I was able to
determine freq uency plans and obtai n a fa irly good understanding of
what" s happening in the Sea-Tac (Seattleffacoma) region. I must also
thank Rick Thompso n. Dan Lawrence. and their fr iend Rich. as well
as Ste\'e Gardner, for the ir time and the fine work they' re doi ng on
understanding the ir local trunking network s.
What I learned is that the Seattle a rea syste m must be one of the
most unique, a nd innovati ve, trunked networks in the nation. What
has appare ntly happened in the Sea-Tac area is that numerous public
safety agenc ies have pool ed their resources IO create. in effect, a
sing le massive system, a Regional Emergency Communi cations
System. making communications and inter-o perability bet ween agenc ies easy and e fficient.
The Seattle region is g rowing rapidl y. W ith Boeing. Microsoft.
Starbucks. and o ther large companies populating the area. and thousands streaming out of Cal ifornia for the Jes hectic g rind of the
o rth west. Sea7t le is a popular place to be. And the eastern Puget
Sound reg io n is huge. From Be llevue and Redmond in the north a nd
east. westto Scattle itself. and south to Rento n. Kent. Sea-Tac (where
the a irpo rt is located). a nd Auburn . there are tho usand s of sq uare
miles in thi s King County territo ry.
Orig inally, a numberuf individual trunked systc ms were destined
to go o nlinc.!: Easts ide Public Safety (EPSCA). King County (the King
Cou nty sheriff, fi re department and various county agencic.!s). Valle_y
Com munications (Valley Comm). to cover incorporated co111111un1til.!s within the county. the city of Seattle. and the Port of Seattl e. Wh ilc
we are making some educated g uesses about how these systems came
to be. what we now believe to be the casc is that thc.! re i ~ one large
reoional Mo torola T ype II trnnking ystem . which is actually ~pl it u p
mult iple zones so mewhat in accordance wit h the origi na l desig n.
From what wc understand. King Cou nty and Valley Co111111 have

in~o

merged. a ltho ugh they have separate d ispatchers. and EPSCA and the
city of Seattle. both mai ntain thc.!ir own autonomy within the syste m
(the Po rt of Seattle has its own separate system). However. units can
apparently roam from o ne.! e nd of the county to another. and from o ne
"zone,. to anothe r, witho ut chang ing ID s .
Thi s is what made it so difficult to prcvious ly understand how
frequenc ies matched up wi th data channe ls . A Seattle po lice unit
usi ng talkg roup ID :n 12 was heard on multiple freq ue nc ies and what
appeared to be multiple syste ms. Actuall y, these group broadcasts,
like so many others, arc simulcast throug hout many. if not all, zones
within the larger system. ( It may de pend on whether there are units of
g roup 33 12. for examplc. w ith in range of one of these zones_ .as to
whether its talkg roup is made ava il able. and is simulcast , otf that
zone s frequenc ies.) Ge nerall y speak ing. you could moni to r the
Seattle poli ce department hy trunk monitoring the city of Seattle.
EPSCA or King County/V all ey Comm s set of freque nc ies.
What makes this a ll so interest ing is that you only need to figure
one set of ID's for the cntire system. A King County unit wi ll no t have
the same ID as a city of Seattle unit. even though that K.C. unit may
never roam into the Seattle zone. By mo nitoring on ly the EPSCA
system, you11 like ly hear city of Scattl e po lice and fire department
units , King County sheriff and fire commun ications, as well as the
primary departments di spatched by EPSCA, such as Redmond ,
Bellevue and others in the northern county area.
Note: Again. this ed itor is mak ing some assumption s based on
monito ring. Ir you fee l that port io ns o f thi s article are inco rrect, please
write or send e-mai l w ith your questio ns and comments. We are very
interested in trying to determine exactly which agencies are dispatched out of EPSCA, King Cou nty. and Valley Comm. A lso. it is
our understanding that things are still in a state of flux as far as
freq uencies are concerned . You wi II no te below that not all licens.ed
frequencies appeared in use. We ve been to ld that more frequ e nc ies
will come on line w ithin the next 90 days. Finally, the c ity of T acoma,
some 20 miles to the south of Seattle. has its own trunking system
licensed. W e 're not s ure if it 's tied in with the regio nal communications system or if it's even on the air.
What is perhaps most interesting of a ll regarding monito ring
Seattle trunking is how open-minded the city is about it. Prio r to the
introduction of the BC-235 Tru nkTracker, you could write the c ity
and request to purc hase a Motoro la radio programmed with certain
police and fire talkgroups. The c ity recognized that the public has a
rig ht to monitor and that the publi c can provide a valuable service by
keeping informed. What is reall y most terrific about th is e nlig hte ned
c it v. is that you can now o btain se lected "Bearcat" talkg ro up ID
nu;11bers d irectly fro m the c ity' s Executive Services Department'
That"s right. the city is e \e n converting the ir radios' Hex code into
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decimal
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{continued}

REGIONAL EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM

TALKGROUP ID'S
(Scali le, King CountyIV alley Comm. EPSCA, and possibly even Port of
Seallle. Special thanks to Rick Thompson. Dan Lawrence, and their
friend Rich. as well as Steve Gardner. and the participants in the
Washington " Interceptor web site for their assistance.)

Regional Emergency Co11111m11iC<1tio11s System

II!

48
80
1648
1680
1712
1744
1776
1808
1840
1872
t904
1936
1968
2000
2096
3248
3280
3312
3344
3408
3440
3472
3504
3536
3632
3664
3696
3728
3952
3984
4048
4240
4912
4944
5168
5520
5552
6480
6768
6800
6832

ill

AlJ.ena

Police at SeaTac Airport

Harbor Patrol Police
Seattle Fire Department +
Seattle Fire Department -2Seattle Fire Department -3Seattle Fire Department -4- Dispatch
Seattle Fire Department 5- EMS
Seattle Fire Department 6- EMS
Seattle Fire Department -7- Tactical
Seattle Fire Department -8- Tactical
Seattle Fire Department -9 Tactical
Seattle Fire Department -1 O Tactical
Seattle Fire Department -11
Ambulance
Seattle Fire Department -12A
MEDCDPM
Seattle Fire Department - Administra
tion
Seattle Police Department West
Dispatch
Seattle Police Department NorthDispatch
Seattle Police Department -SouthDispatch
Seattle Police Department -EastDispatch
Seattle Police Department -Data
Seattle Police Department -Tac tSeattle Police Department -Tac 2Seattle Police Department -Tac 3?
Seattle Police Department -Tac 4-?
Seattle Fire Department -East Tac
Seattle Fire Department -South TacSeattle Fire Department -North TacSeattle Fire Department -West TacHarbor Patrol
Seattle Police Department
Seattle Police Department
Seattle Police Department
Key Arena
Key Arena
Seattle Center
Seattle Woodland Park Zoo
King County Animal Control
Seattle Water &Sel'ler
Seattle Event 1 (Citywide Event)
Seattle Event 2 (Citywide Event)
Seattle Event 3 (Citywide Event)

6864
9072
9232
18416
18544
18928
19472
21232
21360
21424
22192
22224
22384
22416
23152
232 t 6
23248
23280
23472
23504
23536
26672
29136
29168
31408
36947
37171
37264
37296
37328
37360
37392
38448
38480
38512
62896
63184

AulliY

Seattle Event 4 (Citywide Event)

Health Department EOC
Water Front PD?
Redmond Police Tactical/Car
to car
Redmond Police
Mercer Island Police
Kirkland Police
Bellevue Police - Car to car
Bellevue Police - Records
Bellevue Police - Primary
Dispatch
Eastside Fire - Tac 2
Eastside Fire - Tac 1
Eastside Fire Dispatch (Bellevue
&surrounding area)
Radio Maintenance?
King County Police Department
- North (460.325 Simulcast)
King County Police Department
- Southeast (460.450
simulcast)
King County Police Department
Tac 3
King County Police Department
Southwest (460.400
simulcast)
King County Police Department
Data (460.275 simulcast)
King County Police Department
Tac t (460.500 simulcast)
King County Police Department
Countywide
Redmond Police
Federal Way Police
Federal Way Police - Data
Eastside Fire
Auburn Police (check)
Kent Police (check)
Renton Police Tactical
Renton Police - Administration
Tukw1la Radio
Tukwila Radio - Tac
Tukwila Radio Administration
King County Fire 1
King County Fire 2
King County Fire 3
MARS (King County Command)
Radio Shop

FREQUENCIES BY SYSTEM ZONES

<Fre4uencic.:s marked with a* arc licensed to the system but were not
active during our test using TrunkTrac software. They may eithc.:r be
sched uled for fu ture use or simpl y these repeaters may have been
down fo r repai r. )

City of Seattle (Columbia Tower Site) - Primary Sites

851.1875 .
851 .4125.
851 .9375
851.9875
852.1625
852.6875
852.9 125
853.4375
854. 1875

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854.3625
866.2875
866.3125 '
866.3375
866.4375
866.6875
866. 7125
866. 7375.

MONITORING TIMES

866.8875 .
867.2875
867.7625'
867. 7875
868.1750 Data
868.4750
868.6750.
868.8750

October 1997

Seal/le Fill-in Coverage Sites (not monitored or known (f 011-the-air)

City of Seattle -Appl e Cove Site
866. 1625
868.2250
866.4125
868.6500
866.6625
868.9000
City ol Seattle - South Metro Site
855.4625
855.9625
855.7125
856.9875

City of Seattle - North Metro Site

859.2375
860.2375
859.4875
860.4875
(Note. As long as you can receive the primary
system there is no need to monitor the lilHn
sites as all communications broadcast on the
hll111s are likely simulcast off ol Columbia
Tower.)

Eastside Public Safety Communications Authority (EPSCA)

851.1375'
854.2375
866.9125
8674875
851 .8875
866.2125 .
866.8875.
867.81 25
852.6375
866.2375
866.9875
867.8875.
853.3875
866.4625
867 3125
868.2000'

868.5250 '
868.7750Data
868.8250.

Eastside Public Safe ty North Seattle Fill-in Site

867.2250
867.3625
868.9500
867.2500
867.3875
868.9750
Eastside Public Safety Mobile Oata Terminals (used systemwide?)
852.7125

King Co1111ty/ Valley Co1111111111icatio11s

Primary Site (?) Not monitored
851.0625
851.9625
851.0875
852. 1125
851.1625
852.6125
851.3625
852.8625
851.8125
853.3125

853.4875
853.6125
854 0875
854 .2875
866.3625

King CountyNalley Comm - McDonald

856 4375
857.4375
856.7125
857.7125
856.9375
857.9375
857.2625
858.2625

Pt. Site (confirmed)

858 7125 '
859.7125 '
858.9375
859.9375
a59.2525
860.2525
859.4375
860.4375.

866.3875
866.9375
866.9625
867.3375
867.4375

867.8375
867.8625
868.4250
868.4500
868.7000
868.7250

860.7125
860.9375 Data

King CountyNalley Comm - Sobieski Site (unconlirmed)

855.9875
858.9625
859.4625
859.9625
860.4625
860.9625
King CountyNalley Comm - Dodge Ridge Site (unconfirmed)
855.2375
856.4625
856.9625
857 4625
857.9625
858.4625
859.7625
King CountyNalley Comm - Grass Mtn. Site (confirmed)
856.2375'
856.4875
857.2375
(Note: Only a couple ol ID's were monitored using tlus f1ll-m site. They
857.4875.
were. perhaps. small tovin units on the outskirts of the county.)
858.2375.
858.4875 Data

l'ort of Seattle
(confirmed - unknown if its units roam throughout the larger system)
8511625
851 .2625
851.3125
852.0125
852.8125
853.5125
853.5625 Data
854.2625 Data
854.3 t 25 Data

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Military Frequency Bonanza

his month we arc going to take a look at sonH:: o r the frequencies

that have bee n fo rwarded to this col umn by our n.:aders. We have
quite a bit o r ground to cover, so let 's get started.
First we present an .::xtensivc list of European military HF communications forwarded by Mr. TF in the UK. The mode used on all these
frequem;ics is upper sideband (USB) un less otherwise indicated.
Denmark
Primrose-Royal Danish Air Force, Yaerlose
4577 (?), 6720, and 11246 kHz

France
Marguerite-French Air Force Circus Net (ARCN)
6712 (Marjolaine 2), 8972 (Racontor 1), 8993 (Vinaigrette 3), 9006, 11510, 13236
(Raphael), 1801 0 (Citodelle 1), 23254 kHz (Verile 3)

Other French Air Force Swri1111s ro iratchfor i11c/11t!e:

Circus Blanc
Circus Bleu
Circus Citron
Circus Dore
Circus Fouve
Circus Lilas
Circus Orange
Circus Tango
Circus Tilleul
Circus Vert

Bangui, Central African Republic

Lo Reunion, Reunion Island
Cayenne, Guyana
Diibouli, Diibouti
Fort de Fronce, Martinique
Libreville, Gabon
Dakar, Senegal
Paris/Villacoubloy, France
N'djomena, Chad
Paris/Villocoublay, France

FUlFrench Air Force, Unknown location

3032 IARCN 171), 3044 (C3 common), 3909 (ARCN 172), 571 4, 6718, 6760, and
6996 kHz
FWl-French Air Force, Unknown location
5702 and 6757 kHz

Germany
DHM91 German Air Force Munster Air, Germany
(DHO 26 hos also been heard on these frequencies)
3107 (Alpha), 3143 (Bravo), 4721 (Delta), 5687 (Echo), 8965 (Kilo), and 11 217 kHz
(Mike)
DHJ59German Navy Willelmshoven, Germany
2625 (Maritime Rear Link 59/02), 4 154 {MRL 59/04), 6779.0 (MRL 59/06),
8335 (MRL 59 /08), 10 163 5 (MRL 59I10), and 124 15.5 kHz (MRL 59I12?)
Note: DHJ59, JWTStavonger Naval Radio (Norway), the Italian naval radio station
IDR ltalian Naval Rome (Italy), and their associated slatiom operate two nets on HF.
One net is for warships and the other is for maritime patrol aircraft. The maritime patrol
net is known as the airborne communications net (ARCN).
OHJ?-German Naval Radio, unknown location
5018 kHz
DHJ52/ 67Germon Naval Radio, unknown location
5722 kHz
OHJ61German Naval Radio , unknown location
4 604 and 5016 kHz
DHJ69German Naval Radio, unknown location
4811 kH z
DHJ64German Naval Radio, unknown location
4496.5, 47 44 (shared frequency with JWT), and 4836 kHz
DHJ78German Navy Flensburg, Germany (call word Argonaut)
5691 , 6730, 6733, 67 47, 6750 (78/0 1), 6752, and 9035 kHz

IBAUS Navy Napoli, Ita ly

9207.5 kH z
!CA-Italian Naval Rodia Ancona, Italy
2350.5
ICHltolian Naval Radio Lo Maddaleno, Italy
2329.5 ond 67.46 kHz
ICM-Italian Naval Radio Unknown location
4711 kHz
ICN-ltalion Naval Radio Napoli, Italy
4116.0
ICS-ltalian Naval Radio Lo Spezio, Italy
4439 and 6873.5 kHz
ICT-ltolian Naval Radio Taranto, Italy
41 5.4.5 and 6708 kHz
IDJ-ltalian Naval Radio Unknown location
6708 kHz
IDR-ltalian Naval Radio, Rome (ARCN)
3 182, 4721 , 4723, .4839, 6708, 6733, 67 46, and 6755 kHz
IGJ-ltalian Naval Radio A ugusta, Ita ly
4168.5 and 6708 kHz
l??ltalian Naval Radio, Unknown location
5 405.0 (shore station heard calling 1041)

Norway
JWTStavanger Naval Rodia, N orway.
2413, 2687, and 27 44 kHz

Portugal
CTPNATO Naval Radio, Lisbon, Portugal
4 74 2 (CTP with RTTY over RAF Architect a couple of times), 6730 (voice and RTTY), and
6699 kHz (not used very otten, but I have heard USN and European voice coll up
and RTTY)

I Airborne Radio Communications Nets (ARCN)

Ary Boender referred to ARCN I 31 fo r JWT in the August 94 Ute

World logs under the6727 kHzentry. ARCN I 31 would normally refer
to a three megahertz frequency.
6 727
6697
9036

ARCN 405
ARCN 113
ARCN 115

Common European ARCN frequency

MKLRAF Edinburgh, UK
MKLRAF Edinburgh, UK

There are several ARCN c hannel s set aside for con1111on use such
as 420('!) ARCN 40 1 wh ich inc ludes stations like MKL: PBV-Dutch
Air Force Vaikenbu rg, Netherla nds: DHJ59. and TDR.
I\ huge Uri/it_,. World thanks goes out to \'Ir. TF fo r hi s line list or
HF European military vo ice frequrncies.
I MARS in Europe
No. l"m not talk ing about the Mars Path rindcr mission in thi s
porti on of the column: I" Ill talking about the U.S. Army MARS
frequencies currentl y be in g used in Europe. Many U \V thanks 10
Sidney fo r se nding us the comprchensive list or Army MA RS freq uen c ies in Table I.
I USAF Tanker Callsigns

Ireland
Irish Air Corps: 5254 and 5708 kHz

Italy
Italian Air Force (ARCN)
3143 (ARCN 32 1), 472 1 (ARCN 322), 57 14 (ARCN 323), and 6733 kHz (ARCN
324)

34

MONITORING TIMES

October 1997

From time to time we get a fow requests for U.S. Air Force cal lsigns
fo r the various KC- 135 tanker u ni t~ commonly heard on the global HF
~yst cm (GI-IFS ) frequencies. Table 2 a list cottrtl!sy of T. Okamura in
Japan and hi s excellent Iron Birds websi te at URL: http://www.asahinct.or.jp/-uq6t-okmr/c.:allsign/c.:sdkc.html

TABLE 1: U.S. Army MARS frequencies in Europe

Desig1
A1
Bl
C1
D1
E1
F1
G1
H1
11
J1

A2
B2
C2
D2

Authorized
Frequency (kHz)
3855.0
3897 5
4015.0
6997.5
4870.0
5432.0
141.775 MHz'
6910.0
6940.0
4590.0
3871.0
5737.0
6882.5
7574.5
5401.0
6825.0
7475.0
9810.0
10327.0
11070.0
11455.0
12072.0
14403.5
14405.0
14406.5
14665.0
15551.0
16041.0
19024.0
19532.5
20975.0
20992.5
20994.0
20995.5
27994.0

use
(D)
3883.5
3896.0
4013.5
6996.0'
4868.5
5430.5
FM
6908.5
6938.5
4588.5
3869.5
5735.5
6881.0
7573.0
5399.5
6823.5
7473.5
9808.5
10325.5
11068.5
11453.5
12070.5
14402.0'
14403.5
14405.0
14663.5
15549.5
16039.5
19022.5
19531.0
20973.5
20991.0
20992.5
20994.0

LSB
(C)
3886.5 1
3899.0
4016.5
6999.0
4871 .5
5433.5
6911 .5
6941 .5
4591.5
3872.5
5738.5
6884.01
7576.0
5402.5
6826.5
7476.5
9811.5
10328.5
11071.5
11456.5
12073.5
14405.0
14406.5
14408.0
14666.5
15552.0
16042.0
15025.5
19532.5
20976.5
20994.0
20995.5
20997.0
AM

Areas
Authorized
Germany-Germany
Germany-Germany
Germany-Germany
Europe-Europe
Germany-Germany
Germany-Germany
Germany-Germany
Germany-Germany
Germany-Germany
Germany-Germany
Germany-Bosnia
Germany-Bosnia
Germany-Bosnia
Germany Bosnia
Germany-USA
Germany-USA
Germany-USA
Germany-USA
Germany-USA
Germany USA
Germany-USA
Germany USA
Germany-USA
GermanyUSA
Germany USA
Germany-USA
Germany USA
Germany-USA
Germany USA
Germany-USA
Germany-USA
Germany-USA
Germany-USA
Germany USA
Germany-Germany

Remarks
Primary Data Network

Local Voice Contacts

Primary Phone Patch Net

Noles:
TI1is call frequency is alMJ monilorcd ou1sidc of scheduled ncl limes
' Dcsignmors for lhc freque ncies above arc made by combini ng lhc basic dcsignmor shown for each frequency wi1h 1hc modifier for mode. For cx:unplc. A IC=3886.5 kHt (LSB)

TABLE 2: U.S. Air Force callsigns for the various l<C-135 tanker units
Units
ACC
AMC

AFR ES

ANG

366 Wing
6ARW
19ARG
22ARW
89AW
92ARW
319ARW
434 ARW
452ARW
507 ARW
916ARW
927 ARW
940ARW
101 ARW
107 ARW
108 ARW
117 ARW
121 ARW
126ARW
128ARW
134ARW
141 ARW
151 ARW
154 ARW
155ARW
157 ARW
161 ARW
163 ARW
168 ARW
171 ARW

AETC
USAFE
PACAF
AFMC

186ARW
190ARW
97 AMW
lOOARW
18Wing
4950 TS

22 ARS
91 ARS
991712 ARS
344/349/350/384 ARS
1 AS
43/92/96/97 ARS
905 ARS
72 ARS
74 ARS
336 ARS
465 ARS
77 ARS
63 ARS
314 ARS
132 ARS
136 ARS
141 ARS
150 ARS
106 ARS
145 ARS
166 ARS
108 ARS
126 ARS
151 ARS
116ARS
191 ARS
203 ARS
173 ARS
133 ARS
197 ARS
196 ARS
168 ARS
146 ARS
147 ARS
153 ARS
117 ARS
55ARS
351 AAS
909 AAS
4952 TS

Aircraft
KC135R
KC-135R
KC- 135R
KC-135R/T
Various
KC-135R/T
KC 135R/T
KC135R
KC-135R
KC-1 35E
KC135R
KC135R
KC135E
KC135E
KC135E
KC135R
KC135E
KC135E
KC135R
KC135R
KC-135R
KC135E
KC-135R
KC-135E
KC-135E
KC-135E
KC-135R
KC135R
KC 135R
KC1 35E
KC 135R
KC-135R
KC135E
KC135E
KC135R
KC135D/E
KC135R
KC135A
KC135A
Various

Unit
Callsign
Gunfighter
Bolt
Rhet
Caddo/Turbo
Venus/SAM
Falls/Earl/Pride/Aspro
Raid/Exxon
Mash
Indy
Rats
Okie
Backy
Auto/Piston
Darr
Maine
Fuzzy
Jersey
Topcat
Dixie
Tazz/Gorky
Sluff
Coder
Upset
Soda
Expo
Utah
Hoku
Husker
Pack
Copper
Grizzily
Chena
Steel
Shaky
Keys
Tempo
Spatz/Gassr
Ouid
Tora
Ager

Reach Mission
Callsign
Reach 41XX
Reach 38/64XX
Reach 40/43XX
Reach 42XX
Reach 61XX
Reach 61XX
Reach 93XX
Reach 58XX
Reach 55XX
Reach 50XX
Reach 45XX
Reach 56XX
Reach 51XX
Reach 78XX
Reach 78XX
Reach 79XX
Reach BOXX
Reach 81 XX
Reach 83XX
Reach 85XX
Reach 84XX
Reach 63XX
Reach 87XX
Reach 87XX
Reach 88XX
Reach 89XX

October 1997

MONITORING TIMES

35

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~_Log
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D~
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[l{ij.~~Larry Van Horn
A hbrcvia tiun s used in thi s column
AFB
AIG

Air Force Base

Address Information
Group
AM
Amplitude Modulation
ANDVT
Advanced Narrowband
Digital Voice Terminal
ARO
Synchronous transmission
and automatic repetition
teleprinter system
ARO-E
Single-channel ARO
teleprinter system
ARO-E3
Single-channel ARO
teleprinter system
ARO-M2 Multiplex ARO teleprinter
system with two data
channels
ASEC NA Agence pour la Securite de
la Navigation Aerienne en
Afrique et a Madagascar
COMMNAV Communications/
Nav1Qation
cw
Continuous Wave (Morse
code)
DLA
Defense Logistics Agency
DV
Distinguished Visitor
EAM
Emergency Action
Message
FAA
Federal Aviation
Administration
FAF
French Air Force
FEC
Forv1ard Error Correction
FEC-A
One-way traffic FEC
teleprinting system
FF
French Forces
FN
French Navy
GHFS
Global HF System
HF
High Frequency
ICRC
International Committee
for the Red Cross
ID
Identification

INS
IRA-ARO
MARS
Meteo
NCC
OET
PACTOR

PIAB

osx
RTIY
SAM
Selca I
SITOR
SITOR-A
SITOR-B
U.S.
USA
USAGE
USAF
Un id
USN
USB
UTC
VIP

All

2892.3

Immigration and
Naturalization Service
International reference
alphabet diplomatic data
burst teleprinter system
Military Affiliate Radio
System
Meteorology
National Coordinating
Center
Ottice of Emergency
Transportation
Teleprinter systems
combining certain
characteristics of packet
radio and SITOR
Presse- und
lnformationsamt der
Bundesregierung
0 Code. I am listening to

3245.0

Radioteletype
Special Air Mission
Selective Calling
Simplex teleprinting over
radio system
Simplex teleprinting over
radio system. mode A
Simplex teleprinting over
radio system. mode B
United States
U.S. Army
U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers
U.S. Air Force
Unidentified
U.S. Navy
Upper Sideband
Coordinated Universal
Time
Very Important Person

4083.0

tran s mi ss ion~

arc USB (upper sidt.:band) unless otherwise indicated.

All f'rcqucncic ~ arc in k Hz (kilohertz) and all times arc UTC (Coord inated
Time Uni versal)

3313.0
3435.0
3764 .0
3840.0
4002.0
4031 .0
4050.0
4064.0

4084.0
4227.0
4240.0
4246.0
4295.0
4303.0
4465.0
4485 .0
4495.0
4550.5
4583.0

1609.5
t 6 t 9.5
2423.5
2474.0
2608.0
2643.5
2716.0
2727.0
2781.0
2789.0
2815.0
2829.5
2845.0
2872.0

36

LGBRogaland Radio. Norway. with CW marker at 0358. (Ary Boender

Netherlands)
PCHScheveningen Radio, Netherlands, with CW marker at 0359.
(Boender-Neth)
SAB-Goteborg Radio. Sweden. using 100 baud SITOR-A calling selcal
XPIM at 0436. (Boender-Neth)
PBC-Dutch Navy Goeree, Netherlands. with 75 baud RTIY GARB
broadcast at 0432. (Boender-Neth) Sorry. Ary: but whaf"s GARB?
Larry
FUOFN Toulon. France. with a 75 baud RTIY test tape at 0418.
(Boender-Neth)
SPS-Witowo Radio. Poland, with a CW marker at 0415. (BoenderNeth)
SAB-Goteborg, Sweden , using 100 baud SITOR-A calling selcal TPPF
at 0412. (Boender-Neth)
DAN-Nordde1ch Radio. Germany. with a CW marker at 0412.
(Boender-Neth)
GND4-Stonehaven Radio. England. using 100 baud SITORA calling an
unid vessel then CW marker at 2155. (Boender-Neth)
FUEFN Brest, France, with a 75 baud RTIY test tape at 0411 .
(Boender-Neth)
IDR8 1talian Navy Rome. Italy. with a 75 baud RTIY GARB broadcast
at 2205. (Boender-Neth)
SPB-Szczecin Radio, Poland. with a 100 baud SITOR-8 traffic list at
2200. (Boender-Neth)
PBS-Dutch Navy Den Helder. Netherlands. with a 75 baud RTIY GARB
broadcast al 2204. (Boender-Neth)
Shanv1ick Aero. Ireland. working various aircraft at 0404. (Boender
Neth)

MONITORING TIMES

October 1997

4622.0
4721.0
4790.0
4813.0
4880.0
5091.0
5117.0
5141.9
5153.8
5154.0
5177.0
5266.5
5342.0
5383.9
5439.5
5800.0

MGJ-Royal Navy Faslane. England. with a 75 baud RTIY GARB

broadcast at 2202. (Boender-Neth)
LICE-Arkhangelsk Radio. Russia, working an unid vessel using 100
baud SITOR-A at 2100. (Boender-Neth)
HEP3Kantospolizei Zurich. Switzerland, with CW v marker at 2103.
(Boender-Neth)
Un id NATO (possibly Royal Navy) station transmitting 100 baud RTIY
encrypted messages separated by 16 RY's + VMGCTNJHB at 2105.
(Boender-Neth)
PBBDutch Navy Den Helder. Netherlands. with a 75 baud RTIY GARB
broadcast at 2107. (Boender-Neth)
SYN2-lsraeli Mossad number station at 1645, also on 4665/5628.
(Takashi Yamaguchi-Nagasaki. Japan)
YRR2Bucharest Meleo. Romania. with 50 baud RTIY synoptic
observations at 2106. (Boender-Neth)
PSingle letter HF CW marker, Russian Navy Kalin ingrad at 2108.
(Boender-Neth)
Unid station sending CW single figures separated by a space mark.
Ended with th ree long dashes (short zero's) at 2110. (Boender-Neth)
EBO-Spanish Navy Vigo. Spain. with CW V marker at 2123. (Boender
Neth)
Unid multi tone signal (jammer?) from 1935-2125. Also noted one
month later from 1830-1920. Also Spanish Navy stations noted here.
Sounded like an exercise. Lots of counting and spelling at 1940.
(Boender-Neth )
Strong multi-tone jammer noted at 1830. (Boender-Neth)
IGJ42-llalian navy Augusta, Italy. with a 100 baud RTIY GARB
broadcast at 2120. (Boender-Neth)
LGWRogaland Radio. Norway, with CW traffic list at 2132. (Boender
Neth)
Unid NATO (possibly Royal Navy) station transmitti ng 100 baud RTTY
encrypted messages separated by 16 RY's + VMGCTNJHB at 2134.
(Boender-Neth )
HWN-FN Pairs, France, with 150 baud RTIY test tape. SXA34Greek
Navy Piraeus. Greece. with CW marker at 2140. (Boender-Neth)
OXZ-Lyngby Radio. Denmark. with CW traffic list at 2210. (Boender
Neth)
FDl8FAF Nice. France. with CW marker at 2144. (Boender-Neth)
Unid station in CW at 1654 transmitting: 275 275 9T 9T 38 38 plus 5figure groups. each group was repeated . (Boender-Neth)
Lancelot worked Firebrick followed by Nightwatch 01 calling Lancelot
at 0946. (Haverlah-TX)
TBU5-Turkish Navy station, unknown location, with CW marker "TBDJ
de TBU5" at 2049. (Boender-Neth)
DKK2-Hamburg Meleo. Germany, with 50 baud RTIY marine weather
at 2053. (Boender-Neth)
Unid station in CW at 2155 transmitting: BT NR4 7 A 94 23:58:02 1997
BT plus 5-letter groups. many messages. (Boender-Neth)
Unid station RSSA repeating "'V PV2S de RSSA" at 1050 in CW.
(Yamaguchi-Japan)
FDE14-FAF Contrexville, France, with a CW V marker at 1719.
(Boender-Neth)
LZA8Sofia Meleo, Bulgaria. with 50 baud RTIY synoptic observations
at 2150. (Boender-Neth)
ULXlsraeli Mossad number station at 1700. (Yamaguchi-Japan )
JSR2-lsraeli Mossad number station at 1701. (Yamaguchi-Japan )
Spanish female 5-digit number station in AM at 0400. Weak but
readable on the East Coast. (Gary Seven via e-mail)
Unid station with a 96 baud AROM2 tuned on space only signal at
1646. (Hall-RSA)
P-Si ngle letter HF CW marker, Russian Navy Kaliningrad at 1920.
(Boender-Neth)
R-Single letter HF CW marker. Russian Navy Ustinov at 1920.
(Boender-Neth)
Unid station with a PACTOR signal. unable to decode at 1650. Suspect
ICRC from Bosnia Herzegovina. (Hall-RSA)
HEP5Kantonspolizei Zurich. Switzerland, with a V CW marker at 21 14.
(Boender-Neth )
FDYFAF Orleans. France, with a V CW marker at 2115. (Boender-Neth)
Unid station with a 96 baud ARQ-M2 tuned on space only signal at
1658. (Hall-RSA)
Unid station L9CC repeating "CPI 7 de L9CC UAA" in CW at 1256.
(Yamaguchi-Japan)
Mulberry working Nightwatch 01at01 14. (Haverlah-TX) Spanish
female 5-digit number station in AM at 0300. Very weak but reada ble.
(Gary Seven via e-mail)

5820.0
5887.5
5913.9
6322.1
6348.0
6357.0
6425.0
6493.5
6697.0
6730.0
6768.0
6826.0
6896.7
6983.0
6993.0

7586.1
7767.1
7805.5
7831.0
7831.8
7841.0
7863.5
7956.0
7983.9
8032.0
8186.0
8192.8
8968.0
90 16.0

9250.8
9320.0
10046.0
10204.0
10215.0
10299.2

VHF-Israeli Mossad number station at1600. (Yamaguchi-Japan)

IMB2-Roma Meteo, Italy. with 50 baud RTTY synoptic observations at
21 18. (Boender-Neth)
HLL4-Seoul Meteo. South Korea (tentative). with a 50 baud RTTY
broadcasts at 1707. Heavy USB interference. (Hall-RSA)
ZS D-Du rban Radio, South Africa. SITOR-NB traffic list that also gave
the ZSC-Capetown Radio callsign at 1714. (Hall-RSA)
HWN-FN Pairs. France. with 150 baud RTTY test tape at 0758.
(Boender-Neth)
SAA-Karlskrona Radio. Sl'leden. with a CO CW marker at 0756. Also
with a CW QSX marker at 2223. (Boender-Neth)
UGC-St. Petersburg Radio. Russia. 11ith CW QSX marker tape at 2226.
Also with a CW QSX marker at 2105. (Boender-Neth)
LYL-Klaipeda Radio, Lithuania. working an unid vessel in CW at 2220.
(Boender-Neth)
Stiletto wit11a 20-character EAM broadcast at 2148 and 2207,
simulcast on 11267.0. (Haverlah-TX)
SPAR 19 working Andre\'IS VIP regarding a 0640 arrival at MacDill
AFB. Transmission at 0349. (Jones-CA)
Span ish female 5-digit number station in AM at 0400. Very weak and
barely readable. (Gary Seven via e-mail)
Spanish female 5-digit number station in AM at 0300. Also very weak,
but I think it's the same message as 5800 kHz. (Gary Seven via email)
Unid station with a 96 baud ARO-M2 tuned on space only signal at
1725. (Hall-RSA)
Spanish female 5-digit number station in AM at 0200 (Friday UTC ).
(Gary Seven via e-mail)
SAM 375 checking Andrews VIP here for possible new primary
freq uency at 1627. PACAF 01 working Andrews VIP for signal checks
regarding possible new primary freq. Checked an omni antenna out of
the McClellan AFB remote site around 0215. (Jeff Jones-CA)
RFVITT-Unid station at 1729 usi ng 92 baud ARO-E . RFVITT listed as
Dzaoudzi. Mayotte Island. Nothing noted on demodulator screen.
(Hall-RSA)
Aveira/Pam/Lubango using SITOR-A at 1628 with Portuguese traffic to
CVRRD/PAM/Luanda. (Hall-RSA)
FDG-FAF Bordeaux, France. with a CW marker at 0802. (BoenderNeth)
Mulberry v1orking Nightwatch 01at0351. (Haverfah-TX)
5ST-ASECNA Antananarivo. Madagascar. with 48 baud ARQ-E3
aeronautical traffic at 1247. (Robert Hall-South Africa)
Lancelot worked Firebrick. At 0945 Nightwatch 01 called Lancelot.
(Haverlah -TX)
SPW-Warsaw Radio, Poland, with a CW marker at 0804. (BoenderNeth)
X21G-Unid station sending in CW at 0800: SERL DE X2 1G for 15
minutes. then off. (Boender-Neth)
RFTJ-FF Daka r. Senegal, with 48 baud ARQ-E3 Code de Voie on TJF
circu it. (Hall-RSA)
SAM 971 working Andrews VIP with periodic signal checks at 0410.
(Jones-CA)
Spanish female 5-digit number station in AM at 0200. This seems to
be very active every Sunday night on the East Coast. Loud and clear.
(Gary Seven via e-mail)
9MR-Mafay Naval sending a 50 baud RTTY test tape at 1630. (HallRSA)
McClellan as lead GHFS station with a 39-character EAM (BCVNAT.. )
at 0145. (Haverlah-TX)
Mulberry called Nightwatch 01 and then moved to Z150 at 011 3. At
0201 Stability called and raised Mulberry. At 0205 Mulberry broadcast
a 26-character EAM (R llARJ .. ). At 0247 Mulberry broadcast a 79character EAM (BC5GFJ .. ). At 1749 Nightwatch 01 called War 46.
(Haverfal1-TX)
English female Lincolnshire Poacher number station at 2147. Ray
Carmen-Canton. OH, via George Zeller) Welcome aboard. Ray. and
thanks. George. for the forward via e-mail-Larry.
Crossbow-3 working Katanna for authentication to enter the net at
0510. Katanna working Mike-Charlie-Tango. Unable to establish
comms via cellphone at 0530. (Jones-CA)
4XZ-lsraefi Navy Haifa. Israel. with a V CW marker at 2012. (BoenderNeth)
Stiletto checking out of tile net in tile blind at 2348. By 0017
Nightwatch 01 was active on freq and attempting to work an unid
station who wanted to enter the net. Moved to 11181.0. (Haverlah-TX)
HZN48-Jeddah Meteo, Saudi Arabia, with 50 baud RTTY synoptic
observations at 2003. (Boender-Neth)
HSW68-Bangkok Meleo, Thailand , with 50 baud RTTY aero weather
and codes at 1310. (Hall-RSA)

10551.3
10935.0
11 053.0
11181.0
11214.0
11220.0
11267.0
11460.0
12691 .3
13440.0
13878.0
13936.5
13960.0
14396.0

14462.8
14801.6
15041.0
15743.3
15855.8
16078.9
16808.0
16829.1
16836.6
16987.9
18320.7
18380.5

18527.2
18704.4
18755.9

GFL23-Bracknell Meleo, England, wit11 75 baud synoptic observations

at 2006. (Boender-Neth)
Un id station transmitting ANDVT communications at 0045. (JonesCA)
SAM 201 working Andrews VIP with request at 1818. PACAF 01
departed Fort Wo rth, Texas. ETA Hickam AFB at 0745, working
Andrews VIP wit11 phone patch traffic at 0025. (Jones-CA)
WGY 914 (very strong here) worked Appaloosa Farm (weak) and
passed a "Hotel" message. At 1757 Appaloosa Farm called Anathema
with no response heard. (Haverlah-TX)
SAM 375 (DV-2 + 9) l'IOrking Andrews VIP with phone patch to
COMNAV at 1635. (Jones-CA)
SAM 300. inbound home station. working Andrews VIP regarding a
0415 arrival at Andrews. Transmission at 2246. (Jones-CA)
Stiletto with a 26-character EAM. At 2148 and 2207 Stiletto with a
20-character EAM si mulcast on 6697.0. (Haverlah-TX)
Casey 01 working Andrews VI P regarding 0105 blocktime at Andrews
AFB. Transmission at 2116. Nightwatch 01 radio op working Casey
01 radio op with informal comms at 0240. (Jones-CA)
FUX-FN Le Port, Reunion Island. with a 75 baud RTTY test tape at
1316. (Hall-RSA)
SAM 26000 (DV-2 + 26) inbound Yokota AFB , Japan, working
Andrews VIP with a phone patch to SAM Command at 0039. (JonesCA)
SAM 375 here with a brief signal check for Andrews VIP radio at
1800. (Jones-CA)
ICRC Geneva using PACTOR at 1556. Unable to decode. (Hall-RSA)
SAM 27000 on the ground at Yokota AFB working Andrews VIP
regarding going off-mike for about 40 min utes at 0450. (Jones-CA)
SHARES net monitored at 1609 for about 25 minutes. Net control
stations were AFA3HY-USAF MARS Shawnee, KS (stated he was
SHARES coordination station central) and AAAOUSA-USA MARS
Tacoma. WA. The bulk of the check-ins were MARS stations. but also
heard the follo11ing:
AGA6LA-USAF MARS Los Angeles, CA: AAR6SR-USA MARS (New
Mexico): AFA2JF- USAF MARS Hudson. FL: AGAS PD-USAF MARS
(Oregon); AAR5FD-USA MARS; AAA6USA-USA MARS Fort Sam
Houston. San Antonio, TX; DLA303-DLA Bremerton , WA; WGY695
(He said his location was in Illinois): AFA4UB-USAF MARS Slidell.
LA; KGD34-NCC Arlington, VA: KAD640-I NS Swanton. VT: WUJ5USACE Anchorage. AK: KWB406-0ET Ames. IA; AAROJN-USA MARS
Keno. OR: NNNONUW-US N MARS Oak Harbor. WA; NNNOOWC-USN
MARS: and KIT88-FAA Martinsvile, WV. (Gordon Levine-Anat1eim,
CA)
TNL-ASECNA Brazzaville, Congo , with a 96 baud ARQ-M2 idling
signal at 1144. (Hall-RSA)
RFVl-FF Le Port, Reunion Island, with a 100 baud ARQ-E3 idling
signal at 1137. (Hall-RSA)
CASEY 01. inbound Hickam AFB, working Andrews VIP rega rding a
0320 arrival. Transmission at 0243. (Jones-CA)
VNA Hanoi , Vietnam , at 0701 with a 50 baud RTTY English news
bulletins. (Hall-RSA)
German embassy Bujumbura (tentative) at 0842 with a 223.7 baud
IRA-ARO transmission. Unable to decode. (Hall-RSA)
RFVIPP-Air Comis St. Denis. Reunion Island, with French traffic to
RFFVA-Air SAGA Paris and RFFUEF-Air SERPECA Tours using 100
baud ARQ-E3 at 1105. (Hall-RSA)
SPH-Gdynia Radio, Poland , with SITOR-B Polish traffic and traffic list
at 1500. (Hall-RSA)
USU-Mariupol Radio, Russia, with SITOR-A traffic at 1614. (HallRSA)
WLO-Mobile Radio. AL. with SITOR-A idler at 161 1. (Hall-RSA)
RFVl-FF Le Port, Reunion Island. with a Code de Voie 100 baud
ARW-E3 transmission at 1048. Circuit ID was CRE. (Hall-RSA)
RFT J-FF Dakar, Senegal. at 1240 with a 192 baud AR0-1:3 Code de
Voie transmission. (Hall-RSA)
RFFAAR-Direcen Prosecurdef Paris, France, with French press news
reports to AIG 1038/39 and many others using 100 baud ARQ-E3 at
1010. RFFISOM-Paris Naval with 5-letter groups to RFVIGRN (naval
ship at Le Port) using 100 baud ARO-E3 at 1040. (Hall-RSA)
NOGA-French embassy N'Jamena. Chad. transm itting a 200 baud
AR06-90 idling signal and messages (unable to decode) at 0836.
(Hall-RSA)
PIAB Bonn, Germany, v1ith a 96 baud FEC-A German DPA news
bulletins at 0842. (Hall-RSA)
Interpol Wiesbaden. Germany. with SITOR-A traffic in German for
New Delhi at 1220. Interpol Tehran with SITOR-A traffic in English to
New Delhi at 1244. Interpol Rome with English traffic to New Delhi at
1256 on a wanted Indian su bject. (Hall-RSA)

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Respect for Neighbors

Might certainly makes right in the way VOA and other weste rn
broadcasters tn:at SW stati ons in Mexico and Canada-as if they
don't ex ist. With powers ranging from 50 walls lo 5 kW. and
permanentl y assigned frequencies. our NAFf A neighbors don "t
have the clout to muscle off interference. and their chan nels arc
often blocked.Just try to hear the active Canadians on 6005. 6030.
6070, 6 130. 6 160, or the Mex icans on 5985. 60 I0, 6185. 9705.
Why is WYFR on 5985 when XERM X needs it"1 VOA and
RFE/RL use 9705 most of the day from a variety of sites: even

Greece to Pakistan is a problem here next to Mexico at 0100.

Deutsche We lle uses 6185 much or the night.
It see ms our ne ighbor:, do not have anyone represe nting their
intere~ t ~ at frequency coordination conferences. but the big guns
can hardl y pretend they are unknown. Mex ican and Canadian
freque ncies shoul d be deliberately avoided: on SW they are too
close to be shared. At least some of the Mexicans are trying to
increase their power. but they shouldn't have to fi ght off uncari ng
Yankce interference.

ALASKA KNLS has been broadcasting for R. Free Asia since January (Mike Osborne.
soap operas, no explicit IDs (Jay Novello. NC)
KNLS English programmer) 2100-2200 Chinese 11765. 2200-2300 Korean &
BULGARIA E-mail to R. Bulgaria may
2300-2400 Chinese on 11785 (Nikolay Rudnev. Russia, NASWA Listeners Notenow be sent to the private accou nt of an employee :
book)
<lg ea rg i @rn a i I. te ch noANGOLA V. of the Resistance of the Black Cockerel. UNITA opposition station from
link.corn> (R. Bulga ria via
Jamba, VORGAN, 0450-0900 on 7090v. 1050-1430 9770, 1650-2100 5985
<c '
including irregular English al 1830-1845 (BBCM)
Andreas Erbe via Kai Ludwig)
ARGENTINA R. Armonia, 4800.1at0743, jazz I/stronger 3200, both harmonics (Paul
CAMBODIA National Voice of Cambodia is the ID now in Eng lish at 1200-1 215 on
11 940.4 (Roland Schulze. Philippines. Cumbre DX)
Orrnandy, NZ, Cumbre DX)
LS11. La Plata. on 1270 MW has a program De Colecci611 on SSB SW beamed
COLOMBIA Clandestine monitoring: R. Patria Libre. 6250 at 2158-2216 in June, but
not in August: instead heard FARC station reactivated after 11 months. Vaz de la
to Antarctica Sun 2300 to Mon 0200, on one or two of: 3390. 4469. 5400. 5415.
8098. sometimes delayed by soccer (Raymundo Cruz. La Plata via Barrera) Also
Resistenc1a weaker on 6259.2 at 2158-2230 closing with 4-minute vocal version
try 13361 or 13365 (Jorge Aloy via Barrera) Includes listener call-in at 0115-0130
of La Internacional (Henrik Klernetz. Dateline Bogota via DSWCI DX Windo1v)
with cassette prizes: will OSL reports to: Sr. Jorge Bourdet, Casilla 96, 1900 La
COMORO ISLANDS R. Camara director told me in August they hoped to have technical
Plata. Include 2 IRCs (Gabriel Ivan Barrera, BC-DX)
problems with SW repaired and back on the air in two months. 3331at0300-2100
ARMENIA V. of Armenia. English to Americas and Europe at 2030-2100 on 9965
in French. Arabic and Cornoro (Mahendra Vaghjee. Mauritius. NASWA Listeners
Notebook)
lonlyl; signature tune is Spring by Father Gornitas, an Armenian monk who in his
short life composed thousands of songs and melodies. based on Armenian folk
COSTA RICA For at least a week in August. RFPI 7385 was hit by bubble-jamming, a
tunes. He died in 1915, during the first days of the Armenian genocide, among 600
year after a previous jamming incident (gh)
intellectuals who were massacred first. Af1er IDin Armenian, Yerevann eKl10soum--CUBA P-mail from Europe to RHC takes two to six months before reaching the station,
Yerevan is speaking- opening melody is Dance of t11e Rose Maidens by
partly because a governmental service takes a very close look at each and every
Khachaturian (VOA Canada Bureau) 9965 is a megawatt from Kama. blasts into
letter corning from abroad! They do receive E-mail but do not answer (Fabien
Europe but overmodulated (Kai Ludwig, Cumbre DX)
Serve via Francis Mougenez. DSWCI DX Window) RHC's 13715 sounds like two
AUSTRALIA Jean-Gabriel Manguy has been appointed new Network Manager of Radio
unsynchronized transmitters. wobble and audio phase cancellation for English
Australia from Sept 19: has worked in Asia and Pacific in English and French
2030. French 2130 (gh)
services (RA news online via Daniel Say. rec.radio.shortwave) The Asian Relations
CZECH REPUBLIC R. Pragues Germinister for the Northern Territory. Eric Poole, has called on the federal governman. French ,and Spanish ser-~
ment to review its decision to close RA transmitters near Darwin (RA via BBCM)
vices close at yearend. leaving
Frequencies opting out for Grandstand ball game coverage SaVSun: 17750,
only Eng lish and Czech (Kai
Ludwig. Germany) Future of
15510. 15240. 12080 (via BBCM ) Sat 0200-0800, Sun 0300-0800. one hour
earlier Oct-Mar (RA via BC-DX) From Aug 24. RA added 0600-0830 11 880 to Pac
loreign service unclear. 25% budget cut for 1998: decision in Sept or Oct. The
(Arie Schellaars. RA via Electronic DX Press)
three dropped languages may continue via Internet (Karel Honzik. Czech Rep ..
HCJB has been given property in Kununurra, WA. and the mission is investigatDSWCI DX Window) Foreign Ministry is seeking new operators for foreign
ing the possibility of establishing an international broadcasting facility on this site
broadcasting and Internet: French and German only on the latter (CTK via BBCM)
(HCJB World Radio-Australia Newsletter via Cumbre DX)
ECUADOR Inon I Rich McVicar. ex-HCJB. is working the overnight announcing shill
BELGIUM RVl's International Listeners' Club will be cancelled at end al October due
weeknights at religious WMHR. 102.9. Syracuse. NY. plus affiliates and translato budget cuts. but OSLs will still be issued (RVI Radio World via Steven Cline)
tors in v1estern NY: lov1-key. did not hear him giving his name (Tim Hendel. NY.
BOLIVIA SIM International. whose ELWA was destroyed twice in Liberia. is setting up
Worldol Radio) One reason he left Ouitowas concern about the safety of his family
(gh)
a new SW station in Cochabamba for the Quechua-speaking highland and valley
people. Transmitter expected soon. to use an "H" antenna beaming upwards for
EOUATORIAL GUINEA R. Nacional, Bala on 15185.78v at 1055-1638 on a Monday
with some live outdoor event. mentioning 5005 frequency (Jay Novello. NC)
close-in coverage. target first half of 1998 if licensed soon. Name mea ns "new
messenger" (HCJB DX Partyline) Sounded like R. Montochaski, per Paul Erickson
ETHIOPIA R. Ethiopia is on 9704 .2 with home service from 0300. weak but fair after
interview on DXPL (Jerry Berg. Electronic DX Press)
0400 until 0600 when Niger comes on 9705.00 a bit stronger heard all day.
BOUGAINVILLE R. Free Bougainville heard on 3865
Ethiopia sporadically such as around 1200
from 1104 to 1154 with island to rock music.
(Vladimir Titarev. Ukraine. DSWCI DX Wi11All times UTC; Allfreq11e11cies kHz; * before hr= sign
IDs at 11 16. 1152. s/off v1ith chorus of men and
do1v) Also Libya has test tone on 9705 at 0700women, anthem? (Hans Johnson. ID, Cumbre
0930 (Wolfgang Buschel. BC-DX)
on, * after hr= sign off; II = parallel program-ming; +
DX)
Inon IV. of Orama Liberation via Ukraine on
= co11ti1111i11g b11t 11ot 111011itored; 2 x freq = 2nd
BRAZIL R. Dif. Taubate is back on 4925 after long
new 9490 ex-9925 al 1705-1755 , nice music
harmonic; J-97=May-Sept; Z-97=S11111111er season; Wabsence. 500 watts. 24 hours. to increase to 1
but co-channel VOR in Italian (Finn Krone,
97= Willler season; [non/= Broadcast to orfor the listed
kW (de Castro, Brazil, Cumbre DX) R. Gazeta
Denmark. DSWCI DX Window) Mon/Wed/Sat
but
1101
necessarily
originating
there.
country,
(Hans Johnson, DXing wil/1 Cumbre)
presumed, 15325 at 0125-0325 pop music.

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FRANCE R. Nostalgie-Neige, NBFM on 25900 was heard again in August, first time
since spring 1995, not yet on 26040 and 26070 (Lindenrhal, Germany. OSWCI DX
Window) From ski resorts (g/1)
RFI finally announces E-mail address: <english.service@rfi.fr> (Mike Cooper.
GA)
GERMANY Brother Stair heard at 0100-0200 on 9855 not /IWWCR. WANO; from
Deutsche Telekom (George Thurman. rec.radio.sl10rtwave) Also at 0400 on 9475
(Michael Rathbun, ibid.) OT obviously /1as no taste about wt10m t11ey sell time to
(gl1) Test was during August mostly with tapes. not live feed (Jim Moats)
GREECE VOG from July 1using four frequencies to NAm at 0000-0350--6260. 7450.
9420. 11645. Believe they were looking for two more channels to be used by VOA
USA relays at this time and one at 2200-2350 (John Babbis)
IND/A All India Radio has a new website: http://www.allindi aradio.org/(Jirn Frimmel.
TX)
INDONESIA Lots of station info and photos appear on this new website: http://
www.qsl.net/ybOrm i Clandestine page also resides here (Nick Grace, Indonesia.
rec.radio.shortwave)
/RAN Alarge SWsite at Sirjan. south central Iran, has been opened by Pres. Rafsanjani
(IRNA via BBCM) Believed 10 x 500 kW and directional arrays. but despite this and
another large new site near Mashhad. of a total 28 very high power transmitters
per Transmitter Documentation Proiect. only four are heard at any one time
(BBCM)
!non] The Flag of Freedom Organization. which previously operated a SW
clandestine. is still quite active on Internet: http://www.iranffo.org/(Nick Grace.
Indonesia. Cumbre DX)
/RAO Baghdad, R. Iraq International. revived English Aug 11 afler many months'
absence. 11 785 around 2230-2300 after French: bad modulation and interference. news about Saddam. Frequency also on after0230. Arabic (gh) English time
varies. one day at 2220-2235 Sounds like everything is recorded about 3 meters
away from a studio mike (Daniel Atkinson, UK, swltalk) First appeared on 11292.
then 11290, Baghdad's General Service in Arabic with ID after news at 2015 (Bob
Hill, MA, via Al Quaglieri. NASWA)
Iraqi Nevis Agency radioteletype service. F1B 75 baud to Mideast on 10162.5:
English daily 1000-1 400: Arabic 1400-2100 daily. 0600-1000 exc Fri but during
crises as early as 0400: one hour later in winter (BBCM)
JRELAND Thereal problem with Emerald Radio's mail being returned by the PO, which
has continued. it turns out, is that a zone number of 1 is required after P.O. Box
200. Dublin (Finbarr O'Oriscoll. Ireland)
ITALY AWR Forli 2.5 kW transmitter will run DX test for NAm UT Sept 28 and 29 at
0100-0300 with Wavescanepisodes. special OSL. frequency TBA (Aclrian Peterson.
AWR) How about 7230 as before?
KUWAIT News bulletins from R. Kuwait are now on RealAudio: http://
www.radiokuwait.org/(BBCM) English 1800-2100 on 11990 reformatted. starts
v1ith nev1s (Eugene Gebreurs. RVI Radio World)
LAOS Only active SW are Xam Nua, Houa Phan on 4690 ex-4660 till 0000 and 100011 00; Luang Prabang on 6975; National Service from Vientiane on 6130. External
service on MW 1030only, not announced 7145 or 7116v (Maarten van Delft. Laos.
DSWCI DX Window)
LIBERIA VOA African Service interviewed someone in the management of Star FM.
Monrovia. who said plans called for development of a SW relay at some future
time. but not a high priority. It will happen. but not rig ht away (B. Cooley, BC, World
of Radio)
LIBYA Great Jamahiriyah Radio. Tripoli in Arabic: 1229-1645 on 15435. 1541 5.
15235. Sabha Local Radio. 0745-1000v irregularly on 1181 5. v. of the Greater
Arab Homeland. external service in Arabic: 1645-0400 and 1045-1230 on 15430,
15230: 15415 at 1800-0400. 1045-1230. At 1600-1745 15415 carries Green
Book readings in Russian, German. Hungarian. Polish. Bulgarian. Czech/Slovak.
Romanian. Serbo-Croat. each on a certain 2. 3 or 4 days of each month. except
for Russian on 7 days (BBCM) see also ETHIOPIA
LITHUANIA R. Vilnius now on RealAudio including English 1900-1930, 2130-2200,
at http://www .lrtv .it/lr1 .ramor by pointing an RA player to pnm://lr.lrtv.lt/lr1 .ra
(Sigitas Zilionis, Lithuania) 9710 and MW 666 cause a mixing product on 10376
with audio from 666 (Andreas Erbe. Germany via Kai Ludwig) Also on 9044
(Wolfgang Biischel. BC-OX)
MADAGASCAR A private station with an address in Tana is Tsioka Vao. on 6075 at
0300-1900 in Malagasy and French with pop music. Director is a Malagasy,
Detkou Dedonnais (Vaghjee, NASWA Listeners Notebook) Later: 0300-1900 on
6075. then another frequency evenings. Many private and religious FM stations
in Madagascar test on SW occasionally. Music heard on 5950 was first thought
to be another one (Vag hjee, Cumbre OX)
MALI As of mid-August. CRI relays in English at 0000, 0300 had been missing for a
month on 9710, 11 695v. nor hea rd on previous frequencies 9770. 9780, 11 715.
11760 (Ivan Grishin. gh) Also heard on 11770v at 0000 (BBCM) Not here (gl1)
MAURITIUS MBC is not on SW in spite of last month's 9710 report. per Mr Pather.
C.E. (Mahendra Vaghjee. Cumbre OX)
MEXICO XERT A began testing at 2300 Aug 12 on 4800, all night with music and IOs,
less tllan 2 kW (Hector Garcia B.. OF) Heard the following night with open carrier

on 4800.7. but the night after that, 0405 with music and many different IDs in
Spanish, one claiming 50 kW ERP. another that it's in Spanish. English, and
Frencl1. 0505-0535 English program about Baja California: also when checked
afler 1155 with classical music. Bad het when the Guatemalan is on 4800.2. but
separable on USB and R. Transcontinental de America is a bit stronger. But
missing thenext days (gh. OK) Homemade transmitter: plans to make another for
15120daytime;alsoauthorized 61 10, 9750. 11720, 17720. 17880. 21460. 25620;
plans to have DX programs. reports welcome to A.P. 653. 06002 Mexico. OF(Jeff
White. Cumbre DX)
R. Educaci6n plans to 111crease pol'1er to 50 kW by November. Nel'I OX program
in Spanish is Comunicaci6n 6185 per August sked: Wed 0200. Thu 0500. Fri 0600,
Sat 0800. Sun 1000 (Hector Garcia B.. DF. World of Radio) Blocked by OW and
others except on the Sunday time. maybe Saturday. but other programs were
heard UT Wed and Thu at 0200 (gh)
Radio Ibero \'/ill transmit its programs via XEJN R. Huayacocotla. 2390. from
Aug 24. XHUIB is on 90.9 FM with 100 watts. only audible near the Universidad
lberoamericana campus in Santa Fe. O.F. (Hector Garcia B.. World of Radio)
Several hours a day of program exchange: both are affiliated with Jesuits (Jeff
White. DSWCI DX Window) UIB has long provided R. Huaya a website. full of info
on its troubles with authorities and closedown in Oct 1995. but nothing yet about
this relay. Watch out for possible Guatemalan. La Voz de Atitlan, also on 2390;
during Sept and Oct WWCR planned to use 2390 from 0300 to 1200 (gh) Both
heard in mid-August. Huaya on 2389.95 at 0100-0155. Atitlan on 2390.02: one
signed off at 0230" (Bob Wilkner. FL. DSWCI DX Window) As soon as WWCR
closed at 1201. 2390 had Mexican anthem. mention of Huayacocotla (gh, OK)
R. Mexico Inn hopes to have another transmitter on the air in the next few
months. so it can broadcast English and Spanish simultaneously (Juan Mort via
Jett White, OSWCI OX Window) Check new website: http://www.telecommex.com/
imer (XERMX Mail Box)
MONGOLIA R. Free Asia via Ulan Bator: 0030-0130 Burmese 11580: 1530-1630
Korean 5855: 2200-2300 Korean 7470 or 7460; 2330-0030 Vietnamese 11580
(Nikolay Rudnev. Russia. NASWA Listeners Notebook)
MOZAMBIQUE R. Mozambique. 11812.2-11 812.4v is regularly heard in 1100-1530v
period. including English at 1100-1129. Also as early as 08301115291 .8 reactivated. heard until 1205 (Mikhail Timofeyev. NEARS. Russia, OSWCI DX Window)
MYANMAR [non! Democratic Voice of Burma, from Oslo in Burmese. also Shan,
Karen. Kayan. 1430-1455 daily via Norway on 11850: now also 1245-1345 daily
via Germany on 15330. URL: http://www .commun ique.no/dvb/(BBCM) Also via
RealAud io here (Andreas Erbe. BC-OX) Aborted plans to broadcast via Vladivostok
or Tashkent. unsatisfactory (DVOB via DSWCI DX Window)
NEW ZEALAND RNZ I not likely to be on web audio soon. but domestic RNZ is:
www.rnz.co .nz(RNZI Mailbox) For Sept a new RNZI frequency is 9875 at 18502050 (Adrian Sainsbury. RNZI)
R. Jemima. v1hich took over the pirate SW transmitter of Kiwi R.. changed name
to Radio RJK as of Sept 6 (Kiwi Radio Weekly)
NIGER See ETHIOPIA
NIGERIA !non] V. of Free Nigeria. Sat 1900-2000 on 11680 is not from Tunisia but no
comment on Algeria. Plans include daily transmissions and eventually 2411. but at
least a year away. Indianapolis address is because that is where the SecretariatGeneral of the Free Nigeria Movement is living (Mukhtat Dan'lyan. FNM via Hans
Johnson. Cumbre DX) Algeria is most likely due to heading and Algerian programming heard on almost the same frequency. 11679.75 until 1901 (Chris Greenv1ay.
BBCM) Printed sked valid until 05 Sept for R. Algeria lnt'I shows only four
frequencies. including new .. 11 750.. 50 kW at 1000-1900 to extreme south of
Algeria with French network 3. just rig ht for this service during the following hour
(gh)
R. NADECO via WWCR changed repeat time MF to 1945-2000 on 15685, still
0500-0515 Oil 5070 (gh)
OMAN R. Sultanate of Oman has begun transmitting via Internet. full output at 02002130 with 28.8 kbps modems in RealAudio. Also has full feed of TV program at

DX Listening Digest
More broadcasting information by country compiled
by Glenn Hauser

Review of International Broadcasting

SW Programming , opinion, equipment, satellite monitoring.
Samples $2.50 each (ou tside North America US $3 or 6 IRCs)
10 issue subscriptions $26 in USA. or both for $49
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~ the Global Forum {continued}

same time, all in Arabic, but considering adding English depending on listener
input:
http://Www.oman-tv.gov.om Top of hour ID ldha'atu Saltanat Oman is immediately
followed by Big Ben-like chimes (Phillip Dampier. NY)
PAKISTAN R. Pak slow English news at 1100-1120 on new 15520 //17865 whict1 was
stronger (Erik Koie, Denmark, BC-DX) R. Pakistan is inviting listeners abroad to
suggest ways to improve programming. The best listener will get first prize of two
free return air tickets to visit Pakistan. including stay in the country (R. Pak via
BBCM)
PARAGUAY R. Nacional. 9738, has a new address: Blas Garay 241, c/o Iturbe,
Asuncio'n (Horacio Nigro, Uruguay: J. Oscarsson, Distance via Play-DX via The
Four Winds) SW takes a break at 1800-2100. Programming is for local and
regional audiences. but broadcasts in foreign languages for international audie.nces are being planned (Jose Carlos Carbajal, Uruguay)
PERU R. Chasqui, Cusco. 6087 .9. new station first heard Aug 7 at 1240-1301 , 00460100, 1130- with ID at 1200, 1229. 0000, fairly strong; sked seems to be 11301300. 0000-0200. Name means messenger in Quechua. Mcvicar says E-mail is:
<dmuthcuz@amauta.rcp.net.pe> (Henrik Klemetz, Dateline Bogota via DSWCI DX
Window)
R. llucan. Cutervo. Cajamarca on new 5789.85 at 0135-0310' and at 1045. A
week later it had moved again. to 5629.82, religious talk 0200-0230. music to
0310' (Jay Novello. NC)
R. Master on 5767.1 at 1151 is the successor to stations named Estacion
Soritor. R. Estelar and R. Universal (Henrik Klemetz, Datelioe Bogota via DSWCI
DX Window)
R. Naylamp on new 5728.5 ex-5342 at 2320 and 1100 announcing 5730. wl1ere
there is another Peruvian. R. Santiago (Henrik Klemetz. Dateline Bogota)
RUSSIA VOR website offers 1-minute commercials to Europe forS200; to Asia, Africa.
Latin America $250-300; long-term 15-minute weekly program for $300 each
(Warner & Chepikova, Cumbre DX)
V. of Russia in English via St. Petersburg site is on 7130at 1400-1600and 9740
at 1600-2200 until Oct 25 (Mikhail Timofeyev. Electronic DX Press)
Yeltsin signed adecree liquidating Radio-1 and merging Mayak and Yunost into
one station called Mayak, because of funding problems (RFE/RL via Charles
Crawford, Cumbre OX)
Sakhalin Radio. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. uses 11840 and LW 270 at 1800-1500
relaying Radio Russia in Russian . except for local program at 2000-2130, 08000840: one hour later in winter (BBCM)
Magadan Radio on 9600, 9530, 7320, 5940 and LW 234 relaying R. Russia in
Russian 1730-1500: includes local program at 1900-2000. 0220-0300, 06200700 Radiostantsiya Tikhiy Okean from Vladivostok at 0715-0800; one hour later
in winter (BBCM)
Vladivostok Radio. 2nd Program on 5015. including relays of first program on
LW. FM: 1800-2200, 0700-1300: one hour later in winter (BBCM)
SRI LANKA Inon] IBC. the Tamil station in London tested unsuccessfully via Tajikistan
in May, but was going to try Georgia on 15075 at 1330-1430 (Victor Goonetilleke,
Sri Lanka, RNMN) ID as IBC Tamil at 1403. 1425, heard at 1355-1440. (Ed
Rausch, NJ, Cumbre DX)
SWEDEN R. Sweden heard saying that three foreign languages would probably
disappear. but keep English and German (Charles Stegall. NC)
TAHITI On a visit here in July. I found that the RFD offices had moved from downtown
Papeete toward the Faaa airport on a mountainside. A large beam antenna pointed
up the Society Is chain was spotted at another location just west of the airport. In
this area 15167v registered only strength 3 out of 5 on my YB-400. I was referred
to Emile Jordan of RFD who said it was about 5 kW on 15170 and they were waiting
or hoping to hear from RFD HO about a new transmitter (Pete Costello, Tahiti) After
this, fair carrier, hum. almost no audio on 15167.46 around 0305 (Randy Stewart,
MO)
TATARSTAN R. Tatarstan. Kazan. has a new daily service at 0800-0900 on 9690 in
Tatar except for Russian news at 0813-0819 and weather at 0856-0857 (BBCM)
Beamed toward St. Petersburg, NW Russia (Mikhai l Timofeyev. Russia, DSWCI
DX Window) Also 0400-0500 on 9690, 0600-0700 on 6130. all via Samara
(Timofeyev via Kenny, BDXC')
TIBET(non] V. ofTibet planned to add a morning service at 2230-2300 on 7120 (Victor
Goonetilleke, Sri Lanka. RNMN)
TONGA TBC returned to SW 5030 in early June with all-night broadcasts but ceased
in mid-June as Cyclone Hina took out antennas and satellite link. The latter was
awaiting repair by BBC technicians from Australia. TBC was anxious to return to
SW, per Dep Gen Mgr Mgalu Susimalohi (Rich Hankison. Cumbre DX)
TURKEY V. of Turkey has an essay contest on Anatolia as ..The Cradle of Civilization."
Winners geta one-week trip for two to Turkey. More info from VOT, P.O. Box 333.
06443 Yenisehir. Ankara (RVI Radio World via Steven Cline)
Turkish Police Radio. Ankara, 0450-1600 on 7370. may be extended on
occasion, mainly music. Mainly music with v1eather on the hour is Voice of
Meteorology, Ankara. on 6900 at 0400-0850. 1100-1545, both one hour later in
winter (BBCM)

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October 1997

UK 0 G8 AN I BBC is spending S25M on reorganizing 42 international news bureaus

and establishing seven regional hubs: Brussels. Moscow, Delhi. Johannesburg,
Washington. Jerusalem. and Hong Kong (Reuters via Hans van den Boogert. hardcore-dx) Pause for Thougl1tfeatures alternatives suchas Humanism. Bahai'i, nonreligious speakers on Wednesdays such as 1925 on 12095 (Write On, gh)
UKRAINE Tnx to tip in BC-DX. RU l's DX program formerly on Wed now confirmed on
Sat around 2130 on 12040. Sun 0030 on 7150, sometimes same program on
consecutive weeks, once called Radio Page for DXers. then Whole World on Ille
Radio Scale but mostly about Ukraine stations (gh)
URUGUAY SODRE, reactivated on 9621 at 0950-0300 with about 250 watts, halfwave
dipole, simulcasting MW 1050. Radioactividades is Sat and Sun 1400-1500;
report to Casilla 701 1, Montevideo, or E-mail <radioact@chasque.apc.org> (Horacio
Nigro)
US A R. Free Asia's seventh language, Lao. was to start August 18: 2200-2300 on
5930, 9940, 9975; 1130-1230 on 9905, 15170. 17810. That leaves Cambodian
still to be implemented per the original mandate (World of Radio) See also
ALASKA, MONGOLIA (gh) Uighur nationalists met with State Department and VOA
m Washington about beginning Uighur language broadcasts to the XinjiangUighur Autonomous Region of China. VOA said it and RFA are considering this
(Golas Vostoclmovo Turkestana, Kazakhstan via BBCM)
Chuck Harder, in his For Ille People magazine received August 6, says ''A
monster' 50,000 watt Continental 317-C-2 radio transmitter has been purchased
and will soon arrive at a 39-acre site near Lake City. Florida. There the SW station
will be built as well as a repeater for WFVR910 AM, Valdosta GA. The new SW will
beam our program to the East Coast during prime time and will be repeated three
hours later for the West Coast. " Also says he hopes to continue present sked on
WHRI. WWCR. SW station would be owned by American Community Oriented
Radio Network, ACORN, affiliated with Harder. It also owns WFVR and WNTF 1580
Bithlo FL. Says ACORN will also make SW radios (Joel Hermann, IA, World of
Radio)
WVHA. which took the town of Greenbush to court to get tax-exempt status, has
been shut down after failing to pay its bills (News from Every State. USA Todayvia
Malcolm Kaufman) All transmissions ceased July 16; Bangor Hydro-Electric
disconnected electricity even to tower lights July 18: finance company took over
July 31 : employees terminated and security company contracted to secure site
Aug 4 (rec.radio.sllortwave) Finova says it would like to sell WVHA intact. but if
that's not possible it will be sold in pieces. The facility would be great for reaching
mariners in the Atlantic to do a request show (Kim Elliott, VOA Communications
War/cf} Church's mailing list numbers 10,000; WVHA had been on the market for
over a sesquiyear (Dawn Gagnon. Central Maine Morning Sen tine/via James Bean.
and AP via Portland Press Herald via Edouard Provencher)
WSHB and KHBI website has been moved to The Mother Church's: http://
www.tlccs. com (C. Ed Evans. WSHB) T/1ey sure took forever to publish their
language schedule. not that it really matters any more (gh)
FCC database says control of WRNO has involuntarily changed from the late Joe
Costello to Ashton R. Hardy. co-executor-a rep of creditors? (Harry Helms,
DXing. com)
Another Florida NBFM is on 26350 at 1725-1830+ during sporadic E, in
Spanish, mentions WSCV TV 51 Telemundo, but seems to be radio program, not
TV audio (Charles Crawford, KY. Cumbre DX)
WORLD OF RADIO on WGTG. UT Tue 0400 on 5085-USB, may get additional
unscheduled airings if the tape arrives before Monday. such as UT Mon 0515 on
5085-USB. or possibly during the day Sal/Sun on 9400. Changes on WWCR: Sat
0530 and 0605 broadcasts replaced by 0600 on 3210, 5070: Sun 2330 replaced
by Mon 0300 on 3215. Remember WOR on WGTG. WWCR and much other SW
programming shifts one UT hour later from Oct 26. also winter freq shifts (gh) See
WORsked and more on www.grove.neV- ghauser/
[non] Yesterday-USA Satellite Radio Network soon will add a very large SW
transmitter, which will serve the world as the WWW is already doing (Tom
Heathwood. YUSARN . Radio World) Presumably refers to the Electra project: I
didn't think it was 'very large (gh) On Ho.vard Stern show, Allan Weiner said the
tug Electra is being outfitted at a shipyard in Boston. ready to set sail by end of
summer to Caribbean (PiPa)
Eternal Word TV Network of Mother Angelica has been denied permission to be
carried on Canadian cable and satellite. The CRTC ruling came after objections
such as this from outspoken Toronto Catholic Joanna Manning: "Those of other
faiths or whose consciences may differ from the doctrinaire interpretations of
morality offered by Mother Angelica are treated with contempt and often outright
hostility ..... (Leslie Scrivener. Toronto Star via Ivan Grishin, Mike Cooper)
UZBEKISTAN R. Tashkent
in English: As 0100 on
9715. 9530. 93 75.
7190; 1200 & 1330 on
15295. 9715, 7285.
7190; Eu 2030 & 2130 on 9545. 9540 (BBCM)
Until Ille Next, Best of DX and 73 de Gleon!

B_n_o_ad_c_a_st_L~og~g~m~g~s----------------~
Gayle Van Hom
0000 UTC on 6975
CHINA: Nei Monggol PBS (tentative). Fair heterodyne but very, very weak
audio to 0020. (Lee Silv i, Mentor.OH/via email) China's CPBS heard in
Chinese on 9080 at 1325. (Zacharias Liangas. Thessalonki, Greece).
0000 UTC on 7430
UZBEKISTAN : Trans World Radio. Tentative ID for gospel talk and music to
subcontinental language. Station has "USSR" test tones, then 12-note interval
signal. theme music and sign-on. (Bob Hill. Littleton. MNDX Report/The Four
Winds).
0029 UTC on 15395
THAILAND: Radio Thailand. English to North America with Thai culture
program. Signal fade out by 0120. (Silvi, OH)
0050 UTC on 6010
ITALY: RAI. News item on child abuse laws. II 9675. 11880. (Bob Fraser.
Cohasset. MA; Silvi. OH) .
0138 UTC on 5960
CAN ADA: Radio Japan relay. Discussion on interval signals to the history of
Buddhism. //9750. (Brian Boulden, Fairfield, CNvia email).
021 5 UTC on 4600
GUATEMALA: Radio Buenas Nuevas. Spanish religious text. no sign of Radio
Lesotho tonight. Station IDs and jingles. (Sam Wright, Biloxi, MS)
0230 UTC on 15166
TAHITI; RFO Tahiti. Very weak signal quality nightly for island music and
French!Tahitian talk. Nightly checks usually audible to around 0300, some,
however, only a heterodyne. (Silvi. OH)
0309 UTC on 5009.53
MADAGASCAR: ATV Malagasy. Presumed French service with fair to poor
signal quality. Pop song to jingle and lady's mention of Madagascar. (Giovanni
Serra. Rome. Italy/ The Four Winds) . ATV noted on 5009 at 1830 in presumed
Malagasy. Music and features to national anthem at 1903. (Mark Veldhuis,
Borne, Netherlands/ Hard Core OX).
0315 UTC on 15115
NEW ZEALAND: Radio New Zealand. Discussion on the various gardening
books on the market. (Sue Wilden, Columbus, IN) Report on Nzs aid to Niue
Island at 0915 on 6100. (Fraser, MA)
0412 UTC on 7485
NORWAY: Radio Norway lnt'I. News item on farming to sports roundup.
(Boulden, CA) English ID at 1600 on 13805 into Norwegian service. (Wilden.
IN) RNI noted at 2312 on 9965 in English. (Fraser. MA)
0456 UTC on 4919
ECUADOR: Radio Quito. American tunes in Spanish with good reception.
Three time pips at 0500 to station promotional and commercials. (Boulden,
CA: Serra, llaly/TFW).
0600 UTC on 481 5
BU RKINA FASO: Radio Burkina. Domestic service in French. Various music
selections and canned'' ID and promos. (Steve Keithley. NM! Cumbre OX).
0602 UTC on 5076.7
COLOMBIA: Caracci. Spanish programming including ID with commercial
jingles. RTIY interference in USB, occasional Morse-code interference.
(Veldhuis. NLD/ Hard Core DX).
0738 UTC on 4965
BRAZIL: Radio Brazil Central. Portuguese. Latin American music and chat for
poor reception. Station ID at 0903 by male. mention of capital and Brasilia
items. (Dan Ziolkowski. NY! Cumbre DX).
0945 UTC o n 9560
AUSTRALIA: Radio Australia. Report on the social life of youths in rural areas.
(Fraser. MA)
0947 UTC o n 6000
BRAZIL: Radio Guaiba. Portuguese. News of Brazil to music program and
studio announcements. Piano version of Midnight Special to ID, musical
promotional and time pips at !he hour. (Ziolkowski . NY/ Cumbre DX)
1040 UTC on 1171 5
CANADA: Radio Korea lnt'I relay. Notes on Nostalgia on Chong Da Suk.
modern composer of traditional Korean music. Radio Japan' s Canadian
relay noted on 6120 at 11 35; RCI audible on 13650 at 1210: BBC WS
Canadian relay on 9515 at 15 15 with The Four Caliphs. (Fraser, MA)
11 54 UTC on 9705
NIGER: La Voix de Sahel. Native singing to drums signal. Time check and
news in French. Next day's signal was very good at 0845, heard in vernacular
language to French ID at 0900. Earlier check of 9705 heard 0758-0803
(Veldhuis. NLD).
1310 UTC on 6265
MALAWI: MBC . Chat in Swahili to African music and lengthy text. English
religious songs to sermon format. Lady's announcement to bird sound eff ect

a~

for interval signal. Time pips to station ID at 1405. (Mahendra Vaghjee, Rose
Hill. Mauritius) MBC audible on 3380 at 2130 in English. (Giampiero
Bernardini, Chieti,ltaly/TFllV)
1355 UTC on 2560
INDONESIA: RSPDT2 Timar. Presumed Indonesian with island style music
and two mentions of Timar at 1400. (Tom Banks, Dallas. TX).
1417 UTC o n 9750
MALAYSIA: Voice of Malaysia. News and information with SINP0=22432.
(Liangas, GRC)
1514 UTC on 7490
USA: WJCR Upton. KY. Religious programming and letters from listeners.
(Wilden . IN)
1707 UTC o n 17830
ASCENSION ISLANDS: BBC WS. English service to Africa noted also on
II 15400, 11860. Focus on Africa magazine show of current affairs. Station
ID at 1721 and letterbox feature. (Serra, ltaly/TFllV).
1850 UTC on 15050
COSTA RICA: Radio for Peace lnt'I. AIDS Today program discussing legal
implications. (Wilden. IN)
1955 UTC on 9310
GEORGIA: Voice of Hope. Monitored to 2003' . Religious programming with
UK address given at sign-off. (Wrighl, MS)
2000 UTC on 9525
INDONESIA: Voice of Indonesia. English to Europe, making it to North
America with a good signal level. Slow-speaking English newscast and
features, played by a couple of gamelan sounders. Numerous IDs to lndo
pop music. Bassy audio. untroubled by other stations. (Jay Novello, NC/
Cumbre OX).
2005 UTC on 7250
VATICAN STATE: Radio Vatican. Commentary on the sanctity of marriage
to 20 10. Poor signal. (Fraser, MA; Sam Wright, Biloxi, M S)
2025 UTC on 2325
VL8T-Tennant Creek. Pop music to time checks. "ABC" ID, news and pop
tune.//231 O(Alice Springs) and2485 (Katherine). (Veldhuis, NLD; Vaghjee,
MAU; Bernardini. Italy)
2035 UTC on 4690
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: NBC. Weak signal for easy-listening tunes and
English/Pidgin text. (Veldhuis, NLD)
2120 UTC on 7250
HUNGARY: Radio Budapest. DX Program to IDs and frequency info ll9835.
(Wright. MS)
2143 UTC on 7150
INDIA: AIR. General Overseas service with fast-paced subcontinental
instrumentals with sitars. violins and tablas. English ID at 2200 into news
11 74 10 (best), 9910 . 11 620. (Hill, MA)
2145 UTC on 3396
ZIMBABWE: ZBC . Classic Black Magic Wom en tune by Santana, to vernaculars chat. Sign-off routine at 2200. (Bernardini, Italy).
2146 UTC on 9675
BRAZIL: Radio Cancao Nova. Talk and religious themes in Portuguese.
Brazil's Radio Difusora Amazonas audible on 4805 at 2354. (Liangas,
GRC)
2146 UTC on 3366
GHANA: GBC. Pop music from Swedish group ABBA. Talk to ID and music
request segment. (Veldhuis. NLD; Liangas. GRC)
2330 UTC on 6725.6
PERU: Radio Satelite. Spanish announcement with IDs, time check and
mentions of Santa Cruz. (Wright. MS)
2238 UTC on 5005
MALAYSIA: ATM Sibu . Romanlic slow songs with fair signal quality.
Malaysia's ATM Kuchlng on 4895. 11 5005 at 2248. (Bernardini. Italy).
2347 UTC on 9630
INDONESIA: ARI Jakarta. Nice pop tunes and Indonesian text. audible to
0010. ARI Jambi heard on 4927 at 2350 with references to Malaysia. ARI
Ujung Pandang on 4753 at 22 17 with dangdut songs. (Liangas, GRC)
2350 UTC on 3290
GUY ANA: GBC. Good signal for daily obituary report. Pop music tune to
local commercials. Hindu style music to 0915 ID as "the Voice of Guyana."
Moni tored to 0035. (Frank Hillton. Charleston, SC)

nwuks to our rn111rilmtors - Hme you sem in YOUR logs?

Senti to Gayle Va11 I/om , c/o M onitoring Time.< (or e-mail g11yle @g rove.11e1)
English broadcast un/e.u

otlren\'i.~e

October 1997

noted.

MONITORING TIMES

41

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The QSL Report

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Gayle
Van Hom, gayle@grove.net

Radio St. Helena Day Nears

As each October arri vcs . DXc rs eage rl y
await Tony Leos special broadcast of Radio
St. Helena ...and thi s year
is nu exception '
Mark your calendars 1his month for October 26. broadcasti ng
on 11092.5 SSB from 1900-2300 UTC.
Th e stati on w.:hs it c may he acce ssed al <http://
www.st helcna.sc/>. Links inclullc tourist attraction-.. The Pielure Gallery and Di.ffmer St. Helena. plus mor.:. Philatelic
collectors can link to the remote island's stamp i:ollc.:cti on with
information on how to obtain their popular stamp 'crvice.
The /-lisror.n~fSr /-lele11a is available as we ll as how the unique

- 1.Radio. 1STH FI EN~

llENIN
ORTB Cotonou. -1870kl11. Full data QSL card u11'i~ ned. Recei ved in 56 day' for a
taped rcpon. Station addre": Uu ite Po>tal 366. Cotonou. Benin. (Enc Buencman.
Hateh1ood. MO/The ,..our ll'i11ds).

broadca, 1 hegan. Radio S1. Helena welcomes you lo 1h.:ir email

I ist. loo. I lumepage updates and oth.:r projects arc posted via
e mail.
To 'ul1'nibc:.juq s.: nd email IO: 111ajordo111o@kaje11.co111 with
1hc 1c:x1 at the fi rst row in 1he te:x1 box
a., : .rn/,.1c rihe srh ele 11 a rour @
emailwldre.u. All letters 10 the St.
Helena mai ling list may be sent to:
.11hele11110 k11je11.co111.
Q u es t ion~ or suggestion~ on how
to improve 1hc.: maili ng lisl ~ hould be
st:nt
lo
Jo hn
Ek wa ll at :
j11e@srhele1111.se or Len nart Dc imert
at: /1tl01.11hele11a.se.
Na\'r-\ id' Spccial i!--t. Rei:cl\ cd tor an rcpon and n:turn rnim 'tamps. S1a1ion address:
Dcpan1m:n1 t1f :-\ \iath1n, (_'0111111011\\ c:.ilth of Virginia. 5702 Gui fMrcam Roa.d. Sand.s1on.
VA 21 150-2502. (Hank Holbrook. Dunkirk. ~IU).

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llOLIVIA
Rad io Eco. 4702 kHz. San Rorj a QSL >igncd Gon1alo E,pi1101a Cortc1-Dir<c1or.
Received in 270 Llays fo r a Spa11i'h foll ow-up report. S1ation add re..,,: Correo Cen1ra l.
Reye,, l3all ivia11. Beni. Uoli via. (V. Korineh. S. Afric:J/TFIV)

COLO:\ll.IIA
La Voz dcl Guaviarc. 60.15 hilt. Panial dat" card. pmtcard and pcN>ll.11 ktt<r from
Lub Fcnwndo Roman R .. -D ircctor. Rccehcd in 56 dar for a Sp:ini!\h report. Station
address: Carrern 22 con Calle 1), San Jo,c dcl Gua viarc. Colu111l>1a. (V. Korinch. S.
A frica(/FIV)

"dd1c'" Columbus Co11111y A irport. \Vhi1eville. NC 28472. (Sa m Wr ighl. Biloxi. MS).

SHU' Tlt,\FFIC
SIS Kn 1to11e Cm1jo11 KS l' K. 12487.5 kilt (Tanker). Full d ata prepared QSL card
1mficd Rccci1cd in 21 d:i)' for an Engl"h utilit) repon of SITOR traffic. Ship
.1dd1c'' 1\ltcntion : R:ulu' l:lcl:lrt111H."' O ffin:r. do Ki:~ :-ilonc Shipping Co.. 3 13 Chestnut Str,._t. l'hiladclplua. I',\ 19106. <Stc1e McDonald. ~layne Day. BC Canada).

\//\' /'1111/i< Kine 3FJ N4. 12-139 hHt (Bulker). Full data prepared QSL card verified .
Rc,-c11 11159 da)' for an Engl"h uuht) rcpon of CW traffic. Ship addrcs" Attention:
R.1d10 1-.icctronin Olfo:cr. c/n II) und:11 Bldg .. 96. ~ lu k}o-dong. C"hun g-ku. Seoul.
Slluth h:cHca. (McDonald. CAN 1.

'"I

ETHIOPIA
Radio Ethiopia . 7 165 kH1. Full data b lue logo c;ml 1111\igncd. Rc cc1\'ed in 90 da)' tor
an English rcpon and one !RC. Station add re." : P.O. Box 65.J. Addi ' Ababa. Ethiopia.
(Ma hc ntl ra Vaghjce. Rose I lil l. Mauritiu')

GER,VIANY
West Coast Radio Ireland. 5910 kHz (Julich. Germany). Large pan.al data Cliff> 1if
1"10/Jer card with fonn lc1tcr ;intJ ,du:dulc. Rccci,cd in 6 month' tor ;111 Englbh report
and two !RC,. S tation addre": Clarcmorri>. Count) Ma)O. lrcl.md. !Bill Wilhi1h.
Springfield . MO)

J ORDAN
Radio Jordan. 6035 kH z. Fu ll data card with 'dtc<.lulc i111.:ludcd. '1g11ed hy J:l\\ad Z:1da
Received in 2 vcars. ci!:!ht month.... Swtion addrc,,: P.O. Box 909. 1\111111an. Jordan. 1:u11
dnia logoc:ml,received fnr 11970 kH1 in 62 day,. ;\ month la1crrecei1 cd the same. plll>
stickers and nag penn ant. (<.iayle VH. Bras,town. NC)

MALAWI
Malawi Broadcasting Corp.. .l380 k Ht . Frequency only 1enlication on >tation
letterhead. ' igned by E. K. Lungu. Recei,ed in.J.J da>' fora tapc:d rcpon. ,df addrc"cd
envelope ! u<ed in reply). one US dollar and a local ' tation bumper ' ticker. Station
addrei.s: P.O. Box 30133. Chid1iri Hou<e. Blantyre 3. i\lal:m 1. <Stc11an. MO >

Sf/' !111't"<'11s Ohio \VJ llC i. X.~82.5 k I lz <Tan ken. Full data prepared QSL c ard verified.
Rccci1ed m 22 day' for au Engli'h u1il it y rcpon of S ITOR traffic. Ship addrc,s:
t\t1c1111011 : Ra<lio Elcctronii:' Officl!r...to Second Shipmnr A"'lrn:i~t1ion. Maritime
01cr,ca' Cnrp.. 51 1 Fifth ,\1enue. ;\c11 York. NY 1001 7. 1;<.tcDonald. CA 1)
Sf/"()11..-.11<11 Ma<fo w1, 1tV.4077 kHt !T:111herl. Full data prepared QSL card ve ri fied.
Rcce11cd rn 32 day> for an Engli' h utilit) rcpon of SITOR traffic. Ship add ress:
1\11e111iun: Radio ElcctroniC\ Officer. c/o l11tcrrnn1in cntal Bulktank Corp.. 5 1 I Fifth
J\1cn11c. ;\c11 York. NY llXH 7. (~ kDon:ild. CAN).
TRA VE t .EltS l N FOR~l A T I ON S T ATI0:-1 (TIS)
W()0-767. Dalla,lt. Worth lntrnational i\irpon. 16~011680 kHz. Full data QSL
foldcrcar<I ~ig ncd by J lll' BlairCornmunications Administrawr. Aiq>0rt M aintenance/
('(11111l1u11ications. Received in 37 <.hi)' for an English rcpon and re1urn mini ~tarnps.
Station addrc'" l'.0 . llrawer619428. DFW 1\i rpon. T X 7.'i2o l -9.J28. (S tewan. MO)
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English

SHORTWAVE GUIDE
--~ - -~-

Language

\.:'

How ro UsE THE SHORTWAVE GUIDE .

1:

Convert your time to UTC.

Eastern and Pacific Times are already converted to Coordinated
Universal Time (UTC) at the top of each page. The rule is: convert
your local time to 24-hour format; add (during Daylight Savings Time)
4,5,6, or 7 hours for Eastern, Central, Mountain or Pacific Times,
respectively.
Note that all dates, as well as times, are in UTC: for example, a show
which might air at 0030 UTC Sunday will be heard on Saturday evening in
America (8:30 pm Eastern, 5:30 pm Pacific).
2:

Choose a program or station you want to hear.

Some selected programs appear on the lower half of the page for
prime listening hours-space does not permit 24-hour listings.
Occasionally program listings will be followed by "See X 0000." This
information indicates that the program is a rerun, and refers to a previous
summary of the program's content. The letter stands for a day of the week,
as indicated below, and the four digits represent a time in UTC.
S: Sunday
T: Tuesday
H: Thursday A: Saturday
M: Monday
W: Wednesday F: Friday

3:
Find the frequencies for the program or station you
want to hear.
Look at the page which corresponds to the time you will be listening.
Comprehensive frequency information for English broadcasts can be found
at the top half of the page. All frequencies are in kHz.
The frequency listing uses the same day codes as the program listings; if a broadcast is not daily, those day codes will appear before the

Hor NEws
Goodbye DST. October is the
month we revert to standard time.
Thanks to new rules in Europe last
year. Nonh America. Central
Europe. and the UK all changc back
the last Sunday of October (the
27th). When refe rring 10 our
centerfo ld frequency guide. be sure
10 keep this fact in mind during the
last fi ve days of the month. Not all
broadcasters time shift: but. in case
you have trouble tuning in a station
at a listed time. check one hour later
than shown.
According to the Royal
Greenwich Observatory. the idea of
Daylight Saving Time was first
suggested in a whimsical art ic le by
Benjamin Franklin in 1784.
although implementation first
occurred in England during World
War I.
National Institute of Standards and Technology. While
were on the subject of time. hercs
an update on the acti vities of NIST
(formerly known as The National
Bureau of Standards) in Boulder,
Colorado.
If you arc fonunate enough 10
visit in person. you can take
advantage of the free public tour of
the Boulder Labs of the Department
of Commerce. including the

station name. Irregular broadcasts are indicated "tent" and programming

which includes languages besides English are coded "vi" (various languages).
4: Choose the most promising frequencies for the time,
location and conditions.
Not all stations can be heard and none all the time on all frequencies. To help you find the most promising frequency, we've included information on the target area of each broadcast. Frequencies beamed toward
your area will generally be easier to hear than those beamed elsewhere.
even though the latter will often still be audible. Every frequency is followed by one of these target codes:
am:
na:
ca:
sa:
eu:
al:
me:

The Americas
North America
Central America
South America
Europe
Africa
Middle East

as:
au:
pa:
va:
do:
om:

Asia
Australia
Pacific
various
domestic broadcast
omnidirectional

Consult the propagation charts. To further help you find the right
frequency, we've included charts at the back of this section which take
into account conditions affecting 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 want to hear is located. The chart indicates
the optimum frequencies for a given time in UTC.

BY JIM f RIMMEL
Natio nal lnstitulc of Standartb and
Tcchnology (NIST) and National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) laboratories. The 1-112 to 1 hour tour> arc
held al I year on Thursdays at I :JO
p.m. Additi onal guided tou rs arc
provided during the sununer from
Memorial Day 10 Labor Day on
Tucsday' at 10:30 a.111. Or. you can
take a self-guided tour any weekday
from 8:00 a.n1. to 5:00 p.111.
Lu.:h guided tour consists of a
vidco pre;entation. a c:ryogenics
(low- temperature physics)
de111ons1 ra1ion. and vi, its 10 the
NOAA Solar f.orecast Cemer. the
NIST national standard atomic
clock. and a working research lab.
If you have internct acc:ess.
vi, it the NIST web >ile
(www.bouldcr.nist.gov ) for an onlinc tour and addit ional information.
Take a Virtual Reality Tour of
Radio Station WWV. While you're
at the IST web site dc,cribcd
ahovc. bc sun: Ill vi~ it wwv, wcb
pages off the main silc. WWV
broadcasts the time and freque nc:y
standard s from rort Co ll ins. CO.
that arc widely used by the general
public. You11 need the QuickTime
VR plug-in for your web browser lo
view the virtual reality movies of

the various indoor and outdoor

scenes. ThcM: arc intcrac:ti vc videos:
You can tlnat from one room to
another in the studio and then pass
th rough a doorway 10 go m11,ide for
a look at thc exterior of th..: building
and the antcnna farm. B..: aware.
these ti les arc large anti ta ke time to
download.
Old-Time Radio. CBS Rad io
on the in1crm:1 now offcr I lirnan
Browns original Mystery Theater.
the half-hour drama> made for radio
10 thrill it' audiences. The>c dramas
were origi nally produced between
1974 and 198:1. so. 10 old-time radio
huffs. may not actually qual ify as
old-time radio. You can download
the latest cpisodc at

w\1w.ehsradic.ccun/m)'Slcry/
dcf'aull.html. The site also features
an interview with 1-f iman Brown
about the program .
Wind- Up Com puter. The
crcator of the BayGen Frccplay
wind-up radio
111ade the C BS
Tele' is ion
Evening News
August 20th.
British inventor
Tre\l>r Bayli' had
rigged one of hi~
doc:kwork n11.:d1ani'm' to an Apple
eMate 300 computer and was able
I<> obtain scvcral hours u>e out of a
'inglc wind. The ..:Mate katurc; an
ca~y-to- u ~c N~w ton operati ng
'Y'lem and long hauc ry life and i> a
fa\'orite with 'tudenls.
Selected Programs. Thi,
month s program guide fcawres the
World Radit> Network 's internet
rclays of the tran>missions or
international broadcasters via
nctwork WRN- 1 to Nonh America.
Thi' is a unique lisc i ng~ \VRN was
unable to provide one 'owe crcated
our own. Rcme111bcr that you ..:an
only hear thc><.: program> al thcst:
times on thc internet using
Rca lAudio ( www.wrn.or~).

October 1991

MONITORING TIMES

43

FREQUENCIES .
0000-01 00
0000-0100

Anguilla.Garibbean Beacon
Australia. Radio

0000-0tOO vi
0000-0100 vi
0000-0015
0000-0100
0000-0tOO
0000-0100
0000-0tOO
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0004
0000-0027
0000-0tOO
0000-0030
0000-0015 vi
0000-0045
0000-0100
0000-0tOO
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0tOO
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0057

Australoa. VL8K Katherone

Australia. VL8T Tent Crk
Cambodia. Natl Voice ol
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Ganada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halolax
Canada. CKZN St John's
Canada, CKZU Vancouver
China, Chona Radio Intl
Croatia. Croatian Radio
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Ecuador. HCJB
Egypt. Radio Cairo
Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp
India. All India Radio
Japan. RJapan!NHK World
Lebanon. Voice ol Hope
Libe11a.LCN/R Liberia Int
Malaysia. Radoo
Malaysia. RTM Kuching
Netherlands. Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
North Korea. R Pyongyang

00000100 vi
00000100
0000-0030 mtwhfa
0000-0tOO
0000-0030
0000-0100

Papua New Guinea. NBC

Russia.Voice of Russia WS
Serbia. R Yugoslavia
Spain. R Exterior Espana
Thailand Radio
Ukraine. R Ukraine Intl

00000100

United Kingdom. BBC WS

0000-0045
0000-0030
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100

United Kongdoon. BBC WS

United Kingdom. BBC WS
USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. KTBN Sall Lk City UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Monitor Radio Intl
USA. Voice ol Aoneroca

0000-0100 twhla

USA. Voice ol America

0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0000-0100
0030-0055
0030-0100
0030-0100
0030-0100
0030-0100
0030-0100
0035-0040
0050-0100
0100-0200
Ot00-0200

USA. WEWN Birmingham AL

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHAi Noblesville IN
USA, WINB Red Lion PA
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl
USA. WRNO New Orleans LA
USA. YNICR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Austroa. R Austria Intl
Iran. VOIRI
Lithuania. Radio Vilnius
Netherlands, Radio
Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka BC
Thailand. Radio
India. All India Radio
Italy, RAI Intl
Angullla.Carobbean Beacon
Auscralia. Radio

0100-0200 vi
0100-0200 vi
0100-0200
0100-0200
Ot 00-0200
0100-0200
Ot00-0200
01000200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0104
0100-0200
0100-0127
0100-0200
0100-0150

Austraha. VL8K Katherone

Australia. VL8T Tent Crk
Canada, CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada, CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZN St John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Canada. R Canada Intl
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Croatia. Croatian Radio
Cuba. Radio Havana
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Ecuador. HCJB
Germany. Deutsche Welle

0100-01 tS
0100-0130

Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp

Hungaoy. Radio Budapest

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6090am
9660pa
t5415as
5025do
4910do
11940as
9625do
6070do
6030do
6t30do
6160do
6160do
9710na
5895na
5930na
9745am
9900na
3366do
7t 50as
61 SSeu
9960va
StOOdo
7295do
7t60do
6020na
15115pa
11335na
15130na
9675do
7125na
9580na
6055am
9655af
5905na
7150na
9560na
5965as
6195as
11750sa
3915as
71lOas
5810am
15590am
t7510as
7535am
7215as
15290as
5995aon
9455am
5825eu
5085am
5745am
t 1950am
7490na
9955am
7355am
3215am
6085na
9655na
6050eu
9855na
5905as
9730as
9655va
5010do
6010na
6090am
9660pa
t5415as
5025do
4910do
9625do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
9535am
7385aon
5895na
6000na
6200na
9745am
6040na
11810na
3366do
6120na

October 1997

t2080pa
155t0pa

13605pa
17750as

13755pa
t7795pa

1!695na
7345na
2t455am
49t5do
9705as
6t BOeu

9950as

t t620as

6t65na

9845na

t t845na
t 5230na

13650na

13760na

7250na
11870na

73t0na

9820na

9690af
60t0na
7t80na
12040na
5970am
94 IOas
1t955as

11905af
6020na
7240na
5975am
9590aon
15310as

6175am
99t5sa

9580as

11945as

15280as

9430sa
9770as
17735as
6130am
9775am

15665as
117603s
17820as
7395am
11 695am

5070am
9505ca

7435am

9022eu

9685eu

7305as

9855as

t 1905va
7t 10do
9675na

15395as
11870do
11800na

t 2080pa
t 55 tOpa

13605pa
17750pa

9755am
7585am

11 715am
15050am

9820na
7345na
2t455am
6085na

9830na

49t5cto
9580na

6145na

6090na
9550na

t5185as
7405am
t3740am

13845aon

1t655as

t3755pa
17795pa

13670am

9640na

..

. ..

0100-0200
Ot00-0125
0 t 00-0200 th
Ot00-0110
0100-0200

Indonesia. Voice ol
Iran. VOIRI
lrelard.WCoast R Ireland
Italy. RAI Intl
Japan. R Japan/NHK World

Ot00-0200
Ot00-0200
Ot00-0200 smtwh
0100-0200 m
0!00-0125
0!00-0200
Ot00-0200
Ot00-0200 vi
Ot00-0200
0100-0200

Lebanon. Voice ol Hope

Ltbena.LCN1R Ltbe11a Int
Malaysia. Radio
Malta. VO Mediterranean
Netherlands. Radio
Netherlands. nacho
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Philippines. FEBC/R Intl
Russia.Voice ol Russia WS

Ot00-0130
0100-0200
0100-0200
Ot00-0t30
0100-0200

Slovakia. R Slovakia Intl

Spain. R Exterior Espana
Sri Lanka. Sn Lanka BC
Switzerland. Swiss R Intl
United Kingdom. BBC WS

0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX

USA. KJES Mesquite NM
USA. KTBN Salt Lk Cny UT
USA. KWHR Naalellu HI
USA. Monitor Radio Intl
USA. Voice of Ame11ca

0100-0200 tv1hfa

USA. Voice of Ame11ca

0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0130

USA. WEWN B1rm1ngharn AL

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WINB Red Loon PA
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WRMl/R MoamoIntl
USA. WANO New Orleans LA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Uzbekistan. R Tashkent

0100-0126
Ot30-0150
0130-0200
0130-0200
0130-0200
0130-0200 s
0140-01 59
0145-0200
0200-0300
0200-0300 twhfa
0200-0300

Vietnam. Voice of
Greece. Voice of
Netherlands. Radio
Slovakia. AWR Europe
Sweden. Radio
Sweden. Radio
Vatican State. Vatican R
Albania. R Tirana Intl
Anguilla.Caribbean Beacon
Argentina. RAE
Australia. Radio

0200-0300 vi
0200-0300 vi
0200-0210
0200-0300
02000300
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300

Australia. VL8K Katherine

Australia. VL8T Tent Crk
Bangladesh. Bangla Betar
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halolax
Canada. CKZN St John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Canada. R Canada Intl

0200-0300
02000204
0200-0300
0200-0300
02000300
0200-0250

Costa Roca.RF Peace Intl

Croatia. Croatian Radio
Cuba. Radio Havana
Ecuador. HCJB
Egypt. Radio Cano
Germany Deutsche Welle

02000300 vi
02000300
0200-0300 smtwh
0200-0300 s
0200-0230
0200-0300
0200-0230 m
02000300 vi
0200-0300
02000256

Kenya. Kenya Broadc Corp

Lebanon. Voice of Hope
Malaysia. Radio
Malla VD Mediterranean
Netherlands. Radio
New Zealand R NZ Intl
Norway. Radio Norway Intl
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Pl1ilippines, FEOC/R Intl
Romania. R Romania Intl

. .. ...
9525na
6050eu
9875am
60t0na
5960na
t3630am
2t6!0as
9960va
5t00do
7295do
t3605am
6020na
5905as
t5t !Spa
9675do
t5450as
7105na
15t80na
5930na
6055am
9730as
6 t35na
5965as
6t45am
9590aon
t5280as
58 tOaon
7555na
75 t0am
17510as
7535na
71t5as
t t725as
17820as
5995aon
9775am
5825eu
5085am
5745arn
1t950am
7490na
9955am
7355am
3215am
6065na
7190eu
9740eu
i240na
6260na
5905as
9465eu
9435as
7290am
5980as
6115na
6090am
11 710am
9660pa
15365pa
5025do
4910do
4880do
9625do
6070do
6030do
6 t30do
6160do
6t60do
6t20am
t t7t 5aon
7385am
5895na
6000na
9745am
9H5na
7285as
I t 965as
4885do
9960va
7295clo
15550au
5905as
1s115pa
7465na
9675clo
t 5450as
5990na

..

9022eu

9685eu

9675na
t t790as
t5500as

t t800na
1!860as
t 5590as

6!65na
7305as

9845na
9855as

t20t0na
t5595na
7300na

t2050na
9440sa

9885na
5970sa
6i75aon
9605as
t53t0as

9905ca
5975aon
6195as
1t750am
t5360as

6085am
9410as
1t955as

7205as
t5 t70as

9635as
t5250as

1t705as
17740as

5-3oam
t3740am

7405am

9445am

5070am
9505na
9375eu

7435am
t 1550as
9530eu

t3845am

7450na
9855as

9420na
t t655as

t t645na

t2080pa
154 15as

t3605pa
17750pa

15240pa
t7795pa

9535am
t 3670am
7585am

9755am

9780am

9820na
21455am

9830na

96 t5as
12045as
4935do

9690as

1!890na
! 78 \0as

t3665na

97t 5eu

7335as
7160na

1i 570as
7305as

15050am

t t945as

6150do

9855as

9560na
6 t55na

9510na

9570na

.....

FREQUENCIES . . . . . . . .
02000300

Russia.Voice of Russia WS

02000300
0200-0300
02000300

South Korea. R Korea Intl

Sn Lanka. Sn Lanka BC
Taiwan. VO Free China

02000300

United Kingdom. BBC WS

02000230
0200-0300
02000230
02000300
02000300
02000300
02000300
02000300

United Kingdom. BBC WS

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. KJES Mesquite NM
USA. KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA, KVOH Los Angeles CA
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Monitor Radio Intl
USA. Voice of America

02000300
02000300
02000300
0200-0300
02000300
02000300
02000300
0200-0300
02000300
02150225
02300300
02300259
02300300
02300300
02300245

USA. WEWN Birmingham AL

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA, WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WINS Red Lion PA
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA, WRMl /R Miami Intl
USA. WRNO New Orleans LA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Nepal. Radio
Albania. R Tirana Intl
Austria. R Austria Intl
Hunga1y. Radio Budapest
Netherlands. Radio
Pakistan. Radio

02300300 vl/ma
02300300
02300300
02300256
02300300 vt
02450300
02500300 sf
02500300
02550300 vi
03000400
0300<>'00

Philippines. R Pilipinas
Sweden. Radio
United Kingdom. BBC WS
Vietnam. Vmce of
Zambia. R Zambia/ZNBC 2
India, All India Radio
Greece Voice of
Vatican State. Vatican R
Zambia. R Zambia/ZNBC 1
Anguilla.Caribbean Beacon
Australia. Radio

03000'00 vi
03000400 vi
03000400 vi
03000400
03000400
03000400
03000400
03000400
0300-0400
03000400 vi
03000400
03000304
0300-0400
03000327
03000400
03000330
03000250

Australa. VLBK Katherine

Australa. VL8T Tent Crk
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
canada. CFRX Toronto
canada. CFVP Calgary
canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZN St John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
China, China Radio Intl
Costa Rica.Faro del Carib
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Croatia Croatian Radio
Cuba. Radio Havana
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Ecuador. HCJB
Egypt, Radio Cairo
Germany. Deutsche Welle

03000400
03000400 m
03000400
03000400 vi
0300-0400
03000400 vi
03000400 vi
03000400 s
03000230 mtwhfa
03000325
03000400
0300-0310
0300-0400 vi
0300-0330 vi
0300-0400

Guatemala. Radio Cultural

Honduras. LV Evangel1ca
Japan, R Japan/NHK World
Kenya, Kenya Broadc Corp
Lebanon. Voice of Hope
Lesotho. Radio Lesotho
Malaysa. RTM Kuching
Malta. VO Mediterranean
Mexico. Radio Mexico Intl
Netherlands. Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Pakistan. Radio
Papua New Guinea, NBC
Philippines. R Pilipinas
Russia.Voice of Russia WS

0300-0330
03000400
0300-0400

S Africa. Channel Africa

Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka BC
Ta1Wan. VO Free China

0300-0330

Thailand, Radio

11940na
7105na
13665na
7275as
9730as
5950na
11825as
5970sa
6195eu
15280as
9590am
5B10am
7555na
7510am
9975am
17510as
7535na
7115as
11725as
17820as
5825eu
5085am
5745am
11950am
7490na
9955am
7355am
3215am
6065na
5005do
6140na
9655na
9840na
9855as
7255as
17705as
11885me
7135na
7325arn
7250na
6165do
6045do
6260na
7305am
491 Odo
6090am
9660pa
t5365pa
5025do
49 1Odo
9625do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
9690na
5055do
7385am
5B95na
6000na
5930as
9745am
9475na
60B5na
9640na
3300do
4B20do
17685va
4BB5do
9960va
4BOOdo
7160do
15550au
9705na
9855as
15115pa
7270as
9675do
11 8B5as
7125na
13645na
5955af
9730as
5950na
15345as
9655na

12990na
12010na
151BOna
11i25am
7130as
15345as
5975am
9410va
15310as
9915am

7205as
15170as

15575am

03000400
0300-0315 mtwhf
03000400
03000330

Turkey. Voice of
Uganda. Radio
Ukrame. R Ukraine Intl
United Kingdom. BBC WS

96BOna

11740ca

03000400

Umted Kingdom. BBC WS

613oal
9605as
15360as

6175am
11955as
03000400
03000400
03000400
0300-0400
0300-0400
03000400

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX

USA. KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA. KVOH Los Angeles CA
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Momtor Radio Intl
USA. Voice ol America

03000330 smtwh
03000400
03000400
03000400
03000400
0300-0400
03000400
03000400
03000400
03000400
0300-0310
0300-0400 vi
0300-0400 vi
0300-0400 vi
03 10-0340
03300357
0330-0355
0330-0400 vi
03300400 twhfa
0330-0400
03300400
03300400
03300400
0333-0400 mtwhf
03350355 vi
0340-0350
03450400
03450400
0345-0400 as
0356-0400
0400-0500
04000500

USA. Voice ol America

USA. WEWN Birmingham AL
USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville Iii
US/.. WINS Red Lion PA
US!.. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WRMl/R M1am1 Intl
USA. WRNO New Orleans LA
USA, WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Vatican State. Vatican R
Zambia. R Zamb1a/ZNBC 1
Zambia. R Zamb1a/ZNBC 2
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
Vaucan State. Vatican R
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Moldova. R Moldova Intl
Philippines. R Pthpinas
Portugal. R Portugal Intl
Slo~ak1a . AWR Europe
Sweden. Radio
Tanzania, Radio
United Kmgdom. BBC WS
Swaziland. Trans World R
India. All India Radio
Greece. Voice of
Burundi, Radio Nationale
Tajikistan.Radio Dushanbe
Uganda. Radio
Zambia. Christian Voice
Anguilla.Caribbean Beacon
Aus;raha. Radio

04000500 s
04000500 vi
04000500 vi
04000500
0400-0500
04000500
04000500
04000500
0400-0500
04000500
0400-0500
0400-0430
0400-0500
04000500
04000404
04000500
04000500 vi
04000500
04000450

Australia. Radio
Ausnaha. VL8K Katherine
Australia, VL8T Tent Crk
Aus1ratia.De1cnseForces R
Bulgaria. Radio
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZN SI John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Canada. R Canada Intl
China. China Radio Intl
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Croatia, Croauan Radio
Cuba Radio Havana
Cyprus. BRT International
Ecuador. HCJB
Germany. Deutsche Welle

12050na
15595na
11 810am

9635as
15250as

13645na

11705as
17740as

7315am

5070am
9505na
7165do
7160na
9B70sa
11910na
11655as
7270as

5935am

15120me

15270me

7435am

t 3730sa

15120as

154B5as

9B95am

7110do
7450na
9605am

1t830do
9420na

12080pa
15415as

13605pa
17750pa

15135do
11645na

15240pa
17795pa

9710na
7585am
9495na
9B20na
7345as
21455am

9B30na

6185na

9535na

4935do

t5050am

9615na

7270as
4976do
6020na
5970sa
t5360as
3255af
6180eu
9600af
15310as
5810am
75t0am
9975am
175 t Oas
5850na
6080af
7290af
4960a1
5825eu
50B5am
5745am
I t950am
7490na
9955am
7395am
32 t5am
6065na
7305na
4910do
6t65do
3396do
7360af
9480me
7520na
7730as
6150am
t 16t0as
9430na
5050af
9610af
7215af
71 !Odo
6260na
6140do
7245as
4976do
3330al
6090am
9660pa
t55 t0pa
15415as
5025do
49t0do
13525as
9485na
9625do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6t60do
6160do
97t5me
9560na
7385am
5895na
6000na
6t50do
9745am
5990af
I 1765af

7300eu

t5190au

7150na
6135al

9550na
7325am

t2040na
9895am

5975am
6190af
9605as
17790as

6005af
6 t 95va
11760as
21660as

6175na
9410eu
t2095af

7535al
6115al
7340af

7105al
9575a1

72BOaf
98B5af

5935am

7435am

7315am

5070am
9505na
9605am

9660af
11600as
13770as
9570am

t5330as

11 730af

1t955as

t5280as

11B30do
7450na

t5t35do
9420na

t t645na

9905as

t 1620as

6065al
12080pa
I 7795pa
l 7750as

13605as

t5240pa

11720na

11835me
9730am
75B5am
5920na
9820na

t52751nc
15050am
9495na
9830na

21455am
6015af

7225al

9565af

6150do

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17570as
11655as

15120as
12000na
13665na

15270as
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t51BOna

12050na
15595na

9680na

1t745au

11825as

11905na

15395na

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FREQUENCIES . . .

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Guatemala Radio Cultural

Honduras LV Evangehca
Israel. Kol Israel
Kenya. Kenya Broadc Corp
Lebanon, Voice of Hope
Malla. VO Mediterranean
Mexico. Radio Mexico Intl
NCl'I Zealand. R NZ Intl
North Korea. R Pyongyang
Norl'lay. Radio llof\'/ay Intl
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Romarna. R Romania Intl

0400-0500

Russia.Voice of Russia WS

0400-0430
0400-0404 mtw
0400-0430
0400-0-130
0400-0-10-t mtwhl
0400-0430
0400-0430
0400-0500
0400-0415
0400-0500

S Alnca. Channel Africa

S Ah1ca. Trans World R
Slovakia AWR Europe
Sn Lanka. Sn Lanka BC
S11al1la11d. Trans World R
S111t1e1 land. Swiss R Intl
Tanzania Radio
Tu1key. Voice ol
Uganda. Radio
United Kingdom. BBC WS

0400-0430
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500

Un11ed Kingdom. BBC WS

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA. KVOH Los Angeles CA
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Voice of America

O-t00-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500 smtwhf
0400-0500
0400-0500
0400-0500
OJ00-0500
0400-0430
0400-0500
0400-0500 vi
0400-0500 vi
0400-0500 vi
0415-0500 vi
04250440 vi
0425-0500
0430-0459
0430-0500 m-1/vl
0430-0455
0430-0500
0430-0500
0430-0500
04300500
0430-0500
0455-0500
0459-0500
0500-0600
0500-0600

USA WEWN B11mingham AL

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WINB Red Lion PA
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WMLK Belhel PA
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl
USA WRNO New Orleans LA
USA IWICR Nashville TN
USA WYFR Okeechobee FL
Vietnam. Voice of
Zambia. Cl1r1stian Voice
Zambia. R Zambia/ZNBC 1
Zambia. R Zambia/ZNBC 2
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe BC
Mala111. MBC
llal1 RAI Intl
N1geJJa FRCNRad10
Aus1rta. R Austria Intl
Lesol ho. Radio Lesotho
Moldova. R Moldova lnil
Neil1erla11ds. Radio
Sci bia. R Yugoslavia
Swaziland. Trans World R
Sw11lerland. S11iss R Intl
Uniled Kingdom BBC WS
Malaysia Voice of
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Angu1lla.CaJJbbean Beacon
Australia. Radio

0500-0600 vi
0500-0600 vi
0500-0600
05000600 vi
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0530 mtwhl
0500-0600
0500-0600 as
0500-0600
050006CO
050006CO
0500-0550

Ausliaha. VLBK Katherine

Australia VLBT Tent Crk
Austraha.OelenseForces R
Cameroon Radio Cameroon
Canada. CFRX Toromo
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
C,111ada, CKZU Vancouver
Ca11ada. R Canada lnll
Costa Rica. Adv World R
Costa l11ca. Adv World R
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Cuba. Radio Havana
Ecuador HCJB
Germany. Oeulsche Welle

0500-0600

Guya11a. GBCNoice ol

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0400-0500 l\'1hfa
04000500m
0400-0415
0400-0500 vi
0400-0500
0400-0500 s
0400-0430 mtwhf
0400-0458
0400-0457
04000430m
0400-0500 vi
0400-0456

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3300do
4820do
7465na
4885do
9960va
15550as
9705na
15 t t5pa
t5t80as
7485na
9675do
5990na
t t 940na
7t 25na
t3645na
15595na
5955af
7215al
9465af
9730as
7215al
6135na
SOSOal
7340na
4976do
3255al
6175arn
7160at
11955as
15310as
21660as
9605as
5810am
75 1Dam
9975arn
17780as
6080al
7290al
15205va
5825eu
5085am
5745am
11950arn
7490na
9465cu
9955am
7395am
3210arn
6065na
12020na
3330al
4910do
6165do
3396do
5993do
5975eu
3326do
6155eu
4800do
7520na
6165na
9580na
3200al
9905ca
15420al
6175as
9795pa
6090am
9660pa
15510as
5025do
4910do
13525as
4850do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6050cu
5030ca
7375arn
7385arn
9820na
9745arn
5960na
6185na
3290do

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9435na
4935do

17545al
6150do

I 7570au

15230as

6155na
12990na
12000na
13665na

17765as

95 10na

9570na

12010na
15180na

12050na
15445na

9885na

3955eu
6180eu
9410na
12085al
15575va

5975af
6190af
9600af
12095va
1764031

6005af
6195eu
11760va
15280as
17790as

9610af

9895am

11730af

7t 70al
9575al

7265af
9885af

7280af
11965me

7315am

5070am
9505na
15010na
6065al

7270eu
4770do
13730eu

9590na
11 870na
4775af

5935am
9985eu

7435am

4990do

6IOOaf

975oas

15295au

12080pa
I 7795pa

13605as

15240pa

0500-0600

Japan. R Japan/NHK World

0500-0530
0500-0600 vi
0500-0600 vi
0500-0600
0500-0505
0500-0600
0500-05 10 mlwhf
0500-0525
0500-0600
0500-0505
0500-0600
0500-0557
0500-0510
0500-0600 vi
0500-0600

Japan. R JapanlNHK World

Kenya. Kenya Broadc Corp
Kiribal1. Radio
Lebanon. Voice ol Hope
Lesolho. Radio Lesotho
Liberia.LCN/R Lrberia lnl
Malal'lr, MBC
Netherlands. Radio
Nel'I Zealand. R NZ Intl
N1geJJa. FRCN/Rad10
Nigeria. Voice ol
North Korea. R Pyongyang
Pakistan. Radio
Papua Nel'I Gumea, NBC
Russia.Voice of Russia WS

0500-0530
0500-0556
0500-0530
0500-0530
0500-0515
0500-0600

S Alrica, Channel AfJJca

Spam. R Extenor Espana
Swaziland, Trans World R
S11ilze1la11d. Sl'liss R Intl
Uganda. Radio
United Kingdom, BBC WS

0500-0530
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0600
0500-0500

United Kmgdom. BBC WS

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. KTBN Sall Lk City UT
USA. KVOH Los Angeles CA
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Voice of AmeJJca

0500-0600
0500-0500
0500-0500
0500-0600
0500-0600 smtwhl
0500-0600
0500-0500
0500-0500
0500-0600
0500-0530
0500-0520
0500-0600
0500-0530 vi
0500-0600 vi
0500-0530 vi
0505-0600
0525-0600
0530-0559
0530-0500 vi
0530-0556

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA

USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WINB Red Lion PA
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA, WMLK Bel hel PA
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl
USA, WRNO New Orleans LA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Vatican Slate. va11can R
Vatican Stale. Va11can R
Zambia. Clms11an Voice
Zambia. R Zamb1a/2NBC 1
Zambia. R Zamb1a/2NBC 2
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
Swaziland . Trans Wotld R
Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp
Aus111a. R Aus1rta Intl
llaly. IRRS
Romania. R Romania Intl

0530-0600
0530-0600 vi
0530-0600 vi
0600-0700
0600-0700

Thailand. Radio
Zambia. R Zamb1a/ZNBC 1
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
Anguilla.Caribbean Beacon
Australia. Radio

0600-0700 vi
0600-0700 vi
0600-0533
0600-0700 vi

Australia. VL8K Kal heJJne

Ausl ralia. VLST Tent Crk
Ausl raha.DelenseForces R
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc

6110na
11920na
13630na
4885do
981Odo
9960va
4800do
5100do
3380do
6165na
9795pa
3326do
7255al
11740as
7270as
9675do
12000na
13645na
9675al
6055arn
6100al
61 65cu
4976do
3255af
6175am
7120va
9610af
12095as
15575va
21660as
15280as
5810am
7510am
9975arn
I 7780as
5970al
7195al
13740al
5085am
5745arn
11950arn
7490na
9465cu
9955am
7395arn
32 1Oam
5985na
9660al
4005cu
3330af
4910do
6165do
3396do
3200al
3366do
6205na
3985va
11790af
15340as
9655cu
7220do
5975do
6090am
9660pa
15240pa
5025do
4910do
13525as
9625do

7230eu

11840as

15230na
4935do

6150do

11895eu

9590na
4770do

4990do

13790as

12010na
13665na

12040na
15445na

12050na
15595na

5975am
6190al
94 10va
11760as
15360as
t 7760as

6005al
6195va
9600al
11 940af
15420af
I 7885al

6080al
11965111c

7170va
12080al

5070am
9985af
I 1625af
5882eu
6065af

5935am
1I580eu
15570al
7250eu

7435am

4775af
4915do

9500al

119-!0af
I 7720as
I 1905eu

15250al
17790al
1511 5eu

15270af

11830as
15415as

12080pa
15510as

13605as
17750as

9535eu
3955eu
6180eu
7160al
9740as
15310as
I 7640af
17790as

6035af
9630af
I 5205va
7315am

"SPECTRUM" CAN BE HEARD LIVE

02 :00 UTC Sundays ( I 0 :00 PM EDT Saturdays) on:

7295af
6150ca

11835al
9725ca

7585arn
9830na
21455am
6045na
9615na

15050arn

6120na
9650na

15430rne

6145na

Location

frequency

GEl-6
WWC R

Clark Be ll 103 deg W

Nashvilli.:, T N
rebroadcast 0805 Mon
Hazlet. NJ
Sayreville. NJ
De ptford, NJ
Brookneal. VA

5.8 MHz Wide Audio

5070 kH z Live
7435 kHz
89.3 FM
9 1.9 FM
1360 AM
1230AM

WCNJ
W220AA
WNJC
WODI

FREQUENCIES .. . . . . .
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0608 mtl'lhfa
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0650

Canada. CFRX Toronto

Canada CFVP Calgary
Canada CHNX Hahlax
Canada CKZU Vancouver
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Croa11a. Croatian Radio
Cuba. Radio Havana
Ecuador. HCJB
Germany. Deutsche Welle

0600-0615
0600-0700
0600-0700 vi
0600-0700

Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp

Guyana GBCNoice of
Italy. IRAS
Japan. R Japan/NHK World

0600-0700 vi
0600-0700 vi
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0630
0600-0700
0600-0657
0600-0630 s
0600-0700 vi
0600-0700

Kenya. Kenya Broadc Corp

Kiribati. Radio
Lebanon. Voice of Hope
Liberia,LCN/R Liberia Int
Malaysia. Voice of
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Nigerra. FRCN/Radio
Nigerra. Vorce of
North Korea. R Pyongyang
Norway Radio Norway Intl
Papua Ne11 Guinea. NBC
Russ1a.Vo1ce of Russia WS

0600-0630
0600-0630
0600-0610
0600-0630
0600-0630 vi
0600-0700
0600-0630
0600-0630
0600-0700

S Afrrca, Channel Africa

S Atrrca. Trans World R
Sierra Leone. SLBS
Slovakia. AWA Europe
Solomon Islands. SIBC
Swaziland. Trans World R
Swaziland, Trans World R
S11itzerland. Swiss R Intl
United Kingdom. BBC WS

0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0630

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX

USA. KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA. KVOH Los Angeles CA
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Voice ot America

0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700 smtwhf
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700 vi
0600-0645 vVm-f

USA. WEWN Burningham AL

USA. WHAi Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WMLK Bethel PA
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl
USA. WANO New Orleans LA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA, WYFR Okeechobee FL
Vanuatu. Radio
Vatican State. Vatican R

0600-0630
0600-0700
0600-0700
0600-0700 vi
0600-0700 vi
0615-0630
0630-0700
0630-0700
0630-0645 s
0630-0658
0631-0640
0645-0700 as
0645-0700

Vietnam. Vorce ot
Yemen. Radio Aden
Zambia. Christian Voice
Zambia. R Zambia/ZN BC 1
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
Sl'litzerland. Sl'l1ss R Intl
Belgium. R Vlaanderen Int
Georgia Radio
Swaziland. Trans World R
Vatican State. Vatican R
Romanra. R Romanra Intl
Monaco. Trans World Radio
Romanra. R Romanra Intl

0655-0700 mtwhf
0700-0800
0700-0800

Monaco. T1ans World Radio

Anguilla.Carrbhean Beacon
Australia. Radio

0700-0800 v1
0700-0800 vi
0700-0800
0700-0800

Australia, VL8K Katherrne

Australia. VL8T Tent Crk
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary

6070do
6030do
6t30do
6t60do
7385am
5920eu
9820na
9745am
t t915al
17860al
3366do
3290do
3985va
5975eu
t t840as
t5230na
4885do
98tOdo
9960va
StOOdo
6175as
9795pa
3326do
7255al
t5t80as
7180eu
9675do
t2000au
12070as
t 5490pa
17570au
11900af
t 1730at
3316do
1t640af
5020do
4775al
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0700-0800
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0700-0727
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0700-0800 llltl'lhl
07000715
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Canada. CHNX Halifax

Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Croa:1a. Croauan Radio
Czeci Rep. Radio Prague
Ecuador. HCJB
Eqt Guinea. R East Afri ca
Eq1 Guinea. Radio Africa
Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp
Guyana. GBCN01ce of
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Japan. R Japan/NHK Wo1ld

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Kuibah. Radio
Lebanon. Voice of Hope
Llberia.LCN/R Liberia Int
Malaysia. Radio
Malaysia. Vorce of
Monaco. Trans World Radio
New Zealand R NZ Intl
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
North Korea. R Pyongyang
Norway. Radio Norway Inn
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Romania. R Romania Intl
Romania. R Rornanra Intl
Russia.Voice of Russia WS

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07000800
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0700-0800

Sierra Leone. SLBS

Slovakia. AWA Europe
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S11aziland. Trans World R
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United Kingdom BBC WS

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USA. WEWN Birmingham AL
USA. WHAi Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Uplon KY
USA WMLK Belhel PA
USA WRMll R M1am1 Intl
USA WANO New Orleans LA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Vanuatu. Radio
Zambia. Clmst1an Voice
Zambia. A Zarnbia/ZNBC 1
Zunbabwe. Zunbabwe BC
Austria. R Austria Intl
Ecuador. HCJB
Greece. Vorce ot

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India All Indra Radio

Italy. IRAS
Netherlands. Radio
Palau. KHBNNoice ct Hope
United Kingdom. BBC WS
S11aziland. Trans World R
Guam. TWR/KTWR
Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp
Greece. Voice of

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Australia. Radio

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08000900
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08000900
0800-0900

Australia. Radio
Australia. VL8K Katherine
Australia. VL8T Ten1Crk
Bhutan. Bhutan BC Service
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Hahlax
Canada. CKZU Vancouve1
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl

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October 1997

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Croatia. Croatian Radio

Ecuador. HCJB
Eqt Guinea. R East Al11 ca
Eqt Guinea. Radio Afrr ca
Finland. YLE/R Finland
Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp
Guam. TWR/KTWR
Guyana. GBCN01ce of
lndonesra Vorce of
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K10bat1. Radio
Lebanon. Voice of Hope
Liberia.LCN/R Liberia Int
Malaysia. Radio
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Monaco. Trans World Radio
Monaco. Trans World Radio
Netherlands. Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
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S1e11a Leone, SLBS
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USA. Momtor Radio Intl
USA. WEWN Birmingham AL
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WRMl/R Miami hill
USA. WRND New Orleans LA
USA WWCR Nashville TN
Zambia. Ch11stian Vorce
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Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
Pakistan. Radio
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New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Chile. R Esperanza
Armenra. Vorce of
Austraha VL8A Ahce Spy
Austraha. VL8K Kathe11ne
Austraha. VL8T Tent Crk
Georgra. Radio
India, All India Radio
Lrthuama. Radio Vilnius
Slovakra. R Slovakia Intl
Unrted Kingdom. BBC WS
Guam. TWRIKTWR
Angurlla.Carrbbean Beacon
Austraha. Radio
Austraha. VL8A Allee Spg
Australia. VL8K Katherrne
Austraha. VL8T Tent Crk
Belgium. R Vlaanderen Int
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada CFVP Calgary
Canada CHNX Hahfax
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Cfnle, R Esperanza
Cl1111a. China Radio Intl
Costa Arca.RF Peace Intl
Croatia. Croatian Radio
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Ecuado1. HCJB
Ecuador. HCJB
Eqt Guinea. R East Af11ca
Eqt Guinea. Radio Af11ca
Germany. Deutsche Welle

MONITORING TIMES

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Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp

Guam. TWR/KTWR
Guyana. GBCNoice of
Italy, IRAS
Kazakhstan. Radio Almaty
Kiribati. Radio
Lebanon, Vorce of Hope
Lrberia.LCNIR L1be11a Int
Malaysia. Radio
Mongolia, Vorce of
Nethe1lands. Radio
New Zealand, R NZ Intl
Norway, Radio Norway Intl
Palau. KHBNNorce of Hope
Papu2 New Guinea. NBC
Russia.Voice of Russia WS

0900t000 s
09000930
0900-1000

Slovakia. AWA Europe

Switzerland. Swiss R Intl
Unrled Kingdom. BBC WS

090009t5
09000945
09001000
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USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Monitor Radio Intl
USA. WEWN Brrmmgham AL
USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WRMl/R Mranu Intl
USA, WANO New Orleans LA
USA, WWCR Nashville TN
Zambia. Christian Voice
Zambia. R Zambra!ZNBC t
Zrmbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp
Kazakhstan. Radio Almaty
Austria. R Austria Intl
Canada, CKZN SI Johns
Georgia. Radio
Netherlands. Radio
Philippines. FEBC/R Intl
Anguilla.Caribbean Beacon
Australia. Radio
Australia. VL8A Ahce Spg
Australia. VL8K Kathe11ne
Aus tralia, VL8T Tent C1k
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Hahfax
Canada. CKZN St John's
Canada, CKZU Vancouver
China. China Radio Intl
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
EcuadOI, HCJB
Eqt Guinea, R East Alrica
Eqt Guinea. Radio Africa
Guam. AWR/KSDA
Guam. TWR/KTWR
India. All India Radio

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Jordan. Radio
Lebanon, Voice ol Hope
Malaysia, Radio
Malaysia. ATM Kuchrng
Malaysia.ATM KotaKmabalu
Netherlands. Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Nigeria. Voice of
Palau, KHBNNorce ol Hope
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Philippines. FEBC/R Intl
Russia.Voice of Russia WS

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Solomon Islands. SIBC

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Nelherlands. Radio
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UAE. Radio Dubai
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Malays1a.RTM KotaKinabalu
Mozambique. Radio
Netherlands. Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
rJorth Korea. R Pyongyang

11001120
11001130 as
1100 1200 vi
1100-1200

Pak1s1an. Radio
Palau. KHBNNoice of Hope
Papua New Gu111ea. NBC
Ru ssia.Voice of Russia WS

11001200
11001 130
1100 1130
1100-1130
11001200
1100-1200

Singapore R Srngapore Int

Solomon Islands. SIBC
Sn Lanka. So Lanka BC
Sw11zerlanc1. Swiss R lnll
Taiwan, Voice ot Asia
Unilecl Kingdom. BBC WS

I tOOl 130 as
1100-1130
11 001145

Unuecl Kingdom. BBC WS

Un11ed Kingdom. BBC WS
Uniled Kingdom. BBC WS

6t65eu
5965va
9740as
t 1940af
15565as
17885va
15t90am
15360as
58t0am
7510am
9930as
6095na
5985pa
11720as
7425na
9400am
6040am
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9955am
7355am
2390am
5950na
5882eu
17550eu
5940JS
t2020as
6065al
7220do
t 5455au
7345eu
5990do
15t70as
6045eu
tt 7t5am
1t835as
t 3675eu
t 1775am
6080as
941 Sva
2310do
2485do
2325do
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6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
5030am
13750am
7385am
12005am
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9530as
15370af
7125va
6120na
11690eu
9960va
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7295do
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11335na
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9730as
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15170as
15510as
17775as
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11835as
13635as
7445as
5965am
9580as
11955as
15485va
17705eu
15190am
9700as
15400af

9535eu
6190al
111soas
12095eu
15575me
2t660as
15400am

7395sa
6165am
15425as

6195am
11 760as
15310as
17640al

9410eu
I 1765va
I 5485va
17705al

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX

USA. KTBN Sall Lk City UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Monitor Radio Intl

1100- 1200

USA Voice ol Amenca

1t00- 1200
1100- 1200
11001200
1100 1200
1100 1200
1100-1200
11001200
1t00-1130
1100-1200
1t00-1200 vl
1120-1 140
1130-1200 vi
1130-1200
1130-1140
mo-1200
11201200
1120-1200
11201200
t t20-t200 f
1t35-1 140
t200-t300
t200-t300
t 200-1300 s
12C0 1300 vi
12CO- t 300 vi
12(0-1300 vi
12(01300
12C01230
1200-1215
1200-1300 vi
1200-1300
1200- 1300
1200-1300
12C0-1300
1200-1300
12C01230

USA. WEWN B11n11ngham AL

USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Uplon KY
USA. WRMl/R M1am1 lnll
USA. WRNO Ne11Orleans LA
USA WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Vielnam. Voice of
Zambia. Christian Voice
Zambia. R Zamb1a/ZNBC I
Australia.DefenseForces R
China. China Radio Intl
Iran. VOIRI
Lesolho. Radio Leso1110
Myanmar. Voice ol
Netherlands. Radio
Sweden. Radio
Umled Kingdom. BBC WS
va11can State. va11can R
India, All India Radio
Anguilla.Caribbean Beacon
Australia, Radio
Australia, Radio
Australia. VL8A Ahce Spg
Australia. VLBK Katherine
Australia. VL8T Tent Crk
Brazil. Radio Bras
Bulgana, Radio
Cambodia. Nall Voice of
Canada, CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada, CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada, CKZN SI John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Canada. R Canada lnll

1200-1300
1200-1300

Canada. A Canada lnll

China. China Radio 11111

1200-1230 vi

China. China Radio Intl

1200-1 300
12001208
1200-1 300 vi
12001300
1200-1300 as
12001300
1200-1257

Cosla Rica.RF Peace lnll

Croatia. Croatian Radio
Cyprus. BRT lntcrna11onal
Ecuador. HCJB
Eqc Guinea. R East Al11ca
Eqt Guinea. Radio Afnca
France. Radio France lnll

1200-1230 s
1200-1230
1200 1300 vi
12001300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1 300
1200-1300 vi
1200-1250
1200-1300

Ge1many, U111versal Ltfe

Iran. VOIRI
Italy. IRRS
Japan. R Japan/NHK World
Jordan. Radio
Lebanon. Voice of Hope
Malaysia. Radio
Malays1a.RTM Ko1aK1nal>alu
Myanmar. Voice ol
Nelherlands. Radio

17830af

15665as
7405am

15725as
9590am

9495am

5070am

1100 t200
1100-1200
1t00-t200
1100-t200

5935am

15685am

9645eu

11 740eu

15595eu

7270as
1501oas

7400as

9840as

17870au
9505eu
7110do

9705do

9860eu

12065as

137t0as

17850as
15395eu

17630eu

21605me

9580pa
1t660as

6150am

7375am

7535am
t51t 5am

21455au

154 !0af

17i65al

7125na

11 a1sas

9725am

I 7800al

137 !0as
6575na
13550na
15520eu

9640na
15230na
17865eu

9975na

7330as
15460as
I i560as
t 7795as
6155as

11655as
15490as
176 !0as

t t880as
15500as
I 7755as

5810am
7510am
9930as
6095na
9430au
5985pa
t t720as
7425eu
6040am
7490na
9955am
7355am
2390am
5950na
7285as
6065af
7220do
4763as
6995as
9555as
4800do
5990do
6045eu
t t650na
Gt95am
t5595as
9595do
t 1775am
5995as
941 Sva
2310do
2485do
2325do
15445na
13790as
11940as
9625do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
9660as
15195as
9640am
7385pa
11795pa
6995as
12110as
7385am
5920eu
6150do
12005am
15186af
9530as
9805af
t5195eu
9710eu
9555as
7125va
7125as
11690eu
9960va
7295do
5980do
5990do
6045eu

7395sa

9355eu

9385au

6160as
15160as

9645as
15425as

9760as

5070am
11830na
9730as

5935am

t 5685am

8660as
I t830as

11445as
t 1875as

11700as
15260as

9860eu
15240na
17705va
17550au
11620do

117tOdo

t5185do

6080as
I 1660as

9580pa

11 BOOpa

9715me

11835ne

11975me

11B55am
9565pa
I 5440as
8660as

13650am
97t5as

11660as

11445as

11 700as

9495am

7165eu

t 3830na

151 ISam

21455am

I 1600as
15540af

13625eu
17575af

15155eu

I 1830as

1t875as

15260as

9860eu

HAUSER'S HIGHLIGHTS

MONGOLIA:

VOICE OF MONGOLIA

English schedule:

30
I0900-09
1240- 13 I0

17850as
15415as

17515as

6t90al
I 1750as
12095eu
15565as
17830af

6195va
11760as
15220am
15575va
17885af

941 Oeu
I 1940af
15310as
17640na
21660af

I 1765va
17790as

15310as

I 7785as

15 I70
I 2085
1500- 1530 9720. 120 85
1 1930-2000
9720. 120 15
1
(Hans van den Boogert. Taiwan. hard-core-dx)
1 Sked hy E-mail agrees except 1230- 1300. and 12085 110 1 12015 at 1930
along with 9270. typo? (Andy Sennitt. \VRTH via DSWC! DX Window)
12085 had open carrier un1il 1516. then English (Gatzke. ibid.)

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12001230 s
1200 1300 vi
12001255

New Zealand . R NZ Intl

Norway. Radio Norway Intl
Papua New Gurnea. NBC
Poland. Porish R Warsal"I

12001300

Russia,Voice of Russia WS

12001300
12001300
1200 1300
1200 1300
1200 1300
12001300

Singapore.A Singapore Int

Soulh Korea, R Korea Intl
S11i11erland, Swrss R Intl
Tarwan, VO Free Chrna
Ukraine. A Ukrarne Intl
United Kingdom. BBC WS

1200 1300
12001300
1200 1300
12001300
1200 1230

USA. KAIJ Jallas TX

USA. KTBN Salt Lk Crty UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Monrl or Radro Intl
USA. Voice or Ameri ca

1200 1300
1200 1300
12001300
12001300
12001300
1200 1300
12001300
1200-1300
1200 1230
1200 1300
1200 1300 vi
1207 1300 occsnal
1215 1300
12151300
1230 1255
1230 1300
12301255 s
12301300 mtwhf
1230 1300
1230 t 235
1230 1300 w
12301300
1230 1300
1230 1300
t 230 1300 mlwhf
1230 1300
t230 1300
1230 1300
12301300

USA. WEWN Bu mingham AL

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHAi Noblesv1lle IN
USA. WJCR Up1on KY
USA WRMllR M1ar111 Intl
USA. WANO New Orleans LA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Uzbek1s1an R Tashkent
Zambia. Ch11s1mn Vorce
Zambia. R Zambramrnc 1
Nel"I Zealand R NZ Intl
Egypt Radio Carro
Unrted Kingdom. BBC WS
Austria R Aus111a Intl
Bangladesh. Bangla Be1ar
Belgium. R Vlaanderen Int
Finland. YLE/R Fmland
Guam. AWR/KSDA
India. All India Radio
Indonesia. RRI Sorong
Mongolia. Vorce of
Romania. R Romania Intl
Soulll Korea, R Korea Intl
S11 Lanka. Sn Lanka BC
Sl'leden. Radio
Thailand, Radro
Turkey, Voice of
Vietnam. Vorce of

12401250
13001400
13001400
1300 1330 s
1300 1400 vi
1300 1400 YI
1300 1400 vi
1300 1325 mlwhfa
13001320
1300 1400 vi
1300100
13001400
13001 400
1300 1400
1300 1400
1300 1400 rnlwhf
I :100 1400 s
1300 1400

Greece. Vorce of
Anguilla Ca11bbean Beacon
Australia. Radro
Australia. Radio
Aus1ralia. VL8A Allee Spg
Ausl ralia. VL8K Katherine
Australia. l/18T Tent Crk
Belgium, RVlaanderen Int
Brazil Radio Bras
Canada CBC N Ouebec Svc
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada, CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZN St Johns
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Canada. R Canada Intl
Canada. R Canada Intl
Gilma. Chrr41 Radio Intl

13001400
13001330
1300 1400
1300 1330
1300 1400 as
13001400
1300 1330 vi
1300 1400
13001310
13001 400
1300 1400 vi
1300 1400 YI

Costa Rica RF Peace Intl

Czech Rep Radio Prague
Ecuado1. HCJB
Egypt. R.idoo Carro
Eqt Gurriea. R East Afnca
Eql Gmncd Radio Africa
Italy. IRAS
Jordan Radio
Lrbena.LCNIR L1bena Int
Malaysia. Radio
Malaysia RTM Kuchrng
Malaysia.ATM KotaKinabalu

so

MO NITORING TIMES

6100pa
9590eu
4890do
6095eu
t 1815eu
4740as
11785as
15230as
15510as
17795as
6015as
7285al
6165eu
7130au
6020na
6190af
9580as
1t940af
15485va
1770Saf
5810am
7510am
9930as
6095na
61 60as
15t60as
7425sa
9400am
604Qam
7490na
9955am
7355am
5070am
595011a
7190as
6065af
7220do
6t00pa
17595as
15220am
6155eu
7185as
t3785na
1190011a
t372Qas
4860do
4875do
t 2085as
9690eu
9570as
9730as
13740as
9505as
13750eu
5940as
1202oas
1164Saf
11775am
5995pa
94t 5va
2310do
2485do
2325do
13785as
15445na
9625do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
9640am
11855am
6140as
11660pa
7385arn
t 3580eu
12005arn
17595as
15186af
9530as
7125va
11690eu
5100do
7295do
7t60do
5980do

October 1997

13800as

13805na

15605au

71 45eu

7270eu

9525eu

4975as
11aaoas
15430as
17610as

7330as
15110as
15435as
17755as

11655as
1517Qas
15490as
17775as

6155as
9535eu
9610as
7150eu
61 95va
9740as
11955as
15565va
17830af

9355as
9645as
15425as

1204511a
94 tOeu
1t750as
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15575va
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12050na
9515am
11760as
15310as
17640va
21660af

9385au
9760as

9455sa
t 1715as

9495am

12160am
6015na
7285as

t3845am
11830na
971 Sas

15685am
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13730na
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15535as
15400na
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11885eu
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9655as
15290as
7270as
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t 7860do

15365eu
13670as

17720eu

9885as

11905as

7400as

9840as

9580pa

11BOOpa

15535as

t 1855am
t 3650am
7385pa
1t980as
17485al
1511 5am

13001310
1300 1400 occsnal
13001357
13001400 vi
13001 400
1300t 356
1300 1400

Mongolra. Voice of
Nel'I Zealand. R NZ Intl
Nonh Korea. R Pyongyang
Papua Nel'I Guinea. NBC
Philippines. FEBC/R Intl
Romania, R Romanra Intl
Russia.Voice of Russia WS

13001 400
1300 1400 mlwhf
13001330

Srngapore.R Singapore Int

Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka BC
Switzerland. S1"11ss R Intl

1300 1330
1300 1400

Turkey. Vmce of
Unrted Kingdom. BBC WS

13001 400
13001400
13001400
13001400
1300 1400
1300 1330

USA. Kl.IJ Dallas TX

USA KllLS Anchor Point AK
USA. KTBN Salt Lk Crty UT
USA. K\VHR Naalehu HI
USA. Monrtor Radio Intl
USA. Vmcc of Arncrrca

1300 t400
13001400
13001 400
13001 400
1300t400
13001400
1300t 400
1300 t400
1300 1400
13001400 vi
1302 t 400
1330 t 400

USA. WEWN Birmingham AL

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHAi NotJlcsvrlle IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WRMl'R M1am1 Intl
USA. WANO Nel'I Orleans LA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Zambia, Ch11slian Vorce
Zambia. R Zambra/ZNBC 1
USA WYFR Okeechobee FL
Canada. R Canada Intl

1330 t400
13301 400
13301400
1330 1400 vi/fas
1330 t 400
1330 1400 vi
t 330 t 400 rntl'lhf
t 330 t 400
t 330 1355
1330 t 400
1330 1400

Cluna. He1long11ang PBS

Guam. AWR!KSDA
Indra. All India Radio
Italy. IRAS
Netherlands. Radio
Pakistan Radio
Ponugal. A Portugal Intl
Sweden Radio
UAE. Radio Dubai
Uzbek1s:a11 R Tashkent
V1et11am. Vorce ol

1335 I 345
1345 1400
t350 1400
13551 400
14001500
14001500
14001500 vi
1400 1500 vi
t 400 1500 vi
t 400 1500 vi
t400 1500
14001500
t400 1500
14001500
14001500
14001500 s
14001500
1400 t500
14001500 as

Greece. Voice or
Vatican State. Vatican R
South Korea. KBS 1
Georgia Vorce of Hope
Angwlla Caribbean Beacon
Australia Radio
Australia VLBA Alice Spg
Australia. VL8K Katherine
Australia, VIBT Tent Crk
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada CKZN St John's
Canada CKZU Vancouver
Canada R Canada Intl
China. China Radio Intl
Ecuador. HCJB
Eqt Gumea. R East Af11ca

12085as
6t OOpa
9345eu
4890do
11995as
9690eu
7330as
1555oas
6015as
9730as
7230as
15415as
t3695eu
5990as
95t5am
11865arn
t53t0as
15575va
17885af
t3815am
7365as
7510am
9930as
609511a
G160as
15160as
7425na
9400arn
6040am
7J90na
9955arn
7355am
9475arn
595011a
6065al
7220do
11550as
9535as
17820af
48JOdo
9650as
9545as
3985va
9890as
9485af
2t515as
11650na
t 5395eu
7190as
5940eu
12020eu
9375eu
t 1625as
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t 212oas
11 775am
5870pa
2310do
2485do
2325do
9625do
G070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
11855am
i160as
12005am
15186at

9640eu

11740as

15230as

11885eu
11 700as
17610as
6155as

15365eu
15430as
17795as

17720eu
15460as

7480as
1751 5as
13750va
6190at
9740va
11940af
t 5420af
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21470af

t3635as

15120as

15290as
6195va
11750as
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15485va
17705al
2166Qat

94 l Oeu
11760as
15220am
15565as
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9430as
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9455am
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15375sa

t 5745eu

12160am
1183011a

13845am
13695na

1568Sam
17750na

11795as

11 935eu

t5325me

t 1620as

13710as

12090as
11565af

15585as
15595rne

13740pa
17630eu
7285as
7270eu
1501 0as
9590na
t 3765au

15240na
21605me
97 15as
7400eu

15295as
9840as

15175na

15630na

9355as
9645as
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15105am

5995pa

13650am
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11800pa

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14001457
14001500
1400-1500
14001430
1400 1500 vi/fas
14001500
1400-1500
14001500
1400-1500
1400- 1500 vi
1400-1430
1400 1500
1400 1500 occsnal
1400-1410
1400-1500 vi
14001500
1400-1500

France, Radio France loll

Georgia. Voice of Hope
India. All India Radio
Israel. Kol Israel
llaly. IRRS
Japan, ~ Japan/NHK World
Jordan, Radio
Malaysia, Radio
MalaySk1, RTM Kuching
Malaysia.RTM KolaK1nabalu
Mexico Radio Mexico loll
Nelherlands. Radio
New Zealand. R NZ loll
Pak1s1an. Radio
Papua l~ew Guinea. NBC
Ph1hpp111es FEBCR loll
Russ1a,Vo1ce of Russia ws

1400-1500
1400-1500
1400-1430
14001410tllfs
1400-1500

Singaporc,R Co1p of Sing

S1i Lanka, S1i Lanka BC
Thailand, Radio
Turkmen1s1an. Turkmen R
United ~111gdom. BBC WS

1400-1500
1400-1500
1400-1500
1400-1500
1400-1500

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX

USA, KJES Mesquile NM
USA, KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA Mon1to1 Radio lnll
USA Voice of Ame11ca

1400-1500
14001500
1400-1500
1400-1500
14001500
1,100-1500
1400-1500
1400-1500
14001 405
14001500
1400 1500 vi
1415-1430vl
14151425
1420 1500 as
1430-1500 vi
1430-1500
14301 440
1430 1440 mtwhf
1430 1500
1430-1500 vi
14401500
15001600
15001600

USA. WEWN B11111111gham AL

USA, WGTG McCaysville GA
USA, WHRI Noblesville IN
USA, WJCR Upton KY
USA, WRMllR Mia1111 Intl
USA, WRNO Ne11 Orleans LA
USA WWCR Nashville TN
USA, WYFR Okeechobee FL
Vaucan Stale. Va11can R
Zambia Ch11s11an Voice
Zambia R Zamb1a/ZNBC 1
Cyp1us, BRT lnte111at1onal
Nepal. Radio
Palau KHBNIVoice of Hope
China. Chma Radio loll
Guam, AWR/KSDA
India. All India Radio
Indonesia, RRI U1 Pandang
Romarna, R Romania Intl
Zambia R Zamb1a!ZN8C 2
Myanmar Voice of
Angullla,Cartbbean Beacon
Australia Radio

1500 1600 vi
1500-1600 vi
1500-1600 vi
1500 1600 vi
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
15001600
1500-1600
1500-1600 s
1500 1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600 as
1500-1600
1500-1600
15001600 a
1500 1525
1500-1600 \'l fas
1500- 1600

Australia. VLBA Allee Spg

Aus11aha, VLBK Kalhe11ne
Australia. VLBT Tent Crk
Canada CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada CFRX Toronto
Canada CFVP Calgary
Canada CHNX Hahfi!J<
Canada CKZN SI John's
Canada CKZU Vancou'ler
Canada R Canada Intl
Chnia. Cll111a Radio Intl
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Ecuador. HCJB
Eqt Guinea. R Eas1Africa
Georgia. Voice of Hope
Guam. TWRIKTWR
Ireland W Coast R Ireland
Israel Kol Israel
Italy IRRS
Japan. R Japan/NHK World

1500-1600
1500 1510
1500-1600
1500-1600 vi
1500 1600 vi
15001530
1500-1530

Jordan. Radio
Liberta.LCNIR Liberta Int
Malaysra. Radio
Malaysia. RTM Kuctung
Malaysia.ATM KotaK1nabalu
Mexico Radio Mexico Intl
Mongolia. Voice of

11910as
1212oas
9545as
12080na
3985va
7200eu
11690cu
7295do
7160cfo
5980do
9705na
9890as
6100pa
9485af
4890do
t t995as
4740me
9595me
11985me
6155do
9730as
9655as
5015eu
5990as
9515am
11940af
15565as
17840am
t3815am
11715na
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9355as
6160as
9760as
t 5425as
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9400am
6040am
7490na
9955arn
7355am
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5950na
11625as
6065af
4910do
6150do
5005do
9985as
6995as
7400as
6150do
4753do
15335as
6165do
5990do
11775am
5870pa
11660as
2310do
2485do
2325do
9625do
6070clo
6030do
6t30do
6160do
6160do
I 1855am
7160as
7385am
12005.im
15186af
t2120as
t 1580as
6175eu
9435eu
3985va
7200af
I 1730af
t 1690eu
5100do
7295do
7160do
5980do
9705na
9720as

15405me

17560me

11620as
15650na

13710as

12090as

15585as

9645va

11565af

15595me

4940me
9800as
15350me

4975me
11665me
15430me

7345as
t 1835me
15540me

9830as

11905as

6190af
9740as
12095eu
15575va
21470af

6195as
11750as
15220am
176-IOva
2t660af

7125as
15160as

7215as
15225va

11875na

15745eu

9410eu
11865am
15485va
17830af

9645as
153953S

15105am

12150am
11830na
13755au

13845am
17750ca

15685am

7165do
866las

9880as

9565do

9835do

t 7720as

5995pa
11800pa

t3650am
9785as
15050am
151 t5am

9415as

21455am

t 1695as

15640ca

7240af
15355af

9535na

t 2085au

9615as

9750as

1500-1515 s
1500-1525
1500-1600 occsnal
1500-1600
1500-1557

Myanmar. Voice of
Ne:herlands. Radio
Ne''' Zealand. R NZ Intl
N1ge11a. Voice of
North Korea. R Pyongyang

1500-1530 s
1500- t 530 as
1500-1600 vi
1500-1600
1500-1 526
1500-1600

Nomay. Radio Norway Intl

Palau. KHBNN01ce of Hope
Papua New Guinea. NBC
PhJrppmes. FEBC/R lrlll
Romarna. R Romania Intl
Russia.Voice of Russia WS

1500 I 600 Sill

1500-1600 mlwhfa
1500-1530 1111 fa
1500-1600
1500-1600

Ru;s1a Voice of Russia IVS

Seychelles. FEBA Radio
Seychelles. FEBA Radio
Singapore.R Co1 p of Smg
Urnted Kingdom. BBC WS

1500-1530
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600

Un ted Kingdom. BBC WS

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. KTBN Sall Lk City UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Voice of America

1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
15001600
1500- 1600
1500 1600 vi
1500-1600 vi
1515-1530 1111\'lhf
1530-1545

USA. WEWN Bummgham AL

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WRMl/R M1am1 Intl
USA. WANO Nevi Orleans LA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Zambia. Ch11s1ian Voice
Zambia. R Zamb1a/2NBC 1
Zambia. R Za111b1alZNBC 2
Estorna. Radio
lnaia All India Raa10

1530-1600
15301545 Sill
1530-1600 111lwhf
1545 1600 sh
1545- 1554
15501600
1600-1700
1600-1 700
1600-1700

Iran. VOIRI
Sevchelles. FEBA Radio
Srt. Lanka. Sn Lanka BC
Bangladesh. Bangla Betar
Israel. Kol Israel
Vatican State, Vatican R
Algeria. R Algiers lnll
Anguilla.Caribbean Beacon
Australia Radio

160)-1700 vi
160)-1700 "'
160)- 1700 vi
1600- 1610
1600- 1700 vi
1600-1700
1600-1 700
160J 1700
160J1700
160J1700
160)1700
160J 1700 as
1600-1700
1600- 1627
1600-1 700
1600-1654

Australia. VLBA Allee Sp

Australia VLBK Katherine
Australia. VL8T Tent Crk
Bangladesh, Bangla Betar
Canada. CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada CFVP Calgary
Canada CHNX Halifax
Canada CKZlJ St John's
Canada CKZU Vancouver
Chma China Radio Intl
CoSla Rica. Adv World R
Costa Rica. RF Peace Intl
Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Etl11opia. Radio
France, Radio France Intl

160)-1650

Germany Deutsche Welle

160)-1630
160) 1630
160) I 700 vi
160)-1630
1600-1610
1600-1700
16t>J 1650 occsnal
1600 1700
16(})-1630

Guam. TVIR.KTWR
Iran. VOIRI
llaf1- IRRS
Jordan, Radio
Lesotho. Radio Lesotho
Malaysia, Radio
Neri Zealand. R NZ Intl
Nigeria. Voice of
Pak,slan. Radio

16(})-1 700 vi

Papua New Guinea NBC

Ru ss1aV01ce of Russia ws

160~ 1700

5990do
9890as
6100pa
7255af
3560na
11335as
9985as
9985as
4890do
11995as
15335as
4740me
9440af
11835me
15430af
7325me
98t0as
11600as
6155do
5975as
94 lOeu
11865am
15400a1
1ii05al
2t660af
11860af
13815am
15590am
9930as
6160as
9700me
15395as
9455na
9400am
13760am
7490na
9955am
7355am
9475arn
11830na
6065af
4910do
6165do
5925eu
6150do
9835do
11790as
11600as
9730as
4880do
12080va
9940as
15t60me
I 1775am
5870pa
96t5pa
23t0do
2485do
2325do
4880do
9625do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6t60do
6160do
9565as
9725am
7385am
5930eu
7165af
t 1615me
t5460af
6170as
9875as
11580as
1t790as
3985va
t 1690eu
4800do
7295do
6100pa
7255af
7230me
15570af
4890do
7290eu

October 1997

12090as

15585a;

9325eu
11 735as
13805as

9640eu
13650al

9975eu
13785as

17720as
4940me
9595me
12025af
15460me
9730eu

4975me
9675me
12035al
15540me

7345as
11775af
15320me
17525me

5990as
9515am
11940af
15485af
17830af

6190af
9740as
t 2095as
15565va
17840a'l1

6195as
11750as
15220am
15575va
21470af

15420af

17880af

21490af

7125as
9760as

7215as
t 5205as

964Sas
15255va

11875na

15745eJ

15105am

12160am
17750ca

t3845am

15685am

7140do
9910do
13605as

74 tOdo

9565do

11 7 1 0d~

15650va
13765as

5995pa
11660pa

6080pa

94 15as

15520do

1511oa1
11870am
15050am
17485af
9560af
11700af
15530af
7185af
11810af

15130a1
13750am

t 1800af
t20t5af

15210at

7225as
t3690as

9735af
17800af

9485me
15595me

t 1565me

11935af

7345as

7350eu

7440af

t3605as

MONITORING TIMES

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FREQUENCIES .

...

S Afnca. Channel Alnca

Singapore.A Corp of Sing
Soulh Korea R Korea Intl
Swaziland Trans World R
Switzerland. Swiss R Intl
UAE. Radio Dubai
UOl!ed Kingdom. BBC WS

1600 1615
16001700
16001700
1600-1700
16001700

United Kingdom. BBC WS

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Vmce of Amenca

1600-1700
16001700
1600-1700
t6001700
1600 1700 smtwhf
t6001700
1600 1700
16001700
16001700

USA. WEWN Birmingham AL

USA. WG TG McCaysville GA
USA. WHAi Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR Up1on KY
USA, WMLK Bethel PA
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl
USA, WRNO New Orleans LA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA, WYFR Omchobee FL

160016 10
1600-1630

Vatican Slate. Va11can R

Vatican Slate. va1ican R

1600-1630
1600-1700
1600 1700 vi
1600 1700 vi
16101615
t6151700as
16301655

Vietnam. Voice ol
Zambia, Christian Voice
Zambia. R Zamb1a/ZNBC 1
Zambia, R Zamb1a/ZNBC 2
Bangladesh Bangla Betar
Umted Kingdom. BBC WS
Austria. R Austria Intl

1630-1657
1630 1700
1630-1700
1630 1700
1630 1700
1645-1700 1rreg
16451700
16501700
1650 1700 mtwhf
17001800
1700 1800

Canada. R Canada Intl

Egypt. Radio Cairo
Georgia. Radio
Slovakia. AWA Europe
Slovakia. R Slovakia Intl
Afgha111s1an. Radio
Ta11k1sian.Rad10 Dushanbe
Eql Guinea, Radio Afnca
Ne\'/ Zealand. R NZ Intl
Anguilla.Caribbean Beacon
Australia. Radio

1700 I 800 'II

1700 1800 vi
1700 1800 vi
1700 1800 vi
17001800
1700 1800
1700-1800
17001800
17001800
17001800

Australia. VL8A Alice Spg

Australia. VL8K Kalhenne
Australia VLST Tent Crk
Canada, CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZN Sl John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Chma. China Radio lnll

1700 1800
1700 1727
1700 1800
17001800
1700 1730
1700 t800
1700 1800 vi
1700 1800

Costa Rica.RF Peace lnll

Czech Rep. Radio Prague
Egypt. Radio Cairo
Eql Guinea. Radio Africa
France. Radio France lnll
Georgia. Voice of Hope
Italy. IRAS
Japan. R JapanlNHK World

1700 1800 mtwhf

17001757
1700 1800 vi
1700-1755
1700 1800

New Zealand, R NZ Intl

Norl h Korea. R P'fongyang
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Poland, Polish R Warsa11
Russia.Voice of Russia ws

17001730
17001730

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11775al
15350al

11725al
12025al
17875al
1600 1630
1600-1700
1600 1700
16001700
16001630
16001640
1600 1700

N . , ._

S Al11ca. Channel Afnca

Slovakia. AWA Europe

MONITORING TIMES

9440af
9880eu
11850af
15430eu

9515al
9975al
11945al
17525me

6120af
6155do
5975eu
9500af
12075as
15395me
3255af
7160as
I 2095eu
15575va
21660af
5990as
13815am
15590am
9930as
6035af
72 1Sas
13600al
I 5255va
17895al
I 1875na
9400am
13760am
7490na
9465eu
9955am
7355am
9475am
11550as
I 7750eu
9940as
4005eu
11810eu
9840af
3330af
4910do
6165do
4880do
9515am
6155eu
13730af
7 I 50as
15255af
6 t80eu
I 1600af
5915eu
7200as
7245as
15186af
6145pa
11775am
5870pa
9615as
2310do
2485do
2325do
9625do
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
5220af
9570af
15050am
5930eu
15255af
15186af
15210al
9310eu
3985va
6035na
9535na
6145pa
9325eu
4890do
6000eu
7440al
9865eu
17875al
11900af
15620al

9685al

9730eu
11685al

9755eu

9515al

9870al

13635as
17630eu
3915as
7275as
15400al
17830al

15530as
5975as
94 lOeu
15485eu
t 7840am

6190a1
11750as
15565me
21470af

6195as

9515am

9740as

6110as
9645as
13710al
15395as

6160as
9700me
I 5205va
154 IOal

13615na

15745eu

7125as
9760as
15225af
15445al

15105am

12160am
11 705na
21525af
11635as
5882eu

13845am
11830na
21745eu

15685am
15695eu

7250eu

9645eu

1so1oat
4965al

October 1997

11860af
9655eu

15420af
11855me

13710as

9550as

13580me
6055eu

7345eu

9905as

6080pa
11880pa

71 50af
11910af

6355va

7160al

94 15va

7405af

15640af

15460me

71 lOna
9835na

7200na
11730as

7225na
11880as

9640eu

9975af

13785me

6095eu
9440af
9880eu

7285eu
9765eu
9945af

9775eu
117i5af

17001730
1700-1800
1700 1730
1700-1800

1:00 PM

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Spam. R EXlerior Espana

Swaziland. Trans World R
Switzerland. Swiss R Intl
United Kingdom. BBC WS

17001745
17001800
1700 1800
17001800
t 700 1800

UOl!ed Kingdom. BBC WS

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX
USA. KTBN Salt Lk C11y UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Voice of Amenca

1700-1800 mtwhl

USA. Voice of America

1700-1800
t7001800
17001800
17001800
17001800
1700 I 800 smtwhl
17001800
17001800
17001800
17001800
1700-1800
1700 1800 vi
1700-1800 vi
t 700 1800 vi
1730 1800 vi
1730 1800 mll'lhf
17301800
17301800
17301800
1730- 1756
1730-1800 mlwh
1730 1800
1730-1800 s
1730 1759
17451800
17451800

USA. WEWN Birmingham AL

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WINB Red lion PA
USA. WJCR Uplon KY
USA. WMLK Belhel PA
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl
USA. WANO New Orleans LA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Zambia. Chnst1an Voice
Zambia. R Zamb1a/ZNBC 1
Zambia, R Zambia/ZNBC 2
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
Cyprus. BAT International
Georgia Radio
Guam. AWRIKSDA
Nelherlcnds. Radio
Ph1lippinas. R Pilipinas
Romania. R Romarna Intl
Swaziland, Trans World R
Sweden. Radio
Sl'leden. Radio
Valican S1a1e. Vatican R
Bangladesh. Bangla Betar
India All India Radio

1745 1800
1755- 1800
1800 1900
1800-1900
18001900 vi
1800 1900 vi
1800 1900 vi
1800 1900
1800 1825 mtwhta
18001900
18001900
1800 1900
18001900
18001900
1800t900
1800-1900
18001808
18001830
18001900
1800-1900
18001900

Swaziland. Trans World R

Georgia Voice of Hope
Anguilla.Caribbean Beacon
Australia, Radio
Australia. VL8A Alice Spg
Au stralia. VL8K Kathe11ne
Australia. VL8T Tent C1k
Bangladesh. Bangla Beta1
Belgium. R Vlaanderen Int
Brazil. Radio Bras
Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada, CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZN St John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Costa R ca.RF Peace Intl
Croatia. Croatian Radio
Egypt, Radio Cairo
Eql Guinea. Radio Aliica
Georgia. Voice of Hope
India, All India Radio

1800 1900 vi
1800 1900 vi
18001900
1800-1900s
1800 t825
18001851 mtwhf
18001830 s
1800 t 900 vi
1800 t 900 vi
18001900

Italy. IRAS
Kenya. Kenya Broadc Corp
Kul'la1t. Radio
Morocco, RTVM Marocaine
Netherlands. Radio
New Zealand, R NZ lnll
Norway. Radio Norway Intl
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Ph1l1ppines. R Pilip1nas
Russia.Voice of Russia WS

1800 1900 as
1800 1900
1800 1900
18001830
18001900

s Af11ca. World MUSIC R

Sudan, Radio Omdurman
Swaziland. Trans World R
Swaziland. Trans World R
United Kingdom. BBC WS

18001830

U111ted Kingdom. BBC WS

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9620eu
9500af
9905eu
3255al
6195eu
11750as
15485eu
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13815am
15590am
9930as
61lOas
9645as
15395as
5990as
9770as
11875na
9400am
9495am
15715al
7490na
9465eu
9955am
7355am
9475am
11550as
3330af
4910do
6165do
4B28do
6150do
6080eu
9370as
6020af
11720me
9550af
3200af
6065eu
9590eu
11625af
7190as
74 lOeu
13780do
3200af
9310eu
11775am
6080as
231 Odo
2485do
2325do
7190eu
5910eu
15265eu
6070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
15050am
5895eu
15255af
15186al
9310eu
7410eu
11935me
3985va
4885do
11990na
17815af
6020af
6145pa
7485eu
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11720me
7290eu
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11860af

9510as
15420al
17840al

6160as
9700me
t 5445al
6045as
11870as
1361Sna

7125as
9760af
17895af
71 SOas
15135as
15745eu

7170as
15255va

12160am
15695eu
4965af

13845am
21745eu

15685am

7120af
11890me
11940af

11655af
15190me
15340af

9550as

13760am

13800va
13800va
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9950eu
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17550al
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94 I 5va

9615as

11880pa

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9590me

t 5220af

11890me
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9880eu
119l5al
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15190me
7350eu
9785al
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6180eu
12095eu
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FREQUENCIES .

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t800 t900
t800-1900
t8001900
t800-1900
1800- 1900
1800 1900

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX

USA. KJES Mesquite NM
USA. KTBN Salt Lk City UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Monitor Radio lnll
USA. Voice of America

1800-1900
1800-t900
1800-t900
t800t900
1800-t 900
1800 t 900 srntwhf
\8001900as
18001900
1800-1900
18001900
1800-1827
1800-1900
1800-1900
1800-1900 vi
1800-f 900 vi
1800 1900 vi
1805-1830
1825-1900 vi
1830-19001
18301900
1830 1900

USA. VIEWN B<rmingham AL

USA. WGTG McCaysville GA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WINB Red Lion PA
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WMLK Bethel PA
USA. WRMl/R Miami lnll
USA. WRNO New Orleans LA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Vietnam. Voice of
Yemen. Radio Aden
Zambia. Christian Voice
Zambia. R Zarnbia/ZNBC 1
Zambia. R Zambia/ZNBC 2
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
Malav.i. MBC
Cyprus. BRT lnternallonal
Belarus, Radiosta Belarus
Georg ia, Radio
Netherlands. Radio

1830-1900 w
1830-1900 a
1830-1900
1830-1835
1830-1900
1830-1900
1830-1900
1833-1900
1840 1850
1845-1900
1845-1900 mtwh f
1845-1900 <rreg s
1852-1900 smtwh
1900-2000
1900-2000 mtwhf
1900-2000

Saipan. FEBC/KFBS
Serbia. R Yugoslavia
Slovakia. R Slovakia Intl
Somalia. Radio Mogadishu
Turkey. Voice of
United Kingdom. BBC WS
USA. Voice of America
Cote o lvoire. RDTV
Greece, Voice of
Albania. R Tirana Intl
Armenia. Voice of
Mah. RDTV Malienne
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Anguilla.Caribbean Beacon
Argentina, RAE
Aust1alia. Radio

1900-2000 vi
1900-2000 vi
t 900-2000 vi
t900 1920
t 900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
t9002000
t9002000
t9002000
1900-1930
t9001908
1900-2000 vi
t9002000
t9002000
t900 1930 m
1900-2000
t900 1950

Austr<lia, VLBA Alice Spg

Australia. VL8K Ka therine
Australia. VLBT Tent Crk
Brazil. Radio Bras
Bulgaria. Radio
Canada. CFR X Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZN St John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
China China Radio lnil
Costa Rica.RF Peace Intl
Cote D' lvoire. RDTV
Croatia. Croalian Radio
Cyprus, BRT lnternalional
Ecuador. HCJB
Eqt Guinea, Radio Afnca
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FREQUENCIES . . .

Finland. YLE/R Fmland

Georgia, Voice of Hope
Germany, Deutsche Welle
Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp
Greece. Voice of
Guatemala. Adv World R
Indonesia. Voice of
Iran, VOIRI
Italy. IRAS
Kenya, Kenya Broadc Corp
Kuwait, Radio
Mexico. Radio Mexico Intl
Netherlands. Radio

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2000-2100 f
2000-2005
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2000-2025
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2000-2100

New Zealand. R NZ Intl

New Zealand, R NZ Intl
New Zealand, R NZ Intl
Nigeria. FRCNIRadio
North Korea. R Pyongyang
Papua New Guinea. NBC
Poland. Polish R Warsaw
Portugal. R Ponugal Intl
Russia.Voice of Russia WS

2000-2100 as
2000-2015
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2000-2015
2000-2030
2000-2015
2000-21 00

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Sierra Leone. SLBS
Somalia. Radio Mogadishu
Spain, R Exteflor Espana
Swaziland. Trans World R
Switzerland, Swiss R Intl
Uganda. Radio
United Kmgdom. BBC WS

2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
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USA, KTBN Sall Lk City UT
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USA. Voice of Ameflca

2000-2100
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2000-2100
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2000-2100
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2000-2100
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2000-2100
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2000-2030
Vatican State. Vatican R
2000-2100
Zambia, Cl11istian Voice
2000-2100 vi
Zambia. RZambia/ZNBC 2
2000-2100 vi
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
2005-2100
Syria, Radio Damascus
2015-2030
Nam1b1a. tlBC
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2030-2100
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2030-2100
Egypt, Radio Cairo
2030-2100
Germany.Adventist World R
2030-21 00
Iran. VOIRI
2030-2100
Slovakia, AWR Europe
2030-2100 as
Sweden. Radio
2030-2045
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2030-21 00
Uzbekistan. R Tashkent
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2045-2100
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2100-2200
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New Zealand. R NZ Intl

New Zealand. R NZ Intl
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Anguilla.Caribbean Beacon
Australia. Radio

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2100-2130 vi
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ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS MONTH'S SHORTWAVE GUIDE:

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USA. WJCR Uplon KY
USA. WRMl/R Miami Intl
USA. WRNO New Orleans LA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA, WYFR Okeechobee FL
Zambia. Christian Voice
Zambia. R Zambia/ZNBC 1
Zambia, R Zambia/ZNBC 2
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
Egypt ~adio Cairo
United Kingdom. BBC WS
Sweden. Radio
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Chma. China Radio Intl
C1ech Rep. Radio Prague
Ghana. Ghana Broadc Corp
Guam. AWR/KSOA
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Canada. CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZN St John's
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Canada. R Canada Intl

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2200-2300
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Croatia. Croatian Radio
Egypt. Radio Cairo
Eqt Guinea. Radio Africa
Ghana. Ghana Broadc Co1p
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Italy. RA! Intl

Lebanon. Voice of Hope
L1bena.LCN1R Liberia Int
Malaysia. Radio
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New Zealand. R NZ Intl
New Zealand. R NZ Intl
N1gena. FRCN1Rad10
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(WRN Ne1work I ) Lo North America.
WRN - 1 rebroadcasts these programs via
th e
internet
(www.wrn.org/

sched_us. htrnl) in both the RealAudio and

StreamWorks formats. This listing i ~ the
resul t of monitoring the outplll of WRN 1: no assi stance was prov ided by th e

SUNDAY

1130 Science File. Ian Wood examines the world of

science. medicine and technology.
1200 RTE Radio 1 - Dublin. Ireland
1200 The News at One. See W 1200.
1238 Business News. See H 1238.
1240 Sport News. See F 1240.
1245 Liveline. See A 1245.
1300 Radio Prague - Czect1 Republic
1300 News. World news summary.
1305 The Week in Politics. See M 0205.
131 2 From the Weeklies. Items and editorial opinion
from the weekend Czecl1 papers.
1319 Media Check. See T 1322.
1330 United Nations Radio - New York
1330 The World in Review. Recapping the news from the
UN during the preceding week.
1345 Scope. A news program about the United Nations
and its related agencies.
1400 YLE Radio Finland
1400 News/Weather. World and Finnish news. regional
weather. a business report. and currency exchange
rates.
1405 Editorial Commentary in the Finnish Press. See T
1407.
W1 Reports and Features on Life in Finland. See M
1411.
1414 Starting Finish. F1nmsh language lessons for
English speakers.
1424 Nunti Latini. News. The only program 0 11 shortwave
in Latin.
1430 Radio Vlaanderen International - Belgium
1430 News. A world nev1s summary
1435 Radio World. Updates to 1nternat1onal broadcasting
schedules and what's being heard on shortv1ave in
Belgium.
1444 PO Box 26. Listener letters are read and answered
in this mailbox program .
1500 Radio France International
1500 RFI News. World news. French news. press review.
sports.
1522 Asia File. Correspondent reports and interviews on
Asian affairs.
1530 News Headlines. See T 1530.
1533 Club 9516. Listener letters are read in this mailbag
program .
1547 Letter from a Listener. See W 1547
1600 Julian lsher\'lood - Copenhagen
1600 Norden This Week. A news and current affairs
program dealing with events in Denmark. Finland.
Iceland. Norway and Sweeten compilecl and
produced by Julian lsherwoocl and sponsored by
the Nordic Council of Ministers.
1615 Independent Production - London
1615 Health Watch. A 11eekly program produced m
London about developments 111 medicme
1630 Radio Austria International
1630 Report from Austria. See A 1630.
1700 Julian Isherwood - Copenhagen
1700 Copenhagen Calling_ See S 0500.
1730 RTE Radio 1 - Dublin. Ireland

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Radio Australia
RA Nms. S.:e A 1100.
Jau Notes. See A 1105.
Innovations. Desley Blanch reports on
Australian inventions and innovative practices.
YLE Radio Finland
News1Weather. See S 1400.
Feature Stories from Last Week. A review of last
11eek's main stories.
Nunti Latini. See S 1424.
Radio Sweden
Specfrum (1 /4). See A 1930.
Radio Prague - Czech Republic
News. See S 1300.
Live in Prague. See A 1304
Radio Austna International
Report from Austria. See A 1630.
Letter from Austria. See A 1631 .
Letterbox. See A 1635.
Music. See A 1646.
Polish Radio Warsaw
The News from Poland. See S 0300
Radio Budapest - Hungary
News. A bullet111 of world and national news.
RTE Radio 1 - Dublin. Ireland
News. Two minutes of news from RTE Radio 1.
The lrisl1 Collection. See T 0400.
Julian lsherwoocl Copenhagen
Copenhagen Calling A weekly. independent
oroadcast produced for WRN by Julian
lshm1ood 1n Copenhagen. It 1s Denmarks only
international. English-language broadcast giving
nev1s. cunent affairs. business and cultural
coverage of the country.
United Nations Radio - New York
fhe World tn Review. See S 1330.
Polish Radio Warsaw
The Ne11s from Poland. See S 0300.
Radio Canada International
News. Nevis from either the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) or Radio
Canada International (RCI).
Venture Canada. A ne11 weekly magaz111e
promoting Canadian business achievement.
Radio Australia
RA News. See A 1100.
Voice of Russia
News. See S 2000.
Radio Prague - Czech Republic
tJews. See S 1300.
Radio Netherlands
RN Ne11s. See S 2300.
YLE Radio Finland
Nevis/Weather. See S 1400.
iladio Australia
RA News. See A 1100.
Oz Sounds. Twenty minutes of music selections
by Radio Australia announcers.
MONITO RING TIMES

October 1997

World Radio Network in thi s creation.

Readers should be aware that, for the most
part. these are delayed broadcasts which
have no rel ation ship to the frequency
schedules on the preceding pages.

1730 The Angelus. Ringing of the church bells of Dublin.

1731 The Six O'Clock News. A quarter hour of news
from Ireland.
1737 Sports Ne11s. See A 1737
1800 Radio Vlaanderen International - Belgium
1800 News. See S 1431.
1804 Radio World. See S 1435.
1813 PO Box 26. See S 1444.
1830 Raclio Netherlands
1830 RN News. See S 2300.
1837 Wide Angle. The weekend edition of Ne.1sline
produced by the current affairs team.
1855 Stren Song. Dheera Sufan presents an in-depth
current affairs story that will capture and hold your
attention.
1925 World Radio Network
1925 WAN Program Guide. See S 2355.
1930 Radio Sweden
1930 Sounds Nordic. See S 0130.
2000 Voice of Russia
2000 News. Ten minutes of news every hour on the l1our.
201 1 Sunday Panorama. A magazine program.
2030 Poltsh Radio Warsaw
2030 The News from Poland. See S 0300.
2038 Panorama. See M 0308.
2100 RTE Radio 1 - Dublin. Ireland
2100 RTE Radio 1 News at Ten. See M 2100.
2102 Drama. A play for radio.
2125 Nocturne. Classical music ancl Irish folk songs.
2200 RTE Radio 1 News at Eleven See M 2200.
2202 Sports Nevis. See T 2202.
2215 Country Time. See A 2215.
2300 Radio Netherlands
2300 RN News. Bulletin of world news at the start of all
programs.
2306 Sincerely Yours. The Sunday replacement for
"Happy Station'" that lets the listener comment
about the RN's programming.
2325 Sounds Interesting. Robert Chesal takes listener

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2355 World Radio Network
2355 WRN Program Guide. A live-minute resume of
upcoming programs.

MONDAY
0000 Radio Australia
0000 RA News. See A 1100.
0010 Correspondents' Report. The ABC's foreign
correspondents report home with Hamish
Robertson.
0030 The Australian Music Show. Kim Taylor presents
the music, people, and issues of the Australian
contemporary music industry.
0100 YLE Radio Finland
0100 News/Weather. See S 1400.
0109 Reports and Features on Lile in Finland. See M
t411.
0125 Echo. See A 1406.
0130 Radio Sweden
0130 Sounds Nordic (2/4). The very latest and best in
Swedish rock and pop music. interviews with the
stars. and what's happening on the youth scene.
0200 Radio Prague - Czech Republic
0200 News. See S 1300.
0205 The Week in Politics. A wrap-up of the previous
week's political affairs.
0206 Current Affairs. See M 1306.
0209 Press Review. See T 1309.
0212 From the Weeklies. See S 1320.
0230 Radio Austria International
0230 Report from Austria. See A 1630.
0235 Letterbox. See A 1635.
0244 Profile.
0300 Polish Radio Warsaw
0300 The News from Poland. See S 0300.
0308 Panorama. Examining day-today life in Poland.
0330 Radio Budapest - Hungary
0330 News. See S 0330.
0336 ...and the Gatepost (1/4). The biweekly feedback
slot where listeners have their say on programs
and on any subject.
0336 Hungary Today. The new hall-hour format includes
business (Tue). daily stock market briefs. cultural
coverage. and everylhing else taking place in
Hungary.
0400 RTE Radio 1 - Dublin. Ireland
0400 News. See S 0400.
0402 The Irish Collection. See T 0400.
0500 Channel Africa - South Africa
0500 News. See M 1330.
0505 Dateline Africa. See T 1335.
0530 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
0530 Europe Today. All the latest news, analysis and
comment.
0600 Polish Radio Warsaw
0600 The News from Poland. See S 0300.
0607 Radio Canada International
0607 The Mailbag. Listener letters. musical selections.
and happenings in Canada.
0608 Polish Radio Warsaw
0608 Panorama. See M 0308.
0630 Radio Canada International
0630 News. See S 0630.
0700 Radio Australia
0700 RA News. See A 1100.
0800 Voice of Russia
0800 News. See S 2000.
0900 Radio Prague Czech Republic
0900 News. See S 1300.

0905
0909
0912
0930
0930
0938
1030
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1042
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1100
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1200
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The Week in Politics. See M 0205.

Press Review. See T 1309.
From the Weeklies. See S 1320.
Radio Netherlands
RN News. See S 2300.
Newsline. See M 2308.
YLE Radio Finland
News/Weather. See S 1400.
Editorial Commentary in the Finnish Press. See T
1407.
Reports and Features on Lile in Finland. See M
1411 .
Radio Australia
RA News. See A 1100.
Dateline. See F 11 10.
RTE Radio 1 - Dublin. Ireland
The News at One. See W 1200.
Business News. See H 1238.
Sport News. See F 1240.
Liveline. See A 1245.
Radio Prague - Czech Republic
News. See S 1300.
The Week in Politics. See M 0205.
Current Affairs. People and events in the Czech
Republic and editorial commentary.
Press Review. See T 1309.
Magazine '97. See T 021 1.
Channel Africa - South Africa
News. Five minutes of international news from the
land of the wind-up radio.
Daleline Africa. See T 1335.
YLE Radio Finland
News/Weather. See S 1400.
Editorial Commentary in the Finnish Press. See T
1407.
Reports and Features on Lile in Finland. A
magazine program.
Radio Vlaanderen International - Belgium
News. See S 1431 .
Press Review. See T 1435.
Belgium Today. Current affairs in Belgium.
The Arts. Cultural events in the news.
Radio France International
RFI News. See S 1500.
Review al the French Newspapers. Highlights al
articles from t11e French print media.
News Headlines. See T 1530.
RFI Europe. European press review focuses on
current affairs in other countries of the region.
Arts in France. Profile on the work of a French artist
or a cultural activity such as music.
Insight. A report on a particular topic of worldwide
concern.
Caribbean News Agency (CANA)
Caribbean Tempo. From the island of Barbados,
CANA reports on the beat al Caribbean life.
Vatican City
World News. See F 1615.
Radio Austria International
Report from Austria. See A 1630.
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Europe Today. See M 0530.
RTE Radio 1 - Dublin. Ireland
The Angelus. See S 1730.
The Six O'Clock News. See S 1731.
Farm News. Agricultural news for the farmers of
Ireland.
Weather. See H 1753.
Radio Vlaanderen International Belgium
News. See S 1431 .
Press Review. See T 1435.
Belgium Today. See M 1439.
Radio Netherlands

1830 RN News. See S 2300.

1838 Newsline. See M 2308.
1854 Music 52-15. Martha Hawley hosts this program of
international music.
1925 World Radio Netv1ork
1925 WRN Program Guide. See S 2355.
1930 Radio Sweden
1930 Sixty Degrees North. See W 0130.
2000 Voice of Russia
2000 News. See S 2000.
2011 News and Views. Russian views on news
developments.
2030 Polish Radio Warsaw
2030 The News from Poland. See S 0300.
2050 Cookery Corner. See T 0320.
2100 RTE Radio t Dublin. Ireland
2100 RTE Radio 1 News at Ten. A two-minute summary
al news from around Ireland.
2102 Ireland Tonight (Part 1). The first hour of this
magazine program.
2200 RTE Radio 1 News at Eleven. A two-minute nev1s
update.
2202 Sports Nevis. See T 2202.
2214 Ireland Tonight (Part 2). See W 2214.
2255 Weather. See H 1753.
2300 Radio Netherlands
2300 RN News. See S 2300.
2308 Newsline. Correspondent reports, interviews, and
commentaries on current events.
2325 Research File. A program of science and
technology.
2355 World Radio Network
2355 WRN Program Guide. See S 2355.

TUESDAY
0000
0000
0010
0030
0100
0100
0107
0112
0130
0130
0131

Radio Australia
RA News. See A 1100.
Pacific Focus. See A 0010.
Australia Today. See W 0030.
YLE Radio Finland
News/Weather. See S 1400.
Editorial Commentary in the Finnish Press. See T
1407.
Reports and Features on Lile in Finland. See M
1411.
Radio Sweden
Sixty Degrees North. See W 0130.
News. The news segment of Sixty Degrees North.

HAUSER'S HIGHLIGHTS

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SponScan. See S O130

Radio Prague Czech Republic
Nev.s. See S 1300
Current Affairs. See M 1306.
Press Review. See T 1309.
Magazine '97. Music and interviews about current
Czecl1 affairs.
Radio Austria International
Report from Austria. See A 1630.
Polish Radio Warsaw
The News from Poland. See S 0300.
Cookery Corner. Try a recipe from Poland.
Radio Budapest Hungary
News. See S 0330.
Hungary Toclay. See M 0336.
RTE Radio 1 Dubl111. Ireland
News. See S 0400
The Irish Collection. RTE Radio rs late night
service with selected highlights from the previous
day's RTE schedule. nev1s and sport. music.
documentaries. and drama.
Channel Africa South Africa
News See M 1330.
Dateline Africa See T 1335
Bri11sh Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Europe Today. See M 0530.
Polish Radio Warsaw
The News from Poland. See S 0300.
Cookery Corner. See T 0320.
Radio Canada International
News. See S 0630.
Spectrum. A weekday magazine program of current
affairs. features. and a business report.
Radio Australia
RA News. See A 1100.
Voice of Russia
News. See S 2000
Radio Prague - Czech Republic
News. See S 1300.
Press Review See T 1309.
Magazine 97. See T 0211.
Radio Netherlands
RN Nevis. See S 2300.
Newsline. See M 2308.
YLE Radio Finland
Nevis/Weather See S 1400
Editorial Commentary 111 the Finnish Press. See T
1407.
Reports and Features on Life in Finland . See M
1411 .
Radio Australia
RA News. See A 1100.
Dateline. See F 111 0.
The Health Report. A program that examines health
issues and makes complex scientific data
understandable
RTE Radio 1 - Dublin, Ireland
The ~Jew s at One. See W 1200.
Business News. See H 1238.
Sport News. See F 1240.
L1veline. See A 1245.
Radio Prague Czech Republic
News. See S 1300.
Current Affairs See M 1306.
Press Review. Nevis items and editorial comment
from the Czech newspapers.
Talking Point. Discussion of a topic of concern to
ll1e Czech people
Media Check. Nws items and editorial comment
from foreign press. television. and radio.
Channel Africa Soulh Africa
News. See M 1330.
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1335 Dateline Africa. A news magazine lightly sprinkled

with African music.
1400 YLE Radio Finland
1400 News/Weather. See S 1400.
1407 Editorial Commentary in the Finnish Press. Editorial
opinion and reports on Finnish and world events.
1411 Repons and Features on Life in Finland. See M
1411 .
1430 Radio Vlaanderen International Belgium
1430 News. See S 1431 .
1435 Press Review. Stories on lhe front pages of the
day's papers.
1439 Belgium Today. See M 1439.
1445 Focus on Europe. A report on happenings in the
European Economic Community (ECG).
1450 Sports Report. A roundup of the results of
seasonal sports activ1t1es.
1500 Radio France International
1500 RFI News. See S 1500.
1526 Review of the French Newspapers. See M 1526.
1530 News Headlines. A summary of today's news.
1532 Books. New books. publishing trends, and authors.
1537 Discovery. A weekly feature about the world of
science.
1542 News Summary. An update of today's news and
sports.
1546 Land of France. A feature on life and limes in
France.
1551 Echoes from Africa. Report on exports from an
African country.
1600 Caribbean News Agency (CANA)
1600 Caribbean Tempo. See M 1600.
1615 Vatican City
1615 World News. See F 1615.
1630 Radio Austria International
1630 Report from Austria. See A 1630.
1700 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
1700 Europe Today. See M 0530.
1730 RTE Radio 1 - Dublin. Ireland
1730 The Angelus. See S 1730.
1731 The Six O'Clock News. See S 1731.
1746 Farm News. See T 1746.
1753 Weather. See H 1753.
1800 Radio Vlaanderen International Belgium
1800 News. See S 1431.
1806 Press Review. See T 1435.
1811 Belgium Today. See M 1439.
1816 Living 111 Belgium. Belgian lifestyles and activities.
1819 Green Society. Environmental issues facing
Belgium.
1830 Radio Netherlands
1830 RN News See S 2300.
1838 Newsline. See M 2308.
1854 Sounds Interesting. Robert Chesal takes listener
feedback and incorporates their ideas into the
show.
1925 World Radio Network
1925 WRN Program Guide. See S 2355.
1930 Radio Sweden
1930 Sixty Degrees North. See W O130.
1946 MediaScan (113). Satellite news 85%: medium
wave and shortwave news 15%.
2000 Voice 01 Russia
2000 News. See S 2000.
2011 News and Views. See M 2011 .
2030 Polish Radio Warsaw
2030 The News from Poland. See S 0300.
2050 Letter lrom Poland. See W 0320.
2100 RTE Radio 1 - Dublin. Ireland
2100 RTE Radio 1 News at Ten. See M 2100
2102 Ireland Tonight (Part 1). See M 2102.
2200 RTE Radio 1 News al Eleven. See M 2200.

2202 Sports News A 12-minute report on seasonal

sports.
2214 Ireland Tonight (Pan 2). See W 2214.
2255 Weather. See H 1753.
2300 Radio Netherlands
2300 RN News. See S 2300.
2308 Newsline. See M 2308
2325 Mirror Images. Weekly magazine of music, the
arts. culture. and European festivals. produced and
presented by David Swatling.
2355 World Radio Network
2355 WRN Program Guide. See S 2355.

WEDNESDAY
0000 Radio Australia
0000 RA News. See A t 100.
0030 Australia Today. Colin Tyrus presents the issues,
the places. and the characters that make up
Australia.
0100 YLE Radio Finland
01 00 News/Weather. See S 1400.
0107 Editorial Commentary in the Finnish Press. See T
1407.
0112 Reports and Fea1ures on Life in Finland. See M
1411.
0130 Radio Sweden
0130 Sixty Degrees North. Reports. interviews and
analysis from S1ockl1olm and other Nordic capitals.
0131 News. See T 0131.
0146 Money Matters. Al Simon presents news about the
Swedish economy. business. consumer affairs, and
Swedens EU membership.
0200 Radio Prague Czech Republic
0200 News. See S 1300.
0206 Current Affairs. See M 1306.
0209 Press Review. See T 1309.
02 11 Talking Point. See T 1311.
0219 Media Check. See T 1322.
0230 Radio Austria 1n1ernational
0230 Report from Austria. See A 1630.
0300 Polish Radio Warsaw
0300 The News from Poland. See S 0300.
0320 Letter from Poland. A personal look at Poland
today.
0330 Radio Budapest Hungary
0330 News. See S 0330.
0336 Hungary Today. See M 0336.
0400 RTE Radio 1 Dublin. Ireland
0400 News. See S 0400.
0402 The Irish Colleclion. See T 0400.
0500 Channel Africa - South Africa
0500 News. See M 1330.
0505 Dateline Africa. See T 1335.
0530 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
0530 Europe Today. See M 0530.
0600 Polish Radio Warsaw
0600 The News from Poland. See S 0300.
0620 Letter from Poland. See W 0320.
0630 Radio Canada International

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News. See S 0630.

Spectrum. See T 0641.
Radio Australia
RA News. See A 1100.
Voice of Russia
News. See S 2000.
Radio Prague Czech Republic
News. See S 1300.
Press Review. See T 1309.
Talking Point. See T 1311.
Media Check. See T 1322.
Radio Netherlands
RN News. See S 2300.
Newsline. See M 2308.
Variable Documentary. See W 2325.
YLE Radio Finland
News/Weather. See S 1400.
Editorial Commentary in the Finnish Press. See T
1407.
Reports and Features on Life in Finland. See M
1411 .
Radio Australia
RA News. See A 1100.
Dateline. See F 111 o.
The Law Report. Susanna Lobez brings an insider's
perspective to the complexities of the law.
RTE Radio 1 Dublin. Ireland
The News at One. An hour of news about Ireland.
business news. sports. and a live telephone
interview.
Business News. See H 1238.
Sport News. See F 1240.
L1veline. See A 1245.
Radio Prague Czech Republic
News. See S 1300.
Current Affairs. See M 1306.
Press Review. See T 1309.
From the Archives. An historical look at the Czech
people and their lifestyle.
The Arts. Focus on an a particular topic concerning
Czech art.
Channel Africa South Africa
News. See M 1330.
Dateline Africa. See T 1335.
YLE Radio Finland
News/Weather. See S 1400.
Editorial Commentary in the Finnish Press. See T
1407.
Reports and Features on Lile in Finland. See M
141 1.
Radio Vlaanderen International Belgium
News. See S 1431.
Press Review. See T 1435.
Belgium Today. See M 1439.
Radio France International
RFI News. See S 1500.
Review of the French Newspapers. See M 1526.
News Headlines. See T 1530.
RFI Europe. See M 1531.
Letter from a Listener. David Page reads letters to
RFI from worldwide listeners.
Caribbean News Agency (CANA)
Caribbean Tempo. See M 1600.
Vatican City
World News. See F 16t5.
Radio Austria International
Report from Austria. See A 1630.
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Europe Today. See M 0530.
RTE Radio 1 Dublin, Ireland
The Angelus. See S 1730.
The Six O'Clock News. See S 1731.
Fann News. See T 1746.

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Weather. See H 1753.

Radio Vlaanderen International Belgium
News. See S 1431.
Press Review. See T 1435.
Belgium Today. See M 1439.
Around Town. See H 1444.
The Arts. See M 1446.
Radio Netherlands
RN News. See S 2300.
Newsline. See M 2308.
World Radio Network
WRN Program Guide. See S 2355.
Radio Sweden
Sixty Degrees North. See W 0130.
Voice of Russia
News. See S 2000.
News and Views. See M 201 1.
Polish Radio Warsaw
The News from Poland. See S 0300.
Flashback. See H 0320.
RTE Radio 1 Dublin. Ireland
RTE Radio 1 News at Ten. See M 2100.
Ireland Tonight (Part 1). See M 2102.
RTE Radio 1 News at Eleven. See M 2200.
Sports NeY1s. See T 2202.
Ireland Tonight (Part 2). The second hour of this
magazine program.
Weather. See H 1753.
Radio Netherlands
RN News. See S 2300.
Newsline. See M 2308.
Variable Documentary. An in-depth treatment of
one subject or a short series.
World Radio Network
WRN Program Guide. See S 2355.

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Radio Australia
RA News. See A 1100.
YLE Radio Finland
News/Weather. See S 1400.
Editorial Commentary in the Finnish Press. See T
1407.
Reports and Features on Life in Finland. See M
1411 .
Radio Sweden
Sixty Degrees North. See W 0130.
News. See T 0131.
Radio Prague - Czech Republic
News. See S 1300.
Current Affairs. See M 1306.
Press Review. See T 1309.
From the Archives. See W 131 2.
The Arts. See W 1319.
Radio Austria International
Report from Austria. See A 1630.
Polish Radio Warsaw
The News from Poland. See S 0300.
Flashback. Polish history remembered.
Radio Budapest Hungary
News. See S 0330.
Hungary Today. See M 0336.
RTE Radio 1 - Dublin. Ireland
News. See S 0400.
The Irish Collection. See T 0400.
Channel Africa South Africa
News. See M 1330.
Dateline Africa. See T 1335.
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Europe Today. See M 0530.
Polish Radio Warsaw

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The News from Poland. See S 0300.

Flashback. See H 0320.
Radio Canada International
News. See S 0630.
Spectrum. See T 0641 .
Radio Australia
RA News. See A 1100.
Voice of Russia
News. See S 2000.
Radio Prague Czech Republic
News. See S 1300.
Press Review. See T 1309.
From the Archives. See W 1312.
The Arts. See W 1319.
Radio Netherlands
RN News. See S 2300.
Newsline. See M 2308.
Media Network. See H 2325.
YLE Radio Finland
News/Weather. See S 1400.
Editorial Commentary in the Finnish Press. See T
1407.
Reports and Features on Life in Finland. See M
1411 .
Radio Australia
RA News. See A 1100.
Dateline. See F 111 0.
The Religion Report. Hosted by John Cleary.
RTE Radio 1 Dublin, Ireland
The News at One. See W 1200.
Business News. Two minutes of commercial news
and stock market report.
Sport News. See F 1240.
Liveline. See A 1245.
Radio Prague Czech Republic
News. See S 1300.
Current Affairs. See M 1306.
Press Review. See T 1309.
Economic Report. Czech financial news.
I'd Like You to Meet. A studio interview with an
interesting Czech personality.
Channel Africa South Africa
News. See M 1330.
Dateline Africa. See T 1335.
YLE Radio Finland
News/Weather. See S 1400.
Editorial Commentary in the Finnish Press. See T
1407.
Reports and Features on Lile in Finland. See M
1411 .
Radio Vlaanderen International Belgium
News. See S 1431 .
Press Review. See T 1435.
Belgium Today. See M 1439.
Around Town. Current happenings in Brussels and
other centers of culture.
The Arts. See M 1446.

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Radio France International

RFI News_ See S 1500.
Review of the French Newspapers. See M 1526.
News Headlines. See T 1530.
Sports. A summary of the seasonal matches from
around the continent.
The Bottom Line. Focus on financial matters.
Planet Earth (biweekly). An interview with an expert
on ecological matters.
News Summary. See T 1542.
Letter from a Listener. See W 1547.
North/South (biweekly). Focus on a public activity
in France.
Paris Promenade. Spotlight on a city bistro or
restaurant.
Caribbean News Agency (CANA)
Caribbean Tempo. See M 1600.
Vatican City
World News. See F 1615.
Radio Austria International
Report from Austria. See A 1630.
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Europe Today. See M 0530.
RTE Radio 1 - Dublin, Ireland
The Angelus. See S 1730.
The Six O'Clock News. See S 1731.
Farm News. See T 1746.
Weather. The regional weather report and forecast.
Radio Vlaanderen International - Belgium
News. See S 1431.
Press Review. See T 1435.
Belgium Today. See M 1439.
International Report. See F 1445.
Economics. See F1449.
Radio Netherlands
RN News. See S 2300.
Newsline. See M 2308.
World Radio Network
WRN Program Guide. See S 2355.
Radio Sweden
Sixty Degrees North. See W 0130.
Voice of Russia
News. See S 2000.
News and Views. See M 201 1.
Polish Radio Warsaw
The News from Poland. See S 0300.
A Day in the Life Of. See F0320.
RTE Radio 1 - Dublin, Ireland
RTE Radio 1 News at Ten. See M 2100.
Ireland Tonight (Part 1). See M 2102.
RTE Radio 1 News at Eleven. See M 2200.
Sports News. See T 2202.
Ireland Tonight (Part 2). See W 2214.
Weather. See H 1753.
Radio Netherlands
RN News. See S 2300.
Newsline. See M 2308.
Media Network. Jonathan Marks and Diana
Janssen look at the world of broadcasting. Toprated.
World Radio Network
WRN Program Guide. See S 2355.

FRIDAY
0000 Radio Australia
0000 RA News. See A 1100.
0010 Hindsight. Michelle Rayner presents current events
from an historical perspective.
0100 YLE Radio Finland
0100 News/Weather. See S 1400.

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0107 Editorial Commentary in the Finnish Press_See T

1407.
0112 Reports and Features on Life in Finland. See M
1411 .
0130 Radio Sweden
0130 Sixty Degrees North. See W 0130.
0131 News. See T0131.
0146 GreenScan (2). Environmental concerns and
solutions.
0146 HeartBeat (3). A new monthly health and medical
magazine.
0146 Horizon (4/5). Science and technology in Sweden.
0200 Radio Prague - Czech Republic
0200 News. See S 1300.
0206 Current Affairs. See M 1306.
0209 Press Review. See T 1309.
0214 Economic Report. See H 1314.
0219 I'd Like You to Meet. See H 1319.
0230 Radio Austria International
0230 Report from Austria. See A 1630.
0300 Polish Radio Warsaw
0300 The News from Poland. See S0300.
0320 A day in the Life Of. Anyone from government
minister to pop star to bag lady.
0330 Radio Budapest - Hungary
0330 News. See S 0330.
0336 Hungary Today. See M 0336.
0400 RTE Radio 1 - Dublin, Ireland
0400 News. See S 0400.
0402 The Irish Collection. See T 0400.
0500 Channel Africa - South Africa
0500 News. See M 1330.
0505 Dateline Africa. See T 1335.
0530 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
0530 Europe Today. See M 0530.
0600 Polish Radio Warsaw
0600 The News from Poland. See S 0300.
0620 A Day in the Life Of. See F 0320.
0630 Radio Canada International
0630 News. See S 0630.
0641 Spectrum. See T 0641.
0700 Radio Australia
0700 RA News. See A 1100.
0800 Voice of Russia
0800 News. See S 2000.
0900 Radio Prague - Czech Republic
0900 News. See S 1300.

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Press Review_ See T 1309_

Economic Report. See H 1314.
I'd Like You to Meet. See H 1319.
Radio Netherlands
RN News. See S 2300.
Newsline. See M 2308.
A Good Life. See F 2325.
YLE Radio Finland
News/Weather. See S 1400.
Editorial Commentary in the Finnish Press. See T

1407.
1042 Reports and Features on Life in Finland. See M
1411 .
1100 Radio Australia
1100 RA News. See A 1100.
11 10 Dateline. Twenty minutes of overseas and local
correspondent reports and analyses of regional
and global issues and events, including business
news.
1130 The Media Report. Agnes Warren presents the
inside story on how the communications industry
operates and puts the spotlight on media people
and their activities.
1200 RTE Radio 1 - Dublin, Ireland
1200 The News at One. See W 1200.
1238 Business Nevis. See H 1238.
1240 Sport News. A five-minute roundup of Irish sports.
1245 Liveline. See A 1245.
1300 Radio Prague - Czech Republic
1300 News. See S 1300.
1306 Current Affairs. See M 1306.
1309 Press Review. See T 1309.
1310 Between You and Us. Information about the Czech
Republic. commentary on listener letters. and
occasional DX nev1s.
1330 Channel Africa - South Africa
1330 News. See M 1330.
1335 Dateline Africa. See T 1335.
1400 YLE Radio Fmland
1400 News/Weather. See S 1400.
1407 Editorial Commentary in the Finnish Press. See T
1407.
1411 Reports and Features on Life in Finland. See M
1411 .
1430 Radio Vlaanderen International - Belgium
1430 News. See S 1431.
1435 Press Review. See T 1435.

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1439 Belgium Today. See M 1439.
1445 International Report. A background report on
current affairs in Europe and elsewhere.
1449 Economics. Interview with a person in the field of
business, finance. or consumerism or a updating
report.
1500 Radio France International
1500 RFI News. See S 1500.
1515 Land of France. See T 1546.
1526 Review of the French Newspapers. See M 1526.
1530 News Headlines. See T 1530.
1531 Weekend. Colleagues from BBC World Service.
Radio Netherlands and Deutsche Welle are joined
for a weekly look at issues and themes important
throughout Europe
1600 Caribbean News Agency (CANA)
1600 Caribbean Tempo. See M 1600.
1615 Vatican City
1615 World News. A 15-minute bulletin of international
news.
1630 Radio Austria International
1630 Report from Austria. See A 1630.
1700 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
1700 Europe Today. See M 0530.
1730 RTE Radio 1 - Dublin, Ireland
1730 The Angelus. See S 1730.
1731 The Six O'Clock News. See S 1731.
1746 Farm News. See T 1746.
1753 Weather. See H 1753.
1800 Radio Vlaanderen International - Belgium
1800 News. See S 1431.
1806 Press Review. See T 1435.
1810 Belgium Today. See M 1439.
1814 The Arts. See M 1446.
1819 Tourism . Take an audio tour of the sights and
sounds of Belgium.
1830 Radio Net11erlands
1830 RN News. See S 2300.
1838 Newsline. See M 2308.
1854 Variable Documentary. See W 2325.
1925 World Radio Network
1925 WRN Program Guide. See S 2355.
1930 Radio Sweden
1930 Sixty Degrees North. See W 0130.
1931 News. See T 0131 .
1935 Newsweek. See A 0135.
2000 Voice of Russia
2000 Nevis. See S 2000.
2011 News and Views. See M 2011.
2030 Polish Radio Warsaw
2030 The News from Poland. See S 0300.
2050 Business Week. See A 0320.
2100 RTE Radio 1 - Dublin. Ireland
2100 RTE Radio 1 News at Ten. See M 2100.
2102 Ireland Tonight (Part 1). See M 2102.
2200 RTE Radio 1 News at Eleven. See M 2200.
2202 Sports News. See T 2202.
2214 Ireland Tonight (Part 2). See W 2214.
2255 Weather. See H 1753.
2300 Radio Netherlands
2300 RN News. See S 2300.
2308 Newsline. See M 2308.
2325 A Good Life. Ginger da Silva hosts a program about
oevelopment in both rich and poor countries.
2355 World Radio Network
2355 WRN Program Guide See S 2355.

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0000 Radio Australia
0000 RA News. See A 1100.
0010 Pacific Focus. Coverage of issues of relevance to

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Australia Today. See W 0030.
YLE Radio Finland
News/Weather. See S 1400.
Editorial Commentary in the Finnish Press. See T
1407.
YLE Focus. See A 1411
Radio Sweden
Sixty Degrees North. See W 0130.
News. See T 0131.
Newsweek. The ma1or stories of the week, both
from Sweden and their Nordic neighbors.
Radio Prague - Czech Republic
News. See S 1300.
Between You and Us. See F 1310.
Radio Austria International
Report from Austria. See A 1630.
Polish Radio Warsaw
The News from Poland. See S 0300.
Business Week. What's happening in Europe's
newest capitalist economy.
Radio Budapest - Hungary
News. See S 0330.
RTE Radio 1 Dublin. Ireland
News. See S 0400.
The Irish Collection. See T 0400.
Channel Africa - South Africa
News. See M 1330.
Glenn Hauser - USA
World of Radio. Glenn's communications program
for shortwave radio listeners.
Polish Radio Warsaw
The News from Poland. See S 0300.
Business Week. See A 0320.
Radio Canada International
News. See S 0630.
Spectrum. See T 0641 .
Radio Australia
RA News. See A 1100.
Voice of Russia
News. See S 2000.
Radio Prague - Czech Republic
News. See S 1300.
Between You and Us. See F 1310.
Radio Netherlands
RN News. See S 2300.
Newsline. See M 2308.
YLE Radio Finland
News/Weather. See S 1400.
Radio Australia
RA News. Five or ten minutes of world. Australian.
and regional news.
Jazz Notes. The best of Australian jazz is
introduced by Ivan Lloyd.
Indian Pacific. News and analysis from across the
Pacific and Asia with Di Martin.
RTE Radio 1 - Dublin. Ireland
The News at One. See W 1200.
Business News. See H 1238.
Sport News. See F 1240.
Liveline. The last quarter-hour of the News at One
in whicl1 a telephone interview is conducted with a
person in the news.
Radio Prague - Czech Republic
News. See S 1300
Live in Prague. Jazz from one of Prague's night
spots
Channel Africa - South Africa
News. See M 1330.
Dateline Africa. See T 1335.
YLE Radio Finland
News/Weather. See S 1400.

1406 Echo. YLE's mailbag program.

1411 YLE Focus. Spotlight on the achievements of a Finn
of note.
1430 Radio Vlaanderen International - Belgium
1430 News. See S 1431.
1435 Press Review. See T 1435.
1439 Music from Flanders. The weekly concert.
1500 Radio France International
1500 RFI News. See S 1500.
1526 Review of the French Newspapers. See M 1526.
1530 News Headlines. See T 1530.
1531 Spotlight on Africa. Correspondent reports and
interviews on African affairs with Julia Crawford.
1545 Letter from a Listener. See W 1547.
1547 News Summary. See T 1542.
1550 French Lesson. Learn French by radio.
1600 Glenn Hauser - USA
1600 World of Radio. See A 0530.
1630 Radio Austria International
1630 Report from Austria. A magazine program covering
all aspects of Austrian life and events in the news
and opening with the latest news bulletin.
1631 Letter from Austria. Reading of a "letter" that
covers the latest goingson in Vienna.
1635 Letterbox. Listeners letters are read and answered
onthe-air.
1646 Music. The native music of Austria.
1700 United Nations Radio - New York
1700 The World in Review. See S 1330.
1715 Scope. See S 1345.
1730 RTE Radio 1 - Dublin. Ireland
1730 The Angelus. See S 1730.
1731 The Six O'Clock News. See S 1731.
1737 Sports News. All the scores from all the games
played today as well as racing results.
1800 Radio Vlaanderen International - Belgium
1800 News. See S 1431.
1805 Press Review. See T 1435.
1809 Music from Flanders. See A 1439.
1830 Radio Netherlands
1830 RN News. See S 2300.
1838 Newsline. See M 2308.
1854 Roughly Speaking. An upbeat magazine program
for European youth.
1925 World Radio Network
1925 WRN Program Guide. See S 2355.
1930 Radio Sweden
1930 Spectrum (1 /4). Bill Schiller with the latest on
Swedish music. drama, art. and film.
1930 Sweden Today (3). George Wood presents voices
from a wide range of people in the Scandinavian
nation.
2000 Voice of Russia
2000 News. See S 2000.
2011 News and Views. See M 2011.
2030 Polish Radio Warsaw
2030 The News from Poland. See S 0300.
2100 RTE Radio 1 - Dublin. Ireland
2100 RTE Radio 1 News at Ten. See M 2100.
2102 Failte lsteach. Live music show.
2200 RTE Radio 1 News at Eleven. See M 2200.
2202 Sports News. See T 2202.
2215 Countrytime. Forty-five minutes of country music
with an Irish accent.
2300 Radio Netherlands
2300 RN News. See S 2300.
2308 Newsline. See M 2308.
2325 Weekend. Maggie Ayre joins colleagues from BBC
World Service, Radio France International and
Deutsche Welle for a weekly look at issues and
themes important throughout Europe.
2355 World Radio Network
2355 WRN Program Guide. See S 2355.

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News Service Accused of Illegal Interceptions

By Rachel Baughn, Editor

01111111111ications privacy made the news

again on A ugust '27 . when New York U.S.
A ttorney Mary Jo White announced the
<llTCst of thn:e persom eonnectcd to the Breaking News Network ( BNN) for illegal interception of alpha- numeric pagi ng messages. Steven
Gcssman. Vinnie Martin. and Jeffrey .\!l oss we re
charged with mail fraud. co nspiracy. and violating the Elt:ctronic Communications Privacy
/\c t.
BNN i-, a company which supplies news ti ps
to news organizations. fire fighters. pol ice. insurance adjusters. and others. for a small fee.
The New York Po lice Departmen t has been
usin g al ph;i-numcri c pagers to communicate informmion too se nsi ti ve to be trans111i1ted ove r
the radio- informat ion such as location o f
crime w itnesses, condition or injured l aw cnrnrcemen t ol'licers or firefighters. and deployment or specia l unit s suc h as the bomb squad.
The indi ctments daim thm B NN has been intercepting these communications and se lling the
i nformation l o its clients.
B:'\!N claims tu be the first to have reported
the crash or TWA Flight 800. and its clients do
so metim es heat city oflicial s lo the scene of
breaking news event s. H owever. BNN 's public
st alcmcnt says it gets all of its information from
2-i-hour monitoring of public police radio channel s. BN N says one of their pagers was the only
item out of the electro nic equi pment presented
to the press that was theirs.
Earlier in the investigation. Moss all eged ly
showed in vest igators how he used a scann er
co nnected to hi s co mputer l oaded w ith the
"Message Tracker" soft ware program to extract
messages from Pagc Nct- the company providing service to the police. By si fting through that
information. he could eventually "clone" pagers with the identiliers for a specilic recipient.
The defendants. who were al l released on
bail. face up to fi ve year s in prison and a
$250.000 fin e if convicted. No charges will be
brought aga inst their cli ents. who presumably
were unaware of the all eged source of the i nformation.
BN N maintains that no sen sitive in formation was ever trarmni tted by B NN to thei r di<.:nt s. and 1ha1 the annnymous charges were
likely brought by two disgruntled former volunteen,_

networks may dec ide to termi nate shipment

until a clearer interpretation of federal la w is
establi shed.
Regardless of the outcome of th i s case. i t
wil l no doubt bo lster the push for stricter laws
such as that featured in our cover story. even
though the arrests were made under alreadyexi sting prohibiti ons.
Attorney Mary Jo Wh it e was correct in her

statement that you should "protect yourse l f and

your privacy by avoidi ng the use of pagers and
ce llular phones for sensiti ve informati on: Either that. or encrypt- an option made avail able
by both services. However. few people choose
to heed the fact that radi o waves arc in the air.
and no wi rel ess communications arc sec ure unle~s you take steps to ensure it.
MT thanks everyo ne who provided news
clippings on thi s late- brl!aking story.

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dealers or the Message Tracker have been subpoenaed to turn over in formation and inventory
relating to the software and accessories. pending the outcome of the case.
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By Jacques d'Avignon
monitor@rac.ca

PART

OPTIMUM WORKING FREQUENCIES (MHz)

For the Period 15 October to 14 November 1997

Flux=89 SSN=32

This month you wi ll fi nd the second of three

parts of a g l o~sary of terms that apply to radio
propagation and radio propagation forecasting.
G round Wave
The rndio wave which propagates c lose to the
Eanh 's surface. Severe signal losse s due to
ground resistance limit the range of ground
wave s to about 100 km over land a nd 300 km
o ver sea for the lowest HF frequenc ies. The
g round waves for the higher HF frequenc ies
cover 111uc h shorter d istance s.
Hop Length
The distance a radio wave travels with one
reflection from the io nosphere. It wi ll depend on
the antenna e levatio n angle and the height of the
refl ecting layer.
Ionosphere
Th at part of the atmosphere that is ionized by
the sun' s radiation. Extends upwards from about
60 km. The free e lec trons in the ionosphere
support radio wave propagation.
Lowest Usable F requency (L UF)
The lowest frequency which allows an accepta ble grade of HF service.
Maximum Usable Frequency (MUF)
Thi' is the hig hest fre quency for reliable radio
co mmunications by the io nosphere. The median
MUF is the h ighest freq uency that w ill be usable
at a particular ho ur for at least 50% of the days
o f the 111onth.
M ult ipath Fading
Small time del ays can occur in radio , ignals
traveling by a single mode (due to irreg ularities
in the ionosphe re) or by mi xed modes. The
superposition o f these multiple echoes will
degrade tin: quality of the received signal.
Optimum Working Freq~ency (OWF)
T his is the lower decile MUF. It is the frequ.:ncy
whic h is usable for at least 90% of the days of
the month .
Polar Cap A bsorption (PCA)
The ionization of the D reg ion over the polar
lat itudes by hig h e nergy solar protons causes
radio blackouts for trans-polar circuits which
can last for several days. PCAs are almost
always preceded by a major solar flare on the
visible hemisphere o f the sun. The ti me between
the flare eve nt and the onse t of the PCA ranges
from a few minutes to several hours.
Proton F lare
A flare that liberates significant amounts of hig h
e nergy protons. If th is stream intercepts the
earth. the protons cause a polar cap absorption
(PCAJ.

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Reflection
Althoug h a radio wave is actua lly refracted in the
io nosphere. it is often permi ssible to substitute a
simple triang ular ray path for the real ray path.
as if the ray were reflected from a mirror. Thus
radio waves are ofte n referred to as being
refl ected fro m the ionosphere.
Refraction The be nd ing o f a wave when it
crosses a boundary between media due to a
change in velocity o f the wa ve. Until it reac hes
the ionosphere. a radio wave propagate s in a
straight line. Once in the ionosphere, it is
re fracted back towards the ground . The amount

of re fraction depends on the e lectron density of

the ionosphere and the operating frequency.
S kip Distance The minimum di stance fro m the
transmitter for which a sky wave w ill return to
earth when the o perating frequency exceeds the
vertical incidence critical freque ncy. Within the
skip distance. only g round wave propagation is
possible. The only way to reduce the skip
distance is to lowe r the operating freque ncy.
S ky Wave The radio wave which propagates
throug h the ionosphere. It is often called the
ionospheric wave to disting uish it from the direct
(line o f sig ht) wave and the ground wave.

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BEGINNER'S CORNER
UNCLE SKIP'S GUIDE TO MONITORING

SKIP AREY, N2EI

t;orey@mosquito.com
11

When Any 0" Just Won't Do

1
1s

fun ny how thi ' co lumn works sometimes. I ca n go for month,. even years
without receiving any questions or queries concerning a particular topic. Then. out or
the blue, I can get hair a dozen lcllers orema ils about the same subject. One suc h topic
has fl oated to the surface. As a mailer of fact
it surpri ses me that it hasn't come up in the
pa' !. Now that I think of it. it is somethi ng that
can be ve ry confusing 10 the beg inners in our
hobby. That topic is ..Q .. S ignals .
Originally des igned for Inte rnati onal Morse
Code o peration, "Q" signal s can turn up anywhere. I' ve heard the terms ..QSO.'' ..QRM."
"QTH." and "QRT' spoken by po lice departments on my scanner, . I' vc had hobbyi sts
walk up to me at radi o conven tions and say
.. QRU'r' I' ve sent and received ..QS L" cards.
I e njoy operating ..QRP .. and I read .. QST ..
every month.
Tec hni ca lly. "Q" signals arc regulated by
th1.: international Telecommu ni catio ns Union
as a standard set of abbreviations fo r use wi th
the internati ona l Morse code . However. if
you c hi.:ck their Internet Website and run a
searc h. it appears that they don't give muc h
thou ght 10 the m these days. Most of the ..
signals in common usage ari.: mnre a mailer of
mutual agreement than international regulation. Beyond the conventions of the hobby.
organizat ions such as the American Radio
Relay Leag ue have i.:ven establ ished subsets
of ..QN" 'ig nals designed exc lusively fo r use
in CW net operations.
So eve n though some "Old Timer.. might
get 011 two meters and scold you fo r using "Q"
sig na ls in vo ice mode. the general rule with
"Q" s ignals see ms to be that they are used by
an y two or more folks who agree to use them
in thei r co mmun ication. CW. RTTY. voice.
or whatever mode. (Now that shou ld generate
a Iill le mai I). Get ove r it fo l ks' If you ve been
reading thi s magazine for the last few iss ues
you know 1hat Unc le Sam is breathing down
our nec ks about much more im port ant things
than our .. in appropriate .. USC of .. Q .. signals.
Anyw ay. you loyal reade rs o f the /3e~ i1111ers
Comer asked for it. so here s a look at the
cu rre lll crop of commonl y used .. Q .. Signals.
QRA - The first thin!! to remember is that
..Q .. signals can be used as either a ' latement
or a question. Let" s use th e first "Q .. signal as
an exampl e. If someon i.: s1.: nt me (us in g the
CW mode) QRA? (note the question mark) ,

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th ey arc asking
QRP - is se nt
to request a reduc"What is the name
of you r station?"'
t ion in power. Re@(!j]#J:f
You would respond
member that FCC
.. QR A is N2EI."
and i ntc rnationa l
QRT
regulations ex pect
QRG - means
.. M y exact fr e a sl<l tion to use the
QTH~
quency is ..... Supleast amou nt o f
pose someone is trypower fo r good
ing to .. zero beat ..
commu nication to
yo ur s igna l for
avo id inte rfe rence.
max imu m effiMaybe somebody
c ie ncy. You may
should explain th is
have enough inforto the "pager" inmat ion abou t you r
dustry and those
transm iss ion (e.g ..
AM broadcast stacrys tal control) that
tions that run 150%
you can send .. QRG
moclula ti o n. The
is 7150 kHz."
term al~o re fers to that su bcultu re in ham radio
QRH - Usua lly sent as a ques ti o n (QRH?),
that likes to operate with equi pment running
thi s mea ns .. Does my freque ncy vary'>" A
under 5 watts . A fu rthe r unofficial use is
respo nse might be 'QRH 5 kHz" to indicate QR Pp which is used to refer to operation wit h
the amount of s ignal drift you have detected.
less than I watt. You ' d be amazed at how far
QRI -A lso often sent as a quest ion (QR I' 1) .
you can get on a couple of mill iwalts.
the se nder wants to know .. How is my tone1"
QRQ - is usuall y heard in the realm of
Thi ' is usually important in CW operati ons. A
tho'e speed demons on the low end of the
response would be ..QR I :\ ."Tone is usually
Extra Class portions of the bands. Th is means
judged on a scale of I through :'i. with I bei ng "Send faste r ...
nearly unintelligible and :'i being excellent.
QRS - Most often heard in the Novice
QRK - Similar to QRI , it refers instead to Class CW bands. this signal means "Send
slower."
signal inte lli gibi lity. You would res pond to
.. QRKT by se nding back .. QRK -L" again
QRT - Used to indicate that you are about
10 ' lop transmitting . You wi ll often hear voice
using the I through 5 rating system.
QRL - Again. most often heard a' a ques- ope rat ors say ing they arc ..Going to go QRT
ti on. it is a quick way o f ask ing .. Are you
for dinner... Thi s ind icates that you are shutbusyr If you send 'Q RL' 1" and hear back
ting down your station.
"QRL" and nothing more. chec k back with
QR U - Most often heard as a question, it
your fri end a little later. Very useful in net
techn ica lly means "Do you have any thing for
operations.
mcr Many hams use it as a way of say ing
QRM - Heard all too often ... QRM" means
..What"s upT or ..W hat' s happen ing ')"
"My transm ission is be ing interfered with ...
QR\' - is sen t to indi cate readiness. Let' s
With narrow filters. directiona l an tennas. and sa y you arc about to sent somebody a long
propagation effects. interference can be uni npiece nf traflic. You want to make sure they
tentional. Best to just "QSY ... (See below.)
have thei r pencils and paper in place so you
QRN -Sometimes confu sed wi th "QRM ...
se nd .. QRV'1" lf they come back with ''QRV"
"Q RN" refers to stati c and atmosphe ric noi se
you ca n start yo ur traffic.
as opposed 10 interfe rence from anot her staQRW - If you're cal ling someo ne and they
can 1 hear you . another stati on can indi cate
tion o r service .
QRO - is se nt when you walll the station
their ability to relay your signa l by sending
on the other end to inc rease their power.
"QRW ... It can also mean .. I can tell (whoCommon usage amo ng the amateur commu- ever ) that you are ca lling them." Th is would
ind icate the abi lity to establish a "QSP." (See
ni ty is in reference to stati ons or equipment
capable o f operating at full lega l power. (e.g .. be low.)
..John just bought a QRO am plifier." )
QRX - would probably be sent by my

QTC QSB

QRI

QROQRP

QRH

QJZlA

mother if she we re a ham. It most often

appears as a question and it means .. When will
you ca ll aga in ?" You would use thi s to set up
a sked."" ..QRX Wed 1400 7 150.. mea ns
you"ll try to communicate on Wednesday al
1400 hours UTC o n 7 150 kHz.
QRZ - Sent as a questi on, it means " Who
is calling me?"' Often heard during contest
operations to indi cate someone is o n frequency and wai ting for stations to call them.
The more technical ly correc t use is to get a fill
in on a parti al call sign.
QSA - indicates signal s tre ngt h. Sending
..QSA 5"' indicates exce llent s igna l strengt h.
again using the I thro ug h 5 scale.
QSB - is used to indicate fading. usually
due to propagation losses along the sig nal
path. If you were to indicate .. QSB.'" you and
yo ur contact mig ht .. Q RS'" and ..QRO" in an
attempt to improve QRK:
QSD - Here s o ne that is on the li st that I've
never heard sent. .. QSD?" asks the questio n
Are my sig na ls muti lated?" I would think if
things were that bad nornmmun ications would
be establis hed.
QSG - is used in traffi c handling to indicate the numbe r o f messages you want sent at
a time ... QSG 5.. wou ld ind icate that you want
the other statio n to se nd five messages in each
transmiss ion.
Q SK - indicates a particular kind of CW
operat io n called .. Break in: QSK'" indicates
a sta ti o n that has the ability to rece ive be twee n
the dot~ and das hes that are sent in CW. Thi s
can be im portant in an e mergency because.
whi le a stati o n is sending a trans mi ssion, they
can hear anot her station atlempting to ..break
in.'' allo w ing the sending operator to stop and
hearthe breaking statio n. T his i~ also useful in
contests. as a station can "break in to you r
call for contacts, thereby saving time. You' d
be s urprised ho w much in format io n can sneak
in between those dots and das hes.
Q S L - Even beg inners have heard this one
tossed around . Techn ica lly this means ' 'I ac knowlcuge receipt: On the air it is used to
indicate that you gol the message. It is also
used ro refer to the confirmation (QSL) cards
that amate urs s wap as record of their contacts.
Al so. many shortwave broadcast statio ns send
o ut QSL c ards in response to signal reports
sent in by listeners.
QSM - is sent when you want the statio n to
repeat their last message. Under conditio ns of
..QSB."" you may have to ..QSM .. several
times before you can ..QSL. ..
Q SO - gene rally refers to any radio contact. but it has a s pecifi c technical meaning.
..QSO .. is an indicati on o f direct communication between two stati ons without relays
(QSP).

QSP - If you can" t establi sh a "'QSO.. you

may need to ask someone to
This
indicates relaying a signal between two stations.
QST - In add iti o n to being the name o f the
ARRL magazi ne . " QST'" ind icates a message
sent to all amateu r radio o pe rato rs li stening. It
is an indicatio n of a message of general interest to the ham community. suc h as a bulle tin.
QSV - T he most o bvious of "Q'' s ig na ls
mean s "Send a seri es o f the letter " V."" Th is
can be used to he lp a statio n "zero beat" o r get
exactly on the freq uency of operation .
QSW - indic ates trans mitting frequen cy.
"QSW 7 150" means " l wi ll trans mit o n 7 150

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kHz ...
QSX - indicates receive freq uency (not
always the same as transmitling frequency).
'"QSX 7200'" means 1 w ill receive on 7200

kHz.
QSY - indicate a freq uency change. You
will o ft en hear 'QSY up 5 to indicate that the
station is movi ng its operation up 5 kHz in
frequ e ncy. often to avo id .. QRM.""
QSZ - This is used in message transm ission to te ll the stat ion tu repeat words to assure
clarity. '"QSZ 2" means "send eve ry word
twice:
QTA - indic ates cance ling a partic ular
message in a group. "QT A r indicates canceling message number 3.
QTB - is sent as a q uestion to c heck the
word count of a message. "'QTB SOT answered by 'QTB 50.. wou ld mean the message we nt throug h intact.
QTC - ind icates the numbe r of messages
sent. "QTC I 0.. means ten messages were
sent.
QTH - r vc eve n heard this one used on
C iti ze ns Band . .. QTH'" identi fies locatio n.
M y QTH is New Jersey. Bob Grove's QTH is
Brasstow n.
QTR - is used to ask for o r send a time
chec k. If you send "QTRT and the other
station responds "QTR 1200.'' this indicates
the current time is 1200 UTC.
QTY - indi cates that you w ill wa it on
freque ncy for so meone. '"QTV ?" wou ld ask
the questio n "Shall I stand by for youT
QTX - means 1 will keep my station
o pen." Think of it as the o pposite of ..Q RT:
QUA - means '"I have news of .. : A QST
is usua ll y a signal that will contain ..QUA.""
We ll , there you have a good lis t o f common usage "Q .. s ig na ls . Use them at your
discre tion. Reme mber. they on ly convey the
message intended if both you and the stati o n
on the othe r e nd know w hat they mean. Otherwi se you will need to QSM in plain language. QS L?

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DXING THE BASEMENT BAND

Kevin Core , WB2QMY

KCorey@mdsroc.com

We Have Our Winners!

few month' ago. \\e diallengcd readto suhm it their all-time bt:st intercepts in the Longwave DX Award
(LDXAJ contest. Did, Pearce (VT) racked up a
total >rnrc of 409 points- and he did it with just
I 0 hi.::;u.:ons- all of which were 25 watt stations.
As you may rec al I. the contest did not requ ire
just pulling in long distance contacts. but in>tcad. focused on the fJ011er 0111p111 of th.: ~ta
t ion>. Dick could have claimed a few of his
South American catches- and amassed an impressive mi leagt: score in the process- but it
wa> 111ift'.1--1>er-11m1 that count..:d in this contest.
As G rand Prize Wi nner. Dick will receive a rnpy : Lilllilll&I
of T/1 e!lrt 11.JNDB /JXi11>1 by Sheldon Remington. &
1988 (re-publ ish..:d by Steph..:n P. McGreevy. ~
Oct. JlJ96>.
l
Allen Renner (PA) was our ,,;cond runnt:r-up 0l
wit h 21 1 points. Allen achieved this score by ~
abo fm:using on 25 watt station>. His receiving
equipment cons ist> of a Rcali,tit: DX -440 reFIGURE 1. Beaco11 Trammiller
t:civcr and a Homespun Loop a>described in the
September '92 Be/oil' 500 kl-I: . As 2nd plat:e c..:ivcr (Radio Shack #28-205) as we ll as a Zenith .. Owl" radio in any condition. The latter set
wi nner. Allen wi ll receive a copy of the cassette
tape \ILF UAD/0 1 .. The So1111d.1 of Lo11gi1"lll"e . ..
wa~ a promotional radio put out by Zenith around
Congratul ations to both of our winners. and
1976. ll has an owr s head sticker by the tuning
to all who partit:ipated in th..: contest. Each
wi ndow and is for AM broadcast only. If anyone
has information on where these sets might be
1.:ome ~tant will rece ive an LDXA wall cert ifit:ate
for their efforts. The winning ..:ntrics from both
found. please drop me a note and 1"11 pass it on.
Dick and /\lien are Ji, t..:d below in Table I .
I Homebrewer's Challenge
e r~

TABLE 1. LDXA WINNING

ENTRIES
FREQ,

LO

~!Qtl

Ml~

290
353

TVK
OG
HYX
A
G
EOG
HHG
IY
RYS
EF
CKP
DXE
DXE
RVJ
FTP
IZS
IKY
IZN
MHP
GCT

Centerville, IA

41
t7
20
t3
t7
34
2t
38
t7
56

385
397
398
4t 7
4t7
4t7
4 t9
42 t
423
423
423
424
426
426
429
432
432
5t8

Windsor. ONT
Sogmow, M l

Homilton, ONT
Wind>0<. ONT
Grccn>boro, Al
Hunt ington, IN

Chorle>City. IA
G rosse Isle, Ml

McKinney, TX
Pilot Rock, IA
Dextcr. 1110
Dexter. 1110
Reid.-illc, GA
Ft. Poync, Al

45

Montezuma, GA

32
42
35
35
38

Springlicld, KY

22

Lincolnton, NC

18
35

Metter, GA
Guthrie Center, IA

44

DY
D.P.
AR
AR.
AR.
AR.
AR.
A.R
D.P
A.R.
D.P.
D.P
AR
DP
DP
D.P
D.P
AR.
AR
DP
DP

I Reader Request
Tod Warr (PA) w a~ one of the many people
lhnt responded to my r..:qucst for a Realistic DX160 servic..: manual. I k has an ..:quipment need
that I" d lik..: lO share with reader~ . He is lookin o
for a Science Fair Globe Patrol shortwave r..:~
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At lirst it wasnt so bad. Marine beacons

(285-325 kHz) that were rnnverted to Differential GPS (DGPS) kept thcirtraditional Morse
Code I D--cvcn though it was sent in a warbled
fa~hion. Within a year. howev..:r. the Morse ID
was dropped entirely on most DGPS beacons,
pulling an end to DXing them in the trad itional
se nse. Can the FAA beat:ons be far behind? I
bel ieve now is the time for at: tion.
I'd like tochal lengeourtcchnically-inclined
readers to design a simple t:ircuit for decoding
the DGPS data stream. Ideally. thi s would
require only a handful or part s and connect
diret:tly to a PC for display of the data. It' s my
understanding that the data stream contains an
ID number that 1.:mild be read and used to locate
a partit:ular station. (Man y of these ID numbers
arc in fact listed on the Intemet at: http://
www.starlinkdgps.com/gpsinfo.htm)
We won' t go into technical detail here about
DGPS ~ i gnal s . other than to say that they are
sent using Minimum Shift Key ing (MSK) at
spe..:ds of I00 and 200 bps. Details on the
DGJ>S protocol are given in the Radio Techni ca l Commission on Marine Services (RTCM)
publication SC- I04. whid1 can be obtai ned

from the RTCM. P.O. Box 19087. Washin!!ton.

DC 20036.
Another excellent sourec for general DG PS
informati on can be found on S tarl ink's Web
s it e at: http: //w ww. starlin kdgp s.com /
gpsinfo.htm . How about it? Can anyone out
there suggest a suitabk design? I wou ld be
happy to present thi~ as a construction project in
Belmr 500 kH:.

NDBs-A Look Inside

If you vc been a reader for very long. you

know that I enjoy showing what's bt:hi nd the
signals we hear. To gel a look al the inside of a
beacon transmitter. I turned to Southern A vioni c~. Inc .. one of the leading manufacturers of
Non-Dir..:1.:ti onal Beacon (NDB) equipment.
Jerry Ellis of Southern Avionics supplied a
picture of one of the !i nn ~ most popular tran>mittt:rs (see ligure I l. There are actually two
transmitters in the ent: losurc- one main. and a
backup that takes over in the eve nt of a fa ilure in
the main unit. Many of the beacon signals you
hear prohably originate from a unit ~ud1 as thi~.
Southern Avionit:salso m ake~ antennas. couplers. alarm rct:eivers an<l many other beacon
acce s sori e ~ . Their web >ite h a~ 'ome excelknt
write-up' on how beacon~ arc u~..:d and wha1 is
required fortypical imtallations. You' ll find it al
www.southcrnavionies.com/.

I End Notes
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AMERICAN BANDSCAN
THE WO~LD OF DOMESTIC BROADCASTING

- -.

Doug Smith, W9WI

72777.3 l 43@compuserve.com

Myths of the Domestic Dials

m sure wereall fami liar\\iththe "urban

legc1HI. '' Thi.:'c ari.: stori es that just won't
di.::. 110 matter ))l)w l>fte n thcy'n.: r..:futed.
Don11:,tic broadca,ting has ib own myths.
and I' 111 going tu tak.:: ,ome span.: this month
to bur't a kw bubble,.
T he longi.:,t-lived myt h is that o f tran'Atlant ic de layed r..:ception o f Houston TV
'talion KLEE-T V. three years ajin the station changed it,cal l leth::r' to KPRC-TV. Thi '
receptiun occurrcd in 1953- at the height uf
the Cold War and UFO mania. A' you might
ex peel. 'ome rathe r cxotic (and occa,ional ly
paranoid ) thcoric' wer.:: d..:ve loped to a plain
thi~ one. Unfortunately. the real explanati on
of th i' recept ion- a hoax pulled off by some
British co n men trying to attract inve,tors to a
"light cell" antenna-clidn ' tget nearly as mLH.: h
press. (Sec J unc I 996A111erica11 /Ja11ds<m1 for
more infnrmition on this incidcnt)
Anothcr myth that kecps ri,ing from the
dead is thc bdi ef that the FCC is about to ban
rel igious b1-.iadca,ti11g. Th is one got its , tart in
1975. Two indi,iduals wit h a long hi , tory in
comm unit) radill filed a petitio n asking that
the Com 111i,,ion consider chang ing it ' rules
to prevent rel igiou' organi1.ations fro m building ' taticllb on lM frcqucneie' a nd TV channeb re,ervcd for educational use.
Their petition did 1101 propose to prohibit
rcli gimb 'tat ions on unrese rved. co mnll.:rcial
frequcncic,. nor did it propose to proh ibit
statiom ope rated by commercial outfih or
community organi1.ations from ai ring rcli giou' prog1a1m. In all) c.:a,e. it became a moot
poi nt on Augu't I of 1975 whe n the FCC
uec.: idcd th.:: Cunstitut ion prevented it from
di scriminating between secular and n..: lig ious
educationa l institu tions. The petition was denied.
But nnt until a who le lot or paper was
wa,ted' Rumor, spread thac atheism act ivist
Madalyn Murray O'Hare had l'ikd a peti tion
to prohibit th<.: licen, ing of religiou' ;.tat ion:-,.
Other rumor' suggested all religiou' program, - c,cn S unday morning ch urch 'er' ice-. on normall y 'ec.:ular statiun,-were to
he ba nned. The Com mi ssion estim ated that it
had rece ivcd mer 700.000 informal lctt..:r'
urg ing thc pri.:,ervatiun of rclig ious hroaclca~ t !-.

One would think the paper ava lanche would

ha ve stopped when the FCC deni ed th..: re-

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quest. le didn ' t. Evcn though O\"Cr 20 years

ha ve pass..:d. FCC o fficiab "'Y they still rece ive hun cl rcus ol'lcttcrs from ci tizens fearing
the remo\"al of all relig ious programs from the
airwaves. In fact. the origi na l August 1975
dec isio n is still posted on the FCC Web page
( www .fcc.gov/ m mb/asd / clccdoc/lctter/
1975--08--13--rcligious.htmll. the only 20ycar-old docume nt on thei r ln tcrnt:t site. If
someone in your chu rch a'ks you for the
FCC s add ress to fi le co111111cnh on thi s issue.
plcase do the Commi,~ion a fa\'or and show
them a Copy of this doc.:Ullll.:nt !
Some more rccent runwr' have to do with
the new di gital TV 'Y"tem. One corrt:spondent wa' tolu the new DTV rece ivt:rs wou ld
be programmed with your Z IP code. and
wou ld refuse to rcccive any TV stations not
li censed to cover your com munity. Obviously. this woul d be a severe problem fo r T V
DXers!
I suspect th is l lll C came J"rom a DSS satellit.:: subsc.:rib..:r. When you 'ign up for DSS
satt:l lite ;.t:n ice. you can reque!-t access to
AHC/CBS/Fox/NBC affiliate' over the satellite. However. thi ' ac.:cc;.s can only bc granted
if you Ji,e in an area wherc thcst: signals
cannot be received over the air with a rooftop
antenna. Thc DSS uistrihutnrs must forward
your location to the local 11.::twork affili ate,.
who must agree that you li ve in an area of poor
recept ion. My gue's i' that ">meo ne got thi s
process c.:onfL1'ed with the new DTV system.
Another recent ru11mr i, that. C\'Cn without
Z IP code restrictio11'. DTV (and digital radi o)
cannot be DXeu. DXing wi ll certainl y be
di[(ere111 in Jig.i tal. j ust a' 'canning changes
when your local fire depart ment moves from
low-band to a trunked system. Hut switching
from analog to di gi tal dm:"1 't c hange the laws
of naturt: and sig nal propagation. A signal on
500MH z (c hanncl 18) will travel through a
1ropospheri c duct wit h equal c;be if it' ' an
analog TV ;.ignal. a di gi tal TV ~ig n al. or cYcn
a land-mobile l\Vo-way FM 'ignal. Dun 't thro\\'

11i.;i:,-6

out your antenna~: TV DX will be around for

dccadi.:~ to come.

I Bits and Pieces

The Canadian Rad io-Telev ision Commission ha' struck again .. Early in Ju ly. th ree
major Cl3C AM stations in Qut:bec.: (690 and
940 in Mo ntreal. and 980 in Quebec.: C ity)
were grantcd p.::rmi. sion to move to the FM
band.
ow. the mo~t wide ly-mon itored CBC
A:'vl ;.talion \\'ill also be disappearing. CBL7-W Toronto has bee n granted perm ission to
take o'e r th e o lu CKO-FM frequency .
(99.1 ivl H1. 35.2 kW from the CN Tower) The
Atvl station will continue to opera te for 6
months arti.:r the FM comes on the air. I
' uspL'.Ct thc o ld C KO-FM transmitt..:r may sti ll
be in place- and the towc.: r and transmitting
ant enna dcl"ini tely arc-so ii" you live in the
Toronto. Bu ffa lo. Ham ilton. or Rochester area' you may we ll be ht.:aring the Cl3C on FM
by thc ti me you rt:ad this.
If the F 11 tran,mitter doc' come o n the air
a;. 'oon a;. I ,u,pect. CBL AM will be di'appearing in tht: middle of the 1998 DX
'ca;.on. KTR H-7-W Houston will probably
replace CBL a' th.:: most-heard station o n
radio' in thc region. Howe ver. I also expect
on..: of Toro n to~ ot her AM stati ons to take
ovt: r the 7-W frequency. so it may not he open
for long.
Incidentally. FM DXers in the arca will
abll fi nd new re layers o f the new CBC FM
'talion nn 89. 1 at Paris anu on a yet-una'~ i g n e d fre quency (probab ly 90.5) at Crystal
Hcac h. C BC0-9 I.5Ori11 ia wi 11 incrcase power
from 3100 watt s to 5200.
The window fo r ex panded-band AM appli cat ions ha~ now closed. Much tn my surprise. on ly about half ofc ligibl.:: stations seem
to ha,c appl icd. The FCC hasn' t yet acted on
;111y of the;.c applications. but I \\'ou ld expect
to begin ht:aring additional expanded-band

B c 1S.-R-ADIQ.a(
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Som e of Canada '.1 most popular DX catches belong to th e ClJC-and will be dirnppearing
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part of history!

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Radio Archi ves Web Page. Take a look at ratlio.lcs.mit.edu/radio/amdial.html.
stations in a few months.
A. Joseph Ross of Boston wrote to pass
along information of value to New England
DXers. He's a membe r of the Boston Radio
Mailing Li st on the In ternet. (boston-radiointcrcst-request@mcrcu ry.lcs.mit.edu to
subs<.: ribe) A nd, he suggests a look at the
Bos ton Rad io Ar<.:h i ves We b Page
( radio.lcs.mit.ed u/radio/boston r adio.html )
for hi storical informatio n about AM. FM.
and TV station s in the area.
New England DXers who don' t have access to the Internet aren't left out, though.
Bob Bittner (who I beli eve is also a DX er)
hosts the 30-minute program 'Let's T alk
About Radio." It ai rs Su ndays at l 2:05 PM on
WJIB-740Carnbridge. WNEB- I 230Wor<.:ester, and W JTO-730 Bath: and Saturdays at
9AM on WKBR-1250 Mand1ester.
Ross al so corrected somethin g I wrote in
May about silent stati ons beatin g the deadli ne for returning to the air. I listed WRPT650 as a New Hampshire stat ion; he notes it
moved to Ashla nd. \llassachusetts. to return
to the air. WRPT and WJLT- 1060 both use
the WKOX- I 200 towers in Framingham.
SW and AM DXer Sandra Piotrowsk i of
suburban Detroit got in on a bit of FM DX in
late June . While camping, Sandra hooked her
S upeRadio to the poles on the awning of her
cam per. trying to receive local W RJF-101 .1.
At 8:45pm. she got a c lear ID fro m KFDl- FM
( I01 .3) Wichita. Kansas . The signal was intermittent but strong. During the hour-long
sporadi c-E opening, Sa ndra also got a posi-

tive ID from KSLS-10 1.5 Libera l. Kansas.

She' s sent recepti on reports & is awaiting
some QSLs .
Unfortunate ly. it was a very poor sporadic-E season this year. However, there have
heen a few other reports or good reception
like Sandra 's. We ' re now at the peak of the
troposphe ric bending season for DXers in the
Great Lakes and Atlant ic Coast regions. And .
of course, as 1he nights get longer the AM
ba nd gets better. If you haven' t logged the
CBC on AM yet, you'd better start now ;
severa l of the strongest outlets wi II be gone by
1he time the I 998- 1999 DX season starts .
What are you hearing? Write me at Box 98.
Brasstown NC 28902-0098, or by e mai l at
72 777.J J4]@colll/111Sel"\'C. CO/II .

DX TEST
Saturday, October 4, 1997: KTGG1540, c/o Spring Arbor College, I 06 East
Main S treet, Spring Arbor, M I 49283 will
con duct a DX tes l at 450 wal ls
nondirectional be tween 12:00 & I 2:30 am
EDT. The tesl w ill include classical, march,
and Chri stian rock mu sic, plus voice lDs,
test tones and Morse code IDs. Reception
reports may be sent to: Mr. Lewis Munn Chief Engineer. (Test arranged by J.D.
S tep hens) . E-Ma il : l111un11 @a dmin.
arbor.edu; Web: http://www.arbor.edu/
wsae/ktgg.htm

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OUTER LIMITS

THE CLANDESTINE, THE UNUSUAL, THE UNLICENSED

George Zeller
George.Zel/er@acc/i11k.com

FM Pirates Increasingly Active in USA

cores of loca l FM pi rate' operate daily

across the United States. They aren' t as
wel l organized in a national network as
their short wa \e cousins. Their 'ignals generall y get out on ly a few mile,. But given their
large numbers. they have a ~ub~tant ial nationwide aud ience.
Scott Krauss of Cleveland. Ohio. sends in
pre's acrnunts of WSPI., operating as a comn1ercial Hi spanic station on 90.7 MHz in
Clc\eland. Ohio. I hear their Puerto Rican
Saba throughout Cle\ i.:land and some of its
inner suburbs. The C/1'\'t'l<111d Free Times
spec ulated that the FCC i' cnfurci ng local FM
piratcs very gi ngerl y. pc ndin g the outcome o f
litigation st ill in progre's on Steve Dunifer' s
Radio Free Berkeley in Cali fornia.
Raymo nd Gramm o f Semino le. Florida.
'c ntb in a Si. Pe1erslmrg Ti111es article abou t
fi\c different pirate' operating in the Tampa
area on 88.0. 89.3. 90. 1. %.7. and I02 .1 MHz.
kff Ryan in Yardley. Pe nnsy lvania. heard
WXFG in Trenton. New Jersey on 105.7
MH z. On the way back from a Ph illies game.
he abo heard WZXI on 9.'i.3 MHz from
Philadelph ia. announcing a phone number o f
(2 1.'i) -10-1-0040. Finall y. Harold Frodge of
Midland. Michigan. notes that hi' loca l pirate
o n 88.3 MHz now identifi es itsel f as Tower
Boy Network.

I Metallica News
Dr. Tornado. who took thc pirate world by
:.torm this summer with his dai ly pi rate activity using a I 0,600 watt transmitter. makes
news once again thi s month. Since hi s IOOth
trans mission. he's scaled hac k hi s formerly
near-da il y schedule. But. the station is sti ll
at:tivc. Look for its new senicc on I 1885
kl II.. Given current propagation conditions.
thc 11 MHz shows arc 'kipping OYer many
Ji,tene r' in ca,tcrn North America. but Shawn
Axelrod in W inn ipeg. Manitoba. Ken ny Love
in Cul umhia. South Carolina. and William
Hass ig in Mt. Prospect.11 linois. all heard one '
J\s \\C see here thi' month. hundreds of
QSL ' arc arri\ing from both Metall ica and
from Metal lica parod y Radio Tornado
Worldwide. Dr. Tornado tel ls MT that although he used many tran smitter pans and
suba, scmb li es from liemge Donahue of
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11111 tllllll WllllWIDI

Radio
Metallica and
its Radio
Tom ado
parody

WJOI, much of the constructi on work on

Metallica' s superpowcrcd wideband audio
tran smiuer was completed by Dr. Tornado
hi mscl f.

I Radio London Returns

Radio London. known as the "Big L" and
wonderful Radi o London" during its 1967
run from the Cala.rr. a converted World War
II mine sweeper in the North Sea. returned to
the airwa ves in Jul y and August on 266 meters
medium wave. This time the pirate had a
license from the Radi o Authority in the UK. in
commemoration of the 30th anniversary of a
British government crackdown on offshore
pirates. Original DJ' s we re reunited to host
thc stati on s original playlist of rock. with
proceeds donated to charity.
This stati on claims the world 's first radio
broadcast o f the Beatles Sg1. Pepper's Lonely
/leans Club Band album. Its jing les survive
on an early rock a lbum fro m The Who. Thanks
to Dave Alpert o f New York City. who forwarded a Reuters new:. item o n the special
broadcasts.

I Radio Jemima
Rob Ross of London. Ontario. se nds in
multiple logs o f New Zea land pirate Radio
Jemima. They operate on 7475 kH z in the
0600-0800 UTC rangc. ~o metime s relaying
KIWI broadcasts. Dick Pearce also heard
the m in Brat1leboro. Vermont. Rob already
has their QSL from PO Box 16-002, Tamatca.

Napier. New Zealand. In a re lated matter,

G raha m Barc la y of KIWI says that
kiwiradio @writcmc.com is the new c-mail
addres for his weekly internet pirate ncwslelter.

I What We Are Hearing

Your pi rate loggings are always we lcome
via PO Box 98. Brasstown. NC 28902. or vi a
the e-mai l address at the top of the co lumn.
All frequ enc ies arc in kHz. with times in
UTC.
North Amcrit:an pirate stations listcd here
use the fol lowing addresses: PO Box I.
Belfast. NY 1471 L PO Box 109. Blue Ridge
Summit. PA 172 14: PO Box 28413, Provi dence. RI 02908: PO Box 146. Stoneham ,
MA 02 180: PO Box 11522. Huntsville. Alabama 358 1-1: and PO Box 293. Merlin. Ontario
NOP I WO. For return postage, enc lose three
32 stamps in the envelope to USA addresses.
$2 US or two International Reply Cou pons go
to foreign mai Idrops.
6955 Radio 6955 (w ha t else?) ot 0030. This
new one features theme music from old TV shows,
probably as o parody of Radio Metollico. Addr:
None. (Chuck Morford, Fuquoy.Yorino, NC)
6YVOS- 6955 a t 0 100. Pigpen Morley usually
mixes reggae music and ma rijuana promotions,
but lately he's been adding Grateful Dead
commemorations. Addr: Providence. (Mott
Hoston, Taylors, SC; Rich and Toleo Jurrens,
Katy, TX; Lee S ilvi, Mentor, OH; Neil Wolfish,
Toronto, Ontario; Axelrod)
Alon Masyga Project- 6955 a t 2300. Their Alon
Parsons Pro ject rock music is dedicated to vete ran
DXer Alon Mosygo . Addr: Providence. (Harold
Frodge, Midland, Ml; Jurrens; Silvi; Wolfi sh)
Altered States Radio- 6955 at 2145. William
Hurt spices his rock music with comedy,
sometimes from Beavis ond Bullhead. Addr:
Merlin. (Michael Prindle, New Suffolk, NY;
Frodge; Silvi)
Cherokee Radio 6955 ot 04 15. Although thei r
slogan is, "Native American Broadcasting," they
primorilr fea ture rock music. Addr: None.
(Jurrens
FBI Radio- 6955 at 0045. Ross reports o QSL
from the pirates at Females Broadcasting
Interference. Addr: Huntsville. (Ross Comeau,
Andover, MA)
Free Hope Experience- 6955 at 0200. Mo[or
Spook is bock with a mix of rock music and
comedy, with CW Morse code identifications
during broadcasts. Addr: Blue Ridge Summit.
(Barry W illiams, Enterprise, A L; Hoston; Jurrens;

Majewski)
Free Radio Maker- 6955 at 2330. In July we
asked for their address, which is PO Box 561,
Postal Code 4330 A.N., Middelburg, The
Netherlands. Thanks, William! (William Sti bgen,
Horsham, PA)
Friday Radio- 6955 at 2245. This one promotes
the weekend, and broadcasts only on one day of
the week. Guess which one? Addr: Providence.
(Greg Ma"\ewski, Oakdale, CT; Haston; Jurrens)
Indira Cal ing- 6955 at 0000. This parody of All
India Radio is mailing QSL's showing a map of
Rhode Island, with all place names replaced by
cities in India. Addr: Providence. (Frodge; Hassig;
Silvi; Wolfish)
Jerry Rigged Radio- 6955 a t 0130. Some of their
recent rock music transmissions have been
announced as low power ten watt QRP tests.
Addr: Providence. (Axelrod; Haston; Jurrens;
Silvi; Williams)
KOLO- 6955 at 0100. Aldo Batista, no rela tion to
the former dictator of Cuba, is one of the few Big
Band format pirates that has ever transmitted on
shortwave. Addr: Stoneham. (Bill McClintock,
Minneapolis, MN; Haston; Jurrens; Silvi)
KRAP- 6955 at 0200. Fred Flintstane's booming
signal sends his rock music and mailbag shows
throughout North America. Addr: Blue Ridge
Summit. (Comeau; Frodge; Hassig; Haston;
Jurrens; Love; Majewski; Mclintock; Pearce; Silvi;
Williams)
lounge Lizard Radio- 6955 at 0000. Their
lounge pop music comes from a different location
on most shows. Recent lounges were named after
MT columnists Glenn Hauser and George Zeller.
Addr: Providence. (Ranier Brandt, Hoefer,
Germany; Axelrod; Frodge; Hassig; Hasto n;
Jurrens; Silvi)
Mystery Radio- 6955 at 0330. The d istinctive
new age a nd complex rock songs on this one
make station IDs easy to fish out. Addr:
Stoneham . (Jurrens; Silvi; Williams)
Not Radio Metallica- 6955 at 0100. Another
parody of Dr. Tornado has emerged, with
broadcasts in upper sideband. Addr: None.
(Axelrod; Haston; Silvi)
Orbital Mind Control Satellite- 6955 al 2345.
This old timer was form erly a rare catch, but they
have been more widely heard on their recent
programs with UFO themes. Addr: Belfast.
(Frodge; Haston; Jurrens; Williams; Wolfish)
Radio Azteca- 6958 at 0200. Bram Stoker's
clever parodies make fun of DXers and DXing,
mainly from a pirate perspective. If you write in,
he'll talk about you! Addr: Belfast. (Pearce; Silvi)
Radio Eclipse- 6955 al 0200. QSL's have been
forthcoming from station maven Steve Mann, who
uses a Johnson Viking Valiant with 150 watts for
his AM broadcasts. He says that he's a regular
MT reader. Addr: Providence . (Gary Neal, Sugar
Land, TX; Brandon Artman, Westchester, PA;
Axelrod; Frodge; Hassig; Haston; Jurrens; Love;
Majewski ; Mclintock; Morford; Prind le; Williams)
Radio Free Euphoria- 6955 at 0 130. Captain
Ganja' s cheerful humor makes him different from
the other marijuana promotion stations. Addr:
Belfast. (Axelrod; Brandt; Frodge; Haston; Jurrens;
Morford; Prindle; Silvi; Williams)
Radio Fusion Radio- 6955 at 0045. They are the
most active pirate with rap music programming,
announced as coming from the "College of
Knowledge." Addr: Providence. (Hassig; Love;
Mclintock; Silvi)
Radio Metallica Worldwide- 6955 at 0200. Dr.
Tornado's frantic activity has slowed; see above.
Addr: Blue Ridge Summit. (John Arendt, Oswego,
IL; Rich Barnes, Springfield, IL; Robert Pote,

Greenwood, IN; Ken Coughlin, Shelby Township,

Ml; Howard Espravnik, Gallatin , TN; Tony
Benbenek, East Hampton, NY; Artman; Axelrod;
Hassig; Hasto n; Jurrens; Love; Majewski;
Mclintock; Morford; Neal; Pearce; Prindle; Silvi;
Williams; Wolfish)
Radio One- 6950 at 0000. Boboloa remains
active with his slick productions of rock oldies
music. He often inserts remarks an the history of
the music. Addr: Belfast. (Hoston; Majewski;
Morford; Silvi)
Radio Tellus- 6955 ot 0300. Look for the
trademark "Oh, Yeah!" a nd the "Earth Station"
slogan from this rock music pirate. Addr:
Providence. (Axelrod; Morford; Haston; Jurrens;
Silvi )
Radio Three- 6955 ot 2330. Sal Amoniac's
parody of the other "numbered" pirates plays
intentionally syrupy music from the worst of rock
old ies history. Addr: None, QSL' s logs in The
ACE. (Haston; Silvi; Williams)
Radio Tornado Worldwide- 6955 at 0030. listen
carefully if you hear Metallica, since this parody
uses intentionally monotonous repeated recorded
phrases from the real station. Addr: None;
verifying logs in The ACE with the QSL that we
see here. (Axelrod; Brandt; Frodge; Jurrens;
Ma jewski ; Silvi; Williams; Wolfish)
Radio Two- 6955 at 1300. Yabba Dobba Do
started this station as a low budget parody of
Radio One, but his low key rock oldies shows a re
entertaining. Addr: Providence. (Silvi; Wolfish)
Radio USA- 6955 ot 1400. Mr. Blue Sky has
been around for 15 years with his mix of punk
rock, comedy, and DX commentary, sometimes
via a Metallica relay lately. Addr: Belfast. (Chris
Lobdell, Stoneham, MA; Barnes; Jurrens;
Wi lliams)
Radio Wolf International- 6955 at 1300. It' s
been a whi le since thi s multi-pirate station has
been heard . WKND, KZAP, and Radio Flattus
contribute to the in-studio banter. Addr: Blue
Ridge Summit. (Comeau)
Radio XANAX- 6955 at 0200. They promote
(and make fun of) the Xanax tranquilizer, with a
slogan of "The Relaxation Station." Addr:
Stoneham . (Barnes; Brandt; Frodge; Haston;
Prindle; Silvi; Williams)
Redneck Radio- 6955 at 0400. This new one
broadcasts country music with a southern
announcer, but not much is known about it. Addr:
None. (George Zeller, Cleveland, O H; Jurrens)
Take It Easy Radio- 69555 at 1630. Another
new pirate; their southern accented announcer
plays rock music by the Eagles. Addr: None.
(Jurrens; Prindle; Silvi; Williams; Zeller)
Up Against the Wall Radio- 6955 a t 2115.
Using a klaxon "oogah" horn as an interval
signal, Owsley recreates the mood of the late
sixties and early seventies. Addr: Providence.
(Silvi)
Voice of Anarchy- 6955 a t 2030. Leonard
longwire has used highly varied musical styles on
his prog rams over the years. His latest production
osked fo r votes on various songs for a new USA
national anthem, including "The Curly Shuffle."
Addr: Blue Ridge Summit. (Espravn ik; Haston;
Jurrens; Maj"ewski; Silvi; Wolfish)
Voice of He I- 6955 at 2315. They often
materializes on Halloween, but St. Lucifer's devil
music a lso made appearances this summer. Addr:
None. (Haston; Jurrens)
Voice of Shortwave Radio- 6955 at 0200. Rock
and parody ads, a widespread pirate format,
have aired on this new one. Addr: Blue Ridge
Summit. (Artman; Axelrod; Hassig; Mclintock;
Silvi; Williams)

WARR- 6955 at 0330. After a wa it of nearly a

year, Captain No Bea rd's marijuana advocacy
station has been sending out QSL's. As promised
over the air, many include a "nickel bag," which
is a nickel in a plastic bag. Addr: Belfast.
(Axelrod; Frodg_e; Haston; love; Majewski;
Mclintock; Morford; Ross; Silvi)
WBIG- 6955 at 0045. Big Mi ke's rock music still
appears on the pirate bonds. Addr: Belfast.
(Majewski)
WUS- 6955 at 0045. Jack Boggan's veteran
pirote is continually active, so it's a regula r in this
column. Programming always consists of interval
signal tunes used by international broadcasting
stations. Addr: Blue Ridge Summit. (Axelrod;
Comeau; Frodge; Hassig; Hasto n; Jurrens; Silvi;
Williams)
WLS- 6955 a t 0000. Somebody has been
producing a tribute to this Chicago station, using
original jingles from when it was a major top 40
rocker bocl< in the 1970' s. Addr: None. (Hassig;
Haston; Jurrens; Mclintock; Silvi; Williams;
Wolfish)
WMFQ- 6955 at 23 15. This one mixes rock
music with chanted IDs by a group of male
announcers, both in English and Span ish. It' s a
parody of the QSL process. Addr: Providence.
(Axelrod; Frodge; Hoston; Jurrens; Silvi; Wolfish)
WMPR- 6955 at 0 130. Their Techno dance music
has been on for years, with identifications by a
male announcer and the frequency read by a
woman . Addr: None. (Artman; Brandt; Espravnik;
Hassig; Ma jewski; Mclintock; Williams)
WNOT 6955 at 0200. The Amazing Mumford's
rock and roll has found an effective relay via Dr.
Tornado's monster transmitter. Addr: Blue Ridge
Summit. (Coughlin; Espravnik; Jurrens)
WREC- 6955 a t 0030. P. J. Sporx remains
among the most active North American pirates.
His di sti nctive format mixes rock music, comedy,
and parody songs to the tune of well known rock
music. Addr: Belfast and Blue Ridge Summit.
(Kevin Nauta, G rand Rapids, Ml; Artman;
Axelrod; Brandt; Frodge; Haston; Jurrens; love;
Pearce; Silvi; Williams; Wolfish)
WRFI- 6955 at 2045. This unfortunate call sign
occasionally a ppears on the pirate bands,
hopefully without interference. Rock and comedy
domina te the latest version. Addr: None. (Haston)
WRKO Shortwave- 6955 al 1400. Thi s pirate
rebroadcasts rock oldies music from the licensed
WRKO medium wave station in Boston. The
station' s interview with famous pi rates Alon
Weiner and Scott Becker was recently heard.
Addr: Blue Ridge Summit. (Comeau; Haston; Silvi ;
Williams; Wolfish)

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ON THE HAM BANDS

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF AMATEUR RADIO

--------1keJ<erscfiner;-N311<

Lectrokit SP-1 B Spider

ast month we talked about how it was

possible to have a lot of hamming fun
with simple, inexpensive gear_ The SP1Bis a perfect example of simple fun!
The Spider can be purchased in kit form for
$49.95 or full y assembled for $99.95; either
way, it is an exce llent transceiver for the QRP
enthusiast.

The Rig
The Spider transmitter provides about 1.5
watts of RF output on 80, 40.or 30 meters. The
rig is crystal-contro lled using either FT-243 or
HC-17 type crystals (a switch a llows switching
between two crysta ls and, of course, since the
crystals plug in, they are easy to change). There
is a built-in key (ofdecent quality) and a sidetone
generator (to monitor your sending).
The receiver is trul y outstandi ng for a rig of
this price! Sensitivity and selectivity are both
excellent. An optional two pole audio filter
provides superb selectivity and is we ll worth
the extra $8.95 cost.
The receiver is automatically tuned to the
frequency of the transmitter by the frequency
controlling crystal; however, an RIT (receiver
incremental tuning) control allows the operator
to shift frequency a few hundred Hertz. (An
optional variable frequency oscillatorYFO wi ll
be offered soon.) I found the tuning method to
be quite satisfactory and superior in many ways
to a lot of the YFO rigs o n the market.
All you need is a set of headphones or
speaker and antenna to put this compact rig on
the air.

The Kit
I opted to build the kit to sec just what went
into it and how diflicult it was to build. The
basic kit does not include a chassis, so unless
you have o ne around l suggest you o rder one
fro m Lectrokit at a price of $9.95. There is a
deluxe case and panel avail able for $ 19.95,
which is what l got.
When the kit arrived I was pleased to see all
the components were assembled into stages
and bagged individuall y. Components are all of
the highest quality .

Building
This kit is a bit different from many of the
kits available today in that the pc board is not
marked (i.e., silk screened with the part num bers). Instead, the pcb (pc board) is laid out in

12

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October 1997

The rec .
for a . e1ver is tru/
rig ofII. .
. y o11tsta11<1.
l1s Prtce/
111g

8P-1e 1nside \f/ew

grids (on a drawing) and parts are compared to

the drawing (which is very prec ise and of
e xcellent quality).
I fo und thi s method preferable to the pc
label ing many kit manufacture rs use, as it provides an accurate double-check of every component. Too many pc boards today are poorly
labeled, making it diffic ult to tell exactly which
component goes where and how it goes. lf you
are a firs t time kit bui lder this technique may be
a bit mo re diffi cult to foll ow initi ally, but once
it is understood you w ill li ke it.
I would say this kit can be bui lt successfull y
by the first time kit builder without help (provided the person knows how to solder properly).
An experienced builder will put this kit
together in four or five hours; the novice may
require double that time. There are no tricky
jobs in vo lved with building the S pider as
Lectrokit provides excelle nt detailed plans and
explanati ons.
The Spider can be built for 80, 40, or 30
meters. I choose 40. as I had a lot of crystals on
hand for that band. The manufacturer provides
all components to put the unit on the band of
your choice.
My kit went together in a single weekend
and was o n the air that same weekend. Usi ng a
33 foot long Marconi antenna. stations were
worked out to about 500 miles with ease. Signal
reports ranged from 599 to 339. Coupled to my
40 meter dipole I was able to work several
stations in the western USA, including Arizona, Texas. Washingto n, and Colorado.
Init iall y I used the Spider witho ut the optional two po le audio filter and fo und some

d ifficulty copying stati ons through the QRM .

but upon add ing the fi lter it was a totally different story; QRM was no longer a proble m and
sig nals popped right out of the noise. The two
pole ti ltercost $8.95 and is well worth the price.
It can be built and installed in an hour o r so.
Crystals for your Spider can be obtained
fro m several sources. If you dec ide to purchase
a kit you might want to wri te to crystal su ppliers
at the same time and order severa l for the band
you choose. The two best compan ies wou ld be
Petersen Radio Company at 2735 Avenue A,
Council Bluffs. IA 5 150 I: phone 7 12 3237539, and CW Crystals 570 N. Buffalo St.
Marshfie ld. MO 65706.
l might a lso add that. if you choose not to use
Lectrokit's case. they provide you with the
Radio Shack part number for the preferred
metal case.
The Spider is available fro m Lectrokit, 40 I
W. Bogart Rd., Sandusky. Ohio44870; price is
$49.95 (kit) or 599.95 wired and te~tcd: shippi ng/handling is an extra SS. A ten watt model
of the Spider is also a\'ailable for only $59.00
plus 55 s/h.
Cases areS9.95 forthe basic unit and $ 19.95
for a silk screened case and panel. T here is also
an antenna tuner kit avail able at a price of
$37.00 plus $5 s/h.
Write for their complete catalog and information sheets.
If you are looking for a fun rig. ei ther assembled or in kit form, the Spider deserves your
consideration. I like minea lot and use it almost
daily.
O nce mo re we have run out of space: keep
the letters and cards coming.

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adm $5 .

October 10 - 12
Canadian lnt'I DX Club

35th Anniversary convention (new dates!). Contact

CIDX Vice-president Mickey Delmage, Edmonton,
Alberta 403-450-2231,
cidxqsl@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca for more info.

October 12
Lincroft, NJ

NJ State Conv, Shore Area Hamfest I PO Box 635,

Eatontown, NJ 07724, Al Jackson NK20 (908) 9228121. Location: Brookdale Community College, GS
Pkwy ex-109, Won Rt 520. Talk-in 145.485/-6. Opens
Sam (breakfast 7:30). Adm $6

Bethpage, NY

Lo ng Island Mobile ARC (LIMRC) I Diane Ortiz, K2DO,

LIMARC, P.O. Box 392, Levittown, NY 11 756,
(516)520-93 11 , LIMARC73@aol.com,www.aol.com/
RaySk/LIMARC1 .HTML Location: Briarcliffe College,
1055 Stewart Avenue, Bethpage. Talk-in 146.85 (136.5
PL) Admission 8:30am-2pm, $6.

October 26 - November 2
Contest for European DXers

CORAD : Tropical Country Radio 1997, Memorial

Berhnhard Gruendl contest. Research contest to help
DXers who are unable to listen regularly at night. For
information on listening times and targets, contact
Marco CERRUTI. P.O. Box 146, 13100 VERCELLI,
ITALY

Octobe r 26
Sellersville, PA

RH Hill ARC I Linda Erdman KA3TJZ (215) 679-5764,

2220 Hill Rd, Perkiomenville, PA 18074. Location:
newly rebuilt Sellersville Fire House, Rt 152, 5 mi.
south of Quakertown, 8 mi north of Montgomeryvi lle.
T alk-in 145.31. VE testing 10am-1pm, a ll classes, bring
documents; Admission $5.

Send announcements or club information to: Editor, Monitoring Times , P.O. Box 98,
Brasstown, NC 28902-0098. Fax 704-837-2216, mteditor @grove.net. See
www.grove.net/mtclubs.html for listing of North American and international clubs or
send an SASE to Clublist, at address above . See ARRL's web s ite at http://
www.arrl.org/hamfests.html for full hamfest calendar.

Capitol Hill Monitors: Alan Henney, 6912

Prince Georges Ave, Takoma Park, MD 209125414, (301) 270-2531/5774 fax. DC, MD.
No.VA, So.DE. Scanner bands. Frequency
Fmum BBS 703-207-9622 (8-N-1 ) Capitol Hill
Monitor. $10. Meets irregularly.
Central Florida Listeners Group: Mark Kuziv,
KC4ZVK, 3217 St. Augustine Ct., Kissimmee,
FL 34746 (407) 933-7163, kuziv @magicnet.
net. Central Florida; All bands. Net on 146.820
MHz Sun 8 pm. Conference #10 on Laser BBS
(407) 647-0031 or Bullwinkle's Corner BBS
(407) 896-5772.
Central Indiana Shortwave Club: Steve
Ham mer, 25 17 E. DePauw Road, Indianapolis,
IN 46227-4404. Central Indiana; SW b roadcasting, pirates, and the offbeat. Shortwave
Oddities.
Central VA Radio Enthusiasts: Richard
Rowland, POB 34832, Richmond. VA 232340832. Metro Richmond and vicinity . VHF/UHF.
SASE. No newsletter, no dues. Meets quarterly
in Richmond.
Chicago Area DX 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.
Club d'ondes courtes du Quebec: Dominique
Duplessis, 5120 35 eme rue, Grande-Mere,
Quebec, Canada, G9T 3N6; e-mail
dduplessis@infoteck.qc.ca; http://
www.infobahnos.com/-pedro . Annual $40
Canadian . L'Onde, monthly (French). Sample
US$2.
Chicago Area Radio Monitoring Association
(CARMA): Ted & Kim Moran, Box 2681,
Glenview, IL 60025. (630) 612-0609 fax.
Chicago & midwest. Public safety & general
coverage. CARMA BBS (630)852-1292.
CARMA Newsletter. Meetings (Sais) and
newsletter bi-monthly on alternate months.
Communications Research Group: Scott
Miller, 122, Greenbriar Drive, Sun Prairie, WI
53590-1 706. Wisconsin area. Scanning.
DecalcoMa nia: Paul Richards, P.O. Box 126,
Lincroft, NJ 07738, (908)591-2522. Worldwide
AM , FM and collecting radio related items.
DecalcoMania. $9 US, $10 Can/Mex, $15 Eur,
$16 Asia/Pac. Emai l: DecalMania @aol.com
De law are County (PA) Emerge ncy Radio
Club:David A. Donohue, 610.493.0292
DDONOHUE@bigfoot.com. Scanning public
safety in Delaware, Philadelphia. Buck, and
Chester counties. Monthly meetings and online
newsletter www.tripod .com/-ddonohue/
DCERC.HTM - $5 dues.
DX Audio Service (National Radio Club):
Ken Chatterton, P.O. Box 164, Mannsville, NY
13661-0164, (315) 387-3583; http://wcoil.com/
-gnbc. Worldwide. North American Broadcasters. DX-Audio Service (90-min.tape). Sample
$3.
Fire Net: Tom K ravitz, Box 1307 , Cu lver City,
CA 90232, 310-838-1436, internet
mpage@ netcom .com. All of California ; fire,
EMS, tied in w ith nationwide notification net.
Fire Notification Network of Michigan: Garry
Watts, PO Box 1312, Warren, Ml, 48090-1312,
(810) 772-4423; firenet @usa.net. Michigan
a lphanumeric pager net, b reaking news via text
pager. Customizable Michigan and national
o ptions available.

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CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS AND TIPS

Dou Demow, WI FB

Feed-line Tips and Equipment Protection

nme shortwave en1husia >ls I have know

ha ve a casual ou1 look abou1 an lennas.
feed Ii nes. and prolcct ion devices for
lhl.'.ir slat ion equipmcnl. Thl.'. ir prinl.'.ipal focus
sl.'.c rm to be centered 0 11 c rl.'. cling a dipole or
cnd-kd wire and hooking a receiver to ii.
Upon as king a few quc,1ions I learned that
man y or the basic practices for station efficil.'.lll'Y and equipment safel y were unknown
IO thC'l.'. SWI ,s.
Thi , month we wi II consider some fundarnL'nta l procedures that might make your liste ning post more eflcc1i ve whi le providing
protL'ction for your reccivcrs and accessory

house. The question is frequently asked, "Will

it hurt tu bury the feed line?" Thi ~ deserves a
..yes .. and .. no answer. Never bury ordinary
coax. such as RG-58. RG-8. RG-8 X, or RG2 11 in the soil. Most locations have acid and
alkaline curnpone nls in the ground. These
chemicals will quickly contaminate and ruin
coax ial cable.
But .. yes ... there are 50-llhm. RG -8 size
ca bles made especiall y for in-grou nd installation. These cables arc impregnated with a
sticky substance that preven ts moisture from
erll ering the cable. Also. the outer jackets are
made of tough c hem ical/moisture-resistant
polyet hylene materi al. Designators for these
cables are lmpervon (Times Wire & Cable
Co.). VB-8 (Decibel Products Corp.), and
Bury-8. The latter is avai lable from the suppl ier listed in note l.

ge ar.

Old versus New Coaxial Cable

Signal losses occu r eve n in new coax ial

cable. The losses in dB (decibels) are proportional to the type of coax. the insulation used
within it. the operating frequ ency and the
le ngth of the feed line. It is to your advantage
tu mi ni mize these losses so that weak signals
will travel from your antenna to your receiver
with the least reduction in strength.
RG-8 coax is less lossy per I00 feet than
RG-58. However, RG-8 is bulkier and more
difficult to route into the house. A newer and
less lossy coax cable has become more popular than RG-8 in recent years. It is identified as
RG -2 13. If you prefer a modern low-loss 50oh m coaxial cable that i ~ onl y slightly larger
in diameterthan RG-58 (s imi Jar in size to RG59). you may use RG- 8X. It is relative ly
inex pensive and very flex iblc.
Beware of bargain coaxial cable or cable
that is known to be man y years old. Coax
cable that has been out of doors for several
years is usuall y in poor condition. This results
from UV radiati on and airborne chemicals
co11ta111inating the \' inyl ULllcr jacket of the
coax and allowing the byproduct to leac h into
the inner ins ul ati on of1he cable. Th is makes it
lossy.
Moisture leak ing into the cable along the
shi L'l tl braid and outer jacki:l. ovi:r time . will
abu ca u ~c the coax to become contamin ated
and ln"Y You can pre,cnt moisture from
erlining your coax cablc by t"ing a putty-l ike
sub,tancc cal led Coax SL'al. Coax connectors
thal arc used out of doors shou ld be sealed
wi1h thi s compound. Li kew ise at the point s
whi.:rc 1hc cables mate with the coax connec74

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I Checking for Cable Loss

If you question the quality of your coaxial

feed line. especially if it has been out of doors

tors. 1
It is wise to use new coaxial cable, or some
of known quality that you may have on hand.
When purchasing new coax make sure the
outer conductor (shield braid) does not consist of only a few woven strands of copper.
The braid should have numerous small copper wires woven into a ti ght mesh that obscures the inner insulation of the cable when
you expose the shield braid. The better the
integrity of the braid the more effective its
shieldin g abi lity.
Losses per I00 feet for each popular type
of coaxial cable, versus freque ncy. are li sted
in The ARRL Amenna Buok.1 It is important
to remember that a 3-d B loss through a given
length of coax cable when receiving a signal
is equi va lent to the trans mitter at the other
end of the line cutting its power in half.
Therefore. the greater the feed-line loss. the
weaker wi ll be that DX signal you are trying
to copy. Keep the coax ial feed line to you r
antenna as short as practicable. Th is is especia lly im portant at VHF and UHF. where
feed- line losses are always the highest.
Can I Bury Coaxial Cable?

It is sometimes desirable to bury the coaxial ki:d line between the antenna and the

FIGURE 1 - Examples of lightning

arrestors for use in coaxial feed lines. The
upper on e c1111tai11s a gas discharge tube
(see text).

PL-259

PL-258

----tl~ I

---4..COAX

WM

PL-259

;J---COAX

PROPER COAX SP LI CE
FIGURE 2 - Illustration of the correct way to join odd lengths
for two or more years. you can use a transmit ter. a 50-ohm resist ivc load. and an RF power
meter tu make a test. You do not need to ha ve
an FCC license to transmit into a dummy
antenna.
First. place the RF power meter at the
tran smitler output jack. Connect the 50-ohm
dummy antenna to the far end of the coax to be
tested. Connect the remaining end IO the power
meter. Turn on the transmit1er and note the
power reading in watts (W I ). Next 1110\e the
power meter to the far end of the coax. just
ahead of the dummy antenna. Transmit and
nott: the RF power reading (W2).
Subtract W2 from WI. This will reveal the
line loss in watts. Walls may be convened to
dB by using dB= I 0 x the log of (W l/W2).
Thus. if you have I00 watts al the transmitter
end of the coax line. but on ly 35 watts at the
far encl of the coax line. the loss is 4.56 dB.

I!{ coaxial cable.

ity earth ground. An excellent article that

describes the nature of lightning and how it is
generated was writ1cn by F. O'Driscol l. It
appeared on page 8 of June 1997 MT.

I Splicing Coaxial Cable

Sometimes it is necessary to join odd
lengths of coaxial cable 10 provide sufficient
fco.:d-line length between the antenna and the
station. I have seen examples where the uso.:r
simpl y soldered the inner conductors together.
wrapped the junction with electrical !apt:.
then soldered the sh ield braids together and
added more tape. Al though thi s may be an
acceptable temporary expedient. the opportunity for water to elller the cable is significant.
Abu. sp lices of thi s type weaken the cable.
The inner and ou ter conductors of the cable
can easily pull apart in the presence of wind.

or just from the weig ht of the cable.

T he proper way to join sections of coax
cable is to use PL-259 male connectors at the
ends of the coax where the splice is lo be
made. A PL-258 fo.:male coax un ion or "barre l" connector is in stalled between the two
PL-259 connectors (figure 2). Coax Seal may
then be used to cove r and protect the connectors from n1oi s1 urc and corrosion. The three
con nectors ca n be pu rchased fo r roughl y $2
from the vendor in note I .

Closing Comments
;\ quality ea rth ground fo r lightning protecti on can be made by driving fou r (1-foot
copper rod~ in the grou nd and bond ing them
together wi th shield bra id from RG-8 coax
cable. Ideal ly. the brai d wou ld be soldered tu
each rod. The four rods should be s paced at
least four fee t from one another. Addit ional
shie ld braid may he used from the ground
system to the c;1sc of you r lightning arrestor.

I Notes
l - The Rad io Works, Box 6159, Portsmouth,
VA 23703. Phone: 1-800-280-8327 to order.
2 - The ARRL, Inc., 225 Main Street,
Newington, CT 06111-1494
3-Amoteur Electronic Supply, Inc., 5710 W.
Good Hope Rd. , Milwaukee, WI 53223 . Phone:
1-800-558-04 11 to order.

I Equipment Protection
We must always be mindful of the hazards
of lightning with respect to our radio equ ipment. My practice is to disconnect the antennas and unhook my station equipment from
the AC power outlet if a storm is forecast.
Also, I use surge protectors bet ween my equipment and the AC outlets . The modem in my
computer is protected by a surge suppressor
between it and the phone line. I always unplug
the phone line from the computer when a
storm is expected. just to be sure that no
equipment damage occurs. AC line surge
suppressors are avai lahle in various models at
computer supply stores.
Devices are available to protect rece ivers
from li ghtning energy. Figure I shows two
lightning arrestors sold by Cushcraft Corp.
They are available from Amateur Electronic
Supply.' The upper arrestor contains a fast
acting gas di scharge tube which protects your
equipment from surges up to 5000 amperes. I1
fires with in I00 nanoseconds in the presence
of 50 vo lts or less.
The lower unit is known as a Blitz Bug
lightning arrestor. I do not have performance
speci fication s for thi s mode l. These arrestors
arc installed in se ries with the coaxial feed
line. The ir cases must be connected to a qua I-

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PiLANE TALK
MAKING SENSE OF CIVILIAN AERONAUTICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Jeon Boker, KIN9DD

Windshear: The Unseen Enemy

ave you e\cr wondcrcd just what

approach cont rollers an: ta lkin g
about when they a(l\'iSL' pilots that
"Jow-kvd windshear has bec n reportt:d on
lhe fie ld""/ Let s examine thi s weathe r phenomena and why it" s so dangerous to aircraft
la nd in g and laking o ff du ring storms.
Most meteorologists ddinc windshear as
any sudden change in wind 'peed. wi nd
di rection. or both. Windshcars are created by
air !low ing o\er rough terra in. by \\'arm air
currents ris ing from sun-hcatcd ground. by
thc collision o f air masscs o f dillc renl temperaturcs and moi sture contcnt. and by thunderslonns. Most ha ve no effect on airborne
planes. Some. referred lo as turbu le nce. arc
ft: ll by passengers as humpincss . So wi nd
shear is a common occurrcncc.
The National Center fo r Atmospheric Rescarch. toget her with other scientists. conductcd field cxperimcnts and determined that
a wind s ht:ar cal led a microburst" is responsi ble for aircraft acc ide nt s on take-offs and
landings. Microbursts arc produccd when a
rainshowcr or thunderstorm creates a current
o f rapi d ly dow nwa rd mo ving a ir - a
downdraft - that spreads ou t hori zonta ll y in
a starbursl pattern when il st rikes thc gro und.
j ust as \Vatcr from a faucet spread s o ut when
it hi ts a sin k.
Wi mbhcar cndangcrs plancs for the fo llowi ng reason . Once a plane hits a microburst.
it encounters an increase in head winds radi ating away from the ce nter o f thc downd raft.
Th is increasc in head winds enhances the
airlfow ove r the pl anes wings. causing the
planc to pitch upward and forc ing the pilot to
co mpcnsate by reduc ing engine power. Then.
as the plane passes through thc downdraft
cc ntcr. the head wind rapidly dccrcases and
becomes a ta i I wind. and the ai r!low over the
wings suddenly fa lls off. wit h a correspondin g decrease in lift (sec illu stratio n).
Any additional loss o f ai rspccd. caused by
1he pilot red uci ng engine power and/or the
down draft of air pushing thc plane toward the
ground. contribute,; furt her 10 this haLardou'
~ itua1ion. If the aircraft i' too clo'c 10 the
ground \\'hen thi s happen s. thcn: may not be
enough time for the pil ot to rcacl and for the
engi ncs 10 regain sufficient power 1o co111pcnsalc fo r 1hc loss in ai rspectl. Thi.-. is the likely
sequence of events which led to thc crash of
C lippc r (Pan Am) flight 759 during takeo ff
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October 1997

from New Orleans in 1982. as

\1ell as the Del1a crash during
landin g at Dallas-Ft. Worth in
1985. and cou n1 lcss ot herwea1herrelated aviat ion acc idents through
the years.
Microbursls ;1re seasonal. They
arc associa1ed with thunderstorms
and rain showcrs and occur - but
arc not li mitcd to - spring and
1-::. su m mer. or whenever such storms
take placc locall y. Because pre. :.
c ipi tation is important in the prod uct ion of a downdra ft.
microhursts arc always assoc iated wi th a prewin d s hear imm edi ate ly foll ow in g th e
cipi tation cloud. The rain need never ac tu all y downdraft hitting the grou nd is twenty-seve n
reac h the ground. however. In the dry climi les per hour. and that windshear increases
mates of the western states. rain may evapoto fifty-six miles per hour from fi ve to ten
rate completely before it reaches ground leve l.
minutes afte r in iti al im pact and then decreases
yet sti ll produce a strong microbur' l.
rapid ly. Because of the small s ize and short
These above grou nd -level shuwcrs are a
li feti me of a microburst. existi ng wind- mcaparticular threat to ai rcraft. because the pre- suring sys tcms at airports are freq uent ly unc ipitating cloud looks innocent and thc pil ot able to detect mi croburst winds in ti me to
warn aircraft.
may be caugh t completely unaware. This is
what happened on 31 May 1984 whe n a Uni ted
Low-Leve l Wind S hear Ale rt Syste ms
Airlines jct was taking off from Stapleton (LLWSAS) have bccn installed at over 11 0
Airport in Denver. The plane was departi ng
major airports across the country and have
during a see ming ly benign sho\l'cr in whi ch proven to be of at least some value. Meanon ly a few raindrops reached the ground. Bu t.
while. rescarch is con ti nui ng to upgrade and
improve thei r uscfu lness. For exa mpl e. durjust as the plane was lifting off the runway. it
penctratcd a microbu rst and lost about twentying the next sevcral years a procedure is
fi ve mil es per hour of airspeed.
cx pectcd to evolve that will prov ide warnings
The ai rcraft was only about ten fect o il the of wind shears and other hazardous weathe r
ground and eleven hund red feet be yond the condit ions to most maj or airports. Thi s sysend of thc runway when the fuselage was
tem wi ll bc based 0 11 new Doppl er radars and
punctured in thrcc places by an anten na on the
wi ll be capable of estimating wind speeds and
ground . The plane then moved out of the direct ion evcry 200 to 300 feet wi thi n a fiftymicroburst and rapidl y gai ncd altitude but
milc radi us .
had to rc turn to the airport bec au ~e the holes
Since not all ai rports are equipped with
in the fuse lage made it impossi blc lo pressurDoppl er radar systems. the FAA mandated
ize thc cabin.
thal all commercial aircraft must havc onboard
An almo~t cert ain disaster was narrowly win dshear detcct ion or predicti on systcms.
averted because the pilot used a recent ly deAirborne sensors may include a m icrowave
ve loped 1nicrohurst fl ying proced urc lha1 in - radar se nsor. a laser system called Dopplcr
volved pitc hing the plane up while nHl\ing at
LIDAR (light detec ting and ranging). and an
a low specd. However. thi s procedure docs
infrared detector.
not mean that pilots can nowsafe l) ll y th rough
The prima ry task ahead is to develop immicrobun.ls. If the ta il \\ind had been on ly
proved compu ier modcls that will rapidly
slightl y stronger. a c rash would ha \'C been
extract wind shear and weather informa tion
unavoidab le.
from radar and othcr instrument data and
Ana lysi s of data fro m field experimcnts com muni cate it in a concise. in fo rm ative
indicates lha1 the average microbursl lasts man ner lo pi lots and co ntrollers as quic kly as
on ly tcn tll twen ty minutes. that the typical
poss ible.

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fEDERAL FILE

A GUIDE TO GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS

John Fulford, WA4VPY

email: JOHNF04 73@ool.com

Privatizing" Federal Communications

11

f Congress has its way. 1he federal governme nt communi catio ns systems w ill
go sem i-comme rcial in the near fu ture.
He re is the abbrevi ated tex t of Mr. Larry
Irving. who is 1he Ass istanl Secretary for
Communi caiions and Informatio n. Nati onal
Teiecomm unica1io nsand In form a1io n Adminislratio n (NTI A). in his test imo ny before the
U. S . Depart men I o f C omme rce. T he hearing
was o n the F isca l Year 1998 NTI A approprialions before 1he Subco mmiltee o n Commerce.
Ju s1ice. the Judi cia ry . a nd Related Agenc ies
o n Approprialio ns. House o f Re presentatives
o n March 13. 1997.

I Spectrum Efficiency:
The Federal Governme nt constantl y seeks
tn moderni ze ils radi o co mmun ications, decrease the channel bandwid1h s. and increase
its use of new lechno lo gies. These are some of
the manage ment tools we use ... .
Federal governme nt use rs must use comme rc ial services whe n poss ible ... NTIA requires that e ve ry gove rnmenl use r requestin g
a frequency ass ig nme nt must firs! dete rmine
that !heir needs cannot be me t by a pri vate or
commercia ll y avai Iable service provider. This
po licy. contained in NTI A regul a1ions, has
resul ted in inc reased use of comme rcial se rvices by go vernme nt users . Fo r exampl e, the
Departmen t o f Defense has increased its use
of commercial sa1ell ite services . and man y
age ncies are using Commercial Land Mobile Services (emphasis mine).
In 1993, the Secretary of Commerce s ubm i11ed the Land Mo bile Spec lrum Efficienc y
Plan to Congress . as requi red by the NTIA
O rganizati o n Act. The imple me 111ation of this
plan resullcd in :
I. More use of commercial and government
o wned trunk ing systems
2. Doublin g the c hanne ls in three maj o r fed eral land mobile bands lhro ugh new narrow band lechno logy, and
3. The promo ti o n o f sharing w i1h the private
sector.
O nly rece ntly has the pri vate secto r ad opted
a narrow band chan nel plan.
Thanks to Jim Conrad fo r finding thi s and
subm itting it to 1he FedCom mai ler.
As we have bee n saying for !he past year or
so. the re is less and less fede ral acti vity on
fe deral channels. We have been recei ving
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spo radi c reports of federal agenc ies showing

up o n comme rcia l trunking syste m s. It loo ks
like we mig ht be seeing more of thi s in the
fu ture. I think it will be a wh ile before we find
the FB I and 1he DEA sha ring 1runking time
with the local pizza deli very company or the
pool co ntractor. but if the NTI A has its way,
thi s could be the wave of the future. Start
buying those Un iden Trunk-Trackers now
be fore they are all gone .

I Reader Input
We have received our first item ofTrunkTracker information concern ing a federal syste m. Thi s was o n the FedCom mailer and w as
submitted by Bruce Varine regarding the FBI
out in Portland, Oregon. Bruce writes that the
local FBI is on the local 800 MHz trunked
system and is using talk group 16528. Bruce
goes on to say that the U .S. Marshal is also to
be found on that system. Bruce has an e-ma il
address of " WitchDr @usa.net" if you want
more information on the syste m .
I' ll bet if we look very close ly into o ur
local police and commercial S MR systems ,
we will find more o f the above throughout 1he
country.
From informal ion on the Scan-L mailer, it
seems that Garde n C ity, New Je rsey, has the
local DEA on its 800 MHz trunked system .
They did no t provide any talk groups or frequenc ies. Information please? Garden C ity
use s an o ld Ty pe I system, so apparently the
fi rst fleet map in the book will work, but we
need specifies.
One o f the contributors to the Scan-L, who
wished to re main anonymo us. has just fin is hed up workin g o n the DEA radios. He says
!hat apparently DEA has standardized its rad io system nationwide o n their UHF channel s. Herc is 1he current standard plan:
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418 625/41 6.050

418.900/416.325
418.750--simplex
418 675--simplex
418.825/415.600
418.950/416.200
418.975/417025
418.975--simplex

This frequency plan is apparently good

th roug hout thi s hemis phere. N umerous repo rts ha ve come in from Mex ico and South
America where 418.625 MH z is the main

c hannel o perati ng from the DEA headquarte rs in the A merican Embassy . The subaudible to ne is 156.7 Hz.
Last mo nth we had several submi ssio ns
fro m the Washington, D .C. area . A reade r
who wishes to re main ano nymous did some
camping in the C atoctin Mountain N atio nal
Park. For those of us who did no t know, th is
is where C amp David is located. He stated
that interesting conversatio ns have been mo nito red o n not only the Secret Service " Delta"
freq uency of 169.925 MHz (whic h is used by
the Marine Corps guards), but al soon the Park
Ranger repeate r for the natio nal park. The
freque ncy fo r this system is 171 .725 MH z
out put wi th 172 .525 MH z i n pu t . Th e
su baudi ble tone is 141.3 MHz.
Over in Maryland the re is some se rio us
monitoring going on. I say this with tongue in
c heek because this is the ho me of the Nationa l
Security Agency-the ho meof the " Big Basement. " The NSA headquarters are located o n
the grounds of Ft. Meade Army Post. Ft.
Meade has recently gone to a trunked system.
Their ou tpu t frequenc ies are:
406.325
407.400
407.575
409.450

It seems the Nationa l Security Agency has

set up its ow n trunked system. They are using
the fo llowin g output freque ncies:
408.150
408.625
409.525
410.275

The o nly thing monito red is admini strati ve

type traffic and the syste m is a low power o ne .
Do not look for the latest C NN headline story
to be broadcast o n this system fi rst.
A mystery frequency of 4 14.225 M Hz has
been showing up in the Washing ton/ Balt imore area. It has a subaud ible tone of 167.9
Hz w ith it. This tone is used by the FB I in its
rad ios. T he reporter says that it sounds like a
Motorola Intrac data system, but it is on the a ir
consta111 ly.
A check o f !he data base sho ws that this
frequency is assig ned throug ho ut the S tate of
Maryland for law enforcement mo biles only.
It seems the DEA is also autho rized to use this
frequency in Washington and ide ntifies ii by
1he call sign " WDL."
It was used up until a couple of years ago
by the DEA/ A TF T ask Force Group 34 wh ic h
operated fro m a building o n 7th. Street S W.

They moved their operations to a Pennsylvania A venue location in Maryland between the
Beltway and the DC line. They also used
419.275 MHz along with the normal DEA
frequencies (mentioned elsewhere in this article) for surveillance.

I Data Delivery on 142.925

There is telemetry being monitored on
142.925 MHz in the Washington area. It is
similar to the weather data which is transmitted on 163.35 MHz. Similar data is being
heard on 139.650 MHz.
There are two (or more) possible answers
for these signals. The first is they could be
coming from Silver Springs. FEMA has a
disaster network for Region 3 which is based
at Olney, with the callsign of KPS303. It is
possible they are relaying weather data from
the 163.350 net.
The 139.650 MHz signal is used almost
nationwide by the Air Force. It carries special
energy utility conservation telemetry networks. They use multiple receivers in the
system to control electricity to selected sites
on the bases. The system at Andrews Air
Force Base is rated at 90 watts and the sites at
Ft. Myer, Ft. Lee, and Langley are rated at 60
watts. You can monitor the civilian equivalent on the frequency of 154.45625 MHz.

I FCC Rides in Style

One of our faithful monitors, Ken Wyatt, of
Colorado, sent in a submission to the Fedcom
mailer regarding the FCC monitoring vehicles
in use. He had seen the latest vehicles in use out
of the Denver Field Office and passed along the
following information.
The vehicles are late model Ford Explorers
with heavily tinted windows. The entire cargo
area in the rear of the vehicle is full of equipment.
A two foot diameter hole is cut out of the
center of the roof. There a fiberglass antenna
which is vertically polarized but horizontal in
structure is installed. It consists of36 radials. It
is then covered in another layer of fiberglass
which is flush with the remaining metal roof.
The entire works is then body-puttied around
the edge and the roof is repainted to match the
body color.
The external antennas include a disguise broadcast, which covers the VHF communications, the
OF antenna built into the roof (mentioned above),
a GPS receive antenna also built into the roof, two
cellphone antennas, and a UHF look-alike scanner
receive antenna The communications on the vehicle include VHF on 167.050 MHz and encrypted
cellphone capability.
The receivers on board include a programmable AOR 3(XX) scanner and a Watkins-Johnson

"black-box" receiver. This is an interesting shortwave receiver. It is essentially a black box. It is

completely computer-controlled and has no external knobs. Price is in the 30,(XX) dollar range. There
is a remote controlled spectrum analyzer and a
couple of PC computers with touchscreens which
have a console mounted display. They run the
receivers and the spectrum analyzer. There is also
a multi-mode television receiver on each vehicle.
Each mobile unit includes a separate hard drive
on one of the computers with the entire map of the
United States linked to theirGPS system. TheGPS
is controlled by one PC and the Watkins-Johnson
receiver and spectrum analyzer is controlled by the
other PC. Everything is recorded on 1/2 inch video
tapeona VHSrecorderindataformatforreplaying
back at the office.
A source tells me that there are twelve to fifteen
of these vehicles located throughout the United
States, with the majority being in majormonitoring
locations. They had been using large, late model
sedans with dark windows, but it seems they
needed more space for the additional equipment
and vans draw attentioll--1>0 they went to the
Explorers.

I Custom-ary Frequencies
I keep getting mail that Customs has a new
frequency of 165.235 MHz. This is not correct.
Some of the scanners will not allow the fourth
decimal place to be entered. The actual frequency was, and still is, 165.2375 MHz.
While we are discussing Customs, it seems
they have gotten sneaky on us and are using the
frequency of 163.250 MHz for simplex surveillance operations in some areas. The frequency
of 163.250 is a nationwide hospital paging
frequency. Customs is using it in some areas

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their operations.
This brings up another point. With all of the
two-way radios out there now either being "dial
up the frequency" or PC synthesized, a lot of
law enforcement agencies-local, state, and
federal- have discovered the paging channels.
It appears the nationwide paging channels are
being programmed into their two-way radios.
They use these channels for low power tactical
operations. If they can find an unused channel
in their area, they have a new frequency to use.
I don't know how it is in your area, but the 454
MHz band has a lot of unused frequencies in it
here in South Florida. Might be a good place to
look.
A New York City source, who has proven
reliable in the past, sent me the following:
New York CiJy Customs Band Plan

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165.2375
165.2375
166.4625
165.4875
165.4875
166.1250
165.4625
165.4625

Simplex
166.4375
Simplex
166.5625
Simplex
Simplex
166.5875
Simplex

There is some traffic noted on 169.450 MHz,

but the signal is weak in his area of New York
City.

I New E-Mail address

I have a new e-mail address. You may reach
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SATELLITE TV
ADVENTURES IN THE CLARKE BELT

Ken Reitz, KS4ZR

e-mail: ks4zr@compuserve.com

Satellite Radio For Your Car

(2.3 GHzS-band) is very narrow and w ill on ly

f you ask man y Ameri cans, they might
as 200 mil es fro m U.S . coasts. Customers
say the rig ht to dri ve a car is covered in
support two compe titors. The two hi ghest
include shipping com panies which deal with
the first te n amendments to the U. S.
bids. C D Radio and AMRC. won.
maritime. air. and land transportation.
Co11sti1111io11. Hundreds of millions of veNeither company was exactl y dozing in
AMSC provides seamless communications
hicles cram our hi ghways every day. Milli o ns the five year interim that it took the FCC to get
between sate llite and land based transmission
mo re lie in tens of thousands of rusting auto
in gear. Both are building satellites and deve lmodes. They wi ll fly two satell ites in the 2.3
graveyards. a nd still mil lio ns more are roll ing oping production models of thei r respective
GHz band for their OARS at 85 degrees and
o ut of Detro it and steaming o ver from across receiving equipment. The interesti ng thing
I I 0 degrees west.
the seas . One oft he few things that can top our about the receivers is that the FCC has reCD Radi o has pionee red many of the techconsum ptio n of c ars might be our consumpq uired they be compati ble with each other
ni cal aspects of digita l rad io and has brought
tion of radios.
(doubtless remembering the Beta vs. VHS
some innovati ve techno logy to the service.
Happi ly, ne arly every car in thi s country contest) so th at customers may switch beTheir novel 2" diame ter flat antenna sends the
has a radio of some sort in it and most have
tween services without having to buy new
down-converted sate lli te s ignal to the in-dash
cassette tape players. In a move to add even receivers. My guess is that the se rvices will be
receiver via a miniature transmiller o perating
more e nte rlainment to o ur dri ving ,
at 900 MHz. Since the probuilt -in C D players are now stangra mmin g is sen t via a
dard equipme nt on luxury models
highs peed data stream there's
with add-ons widely available at
no loss in the extra transmisdecreasing prices. Is there no end
sion hop.
to our need to be distracted from
C D Radio will fly its two
the road ?
S-band birds at 80 degrees
Maybe ... The fin al word o n inand 110 degrees west.
car audio ente11ai nmcnt is just abo ut
to dawn and its debut may be even
Programming
more auspicious than that of s mal I
Both OARS providers
di sh sate llite TV.
plan to use similardigital comThe FCC call s it the Dig ital
press io n technology to deli ver
Audio Radio Service (OARS). but
the
C D q uali ty aud io that
you'll ca ll it sate llite radio- the
makes
this service so appealbest thing you've ever heard in
ing.
Wh
ile AMRC has yet to
your car. Last April th e FCC
release its programming plans,
awarded the onl y two licenses it
C D Radio says it will offer 50
will issue for the service to CD
CD Radio plans to change the way you hear music in your car. Not
c
hannels of audio programRad io. Inc. and Ameri can Mobile
only will you get great CD quality music, hut the selection
ming.
30 cha nne ls will be forRadio Corp. (AMRC). The two
currently playing will he displayed 011 an digital read-out screen.
matted music similar to that
bought the rights to use thi s part of The recefrer will cost an estimated $ 150 more to i11clude th e
c urre ntly found on terrestrial
satellite hand. (Co urtesy CD Radio, Inc.)
the spectru m by plunking down
audio sate lli te broadcasters
$83 million and $89 mi llion reOMX
a
nd
Music
C ho ice (see chart). In addispec ti vely. Industry sources be lieve this to be
nearly ide ntical a la DirecTV and DISH. and
tion , CD radio plans to have 20 c hannels of
a very cheap price for an industry which that the onl y differences may be in billing
sports, news, and talk-show for mats. Industry
fi g ures to gross over a bi llio n doll ars per year schemes.
sources say that these additi o nal 20 channels
j us t a few short years after launch.
may be ad vertis ing supported.
The Players
C D Radio won't re ly o n other establ ished
Satellite Radio History
Both companies have a cla im to promote.
networks or services to provide their proThe deadline fo r applying fo r FCC apAM RC is a division of American Mobile
grammi ng . They pla n to initi ate all of their
prova l fo r the OARS was in 1992. Surpri s- Satellite Corp.(AMSC), a company whic h
programming includi ng the ta lk channels. CD
ingly. o nl y four companies came forcward.
provides satellite de livered data. vo ice. and
Radio Chairman and CEO David Margolese
However, it took five years to award the pagi ng services to the transportatio n industry.
says ' .. .We plan to ... construct our national
li censes due to wrangling among FCC com- AM RC has bee n operat ing it s L-band Hughesbroadcast studio, a superstudio housing 50
missione rs and a steady stream of objections built satellite, in geosynchronous orbit at I 0 I
radio statio ns under o ne roof, in the talentfrom the terrestri al radio broadcast indu stry degrees west, s in ce its launch two or more
ri ch e nvironment o f New York ... " He sees his
headed by the National Association of Broadyea rs ago. It provides vo ice. high speed data,
satell ite radi o deli vered programm ing source
casters. The number of licenses was limited to and facs imile services to custo mers all over
becoming as pe rvasive in radi o as cable is to
two. because the band they'll be o perating in
the U.S., incl uding Puerto Rico. and out as far
television.
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antenna. Given the physics of planetary structure. the further north on

the planet you travel the lower the
look angle and the more chance
there will be somethi ng interfering
with you r signal.
Whal about that big truck next
10 you o n the lnterslale. what about
travel ing through mDunl a inous
slates or in bu ill-up suburban areas?
Cen te r-c ity urba n areas? Tree
shrouded country roads'! Whal about
rain-fade and snow cover? What
wi ll happen lO the in-dash satell ite
receiver the first li me you key up
lJ011 'I throw that Iii/le plastic chip away! That 's y our
your I00 waltSSB ham transceiver?
satellite a11te1111a, dow11co11verler, and 900 M fl z
We imagine that these questions
wireless relay lo you r i11-dash satellite receiver.
wi
ll
be fu ll y addressed by the ti me
(Courtesy CD Radio. Ille.)
recei v.:rs get on the market. DBS
Whi le AMRC ha!>nl annoum.:ed detai ls of satelli te TV had a number of problems when
their n:cciving eq uipment or subsc ription it first burst upon the scene and has managed
plans. CD Radio plans lo offer their services lo overcome them.
on a ~ ub,c ripti o n hasis for arou nd S lO per
month. They apcc l lo se ll most or their units I Final Four Wheel Frontier
in rural areas where radio programming is
Driving and listening to the rad io are two
more sparse.
things virtuall y every America n enjoys. Ra-

I Money in the Bank

/\ ny way you slice it. the numbers appear
lo be then:. By the turn of t he century. ind ustry
sou n.:cs predict there could be as many as I00
million OARS un its in serv ice. That would
make it a$ I billion per month industry. far
ouhlripping the ~ucccss of the DBS satellite
service. which after three years ha~ only 7
mill ion subscri bers.
But. before you get a second mortgage for
your house in order to cash in on thi s latest
electronic bonan1.a. you should know there
an.: a few poss ible pitfa lls. Not the least of
these is that the satell ite may ne ver gel off the
ground. There is always a chance of a failure
at launch. Once launched. there s nu guarantee the ~at e ll itc wi ll prove operational. More
than one satellite has failed lO achieve geosynchro nous orbit for reasons sti ll nol under~ lood . Once in orhil and operational. there's
sti ll the c hance of a Te lstar 40 I type catastrophe in which the bi rd slops operating and
ground controllers can o nl y speculate on the
cause.
Add lo these sce narios the poss ible technical problems whic h might make listening to
this service more than annoy ing. These propo~cd sate ll ites pul out a whopping signal.
which partly explains why a 2" antenna will
work . But. satellite signals still re ly on ' Ji neof-sighl"recept ion. You mu st literall y be ab le
to sec the sate llite- no obstructions in the
way- in order for the signal lO reach the

dios started appearing in cars shortl y after

ma~s producti on made the automobi le an object of midd le class desire. AM was joined in

the late 60's by FM and in the 8U"s by casscltcs. with just a hricf ni ng with the 8 track
cartridge tape in between.
Now. even bcfon,; CD players become standard equi pme nt , sate ll ite delivered aud io with
50 channels is fast approaching. Most of us
never even had the chance lo enjoy mobi le
shortwave radio. Maybe AMRC or CD radio
will conside r adding the BBC or al least
devoting one channel to a replay of World
Rad io Network's li ne-up. Thal would be nice.
For more;; information on /\MRC and CD
Radio check out their websites al http://
www.skyce ll .com (A MRC) and http://
www.cdradio.com (C D Rad io). In fo rmation
on these sites is fai rl y sparse. especially
AMRC. where;; you wouldn ' t know they're
even involved in the OARS bu~inc ss. Keep
checking these;; sites as time goes by: they may
yt:l grad ually evolve into something. Or, you
may write them at American Mobik Satellite
Corp. 10802 Parkridgc Blvd .. Rcston. VA
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EXPERIMENTER'S WORKSHOP
Bill Cheek

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WiNRADiO SMT Device Primer

hi s is lhc firq of a se ries or pc.:rformancc.: and ka1u rc.: upgradc.;, for the
Wi 1 RADiO widc-spc.:c lrum comm unicalions recc.: i,c.: r. l.ast mon1h , column ofrcn.:d de1a ikd ins1ruc1ions to sakly and compk1cly di sas,e mhlc the Wi NRADiO receiver.
Pkase save that colu mn for po, lerit y 1 This
n HHll h continue' the 'cries with a little warmeruppcrcnhanccmcn1 thats withi n the capabili1ic' ofmo~ t hobhyi'I' . 11 s easy and shouldn"t
lake much lime. bu1 ii will bol~ tcr yourconfi dcncc.: to dig into WiNRA DiO for the hea vier
't ull that comes later.

I Reducing Crossover Distortion

T his swee t and o.:asy hack reduces cro~s
ll\ c.: r distort ion .. in th.: output of U6t.1. the
audio preamplifier for the power amp. U9.
Th.: procedun.: i' a piece o r cake: re fer to
Figures 1-2 and the following ' to.:p':
I. Disassemhk Wi N RADiO per instructions
given last month (Sept 97).
2. On the normall y unseen (back or bottom)
' id c or the s mal le r WiNRAD iO
daughterboard . lot-;11c 1hc unused spots for
1)2-1('.2). Use Figure I as a guide.
3. Solder a 1.2-k SMT resistor h izc 1206 ) to
the c111p1y ' pot' for D2-H2). (Sec Table I ) A
tiny 1/8-watt or 1/ 10-watt leaded rc'i' torwi ll
work if the lealb ar.: bent ti ghtly around and
cli pped to malc.: with the pads for D24(2).
Th at"s all lhcrc i, 111 thi s one. fo lks'

FIG-2: WINRADIO MOD-1

TP37
R93

14

Oll i.

This modification
reduces or eliminates
Crossover Distortion

I Parts Required For Other Mods

( WROJJ

(Not used)

304

024

1k2

BZX84CV

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Solder a 1.2-k res istor

to the empty s pots for 024(2)

Coax
End

I The Technical Stuff

Sec Figure 2 where we put a 1.2-k res istor
in parallel with the existing 1.2-k R30-I. Thi'
drops the load imp.:danc.: fu r U6d to about
600 ohms- probably a better impedance
match !'or the progra mm able vo lume control.

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If you" d like lo get prepared with al l required pam fo r thi s and the next three
Wi RADiO mods. Table I oilers a list of
what you"ll n.:cd:

TABLE 1: WINRADIO MODS

PARTS LIST

R94

ZERO-R

FIG-1: DAUGHTERBOARD (BOTTOM)

s,.: i

U8. (not shown). that lies between U6d and

U9. Corwenicntly. the pad!> of D24(2) are
unused: and arc a prime location fo r the new
1.2-k resistor.
By the way. even though it" s fairl y obvious. the value shown in the schematic as
1k2'" is how the more familiar "' 1.2-k'" is
expressed in many other countries. Makes
se nse. if you think about i1. Yo u"ll run into
' ubtle d iffere n ce~ likc.: thi s. the more you
explore WiNR/\DiO. so don" t panic or frea k

MOO # ITEM
1
Resistor

VALUE
1.2-k ohm

TYPE/SPECS
SMT 1206 5%

2
2
2

Capacitor
Resistor
PIN Diode

0.1-uF
12k ohm
VHF/UHF
switch

Wire. ins

4-

SMT 0805 X7R

SMT0805 5%
MMBV3700LT1
or HSMP3830
or 1SS314
or MMBV3401-LT1
22-24 ga solid

3
3
3
3
3
3
3

Capacitor
Capacitor
Capacitor
Capacitor
Resistor
Resistor
Resistor

100-pF
100-pF
0.1-uF
O.t-uF
18-k ohm
18-k ohm
12-k ohm

SMT 0805 X?R

SMT 0805 X?R
SMT 0805 X?R
SMT 0805 X?R
SMT0805 5%
SMT 0805 5%
SMT 0805 5%

IF Filter

CFW4551

Ceramic IF filter

I am making up kit s of th.: above parts for

those who don" t wanl to ~weal 1he mini mum
orde rs req uired by some ve ndors, as well as
those who arcn1 all that accomplis hed on the
SMT part s sce ne yet. to ens ure that all the
exac t parts arc handy. All 12 part' and the 4inc h wire come in a packaged .. kit .. for six
bucks. plu' a buck for shipping and handling.
Make it US$7.00. ppd/domestic (USS I0.00
ppd, surface. for all fore ign ). /\ ll ow more for
airmail. Order my part no. WR Kit 1-4.
You can. however. get mos t everything
you need fro m Digi Key (800) 34-1--1539:
Mouser (800) 3-16-6873: and/or f-uture-Acti ve (800) 655-0006. The cerami c IF filter

.08"L x .05"\V. The I 206type is about

. I 2"L x .06"\V. The 0805 and 1206
are nHirc commo n to the hobbyist. but
060] and 0402 arc often seen in m<inufactu ring. 0402 types are just specks
and arc easily blown away by heavy
pantin g or even blinking. (May your
chosen deity he lp you if you sneeze in
the ~a mc room as a pi le of 0402 parts!)
When you have a choice. stic k to the
largcr types if you know what s good
for you. There is rm functional difference among the sizes other than wattagc ratings for resistors and voltage ratings
for capacitors.

FIG-3: SMT RESISTORS & CAPACITORS

L = length . mm

\"J
T

= width, mm
=

th ick neH, mm

S1Iver ecJ ends

might be a problem. but I nm workin g on

finding indcpcndent sou rccs of those for you.
as well.

I More About SMT Devices

Basic SMT Device Primer
WiNRADiO consists of about 97.39'<' surface mount technology (SMT ) compone nts.
Even though it is poss ible to use .. normal"'
leaded components with most of our modificat ions. you can literally pai nt yourscl f into a
corner with that kind of shortsighted shortcut.
It" s not possible to gi ve you the big piclllre in
thi s limited space. but heed my caution that
normal" components could be so large as to
co mplicate or preve nt other modifications.
Pl ease use SMTcornponcnts whencvcr speci fied.

Working with SMT stuff by hand is usua lly an aft e rthought of R & D and/o r
Prototyping on the industrial scene. Self-respec ting consumers are n' l about to mess with
the innards nf modern electronic apparatus.
So: it's not easy tu learn hobby-grade SMT
except by trial and error. ... and a rare article
li ke this one . Herc are a few tips and ki nks that
I' ve picked up along the way.

Tools For SMT Work: Use med ical twcezcrs for handling SMT devices. T weezers
have a limited-force grip that wun t
damage the pan I ikc other tools can
do. The angled tweezer tips pe rmit
FIG-4: SMT SEMICONDUCTORS
nianeuvering the part wi thout your
Typical Diode
Typical Transistor
hand
block ing the view. Angled
Anode
Catho de
Usuaw b!aci.
Emitter
twcaers
afford a clean rcleasc that
'
is less like ly to dislodge the .. speck"
after you ve painstakingly placed
it.
Normal so ldering tools for elecMeral tabs
tronics
are finc fur hobbyist SMT
Typical IC (End View
work. but the c riti cal thing is a slen~....,__
/~_k,,
der. pointed tip on the soldering
~2
Usual>; black /
Some Diodes
pe ncil. Don "t use con ventional copper tips, e ithe r' Instead. use the silFigures 3 and 4 graphically dep ict the
vt:r-culored "iron clad .. tips. These tips transappearance and shapes of man y SMT dev ices. fer heat somt:what better than copper. and
Table 2 identifi es the common sizcs and dithey don ' t corrode as readil y. Heal range of
mt:n sions of S MT resistors and capac itors:
the soldering pencil isn't critical. but 12-30
watts is fin e: 50-watts. if you' re good at th is
TABLE 2: SMT DEVICE TYPES/
work.

SIZES
Type/
Size
0402
0603
0805
1206

Length
1.0mm
1.6 mm
2.0 mm
3.2 mm

Width
0.50 mm
0.80 mm
1.25 mm
1.60 mm

Resistor
Thick
0.35 mm
0.45 mm
0.60 mm
0.60 mm

Watts
1/16
1/16
1/10
1/8

Even though the dimensions of the above

SMT types are given in millimeters (for acc uracy). the Type/Size numbers actually relatc
tu inches. For example. the 0805 typc is about

S:ilvaging SMT Parts: Don t be pcnnywise

<111d pound-foolish. sal vag ing SMT resistors
and capac itors. S MT deviccs can be damaged
by excess heat from rt:pcated soldering action s, so evc n though you manage to salvage
a part. you havc no assurance that it is an y
good.
Once lht:y re soldert:d. to remove the m it s
best to wick exct:ss so lder from the pads:
crush the part with a pair of diagonal cutt ing

pl iers, and then desolder the broken ends.

Transistors. diodes and IC scan be salvaged
with greater chances of success because of
the ir tabbed leads.
Installing SMT Parts: To install an SMT
dev ice. it is wise to take time and pain to
e nsurc that it is properly and accurately positioned on the pads before soldering it. Once it
is in position. hold it down in place with the tip
of tht: tweezers press ing on the body of the
device. Apply straight-down pressure because
angled forct: will invariabl y cause the part to
sl ip six feet j ust as you appl y heat and solder.
Some guys like to apply a tiny dot of rubber
cement to the bnttom of an SMT device before
putting it in place. I s uppose this can minimize
s lippage. but it takes more time and can be
messy if you're nut careful. Dont solder an
SMT dev ice until you arc ce rtain that it has
been properly pos itioned and won ' t move
during the process.
Soldering SMT P:irts: Apply a bit of soldcr
to the freshly wiped, rinc- pointed tip of your
~o lde ring pe ncil. Press down on the SMT part
as described above. and touch thc solde ring
tip to onc pin, tab. or end conductor or the
dev ice.
Within a second or two. enough solder
should flow from the tip to the pad and the
dev ice to al least hold it ror the ti me bt:ing.
Now. holding solder in onc hand and the
soldering iron in the other. apply a tiny dollop
of solder to tht: other end of the deYicc or tu
another pin or tab. Le t enough solder flow to
do this connection right the rirst ti me . Then,
gu back and touch up the first solder joint so
that it is right."

I More Information
The latest information and soft ware updatcs fur WiNRA DiO are avai lable at their
US Web site at http://www.winradio.com
and a t th e Australia s it e: http://
www.winradio.net.au If you don ' t have a
WiNRADiO. you can still download the latest
software and run it in demo mode. I freel y
provide tech suppurton the WiNRADiO mods
and all my articles by c-mail or (heavcn forbid) postal mai l that irll:lude s an SASE. Fax
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83

(OMPUTERS & RADIO

John Catalano, PhD

RADIO-RELATED SOFTWARE REVIEWS

j_catalano@conknef.com

Just The Way Life Is

ell. here we arc with the summer of

97 jw,1 a 111ernory and the winter
holida y~ fa ~ t approaching. I k e l
cold ju ~ t thinking ahout it. We have a mixed
bag of topics to cover together ~o let's get
right intD them.

SWRL v2.0 is Here!

SWRL v2.0 fro m their Web site at http://

www.qth.com/cxtremc. The ir sna il mail addrcs~ is 26 Lang holm Drive.
ashua. New
Hampshire 03062.

More Radiorafting

Foll owing our look al the decodi ng program Radioraf t in Augu st. 13arry Sione ~c lll
an e- mai I detailing hi ~ obse rv at io n ~ using thi ~
program with hi s Racal RA 17. (l lm-m-111. I
think I know that co mpany! ) He compared
Radioraft to his PK-2323 (think he meant a
PK-232) and ... fo und thar the mude recogni tion (of Radioraft ) is quicker and more r..:li able than the PK. plu~ of cour-;e it d ecod e~ a
lot more modes:
Barry has tried Radiuraft with a whole ho.'> I
of interfaces. includ ing a homemade interface
from the Unoffilial Hamcomm l111erne1 site
using a TL07 I amp. Tigertroni c~ BP2M. a
BATG ST5 and a commerc ia l R..:difon data
modem. He report ~ that they all worked about
the same and sugge'>h the homemade. ve ry
low cost i111erface .
I ha ve done some more work with Radioral't
and fo und it to he excellent for decod ing
signal' in the clear. If my Jn I can se parate
them. Radioraft can decode them. Clearl y.
thi s could be enhanc..:d by an acti ve f'ilt..: r
stage. o r au1omati1.: gain control ~tage in the
hard ware intc:rface. A' Ban-y po int s out. and
I have abo obsern:d. the ~ impk imerface
wo rk ~ great m o ~ t oi' 1hc time. Problems only
occur when it "hears" more than one signal
and at very low ~ i g nal le ,eb. 13ut o verall.
considerin g ib cost. Radi oraft with the simpk
interface does a gn.:at decoding job. Than ks
for your in put. Barry.

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October 1997

Back in February we look..:d al a very nic..:

SWL logging prog ram called SW Radio Log
(SWRL) fro m DXtreme Software. V e r~io n
1.0 had lots or excel lent features and was a
real bargain at around $25. Bob Raymond.
President o r DXtrcmc. sent the new version.
2.0. It ha' added additional feature' to an
already fi ne-tuned program.
Additi ons in ver,ion 2.0 fall into two categories: database searches and report writi ng.
The program s Script Editor m>w al lows you
to create and edit files for QSL report ing. The
user can n eate a number of rcccpt ion forms.
or templates. fo r different uses. This inc ludes
differe nt language reports as well as different
physical layouts and in formation content. They
arc \'cry ea'y to create and U'>c.
Vcr,ion 2.os stati on search engine now
allows its user to call up prcviou~ reception s
by station cou ntry. in addition to it ~ name and
reception date. The search also see1m quickcr.
Dictionaries of common French. Portu guese and Span is h wllrds arc included to he lp
in QS Ls requests. And SWRI . v2.0 now supports Word 97 for all you people who bought
Bill Gat e, latest wordprocc,~o r.
When you want to send out these profc~
-;ionall y pre pared reception re port ~. DX tremc
make' it ju:-.t a~ ' imple. For ex ample. sending
reception report s via e- mail to NASWA i'
now a ~ im plc mouse c lic k ope ratio n.
If you bought a pre vious version ofSWRL
and li "e in onh America. the total co't of t he
upgrade i' onl y S5. and that include' ' hi pping 1 In my o pin ion. it's $5 well ~pen t. Elscwher..: it costs S7 USO. II' you don't al ready
own an older \'crsion. to upgrade lo \er,inn
2.0 i ~ S.:!6.95 in North America: $28.95 anywhere else. Download the demo version uf

We get letters ... Boy! Do we!

It" s been a numb..:r of years since I proposed the concept for Compute rs and Radio
column to Rachel Baughn. the very fine chie f
editor of Mo11i111ri11g Times. Since the very
earl y d ay~ of the column I ha ve recei ved
many. many l e tte r~ from our reade rs. Some
ask for assistance. Others relate your expericnc..:s with products. And sti ll others have told
me how much they enjoyed. or didn't enjoy.
the column. Most of the lette rs - and more
recently. e-mails - have fallen into these
categories. That is. until now.
When I conceived of the column in 1990.
I already had many years of industrial experience and had seen the critical role that computers played in military communications.
Bu t in 1990. computers were just starting lo
impact the professi onal and consume r communications world. I knew the e ffect on all of
us would be dramatic. I had seen this technology-s hift phe nomena many ti mes before in
my industria l electronics career.
In the 1930's. 40's, 50's. and 60' s. electroni cs was synonymo us with vacuum tubes
( \ a l ve ~ a' they arc called in the United Kingdom ). E\'cry elcetroni c circuit used them. No
one could <.:once ive of an e lectronics world
without vacuum tubes. They were the main
sect ion of every elec tronics catalog. Local
telcvi,illn repair shops stocked hundreds. even
thousands of tu bes. I know th is fi rsthand since

my Dad was in the T V and stereo repair

busin..:s~. among man y other businesses. and
hi home-repair trucks each carried on:r 200
tubes. By the 197()" s the \"encrablc tube \\'as
being pushed into ex tinction by the transistor.
Then one day in the late 1970" s they disappeared 1 The vacuu111 tubL'. which reigned supre me for over fort y y..:ars. was gone. No fade
out. They. and an era. were gone. probably
foreve r. It happens ju ~ t that way in al l facets
of li fe. not just technol ogy . Pcrhap~ it" ~ becau se we humans arc so self-ce ntered that we.:
think that life will stay forever just the way it
is today. I gucs~ \\'e didn"t pay auention in our
hi story classe~ and mi~sed ho\\' man) hundrccb of g<.:nerations bdore us saw th<.:ir world
change just as suddenly. What appeared as
stable. non-c hanging ways of life were in
reality just lulls in mank inds development.
Today. radi o communications. along wi th
all personal comm unications methods. arc
going through great changes. Gone are the
days. fi lied wi th romance and excitement. of
communicating on 20 met<:rs wi th someone
Oil th<.: oth<.:r ~ idc of the world: the thrill of
riding the electronic waves on the ionosphe re.
NO\\ we.: just pick up the phone and dial. No
chance h appeni ng~. ~ un spot considerations.
MUF o r urH.:cnainties here. Just 55 cents a
minute.
Rememberthe uniqueness and special feeling that went along with using wire less radio
con1111unicat ions'! SWLers. hams. and CBc rs
know exac tly what I"m talking about. It was
almost like belonging to an elite club. the .. My
Voice is Sent Over Radi o Waves .. c lub. Our
friends and fa mil y were in awe.
Well. now uur mothers ha ve more on-air
time and hold more DX QSOs than \\'e C\'er
did. How 1 Via theircellular phones. Ycs. they
are the common person s walkie-talkies of
th<.! 1990.s. Ten year' ago could yuu imagine
a walkie-talkie that would allow you to commu nicate with r coplc around the world? No'I
Well. thin k of what the now common c..: ll ular
phone and the cel l si te infrastructure.: rcprcsenh to the cnm mon person.
So. ~hou l d we be su rprised that the man-in t h c-~ trce t has l o~ t their awe or shorlwa\e
communicati ons 1 Ju st as we are no longe r in
awe of lire. a ~ \\'ere our pre-histori c ancc~ to rs.
Add the World Wide Web to e\eryont! ~ life
and they ha ve in,tant access to almo~t anyo ne. anywhere' Mankinds technology i ~
cvol vi ng. as it ha ~ si nee the beginning of ti 111..:.
Get The Culprit!

Who is to blame fur the radical changes we

are seeing in communi cat ions today? Wel l.
acwrding to the latest letter I rccei\'ed. the
instigator of all thi~ is none other than yours

truly. MEee<.:e!
The letter goes o n to
-;ay that by introduci ng
th..: computer to radio
u se r~ I .. planted the seeds
or rad io. s destruction ...
and cont in ue to do so
wi th your di scussion of
the evil internet. The
lctt<.:r goes on for four handw ritte n page~
rd at i ng how l ha ve ..encouraged. .. fostered:
and .. led .. the communicat ions u se r ~ to the ir
final chaptt! r. The letter ends with a ~o l emn
warning ...Go ah<.:ad. Keep pushing the internet
and computers and radio wi ll be fin i-.hcd:
I beg to remind th is person. and all of us.
that due Ill the rural nature Of my commun ity
(which I like just that way) I didn"t ha ve
Internet access un til mid 1996. Abo. I suggested in a previous column that the uncertainty and ski lls whi ch made DXi ng shortwave an art and so enjoyable would newr be
duplicated by the Internet. Been T hcr<.:. Done
It. Got The T-Shirt.
I lowe\"er. as I said above. in 1 9~0 the
technologis t ~ of the day could not concei\e of
a \\'orld wit hout spark-gap tran~mi ss i ons. Less
than fifteen years later they were gone. Perhaps the final curtain is now coming down on
analog vo icc/piclllre mod ulated SS B. AM.
and 1--"M signals with the ad vent of digital
com mun icat ions.
T wo quotes from we ll-know n writ..:rs of
the 20th cent ury come to mind. The fi rst. fnim
Mar~hal McLuhan , a ph ilosophi.:r o f th<.:
I %(r~. obserYed that ..The media IS the mes~age: /-/mr \\e commun icate is a~ important
a-. 11/u11 we communicate. I don 1 think he wa-;
pondering what \\'e are faced with in communications today. However. I" 111 s ure all of us
SW L Dxers wou ld agree with him. And finally. the famous jet pilot lllrned writer. Richard Bach. reflects in his nove l /l/11sio11s . .. What
the catt:rpillar call s the end of hi s world. the
hullcrll y ca ll s its beginning ...

Yes. wt: have ~ecn dramatic change in

radio cum111unicatim1s in the past y..:ar or two.
These have left us all very disoriented and
navigating in a totall y new territory. I am as
bC\\ildered a~ anyone at the 'peed of change.:.
And. at least initially. a bit di~ appu i n tcd at all
the changes.
But. as I have.: seen wit h the passing of the
vacuum lu be. cliscri.:tc transistors. AM on shortwave. the slide rule. manually tuned radios.
and paper logs. the fulllre is uncertain but not
necessarily to be feared. Rcmi.:mbering and
learning from the past. while <.:mbrac ing and
at tempting to understand the opportun it ies of
the fu ture. has brought LIS rrom the spark-gap
to where we find otrr,e hes today ... And to
wherever we \\"ill be tomorro\\". The journey
continues.

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Oclober 1997

MONITORING TIMES

85

DIGITAL DIGEST
BAUDOT AND BEYOND

Bob Evans
revans@astrol.magic. ca

Standing on Protocol

Di~iwl

elcomc to
Digest. In thi s
column we' ll foc us on some of the
basics of d ig ital monitoring. the
fac ilities that use these modes. and a brief
d escriptio n of the major dig ital protocols employed o n the HF and VH F bands tod ay.
To manyofyou. I'm sure. the word ..dig ital..
brings to mind Baudot radiotelctype (RTTY ).
o ne of the oldest codes still in use today. Once
the mainstay of the digital shortwave mod es.
RTTY now comprises onl y about 50 percent o f
the d ecod able sig nals o ut there in the airwaves.
By way of introduction. we 11 examine which
stations/faci lities use these modes. as we ll as
identi fy their major message type . . A very brief
int roduction to currentl y used dig ital mo des
then fo ll ows. Forme rly limited to the shortwave (HF) spectrum. the VHF/U HFbands now
present new opportun ities for the digita l mo ni tor.
Ut ility stations generally operate wi th in one
of three broad classificat ions:
* Aeronautical
* Mariti me
* Point-to-Point
and may be desig nated as either fi xed or mobile
w ith respect to locat ion. Unli ke the inte rnational s hortwave broadcasters. utility statio n
traffic is intended o nly for the panics involved.
and i~ therefore confide nti al in nature (i.e .. may
not be repeated or used to another' s benefit).
Utility stations use a variety o f modulatio n
types. These inc lude the .. 3 R's .. :
* Radi otcl epho ny (Voice - !SB/SSB)
* Radio te legraphy ( Morse Code/CW)
* Radiote letype (RTTY/other Digital
Modes)
Traffic currentl y being monitored by digital
hobbyists incl udes the fo ll owing:

- Aeronautical Fixed Te lecommunications

Network (AFTN)
- Aeronautical Actual and Forecast Weather
- Terminal Area Forecasts (T AF)
- Aircraft Flight Plans and Arr~va l/Departure Messages
- Notices To A irmen (NOT AMS)
- ACA RS (A ir/Ground Aviation Messages
and Aircraft Te le metry)

Maritime
- Inland Stations
- Great Lakes& In land Waterways Weather
and Traffic
- Coastal Stations

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Vessels/Ships
- AMVER Position Reports
- Telex Traffic to Shore Statio ns
- Soviet Fish ing Fleet

Point-to-Point
- Military
- World Air Forces, Navies and Armies
- Coded and " In-the-Clear" Message Traffic
- Mi litary Flig ht Plans and Routings
- FAX Charts and Maps ( Weather and Tactical)
- Naval Hig h Seas Weather Broadcasts
- MARS (M il itary Affili ate Radio System)
Traffi c
- Coast Guard (A merican and Canadian )
- Coast Guard Communicatio n Stations/CG
Cutters
- FAX Weather C harts and Maps/Sate ll ite
Photos
- Iceberg Alerts (North A tlantic)
- Various Marit ime Service Broadca,ts

Press Agencies
-

International News Agency Broadc<tsts

Newspaper Pres~ Photos (FAX)
Non-Latin Alphabet Press (FAX)
Ch inese. Russian . Arabic. Japanese

Meteorological Stations (Worldwide)

Aeronautical

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- Weather Syno psis, Reports. Watches and

Warnings
- Iceberg Alerts (North Atlantic)
- HYDROLANT/HYDROPAC Broadcasts
- NA VTEXT and NA VAREA Broadcasts
- Telex Traffic to Indi vidual Vesse ls
- News. Sports & Financial Reports

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- Forecast and Actual Weather Broadcasts

- Weather C harts and Maps
- Orbiting Weather Satellite Photos

Diplomatic/Government Embassies
- lnter-emba,,yTra ffic/M inistry ofForeign
Affairs

Law Enforcement
- INT ERPOL Traffic
- Police Comm unication'

Science and Research

- Antarctic Research S tat ions

- Astronomical Observato ries

International Relief Agencies

- United Nat ions Agencies
- Internationa l Red Cross/Red Crescent
Society

Point-to-Point Circuits
- Internatio nal Banks and Financial Agencies
- International Business Corpo ratio ns
- Pager Communications

HF Digital Modes (Shortwave Bands)

ARQ-E

Newer mode, mostl y used by

French military. stations may
id le for hou rs.
ARQ-E3
Newer mode. most ly used b y
French mil itary. statio ns may
id le for hours.
A RQ-M2/4 Older mode, used by all three
categories of uti li ty statio ns.
A RQ-N
Newer mode, sing le channel
ARQ, very fe w freq ue nc ies
identified to-date.
A RQ-S
Newer mode, very few freq uenc ies/stations fo und to-date.
ARQ6-90/98 Newer modes. used by French
and Italian Emba,sics.
ASCII
Little commercia l usage some experimental use (amateur radio).
AUTOSPEC Limited to a small number of
Briti ~ h maritime stations.
C IS
Synchronous telcprinh.:r ,ystem
u' ing I I 114/27 bit' (former Soviet Uni on).
C LOVER II Sophisticatedamateur radioprotocol. Most reliable dig ital ham
mode.
COQUELET Similar to PI CCOLO. used by
Belgian and French military/poli ce.
CW
Being phased out for lllaritime
usag.: - sti ll heavi ly u,cd by
ham,.
DUP-ARQ
N.:wermode. usedonly by Hungarian embassies.
Transmission of weath.: r chart s
FAX
and maps. press and satdlite
photos by international pre,s.
mil itary. maritilllc. and meteorological stations.
FEC-A
New.:r mode, not many stati ons
logged to date (German press,

German. Serbian and Ind ian

embassies).
Newer mode, not many stations/
FEC-S
frequ encies logged to date.
HC-ARQ
Newer mode, Haegelin-Cryptos
tdcprint cr system, Europe an
loggings.
( Hungarian FEC) Newer mode,
HNG-FEC
used cxclusivdy by Hungarian
Embassies.
Repetitive inter-computer trafPACKET
fi c. Used by hams and MARS
stat ions.
PACTOR
Newer ''adapti ve" amateur radio p rotocol. More reliable than
packet.
PICCOLO
Used by Britis h military almost
exc lusively. Now generall y enc rypted.
POL-A RQ
(Polish ARQ) New mode. u sed
exclusively by Polish e mbassies .
RAC-ARQ
Newer mode, 150 Baud te leprinter system. No reports o f
any loggi ngs.
RS-ARQ
Newer mode, Rhode & Schwarz
s implex ARQ teleprinter system.
RTTY
O ldest and most w idely used
mo de by all utility categories.
RUM -FEC
(Romanian FEC) New..:r mode.
used cxclu si vely by Romanian
embassies.
S l-ARQ
New..:r mode , u sed primarily by
Austrian and Indonesian embassies .
SI-FEC
Newer mode. no traffic r..:ported
to date by monitors.
S ITOR
(S im p lex Tc lcprin ting Over
Radio
aka ARQTOR /
FECTOR)
S ITOR-A
Primary maritime mode used fo r
inte r ship/coastal statio n communications. Also w idely used
for di plomatic cmbas~y traflic.
S ITOR-B
Primary marit ime coastal stati on b roadcast mode for weather
advi sories and sh ip traffi c lists .
SSTV
(S low Scan TV) Used by hams
to transmit sti ll pictures.
SPREAD
Newer mode. used excl us ively
by Romanian embassies.
SWED-ARQ (Swedish A RQ) Newer mode
with usage limited to Swed ish
embassies.
TWINPLEX Newe r mode, use d by
INTERPOL and Dan i ~ h/Norwe
g ian MFA.
VFT
(Voice Frequency Telegraphy)
British, Canadian and German
military mostly. most difficult
mode to tune due to mu ltiplex
(multi-channe l) s ignal.

VHF/UHF Digital Modes

ACARS

FAX

POCSAG

GOLAY

PACKET
RTTY

(Ai rcraft Communications Addressi ng and Reporting System)

Digital air/ground traffic including aircraft telemetry.
(Facsim ile) Weather satell ite
photos from orbiting Russian/
A merican weather sate llites.
(Digita l Pager Code) Used to
transmit telephone numbers and
sho rt alphanumeric text messages to personal pager units .
(Golay Sequent ial Pager Signall ing System) A more sophisticated system used to trans mit
text messages to personal pager
units.
Repetitive inter-computer traffic. Used by hams.
Commercial news ser vices on
satellite tran sponders.

You ' ll no ti ce that the li st o f HF modes

contains many which arc specific to the embassy tra ffic of one o r more countries. Much of
these transmi ssions arc encrypted (coded). A n
analy sis of d igital HF sig nal s from over 4.000
reported fixed station frequencies heard in North
A meri ca during the past 12 months has revealed the following mode usage:

RTIY
SITOR
ARQ-M
ARQ-E3
ARQ-E
FEC-A

All Others

53 .7%
20.4%
11 .1%
9.4%
4.5%
0.7%
0.2%

Monitoring Equipment
To monitor d ig ital transmissio ns you req uire a decoder. Decod ers are avail able as
independent o utboard un its or as an integral
part or your pe rso nal computer system. In either case, they take the aud io signal from your
rece ive r and convert it to intelligible form that
is displayed on a video monitor or the decoder's
own .. marquis-like'' di splay. Many o f today ' s
decoders arc also capable of translating Morse
code (CW ). A s table shortwave communications receiver i ~ required for se rious non-voice
utility monitoring.
Only very recently have decoders become
available for ACARS and pager modes in the
VHF/U HF bands.
Most o ld-ti mers in the hobby original ly
started by listening to the internatio nal shortwave broadcasters . With the introduction of
SSB mo des. the true ute li stt:ner was born.
Increasing USC o r Baudot Rny OJI the airwaves saw the introduction o f out-board decoders. Only the strongest and cleanest sig nals
could be decoded by the earl y units - more

soph isticated monitoring requ ired mort:expensive equipment, orten in the form of surplus
commercial hardware. T hen in the 70's. lnfotech
introduced their high end decode rs.
With the advent of satell ite tech nology,
RTTY monitors lost the myriad o f frequencies
o nce used by the major press agencies s uch as
the Voice of America, Asso ciated Press, and
United Press Internat io nal. W ith the demise o f
the Soviet Un ion. o ver 50 for mer T ASS frequencies are now silent.
Des pite the services that have now opted for
newer communications modes, there is st ill
plenty to monitor fo r today ' s digital utility
enthusiast.
Some sho rtwave utility stations have fi xed
broadcast schedule s. others trans mi t only when
they have traffic.
Most statio ns have several freque ncies from
w hich to choose . The general rule-of-thumb is
that they w il l use the hig hest freq uency that
s upports current propagation conditio ns during
the ir local day. gradual ly moving to lowerones
as local nig ht fa lls.
A lthough most stations use very low transmitting power w ith respect to the international
sho rtwa ve broadcas ters, you will often be
amazed at the streng th o f the ir signal. Digital
transmissions, because of their s ignal nature
often have a way of "getting through." especially during poor propagatio n conditions when
the broadcast bands seem dead.
Man y o f the d ig ital transmi ssions you wi ll
encounter are indecipherable. M ilitary and
embassy traffic of a scnsiti vc nature is gene rally always encrypted (encoded ).
When fi rst starting out in this phase of the
hobby, it is just as important to know "what not
to liste n to." A ll too often new monitors are
easily di scouraged because they arc trying to
decode the wrong signal s. W ith patie nce and
experience you will develop an "ear" for the
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Optoelectronics Micro DTMF Decoder

By Haskell Moore

hey say that the only difference

between men and boys is the price
of their toys. And Optoelectronics
is doing all it can to see that we big boys
have all the electronic toys we could ever
want!
Optoelectronics has recently launched
a product line called Techtoyz, a series
of electronic devices fitted into beeperstyle cases. Currentl y. there are three products slated for this line. with the Micro
DTMF Decoder currently shipping. Also
avai lable is the Micro Counter frequency
counter, with a range of I 0 MHz to 1.2
GHz. By the time thi s issue hits the newsstand, the Micro RF Detector (an RF field
strength meter) should be in production.
And yes, all three are top-quality. sophisticated electronic devices that fit inside a
standard beeper case!
At first I couldn' t believe it when I
opened the package. The only discernible
difference between the Micro Decoder
and a regular beeper was the weight. The
Micro Decoder was so light I thought it
was an empty case. However. a flip of the
switch proved it was a working model
wi th the "AA'' battery already installed.
The Micro DTMF Decoder may be
small on size, but it's big on performance.
It can decode all 16 DTMF digits and store
up to 2,000 charac ters in non-volatile
memory. The unit is capable of continuous
operation for over 200 hours on a single
battery. When a string of digits is received,
and after a three second break, a space is
inserted for readability.
The twel ve chnracter LCD display is
the same as those used in a conventional
beeper. By depressing one of two buttons,
the display can be scrolled one digit at a
time in either directi on. Holding either
directional button down resul!s in a fast
(but readable) continuous scroll. With a
combination of two buttons. the display
jumps to either the begi nning or end of the
88

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October 1997

I Practical Application of the Micro

DTMF Decoder

character string.
Anothergreat featu re of the Micro DTM F
Decoder is its highl y sensiti ve bui lt-in microphone. This allows the decoder tu pick
up aud ible DTMF tunes wi thout any direct
con nection to the tune source. For example.
DTMF tones emitted from speaker phones,
modems. two-way radios. and scanners can
all be easi ly decoded and stored discreetly.
Depending on volume and clarity. the decoder is capable of capturing tones up lo
fifteen feet away. Given its performance.
Optoelectron ics must have gone to great
lengths in designing the aud io section of
thi s device.
The decoder also has a miniature phone
jack on the side of the unit for an exte rn al
microphone or di rect hookup to line-level
input. This allows for a more stable and
reliable connection to the ~ignal source. To
prevent interference. when the input jack is
utili zed, the internal microphone is automaticall y disconnected.

Like any kid with a new toy. I couldn' t

wait to put the decoder through its paces.
The first test was performed with my speakcrphone. I put the decoder down a few
inches from the speaker and div led a number. At each key press. the digit instantly
came up on the di!>play. The next test was
done wit h my computer modem. As the
modem rapidly fired off the numbers, the
decoder captured every digit.
However, when using the internal microphone. placement and distance from
the speaker is relatively im portant. Too
loud or too soft . and some di gits may be
dropped. The microphone is also somewhat directional due to its placement within
the case. But with a bit of adjustment and
a liule experimentation. the decoder captuml every digit flawlessly. Even when
dial ing at high speed. the decoder can
capture at a rate of up to 12.5 digits per
second.
Where the Micro DTMF Decoder is
most reliable is in the direct connect mode
of operation. By running a patch cord from
the line jack of my PR0-2006. I was able
to readily decode any DTMF tones received. The reliability of the direct connect
was rock solid with no lost or incorrect
digits during this t e~ts.
If you' re in the market fo r a DTMF
decoder. you might want to check out this
liule unit, which sells for S89. It has the
fealllrcs. functio nality. and reliabi lity of
decoders costing twice as much. With
Techtoyz. big things really do come in
small packages '
The Micro DTM F Decoder is available
from Optoelectronics. 582 1 NE 14'h Avenue. Ft. Lauderdale. FL 33334. They can
be reached at 800-327-59 12 or 954-77 1-

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WHAT'S NEW?
by Larry Miller

PRODUCTS AND BOOKS OF INTEREST

Co11trih11tors: Rachel lfo11 g h11. Rob Gron'

the standard w hip to $23.95 for

the righ t- angle N adaptor. Grove
Enterprises can be reached at 8004 38 -8I55
or
e- mail

His Master's Scanner

It' s hard to believe. but another well-known firm has e ntered the ranks o f scanning. RCA
- yes . the same RCA that had
Ni pper listeni ng to his master's
voice - has introduced a line of
three units.
The RP-6100 is a 20 channel
handheld with 30 to 5 12 MH z
cove.rage. It includes 20 c hannel
memo ry, manual ch annel se lec t.
channel lock o ut. and NiCd recharge c ircuitry.
The RP-6150 is a 200 channel
handheld scanner with 30 to 960
MHz coverage, 200 c hannel
memory, two-second scan d elay,
memo ry b ackup. keypad lock,
monitor memory. manual channe l select. channe l lock o ut , and
NiCd recharge circuitry.
The RP-6200 is the base version of the '6 100 and. like the
'6 100. it covers 30 to 5 12 MHz.
h as 20 ch anne l me mo ry, memory
bac kup, keypad lock. mo nito r
memory. manual c hannel se lect.
and channe l lock out.
All three scanners. with some
mino r differences. are apparently
available as Radio Shack models.
Still , the name RCA is powerful
medicine and it w ill b e interest ing
to see what the entry of thi s indu stry giant means to the scanning
community . RCA scanners are
available at Advanced Specialties Electronics, 11 4 Essex Street,
Lodi, NJ 07644. The ir phone m1111ber is 20 l -VHF-2067.

AM Sounds
lt looks like a n ear ache waiting to happen. but it s manufacturer says that it's an AM radi o so
small that it fits in the side o f your
head. Called AM Sounds. it's just
1-1 /8 inches lo ng and weig h s bu t
a quarter o unce. Utilizing sens itive TRF receiving ci rcuitry and
AGC control . AM Sounds is a
self-contained unit - no cords.
headpho ne w ires. o r c lips to ha ng
on your belt . Despite its small
s ize, dial tuning lets you select the

order @grO\e. net.

Fired-Up Firestik

exact stat.ion you want.."

Tuning range is from 550 to
1600 kHz. missing the new expanded porti on of the band. The
radio runs 300 ho urs o n one battery. The manufacturer (A meri can Techno logy Corp.) says AM
sounds p roduces " a ri ch, full ,
hi g h-quali ty sound in one ear
w hile the lis tener stays in touch
w ith the s urroundings wi th the
o ther." They suggest many uses:
jogging. h iking and - no kidding while talking 011 the
{Jho11e. Great idea.
To fin d out more about AM
Sounds call 1-800-4 1-RA DIO.
visit th e ir web s it e http://
www.atcsd.com, or emai l a1c-

Firestik h as upgraded the

performance of its A99 CB
base ante nn a w ith a new replacement whip. The FireUp99 is a 5-foot. top- lnaded
whip that replaces the A99's
upper 6 foot co ntinuous
loaded whip . Upgrading the
A99 is easy, says the manufactu rer, a s impl e two-step
procedure: simply un sc rew
the upper A99 wh ip and
screw in the Fire-U p 99.
Firestik's 5/8 wave. toploaded coil d esig n creates a
lower ang le o f radiation that
translates into more distance
on the ground. The ante nna
also featu res Fi restik s pate nted bare-hands tunable tip for
additional range .
The Fire-Up99 h as a suggested
retail price o f $20.99. The Fi rcstik
Antenna Company can be reached
at 602-273-7 15 1 or by e- mai I at

f199@firestik.co111

i11Jo @atcsd.co111.

Total Flexibility
The uni versal whip antenna, sold b y Grove Enterprises as a replaceme nt for
ineffi c ient s tock ante nnas,
has become even more useful w ith the add iti on of a
spring -supported base for
less b reakability and g reater
fl ex ibility. The uni versal
w hip exte nds from 7 inc hes
to 47- 1/2 inc hes. receives
25 - 1300 MHz, an d is
equipped with a BNC base.
The ante nna is also available in a 4 - 2 1 inch length
fu r o m ission of low band;
with right angle connector
for use with a d esktop receiver; or w ith N adaptors.
Prices vary fro m $ 16 .95 fo r

CB Gentrification
I

When a g het to gets so had that

no one want to live the re. prices
drop to nearly nothin g. and. sometimes, a process of ge111riflcatio11
b eg in s-people mi grate back
from the s uburbs to fix up the
h o mes and re-establi sh neig h borh oods.
Something like th is is happening to CB. Ir you think of CB as a
bombed-out radio g hetto inhabited only by psycho tics and squat ters . then you' II be happy to hear
w h at's happe ning. Arou nd the
cou ntry. pockets of serious. p rofessiona l. and courteous ope rators are once again sprin ging up.
Granted. you still ha ve to step
across someone sleepin g o n a
steam vent. cursi ng and mumbling something about ..good bud-

October 1997

dies: but for the most part. things

arc taking an upturn.
Ir you re o ne of the growing
numbe rs w ho is thinking - privately. of course - about testing
the waters in CB . here's your
c hance. CB s ha ve come down in
price to match the near give-away
status of49 M Hz cordless pho nes.
An exampl e: VA LCO. a Louisian a-based firm. is se lling the
Un idcn PR0-50 I XL for all of
S28.37. If you can ru stic up two
fri ends w ho also want one. the
price drops to $27 .80 each. The
PR0 -50 I X L is a co mpact. 40
c hanne l CB w ith LED d isp lay,
auto mati c noise limi ter. phase
lock loop ci rcuitry. vol ume and
squelch control. up/down channel selector. push-to-talk mike and
full mo untin g hard wa re . For
$28.37. you can afford to bu y
seve ral and throw all hut o ne
away'
To order. call VA LCO a l 800671-2244. Thei r mailing address
is 2450 West Laurel Ave .. Eunice.
LA 70535 . Pl ease menti on 1\1/T
when you call .

ERGO for the

AR7030
C reati ve Ex press h as a n nounced computer control software for the AOR AR7030.Called
ERGO. the program was deve loped b y John Fal lows o f Calgary,
Alberta.
.. E RGO provides a comprehens ive and integrated env iron me nt to control the A R7030." says
John.
He re's a bas ic rundown of the
program 's capabilities: a fri endl y
.. virtua l fron t. panel .. for the receiver wi th control over on/off.
volume. frequ ency. tone. pass band. squelch. gain. mode. and

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Bl vd. SE, Calgary, Alberta,

Canada T2X 2X7. You can get
more info on ERGO by checking out their web page at http:/
/ca lga ry .shaw . wave.ca /
-jfallows/ERGO 1.htm
The e-mai l addre ss is

more. Band scanning features including seeking the next station. profiling the entire band. and dual scan.
Four hundred qu ick memories can
be scanned and synchron ized wi th
the receiver's memories- a userdefined 500 record database that can
be used to tune or rccei ve. The database can be filtered by frequency.
station name. country. transmitter
site. schedule times. group, or language. Propagation evaluation is
given. to any transmitter site in the
database and signa l strength is displayed in a bar meter or time-series
scope.
A minimum conligu ration is Wi ndows 3.x running on a 486166 wi th 8
Mb RAM and 800 by 600 video. The
recommended co nfi guration is Windows 95 running on a Pentium with
16 Mb RAM and 1024 by 768 video.
You can get a copy of ERGO for
the AR7030 by sending a certified
check or money order in the amount
of USS 139 to Creative Express Corporation. P.O. Box 373. 16 Midlake

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91

MAGNETESTS
SHORTWAVE EQUIPMENT REVIEW

Lawrence Magne
Editor-in-Chief, Passport lo World Band Radio

Lowe SRX100/Target HF-3

and "down" 10 access lower sideband.

Since there are only th ree modes, it would
have made more ergonomi c sense 10 have had a
carouse l-sty le access
all m odes through e ither the up or down buuo n . rather than a mi x of
both.

ie tabletop mock I Lowe SRX I 00. sold in

North A merica for 5279.95. is something
o f a ~ urpri sc . The bargai n humer in us
wh ispers, Lowe and beho ld . it looks a Im like
the Lowe l-I F- 150. Maybe it '~ nearl y as good.
but much c heaper." Unfo rtunate ly. thi s is n' t
quite the case.

or

I Whale of a warbling wail

I "Bucket brigade" distribution
successful
For ~t arters. the Lowe S RX I 00. despite appearances, is a Lowe in name o nl y. It is actually
the creat ion of a complete ly d ifferent Britis h
fi rm which markets it in the U. K. and Europe
as the Target HF-3. (There is no indication as to
the coun try o f origi n o n o ur unit.) In North
A merica. it is sold as the LowcS RX IOO through
yet anothe r intermediary. Virgi nia 's EDCO
(703/938-8 105).
It is remarkab le that a product with thi s
many slepsofdistributio n- from the U.K. ori ginator to the U.K. exporter to the North Ameri can distributon o North A merican retailers ... and
o nl y then lo the cons umer- comes through at
such a reasonable price across the Pond.

I Simple little receiver

I-loused in a plastic case with a top-m ounted
speaker, the SRX I OO/ HF3 is only slightly larger
than a br ick. O n the front pane l. there arc j ust
three knobs (on/off- volume. tuning. and clarifi er). four buttons ( two for m odes. one for
memory s torage, and another for me mory recall ). and an easy-to-read dig ital display. That
di splay ~hows mode. frequency. and signal
strength via di gi tal bars. But because the di splay is no t illuminated . w he n it 's dark you ' ll
need a llashlig ht.
On the rear panel is an attenuato r. the an te nna socket. a connector for the ex ternal '"wal I
wart" AC adapcor. and a jack fo r a headphone or
exte rnal speaker. If you 're looki ng for simple in
a tabletop receiver. aside from the Drake SW I
thi s is ii:
The radi o covers fro rn 30 kl-l z to 30 Ml-11. in
the AM , u pper-side band and lower-s ideband
mod es. but there is no synchro nous selectable
side band. O f the two bandwidths. nominally
3.8 kl-11. for single-sideband and 6 kHz for AM.
neithcr can be selected independent o f m ode.
Tuning optio ns are limited. as there is only one
(!) solitary memory preset. and you ' ll fi nd
neither a keypad nor provision for connect ing
o ne.

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MONITORING TIMES

October 1997

I "Hydramatic" tuning knob

The tuning knob use. variable- rate increme nt al tuning (YR IT) wi th four sp ecds 10/ IOO kHz and 1/ 10 M Hz-which are automatically shuffled in and out depend ing upo n
how fast you tum the knob. Imag ine . if you can.
going from the nethermo st long wave spectrum
lo the upper reaches of the shortwave spectrum
in but three turns o f the tuning knob. Spin it one
calori c 100 vigorous ly. and suddenly you find
yourself in a new dimen sion of ti me and spaccor at least several mega hertz up or down the
world hand spectrum from whe re you were.
Additionally. there is no de vice. such as
flip-dow n feet o r an e le vatio n rod. 10 prop the
receiver at an ang le that is comfortable for
operation. As a result . w he n sp inning the tun ing knob. you can keep rapping your knuckl e~
on the tabletop. You ca n resolve this by usi ng
a homcbrcw prop or by pi ckin g up the receiver
with one hand- it 's very li ght- and spinn ing
the knob carefully with the o the r.
Over time you gel accuscomcd to playing
"spin the dial and sec where it lands.'' or
course. 'you get accustomed to it" is the refrain
used to excuse every manner of ergonomic
shortcoming fro m a poor-contrast d isplay to a
jail ce ll , but this o ne is particularly puzzli ng.
After al l. what is the point of a 10 MHz-pcrrevolution tuning rate on a rece iver that covers
less than 30 MH z?
A l cs~c r annoyance is that when the rccei ver
is turned o n. it automat ically brings up the
frequency and mode that arc stored in the
memory preset. no t the last-tuned stati on . Too.
if you want 10 change that mode. you mu st use
the up or d own button.
But there' s a rub. If the receiver is in the
upper-sideband m od e. you cannot poke the up
bullo n aga in to access the lower-sideband or
AM modes. No. you must use the down bulio n
lo get there. And. if the receiver is in the lowcrs idchand mode, the o nl y way to you can get 10
the AM or upper-sideband modes is w ith the up
button . Of course. if the receiver i ~ in the A M
mode. you press " up" to access upper s ideband

Tuning the receive r in the AM mode to a

world band station is strai ghtforwa rd . However. tunin g in a sing le-side band s ignal , such as
a ham or utility stat ion , is less so. To begin with,
tun ing is a two-contro l exercise. First, the tuning knob is used lo tune as close as possib le !o
the desired signal. ext. the clarifier knob.
w hich has a fre quency adjustment o f plus o r
minus 800 Hertz. is tweaked to make the signal
readable.
Am ong world band listeners. the re is a timeho norcd technique-sometimes called exalted carrier se lectable s ide band . or "ECSS"-that is
used to banish o r lessen adjacent-channel interference. That is. where you manually tune a
worl d band station-which. o f course. is in the
double-sideband AM mode-in either the upper- or lower-side band mode. Unfort unately.
thi s technique. wh ich calls fo r the fi ngers of a
neurosurgeon and the cars of a bat. does no t
co me o ff we ll with the S RX I OO/HF3 . Too, the
rccei ver docs not autom ati cally com pensate for
the BFO offset that results when you switch
from the AM mode to e ither upper or lower
~ i cleba n d.

Suppose. for exam ple, you arc listening to a

s tation on 50 70 kHz in the AM (double-sideband) m ode. and you think that tuning to one
s ide band o r the other mig ht result in less adjacent -channe l interfe rence. Press the button to
USB. and you have to tune to 5072 kHz to
prevent the receiver from howl ing li ke a scalded
cat. If you change 10 LSB to sec if it so unds
belier than US B. you mus t then retune to 5068
kHz- a jump of 4 k Hz- lo prc vcm a similar
banshee wail.
But the problem doesn' t end here. as it is
impossi b le to use the clari fier contro l to prod uce normal audio. An unsteadiness. seeming ly
in the ~y nth cs i z cr. prevents the sort o f relatively
clean zero beat you get on many other receivers.
Even with practiced hands and a safccracke r" s
touch. we couldn 't make the SRX I 00/l-IF3 properl y "l isten" to an AM station in ECSS. and
regular single-sideband receptio n fared little
belier.
A nigg ling com plaint is that the volume/on-

off control. at least o n our unit, is decidedly

non-linear- that is. move the knob just a little
bit. and you go from soft to much lo uder in an
instant. In addition, the microprocessor resets
itself and goes to whatever frequency is stored
in the memory preset if you turn down Lhe
volume to where you encounter resistance fro m
the click-stop.

I Performance superior for price point

The ultimate rejection of the two bandwidths is of superset calibe r- nothing sho rt of
superb! Yet. a lthoug h the 6 kHz bandwidth
actually measures a commendable 5.6 kHz, the
shape factor is only a mediocre I :3, for a barnbroad 17 kHz wide at -60 d B.
The 3.8 k Hz SSB bandwidth measures 4.8
kH z in our lab. so the two bandwidths are in fact
quite similar, even tho ug h the shape factor of
the sing le-side band bandwidth is good . Had
this bandwid th met factory specs, which is
reall y too wide for most SSB applications anyway, it wou ld have been a good second bandwidth for AM-mode listening. Unfortunately, it
doesn 1 matter, as on this receiver bandwidth
cannot be selected independent of mode.
Image rejectio n is excellent, which is especiall y important for 60 mete r tropical band
recepti on. However, first IF rejection is poor,
whic h mean s that under certain unusual circumstances the receiver will be susceptible to
interference from nearby powerful stations.
Dynamic range is fairly good, but what
really counts for strong-signal handling is that
the thi rd-order intercept point is excellent-to s uperb. Thi s is qui te an achievement at any
price point, but at $280 is exceptional. On the
other hand. sensitivity is o nl y fair.
Whe n listening to a broadcast that is free
from interference, this receiver sounds pretty
good. and our lab meas urements help explain
w hy. Although overall audio distortion at lower
audio frequenc ies is I 0- 15%-a poor showing- it improves markedly to excellent-to-superb at h igher audio frequencies. That lowfrequenc y distortio n may make for some listening fatigue over time, but as a practical matter
audio quality is right up there with the best in
this receiver's price class.

I A bargain, but...
The Lowe SRX I00 and Target HF3 are lowcost bargains in tabletop models. After all. $280
is extremely attracti ve fo r this level of performance. With higher-quality bandwidths selectable independe nt o f mode. improved weaksignal sensitivity and a less "twitchy" VR IT.
these little radios would be hard to beat anywhere near thei r price points.
Neverthe less, these two rece ivers have
substantiall y better sig nal- handling capabi lity
than s uch top-rated portables as the $350 Sony

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93

SCANNER EQUIPMENT
EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES FOR YOUR MONITORING POST

Bob Parnass, AJ95

Radio Shacl< PR0-67 Portable Scanner

ad io Shack is cxpanding the use of

triple conve rsion circuitry in its scanncr product Iinc with the new PR0-67
portable. Li kc its doublc conversion PR0-51
prcdcccssor. thc 200channel PR0-67 is manufacturcd for Radio Shack by Uniden.
,\M and NFM mode~ arc factory set and
not ~clc<.:wblc. Freq uency coverage includes
tht: VHF-low. VHF- hi gh. commercial air.
UHF. and 800 MH1. bands. The designers
censored freq uencies adjacent lo the cellular
phone hands. so ou r PR0-67 wi ll not receive
868.9625 or 823.9625 MHz. These two frequcncit:s arc Iiccnsed to several local and state
govern men ts. including the Il li nois State Policc trunked system around Ch icago.

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PR0-6 7

tested. Empty chan nels, those

programmed with 0.0, are automat ica ll y ig nored durin g
memory scan.
Users may designate one
pri ori ty cha nne l in each of the
10 memory banks. The PR067 checks each of the priorit y
channels every 2 seconds while
scannin g or in manual mode.
but not during searches.
Freq uenc ies can be saved
in any of 10 Monitor channels
and later transferred individuall y to conventional memory.

Searching for Activity

Memory Organization and Scanning
The PR0-6Ts 200 memory channels arc
divided into I0 banks. Memory backup is
~ pccificd to be three days during power los~.
Thc Philippine-made PR0-67 lacks some of
thc feature~ found in upscale models. For
in~tanct:. the PR0-6 7 docs not alert you wh.:n
programming a duplicate frequenc y in
mc111ory.
A 2-scrnnd rcscan de lay may be selected
for individual channels.
We mt:asurcd the sca n rate at a blazing 68
channels/sec - fastest of all the models we ve

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T he PR0-67 prov ides three ways to sear<.: h

fo r sig nal s: Direct. Bank, and Service searching. Dire<.:t search. using the up and down
arrow keys. searches from the display frequency in the direction of your choos ing.
Onc pair of user programmable li mits is
provided fo r bank searches.
Service search hunts for act ivi ty among
preprogrammed air. marine. fire. and weather
freq uencies. There is no police serv ice search
- a n om issio n we consider pecu liar. given
that police monitori ng is arguably the most
popular usc fo r a scanner radio. Police service
search was missing from the earlier PR0-5 1
mode l. too.
You can lock o ut up to 20 frequencies
during searches and rev iew each one later.
unloc king frequencies if you like .

MONITORING TIMES

COf7rlogl'IC1H1, 9oc.~-. AJH

October 1997

The PR0-67 battery compartme111 is located at the lowe r rear quadra111 and holds four
AA cells. A small slide sw itch located above
the batteries selects alka line or NiCd. If the
switch is set to NiCd. an optional wall barnacle powcr supply (RS #273- 1665) can be
used to power the scanner from I 17 V AC and
recharge thc batte ries simultaneous ly. An
optional DC adapt er (RS #270- 1560) can do
the sa me thing using an automobi le 12 voe
clcctrical system instead.
The PR0-6Ts current requiremenb arc
frugal and ours draws onl y 65 mA whi le
scanning. A battery save circ uit reduces cu r-

rent dra in in Manual or Program modes after

5 second s of silence and no keyboard acti vity.
An icon on the display shows whether the
battery save mode is active. and you can
di~able the battery saver completely by pressing the Priority key during power up.

Fine Display
The PR0-6 7 LCD display is much easier to
read than the PR0-64 we tested last August. fl
maintai ns sharp contrast whe n viewed from
several angles and the frequency dig its arc
largi:r. Pressing the Light key illuminates the
d isplay boldly for 15 seconds using amber
colored LEDs.
Keystrokes are confirmed by a beep tone.
though the tone can be disabled by press ing
the L-OUT key du ring power up.

Performance
Our PR0-6Ts small speaker produces audio of average quality. which distorts as the

MEASUREMENTS
RADIO SHACI< PR0-6 7
PORTABLE SCANNER
S/N 75010355
Frequency coverage (MHz):
29 - 54 (5 kHz steps)
108 - 136.975 (AM, 12.5 kHz steps)
137 - 174 (5 kHz steps}
406 - 51 2 ( 12.5 kHz steps)
806 -823.9375, 851 - 868.9375,
896.1125 - 1000 (12.5 kHz steps)
Sensitivity: see graphs
FM modulation acceptance: 13.5 kHz
Image rejection due to first IF:
59.5 dB@ 155.5 MHz
Procticol memory scan speed: 68 ch/sec.
Search speed, Hyper: 243 steps/sec.
Search speed, regular: 94 steps/sec.
Current consumption ot 6 VOC:
off - less than 20 uA
scan - 65 mA
full volume - 142 mA
Battery saver: ofter 5 seconds in
Monuol mode.
Low bottery warning ot 4.46 VOC or
less.
Shutdown ot 4.33 VOC VOC or less.
Intermediate Frequencies:
254.4, 10.85, ond 0.45 MHz

less
sensitive

less
sensitive

PR0-67 VHF NFM SENSITIVITY

12 dB SINAD, 3 KHZ DEVIATION, Serial #75010355

PR0-67 VHF AIR BAND AM SENSITIVITY

12 dB SINAD, 1 KHZ TONE, 30% MODULATION, Serial #75010355

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sensitive
less
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115

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PR0-67 UHF NFM SENSITIVITY

120

125

130

135

140

FREQUENCY (MHZ)

Portable Scanner Current Consumption

12 dB SINAD, 3 KHZ DEVIATION, Serial #75010355

Measured While Scanning

:....
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Electra BC100
Unlden BC200XL T
Radio Shack PR0-67
RELM HS200
Unlden BC230XL T
Unlden BC3000XLT
Radio Shack PR0-26
Unlden BC235XLT
Radio Shack PR0-62
Radio Shack PR0-43
Radio Shack PR0-64
Radio Shack PR0-60
AORAR2700
AORARSOOO
ICOM IC-R10

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FREQUENCY (MHZ)

vol ume control is advanced. Squelch actio n is

acceptabl e, with the proper amo unt of hysteresis. The PR0-5 1's sque lch tail is 10 0 long.
producing a long noi se burst at the e nd of each
tran smi ss ion. T he PR0-67 sq uelc h tail is
sho rte r. though s1il l no ticeable.
We took the PR0-67 o n vacatio n and put it
to work mo nito ring local po lice, bus iness, and
motel freq ue nc ies. Practical use, al ong with
test be nc h measure me nts. sho ws our sca nner
has little intermoc..1 and adequate sensiti vity
(sec graph s). The PR0 -6 7 and BC-235X L T
share the same IF sche me . and the 254.4 M Hz
fi rst IF accounts fo r very good image rejection
- almost 60 dB at 155 .5 M Hz. That said, we
do rece ive an image of TV cha nne l 26 audio
(547.75 MHz ) ncar 39.05 M Hz when using an
outdoor antenna.
Ou r PR0-67 is cl ean in the 160 MHz
railroad and 800 MHz land mobile range,

Note: One sample of each model tested.

though we experience so me adj ace nt channe l

interfere nce from stations o n UHF 12 .5 kHz
away whe n using an outdoor ante nna. W e
measured the PR0-67's cellular rejectio n to
be 49.5 dB in the VHF-low band. The sig nalto-display frequency relatio nship on the VHFlow band is:

Copyright 1997, Bob Pamass, AJ9S

6Ts w ide ang le display. simple batte ry require ments, and low c urre nt drain are assets
we lo ng for in other mode ls . Drawbacks include missing trunked freq uenc ies adjace nt to
the ce llular phone segments and o mi ssion o f
preprogrammec..I pol ice frequenci es. We consider the list price of $300 steep. so watch for
sales.

actual transmitter frequency (in MHz) = 763.2 +

[2 display frequency)

For e xample. we can hear an 870.0 MHz

signa l whe n the PR0-67 is program med to
53.4 MH z, though the 12 dB SIN AD sens iti vity is onl y 89 uV - o n par w ith a turnip.

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Our PR0-67 is a good performer. w ith
fas t scannin g and image rej ec tio n superi or to
the doub le conversion PR0-5 1. The PRO-

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95

TRACKING THE TRUNKS

Lor VanHorn
trunktracker@grove.net

Hex Conversion Made Easy

his month 's tip comes from MT staffer

Doug Smith.
" I no ted in your August Tracking the
Trunks a few recommendatio ns for converting
Motorola hexidecimal ID codes to Trunktracker
decimal codes. It's easy math to those of us who
have done some computer programming over
the years, but maybe a bit o bscure to those who
haven't.
" Luckily, anyone with a Windows 3.10/95
PC can do this math with computer assistance.
"Open the Accessories window and locate
Calculator. Run it. Pull down the View menu
and select Scientific.
" If you want to convert a decimal number to
hex, click the Dec button at the upper left of the
window. Type the number (it appears in the box
at the upper right). Now cl ick on the Hex
butto n; the number in the box is converted to
hex.
"To convert a hex number to decimal, reverse the process. Click the Hex button, type
the number you want to convert, and click on
Dec.
"Of course, calculator is also handy for
doing the necessary mu ltiplication/division by
16. Be sure to do this step while lhe number is
in decimal. in the o rder Greg Knox explained in
your August column. This is because 16 hex is
really 22."
Thanks a bunch, Doug, for the tip. I use that
calculator every time I work o n this column in
checking fleet group idents.

I Any Questions?

When I try to monitor trunked

radio from 855-860 MHz on my
Radio Shack PR0-39 Hyperscan
scanner( I hear mostly images of cell
radio phone conversations from
21.4 MHz higher. These cell phone
conversations are stronger than the
trunked system that I am trying to
monitor.
How is the image rejection in this
band for the Bearcot BC-235 XLT
radio? Does this Trunk Tracker hove
the some problem? (William TobinAlaska}
Q.

A. The Trunk Tracker is a triple conversion

radio and it is the fi rst Uniden radio that has
excellent image rejectio n capability. T he PR039 scanner (made for RS by Uniden) is double
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MO NITORING TIMES

October 1997

conversion. Like most Uniden double conversion receivers the PR0-39 does a poor job of
image rejection.
I have personally tested the Trunk Tracker in
one of the worse RF intermod/image areas of
the country: in downtown Atlanta on Interstate
75/85 in front of the former Olympic vi llage.
There wasn' t even a hint of a intermod/images.

The Bearcot BC-235 XLT is

advertised as being able to track
only Motorola trunk systems. How
do we know which systems ore
Motorola trunked systems? It would
not be worth getting a BC-235 XLT if
the trunked radio in our city were
not Motorola. {William TobinAloska)
Q.

A.

If you buy that Trun k Tracke r from Grove

Enterprises. that won' t be a problem since you
have a 30-day, no questions asked, money back
guarantee.
To give you a more straightforward answer,
it is pretty si mple to find o ut locally if the Trunk
Tracker wi ll work in your area. Tum on the
scanner you have now and plug in the 800 MHz
freq ue ncies of the trunk system you want to
monitor. Liste n to one of the active frequencies
and if you hear a set of tones after the conversation is over that sounds like the j ingle used in
General Electric commercials--don' t buy a
Trunk T racker: You have a GE/Ericsson system in your location and the 235 will no t fo llow
that trunk.
If you hear nothing but hi ss on the trunk
freq uencies the n that is probably a digital system and the 235 won' t follow that, e ither. Any
other system shou ld be a Motorola analog system and the Trunk Tracker will work tine.
You last alternati ve is to call o ur tech support line and see what information we have on
ti le about your local system. That number is
704-837-708 1 between 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern
Time, Monday thro ugh Friday.

I System Profile
This month's trunking system profi le is courtesy of Albert C hailowa in the Garden State.
Alben sent in information on the New Jersey
State Patrol- Troop A.
If you have information on your local system you wou ld like to share with your fellow
M T readers, we want to hear fro m you. You can
write us at: Tracking the Trun ks. P.O. Box 98,

Brasstow n , NC 28902 o r via ema il to

trunk t racker @grove.net.

New Jersey State Police (Troop A) South
Headquarters: Hammonton
Stations: Absecon, Atlantic City Expressway
(Hammonton), Bridgeton (Seol:irook), Bellmawr,
Berlin, Mays Landing, Port Norris, Red Lion
(Vincetown), Tuckerton (West Creek), and
Woodstown
System Frequencies: 855.2 125 855.4625,
855.7125, 856-860.4375, and 856-860.9375
MHz.
National Public Sofety Calling and Mutual Aid
(Tone 156.7 Hz):
866.0125 (Colling), 866.5125 (Tac 1),
867.0 125 (Tac 2), 867.5 125 (Tac 3), and
868.0125 (Tac 4)
System Fleet Map: Motorola Type Iii analog
Sub Fleet Identifications
0000
Fleet l (Fleetwidel
000-1
Division Calling .
Headquarters (Hammonton)
0002
000-3
East 3 Dispatch
0004
South Bridgeton Dispatch
West Bellmawr Dispatch
0005
Morine Units
000-6
000-7
Operations (Car to Car)
Command Post Operations
000-8
000-9
Int Operations (Car to Car)
Aviation Units
000-10
Executive Security
000-11
000-12
Atlantic City Expressway
000-13
Unassigned
000-1 4
New Jersey Turn pike
000-15
Garden State Parkway
400-0
Fleet 2 (Fleetwide)
400-1
Attorney General
400-2
Corrections (3BI
400-3
Gaming Enforcement
400-4
Deportment of Criminal Justice
400-5
Detectives Dispatch
Investigators
4006
Investigators
400-7
400-8
Investigators
400-10
Medevac (not in use)
400-11
Human Services Police
400-12
Unassigned
Unassigned
400-13
400-1 4
Emergency Management
Corrections (3A)
400- 15
26640
26672
26704
26736
26768
26800
26832
26864
26896
26928
26960
26992
27024
27056
27088
57296

Superintendent
Troop Commanders
Spore
S_pare
Corrections (3C)
SouthStar Helicopter
NorthStar Helicopter
Spore
Narcotics
Spore
Spare
State Aquarium
Spare
New Jersey Turn pike (Car to Car)
Parkwar. Headquarters
Fleet 3 (Fleetwide)

The enormous uccess of Uniden's hand-held BC235XLT Trun k Tracker is now :

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indicator.
Powerfu l 2.7 watt audi o punches through the noisiest
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even add a tape recorder from separate jacks. Rugged ly built
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October 1997

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97

ANTENNA TOPICS
BUYING, BUILDING AND UNDERSTANDING ANTENNAS

Clem Small, KR6A

Some Thoughts on Multi-band Antennas

tha~~

n antenna w hich co ve rs mo.re

one band 1s calbJ a .. multi-band
antenna. Some multi-band de s i g n~
an.: ' impl y se veral antt.:nnas des igned for diffen:nt hands but connected to the same feed line
as shown in fig. IA. Some multi -band antennas uti li ze trap c ircuits to ;u;cept or reject
signal s of certain frequenc ies and automatically ro ute the des ired signal to appropriate
elcn11.: nts in the antenna (rig. I B ).
In an interesting and wcll-wrillcn article '
Barker reports on an antenna utili zing a lesscom mon technique of automati1: frequency
routing. This antenna. thi.: multi-hand. multilayi.:rcd. multi-resonant antenna (MMMA ).
has some featu res whi1:h arc interesting to
consider. Let' s take a look at them.
I The Multi-band, Multi-layered, Multi
resonant Antenna

tlow past the open e nd of the tran, mi ssion line

section. and thereby effectively i'olates wire
U from the part of LI on pa't L-L This
isolated length. L4. on the wire LI is functi onally aquartcrwave long at F2. and supports the
antenna s operati on at F2.
Barke r suggests the MMM A will fum:tion
usi ng one sec tion of the general typi.: shown in
fig. IC operated against the earth (fig. ID). or
operated against a counterpoise con,isti ng of
another ~ec ti on identical to the first section
(fig. IE ). He also suggests that two sc1:tions
can be 1.:onncctcd to for m a halfwaw dipole
(fi g. IF).
Barker" s comments that a single sec ti on of
the MMMA can be used as a longw irc antcnna
should not he interpreted to mean th at it wil l
function at its full potential by simpl y connecting it to a coaxial fecdlinc whic h ru ns to
our receiver or transmitter. He ' pecificall y
menti ons that such an ante nn a shou Id be operated wi th a good earth ground. Due to this. we
should probably think ofthcgroundcd MMMA
not as a longw ire. but more as a grounded
Mar1:uni quarte rwave anten na.
On the other hand. it is interesting tu note
that one secti on of the MMMA. or any other
sizable length of wire. wil l often suppon decent reception over much of the HF band

without the addition of a ground connection.

counterpoi,e. radial. or anything cbe. Such an
antenna or wire needn "t be resonant nor match
the feedline well fo r this reception . This is
because re1:eption on thi.: HF band is limited
not so much by the signal level deli vered from
the antenna a' it i' by the ratio of receivi.:dsignal level to ri.:ceived-noisc level (s ig nal to
noise ratio).
Thu, . mount ing a single set:tiun of an
MM MA. or any ' ii.able length of wire. high
and in the clear. will often gi, e decent reception of many HF signal s. Neverthel ess. when
noise is exceptionally low on the HF band.
having an antenna reso nant and we ll-matc.:hcd
to the fcedline can lead to better reception.
I Let's Model an MMMA

To get a feel fort he operation of the MMM A

l designed onctocover both 160M Hz and 100
MHz. Ncverthelcs,. my antennas ope rating
frequencies were not at 160 and 100 MHz a~
1hadde!>igncd the m to be. Cutting the MMMA.
or any othe r antenna. to length as give n by the
formu la normal ly utilized to determine an tenna length almost always gives an operating
frequenc y 'omewhat different than the one
you enter into the fo rmul a.
Th is ~ec m s to be una voidable clue to varia -

The MMM A uti li ze, a ..choke .. to tune

\'ariou' portions of the overall antenna s length.
Th i' method is found in 'ome commercial
multi-band designs. Let' s see how it works.
In fi g. IC we sec an MMMA section designed for operation at two fn:que m:ies whid1
we 11 c.:al I F I and F2. Length LI i' designed to
' upport operati on on F l. the lower of the two
de, ign frequencies. L2 is a quarterwave long
at F2. and L3 isa halfwa\'e
lo ng at F2. Note th at
L1 .
whi.:n.: L2 parallels LI .
the two wires form what
I
I
,.._ L2-14- L4 -1:<111 be thought of as a
1
:
q uartcrwave section of
I
~LJtwo-wi re tran smi s,ion
line. Note also thar this
..__ FEEDLINE
tran, mis,ion line ectio n
FEEDLINE
i' , hnrted at its end farthe' t fro m the feedpoint.
/\ shrn1cd quarterwave
lengt h of feedline present s a very high impedance (opposit ion to 1.:urrent ll ow) at its unshorted
0
F
end. Obviously then. curFEEDLINE
rent !lowing betwee n the FEEDLINE
COUNTERPOISE
anti.:nna fcedpoi nt and the
t
~.l.
L:t-;
open end of this line sec. ,
tion wi II i.:ncounter a high
impedance at the open
end of the t ransmi s~ i nn
line. That hi gh impedance FIGURE 1. A M11/ti-ele111e11t dipole antenna (A), a trap dipole al/fe1111a (B), a single choke-a11te1111a section (C), (I
gri.:atl y reduces curre nt choke a11te1111(1 111ith f!(lrfh ground (D), a choke a11te1111(1 111ith (I coulllerpoise (t:), and a dipole choke a11te1111a.

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ti on in environmental factors between differcnt locations. T hese factors include proximity

to the canh and to various buildings or other
~ truc ture s in the antennas general \icinity.
As uggestcd below. coupl ing between multiple clements in an antenna can also cause the
operating frequencies o r an antenna to sig ni ficantly depart from calculated values. Getting
a formula-cut antenna to be resonant at the
operating frequency you desire u ~ually requires measurement its resonant freq uency.
and the n adjust ing its length as necessa ry.!
With the MMMA wires bundled tightl y
together and taped in place as suggested by
Barker the antenna functioned at F I with an
SWR of ;1pproximately I: I. and at F:2 with
approximately 1.65: I. As the wi res arc increasingly ~epara t ed. the SWR at F2 improved
tu about I: I with a separation or about 1/2
inch. T he SWR at F l n:mai ned around I: I
throughout the tc ~ts. T he resonant point for
hoth Fl and F2 moved closer to their int..:nded
design freque ncies as the wire separation increased. This is most likely clue to less coupling between elements as separati on i~ increased. Similarresults were obta ined with an
HF model.
T hus. it seems that th is type or antenna
functi ons better with its stubs separated wel l
from the main antenna wi re (LI) than it does
with the various clements bou nd tightly together. Separations or 1/2 inc h or more for
VHF. and 2.5 inches or more fo r HF shou ld
improve the antenna 's performance for wcaksignal work in low received-noise conditions.
Positioning L2 at right angks to LI gave
SWR values fo r F2 that were comparable to
those at 1/2 inch spacing. Th is c hanges the
antenna s mode of F2 operati on from choke
isolati on to opera ting the wire length L2 + L3
at its third harmonic. Th is orientati on of L2 is
not recommended. as it wou ld re,ult in an
antenna that is awkward to ha ndle.
In ~u mmary . the MMMA seem' to he a
decent design whi ch would like ly functi on
better in low-noise situations if the clements
were separated. Replacing the earth ground
with radials would increase the efficicnc) of a
single section antenna. especiall y for transrni11ing.
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RADIO RIDDLES

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Last month

birdie so und ~ as if it is a con tinu o u ~ .

unrnodu lated. received signal. and is always
tuned in al the 'arne ~pnt on I he dial. Receivers
of good design ha\C few. if any. birdie .

You'll find an an,wcr for thi' month's

ridd le. and much more. in next 111onrh ' i"uc
of M1111i10ri11g Times. 'Til then Peace. DX.
and 73.

This Month

1
Moy 1997, Monitoring Times, pg 1820.
Corrections fo r some lengths given incorrectly in
Baker's article ore reported in July 1997,
Monitoring Times pg 4.
2 Automatic SWR meters such as the MFJ, AEA, or
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What. if any. is 1hc di fference between a

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I asked: ''In our discussion o r received inte rfering signals why haven't we covered those
pesky "birdies" we so metimes hear scattered
aero'' our dials ... We ll. it' s because birdies
arc not receil'ed signals! They an: spurious
signals generated within the receiver itself. A
October 1997

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ASK BOB

Bob Grove, WA 4PYQ

bgrove@grove.net

ANSWERS TO YOUR RADIO QUESTIONS

Does the size of the crystal in a

crystal radio make any difference in
how well you hear the signal?
{Donald Michael Choleva, Euclid,
Q.

OH)

A. Probabl y rHll the way you wou ld expect.

The important characteristic is the rati o between the forwa rd and rew rse res istanCl:: thc
amount of current which llows is infinitesimal. so mass is not importan t. As a matter or
fact. the best scmiconductordetcctors. as used
in crystal sc ts. arc the ~ma ll cs t. Thi s is why thc
early cat ~ - wh i s ke r detectors used s uch a fine
point to find a "~weet ~pot " on the mass of lead
sulfide crystal (gale na ).
I subscribe to one of those
pagers that keep you posted on
maior fire and EMS incidents as
they are occurring. Is there any
addition I can make to help it
receive at a further distance?
(Wanda Hickey)
Q.

A. Pagers utili ze internal loop antennas which

arc. by their very location. of limited size.

Bob's Tip of
the Month
We have all had the experience of owning a
seannerorshon wave radio wi th smudges ground
into the plastic window di splays. After an attempt at washing the window. we di scover that
the s mudge is permanently etched into the
plastic.
But all is not lost. Non-abrasive metal polishes li ke Brasso may be used quite effectively
in reducing, or even eliminating, lightl yscratched plastic su rfaces. Simply bufflhe plastic with the compound. allow it to dry. and wipe
it off with a soft. dry cloth.
If the scratches are deep, or the plastic is
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October 1997

Si nce you don't know whe n.: the loop is physi cal! ) placed. and a ~~ lllnin g. you don't ha\'l'. an
external antenna jack. you mi ght try the fo llowing ex periment:
Instal Ia rooftop scanner antenna. complete
with coax cable routcd down to the prospective pager location. Ir yuL1have a connect or on
the bottom e nd of the coax. you will need a
mating chassis- mount jack from Radio Shack.
Solder a single wire loop. just big erwugh to
go around the case of the pager. between the
center pin and body of the jack.
Wi th the pager on. hope full y receiving a
signal. move the loop into va riou ~ ve rtical and
horizontal positions around the pager fo r bcst
signal strcngth. You can u ~e pla ~ ti c tape to fix
the couple r into place once you ha ve fo und thc
"sweet spot."
J\nothcralternati ve wou ld be recommended
onl y if you own the scanner. and on ly perfornH:d by someone famil iar wi th radi o. Open
the case and li nd the small rod antenna. Drill
a hole in the case as near as possible to the lonp
antenna. just large e nough to mount a 111inija<.:k fo r con necting an ex te rnal antenna. Solder to thi~ jack an in ~ ul a tcd \\ire wh ich run~
around the loop for one turn. then back tu the
jac k.
This type o r close. inductive coupli ng is
more e fficient. but phy~ica ll y 111odilic~ thc

scanner. Additionally. the presence of the

ne\\' loop may rcquirc re-pcaking the pager's
RF amp li fie r stage fo r maxi mum signal
st rength This touch-up should bt: done with
tht: external antenna connected if the remote
lolation i~ more important. or with it di sconnccted if c losc-i n operation is more important.
NiCd Questions and Answers

The value or rechargeable ni ckel-cadmium

is leg.end. but a few fac ts will help
you make thc best c hoice~.
ba t1 cric~

When is a NiCd cell or battery

pack fully charged?

Q.

A.

Whc n the tcrmi nal rnltage ri ses to 1.351.5 volts per cell. During its discharge time. it
maintains a rc lati ve ly constant termi nal vollagc or about 1.25 pcr cell. T herefore, a fu ll y
charged 12 mil NiCd battery would ini tially
measure 13.5-15 volts, quickly droppi ng to
12.5 which it maintains du ring its discharge.

What is meant by "discharging"

a NiCd?

Q.

A. It doe.m 1 mean dropping the charge to 0:

it means reduc ing the charge per cell from

Repairing Smudged Plastic

Display Windows
badly warped. discolored. or even broken, it
will have to be replaced. But even that chore
may not be as daunting as it wou ld first seem.
says MT reader Ray Miller, N2NJK. But let's
let him tell us how he solved the problem on an
old scanner he was restoring.
"The plastic display window was one of the
worst that I'd ever seen. I didn ' t know what to
try for a good replacement. I looked at crart
stores, hobby shops, etc. to try to gel an idea and
nothing worked. When I was in a WalMart I
spotted what turned out to be the perfect fix.
They make a clip-on sun shade for the vehicle

sun visor. It is a smoked plexiglass for about

four dollars. I brought it home, measured up the
correct size, and cut a new display wi ndow out
using a large X-acto knife. I covered both sides
of the plastic with widecleartape while cutting
to avoid any scratches. I then placed it over the
original display window. Finally. pleased with
the way it would look, I put adabofKrazy Glue
on each corner:
Thanks. Ray, for the excellent suggestion.
I' m sure that many of our readers will now be
cruising the isles of the local department store
looking for similar clear or tinted plastic.

1.25 volts to 1.0 volts; thu ~. a 12.5 volt NiCd

ballcry. whid1 consists often 1.25 voltcdls in
series, would be full y discharged whe n its
term inal voltage reads 10.0. W hen you drasti cally drain the remaining c harge on a NiCd,
the cell s can reverse polarity and dry out the
electrolyte irreversibly.

What is the lifetime of a NiCd

cell or battery?
Q.

A. On the average, at least 2-3 years. ass uming none of the cell s goes bad. Some last 5- 10
years. You should replace the NiCds when the
useful discharge pe riod becomes sig nificantly
shorte r.

Is there anything wrong with

leaving an unused NiCd battery
pack permanently on a charger?

Q.

A. T he proper procedure is to c harge a NiCd

at 10% its rated capacity; thu s, a 450 mA H AA
cell shou ld be charged at 45 mA until it tops
off its termi nal voltage at between 1.35 and
l.5 volts. T his shouldnt take more than 12

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hours o n a di scharged NiCd. It 's O K to overc harge for a few hours, but continuous c harging will shorten its li fe.

INDEX OF ADVERTISERS
Alpha Delta .......... ................... ...... 99

Are fast chargers safe to use on

a NiCd?

Antique Radio Classified ..... ............ 71

A. Yes. just so long as the batte ry doesn' t get

Atlantic Ham Radio .. .... ....... ........ ... 67

hot (warm is OK) or outgas fro m its vent.

Communications Electronics ............. 33

Q.

Arcron Zeit ......... ............ ........ ... .... 65

Computer Aided Technologies .. . 90, 9 1

If, after 12- 15 hours, the battery

does not reach its appropriate
terminal voltage, should it be
discarded?

Q.

CSP Technologies .. ... ........... .... ....... 77

Davis Instruments ... ..... .................... 93
Delta Research ............... ................ 77
Drake, R. L. ......... ...................... ....... 3

A.

Not yet. A cell may be short-c irc uited by

metallic crystal "whiskers" (de ndrites) w hic h
grow from the:: electrolytic action on the plates.
Try "'zapping" the Ni Cd w ith substantia l overc harge c urrent for a few seconds in an attcmpt
to melt the dcndrite (do not let the NiCd get
hot! ). A cell could a lso be po larity-reversed
from low-voltage discharge; try "exerc ising"
the NiCd by several c harge/di scharge cycles
before throwing it away. You shou ld notice a
sudden tem1inal voltage increase when the
cell rnrrectly repolarizes.

DX Computing ...... ................ ......... 59

Erie Aviation .................................. 85
Fineware ..... .. ... .. .. .. .... ............. ...... 17
Future Scanning Systems .................. . 7
Glenn Hauser ... .............. ..... ....... .. . 39
Grove Enterprises .. .. ... .. 13, 29, 45, 97

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ICOM ........ .. .................. ..... .. Cover Ill
Index Publishing ............................. 75
Jacques d'Avignon .................. ....... 53

How long will an unused, fullycharged NiCd retain its charge?

Q.

Kangaroo Tabor Software ..... .. ........ 11

Kevin Carey .. ... ............. ..... ............ 66

A. All cclls and batteries self-discharge w ith

time due to their own inte rna l resistance . A
fresh NiCd loses upwards of l 0 % of its charge
per month at room temperature. It's always a
good idea to " top off' the charge before using
a NiCd that's been in storage.

KIWA Electronics ............... ...... 85, 87

Kl ingenfuss ................. ..... .......... .... 93
Lentini Communications ........ ........ ... 21
Monitoring Times .. .. ..................... l 03
Motron Electronics .......................... 79

Does environmental temperature

affect storage time?

Q.

National Scanning Report .... ........... 31

OptoElectronics ..... .... ... .... .. Cover II, IV

Do You Have Questions?

A. Yes. but not as much as most people think .

Palomar Engineering ..... ................. 69

Bob Has Answers!

Never put batte ries in a freczcr, but a refrigerator may add a few percent to the c harge
li fe time, both for NiCds a nd a lkalines. Conversely, batteries stored in a hot car will se lfdisc hargc more rapidly.

PW Publishing ..... ....... ..... .. ............ 67

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Radiomap .. .... ................. ..... ......... 95

R.C. Distributing ..... ........................ 81
R.D.I. W hite Papers ... .. ... .......... .. .. .. 93
Satellite Times ... ... ... .. ...... ..... .. ...... l 03

When building a battery pack, is

it important to carefully match cells?

Scanner Master ................... ..... ... ... 77

A.

Signal Intelligence ....... .... .... .. ... ...... 67

Q.

SGC Inc................ .......... .... .. ........ 25

No. Don' t mix sizes in order to avoid

deeply d ischarg ing of a low-capacity ce ll
wh ich could result in polarity reversal, but
don' t worry about mixing brands. rated capac ities (within a few percentage po ints ), or
re lati ve ages. If you want to be on the safe
s ide::. charge or discharge the individual cell s
unti l they arc al l at either 1.0 or 13.5 volts
befo re combining them into a pack .

Skyvision ......................... ........ ... ... 81

Universal Radio ......... ..... ........ ........ 62
Viking International ......... .... ........ ..... 7
W iNRADIO ..................................... 5

October 1997

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changing vocabulary changes perception. perhaps we shou ld shake the cel/pho11e habit.
In the fa ntasy world of our cover illustration. Congress thinks if it says it's so. that
makes it so. Rep. Tauzin says the Commercial
Mobi le Radio Service only includes cellular
and paging service . That truth is only believed inside the chain link fence. while we in
the real world bear the co nseq uences. It' s not
the ordinary scanner listener that ~ leaking
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- /?ache/ Baughn. edi!or

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By Bob Grove,

Publisher

Americas Cacophony to the World

A Guest Editorial by Kim Elliott

I Tortuous Organizational Structure

Conflict of Interest

Autonomy is half the battle for the rationalization o f U.S. international broadcasti ng. Effic iency is the other half. The structure of U.S.
international broadcasti ng would boggle Rube
Goldberg's mind. It consists of( I) the Voice of
Ame rica (worldwide radio and Internet in 52
lang uages), (2) Worldnet-TV, and (3) the Offi ce of Cuba Broadcasting, which consists of
(4) Radio Marti, and (5) TY Martf. The aforementioned are part of an administrati ve entity
known as the (6) Internationa l Broadcasting
Bureau.
Not part of IBB are the "grantee" corporations (7) Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty,
lnc.- broadcasting in 22 lang uages of East
Europe and the former Soviet Union, of which
17 are also transmitted by VOA and (8) Radio
Free Asia, competing with VOA in seven lang uages. The (9) Broadcasting Board of Governors supervises the whole lot ( I throug h 8),
though with no full time executive.
The Senate version of the Act prov ides two
million dollars for a new ( I 0) Radio Free Iran,
which will broadcast news about Iran in Farsi
to Iran . VOA presently broadcasts news about
Iran in Farsi to Iran . There has also been Congressio nal discussion o f ( 11 ) a Radio Free
Afghanistan, and ( 12) Radio Free Afri ca. VOA
already broadcasts to these places, too.
Thus, VOA and the Radio Free Whatevers
are duplicating and competing w ith each other,
now in 25 lang uages, and soon p robably in
more. Thi s is because of the U.S. " theory" of
international broadcasting: the "official" VOA
presents world and U.S. news and U.S. policies, the "su rrogate" Radio Free X statio ns
provide news about their listeners ' own countries.
The theory does not reflect reality: VOA
has always broadcast as much news as it cou ld
about its target countries, knowing it must do
so to attract an aud ience. Duplication could be
eliminated by forcin g VOA to adhere to the
theory , transmitting only world and U.S. news.
Listeners would have to tune to o ne U.S. statio n to get part of the news, then retune throug h
the miasma of shortwave to get the rest of the

The Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1997 is. as I write this, in House/
Senate conference. O ne o f its provisions is to
integrate the U.S. lnfonnation Agency into the
State Department. This poses a dilemma forthe
Voice of America, part of US IA since 1953.
VOA 's 86 million listeners tune to VOA mainly
to get news that is more reliable, objective, and
comprehensive than the news from their own
government contro lled media. C redibility is
therefore key to YOA 's success. Absorption
into the State Department would, at the least,
create a perception problem for VOA.
The internatio nal broadcasting provisions
of the Senate version are likely to prevail.
These would separate VOA from US IA and its
State Department fate. VOA would report,
through its parent Intern ational Broadcasting
Bureau, to the Broadcasting Board of Governors, wh ich will become a separate agency.
The International Broadcasting Act of 1994
created the Broadcasting Board of Governors
to serve as a "firewall" between the government and the ele ments of U.S. international
broadcasting. The BBG, in its firewall function, has appointed the director oft he 18B. This
sho uld have ensured VOA 's autonomy.
But the Senate version of the 1997 Act gives
VOA its independence and takes it away again.
It a lso stipulates that the Director o f the 18B
would no longer be appointed by the BBG, but
by the President, with the consent of the Senate. Thus, for VOA , the most important part of
the BBG fi rewall wi ll be breached. Furthermore, the Se nate wording requires VOA to
broad cast daily editorials, exercises in advocacy which set VOA apart from other Western
internatio nal radio stations.
To help achieve the credibility necessary
for success, VOA must have the same au tono my enjoyed by its government-funded
cousins, Radio Free Europe. Inc. and Radio
Free As ia, Inc. RFE/RL and RFA are also
under the BBG, but their presidents are appointed by the BBG. not by the President of the
United States.

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October 1997

news. They wou ld probably opt for the BBC

World Service. where they can get the convenience of all the news from one ~tat ion.
In countries where fo reig n broadcasts are a
necessary complement to domes tic state controlled media, li s tener~ want thc most time ly ,
comprehensive. objcctive, and rdevant news
they can get. It must be clearly rcceivable on
lheirmostlycheap shonwavc radios. The United
States must concentrate its fini te news gathering,
talent, and transmitting resources to provide
such a service succcssfull y, w hercver it is
needed.

I A Simple Fix
To that end, here's a reorganization plan:
MergeRFE/RL Inc. with RFA Im:. Bring VOA
and Worldnet into this merged corporation.
Rename the new corporation something worthy of a news org ani zation ( thus shedding the
cold war pariah status that has kept Radio Free
Asia from getting vital overseas relay transmitters and news bureaus). A merica' s international broadcasting resources would then be
concentrated into one globally effecti ve multi media organization. The BBG would continue
as buffer between the government and the
corporation.
(U.S. government international broadcasting should not rnmpete with private efforts
such as CNN and NBC lnternalio nal. But broadcasts in languages such as Swahili and Burmese will probably never be commercially
viable and thus must be government funded.)
Broadcasting bur..:aucracies are being added
while the budget for international broadcasting
is shrinking (down 30% since 1994). By the
year2000, U.S. international broadcasting could
consist e ntirely o f numerous senior- level manageme nts and front office s uites. T here mig ht
not be any money le ft for gathering new~.
making programs, or transmitting signals.
Dr. Kim Andrew Elliott is producer ond presenter
of Communications World o n the Voice of
Americo. Views expressed ore his own ond not
those of VOA or the IBB. Kim's articles on U.S.
international broadcasting include "Too Many
Voices of America" in the journal Foreign Policy,
Winter 1989/90.

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