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Vol. 17, No.1

January 1998

The Art 01 Professional Dispatching . 8

By Jock Elliott

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Th ro ugh the eye s o f Jock Ell iou. AfT drops in fi ll' a sh ift at Wilton
Po-t . S ture Police comm unic ation ... ce nte r for th ree cou mic -,iu up-uu c
New York . " Poli ce work" is nnl y .1 sma ll part of what this 2-t-llOli f
di spat ch ce nter see ms LO do. No mailer if it"s n.. sl.:uing ca tv Il T huma ns
or pro viding info rmatio n. it' s d on e profession al ly.

Real World Radio

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By Robert M, Felton
Arc yo u tired o f getti ng your 1l\"' \ \ S "blister pac ked" in politica lly
correct my thol ogy'? Why ge t all yo ur in for mation from the ma inst rea m
med ia when yo u ca n oo ~ o to the so urce" ll S lll ,g. yo ur -,ca nner a nd
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ATrunking System
Profile lor the Oty of
Atlanta
By Larry Van Horn
You'll get nothing but "j ust
the facts, ma'am" in thi s com prehen sive directo ry of Atl anta' s
tru nked public safety sys tem by
MTs assistant editor. Police departme nt subtl eet IDs and dispatch codes, fire departmcnt llr s,
and equipment and locat ion information are a ll yo u need to start
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Co ver photos by 101m Bailey.

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Washington Whispers
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S<anning Report
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The Translormatian 01 HR2369
U~lity World
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New HF Nationwide System
American Bandsca n
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English lang SW Guide
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Propogalion Conditions
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Diversify Reception
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Scanning Beyond the Ordinary
Ask Bob
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Those Pesky Pest Controls
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Lowfer Update
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Berkeley Pirate Wins Another
On the Ham 8ands
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Yagi vs Quad
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PCS Front line
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PCS takes shape in 1998

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FOI' the fl rs t ti m e in hist orj, the FC C
cha nged Ho cft-, o f its leade rsh ip in nne fell
sw oop! Duri IIg early Novembe r. the age ncy
:-;\VOJ't:' ill ro m IIt:'W con uu ixsioncrs whi ch
inc lude d I W( J African Am erican s an d <I Hispa nic wo ma n fro m Puert o Rico. On ly COIllnuss io ncr Susa n NL'sS con tinues fro nt th e
prc vrou . . l'OlllIJlISS IOIl.
Pre:-;. Cl in innamed FCC General Co un. . L' I W ill iam E. Ke nnard a", the new FC C
Cha irman. T he others arc economist Harold
\V . Furch tgot r- Roth. G loria Tri st uni. a sta te
regulator and ant i-tru st lawyer, Michae l K.
Pow e ll. SOil o f retired Army chid-o r-starr.
Colin Po we ll. T he FC C also mad e num c rous si m ultaneous change s to their bureau
stall.
lncoming Chairma n Bill Kennard sa id
he was hon ored that the ad min istra tio n had
shown co nfi de nce in him and that he wo uld
...co ntinue the FCC ' s effo rts to replace
reg ulation wit h co mpet ition , and to hast en
the de live ry o f ma ny ne w tcl cco m rnun icatio ns . . crv iccs to the pu blic ."
T he LJ .S. Se nate Commerc e C o mm ittee
has ap proved a h ill that wo uld p r ohibit
s ta te and loral governmenls fr om taxi ng
bu siness Oil the In te r net for a t least five
yea rs. Th e Intern et Fax r r('ec!oIll ACfplaces
a mo rato rium on taxing e lectron ic commcrcc. T he hi ll now goes to the fu ll Senate
for deb ate and voting . A s imilar hi ll has
h CC'1l wo rking its way th rou gh the l lo usc ,
There are more tha n J O,(JOOtax ing j urisdi ction ... ill the U.S. and ma ny wa nt to
collect taxes fro m Wo rld Wid e Web bu siness dcaling x. Seve ra l states a lrea dy im pose some ta x on lutcrnet transa ctio ns inc lud ing Co nnec ticut. Mu.. . sach usc us. Ten lleSSL' L' , Pe nnsyl vania . T exas. Oh io and
wisconsin. T he bi ll is \\'idL' ly opposed by
ninny states and c ities .
E ffe ctive .lanu a rv I. 1998. amateur
ra d io stations mu st conform to the FCC' s
new ru d io fr cq uency safety guid elines. In
I()l)6. thl' j:C C ' .s O tTiL'e otEnginccrin g and
Te ch nolog y (OET )adopted new Mavinnnn
t'cnniss ib!c /:'.\P OSI/I'C (ivIPE) sta ndards to
better protect the public an d wor ke rs fro m
potentia lly ha rmf ul R F field . . .

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January /998

T he FCC ha d been us ing a ILJ X2 standard whe n eva luat ing the effects o r R F
radi at io n o n the enviro nme nt. Unde r those
g uide lines. all A ma te ur Se rvice faci lities
we re ca teg ori cally exc lude d from eva luat ing the e ffects o f RF ex pos ure o n the hu mun env ironme nt.

Th e new standards th at the FC C ad opt ed

arc more restricti ve in the a mo un t o f e nviro nmcutul RF exp osure permitted and ex tends the Freque ncy range under co nsideration to cov er all freq uencies fro m 3 kll zt o
30 () GH I. ...every freq uency band use d by
the Ama teur Serv ice.
T he ne w guide lines prov ide for two le ve ls o f ex pos ure limits. O ne "contro lled"
leve l appl ies to people who are aware o f the
pot ent ial for RF ex pos ure. T he o the r " UIl co ntrolledT cvc l app lies to the ge neral public who have no know ledge or co ntrol over
their expos ure .
S ince Ama teur Rad io tran sm ission s can
im pact bot h the ham o pe rato r who ca n
exerc ise con tro l o ver trans m itted RF and
the ir nei ghbors who canno t. A ma teur Rad io tran s missio ns ca n be in bot h controll ed
and uncon tro lled enviro nments
A transi tion period to the new RF safely
rul es was es tablished. Effec tiv e Januar y I.
199X, am ate ur radio stat ion s rad iating more
than SO to SOO watts (dep e nd ing upon the
ha nd ) m ust c va luutc their statio ns to det e rmin e that they co nfor m to the FCC ' s RF
sa fety stand ard s. Ham radio stations arc no
lo nger a llowed to run ma xim um pow er in a
residenti al environ ment wi thou t dcterm iuing if their e m itted sig nals co nstitute a
sa fety ha zard .
The FC C has published GET Bulletin 65
and A ma te ur Rad in Suppleme nt "B " th at
ex plains ho w ham op erators go about deter m ining if the ir stations arc safe under th e
new RF expos ure standard s. Bot h docurncnt s are on the rCC' s lnternct Web site at
http: //\'nn..; .1'cc .gov

the call sig n ident ifies the country . The

Unite d St ates is ass igned N. K. Wand
shares the initial letter A wit h some othe r
co untries . K and 'W pre fix es go to domesti c
broadcas t stations.
Si nce the s tart of radio b roadcast ing in
the 192()' s. stations have had the pr ivi lege
of req uest ing specific call s ig ns. T he re has
been a prefere nce for lett er com binations
embod ying init ials of nam es, places. or
s logans.
Inte rnat iona l Radi o Reg ulations do not
req uire th e use o f call sig ns by bro adcast
statio ns if so me othe r suitab le mean s of
ident ification is em plo yed. For exa mple.
many fo reig n broadca st stations iden tify
by an nounci ng, "The Vo ice of suc h-a ndsuc h."
For the last two decad es, amate ur (ham )
rad io station call sig ns have bee n ass igne d
in seq uence rat her than on a reque st basis.
Up unti l recent ly, two-lett er suffix ca ll
sig ns had bee n the mark of an o ld-timer.
No w ham operator s ca n a lso ob ta in ca ll
letters o f th eir chok e . Sta rting in 19 96.
higher class ham op era tors ha ve been able
to se lect the make up of their sta tio n ca ll
sign upon pa y ing a 530 cos t of regu lation
fcc (rece nt ly increased to $ 50 ). As o f Decc rnbcr Z. 1997 , howeve r. the gov ernment
is per m itting allY licen sed ham operato r to
se lect their station ca ll sig n subject to ce rla in g uid elines. Now T echnic ian, T echnician Plu s and Ge neral C lass ope ra tor s are
el igible for any av ailable ca ll sign begi nning with K, N or W - fo llowed by an area
num eral and three use r-se lected s uffix letter s. Ha m stations arc now joini ng the ir
broadca st co unterpa rts by selecting call
s ign suffi x lett ers that mea n so mething to
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BNN Defene/ants Pleae/ Guilty
Sleve n and Robe rt Gessmun. ow ners of
Breaking New s Net wor k. a nd gene ral ma nager Vinnie Martin.have pled guilty to charges
le ve led agai nst them in the New Yor k Southern District in August 1997. Bl'\ N is a com-

pany which supplies news tips to interested

organizations.
The three men pleaded gui lty to two co unts
o f intercepti ng pager me ssages and passing
the information to client s. and to one co unt o f

illegally manufacturing and possessing softwa re <IOU cloned page rs. Th e defe nda nts we re
charged under T ille 18. Chapter 119. Section
251 1. " Interception and disclo sure of wire .
oral. or electron ic co mm unicatio ns proh ibited:' and their case mark s the first-ever convic tion for the illegal interc eption o f page r
me ssages, according to U.S . Attorne y Mary
10 W hite.
Th ey face a possib le maximum pen alty of
one year in prison a nd a $ 10.000 line . Anothe r defe ndant, Jeffrey Mo ss, a former dispatch er for BN N. is still facing c ha rge s.

Coast Guare/ Targets Long Is.

Th e Co ast Guard' s number one nu isance
is false ca lls for help, and the numb er one
source of suc h hoa xes is Lo ng Island, Ne w
York . Si xty percent of fal se maritime distress
c alls in the U.S. co me from the New Eng land
c oast but one-third of those arc ge ne rated in
Long Island alon e,
Education a nd roll-free hot lines have redu ced the hoax prob lem in other part s of the
country, but they have been ineffective in
redu cin g the calls along this coast line. Nnw.

" Till.' hilarious part is, the Coast Guard

actually thinks they call see me 011 their
r adar ]"

the Coast G ua rd has inve sted $ 100,000 in

setting up three dir ection -finding sites for the
a rea. Using sig nals from the three rece ive rs a
co mputer ca n trian gulate and locate the source
of a call in 7 to 10 seconds.
" Perpe trators" lend to fa ll into four categories: childre n playin g with the marin e
band radio 0 11 boa rd the famil y boat; boater s
wh o usc the word "mayday " loosel y in a
tra nsmi ssio n: boa ters who acci de ntally leave
the radio mic roph one open; and serious hoaxe rs we ll-ve rsed in the proper terminol ogy .
An y search and rescu e operation is en ormo usly expe nsi ve a nd often put s rescue rs '
lives at risk as we ll. Th e ne w equipment
should result in en ormous savi ngs, <IS well as
pinp ointing a loc atio n quick ly wh en an eme rge ncy is the real thin g.

Congress Lowers the Boom on CB

Ide ntica l hill s ar e working thei r way
throu gh the Hou se and Sena te that wo uld gi ve
state and local governm ents the righ t to enforce FCC regulations on ci tizens band equipme nt and out-of-ban d opera tion.
S.60R and H.R .26 12 e xcmpts an yonehold ing a ny c1 <1 SS of FC C license from loca l enfurcement. An uppcul process is included in
the bills in whic h the FC C may determine if a
loca l govern me nt has acted outside its authori ty in a particu lar e nforceme nt.
Beloit, Wi sco nsin, already has e nac ted a
local ordinance inte nde d to stop high -watt age
C B signals fro m inte rfer ing with elec tron ic
de vices. Mik e Elliott. a loca l C B user . is
co nside ring an inj unc tion ag a inst the ordinance, which he feels is illegal. If the co ngressional bills should becom e la w, the situatio n
could become interestin g.
How wi ll loc al gove rnme nts de term ine
wh eth er equi pme nt is in violation or not? Th e
FCC (the same age ncy that ha s neither the
funding nor the personnel to en force curre nt
regul ations ) is to pro vide techn ica l guida nce .

CB Boom
Citizens band radio is expe rie ncing a strong
resur ge nce , says Cobra Electron ics Corp,
which is seei ng its first turn -around in sales in
years. CB rad io sales ut ma in-lin e stores such
<IS Sc ars. Roebuck an d Co, Radi n Sha ck. a nd
Circu it City have all pick ed up.
The boom can be ex plained in part by ce ll
phones, acc ordi ng to Motorola spokes pe rson
Mik e Doh e ny : people have go tte n acc usto mcd to mobil e com m unications. but cel lular phone c harges ca n be astrono mic . T he
cha rge for a C B is j ust the one-time purch ase
price.
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Janua ry ' 998

"Aw, dangit, whal WAS my

'handle' back ill l ire '60s?"

Military Action on CB
Thi s story co mes to AfT via C lay Mayrose.
W A6 U3U, in his ow n word s.
"A couple of years back I was working
with <I radio operator at Offutt Giant Ta lk
station at Elkh orn . Ne bras ka. He was a ham as
well as an ac tive CBer. About 3 am we
decided to play with a ll unu sed radio level and
were liste ning to trucke rs on CB cha nne l 19.
W hen the mili tary tra ffi c picked up , we
dropped the rad io and we nt bac k to runnin g
phone patches and othe r duti es.
" A fte r shift c hange. a prob lem de vel oped
in an ac tive rad io a nd it wa s replaced by the
tran smitter tha t we had been using on cha nnel
19. Th e freq uen cy for Ch 19 was preset into
the transmitter so each time the radio was
dialed intoa broadcast fora n EAM{emerge ncy
ac tion message ) it aut oma tica lly switched to
Ch 19 and into AM , cau sin g the traffic to be
se nt to all the truc kers in the midwest! At
10 .000 wall s, it pro bably took out ch 16. 17.
20 . and 2 1. as well.
"It took a bou t 8 hours For the on dut y crew
to not ice the problem and as best as we co uld
tell five or six EAMs we re se nt in that tim e
Frame. The good news is that C NN didn 't
report any truckers being div erted and dropping their loads on targets of oppo rt unity !"

Shortwave Transmitter Site Sold

Joe Brasier at Wor ld Har vest Rad io Inte rna tio nal ad vises us tha t WHRI has pur ch ased
the SL'OIl ' s Co me-r, Main e, tran smitter site.
Th e modem broadcast site was ori ginally
bu ilt by Monitor Radio International as station WCS N. A few yea rs late r it wa s then so ld
to Prophecy Co untd ow n which we nt on the
air as W VH A. hut late-r suffered bankruptcy.
The site- has bee n 0 11 the auct ion b lock for
some months .
when op era tional . the site will be ca lled
" Angel 5" w ith an Afri ca tar get area.

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Marti Moves to Miomi

have ju risdiction in the case; reported ly the

FCC has been asked to in vestigate .

The proce ss has been on-go ing since last

fall. bu t Radio/Tv Marti is gradually making
its mandated move out of w ashin gton to a
remodeled warehouse in Miam i. "Mak ing

Holel the Phone!

lemonade out of lemon s," is what director

Herm inia Sa n Ro man calls it.
lntended to save money. the move will pu t

the studios closer to the people who understand Cuba n issues- plus the rent is chea per.
Th e station is keepin g as much of the same
equipme nt and the same staff as possible.
The move is bein g financed, in part. by a
fund originally established by Congress to
help U.S. broadcasters overcome Cuba njamming in retaliation to Radio Marti. The fund
was only allocated for five years. and has had
little use.
Rad io Marti broadcasts o n 1180 kHz. In
Cuba, Castro co unters Marti with high-powered "Tour Radio" on the sa me freque ncy.

Beachball Jammer

Wh o would wan I to j am the commu nica tion s of a volunteer emergen cy service organiz a tion in Elkhart . Indiana? Appare ntly.
someone wh o doesn' t like ham s. A nd. so meone vcry c reativ e . Jamm ing de vices we re
found planted inside beac h halls placed a long
the ri ver last sum mer. Some we re also fou nd
placed in homes around the area . One detec tor rep ort ed ly wa s eq uippe d wit h a seismic
detector that turn ed itself off if a dir ect ionfin ding team cam e too close .
Accord ing to the Amateu r Rad io Re lay
League Letter and the A mal n lr News We'd:!y ,
a couple in Elkhart. Ind ia na. has admit ted
planti ng a number of battery- powered radio
j am min g de vices . T he tran sm itte rs we re desig ned to block the repea ler of the Elkhart
County Civ il Defe nse Emerge ncy Respon se
Team .
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two peopl e responsible. they say they do not

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Th e Taller. a Brit ish pub licatio n, tell s the

story of three Daily Express j ournal ists who
we nt to lunch a nd spent (he time drinking and
co mplaining abo ut their ed itor. One of them
dro pped his mobi le phone. initi atin g the speed
dial . Th e entire con versation wa s recordcd on
voice mail - of the editor's secre tary.

J anua ry 10, 1998: Loveland, CO

Northern Colorado ARC Superfest
9am-3pm at the LarimerCo Fairgrounds,
700 Railroad Avenue. Jeanene Gage
NOYHY. 970-351-7327; Info: 970-3525304. Talkin 145.115 (- offset 100 Hz)
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J anua ry 17: SI. Joseph , 1\10

The NW Missouri Winter Hamfest,
sponsored by three local radio clubs, will
be held at the Ramada Inn in SI.Joseph at
1-29 and Frederick Avenue. Talk-in on
146.85 and 444.925. Admission $3 or 2
for $5 at door. Gaylen Pearson WBOW,
1210 Midyett Road, SI. Joseph, MO
64506.

Jim Frimmel rep ort s so me interes ting statistics ab out bro adcast ing on the Internet from
the Telecom Inte ract ive 97 confere nce . Although webcasting is only two years old.
more tha n 700 webcasters arc tra nsmittin g
live audio and/or vidco in 12 co untries 24
hours a da y. Most of these are rad io a nd TV
station s. but 65 are new Internet -only broa dca sters.
An ave rage of 50 ne w rad io wcbcasters hit
the Internet each month w ith the most growth
from internatio nal and Inte rnet-only stations.
or the e ight ava ilable strea ming aud io tech nologies. the leader is Real Audi o with 87.8%
usage. For a co ntinually updated listing of
broadcasters on the Intern et , c hec k out the
BRS Ra d io Directo ry (w w w. r ud iod lrect ory.ccm/j-c-probably the most compreh ensive s ite of its kind 0 11 the Inte rne t.

Send your news clippings fro m th e world or

radio to Rachel Baughn.editor, rt/t heJ@ grove.net,
Spccial thanks this month to our reporte rs: Anonymous. New York: Ken neth Bomdale. New York:
Tad Cook. Washinaton: Bill Dunn.email: Ken neth
Dupuis. New Yo;k; Jim Fnrnmel, Texas: Paul
Jablo nowski. Wiscon sin: Maryanne Kehoe . Gcorgia: Kevin Klein. Wisco nsin.Clay Mayrose. email:
Rich ard Sklar. Washington; The G roundwave.

J anuary 28: Speci al Event Station

Challenger Middl e School ARC,
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near 14.250, 21.350.28.350, and 146.52
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January 1998

By Jock Elliott

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and all the other ge ar tha t they need to do thei r
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Here. comm un icatio ns for three coun ties
co me togethe r: <I phone line fo rccl lula r 9 11; a
hurd line 9 11 service for Saratoga cou nt y: at
lea st 20 addit ional p hone lines ; T OO pho ne
for co m m u nicat io ns w ith the d en!"; and seve n
rad io freq uen cies. T here are many more radio
freq ue nci e s tha t the Ne w Yor k Sta te Poli ce
usc - ca r-to-car channels. for ex am ple - hut
the com m un icatio ns pro fes siona ls w ho occu py th is room usually have neither the tim e
nor the nee d to mon itor them .
T he room is no isy : phones arc ringi ng COIIs tantly: ra d io ca lls crackl e thro ugh the s peake rs o n the co ns o le, and . to m y a ma zeme nt, a
radi o is pl ay ing so ft ly o n a wi ndow s ill.

MT Works t he Shif t
Co nrSpcc A rt Kurt z is work ing at a co mputer. He ' s se tti ng u p the duty ro ster fo r the

ComSpec Pam Neilen

aWiwers a radio call.

Trooper Timothy P.
Pratt radios th e
Wilton post.

upco min g 3:00 p m s hift change, T his infor mati on - ca lled a re so urce message - will
be sent to the local sheriff and po licc department s so they and the 'sta te Poli ce c un coord inat e thei r law e nfor ce me nt patrols.
A t th e o the r e nd o f the co mm un ic atio ns
co ns o le. CorrtS pcc Erin Ste inbec k is an sw e ring culls o n the te le phon e s a nd radio s,
14:1 6 - Kur tz pu nches up a ring ing phon e
li ne - a male. 10 years old , has a po ssible
b rok en arm and need s an ambulan ce . It ' s a
ce ll phon e ca ll fro m a recre ation ce nte r.
A yo ung wo man arr ives at a g lass "custo mer ser vice" \.... indo w locat ed at the far end
of the d ispatch ce nte r. A tro oper \.... alks o ver 10
spe ak with he r. S he want s the tro o per s to e vict
he r boyfriend fro m their tra ile r for "be ing a
jerk." Th ey have a c hild in CO l11 l11o n. T he
tro oper spe nds so me time explaining the leg al
reali ties of the situa tio n 10 her. and she leaves.
14:26 - Stci nbcc k re spond s to the d istinctive rin g o f the e mergency 9 1I lin e. hut bears
no on e . Usin g calle r ID. she c hec ks the num her . ca lls back . It' s standa rd pro ced ure to
co n ti rm that the re is no one there w ho is in
d istre ss an d may he unab le to spea k. She
learn s it was a c hild playing with a pho ne.
14:40 - S te inbec k takes a ca ll fro m the
o wn e rs o fa n ove rd ue tractor trailer. T he dr iver
o f a bl ue and wh ite Mac k with an a lum inu m
Fru eha uf trai le r le ft Ro tter dam at 6 :00 am . but
s till ha sn't arriv ed :.11 Pott er sv ille. o nly 100
miles aw ay,
Th e co mm unications pos t is an information so rt ing an d di s persa l ce nte r. It is also a
po lice stat io n. Peo ple ca ll - and show up in
perso n - loo kin g for a lot o f answer s to a
wide variety orqoe srions co ncern ing all k ind s
o f p ro blems. Earlier in the day , S te inbeck
too k a ca ll fro m the o wn er of two d og s,
So me ho w o ne d og go t a c hai n wrapped aro und
the other dog ' s neck. Th e o w ne r co uldn ' t free
it. and the d og died.
State Po lice pol icy requ ires that then." he at
least o ne armed o ffic er p resent at a ll tim es.
Thi s aft ernoo n, it' s Se rgeant Barbara M c Hug h.
S he is in un iform. a lo aded sid earm o n he r hip.
S he will be in charge of the co m mu nicatio ns

ce nte r d uring the 3:00- 11:00 PM s h ift.

"We' re a full-se rvice informat ion and respo nse cen ter." say s Serg ea nt Mel! ug h. "~ l {l ~ t
of the tim e . we a nswe r qu estion s through
tel epho ne d isc ussio n. Fire and medical c mcrgcnc lcs are tran sfer red to the county dispatc h
ce nte r bec au se they are co unty run services."
15:tlO- T he s h ift cha nge s. Steinbeck and
Kur tz leave: Cou rS pcc s Pa m Ncilcn. a 13 ~
ye ar co nuu un icat iou s vet e ran. a nd Murl cisc
C oo k. w ho has bee n o n the job three years .
come in and se ttle at the co nso le . It' s ra n: for
more th;1I1 a m inute or t\VO to pa ss wit h o ut a
ring ing tele ph one or a ca ll on the rad io . Wh en

Ncilc n lc.uncd her d uties. il wa s chiefl y through

on -t he job-t ra ining, hut now Comx pccs a rc
se nt for J -...J. weeks o f inten siv e education at
the sta te police ac ade my .
Nci lc u he g ins logg ing incide nts al a L'OIll purer term inal and an swers my q ues tio ns wh en
she is n't resp ond ing to the rad io or p!l(HIL',
Wh en all inc id ent comes in - a COIII/l /(/III T in
Comxpccs lingo -c- thc information i-, put on
a ca rd that loo ks mu ch like all old comp ute r
p unc h card - which is then tim e-p unch ed .
T his a llow s the COIllS '1L'CS to track the informat ion before it i-, loggL'd int o the comp uter
sy ste m , Th e reas o n they usc the ca rd . . i" that

January 1998

MONITORING TIMES

Trooper Prall at the wheel of OIl C of the Ne w l'ork State Police 's Camaros.
the co m puter sys tem is too slo w to log the
information in real time.
T he ca rd is punched and put into one of a
series of slots in the center of the console.
There' s a stor for each car. The ca rd is punched
again when the patrol car arrives ut the locatio n; a nd pu nc hed agai n whe n the co m plai nt
has bee n finishe d. By looki ng at the slo ts fo r

the cars, the Co mSpecs can instantly tell if

there are any incide nts that remain open. It's
not high-tech. but it works.
15:16 - Cook takes a call concerning a
sus picio us vehicl e on the No rt hwa y. Th e car

is abandoned in the U-turn area with all the

doors open. The call was received by the
Loudon vill e St ale Pol ice statio n via cellular
phone and was rel ayed 10 Wilt on to re spond.
One of the tro opers pat rolli ng Inte rstate 1-87.
th e Ad iro nd ack Northway. is as ked to chec k it
o ut. By th e tim e he arrives , the ca r is go ne. In
a cabinet be hind C ook , a pair of hu ge reel-toreel tape m ach ines reco rd e very te lephone
call. every rad io call, comp lete with a time
stamp.
Every car radi o has 16 rad io c ha nne ls. they
ha ve full capability 10 talk to the eme rge ncy
serv ices " world" for wh atever they nee d. The
d ispa tch center ha s frequenc ies for ta lking to
th e cars an d a dcd icutcd e l l em e rgency channe l whic h is a priorit y cha nne l. The wilton
post - ident ifi ed as station KED 9 24 - has
th e ca pa bility to dispatch the cars for the New
York State Po lice . plus washi ngton Cou nty
S he riff, Sa ratoga County S her iff. C harlto n
Po lice Dep artment, Sti llwa ter PD . Gal way
PO , and Po lice for the Village of So uth G len s
Fa lls. In add itio n, they ca n also dispatch fo r
th e Ne w Yo rk S tone Park Pol ice und the Department of Env iron me nta l Co nserva tion Police
15:47 - Th e eme rge ncy t) I I line ring s;

10

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January 1998

Nc ilcn lak es it. A WOIll.1Il is calli ng about her

daught er who is pregnant and has fal len. Neilen
sw itc he s the ca ll 10 Saratoga County Sh eri ff s
Dep ar tment. whic h dispatches an a mbulan ce
a nd provides med ica l ad vice for the ca ll. If the
need a rise s. the W ilton S tate Poli ce Co mxpccs
have the e me rge ncy med ica l proced ure boo ks
with which they ca n wa lk a cal ler thro ugh
emergencies such as childbirth and card iac
arre st.
As o f Septe mbe r 12. the day I visited .
14 .300 comp laint s had bee n hand led year-todale th ro ugh the W ilton offi ce of the State.
t he
Bu t t hat n umber is m isl e a d ing ComSpecs typica lly handle two to th ree ti mes
that num ber of cu lls . hu t the va st majo rity
ne ver mak e it int o the co mplai nt log .
'1"hI..' phone rings virtuu lly co nstantly, Peo ple
ca ll fo r .111 mann er of rea son s: to as k for phone
numbe rs: to as k for so meone to Gi ll a taxi fo r
them : 10 report inj uries and accidents: 10 ask
for pro tecti on from ab us ive spo uses; to re port
cu stod y problems ; 10 ask that a ver nall y abusive homeless person he inca rcerated : to get
so meo ne to break up a bar fig ht: to rep o rt theft
or property: to de al wi th anima l abu se proh-

Icms.
Th e lisl is e nd les s, and oft e n the calls have
nothin g In do wit h what most of us woul d
co nside r 10 be po lice wor k. Rec ent ly , Serge ant ivlcHu gh spe nt an ho ur try ing to lind
so meone to lake abu sed a nd neglected cats
o ut of a tra iler. "T he local j ur isdic tio n has a
Dog Warden . but he doe sn 't do cats," the
Se rgeant e xpla ins.
The ad ven t of cellular ph on es ha s both
helped and hindered the wor k here . Ce ll phones
allo w peopl e to re po rt incide nts much mo re
rea di ly. 1I1d at the sumc time, they allow the
ove rreporting o f incidents. During a rece nt
forest lire visible fro m the Northway, the
Wilton d!...pat ch center rece ived hundreds of
ce llu lar call s to as k if the ... tate po lice were
aware 01" the situatio n.
Right now, the co m mun ications ce nter is
relatively q uie t. Ncilcn say s this is the qui et
seas on -c. betwee n the end of summer to urist
se ason and the beg innin g oft he winte r dri ving
season.
17:43 - A burg lar a lar m goes off; a troop e r
is di spatch ed to check it out . a short time late r
he repor ts tha t there is no pro blem at the
location.
Du ring the shift a wo ma n arriv es at the
Wil ton suuio n to wa it und e r the wat chfu l eye
of the trooper s whi le her ex-hu sba nd return s
their child ren to her c ustody . Her husband ha s
been vio lent in the past. a nd the co ur t ha s
d irecte d that thi s is where the excha nge will
take place.
Later, a wo man arrive s a t the c ustome r
se rvice w ind o w; she is lost und looking for a
re stau rant at a go lf co urse: Se rg ea nt McHugh
g ive s her di recti o ns. a nd the woman is back o n
her wa y.
IX:07 - A larcen y - Ihe ft of c lothes from
a sto re at alocal mall- is reported . T roopers
arc ale rted that a light tan -i-docr Skylark was
seen leav ing the sce ne .
IS:IO - Th e e me rg e ncy 911 line ring s; a
wu lk-in mcdicul service need s a n ambu lance:

NEW YORK STATE POLICE TROOP G 'WI LTON"

Q!,

fill,

F1
F2
F3

155.445
154.665
154.695
155.565
155.370
154.845
155.475
155.625
158.730
158.775
154.725
155.745

F4
F5
F6
F7
F8

Use
(base) / 154 680 (cars)
car-to-scar (Northwaypatrol. some radar units)
emergency channel. most bulletins
motor vehicles data channel
municipal radiodispatch (intersystem)
tactical/surveillance
national police channel
special investigations
Saratoga County Sheriff Saratoga Country 911 Warren County SheriffWashington CountySheriff -

. . .. ~

the ca ll is sw itche d to the Sheriff's to handl e .

If it see ms that most oft he ca lls handled by
th e Wi lton Disp atc h Center concern the daytoday stuff of ordinary liv ing : it ' s true . Onl y
th e tiniest pe rcentage of calls appe ar to invo lve po lice wo rk as depicted on tele vision ,
ye t it is clear that th e men a nd women who
work here pcrfonn a vita l se rvice for the
comm unity .
S till, there arc times whe n the inc iden ts fit
the " Hol lywood vers io n" of poli ce wo rk. Last
yea r, woman calle d 9 11. say ing that this g uy
was ha rass ing her g ra nd daug hter. Within a
fe w seconds she starts scream ing tha t the g uy
ab d ucted the g irl at gu npoint. A trooper gave
chase and caug ht him .
Some times the drama strikes closer to
hom e . In )YYt ComSpcc Ncilcn had a massive heart attack while o n d uty : troopers carried her into a pa tro l car an d rus hed he r to the
hospi ta l at 100 m iles per hour just before she
we nt in to full cardiac arrest.
18 :34 - A ma n calls to report (ha t his ex wife has assa ulted him : a troo per is d ispa tch ed
and arrives at 18:3X. A sho rt whi le later.
tro o per is en route to the sta riun with the
wo man under arrest.
Se rgeant McH ugh chats with the Ne ilen
and Cook. A n enor mo us amo unt o f the call s
Wilton handle s involve domest ic situ atio ns o f
o ne sort or an o ther . Mc Hu gh relat es so me of
the rece nt co urt j udg me nts tha t ma y ha ve a
beari ng on the way they hand le cal ls.
Pee l hack the surface a bit. and it is im medi atel y apparent that the seem ing ly simple job
of Commun ications Specialist ha s a lo t
dep th to it. includi ng knowledge of the la w.
the abi lity to make j udg me nts Oil the fly. a nd
th e capacity to rem ain cool and professio na l
in the face of so met imes abusive cullers .
If the Co mS pecs arc busy wit h calls and
add itio nal ca lls mu st be taken . tro op ers from
an adj ace nt roo m step into the co mm unicatio ns ce nte r to assi st. In an ins tant, the room
ca n go from relat ivel y q uiet to live peop le at
the con so le, all handl ing cu lls .
18: 40 - A wo ma n calls 10 rep o rt that a
wild ani rnal - possibl y a fo x - tried to bite
her cat but bit hcr fou r-year-o ld daugh ter o n
the finger. Th e ca ll was switc hed to the
S heri ff s dcpartrne nt 10 di sp atch a n ambulan ce.
18:42 - Th e woman ca lls hack 10 say that
she doe sn' t wa nt to take he r dau ght er to the
hospital until so meo ne finds the fo x in q ue stion . Cook spe nds a gre at dea l oft ime ex plai ning to the wo ma n ho w difficult und futile that
task wi ll be . " 11'you haven't had co ntinuous
visua l co ntact with that fo x. ho w will yo u
k no w yo u ha ve the rig ht OIlC'?" C ook as ks . It' s

Rigilt, Sergeant Barham MellI/gil takes

a telephone inquiry while ConiSp ec
Marl eise Cook logs an incident,

evide nt from Cook' s expression tha t th e cal ler

is less than pleased w ith this co m mo nsen se
qu esti on .
19 :1111 - Th e 3:00- 11:00 pill shift ut the
Wilton Dispa tc h Ce nter l11U VCS into the night.
A torrent o f ca lls - fur too man y for thi s
writ e r to record - co ntin ue s to pour in. Th e
Cornx pccs hand le them. on e by o ne. with
a plo m b. They see m never In ge t flust ered :
eac h cal l is ha nd led w ith the same res pect as
a not her.
As I prepare 10 leav e . a thou g ht sp rings to
mind : if the Comm un ications Specialists at
the New York State Wilt on pOSI we re to ha ve
a motto. it mig ht he a slig ht variation O il the
snea ke r sloga n - "J ust do it, professio nally: '

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By Larry Van Horn, Monitoring Times Staff

he author wishes 10 thank the following groups and indi viduspecial trunkcd
comm un icat i, lll S profi le forMOiliroril/ g Times magazine:The
Atlanta Metropolit an Fin: Assoc iation. Richard Barnell and Monito r Al//l' r;C(/ (Sca nner Ma ste r ). Roger Cravens. Ge ne Hughes and
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856.4625
858.2375
858.7625
859.4625
860.4875
866.3125
867.t375

856.4875 857.4625 857.4875

858.4375 858.4625 858.4875
858.9375 8592375 859.4375
859.4875 860.2375 860.4625
860.7625 860.9375 866.0625
866.6125 866.7875 866.8625
867.1875 867.3125

Frequ encies used lorMOTs (Mobile Data

Terminals): 859.7625 859.9375 860.4375
City 01 AI/anta Acronyms Legend
ACIC
Atla nta Crime Information Computer
(Local Warrants)
ALS
Advance Lite Support Medical Unit
APO
AtlantaPolleeDepartment
AfO
Atlanta fire Department
BLS
BasicLite Support Medical Unit
tf m
Cubic leet per minute
CI O
Criminall nvesligationsDivision
EMS
Emergency Medical Service
Extrication Unit equipped with jaws of life
Field Operations Division
fOO
Gallonsper minu te
gpm
NCIC
National Crime Information Computer
(fBI)
OTG
Olympic Talk Group
SOS
Special Operations Squad or Red Dog
Squad
TAC
Tactical

12

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km uary /9 98

Police Call . Greg Knox. and several individuals who wish to

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W e invite readers fro m other urban areas to com pile a sim ilar

compre hensive database o f yo ur local sys tem (trunked o r other-

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Atlanta Trunking System SUbfleet

Identifications

32656

Uniden

S.ublleel lDs
32016
32048
32080
32112
32144
32176
32208
32240
32272
32304
32336
32368

32400
32432
32464
32496
32528
32560
32563
32592

32624

UsagejMotonJitfleeLHe!...!denlilicaliol!.u
APO Comma nd(701-0)
APO Adm'nlstration (703-0)
APO f OOCommand (705-0)
APOf OO Administration (707-0)
APO ZoneI Dispatch (West) (709-0)
APO Zone 1Surveillance (Wesl) (70B-0)
APO Zone 2 Dispatch (North) (700-0)
APO Zone 2 Surveillance (North) (70f -O)
APO Zone 3 DISpatch(South) (7EI -0)
APO Zone 3 Surveillance (South) (7E3-0)
APO Zone 4 Dispatch (Southwest) (7E5-0)
APO Zone 4 Surveillance (Southwest) (l E70)
APO Zone 5 Dispatch (Oo\mtol'ln) (7E9-0)
APD Zone 5 Surveillance (l or Al
(Oo\'lnto\'ln) (7EB-0)
APOZone 5 Surveillance (2 or B)
(Oovmtown) (lEO-O)
APOZone 6 Dispatch (East Center)(7EF-0)
APO Zone 6 Surveillance (East Cente r)
(7F1-O)
APOSOSlRed Dog DISpatch (7f 3-0)
APD SOSJReg Dog Dispatcn to Detective
Dispatch Brrdge (7F3-3)
APOSOS/Red Dog Surveillance (1000
units- Moto rcycles) (7FS-O)

32720
32752
32784
32816
32848
32912
32944
32976
33008
33040
33072
33104
33136
33168
33200
33232
33264
33296
33299
33328
33360
33392
33424
33456
33488

APO SOSiRed Dog Surveillance 1 (1800

units-Cars) (7f7-0)
APD50S/Red Dog Surveillance 2 (Various
units) (7f9-0)
APOTAC1 (7fO-0)
APO TAC2 (7f f -0)
APO Special Events 1 (801-0)
APO Special Events2 (803-0)
Housing Authority Police (80S-D)
Taxi lnspection(809-0)
APO CIOCom mand(80B-0)
APOCIOAdminIStration(800-0)
APOCIO Surveillance (80f -0)
APODetective Dispatch (811-0)
APD Fugitive Surveillance Units (813-0)
APOGangSurveillance Units (815-0)
Organized Crime (OCIU)Surveillance Units
(817-0)
NarcoticsSurveillance Units (819-0)
Speciat lnvesnqations Surveillance (818-0)
APOTrainingAcademy (810-0)
APD TrainingCommunications (81F-O)
NCIC1 (821-0)
NCIC l /ACIC2 Bridge (821-3)
ACIC2 (823-0)
NCI C3 (825-0)
Rad io Maintenance/Electronic Shop (8270)
OPS 1(829-0)
OPS 2 (82B-0)
APOStadium (82 0-0)

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33552
33584
33616
33648
33680
33712
33744
33776
33808
33840
33872
33904
33936
33968
34000
34032
34064
34096
34128
34160
34192
34224
34256
34288
34320
34416

34448
34480
34512
34544
34576
34608
34640
34672
34704
34736
34768
34800
34832
34864
34896
34928
34960
34992
35024
35056
35088
35120
35152
35184
35216
35248
35280
35440
35504
37392
37424
37488

APD Omni (Should not be inuse after 7/26/

97) (82F-0)
APD Georg" Dome (831-0)
APD Genera l (833-0)
City Wide 1 (835-0)
CityWide 2(837-0)
All PS (839-0)
Mayor Secuntv ,83B-0)
Hartsfield Airport FD Administration (8300)
Hartsfield Airport FD Operations (83F-0)
Hartslield Airport FD TAC-l (841-0)
Hartsfield Airport FD Rescue (843-0)
Hartsfield Airport FD TAC2(845-0)
HartsfieldAirportAdministration(847-0)
HartsfieldAirportOperations (849-0)
Hartsfield AirportTactical(84B-O)
Hartsfield Airport Emergency (840-0)
Hartsfield Airpor.F-1 (84F-0)
Hartslield Airport F-2 (851-0)
Hartsfield AirportPOInvestigation Units
(853-0)
Hartsfield Airport PO K-9 Unols (855-0)
HartsfieldAirport PO Patrol Units (857-0)
HarlSfreld Airport PO Tactical (859-0)
Hartsfield Airport PO Dispatch (85B-0)
Hartsfield Airport PDAdministration (85801
Hartsfield AirportFAA Emergency (85F-0)
Hartsfield Airport Federal Inspection
Service (861-0)
Olympic f/DTG 1 (Special Details) (867-0)
Note: Olympic terminology still being used
even thouqh the Olympicsarc now ove r.
Olympic 2/DTG 2 (Special Details) (869-0)
Olympic 3/DTG 3 (Special Details) (86B-0)
Olympic 4/DTG 4 (Special Details) (860-0)
Olympic 5/DTG5 (Special Details) (86F-0)
Olympic 6/DTG 6 (Special Details ) (871 -0)
Olympic 7/DTG 7 (Special Details) 1873-0)
Olympic 8/EMS(Slate 01 Georgia umts)
(875-0)
AFD Dispatch (is suppose tobe simulcast
" /154.160) (877-0)
AFD TAC-2 (879-0)
AFD TAC-3 (87B-0)
AFD TAC-4 187D-O)
AFD TAC-5 (87F0)
AFD TAC-6 (881-0)
AFD Administration (883-0)
AFD Arson (885-0)
AFD Inspectors (887-0)
AFD MED 1 (889-0)
AFD MED 2 (88B-0)
AFD Training (880-0)
AFD Command (88F-0)
AFO Command Operations (891-0)
APD Zone 1 Emergency (893-0)
APD Zone 2 Emergency (895-0)
APD Zone3 Emergency (897-0)
APD Zone 4 Emergency (899-0)
APD Zone 5 Emergency(898-0)
APD Zone 6 Emergency (890-0)
mtormanon (BA7-0)
Hartsfield Airport POEmergency (8AB-0)
Atlanta Jail Admini stration (921-0)
Allanta Jail AC/DC(923-0)
AtlantaJail Detention (927-0)

37552
37904
37968
38000
38032
38064
38096
381 92
38224
38256
38288
38320
38352
38384
38416
38448
38480
38512
38544
38576
38608
38640
38672
38704
38736
38768
38800
38832
38864
38896
38928
38960
38992
39024
39056
39088
39120
39152
39184
39216
39248
39280
393t2
39344
39376
39408
4oof6"
4004 8
40080
40112
40144

40176
~ 0208

40240
40272
40304
40336
40368
404 00
40432
40464
40496

Atlanta Jail Grady (92B-0)

Allanta JailTechnical Services(941-0)
Atlanta Jail Coordination (945-0)
Emergency Control (947-0)
Highway Coord,nalion 1 (949-0)
North Avenue(948-0)
Hill Street (94D-0)
SanitalionChester 1953-0)
Sanitation lakewood (955-0)
Sanitation Liddell (957-0)
Sanitanon Maddox (959-0)
Bureau 01Sanitati on Services Administration (95B-0)
Trattrc 1(95D-0)
Sewer 1(95F-0)
Sewer 2 (961-0)
Pollution Control (963-0)
Department 01 PublicWorks Administration (965-0)
Depart mentofPublic Works Coordination
1 (967-0)
Department 01Public Works Coordination
2 (969-0)
Water INC(96B-0)
Claire Drive (960-0)
Metro (96F-0)
Ott Road (971-0)
Tire Shop (973-0)
Bureau Gene ral Services (975-0)
Housing (977-0)
8ulldingiZoning (979-0)
Plumbing (97B-01
Electllcal(97D -0)
HVAC(97F-0)
Public Works (981-0)
Parks Administration (983-0)
Forestry (985-0)
Park Operations (987-0)
gecreancn (989-0)
Site Development (98B-0)
Arbonst (980-0)
Planning Supervisor (98F-D)
Manage mentServices (98F-0)
Material Managemenl (993-0)
Motor Executive (995-0)
Tratrc 2 1997-0)
Fire Mutual Aid (999-0)
Hartstreld Airport Fire Emergency (99B-0)
Public Works (990-0)
PublIC Works(99F-0)
APD SWAT (9C5-0)
10 (9C7-0)
Property (9C9-0)
Property Vehicle (9CB-0)
CommNel (9CO-O) (This isa circuit used
to talkto securitycompanies that use UHF
inthe Atlanta area)
School Detectives(9CF-0)
APO Homicide Surveillance (901-0)
Tratnc3 (903-0)
Pump Station (905-0)
Clayton Plant (907-0)
Water Works Ad ministration (909-0)
Water Processing (90B-0)
Utoy Plant (900-0)
WaterInspection/Metering (9DF-0)
Water Entrenchment (9El-0)
South River Plant (9E3-0)

40528
40560
40592
40624
40656
40688
40720
40752
40784
4081 6
40848
40880
40912
40944
40976
41008
41040
41072
41104
411 36
41168
41200
41232
41296
41360
41392
004-1
005-1

Facility Maintenance(9E5-0)
Housing Inspection (9E7-0)
Build ingCommand (9E9-0)
Housing Supervisor (9EB-0)
Cultural AIIairs (9ED-0)
MotorN/aler Shop(9EF-0)
Public Works Announce(9F1-0)
Highway Coordination 2 (9F3-0)
APD VICe Squad Surveillance (9F5-0)
Fire SDG 1 19F7-0)
Fire SDG 2 19F9-0)
Fire SDG3 (9FB-0)
RreSOG 419FD-0)
Fire SDG5 (9FF-0)
Fire SDG 6 (AOt -O)
Fire Maintenance (A03-0)
Hartsfield AirportContractors (AOS-O)
APD Zone 1 Supervisors (A07-0)
APD Zone 2 Supervisors(A09-0)
APD Zone 3 Supervisors (A08-0)
APD Zone 4 Supervisors(AOD-O)
APD Zone 5 Supervisors(AOF-O)
APD Zone 6 Supervisors (A11-0)
APD Robbery Supervisors(A15-0)
Psych Services (A19-0)
Enginee ring Operations (AI B-O)
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APD Unit Identifications
1
2-5
6-9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
xl 00

Chief of Police
Deputy Chiefs
Admin Majors
SOS Major
Zone 1 Major
Zone 2 Major
Zone 3 Major
Zone 4 Major
Zone 5 Major
Zone 6 Major
Zone 1 Captain (also x200 Zone 2, x300
Zone 3, etc)
x190-x192 Zone 1 Lieutenant (also x290-x292 Zone
2. x390-x392 Zone 3, etc)
x193-x198 Zone 1 Sergeants (also x293-x298Zone 2.
x393-x398 Zone 3, etc)
x199
Zone 1 substation (also x299 Zone 2, x399
Zone 3, elc)
x120
Zone 1 Rovers (also x220 Zone 2, x320

Zone 3, etc)
All 20 units (i.e. xx21, xx22. c za. etc) are
rover units
indicates the shift.

1
2
3

Morning Watch (11 o.m-r a.m.)

Day Watch (7 am.-3 p.m.)
Even ing Watch (3 p.m-t t p.m.)

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Fugitive
Homicide/Assaults

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4300

Youth Crimes
Robbery

f'I1oto by John Ik,iley

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MONITORING TIMES

January 1998

Sex Crimes
Auto Theft
Burglary
Fraud
Larceny
School Detective
Anti-Crime
Gang
Intelligence
Pe rmit-Ordinances
Narcotics
Vice
Internal Affairs
Communications
Admin Chief's Office
OuterAgency Units
Off Duty units-Patrol

Atla nta PolicelFulton County Dispatch

Codes
1
2
3

4100

4400
5000
5100
5200
5300
5400
5600
6100
6200
6400
6500
6600
6800
7400
7800
8000
9000

5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51

Stolen/abandoned auto
ADT alarm
Alarm ringing
Ambulance enroute
Breaking outstreet lights
Burglar in house
Burglar in business
Community relations
Call firechief
Call police chief
Call office
Call jail
Call home
Call SID
Call communications
Cancel presentcall
Switchto
Call radio s"hccopc -Assist in jail
Call lights & water
Call wrecke r service
Vandalism
Disorderly children
Demented person
Discharging firearms
Discharging fireworks
Lunch/Break/Personal
Drunk
Drunk and disorderly/Fight
Drunk in auto
Electrical wires down
Escaped prisoner
Fire
Gambling
Eviction
Holdup in prog ress
Illegal parking
lIIegal drugs/whiskey
Information for officer
Investigate or kill animal
Investigate auto accident
Investigate burglary
Investigate hit & run
Investigate holdup
Investigate larceny
Investigate person hit byauto
Investigate person injured
Investigate person dead
Investigate rape or attempt
Investigate person shot
Investigate person stabbed

52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71

72
73
74
75
76

77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91

Stolen vehicle/articles
Investigate suicide or attempt
Investigate suspiciousperson/auto
Trouble: unknown
Lost or missing person/child
Loud party or radio
Man bealing woman
Meet officer
Molestingwoman or children
Money transfer
Switch zone
Officer needs help
Panhandling
PBA or PHA alarm
Peeping tom
Investigate person down
Person screaming
Person armed
Prowler
Public Indecency
Reckless driving/speeding
Rush Call
Selling Beer/liquor on Sunday
Surveillance
Investigate sickperson
Snatch thief
Standby for lookout
Stealingautolfrom auto
Strayanimal
Sidewalk/street hazard
Wagon calVprisoner transfer
Wanted person located
Work traffic
Wrecker en-cute
Bomb Threat
Pull out
Special investigation
Welfarecheck
Special detail
Start EMT to

"GO' added to signal code means goto that location.

Atlanta Police Status Codes

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25

Advise warrant: A-Civil, B-On person

Alarm reset
Alarm out
Cancel
Domestic
False
Food on stove
Gone
Handled by: A-Crime prevention, a-netecuves. CDog Unit. D'Fire Dept. EAmbulanee , F-SPCA. GMilitary Police. H'Owner. J-Atarm company, KSupervisory officer. L-Food man
Impound
Information
Investigation
Nosuch number
Owner refused
Private property
Released to owner
Report
72-hour check
Work traffic
Smalldamage.no report
Assistance need ed
Unable to locate
TraHic ticket
Unfounded
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Atlanta Fire Unit Identificat ions
100
102
103
104
106
107
108
109
111

112
113
115
116
118
201
202
203
227
230
301
302306
310
501
502
503519
601
602
603609
651
652
653658
659
660661
730
721 731
751
752759
761
762763
764781
801
802804
805
880
921924
972-976
993

ssnsuoo 6:3201 Roswell Road(NE). Battalkm 6 chiefs

are responsiblefor the operation of stations

3. 19, 21 . 26. 27 and 29. Battalion 6 operates
a 1993 Ford CrownVictoria command car
and it is stalled by a battalion chief and
command technician.

Fire Chief
Deputy Dtnet-Operauons
Deputy Chief-TechnicalServices
Assistant ChiefAirport
ASSistant cmet-ccmmuncatons.uetmenance
Assistant Chief Fife Marshall
Assistant Duet-Special Events Planning
Adnumstration Director
Fire Chief'S Aide
Dperatcn's Chief Aide
Technical Services Chief Aide
Public Information Officer
CommunityAIlairs
SpecialEvents Planning Aide
Chief Special Operations
Fire Supervisor SOS
Fire Medic
EMS Support
Attanta FireDepartmentMed ical Director
Office 01Professional StandardsChiel
OPS Investigators
Recruitment
Training Chief
Airport Training Chief
Training Officers
Fleet Maintenance Chief
Fleet Maintenance Supervisor
Fleet Maintenance Units
Station Maintenance Su pervisor
Station Maintenance Supervisor
Station Maintenance Units
Electronic Technician
Station Maintenance Units
Chief ArsonInvestigator
Arson Investigators
Chief of FireSafety Education
Fire Safe!'! Educators
Chief of FIre Inspections
Captainof Fire Inspections
Fire Inspectors
Fire CommunicationsChiel
Cornrnunicaticns Shill Supe rvisors
Communications ChiefsAide
Field ServiceUlllt1960 Boyertownlfo rd
Metropolitan Fire Association's canteen unit
(Station 39l
Property Mana2ement
Psychological ervces
fire Department Chaplain

F.D. BattaJions/L ocationslE quipment

&1ttalion 2. 1711Marietta Blvd (NW). Battalion 2 chiefs
are responsible lor the operationof stations
8,9. 16.22.23.28 and 38. Battalion 2
operatesa 1993 Ford command van and it is
staffed by a battation chief and command

techmcian
Battalion 3: 170 10th Street (NE). Satiation 3 chiefs are
responsiblelor theoperation of stations 1 . ~ .
6, 1t . 12 ana 15. Bat tanon 3 operates a 1996
Ford modular style command van and it is
staffed by a battalion chiet and command
technician.

Battaliol/ 7: Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport.

Banahon 7 chiefs are responsible for the

operation of stations 24, 32. 35 and 40.
SaMahon 7 operates a 1992 Ford Crown
Victoria command ca r and a 1988Ford
command van. The command car is staffed
bya battalion chief and command
technician.Battalion 7 protects thesixth
busiest airport in the world.

F.D. Stations/ LocationslBattalions

Station 1
Station 2
Station 3
Station 4
Station 5
Station 6
Station 7
Station 8
Station 9
Station 10
Station 11
Station 12
Station 13
Station 14
Station 15
Station 16
Station 17
Station 18
Station 19
Station 20
Station 21
Station 22
Station 23
Station 24
Station 25
Station 26
Station 27
Station 28
Station 29
Station 30
Station 31
Station 32
Station 3~
Station 35
Station 38
Station 39

Battaliofl .J. 2825 CampbeUlon Road (SW). Battalion 4

cruets are responsible for the operation01
stations 5. 7,9 . 14. 17. 20. 25 and 31.
Battalion 4 operatesa 1996Ford mod ular
style command van and it is stalledby a
battancn chief and com mand technician.

BartalionS: 447 Boulevard (SEl. Battalion 5 chiefs are

responsible for the operation01stations 2.
10.13.18,30. and 34. Battalion 5 operates a
1994 Ford command va n and it is staffed by a
battalion chiel and command technician.

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MON ITO RING TIMES

January 1998

Station 40

Battalion 3
71 Elliott Street (NW)
1568Jonesboro Road (SE)
Battalion5
3500 Peachtree Road (NE)
Battalion6
Battalion3
125 Ellis SIr" , (NE)
2825 Campbellton Road (SW)
Battalion4
Old station is now a fire museum
535W. Whitehall Street (SW)
Battalion 4
1711 Marietta Blvd (NW)
Battalion 2
3501 M.L.King Jr. Drive(SW) Battalion 2
Battalion 5
447 Boulevard ISE)
20 North Avenue (NE).
This station was closed
March 5, 1996
1288 DeKalb Avenue (NE)
Battalion 3
447 flat Shoats Road ISE)
Battalion 5
Battalion4
1203 Lee StreellSWI
170 10tli Sireet (NE)
Battalion 3
1048 SimpsonRoad (NW)
Battalion 2
1489 R.Q Abernathy Blvd (SW) Battalion 4
2007Oakview Road (SE)
Battalion 5
1063 N. Highland Avenue (NE) Battalion 6
590 Manlord Road ISW)
Battalion 4
3201 Roswell Road(NE)
Battalion 6
Battalion 2
817 HollywoodRoad (NW)
1545 HowellMill Road (NW)
Battalion 2
AtlantaHartsfield Intnl Airport
(Ncrtheast corner 01the airport) Battalion 7
2349 B.E. Mays Drive (SW)
Battalion 4
2970Howell Mill Road (NW)
Battalion
26
4260 Northside drive(NW)
Battalion6
Battalion2
2040 Main Street (NVI)
2167 Monroe Drive(fiE)
Battalion 6
10 Cleveland Avenue (SW)
Battalion 5
Battalion 4
2406 Fairburn Road (SW)
Atlanta Hartsfield International
Airport (West side ot the airport
between the two main runways) Battalion 7
367t Southside Industrial
Battalion 5
Parkway (SE)
Atlanta Hartsfield International
Airport (East side of the airport
between the two main runways) Battalion 7
2911 BankheadHighway (NW) Battalion 2
4697 Wieuca Road (NWl This
stationis leased to the Fulton Countyfire
department In the lease agreement theFulton
County fire department has agreed to operate
an engine companyIrom this location. This
engine company is dispatched byAtlanta
dispatchers to all alarmswithin the city limits
of the stationstemtory. Fulton County
dispatchesthe engineto all alarms outside of
the city limits.
Atlanta Hartsfield International
Airport (So uth side of the airport) Battalion 7

F.D. Apparatus/Station Locations

Air 7

1992 1nlernational with a 32 elm com pressor

(Station 7)

Air7B

1983 Ford with a 22 ctm compressor (Station

7)
Echo 1
1991 WheeledcoachIFord advanced life
support ambulance (Station 32)
Echo 2
1989 Wheeled coach/ford advanced life
support ambulance (Station 35)
Engine 1 1991 QualitylSpartan 1500 gpmpumper
(Station 1)
Engine3 1992 Quality/Spartan 1500gpm pumper.
(Station 3)
Engine5 1991 Quality/Spartan 1500gpmpum per
[Station 5)
Engine6 (BLS) 1991QualilylSpartan 1500gpm
pumper (Station 4)
Engine 7 (BLS) 1992 QualilylSpartan 1500gpm
pumper with 5inchsupplyhose (Station 7)
Engine 8 (BLS) 1990 Qualily/Spartan 1500 gpm
pumper (Station 8)
Engine 9 (BLS) 1992 Qualily/Spartan 1500 gpm
pumper (Station 9)
Engine 10 (BLS) 1993 Qualily/Spartan 1500 gpm
pumper (Station 10)
Engine 11 (BLS) 1993 Qualily/Spartan 1500 gpm
pumper (Station 4)
Engine 12 1987 SPI/Spartan 1500 gpm pumper (Station
12)
Engine 13 IBLS) 1990 Qualily/Spartan 1500 gpm
pum per(Station 13)
Engine 14 IBLS) 1990 Quality/Spartan 1500 gpm
pumper(Station 14)
Engine15 (BLS) 1983 AmericanLaFrance 1500gpm
pumpeqStation 15)
Engine17 IBLS) 1987 SPI/Spartan 1500gpm pumper
(Station 17)
Engine18 1985American LaFrance 1500 gpm pumper
(Station 18)
Engine 19 (BLS) 1993 Qualily/Spartan 1500 gpm
pumper (Station 19)
Engine20 QualitylSpartan 1500 gpm pumpe r (Station
20)
Engine 21 (BLS) 1982 Seagrave 1500 gpmpumper
(Station 21)
Engine22 (BLS) 1992 Qualily/Spartan 1500 gpm
pumper (Station 22)
Engine25 (BLS) 1983 American LaFrance1500 gpm
pumper (Station 25)
Engine26 (BLS) 1990 QualilylSpartan 1500 gpm
pumper (Station 26)
Engine27 1987SPllSpartan 1500 gpm pumper (Station
27)
Engine28 (BLS) 1987 SPllSpartan 1500gpm pum per
(Station 2B)
Engine29 1985American terrance 1500gpm pumper
(Station 29)
Engine30 (Bl S) 1983American LaFrance 1500 gpm
pumper (Station 30)
Engine 31 (Bl S) 1982 Seagrave 1500 gpmpumper
(Station 31)
Engine34 1992 Quality/Spartan 1500 gpm pumper
(Station 34)
Engine38 (BLS) 1983AmericanLaFrance1500 gpm
(Station 38)
Reid Service Unit 880
1960BoyertownIFord
Metropolitan Fire Association's canteen unit
(Station 39)
Foam 28 1980 Seagrave/National loamunit(Station
28)
Light 10
196312 kilowaM lightunit (Station 10)
MedCom 1 (ALS) 1990 3D/International advanced life
support rescue/supervisorunit (Station 23)
MedCom 2 (ALS) 1990 3D/International advanced life
support rescue/supervisor unit(Station 2)

Squad 4
Truck 1
Truck 2
Truck 10
Truck11
Truck 12
Truck16
Truck 17
Truck21
Truck 25
Truck 26
Truck 29
Truck 31
Wagon2
Wagon 16
Yellow 1
Yellow 2
Yellow 3
Yellow 4
Yellow 5
Yellow 6
Yellow 7
Yellow 9
Yellow 10
Yellow 11
Yellow12
Yellow 13
YeUow 14
Yellow 15
Yellow 16
Yellow 17
Yellow 24

1991 Hackney & SOn/Spartansquad (Station

4)
(Extrication) 1990Lll/Spartan 110 foot
tractor drawn aerial (Station 1)
(Extrication) 1990 Lll/Spartan 110 loot
tractor drawn aerial (Station 2)
(Extrication) 1991 LTI/Spartan 11 0 1001
tractor drawn aerial (Station 10)
(Extrication) 1993 l TlISpartan 100 fool
tractor drawn aerial (Station 15)
1987 LTlzSuplex 110 fool tractor drawn aerial
(Station 12)
1986 LTIISpartan 100 foot tractor drawn
aerial (Station 16)
1987LTI/Duplex 110 foot tractor drawn aerial
(Station 17)
(Extrication) 1994LTI/Spartan 100 fool
tractor drawn aerial [Station 21)
1988Grumman/Spartan 92foot ladder tower
(Station 25)
1993 LT1lSpartan 90footmidship mount
aerial (Station 26)
(Extrication) 1988 Grumman/Spartan 92 1001
ladder tower (Station 29)
(Extrication) 1993 LTl/Spartan 90loot
midship aerial (Station 31)
(BLS) 1990Quality/Spartan 1500 gpm
pumperwith s-iocn supply hose (Station 2)
(BLS) 1992 QualitylSpartan 1500gpm
pumper with 5-inch supply hose (Station 16)
1979 Oshkosh M-4000 crash truck (State n
32)
1979 Oshkosh M-4000 crash truck (Station
35)
1979 Oshkosh M-4000 crash truck (Station
40)
Reserve Oshkosh M-4000ARFF unit (Station
35)
1990Quality/Spartan 1500gpmpumper
(Station 32)
1990 OualitylSpartan 1500gpmpumper
(Station 35)
1990Grumman/Spartan92footladder tower
(Station 24)
1981 Oshkosh T-6 Rapid Intervention vehicle
(Station 24)
1981 Oshkosh T-6 Rapid Intervention vehicle
(Station 32)
1994 K1 5 Jaquar Rapid Intervention vehicle
(Station 35)
1981 Oshkosh T-6 Rapid jnterver mon vehicle
(Station 40)
1991 Emerqency One 2000 gallon ARFF
telesquirtwith 55foot ladder (Station 24)
1990 Ernerqency One;ford mini pumper
(Station 32)
1990 OualitylSpartan 1500 gpm pumper
(Station 24)
1991 LTIISpartan 11 0 foottractor drawn
aerial (Station 24)
1979 servicetruck casualty unit (Station 24)
1993 Hackney & Son/Spartan Haz-Mal/Mass
Casualty unit (Stanon 24)

Miscellaneous Fire Apparatus

15-100t My" hull rescue boat (Station 4)
1982 Ford Rescue(Station 4)
1985 American Lafrance 1500 gpm reserve pumper
(Station 24)
1991 SCBA unittrailer witha 32 ctrncompressor (Station
7)
Reserve SQuad-1986 Samaritan/Pirsch squad(Station 4)

Atlanta Fire Depart ment Typical

Apparatus Respons e
Residential House Fire
First Alarm: 2 Fire Engine Companies. 1 LadderTruck
Company/1 Battalion Chief

Atlanta
Area Fire
Department
locations
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If working a lire. the following units areadded:

1 SCBA Air Unit, 1 Fire Department EMS unit (either a
MedCom or BLS/EngineCompany)
Note: The incident commander mayMSpecial Call" any
other unitsneeded lor the alarm callsuch as another
engine or truckcompany. lightunit. Squad 4. Foam
Unit etc. withoutit beinganextraalarm.
SecondlThird Alarms: The repeat of the first alarm
assbnments would bemade.
Apartment Fire, Commercial Building Fire, SchoolFire.
Warehouse Fire, Hi-RiseBuildingFire
First Alarm: 3 Fire Engine Companies, 2 Ladder Truck
Companies. 1 Battalion Chief
If workinga lire. Ihe following units areadded:
1 SCBAAir Unit, 1 Fire DepartmentEMSunit (eithera
MedCom or BLSlEngine Company)
SecondlThird Aarms: The repeat of the first alarm
assignments would bemade.
Grady Memorial Hospital. verylargeWarehouses
First Alarm: 4 Fire Engine Companies, 3 Ladder Truck
Companies. 1 Battalion Chief, Squad 4
If working a fire. the fullowinq units are added :
1 SCBA Air Unit, 1 Fire Department EMS unit(either a
MedCom or BLS/Engine Company)
SecondfThird Alarms: The repeat of thefirst alarm
assignments would bemade .
Motor Vehicle Accident with PeopleTrapped . Aircraft
Crash Offthe Airport
First Alarm: 2 Fire Engine Companies. 1 Ladder Truck
Com panywith jaws of life (Extrication units). 1
Battalion Chief/ 1 MedCom unit
Gas Leak
Depending onthesize and type of structure. a first
alarm assignment (residential house fire) would be
sent with Squad 4 added
AircraftCrash at Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport
All Atlanta FireDepartment Airport"Yellow" units
would respond. 3 Fire Engine Companies. 2 Ladder
Truck Companies. 1 BattalionChief. Squad 4. and 1
MedCom unit would respond to Station 35 asbackup.
If those units arecommitted to thescene. another 3/2
assignment would besent to stand-by.

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Atlanta Fire Department Signal Codes

fcourtesy of Monitor America, 3rd ed .J
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
B
9
10
10-A
10-B

Open gate
Close gate
Remain available
Message received
Repeat message
Stand by
Phone
FalseAlarm
Out 01 service
On scene
Auto service
Booster
10-1 Investigate
10-Q Fire Oul
10-T Trash fire
lQ-W Working fire
11
Still call
12
Cancel
13
In service
14
Ambulance
15
Send power
company
16
Sendgas com pany
17
Send water company
18
Stand by lor multiple
alarms
19
In Quarters
20
Can communications
office
Call chief s office
21
Call theoffice
22
23
Call deputy director's
office
24
Carr deputy director's
office-administration
Carr deputy director's
25

otnce-specal

26
27
28
29

servces

Goto Tac 2
Call firedepartment
shop
Call fire prevention
shop
Call fire prevention
bureau

January 1998

30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
4B
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
67
73

Fire under control

Send medical
examiner
Send arson
investigator
Structure fire
Vehiclefire
Outside fire
Vehicleaccident
Rescue ca ll
Alarm sounding
Person needs
assistance
Troubleunknown
Can administrative
office
Send policeto
work traffic
Proceed with
traffic
Send police to
investigate:
possible death
Send police:
unruly persons
Person hit by auto
Person injured
Person dead
Rape or attempt
Person shot
Person stabbed
Heart attack
Suicide
Person trapped:
no fire
Person hit by aula
Person injured
Person drunk
Suicideor attempt
Person sick
Person down
Rush

Code 1
Code 2
Code3

Routine call
Urgent call
Emergency
call

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'Real World' Radio

By Robert M. Felton

ad io tal k-show host Ken Ha mblin

;'1 succe ss fu l col umnist. new- letter pub lisher. book au thor . and 0 111.:time pho tojourn alist fo r the Detro tt Free Press
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recently encou raged his listeners to pur-

chase a sca nner and listen to police and fire

co m municatio ns in the ir hom e to wn s for .1
fe w weeks. At the e nd of tha i time. he said.
they 'd see their communi ty in ad iffe rent light
- and the y ' d he skeptic al of e very thin g to ld
them by their local. ab ove -ground med ia o utlet s. too. Most radio mo nito rs wo uld probabl y
ag ree; afte r ull. ge tting the ne ws "straight" is
one o f the most frequent ly ci ted rea sons fo r
mo nitori ng pu blic sa fety agc ncic ....
Hamblin' s remark is striki ng because hi :-.
co m merc ial S UI:CCSS con tras ts sharp ly wit h
the decli ne o f local ne wspape rs. which an:
spo nso ring several nation wid e stud ies no w to
try 10figure o ut ( I ) Why <Ire jo urnali sts held in
such lo w regard ? and ( 2) Whe re is the readership go ing, anyho w?

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So : l lo w g rc.n is the dis co nnect betwee n

reality and the nation ' nc wspapcr s o treco rd?
Sometimes. it's huge . Durin g the Soviet
co u p atte mp t that mined Mikha il Gorbachcv
and catapulted Bori s Yelt sin 10 power. for
ex am ple. \ V e stern journali sts and cameramen
roa me d freely throu gh out Moscow a nd se nt
ho me reports declari ng th at civil collapse a mi
revol ution were im mi ne nt. :'\a tllra lly, S WL s
every whe re dia led -up Radi o Moscow: W ha t
they heard was , . , busine ss as usu a l. W here
d id the tru th lie" T he savvy short wa ve listene r
wo uld figure it stood somewhe re be tween the
gove rnment view. determi ned to mai ntai n
ap pea rances at a ll cost s. and the media re po rts
of im mi ne nt revolution. since th e o pposition
ap pare ntly hadn 't po wer en oug h to di scomfit
state co mmunicatio ns .
Domestic news prod uct io n m ight benefi t
fro m a n occ asio nal spin throu gh the shortwave band s. too. Wh en a New Ham pshire
mall went o n a killing spree thatle ft lour-de ad

lasl Aug ust and it was learn ed that he had a

large cache o f we apo ns sto red o n his pro perty,
ells 1:"\"{'ll i l1g N('h'J rep o rter Jim S tewa rt went
look ing fo r the m ilitia co nnec tio n. It turn ed
o ut there was none. He mig ht ha ve been a lillie
slow er 10 jump 10 suc h conclusions had he
bee n liste ning 10 short wa ve rad io.
Perh aps it' s the romance of the mediu m so me thing: fue led by the memo ry of tho se o ld
mo vies wh ere "the re sistance " tun c in to " instruc tio ns from London" o n a co ntraband rad ill - bu t there is "Pat riot MOYC l11enr" broadca sting on the sho rtwa ve ba nds al most 24
ho urs a day . A 101 o f improbable- so und ing
con spi ra cy theo rie s gel spo uted. bUI ther e ' s
more vio lent talk in a football loc ke r roo m.
W hen the subj ec t of vio lence co mes up at a ll
it i.. unfa ilingl y contem pla ted in defen sive
term s against wha teve r oppres"tlr is in vo g ue .
Th ese brond cuxts a rc freel y av ai lab le to anyon e who care s to liste n-s-e ven re po rte rs, But
the mains trca m mcdius mytholo gy see ms to

hav e re placed the "co mmie " under the bed

with the m inuteman in the co rncrib.
Speak ing of co mm unists, ho w abo ut that
bunch at Radi o Hava na? O ur press keeps
portrayi ng Fidel Ca stro as u mat ure. wo rldcl ass states ma n eage r fo r respo nsible rela tion s with the United States, but his prop ugandi sts regul arl y broadcast accusa tio ns of U.S. spo nsored plot s again st C uba ' s wel l-bei ng
that an: every bit as gari sh and improbable as
anythi ng dr eamed up by ca llers to Tom valentine o r C huc k Harder repor ting the latest
b lue-jeep sig hting.
Wh e n Nort h Carolina Se na tor Jesse He lms
block ed th e appointme nt o r Massach usetts
Go vern or \VilJiam Well! as a mbassado r to
Me xico, Ilearned from the Bil C . not my local
dail y ne wspaper, that the Se na tor had actua lly
offere d to suppo rt the Governor to .my am bassad oria l post he wan ted , with the sole
exception of Mexico . It tu rned out. nor for the
first time , th at the sto ry was mo re threedimen sion al than the coverage provi ded by
mo st do mestic news outlets.
Dan Robe rts. tilt: prod ucer of a J O-m illute
round-up of new s ga rner ed from the shor twa ve ba nds und broadcast wee kly 0 11 K1YX,
Mendocin o Cou nty Public Radi o, put the
poin t nicely in a rece nt letter to Monitoring
Times ed itor Rachel Baughn: "O ur statio n
airs N PR (Nationa l Public Radio ) .1I1d Paci fica New s. an d the liste ners arc as to unded to
hear ho w differe ntly eve nts arc descr ibed by
othe r co untries - and ho w ma ny stori e s 'Ire
not e ve n covered by US radi o. Ne ws fro m
Centra l a nd Sou th America i" rare o n ;,\PR
de spite the proximity and ou r oft en dast a rdly
influ ence upon their nations."

Scanning for the Missing

Element
The reporte r w ho arrivcs .11
the c rime sc ene seco nds a fter
the police ha s bee n a staple of
myste ry nove ls for a lon g lime;
he keep s a sca nner in his g hw e
box. do n't yo u kno w? Hcs a
belicvuhlc. e nd ur ing character
beca use when it co mes to local
news . sc.nuu sts are righ t at ring.
side .
A ye ar or so ago, for ex amp le, du ring the height o f the
mcdiu clamor abo ur a n arson
e pide m ic I directed at mi nor ity
c hurc hes, I was id ling through
the local poli ce and fire trcque nc ics whe n I picked up a
trunsmi sslo n (hat see med to be
o rig ina ting fro m inside .1 fire
- a firefighter resisting orders
to evacuate. ins islin g th ar he
thought it wa s too soon to rC
treat. In sho rt o rde r. the chie f
issue d .111 unam big uou s o rde r:
4

G ET O UT NO W ' Th e
Firefig hter did - cleari ng the
build ing j ust mome nts befo re
the secon d- le ve l we nt do wn ,
That failure 10 sa n : what turned OUI to he a
historic c hurc h, then occ upi ed by a mi no rity
con gregation. bro ug ht o n a to rrent of fami liar
re cr i m in at io ns a nd
fu mi liur m ed ia
irnro-pcctive, abo ut troubl ed race -relation s.
Nev er o nce thoug h. not ev en from the bele agu ered lire departme nt. d id I hear a sing le

wo rd about that valo ro us fireman who did n't

want to q uit. T he loc al new spap er of reco rd
didn' t get a ny ac tua l facts wrong. so far as I
kno w, but whe ther o r not it go t the sto ry
en tirely righ t is arg uab le.
A lew wee ks ag o, for abo ut an hour, I
fo llowed a late-n ig ht hu nt for a n anned assail an t that bad last bee n seen flee ing o n foo l. I
fo llo wed the ch ase on a map, plouing sightings.
plotting police tra ver ses. It soo n became clear
that the police we re n' t mere ly searching ; they
also we re herdin g. choreographing o n the fly,
forci ng the ir man away from in nocents and
o nto a lo nel y go lf co urse - lone ly except for
the K9 ' s, that is. Th e subseq ue nt news sto ry
was no more than a few se ntence s long , and
co nveyed no ne of the dram a o r inte lligence
that g uide d the appre hensio n.
Th ere \l 'a .\' menti on that the fugitive thou g ht
he had bee n shabbily treated (tho ugh he req uired no med ica l atte nt ion ), and he wo uld be
talki ng to his lawyer abo ut that.
In de fe nse of the med ia. though monitoring
lends pe rspective and drama to eve nts, Ira rely
lind th at repo rte rs have fumbled th e basi c

Who'?What'?When? Where'! Why? of a story,

Usua lly they ' re accura te - and o bjective
rep o rti ng isn' t supposed to be dramatic an yi.2 ho w .
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' the mon ,itor to take
};
It ' s a 1so imp ort ant tor
what he hears w ith a grai n of sa lt, remember-

January 1998

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ing that those caught in the vortex of events
are n' t seeing things who le: that an exc ited
firefighter or co p mi ght misspcuk or misj ud ge, It wo uld be foolish to assume that
bro adcasts ema nating fro m the cc mer ofe vcms
arc a lway s mo re acc urate than the story co mpiled by a di vinterestcd journ ulist with a pano ranuc vic w. ! don ' t ea vesdrop becau se I want
more acc urac y pe r .w: I e avesd ro p bec ause I
do n' t wa nt th e facts bli ste r packed in poli ticully correct mythol ogy.
As an e xam ple o f "PC" re port ing: pol ice
di spa tc hes to the loc al puh lic-housing projects
in res po nse to " shot s f red" arc co mmo n - an
a lmost nightly oc curren ce. Yo u' d ne ver know
it fro m rea d ing my local news paper or watc hing the six o "cl ock news. tho ugh .
On the othe r hand. so me repo rter will go
inte rvie w a co uple of g ra nd mas whe ne ver
the re ' s a big state or federa l gra nI in the wor ks
and co me back with a piece implying that
public ho using is the last strong ho ld of yeoma n virtue s. T he bar e-fanged carn ivo res behind the dail y g unplay see m 10 ex ist o nly
when rhcrcs .1 bod y lying in the street and.
frankly. the re porte rs often seem <IS sympathet ic to th em as to their victims.

The Scan nist as '7 echno-creep"

We mon ito rs arc the object of an e me rgi ng
myt ho logy o ursel ves: to w it. we news ju nkie s
who ge t ou r fix in real -time - es pec ia lly
scarmis ts - ure doin g so mething shady and.
a t the ve ry least, invading our ne ighbors'
pri vacy. Ever not ice , for ex amp le, ho w o ften
these days the repor t of a d rug raid incl udes

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ment io n th at police a lso co nfiscated so meth ing cul led a " police sca nncr ?" No w . at lea st
implicitly. ther e' s so mething sin ister abo ut
th is: presum ably. the a llege d male facto rs we re
mo ni tori ng the po lice in orde r to ev ad e ca ptun: by them . (T he report ers ne ve r ex plain
how co me the suspec t d id n' t sc oo t o ut the
back door ' )
T his is not to say that so me o f till: bad press
is not dese rved : the re arc those o f us who do
sho w up at li re orcriruc scc nc s where wed on'r
be lo ng or rou tinel y invad e our ne ig hbors'
privacy. and there arc laws to co ver suc h
cases. O n the other hand , there arc times the
po lice are gra teful for such prosc ribed aclion s: I ha ve a th ic k folder of re port s of police
arre sts arisin g from ove rheard po rtable-telcphone co nversa tio ns . A fami ly in Co lorado.
for exa mp le. o verheard neighbors co nte mpla ti ng t he ir murder: a rre s ts foll ow ed
pro mp tly. In Virginia a scan nist went 10 the
sce ne of an a uto mo bi le accide nt and uffered
ass is tance. In sp ite o f the fac t that he ' d broken
abo ut a j illio n la ws by doing so. the police
pinned a medal on him .
Scunnists re ally go t a blac k ey e wh en, last
Dece mbe r, a co uple in Flor ida illcgall y ta ped
a ce llular telephone conference ca ll who se
part icipants inclu ded. am on g o the rs , Speaker
of the Ho use Newt Gingrich . W ith the assista nce of a co ng re ssman. a tra nscri pt of that
c al! was e ventua lly publishe d in the New York
Times. Th e Flo rid ian s were fined S5(X) each .
and th ey pro mise d to assis t the fede ra l
government's investigation. As o f this writing . ho we ver. ne ithe r the co ngressman in vo lved nor the New York Tim es re port er bus
bee n q uestio ned by any fede ra l invesugaror.'
eve n tho ugh repeating . publishi ng . o r pro fiting from a pho ne co nvers ation not inten ded
for yo u is pat en tly illega l. Perhap s their co nd uc t co nsider ed a public serv ice. like the
re scuer menti o ned abo ve...
B ut, as a pri vate c itizen, don ' t e xpect to do
with im punity the sam e as the journa list a nd
yo ur hir ed he lp in Cong ress do. The Fed era l
Co mmu nicat ions Co m mission respo nded to
thc se ev c rus o n J une 13th. 1997. w ith a Publ ic
No tice to rem ind all membe rs o f the public "i ncl ud ing the new s medi a" - that the inter ce ptio n and divulge nce of suc h communicatio ns is prohibited . A Febru ary ru ling . re vised
July 10th . spec ified Ihal modific ation of a
scanner to rece ive ce llu lar freq ue nc ies dccerrifles the sc anner. a nd included threats o f
fines. seiz ure. and crimin a l ac tion ag ainst
ent itie s which pe rformed mod ifica tions o n a
substantia l sc a le.
Th ese a rc admini stra tive . no t c riminal,
sa nctions by the wa y. In othe r wo rds . if yo u

arc acc used yo u wo n' t enjoy the pres umptio n

of innoc e nce that is supposed to be ev ery
American ' s birt hrig ht. If accused . you will
have the burden of prov ing yo u've do ne noth ing wrong .
No wonder that so ma ny o f us regard
journalists a nd pol itic ian s wi th suc h co ntem pt
- and ge l o ur ne ws elsew here in ev er-increas ing nu mbe rs.

Setting up your Newsdes k

If yo u wa nt to usc yo ur rece iver to keep
yo urself wel l-info rmed . a few inexpensive
accessori e s and good habits arc absol utely
es se nt ial.
For starte rs. ge t the best maps you ca n of
th e areas you ord inarily mo nitor. If yo u sca n
the loc al police and lir e. for example. ge t a
good city map: pcrsonally. l prefe r those bo und
hooks that conta in m ulti ple map s. ea ch prese nting a sma ll area of tow n in de tail. Similarl y. shortwa ve listeners sho uld keep a good
world at las within easy rea ch. Refe rring to
ma ps whe n follo wi ng a sto ry (do this a lways
with ru ler o r compa ss in ha nd ) \....ill ofte n
c larify the logic o f events in a way that spokc n
communications or co nven tio na l news broadcas ts do n' t.
You nee d a way 10 kecp good records. too .
of a type mo re derailed tha n m ost radio log
hook s an d so ftwa re pro gra ms arc des ig ned to
a llow . I find tha t notecards fi led by freq uency
wor k best for me. Tak e no tes of ev eryt hi ng
yo u hear: local news broadcasts. international
shortwave news. po lice and fire transmission s. If you do this consistcmlv vou' H soon
find tha t yo u' re "connec ting t hc'd~ts" as we ll
as the " pro s"- maybe even be tter - and th at
you kno w cx uctlv whe re to di al whe n vou
wa nt the scoo p right no w.
Sim ilarly, never go out o f doors wi tho ut a
no tebook and pen in yo ur pocket o r purse.
No te whe re the anten nas are. the na mes of
co mpanies whose broadcasts migh t be inter esting, what so rt of radios the local MegaM a rt
uses. anything and eve rything.
Index the latest iss ue of Monitoring Times
befo re thro wing it o n top of that about-to-tipo ver stac k in the co rner . Aga in. file ca rds arc
good . bU I usc whatever method suits. The
point is to know ho w to put you r ha nds on th at
article yo u fuzzily reca ll read ing. oh. gosh .
sometime late last year. seems like.
Don ' t co nfi ne yo ur listenin g to po lice a nd
fire: a ny o rganizatio n tha t keep s a bi g flee t o f
vehicles o n the roa d wi ll yie ld inte restin g
tidbits. Listen ing in on sc hoo l buses. fo r e xa mple. is on e of my favorites. Th ey' re every
where . and yo u get a view of sc hool-re lated

Raleigh, North Carolina, Area Frequencies

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The Raleigh. North Ca rolina area frequencies in the tab le have been culled from a variety
of SO Uf(.'CS . including the FCC onli ne databases. vario us publications. and local hobb y grou ps.
Numerous j urisd ictions arc represen ted.

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goings-o il that yo u won ' t gel anywhere e lse.

Ditto the ca ble n ews, the e lectric co m pany.
and on and on.
T ry mo nitoring the " rea l wor ld" ac tivity in

you r area and co mp are the results with (hat

"film at I I:00" and the next day' s newspaper

article .
Notes :
I. W hether or not there was rea lly an "e pidemic" is (he subj ec t of some d isp ute - som ething el se yo u pro bably never read in yo ur
loc al paper, See the December 1996 issue of
The America n Specta tor fo r a fasc inating acco unt o f ho w this sto ry developed into mo nth s
of natio nwide head lines .
2, [A recent story in the Scuttle Times ind icutes thai the Justice Departm ent is still
investi gating ...cd. ]

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154.2650
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154.31 00
154.3250/156 060
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154.3400

N.C. State University

151.0100
151.0550
153 9650
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155.7450
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154.37001153.890

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1J2

jJ

By Philip Gebhardt, VA3ACK

may not be as com plica ted as splitting an atom , but to radio

listeners splitting a signal can have rea l be nefi ts. T he sp litters
described he re can be use d from the longwavc frequencies right up
thro ugh to the UHF bands.
Anyone who has morc than one TV se t know s the basic reason for
usin g a splitte r: You have on e ante nna, but more than one recei ver.
There is a varietyof situations in which you benefit by using a signal
splitter. It could be that you want 10 go DXin g with a friend . It would
be grea t to be ab le to put up one ante nna for both of yo u to use instead
of two separate antennas. That would save time and allow you to gel
to the DX part of the DXpcdi tion sooner. It' s also makes it easier to
e xc hange OX lips. It' s frustrating to find that so meo ne else can hea r
a station, but your ante nna won 't pu ll the signal in. Usin g a single
a ntenna, every o ne can hea r those great OX catch es.
T here may he times whe n you wa nt to compare receivers. You
could use a single a nte nna and a switch . But you can never hear both
receivers at the same tim e with that syste m. lf'thc signal is fading . you
ca n misj udge the relative perfonnancc o f the two receivers by usin g
the switching mcth od .
Yo u can also c hec k out device s such as preamplifiers and atte nuator s. With one s ignal going into both receiv ers you will hear the sa me
signal le vel. Place a prea mp or an atte nuator in the line lead ing to one
recei ve r and you can qui ck ly determin e the performa nce o f the dev ice.
You migh t thi nk tha t in eac h of these situati ons yo u could simply
co nnec t bot h receivers in para llel ac ross the a nte nna. At the very least,
the two recei ver s will app ear as a misma tched load on the an tenna.
Another prob lem with this simple solution is that the recei vers can
interact and interfere with rec eption.
What you need to do is to isolate the recei vers so they don 't "sec"
(or hea r) one another while con nect ed to a common a ntenna.
Th ere are co mme rcial devices that allow yo u to do that at shortw ave
freq uencies. Th ey are known as muhi coup lers and they arc expensive.
W ith a multicouplcr yo u can connec t man y receiv e rs to a single
antenna.
For mo st listeners. there is rarely a need to connec t six. twe lve, or
twent y-four receive rs to a single ant en na. Th e rea l solution for most
listeners is to con struct a simple hybrid splitter. A hybrid splitte r that
allo ws you to op erate two receiv ers from one a ntenna is show n in
Figure I .
The key to the techniqu e is the length of the coax cab le. Noti ce that
Rcvr I is conn ected to Rcvr 2 via two path s. The length o f the shorte r
pat h is IJ2 <one-half wa velength long ); the Icngth of the longer path is
N4 + 31104 or A. (on e wavele ngth long) . Since the two paths differ in
len gth by 1J2, Rcvr I is not affected by Rcvr 2. T he same concept
22

MONITORING TIMES

larwa ry ' 998

FIGURE 1
A single antenna which uses coax f eedline can he used
with two receivers provided the receivers are isolated
fro m each other to eliminate interaction, Using three
lengths of coax and three T connectors, yo u call
construct a simple and inexpensive hybrid splitter. The
length s of the coox con be calculated using inform ation
provided in the tex t.

applies if you look from Rcvr 2 bac k toward Rcvr I.

T here are a few limit ations to this circuit. Fir st, yo u are limited to
two rec eiv er s.Second, the length of the coax lines lim its the freque ncy
covera ge. Th ird. at 100v frequ enci es, the coax lines can get fairly long .
T he len gth of a quart er-wave length of coax ca n be calc ulated using
Equation I. T he eq uation takes into accou nt the veloc ity fac tor (0.66)
of so lid polyethyl ene-fi lled feedline. lf other typ es ofl ine are used . the
ve loc ity facto r must be adj usted . (For e xample, RG-5 8 with foa med
pol yethy lene die lectri c has a veloc ity fac tor of 0.79 .)
75000 X 0.66/1
(1)
where t is the length in meters of a quart er-wav elength of solid
po lyeth ylene-fi lled coax and f is the freque ncy in kHz .
For example, if you wa nt to listen to sig nals in the 22-meter ba nd
( 13570 10 13870 kHz ). "lJ4 would be 75000 x 0 .66/1 3720or 3.6 met",s
( I I.S ft.). To co nstruc t the hybrid splitte r. you would need three
len gths of coa x-o ne piece 1J4 or 3.6 m lon g. a seco nd piece 1J2 or
7 .2 m long. and a third piece 3"IJ4 or 10.8 m long.
To use the sp litter for OXin g in the lower porti on of the FM
broadcast band (where the educa tional and non- comme rcial stations
arc), the len gths required are 0.55 m, 1. 1 m a nd 1.65 m. To OX on the
high ba nd V HFTV chan nels (channel 13, for examp le) the le ngths are
e ve n shorter: 0.23 m. 0.46 m and 0.70 m.
It' s easy to see that this hybr id splitte r is mor e practical and
ec ono mical at high er frequenci es.
To so lve the probl em s of freq uency depe nden ce a nd to avoi d long
run s o f coax in your listen ing post, yo u can usc a resisti ve distrib ution
nctwork. A simple syste m is shown in Figure 2.

(=

three rece ive rs. only 1/3 o f the network inpu t

signa l will nppe;'lr ' ICro SS the inp ut of ea ch
rece iver.
Depend ing on the sig na l le vel from the
antenna and how many rece ive rs are connect ed. you may need to use a prea m plifie r to
make up for the signal loss in the net work.
If vou use a ba la nced line (suc h as 300-ohm
t W i n l~ad ), usc the ci rc uit show n in Figure
2(b ). Equa tion 3 provides the value of R;

R'

R'

R, = 1/2 Z (n-1)/(n+1)
R'

R'

R'

R'

FIGURE 2
Resistive distribution networks are
compact, broadband, and have the
added advantage that yo u call connect
more than two receivers to a singl e
antenna. A star circuit fo r use with coax
[e edline is sho wn 01(a). A simi/or
circuit f or use with balancedfeedline,
such as 300-ohm twinlead, is shown at
(b) .

R,=Z(n+1)/(n-1)

No t only is this syste m not freq uency se nsitive . yo u ca n ;'1!sO co nnect more than two
receive rs to a single a ntenna.
The va lue of the resistors ( R [) ca n he c alculated using Eq uation 2.

R, = Z (n-1)/(n+1)

(3)

where R ~ is the required resistance in oh ms , Z

i ~ the fecdline impedance in ohms an d n is the
number of receivers.
T o avo id mismatching whe n using these
c irc uits (and poss ible ghosting with TV rece ivers) . all netw ork outputs mu st be co nncctcd to a receiver. A so lution to this restriction is to connec t a resisto r eq ual to the rece iver ante nna imp edance across any unused
ou tp ut.
Figure 3 show s a variatio n. A ltho ugh thr ee
receivers a re shown in this diagram, you can
usc thi s polygonal me thod of connec tion wit h
two or more rece ivers. As with the ci rcu it in
Fig ure 2(a ). the signal stre ngth at the rece iver
input will be inve rse ly proporti onal to the
numbe r of receivers connect ed .
Th e valu e of each resistor (R 1 ) for the
circui t in Figure 3 ca n be determ ined from
Eq uatio n 4.

(4)

whe re R\ is the requ ired resistance in ohms . Z

is the feedliuc impedance in ohm s and n is the
numbe r of receivers .
Anyone with se ve ral TV sets and a si ngle
antenna knows that hybrid 2-way splitte rs for

(2)

where R[ is the resistan ce in oh ms. Z is the

FIGURE 3
fecdlinc im pedance in ohm s a nd n is the numbcrof rece ivers. (T his assumes that the fe edli ne ~--r----'
impedance and receive r imp ed an ce arc equa l.I
If. for e xam ple. yo u use 53.5R3
ohm coax (RG-5 R) and wa nt to
R3
R3
connect three recei ver s to a n antenna. each resistor will ha ve a
R3
va lue of 53.5 x (214) or ab ou r Z?
ohms.
Th is see ms like the ideal c irc uit. Its compact a nd you ca n co nnec t any number of
rece iver s 10 an ante nna. T here is a price. howev e r. S ince the recei ver s arc conn ected in A polygonal circuit config uration call
se rie s w ith resisto rs. not all the signal from the also be used to f eed several receivers
antenna appears at the rece iver input. Th e f rom a single antenna. The more
rece ived signa l will be l In o f the signal at the receivers J OU have connected 10 the
input of the dist rih ution net wor k. For a ne t- antenna , the more likely it is you will
wo rk with two rece ivers. the signal level w ill need a preamplifi er to boost the
he 1/2 [he signa l le ve l at the network input ; for incoming signal.

FIGURE 4
The signal splitter circuit is simple
enough that it call be housed in a sma ll,
aluminum box, A custom -made unit can
incorporate lite type oj socket that fits
lite plugs all your [eedline. r ite case
f rom a comm ercially-manuf actured
splitter call be used if you use F
conn ectors. or if yo u lise adapters to
con vert the F connector 10 lite ope oj
plug your receivers lise.
usc on [he VHF/UHF TV ban ds and the FM
broadc ast band are com mon ly ava ilable in
co nsume r e lec tronics st6 res. T hese splitte rs
do not usc resistor s to maintain broad band
characteristics. but use ferrite bead construction for co ils.
Th e metal case of a co mme rc ia lly- manufactu red hybrid splitter makes a suitable (an d
inexpensive) ca se for the coax hybrid sp litte r
or the resistive dist ribution ne twork . Check
the botto m of the splitte r. lfit is ma de of thi n
met al. sim ply pry it off. Y ou can then rem ove
the wire s, fe rrite beads. and capacitors and
co nnect e ithe r sec tions of coax or resistors to
the coax soc ke ts. T he gro und lug inside the
case can be used for groundi ng the shield of
the coax . Since not man y o f us usc F connectors (the type used on com me rcia l splitte rs
and on TV sets ), you will need to buy adapte rs
to co nvert the F co nnectors to the type yo ur
receiver uses.
If vou want to avoid ada pte rs. yo u can
hou se-the splitter in a sma ll met al box ava ilab le at Rad io Shack and attac h RF socke ts that
match the plu gs on yo ur fccd linc.
Wh eth e r vou usc a splitte r at home or at a
DX ca mp. you' re bound to find all sorts of
uses to inc rease you r enjo ym ent and know ledge of rad io listeni ng. (Plus. you might c am
the gratitude o f a fe llow DXer who doe sn ' t
need to put up his ow n ant enna at the ne xt DX
cam p.)
January 1998

MONITORING TIMES

23

ANTENNA TOPICS
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAy
JUN
JUL
AU G
SEP
OCT
NOV

Prehistoric Radio (rx by trees)

Is the Sky an Antenna?
Easy-Up Beam
Beverage Directional Antenna
The Tao 01 Antennas
Antenna Resonance
Wh ere's Ground in a Groundplane?
Using a Counterpoise to Aim High
TheAccidental Radio Signal (static, etc.)
Thoughts on MultibandAnte nnas
Antenna Routing Panel tor Rapid
Switching
DEC .....Half-Wavelength Antennas

Ing
~

1997Index ofArticles
FEATURES:
Broadcasl:
An Ear to Indonesia .
.. Feb
HCJB: Sound s from the Equator . ..
.Jun
Hope to Hostages
..
Jan
Mozambique
.
Mar
Music and SW Radi o
May
Nauen Digital SW Station .
.. Nov
Radio Miskut, Nicaragua .....
.. ........ Jan
Radio Neth erlands Hits the Big 5-0
.. Au g
Radio Romania Looking Up..
.. Nov
Shaking Foundations 01 BBC
May
Shortwave, Sats, & Cyberspace
.. Oct
ViSiting Ihe Voice of Russia
Nov
Human Interest:
AI Gross: A master's touch

Sep
Mar
Oct
Jun
Feb
Oct
Jan
Aug
Sep
Jan

Scanning:
Area 51 - Phantom in the Desert
Jul
DMAT - Mobile Medical Teams
Aug
Emergency Medical Services
Oct
Flying with theAngels
. Mar
Military Aviation - Changein the Air
Jul
Monitoring Commercial Aviation.. .
Jul
Monitoring Montauk
May
Privacy and the Publ ic Airwaves
Apr
Racing Freqs: a la CARTe ......
. Jul
Racing Freqs: Charlotte
..May
MONITORING TIMES

Racing Freqs: Winslon Cup

Scanning Techniques that Work
Racing Freqs: SuperTruckin'
There's Some thingAbouta Train
Uniden Parades the TrunkTracker

Apr
Jan
Jun
Feb
Mar

Technology and Technical:

Best Earth lor Ground
..
Code Practice Oscillator/Morse lests
Garden Galaxy of Lights (FM).. ..
How to Build a Radio from a Kit
"Junk-Drawer" Antenna (handheld)
Multi-Ban d Resonant Antenna
Ultimate Longwave Setup
Under S30 Anlenna Launch
Upgrading the Ocean Hopper

Jun
Dec
Dec
Feb
Jul
May
Dec
Aug
Aug

Utilities:
Beacon OSLing
Canada'sMarit ime Stations
Marconi's California Stations
Marconi in Ireland
Morse Code: Down, not out ..
Radio navigation in the Baltic
Signals trom Pitcairn

Dec
Jun
Nov
Nov
Nov
Dec
Feb

Sep

Miscellaneous:
Contesslons at a Cell Sile Spotter
Ell ective Emergency Coordinator
HR2369: An other Specter Looms
Lightning: Global Network
Menwith Hill Station
Meteors: Radio out at this World
MT at 15: an interview
SendYour Receiver to OXCamp
Those Terrible (cell) Towers
1996 Index 01 Articles

24

BEGINNER'S CORNER

January 1998

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

Finding Time tor the Hobby

Bells & Whistles
Rediscovering the Gee-Whiz
Websites 01 Interest
Mediumwave Moxie
Random Summer Th oughts
Nontraditional sources for rad ios
Are Yo u Suffering from LMS?
My ReceiverAutobiography
Wh en Just Any 0 Won 't Do
Undoing a Few Myths
Choosing a Handheld Ham Radio

BELOW 500 I(Hz

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

Resources tor Natural Radio

I-Watt Wo nders
Odds 'n Ends (SAO; DXpedition; Satnav
vs. Navaids)
Ken Cornell, SilentKey; Web Update
Beacon Basics: equipment, beacons,
NOB DXing
LDXA Returns
Who Lurks in the Basement?
Lawter ZWI; new VLF tape; loggings
Gelling Ready; GWEN; Vintage VLF
LDXA Winners; DGPS challenge; Inside
an NOB
Reader News & Updates
Basement Chang es; Australian OX;
Canadian towters: listserver

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

Station s within stations (SCS)

TheNew EAS
Did I really hear that?
Radioin the Frozen North (CBC)
Mixed Bag
Expanded Band Special
Digital News
Domestic OX and the Internet
Phantoms 01 the Dials (images,
harmon ics, etc)
Myths of the Domestic Dials
Listener's Bookshelf
Anatomy of a Radi o

ASI( BOB TIP

JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAy
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT

Remote monitoring wlbaby monitor

Improving Aud io
Bandplanning SW antenna
Makeshill Antennas
R8S00, Rl l00, AR5000 Comparison
Simple stand for portables
Painle ss Trunk Tracking (rptr input)
MW BCOverload cure; BC3000XLT
keyboard trick
Build an Al l-Purpose Battery Pack
Repairing Smudged Displays

NOV
OEC

Selcall DOS. RadFax 0.9. URLs: FEMA,

AirNav. WUN. Globe Wireless
OCT ..... Major Modes and Protocols

Mobile Extension Speake r

Cheap. ellective scanner antenna

. - CLOSING COMMENTS

-v ,

JAN
FEB
MAR
APR

MT:The First 15 Years!

Will Scanner Listening Take an Upturn?
Gingrich and the Cell Phone
OpeningStatement to Hou se Subcommittee
MAy
Techno-Terms for the Times
JU N
The Auctioning of theCapitol
JUL
Farewell to a Friend
AUG Freq Ban Proposal Could End Scanning
What's the Big Secret? (classitied
SEP
treq uencies)
OCT ..... Guest ed: Am erica's Cacophony to the
World
NOV
Pagers: New Legal Battleground
Stall greetings
DEC

.. 'EXPERIMENTER'S WORKSHOP -.,

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

Easy Record-Keeping - II
Tools for the Info Age (MS Works)
Spreadsheet Electronic Design
Squelch Improvement
Radio to Computer Data Interface
Memory expan sion for 760XLT. 950XLT.
590XLT.600XLT, R1600
Computer Tools and Utilities for Radio
WiNRADiO's SpectrumScope
WiNRAOiO Upgrade Opener
WiNRADiO - SMT Primer
WiNRAOiO - Sensitivity
WiNRADiO- PLL Noise; cable modem

JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAy
JUN

- ... :

The Best of the Best

DXtreme's SWL Log; AP RS; websi tes
Top Pick of Oecoders
Is $10 Computer a Bargain?
Computer Updates; Web sites
Armc hair Fli ghts of Fancy (aviation
we bsites; FiyteTrak)
JUL ......Keepin g your trees fresh; ScanCAT
Magic
AUG Radioratl decoding program
SEP
The Every 2-Yr Computer Blowout; CAT
Magic Revisited
Radioraft. SWRL updates; philosophy
OCT
NOV
CSP Tech ScannerBase; Kangaroo Tabor
WinCAPWizard
DEC ..... Total RecAll; Problems with Windows

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

A Simple 455-kHz BFa

Horne-brewed PC Boards
Tuning the End-Fed An tenna
Eliminating Spurious Signals
Active SWL Ante nna
LFNL FConverter
Handy Battery Tester
Breadboards on your PC
A Simple Receive r to Build
FeedlineTips, Equipment Protection
Build a Transistor Checker
Monitor the 6-meter Band

DIGITAL DIGEST . . -.
JAN
APR
JUL

--

GMDSS
ARINC's New Technologies
Digital Resources: DACAR S, LABELADD ,
APRS, Hoka Code-3 Goid Update.
Universal M-450, Universal M-BOOO,

JAN
FEB

US Marshals; Southeastern Nat'l Parks

Nat'l Forest Service; WHCA chan; More
Nat'l Parks; tracking & telem etry;
cem eteri es
MAR FB I on BOO MHz; IRS investigators
APR
Ant enna Tip-Otis: Freqs from Readers
MAy
US Geologi cal Survey ; Bu reau of Land
Managem ent
JUN ..... WUNnerful lntercepts; Federal Law
Enforcem ent Training Cent er,
Brunswick. Ga; Fed Supply Service; Law
Enforcement Bran ch; Smithsonian
security
JUL ...... Summerfim e Skip; Federa l trunking in
DCarea
AUG..... Fedcom. TrunkTracker radios. and
Trunkcom: fed trunksys in Boston.
border patrol in VT.NY; Customs in New
England; fed treqs from Seattle.
Asheville; IFLOWS
SEP ..... Fed s are falking...bu t where? Freqs from
Kansas City. Mo. Siskiyou Nan Forest.
Puget Sound. Camp Pendleton; Feds
using FRS?
OCT ..... "Privatizing" Fed Comms (using CMRS);
DEA bandplan; NSA system; New FCC
DF vehicles; customs
NOV ..... P/L Tones cluesto tees in Houston;
Nextel cell/trunked rad io; NY Border
Patrol; variety of modes used by tees:
Nuclear Transport Safeguard Net; Calif.
monitoring
DEC ..... Cape Canaveral monitoring ; western US
reports: Washingtonarea observations;
Quantico tree s

_ ' .... ... . ,

JAN
FEB

GLOBAL FORUM

Just an other month on SW

RCI Not Dead -- Agai n

.. "t".

1."_ ......

.....

Why not SW TV?

New SW Station for Mexico City
France Ouits SW to NA
Monitoradio, WRMI, Give Up SW
HCJB Must Move out of Pita
SW SituationMirrors the World
Radio Reading Recommendations
Respect for NA Neighbors
Nigeria Hit by Opposition Radio
Problem of "Wooden" Frequencies

.
MAR
JUN
SEP
OEC

K.I.S, RADIO

SimpleAnfenna Solutions
Beloved Boat Anchors
Here We Go A-ROVing
Tuning in to ATU's (tuners)

MAGNE TESTS ...

services

FEDERAL FILE
. .COMPUTERS & RADIO

MAR
APR
MAy
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC

' .

(Reprints 01these reviews are not available.)

JAN
Sharper Image VA100
FEB
Becke r Mexico 2340
MAR Electro Brand SW3000 Digital
APR
Sony ICF SW-600
MAY Internattcnal MT718 Portable
JUN
International MT798 Portable
JUL
learn IC-RB500
Drake SW2
AUG
SEP
Grundig G2000A compact portable
OCT
Lowe SRX100ITarget HF3
NOV Japan Radio NRD345
DEC
Grundig Traveller III

ON THE HAM BANDS

JAN
FEB
MAR
APR

Making Resolutions (test gear)

DX for NoCode Teen s (working sats)
Morse Keys (Kitano)
Simple Keyer; ham newsletter; new
Novice questions
MAy ....New License Structure; domestic OSL
Bureau
JUN .....June contests; W5YI Rep ort; SAREX;
G4RAW computer board schematic
JUL...... Forward-looking ham rad io, Phase IIID,
Vanity calls, 6 meters
AMSOFT's World of HamRadio CD
AUG
Simply Delightfuf
SEP
OCT
Lectrokit SPot B Spider
NOV
What's thebest HF antenna?(using a
transmatch)
DEC ..... Hand Held Hamming

OUTER LIMITS
JAN ...... Europi rate Season; NAPR S; Zaire
contlict
FEB ...... Radio Free Speech relays; Active
Clandestlnes: Free Radio Weekly; R. Free
Lawre nce Bust
MAR ....WJOI Power Record; '96 activity record;
RFree Lenawee; web site

January 1998

MONITORING TIMES

7S

APR ..... Pirates using Internet: R Cochiguaz;

Huntsville drop: KIWI : Drama: R Kudirat.
Nigeria: R Tellus: Iowa City Free Radio
MAy ....Micro Pirate Conference: new ACE
website: V. of Tibet: Yoder's new books:
Numbers Parody: Ou ello leaves FCC
JUN .....WJOI OSl : Weiner book: FRNIACE web
change: Mexican DX confe re nce;
Micropirate activity
JUl
Radio Metallica: Il Micropirates: R
Buternbo: Rep of TX: Carling 's pirate
links
AUG..... Pirate l oggings Explosion: Metallica
retiring?: RFree London: Micropirates
SEP......Radio Metallica using WJOltxmitler;
Cuban clans: Nigerian clans: n8\'J FRW
ad dress
OCT .....FM Pirates Increasingly Active: Metallica
news; R London returns: RJemima
NOV ..... R Metallica moves to ship: Kennard
named FCC chair: Voice 01 Tibet: ACE
address correction
DEC ..... Holidays Increase Pirate Activity: Cuban
clan website: micropirale busts
r

: .. .

' PCS FRONT LINE

JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAy
JUN
JUl

Criminal use at cellula r

PC S Modes
Digital Modes
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The World Above 30 MHz

Richard Barnett
xonMOlIeJ@ool.com

The Remarl<able Transformation of H.R. 2369

his mo nth ' s co lum n is probab ly the mo st impo rtan t and grat ify ing I have ever wr itten: it is devoted ex cl usive ly to the stunning
news of the ame ndment of H.R . 2369. a bill in Cong re ss whos e
or iginal language wo uld have effect ive ly put scanner manufacturers
ou t of business and criminalizcd al mos t all uses of sca nners. Yet
instead of this nightmarish sce nario. we can he much more optim istic
wi th the ne ws of the rev ised leg islatio n.
O n w ed nesday. October 29 . I atte nded the House Tc lccomm unication s S ubcomm iuec Mark-up on H.R. 2369 . Even .IS late as the
pre vious day it wa s uncertain whet he r th e mark-up wou ld tak e place.
Re -d raft s. ph on e co nversa tio ns. and personal co ntac ts o n Capitol Hill
were occ urring past 5 p.m. o n Tue sday. Th e infor mal coa lition of
rnunufn ctu rcr x and equipment users of which I was a part - loosely
called the "S canne r Legislation Work ing Group" - was not aware of
the fi nal language until moments before the hearing was about to
hegin .
Others-i ncluding thousands o f hobbyi sts. firefighters . race fan s,
and more-s-we re also taking the time to co ntact their ow n Co ngress man and members of the Telecommu nica tions Subcommittee, up
unt il rhc ver y last mo ment s. It was dow n to the wire. bu t all parties
work ed di ligentl y to offe r new language thai would fulfill the mission
oft he Subcom mittee to strengthen and ex tend priva cy right s. without
cau sing the immed iate dem ise of the scanner ind ustry . (Ma ny did
co ntact their Congressm en urging that the legislation be shelved. but
that. acc ording to staffers across the Hill . was nev er an option.)
Moments before the mark-up. I met Co ngresswoman Karen
~ Ic C a rt h y (R. ~ IO ) . as well as her legislat ive aide. Andy Walk er. with
who m I worked on [he bill . When I said to Rep . McCarth y. ..It looks
like H.R. 2369 has bee n fixed properly," she crossed her fingers,
look ed at me. and said . " Let' s hope !"
Co ngresswoman fv1cCarth y, who is o n the Telecommunications
Subcom mitte e. was on e of the original cosponsor s of 2369 . She . like
other members of the subcommittee. was co mmitted to protecting the
privacy of wi reless phone users, hut was not aware of the consequences o f the orig inal bill. It was pointed o ut to Rep . McCarth y ' s
of fice that staffers at the Misso uri Highwa y Patrol support the use of
scann ers: that S KYWAR N ac tivity. so cri tical in the tornad o belt. is
we ll served by scanners; and that volunteer firelight ers throughout
her district rely upon these rad io devices. Thi s is why Co ngresswo man ~k Ca rt hy . as we ll as others. crossed her fingers. Th en it was
time for the hear ing to begin .
During the mark-up. Mr. Tauz in of Loui sian a introduced an
amended bill which rep laced the original language alm ost in total.
The amen ded bill was reported to the House Comm erce Committee
without furth er amendments and without objec tion.
The untend ed bill only req uires that scanner manufactu rers eliminutc ce llular and pes frequ encies from their rad ios. not all Com mercial Mob ile Rad io Ser vice (CMRS ) frequ encies as the original bill
stipulated ! Of co urse. cellular was really not an issue as those
frequ encies arc alread y ba nned . Broadban d pes freq uencies lie near
2 G Hz and have never been a concern. Narrowband pes at 900 !\.IHz
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January 1998

\vill have to be el iminated fro m scanners. but the manufacturers

believe that is "do-able." PCS commu nica tions usc CD ~lA . T DMA
and GSM digital encodin g and are essentially unmonitorable.
As we all kno w. if the CMRS languag e had rema ined in the bill.
the sca nner business would likel y have come 10 a scre ec hing halt . It
would have meant the end to 800 MHz rad ios (and therefore [he
TrunkT racker). as C MRS and public safety frequ encies are shared at
800 MH z. It would also have meant an end to the po pular pastim e of
listenin g to auto racing communications. since they rely on the 46 1470 MH z busine ss band s which would have bee n eliminated as well.
Bey ond that. the requ irements for image rejecti on of all the
eliminated band s would have been essentially impossible ( 0 achieve .
\Vc. along with the FCC . worked with congres sional staff to mak e
clear the probl ems which the overly broad CM RS language posed .
The poi nt was critical ; it was mad e; and Congress appropriatel y
responded .

Implications of the Amended Word ing

Unde r the amended bill. it will also be unlawful 10 manufactur e
equipme nt wh ich is capable of decod ing " protected" digital SMR
systems. Thi s has raised more than a few eyebrows. Many people are
con cern ed that this will not allow sca nner manu factu rers to decode
APCO 25 and similar publ ic safely digital formats. We don 't belie ve
this to be the casc o
Congress recognize s that there is a legitimate need for scanners.
particularly for public safetyu se (sec Rep . Tauzin ' s co mments
below) . Th is is why Congress exp licit ly proscribed " protec ted"
digital SMR and not all digit al sys tems. "Protecte d" is further defi ned
as "secured by an electronic meth od that is not publi shed or disclo sed
except to authorized users...
APCa 25 is a published standard. Public safe ty agencies using
APCO 25 equipment have the ca pability to utilized encryption
techn ology fortheir sec urity. Publi c safety agencies have made it very
dear to Co ngress that they want and need SCa nner s.
The amen ded bill also make s it clea rly un lawfu l to mod ify a
scanner in a mann er which make s the monitori ng of the aforernentioned cha nnels (ce llu lar. PCS, digita l SMR) possibl e.
Whi le the dre aded "intercept O R divulge" language rem ains in
the new bill. the proscribed freq uencie s have been so narro wed that
the effect of this language is minimal on the hob byist. The section has
also bee n reworded to make it clear that "Nothing in this subsection
prohibits an interception or disclosure of a commu nication as authorized by chapter 119 o f title 18. Uni ted States Code": i.e.. any
governrncntal.Iaw en forc ement. civil defe nse. private land mobil e. or
public safety communications system; amateur. ci tize ns ba nd. ge nera l mobil e radio services: any mar ine or aero naut ica l communications system . and other transm ission s which arc read ily access ible to
the general public.
Th ere is one new provision: it will be unlawful to manu factur e a
scanning receiver which can read alpha numeric text from a pager

sys tem. What is uncl ear is whe the r wh at is pro scribed is a sca nner
which can be equ ipped with text-reading gea r (throu gh a speaker-jack
perh ap s ). or a scanner which is internally equipped with suc h gea r. As
we all know . though. the issue is with paging software. not the
sca nne r. bU I since it is dear that scanne rs are a n acceptab le product .
the inte nt of this lan guage is appa rent. (T his la ng uage was adde d
following the inte rcept ion o f pagi ng messages from the Mayor' s
O ffice and the po lice c hief in Ne w York C ity. as wel l as the decodi ng
o f offic ial W hite Hou se pager truffic.}

Credits and Cautions

Whil e the hi ll is much im pro ved . we a ll mu st remai n vigil ant (as
ther e is a lways the remote c hance an ame ndment will be offe red in the
Com me rce Com mittee or on the Hou se or Se nate Floor). I do belie ve
we ca n a ll brcuthe u sigh of rel ief. An d, I thin k we all deser ve a pat on
the back . So ma ny of yo u wro te your Cong ressman. contac ted Rep .
Ta uzi n. etc. .... the message was heard.
Also . public safe ty. particu larl y the fire se rv ice, re ally stepped up
to the plate. Most importantly. the sca nner ind ustry fought for itsel f
and for all of us. \Vhat is so gr atifyi ng abo ut this is that the manufacturers. rc-scll crs. A RRL and othe rs, recogni ze the importan ce of this
business. this hobby. a nd the c usto me rs. Th at sho uld make us a ll fcel
ve ry good.
You may find ce rta in provision s of the amended bill remai n
some what tro ublin g. But. please remember how the orig ina l bi ll
looked . Bear in mind that there is a legi timate ca se to be mad e for
certain privacy rights. I fcc l this ame nded bill is cmi nent ly reaso nable.
It will kee p the manufacturers in business a nd will keep sca nne rs
ava ilable to publ ic safety. hobb y ists, and oth ers.
O ne very importa nt fact has come out of a ll this. Co ng ress now has
a very good unde rstanding that there are . as Mr. Tauzin him se lf says
below. import an t. legitimate. soc ially be neficia l uses for scanners.
Th e FCC. which will be responsible. accord ing to the bill. for
de termining how to e nact much o f the poli cy in H.R. 2369 (that's
right, much has bee n shunted to the FCC instead of making it law ),
mu st ha ve a clear understanding that Co ngress wan ts sca nne rs to be
avai lable to the public and that certain d igita l for mats ca n be a part o f
the scanner futu re.
Th e bill will come before the Comme rce Co mmittee for co nside ration when the secon d sess io n of the I05 th Congress is bac k to wor k
some time aft e r the President' s State of the Uniu n address in la te
January. Howe ver. in the meantime. it is my opin ion that we should
absta in from the lcucr, e-m ail. phone and fa x campaign s. M r. Tau zin
cou ld have disregarded o ur co ncerns. He had bipartisan suppo rt and
the basic prem ise o f privacy is a pop ular cause. Yet. he and his staff
hcurd us out a nd ,.. 'orkcd w ith us (quite exte nsivel y) to ame nd his bill.
lts terr ific 10 know thai yo u can mak e a di ffer en ce and that Co ngress
is willing to listen and amend legislatio n whe n it is a ppro priate.
Eve n if you decid e you still wish to contac t M r. Tau zin or othe rs
on the Commi ttee. I suggest that, cons ide ring how far we ' ve come.
yo u first rema rk ho w muc h yo u apprecia te their w illingness to listen
to the co nce rns o f the industry a nd ma ke the necessary cha nge to the
bill. (Co ngresswo man Eshoo followe d the sa me et iquette hersel f
during the mark -up .) You may then wish to d iSL"USS so me of the
re mai ning co nce rns in the bill whic h we further address bel ow.

You Can't Please 'em All

A rter I posted Illy re mark s about the a me nded hill o n the Internet .
I was gratified (0 sec that most peopl e we re pleased w ith the new

language. Howc ver. J was slam med by a few people who felt that the
bill sho uld have eithe r been complete ly killed or that more refi nement s we re neces sary.
Man y fee l that we have the right to listen
to wh ateve r rad io sig nals co urse thro ugh our homes a nd bod ies. Ar guc
all you want that it should be up 10 the tran smi tting party. or to his
ca rrier. to provide the prot ect ion, but those argument s a rc ju st not
goi ng to l1y with co ngressme n who use cell ular and PCS phone in the ir
govern me nta l duti es a nd for their personal co nve rsa tions, and w ith
congres sme n wh o ha ve mil lion s of constitue nts who also usc these
wire less ser vices and wh o c xpc ct them to be private.
Cong ress will not c hange the 1986 EC PA and the y do no t intend
to thro w away HR 2369 . T hat ' s the political reality. We wor ked 10 see
that hobb yists. the ne ws medi a. public safe ty offic ials. a nd othe rs.
cou ld co ntinue to buy and use scanners while stre ngthening pri vacy
for ce llular. PCS and certa in SM R users as best as po ssi ble. T his is
how compromise works. Thi s is how politics and gove rnment is
suppose d to work. It' s not perfect. but at least we had a say in the
process that was hea rd.
Th anks 10 everyone for a ll your hel p and support ! We' ve reall y
done ourse lves prou d and we've de mon strated that we' re part of
something very worthwhile.

Remaining Concerns with H.R, 2369

In a letter to Co ngress, yo u might first wish to say that whi le you
are gen erall y pleased with the ame nded bill. yo u hop e that yo ur
rep resent ati ve works to insur e that the or iginal language of H.R. 2369
is ne ver rei nstated . Also. yo u may wish to e laborate on the follow ing
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to sell his cellular-capable scanner at ham flea markets, on-line, or
anywhere else. It opens the door for FCC strike le arns to selectively
target flea mark e ts to pro secute, and set ex amples. of anyo ne participati ng in suc h illega l se lling of unla wful eq uip me nt. Tech nically, I

believe Larry is correct.

Do I really think such FCC activity is likely'? No. However, as I
point ed out to Larr y, this kind of de tail is something that can be
handl ed in a Com mittee Rep ort . whic h is a docum ent which acco mpani es I11.lI1Ybills in ord er to c larify the ex act purp ose of the lan guage.
Th e bill says tha t it sha ll be unlawful to decode protected SMRs.
Congress should cons ide r makin g it d ear that publi c safety dig ital
techn ology, which is the futur e of pub lic safety co m munica tions, is
ex e mpt fro m this restricti on.
Th e inclu sion of the " inte rce pt OR divulge" language, ev en
though it has been narrowed co nside rably. a llows Congress to get its
foot in a door whi ch may ca use problems in a fut ure sess ion. It wo uld
be easy for a bill to be introduced three or fiv e yea rs from now which
strikes the ex ceptions pro vided in the c urre nt wording.
It is some what unclear whether or not a scanne r whic h can be
equipp ed w ith ou tboard/aftermarket devices which break the law , are
therefore them sel ves illega L
In all these insta nces. a Co mm ittee Report , or perha ps a colloquy
befo re the House. would clarif y the issues. It is m y be lie f that ther e is
clear evide nce from corre spondence w ith Co ngress that none of the
afo reme ntio ned items are real prob lems; however, it is rea son abl e to
reque st informa tion, or report language, whi ch c lari tie s these matt ers.

Statements by Congressmen on H.R. 2369

T he follow ing remarks from the mark-u p are very intere sting and
te lling. Re p. Tauzi n' s rem ark s provi de both com for t and co nce rn ;
how e ver, the true indi cator of our efforts arc shown in the actu a l
a me nded bill. Re p. Klink ' s comme nts are also fasc inatin g and show
that we had success in pointing out the significant prob lems wit h
langua ge in the ori ginal bill.
Opening stl tt'mc llt hy the Honorable \V.i. "Hilly " Tau zin Chairma n. Su bcommi ttee 0 11 Telecomm unications, Tra de, and Consum e r
Pro tection Subc omm ittee Markup ofHR. 2369, th e Wir eless Prim e)'
Enhancement A ct of 1997, October 29. 1997.
" I int roduced H. R. 2369 to address the conce rns ra ised at the
Subco mmittee's first hearing of this Co ngress.
"T hroug h our he arin g, aver age American s learn ed ju st how insec ure thei r ce llular phone ca lls arc. T he heari ng was also a real eye ope ner for many Members of the Subco mmi ttee . Wh at we found wa s
blatant disregard for current privacy pro tect ions. and a lack o f
enforce ment by the FB I and FCC. We als o learned that ma ny people
read nonexistent loop-holes into the law in orde r to j ustify their
activities.
" I he ld that hearing to determin e wh at Congress could do to
imp rove the pr ivacy of A me ricans' wireless conve rsatio ns. Th e bill r
int roduced atte mpted to ex ten d curre nt pri vacy pro tec tions to all
comme rcia l mo bile se rvices , incl ud ing new ce llular-like se rvices.
Wh at was apparent at the he aring was that a num ber of m y colleagu es
0 11 both sides o f this chair felt stro ng ly that priva te co mm unica tions ,
regar dless of the transport med ium , dese rve to rema in private. No one
should ha ve a right to eavesdrop on private conve rsations, merely
because suc h co mm un ica tions are air-horn e, or a rc analog, rath er than
d igital.

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"T he bi ll was inte nded to e nsure that e lectronic stalking in the

digit a l age wo uld not be faci litated by congress ional inaction. Instead,
H.R. 2369 intend ed to nip in the bud any mass ma rket dev elop ing for
scanners capa ble of decod ing digi ta l co mmunic ations, whether they
arc d igit al ce llular, pagin g, specia lized mob ile rad io, or person al
co mmun icat ions serv ices.
"T he bill was intended to protect users of wireless services tha t pay
for suc h se rvices. T he bi ll as introdu ced there fore required the FCC to
den y 'equ ipment authoriza tion ' to sca nners that could inter cept all
CO M ME RC IAL mob ile serv ices . Th e bill wa s never int ended to
prohibit the scanning of pu blic sa fety freque ncies or other noncommerci al frequenc ies in which users ha ve no ex pec tation of pr ivacy.
"O ve r the summe r a nd fall. I have wor ked cl osel y with the pub lic
safety com munity. amateur rad io operat ors, a nd scanne r manufacturers to address the ir co nce rns . Ma ny of their conce rns raise legitimate,
soc ially-benefic ial goa ls. Their conce rns are not necessar ily in conflic t w ith the goals of enha ncing the pri vacy prot ections for users of
com me rcia l mob ile rad io services . I than k their representatives for
working so co nstruc tive ly with this Com mittee. in ord er to articulate
the goa ls o f enhancing the sec uri ty of private comm unicatio ns , without threate ning the legitimate uses of sca nne rs. l look forward to their
co ntinued support for thi s Com mittee ' s goal of e nhancing privacy
protec tio n of users of comm er cials wire less se rvices."
Stateme llt of Congressman ROil Klink (D. PA l at the Ma rkup ofH.R.
2369 {wr itten remarks ent e red into the record )
" Mr. Chairman. thou gh I wonder what the grea t urg ency of acti ng
on this legislation now might be, I want to com me nd you on the
reasonab le c ha nges you have mad e to this bill.
'" th ink on introd uction this legislation ca st too bro ad a net.I heard
fro m manufa cturer s, a ma teur radio ope ra tor s and oth ers that H .R.
2369 wo uld have unanticipated conseque nces becau se of the pro hibition on sca nners that can rece ive co m mercia l mobile rad io services .
"T hat broad a pro hibition co uld severe ly ha mper fir efight ers,law
enforceme nt. new s reporters and othe rs who have legitimat e uses for
scanne rs.
" I am plea sed that you ha ve scaled back that prohibition to
scanners that can pick up cellular or personal co m mu nica tions se rvice
(PCS ) transm issions .
" I a lso belie ve that proh ib itin g the modifi cat ion of a sca nne r is a
necessar y c ha nge and w ill close the loophole that was identified at our
subcommittee's cellular privacy hearing ear lier thi s yea r.
"Furthermore , I apprec iate the requireme nt that the FCC in vestiga te and act upo n com plaints about violations o f w ireless communications privacy. I think enforce me nt was also a prob lem ide ntified in
our hea ring . Howe ver , I worry abo ut addi ng 10 the co mmissions 's
workload without prov id ing further resources.
" Finally, Mr. Chai rman.j ust a word of co neem about cha ng ing the
requ ire men t that a violation of Section 705(a ) of the Co mm unicatio ns
Act would co ns ist of e ithe r intentiona l unauthor ized intercep tion OR
divulgence of radio comm unications. instead o f the c urrent requirement o f bot h intercep tion and divul gence. I hope we are not cast ing
anothe r overly w ide net into the wate rs of unintended consequences
with this provi sion .
" Ne ve rtheless . Mr. Chairma n, you have done fine work on this
legislation to this point and have mad e a conce rted effort to pro tect the
pr ivacy of co nsumers of wire less se rv ices. I look forward to working
with you to pe rfec t H.R. 2369 when we tak e it before the full
Co mmittee."

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The HF Communications Spectrum

Larry Van Ham, N5FPW
steditor@grove.net

New Nationwide HF System Approved

n Ju ly 23. 1997. the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau of the Fed-

eral Communications Commission

t FCC )cond itionally issued a license (ex peri-

mental callsign KF:!XHI) to Flash Comrn.

Inc. of Melbourn e. Florida. 10 lise 2.8 M Hz
of the HF rad io spect rum (3 10 27 MH z) for
its nationwid e two-way tracking and messaging netw ork . Targeted primarily at the

transportation and public service industries,

this net work allows rea l-time tracking of
buses. truc ks. trailers and railcars. as we ll as

messaging at a fraction of the cost

of any currently existing system.

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"T his is a huge boo st for the transpo rta tion industry," said Terry L. Scott . President
and CEO oft he com pany. " Until now. co mpanies monitoring their good s and services
as they moved acro ss the nation were faced
with high co sts or incomplete coverage. The
FCC authorization gives us unprecede nted
access to hund reds of radi o channels and the
capacity we need to provide a reliable. contiguo us service:'
"Because of the nature of the HF spec trum. the country can be cove red with a small
numbe r of terrest rial rece ive sites.Thi s gives
us a Significant ad vanta ge since we ca n build
a system for a fraction o r the cost of sys tems
using other technolog ies. Main renance and
operating co sts arc also lower than those for
alternative technologi es beca use our receive
sites are on the gro und and do not involve
satellites. \Vc believe we will be the low cos t
provider of two-w ay data co mmunication
services ."
Messages are delivered to vehicles and
remote statio nary units using a network of
high pow er co mme rcial F~'I stations. Th e
vehicles reply using Flash Coru m ' s proprietary HF techn ology. Since the rang e of a
single recei ve site is as much as 1.800 miles.
ju st a few sites provide ove rlapping coverage
for the entire contin enta l United States.
The se devices arc GPS-equ ippcd so the
cu stomer can reques t the current location or
status of an asse t and see it plott ed o n a map
o n his co mputer screen. or the remote device
may initiate a call to notify of an alarm
co ndition . Right now. Flash Comr's de monstration system cove rs between 150.000
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and 200 .000 square miles in the Southeast

United States. and appears to be using frequencies in the 10 MHz range.
Flash Comm plan s 10 target a wide range
of nation wide wireless two- way da ta communication ap plicatio ns. Besides transportation assetlocation and contro l. Rash Comrn
will also add ress applications in mobile transportation. security. and fixed remote telemetry. In all cases . the system offe rs two-w ay
messagin g. trackin g and report ing. dev iation
alarms. and various forms of inbound and
outbound e-ma il.
Flash Co mm transpond ers will be installed on such platform s such as trucks and
rail road rolling stock, as well as fixed infrastructure such as warehouses. railroad crossings. or high way bridges. Th ese tran spo ndcrv, whic h Flash Comm calls " Intelligent
Transcei ver Units," will make it possible to
track the location or monitor the status of the
vehicles and infrastructure . no matter whe re
in the United Stales they are located.
Th e remot e device (about the size o f a
lap top computer) and its ante nna take abo ut
an ho ur to attach 10 the underside of a trailer,
within a cab. or next to a fixed asset. According In the com pany the battery opera ted

package provides reliabl e. verified communications in canyo ns, cities. and mount ain ous areas regardl ess o f weather, foliage . or
other environmental factors .
Each transponder will transmit only when
directed to by the Flash Comm sys tem. When
co mmanded. it will transmi t a short digi tal
packet " burst," less than 2 seconds in d uration on avera ge , on an unoccupied (at that
mo ment in time) HF cha nnel selected automatically by the Flash Comm system. The
system will choose an optima l HF channel
for the tran sponder to use based on ionospheric propagation algo rithms and a clear
chan nel assessment process involv ing six
geogra phically d iverse scanning rece ivers.
The Flash Comm system will make usc
of HF transmissions using only specified
currier frequencies. An initial list of the carrier freque ncies author ized by the FCC appears in Table I .Th is list of carrier frequencies may be mod ified afte r co nsultation with
the Federal Communications Co mmis sion
and the Natio nal Telecommu nications and
Infonn ation Administration. provid ed that a
15 kHz guar d band is preserved betwee n
R ash Co mm operations and aeronautical.
rad io astronomy. marit ime. amateur. time
standard. and indu strial. sc ientific and medi ca l band s.
The total spectru m specified for use by
the Flash Co mm system can not exceed 11 .7
(2.8 Ml-lz} percent of the spectrum betwee n
3 and 27 MHz. R ash Comm' s service can
only ope rate as a seco nda ry servic e and
cann ot cause interference to authorized users
of the frequencies listed in Table I.

TABLE 1:'Flash Comm HF Channel

Carrier Frequency Ranges IkHzl
(All frequencies below are spaced 3 kHz)

3170-3209.4 453-4492.4925 -4976.5 120-5231 .

5745-5865.6780-6840.7540-7738.9 105-9345.
10234-10420. 11415-11577 . 12170-12215.
13425-13572 . 14365-14524, 15815-16130,
17425-17533. 18045-18051, 18183-18336,
19115-19310. 19815 19863, 20025-20124.
21865-21907.22870-22906 ,23365-23515. and
25025-25037.

TABLE 2: Sample Flash Comm Log Report from the Company Website

ReceptionReport for 11/03197.

FLASH COMM. INC.

manual key and the o the r will be q uick and

will so und auto ma tic . If a n o perator steps on
the peda l whil e a tra nsm ission is in prog ress.
mult ip le DTMF tones wi ll be heard.
..Anot he r functi o n of' thc 's tar ()' and ' star
9 ' tone s is to mu te the recei vers d uring the
va rio us transmission s. In a ll G HFS stat io ns
the tra nsm itte r and rccci \'C s ites arc sepcrated
by se ver al mile s. At O ffutt. for instance . the
receiver site is 3K mile s northeast of the
co ntrol/trans m itte r site.
" Usin g these DT M F ton es the NCS a nd
AN C S stations ca n se ize all sev e n Scope
Si gn <J11II (5511 1) sys te ms and transmit high
priority traffi c simultaneo usly through those
stations. For those of you that on ly hear
Offutt whe n they arc tra nsm itt ing a ll EAM.
yl11l arc probably rece iving th e sig na l from an
S5111 tran smitter nca r yo u.
" In concl usion . The DTi\'l F ton e s wi ll
gradua lly be go ing a way. A new system.
tagpcd Scope Comma nd . wi ll be co m ing o n
line soon and w he n euch sta tion is conv ened
to the new syste m the co ntro ls will be di gital : '
So. in th e ncar future tho se DT MF to ne s
yOll arc used to hea ring will be disa ppe a ring.
Rece nt mo nitoring indicate s tha i Offu tt ha s
been c hanged o ver to the ne w system. So the
ne xt time you hear o ne o f the Global stat io ns
broad castin g an EAM. yo u might not hea r
those familiar ton e s yo u have bec o me .ICCUSturned to ove r the years .
I ho pe everyone had a safe anti happy
ho lida y season. A nd to sta rt 199H ou t o n a
pos iti ve not e. it is time 10 see what yo u have
been mo nito ring in th e Ut ili ty World radio
spectrum.

Operating under Experimental license

Call Sign - KF2XHI

Datemme
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11 /03/9714:24
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Eac h Hf tran smitted packet mu st be identified by a dig ita l iden tifier e mbedde d in the
preamble o f the pac ke t, The du ration of each
HF tra ns mis sion can no t excccd-t seconds.
T he co m pany mus t also m aintain a da ily
record of the seven Jay moving ave rage of
the du ration s of all co mpleted HF transmi ssions (see Ta ble 2 ) and notify the FCC by
letter if it appears that such average is regularl y exceed ing two seconds. Th e log mus t
he pu blicly ava ilable via the Intern et (the
URL is http://w ww.nashcomm.coml) and
includ e the time. frequ ency. location and
durat ion of al l co m pleted co m pany HF tran smi ssions for the prior 2--1- hours.
T he co m pa nies' HF tran smitting eq uipme nt must be ca pab le of compliance with the
foll o wing techn ica l sp ec ificatio ns in order 10
receive a grant of type -acceptance :
T he trans mitte r power o utp ut m ust no t
exceed 15 wa tts .
Th e o pe ra tiona l mod ulated e miss ion
type m ust be 2K 80G 1D .Type NONe miss ion
ca pability is permi tted in a te st mode : othe rwise the energy must spread ov er II 2.X kH z
bandwidth. T he a utho rized ba ndw idth is 3. 0
kH z.
Flash Comm was formed in 199-1tu com mcrcializccornmu nications technology ori gi nally developed by Harri s Corpor ati on for
the mili tary. Commc rcia l launc h of service is
ex pec ted in ea rly 199 8.

More Digi tal Tones and t he Global HF

System
Imagine you 're silting in front of yo ur
sho rt wav e rece iver listen ing to 11 175 kHz
and O ffutt G lob al is transmit ting a n Eme rge ncy Acti on Mes sage (EA M) . As th e tran smissio n ends . yo u hear two to nes .
Fo r man y yea rs list ener s who moni to r the
U.S . Air Force Gl ohal High Frequenc y Syste m (G HFS) ha ve asked. "what arc these
ton es we hear be ing rransm iucd by the vario us Glo bal sta tio ns on HFT'

O ne of our lo ng time AlT readers who

wo rks at o ne of the G loba l statio ns has provided the an sw er to thi s q ucstio n an d so me
insig ht into future c ha nges that will occur
within the Global network.. 'Mr. Global"
ex plains:
"T he Global stat io ns are co nfig ured so
th at each statio n (exce pt ln cirl ik AB . T urkey ) ca n be rem otel y contro lled fro m the net
con tro l sta tion ( ~CS) or the alterna te NCS.
O ffutt AFB . Nebraska. is the pri mary NC S
for the G lob a l sys te m. Andrews AFB. Maryland. and l'vlcC lellan AFB . California . are the
alt ernate NCS stations in the G HFS . Rem ot e
co ntro l o f the var iou s transminers is accompli sh ed by DT !\.1 F (d ua l-tunc mul ti-Ireq ue ncy) tone s. Th ere are man y co nt ro l sig na ls that origin ate wi thin each statio n that are
no t hea rd d uri ng the such a tran smission . Th etwo tunes th at arc heard a rc th e- ' star O' ( Key)
a nd ' sta r 9' tunkey ) DT~lF tone s : ' (As Sf't'1l
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PBC-Outch Navy Goree Island. with 75 baud Rny texl plus call at
1947. (Paolo Oe Berti via email)
FUO-French Navy Tou lon,France. with a 75baud RTTY lesttransmission at 0349. (Paolo De Berti)
UlX-lsraeli Massad number station at 1930. Al so noted on 4880.
(Takas hi Ya rnaquchi- Naqasaki , Japan)
SYN2-lsrae liMassad number station a11 545. Al so noted on4165and
6370. (Yamagu chi-Japan )
Freedom Star working Cape Rad ioat0250. Moved 10 2837. In support
01a space snuttte mission. (Bunyan-MO)
Rescue 314 working Trenton Mililary (CANfORCE) at 0142. Also on
4703.6694. and 9007. (Bunyan-MO)
R-Russian Navy single letter HF CW marker at 1715. (YamaguchiJapan)
Unid station 2RC8 repealing "V 8L6S de 2RC8" at 1140 in CWo
(Yamaguchi- Japan)
Unid station L9CC repealing "V CP17 de L9CC " at 1650 in CWo
(Yamaguchi- Japan )
li ma, Quebecand Tango \'larkingFoxtrotwithposition reportsat 0312.
(Bunyan- MO)
FTJ-Israeli Massad numberstation at 1500. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
SAM 86971 working Andrew (Mystic Star) at 0355, (Bunyan-MO )
YHf-lsraell Mossad number statio n at 1800. Also noted on 5820.
(Yamag uchi- Japan)
V-Russlan Navy single letter HF CW marker at 131 2. On another day
heard Ihe f marker at 0819, (Ya maquctu-Japan)
ReachGo lf 3 (USAf C-I 4I lail no 50239)working ThuleGHfS at 0033.
(Bunyan-MO)
Korean fema le 5-dig it number station using a powerful AM signal at
1400. (Yamaquchi-Japa n)
SAM 60202 working Andrews on f-4 17 at 0435. (Bunyan-MO)
MIW2-lsraeli Massadnumber station at 1915. Firsttim e I'veeverheard
MIW2 on this frequency. Usually hearJSR. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
CI02-lsraeli Massad number station at 1945. Also noted on 10352.
(Yamaguchi- Japan)
MIW2-lsraeli Mossad number station at 211 5. Also noted on 8641.
(Yamaguchi- Japan)
USS Scott lVorking 000 Cape at 2335. Movedto 20390. In support 01
a space shuttle mission. (Bunyan-MO)
Eraserwo rking Yellow and Blue at 1150. Passed pho netic s-cna racter
gro ups. (Harry Riddell-Roch ester. NY)
Fighting Freddi eworking Eagleand Seagull Control at 0608. (BunyanMO)
English female 5-digillincolnshi re Poacher number station at 1800.
Also noted on 6485, AT1700heard on 6485 and 8464. (YamaguchiJapan )
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ART2-lsraeli Massad number station at 1800. (Yamaguchi-Japan)

Cl02-lsraeli Massad numbe r station at 1545. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
Cl02-lsraeli Mossad nu mber station at 1545 causing inter1erence to
San Francisco aero. Another day had SYN2 at thesame time pe riod.
(Yamaguchi-Japa n)
Thule GHFS working an unid cauword followed by 117 at 0551.
(Bunyan-MO)
12Cwithaphone patchto Pa nlher viaCAMSLANT Chesapea keat 0040.
(Bunyan-MO)
King 83 wo rking Moffett Rescue with operations report at 044 1. (Jeff
Jones-CA)
BAA24-B eijing Meteo, China, wi tha50baud RTTYmeteotransmission
a12148. (Paolo De Berti)
Unid stali on 4XML repeating -V BfR7 ne 4XML" in CW at 2016.
(Yamaguchi- Japan)
YHF-Israeli Mossad number station at 1800. Also noted on 4560.
(Ya maguchi- Japan)
Unid CW station transrruttmq -rrr 936 936 936" at 2042. (Jack Di, Yon ke rs. NY)
SY N2-lsraeli Massad number stationat 1545. Alsonoted on 2953 and
4165. On another daynoted the VLB2 station a1 1445. On anolher day
heard SYN2 at 1445. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
KPA2-lsraeli Mossadnumberstationat2015and at1415. (YamaguchiJapan)
Merlin 421 wo rking Trenton Militaryat1300. IDedashelicopter ontrip
from Shea rwater 10 SI. John, Nf Ca nada. (Biddell-Nv)
Avenger working Oreo at 0511. (Bu nyan-MO)
Korean female 5-digit number station at 1535 in AM . (Ya maguchiJapan)
Razz 19 (E-6) calling Husker 15 (KC-135) at 171 4. (Paul BunyanKansas Cily. MO)
Broadswo rd wo rking Crossbow 3 at 1200. Setting up some ki nd of
electronic link. (Riddell-NY) Probably a Defense Communication System(OCS) long Ilaul circuit-Lsrty.
SAM 26000 working data circuit here with Andrews VIP at 0522.
(Jones-CA)
Unid station 6PXJ repealing "V ABYZ de 6PXJ" in CW at 0940.
(Yamaguchi- Japan)
Engli sh female 3/2-digil nu mber statio n in AM a11510. Also noted on
10723. (Yamaquchi-Japan)
C32 calling 3USA and MSH at 0228. Moved to r-a. (Bunyan-MO)
C/f tS-Ru ssian Navy single letter Hf CW markers a1 1715. All three
station simultaneously onthesame frequency. Onanother dayheard FI
CIPIS on at the same lime and frequency at 1839. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
Unid station L9CC repealing "V CP17 de L9CC" in CW at 1343.
(Yamaguchi- Japan)
FTJ-Israeli Massad nu mber station at1500. Able to heard everynight.
(Yamaguchi-Japan)
FTJ 2-lsraeli Mossad nu mber station at 1300. (Yam ag uch i-Japan)
Eng lish female 5-dig itlincolnshire Poacher number statio n at 2000.
Aiso noted on 9251. (vamaoucnl-Japan)
English female Cherry Ripe number station at 1300. Also noted on
13866 and 11750. (Yamaquchi-Japan)
Unid station 8BY (French station at St. Assise-Larry) repeating "VW
8BY" followed by a 3-digit numbe r separated by a slant bar in CW at
1940, (Yamaguchi-Japan)
SAM 201 (OV-2 6) departed Travis at 1940. ETA Hickham 0120
workin g Andrews VIP. (Jo nes-CA)
English female 5digit li ncolnshire Poacher nu mber station at 1600.
Alson oted on 6485 and 10426. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
English 3/2-dlglt number stationinAMat1500. Unableto find aparallel
frequency. (Yamag uchi-Japan)
Nightwatch 01 calling SAM 29000 l or a radio check at 0245. (BunyanMO)
Coast Guard Group 51. Petersburg calling R1K "in the red " at 0531.
(Bunyan-Mu)
ANDVT co mmu nications noted here at0320.{Jones-CA)
MKKRAf London, UK. wllh 50 baud Rny cantest tape at0758. (Pao lo
Oe Berti}

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IMB55-Rome Metea, Italy. with a fax 120/576 transm ission ofmetea
charts at 0811. (Paolo De Berti)
PBB-DenHelderRadio. Netherlands, witha75baud Rny text pluscall
test tape at 2151. (Pa olo De Berti)
Unid station 4XMLrepeating "VBFR7 de 4XM L" in a dirty. chirpy CW
signal at 0947. (Yamaguchi -Japan)
C/F/S-Russian Navy single letter HF CW marker at 1314. All three
stat ions on simultaneou sly. (Yamaguchi-Japan) Pstation hea rd here
at 2329 and Cat 2330. (D ix-NY)
Nagpur ca lling Bombay at 1225. Nagpur working various aircraft at
1300. Delhi working va rio us orounosranon s How long they be en
here ? This is my favorite monitorin g time and one of my favorite
bands. but thisisthe first time I'vehe ard these guyshere. (Riddell-NY)
MidlandsSK workingPortishead Radio, UK,at050 1.Moved to 10291.
(Bunyan- MO)
LKOI working Thule GHFA at 0349. (Bunyan-MO)
Sooner83(C-1 30) and Hu sker75(KC-135 ) workingHusker Control at
2031. (Not a phone patch). (Bunyan-MO)
Span ish female 5-digit number station at 081 5 (Wed UTC) on this
GHFS frequency. (Bunyan-MO)
Deerhunter, Thu mpe r, Coffin Corne r wo rki ng Link l 1 co mmunications. Mentioned crypto circuit on 5520 kHz at 0130. (Jones-CA)
Spar 67 with aradio check withThule GHFS at 1433. Moved to 13242.
(Bu nyan- MO)
5YE-Nairobi Meteo. Ke nya, with 100 ba ud Rm meteo text at 1B20.
(Paolo De Berti)
SAM 31681 with a radio check to Andrews (MYSliCStar) on F-005.
(Bunyan-MO)
Hard Rock 30CharliecallingGunpost and Wolfman at 1500. (BunyanMO)
Nightwatch 01 (Gordo 11) worki ng MacDili GHFS (moved to 8040) .
Nightwatch 01 wanted a klaxo n testat 0103. (Bunyan-MD )
Englishfemale3/2-digitnum berstation inAM at1200. Also noted on
10597. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
YIL71 -INA Baghdad. Iraq, 75 bau d RTTY news at 1312. (Paolo De
Berti)
WG Y9410 (one of the new tour digit ca ll signs), FEMA. unknown
locati on , wo rking WGY914, FEMA. Thomasville. GA. after severalALE
bursts in USB. (Jack Metcalfe-KY )
English female3/2-digit numberstation in AM at 1200. Also noted on
7547. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
En glish temale312-digit number station in AM at 1300. Also noted on
7547. (Yarnaquchi-Japan)
English female 5-digit Li ncolnshire Poachernumber station at 1600.
Also noted on 64B5 and 7755. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
Englishfemale3/2digit number station inAM at 1500. Also noted on
7600. (Ya maguchi-Japan)
FiPlC-Russian Navy single letter HF CW markers at t 430. All three
station heard simulta neously. (Yamag uchi-Japan) C station noted
here al1949 and S station heard at 2054. (Dix-NY)
Unid SITDR-A station transmitting 5-letter groups at 1953. (Dix-NY)
Phoenix 2ca lling home plateat2339. Negativecontact. (Bunyan-MO)
Paccom 01 (USAFtail no 60204) with a phone patch to Cross bow via
Andrews (Mystic Slar) at 0116. (Bunyan-MO)
MUE7 calling MUH7A. MUE5, MUE7B at 1400. No joy. (Riddell -NY)
Unid station 6SQ repeating "GPO de 6SQ ZN N" using very chirpyCW
with a distinctive hum. (Yamaguc hi -Japan)
Venus 21 (USAF tail no 60201) with phone patch Ihrougll MacDili
GHFS at1655.Thunderbird15(USAFt,,1 no8093 7)withaphone patch
to Hilda East viaMcClellan GHFS at 1503. (Bunyan-MO)
Sparrow 1 working PJKat 1245 . Plenty of interference from 11175.
Sparrow 1 also believed to have self IDed as PEMMA when wo rking
PJX. Mention of chec king deicing (Riddell-NY)
NASA 02working NASA 831 at 2141. Wiley 16 working Caju n Control
at 1511. Talking abo ut Mnsrar Net 3. (Bunyan-MD)
SAM 86971 working Andrews (Mystic Star ) at0035. And rews using
full carrier USB. (Bunyan-MO)
Whitehorse working Va ncouver Military (CANFORCE) at0125.Also on
13254. (Bunyan-MO )
Spar 76 working Th uleGHFSat 1550. Moved to 13242. (Bu nyan-MD)
SAM 20375 workingAnd rews(MysticStar) onF-574 at2103. (BunyanMO)

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Nighlwatch 01 working Paccom 01 on possible F-1 26. (Bunyan-MD)

Asce nsion GHFS calling SAM 26000 at 0503, nojoy. (Bunyan-MO)
English female3/2-digit number station in AM at 1315. Also noted on
111 23. (Yamag uchi-Japa n)
Unid 8BY repeating "W V BBY" in CW at 1240. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
CI02-lsraeli Massad numberstationat 1445.Alsonoted on10352 and
7605. (Yarnaquchi-Japan)
Unid Ge rman Air Force aircraft wo rking anothe r unid station at 1620.
(Jones-CA)
Rick 49 (KC -l0?) Working 52 at 151 9. (Bunyan-MO)
SAM 60202 workingAnd rews with aphonepatch to Mildenhall Metro
at 1536. (Bunyan-MO)
F/C/SIP-Russian Navy Single letter HF CW markers at 0958. All four
stations heard simultaneously. (Yamaguchi-Japan) Fstati on heard at
1434. (Dix-NY)
EZI2- lsrael i Massad number station at 1530. Also noted on 11 565.
(Yamag uchi- Japan)
English female repeati ng "FrankYoung Peter" at 1400. Possible Nancy
Adam Susan numberstation. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
MKD-RAFAkrotiri, Cyprus . with Piccolo 6 crypto textat 1203. (Pao lo
De Berti)
Englishfem ale5-digit Cherry Ripenumberstationat1100. Alsonoted
on 13866 and 9263. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
Reach 20 Ta ngo 1 with a phone patch to Ramstein Metro via Thu le
GHFS at 1534. (Bunyan-MO)
Ouencher working MacDili GHFS for a data check at 1855. (BunyanMO)
Nightwatch workin g an unid stationfor data at 1530. (Bunyan-MO)
Englishfemale5-digit Cherry Ripenumb erstationat1000. Also noted
on 17499 and 10452. (Yamag uchi-Japan)
Engli shfemale3/2-digit number station in AM at 0000. Also noted on
15460. (Yamaguchi-Ja pan)
EZl2-lsrae li Massad number station at 1100. Also noted on 15980,
(Yamag uchi- Japan )
Englishfemale5-digit Cher ryRipenumberstation at1000. Also noted
on 10452 and 15616. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
Overtone with a radio check to MacDili GHFS at 1426 (moved from
15043). (Bunyan-MO)
Reach 129BSworking Lajes GHFS with a phone patch to Hilda East at
1345. (Bunyan-MO)
Nightwatch 01 worki ng An drews on F-633 for data check at 2220.
(Bunyan-MO)
SAM 90300 (DV2+3) with a phone patch to Carpet via Andrews on F551 at 2042. (Bu nyan-MO)
Unid station 8BY (French station at St. Assise-LarrjIJ repeating "VVV
8BY" followed by a 3-digit number separated by a slant bar in CW at
1040. Heard same at 0940. (Yama guchi-Japan)
English temale312-digit number station at 1100 in AM.Also noted on
16086. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
EZI-Israeli Massad number station at 0830 and 0930. Also noted on
17410. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
English female 5-digit Cherry Ripe number station at 0000 and 0100
(powertul Signal). Also noted on 15616 an d 21866. (YamaguchiJapan)
Eng lish female 3/2-digit number station inAM at 0415. Also noted on
18518. (Yamaguchi -Japan )
CIS-Russian Navy single letter HF CW markers at 1045 and 1128.
(Yamaguchi- Japan)
English female 5-digit Cherry Ripe numberstationat2300.Al so noted
on 17499. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
Englishmale5-diglt numberstationinAM at 0900. This stationstarted
at0900 byrepeating "837"until 0905, "902" plus"45" each sent twice
then into random5-digit numbers. Ended with "00000" at091 3. Able
to hear si milar transmissions every day at this time. (Yamaguc hiJapan)
Engli sh female5-digit CherryRipe numberstatio nat 0100. Alsonoted
on 19B84 and 1561 6. (Yamaguchi-Japan)
ALE burst noted here at 1730. Also heard burst on 11226, 11250,
1321 5, 15043, 18003. 20631, an d 23337. (Bunyan-MO)

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Domestic Broadcasting
Doug Smith, W9Wl
12222.3143@compuserve.com

A Cool Beverage

rill no t go ing 10 ex plain ho w to

b rew yo ur 0\\' 11 bccr.i. rhi s Be ve rage is

O.

ing transfo rme r at the

near end of the Beve rage . I ha ve had fair
success wi tho ut the
transfo rme r. though lO
be honest it works better with it. Pa lomar" s

an antenna. In Iact. it"s probably the

1110:-.1 effect ive an te nna you ca n use for A ~t

DXing, und it can be easily buill - even if

you' re " tec hnicall y cha llen ge d" - for ju st a

few dollars. Of course. there' s a catch: the

Beverage is a \"t":")ong antenna. you'll need
IOh or land (0 build one. But if you oc casiona lly visit an iso lated vac ation spot (or if
you're lucky enough 10 have several acres at
your disposal ). this antenna is well wort h
tryin g.
If y ou' ve been DX ing the A t\t band for
any len gth of ti me . yo u rea lize the

prim ary limit on your DX

ca tches is interfer en ce. In
most loca tions. you can
lind a sta tio n o n every

frequency. and man)' Ireq ucncics have bet ween

a handfu l and se vera l
dozen slations lighting
for dominance . Small
loops receiveequally we ll
from most direc tion s but
ve ry poo rly ill a narrow
ran ge o f uuglcs. You ca n
po int the untennas di rect ion
of poor recept ion at .111 in terfering station - hut if the re ' s more than
one source o f interfe ren ce. you're out o f
luck . Th e Beverage. on the othe r hand. rcceivcs quite well in a narrow ran ge of' ungles.
a nd quitc poorly in all ot he r di rec tions. The
di ffere nce in OX result s loa n be trul y amazing !
Wha t ex act ly is a Beve rage'! It' s a very
long wi re a ntenna - in theory, between
1, (Xl a nd 6000 feet - very close to the
ground. between I and 10 feet high . (Though
a ntennas ' IS short as -l00 feet will work qu ill"
wc ll.) lts gro unded at the far end through a
te rminating resistor of approx imately 500
ohms"und co nncct cd to the receiver throug h
a matc hing transform er. T he: ant enna rece ives
quite wel l in the direc tio n oft he termin a ting
resistor . and poorly in all othe r di rections.
How do yo u build one'! First. yo u need
some wire. I bought a 1/4 mile spoo l o r

36

MONITORING TIMES

January J 998

MLB-I (see the ad on

r
I

page 65 of November
.liT) should work fine,

or you ca n wi nd your
ow n from pl an s in
m o st ham antenna
books. If you 're using

a GE SupeRadio or
similar sma ll portabl e .
the antenna input is
Patrick Griff ilh of sub urba n Den ver[o nnd
prob ab ly alread y high
KR VN 8S0 's origina l m ixing conso le at the
impedance. and yo u
Dawson Coullty Muse um ill Lex ington.
do n' t need a transNebraska. Not e KR VN 's old f reque ncy and
former. Co nnect the
power ( / 010 HI;.., 15,000 watts } mf tire clock
ce
nter conductor of a
above lir e board {a lso see ins et be/OM')!
length of coax to the
near end of the analuminum e lect ric
ten na (aga in, using the ma tching transform er
fen ce wire at a loc al
if you c hoose) and the oute r conductor to the
hardwa re store. Next .
gro und rod . or co urse, the ot he r en d of the
yo u nee d somc kind of
coax goes lO you r rece ive r.
supports. Ify our land has
What kind o f results should you e xpect"!
enough trees on it. you ca n
rill
located about 30 miles outside Nas hsim p ly wra p the wire once
ville. Te nnessee ; my Beverage is about 400
aro und a tree tru nk eve ry 50 fee t or so. If
feet long and a imed northwest. T hese tests
it ' s bare like mine , you' ll need some woode n
were run late morning to around noon, whe n
stakes or someth ing sim ilar. Run the wire ou t
prop agation on the A M band is at its wo rst.
as far as you can. starting at your hou se and
On 1560 kHz. with the Be ve rage, I rece ive a
go ing in the d irection of the stations yo u
goo d quali ty. interfere nce -free sign a l from
wa nt to hear.
WPAD Paducah. Kentucky: with my 160O nce you ha ve the wire strung, yo u need
mete r ham antenna. W PAD disa ppears. retwo grou nd rod s. one at e ac h e nd . I had '1Il
p laced by \VM RO Ga ll atin . Te nnessee .
eight-foot rod which I sa wed in ha lf. using
K ~I O X- 11 2 0 St. Louis. about 250 mile s
hal f at each e nd. Drive the rod s into the
nort hwest. is arm chair copy on the Bever ground with a hammer, lea ving enough exage : on the ham a nte nna. I ca n ju st ba rely tell
po sed to co nnec t some wire . At the far end.
there's a sta tion ther e. At nig ht. I' ve rece ive d
hook a -rru-ohm resistor betwee n the end of
sta tions like CFAC960 Ca lgary . WK KDthe a ntenna a nd the grou nd rod. l' d use
15XOin sub urba n Chicago tcnly 200 watts!).
binding posts (Radio Shack #27" -6( 2) a nd a
and KPBI- 15 10 Gree nwood. Arkansas. is
sma ll proj ect bo x (RS #270- I XO I or similar)
received desp ite my location only 15 miles
to pro tect the resistor from the elements.
from 50.000 wat t \VLAC on the same freIn theory. if you r recei ver has a 50 0 h l11
qu cucy.
in put imped ance you shou ld usc a 9 : I match4

 Bits and Pieces

CALL CHANGES

I we nt overboard with the delete key

while writing the No vembe r co lumn: I sus peer the fi rst item i ll Bits und Pieces d idn ' t
ma ke much sense . What' s ne wswort hy abo ut
this inciden t. where a newsmagazine printed
the con te nts of in terce pted ce llula r ph one
ca lls. was that it happen ed in Colo mbia!
An d. that the sca nd a l it br ou ght into the o pen
invo lved po litica l fa vorit is m in the assign I111:0t o f freq uenc ies for ne w FM bro adca st
stations in that South American co unt ry.
Jerry Monroe KC~UT of ce ntral New
Yor k had a fe w c o m m e n ts on P h ilip
Gebha rdt"s art icle 0 11 me teo r sca tter. (Radio
That 's Really alit of [his lForld. page l-l of
October AfT) Jerry (a nd I) found it fusc inating readin g, But what Jerry says wnsut men tion ed was the connection between major
me teor sho we rs and spo rad ic- E e vents. "I
have heard 'pings on the F~ I dia l" sudde nly
chang e into ho u rs- lo ng E-skip O il channels
2-6 and the FM band !"
T he true cause ofxporad ic-E is not known.
tho ug h the re arc plc nty of theor ies. (So me .
mysel f included. bel ie ve there ' s more tha n
o ne cuusc t) T her e ' s all excellent two-p..in
se rie s o n s po rudi c- E in the October and Novcmbc r issues of the ha m maga zine QS T.
Th e auihors theorem su ppo rts Jerry 's sug ges tio n 0 1':.1co nnec tio n between meteors '.lIIU
xkip. So me o f Jcrry' v F~I DX a ppea rs in the

The following AM stations havechanged callsigns in the

last month:

O1Jliall;

Ci!Y;

lI<UaJI.;

KAMQ1390
KFWJ 980
KCUB-1290

Rogers. AR
l. Havasu City, Al
Tucson. AI

KREB
KBBC
KOAZ

KBTl 540

Costa Mesa, CA

KXMG1150
KBAI-1150

l os Angeles, CA
Morro Bay, CA

KGXl
KeTO
KJQY

KNTA1430

Santa Clara. CA

KWN

WJNAl040
WANMl 070
WJNQ-1230
WRAJ1440
WEJM- 950
KQAM141Q
KZSN1480
WDOI -1310
WrFN-1590
KMAY 1240
WXl X 620
WJIC-1510
new 1550
KRAF-1370
KWJJ l 080

Boynton Beach. FL WJNO

Tallahassee. FL
WfRf
W. Palm Beach, FL WJNA
Anna. IL
WISH
Chicago, lL
WIDB
Wichita. KS
KMYR
Wichita. KS
KOAM
Dearborn, MI
WYUR
Marine City. MI
WHYT
Billings. MT
KMZK
Newark. NJ
WJWR
Salem. NJ
WNNN
Canandaigua. NY
WCGR
Holdenville. OK
KKNG
Portland. OR
KOTK
Kl Vp l040
Tigard. OR
KSKD
KZUS-1230
Toledo, OR
KPPT
WZGO-1470
Portage. PA
WFJY
KPSD1260
Falfurrias, TX
KLDS
KRGO1550
W. Valley City, UT KMRl
KKBY1450
Puyallup. WA
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Shortwave Broadcasting
Glenn Hauser, P,O,Box16B4,MT, Enid, OK73702
[,moil: (gOO~lmolrolll> ; lox: (5BO) 233-294B,A1T: Houser

A Very Good lime For Shortwave

Japan carried ou t an ex tensi ve experiment in Nove mber with
audio and video 011 Internet. and BSe finally starti ng streaming its
programs, especia lly new s.
But shortwave is still a vital. attrac tive medium for oppos itio n
statio ns and those in wa r-to m areas: witnes s Eri trea . with two new
clandcstine s. Liberia with more intru sion s into the aeronau tical
band,
Embarrassed by its own order to cl ose down the Darwin site.
preventing Radio Au stralia from reaching A sia as it had befure. the
Australi an government also had to reject a request from Radio Free
A sia. whi ch would love 10 use the facili ty, and take China' s side
against RFA ' s " intrusion into internal affai rs." But a lot morc money

is comin g for RFA , which will find somewhere else to broadcast

from . such as the T inian site under construction . VOA ' s new highpower site in Sri L anka began testing; wi ll it be allowed to carry
RFA '? Some of the old Bethany. Ohio. transmi tters may wind up in
these places. whil e its histori c sire is turned over to golf course and
commercial development.
With good engineerin g and a cl ear frequency, you don' t need
meguwatts-c-Hal ifax makesit to usand to Europe with only 50 watts.
KGE I is making a comeback. under a new name. from a new
country : Argentina. 'W orl d Harvest Radio getsWVHA at a discount,
and another new Am erican missionary statio n is about to stan up
from Georg ia.
And the sunspot count isclimbing. for better and better reception.

ANGOLA From2010on new 6220, popmusic and Portuguese lalk, 2056ca nned
Canadian Forces program in English and f rench UT Tue-Sat 0300-0400 on
"VORGAN" intro10 news,gave frequency as 6220, 10returna15:50am on9770
6155,9 755, 9780 (Bill Weslenhaver, RCI )
(Jay Novello, NC) 10 for R. Nacional heard on 6220.2, during Portuguese
CHILE Survey of SW stationsas01Oct: R, Santa Maria, Coynatque. 6029.6, 10kW
prog ram from 1950, quite stronq a1 2030, olf promptly at 2100 " (Carey et at.,
M-Sa 0900-0300, Sun 1000-0300: relays R. Chilena M-Sa 0900-1000, 16401800,2200-2230, daily0200-0230,Sun1100-11 30, 1600-1630,Duringsoccer
Mohawk Valley SWLClubOX Camp, NY) 6220 VORGANseems10 replace 7100
(Mah endra Vaghjee, Mau ritius. Cumbre OX)
Sun only relays after 2000.
ARGENTINA R,Malarg; e,61 60,7isirregular:IrySal and Sunatter 11 00. R. Nacional
R, PalagoniaChilena,Coyhaiq ue.6080, 1kW ,M-Sa 0900v/0930v -0300 , Sun
Mendoza. 6180has bee n inactive for the last three years and has no plans to
1000-0200.SWcurrentlyirregular due tose riouseconomicproblems. Nomore
come back (Horacia Cilmi, Arge ntina, CumbreOX)
relays of R. Portales, butinsteadrelays R.Zero. Santiago f Mstation direct from
Rev. Jose Holowaty, whose radio ministry was pulled out from under him
satellite.
R. Esperanza, Temuco, 6090, 10kW, M-F24h, except for a break currently
when FEBC decided to close downKGEJ. is finally making a comeback on the
same SW frequency KGEI used (gh) R. Americalnternacional heard testing in
at2000-2030. but duringsummer will be 24h every day. Has English daily exc
tate OCI on 15280 aI2252-2335" : gave phone numbers in Bay Area and in
Sat 0630-0700: GermanSun only aI1130-1200.
Buenos Aires (JoseM. Rangel N., ColombiaviaBarrera) Holowaty toldmethey
R. Triunfal Evanqelica, Talagante. 5824.9v, 50watts, daily 2100v-2400vexc
wereplanning 16 hoursper day inSpanish, some EnglishandPortuguese. Site
Thu & Sun:heard wilh good signal "213 1-2408" With gospel. Chileis onUT-3
is in General Pacheco area, 30 kW. since they were not successful in getting
from OCll 1 10 Mar 14(GabrielIvan Barrera, visiling Chile, BC-OX)
access to theold V. of Chile transmitters (Gabriel Ivan Barrera, BC-DX)
COLOMBIA R. Patrialibre. irregu lar clandestine on6248.2. heard on aMonday at
ARMENIA V, of Armeniadaily English on9965 shifted 10 2115-2145: had mailbag
2210-2235wilh Romp"ndo Cadenas program (Rafael Rodriguez R., World of
on a Sat (Brian Alexander, PA. and Ivan Grishin, Ont., World 01Radio) Also
Radro)
COSTA RICA RFPI changed USB frequencies, lirsllo
Sunday only at 1000-1030 on 15270 (Hubert Gams, Austria, BC-OX)
AUSTRALIA RA's English toward Pacmc, NAm, lor W97 adiusted to: 2100-0600
6970 and Ihen6980 at0000-1200 withanewsmall
17795, 2130-020013755,2200-0900 15510,0200-0800 15240, 0600-0830
curtainarray.and resumed21465-USB1200-2400,
11880,0800-14009580,1200-18006020,1200-2130 9415,1400-21 305995,
only 3 kW, butexcellenlall day long here (gh, OK)
1700-213011880 (RA website)See also GREECE
CR issued a 45 colones stamp in 1997 commemorating the 50th anniversary of R. Nederland.
R. Free Asia wants to rent thedormant RA transmitters at Darwin. ABC and
RA officials object that use by a "propaqandastation" might contaminate RA's
Shows aman watchingachildplaying with aradio
goodnameasanon-biased newsproviderintoAsia(Dick Speekman,Australia.
on a windowsil l (gh)
BC-OX) Turned down for technical and policy reasons (RA News we bpage via
CUBA RHC replaced 13715-USB with 13605-USB at
Matt f rancis, MickOgrizek, E/ectronic OX Press) China made it clear thiswould
2000-220010 Eu. including English2030-2130: unfortunately ir s blown away
damage relations with Australia (BBCM)
by the super-splatter Marian monster WEWN on 13615 (gh, OK)
BULGARIA R. Bulgariahas cancelled anumber of transmissions andred uced power
I'm 99.9% sure the bubble-jamming against RfPI 7385 comes fromCuba.
on the remaining ones. Two 500 kW at Plovdiv areoperatingat 300 kW; three
due to matches in timing and sound 01jammers on other frequencies such as
250 kW at 150kW. Most or all transmissions fromthe Stolnik and Kostinbrod
7315 (JamesBean,ME) Same jamming even hitR.Australia9580 after Greece
siteshave ceased (Pan/view)
left; jamming you r enemies is one thing,but nonsensical indiscriminate jamCAMBODIA Khmer Rougeradioannouncednamechange toV.of theNationalUnited
ming makes Cuba truly a menace to the short airwaves. What can be done?
Army (sathani vifthyu sam/eng kangtoap samakki cheat) (BBCM) That's on
l acking an address for the jammer, perhaps we should bombard RHC with
5407v around 1200 (gh)
complaints and/or boycott it (gh)
CANADA CHNX, 6130, weak but in Iheclear around 1030withcarrierand USB, no
CZECH REPUBLIC R. Prague, utomyst. 7345 in German al 073D-0800 put very
stronqspurs on 7291,1,7398.9 (WollgangBuschel, Germany, BC-OX)
l SB, besides "Oldies 96" running specialSW 10 twicewithin10minutes, still
only 50 watts? (gh, OK) Yes. nothing but an exciter. The 500 watt transmitter
ECUAOOR HCJB'sIwoseparateEnglishfrequencies9365 and 9645al 0700-0845+
whichbroke in March. is to be replaced bya 1
produce mixing products on 9085, 9925,
kW Harris.Thestationhasthis transmitter but
the latter interfering with Belgium (Brian
All times UTe ; AI/frequencies kHz; before hr = sign
the re are no plans to put it on the air in near
Alexander, PA, World of Radio)
on, * afte r IIr = sign off; II = parallel programming;
ERITREA [non] Sieve Martin had an unlD in
future: no bu dgetfor SW. But engineer Wayne
Harvey is very committed to keeping SWan. + = continu ing but not monitored; 2 xfreq = 2nd
Arab ic on 9230 at 1510-1535, using fhe
Canadian Navy ships based in Halifax tune in
phrase Sow! a/ Haq which means Voice of
harm onic; J. 97=May-Seplj Z97;:;Summe r season; lVthe stationwhile atsea(HansJohnson, Cumbre
Truth (HansJohnson, cumore OX) Another
97=Wi"ter season; {non} = Broadcast /0 or for /he listed
OX)
dayperhapssame stationwason9155.77 at
country, but not necessarily originating 'h ere.
RCI replaced This Morning Tonight with
sa me lime (Sieve Martin, CA, Cumbre OX)
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Two different stations use the same transmitter maybe in Sudan: V. of Free
Eritrea (Arabic: Sawt Eritrea al-Hurrafr, Tigrigna: Demtsi Natsa Eritrea) first
observed inNov, ofthe EritreanNational Allianceof threegroups opposingthe
government. 141 5-1445 daily on9230. And V. of Truth (Arabic: Sawl al Haqq)
supporting the Entrean Islamic Jihad Movement, timing varies, daily 15001545 in Arabic on9230.announced as 9300 (BBCM)
GREECE(non] V. ofGreece began theW97 season clashing with Australiaon 9580
at 1200-1 350 via Greenville: affer fwo weeks VOGmoved to 9690. The USA
relaysat1BOO on17705. 154B5nowstart with 15minsof Englishnews.therest
in Greek to 2200 (John Babbis. MO. Review of International Broadcasting)
OireclloNAmalso at1200-1350 on15630. 15175. 12105:0000-0350 on9425.
7450.6260.5895 (via ChristosRigas. IL) 9580 (andpresumably still9690) was
32' fromGreenville: 154B575" fromOelanoright across theUSA: 17705164'
from Greenville (Babbis) Website: http://www .greeknews.ariadne-t.gr/Docs/
Era5_1 .hlml Technical reports to <skalai@Jeon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr> and program content matters to donel@hol.gr> (VaGvia Babbis)
HAWAI'I OXing witheumbre onKWHR:Sat 023017510.Sat 1200 11565.Sun0030
17510. Sun 1630 and 1830 7560 (CumbreO,\)
HONDURAS HRMI. 5890hasbeenoff the air since July. Ranintounfixable problem
with thetransmitter, so have ordered a new sesquikW unit. Will return to air
when it arrives in Dec. Still authorized for 5 kW (Wayne Downs, HRMI via Ulis
Fleming. Cumbre DoX)
INDONESIA VOl English at2030 heard onnew 11785 mixed withIraq. announcing
9525whichwas absent (PaUl Ormandy, New Zealand. The Four Winds) And at
0100 on9525(Wolfgang Buschel. Germany) 01 00 on9525 and 11785 (Alok
Oas Gupta. India. EOXPj
INTERNATIONAL VACUUM Worldof Radioconfirmed onC-SPANAudio. Sat 1700
UT on Satcom F3. transponder 7. 5.2 MHz audio subcarrier relaying WRN /I
Galaxy5, tr 6, 6.08(Mickey Delmage, Alta., Reviewof International Broadcasting) Somaybe then on some fM cable or SAP systems too (gh)
R. New Zealand International joinedWRNinmid-Nov withaweeklyprogram
to Eu Sat 1500. NAm Sat 1800. Africa/AsiaSun 0500 which includes Oatetine
Pacific (RNZI webs ite)
INTERNATIONAL WATERS [non ] Objectinq to remarks in our Nov column. Scoff
Beckerand AllanWeinercontactedusinmid-Nov.The Electraisasea-goingtug
and was ready to makethe two-week 6-8knot voyage toastill sec ret Caribbean
island as soon as anew pilot was aboard. One 10kW SWtransmitter would be
used.withanother tra nsmitter onboard as backup.YesterdayUSAnetworkwas
nolongerexpectedto be carried.Wei ner was finished withhiswork onthisand
didnotexpect tobeaboardthe shipordoanyprogramminghimself. Beckerwas
to run theoperation from within territorial watersof thehost country, and said
it was fUlly funded (gh)
IRAN [non] Democratic Voiceof Iran is nowon 621 0. 5835 at 1830-1900 (World
of Radio) tetter in English vennec previous 5900. viafax (+44) 1541 525051 .
signed by Shahrlar Azari (Bjorn Franssen. Distance via Play-OXvia The Four
Winds)
V. of theMojahed at 0254 bounced backand torth among5620. 5660.5670
to avoid roving jammer, rarely spending more than a few minutes on any
frequency, and jammers were also sitting on 5630. 5640; twoother jammers
alternated among 5620. 5660. 5670. 5680. Through the bubbles could hear
spelling ad dresses and phonenumbers in English (Jay Novello, NC. World of
Radio)
VOIRI Englishasupdated bymonitoring in Nov: 0030-0125on6050. 9022.
9685: 1100-1230 on15260. 11875. 11830.9585: 1530-1 630 on7215. 11 790.
13605: 1930-2030 on 9022.7260. 7160:2130-2225 on61 75.6165(Wolfgang
suscne! BC-O,\)
IRAQ[non) Some clandestine addresses discovered by accident ontheInternet V.
of lraql People,V. of Free Iraq, Republic of Iraq Rad io at The National Accord
I Iraqi National Congress. 9 Pall Mall Deposit, 124-1 28 Barlby Road, l ondon
W10 6BL. V. of Rebellious Iraq at Shii Supreme Council of the Islamic
Revolutionof iraq(SCIRI).27a Old GloucesterSt.LondonWV l N3XX.UK (Nick
Grace, Cumbre OX)
JAPANOnelessEnglishbroadcast forusfromNHKWarudo. R.Japan:theRCI relay
on5960at0300 thiswinter is inJapanese: English only at 0500 on6110. 1200
on6120 (gh)
KOREA SOUTH Atter months of promotion and listener input. RKI Shortwave
Feedback renamed Mu/tiwave Feedback-e xcept they prono unce it like
"Martiwave" so maybe not such agood Choice! (gh)
KURDISTAN V. of IraqiKu rdistan, onbehalf oftheKDPfromSalahat-Din inKurdish
and Arabic: 0345-0600, 1645-1930 on 406Ov, one hourearlier in summer. V.
of the People01 Kurdistan. previously based in Galalah and Sulaymaniyah, in
Kurdish and Arabic 1400-1700 on 603Ov. 4100v. repeated at 0400-0700 on
4100v.andat 1030-1330
~
on 6030v (BBCM )
LATVIA R.Latvia'sEnglish on
5935 is M-f 2130-2135.
Sat 20002030: one hour
. . .
earlie r in su mmer. Audio
10
available at http://

ftrrJLa tvIja s trod

www .radio.org.lv(BBCM) Sky Radio. England, experimented with a relayon

5935in late Oct. presumably trom Latvia (gh)
LIBERIA Star Radio info from the Fondation Hirondelle website, http://
www .hirond elle.org!newsI1 0.stm- 0500-08000n3400. 1700-2000on5880.
in Bassa, Dan, English, French, Gbande, Gola, Grebo, liberian English.lorma,
Kissi, Kpelle, Krahn, Kru. Manding o, Mana, Mende and Val. Says StarRadio is
staffed by Liberian journalists and managed by the Swiss NGD Fondation
Hirondelle with financing from the US Agency for International Development
through the International Foundation for Election Systems. Site carries transcription of daily news itemsin its 0630 and 0730 English bulletin s (BBCM)
R.VeritasLiberia. newCatholicstati onon3450 inmid-Nov.2045-2402' (Jay
Nove llo et al. NC) Also alter 0600 in English (Martin Elbe. Germany. BC-O,\)
Betwee n 0500 and 2200'. claims to beon 5470. in WRTH[itaIJ as ELCM (f inn
. Krone. Denmark. OSWCIOX Window)
MEXICO XE OI. R. Mil on 6010 is studying the possibility of separating SW
prog ramming from MW simulcast. It is very important for listeners to send
recept ionreportsand opinionsonilsprogramming,aski ng for some inEnglish.
TherecouldbeDXand mailbag shows. Reportsshould coveratleast 20minutes
01details, SINPO rating, receiver and antenna, etc. II possible. several receptionsatdifferent times 01day. Reportswill get aOSl andstationsouvenirs. The
Encuentro ox group is undertakingthe study [who previously did the OX and
mailbag shows onXE RMX). Send to Apartado Postal 21-1000. 04021 Mexico.
OF (via Hector Garcia B., World of Radio) E-mail address is
dnform@n rm.com.mx> (TomMesser, WI, Cumbre DoX}
XEYU, R. UNAM. stillturns onits 9600 transmitter every day but is unheard,
andthesignal seemsto be goingto groundinsteadof antenna, Julian Santiago
and Alejandro Morales found out upon visiting the sile (Hector Garcia B.,
Cumbr. O,\)
. Universidad de Colima may apply lor aSW frequency,easier togetthan MW
(Alvaro. XERMX Estacion O,\)
MONACO TWR English at 0745 toUKmoved from9755to9870due toconflict with
f inland. also on 9685 Albania (Mike Barraclough . England. World of Radio)
MOLDOVA R. MoldovaInternational.W97 English:WEu 2200-2225.2300-2325 on
7520: NAm 0330-0355. 0430-0355 on 7500 (RMI)
MONGOLIA VOMfinallymaking it to ENAm . 12085audiblefrom 1000past 1300 in
Oct including English at 1200-1 230 (John H. Cobb. GA. World of Radio)
MOZAMBIOUE R. Maputo. 11 835Englishheard 111 0-1125(Markf ine.VA. Cumare
O,\)

NIGERIA [non) V. of Free Nigeria, studiosin Indianapolis, transmitter bel ieved in

Algeria. changed from 11680 to 11 715. Sat 1900-2000(BBCM) Strong here.
anti-government talk. Afro pops, websitegiven (Brian Alexander, PA, World of
Radio) Moved to avoid N. Korean interference(HansJohnson, CumbreDX) No
trace of it here in mid-Nov oneither freq (gh, OK)
R.NewNigeriasked inNov:Sat 0600-0629 WAf 11670.Sun 01 00-0129NAm
5905. 1500-1 529CEu 6175 (NAGOHR) 5905 viaGermany. and presumably also
the others. At least for "special" program 0100expanded to most of the hour
(gh)
PAKISTAN R. PakistanEnglish monitored in Nov includes: 11 05-1120 on 15550.
17835: 1600-1 630 on 9650. 11570. 15375v. 15570. 17720 (Noel Green. UK.
BC-O,\)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA An aggrieved former employee of N8C won a judgement
against NBC, which threatened to force it to auction its assets, but Ihe
government rescued NBCfinancially (PNG Post-Courier and The National via
BBeM)
R. East New Britain (Ma us Bilong Tavurvur) is getting a newstudio costing
more than 8 megakina, thanksto Japanese aid (PNG Post Coufler via SBCM )
~ uch stronger signal on3385 (John kecskes , Australia. CumbreDX)
PERU UnlOon 7205.8at2307-2400+with lots of mensajes. stingers on harp. UT5 time checks.errant Peruvian?(BobHill. MA, DSWCI OXWindoW) New station
on7205.6visR.Paraton, heardbeforeandafter1100;namedoesn't makesense
and location not determined, perhaps in the north near Ecuador (Rafael

.ox Listening Digest

More broadcasting informati on by country compiled
by Glenn Hauser

Review of International Broadcasting

SW Programming , opinion, equipment, satell ite monitoring .
Samples $2.50 each (outside North America US $3 or 6 IRes)
10 issue SUbscriptions $26 in USA. or both for $49
Glenn Hauser, Box 1684-MT. Enid, OK 73702
January 199B

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the Global Forum (continued)

Rodriguez. Colombia. World of Radio) It's inHuarmaca, 7205.66, 10261045
(Dave Valko.PA. Cumbre OX) Alsoat' 1030and 0000 (HansJohnson.TX. ibid.)
New station on 6815.8 soundslikeLa VOl delaColina. from Huancabarnba
province at 0159-0237' with folk music. announced as 6800 kHz: not to be
confusedwith6811 .3.Ondasdel Rio Mayo. heard afewminutes earlier(Gabriel
Ivan Barrera. Chile. The Four Winds)
R. Atlanhda. 4790. sent very friendly personalletter, Tou rist Trail booklet.
mapa' tquitos. list oflocalfiestas. pennant. Trocha Turisticaisdailyat2300 and
Jan 28 will beprog ram's25th anniversary (B. Gornati, Italy. PlayDXvia TheFour
Winds)
R. LaVOl de San Antonio. Bamba marca.verifiedafter several yearsfor 6627
with infoaboulthe left-wingstalion. "totally peasant, ~ affiliated with Coordinadora
Nacional de Radio. now showingfrequencyas564 5(Henry l azarus. LA, DSWCI
OX Windol>j
R. Soledad. Parcoy on new 4717ex-4528 around 1050. 021 5. R.SanJuan.
Aramang onearBagua.listed on4420.now heard on 491 0.4around 1030.02150304 with lots of dead air; apparently bought the transmitter of Super R. San
Ignacio formerly on 4910..1 . R. Peru. San Ignacio. 5637 around 11 30 now IDs
onlyas Estudio 97. R. llucan on new 5629.8 at 2200-0200 . 11 30. great folk
music.R.San Ignacio. 7040.4 heard unti12300 (Don Moore.Cuenca, Ecuador.
HCJ8 OXPartyUne)
R. SanJuanon 4190.4at 1040. next day 1020. not sure 0110; thiswas the
inactive nequency of R. Selva Superior (Hans Johnson. TX, Cumbre OX)
Presumably either 4190.4 or 4910.4 notboth
PHILIPPINES R. Piliplnas W97viaVOAParaandHnangSites:0230-0330inPilipino
and English on 11805T. 15120T. 15270T: 0330-0400 Pilipina and English on
13770P. 15330P. 17730P: 1730-1 930in English on 11730T. 11 890T, 151 90T
(Usenel via BC-OX)
ROMANIA RRI Englishat 56 mins includes. mostly to WEu/NAm: 1300 on 15250.
15390. 17735. 17745: 1700 on7195.9690. 11 940: 2100 on 5955. 5990. 6175.
7195: 2300 on 5955. 7195. 9570. 11 830: 0200 on 6155. 7195. 9510. 9570.
9690. 11 940: 0400 on 5990. 6155. 11 740. 11940. 15335: 0600 on 5965, 6155
(BC-OX)
RUSSIA 8etween 0400an d 1000. the only lan guageused byV. of Ru ssiais English
(SBCM) Zena tevasnova. the VOR an nouncer with the "veddy proper" British
acce nt. ret iredrecently(Ol'ga Iroshma. VO RviaMaryanne Kehoe, Cumbre OX)
Special NewsforPolarRegions.W97: 1615-1 645on6025Novosibirsk335.
7255 Sama ra 140. both 100 kW(Nikola i Rudnev. Russia. BC-OX)
SERBIA R. Yugoslavia W97 English to us: 0100 6195. 7115: 0200 6180. 7130
(Sanchovich, TX. World 01Radio)
SINGA PORE SBC madernaiorchanges forW97: HomeService: EnglISh 2300-2400
on6160. 0000-1100. 1400-1600on 6155. Chinese 2300-1100. 1400-1 600 on
6000:Malay2300-24000n 7260.0000-11 00. 1400-1600on 7245.Tamil 23001600 on 7170. External Service RSI all at 1100-1400: English 6015. 6155:
Chi nese 6000. 6120: Malay6070. 7245 (via Bob Pad ula. EDXPj
SOMALIA R. Hargeisa. theVoice of the RepublicofSomaliland(Somali: Halkaniwa
Radio Hargelsa. CodkaJamhuriyada Somali/and). observed inOct and Novon
7061 -7071 vat 1500-1800 and at 0330-0400. (BBCMI Formerly on 7537v
(Hans Johnson. Cumbre OX) 70ll -USB. presumed. 171 5-1 800' Somali songs
and talk. poor (Mahendra Vaghjee. Mauritius. DSWCI OX Window)
V. 01 the MassesoftheSomali Republic. 6890 at 2000 withexternal service
inEnglish asR.Mogadishu. newsand songs to 2030then inSomali, weak to fair
and distorted (Mahendra Vaghjee. Mauritius. Cumbre OX)
SOUTHAFRICA One cha nge to theChannel Atrica schedule in Dec MTpage 48: al
1300-1455 Sat & Sun 17870 not 15330 (Kathy Otto. SENTECH)
SOUTH AMERICA R. Coch,guaz. pirate with 100-watt LSB on 7570. carned out
several broadcastswithitsownprogram andthoseofR. BlandengueandJolly
Roger Radio International. Ireland. Theywere widely reportedinSAm, but little
if any reception in NAm. E-mail contact perhaps will bring notice of future
broadcasts: cesrs.po.ses and <radio.blandengue@usa.net> (gh)
SRI LANKA VOA's new Iranawila site began testing numerous frequencies Irom 6
to21MHzinlateOctober; eventuallywill have atleast 4 x 500kW;unknown yet
if it couldbe used lor R. liberty or R. Free Asia (VOA Communications World)
[non) IBCTamilRadiofromlondontried7400, then 7475inNov viaGeorgia
at 0100-0200(Jeff Cohen. WRN)
SWEDEN Contrarytoinfolast month,R.Sweden still has two morning broadcasts
to us. 1230and 1430 on 11650. 15240 (gh)
SWITZERLAND SRI for W97 expanded English to a tull hour at 0400 on all three
frequencies. 9905. 9885. 6135: andalso an hour at 11 00 to FE on9885. 12075.
13635; SEAs at 1300 nowviaBeiting relayonlyon 7230. 7480: 1400 C&SAs on
9885. 12075. 13635: but there's also a 15-minute English at 1600 on same
Irequenctes, Capital Letters, 2nd and 4thSats.announcedcontractwithlnternora
has expi red ,so nomoreflowerstolucky listen erseach month.TheSRI program
guid eisalso asupermarket,with 21 Swissitemssoldby mailorder, priced from
5 to 150 SFr(gh)

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January / 99B

TAIWAN New Star Broadcasting, the Chinese numbers station added a fifth
frequency, 13750.Channel 5. inthe2300-0900period:alsouses 11430. 15388.
9725.8300. designated Ch 1throug h 4 (Hansvan den Boogert. Taiwan. hc-dx)
TURKEY TRT W97 sked shows USBusage: 1830-1930 German6035; 1930-2030
English6175: 2030-2130French 7150 allfromEmirlersite(TRT)English to us
nogood:at23009655 allenblocked by tacos fromPortugal: at 0400 7300 weak
and jammed (Gigi l ytle. TX)
UKRAINE RUI W97 English hours: 0100 on 7150:0400 on 5985.6020,7150. 7205:
12000n7285. 17725: 2200 on 6085(J. Saiuk,Germany viaWolfgang Buschel)
USA TheFCC frequencyschedu leofUS SWstationstorW97can befound at: http:/
twww.gov{Ob/pndtnegIhCweblhm4w97.tx1 and tor Z98 tentative. change last
part to2z98.txt (Jim Moats, Review of International Broadcasting)
WWBS, MaconGA, isshootingforatargetdate01 Feb 1on 1191 0. Antenna
was tobemounted on towerinmid-Nov.Targ et area Canada , perJoanne Josey
(HansJohnson. Cumbre OX)
WVHA, Maine, waspurchased byleSEA for only$1 .5million , planned tobe
back on air by Xmas (George Th urman. World 01 Radio) Ca lls to beWHRA.
beamingtoAfrica athalf power250kW(Joe Brashier.WHRI) Desp iteProphecy
Countdown's Pastor Osborne'sconcerns,leSEA certainly paid a"firesale"price
for WVHA. l eSEA ispaying lessthan 20% of theamount that the C.S. Church
paid to build thestation. S8 million (Jim Moats. DH)
WORLD OFRAOlOonWWCRchanged10:Thu 2130 9475.Sat 07003210and
5070. Sat 12305070. Sun 0730 5070. Man0400 3215. Tue 1330 15685 (gh)
WM lK,9465 ,isstill heard , but alwaysweak, and neveron Saturday.suchas
at 0433 atter AWR closed. also at 0645. 0905 checks and at ' 1700 with
teachingsofYahweh, scripturereadings(BrianAlexander, PA, World of Radio)
Also heard just after 0400 (Jim Moals. DH)
The single KVOH transmitter has two modulators; heard testing on two
frequencies atonce. 17775 and9975inSpanish around 21 45(GeorgeThurman,
TX andgh)
For advance topicsat VDA's Talk toAmericaM-Fat1706 on151 20and many
others check hUp://Www .voa .govnalk(Sven Ohlsson. Sweden. R.I.B.)
VOA's Man dari nChi nese se rvice, which isjamm ed, hasstartedafree news
service by E-mail direct topeopleinChina. Moreandmoreare signing up. The
number of PCs in China is growing rapidly compa red to SW radios (Jay
Henderson , VOA Communications World)
Thedeactivated VOA Bethany.OH.siteislikely headed10 thescrap heap. Part
of the 600-acreproperty should besold for business development and the rest
used for a high-tech learn ing center, public golf course and rec reational
facilities,acco rding toapreliminary report releasedby the GSA.Theproperty is
valued at 5600 million but much of it is customarily given away to local
governments(Kevin O'Hanlon, APvia Oavid Alpert. Jim Moats)
R. Free Asia got approval from House for S50 million budget increase
allowing 24hinMandarin,Cantonese,Tibetanand others. (AFP viaValierAguiar,
radio-escutas) Senateand president expected toapprove (VOA Communications WorkJ) See also AUSTRALIA
Rock-It Radio, which used tobe on WRM I,nowbroadcastsliveRealAudiovia
the web: hUp://WWW.palmsra dio.com (Bennie Dingo, hard-core dx)
Inquiet rural location I hearharmonics such asWANO, Pineville KY, 2460 =
2 x 1230. aslateas1500 as "TheNewWay-no": and WWZD. Aberdeen. MS. on
2480 = 2 x 1240. 1105-1 300as "Golden Oldies Station 105.3" (Ron tr orto. tt )
WHAM. accnester NY. on2360 =2 x 1180 at 111 1. Newsradio 1180WHAM
10 (Mark Mohrmann. VT. Cumbre OX)
{non] Brother Stair's 12 lreQuency-hours of relays via Deutsche Telekom
started Nov 1 on a somewhat different schedule thangiven last month; after a
couple01weeks becameparallel withWRNO,WWCR assatellitefeed putinplace
(Jim Moats. DH) B.S. gave sked as0000-0200 on 5840. 0200-0400 on 5880.
7335 [swamping CHU , which keeps getting blasted by ignorant European
frequency managers). 0600-0800on9500. 1600-1800on6175. 1700-1900 on
11650. Says hehas option to run 24h on "Radio Jewlick" (gh)
UZBEKISTAN R. Tashkent English monitored and/or announced: 0100-01 30 on
5040.5955.5975.7205.9540: 1200-1 230 and 1330-1400 on 5060. 5975.
6025. 9715; 2130-2200 and 2230-2300 on 7105, 9540 (Wolfgang Buschel.
Germany. BC-OX) 7105 fairly decent at 2130(Tom Sundstrom. NJ)
VIETNAM V. of Vietnam domestic service haslour channels: 1-2200-1600 (Fri 1700) news, current affairs, music, on 5925 and 10060 forN & C mountain
regions. 2- at 2200-1600, economic, cultural. social. literature, art, educational, on 5960, 12035 for N & Cmountains. 3- ethnicminority programs in
HMong. Khmer, Ede. Giarai. Bana. Only H'Mongison SW, 2200-2230 on5035.
andon6165 at0500-0530. 1200-1230. 1300-1345.4-newsand music onFM
24h (VDV website via Kubiak. WWDXC via NASWA)
[non] V. of Vietnam at 0300 Spanish. 0330 English on new 5905 ex-7260
which was Russia(IvanGrishin, Ont., Review oftmemsuonstBroadcasting) via
Krasnodar. 500 kW, 290 (Nikolai Rudnev, Russia. BC-OX)
Until theNext. Best 01 OX and 73 deGlennl

0044 UTe o n 15290

PHILI PPINES: VOA relay . ID and news bulle tin , followed by VOA Business
Report at 00 10, with stock markel news . Fair to poor sig nal. (Jim Moat s,
Rave nna, OH)
004 4 UTe on 5522
PERU: Radio Suda merica. G reat Peruvian mu sic 10 announc ements to pop/
easy listening tunes. ID format at 0 100. Peru's Rad i o lIucan audibl e on
5629 .8,0107 0 132, frequent lime checks. (Mark Veldhuis , Bo rne, Nether land s/Hard Core OX)
0133 UTe o n 6055
SPAIN: Radio Exterior Espana . World news on Kenya 10press review . Item
on Spanish rock star in a mus ical. (Howa rd J . Moser , lincolnshi re, IL) VOA
relay noted on 11805 1700 -1710. 11 1521 5faded by 1710. (Lee Silvi, Mentor.
OH)
0135 UTe on 7290
SW EDEN: Radio Sweden. Discussion on the Social Democratic Party
confe renc e in northern Swed en. (Moser, IL) New s to Sixty Oeg ree s program
on 11650 at 1231 . (Sue Wilden , Col umbus, IN)
0159 UTe on 7285
GERMANY : Deutsche Welle, Interval signal to JDand newscast. New s Lin k
progr am , 1/6035. Fair signal quali ty with co-channel inte rference from Radio
Sweden . (Moa ts, OH )
0200 UTe 4890
PERU : Rad io Ch ota. Pop mus ic to Span ish comme nts Irom host. Peruvian
hua ynos mus ic to clear "Hadic Chota" ID at 0209 . Poor sig nal quality.
(Charles Bolland , Lake Wo rth, FU Cumbre OX)
0230 UTe on 9570
PORTUGAL: Radio Portugal. Excellent Portuguese musi c to text , with good
signal . Noted also on 957 0 at 0345. (Moser, ILl
0234 UTe on 7 160
ALBANI A: Radi o Tirana . National news to item on the fate 01 Alba nia n
immi gr ants in Italy. Very good signal. (Mose r, IL)
0305 UTe o n 7300
VATICAN CITY; Vatican Radio. Discussi on on Anta rctica and upcoming
prog ram promo lo r Pop es of the 20th Cent ury. (Wilde n, IN)
0310 UTe on 4980
VENEZ UELA : Ecos de l Torbes. Spanish progr amm ing of regiona l news and
pop vocals . (Wilden . IN)
0405 UTe on 7585
COSTA RICA: RFPI. Rap music to Our Green Earth prog ram to RF PI
promot iona l. (Wilden. IN: Tom Banks, Dallas. TX)
0525 UTe on 13650
NO RTH KOREA: Radio Pyongyang. Korean. Nationalistic music to 0530.
station ID to French ne wscast and French ma rtial music. (Jerry With am.
Keaau, HI ) Heard on 11700 at 2300 , 1/ 11335 with program feat ures . (Bob
Fraser, Co hasset, MA)
0620 UTe on 7295
DENMA RK: Radio Denmark Inn Dani sh. Female announcer hosting two
interv iews. closing with English ID at 0630 . (Amber Hill , Anchorag e, AK. via
Keaau . HI)
0640 UTe o n 732 0
UKRA INE: Radio Ukraine tnl'l . Ukrainian. Perform ance 01 Beetho ven's
symp hony /I 3, performed by New York Philharmonic. (Hi ll, HI) Audible on
7150 at 033 5. (Moser, IL)
0705 UTe on 9795
NEW ZEALAND: Radio New Zealand . Sports news to 07 10 ID, Dateline
Paci fic show with news of the Pacific region. (Hill , HI)
0720 UTe on 11840
JAPAN: Radio Japa n. Court music of Cambod ia with music desc riptions
from announcer. Afghanistani folk music with a voca l and instrumental
ense mble . Entertaining ! (Witham. HI) Japan's Radio Tampa on 3925 at
2130. (Mahendra Vag hjee, Rose Hill, Mauritius/Ha rd Core OX)
1040 UTe o n 4765
BRAZIL: Radio Rural. Portuguese chatter from DJ to ID. Regional music
audib le to 1100. (Tom Messer, River Falls , WI /H ard Core OX) Brazil's Radio
Record hea rd on 950 5 at 2 127. Rad io Ban d eir antes on 964 5 11 11925 at
2303 . (Alessandro Bertog lio, Torino . lta ly/ Gatflash!)
1143 UTe on 3264 .66
INDON ESIA: RRI-Bengkulu . Indone sian . Conversation Irom male/female
duo to 1146. Music II with RRJ-Ujung Pand an g on 4753 .21. Signa l fairto
poo r. Indo's RAI-Terna le (Matu ku) noted on 3344.88 at 1148-1200; tenta tive ID for Indo's RAJ-Kupang on 3385 at 1217 .tatr signa l quality . (Bolland.
FL)
120 0 UTe on 6950
CH INA: China Radio Inl' l. English broad cast with very clea r signal. C RI

noted as; 220 0-222 6 on 6950; 2225-2256 on 6933. (Silvi, OH)

1223 UTe on 15155
FRANCE : Radio France Inn . Asia Fileprogram in progress attune-i n with
reports on Sri Lanka conflic t and Israeli Peace Center , 11 13625, 15 195 ,
15540, 17575. (Mo ats , OH) French serv ice 0040 on 7 120 . Arts in France
feature on 13620 at 1245. (Wilden, IN)
1229 UTe on 1n05
UNIT ED KINGDOM : BBe Wo rld Serv ice. Promo lor BBC On Air pubncanon into report on Hong Kong stock mar kel, // 17640, 15565 . 15220 . 95 15.
(Moats ,OH)
1225 UTe on 15290
BULGARIA: Radio Bulgaria . Lady hoste ss to station ID. English commentary and music. (Bolland, FL) Report on parliamenl proce edings on 9700
a119 25 . (Fraser, MA)
1342 UTe on 15009.76
VIETNAM : Voi ce of French service from lady annou ncer. Regional music,
// 98340. (Vel dhui s. NLD ) Audible on 15009.7 in English. News to com mentary at 2338 , 2357' . (Ma rk Fine, Remi ngton, VA ) National new s on
725 0 at 0 122. (Moser, IL)
1400 UTe on 11570
PAKISTAN : Radio Pakistan . English new s fro m duo. Station IDs at 1404
and 1409. Regional language at 14 15. signal weak but clea r. (Harold
Sellers, Ontario, Canad a; Zacharias Uangas. Thessatonrki. Greece/Hard
Core OX)
1455 UTe o n 7295
MALA YSIA: RTM. Radio 4 jingle to ID. CR M from RAI-Rome's interva l
signal on 7290 a1 1500. (veldnuls . NLD )
1600 UTe on 153 95
UNITED ARA B EMIRATE S: UAE Dubai. English progr am then to Arab ic .
15395 co -chann el to very audible VOA Sri Lanka in English, fading bad ly
at 164 1+. (Silvi, OH; Frank Hillton , Charleston , SCI
1650 UTe on 9515
SO UTH KOR EA: Radio Kor ea lnt'l. Story about a Ja panese chrysanthemum g rowe r, his proble ms with high prices and low profits. (Witham , HI)
Audible 0000 -0100 in Korean , into Spanish at 0 100 to Engli sh at 020 0.
(Silvi,OH)
1650 UTe on 5985
CONGO: Radio Congo la ise de la Libert e . French ne ws to ID al 1700 as.
~ Radio Democratic Cong ola ise," lengthy spee che s to additional ID as.
~ R adi o Congo." Good signal quality for french news bulletin. Vaghjee,
MAU)
1716 UTe on 4976
UGANDA: Radio Ugan da . English text to. "th is new s broadcast co mes to
you from Radio Uganda in Kampal a" to musical interlude. (Vel dhuis . NLD )
1752 UTe on 3330
ZAMBIA: Christian Voice . Easy-listen ing music to English progr am God
and Lifestyle to station ID, address and frequencies. (Velchuls. NLD)
1753 UTe on 13780
INDIA : All Jndia Radio . Regional sitar mu sic to 1800 ID and English news.
Sig nal strong and good alternative to 1/ 11620, C RM lrom Deutsche
Well e's German serv ice . (Fine, VA) AIR vi a Calcutt a on 4820 at 1750 .
(Giampie ro Bernardini, ehieti. Ilaly/G atflash.?
1754 UTe o n 6055
RW ANDA: Radio Rwanda . Vernacular text of presu med newscast. Good
reception to 1757. when Radio Slovak ia came on the air. SIN PO=44444.
(Ve ldhuis , NLO)
1850 UTe o n 13695
T URKEY: Voice of Turkey . Prog ram on architectu ral characteristics 01
olde r houses in Tur key. (Witham. HI) Report on ancient Lydians at 2220
on 965 5. (Frase r, MA)
1900 UTe on 5020
SO LOMO N ISLAND S: SIBC. Station sign-on with drum s/pip es signal.
National anthem to garbled ID. Weak signal faded out by 1920 . No signals
noted from Niger. (Fabrizio Magrone. Italy; David Diam ond , Australia!
Hard Core OX)
1959 UTe on 7465
ISRAEL: Kottsraet. Time pips to ID into fsrae l Ne ws Magazine program.
with stock market reports and 1998 budgel plan s, II 9435 . lai r signal
quality . (Mo ats. IL: Fraser, MA)
20 12 UTe on 7475
TUNIS IA: ROTV Tuntsle nne . Regional mu sic to 10 minutes of Arabic ne ws
on the hou r. (Lee Silvi, Mentor. OH)

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OSLing the X-Band

Driving in yo ur car O il a d rea ry night. ),ou casually tun c
thro ugh yo ur Ar"'l d ia l. Th e sca n button pick s up the loud est
stations that ente r your radio . Sudde nly. your radi o perform s all
abnormal fun cti on . It enters. the "X - Ba ml."
You hear station s g iving travel ers' info m uuion, wea ther
forec ast. and airport sched ules . all of whic h rep eal at regular
intervals. Nearly hypnot ized . you continue you r search. You
enco unter ch ildren.s music. a spanis h language rudio s tation. and
several freelance radi o stations who see m 10 nu t he from this
world .
Yes. the XiB nnd can he a sca ry pla ce .
Known as the e xpanded AM band or the X-B 'lIHJ. stations in
this part o f the mcdiumwavc spec trum ope rate fro m 1610 - 17 10
k Hz.
Eiac h station is allowed In run 10.000 wa tts duri ng the day and
1.000 watt s at nigh t. using .111 omnidi recti on al ante nna. und now
there are three: ex panded ba nd bro adcast statio ns 011 the ai r.
Broadcastin g from Califo rnia. and heard by listeners wo rld wide. K XBT~ A ~1 can be found on !(HO and o n parallel 1190.
Address? 3267 So noma Blvd. Vall ejo . CA 94590.

ANGUlI.LA
Ca ribbean Beaco n. 60lJ()kH/.. Fulldata ve rificatio n on starioulc ucrhead signed hy
B. Mon scl l Haze ll-C.E.O . Dr. Scon' s frequen cy sc hedule e nclose d. Station add ress:
P.O. Bo x 690 . Anguilla, w est Indie s. (Rand y Stewart. Springfield. ~ 10 ; Gayle V,lJ1
Hom. Brasstown. S CI

Caribbean Be acon . Ib l().A~-l. Full data color studin picture card unsig ned . Receiv cd in 30 days for a n En g li ~h A\ l report. Curd note d they .!R.' u, ing a Nautcl
transminer with a 350 foo t ommdirecnonal ame nna. S tation addrcoc sam e as abov c.
(Frank Hilh o n, Ch arfevton . SO

Till' uuthe r 's Caribbean Beacon QS Lfrom Ang uilla.

Nee d (0 add New Jersey 10 your total s? Tr y WJDM- AM o n
1660 and 1530. Reports go to : 9 Cal dwe ll Place. Elizabeth. NJ

072111
Th e newest stat ion to the X- Ba nd i!\ \\' C:vIQ- A~1 1700 and
12 10 in Florida. Th e station is licen sed for-Miami Sp rings. Flor ida:
ho wev er . send your A ~ t report In 100 1 Po nce de Leon BI\"d.. Co rul
Gables. FL 33 134.
Encl ose two U.S . mint stam ps or o ne IRC for foreign addresse s. and don' forget 10 share you r X Band QSL s with M T!

WVK S-F\I 925. Full data prepared QSL card sig ned wuh illeg ible signature ,IS
(h-ncrul f\. );mafL'rIVP. Rec eived in one mont h for an Englis h FM re port and mint
, ta mp'. Stat io n ad,lrL's,: Jucor Brtl,llk'a'tinf , 125 S. Supcricr St. , Tolc dc .Ol! ..;3(-,02.
IRIM . C Al" ,
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I(adill Vilnius YK5, L1 11.. Full d,lIa QS L ca rd un..igned plus slll,,11 schedule c ard.
Received in"; l Jay, for an EII!!Ii,h report. souvenir postcard s and one IRe. Statio n
.lddrc,,: c/o Enplich Servi c e. Kllnilr, kio .JlJ. IT-267.J Vilniu s, lithuania. (Ric h
Harncc. Springfiel d. III

BAIIRAI S
A9M. Bahrain Tekcommunication..Co .. 8-l-4R ki ll . Full data Illfll QSLcard siFTlCU
by Ifom an A. Ncza m-Maritimc Or...-rating Cemre. Ik c c=i " ed in :!I) da ys for an
Engl ish util ity report and o ne U.S dollar . Sial inn addre ....: P.O . Box I";. Manama,
Bahrain . (S tewart ,

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Voit,.l' o f ~ l ol1~\,l lOl . I:!085 LIft. Full data QSL c ard. info , heeh. sd lL'd ule and
f'l'h lillili lcuer from David O'Connor.Received in 35 day s for a taped report and o ne
U.S. dolla r. Sranon "ddre,,: C PO Hex 365. Ula anbaatar 13. \ Inngolia . {Stewa rt.
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Rad io Canada tnr't. 60";0 kHl. Full oara QSL card unsigncd with stil:kers and
sc hedule e nclosed. Rece ived in si:-o mon ths fo r an El1 gl i ~ h re port . Station Oldd re's:
P.O. Box 6000. Montreal . l U C J AXCanada. (J {1'oC xtoora. Washing ton, DC)

COI.OM UIA
Curecol Bogoul. ~ 075 kllz. Partia l da ta logor gfobc ca rd uns;fllcd. Received in.J ~
da ys for a Spa nish rc pert . mint stamps and a so uvenir postcard. Station add ress:
Apartado Acree nYI . Sar uafc de Bogota. D.C. . Colombia. t Hilltun. SC )
FM

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Selected Programs:
broadc asts in live lang uages
se rving the \Vcstem Arct ic. and
Fea tured thi s mon th is BBC
Yellowknife: So how did 'The
(AF ) strea m. Au stria . Belgium . esc Eastern Arct ic serves
Ga teway to the Arc tic" get its
Canada . WW C R # 1 and #3.
listeners in Engli sh and native
name , you ask'? Well, the city
and West Coast Rad io Ire land . langua ges in the new Nunavut
was a mini ng town in its early
Terri
to
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and
Arct
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Quebec
.
Also inclu ded are special
and dyn ami te sup pliers
days
feature programs sc hed uled for
Th ese an: 11 0t full-t im e
.
used
a co pper knife to ope n
January by Radi o Netherlands operatio ns. so y ou might wan t
powder
cases becau se a stee l
and the BBe. Sec the 16 15 Sa t to view the web site for
broadcast times. Th e we bsite
knife co uld ca use a spark. Read
listing for a new SBe series
all abo ut it a t
abo ut ancie nt civ ilizat ions.
also o ffers intere sting links to
c www.cltj..yelluwknife.nt.ca/
resou rce s in the no rth . Be sure
welcom e_frame.htm .
Ca nad a : Th e C BC now has to check o u t the link 10 the
a we b site for the people of far Arc tic Winter Games 1998 to
Nu na vut: Thi s new
be hel d in Yellow knife March
north Canada. C BC North
Ca nadian Terr ito ry w ill be
c www.cbcnor th. cbc.cu/
15-27.
officially esta blished o n April
offers pages fo r radio and
I. 1999. and spans an area
te levi sion and provides high
Whitehorse: D uri n g the
larger than Texa s. Irs closest
Klondike Go ld rush of 1898.
quality live audio in the
RealA udio format ( 16 kbp s).
gol d miners thou ght the rapids neighbo r is G ree nland . Tou r
lqal uit o n Ballin Island by
You ca n listen to se parate aud io at Mi les Canyon loo ked like
visi ting <www.nuna net.coml
the manes of charging white
link s for C BC Yukon fro m
touriqal.html> (w hile liste nhorses. T he nam e stuck and
Whitehorse , C BC Macken zie
ing to their statio n. of course ).
from Yell owknife in Nort hwest Whiteho rse is no w the ca pita l
of the Yuko n. Read all the fac ts Why do yo u suppos e that
Terri tori es. and e BC Eastern
at
A rc tic from l q alu i t, Baffin
Nunavut has mo re child ren pe r
ca pita than ju st abo ut any o ther
Island. CB C Yuko n is allc www.city.wh ltehorse.yk .ca/
region in Canada?
Eng lish. e BC Wh iteh orse
facts .htm> while listening to

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to [rimme ltirstartext.net wi th
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subject). Now, Ma cintosh
use rs ca n get free WaveMaster
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A lso. in coo peration with
Mark Fin e of FineWare (and
freq uency monitor of M7),
Wavelvlaster wi ll also co nvert
and import FineWare's
subsc ription serv ice of
sho rt wave broadcast sch edules and DX files. The free
software and sa mp le files can
be do wnloaded at h ttp://
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(See the Index of Advertisers
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SELEaEO PROGRAMS .
Sundays

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Canacla, RCI Monll eal: cae RadIO flews News. sports. and
weather Irom me Canadian BroadcaS!lnll Corpora~on.
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USA, 'r'NJCR , 1 NashVIlleTN: Wee ~1y Prts Klentl3lRadiO
Address, Bill Clinton'Swee~1y report (0 menation.
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USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN: The HOUI 01Courage. Ron
Wilson talkspol,bcsand the creccus metns man et
OOOS USA, WWCR I I NashVille TN: The Republican Response. A
noted Republican rebuts me President's wee~ ly radio
message
0007 Canada, RCI Monlreal: Quirksand O uar~s Updating what's
newand what's ned in science.
0015 USA, WWCR'l NlshvilleTN: The BlessedWord ot Life
PerryL Johnson preaches 10Spanishand EngliSh 110m
WaShington, DC.
0030 USA, WWCR,l tlashville TN: The People'sGospel Hour
From neva SCotia, Canada.Perry Roc~wood interprets
scriplure lor Christianlile

Fridays

Thursdays
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Canada. PCI Mootrea!: TheWorldat SIX. See M2300.
USA. WWCR 11 Nashville TN: FreedomNow (live). see T
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T oeoo,
Radio Iletherlands: Oocumenla'Y. sernn-rre Onceand
Futul eCapital (6th). See A 2354.
Radio Netherlands: Oocumenlary. Ualy.cultu.al Heritage
(29th). LouiseWilliams reports otme problem orart theftin

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RadiO Netherlands: Oocumenury, Italy-Young & Old

(22th). See F2354.
Radi o Netherlands: Documentary. The nemeruncs-.
LiberalismversusThe Rules(15th), See F 1454.
RadiOtletherlands: Dccumentary. Time (1st). SeeW 1254.

Mondays
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Canada, Rei Montreal: cae RadiONews See S oo

USA. WWCR #1NashVilleTN: The Down Home Gospel
Prooram. Brothel Gary andSisler Wandaevangelizefrom
California
USA, WWCR ' 3 NashvilleTN OISCOvell~S III Health (hour 1)
(live). A health and herbs show lrom meamencen Freedom
Net,'lork in whichnew treatmentsarediscussed.
Canada, RCIMonl1eal Sound AdVIce See5 2330

Tuesdays
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Canada, RCI Montreal: The World at Six See M 2300.
USA, VoWCR '1 NashvilleTN: fr eedom Now (live). Irwin
SChill, aseu-erciesseo leading authOrityon tederal income
lax.lalksIromLasVeoas
USA. Wl.VCR 13 Nashville TN. The Baker Report(live)
Across the nation and around theworldWith Jell Baker (lSI
hourl.

Wednesdays
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Canad1i, RCI Montreal TheWorld at SIX. SeeM 2300
USA, WWCR 1 1 NashVille TN rreeuomNow (Ilvej. See T
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USA, VNICR _3 Nashville TN NeWSlValch Magazine. See M
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Canada, RCI MO:ltreal: The Worldat Six. See M 2300.
USA. WWCR 11 Nastr.111e TN' f reedom Now (live), See T
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USA, VoWCR #1 tlashville TN: FreedomNow(live). See T
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USA, VoWCR #3 Nashville TN: The Baker Report (live). See

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MT MONITORING TEAM
Gayle Van Horn

freque ncy Manager

vw bcvkcd C<i gfO\ e.n et

Next Reporting Deud tinr: January / 6. 1998

Jim Frimm cl
Jacq ues d " Avig no n
Program Manager
Pro pa gation Forecusrs
DXComp(a'anl .\:um
Ontario.Canada
monnoreerac.ca

Dave 0 '111.0. Ca lifo rnia

\ Iark Fine. VA

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Glenn Hauser. Enid. O K: Jon Horen. Fairbanks. AK: Jim Moats. Ravenna. OH: Harold
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USA.WltlB Redlion PA
USA.. WJCR upton KY
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USA. WRtlO NewOrleans LA
USA.W\....CR Nash~llle TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee n.
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Sundays

Wednesdays

0100
0100

01110
0100

0100
0107
0130

0137
0146

caeaca (Noflh-Ouebec): NewslSports

USA, WWCR" NashVilleTN: What Does the Bible Say?

M. H. Reynolds exposes cmer religions.
USA, WWCR 13 Nashvi!le TN: World 01Prophecy. rexe
Marrs and a guest discussthe evils and pitfalls of today and
theoutlooklor tomorrow.
Canada(NoflhOuebeC): f inkleman's 45's,
Austria, R Aust.ia Inll: Repofllrom Austria A magazine
pr:lgram covering all aspects ot AUSlrian hteandevents in
fhe news and opening with ine latest news bunetin
Ausl r1a, R Austna lnll: Postbox. aaoc AuWia-smailbag
program.
Austna, R AUSlll3 Inti: Music. Listen 10 some 01 Auslt l3's

tan ous music.

Mondays

0100 Canada (NOf1nOuebec): News.

OHlO US"'. WWCR 1 1 Nashville TN The Jesus Time Network
Walter Balls evangelizes lrom Gatlmburg, Tennessee
0100 USA, WWCR ' 3 NashVilleTN: nsccvenes in Health [hmn
2) (live). The second nour of thehealth andherbs snow
from theAmerican FreedomNetwork.
0105 tanaoa (NorthQuebec): onseue
0130 Austna, RAustnaInti: Peoort from Austria. See S0130.
0130 USA. WWCR 'l NashVilleTN: uarvest Time, acsoer music
andinspiration from ee Bnited PemecesurChurcll
International
0145 USA, \'V\VCR 11 NashvilleTtl : Farthful Teac!ll!\ll MIniStry
Jeffrey Hayes

Tuesdays
01l1O
0100

tanaoa(tJort/'l'Ouetle(:): ews.

0130

0130

Thursdays

USA WWCR ' 3 NashVilleTtl: The Intelligenc!' geccrt

(live), A patnot radiO program With Ted aurcerscn.
Auslria, R Austria Inll: Report from Austna See S0130.

0154
0154
0154
0154

to Berlin in 1999
RadiO Neillertands: Documentary.ltatyCultura' Hefltage
(31st). See A 0054
BadeNetherlands: Documentary. Italy- Young & Old
(24th).See F2354
Paoc Netherland s: Documentary. The Netherlands-lib eralism versus The Rules (17th). See F1454_
Radio Netherlands: Documentary, Time(3rd). SeeW

1254

0100 Canada(North-Ouebec): News.

01 00 USA. WWCR 11Nashville TN, News~'3tctl Mallazine.

see M
1200
01(10 USA, 'INiCR 13 Nashville HI: The Inleilioence Report (Iivel.
See TOHlO
0100 West Coas! RadIOIleland: News Irom Ireland
0110 West coast Radio Ireland: Sports Nem.
0115 west coast RadIOIreland: Irish MusIC ane listenel?none
0130

""IS
Austna, R Austria Inti: Reponliom acsma. See S0130.

Fridays
0100
0100

Canada (NorthOuebec): News

USA,WWCR i l NashvilleTN: Newswatcn Magazine. See M
1200.
0100 USA. WWCR 13 tlashvilleTN: TheInleiligence Report(live)
See T0100
0130 Austria, R Austfla Inti: geccnncm Austlia, See S0130.

Saturdays
0100
0100
0100

USA,WWCR , l NashVIlleTN tlewswatch Magu ine See M

1200
0100

lilQO

Canada ( North -O~bec ) : flews.

USA. WWCR 1 1 Nashville HI Newswatcn Magazine. See M
120()
USA, WWCR 13NashvilleTN:Tile Intellioence geccn (live).
SeeT 0100
Austria, R Austria Inti: Report trom Austria. SeeS 0130.

0130
0154

canada (NoflhQuebec): News.

USA,WWCR 1 1 NashvilleTN Newswatch Magazille. SeeM

HAUSER'S HIGHLIGHTS

ALBANIA: R. TIRANA
W97 in English
To Europe :
19-15-2000
7 135. 6025
2200- 2230
7 135. 6025
To North America:
0245-OJOO
7 160. 6 115
m'O-().llXl 7 160. 6 140
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FINLAND: YLE R. FINLAND

1200

\\'1.)7 5SB usage:

U$A. IlNlCR,3 'bsh villeTN: The Intelligence Report (Hve).

SeeT0100
Austria, R Austna InU: gerort l romAustfla. See S0130.
RadiO Netherlands: Documentary, aer nn-rneOnce aM
FuMe Capital (10th). Marilke van eer Mee.examinesthe
oreparanons tor meGelman go~ernme1t's move Irom Bonn

10001 030
15225
90
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(A rlo Muj un cn . El ect ronic IJX /' re,\'.<i )

January J 998

MONITORING TIMES

4S

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0200-0210

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0200-0300

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Canada. CFVP Calqary
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Canada, CKlll SI John's
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0200-0300
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0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300
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Cuba, Radio Havana
Ecuad or. HCJB
Egypt Radio
Germafl)', Deutsche Welle

0200-0300
0200-0300vi
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Kenya, Kenya Broadc Corp
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Mondays

0231

46

Canada (North-Ouebec): Onstage

Canada. RCI Monlreal: ACI News
S0200
UK. BBC toncon lal): NewSCIay. See S0200
USA. WWCR 11 t~ashvdle TN' First Hand Ri<:k Livingood
WIth a welld evaf"lgelism update
USA. WWCR 13 NashVIlle TN E~obc ResearchRadio. NEWI
DISCUSSion 01 new developments in science. technoloqy and
IhillOs in everyetay hvino
Canada, RCIMontreal: Tile Arts In caeaca Alookat the
Callad,an artsscene
USA, VoWCR" NashVIlleTN Christ atme Door le land
Wood
UK. BBClon don{at): vaname Feature. See S0615.
USA,VoWCR 1 1 Uashvltle TN: Standmg in tneGap Rose
Ondush evangelizes hom tne Pocono Mountains in
Pennsylvania
Callada,RCI Monlreal The Mallbao.listener letters. musicar
selections, and happeninos in Canada

see

MONITORING TIMES

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USA. WGTGMcCaysVIlle GA
USA.WHRINoblesville IN
USA. WHRI Noblesville III
USA WHRI NobleSVIlle IN
USA_WINS Red lion PA
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA, WRMIIR MIami Intt
USA, WRNO Nel'l Orleans LA
USA. WWCRNashville TN
USA. WYFRoseecnobee Fl
Nepal, aaoo
Pakistan, Radio
Philippines, R Pihpinas
Sweden, RadiD
UK. BBC World Service

0230-0300 'II
0245-0300
0245-0300
0250-0300 sf
0250-0300
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Zambia.RlambiaflNBC2
Albania, R TiranaInti
UK, BBC WorldService
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vancan State, VaticanR
zamma. RZambiafl NBC 1

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Canada (North-Ouetecl: NewSlSports

Canada.RCI Monlfeal: RCI News. News. weather. andsports
Irom Radio CJnada InlematlOnal
0200 UK. BBC l OndOll(al): Newsday. Coverage01the breakino
stones anda background briebno on themain newsissues
01 the day
0200 USA, WWCR 13 Nashville TN: Tomorrow's News Today.
GeoroeHyan IS thenot the prCSl!flter, he's tile evanoelist.
0207 Canada j Nortfl.Oue ~ ) : Finkleman's45's
0207 Canada, RCI Montleal: Venture Canada Anew~kIY
magazine plomotJIIO Canadliln business achievement.
0230 UK, BBC l ondon(al): In Praiseof God. Weekly programme
01 WQfSllip and medltaboo
0230 USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN: DIXie RlSlflO , Dan Meredith
wants ftleSouth to nse again.
0231 Canada. RCI Montreal: Earth Watch. Inwcnmemand

0215

9780dm

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0200
0200

020i

97553m

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Sundays

0200

1524()pa
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0200-oo

5maEo PROGRAMS .

0200
0200
0200
0200

13605pa
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January ' 998

USA, VoWCR11 NashVille TN: The la st Day Message. Rick

lon O's message is garnished wltlllire and bnmstcne

Tuesdays

0200 Canada. RCI Monlleal: RCI News. See $ 0200.

0200 UK_BBCl ondon (al): flewsday. see S 0200.
0200
0200
0211
0230
0245
0255

USA. WWCR 11 NashVille TN liv e File(1I"ie)_l. Pratt.

USA.wwtR 13 N.1shvirte TN The Stan Solomon Show
(Irve). Anewstalk ladlOprogram
Canada. RCI Montreal: Spectrurn. A Wffkday maoazine
prooram 01 current atters. teanses. and a business report
UK. BBClondOn fal l: Vanable Fealure See S0615.
UK. BBCl ondon (al): seven DaIS Roundup01tile ...veek's
news, plussportsh;Ohlights, srancearnltil! weather.
Canada, RCI Montreal' News. N~'S from either the
t.anadr.an 8roadcastmg Corporation (CBCI or Radio Canada
International (RCt).

~:d~~~l.~ontreal: RCI News. See S 0200

0200
0200
0200

0211
0230
0245
0255

UK, BBC lOlKlon (al): rlewsday. See S 0200.

USA. WWCR 11 NJ-shvilleTN: Investigative Reporter (live).
Karenlee Burnan.
USA, WWCR 13 rlaslMlle TN- TheSianSolomon Show
(live). SeeT0200
Canada, RCI Montreat: sceceem. See T0211.
UK, BBC l ondon \.111: The Farr:11no World. Reports 00 neN
developments Irom aroulld theworld
UK. BBC london {al l Record tlem See S0815
Canada, RCtMonlreal: fl ews SeeT0255

Thursdays
0200
0200
0200
0200

Canada, RCI Montreal: RCI News. see S0200.

UK, BBCl ondon (al): Newsday. See S0200
USA.WNCR 1 1 Nashville TN perspective on America
(live), Jell Bennett
USA, WWCR 13 NashVille TN TheStanSolomon Show
(live). See T0200

02f 1
0230
0254
0254
0254
0254
0254
0255

Canada, RCIMontreal scecuum SeeT0211 _

UK. BBCl ondon {af): Assionmenl. Aweekly examination 01
a lOplCal Issue
Rad,oNeltlertands: Documentary. Berlin-The Once and
FutureCapital (8th). SeeA 2354.
RadiONetherlands: Documentary. ltaty-Cutlufal Heritaoe
(29th). SeeA 0054.
Radio Netherlands Documentary. Italy- Young & Old (22th).
SeeF 2354
RadIONetherlands: Documentary The NetherlandsIJberalism versus The Ru~ (15th).
F1454
RadiONetherlands: Documentary, Time (l sll See W 1254.
Canada, RCI Monlreal: News. See T0255.

see

Fridays

0200
0200
0200
0200
0211
0230

0755

see

Canada. RCI Montreal: RCI News.

S0200.
UK. BBCl ondon tall : Newsday. SeeS0200.
USA. WWeR 11 Na$h\IUe TN: Per.;pec1rve onAmeriCa (Iive)_
see H 0200
USA, WVlCR13 tlashvllte TN: The Stan SolOmon Show
lli...e).
T 0200.
Canada. RCI Montreal: Spectrum. See T 0211.
UK. BBC l ondon tal): V~ri.able Feature. SeeS 0615.
Canada. RCI MOfltreal News SeeT 0255

see

Saturdays

Canada. RCIMonlreal: RCI News. SeeS 0200.

UK.BBCl ondon (al) : Newsday. SeeS 0200.
USA, WWCR I I NaShville TN: HearthWrse l ~ve l_ Gary
Montgomery e~ptai ns how nutrition is the key to good
health
0200 USA. WNCR ' 3 Nashvitte TN: The StanSolomon Show
(Iivel.
T0200
021 1 Canada. RCI Monlreal: Spectrum. See T0211.
0230 UK. BBC l ondon (al) PeopleandPolitics. See F 2130.
0255 Canada, RCI Montreal: News, See T 0255.

0200
0200
0200

see

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0300-0400

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OJOO-D400 vi
03004'00 vi
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Australla. VL8K Katherine

Australia, VL8T Tenl eric.
t anaoatan Forces Net (RCI)

03000400vi
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Canada.CBe N Quebec Sec

Canada. CFRXtoronto

0300-0400

Canada.CFVP Calgal'f

03000400

Canada, CHNX Hahtax

0300Q400
D3DOQ400

Canada, CKlN 51 John's

Canada, CKl UVancouver

0300-0329
0300-0400
0300-0400 vi
0300-0400
0300-0400
03000327
030lJ04oo

Canada, RCanada Inti

China. China Radio Inll
Costa Brca.Faru del Carib
CostaRica,RF PeaceInti
Cuba, RadiO Havana
Czech Rep, Radio Prague
Ecuador, HCJB
Eg~' Pt RadiO Cairo
Germany. DeutscheWelle

0300-0330
0300-0350

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UI<. BBCLondon {al): World News. Broadcast on thehourot
5, 10, or 15minutes in length,
USA, W'NCR 13 Nashville TN: Spectrum(live). SWl s and
Hams cal! 1800-774-7435 with technicalqce stierrsand
comments.
Canadian Forces Network (CFN): Report 10 the
Peacekeepers. Information about Canada lor Canadian
forces overseas
UK, BBCl ondon(al): World BusinessReview. A look back at
the previous week's business anda preview of UpComing
events.
Canada. RCI Montreal: Madly Offin All Directions. The
program mat navets to all points 01thecountry to bring
listenersa widevaneI)' 01 ccmecc tatenl (hosted by l ome
Elliot).
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UK, BBCl ondon (al): Alritan QuiZ(1). A monthly test 01 the
esteners knowledge01Afnca.
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anyquesnon under thesun.

see

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Mondays

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USA, KWHR NaalehuHI
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7290al
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USA, WE WN Birmmqham Al
USA. WGTG McCa~svi lie GA
USA.WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WHRl Noblesville IN
USA.WHRI NoulesvrlleIN
USA. WINB Red lion PA
USA WJCRUpton KY
USA, WRMIIRMiami Inti
USA. WRNONewOrteans LA
USA \VWCR Nashville Th
USA WYFR Okeechobee FL
vatcan State, vaucan R
zamea. R Zambl3/ZNBC1
Zambia, R lambialZNBC 2
Zimbabwe, ZImbabwe BC
VaticanState, vatcan R
Canada. R Canada Inll
Albania. R TiranaInti
czecn Rep, RadIO Prague
Hungary, Radio Budapest
Moldova. R Moldoval nU
Philippines, R Pilipmas
Sweden. Radio
Tanzania, Barno
UAE. Radio Dubal
UK, BBC Atncan Service

OJOO.033O

03()O.l).l00
03()O.0400
03(1).Q400
03000400
03000400

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0300-0400

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Singapore. SBCRadio One
SOlomonIslands, SIBC
Sri l anka, Sri Lanka BC
Taiwan, Taipei RadiO lnll
Thailand. Radio
Uganda Radio
UK. BBC African Service

03000330 vI
OJlJl}04JQ

13605pa
17750pa

97453m

5930na

Germany.Ovel'C1lmer Mlnlstr
Guatemala, RadiO Cultural
Honduras, l V Evangellca
Italy, lRRS
Japan, RJapanINHK World
Kenya, I<enyaBroadc Corp
l ebanon, Voiceof Hope
lesotho, RadIOl esotho
Malaysia. RTM Kuching
Malta. VD Medllerranean
Netherlands, RadiO
New Zealand , R NZtnt!
PapuaNew Guinea, NBC
Philippines. R Pilipinas
aussu.vcce of Russia WS

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0300 UTe

canaaa, RCt Montreat: CBCRadiONews.

S0000.
UK. BBC l ondon (af): World News, SeeS 0300.
USA, WWCR 11 NashvilleTN: World of Prophecy. See S
0100.
USA, MVCR 13 NashvilleTN:TheMIke Jarmus Show{hour
1) (live). Mike, hisoues!s, andcallers discussUFOs and
other tar out topics
UK, BBCl ondon (al):WriteOn. See S0905.

0315
0330

canada. RCIMontreal: Tapestry. A look at the broad range01

spinluatand human issues lacing people of various cultures
and l etlQlons.
UK. BBC l ondon (af): Sports Roundup. See S0315
UK, BBClondon (af): Network A!lica. Breakfast show of
news, sport, personalities, music, and listener's comments.

Tuesdays

0300
0300
0300
0300
0305
0306
0314
0315
0330

Canada, RCI Montreal: CBCRadio News. See S 0000.

Canadian Forces Network (CFN): News, See S 0300.
UK, BBC London (al): World News, See S 0300.
USA,WWCR 13 NashvilleTN: TheStanSolomonShow
(live), See T0200.
UK, BBC l ondon(al): World BusinessReport. See M 0905.
Canada,RCI Mootrear:This Morning Tonigh t. David Enrighl
and Avnl Benoit co-nest this CBe maoazineprogram.
Canadian Forces Networl< (CrN): Report to lhe
Peacekeepers See S 0305.
UK, BBClondoo(al): Sports Roundup, SeeS 0315.
UK. BBClondon (aO: Network Atnca. See M 0330

~d~~~~~tontreal: CBC Radio News. See S 0000

0300 canadian Forces Network (CFN): NeNS. See S 0300.
0300
0300
0305
0306
0314
0315
0330

UK. BBCl ondon(aO: World News. SeeS 0300.

USA., WWCR13 Nashvine TN: The Stan Solomon Show
(live) SeeT 0200.
UK, BBC london (al): WOrld Business Report.
M 0905.
Canada. RCI Montreat: ThisMorning Tonight See T0306.
canadianForcesNetwor1l (CFN): Reponto the
Peacekeepers. See SOJ05.
UK, BBClon don (all : spots Roundup SeeS OJ1 5
UK, BBC l ondon (al): Network Atrica. See M 0330.

see

Thursdays
0300

Canada.RCt Montreal: CBCRadio News. See S0000

0300
0300
0300
0305
0306
0314
031 5
0330

rcrces

see

canadian
Network (Cf N): News.
S 0300.
UK.BBC london (af): WorldNews set S 0300
USA, WWCR 13 NastIvitle TH: The Stan SolomonShow (live).
T 0200.
UK, BBC l ondon (al): World Busness Report SeeM 0905.
Canada, RCI Montreal: ThIS Morning Tonight. See T 0306.
Canadian Forces Network (CFN): Report 10 the Peacekeepers.
See S0305.
UK, BBC london (af):Sports Roundup, See S0315.
UK, BBC l ondon (al): Network Africa. See M 0330.

see

Fridavs

0300
0300
0300
0300

0305
0306
0314

Canada, RCI Montreal: CBC Radio News. See S 0000

Canadian ForcesNetwork(CFN): News. See S 0300
UK, BBC l ondon (al): World News See S0300
USA, MVCR 13 NashvilleTN The Stan Solomon Show(live).
SeeT 0200
UK, BBCl ondon(al): WOlld Business Report. see M 0905.
Canada, RCI Montreal: This Morning Tonight. SeeT 0306.
CanadianforcesNetwof1l (CFN): Reportto the Peacekeepers

0315
0330

UK, BBClondon(af): SportsRoundup. SeeS0 15.

UK. BBC london (al): NefWorte. A1nca. See M 0330

see S 0305.

Saturdays

0300 cal'\3la . RCIMootreal: CSC RadIO News. see S0001

CanadiJJI Fortes Netwolk (CrN): News. SeeS0300
UK, BBC t onccn (al): World News. See S 0300
USA, WWCR 13 Nashville TH TheStan Solomon Show (live).

0300
0300
0300
0305
0306
0314
0315
0330

See T 0200.
UK. BBC l ondon (al l: World Business Report, SeeM 0905.
Canada.RCI Montreal: ThIs Morning Tonight. SeeT0306.
Canadian Forces Network tCFN): Report to the Peacekeepers.
See S0305.
UK, BBC London (al): Sports Roundup, See S 03t5,
UK, BBC london (al): Focus onFaith. SeeF091 5

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Canada, R Canada Inll
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p.,tala"Ni. MBC
Nigeria. FRCNlRadio
lesotho. Radio le sotho
Moldova, RMoldovaInti
Nethenands, Radio
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SELEaED PROGRAMS.
Sundays

0400

0400
0400

Canada. RCI Montreal: RCI News, See S 0200

UK, BBC l ondon (.III): Newsdesk, World news and
dispatches Iromoverseas and UK correspondents.
0400 USA. WWCR" Nashville TN: Faith MountainMiniStries.
Henry Vanderbush
0400 USA. VlWCR '3 Nashville TN USARadio News. News
summarytrom me USA RadiONews tletwork.
0405 Canada, RCIMontreal: VentureCanada.SeeS0207.
0405 USA. "'VWCRI J NashvilleTN The screen Ageof Radio
Ineater. Benve thegolden moments 01radio's yesteryear.
0430 UK. BBCl ondon (OIl): TheArtHouse. No information
available
04JO USA. W\.... CR 11 Nash~l lIe TN TheStreet Preacher.Steven
Keeler
0445 USA. .........VCR II flashville TIJ. A Studyin God's Word.
srcmuonn Carohna, Hezaklah Smith reads Scripture.

Mondays
0400
0400
0400

Canada. RCI Monlredl' RCI News See S0200.

UK, BBC london (all: Newsdesk See S0400.
USA. '1Ni CR" Nashville TN World of Radio. Gtenn
nausers ccmmuncatons program lor shortwave radio
listeners
0400 USA. m i CR "3 NashVIlleTN TheMikeJarrnus Show
(hour 2) (I,ve), S~ M0300.
0407 Canada. RCIMontreal: The Ma'ibag. SeeM 0231.
0430 UK. BBC l ondon (al): Nelwork Alrica. S~ M 0330
0430 USA. \VWCR 11 NashVIlle m TheOld Record StKJp, Ken
Berryhill with thirty minutes 01selections01music Irom
thedayS 01 the 78 rpmrecord Recommended

Tuesdays
0400
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Canada. RCI Montreal: RCI News See S0200

UK. BBClondon (all, Newsdesk. See S0400.

MONITORI NG TIMES

January 1998

0400
0411
0430
0430

USA. WWCRI I NashvilleTN: Newswatch Magazine. SeeM

1200.
USA, WWCR 13 NashvilleTN: SCriptures lor America(live).
Pete' J. Peters hosts (his outreach ministry 01thela Porte
Church 01Christ in Colorado.
Canada. RCI Montreal: Spectrum. See T 021 1.
UK. BBCl ondon (OIl): NetworkAlrica. SeeM 0330.
USA. WWCR11 Nashville TN: TheProphecyClub. Stan
Johnsondiscusses bible prophecyIromTopeka, Kansas.

~:d~~~~~ontteal
: RCI News. SeeS 0200.
UK, BBC l ondon (al): Newsdesk. See S0400.

0400
0400

0400
0411
0430
0430

USA. WWCR' 1Nashville m: NewswatchMaQazine. SeeM

1200
USA. \VWCR IJ Nashville TN: Scriptureslor Am eriCa (live).
See T0400.
Canada. RCI Montreal: Spectrum.
T 021 1.
UK. BBCl oniJon fal): NetworkAlrica. Be! M 0330
USA, WWCR I I Nashville TN: The Prophecy Club. See T043O.

see

Thursdays

0400
0400
0400
0400
0411
0430
0430
0454
0454

see
see

Canada. Rei Montreal: RCI News.

S 0200.
UK.BBC lon~ on faf): Newsdesk.
S0400.
USA. WWCR I I NashvilleTN: Newswatch Maoazir.e. Set M
1200
USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN: SCriptures for America (live).
SeeT 0400.
Canada. RCI Montreal: Spectrum. SeeT 0211.
UK, BBCl oodon fOIl): Network Alrica. See M 0330.
USA, 'IfflCR I I NasttvilieTN: The ProphecyClub. See T0430.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. BerlinThe Once and Future
Capital (8th). SeeA 2354.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. Italy--Cullural Heritage
(29th). See A0054

0454
Q.154
0454

Radio Netherlands: Documentary. Italy- Young & Old

(22th). See F2354
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. TheNelllerlandsl iberalism versus The Rules (15th). SeeF1454.
RadioNetherlands: Documentary. Time(1st). SeeW
1254.

Fridays
0400
0400
0400
0400
0411
0430
0430

canada,Rei Montreal: RCI News. SeeS 0200.

UK, BBCl ondon (al): Newsdesk. SeeS0400
USA. WNCR 11 Nashville TN: Newswatch Magazine. See
M 1200.
USA. WNCR 13 Nashville TN: SCripfu,es lor America
(live). SeeT 0400.
Canada. RCI Montreal:
T0211.
UK,BBC l omlon(al): NetworkAfrica. See M0330
USA. WWCR 11 Nashville TN: TheProphecyClub. See T

scecmsn.see

0430

~tU~~~CI Montreal: RCf News. See S 0200.

UK. BBC l ondon(OIl): Newsdesk. Be! S0400.

USA, wwtR 11 Nashvile TN: NewswatchMagazine. see
M12OO.
0400 USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN: SCriptures1Q(America
(Jsve). Set T0400.
0411 canada:. RCIMontreal: Spectrum. see T021 1,
0430 UK, BBC l ondon(OIl): African News. sees 1740.
0430 USA. ww CR 11 NashvineTN: The ProphecyClUb. seeT
0430.
Q.131 UK, BBC l ondon (.III): AfricanQuiz (1). see S 0330.
0431 UK, BBC l ondon (al): This Week andAfrica. Aroundup 01
theweek'spolitical developments across thecontinent.
0400
0400

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12:00 PM EST
9:00 PM PST

FREQUENCIES.
Angullla,CanlJtlean Beacon
Acstraua. Radio

0500-0600

0500-0600

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0500-()500 vi
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0500-0550

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Australia. Vl8K Katherine

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491Odo

AuslraJia,OelenseForces R
Bulgaria, RadiO
Cameroon. RadiO Cameroon
Canada , cae N Quebec Svc
Canada , CFRX Toronto
Canada. CFVPCalgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
China. Ctuna Radiolnll
Costa Rica, M v Worl(J R
costaRICa, Mv World R
costa RICa.RF Peace inn
Cuba RadiOHavana
C\'prus. BRT suemaucnar
EcuadJr. HCJB
Germany Deutsche Welle

135253s

0500-0000
0500-0515
0500-0600 aslVl
0500-0600

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Israel, kcusraer
lIaly, lARS
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llberia.lCN:R liberia 101
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MeXICO. aenc Mexico loll
Netherlands. Radio
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USA. KVQH los Anqeles CA
USA, KWHA Naalehu HI
USA,Voice 01America
7295al
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USA. WEWN BIrmIngham Al
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USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WINS Re(J lion PA
USA. WJCR uptonICY
USA. WRMI/R Miami Inti
USA. WANONewOrleans l A
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFA Okeechobee Fl
Vatican Stale. Vatican A
Zambia. ChrlSMn Voice
Zambia. RZambiall NBC 1
Zambia. RZ3mbiall NBC 2
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe BC
Swaziland, Trans World R
Ghana. Ghana Broadc COIP
Auslria. R scstre IoU

0530,0600
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UK, BBC Asian Service

0530-0600
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UK. BBC African Service

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SELEaED PROGRAMS .
Sundays

0500 Canada (North-Quebec): Ilevis/Sports.

0500 USA. Vffl CRI l l/ashvilleTN:The Old land Marlt Church, R.
t . Milchen presentstheHoly Way Hour IramChicago.
0500 USA. W.'le R 13 lIasl1vllleTN: USA RalllO News. See S 0.;00
OS05 USA. V,WCR131lashville TN: The Bible'S arenest Heroes
Sound traces Iromanimaled Bible stores.
050 ~
Canada (NorthOuetlec) Sound 01me Blues.
053) Austria.R acsma tmt Report IromAustria, SeeS0130
053J UK, BSC london (al): Postmark Alrica, SeeS 0330.
0537 Austria. RAu striatnn Postbox SeeS 01 37.

Mondays

Canada ( ~jorth Quebec) : NewslSporls

OSOO UK. BBC tcnocn (al): Newsday_See S 0200
050J USA. YiWCR'1NashVIlle TN: USA R~lo 'jews, SeeS 0400
0500 USA. VM' CR 13 NastMlleTN: The Extr;rordlnary Sceoce
RadIO Hour. JW McGinnIS01 ttlt Tes!a Society
0505 Canada (NOrlh-Q.Jebet): JazzBeat
0505 USA. ,"",VCR '1 tlashVll1e TN: TheGoIClen Age ot Radio
Theater.
S0405
0530 Austria. RAuslna lnl!: Report tromAustria, SeeS0130
0530 UK.BBCl ondon (al): Network Atnca See M 0330.
OS!})

see

Tuesdays
0500
0500
0500
0507
0530

053lJ

Canada (Norlh-Ouebec): NewslSports

UK, SBC l ondon (al): Newsday_See S0200
USA. \'vWCR 11&3 Nashville TN: SC:riptures lor America
(frye). See T0.;00.
Canada (North-Quebec): Tllal Time01tI1e Night
Austria. R Auslr~ InU: Report 110m Austria. SeeS 0130_
UK, SBC l ondon (al): Networlt Afnca. SeeM 0330.

Wednesdays

0500

0500 UK. BBC London (al): Newsday. SeeS O~OO.

0500 USA. Vffl CR #1&3 Nasllvine TN: secmres lor America
(Iivel. See T0400
0507 Canada (North-Quetlecj: rnat Time01theNight.
0530 Auslna. RAustnaInti: Report IromAustria Set! S0130.
0530 UK. BBC l ondon(al): ~jetwork Africa. SeeM0330

Thursdays
0500
OSOO
0500
0507
0530
0530

Canalla (Norlh-Ouebetj : NewslSports

UK. BBC t onccn (al): Newsday. See S 0200.
USA, WWC A #1&3 NashvilleTN: Scriptures lor AmerIca
(live). See T 0400.
Canada (Nortll-Quel>ec): That Time 01theNight.
AUSIIL3. RAustria Inti: Report fromAuslria, SeeS0130.
UK. SSCl ondon(al): Network Alrica. see M0330.

Fridays
0500
0500
0500

OS07
0530
0530

Canada (Norttl-Quebec): Ne\'l'SlSports.

UK,BBClondon (al): Newsday. seeS 0200.
USA. VtWCR 1 1&3 Nashville TN: Scnptures lor Amenca
(live), See T0400
Canada(NorthOuebet): That Time 01theNight.
Auslria, R Austria Inti: RePQI'tfrom Austria, See S0130.
UK, BBCl ondon (al ): NetworkAlrica, See M 0330.

Saturdays
0500

Canada(North-Quebec): Ne',\;,slSporls.

0500 UK. BSCl ondon(al): Newsday. See S 0200.

0500 USA. WWCR11&3Nashville TN: scrctures lor America
0507
0530
0530
0531

(live). seeT0400
Canada (Nortll-Ouebec): That Timecune Night.
AustrL3. RAustnaInti: Report IromAustna. See S0130.
UK. BBC l ondon (al): Alric.a~ News. SeeS 1740.
UK. SBC london(al): Talkalloul Alrica. seeW1615

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Sundays
UK, BBC lon don (al): World News. See S 0300
USA. WWCR 11 NashvilleTN: These Last Days.
eccanncne and crcnneces of the lady of theRoses.
0600 USA, WWCR 13 NashvilleTN: HamRadiO and MOle
Amaleur radio and saleMenews andtecnrsees wilh Len

w.nuer.

0615

UK. BBCLondon fal): Variable Feature. Speeiat reanses

and new series.

0630 Austria, RAuslnaInti: Report IromAustria_SEe S0130

0630 UK_BBCl ondon (al): AlriCan Perspecnse. A conSIdered
VIHI ollile and iSsues lacing me Alflcan cconnenr.
0630 USA. WNCR 11 Nashville TN: The Lutheran RelormatlOn
0637

061 4

0630

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Wednesdays

Hcur Richard sneener preachesIromChicagoHeights.

IIII:loiS

0607

Austna,R Auslria Inll: Postbox. See S 0137.

0614

0600 Canadian Forces NelWor<(CfNj: News. See S0300

0615
0630
0630

see

0600 Ganadaan screesNel\vork{CW): News See S 0300

0600 UK, BBC London (al): World News. SeeS 0300.
0600 USA\WI CR I I Nashville m:USA RadIOr~ews . See So-=oo

Mondays
0600
0600

USA. WWCR ~I NastMlleTN.For me People(hour I ). Chuck

Harder is back With his old Ialkradio snov
0614 CanadianforcesNetwork (CFN): Aeport 10 ure Peacekeepers
See S0305.
0615 UK, BBCLondon (al): Sports Roundup. See S 0315
0630 Austria, RAustriaInll: Report nom Austria. See S 0130
0630 UK. BBCLondon (al): Network Alrica
M0330
0630 USA. WWCR 13 flashville TN' The Hour01 Courage See S
0507

0600
0600

UK, BBClo ndon (al ): World News. See S 0300

USA.WWCR I I Nashville TN: Rock theUniverse, SeeS
13:>0
Canadian ForcesNetworll: (CFN): Report 10 tne
Peacekeepers, See S0305
UK. BBC London (al ): SportsRoundup See S0315
AUSlfla. RAUSlna Inll: Report Irom Auslrla.
S 0130.
UK.BBC London {al l: tl elwOIk Alrica. see M 0330
USA. WWCR 13 NashVIlleTN: TheHour 01Courage. See S

see

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0615
063Cl
063()
06J1l

0600 Canad13n Forces Nel\vork ICm) News See S 0300

0600

0607

0600 Canadian Forces NelVrorll: (CFNJ: News. See S 0300.

0600 UK, BBClondon (al ): World News. See S 0300
0600 USA. WWCR 11 NashvilleTN: USA narno News, See S
0400

0615
0630

January 1998

Fridays

Canadian Forces Network(eFN): News. See S0300.

UK. BBC London (ali: World News. See 5 0300.
0600 USA. WWCR; 1 P~ashv, lIe TN USA RarJio News SeeS
0400
0607 USA_WWCR 11 NashVIlle TN: for the People(hour 1). See
T 0607.
0614 Canadian forcesNetwork(cr N): Reportto me
Peacekeepers. See S 0305.
0615 UK. BBC London(all: Spor1s Roundup. see S 0315.
0630 Auslria. Rausma Inti aeco-t Irom Austria, See5 0130.
0630 UK.B8C London (al): "'etwcrkAfrica. See M 0330.
0630 USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN The Hour of Courage, See S
0000.

Saturdays
0600
0600
0606
0615
0615

0600 USA. WWCR I I NashVIlleTN: USA Radio News. See S 0400

061-1

MONITORING TIMES

UK. BBC l ondon (al): WOIklllews. See S0300.

UK.BBC l ondon (011): flelWork Africa, See M0330

USA, WWCR 13 Nashville TN: The Hour 01courace. See S
0000.

0600
0600

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Thursdays

Tuesdays

50

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0607.
CanadianForcesNetwork(CFNj: Reportto thePeacekeepers
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0630
0630

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0607.

06J{)

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See S0305
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0630
0631
0631

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USA. iVWCR 1 1 Nashville TIl USA Radio News. SeeS
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UK. BBCLondon laf): Alritan News. See S 1740.
UK. BeC London lal) A!ncan Quiz(1). See S 0330.
UK. BBC London (al): This Week and Af/ita. SeeA0431.

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AngUlIIa,caribbean Beacon
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12080pa
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Canada. CBC N Ouebec Svc
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Canada, CHNX Ha lil a~
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Costa Rica,RF Peace Inti
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0800-0900 as

0800-0900
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USA. WEWN Blrmlf!Oham Al
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Belgium, RV1aanderen Int
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11750as
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1()()().11oo

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10001100as
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USA. KAU Dallas TX
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USA, WJCR Upton KY
USA.WRMIIR M,amr Inti
USA. WRNO NewOrleans LA
USA, 'NWCR NashVille Ttl
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Vietnam. Voiceat

1000,1100
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10301100
10301100
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10001100

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Austn lia. Vl 8T Tent elk
Canada. CSC II Quebec Sve
Canada, CFRX Toronto
Canada.CFVP Calgary
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17830at

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SELECTED PROGRAMS .
Sundays

1145

1100
1100

Wednesdays

Taiwan(Voice 01AsIiII: PopSongs.

UK, BBC London (al): News Summary. Or,e minutenews
update
1101 UK. BBC London (al): In Praiseoj God. SeeS0230
11:W Taiwan(VOiCeoIAs.a): NevlS
1130 UK. BBC London {all : Play 01theWeek. Adill erenl radio
drama prOQram each week.
1130 USA. Ym CR I I Nashville TN: A Gall to Worship. Bernie
Timmerman.
1130 USA. mlCR 13 Nashville TN: The streetPreacher. See 5

1100
1100
1100
1100
1130
1130

0430
1145
1145

Taiwan (Voice01Asi.aj: let's Learn cbnese.

USA, Ym CR 13 NashVIlle TN: The American catholic. John
~II speaks bornChicaoo.

Monoays

1100 Taiwan (Voice 01 AsIa): Asi.an Culture.

1100 UK.BBC l ondon (af): Newsdesk. See S MOO
1100 USA, Ym CR 11 NasrlVdleTN: Truth House. EvanoeliStic
teachingsby E.C. Fullcher plus hisglobal shortwaveclub.
1100 USA. WWCR 13 NashVl11t1 TN: The MasonWeaver Show. A
Ialkradio prOQram Irom theAmerican Freedom Netwr:m.
1130 Taiwan(VOice 01 Asta): NevIS
1130 UK. BBClondon {all : John Peel. Trackslrom newly released
albums and sinllies lrom theconlemporary music scene.
1145 Taiwan (Voice01Asia): l et'sl earn Chinese.

Tuesdays

1100 TaIWan (Voice 01 Asia): TouringAsia

1100 UK. BBCl ondon (al): Newsdesk. See S0400.
1100 USA. Ym CR 11 Nashville TN: Truth House. See M 1100.
1100 USA. WWeR 13 NashvilleTN: The MasonWeaver Show. See
M 1100.
1130 Taiwan (Voice of Asia): News
1130 UK. BBCl ondon (OIl): Jazzmatazz. Therequest plClQram mat
livesup to its fille

1145

Taiwan (Voice 01 Asia): l et's l earn Ctunese.

Taiwan (Voice 01 Asia): World OfSCience.
UK.BBCLondon(al): N!W1desk. see S0400.
USA. wwtR 11 NastMIIe TN: Trulh Heese.see M1100.
USA. WNCR 13 NashvilleTN: The Mason Weaver Show. See
M1 1oo.
Taiwan (VOICe 01Asia): News
UK. BBC tenecn (.111: Variable ComedylOuiz Feature. These
programs alepaneilluilesandotherIiohteetertaement in a
format heJrd in America decades aQo.
Taiwan(VOICe 01 Asia): l et's l earn cnnese

Thursdays
1100
1100
1100
1100

1130
1130
1145

Taiwan (Voice 01 Asia): Variety.

UK. BBC London (af): Newsdesk. see S 0400
USA. YMCR I I Nashville TN: Truth House. See M 1100
USA. WWCR 13 NastMlleTN: The Mason Weaver Show. See
M 1100.
Taiwan (Voice01Asia): News
UK.BBCLondon (af): Variable Feature. See S0615.
Taiwan (VOICe 01Asia): Lets l earn Chinese

1154
1154
1154
1154

Radio NeUlerlands: Documenlary. IlaIy-eultlJraI Heritaoe

(30th). see A 0054.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. llaly-Young& Old (23Ih).
see F2354.
Radio flelhertands: Document.uy. The Netht'rlandsliberalism versus TheRules (16th). See F1454.
Radio Netherlands: Documenlary. Time(2nd), see W 1254_

Saturdays
1100
1100
1100
1101
1130
1130
1130
1145

Taiwan (Voice of Asia): l enefbOxJSongs by Request

UK. BBCLondon (al): News Summary. see S 1100.
USA. WWCR 13 NashviUe TN: Ne'NS!rOm IrNnd . A relayof
Irishnews Irom ATE Radio 1in DUblin.
UK, BBC l ondon (at): Variable Feature. SeeS0615.
Taiwan (Voice 01Asia): News
UK. BBCl ondon(af); JiveZone. See H 1615.
USA. YlWCR 13 Nashville TN: The Way01 Trulh. Gary Dull
rvangeliznlromPennsy1vania
Taiwan (VOiCe 01Asia): terslearn Chinese

PROPAGATIO/\ FORECASTING

Fridavs
1100
1100
1100
1100
11 30
11 30
1145
11 54

taiwan (Voice 01Asia): Music Gallery.

UK. BBClondon (af): Newsdesk, SeeS0400.
USA. WNCR 11 NashvilleTN: Truth House. see M 1100.
USA. wv.'CR 13 Nashville TN: The Mason Weaver Show. See
M l 1oo.
Taiwan (Voice 01Asia): News
UK. BBC lo ndon (al): Andy Kershaw's Wolld 01Music
Recordings 01diversemusic fromaroundtheworld
Taiwan (Voice 01Asia): Let's l earnChinese.
Radio Ne:llerlands: Documentary. Berlin',TheOnce and
Future Capilal (9th),See A 2354.

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1200-1300vl
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1 229
1200-1300
1200-1230 vl

Angullla,Caribbean Beacon
Australia, Radio
Australia, VlBA AliceSpg
Australia, Vl 8KKatherine
Australia, VlBT Tent el k
Brazil. Radio Bras
Bulgaria, Radio
Cambodia. NailVOice of
Canada. CBC NQuebec Svc
Canada,CFRXToronto
Canada. CFVP Calgary
Canada. CHNX Halifax
Canada. CKZN StJohn's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Canada. RCanada Inti
Ctuna Ehina Radio Inti
China, China Radio Inti

1200 1300
1200-1300
1200-1300a5
1200-1300
1200-1300

Costa Rrca,RF Peace Inti

Ecuador. HCJB
Eqt Gu inea, R East Atnca
EQr Guinea. Radio Atrica
France. Radio France Inti

1200-1230s
1200-1230 s
1200-1230
1200-1300taszvr
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300vi
1200 1230
1200 1250
1200 1230
1200-1206
1200-1300 vi
1200-1300

Germany, Universal Life

Germany, Universal life
Iran. VOIRI
Italy, lARS
Japan , RJapani NHKWorld
Jordan, Radio
Lebanon, Voiceof Hope
Malaysia. Ra dio
Malaysia.RTM KotaKinabalu
MongOlra, Voice of
Myanmar, Voice 01
Netherlands. Radio
New Zealand. R NZ Inti
Papua New Guinea. NBC
aossa.voce of Russia WS

1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300 vi
1200-1300 vi
1200-1300vi
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1215

12001300
1200-1300

Singapore.RSingaporeInl
South Korea, R Korea Inti

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UK, 83CAfrican Service

1200 1300

UK, BBC AsianService

1200-1300 as
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1200-1300

UK, BBCAsian Service

UK, BBC Asian Service
UK, BBC World Service

1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
12001300
1200-1300

Ukraine, R Ukraine Inti

USA. KAIJ DallasTX
USA, KlBN Salllk CityUT
USA, KWHR Naalehu HI
USA, Monitor Radio InU
USA, Voice of America

1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
1200-1300
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1230-1300
1230-1300
1230-1300
1230-1300
1230-1300
1230-1300
1230-1300
1230-1300

USA, WEWN BirminghamAl

USA, WHRI Noblesville IN
USA, WJCR Upton KY
USA, WRMI/R Miami Inti
USA. WRNONew Orleans LA
USA, W\VCR Nashville TN
USA, WYFR Okeechobee Fl
Zambia, Christian Voice
Zambia,R Zambia/ZNBC 1
New Zealand, R NZ Inll
Egypt,Radio Cairo
Bangladesh, Bangia aetar
Guam, AWRlKSDA
Netherlands, Radio
South Korea, RKoreaInt!
Sri l anka, Sri Lanka BC
Sweden. Radi o
Thailand, aaoro
UK, BBC World Service

1230-1 300a
1230-1300
1230-1300

USA, Voice of America

Uzbekistan, R Tashkent
Vietnam.Voice at

1240-1250
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UK, BBC Slow SpeedNews

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SELEaEOPROGRAMS
Sundays
1200
1200
1200
1200
1205
1215

1230
1245

Canada(North-Quebec): News.
UK, BBCl ondon (al): Play 01 the Week nrorn 1130). See S
1130.
USA, WWCR #1 NashvilleTN: Words of Hope (Paul Bryson)
Paul Brysonpreaches nomGeorgia
USA. W'WCR 13 Nashville TN: America's Jukebox Gold
Bryan McKaye spctnqhts themusic of the50's and 60's
Canada (North-Quenec): Fresh Air.
USI\, WlNCR #1 NashvilleTN: AskWWeR. A mailbag
program thatanswers listener questions about thebusiness
01shortwave and radio propagation
UK, BBC london(al): Lefler Iromernenca. Alistair Cooke
shares his inimitableview 01contemporary American life
UK, BBCLondon(al): Sports Roundup. See S 0315

Mondavs
1200
1200
1200
1205
1215
1230
1245

1205
1215
1230

54

UK. ~B C London(a/): World News. See S0300

USA.\'V\VCR#1 NashvilleTN: World Wide Country Radio
(Iepeat), See M 1200
UK, BBCLondon (al): World Business Report. See M 0905
UK, BBC London (al): Britain Today. See M 1215
UK, BBC London (al): Wesrm y The World Service's rustever regular drama (soap opera) serial.

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USA, WWCR 11 Nashville TN: Words01life.CharlesSmith.

UK, BBC London (al): Sports Roundup, See S0315.
USA, WWCR t 1 Nashville TN: WomenWho Overcom e
ShirieyBeaver of cautome offers advice for women.

Wednesdays
1200
1200
1205
1215
1230
1230
1245
1245
1254

UK,eBClo ndon (al l: World News,See S0300

USA.WWCR#1 NashvilleTN: World Wide Country aaoc
(repeat), News. weather and thebest 01country music
USA, WWCR #3 NashvilleTN: xewswarcn MagaZine(M-F).
David Smith compares world news [0 bible prophecy.
UK, BBCLondon(al): World Business Report. SeeM 0905
UK. BBCLondon (al): Bntam Today. News aboLI Brit lll1.
UK, BBCLondon (al ): Variable Feature, See S0615
UK. BBC London (al): Sports Roundup. See S 0315.

Tuesdavs
1200
1200

1230
1245
1245

1254
1254
1254
1254

UK, BBC London (at): World fl ews. See S0300.

USA, WWCR t l Nashville TN: World Wide Country Radio
(repeat). SeeM 1200
UK, BBCLondon (al): World Business Report. See M 0905.
UK,BBC l ondon (af): BritainToday. S3e M 1215
UK, BBC london(at): Variable Feature. See S0615.
USA, WWCR t 1 NashvilleTN: Word of life, Gary Allum.
UK. BBCLondon (al): Sports Roundup. See S 0315.
USA, WWCR " NashvilleTN: Foundationsot Truth. Robert
Diamond.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. Beriin--The Onceand
FutureCapital (71h) . See A 2354
Radio Netherlands: Documentary ltaly- Cutturat Herrtage
(28th). SeeA 0054.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary Ilaly--Young& Old (21th)
See F2354.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary, TheNetherlands-liberalismversus TheRules (14th), See f 1454.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary, Time (31st).Michele
Ernsting takes a lookathow anawareness 01times
influences ourdailylives.

Thursdays

1200 UK, BBC l ondon (al): WortCl NeVIS, SeeS O3DO.

1200 USA. WlVCR t 1 NashvilleTN: Wortd Wide Country Radio
(repeal)_ See M 1200.
1205 UK, BBCl ondon (al): World Business Report. See M 0905.
1215 UK, BBC l ondon (al): Britain Today, See M 1215.
1230 UK, BBClondon (af): FromQur OwnCorrespondent See S
0730

1230

USA, WWCR 11 NashvilleTN Ken's Counlry Classics. Key

Berryhill with country music nom a bygoneera.
1245 UK, BBClondon (al): Sports Roundup. See S0315

Fridays
1200
1200
1205
1215
1230
1230

UK, BBCl ondon (al): Wortd flews. See S 0300.

USA, Wllt'CR 11 NashvilleTN wendWide Country Radio
(repeat). SeeM 1200.
UK, BBCLondon (al): Wortd Business Report. See M 0905.
UK, BBCLondon (al): Britain Today. See M 1215.
UK, BBC London (al): Wesffl ay seeT 1230.
USA, WWCR ' 1 NashvilleTN: The Street Preacher. See S

0430
1245
1245

UK, BBCLondon (al): Sports Roundup. See 5 0315

USA, WWCR 11 NashvilleTN:First Hand, See M 0200.

Saturdays
1200
1200
1200
1200
1205
1205
1210
1215
1230
1245
1245
1255

Canada(North-Ouebet): World Report/Sports

UK,BBCl ondon (al): WOll d News. See S0300.
USA, WWCR 11 Nashville TN: USA Radio News. SeeS0400.
USA, WWCR 13 Nashville TN: Ken's Country Classics. See H
1230.
UK, BBC tcnecn (al): WOlld Business Report. See M0905
USA. WWCR11 NashvilleTN: Word01Wisdom. Howard
Kirkwood evangelizes from Arkansas.
USA, WWCR t 1 NashvilleTN: The ve wiro m Europe. Harvey
Thomaspresents the European point01 view on current
events.
UK, BBCl ondon (al): A Jolly Good Show. See S 1830.
USA. WWCR 13 NashvilleTN: World 01Radio, See M 0400.
UK, BBC l ondon (al): Football Extra. A review 01theweek's
action and the upcoming weeken d matches.
USA, WWCR 11 Nashville TN: BrotherEd. Ed Skultety
evangelizes Irom Qregon.
UK, BBCl ondon (al): Spotl ig ~ 1. Focus onthe meater.

FREQUENCIES . .. ....
AngUilla Caribbean Beacon
Australi a,Radio
Australia. Vl8A Alice Spg
Australia. Vl8K Ka therine
Australia. Vl8T Tent Crk
Belgium. Rvtaanoeren lnt
1300-1320
Brazil, Radio Bras
1300-1 400\11
Canada.
N Quebec svc
1300-1400
Canada. CFRX Toron to
1300-1 400
Canada. CFVP Calgary
1300-1 400
Canada. CHNX Harilax
1300-1 400
Canada, CKZN St John's
1300-1400
Canada, CKZUVancouver
1300-1330
Canada, RCanada Inti
China, ChinaRadio Inti
1300-1400
13001400
Costa Rica,RF PeaceInti
Cyprus, BRT International
1300-1400 vi
1300-1400
Ecuador.HCJB
1300-1330
Egypt, Radi o Cairo
1300-1400 as
Eqt Guinea. R East Alrica
13001400
Eqt Guinea, Radio Alrica
1300-1400 135M
ltaly,IRRS
1300-1400
Jordan, Radio
1300-1310
Liberia.LCNIRLiberia Int
1300-1400
Malaysia, Radio
1300-1400\11
Malaysia, RTM Kuching
13001400 vi
Malaysia.RTM KotaKinabalu
13001325
Netherlands, Radio
13oo1400occsnal NewZealand, R NZ Inti
13001330 S
Norway, Radio Norway Inti
1300-1400 vi
Papua New Guinea, NBC
13001400
Philippires, FEBC/R Inti
13001359
Poland, Polish R Warsaw

13001400
13001400
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13001400\11
1300-1400vi
1300-1325 s

cec

13001356

Romania. R Romania Inti

13001400

aussu.voce 01 Russia WS

1300-1400a5

SAtnca. cnannet Alrica

Smqapare.R Singapore tnt
Sri lanka. Sri lanka BC
Switzerland, Swiss R Inti
UK, BBC Arncan Service
17810al
1783Dal

1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400

1300-1 400

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UK, BBC Asian Service

13001400

UK, BBC World Service

13001400
1300,1400
1300,1400
1300,1400
1300,1400
1300,1 400

USA. KAIJ Dallas TX

USA. KNlS Anchor Point AK
USA. KlBN Salt l k City UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Momtor Radio Inll
USA. Voice 01America

1300-1 400
1300-1400
1300\ 400
1300,1400
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400
1300-1400vi
1302-1400
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1330-1359
1330-1400
1330-1400
1330-1400
1330-1 400
1330-1400
1330-1400
1330-1400
1330-1400
1330-1355

USA. WEWN Birmingham Al

USA, WGTG McCaysvilleGA
USA.WHRI Noblesville IN
USA, WJCR Upton KY
USA. WRMIIR MiamiInti
USA,WRNONewOrleans l A
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
USA. WYFR Okeechobee FL
Zambia,Christian Voice
Zambia, R Zambia!ZNBC 1
USA, WYFR Okeechobee Fl
Austria. R Austri a Inti
Canada. R Canada Inti
China. Heilongjiang PBS
Finland . Yl EiRFinland
Guam, AWRIKSOA
India,All India Radio
Netherlands, Ra dio
Serbia. Radio Yugoslavi a
Sweden, Radio
Turkey, Voice 01
UAE . Radio Oubai

1330-1400
1330-1355

uaoeosran R tastnent
Vietnam, Voice 01

1335-1345
1345-1400
1350-1400

Greece, Voice 01
VaticanSlate, Vatican R
South Korea. KBS-1

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SELECTED PROGRAMS.

~~ond~Mi~m.
R Vlaanderen Inti:Brussels Callin(l(daily).
Belgium's shortwave broadcasts have beenreducedIhis
season to lour aday. The 1300 broadcast is theonly
broadcast specifically lor North America.
1300 Canada (North-Quebec): World ReporVSports.
1300 UK, BBC l ondon (al): Newshour. Acomprehen sive lookat
the major topics 01 theday, plusup-to-the-minute
international and British news.
1300 USA, WiVCR #1NashvilleTN: Voice01 Hope. Oliver remsen
1300 USA, WWCR 13 Nashville TN: Rock the Universe, Rich
Adcock's selections 01rockrecordingsincludes some rare
treats.
1305 Bel(lium, Rvtaanderen Inti: Ra dioWorld. Updatesto
internalional broadcasting schedules
1311 Canada (NorthQuebec): Fresh Air.
1314 Belgium, RVlaanderen Inll: PO acx 26. Listener letters are
read andanswered in this mailbox program
1330 Austria. RAustria Inti: Report Irom Ausllia. See S 0130.
1330 USA, WWCR#1Nashville TN: Words 01 Hope,Eugene
Brownpreaches fromNashville, Tennessee.

~:n~~~ l ondon (al): Newshour. See S 1300

1300 USA, WWCR 13 NashvilleTN: USA Radio News (MF),See S
0400
1305 Belgium, Rvtaanoeren Inti: Press Review. Storiesonthe
front pages 01theday's papers
1306 USA, WWCR 13 NashvilleTN:Daybreak USA (hour1) {live
MF}. The first hour01a morning magazineprogram Irom
the USA Radio Network
1311 Belpiurn. R vnanoeren InU: BelgiumToday. Curren t affairs in
Belgium.
1315 Belgium. R vtaanoeren Inll: The Arts, Culturalevents in the
news.
131 5 USA,WWCR 11 NashvilleTN:RobertaReads theWord.
Roberta lig htlool.
1321 Belgium, RVtaand erenInti: Tourism. Takeanaudio tour of
thesights and sounds 01 Belgium.
1330 Auslria, R Allstria Inll: Report nomAustria. See S0130

1330 USA, W"NCR 11 Nashville TN: Bread 01 lile Victory Hour (1)
Brother JackMeeks offersa Ireebible study correspondence
course.
1330 USA, WiVCR #1 Nashville TN: Victory Baptist Church(214) .
David Robinson preaches IromHildebrand, NC.
1345 USA, WWCR 11 Nashville TN: Walking Through the land 01
Promises. Bobbie lively evangelizes from Tennessee.

~~~S~~l~
london(al): Newsnour See S 1300.
1305 Belgium, R vaancereo Inn: Press Review. SeeM 1305.

1309 Belgium, R veanoeren InU: BelgiumToday. seeM 1311 ,

1316 Belgium, R v aanoeren Inti: Focus onEurope. A report on
happenings intheEuropean Economic Community(ECC),
1320 Belgium, RVlaanderen Intl: SportsReport. A roun dup cune
results of seasonal sports activities
1330 Austria, R Austria Inti: Report rrcmAustria, See S0130.
1330 USA. WWCR #1 Nashville Ttl: WOfld01Radio. See M 0400

Wednesdays
1300
1305
1309
1316
1320
1330
1354
1354
1354
1354
1354

UK, BBCl ondon (al): NewshoUl. SeeS 1300.

Belgium. RVlaanderenInll: Press Review.
M 1305.
Belgium. R vuanoeren Inll: Belgium Today. See M 1311 .
Belgium. R vaanceren Inti: living in Belgium. Belgian
lifestyles and activities.
Belgium, R vaanoeren Inll: Green Society. Environmental
issueslacing Belgium.
Austria. RAustria Inti: Report from Austria. SeeS0130.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. aerun- The Once and
Future capital(7th), See A 2354
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. ltaly-CulluralHeritage
(28th).See A 0054
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. ItalyYoung & Old (21th)
See F2354.
Radio Netherlands:Documentary. The Netherlands
liberalism versus The Rules (14th). See F1454.
Radio Netherlands: Documentary. Time(31st). See W 1254.

see

!~oU~~~I~ondon (al): Newsnour. See S 1300.

Belgium, R vuanceren Inti: Press Review. See M 1305.

Belgium, R vuanoeren Inll: Belgium Today. See M 1311.
Belgium, R vtaanceren Inti: Around Town. Current
happenings in Brussels and othercentersof culture.
1315 USA, WWCR 11 NashvilleTN: livingWaters. Spencer Tiernan
evangelizes IromMinnesota,
1319 Belgium, R Vlaanderen Inti: The Arts. See M 1315.
1330 Austria, RAustriaInti: Report IromAustria,See S0130,
1330 USA,WWCR #1 NashvilleTN: The BigBackyard. Thirty
minutes 01 rock music fromAustralia.
1305
1309
1314

Fridavs

1300 lfK, BBC l ondon (al): NewshOur, See S 1300.

1306 Belgium, R vnaneeren Inti: Press Review. See M 1305.
1310 Belgium, R viaanceren Inti: Belgium Today. See M 1311.
1315 Belgium, RVlaanderenInU: Economics. Interview wilh a
person in the lield 01 business, finance, or consumerism or a
upclalinll report.
1320 Belgium, R viaanceren Ii'll!: International Report. A
background report on current affairs in Europe and
else where.
S 0130.
1330 Austria, R Auslria Inti: ReportIrom Austria.
1330 USA, WWCR 11 NashvilleTN: Battle Cry Sounding. Deborah
Green evangelizes from El Paso, Texas.

see

~~tu~!la~jorth_QUebeC):
World ReportlSports.
1300 UK, BBC london (al): Newsncur. See S 1300.
USA, WWCR 13 NashvilleTN: The Extraordinary Science
Radio Hour. SeeM 0500.
1305 Belgium,R vaanceren Inti: Press Review. See M 1305.
1310 Belgium. Rviaano eren Inti: Music Irom Banders.Theweekly
concert.
1311 canada (North-QuebeC): GoodMorning Quebec.
1315 USA, WWCR 11 Nashville TN: Bible Prophecy lor Today, Tom
Benvenutli analyzes Ihenews and itsapplication 10 Bible
prophecy.
1330 Austria,R Austria Inti:Report IromAustria.See S 0130.
1330 USA, W"NCR 11 NashvilleTN: Battle CrySounding. See F
1330.
1300

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canada, CKZN StJohn's
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Canada. RCanada Inll
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Cosla RIC.l.RF Peace Inti
trecn Rep. RadIO Prague
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USA. WHRI Noblesville Itl
USA. WJCR Upton KY
USA. WRMIIRMl3ml inn
USA. WRNONewOrleans LA
USA, WWCR NashVIlle Ttl
USA. WYf ROkeechobee f l
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Zambia. RZambia:ZNBC 1
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Canada, RCanada Inll
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Guam. AWRlKSDA
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Sweden , Radio
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SELEaED PROGRAMS . . . . . . .
Sundays
1400
1400
1400
1400
1401
1411
1430

t-l06

canada (North-Ouebec): News

UK. BBCLondon (al): News Summary.
S 1100
USA. \WI CR II Nasllville TN,Wmgs of Healmg. Evelyn
Wyan erec ts thiSinlernalional broadcast from los
Angeles
USA, WWCR '3 NashVilleTN: Answers fOf
Gospel
music anda sermon by Pastor Hooverof Wichila, Kansas.
UK, BBCLondon (al): Variable rearere. SeeS0615.
canada (Noflh-Ouebec): Sunday Morning u st hour)_
USA. WWCR 11 NashVilleTN WayneAvenueChurch at
God. J.C,WII!lt r preaches Itom Columbus. Ohio.

see

ure.

Mondays

1400 UK, ~BC l ondon (al): WorldNews. See S 0300

1400 USA. WWCR 11&3 t\asnville TN: USA RadIO flews.

140S

1430
1435
1459

Wednesdays
:400
1400

UK, BBCl ondon (al): Outlook, Anup-tc-me-mmute mi. oj

conversatco . conlfO'l!rsyandcolor Iromaround tne

,ro""
USA. WWCR 11 N3!:hville m' Lrte Issues. JohnWill(eon

events atlectmg everyday living

1406 USA. WWCR 13 NashVIlle TN Dayble.Jk USA (Ilour2)
(Iwe). The secondhour a! a mommgmagazine program
Irom the USA Ra<l1O Iletworll
1415 USA. WWCR 11 NashVIlle TN SplfJlual Awakening,James
Bean vllth wisdomIrom mescnptoes.
1430 UK,BBC l ondon (al): Varlilblef eature. See S 0615
1435 USA, WY/CR ,l NashvilleTN The Bright SpotHaUl.
Musicand meditation by Harold Sightter 01Greenville,
Soulh Carolll\a
1459 USA, WWCR 11Nashville TN: The NiceJewishBoy
Jonathan C.lhn.

1405
1-'OS
1406
1415
1430
1435
1459

0400

Tuesdays
1400
1400

1415

UK, ~B C l ondon (al) World News. SeeS 0300

USA.WWCR 11&3 NashVIlleTN : USA Radio News, See S

0400
UK, BBClondon (,11) nunook. SeeM 1405.
USA.w\'.'CR, l NashVilleTN: lile Issues. See M 1405.

1430
1435

56

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see

UK.BBC london (all: Outlook,

M 14OS.
USA. WWCR 11 NashVlne TN lite Issues. See M 1405
USA. \.........CR 13 fjashvrhe TN: Daybreak USA(hour2) (1M ).
SeeM 1406
USA. WWCR II Nashville TN :Sllmtual ANakenmg. See M
1415
UK. BBC lon don laf): MeoamLJ:. Ayouth macazme series
which covels newlIends. entertainment, sport and other
ISsues
USA, WWCR 11 r~asllVllle TN. Tile Brigllt SpolHour. See Pol
1435
USA. WWCR 11 NastMlle TfI: The !lo Ire Jewish Boy, see Po.I
1459

!~U~~~l~onllon
(al): World News. See S 0300
1400 USA, WWCR 11&3NashvilleTN: USA RadiO News. See S
1405
1405
1406

1405
1405

UK. BBC teoccn (al): World News. See 5 0300.

USA. WWCR 11&3 Nashville TN: USA Radio News. See S

0400.

see S

0400
140S

1415

USA, W"WCR 13 NashVIlle TN DaybreakUSA {hour 2) (live)

See M 1406
USA. WWCR, 1 fl ashville TN SpIritual Awakening SeeM
1415
UK. BBCl ondon (all: Mutlilrack HiHist. The UKTop 2f1
USA. V/WCR, I NashvilleTN: The Brighl ssct Hour. See M
1435
USA. WWCR11NashVille TN: The lIiceJewishBoy. See M
1459.

UK, BBCl ondon (al): Outlook, See M 1405

USA, WWCR 11Nashville TN ute Issues. See M 1405
USA. WWCR 13 NashvilleTN: Daybreak USA (hour 2) (live)
See M 1406
USA, WWCR 11 Nashville TN: SpirlluaJ Awakening.See M
141 5
UK, BBCLcr ulcn (al): Mullitrackx-sress New poprecords.
Interviews, newsand corroenncns
USA, WWCR 11 Nashville TN: The Brighl SpolHour. See M
1435

1459 USA, WWCR ' 1 NashVIlleTN: The NiceJewishBoy, See M

1459

Fridays
1.100
1400

UK. BBCl ondon (al): World News. See S0300.

USA. WII CR 11&3 Nash";l1e TN: USA Radio News. See S

0400.

see

1405 UK. BBC london (al): Outlook.

M 14OS.
1405 USA. WWCR 11 ~shville TN: life Issues. See Id 1405.
1406 USI\. WWCR '3 NashvilleTN: Daybreak USA (!lOur 2) (live).
SeeM 1406.
1415 USA. WWCR 11 rlashvilleTN: Spiritual Awakering, See M
1415.
1430 UK. BBC l ondon(al l: Mcltitrack Alternative, Latest
de\-elopmenlS on the Britishmusic scene.
1435 USA. 'NWCR 11 NashvilleTN: The BrightSpot Hour. SeeM

1435
1454

1454
1454

145-1
1454
1459

RadIO P1elherlands: Docu"enlary. Bertin-The Once andf uture

CafHtaI (9th). SeeA 2354
RadIOflelhertands: Docullentary. ltaty-tu ttural Hentage
(30th) .
A l)()5-l
RadIO NeUleriands: Docul1entary, Italy-Young&
(23th)
see f 2354
Ra(Jlo Neltler!an(JS: DOCUllentary. The Netherlands-liberalism
versus The Rules(16th). MIChele Emsting reviews the
background 01 tile counlry's liberal policies.
RadiONetherlands: Docu:nentary. Time (2nd). SeeW 1254.
USA. WWCR'1NashvilleTN: The NiceJewish Boy. See M
1459

see

oe

Saturdays
1400
1400
1400
1405

Canada (NoflhOuebec): World Report!Sports

UK, BBCl ondon (al): Wand News, See S 0300.
USA, WWCR 13 Nashville TN: Hour of rnnn. Wilham scnner
preachesIromNew YOlk City
UK. BBCl ondon (al): socnswono. Theweeklyspans

maaanne.
1411
1.130

CaMada (Noflh'Ouebec): Spectrum.

USA, WWCR,l NashvilleTN: Hour 01Reasoning. P. Mobley
ureacnes10 t ns congreoalionin OaklaMd. Calilornia.

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Australia. Vl6AAlice Spg
Australia. Vl 8KKatherine

Australia. Vl 8TTent Crll

Canada. CBe N Quebecsvc
Canada. CFRX rorcmo
Canada. CFVP Calgary

1500-1600
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1500-1 600
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Canada,CKlN StJohn's
Canada. CKl U vancouver
Canada. RCanada Inti
cuna. Chtna Radio InU
CostaRlca.RF PeaceInll
Ecuador. HCJB
EQI GUinea. R East Atnca
Georgia VOICe ot Hope
Guam. TWR:KTWR
Irelanll,WCo.asl R I,eland
Israel. Kollsrael
ltaly, lRRS
Japan. RJapanrNHK World

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Malaysia,RTM KolaKtnabalu
MeXICO, Radio Mexico tnt!
Mongolia, Voice 01
Myanmar, Voice 01
Nelherlands. Radio
New Zealand, RNZ lnn
Nigeria,Voiceot
Norlh Korea, R Pyongyang

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1500-1600 'II
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Papua NewGuinea, NBC
Philippines, FEBC/R Inti
01RussiaWS

nussa.voce

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15115am

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11 335eu

5925me
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UK. BBC African Service

619Oa1
15420al
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1500-1600

UK. BBCAskln Service

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S6CRadio One

Sn Lanka.Srilanka Be

1500-1600

UK. BBCWorld Servce

1500-1600
1500-1600
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1500-1600

USA. KAIJ Danas IX

USA, KJES MesQUIle nu
USA. KTBN saltl k CityUT
USA. KWHR r~aa leh u HI
USA. Voice 01Amenca

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USA. WGTG McCaysVIlleGA
USA. WHRI Noblesville IN
USA. WJCR upton KY
USA, WRMIIR Miami Inl!
USA, WRNONewOrleans LA
USA. WWCR Nashville TI-,I
USA.WYFROkeechob'*! Fl
vatcan Stale, VaticanR
Zambia, Chrislian Voice
Zambia. RZambiaJZNBC1
Zambia. RZambiaJZNBC 2
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Iran, VOIRI
Seychelles, FEBA Radi o
UK, BBCAfrican Service

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1550-1600 a

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ValicanState, VaticanR

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SmaED PROGRAMS
Sundays

1500 Canada(NorthQuetecl: flews.

1500 UK. BBC London (all : NewsSummary See S 1100.
1500 USA. WWCR 1 1 NashvilleTN: Poursquare Gospel Tidinos.
J.E. Cartier presents a hallhour 01gospel music and
meditation.
1500 USA. WWCR 13 NashYllleTN: Church 01 theBarvesr.
Clarence McClendon preachesIromlos Angeles.
1501 UK. BBCl ondon (all: SCIence Feedtl3dl (5).l isteners'
Questions. comments and Que' iesabout WOrld servce
science programs are answered
1501 UK. BBCl ondon fal l: seeing Stars (1). A dISCUSSiOn 01
ast,onomiCal observations and speoaJ events lor tile near
future.
1501 UK, BBCl ondon (all : Soundby'le (2). Presenter Violet Benm
plays withvirtual games andmoreon tne ntormaaon
sUpt!rhighway
1501 UK, BBC l ondon (af): Waveguide (4). The latest inlormation
onIIltematiOnal broadcaSlingwith reviews 01 recewers and
news abOut rtcepli01.
1501 UK, BBC l ondon (af): Wildtract (3). The natura!world, with
emphasis on wbatpeoplecan see. hear. photOl;jraph or
coIl1lor memsebes
1505 canada ( r~orth'Q ue bec) : Sunday Morning (2ndhour)
151:1 UK.BBCl ondon (af): VariableFeature, SH S0615
1530 UK.BBCl ondon(al,: BBCEnolish. For earners 01 EnglISh
1530 USA. W'....CR 11 NaShvllleTN: A Temple01Jesus Chnsl.
Cleveland Waters preaches 110m PhIladelphia

Mondavs
1500
1500
1500

UK, eBCl ondon (af;: World flews. SeeS0300

USA. 'IVWCR 11 NashvilleTN: The NICe Je'HIsh Boy. S~ M
1459
S
USA. VN/CR 13 NashvilleTN: USARadIONews,

0400
1502
1505
1505
1530

1545

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Stevens 01Baltirnoreanswers astener Questionsaboul
religion.
UK, BBCl ondon (at): Focus on Atrica. See S 1705.
USA. WWCR 13 NashvilleTN: Prescription tOlHeatlh (live)
A programabout natural health toods and dietsupplements.
UK, BBCl ondon (al): l earning Zone. For peoplewho want
10learn moreabout sublects such as science, health, the
wOfld and work andliteraturewhilepracticing English
listeningskills
UK. BBClo ndon (al): B8CEnglish. SeeS 1530.

1500

Tuesdavs
1500

UK, Gac london (al): WOlld News. See S0300

USA. WWCR 1 1 Nashville TN: The NiCeJewish Boy. See M
1459.
USA. WWCR 13 NastMlle TN: USA Radior.lews. See S

1502

USA. WWCR III Nashville TN: TheGrace Hour (Iivtll See M

1500
1500

0400
1502

1505 UK. BBC l ondon (al): Focus onAfrICa. See S 1705.

1505 USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN: Prescnption ror Health llive).
S'*! M 1505.
1530 UK. BBC le ndon(al): BBC Ent~tish . See S 1530.
1545 UK. BBC tcnocn (af): learning Zone See M 1530.

Wednesdays

1500 UK. SBC l ondon(at): Wol1Cl fjews. See S 0300

1500 USA, WWCR 1 1 tus hvllleTN: TM NiCe Jewisll Boy. S~ Po(
1459
1500 USA, WWCR 13 NashvilleTN: USA RadiO flews. See S

1502

0400.

see S

1511

Canada (Nonh'Ouebec): BasicBlack.

1459
USA. WWCR 13 NashYllle TN USARadiO News. See S

0400

USA, WWCR #1 NashVIlleTN: TheGrace Hour (live). See M

UK, BBC l ondon (al l: Focus onstnea. See S 1705.

USA. W\VCR 13 Nashville TN: Prescription lor Health (live).
See M 1505
UK, BBClon don(al): l earning Zone See M 1530
UK, BBC l ondon (al ): BBCEnglis" See S 1530

Fridavs
1500

1500 Canaoa(Nor1h-Quebecl: News.

1500 UK. BBCl ondon(al): Waner News. SeeS 0300.
1500 USA. VMCR 11 NashVIlleTN: USA Radio News.

1502.

1502.

1530
1545

Saturdays

1505
1505

11

1505
1505

0400.
1502 USA. WWCR 11 NashvilleTN: The GraceHour (live). See
M1502.
1505 UK. BBClondon(al): FocusonAlrica, SeeS 1705.
1505 USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN: Prescriptionlor Health
(M). See M 1505.
1530 UK. BBC london (al): l earning Zone. S~ M 1530.
1545 UK, BBClondon(al): l earning Zone. see M 1530.

0400

USA, W/CR 1 1 Nashville TN: The GraceHour (fivel_SeeM

J~U~~~rlondon(al
l: World News. see S0300
NashvilleTN: The fliceJevllshBoy. See M
1500 USA, WWCR
1502

USA, WWCR" Nashville TN: The NiceJewish Boy, See M

1459.
USA, WWCR 13 Nashvlll6TN: USARadio Ne'Ns. SeeS

USA, WWCR 13 NashVIlle TN: TheGreat American Polka

Show. Anhour01polka lawritesbothold and new.
UK, BBC l ondon (a'): Sportsworld. See A 1405.
USA. \YWCR 11 NaslMlle TN: The Bible's GreatestHeroes.

1505 UK, BBC l ondon(all: FocU5 on Atnca. See S 1705.

1505 USA. WWCR 13 Nashvillt TN: PrescripttOl\ for Health (Ii....e) .
S~M 1505
1530 UK. BBC l ondonlall : learning Zone. seeM 1530.
1545 UK. BBC l ondon(all : lealflingZone. SeeM 1530.

1500

1500

Ltk, BBCtcoocn(al): World NevIS See S0300.

1500

see S 0505.

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Algeria R Algiers Inti

Anguilla.Caribbean Beacon
Australia. Radio

1600-' 700 vi
16001700 ,'I
, 6001700 vi

Australia. VLB AAliceSpg

Aus tralia. VLBK Katherine
Aus tralia. Vl8T Tent erk
Bangladesh,Bangia Betar
Canada, CBC N Quebec Svc
Canada. CFRX toronto
Canada, CFVP Calgary
Canada, CHNX Halitax
Canada, CKZN St John's
Canada. CKZU Vancouver
Canada, R Canada lmt
Canada. R Canada lntl
Ctuna Chma Radio Inti
CostaRica, AdvWorld R
Costa Rica.Rf Peace Inll
Ethiopia, Radio
France. Radio France Inti

1600-1610
1600-1700 vi
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1600-1700
1600-1630 $
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1500-1700
16001700as
1600-1700

Georgia,Voice 01 Hope
Germany, Deutsche Welle
9735al
9585as
Germany.Overcomer Minislr
Guam. AWRiKSDA
Iran, VOIRI
Italy, lARS
Jordan. Radio
Lesotho,Radio Lesotho
Malaysia, Ra dio
Mexico. Radio Mexico Inll
New Zealand, R NZ Inll
Nigeria, Voice of
Norway, Radio Norway Inti
Pakistan. Radio
PapuaNew Guinea. NBC
Russia.Voice of RussiaWS
71 15al
6175af
9470af
9505al
SAtnca. Cr,annel Africa
South Korea. R Korea Inti
Sri Lanka, Sri LankaBC
Swaziland, Trans World R

15160me
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94353S
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2485do

11660a5

6080as

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UK, BBC Asian Service

98853S
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6195eu
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1600-1700
1600-1700
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13815am
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16001700
1600-1700
1600-1700
16001700
16001700
16001700
1600-' 700
1600-1700

USA, KAIJ Dallas TX

USA, KTBN Sail Lk City UT
USA, KWHRNaalehu HI
USA, Monitor Radio inu
USA, Voice 01 America
9575as
9645as
13710al
13600a'
17895al
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USA, WEWN Birmmqham AL
USA, WGTG McCaysville GA
USA, WHRI NoblesvilleIN
USA, WJCR Upton KY
USA, WRMIIRMiamiInti
USA, WRNONewOrleans LA
USA. WWCRNashville TN
USA. WYFROkeechobee FL

1600-161Oa
1600-1625
1600-1700
1600-1 700 'II
1600-1700'11
1610-1615
1615-1630rntwh'
1615-1700

Vatican Slate,Vatican R
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Zambia, ChristianVoice
Zambia, RZarnbialZNBC 1
Zambia, RZambialZNBC 2
Bangladesh, Bangia Betar
Estonia, Radio
UK, BBC African Service

1615-1645 as
1615-1700

UK. BBC Alrican Service

UK. BBC Asian Service

16151700 as
1615-1630
1630-1659s
1630-1700
16451700 irrey
1645-1655
1645-1700
16451700
16501700
16501700 mtwhl

UK, BBC WorldService

UK, BBC World Service
Canada, R Canada Inti
Egypt. Radio Cairo
Alghanistan, Radio
Israel, Kol Israel
Israel. Kollsrael
Iankistan.Radio Dushanbe
Eql Guinea, Radio Alrica
NewZealand. RNZInti

11875na
9400am
13760am
7490na
9955am
15420am
9475am
11550as
17760eu
9940va
5940eu
3330al
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6190al
17830al
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15105am

12160am
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11940al
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SELECTED PROGRAMS . . . . .
Sundays

1615

1600 Canada (North-Qu ebec): News.

1600 UK.BBCLondon (al): World News. SeeS 0300.
1600 USA, WWCR#1 NashvilleTN: Prophelic Word Program. A
messageof salvation from Dan Kubish01 the House01 Yaweh
1600 USA.WWCR"'3 NashvilleHl: The WholeTruth. Anthonee
Patterson conducts services 'rom Pennsylvania
1605 Canada (rlorth-Ouebec): Sunday Morning(3rdhour).
161 5 UK. BBCLondon (al): Concert Hall,Classical music concerts
1630 USA. WWCR #1 NashvilleTN: Cross RoadsBaptistChurch
lloydFerguson preaches trcm Lawrenceville.Georgia.

Mondavs

UK. ~ BC London(af): World News. See S0300.

USA,VNlCR#1 NashvilleTN: TheOld Time Religion Hour.
BrotherHogan will send youa BiblefromAthens. Tennessee.
1600 USA.WWCR" 3 Nashville TN: USA Radio News. See S0400.
1606 USA, WWCR,3 NashvilleTN: Freedom's Call (live). So Grill
hosts nus talk radio program.
1615 UK. BBC London (af): Fast Track. The latest African sports
news and action.
1615 USA, WWCR#1 NastlVilie TN: The liVing WatersBroadcast.
Father Bobcusteevangelizes Irom Louisiana.
1630 USA. 'lNIC R11 NashvilleTN: TheTime01Deliverance.
6enjamm Smith preac hes fromtheTime 01 Deliverance
Evangelistic Church in Philadelphia
1645 UK.BBCt endon (af): TheWorldToday. Exarnnesthorouohly
atopical aspect01 the International scene.
1645 USA,WWCR ~ 1 rJashvil1e TN: Wisdom from the Word. C
Milton Grannurn preaches n om theNe..... Covenant Churchin
Philadelphia
t600
1600

Tuesdavs

1600 UK. G'SC London (af}; World News See S 0300

1600 USA. VNlCR ~ 1 Nasbvrlle TN:The Old TimeReligion Hour.
SeeM 1600
1600 USA.WI,"CR ~3 Nast mlle TN: USA Radio News. See S0400
1606 USA. VNICR"'3 Nashville TN: Freedom'sCall (live) See M
1606.

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UK, BBC London (al)' Money Focus, Alricanbusiness

maqazme.
1615
1630
1645
\ 645

USA, VNlCR#1NashvilleTN: The LivingWatersBroadcast

SeeM 1615
USA,WWCR 11NashvilleTN: TheTime 01 Deliverance. SeeM
1630.
UK. SBC London (al): TheWorld Today, SeeM 1645.
USA,WWCR / 1Nashville TN: Wisdomlrom theWord. See M
1645.

Wednesdays

1600
1600

UK, SBC London(al): World News. See S0300

USA, WWCR 11Nashville TtJ: The Old Time Religion Hour.See
M 1600.
1600 USA. WWCR 13 NashvilleTN: USA Radio News. See S 0400.
1606 USA,WWCR #3 NashvilleTN: Freedom's Call (live). See M
1606
1615 UK, BBC London (al): Talkabout Alrica. Telephone
conversations with BBC correspondents on late-breaking
etncanevents.
1615 USA, WWCR ,1 NashvilleTN:The Living Waters Broadcast
See M 161 5
1630 USA, WWCR / 1 NashvilleTN: The Time 01 Desverance. See M
1630
1645 UK. BBC London (al): TheWorld Today. See M 1645
1645 USA, WWCR #1 Nashville TN: Wisd om nom theWord. See M
1645

~~oU~~~~~ondon
(al): wcno News. See S0300
NashvilleTN: TheOld Time Religion Hour. See
1600 USA, WWCR
1'1

1600
1606
1615
1615

M 1600
USA, WWCR 13 NashvilleHl ' USAaaoo News. SeeS 0400
USA. WWCR 13 NashVill eTN:Freedom's Call(live), See 1,\
1606
UK,BBC London (al ):JiveZone, Get in thegroove With ail the
latestsoundson the Afro musicscene
USA, WWCR / 1 NashvilleTN: The Living waters Broadcast
SeeM 161 5

USA, WWCR 11 Nashville TN: The Timeof Deliverance. See

Ml630,
1645 UK, BBC London (al): TheWorld Today. See M 1645.
1645 USA, WWCR / 1Nashville TN: Wisdom lrom theWord. See
M 1645.

1630

Fridavs

1600 lJi<, BBCLondon (al): World News. See S0300.

1600 USA, WWCR 11 Nashville TN: The Old TimeReligion Hour.
See M 1600,
1600 USA, WWCR 13 Nashville TN: USARadio News, See S0400.
1606 USA, WWCR 13 NashvilleTN: Freedom's Call (live). See M
1606.
1615 UK. SBC London (al): Alrican Perspective. See S0630.
1615 USA, WWCR 11NashvilleTN: The Living WatersBroadcast.
See M 1615.
1630 USA. WWCR / 1 NashvilleTN:The Time of Deliverance. see
M 1630.
1645 UK. BBC London (al):TheWorld Today. See M 1645.
1645 USA, WWCR 1 1 Nashville TN: Wisdom 'rom theWord. See
M 1645.

~tu~~n~l~Nortt
t_ Ouebecl: News.
BBC London (al): World News. See S0300.

1600 UK,
1600 USA, WWCR 11 Nashville TN: tet tneBible Speak. James
Hickey witha program110m New Testament Christianity in
Oklahoma.
1600 USA. WWCR 13 Nashville TN: USA Radio News. See S 0400.
1605 USA, WWCR 13 Nashville TN: TheGoldenAge of Radio
theater. See S 0405
161I Canada (North-Ouebec]: Double Exposure.
1615 UK. BBC London (al): spotswcnc. See A 1405.
1615 USA, wweR / 1 NashvilleTN: Eleillal Good News. Germaine
Lockwood 01 theCon!lregalion 01Messiah in Oktanoma
teaches Irom theOld Testament.
1630 USA, WWCR / 1 NasttvilleTN: The Showers 01Blessings
BroadcastEd McAbee sermonizes netcrea live
congregation.
1645 USA, WWCR /1 Nashville TN:Words 01Hope.See S 1330.

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1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
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1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1730

AUSlralia. VlSA AliceSpO

Australia. vt8K Katherine
Auslralia. VL8T Tent Crk
canada.cae N Ouebec Svc
Canada. CfRXToronto
Canada. CFVPcalgary
Canada. CHNX Halilax
canada, CKZN 51 John's
Canada, CKZU Vancouver
China. ChIN Radio Inll
Costa RtCl,RF Peace Inti
Czech Rep. Radio Plague
Egypt, Radio cairo
Eqt Guinea, Radio Alriea
FIance. Radio France Inti

1700-1800
1700-1800 vi
1700-1800

Gelmany.OvelComel MiniSlr
Italy. IRRS
Japan. RJaparvNHK World

1700-1800 vi
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1700-1800

1700-1800
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New Zealand, R NZ lnll
Norway, Radio Norway InU
Papua NewGuinea, NBC
Romania, RRomania Inti
Russia.Volce 01 Russia WS

1700-1730
1700-1730
1700-1800
1700-1800

9890eu
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Slovakia,AWR Europe
Swaziland, Trans World R
UK, BBCAtrican Service

1700-1745

UK, BBCAsianService

1700-1800

UK, BSC World Service

1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800

USA. KAU Dallas TX

USA. KTBN Salt l k City UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. Monitor Radio Inti
USA, Voice01Ameriea

USA, VOiCe 01Am!rica

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1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
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USA.WGTG McC3ysville GA
USA. WHRI NoblesvilleIN
USA. WINBRed lion PA
USA, WJCR Upton KY
USA, WRMIIR Ml3mi Inti
USA. VlRNO New Olleans LA
USA, 'MYCRNashvilleTN
USA. WVfRm eecnceee n
Vatican Stale, vatcanR
Zambia ChriStianVoice
b mbl3 RbmbialZNBC 1
Zambia. RZambialZNBC 2
Zllllbabwe, Zimbabwe BC
Austria, R Austll3 IIllI
Belgium. RVlaande,en Inl
Georgia. Radio
Guam. AWR/KSOA
Netherlands, Radio
Philippines, R Pllipinas
Slovakia, R SIClv.okia mn
Swaziland. transWorld R
UK. BBC Alnean Service
Vatican Stale,Vatican R
Bangl3:leSh, Bangla Betar
India, AllIndiaRadio

17451800
17451800
1755-1800
18001900

Swaziland, Trans World R

UK. BBCAsian Service
Georgia,Voice01Hope
Anguilla,Caribbean Beacon

1800 1900 mlwhl

11775am

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1800-1900

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18001900 vi
1800 1900 vl

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1800 1900 vi

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1800,1900
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Australia, Vl 8T Tent erk
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Br az~ Radio B/Js
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Canada.CFVP Calgary
Canada,CHNX Halilax
Canada. CKlN 51 John's
Canada CKZU vancouver
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3380do
6065eu
7200eu
11580sa
5875eu
6035af
11975al
17725al
7105me
9420au

22002230
22002300
22002300

Albania, RTirana Inti

Anguilla,Caribbean Beacon
Australia, Radio

22CO2300 vi
2200-2300 vi
22002300
2200-2300
2200-2300
2200-2300
22002300
22002300
22002300
22002229

Australia. Vl 8K Katherine
Australia, Vl8T Tent Crk
Bulgaria, Radio
Canada, CSC N Quebec Svc
Canada, CFR XToron to
Canada, CFVP Calgary
Canada,CHNX Hairlax
Canada, CKZN St John's
Canada, CKZU Vancouver
Canada, R Canada Inti

22002300
2200,2230
22002300
2200,2300 vi
22002245
22002300
2200-2215
2200-2230
2200-2230

China, ChinaRadio Inll

China, ChinaRadioInll
Costa Rica.RF Peace Inll
Cyprus. BRT International
EgYPt RadioCairo
ret Guinea, Radio Africa
Ghana. Ghana Broacc Corp
Hungary, Radio Budapest
India,All India Radio

6025eu
6090am
9660pa
17795pa
5025do
4910do
7530eu
9625do
5070do
6030do
6130do
6160do
6160do
5995va
11705as
i170eu
3985eu
i385am
6150do

2200-2225
2200-2225
22002300
2200-221 5
2200-2300
22002225
2200-2300
2200-2215
220022305
2200-2300 vi
2200-2300

Iran, VOIRI
I!aly. RAl lnll
Lebanon, Voiceof Hope
l lberia.LCN/R liberia rot
Malaysia, Radio
Moldova. R Moldova Inti
New Zealand, R NZInti
Nigeria, FRCN/Radio
Norway, Radio Norway Inll
PapuaNeVI Guinea, NBC
sussa.vcce 01RussiaWS
7180eu
7205eu
Serbia, Radio YugoslaVia
Sierra Leone.SLBS
Slovakia. AWR Europe
SolomonIslands, SIBC
Spain, R ExteriorEspana
Syria, Radio Damascus
Taiwan. Taipei Radio InU
Turkey. Voice 01
UK. BBC AlricanService
UK. BBCAsian Service

21302200
21452200 a

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9655eu
6050eu
6070me
1371 0al
17735pa
9540as
11645au

9850eu
7415al
15185~a

9595as
15205as

13755pa

15510as

7235va
11945va

9735va
1369Qva

9805...a
1515Qva

15050am

21465am

2200 UTe
5995va
15150\1a
n aOal
9635eu
21465am

7235va
17820al
9535al
9920eu

9805va

73<:5af
21455am

9670as
11865al

9690al
15275va

9765as

7410f!u
11 620va

9650eu
1171 5au

9910au

6090as
4935do

13630na
6150do

329000
4770do
9345eu

4990do
11700am

6095eu
9780eu
5990eu
9570eu
5965eu
7440eu

7285eu
9815eu
6105eu
7170eu
9890eu

13760am

6175eu
7180eu

6480eu
7410eu
13610au
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5965as
9740pa
5975am
9410eu

11835al
5975pa

22:102300
22002300
22002300
2200-2300
2200-2300
2200-2300
2200-2300
2200-2300

USA, WEWN Birmingham Al

USA, WGTG McCaysville GA
USA.WHRI Noblesville IN
USA, WINBRed lion PA
USA, WJCR Upton KY
USA, WRM I/RMiami Inti
USA, WRNO New Orleans LA
USA. \VWCR NashvilleTN

2200-2300
22002300vi
2230-2255
2230-2300
2230-2227
2230-2300
22302300
2240-2250
2245-2300
2245-2300

USA. WYfROkeechobee Fl
Zambia. RZambiaJZNBC 1
Austria. RAustriaIn\l
Cuba. Radio Havana
Czech Rep, Radio Prague
Iraq. Radio IraqInti
Sweden, Radio
Greece. Voice 01
Ghana. Ghana aroaoc Corp
India.All India Rad io

11580al
4910do
5945eu
6000na
5930na
11785me
6065eu
9420au
3366do
74' Oas

7325eu
11645au
491 5do
9705as

9950as

2245-2300

Vatican State, VaticanR

7305au

9600au

11830au

6195eu

7415al
15185as

9595al
15205as

13615na

17695eu

22002300
22002300
2200-2300
2200-2300
22002300

UK. SBC World Service

7325eu
9410eu
9915sa
11750S3
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13760am

12160am
17845eu
4965al

13845arn
21525eu

15685am

9965eu
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9435as
13755pa

17715ca
9660pa
17795pa

11695as

99OOe"

22002230mtwhl

6120as

17555pa

9700eu

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USA, KTBN Sall lk City UT
USA, KWHR Naalehu HI
USA, MonitorRadio lntl
USA, Voice of America
15185as
' 5290as
USA, Voice01 America

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2200-2230
2200-2300 vi
2200-2300
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2200-2230
2200-2300
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22002300

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11695as

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6150pa
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15115pa
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5940eu
7320f!u
6100eu
3316do
6055eu
5020do
6125eu
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581 0eu
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590535
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3955eu
9560am
11765am
5905eu
6085eu
13815am
15590am
7560pa
13770sa
7215as
15305as
6035al
13710al
5825eu
9400am
9495am
11950ca
7490na
9955am
15420am
7435am

2200-2300
6180eu
11750sa

7135eu

9840eu
7410eu
11620va
6175pa
9675pa

9650eu
1171 5au

9910au

11900as

4770do

4990do

5965eu
7360eu
6185eu

7105eu
7440f!u

7125eu
9890eu

11775al
13610au
9985eu
5965as

6195a5

7110as

5975am
9590na
120BOpa
591 5eu
71 50na

6110am
9660a5
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5940eu
7205eu

6175na
9825am
6020eu

17555pa
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9890as
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12080at

11760as

12160am

13845am

13615na

9475am
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6155eu

13730al

7345na

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Australia. Vl8t<. xamenne

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2300-0000

Australia.VL8T Tenl erk

Canada. CBe N nuetecsvc
Canada, CFRX rcrcmc
Canada. eM Calgary
Canada. CH f.X Hahl.u
Canada. CKIN stJcnns

2300-0000
2300-0000
2300-0000

2300-000o
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2300-2330

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Canada RCanada Inti

~960am

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Cosla RICa. AdvWorld R

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CostaRICa RF Peace Iml

Cuba. Badm -tavana
tcvct. RadiO CairO
GeHluny Deutsche Welle
Buam. AWR.1I.SDA
Gualemala. Adv World R
IncllJ. All India RadIO
l ebanon. Voice 01Hope
ltberlJ.LCN'Rllbelia Inl
MalaYSia. Radio
Moldova. R Moldova inn
New ZealJnd, R NZ 1011
r/Igeua FRCWRadlo
Norlh KOIea, R Pyongyang

2300-2330
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2300-2350

2300-0000
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2300-0000
2300-2325
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ROIIMnia, R Romania Inti

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USA. KTBrj Salt l k City UT
USA. KWHR Naalehu HI
USA. r.l omtor RadiOInll
USA. VOiCe 01AmerICa

USA. W~WN Birmingham A:.

USA. VJGTG McCaysvrl1e GA
USA. WHRI NOblesVille Irl
USA.VlltlS aeo ucn PA
USA. VlJCR UptonKY
USA. VlRMliR MIamIInU
USA. VIRNO NewQ,!eans LA
USA. WWCR Nashville TN
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Canada. R Canada Inll
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SELEmD PROGRAMS
Sundays
2300
2300

2300
2300

Canada (North-Ouebec): TheWorld Itns weekend

TheWorld This weekend Halt-hour
01 up-to-tne-rmnute news ana business reports. a teature
documentary, artsana entertainment stones \\Ill! Michael
Crabb, sports Will! Dnnurs Cers. anda newsque.
USA. WWCR 11 NashvilleTN: A Bngtller Day. Jane
Rogowski evangelizes Irom Maryland
USA. \'fo.VCR 13 Nashville TN HamRadIOandMore(Iive)_

canaea. RCI Monlreal

S~S0600

2315
2330
2330

USA. W\YCR I I Nastlvrlle TN The Illuminated Word. C.M.

Hunt preaches
Ca-.ada. RCI Montreal: Sound Advice. RICk Phillips
presents llie
weekly gUide to the w0l1d 01 ctasscat
music and retordlngs (9-J minutes)
USA. VmCR 11 Nashville TN: ChurCh of thelord Jesus
Ctlns!. Stlel10nRaphaple3CtlesIromPhlladelphlJ.

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Mondays
2300
2300
2300
2300
2330
2330

CanadaI NorthO~llec l: The World at s.

Canada:. RCI Montreal The wonc at Sn, CBC radio's meter
newscast 01 the clay. presentlllg tneImportant stories in
depth an:i IJl ctlnle,;1
USA. WWCR 11 NashVIlle TN Sweet liberty (lIVe). Jackie
Panu host ltllStalk ladlO program.
USA. WWCR 13 NashvilleTN:let's Talk HeaJlII (Irve). Kurt
uo-stacn a hol,stlC erectoner, answers listeners' medical
questions
canaoa ( rlOlth-O~beC): AsIt Happens
Canada, Rei Montreal: As It Happens, Mary LOJ Fmlay and
BarbaraBwd host thIS dilly phone-in sllowtN t
mlrOduceslisteners 10 me rewsmaeers cute l1ay and
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2300
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2330

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Canada. RCI Monlreal The Worldat Si ~ . See M 2300
USA. WWCR 11 NashVIlleTN: Sweel llb erty (I,,e), See M
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Canada (Nontl-OuebeCI: As II Happens
Canada. RCI Mon1real, As II Happens. SeeM 2330

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canada, RCI Montreal:As It Happens. See M 2330

Thursdays
2300
2300
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Canada. RCI Monlreal: The World .11 SI ~ See M 2300.
USA.\W/CR ' 1 Nasl'lVlfle TN Sweet l jberty(live).See M

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2330
2330

Canada (flortl'lOuebec). As II Happens

Canada. RCI Monllea1: As It Happens. See M 2330.

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2300 USA. \'A'/CR' 1Nashville Ttl. Equal Titre (hvel RIChard CoolL
2300 USA. WWCR . 3 t/.ashVllte TN LeIS Talk aeann (lr.-e). See M
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2330 Canaaa. RCI Montreal: As It Happens, SeeM 2330
2354 RadIO Netherlands Documentary. 8erlln- the Once andFuture
CapltaI19ltl). See;" 2354
2354 RadIO Netherlands Documentary lla~i - -eu!tu ral Herrtage
(3Oth)_ See A 0054
2354 RadIO Netherlands. Oocumentary. lla~--Youl19 & Old (23m)
tc ose WdllJffisesamees Italy's SOCIal ploblem01toomany
peoplewl'lo areunder 15 and ever65.
2354 Radio Netherlands: Documentary. The Netherlands-LI!>eraltSm
versus The Rules (1611'1 ), See F 1 ~54
2354 RadiONetherlands: Documentary. Time c2nd), See W 1254

Saturdays
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2300
2305

2330
2330

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2300

2345

Canaaa, RCI Montreal: The wcnu ThiSWeeken::l See 5 2300

USA. VlVlCR _3 tlashvrlle Ttl UPI fJews The latest news Irorr
me UPI RadiO News tletwork
USA. WNCR 13 Nashville T ~ Health Ouest (live). Dan Junker
tells how ttl letainor redeem yourhealth
Canada, RCtMontreal: TheMystery Project. A hall-hour series
or detective mystery dramas created byCanadian Willers
USA.WWCR 11 N,l shville TN Bri11shIsrael wono Federation
Douglas Nesbllt 01rcrcmc preaches trom theOld Testament
USA.WWCR' 1 NashVilleTN CalvaryRadiOHour. Franklin
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OPTIMUM WORKING FREQUENCIES (MHz)

By Jacques d 'Avignon
monitor@rac.ca

Predictions /Jre/w1'('l! /Ising ASAPS f or

You arc settled in your favorite chair. ready fo r

a good liste ning session from Rad io Buru-Buru . Th e
con dit ions as fo recast ed in Monitoring Times pro pagat ion pages ha ve been co rrec t every lime yo u have
used them . (,'\/(1 (1 11(' tolls fil e ifmvforccasts arc //('curate. .1'0 1'11 .1'0." it m.nel}!) The prog ram that you

arc waiting fo r stuns. but the qua lity is very poor:

the sig na l keeps fad ing in an d o ut a nd it is bccoming ext remely diffi cult to liste n a nd unde rsta nd th e
new s. What is happen ing. and w hat ca n he done III
allev iate this situ atio n'!
First. fer's look ut what is happenin g. Ba sica lly.
the ionospheric layer which re frac ts the signal is a
non -p er fec t surface and ca uses the sig na l fluuers:
T he io nosp here is a dyn am ic layer and does not remain in a steady state . Becau se of th is movement .
m o re tha n one signa l is re ac hing yo ur rece ive r. A t
tim es the two or m or e signals ca ncel or reen for ce
eac h o the r. Huma ns te nd to be more sens itive to the
decre ase o f the s ignal tha n to the increase . so what
yo u hear is the ca ncel latio n of the signal reachi ng
you by two or more d iffere nt paths.
How do VOl I correct this'? C.,assum ing th at the
sta tio n is not available o n the Ne t in Re; IAudio !)
T he so lutio n is ca lled d ive rs ity reception. The re a rc
thr e m ain types of d ivers ity rec eption : space , frc qucncy, an d polarization dive rsity ,
Space dive rsity: As the sig na l is broken up into
m an y com po ne nts. it h:IS bee n proven that th e fading doc ... not occ ur sim ultaneo us ly a t a ll poin ts at
the same time . A nte nnas separated by a m inim um
o f I () wavel e ngths w ill rece ive two distinc t sig nals
fro m the d istant so urce . So yo u wo uld wa nt to have
a se t of a nte nna s se pa rated by te n times the lowest
wavele ngth th at yo u w ish to rece ive. For exa mple.
if you nrc inte rested in the tro pical han d of 4,8 ;"'1 HI..
yo ur 1\\ 0 a nte nnas would have to be se pa ra ted by
10 x 6(j me ter s or 600 meters (2.(X}O fee t )!
U nless yo u own a big ra nch , the chances a rc
slim th at thi s me thod w ill be vel)' useful to yo u. In
th e early days ( 1930s) of tran satlantic tele ph one .
w hic h used 11r: frequ e nc ies. this m eth od was m uch
in vogue. Th e a nte nna s we re lon g rhombic a nte nnas a ime d ve ry accu rat ely to the tran smitter site.
The sig na l from each antenna was fed int o a dis cr ete re ce iver a nd the audi o o utp uts w e re combined
to give a ve ry steady ou tput to the ph one line.
Freq ue ncy di versity ass umes that the sta tion
is tran smitt ing the same s ig na l on mor e tha n one
frequency. whi ch is normally the case for the broad cas te rs and the la rge r utility stations. Th is req uires
a se pa rate receive r for eac h freq ue nc y. hut the ante nna ca n he the sam e as long as th e re is a good
a nte nna splitte r to isol ate th e input of eac h rece ive r
fro m eac h o the r.
T here a n: two me thod s to ex trac t a good a ud io
sig na l from suc h a n arr angeme nt. In one case the
aud io sig na ls are fed into an amplifi er circ uit that
c hec ks th e le vel of each signa l and se nds the Ix' st
o ne to the o utput. T he ot her m eth od uses special
recei vers w her e the Au tomatic Ga in C ontro l (AGO

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" Unf avorable conditions: S earch aro und the last listed fre quency for activity.
circuits of the rec e ive rs are tied tog eth er a nd the rece ive r showine the lowe...1 signal strcnut h is autotill' U K' lllade such
maticallv mut~d. Eddvs tone
rCl'ei\'Cf~ a nd I have us~d the m con uucrcially fo r freq uency d iversi ty o r po la rizati on diversity.
Freq ue nc y dive rs ity rece ption has a majo r drawhac k whe n use d for Rn'Y or FA X rece ptio n: the
ar rival time of eac h sig na l is not th e same 0 11 a ll freq uen cies. so you r weath er ma ps or photos arc illcgihle. ln the case of RITY. yo u ru n into syn ch ronization pro blems a nd yo u ha ve a \'tTY p l ll ll' Cli p), unless
one frequ en cy remai ns dom inant d ur ing th e rcccplion pe riod.
Pel urlzathm d iversity uses two antenn as feed ing o ne or two recei ver s. It is the n possible to usc
o nly one freq ue ncy a nd avoid so me of the problems

in

describe d in freq uen cy d ive rs ity. Feedin g o ne rcccivcr fro m two an te nnas Gill he don e fairly easily :
no spec ial equipme nt is require d if yo u ju st wa nt to
p lay arou nd a nd try this syst em w ith o ne rec e ive r.
There arc m an y combimuions of the abo ve methods still in use today: space/freq ue ncy. freq uency/
polarization. s pac e/ polu r izntiou di ver sit y sys te ms .
e tc. If yo u have the pro pe rty a nd seve ra l rece iver s to
play aro und w ith. by ullrncans set yo ursel f lip fo r
the ne xt broadcast
Huru- Buru!
Fer ordinary listen e rs. I rec omme nd ex pe rime nting wit h po lari za tio n d ivers ity and on e rece iver. T he
ba lanci ng ac t req ui red w he n usin g mor e th an o ne
rece ive r ca n tum yo ur hai r g ray in no time. Mea nw hile, we ha ve a fe w mo nths o f good DX be fo re
sli m me r's sta tic e ra ...hcs. so enjo y'

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BEGINNER.S CORNER
UNCLE SKIP'S GUIDE TOMONITORING

..

SKIP AREY, N2EI

tjarey@mosquito.com

Scanning Beyond the Ordinary

HF/ UH F sca nning i~ a fascinat ing
aspect of the radi o hobby. You call

usc yo ur scan ning rec eiver to lea rn a

g rea t deal abo ut the wor ld around yo ur nui g h-

ho rhood or other peoplc ' v neighbor hoods

whe n tra vel ing . Mod ern scanne rs can hol d
hundred s o f Frequ en cies a nd perform t!<)ZCI1S
of fu nctions 10 manipul ate (he m in use fu l
ways . Yet all too many folks take these mod e rn rad io wo nde rs and simply pro gra m in the

same twent y or so local public service freq ucn cic s that they wo uld have e nte red twenty
y C;.tTS

ago into a primi tive prc-microproccs-

po ssi bly crystal-cont ro lled scanne r.

Truth he kno wn . these fo lks arc p robably
the bread and butter o f the scan ne r indu str y.
But rcmcmhc r. if you ' re rea ding th is muguzinc. y (\U a rc 1/(11 simply a s".. an n c r ow ne r: you
arc a radi o mo ni tor. Yo u arc w illing 10 usc
yo ur sc anner to go we ll beyond that handful of
local poli ce. fire and EMS frequ en ci es to
d iscover more abou t the wo rld arou nd yo u. O f
course ther e is no end to the exc ite men t yo u
may hear on the public service freque ncies.
hut there are man y ot her excit ing place s that
your scanner C'lI1 la ke you . Figu ring out \\ hal
m ight be scan nable takes a litt le work . hut th at
is half the fu n.

SOT.

First Go to th e Maps
One lhi ng I al way s sugges t to scarmis ts is
to tak e .1 good loo k <It the be st map you can

li nd for the J O or so mile s arou nd yo ur SC' IIlning pn,t. lfpossi bk loo k beyo nd tho se maps
yo u ca ll buy in ga s statio ns and co nve nience
stores . A good place to start is the 1000.. al public
library or town sh ip o ffices. You wan t to ge l a
goo d idea of what k ind of thin gs yo u lll a ~,i he
ublc to scan beyond the mo re co m mo n publi c

sufcty stuff.
I like to make no te of infor matio n abo ut
ra ilroads. large a nd small a irport s. hospital s.
IH.IIIs. ind ustrial parks and the ir rela tionship
to major highwa ys and pop ulation ce nters.
Als o. make not e of any governme nt con troll ed la nd areas und mi litary bases. These
place s mig ht ~ u g ge~t so me po-e.iblc mo nit or ing opportunities.
I a lso lik e to check ou t the topo graph y.
m'lking not e o f l h ~ high points. T hl"se hills
could reprc s.elll po ssible imprm'l"d listen ing
lo....atio ns as wdl a s logical pl ace s to sc o ut for
e x i ~ l i llg (o wer fac ilitie s se rving thc reg io n. I
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co unte r or a freque ncy sto rage de vice

men tio n these " im pro ved" listeni ng
sud } as the Optoel ectro nics Scout . th is
loca tions with a bit of cau tio n becau se
thes e d ays more and more ofthe prim e
lill ie joy ride is the time a nd place 10 tum
them Oil . A certain amo unt of use ful fresites arc taken u p hy r ag ing tra ns mitqucncy information may not appear in
tcrs w hic h call o fte n creat e ov erload ,IllYpu blished list so you ha ve to d o a litt le
ing proble ms wit h sca nners . St ill.
hun ting to gc t ro e very thing yo u c an hem'
knowi ng the locatio n of th c "e nemy"
in au urea.
is importa nt.
If yo u' re not parBUI back 10 th e ma p. I
ticularly shy. you can
a lso no te the loc a tio n and
add a n add itio na l s te p
nat ure o f waterways. cs'II thi s poin t I f yo ur
peci all y th e navi gablc
crui se has turn ed up
ones . Keep track o f ha ra ny Radi o S hack
bors. dock s and marinas
stores. el ectronic s up as so urces of scan nable
ply sto res. o r m ajo r
ac tivi t)'. Al so , in rel ation
tru ck stops . you might
to wat erways. a good to wa nt to ask if the)'
pograp hical ma p will also
have any informa tion
gi ve you a not ion o r the
o n lo cal freq ue ncies
area ' s floo d plane . Knowof inter es t. Be ing a
ing w he re the high water
gregar ious per son by
and high grou nd arc c..1Il
natu re . I have a lso
be essentia l sca nning inbe e n known to walk
formation .
righ t u p to radi o users
A no the r d iscov er y I
and ask them wh at frem ad e re c entl y whil e
q ue nci es they ar c uschec king out a ma r at a
ing . Now. I ha ve [0
sea s hore poli ce statio n
ad mit th at some basic
IN(). I wa s n' t in handcuff s.
commo n se nse is cs at the time ) was a seri es.o f The Optoelectronics Sco nt i... a ll ideal
se ruial. Fo r instance.
we ll mark ed hurr ican e ' mJI to "cruise"for newfrequencies
that DEA agent in thc
evac uati on rout e s . It s
probably rea sonab le to assume tha t eme rbul letproof vest go ing thro ug h that vacant
bui ldi ng wit h h is d rug s n iffi ng dog may 110t
gcn cy rou te s for other wea the r and ge o logireal ly be in the mo od to answer yo ur q ue sca lly related na tura l disa s.te rs ex ist in mo st
tio ns .
areas of the co untry pla gu ed hy such thi ngs.
A lways rc me mbe r to be as po lite as if
you've been in vited to you r rich aunts ho use
Jus t Like Back in High School
for tea. and ift he ans we r is " NO" do n' t press
The next thing to do is take u cruise in the
the issue. Nobody is under any ob ligatio n 10
car. On thi s rid e yo u want to get an idea abo ut
give lip their freque nci es to yo u. Re member
uny bu si nesses or ac tivitie s that migh t be
that it c..111 he a ve ry we ird world o ut the re. so
making usc of rad io. Eve ryt hing from fast
he very . very careful if yo u employ this techfood sta nds . 10 hotels. to hardware a nd hom e
niq uc.
nee ds "s upe rs tores" s ho uld l'O Il1~ under your
Now th ai you haw do ne yo ur hom ew ork
sc ru tiny. Mall s. hospita ls and large r sto res are
o n the stree ts. it:-. tim e 10 h it the bo o ks . M any
es pec ial ly good points o f int erest in that they
freq ue ncy reso ur ce s ca n be fou nd in the ad arc li kel y [ 0 have lar ge eno ugh ~ l" c u rity and
ve rtis ing sec tions o f M T. Book s. lists. and CD
maintenance o pe ratio ns to require radi o sup R O ~ 1s loaded do w n wit h thou sand s of Ire port .
q uenci cs arc j ust abo u t everywhe re. The
You will a b o want to c ruisc hy lhe po int s
Intcrnet b abo a grow ing so urcc o f informa of intere st you not ed Oil your map sc-arc h to
tio n ah out Sl,:an nahlc things.
dl(~ck out w hat m ight be radi o -aclive in these
The mi sta k.... ma ny heg inners make is to
pli.lccs. If yo u have al'l'CSS tll a fn:q uency

begin the ir monitori ng with the freq ue ncy

resource of the ir c ho ice, loo kin g up th e area
and d utifully plugging in the dozens of frequ encies that they th ink will be use fu l. T he
inherent proble m with this techni que is that
any freque ncy resource is o nly as time ly as the
day it was pro duced . It doe sn ' t know that the
local ma ll changed sec urity co ntrac ts und a
new outfi t usin g ne w frequ en cies is in place.
It ca n't accou nt for changes a nd im pro vem ent s to local radi o sys te ms (suc h a s u
" trunked" syste m ) unti l the ne xt update is
publi shed . It is a lso possibl e, using a co mpletel y up-to-da te frequ en cy reso urc e , that
yo u m ay be was ting se ve ra l cha nnels to stu ff
that is licen sed by the FCC but not curre ntly in
usc.
Wh y have yo ur scanner was te any per cen tage of its c hannels or its sca n time skipping
over unu sed freq ue ncies? I kno w of a local
business that ca rrie s mo re than twe nty lice nse s o n the FCC database but d ue to c urre nt
busine ss prob le ms o nly has two truck s o n the
road. Tuning the all of the ass igned freq ue ncie s would be a was te of effor t. T his is why I
reco m me nd doin g a bit of research before yo u
choose what freq ue nc ies to listen to.

Hey Kids, Whal Time Is II?

W hen yo u beg in to mo nit or thin gs out side
the pub lic sa fety wo rld, yo u have to also be
attuned 10 the likel y time s tha t these signa ls
will begin to ho p. Many busine ss freq ue nc ies
arc m ost acti ve fro m 9 to 5 while other busine sses wi ll ope rate (\1,'0 o r three e ight -hour
shifts sho w ing peak ac tiv ity at shift c hange s.
Man y de partme nt stores and malls run a twe lve
or thirteen-hour da y. ofte n runnin g ex tended
hou rs for sales and holiday seaso ns.
If you reall y want to hear some inte resting
monitoring, look for oper ations th at use rad io
aft er hours for secu rity o r maintenance. For
ex ample. if yo u live near an am useme nt par k,
the hours immediatel y befor e o pen ing o r a fter
cl osing are ofte n the most ac tive times fo r
int erest ing sca nn ing .
Yo u w ill als o wa nt to keep an cy e o ut for
seaso na l sca nning o ppo rtunitie s. In my area,
e very Oc tob er abo ut twe nt y " Hallo wee n
Hau nted Hayrides" spring up for local e njoyme nt. I'vc sc anned the m all and fou nd the m to
be qu ite inter estin g . Most of the se o perati on s
evolve as the mo nth goes by. be co ming better
o rganized. A lso. th ings happe n that were n't
in the script o r the training lectures.
W e ' ve a lso ju st co me through an o ther
C hris tmas se aso n and I ha ve had tons o f fu n
follo wing the local sho pping ma lls' sec urity
ope rat ions as they arc pushed to the limit s by
crowd s we ll above norma l. Last yea r at o ne of

the local ma lls, a group o f hired sec urity we re

mo ving in o ne di rection tracking down a
hea vy duty shoplifter while a g ro up of local
police we re mo vi ng up the m all in the ot her
di rectio n tryin g to locat e a kid who was calling " 9 11" from all of the mall' s pa y phones.
Essentially they got in the wuy of each ot her 's
ope ration, and listen ing to them so rt ing ou t
the confus ion wa s am az ing sc anning .

Who Says Prinl is Dead?

If yo u plan to mon itor act ivitie s o utside o f
the pu blic safety band s. yo u will wan t to kee p
an eye o n local newspa pe rs. As I mcn tio ned
above. noting ex te nded business hours ca n
lead to add itiona l sca nning oppo rtunities yo u
may not hav e cons idere d. Ne ws papers also
chronic le ac tivit ies whe re large gro ups of
people may be gatheri ng fo r anyon e of do zens of ac tivities suc h as pa rad es. pol itica l
ra llies . to wn ce lebratio ns, or sport ing eve nts,
It' s prett y safe to say that a ny time a g ro up of
more than a hun dred people arc together ,
so mebody is likely to he using radio to ma nag e: that ac tivit y.
I live nca r a major c ity where lar ge g ro up
ac tivitie s occ ur w ith great regul arity. T he
10c.11 major newspap ers o ften give pre-ac tivity info rmation tha t is ess entia l to effective
scanni ng . For e xa mple. a pub lished pa rade
route listin g street nam es and mo vem e nt times
ca ll help a sc ann ist to fo llo w the acti on . Thi s
sum mer I was able to make se nse o ut of thc
radio ac tivities surro unding a major bicycl e
race as it ra n throu gh the city stree ts largel y
becau se of the " reco n" inform atio n that the
ne wspap er pro vided.
Now there was a scanning e vent: In additio n to com mo n pu b lic sa fety there we re fre quenci es for race coord ination, te le vis ion cov erage , loc al rad io statio n "o n-s ite" feed s, indi vid ua l bike tea m suppor t units includ ing the

moto rcycles and " sag wago ns" that foll o wed
behind the pa ck. ... Not to mention the radio
o pe rations of the var ious e ve nt spo nsors as
the y o rgan ized everything o ve r the days leading up to the eve nt.

There's No Business like Business

Mo nito rin g businesses tha t m ake usc of
radio can he eve ry hi t as m uch fun as fo llo wing the public sa fety systems. I ma y ha ve
me ntioned be for e that one o f my most int riguing local sc anning opportu nities invol ves a
mode rately large local hardware conce rn thai
uses "itinera nt" frequ e ncy hundi- talkics to
stay in tou ch wi th eac h oth er throu g hou t the
sto re. I have spe nt hours fo llowi ng th is o peratio n.
In additio n to the fasc inat ing as pec t of
tryi ng to keep a co mp le x busi ness running,
there arc the intern al " soap o pe ra" aspect s that
ge t played o ut in radi o co nve rsations , I ha ve
heard of ot her mo nitors who foll o w part icular
busine ss intere sts becau se they pro vid e grea t
entertainment. One examp le ofthi s is a scannist
who loves to trac k ceme nt de livery trucks,
Now , o n the sur face of things this may see m
as mu ch fun as watc hing co nc rete dr y. Ho wever, many pro blem s can co me about by delive rie s no t makin g sche d ule or not be ing of
the righ t quanti ty. In suc h cases , co ncrete
d ryin g at the wron g time a nd in the wro ng
amo unt can ge ne rate a g reat de al of stress and
qui ck actio n hea rd clea rly ove r the rad io.
Perh aps thc mott o here wo uld be " ne ver
rej ect a freq uen cy o ut of hand " bec au se yo u
thin k it ma y be bo rin g. T ake the lime to give
thin gs an hon est listen and yo u may be surpri scd at what piq ues you r interest. As I've
a lways said in thi s co lumn , great sca nning is
whe re yo u find it. Doin g a bit of ho me work
befo re yo u sit do wn to se rio us listenin g will
a lways payoff. Ha ve fun , fo lks!

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ASK BOB

ANSWERS TO YOUR RADIO QUESTIONS

Bob Grove, WAP4YQ

bg ro ve@grove.nef

Q . After reading the BC3000XLT

scanner keyboard tricks (MT, Aug.
' 97) / decided to try same tricks of
my own. By holding down the fwo
arrow keys, then turning the radio
on, "rd 00 00" was displayed.
When I pressed the OELA Y key,
"Edt" came up; and when / pressed
WX, "rd 00 45" was displayed. By
pressing either arrow key, or any of
the numeric keys, the displayed
letters and numerals change. Does
anyone know what all this mea ns?
(Cliff shouldis, White River, SO)

A.

Yes. It mean s that there isn' t m uc h In do

in South Da ko ta in the wi ntertim e ~ Any o r o ur
readers w ish to try so me of these se lf-des truc t

A.

T his is an e xcel le nt q uest io n a nd shows

hovv we tak e audio im pedanc e matc hin g for
g ra nted. W hile a shie lde d pa tc h co rd has

much lower impedance than 1OOO oh ms (probuhly aro und 20-7 0 oh ms) . at aud io frequ e ncies suc h a m ismatch is inco nsequ enti a l. In-

stead. choose a cable that has low capacitance

(to avoid high frequency rolloff) and good
shielding (to avoid electrical noise pickup), II
is at high er rad io frequ en c ies tha t imp ed ance
m ismatc hes become lossy. espec ially in lon g
cable le ngth s. Most sho rt aud io cables ex hibit
the lo w c apacita nce . but lIlallY ha ve inadeq uate shield ing. Th is sho ws u p when a ud io
cables arc subst ituted fo r co ax ia l c able at
rad io frequencies.
A good rule of th umb to re me mber is that
coax is alwa ys good at aud io. but a ud io cables
arc never go od at RF !

o f e nergy in pu t whic h pro vides the desir ed

o utp ut. Heat is usuall y the was te ful by product
(unle ss it' s in a heater").
In the case of yo ur headli gh ts. it wo uld be
de sir ab le for 100 % of the e lec tric al ene rgy to
re sul t in co ld. vis ible ligh t. but we kn ow that
the lig ht is prod uced by heating the fila me nt.
and tha t is par t o f the wa ste .
T he same nu mber of e lectro ns mo vin g into
the filame nt co me o ut the othe r end, but if it
tak es more energy (the " push" of the vo ltage ).
w ith a subs ta ntia l amo unt of that e nergy being
d issipa ted as heat. th en the e fficiency is lo wer.
T he who le e ffic iency co ncept can go back
to the ef fort to produce the vo ltage and re sultant c urre nt by (he ca r' s e ng ine (and its e fficien cy ). the wiring. the efficiency of tile alter nator as it ro tate s o n its bearings produci ng th e
c urre nt-as we ll as heat in the be arin gs. and
so o n.

commands 10 sec what hap pen s?

My radio receiver shows a

record out jack with an output listed
as 775 mV @ 1000 ohms. Does this
mean that if / use 50 ohm coax, J
will have an impedance mismatch?
(Scott Wilson, Salinas, CA)
Q.

Bob's Tip of
the Month
Rece nt ly we asked o ur reade rs whethe r
they ha ve had an y experien ce wit h ult raso nic pest re pell crs. LaiTY Youn g, a lice nsed pest con tro l ad viso r fro m Ventura .
Ca liforn ia. had this to say:
" Ultras o nic pest de vices do no t wor k.
So me states o ut law the ir sa le (Co lora do) .
ot he r state s say bu yer be wa re (C alifo rn ia ).
Insects d o not have cars. a nd their vibriss ae .
setae. and ce rc i arc for the de tecti on of food
an d a ir mo vem e nt, not so und . C rickets ha ve
the c losest lO ca rs: ty mpanu m.
" Sonic an d ultrasoni c s will work on ro-

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Q. /n an electrical system, for

example my headlights, what part
of the current is "used up?" (Mark
Burns, Terra Haute, IN)
A.. In nature. nothi ng is rea lly " used up : ' but
the q uestio n of effi c ien cy co me s into play.
We migh t defin e e ffi cie ncy as the pe rcentage

seeing more and mare ads

for 1- to 14- channel walkie-talkies
in the "Family Radio Service." What
is the FRS? Do I need a license?
Judging from the frequencies, don't
these devices cause interference
with the General Mobile Radio
Q . J am

Those Pesky Pest Controls

dents until th e rod ent becomes accusto m ed.
abo ut a week or less. The Jap anese are c urre nt ly te sting a sonic device in the USA o n

rodents only. the 'CATS Wave' by CATS of

Japan & North Hollywood, CA."
Lew B isho p. a pest co ntro l tech nici an,
agrees : " I haven ' t seen a ny ev ide nce that they
do anyth ing but use u p e lect rici ty . As far as
repe lling insects, forget it; the amount of
energy needed to fo rce a rodent or insec t from
yo ur ho me would also fo rce yo u and yo ur pe ts
fro m the ho use. Be tter o ff bu yin g a tub e of
caulk to se al the ho les and a trap or two to
ca tc h th at sne aky on e that fo und a way in."
T hanks. La rry and Lew , for yo ur info rmed
input.

More on Shortwave Tribute Music

In a rece nt co lumn. we d iscussed why
ce rta in piece s of music wo uld be played
in ho nor of the death of a cele brated
ind ivid ual. L on gt im e M T re a der
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BELOW SOO KHZ

DXING THE BASEMENT BAND

Kevin Care , WB2QMY

KCarey@mdsrac.com

Lawfer Update

ach wint er , J like to report o n w hat

cha nges ha ve tak en place in th e 160 -

190 kH z ( 1750 meter) experimenter's

band. Wi nter is a g reat tim e to ex plore this

ba nd because noi se leve ls arc dow n. p rop ag atio n is en ha nced. an d mo st o f us ha ve a bit
m o re time to s pe nd at the di a ls.
F o r tho se no t fa mil ia r w it h t he

experimenter' s band. it is available for unlicenscd operatlon in the U.S. under the following co nd itio ns : I ) Ma ximu m transm itter inp ut mu st no t exceed one wa tt. 2) Th e ante nna

length must not exceed 50 feet/LS meters

(including the feedline). 3) Out-of-band emissions must be suppressed at least 20 d B.
Virtua lly an y tran smi ssion mod e ca n be used

as long as these rules are fo llowe d.

Canadian statio ns are also e lig ible to use

the band un der nea rly ide ntical co nd itio ns .
Indu stry C anad a ' s regulation s RSS- 2 I 0, parag rap h 6.2.2 (a) cover thi s in detai l and are
av ai la b le 011 t he we b at htt p:/ /
srrategis.lc.gc.ca/ SSl /sf/rssz I O. pdf. A paper
copy of the reg ulatio ns may also be req ue sted
fro m Indu stry Canada .
T he expe rime nter s on the 160-190 k Hz

band call themselves LOWFERS-a term

coined in the 1970's by the late Ken Cornell.
It stands for " Low Freq uency Ex perime nta l
Ra d io Statio n."

Hearing a Lowfer
Pulling in yo ur first lowfer can be a co ns id era ble challe ng e. S ince these sta tio ns op erate
und er se verely re stric ted co nd itio ns, yo u' ll
need to do e ve ry thing possible to make up the
diffe rence at the rece iving e nd.
A go od ant e nn a is th e mo st cru c ia l ingre di ent to s uccess. Forget using the typ ica l
ran do m le ng th wi re unle ss yo u live in a ru ral
setti ng with no interferen ce so urces ne arby .
Wi re ante nna s usua lly ac t as " no ise co llec to rs" in resid ential area s. Yo u' ll do m uch
better wi th a hig h per forma nce an ten na intended for LF wor k. s uch as a loo p o r active
an te nna .
Past co lum ns have d iscu ssed ma ny s uita ble anten na de sig ns. both com mercial a nd
homebrew. Repri nt s arc still avai lable for the
easy-to- bui ld Homes pu n Lo op (Septem ber
1992 Mr.) See the fro nt of the ma gaz ine fo r
rep rin t in form atio n.
It ' s im portant to usc a nar ro w ba nd widt h
setting on yo ur rec eiver ( I k Hz o r less ) for
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best res ults. Th is li m its the effec ts of adj ac ent

sig na ls and a llows yo u to fo cus o n the de sired
sig na l.
Head pho nes a rc also a mu st. T hey will
help yo u b lock out sur ro und ing noi se and let
yo u focu s o n the sig nal at hand . Ge t the best
pair yo u call af for d with res pect to aud io
fide lity and co m fo rt.
Tu ne slo wly ! It ' s ea sy to tun c righ t past
a wea k sign al wit ho ut real izing it was there.
T ry sifting thro ug h the band in small incr eme nts. and pausing every few hu ndred Hertz
to listen for signa ls that mi gh t fade in and o ut.

Logo f rom the no w-obsolete OlHEGA

na vigation system (10-/4 kH z). The system
was shut down 0 11 Sept. 30, / 997, aft er more
tha n 26 years of service.

What to Listen For

M ost Lowfer o peratio ns a rc co nd ucted
beacon style. wit h a statio n repeat ed ly sending its 10 and QSL information in slo w M o rse
Co de. T he code is usu all y so slo w, in fact , that
yo u ca n jo t do w n the d ots and d ashe s and loo k
the m up o n a co de c hart. if necessary.
T a ble 1 shows a list o f se lec ted stations
bel ie ve d to be active at this w riting . Th is
infor mat ion was ob tained from The Lo wdown,
the journ al o f the Lo ng wu ve C lub o f A me rica
(L WC A). Fo r more information on the LWCA.
write club headq uarters at 45 Wi ldfl ower
Road, Dept. M T. Levittown. PA 19057. You
ca n a ls o v is it th e ir we b s ue at h ttp ://
membcrs.aol.comllwca nc \'t's/ index.ht m l.
Lo w fe rs ha ve a g rea t track record fo r ucknowlcd ging recep tio n oft heir stations . Many
have s pec ia l QS L cards printed up for thi s

TABLE 1: Selected Lawter

List ings (Winter '981
illQ.,

I!l

177.900
178.600
181.167
181.620
182.518
183.500
183.544
185.000
184.320
184.320
184.480
185.900
186.100
186.375
186.750
187.500
189.360
189.500
189.950

MPK
7'111
IZJ

RL
NR
PLI
MEL

RED
RI
IA
TEXAS
3SCO
3GOATS
8A
LEK

YO
TH
A8C
OK

pu rpo se . an d these are highl y prize d am o ng

mo st DXcrs. Sho uld yo u hear a station that
d ocs no t ann o unce a mai lin g add ress , drop me
a line with th e d et a ils of yo ur recep tio n and I
w ill try to furn is h this info rmatio n.

Ad vanced Modes
W hile C W is still the pred o minant mod e ,
so me Lo wfers arc ex perime nt ing with vo ice
(A M and SS B) . a s we ll as various dat a m od es.
T he mo st po p ular sc he me for Lo wfe r data
transm issio n is BPS K (B inary Ph ase- Shift
Keyin g ). T hi s allow s co pying signals o n a
personal co m pute r even in the pr esen ce of
wea k signa ls or inte rfere nce . So me ama zing
di sta nce s have been co vered with this mo de .
If yo u'd like to le arn more abo u t BPS K and
other ad van ce d tech niq ues, I sug ges t reviewing back iss ues of the Lo~I/{JOH'11 for num ero us
arti cl e s on the s ubject. T he LWC A Ho mepage
men tio ned earlier al so has ex ce lle nt co ve rage
of these topi c s.

!.l!.CAII.Illi

Chittenango, NY
Baldwinsville. NY
San Gabriel. CA
Herndon. VA
Riverside, CA
Burbank, CA
San Jose, CA
Wausa, FL
anton. NY
Marion, IN
Haslet, TX
Sca rborough. ONT

t atent, OR
l ancaster, Il
Aitkin, MN

White City, Fl
Call's Neck. NJ
Hilton Head Is.. SC
Davenport, OK

Want t o be a Lawler?
Wit h the decli ne in co m merc ial serv ices
using the lon g wav es. it may be up to us to
make our o w n signals ! M any c ircuits for
Lowfe r tra nsmitte rs have been published over
the ye ars. T he Dece mb er '96 issue of MT
co ntaine d a c irc uit fo r s uc h a tran s mitter that
can be easily ho meb re wed for LF or MF
o pe ratio n. (Sec Debda w :s Workbench, Pa ge

102.)
If ther e is e no ug h interest , I wo uld co nside r
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a basic CW transm itter . T his co uld be e ithe r a
kit. or a stric tly ho mebre w d esig n. Please
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OUTER
LIMITS
THE CLANDESTINE, THE UNUSUAL, THE UNLICENSED

George Zeller
George. Zeller@acclink. com

Berkeley Pirate Wins Another Battle W ith FCC

te ph e n
D u u ifc r' .s
ve te rnn
rnicr opirutc Radi o Free Be rkel ey
ha s wo n another co urt batt le in its
ongoi ng fig ht wit h the FCC. In a Nov embe r 12 deci sion . US District Court Judge
C la ud ia Wil ken rejected the go vern ment' s
re q u es t for an inju nc tio n pro hib iti ng
Du nifer from operating his Ca liforn ia F~'l
pirate statio n. Wilke n pre vio usl y den ied
an FCC request for a sim ilar inj u nctio n in
1995. T he 199 7 ru ling rej ected a govern-

mcnt claim that the District Court had no

,\TllY'I'

Do
o

PIRATE
RADIO

6955KHlAM~

WR IT - One ofdozens of tie..... / 99 7 pirates

jurisdicti o n in the matter. citing precedent
bro adcas ting.
in a 1994 Arizona micropi rat e case. Do uga n
' S FCC.
Ve te ra n IH T re po rte r Ro ss C o mea u of
W ilke n di d not ru le on the q ue stion o f
Ando ve r, Massach usett s. provides a n exwhether the FCC' s ban on low power r=M ampl e . I-I e bag ged Un ited C hristian Broad bro adcasting in the United Sta tes is un con st lcas te rs. a n Irish statio n that ca rries religious
pro gram s. at 0200 UTC on 6200 kHz . Th e
tuti o nal. S hc ordered attorney s for bo th
Du ni fe r and the FC C to fi le briefs o n this
}900-4000 kl-l z and 6"00-6400 kll z regions
issue . Thu s. litiga tio n wil l certai nly continue
are co m monl y used by Europea n un licen sed
in thi s high profi le cas e for so me time to
statio ns. If yo u' re tryin g to du plicat e Ross'
feat. su nse t 011 UTe Saturda ys and sunr ise on
co me. Attorneys for Dunifer expressed plea sure at the Wilken ru ling. saying that her
UTe Sunday s normal ly pro vid es the be st
ru ling "s uggests the likel y uncon st ituti on ality
pro pagatio n. Part icul arl y for those living in
of the entire reg ulatory struc ture und er lyin g
eas tern No rth A me rica . !lOW is a good tim e to
tune th ro ugh the Europiru tc band s.
the FC C' s han on low power radio. " Th ey
c lai me d tha t "t he real pirates of the air waves"
are " billio na ire co m merc ia l intere sts" suc h as
Interval Signals
Gen e ral E lec t ric , We st ing ho use. a nd the
Dozens of rime s a yea r we rece ive le ggin gs
Disne y Corporat ion th at ha ve subs tanti al
of Nor th Ame rica n pirate statio n \" LIS, where
o wn er sh ip inte res ts in commercial United
Jac k Boggan play s interva l sig na l tun es fro m
St ates radi o bro adcast ing statio ns.
licen sed shortwave broadcasters . I f you ca n' t
Thi s case has turn ed into a landmark legal
fi no W US on the pirate hand s a nd wa nt to get
battle that w ill ha ve significa nt im pa ct Oil
yo urfil l ofintervnl signals anyway. NAS W A "s
liter all y hundred s o f micropiratc o perators
A I O uagl icri reports that he hns upd ated his
wh o ope rate wi tho ut FC C licen ses across the
exce lle nt shor twa ve interva l signa l internet
US A. Dun ifcr says that Wi lken ' s ruling w ill
web page. You (";, 111 hear d ozen s of IS tunes
perm it hi s stat io n to op erate for at lea st a nove r t he i n ter net Via th e http: //
oth er ye ar. As further devel op men ts ensue ,
www.albany.nct /cnlcuc / Uk l..
you 'll read about them here .

Winter is Europirate Season

T he lo ng night s and cold rc rnpcmtu rcs of
winte r make thi s the idea l time for No rth
Ame rican DXcr s to chase pirate stations broad cas ting from Eur op e . Pro pa gation 011 the low
band s is bett er than it is du ring the sum mer.
a nd sta t ic le ve ls d imi nish co nsid e rab ly .
Europirate recep tio n ca n he so me of the be st
pu re DX that the re is in the field of shortwa ve
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SRI Tran smitter Closing

Altho ugh the item do es no t invo lve unliccn scd radio hroadcnxtiu g that we normall y
cove r i n thi s column. I r'\I1 'K ross so me new s
during a rece nt vacatio n in Sw itzerland . W hile
I to ured the 2S0 kW Sw iss Radi o hu c ruation ul trun smittcr in Schwurzcnbcrg. audi ble
night ly in Englis h at 0100 UTe o n 6 135 and
9885 kl lz. en ginee r Roland Audc rau informed

me th at the Swiss governme nt was closing d o wn the transmitter in early 1998.

O ther SR I transmitt er si tes withi n S witze rland . including the o ne in Lenk. are
a lso biting the d ust.
Com pla ints fro m ne igh bors and real
estate issues. sim ilar to the situa tio n that
cl osed the for mer Voi ce of Ame rica site
ill Bet ha ny. O hio, have caused the S wi ss
go vern me nt to make thi s decis ion. Sw iss
Radio will cont inue the ir shortwave se rvice, hut the broadcasts will be ca rried via
relays in co untries suc h as Fre nc h Gu iana .
So. if yo u need a QSL fro m Sw itze rla nd, no w
is the time to se nd in the rece ptio n rep ort.

What We Are Hearing

Yo ur pirate logg ing s are a lways we lco me
for this co lum n via PO Bo x 98. Brassto wn .
NC 28902. or via the e -m ail ad d ress at the to p
o f this pag e . A ll freq uen cies are in k f-lz. with
time s in UTe.
North American pira te sta tio ns listed here
usc the fo llow ing add resses: PO Bo x I , Belfast,
NY 147 11; PO Box 109. Blue Ridge Summit.
PA In 14 : PO Box 2R413. Providence. RI
0290R: 1'0 Box 146, Stoneham. MA 0 21 80 :
1'0 Box 115n . Huntsville. AL 358 14: PO
Rox 293 , Me rlin. Ont ari o NOP IWO; and PO
Bo x 5 10. Base l. Sw itze rland. For return po stage . e nclo se thr ee 3 2c stamps in the enve lope
to USA addresse s; 52 US or two Intern atio nal
Repl y Co upo ns go to for eig n mai ldrops.
Anonymous Radio 6955 at 0 300 . Their name
sounds covert, but their shows are mainly
ma instrea m rock music. Addr: No ne. (Harold
Froclqe, M ;dland, M il

Cot in the Hat Ra dio- 6955 a t 191 5 . As the

station na me implies, Dr. Seuss ma teria l makes
up a significa nt portion of their programm ing.
Sometimes they ide ntify themse lves with CITH ca ll
letter s. Add r: Providen ce. {Don Pear ce, Queens,
NY; lee Silvi, Mentor, O H; Joel Altre-Kerber,
Buffalo, NY; W illiam Hassig , Mt. Prospect, IL;
Fradgel

He Man Rad io 6955 a t 2 130 . He Man is back

with his parod ies of ma nly behavior ; at least we
think thct the shows are pa rod ies. Addr: Blue
Ridge Summit. (Alire' Kerbe r; Frodge; Ha ssig;
Silvi}
Je rry Rigged Radio 6959 a t 2045 . Their shows
primarily consis t of rock music a nd co medy
moter iol. with some talk a bout the current pirate
scene . Addr: Providence. (Michael Prindle, Ne w

Suffolk, NY)
KCHZ- 6955 at 0345 . Rich and Tclec liked
the ir show , hosted

by Yukon Jock, despite

the drifty tra nsmitter that they have used.

Addr: None. (Rich and Jclec Jurrens, Koty,

lX)
KFOB- 6955 0 1 22 15. Some pirates (suchas
this one ) ore best hea rd in western North
America . I' ve never seen a log on this one

from a receiver ea st of the Rocky Mounta ins.

Addr: Nane. [Petrick Nebel, O R)
KSSR- 6955 a' 23 15. Colonel B;IIy Bob uses
o clas sic rock formal on this new addi tion to
the pira te scene. Addr; None, re ports go to
the FRN web site 01 http:/ / www .fm .net/ on
the internet. (Bill McClintock, Minnea polis,
MN)
The " I'arl.\' Elephan t" at .\ l1I1IC1t1l1O Tiempo
La VOl de Mundan o Tiempo- 6955 at 2130.
This world beat pirate has quickly issued
boot off the Atlantic Coast. Despite their nea rly
QSls, c s we see here. Harold got one of them.
Addr: Belfast. (Frodge)
consta nt slight frequency drift, this powerhouse is
Mystery Radia- 69S5 a. 0200. "The Shadow"
probably the most widely hear d North American
pira te a nd history. Look for rock music and off the
specializes in elabora te electronic and new ag e
instrumental music. so the sound of this station is
wa ll discussions in their progra mming. Addr: Blue
Ridge Summit. (Gene O' Brien, Union, NJ; Greg
distinctive. Addr: Stoneham. (Jim Franke, Bartlett,
IL; Basil Shelley, Blythe, CA; Frodge; Jurrens;
MO/' ewski, Oa kdale, CT; Howard Esprovnik.
Prindle)
Go latin, TN; Alire-Kerber: Has sig; Jvrrens: Dick
Pearce; Don Pear ce; Prindle; Ruger; Shelley;
One Voice Radio 69 55 at 2300 . Their an nouncer Joe a lways [ec fures advocacy for health
Wolfi sh)
issues, including references to medical journals
Radio Nonsense- 69 55 at 00 15. Joe Mama's
that justify his recommended behaviors and d iets.
reinca rnation on this station has been consistently
active with rock music, comedy, and novelty
Add r: Belfast. (Kevin Nauta, Grand Rapids, MI;
Niel Wolfish, Toronto, Ontar io)
porody tunes. Addr: Belfost. (Brad Pollock,
Radio 26th of October- 11092.5 at 1750 . This
Baltimore, MD; Altre-Kerber; Axelrod: Comeau;
Jorrens: Majewski; Na uta ; Prindle; Shelley)
yea r's specia l St. Helena broadcas t a ttracted a
Radio One' 6955 at 02 00 . This slick rock oldies
clever pretransmission pirate once again.
"Jona tha n Marx" a nnounced a takeover of Radio
broadcaster is the origina l "numbered" pirate.
St. Helena by the Euro -Terrc rist Alliance,
Addr: Belfast. (Hassig; Jurrens]
Radio USA- 6955 a. 0100 . Mr. Blue Sky, Joe
sponsored by Club Moha-Med. Addr: None.
King, a nd the rest of their characters have been
(Prindle)
a round the pirate scene for Iwo decades, so their
Radio Altecc - 6955 a t 2245 . Bram Stoker has
elaborate o riginal comedy a nd "dra ma"
produced more porodies of Dxers and DXing
productions ha ve a strong OX flavor. Addr:
tha n any other pirate in history. His elaborate
productions are a lwa ys entertaining. Addr :
Belfast. (Altre Kerber; Axelrod: Esprovnik: Has sig;
Dick Pearce; Shelley; Wilkins)
Belfast. (Shawn Axelrod, Winnipeg, Manitoba;
Radio Iellus- 6955 at 231 5. As with many
Alire-Kerber; Frodge; Jurrens; Shelley)
Radio Eclipse- 6955 at 0015_Steve Mann
pirates, rock music and commentary ar e the
announced in November that his sta tion was
staples on this one, with the a nnouncer's slogan
making its lest broadcast, but thai he would return of NO h, yea h!" Addr: Providence. (Majewski;
to the pirale ban ds with a d ifferent sta tion name.
Ruger)
Radio Tornado Worldwide 6 955 at 06 00 . The
Keep your eyes ope n. Addr: Providence. (Bill
powerhouse presence of Radio Metallica has
Wilkins, SpringReld, MO; John Arendt, Oswego,
IL; Randy Ruger, North Hollywood, CA; Dick
stimulated numerous pa rodies. This one is the
mast widely hea rd. Note the late time of day ,
Pearce, Brattleboro, Vf; Ray Carmen, Ca nton,
which allowed propagation to the west coast.
OH; Alire-Kerber; Axelrod; Frodge; Ha ssig;
Jurrens; Nauta ; Don Pea rce; Prind le; Shelley)
Addr: None, verifies logs in The ACE. (Ruger)
Radio fr ee Euphoria - 6955 aI21 00 . Maharishi
RFM- 695 5 ot 181 5. Also known as Radio f ree
Hashishi Ali Gonja plugs (what else?) marijuana
N\ossachusetts, end operated by H. V. Short, this
consumption with music and verbal a dvocacy.
veteran pirate is active again . Addr: Belfast.
Addr: Belfast. (Ha ssig; Prindle)
(Altre-Kerber ; Frodge; Ha ssig; N1cClintock; Don
Pearce; Silvi)
Radio Free Speech- 6955 at 1600. Bill O. Rights
tends to produce shows pegged to holidays, so his Toke it Ea sy Radio- 69 55 at 06 45. At first they
Halloween and Election Day shows d iffered from
played ma inly Ea gles music, but a general rock
format is evolving a t the stotion. Addr: Bellc st.
his Thanksgiving and Christmas broadcasts.
(Alire-Kerber ; Frodge; Hassig; Krouse;
Addr: Belfast. (David Krause , Ea stla ke, OH;
Comeau; Hassig; Prindle; Wolfish)
McCl intock; Shelley; Silvi; Wolfish)
The Crooked Man 6955 a. 2145. This may be
Radio Eurogeek 6955 a t 0200. They tend 10
the stranges t pirate thai has consistently a ppea red
appear around St. Helena day each yea r, and
this November was no exception. Programming is on shortwave for many yea rs. The operator fell
out of the Hindenberg and landed on his head ,
a clever porody of clandestine broadcasters.
Addr: Providence . (Gory Neal, Suga r La nd, TX;
causing his stream of consciousness "logic."
Silvi)
Addr: None. (Frodge)
Radio Metallica Worldwide- 69 55v at 00 15. Dr.
TIE Radio 69 55 at 05 15. Not much is known
Tornado and Senor EI Nino rema in quite active
about this new pirate, which app ears to operate
with a whopping 10,0 00 watt tra nsmitter from a
from a western North America loca tion. Addr:

Unknown. (Majewski; Ruger)

Voice of the Long Run- 69 55 at 14 15.
Not much is known yet abou t this new
operat ion, but il they ar e around for the
long run, this may cha nge. So far they
seem to hove a relationship with Radio
Ecl ipse. Addr: Unknown. (Altre-Kerber;
Frodge)
The New Voice of the Purple Pumpkin6955 at 2200. This yea r's Halloween
edition of the Purple Pumpkin was an
entertaining review of the history of
various pira tes who hove used this nome
over the yeors. Addr: Unfortunately none.
(Prindle)
Voice of the Runaway Mah a rishi- 6955
a t 1945 . The Ma ha rishi on this station
seems curiously likethe Ma harishi on
Radio f ree Euphoria. Addr: Belfast.
IFrodge; Wolfish)
Voice of Shortwa ve Radio- 6955 a t 0000. Lately
this one has bee n playing old radio dramas, such
as H. G. We lls' War o f 'he Wo rlds. This famous
bit of radio history is popular among prates.
Add" Blue Ridge Summit. {Wolfish}
WARR 69 55 a t 0 115. Ca ptain No Beard is not
as active as he was 0 year ogo, but he still
programs ma rijuana a dvocacy through rock
music. Addr: Belfast. {Axelrod; Esprcvnik: Neall
WDRR- 6955 a. 1700. J. J. Tiger's slogan, "Rock
a nd Roll Rad io," describes his programming with
precision. Add r: Belfa st. (Alire-Kerber; Don
Pearce; Prindle)
Witch City Radio-6955 at 1300. Normally their
Halloween material from Salem, MA, ap pea rs
a round October 3 1, but they were hea rd at other
times in 1997 as well. Addr: Belfast. (Frodge;
Don Pearce)
WLlS- 6955 at 2300 . It's a simple theme: Jock
Bogga n ploys shortwave broadcast sta tion
interval signals as hit tunes. The forma t is
entertaining to OXen, so Jock has produced
broa dcasts like this for many yea rs. Addr: Blue
Ridge Summit. (Majewski; Nauta ; Wolfish)
WMFQ- 69 55 a t 163 0. This one's rock music
a lternates with ID' s by a chorus 01men, who plug
the pirate QSLprocess. Add r: Providence. (AllreKerber; Silvi]
WMPR- 6955 at 0000 . The mole a nd female
annou ncers at this techno "da nce music" station
remain mysterious. Despite rela tively frequent
activity and improving signals lately, they still
hove no means to conta ct their listeners. Addr:
None. (Altre-Kerber: Jurrens; Has sig; Krause;
Prindle; Shelley; Silvi; Wolfish)
WRAY- 6955 a t 2245 . Thecellletters are a pun
on the nome of the rock group link Wroy, which
is featured'on the shows. Addr; Wellsville. (AhreKerber)
WREC- 6955 at 2300 . P. J. Spcrx normally
operates multiple times every month, so his
ela bora te rock and comedy programming is
widely hea rd. P. J. speciclizes in novelty tunes
recorded to the music of well known rock songs.
Addr : Belfast. (Alire-Kerber; Frodge; Ha ssig;
Jurrens: Krouse; Dick Pearce ; Don Pearce;
Prindle; Ruger; Shelley)
WRYT- 6955 a t 0800. As we see this month,
aSh ar e materializing from this new rock music
pirate. Addr: Belfast. (Frodge ; Hassig; Jurrens;
Majewski; Prindle)
W5RR- 6955 a. 2230 . Solid Rock Radio, a
veteran rap and soul music pirate, has been using
these identifying ca ll letters for a couple of years
now. Addr: Belfast. (Alire-Kerber; Frodge; Nauta ;
Majewski; Don Pea rce; Prindle; Wolfi sh)

January 1998

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ON THE HAM BANDS ...

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF AMATEUR RADIO

Ike Kerschner, N3/K

Antenna Face-Off: Quad vs. Vagi

he co ntruve rsv o ve r the q uad versus

Vag i has spurred me to ~d ve mto th e
411CSIioll deeper hy running S0 111(' ex -

pcrim enrs.The results have bee n fairly dcfinirive . in my opinion . b UI othe rs may w ish to
co nduct their ow n experime nts.

Ichose t wo rnctcrs on which to conduct my

experime nts du e to the fac t tha t ante nna s for
this ba nd an: Co.lSY to handle . Initially I CO Ilstruc tcd a two -clement q uad (dr ive n c le me nt/

refl ector} ami

II

two-element Vagi with the

..."me elemen t con fi uurutio n. ho th hori zon ;i.lIly pol arized . Both'"a n lt: ll ll a S we re mo unt ed
fi ve fee t above th e roof ofth e ho use (a bo ut 23
feel abo ve grou nd ) an d separated by about 20
fee t horizon tall y.
Results fa vored the quad as a d istance
(DX ) a ntenna. The q uad was far better on
flutter y (Q SB ) sig nals than the Vagi. and
frequ entl y sign a ls that co uld not be co pied at
a ll on the Vagi we re so lid copy on the q uad .
T he next step was 10 swit ch locatio ns he tween the two ant enn a s. Re su lts we re e xac tly
the sumc . Th e Ya e i had a be tter fib uro nt to
bark) ra tio and Ii's ( fro nt to side) rutin than the
q uad. Varyin g the di sta nce between the dr iven
clement and the refl ector of the quad did
improve the fro nt to side nni o. but front to
buck un the qU4IJ was still no t impressive.
In a n e ffo rt to improve DX pe rfo rm ance
a nd fib and 11... ratio. a fo ur cle m ent qu ud was
constructed using info rmati o n pro vid ed in the
ARRL Alllt ' lII Ul Halldhook . A four-clement
Yaa i was a lso built and installed a t th e sa me
location. Fo rwa rd ga in see med abo ut eq ual
and fib W<l !\ improved on the fo ur elerncnt
qu ad and appeared nearly equal to the Vagi.
Agai n bo th a ntennas were in stall ed with horizo ntal polarizati on .
Sw itching between a ntennas d uri ng OX
co ntacts resu lted in sign'l\-. often dropping
markedl y when the Yagr was in usc a nd im pro ving w ith the quad . l\.'lost not iceab le was
the improvement in read ahi lity of fading vignalv wh en u... ing the qu ad .
However, durin g normal co ndi tio n... (i.e ..
no trope or ot he r OX propagation) both fou r
cle men t ante nna s see med eq ual in per for man ce. W ilh tIll: two cl ement ante nna s. the
q uad had a re liable: nor ma l ra nge that wa... at
Il'a st 10 to 15 pcn.:cnt gn:atc r than the Vag i. in
Illy " ,guess timatioll,"
In a ll c.: as ~ ... the test antCllna s we re adj usted

72

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January 1998

for be st match at 144 .2 MH L. and initially

spa ci ng was set for maximum for wa rd gain
(the spacing was ch anged a... me nt io ned to
improve fib on the quad). Chang ing the spacing o n the qu ad did not se e m to alt er its abil ity
to o ut pe rfo rm the Vagi in range .
As a final test. bot h four- cle ment antennas
were mo unt ed o n my tower: T he Vagi was
mo unted at 55 feci and th e quad was four feet
lo we r. Range impro ved d rama tica lly o n bot h
an tennas but the quad co ntinued to o utpe rform the Yaci.
An inte resting side -no te is that w ith the
quad I wa s able to work vert ica lly polarized
l-M signa ls that we re not audible at all using
the Va gi. Th is result seems to indica te the
qu ad do c s ha ve some pol arization in both
plane s whic h wo uld be o ne ex pla natio n of the
improved performance when wo rking trope
DX w ith the quad,

HF QuadlYagi Tests
For severa l yea rs I had a thr ee cl emen t. triba nd Yaui at 60 feet. and a 10 and 15 met er
quad that was 40 fee t high at the ce nte r. T he
a ntennas we re ab o ut 45 feet ap art . On OX
sie nals both ante nna s were usua lly eq ual in
p~rforl11ance, Th e qu ad did bett er o n long
path sig nal s about 20 perc ent of the time .
While running low powe r (fi ve watt s or
!cs..,) (he q uad us ua lly see med 10 prov ide
be tter via nals \\ he n han d condi tion s wer e
m'lfl.d n'll~ Howeve r. when 10 or 15 meters
wcr~ o pe n I found it impossible to tell the
differe nce betwee n th e two antennas.
T he kind of tes ting I did wu... not exactly
what could he called scientific ! Ho we ve r. I
feci co m forta hle \"'lth my cho il'e o fth c Quad
for all-around h ~ st ant enna in the qu ad/Vag i
deb ate. At VHF I feci the q uad i... truly t h ~
s u p ~ r io r allt ell n :'l ~ O n HF the ljuad proved
supe rior ofte ll enough that I wo uld pre fer it ( 0
a Vagi ,

Other Bands

For design
details of 111f!
Quad ifa r left )
and ragi, see
the ..l RRL
Handbook .

I hav e ne ver be en
ab le to try a Vagi o r
q u ad o n SO or -10
met e rs: ho we ver. I
ha ve use d o ne waveleng th qu ad loop s 0 11 these hands (a nd I am
presen tly co ns truc ting a two-e leme nt fixed
q uad for -10), I It theory th e qu ad has some gain
ovcrn dipnlc: the ga in va ries depend ing o n the
shape of the loo p. On both -10 a nd SOthe loop
is far lcs... susce ptib le to e lectrica l noi se tha n
a dip ole or ot her ho rizo ntal a nte nna.
Th e o nly te sting Ihave do ne ofa quad loo p
ve rsus ho rizont a l an tenn a is betw een three
different ante nnas : a -10 meter dip ole (in ve rted vee co nfle uratio m at 50 fe et. two ha lf
waves in phase ( 3d B gain. in theory ). a nd a
loo p 0 11 40 me te rs . Th e top of my diamond
loop wu... 45 Icc t abovc g ro und and th e pha sed
arra y wa s 45 fee t o n on e e nd a nd abo ut 55 o n
lhe ~ther. All three ante nnas we re aime d we st,
Signal rep o rts from th e w est Coast a nd
OX we re a m ixe d bag between the loop and
pha sed arra y. the o nly real improve me nt being the abili ty 10 hea r bet ter wi th the loop
through QRN: the di pole W ,IS a lose r. as DX
statio ns co uld frequ en tly not ev en hear me .
Swi tch ing k ed from hor izonta l to vertical un
the quad did sho w improvement when wo rking lo ng. haul DX. but sig na l re ports from ZL
and VK we re ne ver th at differe nt 10 draw a
solid co nclusion.
As a cli nch er. the qu ad is fair ly ea sy to put
up a nd requires far less space than o the r gain
ant enn as o n the lo we r ha nd s.
I hop e this informat ion provides a hit of
ins il.!.hl into the Ya~ i /quad q ucstion und perhap~ hdps the deci sio n-maki ng procc ss for
so me of th~ new e r ham ....
Keep the lan.ls and leller s co m ing, Be st
wishe s tll ()Il e <1 llll a ll f()r u Ha ppy and Pnlspero us 199X.

.. AND MOREl
RADIO FUN WITHOUT A UCENSE

Jock Elliott, KB2GOM

/ightkeeper@sprintmoi{.com

Family Radio Service - the Next CB?

hen the Fed e ra l Com munica tio ns

Commission created the Fam ily
Radio Serv ice last year. for the
first time the general publ ic could use the
qui et UHF Ftvt ba nd forpcrson al co m municatio ns at no c harge .
Th e Co mmi ssion set aside 14 c hanne ls for
use b), the FRS :

Ch .
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

MHz

462.5625
462.5875
462.6125
462.6375
462.6625
462.6875
462.7125

Ch .
8
9
10
11
12
13
14

MHz

467.5625
467.5875
467.6125
467.6375
467.6625
467.6875
467.7125

T he first se ve n FRS cha nnels arc the same

as the so-called "splinter" cha nnels from the
Ge nera l M obil e Rad io Serv ice (ot,I RS ). That
mean s FRS and G M RS share these channe ls.
and it also means lhat peo ple with FRS and
G~'I RS radios can ta lk to eac h o ther o n these
freque ncies.
Stringent standa rds were es tablis hed for
FRS radi os: handi-talk ies with a m aximum of
o ne- ha lf wall tran smit power. measured at the
antc nna. In add itio n. the ante nna mu st be an
integra l part o f the FRS unit. so th at it wou ld
be impossible to attac h an e xter nal antenna
that offered more ga in and the poten tia l of
more inter feren ce. T he FCC ru les also spec ify
a n allowable frequen cy varia tion o f 0.00 025
pe rcent. a ma ximu m freq uen c y dev iat ion of
2.5 kHz and an audi o freque ncy respo nse of
3. 125 kHz
For those who wa nt re liab le sho rt-range
co m municatio ns over distan ce s of 12 mile s.
FRS is a very uuructivc choice. The FRS
freq uencies a re virt ually imm une to skip. and
poc ke t-s ized FRS rad ios. opera ting in FM
mode. offe r crysta l c lea r communicatio ns.
Do they wor k? Yo u bet! My wife and I
hav e used FRS handi-t alkic s to stay in to uc h
with ano the r cou ple at an a muse me nt park. to
keep in touc h <lroUIHJ the ne ighborhoo d. a nd
to ma inta in co ntact bet ween ca rs whi le taki ng
a trip. T he se dim inutive tran sceivers arc idea l
for communi cati on s whi le hunting. fishing.
camping. bicycling or eve n o rganizi ng any
kind of group e vent.
Recently . I te sted a pair ofFRS rad ios fro m
Mid land Co nsume r Rad io that I liked very
mu ch . Eac h Midlan d 75-5 10 FR S radio mea -

sores 4 J/4 " H x :2 1I:2"\V x I

a ll 14 channe ls of the radi o.

114" 0 and wei gh s about a
A nd. o f course , to hear each
po und . Th e lo udspe aker ca n
oth er . yo u mu st all usc bo th
ge nerate ha ifa watt of audio.
the sa me CTCSS co de a nd the
whi ch is quit e loud for a rasame FRS channel.
din that can fit in yo ur shirt
\ Vhat really se t these Midpo(ket
land FRS rad ios ap art is their
On top of the rad io. ther e
per formance. The a udio co rnis a non -rem o vab le llexible
ing o ut of the spe ake r is loud
an te nna und a ru bber flap
whe n yo u need it loud , The
which yo u can lift to plug in
rece iver is crisp and clear. a nd
all o ptio na l speake r-mic rothe tran sm itte r de livers mo re
pho ne. Th e on /off vo lume
ra nge - about 1/4 mile mo re
knob is ulso 100:.Hcd on top of
- than so me co mpe titive FRS
the unit. where it ca nnot be
units I have tested.
turned o n by accide nt.
Fin ally. the se radios j ust
O n the fro nt of the 75-5 10
sip pmver. Pop a fre sh se t of
is aliquid cry sta ld isp lay with
A lkal ine A As in the batt e ry
pack . a nd yo u've go t ove r 100
large c ha nne l nu mb ers. plu s
ho urs of sta nd-by power. Th e
indicato rs for BUSY (rece iving ). O N AIR (tra nsmi tting) .
sugge sted retail pr ice of the
CT e SS (Continuou s T o ne
M id land 75-5 10 FR S radio is
Coded Sq uelc h Systenu.Io w
$ 199. 95 each. but di scounters
bailer)'. LO CK . and SCAN.
are likely to ha ve them for
Ju st below the LCD are two
S 130- 140 a piece. Fo r mo re
inform ation. phone Midland
butt on s for cha ng ing c hanat 8 16/24 1-8500. or visit the ir
nels up and do wn and for
web site:
skipping c hannel s a nd lockwww.midlandradio.com,
ing run c ha nne ls during scanSo. to answer the q ue sning. A lso on the fro nt of the
Midland 75~S Jf) FRS radio.
radi o is a but ton that actition : fo r reli abl e. skip- fre e
va tes the scan ning featu re and activates the
co mm unica tio ns ove r shor t ra nge s. I think
co de s . A fourth button is used to luck
IlRS co uld easi ly becom e the ne xt C B. And I
the rad io o n .1 partic ular cha nnel and to acticun heartily recommend the Midland 75-5 10
vaic the ba ckl igh t for the liqu id cry stal di s;;I S'I grcut wa y to take advantage o fthe Fa mily
Radi o Se rvice .
play .
On one side of the 75-5 10 is a push -to-talk
butt on . the top ha lf of wh ich is used to activate
the MON ITOR fun ction. Th e 75 -51 Uc o mes
comple te wit h four NiCad rechargea ble bat FREE
0
0 'i.W j!.,'.;r:J.\'1
ter ies . and o n the o ther side o f the radio is a
SAMPLE .
po rt for plu ggin g in a charge r. w h ich is a lso
COpy!
0 .0
10 -0II
included wit h the rad io.
In add ition Lo 14 FRS c hannels. the 75-5 10
"p rivac y" co de s.
ulso has 3Xso-c a lled
Antique Radio's Largest-Circulation
\ Vhcn ac tiva ted. these codes mut e the rc Monthly Magazine
ce ive r at a ll times except when the proper
Art icl es Classifi eds ~ Ad s fo r Part s & Serv ices
Also: Early TV, Ham Eq uip., Boo ks ,
to ne code is rece ived. So . if yo u do n't wa nt to
Telegraph ,40's & 50's Radios & mo re..
hear o the r tran smi ssion s. ha ve <III the peo ple
Free 2a-wo rd ad each mo nth . Don ', miss ourl
in yo ur group act ivate the sa me
co de .
~ t-veen $38.95 ($55.95 by 1st Class)
~ 6- M o n t h Trial ~ $19.95. Foreign . Write.
a nd all othe r co nversa tio ns wil l be locked ou t.
A.R.C., P.O. Box 802P12, Carlis le, MA 01741
But note we ll: the codes do no t rende r yo ur
Phone: (SOB) 371-0512; Fax: (SOB) 371-7129
tran sm issio ns private. A lso worth no ting:
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pes FRONT LINE

PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES

DanVeeneman
dan@de<:ade.cam

pes Takes Shape in 1998

he glob a l sate llite co nste llat io n Iridi um tno k anot he r step for ward o n
November xth with the launch of
five addition a l satelli tes fro m Vandenbe rg
A ir For ce Base in Ca lifor nia. As of this
writing 39 space ve hic les nrc in or bit.
a lthough Motorola Satel lite Co m munica -

tion s reports IIl'1I nile of the pre viously

launched satellites experienced an attitude control problem and is not expected
to be inctu...led in the opera tional constellation . Sin ce eac h o f the six orbital plane s
e nvis ioned by Iridium plann e rs will con tain a
spare. th is loss should not del ay commercial
se rvice roll ou t sc hed uled for the third q ua rte r
of IW 8.
Th e Iridium sate llite te lephone network
will ope rate using a slig htly mod ified G lobal
Sy stem for Mo bile s (GS M ) standard. incor porating thei r 1600 M ll z transcei ver into a
rn ultiband G SM hand set . C usto me rs will use
the han dse t ove r 900 . 1800. a nd 1900 MHz
GS M te rrestria l ne two rks, switc hing to the
Irid ium sate llites whe n no such local syste m
is available . Subsc ribers w ill co ntract wi th
their loca l GSt\1 carrie r to auto matically roam
0 11 the Iridium sys te m. whi ch is ex pected to
cost in the range of SJ per minute.
Glcba lstar . a noth er satellite-based voice
se rvice provider. ann oun ced their fir st launch
is now sc hed uled fo r February of 1998. e ight
week s later tha n pre viou sly e xpee red . Th e
postpo nement is appare ntly to a llow additio na l time for testing and rehear sa ls of the
gro und eq uipment that w ill provide track ing.
telem e try. a nd co ntrol (IT&C) fur the 56 lo w
earth or bit (LEO) sate llites.

Little LEOs
w hile Iridium and o the r vo ice se rvice Big
LEO satel lite sys te ms ga rber head lines, they
m ay soon he sha ring the spo tlight with the ir
less expensi ve cou nterpart s. Termed NonVo ice Non -G eo syn chronou s (NVN G) sys tem s by the Federal Comm uni catio ns Comm issio n. the se Little LEOs utili ze con ste llation s of sma ller. le ss cos tly satel lites to pro vide lo w spee d. low vo lume dig ita l wire less
links. Using sma ll. ine xpen sive user lenn ina ls. little LEOs arc po ised to provide suc h
service s as vehicle track ing. two-way da ta
me ssaging and elec tro nic mai l. ro utin e a nd
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Doppler Frequency Shift

statio nary rece ive r liste ning to a sate llite

mo ving ove rhe a d w ill e xpe rie nc e a
change in freq ue ncy. hi gher as the sate lsatellite moving toward rec eiver
A.pparent freq ue ncy Is highe r
lite app roaches and lo we r as the sate llite
move s awa y. Dop pler fo r :.I sing le be am
satellite dlrectty overh ead
fro m a Litt le LEO is expec ted to be o n the
No frequency shi ft
o rder of 5 to 10 kHz, req uiring a shift up
o r down in rece ive r tunin g dependi ng o n
Satelli te moving away fro m rec eiver
the locati o n of the rece ive r and the moAppar ent frequen cy Is lower
tio n of the sa te llite.
A comprehe nsive plan proposed by
ro nmental monitori ng . and sec urity warnthe parti cipants and o rdered by th e FCC di sing s.
tributes the av ai lab le spec tru m among each
A Report and Order relea sed by the FCC
Lit tle LEO and req uire s ea ch operato r toavoid
in October spec ifies a number of operational
interfer ing wit h the tra nsmi ssions of governrul es and freq uen cie s for five Litt le LEO
me nt sa te llites. Accu rate orb ita l locatio ns a nd
sys te ms . a ll of whic h will transmi t and remo ve ment info rm ation ("e phe me ris" dat a )
ce ive on VHF a nd UHF frequencies. Of the
w ill be co llected and processed to predict
five , Orbcom m and VITA a rc a lready lithe ir co ve rag e area s (vfo otprints' in sa tellite
ce nsed a nd o pe rating. Orbcom m with two
parlan ce ) up to week in adv a nce. and where
sate llites in or bit a nd VITA wi th o ne launc hed
ov e rlaps occ ur the Litt le L EO sate llite mu st
last Se pte mbe r. T hree newer en trants. LEO
cha nge operating freq uen cies or no t tra nsm it
O ne, Final An a lysis, and E-S<lt.are prep ari ng
at all. In addition. to insure a fai lure wi ll not
for co ns truc tion a nd launc h.
c reate ha voc. eac h satelli te mu st hav e a fa ilA ll fiv e wi ll share the same slice of specsa fe mec hanism by which it will cease tra nstrum. 14 8 MH z to 150 :V1Hz fo r the up link
m itting if a " re se t" signa l is not rece ived from
(Ea rth to space) as we ll as 137 M Hz to 138
the ground every 72 ho urs .
M Hz and 400 MH z III 40 1 MH z for the
downlink (space to E:'.If1 hI. Th is band of fre New FCC Commissioners
q uencies is a lready fai rly c rowded. wi th Natio na l Oceanic and Atmosp heric Admi nistraThere ' s be en acha nging of the guard at the
tio n (NOAA) and De partment o f Defen se
Federal Comm unic ations Com missio n. Fo ur
( 000) we athe r sate llites tran sm itting in the
of the five Co m missione rs are new as of
137 M Hz and 400 M Hz ban ds. respectively .
No vembe r. when Willi am Ken nard. Haro ld
Russian and Fre nc h satellites also use this
Furchtgo rt-Rot h. M ichae l Po well . and G lor ia
pa rt o f the spectru m. addi ng to co mple xity of
Trista n! we re co nfirmed by the Se nate. Susan
freq ue ncy coo rdi na tio n.
Ness is the on ly Co m m issio ner stay ing o n.
Because ge osy nc hrono us sa tellites orbit
T he ne w C hairma n. Mr. Kennard. had previ 12.000 mi le s above the Earth a nd make one
ou sly se rve d as FCC Ge ne ra l Counse l. and
rotat io n every 24 ho urs. the y ap pear to be
work ed as a co m munications lawye r before
statio nary in the sky. " ha nging" above a
co ming to the FC C in 1993. He is se e n as le ss
part icular spo t. Lo w ea rth or biting satellites
co nfro ntationa l and more of :'1 co nse nsuso perate mu ch cl oser to the ea rth. at altit udes
bui lde r than his often-controversial pred ece sfrom a few hu ndred to sev eral tho usa nd mil es
so r Reed Hund t. Th e o ther Comm issio ners
and co m plete an o rbit man y
times each day. Because
TABLE' : Little Low Earth Orbit ILEOI systems
these sa te llites a rc movi ng
SYSTEM
SATEllITES
MO OULATION
EXPECTEO
so qu ickl y. spec trum allo (Planned)
METHOO
COST
c atio ns mu st al so lake into
($ millio ns)
E-Sat
account an effec t ca lled
6
COMA
50
Final Analysis
FOMA/TOMA
26
250
Do ppler . which is the apl EOOne
48
FOMA/TOMA
250
pare nt change o f tra nsmitOrbcomm
FOMA/TOMA
28
350
ted freq uency d ue to the
VITA
FOMA/TOMA
2
10
motio n of the sa tellite. A

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with varied backgrounds in eco nomic s
and law.

Local Multipoint Distribution

TABLE 2: Local MUltipoint Distribution

Service License Blocks
ABlock

Service
BBlock

The largest spectrum auct ion in the

history of the FCC is schedu led for December 1997, where 986 licenses covering 1.3 GHz of spectrum will be sold to the
highest bidder for use unde r the moniker
L ocal Mu ltipoi n t Di strib ut io n Serv ic e
(LM DS) . Two blocks of spectrum in each of
the nation's493 Basic Trad ing Area s (BTAs)
will be auctioned , with a 150 MHz block
avai lable to all bidders and a 1150 MH z block
available to all except in-region cab le telev ision and local telephone companies. Beca use
of rad io signal characteri stics at these freque ncie s, the services offe red by licensees
will be fixed rather than mobil e, and are
expec ted to incl ude interactive video, high
speed Internet acce ss, and two-way voice
telephony .
LM DS pioneer Ce llularVi sion has been
running a one-way video service for several
year s, transmi tting more than 40 cable-quality ana log channel s to cus tome rs in the
Brighton Beach , New York , area , but futu re
services will most likely be interactive and
fully digital. Internet access , for instance, is
expect ed to be a marketing winner with tra nsfer speeds approac hing 1.5 gigabi ts per sec ond, orders of magnitude faster than ord inary
dia l-up modems. Tho usands of voice channels can fit in the LMDS block s, pro viding an
alternative to the local telephone com pany.
LMDS tra nsmitt ers are generally line o f
sight, with a typical range of 4 to 6 miles.
Develop ment of low-cost equip ment that operate s in the 28 to 30 GHz band will take some
time, leadin g most analysts to believe that
initial license winners will foc us on business
custo mers , supp lying wire less voice and
Internet access to corporate locations that can
afford relatively high-cost transceivers. As
performance improves and hardware costs
drop, LMDS shou ld gradua lly reach residential consumers.
Becau se the wirele ss signals bypa ss the
local infrastructure of cab le television and
telepho ne companies, the FCC expects LMDS
to eve ntually beco me a compe titor to these
local monopo lies, driv ing dow n prices and
increasing the variety and quality of services .

Pentium Bugs
Another interesting bug has been discovered that affects the opera tion of certain Intel
Pen tium microprocessors. Several years ago
it was reported that early genera tion Pentium

27.5 to 28.35 GHz

29.1 to29.25GHz ,.
31.0751031.225 GHz
31.01031.075GHz
31.225 to 31.3 GHz

1150 MHz
150 MHz

chips suffered from a dou ble precision division probl em in the floati ng point arithmetic
unit, where serious errors, althou gh unlikely,
could occur. More recently the Pentium Pro
was shown to occa sionally fail to corre ctly
report a floa t-to-integ er conversion overflow,
again creating the possibility of incorrec t answers. Other "deviatio ns from published specificatio ns," as Intel refers to such bugs, are
usually listed in an errata for each microprocessor .
Th is latest bug, nicknamed the " Pentium
FO Bug," causes Intel Pent ium and Pentium
MMX microprocessors to "hang," or stop
funct ioning until reset, when executing the
instruction FOOFC7C8, regardle ss of the operating system. Th is bug docs not appea r in
compatible ch ips manu factured by Ad vanced
Micro Devices (AMD) or Cyrix. It also docs
not appea r to affect Pentium II or Penti um Pro
microprocessors. and does not affect earlier
generations of processors such as the 80486.
Microprocessor operatio ns are co ntroll ed
by microcode, a specia l form of software that
directs the interna l operation of the chip. With
modern chips growing in comp lexity and sophistication, testing the microcode isextremely
diffic ult.Microcode with hard -to-detect faults.
perhap s triggered by specific but unusual code
sequences. may remai n undetected for long
periods of time but leave computer sys tems
vulnerable to unexpected results, or wo rse.
T his particular instruction should on ly occur in programs de liberately crea ted to exploit the bug , and will not exist in co mmercial
software such as spreadshee ts and word processors . Ma ny Internet service pro viders lise
Pentium-ba sed equipment. and any service
that allow s a user to run their own programs
would be vulnerable to the following program. regard less of the operating sys tem or
other software on the computer:
Intel proc essors are in more than 80 % of
the world ' s persona l compu ters, and Intel
ships almost 100 million chips each year. Last
July Intel revealed that the micro code in
Pentium Pro and Pentiu m II chips can be
upg raded , presumably to corre ct such defects.
Althoug h not ava ilable to end users. such
microcode patches offer the possibi lity of
repairing flaws and limitations withou t the
need to replace any hard ware.

As more receivers and radio equipment are

coniro lled by microprocessors of various
types, how many unexpected "features" will
surface and how will they affect the operation
o f the device ?
Thai 's all fort his mont h. Com ments, questions. and Pentiu m horror stori es can be sent
to dan rs dccodc .com . More informa tion is
also availab le at the pes Fron t Line web site,
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~LANE TALK

IUAN AERONAUTICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Jean Baker KIN

Glossary of Aeronautical Terminology

elcome aboaro unda Happy New

Year to everyone! To start the
yea r out rig ht. we have a glos-

sary of av iat io n term ino log y that yo u may

want to co py for the wa ll in yo ur mo nitor ing post.

Affi rmat ive - Yes

A R INC Aeronautical Rad io. Inc. A company tha t provides a ir-gro und radio se rvices amo ng others.
A RTCC - Ai r Route Tr affic Control Ce nter
ATe _ Ai r T raffi c Co ntro l
ATe C lears _ Used to relay an ATe c1ear-

Tire Sorllt A me rican P5 1 Mu s/mlK

"Moonbeam McS M'i" e" 0 11 display
ance when g ive n by othe r than an a ir tra ffic
equal to 5.280 feet. Yo u wil l hear pilots
co ntro ller. Yo u wi ll hear an AR INC rad io
expressing their airspeed in kn o ts.
operator say this when relaying a cle arance
Mo de ~ Letter or num ber which is assigned to
from AT e to a fl ight heo r she is wo rking.
a spec ific pul se spac ing of rad io sienals
Company Traffic - Term used by ATe ~IO
transm itting o r recei ved hy u ground inte rroadvise converging traf fic that they both work
gator or airbo rne tra nspond er co mpone nts
for the same co mpany.
of the air truffle co ntrol radar system , CivilCha rtie-Charlie . Used by pilot s mor e on the
ian aircraft usc mode C while military airHF band s than o n VHF. in the same co ntext
craft use mod e -l. A transpon der is necessary
as ' affirmative.'
for altitude rep orting ligures 011 the radar
ELT . Eme rge ncy Locato r Tran smitter. Th is
screen of a ir tra ffic contro l faci lities and
piece of equipmen t produ ces a sig nal when
o ther re lated function s.
activated (usually. but not always. by a
Nega
tive - No.
crash) wh ich is tra nsmi tted on the internaNO R DO - Th e literal translation is " no rad io."
tional d istress frequencies of I2 1.500. 24 3.0
Con trollers will usc this ex pre ssion when
and/o r 406.025 MH z.
the y a re re ferring to an aircraft whom they
Heavy - Aircraft ca pable of takeoff we ights of
arc tryin g to co ntac t mill the pilot (for one
300 .000 po unds or more . whether or no t
reason or ano ther ) is Hot answe ring them .
they' are operati ng at this we ight at during a
Roger
- T his wo rd mea ns l havc rece ived yo ur
part icular pha se of flight. Aircraft be lo ngtransmissio n and is also used to mean I hear
ing to this cla ss incl ude the 747. L I0- 11. Cyou. Tec hnica lly. it is supposed to mean '"
10. so me airbuses. DC -IO. a nd others.
have recei ved a ll of yo ur lust transmissio n,"
Flig ht Level - Flight <altitude of an aircra ft
SE LC AL - A fo ur-ton e se lec tive calling dewhic h is base d upo n ba rometric pressur e
vice used by aerona utical enro ute ground
and expressed in the form of a 3-d igit numstatio
ns (suc h as ARINC) to contact a ni ght
ber. For instance. fligh t level 330 wo uld
which has a SELC AL rece iving unit o n
ind icate that an aircra ft is fl ying 'It thirtyboard. Ae ro enroute ground statio n person three thousand feet.
nel usc SELCA L to contac t a Ilig ht on both
Hi gh Fr equency - Aeronautical communicaVHF :.I1ll1 HF freq uenc ies . Wh ile prima rily
tions are fo und on the high frequ ency bands.
utili
zed by civi lian ai rcra ft. ma ny military
in most cases but not all. between :i and 22
and business airc raft now ut ilize the syste m
MH z. inclu si ve . Trunsmisvions on these fre also .
q uen cie s are in upper sideband mode .
Hold - A pred eterm ined maneuver whi ch keeps Se pa ra tion - The spacing of airc raft both hori zuurally and vertical ly to ac hieve sa fe and
aircraft within a specified airspace while
orde
rly movement du ring flig ht. takeo ffs.
awa iting furthe r c lea rance fro m ATC .
a nd land ings.
Hot Are a - Designated ai rspace over an act ive
Target - Indic ator sho wn 0 11 an air traffic
military operations area (l\ 10 A) up to a
con trol ler' s radarscope re sul ting fro m a pri predetermi ned flight level which civilian
mary return on a rada r heacon reply,
aircraft must not penetrate.
UII
F - Ultra-Hig h Freque ncy. Used in this
Knot - A un it of speed. O ne nautical mile is
se nse, it refe rs 10 the port ion oft he spec tru m
equal to 6.076. 12 feel. A statute mile is
76

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January 1998

used fo r military av iatio n co mmunications

fro m 225 to 40 0 megahert z.
VII I' T hese initials stand for Very High
Frequ ency. Aero ba nd co mmunications in
(he VHF ran ge run fro m 108.000 through
137.00 0 MHz. If yo u hear a pilot ask ing for
a Victor freq uency. chances are he ' s a military pilot reque stin g a frequency in the VHF
band fro m AT C instead of a UHF co unterpart.

Readers Corner
Bob Re tzler (PA )a sked fo r freq ue nc ies for
Philade lphia and Pittsb ur gh:
Ph ila de lph ia : ATIS - 133.400: Approach 123 .80 0. 126 .600 . 126 .8 5 0. 127.3 5 0 .
128.400 : Departu re - 119.750. 124.350:
Clearance Deli very - 118.850: G roun d 121.900 : To wer - 118.500 : PD - 453.450:
ARINC - 460.775 : USAi rwa ys - 15 1.835.
460 .700 .
Pittshurgh - ATlS - 127.25 (A ). 135.900 (D ) :
Approach - 123.950. 124 . 150: Dep artu re I 18.700. I 19.350. 124.750. I27.950: Groun d
- 121.9OO:Tower- 119. 100 . 128.300 :Clearunce . 126.750 ; PD - 453.825; Ma inte nance
- 45 3.92 5: US Airways - 129.050. 130.050 .
130 .5 0 0 . 13 1.050 . 4 6 0 .700 . 460.8 25 .
460 .850.
James Conner (M N) shares these

~Iinn e

ap olis freqs with us:

AT IS.- 120 .800. 135.350 : Ap pro ach - 119. 300
(NIE). 126.950 (SIW) : Dep arture - 120.000
(N/E) . 124.700 (SIW ). Clearance - 133.200:
Gro und - 12 1.8 (N). 121. 900 (S) : Towe r 123.950 . 126.700 : Am e rica n - 130 .250 .
130 .500 . 46 0.775 : No rthwest - 129 .300.
129 .92 5. 13 1.125. 131. 90 0. 4 6 0 .700.
46 0 .800 . 4 60 .850 . 460.8 75 : United 129.500 . 46 0.725. 460.875: PD - 460.4 75:
Fire - 153.850 . 15 3.860. 154.205. 154. 295 .

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The White House is Learning...

n November. we had the ho nor of the

visit of the President of the United Sla tes
in our fair cit y. President Clinton flew
into Palm Beach Internatio nal Airp ort aboard
Air Force I and proceeded throughout the
county on a fund raising trip. He ab o went to
visit the children at the M iddle School in
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last year .
Sec urity was tight throughout the co unty

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had acommand post set up ut the schoo l. at the
go lf cou rse where he played a few holes. and
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attended a De mocratic Party fund ra ising dinner.
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Seve ral days before the arr ival I started
hearin g Sec ret Service mo biles on 165.375
MHz doi ng site checks and rou te chec ks in the
clear . A co uple o f day s before the arrival the
paging transmitter on 167.025 MHz was set
up by the White Hose Co m municat io ns
Agency. As the time of arrival grew closer .
the volume of paging transmissions increased.
The day prior to the arrival all of the main
Sec ret Service cha nnels were act ive with
radio ac tivity . These included 165.375 .
166.5 125. and 164.8875 MHz.
Th e da y uf the arrival l was able to monit or
Air Force I as the pilot contacted the approach
at Palm Beach International Airport on 119. 1.
A t I/O time during the arriva l or departure of
the aircraft did I hear any traffi c o n the Echo!
Foxtrot channels. Thi s is, of course. the channel of 415.7 MH z where the plane talks dow n
to one o f the AT&T land sites and (he site talks
back up to the plane on 407.85 MHz. This
experie nce agrees with the FcdCom emai l
reports I have bee n receiving that this circuit
has all but dried up. with traffic going to
satellite commu nications.
Whe n the President arrived. ill o r the traffic becam e encrypted and vel)' little was gained
from this source . Don 't despair. however: <IS
I mentioned in a previou s co lumn, the local
police helicopter provided a pla y-by-play description of where the President was. what he
78

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Jonuory 1998

was doing, and what the future plan s were .

Thi s was monitored by se veral listeners in the
Palm Beach area inc lud ing Lokutus in Jup iter. who provided me with the additional
informa tio n that one of the local televi sion
stations (WPEC T V Channel 12) had their
traffi c heli copter flying almost tande m with
the Sheriff s helicop ter.
T he sheriffs helicopter kept me informed
on 159.15 MHz and the WPEC helicopter
kept me info rmed Oil 153.1 1 MH z. Who
needed the Secret Service? I had more than
enough listeni ng here.

Traveling with the President

This brings up another interesting observation. The \ ''1".\' loud wideband FM signal
usually accom pa nying Air Force I was not
heard this trip. T his signal see ms to come and
go. probably dependin g on the cond ition of
the satellite circu its (my guess). It has been
heard in the early pari of Nove mber centered
on 359.95 MHz o ver the midwest dur ing one
of the Presidenti al visits. Numerou s single
sideband subcarriers were detected. Good lis
tening .
As this is being written. the President is
visiting Los Ange les uud southern Ca liforn ia.
All of the ubove channe ls arc active including
164.8 MHz. T he President was in Las Vega s
prior to this. All of the same chan nels were
active there <IS well.
One of our co ntributors. Ken windyku o f
Springfield . Massachu setts. provided us with
a monit oring report from that area. It seems
the President was in that part of the co untry
recentl y. arri ving at Westover Air Force Busc .
The above channels were used there (notice a
pattern formin g") along with the base sec urity
chann els. Robe rt also provided these intercepts from Springfield:
US Post Offi ce Bulk Mail Cc nter-- 162.215.
172.300 MHz simplex
FB1--16 7.3625. 167.5625. 167.6125 ~ IH z
Vet eran ' s Ad mi nis t rat ion Ho s pita l a t
Nor thampton . P<lging 17J. 7 115 ~ t Hz
Govcmmcn t Build ing Security -Federul Pro tective Servil..'c--l- 17.2 Rptr out
Unkn ow n simplex activity -- 167. 125 MHz

Reader Intercepts
Whi le we ;;lTI: discussing. federal bui ldings
and their security, the New C a r lto n Fede ra l

Buil din g ju st o utside o f Washington . D.C.,

uses the followi ng frequencies:
412.225
464.500
415.200
409.200

security rptr output

construction crew
Federal Protective Service
loading docktraffic

Th anks to Charlie Wilkinson for these submissions.

While up in the \Vashington area, if you
ever visit Arlington Nationa l Ce me tery. be
sure to mo nitor 165.1875 MH z. The pll tone
is 156.7 Hz. This is the ope rations and main tenance frequency for the cemetery.
Matthew W. Sadler has been busy monitoring in the Chatta nooga, Te nnessee, area
and provides us with the Postal Service freq ucncics fur that area . They are:
Semc_.
Ernl
!d1J
1M"
Vehicle cps 162.5875 simplex KQX978
Vehicle cps 170.400 rptr ouV! KPS774
166,975 rptr in
Main plant 168,000simplex KPS744

sprvsrs.

sorvsrs rptr
main
plant svrs
low power
simplex

Postal insp. 169.850 rplr ouUI

169.000rptr input
Postal insp. 170.175 simplex
P.O. Sec. Po1. 418,300 rptr ouV!
':16,775 rptr in

This radio system is apparen tly used by the

posta l service for their trucks that run between
the post office s and thc genera l mail facil ities.
T he p/l tone on the radios is 203.5 Hz.

Postal Inspector System

As previously addressed in a prior co lumn.
ha mfcsts (amateur radio flea market s) are a
great place to pick up equipment and obtai n
federa l frequ encies. One reader. who wishes
In remain anonymous. recently acqui red a US
Postal Inspector radio which had been sold at
surplus. Here is the frequency breakdow n for
the entire northeast United States. and probuhly clsc whcre.

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60 Mi n. Cassene featurlng
-The Sounds of Longwav.-

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f:ll \

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reception . A su per b Introd uct ion lor the newcomer and
a hand y reference tor the seasoned listener.
$1 1.95 Postpaid (U,S, funds) from :

e.o. Box 56,

Kevin Carey
W est

Bloomfield. NY 14585

e.tl.ln

l -Na Red

2NaRed
3Syr Hpt
4-Syr Sim
5NY Gn Rpl
6-Mule Sim
7SFRpt
8-SFSim
9Roch Rpt
10Roch Sim
118 u1lAI Rpt
12-Buf/AI Sim
13NYYel Rpt
14NWKNJ
15HTF CT
16TS1148R D
17-TS825RD
18TS11488U
19TS825BU
20-0range Rpl
210range Sim
22SFII
23WORC MA
24-LIISPMA
25NJ South

II

II!

407.775
414.750
407.725
415.050
408.050
41 4.750
41 6.775
418.300
407.775
414.750
407.725
415.050
409.375
407.725
407.725
407.775
407.775
407.775
407.775
414.750
407.725
416.775
407.725
407.725
407.725

414.750
414.750
415.050
415.050
416.225
414.750
418.300
418.300
414.750
414.750
415.050
415.050
413.700
415.050
415.050
407.775
407.775
407.775
407.775
407.725
407.725
416.775
415.050
415.050
415.050

I!!'!.

82.5
82.5
82.5
82.5
82.5
none
82.5
82.5
114.8
114.8
114.8
114.8
82.5
107.2
91.5
114.8
82.5
114.8
82.5
82.5
82.5
82.5
74.4
91.5
74.4

!!!f!.
82.5
82.5
82.5
82.5
82.5
none
82.5
82.5
114.8
114.8
114.8
114.8
82.5
107.2
91.5
114.8
82.5
114.8
82.5
82.5
82.5
none
74.4
91.5
74.4

Ch.l
Ch.2

164.225
164.375

148.430
163.300
163.325
163.4625
163.5125
1642 25
164.375
167.8625
1684 50
169.025
171 .3125
172.475
173.5625
173.6375
173.7125
406.225
406.375
406.500
410.800
411.025
411.200
413.850
413.950
415.475
415.750
415.950
416.400
417.550
417.750

u.se

U.S. Naval Security

U.S. NavyAvionics Center
DOE Mise
DOE Mise
DOE Security Net
DOE Paging
DO EMisc
DO ESecurity Ops
DO ESecurity
DOE Net L-Site Opns
DOE Net E-f ire Alarms
DOENetC-Site Opns
DOE Nel f-Sile Opns
DOENet D-Site oos
ODE Net G-Bus Depot
lNEEL Security Net
DOESecurity
INEEL SecuritySecondaryOps
INEEL Security Portables-Net 2
DOE Nel A-Security
INEEL Security Portables-Net3
INEEL Secu rityNet
DOE MISC
DOE District - Area Ops
DOESecurity AlarmsNet
DOE Alarms Net
INEEL Base-Safety Ops
DOE Dri ll - All Call Areawide
OOEIII NEELSile Ops

177
Rochester
Newark
Hartford
Orange Channel or Orange, NJ
Worchester, Ma
l ong Island

777

Enjoy these. Some of thesurveillances

are interesting.

163.175
164.250
164.525
164.8437
167.925
171.950

Ou r mon itor in Arco. 10W'I, Mr. Rick

Frequency

National Red frequency

Syracuse
Nw York Green

DOEDrill - All Call Areawide

INEEL Security Portables - Net 1
DOE fire Net- Central Facilities Area
DOE Paging Ops

might find.

Here are some other INEEL frequencies

with unkno wn usage:

pll77.0 Hz
pll77.0 Hz

Michaels. pro vided the follo win g frequcn cies of the activ ity he monitors coming from
the Depa rtment or E ne q~)'I/I da h() Na tiona l
Engineer ing a nd Environmental Lahuratory (DOEl INEEL).

Na Red
SYR
NYGN
SF
Roch
NWK
HTF
Orange
Wore
1I
SP

418.350
432.425
436.21 25'
438.950

Department of Energy
Also obtained at a rece nt mid west hamfest
wa s a handie lalkic with the follow ing c hannels:
Departm ent of Energy - Brookhaven Na tional Labs

Codes:

All I can say is. it's improbable, but it' s

also not impo ssibl e. I co uld tell yo u stories ...
Also bear in mind there is alw ays a po svibility you are hearing a n image. Bcurcat and
Unide n doubl e-conversion sca nner s a re partic ularly pron e In suc h behavi or. To chec k it
oUI. multiply the intermediate frequency (IF)
of yo urscanner by two and add it to or subtract
it from the frequ e ncy yo u arc hearing.I f eithe r
ofthose e xercises put s the resulti ng frequency
into the assign ed range for federal communicat ions. its probabl y a n image. If yo u punch
in that frequ enc y and yo u do hear the sa me
co mmunica tions. you've cli nc hed it.
Also note that a lthough the Idaho freq uencies listed above are no t allocated In the federul go vern ment in the U.S.. they arc used by
Canada . Is there a legitimate Canadian user?
Th e mora l is. don 't be afraid to look in out
of-the-wa y place s-within rea son . C hec k
thos e itinerant frequencie s in the busines s
band. T he U.S. Murshalls Office used 10
operate simple x in the Ft. Laud erd ale/Miami
on 153.550 M l-lz. Ch eck those unused paging
c hannels. Yo u just neve r know what you

163.325
164.325
164.575
164.9625
171.200
413 800

163.8375
164.400
164.700
165.7125
171.2625

164.175
164.4625
164.775
167.825
171.425

FBI and oth er anomalies

He re a rc so me FBI freque ncies from that
pa ri of the country also subm itted by Rick

Michaels:
l duho Falls, tdalio
375.0000
167.7375

SWAT special cos

ops

Pocatello, Idaho
163.9375
1676125

Primary opns
Tactical

Twi ll Falls, Idah o

1639 125

cps Rptr

Salt l.ake City, Utah

1626375
167.7375
163.9875
167.5625

Rptr out
Ch .l
Rptr input to above
Sim plex
en. 2
Simplex
Ch.4

As you arc read ing ull this. I ca n j ust see

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Specifically. the Frequenc ies o f 4 .38.95 0.
4 .32.425. and 4 .36.2125 ~1 H z arc in the 70 CI11
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79

SATELLITE TV
ADVENTURES IN THE CLARKE BELT

Ken Reitz, KS4ZR

e-mail: ks4zr@compuserve.com

Panamsat 5 Flies
'lriOU~

com mercia l e nter pr ise s.

fro m network ne ws orgu nizalio ns to uovc m mc m uce nc ics
10 edu ca tiona l i n~t itut i nn s to uri"rd atctJ

corporate ventures. usc satellites cvcr y d ay in the pursui t o f their busi ness.
Som etime s they need on ly an ho ur.
sometime s a day. and sometimes they
require an ent ire tr an sp onder o n

standby 24 hours a d;:ly year ' ro und .

Tho se of us with C/Ku- hantJ sa tel -

lite systems run into IhcSL" IT'.lI1 ... missions all the time: and they make intercsting watching or listening. Unlike

mak ing vario us adjustments with

the actu ator. polarotor. and video
tu ning, it appe ared that channel 23
had co lor bars and ID with the
word s "Welcom e to PAS-5:' Thi s
was prett y exci ting bec au se this
sate llite , PanArnS at 5, hall been
launched j us t six wee ks earlier and
apparently achieved succ ess ful geosta tio na ry o rbit.
PAS -5 is a Hugh es HS 601 HP
sate llite featuring 24 Ccbund a nd
2-t Ku-band tran s po nder s \...'hich
inc lud e spo t beam c apability. Spot
beaming makes it po ssible to stee r
the tran smitt ed down link to a par ticu lar geograp hic regi on on Ea rth.
I n ad dit ion to be in g a b le to
"n arrowcast" to s ped lie reg io ns,
s po t bea ming a lso concentrates the
transmitt ed signa l w h ich result s in
mu ch higher rece ive level s at down link sites, T his us ua lly means that
sma lle r dis hes ca n he used for rc cc ptio .

the "cable neig hbo rhood" (C I. C4 .C3.

G l. and GSl w hich is nearl y 100 percent orie nted to c..rblc pro gram ming.
wor khor se sat e llite s suc h as Ga laxy 4.
and S BS 6 an: indu stry orien ted. T hey
transmi t ne twor k feeds. spo rts hack
hau ls, and off er trans ponder tim e by
the hour or month .
In addi tion. the re arc lllallY sntc llite s outs ide the us ua l "v ie w" of mo st
sate llite T V viewers, T he se arc the
sa tellites over the Atlantic whose work
is to pro vid e a SP ;'ICC link for evc ry The Pa nAmSat Story
thi ng fro m international ne ws back
A veritab le co ns teltation of H ughes-built Pan/unSats orbit the
Rased in G reenwich. C o nnectiha uls to Direct To Hom e (DT H) broad Hurtlt, co ns tituting the fi rst privately opera ted global
c ut, Pan Am S;'lt op era tes 16 sate 1casts. T hese satellite s usu ally have vc ry
com m unications system.
lites und e m ploys mo re than -tOO
b road co ntine nta l bea ms mak ing the m
pe ople in seve n upl ink si tes and
weaker than o ur ow n domest ic satel A:-. if this weren't discoura gin g e no ug h.
e ig ht offices 011 five co ntinents. PanA mSat
lite s. They are often tran smitt ed with a c irc umo... t satellite sp tt..' m:-. arc installed with IS" or
was founded in J98-t and la unc hed its first
la r po larity , as o pposed 10 o ur o w n lin ea r
2,f' actuator arms whi ch do not a llo w en ough
sa te llite, PAS J (se c chart I ), four years later.
vertica l and hori zom u! polarit y. They may
travel for most vicwcrx 10 he able to see the se
It' s still in ser vice , Now o per ating o ver the
also be tran sm itted in a no ther v ideo form at
satellites . A 36" arm or horizon-to-horizon
Atl antic . P a cifi c. and In d i a n oce a ns,
s uch as PAL. used in Engl and a nd much of actuator i-, the preferred way 10 view these
PanA rnS at is an imp ort ant sa tellite link for
Europe . Q UI' own :":T SC standard has trouble
:-'.lh.:llile :-., hU I. if you ' re a litt le adventurous
virtually
all intcrnutional ne ws org aniz atio ns
d isplayin g these images.
and don't min d playing around with yo ur
and an e merging giant in the Direct To Ho rne
d ish. you loan still exp lor e the Atlant ic birds
(DT H) satellite T V mark et.
C \'C1l wi th an I X" arm unorc o n this late r).
In Jl)l)6 Pan AmSat and Hug hes Electron THE PANAMSAT FLEET
ics me rged their con side rable sate llite reSatellite l ocation
Searching for PAS-S
so urces to be come the top international se r(degrees East or West) Coverage
v ice provider. With assets at over 56 billion
II
payvt
o
routinel
y
..carch
the
entire
Clarke
PASo' (C-band)45W Europe. N. America. S.America
and revenue last year ove r 5700 m illi o n.
Belt from as fa r 10 the C.I:-.t a nd you can sec to
PAS-2 (C/Ku-band)168EOceania. Pacific Rim .
Australia. New Zealand. China
Pan AmSa t"s strategies appe a r to be payin g
a:-. far 10 the we ..t a:-. yo u can pu sh yo ur d ish.
PAS-3r' (C/Ku-band) 43 WEurope. C. America, N.
011. O ne ge ls the feel ing that there arc eve n
Th is i-, oft en the way 10 li nd ou t whe n new
Ame rica, S. America. Africa
better things to co me . \ Vith agg ress ive posi satellit es have been succcs ... fully turned on .
PAS -4 (ClKu-band) 68.5WE. Africa. E. Asia, India. E.
tio ning in th e new market I'm DT H sate llite
T his happened to me thi s past October. While
Europe, N.E. Asia
PAS-5 (C/Ku-band) 58 W Europe. N. America, S.
TV in Latin America . Pun.A mfiat co uld have
cruiving the orbit a l slo ts ea:-. I o f Galaxy 6 (a t
America
a mo st impressiv e reve nue strea m for-the next
74 degrees our e as tern mo st dome st ic b roa d PAS,6 (Ku-band)43 W S. & C. Americas
10 [ 0 15 years.
cast sate llite), I hap pe ned to notice faint sync
PAS-7 (C/Ku-band) to be launched 1998
r indicates replacementsatelliteas original was fost
Pan.ArrrSat is no stranger in service to Latin
bar-, ill the video nnd sto pped the d ish. By

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LATIN AMERICAN CHANNEL

LINE-UP FOR PAS-5
HBO Ole
Ani mal Planet
Associated Press Television
CBS Telenottclas
ESPN International
Eurocl1ampions
MGM Gold Brazil
TelevisionNacional deChile
Universidad CalolicadeTelevision
Mujer International, Fashion and Bravo
The Weather Channel latin America

Ame rica. In 19X9 C N N became Pan Am Sat"s

first custo mer. broadcasting new s ( 0 the

Americas. Now. in addition to the services

lisrcd nbo ve tscc c ha rt 2). PAS-5 will he hom e
to Sky Lat in America' s DTH se rvice to
Mexico. Sky Latin America. using 12 Ku-

ban d tran spo nders onboard PA S-5. is a co n-

sornum comprised of News Corp. (FOX etc.),

Grupo Televise. Organizacoes Globe . and
Tc lc-Comm unicat io ns Intern ation a l. Inc . all major players in Latin Ame rica n tel e visio n
pro g ra mmin g.
PAS-6. wh ich wa s launched just wee ks
be fo re PAS-5. feat ure s 36 Ku -band o nly tra nspo nde rs and is e ntirel y g ive n ove r to S ky
La tin Ame rica . the DTH service for ..III o f
Latin Ameri ca .

Tuning In
View ing PAS-, o r an y of the o the r satellites cast of Galaxy () is easy if yo u have a 36"
actu..uor arm or ..I hori zo n- to-horizo n mo unt .
Eithe r wi ll a llo w the d ish to " loo k" as far to
the cas t as yo ur immediate surroundings pe rmit. And the re ' s the next problem: Most Cband insta llatio ns are made w ith the o nly
co nce rn bein g ho w well the Clarke Belt from

G6 to C I is seen (basically fro m due so uth 10

d ue we st) . If yo u ha ve obstacles in the way .
don ' t despair. the re may st ill he e no ug h sig na l
co m ing throu gh to pro vide adeq ua te view ing.
S till, the more interesting sa tellites arc qu ite a
ways d ow n o n the horizon. Yo u may ha ve to
consider do ing a lillie tree trimmi ng .
Eve n if you have an I X" ac tuator ar m yo u
ca n still view the Atlantic birds . Fi rst , you"Il
need a frie nd willi ng to he a hu man act ua to r
ann while yo u m ake adj ustm ents o n yo ur
d ish . Nex t. yu u' ll need to turn the d ish to C I.
T his will cause the arm to fu lly re trac t. T ake
a fe lt ma rk er and mark bo th sides of the
actuator arm clam p. Now, have yo ur fr ie nd
suppo rt the d ish while yo u loosen th e clamp
whic h holds the o uter sleeve of the actuator
a rm still while the in ne r slee ve tu rns the d ish.

CAUTION: When you loosen this clamp

the whole we ight of the d ish wi ll want to drop
down . That 's why )'ou have your frie nd there
to suppo rt it. If you have a fiberglass d ish you
may nee d t wo frie nds . l' vc do ne this by myse lf usin g a ce me nt block unde r the di sh to
assure it d oesn't fall down and be nd the rim .
Nex t, ge ntly shov e the arm up th ro ugh the
c lamp ab ou t tw o fe e t. T his wi ll cause the
wh ole d ish to mo ve eas t as if d riven by the
moto r. Yo ur friend ca n ass ist by ge ntly rai sing the edge of the d ish up as yo u push from
the ac tuator a rm . T ighten the cla mp. Yo ur
receiver is convinced tha t the d ish is still
po inted at FI. bu t in reali ty it' s somewhere
aro und Ga lax y 6.
If yo u go back into the hou se and move the
d ish ca st or we st you"l! soo n d isco ver j ust
whe re yo u a re . Do n' t use the me nu to po sitio n
the di sh as (he receivers till th inks it' s lo ok ing
at C I. Instead . usc the East or West bu tto ns o n
the receive r to mo ve the di sh ca st from wh ere
it is. Do it slow ly unti l yo u come to a sate llite
yo u recogni ze . G6 is easy : J ust loo k for the

Rules For Watching

While it' s perfectly legal to watch, or listen. to unencry pted, ill-the-cl ear. satell ite
transm issio ns, many are not intended forrecept ion by the genera l pub lic. And so, it' s pr ude nt
to issue a few rem inders about view ing or listenin g to these bro adcas ts. So me times yo u' ll see
co lor bars with letteri ng acro ss them listing pho ne numbers. So metimes they read: "T ro uble?
Call etc., etc: ' or "Questio ns or co mme nts ca ll ctc .. etc." o r ..E-ma il ere ..ctc.. with yo ur
co mments."
This does 1101 meun you . Th is number is for affi liate stations or other interested parti es
related to the tran sm issio n. T hey are not inte rested in heari ng that yo u arc watchin g. In fact.
they may be ulurmcd to know that yo u are watching. Many corporati on s or o thers unfamiliar
with satellite broadcast ing never imag ine that the ir broa dcast ma y be viewed by anyo ne bored
eno ugh to tune in.
Often. d uring interactive bro adcast s, a toll- free num ber will be dis played at the bo tto m
of the scree n so that parti cipant s may join in the d iscussion. Agai n. this is nut C-S PAN . Th ey
do not want the part icipa tio n of sate llite T V hobb yists. Lea ve them alo ne . If yo u arc interested
in the program, watch. but do n't partic ipate.

ubiqu ito us Dr. Scott on c ha nne l 19.

Move the dish slowly cas t. stop pi ng ev ery
10 co unts to run thr ou gh the cha nne ls. S witch
to the Ku-bund and run throu g h th ose cha nnel s a s we ll. To he lp locate unkn o wn sate llites, it ' s usefu l to k now ho w many actua tor
counts per de gree of travel yo ur d ish uses. For
instan ce , if you r recei ver indicates that Ga l;'1X)' I is at 1016 cou nts (as seen o n the o nsc ree n d isplay ) a nd that FJ is 1000 co unts,
th at ind icates tha t th ere are 16 co unts between
the two sa te llites . Since we kno w th at G I and
F3 are se parated by 2 deg ree s. we kno w th at
your receiver tra ve ls 8 co unt s for eac h deg ree .
Th erefor e. if yuu r d ish is o n G6, which we
kn ow is ut 74 degree s, and yo u' re tryi ng to
find PA S-5 at 58 deg rees, yo u m ust mo ve the
di sh 16 degr ees ca st to find PAS -5. Since we
kn o w that yo ur d ish travels 8 co unts per
deg ree . yo u mu st move yo ur di sh 128 co unts.
It sho uld be righ t there ! Keep in mind tha t
e very receiver/d ish combinatio n may have a
diffe ren t cou nti ng me thod , so do the mat h o n
yo ur ow n d ish.
T o ret urn yo ur d ish to norm al op eratio ns
re tract the ar m by pressing the we st butto n
until the arm is fully retracted. O nce ag ai n.
have yo ur frie nd sta nd by to suppo rt the d ish .
Lo ose n the clamp aga in and let the ac tuato r
a nn slide throug h the cl amp until it is e xac tly
be tw ee n the two marks yo u mad e earlier. It' s
just that simple .
Make it a practice to periodically return to
the se eastc m rnos t sa te lli tes . You will be
amazed at what yo u' ll find . Don ' t forge t to
tu nc aro und the SC PC freq uen cie s, too . O n
PAS-5 I fo und a S panish language charisma lic Ca tho lic FM rad io statio n o n channe l 3
SC pc. T here might be co ns ide rably more in
the future.

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EXPERIMENTER'S WORKSHOP
Bill Cheek

TWEAK, TUNE, AND MODIFY!

email:beheek@son.rr.com

Upgrading WiNRADiO: Selectivity

hiS fourth and last (for a

hancement s for the

\\' iNRA D iO w ide-s pec trum
receiver improves the A MI

noticing. In a fleet of mobiles. a nyone transmittcr was as apt to be +7

kHz fro m assigncd ce nter freq ue ncy as anothe r

SSB/CW adjacent channel re-

at -7 kHz. That 14 kHz

j ection (se lec tivity) , M y Se pt97 co lumn has instruc tions for
safe a nd comp lete disassern -

diffe rence wo uld hav e

spelled poor commu nicat ions for high ly selective rece ivers . Excess ive
FM dev iat ion . no automa tic leve l controls, a nd
rigid re gul a to ry fre qucncy assignme nts (a
fa frequ e ncy coordination) a lso consp ired to mak e se lec tiv ity uni mpo rtant for VHF- UHF recei vers.
T here is no suc h thi ng as "ove rmodulation"
in FM transmitte rs as there is with AM. Th e
more FM de viation. the wide r the frequency
sw ing . Th er e is no natu ral limit to the sw ing
of FM. Howe ve r, cl ip ping and distortion result whe n that swing exceeds the passb and of
the receiv e r' s IF filter. G reater FM de viation
mea ns more " lo udness." so the rule o f th umb
used to be to devi ate the sig nal as much as
possible. The co m mon so lutio n for frequency
erro rs a nd excess ive FM dev iatio n was 10\\'selec tivi ty rece ivers, T hat trad ition pe rsists
eve n though advanced technology and laws
now make these facto rs fairl y moot.
Even to this da y, scanners are typ icall y not
very selective in the NFM mod e, usuallv set

while) of a series of en-

bly of the WiNR ADiO rece iver. T he Oc r-Dec co lum ns

pre se nt the fi rs ! t h re e

Wi NRADiO modificario ns:

one 10 reduce c rossover di storlio n; on e 10 im pro ve receive r
se nsitivity: and one to reduce phase noise in

the PLL circuits. Also. my Nov-97 column

shows where to tap the NFM and WFM disc rimina to rs. and A M and SS B det ector s
(baseband audio outputs) if decoding data
inte rests you. Save these co lum ns for pos terity or order reprints or hack iss ues if you don' t
have the m!

Before You Begin.....

The newest WiNRADiO cards probably
do n' t need the se first four mods-they 've
al ready been made by the co mpany! T he re are
two ways to tell. T he easies t is to c hec k the bar
code lab el on the board for a six-dig it num ber
with a prefi x " \V IC Hx" - for e xamp le

We j ust remo ve and replace one component,

the 455 kHz ce ra mic IF filt er. with the same
type but differe nt specs . T his mod ificatio n
e nha nces AM/SSB/C W and is especia lly pertine nt for shortwa ve rece ption be low 30 M Hz
where co ngestio n is much more of an issue

than in the VHF and UHF bands.

WiNR AD iO ' s stock ceramic IF filter, FL3,

has the par t numher LTW33- 455 HT or

C FW455 H. eit he r o f \v hich has ;'16 kHz ba ndwidth (3 kH z) ;'IS a co mpromi se of cost
vers us good DC -to-daylight pe rformance.Th e
recomme nded replacem ent for this filter ca rries the part num be r CFW 45 5 1 a nd has a 4

kHz bandwidth (2 kHz).

An Excursion into the Theoretical

W ICHROO2017. These cards probably don',

need the mod s. Earlie r c ards that ha ve a different prefi x or a live digit bar code numbe r
wi tho ut a prefix (for ex ample, *05678* ). probabl y will be nefi t from the mod s.
Th e sures t way to tell is to examine you r
WiNRA DiO ca rd and follow the desc riptio n
for my first two muds (Oct-Nov 97) . If there
is al ready a compone nt on the pads for 0 24(2 )
a nd if there arc parts in the spot s for R4 7, R4 8,
a nd C76, then the factory has a lready hrought
you r board up to the latest specs, a nd yo u need
do not hing up to this po int ot her than per haps
ta p the Discr iminator for base ha nd audio output if yo u arc incl ined to do <I ny data deco ding. (See my Nov-e? colu rnn.)

Overview .....
Th is \ViN RA DiO mod isn' t co mplicated.
82

MO NITORING TIMES

l anuory 7998

On e reason why super broad coverage

rece ivers are usually costly is the speci al
design attenti on that' s generally required of

each band. from VLF through UHF. The less

the attent ion, the lower the cos t a nd the greater
the com promise. S ix kHz is a co mprom ise-c-.
not muc h of an iss ue for mostly aero nau tica l
co mms on VHF and UHF, but it' s a trifl e too
wide for the crowded shortwave band s.
Receiver se lectivity has long bee n a maj or
issue for shortwa ve rece ivers. and a no n-issue
for sca nners. In fact , VHF-U HF receivers
used to he bette r o ff if they we ren' t too se lective beca use freque ncy stabil ity/acc uracy a nd
PM de viation (modu lation ) were no t the ex act ing scie nces that they arc today.
No t so long ago VHF and UHF tra nsmi tters might wel l hav e been off frequen cy by a
co nside ra ble ma rg in withou t anyo ne rea lly

by a 15 kHz IF filter. But again. there is no

need of se lec tivity, thanks to tight freque ncy
assig nments , regu lated band plans, and stric tly
line-of-sight coverage area s. Scanne rs w ith
AM mode for aerona utica l coverage so metime s have a second narrower IF ti lter in the
AM c ircuit j ust to imp rove the selecti vity

preferred by that mode.

Sele ctiv ity is proba bly mor e imp ortan t than
se nsitiv ity for shortwave: whereas it' s the
oth er wa), arou nd for V HF-U HF. T rouble is.
WiNRADi O is more tha n just a scanne r a nd
more than j ust a sho rtwave rece ive r.

Back to WiNRADiO
With ' his perspective in mind. WiNRADiO
wa s designed to be a qu ali ty com promise for
rel atively co mp lete co ve rage from 500 kHz to

1300 MH z. While the designers could have

integrated mu ltiple switched IF til ters re cover
the many co ntingenc ies, this would have incre ased the co mp lex ity of the hardware and
software and , obviously, increased the price.
The original 6 kH z IF filler was a fair
compromise for DC-t o-<laylight . but 4 kHz is
m uc h bette r fo r th e sho rt wa ve ba nds .
Wi NRADiO ' s NFM sec tion doesn't use the
FL3 IF filte r, so whatever we do to it won't
affect the qu al ity of most VH F-UH F signals.

We are free to experiment with the selectivity

of the AM IF strip without affe ctin g NFM and
WFM pe rform ance .

Doing It
Thi s hac k is in the 3rd IF a mplifie r area of
the receive r. Th e stoc k and re place me nt IF
filters ha ve five pins. one IN. one OlIT, and

three grounds. Figure 2 shows the pinout from

the bo ttom view. Th e only tric k here is to find
the right replace ment filter in terms of physica l and perform ance speci fica tions. Physical
size is importa nt because WiNRADiO doesn' t
offer a lot of " real estat e" on whic h to hang a
bunch of extravagant extras. Ideally your replacement filter will go right in where the old
one comes out.

Re fer to Figs I and 2. and foll ow these five

ste ps:
I. Disassemble \ViNRADiO per instructions
in my Sep t-97 column.
2. Locate FL3 (see Fig-I ) in the lower left
com er of the shielded compart ment.
3. On the norm ally unseen <bac k or bottom)
s ide o f th e s ma lle r Wi N RADi O
daughte rboard, un solder the five pins of
FL3 . Use solder braid and/or a vac uum
desold erin g tool. Carefu lly remov e FL3 .
4 . Solde r the replace ment FL3 onto the newly
vacated pads.
5. Chec k all yo ur wo rk ; ensure tha t solde r
blob s don't louch other pads or componen ts. Reassemble the unit.
T hat' s it for the IF selectivity imp rovement . It makes a n appreciable difference in
the qu ality o f recepti on whe n AM. SSB, or
C W signals co mpe te for favor in a few kilo hertz. typically below 30 MH z.

FIG-2: FL3 PIN OUT Bottom View

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Step by Step

8mm
h igh

Kits of part s for the first four WiNRADiO

mods are avai lable for those who can ' t meet
the mi nimum orders required by so me vendors.The kit en sures that all the exact parts a re
hand y. too . T he twel ve parts and a bit of wire
are USS7 .00 domestic. Foreign is USS IO.OO
ppd, surface . Allow more forainnai J. Yo u can
order my port no. WRKil l -4 . by e-m ail. fax.
vo ice, or postal mail.
T he 4 kHz IF filte r is inclu ded in the kits I
supply, but if you want to go it on you r own,
the foll owing suppliers are go od starting
points .

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CFW455H: 6 k Hz
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The latest information and software updates for Wi NRADiO are available at their
US Web site at http://ww\v.winradi o.com
a nd at th e Au s trali a s ite : http: //
ww w.w inra d io.net.au If you don' t have a
WiNR A DiO. you can still download the so ftware a nd run it in demo mod e. I freely provide
tech support on the WiNR A DiO mod s and all
my MT article s by e-mail or (heaven forbid )
postal mai l that incl udes a n SAS E. Fax inqu iries a rc fine. but ca nnot he fax-re plied.
Please inclu de a n e-ma il address if yo u need
a reply.

I sa id MegaBi ts was wa tered-down beca use ADSL is repu ted to be goo d for up to
IO-Mbps. I don ' t knnw wh y the US West
Mega Bits packages are so muc h slower, but
perhap s the concept really isn 't prov e n yet.
Anyway. the keynote here is that A DSL ope rates ove r plain old telephone se rvice (POT S)
lines, and if US West imp lem e nts the service.
you can bet other te lcos wi ll follow suit. Now
may be the time to pester your local tele o for
ne ws of imminent A DSL. Whil e yo u' re at it.
check with yo ur CATV co mpany for information on cable modem service and when it
will be imple ment ed in yo ur area .
Gi ven the cos t of ADSL serv ice and the
prese nt slowe r speeds, I'll submit that ca ble
modem serv ice is still, by far, (he bener
deal.. ...ifyou have a ch oice. If yo u don ' t have
a choic e, then yo u can take so me co mfort in
the MegaBits servic e, because it' s at least
three times faster than the fastest conve ntional modern , se ve n times faster than the
average analog mod em . a nd 50% faster than
ISDN at its best.
Speed of networking makes a differen ce in
bo th the quality and the qu antity of inform ation and power at yo ur fingertip s out there on
the Internet. For exa mp le, yo u might co nsider
a 10-Mega Byte file as "s our grapes" beca use
it takes too long (l-hr/up ) to dow nload by
conve ntional modern . If you co uld dow nload
it in IS-sec like I do, then it might not be so
"sou r." In othe r words, barn door s might ope n
to you with a high-speed con nect ion to the
Internet, in contrast to the mere "peepholes"
offered by con ven tio nal network access. Food
for thought until next mont h.
Do stay wann !
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Last mon th I spoke briefly o f the high speed netw ork acc es s techn ologies coming
down the pike . I touched upon ADSL (Async hronous Digital Su bscriber Line). saying
that it was still in R&D and that the telcos
wo uldn' t be go ing anywh ere with it for a
while. I erred on the con se rvative side .
It see ms that US West in Phoen ix, Arizon a.
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COMPUTERS & RADIO

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RADIO-RELATED SOFTWARE REVIEWS

RecAlling a Month I'd Rather Forget

ell. it' s been a

long time since

we've talkcd at least that' s how it fee ls.
I've bee n bu sy tr yi ng

RecAllu ore later ed Oa 1

Eue

: :' 1 A~8bil
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f oaition ""

FIGUR E 1: RecAll and ScawCat-Gold for windows Trying to Work Together

never bro ught up the qu estion !

called RccA ll, which docs a great job at reco rding a nd date /t im e stam ping audio inter cept s from a scanne r. In this role with a standalone sca nne r. RecA ll is. in m y opi nion. unbeatabl e (and still is), I've used it wit h Realistic , Regency, AOR , a nd Un iden scanners
with exce llent result s. S imilar result s we re
obtained e ven w ith inexpen sive portable VHF
radi os, which of co urse ha ve a sq uelched
audio output,
RecA ll uses a PC. sound card input. and a
co nnection between the sound ca rd a nd the
radi o's ea rphone output. For some rad ios the
rec ord er output wo rked fin e. lea vin g the
speaker on to monitor the intercepts. In ea ch
of these app lica tion s the compute r was on ly
used to run the Windows ba sed RecAll pro gram. All frequ en cy sca nning infor mation
came from inside the scanner, w ith no co mputer control.
I have never used a n under-S200 loggin g
de vice which wa s so easy to usc and gave suc h
con sistent ly exce llent result s. Profe ssional loggers are as go od or better, but cost $500 and
up . RecA ll costs $ 15 and works on mo st
inexpensive PC s.
But then. last month . I posed the q ues tion.
..... how w ill it (Re cA ll ) work with com puter
co ntro l and logging progra ms?" I wish I had

MONITORING TIMES

L....

Th e last time we spoke

I introduced a pro gram

84

l::Iefp

59 =r'-: r1 0 S--= ,:'H.

RecAll with various windows based moni tori ng

program s as I prom ised.
After literally days ofw ork
(much of the time pulling
what little hai r I have left.
out). I can now feel satisfiedthat my resultsare COI1sistent enough to be reliable. What are they ? Oka y.
you asked for it _,.
A Quick Refresher

Qpli ons

January 1998

The Cruel IWindow s) Reality

So tha t the majo rity of you co uld identify
and ben efit dir ect ly from my findin gs. I dec ide d to per form these tests in W indo ws 3. 1
and on a Pent ium 100 MHz with 32 Meg o f
RAM . Fro m our past di scussio ns you'H reme mber that Rec All a lso has a Window s 95
ver sion. As I loaded the 3. 1 ve rsio n I decided
to first try it w ith ScanCat' s ne w ScanCatGo ld for Window s - SE ve rsion 7.014.
First I started RecAll and se t up its recorde r
turn-on threshol d. T hen . ret urni ng to the Pro gra m Manager. I started ScanCat which wa s
connec ted to my FRG-9600 via the se rial POl1
for frequen cy. mod e and signa l-prese nt co ntrol. (See Figur e I .) Everything see med to go
fine for about ten min utes. As Sca nCat tu ned
the FRG and the sque lch was brok en by a
sig na l, Rec All app eared to " turn-on" an d
record the reception.

Looks Are Deceiving

After a few min utes I decid ed to pla y back
the res ults. A nd then the fun began. First. I
cou ldn't put ScunCa r into a Pau se mod e with out it popping back out into sc un. A fter about
te n cl ick s on the Paus e button it see med to

hold, But click ing on RecAll ' s pla yback but ton brought my cars a chopped up me ss of
what sounded like tw o-second bits of random
audio. T hen the screen froze , requ iring the
three finge r salute (Att -Ctrt-Deti to ge l back
contro l. But tha t wa s on ly the beginn ing .
I knew ScanCat work ed well on its ow n
and so did RecA ll. T herefore, r rea soned it
mu st have been the inte ract ion of the two . So
I decid ed to try again ; bu t started ScanCat
first.
Th e results were better. No lock -up . But
RecAll now appeared to start recording a few
seconds after the sign al was detected . Again
the RecAll playba ck was badl y chopped . I
red uced the sampling rate using RecA ll's
option me nu. T he audio lost fid e lity but the
ch oppi ng was gone. After man y hours of
trying va rious combinations of the progra ms'
paramet ers, disaster struc k.

Goodbye Mot her (boardl

I'm still no t sure wha t the cause wa s. Loose
cable? Anten na switching? Common gro und
loo p? All l know is that the se rial port on my
Pent ium motherboard, wh ich was controlling
the FRG. we nt south. bou ght the farm , ca ught
the smoking ho le ... died . Afte r hours of
testi ng ca bles. interfaces. switch bo xes, radio s. and e ve n software me mory co nfigura-

tions, all results po inted to a blown ser ial port

chip on the mother board . Th ere are o ld lessons to be rele arned here. We will talk about
them later. J promise.
Since I usc one serial (co m ) port for my
T NC/digital decod ers outputs and one for
rccelvcr co rurol. Ineed two serial port s.Therefore. I d isabled the defecti ve on-b oard serial
po rt and plugged in " serial por t card to use as
the recei ver contro l port . T his got me up and
runn ing and I returned to the j ob o r testin g.
Repeatable Results?
During the co urse of the ne xt \..-cek I tried
to run RccAll with SWL Ma nage r,Sca n*Star.

Scanf'a t. and a number of othe r Window

co ntro l prog ra ms, The inte ract io ns ranged
from mi ld to se ve re. At the mild e nd. SWL
Man ager operated very we ll with no or little
effect on its. or Reca tl ' s operatio n. The prob lem is that since SWL Manager was neve r
intended for usc with a scanner it ha s no
pro visions for contro l of the sca nning proc ess
via sig nal detect ion. (Pe rhaps this is a clue to
our proble ms.)
At the moderat e pro blem positio n the two
prog ra ms inte racted in such a way that affected all lim ing clem ent s of the co ntro lling
progra ms. Delay ti mes varied depe nding on
what mode RecA ll was in. Comm a nd but tons
did not operate immed iately whe n pressed .

End of Test!
With see mingly a mind of its own. the
result s changed unpred ictably dur ing my days
of testing. I varied j ust about eve ry softw are
parame ter ava ilable on each progra m trying
to find a workable combination. For a fe w
hou rs I fooled myself into beli eving it wa s
work ing reliab ly. But then two things happened to knock me back to reali ty. First the
scree n froze and I tried eve rything (hard ware
and so ftwa re) to re vive it. Upo n re-boot ing
my sys tem I di scovered that the " new" seria l
port was act ing sus picious ly like the decea sed
one. All testing e nded when this was confir med - another blown se rial port ! T his
month it cost me dearl y to write the column.

nection s where ground loop s ca n rea lly ru in a

patie nt' s day.
All of the unde r $ 120 interfa ces that I ha ve
tested do nor have photoisolatio n. Instead ,
they use the pow e r from the serial port to
pow er the msel ves, thus not requiring any
powe r source. Co nven ient ? Yes. bu tj ust ask ing for problems like a blown motherbo ard
and se rial port ca rd.

programs, on their own. operate as advertised

a nd are cornersto nes of today' s monito ring .
Like wise, RecA ll is unsurpassed in its operation. use fulness. and economy when used
with a stand-alone, not compute r-co ntrolled.
scanner. Fro m the results observ ed with SWL
Man age r. Rec All may be useful w ith progra ms that do not detec t signal presence - or
<II least. not via the se rial po rt. Wh at is very
clear is the Win dows 3. 1 fragileprogrammi ng
e nviron ment a nd lack o f rea l multi- tasking
capability .
Th e co ntact info I gave for RecAll last
month was rather sparse: here arc more details. Yo u may dow nloa d or orde r Rec All
from develope r Sage brus h Sy ste ms' webs ite
at www.sagcbru sh.com/-sclls/rcc alI.htm.
For those not 0 11 the inte rnet. the postal address is P.O. Box 3094, Corra les, N M 87048 ;
fax 713-524 -6398 .

Maybe it's Time to go Back

I built my first rad io/co mputer interface

dec ades ago a nd used photocou plcrs and a
se para te inter face power source. Rut in the
pas t two yea rs I ha ve also bee n lured by the
simplicity and reduced wire s solution o f the
non-isolated. computer-po wered interface s.
I' m ready to dust off myo id interfa ce a nd
throw this new ju nk a way .
Th e pro blem may also lie in poorly designed co nnectors/a dap ters. A while back I
co mp lained tha t the Yaesu adapter pro vid ed
w ith Com puter Aided Te chn ology ' s interface
left connections bare and . therefore, cou ld be
shorted together pu tting voltage on the dat a
lines . I was using this very connector whe n
these serial ports we re destro yed .
Was it the ca use? 1'111 no t sure. But if yo u
arc using an y adapte r/co nnec tor where the
metal connections can be shorted toget her,
coat it with silicon rubbe r (RTV or similar) to
be sure . Perhaps I sho uld have liste ned to my
own adv ice . Now it' s coated .

,.. and t he Hardware Damage?

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first designing radio/co mputer interfaces. the
industry had a Co mma ndme nt: "T ho u shalt
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not. Co nnecting wha t uppcars to be "ground"
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ground ma y actua lly ind uce voltage on the
grou nd line. Even if this occ urs ele ctrically.
the results may not be immed iatel y d isa strou s. But it ca n be a tic king time bom b.
So how do you ge t signals fro m one to the
other? T he answer is "li ght." A photoco uplcr
is used in professional equipment instead o f a
hardwired co nnec tio n. and it als o prov ides
beu cr compute r noise isolatio n. Th is is also a
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85

DIGITAL DIGEST
. Bob Evans
revans@astrol.magic.ca

BAUDOT AND BEYOND

A Flare for Monitoring

How to Forecast Favorable Propagation Conditions

ur first column of the New

Year foc uses o n the mechanics o f radiowave propaga tion

whe n the sun sho ws its sa me face . Man y

suns pots take se ve ral mo nths to fade .

stronges t th at has been recorded in the

last 140 yea rs . Se veral scie ntists be lieve th at Cy cle 23 began this year.
while o thers ho ld that we are still in
the wa ning stages of Cycle 22.
The maxi mum to-date for C ycl e
22 occurred onJanuary 16.1 989, when
the so la r flux rose to a new high value
of 299.
In summary . to predict HF radio
pro pag atio n co nditio ns. we mu st co nsider the follow ing fac tors:
Seaso n of the yea r
T ime of day or nigh t
Lat itude of your listening post
Ac tivity of the I I ye ar solar
cycle
27 day rota tio n period of the sun
C urre nt solar terrestria l cond itio ns
At first gla nce. th e ta sk of predicting fa vo rab le pro pagat ion conditions
seems to he as slim as pickin g the winni ng
numbers ill a lo ttery .

Solar Cycle

WWV Forecasts

Rudo lph Wolf. u physicist and first Direc tor of the Swiss Fede ra l Ob se rvat ory was the
lir st to de vise a formula for arri ving at the
suns pot numbe r. I-lis formu la re ma ins in use
today. the valu e o f wh ich is o ften referred to
as the Wolf number. Wolf also was respon si ble for the discovery of the I I ye ar solar
cyc le.
Accurate records o f solar -cycl es hav e bee n
kep t since 184 8. The last cyc le. C ycl e 22.
beg a n during Se ptem be r of 1986 and rose
sharply d urin g 1988. Cy cle 22 was on e of the

Th e National Bureau of Standards radi o

station W W V located at Fo rt Co llins . Col orado. broad casts radio pro pagat ion fore casts
Oil frequ en cies of 2.5.5. 10. 15 and 20 megahertz, W \VV H (Hawaii) a lso broadcasts on
the sa me frequen cies.

and a sim ple method for de termini ng

monitori ng cond itions for your location.

Before \!, 'C outline a method for predicting pro pagation. let' s start with a
short revi e w . As yo u kno w. a region
ex ists in the Ea rth' s uppe r atmos phe re
th at co ns ists o f sev e ra l e lectrifie d layers. These layers. collective ly known
as the ionosphere. arc cap able uf bending (refra cting is the co rrcc t tc rm j high
frequency radio waves and returning
them back to Eart h over grea t di stan ces.
The ionosphere is formed by ultra-

viol et rad ia tion fro m the su n and the

int en sity of thi s rad iation c hanges rad ica lly with tim e o f day. geographica l
locat ion and se veral othe r factors.
Th e amount of so lar rad iatio n strik ing the
ion osphere varies hou rly (day-night). by se aso n (positio n of the Earth' s or bit rel ative to
th e sun ). a nd according to the latit ude of the
mo nitor (t he radi atio n is more intense a t the
equator ), In addition. the sun itse lf is subj ec t
to an approx imate II yea r suns pot act iv ity
cycle, with year-to-year variations in solar
ac tivity. Th e numbe r of sunspo ts ha s a profo und effect on the a mo unt of sola r rad iati on
that strikes th e ionosph ere.

Sunspots

Sunspots are stormy a reas on the sun's

surface which produce co nsiderable ul tra violet radi ation . T he rea l encrgy source co me s
fro m the bri gh t regions nca r and
around the suns pots ca lled plu ge 200
(F re nch fo r "beach") . Genera lly ISO >-.
spea king, whe n the sun's surfac e
1
I- ~
is cov ered with a great numb er of 160
s
s
spo ts. the io nosp here is clcctri- 140 ~
call y strong a nd sho rtw ave radio
co nditio ns are usuall y good. Wh en 120
the nu mber of spotsd imin ish .con - ICl
diti cn s becom e poo rer.
Th e sun re vol ves o n its ow n 80
axis in aperi od of2 7days.Ch ances eo
,
9TI'OI
20I'''
a re, if'condirions are good O Il C da y
oI2
because of s uns po t act iv ity, they
wi ll also be good 27 da ys later.

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Geophysical Alerts
C urre nt geophy sical alert s (Geoalerts) are
broadcast in voice from WWV at 18 m inutes
after the hour and from WWVH at45 m inut es
after the hour. The mes sages are less than 4S
seco nds in len gth and a re updated every three
ho urs (ty pica lly at 0000. 0300. 06 00, 0900,
1200. 1500. 1800, and 2 100 UT C) . Hourly
update s are mad e when nece ssa ry.
Part A of the message give s the solarte rrestr ial indic es for the day : speci fically the
1700 UT C so lar flux fro m O ttawa. Canada', at
~X () O MH z. the e stimated A- index for Bou ldcr, Co lo .. a nd the cu rre nt Bou lder K-inde x.
Pa rt B g ives the solar-terres trial condi tiun s for the pre vio us 24 ho urs.
Part C give s o ptio na l info rm ation o n cu rre nt con dit ions thai may ex ist (t hat is. m ajor
n arc s. proton or polar L'ap ab sorp tion [PCA]

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prov ide us wi th a fool-proof
mean s of predict ing pro pagatio n conditio ns . T o be usefu l in m akin g rel iab le shortte rm forecasts. u mea sure of
th e current e ffects produ ced
by solar par ticle rad ialio n
(e lectro ns and proton s ) is
req ui re d . T he Equi vulcn t
Ran ge "a" Inde x (sim ply rcfcrrcd to as the " a" Inde x ) is

ISO

/ / / / /

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events. or stratwarm conditions ).

Part D gi ve s the e xpec ted co nditio ns for
the next 24 ho urs. Fo r ex ample:
A l "Solar- terres trial ind ice s for 26 OClDber follow: Solar flux 173 and estima ted
Boulder A-index 20; repeat: Sola r flux
on e-seven- three and estimated Bo ulde r Aindex two -zero. The Bou lder K-indc x at
1800 UTe on 26 October was fou r: RI;>
peat: Iour."

B) "Solar-terrestrialconditions for the last

24 ho urs foll ow : So la r acti vity was hig h.
Geo mag ne tic fiel d \vas unscu lcd to activc.
e) " A major flare oc curred at 16-tR UTe
on 26 October. A satellite proton event and
pe A arc in progress: "
D) "The forecast for the next 24 hou rs
fo llow s: So lar ac tivity w ill he moder ate to
hi gh . T he geomagnetic field will be active ."

Solar Flux
T he sun is the so urce of radio frequ en cy
rad iation. T he flux of solar rad io no ise <it the
Eart h' s surface is monitored a t a nu mber of
wo rld wide o bse rvatorie s. The A lgo nqu in
Radio O bserva tory loc ated ncar Ot tawa.
Ontario. Canada co rrel ate s data for .1 frequency o f 2685 MHz at 1700 UTC da ily.
Incr eased solar activi ty (sun spOIS ami solar
fla re s) re sults in a grea ter solar flu x val ue. Th e
re latio nshi p be twee n sola r flu x (S F) and da ily
sunspo t co unt (R) is expressed in the fo llowing linear eq uatio n:

de signed to measure solar

pan ic le rad iatio n by its magnetic effec ts .
High er index va lues (g reater infl ux o f solar pan icle s ) usua lly re su lt in weaker radio
signals a nd greater fading. A n a Index val ue
of 10 or under usually indi cates a qu iet io nosphere (litt le ma gne tic sto rm activity) . while
a value grea te r th an 30 indica tes d istu rbed
io nos pheric co ndit ions.
O n Mar ch 6. 1989. a massive sunspot
region . identifi ed as #53 95. appeared on the
sun' s visible d isc and immediately tr igger ed
one the strongest solar ll ares eve r recorded,
Rated at the strength of X 15. the en er gy of this
flare was equi valent to a 100 mi llio n megat on
nuclear bomb. Ot he r X type narc s foll owed
o ver the next fe w da ys. On Monday. March
13, the space shuttle. Discovery, wa s launched
am idst the w orst geom agnet ic storm of the
c urrent solar cycle. Eve n \ V\VV W . IS inaudible. By Wed nesday. th e 15 th. the a Inde x
average re po ned by \ V\VV was 2.+8.
Values give n for th e a Inde x by WW V <Ire
also averages for the prev ious day .

280

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So lar Flu x va lues bro ad cast by WW V appl y to the previ ou s da y. Gen er all y speaking.
th e high er the so lar flux va lue. the be tte r
co nd itio ns will be fo r radio pro pagatio n. During lo w ac tivity peri od s of the I I ye ar solar
cyc le. the so lar flu x va lue rare ly exc eeds 100 .
For cx um plc. fo r most or 1987 and early 1988.
the so lar flu x va lue fl uc tuat ed betw ee n 00 an d
80 .

160
140

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S (K)

Boulde r K Index
Th e K Inde x is a measure o f so lar panicle
radiati o n thai is determin ed every thre e ho urs
by the NOAA O bservatory at Bould er. Co lornlo. T he K Inde x use s a single di git to
ex press geo mag netic ac tivity an d is rel ated to
the a Inde x as sl1O\\'11 be low .
K inde> 0
a lode> 0

1
3

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6
7
8
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80 140 240 400

Th e Boulder K Ind ex pro vid e s the sho rtwave monitor with th e best mea su re of geomagnetic ac tivity , Va lue s of 4 and unde r
generally indicate favorable listen ing co nd itio ns .

Using Propagation Charts

Th e pha se of sol ar ac tivity is directl y related 10 the current value o f the smoothed
sunspo t number. Si nce thi s valu e is I ot rcadily
a va ilab le to the sho rtwa ve moni tor. the propagati o n charts arc based o n the current solar
llu x value which is easily obtained from W\VV
broadca sts. Th e mar gin of error using thi s
method is negligible as far as predi ct ing condi tion s.
T he re latio nship betwee n solar flux a nd
solar pha se is sho wn be lo w. T he lig ures in
par e ntheses sho w the center ed value.
Solar Flux

~ill

Under 85

(74)

85 t0 110
110(0 138

(97)
(124)
(152)

138 (0 167
Over 167

Low
Moderate

High
Very High
Intense

Use the fo llo win g steps to determ ine the

qu ality of listeni ng condi tions.

I ) Obta in the so lar n ux. and K Inde x value

from the W\VV broadcast at 18 minutes
past thc hour.
2) Usc the tabl es to dete rmin e the c urre nt
solar pha se ba sed o n the so lar nu x va lue.
Determine which propagation chart to use
based o n the solar pha se yo u have chose n,
3) Loc ate the solar flux va lue o n the left-hand
side of the c ha rt.
of) Find the cu rren t K Inde x value at the hotto m of the ch art .
5 ) Draw an imaginary line j oinin g these xly
axe s. Re ad the forecasted conditio n descriptio n yo u have found .

Generally speaking. conditi o ns from Above

Norma l to Bel ow Normal are sui table for
mostlisteni ng. Wh en co nditio ns arc Disturbe d.
the liste nin g is usua lly 1101 worthwhile: ho we ver. so me bands may have unu sua l openings
for sho rt period s o f tim e.
Well . that abo ut wr aps it lip for this month ' s
co lum n. T he next column will foc us o n the
di gita l modes and stations that rem ain act ive
in 19lJH.
January 1998

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87

Optoelectronics MicroCounter Frequency Counter

By Haskell Moore, KB5WIX

or years. the frequ e ncy counte r has

been one of the scannins enthusiast' s

ma in tools . Yo u can co mpile a ll o ft he

lis ts yO ll wa nt. co ns u lt a ll o f the d atabases
avail abl e. but nothing: co mpa res (0 being

able to gel a real-time reading of the signal

as it b being transmitted.
Us ing a co nve ntio na l freq uen cy counter
is not some thing whi ch ca n ea sily he done
incon spicuo usly. My favori te. the vc ner able Optoe lec tro nics M I counter at nea rly
five inch es tal l and three inches wid e. d id
not len d itself lO surre ptitious operati on . No

matter where Iwent. pulling out a frequency

counter in a public place a lways go t a lot of
unwanted attenti on : es pec ia lly fro m sec urity per son ne l or the poli ce !
However. Optoelectronics has introd uced
a counte r tha t o ffers ex ce llent pe rfor ma nce.
bu t draws no 1110re attention than an ave rage
digita l page L Additionally . it is fast. ,\CCUrate and extr e me ly eas y to usc.
Th e MicroCou nter freque ncy counte r
wa s de signe d 10 fit inside a convcn tiona l 2.X
x 1.9 x 1.1 inch digi ta l pager case. Th e only
noticea ble differenc e (a nd you really have
to look hard to sec it) is a small. z. Snun submi ni jack O il the side which is used for the
ex ternal ant en na.
Th ough the Microf.oun tcr is sma ll in
size. the co mpo nents and workmanship arc
o f the sa me high qual ity I ' ve co me to ex pec t
fro m O ptoe lectronics. Th e 12 di git. 0 . 165
inch d isplay is clea r a nd sha rp with exce llen t contrast, so tha t it may be viewed at the
waist le vel withou t rem o vin g the co unter
from the belt. The standard page r ca se.
though not remarkable in itself. appears
sturdy with we ll-fitted scams.
T he MicroCountcr run s on a co nve ntiona l " AA" batt er y which is ad verti sed to
last from te n to twel ve hours, thoug h in
ac tua l opera tion min e lasted ab ou t fi fteen
hours. Wh en the battery vo ltage drops to the
point where ope ration becomes unreli able .
a low batt er y \varn ing is sho wn o n the
di spla y.
Inte rnally. the M icroCounter co nta ins
featu res fou nd in frequ e ncy co unter s C l) ~I
ing man y times its pr ice . It utilizes a t\ vostage prea mp lifie r for exce llent se ns itiv ity

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easy to make cus tom ant e nnas for yo ur ow n

spec ialized applications . For examp le, if you
wished to co nst ruc t an ant en na speci fica lly
de sign ed for low freque ncy work. j ust solder
a small. fle xibl e piece of wire to the ce nter
con ductor of a sub-mini ja c k a nd yo u' re
ready to go . And by utiliz ing a ve ry thin piec e
o f coa x (I used a piec e that came with a ce ll
phone antenna) , you can fashi on a n ex te rna l
ante nna con nector for usc with yo ur ow n
externa l antennas.
Operation of the M icroCou nter is si mple
and stra ightforwa rd. W hen switched on. the
unit di sp lays the a mbi ent frequency in megahert z w ith three digits to the right of the
decimal. Depressing ei ther of the functi on
buttons on the front of the cou nter inc reases
the resol uti on 10 four or five dig its 10 the righ t
of the decima l.
T he three-position slide switch is used to
co nt ro l the mode
o pe ratio n o f the
MicroCountcr. Whe n in the lowest pos itio n.
the un it is sw itched off. In the upp erm ost
position, the uni t is on and in the counter
mo de. Dep re ssing the slide switch inward
once e ngages the dig ital fil ter. Depressing
the slide sw itc h twice puts the unit in capt ure
mo de . By mo vin g the slide switch to the
center pos itio n. captured freque ncies in one
of the three me mories may be rev iewed by
depressing the slide switch. Dep ressing both
function buttons and turning the unit on
clears a ll three memories.
In act ual ope ra tio n . I fo u nd t he
Microt'ounter to be very ea sy to use. es pe c ially in places whe re a frequen cy counte r
wo uld not have bee n welcome. Se nsitiv ity
and acc urac y wa s more tha n accepta ble when
the TMC-IOO ante nna wa s used. It is lightwe ight. uno btrusive and very stea lthy . Eve n
if you don 't need a counter in a discre et
pac kage . the Micr ot'ou ntcr is still a n ex ce llent prod uct in a very sma ll package ! And
given the list pr ice o f only $99.00 , it should
be a top-p rior ity item fo r eve ry ha m and
scanne r e nthus iast.
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Micr oCounter ev e n e mplo ys the sa me pa te nted d igital filt er sys tem used in their more
sop histica ted counte rs to redu ce fa lse readings. W hen in the captu re mode. once a sig nal
p as s e ~ the digi tal filter, it is au to mat icall y
s tored in one of th ree memories.
Th e writte n spec ifications indi c ate sc nsirivity at <5 mV at 150 Ml-lz-on pur with fullsize frequ ency counters. My info rma l tests
agreed .

Using the MicroCounter

S ince the M icroCou nte r has no interna l
antenn a. range without a n ex te rna l ant enna is
ex tre me ly limited. In my tests. I fou nd that I
had to he within six feet to trigge r the counte r
whe n usin g a four -wall UHF HT uun smiu ing
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MicroC ounte r for on ly 59 .00 . Whe n I add ed
the ex te rnal ant e nna and rep eated the test. the
c ffec tive ran ge of the counter went up to I 10
fee l! In my opi nio n. this mak es the ante nna a
must-ha ve in a ll but ve ry strong RF envi ronme nts.
Additi onally. since the an tenna co nnec to r
used is a simple sub-mini jack . it is rel ative ly

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SHORTWAVE EQUIPMENT REVIEW

Sony ICF-SW12 Travel Portable/Clock

n the rarifi ed air of shortwave monitoring, it is easy to lose sight of which are the

dogs, which arc the puppies. and which

are the tail s.

Three bas ic markets for shortwave

Take a poll ofMT rcad ers. forc xample. a nd
yo u' ll fin d that favo rite shortwa ve rece ive rs

include suchdigitally synthesized gems as the

So ny IC F-20 10 and vari ou s recen t mod el s
fro m Drake and Japan Radi o . In the sassy

American economy. hundreds of dollars for a

specialty rig is no big deal. But while the

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in do lla rs an d profit ab ility , relat ive ly fe w

units- seve ral tens of thousands in a good

year, fewer recently- arc sold annually.
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shortwave radios are brisk . and nea rly every
model is a " blind-tuned" single-conversion
a na log port able . Th ey 're cheap by our sta ndards, so me times under the eq uiva lent of$ 1O.
But eve n the n, they ure a serious purchase for
peop le who se annual income is only in the
hundreds of dollars. In these pa rts o f the
world, unit sa les are high . but dollar volume
and pro fits are rel ative ly mod est.
But there' s a third ma rket, int ern ation al
tra velers, which is catered to by receiver manufac turers . and for good rea son. Buye rs in this
ca tegory arc unusually prosperou s. ye t ha ve
litt le idea of what ' s what wit h shortwa ve. As
a result, they ten d to be satisfied paying good
money for so me thing that is mere ly sma ll,
nove l. and shows time in a multi nationa l d isplay.

Similar to Grundig portable

T he G rundig T ravell er II. for exa m ple. is a
mu lti-cou ntry wo rld clo ck with a dreadful
an a log wo rld band radi o. Because of its inferior performance. few ,HT re adc rs wou ld considc ri t. and its price-S89 .99 fro m J& R Mu sic
Wor ld. for examp le-puts it bey ond the reach
of folks in de veloping countries. Yet. for
years the ana log Tra vel ler II has been a bri sk
seller amon g globe trott ers.
Sony now has some thi ng similar in the $90
model IC F-S\V 12. whic h is e ve n sma ller than
Gru ndigs offe ring and weig hs on ly hal f a
pound, inclu di ng batter ies. Using a clamsh e ll
design, like a laptop PC on Fen-Phon. it su pposed ly can display local time in 24- hour

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di gi ta l forma t for
a nywhe re in the world-c-und there' s even a
selector for sav ings (summ e r) time.

Time nominally provided for entire

world

time and which are n' t. suc h as by looking

them up in Passport to World Band Radio.
T oo . sum mer in the So uthe rn Hemi sphere is
du ring " our" w inte r a nd vice versa, further
co mplicating matters unless you first thumb
thro ugh Passport .
In all fairn ess to So ny. Se iko. and others
who attem pt to prov ide around-the-wo rld tim e
on dig ital clocks. this is something that needs
lO be done country-by-country . ami even the n
there arc ch anges. At Passport. for e xample.
one edit or spends man y a mom ent j ust kee ping up with alterations to time standards in
eac h count ry . Give n a ll these nationa l time
hurdles. the S\V I2' s worldwide clock does a
rea so nab le job. especi a lly during the winter.
ami is uncomplicated to usc.
T he cloc k is powe red by a separate C R2025
lithium batt e ry having a n e xtre me ly long life.
T his mean s that if the rad io' s two " AA" ce lls
run dow n- they ' re good for ahout 30 hour s,
dependi ng on vo lume-the clock do esn 't have
to be reset. T he cl oc k a lso co me s w ith an
alarm. but this merel y activates a buzzer, not
the radi o. Howev er, ther e is a procrastina tion
sw itch to sile nce the buzze r for ninc extra
minutes of Z 's,

All you do is set the clock to UTe (Co ordinated Universa l T ime ). the n anytime thereafter yo u ca n move a digit al cursor to the
correct time slot relati ve to UTe; minus five
hou rs. say. for New York. If it' s appropriate,
press the key for DST/summer tim e. whic h Good world band covera ge, but other
un fortunately is not indi vidually progra mbands incomplete
mab le by time zon e.
Obvious ly. a radio targeted to globetrotter s
But as wit h virt ually all suc h dev ices. ther e
should have thorough coverage of broadcastarc significant lim itati ons. To begin wit h. you
ing ban ds used in various pa rts of the wor ld.
need keen eyes ight to line up the desired city
wit h the c ursor stop poin ts . Even then . for Here. the SW 12 fa lls short. alth ough no more
those pa rts of the wo rld where the time shift so than man y other ana log portables.
For ex ample. it covers the usua l FM band
is in fractions of an hour (part s of Australia,
for e xa mple. arc UTe +9 :30 and + 10:30) . the from 8 7.5~ I08 MH z. But this misses the many
d isplayed time is incorrcct-c-al thoug h this is FM stations in Japan. Russia. and Ea stern
usua lly indicated in ti ne pri nt pai nted on the Euro pe which operate be low 87 .5 M Hz. Too.
uppe r port ion of the cl amshell. allowin g you mcd iumwave A M cove rag e is only fro m 530 1610 kHz. falling well shy of ' he 1700 kH z
to dO ;'1 menta l calculation . An other gli tch is
upp er limi t o f the new ly e xpanded Al\:1band in
that it trea ts UTC a nd UK time as one and thc
same. which duri ng the slimmer they are n' t. the Un ited State s . Th ere is no coverage of
so during the sum mer one or the other w ill longwa ve. eithe r. which is used for hroadcasts
in and nea r Europe.
read inco rrec tly. Too . the time sho wn for
Fo rt una te ly. s hort w a ve
Portugal is off by an hou r. as that co untry
cov era ge is better.T hc S\V 12
c hanged its sta ndard afte r the 'S W 12
cap tures sta tio ns withi n the
wa s de sig ned .
60 . 49 . 4 1. 3 1_25 .22. 19. 16
As for summersen ings. within
and 13 me ter bands. mi ssin g
a given time zone some countries
only a sma ll num ber of outma y be using it, whe reas othe rs
of-ba nd bro ad casts at the low
are n' t, so ce rta in readings will be
ends of 49 and 3 1 meters.
off by an hou r unless yo u know
When it' s closed...
Howe ver . the bandspreaded
which co untries a re on summe r

,
dia l is so coa rse that you' re hard pressed to te ll
whet her you arc hearin g, say . 7335 kHz or
737 5 kH z. On the high ends of the AM a nd FM
bands. the dial read out is e ven worse. Perhap s
beca use the d ial is of such marginal utility
com pared to the cl ock readout, the radi o's
illum inat ion is only for the c loc k.

SOllY'S Ilew AN
U ' / acti ve
a1ltetJ lla. Th e
a1lte" tla di sk is

sho wn at left ,
and l he

amplifie r
modu le is
she wn below.

Pedestrian pe rforma nce, but

improvement over Grundig equivale nt
Perform ance. alth ough fa r from ste rling, is
a cut abo ve what you might e xpect. Sen si tivity to weak signa ls is reaso nably good o n all
ba nds , and se lec tiv ity . although broad. is usua lly ade quate for listen ing to maj or statio ns.
Althou gh the speake r is small a nd FM aud io is
grating and tinny. a ud io qua lity on sho rtwave
is quite accep tab le. Howev er . ima ge reje ction
is poo r, resulti ng in a plethora o f va riablepi tch whistles and dih-da h sou nds intru di ng
from tran smissions 900 kH z higher.
Th e So ny IC F-SW 12 is clearly hett e r than
Crundi g' s Tra ve ller II analog equivalent. a lthou gh G rundig is c urre ntly in the process of
d ignal izing its Travelle r line. St ilt, Sony's
offering is unlike ly to endea r itsel f to shortwave-sa vvy MT readers.
B UI that ' s not whe re it is ai med . For its
target ma rke t. the cl amshell design- along
wit h a handy clock. S90 cost. and reasonabl e
radi o perfonnance-make it attractive to ca sual SW Ls wa nting to kee p in to uch with
eve nts while away fro m home.

New active antenna from Sony

A major problem with world band por tables is that they te nd to perfor m bes t outdoors-away from signal-abso rbing wa lls and
potent iall y noi sy e lect rica l w iring and TV
cabling . So indoor liste ners are o fte n force d to
choose bet wee n medi oc re rece ption in their
favorite c ha ir. or sc ru nc hing ne xt to a window
for proper recept ion.
Eve n the n, se nsitivity to wea k signals is
ofte n lac king . Most active (a mp lified) a nte nnas do n' t work pro perly w ith po rtab les, an d
tho se inte nde d for po rtables inva riab ly come
up short.
Now. So ny has come to the res cue with a

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th e ne w AN -LP I, $79.95 at Unive rsa l Radi o.
It also comes bundled with the wide ly so ld
Sony IC F-SW7600G S (under $2 70 )a nd IC FS W IOOOTS ra d io /t im er/record er (u nde r
$550) . (Whe re does Sony co me up with these
model designations, which sou nd like pa rts
number s for lnfinit i pisto ns?)
It uses a sma ll amp lifier modul e pow e red
by tw o " AA" cells, along with a separate
collaps ible loop antenna c le me nt. Th ese arc
connec ted by over a doze n feet of cab le which
can be reeled back into the amplifie r modul e.
like a tape measure . T he am plifie r. in tu m ,
connec ts to any short wa ve por tabl e th ro ugh
its external-antenna socke t or by being cl ipp ed
onto the sma lles t cle ment of its te lesco pic
antenna .
A big plu s is that Son y' s a nte nna incl udes
a nine-ste p (4/5/6n/ 101l 2114/ 16/ 20 MH z )
preselector 10 impro ve fro nt-end se lec tiv ity.
This is potentia lly a n effecti ve mea ns 10 ge t
arou nd the te nde ncy of active ante nnas to
prod uce spurious sig nal interference.

fundam ent all y the resu lt of impe rfe ct rece iver

shielding. bULwhich wo uldn' t be a prob le m
were the ante nna' s non-e lem ent co mpone nts
fully shielded. Per haps for th is rea son. the
manufac ture r rec om me nds it not be used with
Ihe Son y IC F-SW 77. W ith the reve red SOllY
IC F-20 10 , how e vc r. o nly a hit of di gital hash
comes th rough.
In all. Sony' s new AN- LPI is a se rious
ac tive a ntenna for portablcs-hctte r tha n anythin g else like it we' ve tested to da te. a nd
worth ev e ry penny . A lthough we d idn 't have
;'1 c hance to test it with a Drak e SW8 . whose
telesco pic antenna nee ds some oomph to overco me circuit hiss. it may he a godsend for that
and othe r pcn atops. as well.

Pricey new Japan Radio receiver

due out soonTh e E.T .A . for the forthcomi ng Jap an Rad io NRD-545 is now re ported to be late February or early Marc h. with a pr ice possib ly
around $2. IOO-somc \vhat higher than expec ted . given that JR C's ownli terature ind icates that the '545 is less co stly to ma nufacture than the '535. As of late 1997. the ' 535
was selling for S 1,200 in the basic versio n.
S I.700 in the " D" ve rsion and S I.995 in the
exotic "SE" ve rsion fro m Den ver' s Sherwood
Enginee ring .
For fans o f J RC qualit y who like the ir
a ud io " as God inte nded," and not digitally
proce ssed. there re por ted ly are ple nty of ' 53 5
and ' 5350 uni ts in JR C' s Ne w Yor k and
Tokyo wareho uses, and the f idelity-e nhanced
Sherwood vers ion co ntinue s to be ava ilable .
Get 'ern wh ile you cun!

Best performer we've tested

Our tests show that the AN-LP I rcall y
does the trick. boost ing signa l strength e noug h
to make a rea l differe nce at times. A nd the
ran ge selector is used not ju st to get ma xim um
gain but . whe n needed with low-qu a lity rece ive rs. to do the oppos ite by ullov..'ing you to
to usc a contiguous se tting. like an upscale
auenuator. to eliminate overloadi ng from inband powe rhouse signals.
Ove rload ing'! Yes. hut only on the d ink iest
of rece ive rs, suc h as the So ny ICF-SW I () and
lCF-SW 12 tested this month-although on
these the AN-L P ls prcselcctor function som etimes also reduces inte rfere nce fro m image
signals. O n better models. theres precious
little ov erload ing. at least wi th signa ls in
Nor th America , As for the a ntenna cir cuitry
itsel f introdu cin g c ross -mo dulation. it is su rprisingly resistant to th is great ba ne of active
ante nnas.
On so me mode ls we fou nd the ant enna ' s
po werfu l ci rc uitry picking up traces of di git al
hash be ing e mitted by the re ce ive r itsel f-

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SCANNER EQUIPMENT
EQUIPMENT ANDACCESSORIES FOR YOUR MONITORING POST

."

. Bob Pornoss; AJ95

Test Equipment Bargains for Scanner Servicing

ullecti ng and repairin g sca nne rs go

hand in hand. Mo st of the 1970 and
19 8 0-e ra pre o wn cd sc a n ne rs I' ve
bought required some fixing. desp ite reassu rances from hamfest sellers. As II consequence.

<.ollccting

good test equipment has become

an othe r pa st time .
I classify lest equ ip me nt in a three tie r
hierarch y:
1. Lao grade test equ ipme nt Gin he ac curately

calibrated and used for precise measurement and is most ex pens ive . I use this
ca libe r of eq uipme nt in prepar ing prod uct
review s. Examp le bra nds a rc HP (Hewle ttPacka rd ).Te ktro nix. Fluke. Boonton . A IL.
etc.
2. Se rv ice g rade test eq uipme nt is suitable for
repairing a nd mai ntain ing radi o equip me nt
and is used by profe ssiona l tech nician s in
the re pai r ind ustry. It is fairly ru gged a nd
dep endab le. Co m mon bnmd nam es includ e
Simpso n, Trip let t. V IZ, B& K , Measurement s Corp.. and Sc nco rc.
3. Ho bby grade test instru ments a rc lea st e xpe ns ive a nd often built fro m kits. Th ey
usua lly lac k the stabili ty. acc uracy. a nd
reliability of the ir service and lab grade

counterparts.
After 30 years of am assing test eq uipment .
I reco m mend yo u avo id co llecting hobhy grade
test eq uipme nt. A t one poi nt. I spe nt a lmo st as
m uch tim e repa iring my lo w q ualit y testeq uiprncnt as I d id repairin g radios.
Two exceptio ns to th is maxim arc the Heath
2240 Dig ita l LC Bridge a nd Heath IM -24 20
5 12 MH z freq uency co untcr-c- cx ccllent va lues whic h I' ve used heavil y. Heat h no lon ger
ma kes lest equip me nt. so look for them at
hamfc sts. T he LC brid ge is g rea t for fin d ing
bad elec tro lytic capaci tors, the co mpo ne nts
most like ly to fail in sca n ners. My IM ':!420
cou nter has an o vcn izcd tim e bas e and is more
sensiti ve tha n some of m y HP a nd Fluke
co unters .

Multimeters
T he most ba sic repa ir tool is a n a nalog
m ultime tcr . like a high im pedance VOM . I
usc a solid "ate V IZ (ex-RCA) WV-5 10A
M uster VoltO hm ist. Th e analog meter move-

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January 1998

Fluk e 1912..\ corm ier and X600A JJMM

boug ht [o r $.JOlind $ 15 at hamf ests.

merit is well suited fo r mon ito ring chang es in

vo ltage d uring rece ive r alignment.
I hav e sev era l D:vl t-.ts (digital mult imc rc rs j .
mo st obtained at hum fcsts. Digi tal me ters arc
hel pf ul in mea su rin g tran sistor biasi ng vo ltage s. M y favo rite is the ha nd hel d Fluke 87 . I
usc large r ben ch-sty le Fluke DMM s. too. especially fo rmon ito ring two d iff crc m vol tages
simultaneo us ly.

Regulated DC Power Supply

I usually trou blesh oo t base sc anners using
an external lo w volt age DC power supply to
amid a 117 VAC shoc k haza rd. A 12 VDC.
21\ regulated supply is suffic ie nt to po wc r
most sca nners. Adjust able c ur re nt limit ing is
espec ially va lua ble becau se yo u can limit the
c urre nt to a safe va lue in the ev en t o f a sho rt
c irc uit. Yo u ca ll bu ild o r buy a suitable be nc h
pow er supply ut co nside rab le sa vings.
Kee p yo ur ey es o pen fo r metered B& K
po we r supplies. I' ve fo und the m reliable a nd
a good value w hc n purchased
used . T he B& K 160 1 is o ne of
my favo rite s. It so ld new for
se vera l hund red doll a rs. but
I' ve see n the m for as 10\\' as
550 used .

Audio Amplifier
A small, battery o per ate d
audio amplifier w ith high in pu t im peda nce is handy for
sc an ner re pair . W he n scr vic ing a scanner w hich ac ts o utward ly no rma l but there ' s 11 0

so und co m ing from its spe aker. I byp ass the

scanne r's audio am plilie r by co nne cting an
o utboa rd aud io amplifier to the sca nne r' s vo lum e co ntrol.
I bui lt an audio a mplifier (see phot o) , bu t
yo u ca n bu y o ne fro m Radi o Sha ck fo r $12
(# 277 - 1008). If yo u d o n' t own an amplifier,
yo u can ea sily explo it the a mplifier in a transister radio or tape playe r, Feed aud io to th e
uppe r co ntact o n the vo lume po tentio meter
and co n nec t ground to the ot he r o uter cont act.
T hi s is a high impedance c ircuit. so use a
shie lde d cab le to a vo id hum pick up and a
se ries cap aci to r to block DC.

Signa' Generators
Your cad re o f sc a nne r repai r 100is sho uld
incl ude at least one VHF signal ge nera to r. A
sta ble V HF signal gene rator will probably be
the most ex pe nsive instrument on yo ur wo rk be nch, with the e xce ptio n of an osci lloscope .
sho uld yo u he lucky enoug h to have o ne .
Ha mfests are littered with ine xpe nsive
Heat hkit and EICO signalge nerators. but the y
are n't stable enoug h fo r scanne r re pa ir wo rk
at VHF frequencies . O nly d uri ng the past
th ree years have I seen good. used VHF sig na l
gene rators so ld at ha mfes t prices . M ilitary
ba se cl osin gs, factory sh utdo wns. a nd an ind ustry tra nsiti o n to sy nthesized serv ice monito rs accou nt for the ir incr easing hamfest pre s-

cncc.

Mea sure me nts Co rp. was per haps best

know n fo r the ir rugged RF sig na l ge nerato rs
so ld under the Mea sure ments and Motoro la
nam es. T hey m ade bo th AM and FM modulured sig na l generator s, with the FM ge ne rator s be ing mo re useful for
sca nne r se rv icing. T he o lder
Me a surem e nt s ge ne ra tors .
like the mode l 80 and 560.
used vacu um tube s .
M ilitary versions of these
generato rs. l ike th e A NI
U R ~ 1 26A , a re common at
ham fe sts . I boug ht o ne fo r
5 15 but had to replac e a tube
and rewind some of th e broken co ils. Th ese ge ne rato rs
llomebuilt audio amplifi er
employ a de vice known as a
COIIIH:CI.\' to scanner 's volume
barretor to measure the signa l
control.
ou tput le ve l. Barreters are

 Other Handy Test Instruments

TIll".' kin g of all test instrument s is the

oscil losco pe. Thou gh not absolu tely nece ssary. I' \'(: fou nd a sc op e to be the mo st po wer fu l too l fo r trouble shooting sque lch and
logic c irc uits. A 15 MHz sco pe i... sufficien t
CUW IAl Q ru t UI C:
for servici ng o lde r sca nne rs.
II OI.. . U tOf
~
;'
Factory closing-, and a 1110 VC 10 d ig it,11
sto r:Jgc SCtl P CS have prod uce d an ubundancc
L
ofu..cd. Jah q ua lityTc ktron ix and I IP Sl '(IPC S,
.,
" 1 M:
They a rc no w avai lable at ham fc... t-. wi th
pri ce s ... tuning at about ~3 00 . Repl acemen t
part s. especi all y the C RT. are expensive und
PM HI" signal ge nerator. This solid .\ liI t (
...om c what di ffi cul t I tl find . so mak e s ure a ny
M cGmw-Edj!wll 803,\ sold f or $ ] tJtJ (1/ u
scope yo u co ns ide r is in good condit io n. 11
humfest.
sho uld ha ve a brig ht CR T withou t pat terns
b urned into the screen .
fragi le. so its no t surp rising tb.um y "h.uu fest
One aspect of scan ner servicing is ve rify special" had a blown burrctcr. A sig na l ge n. ing that the scunncr:v 10 l ' ,11 os cil lato r is gc ncra ter w ith a b lo w n ba rret or is still ve ry use fu l c rating a vig na l o n the prt 1pcr Ircqucncy.! u...c
if it generates n stable RF sig na l. though yo u
receivers , IS test instrument s toli sten fo r local
won't kn ow ho w mu ch.
o scillato r rud intion. T he IC(J ~I IC -R7000 ,
Mea su reme nt Corp, eventually became the
7 100, and K50n. arc especiall y we ll sui ted to
Ed ison di vision of .\.kGraw- Ed isOll an d prothi ~ l " S~ d ue 10 their prod uct det ectors, stuhilduced the 800 series sig nal generat ors in the
ity, and w ide freque ncy co verage. I ow n
ea rly 19 70s . Th is upda ted desi gn is alm os t several freque ncy CI uuucrs . h ut III Hie (If them
ent irel y solid sta te and includes an FM modu COl11l'''' close ttl a recei ver fo r cnsit ivit y.
lator. Models XOOA . XOIA. X0 2A. and XO.1/\
1'\',,' us ed a B&K 5:W tranxi lu rll ;I:T tt:ster
an: ide nti cal except for freq ue nc y c on~ rilgc. I
dozen s of t iIlle s to fi nd had tmngrabbed an XOJA for S20 0 and
...i... tor .... Con nect its three test
an 80 2A for $ SO at 10 L';] 1
leads 10 the nun si... to r leads. pull
hnmfcst s.
a InTI'. ;lI1J the 520 w ill identify
Be s ure 10 usc a 50 ohm
emi tter. bas e. and collector and
impeda nce mat ching pad w he n
indicate if th ere ' sa defect. Th e
co nnectin g th e generator 10
H& K 52l ) is ...till a c ur re nt prod yo ur scunncrs anten na j ac k.
uct and sel ls for hund red s of
T hese pads were us ua lly fur dol lars . Used 520s sel l fur $25 n ish ed with the ge ne ra tors
SI OOat hamtcsr sund I' ve boug h I
w hen new bUI pad and generathree ill the past few years.
tor arc often separated by the
I' 'C found used test eq u iptim e they reach the htunfcst
mcn t to be a bet ter bargain than
tab le,
most used scann ers a nd ham
Before ge tti ng a decent RF A programmable timer
rad io s. Buy wha t you (,';\11 afcall k('('p yo ur SiCd.\'from
sig na l gen erator. I ge ne rat ed
ford . pn-fcrubl y u...cd service or
ovrrc harging .
... ign ah through improvi sat ion
lah grudc in...trumcnt v, thcntrudc
,HId met with va ryi ng degrees o f success. I
up later .
used local oscilkuorrudiauou from older working Bcarcat BC -250 s and Be-30C)""Tlu-y gcn Recharg ing Tip
crate s ig na ls at 10,8 or 10,85 M HI. ,lhm c or
It .. ea"y to oyndw rgc yo ur SL': Ullln ' ...
he lo w their d isp lay freq ue ncy . d ep endi ng 0 11
NiCd ha ltery pad . J ust plug ill tIlL' dwrge r.
the band and model. I' ve ,dso serviL'cd radios
wa l" away. and thell forget 10 unp lug it ror a
by liste ning to on-a ir sig na ls, e .g .. NOAA
fe w day s.
Weat he r stmio ns. Ihroug h an 'ldj u... t:lh lc <:1 1Ytl U <:. 111 eOllllec t the c ha rge r to ;1 h ll llp
tt:nu alo r.
timc r 10 d larg l' the P: l l'~ for 16 ho urs . If you
A li xeo frequenc)'. cr yst a l conlnl lkd o scil lalOrwor" s great for a lig ni ng and servk ing IF 1l"1.:' all 1I11 mod ilil'o tim e r. b ut fo rg el thai you
Iert it I)n. the time r wi ll {...ydc Ilil a nd Illl l' very
stage s. I found hall er y o pcT.lIcd 10.7 ~1I1 1
~..t ho ur... and (l\l're ha rgL' yo ur ha l1e r~ .
~I n wrola a nd ..t55 " Hz GE o Sl'ill;;llors at
i\tnt.lify a n ine xpc ns ive lam p tim n .1Ild
ha mfesls f(lr under $ 10 (sec p hotos ). YIHI Gi ll
prl' \'Clll th is slt:nario. A ll you have ttl t.I o is
hui ld yo ur own o sci llat u r. but it s ho u ld h,lVt:
ohta in a sing le t:vCIH tim l' r w hic h USl' S n: mov an adju stahle OUlp u t le\'el.
ah lt: " on" and " n fl" ' peg s (c .g.. R:td ill Shack
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oscillators, goo d f or JF trnub leshooting,

#63-862 or equivale nt). Remove all the peg s.

Place a sing le "off" peg at the 12 midni g ht
po sition. Usc a g ummed la be l or felt tip pe n In
ma r" the dial 16 hours earlier - at the XAM
po ... Irion .
T o charge yo ur batte ry for 16 hours. ro ta te
the d ial to the 16 ho ur mar" you made. then
turn 0 11 till' time r' s power swi tc h. T he beauty
otthi ... setup is that the timer will re main on for
16 ho urs. then tu rn itself o ff .1I1d stay oil unt il
you inte rvene.

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TRACKING THE TRUNKS

Tracking the DFW Area Trunks

ongtimc ,HT reader Lindsay Blanton <trunking@hotmail.col1l> checks in this month

with an impressive pro fi le o f several Dallas-Ft. Werth. Te xas. a rea trunkin g sy stems. In
this month' s column we will look at (he trunk ing syste ms for Carollton, G rand Prairie.
Lewisville. and Den ton County. Texas.
You will find the profiles below and much mor e at Lindsay' s web site .11 URL: http://
wcb2 .a ir ma il.netllhla nt 1

City 01 Grand Prairie Public Safely Trunklng Syslem

Syslem ID: 2515
Connecl Tone: 105.88 Hz
Type: Motorola Type II
Frequencies: 856.9625 857.9625 ' 8589625' 859.9625 '
8609625' 868 2375 6665125 866.7625 6689625
l' Denotes Data Channell
UnidenTalk
Group IDs

Motorola

TalkGroup
Description

48
80
206

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'96
656
688
720
752
616
880
944
976
1006
1040
1072
1104
1136
1168
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029
02B
020
02F
033
037
03B
030
03F
041
0'3
045
047
049
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Police Channel-2
Police Info
Public Works nos
PoliceCID
Fire 1
EMS 1
Public Works Ops
Pubhc Works Ops
Public Works Water Dept
Public Works Streets
Police Onannel-t
Animal Control
Public Works Ops
Public Works oos
AirportOperations
Public Works Ops
Police Talk 1
Police Talk 2
EMS2
Police Jail Ops

272

Hertu ents

011

24816
24848
2' 912
2'62'
4041
' 042
404-3
4044
406-1

60F
611
615
603

'06-2
4045

' 04-6

4047
5001
5002
5003
500'
5005
600 1
600-2
6003
600'
600 '0
7001
700-2
700-3
700'
7005
7006

Grapevine Police F-1

Grapevine Police F-2
GrapevinePolice CID
Grapevine Pesnvat 1
FlowerMoundPolice Channel-1
Flower Mound Police Channel-2
Flower Mound Police Channel-S
Flower Mound Police Onannel-a
Flower Mound Police Mo ~ ile
Data Terminals (MOTs)
Flower Mound Pence MObile
Data Terminals (MOTs)
Flower Mound Fire Ohancel-t
Flower Mound Fire channei-z
Flower Mound Fire Channel-3
t ewisvitle Public Works Sewer Ops
l ewisville Public WorksWaterOps
Lewisvitle Public Works
Lewisvi!te Public Works
lew isvftle Public Works
Lewis..iltePolice F1
Lewisville Police F-2
Lewisville Police F-3
Lewisville Police F4
Lewisville AnimalControl
le wisville Fire-l
lewisville Fire-2
Lewisville Fire-3
l ewisvdle Fire-4 (Alarm Fires)
Lewlsvltle Fire-S
Lewisville Fire-6

System 10: 0728

Connect Tone: 105.88 Hz

Type: Motorola Type IllI i Hybrid
The Iteetmap for the Trunk Tracker for this system is user
defined usmq the parameters below:
Block

Size

BO
81
B2
B3

SO
SO
SO
SO
S3

B'

B5
B6
B7

S'
S'

S'

Molorola

c
o
o
o

Frequencies: 854.4375 B55.2125 856,2125 856.9375 '

6579375 8562 125' 858.9375 659.2125' 660.2125'
l' Denotes Data Channel)
Uniden Talk Molorola TalkGroup
Group IDs Hex tdents Descrlpll on

5632
5668
6912
7168
7424
7660
7936
2'656
2'688
24720

96

160
170
160
l CO
100
l EO
l FO
605
607
609

Coppell FIreF-l
Coppell Fir eF-2
Coppell Pollee 1
Coppell Police 2
Coppell Pollee 3
Coppell Pollee 4
Coppell Police5
Grapevine Fire Dispatch
Grapevine Fire F-1
Grapevine Fire F-2

MONITORING TIMES

Jan uary 1998

coun~

' 6' 32
16686

413

24176

5E7

Fire Department F- l

Dispa en Patch 11
Unidenlllied Police TalkGroup
Texas Department 01Public
sa 'e~

Channel,(StateTroopers)

24208

5E9

The Olon~ Police Department

Dispatch -,
The coton~ PoliceDepartment

2'336

5Fl

The Colony Fire Department

2'592

601

24816

60F

Dispatch 2

126'6
25166

625

Dispatch
Roanoke Police Department
Dispatch
Sanger Police Deaartment
Dispatch
coun~Wide Public WorksTrashi lectnc Ooeranons
Corinth Police Depa nment
Dispatch

City of Carolll on Publi c Satety frunklng System

AlSOIncludes thecues 01 Addison and Farmers Brancn
System 10: 1201
ConnectTone: 105.B8
Type: Motorola Type I
The ueetmap for theTrunkTracker for this systemis user
defined using theparameters below:
810ck
Size
Motorola

BO
Bl
B2
B3
B'
B5
B6
B7

SO

S'

S,
S'

SO
S11
SO
SO

o
o
o

Frequencies: 856.2626 856.7625 857.2625 857.7625

856.2625656.7625 659262 5659.7625
860.2625660.7625

Note: Grand Prairie Fire is simulcast dispatched on 482.9625

MHz.

Cityof Lewisvill e Public Safety Trunking Syste m

Also Includes the cmes01Coppell. FlowerMound. Grapevine.
and Highland Village

12552

Denlon County Trunked Radio Syslem

System 10: 1 0~J7
connect Tone: 105.88 Hz
Type: Motorola Type II
Frequencies: 856.2875 857.2875" 858.2875 " 859.2875 '
860,2875 " l' Denotes Data Channell
Unlden Talk Motorola Talk Group
Group IDs Hex ldents Description

'8
112
'00
' 32
' 96

003
007

592

025

7632
76&1

100

7696
8240

lEl
203

8272
8304

205
207

01F

6366

208

6272
6336
8432
6400
6'64
6'96
6528
6592
662'
6656
6666

205
209
20F
200
211
213
215
219
21B
210
21F

Denton County She riff Ois8 atch

DentonCounii; Sheri" TA -1
Unidentified alkGroue
Unidentified Police Tal Group
Denton County to All Cities Car
to Car
Denton County to All Cities PO
Dispatch
Denton Counra Sheriff Prison
Umdentlhed alk Group
Maintenance
Denton County Snentt Prison
Counz FIreDepartment F-1
Dispa en
County Fire Department F-2
County Fire Department F-3
bRoanokel
ou n~ Fire Department F-5
tArg ~e J
rap y CI:,J b Fire Department
Justm Fire Department
Ponder Fire Department
Double Oak Fire Department
Krum Fire Department
Sanger Fife.Desarlment
little Elm FIre epartment
Pilot POInI Fire Department
MayhlllfCnpBle Creek FIre Dept.
County Fire epartment SBl
County Fife Department SB2

Thanks to Mitch Savage <m i tch 1~ai rmai l.nel> for helping me
10 figure out someinfo en this system.
Uniden Talk
Group IDs

Talk Group
Descripll on

1001
1002
1003

Carrollton A Dispatcn
CarrclttonB tnto
CarrolltonCCID
Carrollton 0
Carrollton ETalk
Darronton F
Carrollton GSupervisorlTAC
Ca rrollton HPolice Department Special
Carroltton I Police Department Special
Carrollton J Police Department Special
Ca rrolltonK Police Department Special
Carronon Public Works
Carrollton Streets Department
CarrolltonPublic Works
CarrolltonPublic WorkslSpecial Events
Carrollton FIRE/EMS Dispatch 1
Carrollton FIRE/EMS TAC2
CarrolltonFIRElEMS TAC3
Carrollton EMS to Trinity Medical Center
Carroltton EMSto RHO Hosoitat
CarrolltonEMS to 8itel Medical
Addison Police Department F-l
Addison Police DepartmentF-2
AddIsonPolice DepartmentF-3
Addison Police Department F-4 Special
Events
Ad(Jlson Fire Dispatch Ohannel-t
AddisonFire Operations
Farmers Branch PoliceDepartment A
Farmers Branch Police Department B Talk
Farmers Branch Police Department CTalk
Farmers Branch EMSfFD Dispatch
Farmers Branch EMSfFD TAC2

'0 0-'

1005
1006
100 7
100-6
100-9
100' 0

100-11

200 1
200-'
200-7
200-10
300 1
3002
3003
300-1 0
300-11
300-12
500-1
500-2
500-3
500-4
5005
500-6
5011
5012
501-3
5017
501-6

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ANTENNA TOPICS
Clem Small, KR6A

BUYING, BUILDING AND UNDERSTANDING ANTENNAS

Antenna Faults and How to Find Them

rucnnas are pretty hardy devices

usually, but they do occasionally
develop malfunctions (or " faults"

as our British friends call them). Lei' s take a

look at so me o f the basic ideas of antenna
Faultfinding.

When the ant enna doesn't work at all

Suppose that you connect an antenna 10 a
receiver known to be work ing well. and ye t
you ca n receive no signals. Th e first test 10
perform is a visual inspection of the ante nna.
If it is an antenna which you have ju st assembled. check to see that it is correctly CO Il struc ted. If it is an antenn a that has been
work ing previously, then look for broke n or
loose co nnec tions. cracked or broken insulators or conductors. and anything else thaI
appears to be a po tential problem. A commo n
fau lt is antenna connec tors which either arc
not completel y seated in place. or ju st do n't fit
toge ther properly. A lso check the antenna' s
fcedline to sec that its con necto rs are solidly
attached to the cable.
If an ant enn a is mou nted very low to the
ground or ncar meta l buildings or othe r ob
stru ction s its reception may be reduced. A
goo d ante nna poorly mou nted may create the
impression that something is wrong with the
ante nna when the probl em is really with the
antenna site.
O n th e o the r
hand, there are actua lly limes whe n a
work ing rece iver
connected to a well-

good idea to learn the basics of signal prop agation so you will know whe n signals are
likel y to be received on the band s which
interest you .
If the receiver is designed for HF. MF. or
other band lo wer in freq uency yo u ca n usually
rece ive some atmospheric noise even when
there are no manmade signals on the band . A
good way to test for this noise reception turn
the recei ver' s RF and A F gain controls fully
on, and then rapidly connec t the antenna to.
and discon nect it from the recei ver antennainput co nnector. If you hea r noi se while the
antenna is co nnected. but none when the anten na is disconnected then the antenna is
receiving atmosp heric noi se or other electrica l interference. In such cases the anten na
should recei ve manmade signals when they
arc prese nt.
There is usuall y little or no atmospheric
noise at frequencies above the HF band. and
so the co nnect-d isco nnect test is not useful on
the se band s. The noise which yo u hear when
you tum off the squelch of recei vers tuned to
VHF or higher freque ncies is noise generated
within the receiver itse lf. To test antennas for
simple recep tion at VHF and higher frequencies we need so me kind of manm ade sig nal to
receive, and if the re are no signals on the band
we mu st wait until there are some .

98

,/

TEST PRODS

y l-..J.!'-i----0

When we suspect that an antenna is not

functioning as it should we ca n often find the
problem by use of a techniqu e called "co ntinuity testing ." Conti nuity test ing lets us determine whether or not a ci rcuit is cap able of
conducti ng ele ctorial curre nt. The ohmmeter
functio n found on many elec trical test meters
makes an exce llentco ntinui ty tester for checking antennas . Usually the lowest sca le on the
ohmmeter is the best to use.
A circ uit for a simple. home-built co ntinuity tester is shown in fig. IA. When there is
sufficient co nd uction of electrical current between the two test prods of the tester . the bul b
will light, indic ating continuity. Thus we can
test for con tinui ty betwee n the wires or metal
tubing of which our antenna is made .
Loo k at the antenna of fig. IB. Us ing a
co ntinuity tester we sho uld find co ntinuity
(co nduction) between poi nts A. B. and C. \Ve
sho uld also find con tinuity between points D.

-.

ANTENNA

si ted. properl y-

BATIERY

Testing a faulty antenna

func ti onin g antenna will be unab le to recei ve any

s ig na ls beca use
there are no signals
to rece ive on that
bund auhm particulur time !Of course.
o ne way to check
whether there arc
signals on the band
of inte rest is to try a
second receive r and
antenna known to
fu nc tio n o n that
ha nd. It' s 'Ibn a

If we perform the tests sugges ted ear lier.

and still find that very little or no signal is
received on an antenna at times when signa ls
are known to be present on the band for which
it was designed the n there is some fau lt wit h
the antenna . We should then proceed to the
following tests.

BULB

CONNECTOR

G
. :O
r

w;, :::;'~EEt6{f~Ecr

)..

;;

\~

CONNECTOR

FEEDUN E

C D
-.J

FIGURE I . Circuit for a simple continuity tester (A), a dipole antenna and its feedline IB), and a
coaxial feedline 1'1.

MONITORING TIMES

j anua ry 1998

E, a nd F. On the o the r hand, there shou ld be no

co ntinuity fro m any of the poi nts A. Bcor C to
a ny of the poi nts O. E. or F. For the tccdlinc
sho wn in fi g, I C the re sho uld be co ntinuity
betwee n point !'> G a nd H. and betwee n 1'lI1d J.
T here sho uld be no co ntinuity from points G
or H to po ints I or J.
Inte rmi tte nt problems ca n sometime s be
found by wigg ling the cab le or a ntenna as
conti nuity is be ing tested . For this " wig gle
rest' yo u shou ld cl ip th e prod s to the points
bei ng tested. Co ntinuity sho uld no t be affec ted by the wigg ling .
From looking a t the ante nna test proced ure
" hove you can see that the ge neral rule is that
we sho uld ha ve co ntinuity be twee n any po int s
th at are supposed to be elec trica lly co nnected
to o ne anot her, and no continuity between
points that are not su pposed to be co nnecte d to
o ne another e lec trically . Usc the wir ing diagra m of your a nte nna to determ ine w hic h part
is co nnec ted to what. or de term ine this by
inspecting me an te nna ' sconductors. But check
th em for co ntinuity as well as looking at them :
so metimes co nd uc to rs which appe<lr to be
wel l connected to o ne a nothe r actual ly do not
ha ve co ntinui ty be tween the m.
And so there arc two kinds offa ults to look
for by co ntinuity testing. Opcn c irc uits (no
continuity between conducto rs where there
sho uld be co ntinuity). a nd sho rt circuits (co ntinuity between co nd uc tors wh ich sho uld ha ve
no continuity ). Finding the se fault s a nd co rrecting them is often a ll tha t is needed to fix a n
ailing antenna.

Vet to come
Nex t mont h we will disc uss checki ng a n
antcnna's Swk. when it is wo rthwhile to do it.
and huw it may be done .

RADIO RIDDLES

~l

Last Month:
I sa id "T he re arc a number o f haltwave
ant enna designs wh ich we ha ven 't d iscussed .
Am ong them arc two antennas with the sa me
name: ' slee ve antenna.' Ho w are the se a ntenna s constructed - tha t is. wha t do they look
like '?"
We ll. o ne type o f sicev e dipo le is a verticu1
ant en na with a quartcrwavc whip e xte nd ing
above a quarterwuve sectio n of tubin g (the
sleeve ). Th e ante nna is fed by a 72o hm coaxial cable running up through the slee ve with
the co a x center conducto r connec ted to th e
whip. and the coax shield connected to th e

sleeve. T his antenna is also ca lled the " hypodermic- needl e ante nna " fo r obvio us reaso ns!
The other sleeve ant e nna co ns ists of a n
ordi nary hnltw a vc di po le w ith a seco nd
halfwa ve dipole run pa ra lle l to it. and separated fro m it hy a few inc hes . Th e dipol es are
not connect ed togeth er. This is a multi band
a ntenna with the lo nger dipole reso nant on
o ne frequenc y. and the sma ller pa rasitic ele ment resonant at a high er freq uenc y.

This Month:
Thercs onc " test antenna"that we always
carry with us. Tec hn icians often usc this test
ant e nna as :'1 q uick means to chec k whe the r a
recei ver is func tion ing or no t. It is a n ex tremel y si mple test. What is that test ante nna
and how do we usc it?
You"I l find an an swer for this mont h' s
ridd le. and mu ch more. in next mo nth' s issue
of M oll ilOr inJ: Times, 'Til the n Peace . OX. 73

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Com ilOO b Rochel Bou hn, Editor

NEWS AND VIEWS FROM OUR READERS

Cooperation Pays

100m SOLAR ,.LUX

As the rad io hobby breathes a co rpo rate sigh of re lief with the a me ndme nt of
HR2369. w e can co ngratulate each other
on the exce llen t result s of cooperation .
A lthough it wa sn't a formal ly co ordi nated effort. manufac ture rs. hobbyists,

veaus SUNSPOTNUMs eR
'50

publications. volunteer gro ups, radio

-:

./

"One more suggestio n for anyo ne

thinki ng ofvisiting VOR: Augu st is co nsidered the 't raditional' vaca tion month
in Russia, and man y of the staff members
take their vacations du ring that time and
are nOI a t the station for the wh ole month
of Aug ust. So if the re is a spec ific staff
me mbe r tha t yo u would like to meet
duri ng that month, write far in advance to
mak e sure the y will be there! "
- M aryann e Kehoe, Atlmull , Georgia

ama teurs, etc. each pitch ed in to help

lobb y in the area of their greatest influ ence and expertise.
o
It goes to showthe powerofgrassroots.
150
200
50
'50
o
'00
'50
s.ot.AJl FLUX
and what ca n be acco mplished when
"Firstlet me say yo ur magazi ne is an
peopl e refuse to give in 10 apat hy .
We at Monitoring Times know firstexce llent j ournal. I a lwa ys find it e njoyIII this issu e, Bob Eva ns provides a formula ill
abl e a nd informative, I do hav e a few
hand how impo rtan t you rea de rs are to
Digital Digest which exp resses th e relationsh ip
co m men ts and general obse rva tio ns for
our surv iva l. \Vc kno w that the only adbetween su n spot number and th e solar flu x .
vertisement wh ich can be guaranteed 10
you .
Here is a graphic representation ofthe sam e
"A ll Ca nadia n Radi o Shack s se ll the
show increased subscriptions is the testiprinciple, submitted by propagation columnist
same sca nne rs as the US stores: therefore
mony of ou r subscribers: T he maj ority of
Jacqu es d 'Avignon .
our customer source codes read "\VO Myo u can not buy a scanne r capable of
word of mout h."That mean s yo u, spreadrec e iving ce llca lls, even though our laws
do not restrict us, ye t.
ing the word .
" Early last ye ar I had an eye operation . T he
"I have also been interested for yea rs in
Th e maj ori ty o f our regu lar advertise rs recover y per iod wa s ma ny weeks and for a
rem ain so beca use they know they ge t an good part of that period I was forbidd en to atmos phe ric phe nomena and the recent infor ex ce llent respo nse for their adve rtising doll ar read. After abo ut a week I turn ed on my mati on on natu ra l radio has been quit e fasc ifro m MT subscribers.
sho rtwave receiver. It was a god send . I lis- nating for me. I have looked 'It se veral of the
In this co ming year we look to yo u again to tened to the BBC for hour s.
sites menti oned in yo ur co lum ns and I built
keep tho se new s c lippings co ming in. keep
" Gradually, I ex tended the scope of m y two of the natura l radi o design s. Of the two. I
se nding us pote ntial adv erti se rs or tips on new listenin g - CUb;:I, Sw ed en. the Vatican . Aus- like the McGre ev y recei ver the best. It only
product s, and write to enco urage yo ur favori te tralia. al l were se t into the Punason ic' s mc nu lry needs one 9V battery. It a lso sce ms to ha ve a
departme nt write rs or se nd in your own manu- buttons. I had to stum ble into the stations , lower noise le vel than the John H, Davi s opscript masterpieces . W hile yo u' re at it, why since l could n' t read the great station listin gs amp design. So far I ha ve not heard any
not ren ew yo ur ow n subscription into the year in MT. G radu a lly I figur ed ou t \...'hich ba nds whistlers w ith my rece ive r, but I have heard
2000 ? Do yo ur part to keep the hobb y al ive ! we re 'h ot' duri ng the limes I was ab le to listen . some 'tweak s t-c-t hey sound like the weapons
-s-Rachet Baughn. editor and so improved the num ber of intere sting fro m the Sta r Wars Movie s.
- Tom Hagen, Rochester. Michigan
'catc hes ' I mad e. T hank s agai n to M T for rc(G ro ve E n te r pr is es is now c a rryi ng
in trodu cin g me to sho rtwave listen ing. I g uess
McG ree vy ' s receiver. for those who don't
it' s like ridi ng a bike: yo u ne ver forget how."
"I recentl y recall ed two mil eston es in my
- Morton Lurie. Raleigh, NC want to build it- see What'.\ Ne u'?--ed)
' moni toring' ca reer: Hearing Harry Trum an
announce the e nd of World War II by shortwave in G lace Bay, No va Scot ia , in Aug ust
In last Ju ly' s Ask Bob colu m n there wa s a
1945, and watchi ng my first T V show ju st 10
" I e njoye d read ing the art ic le in the No months later on a home brew TV se t.
que
stion co ncerning RF (rad io frequ en cy )
ve m be r issue of 1'.11' on the visit of Bruce
" In April 1946, my paren ts gave me a Atchison to the Voi ce of Russia . I ha ve had the interfer en ce to into ximct crs. Her e' s some
Halli crafter s S 22R Skyrid e r recei ver for my
priv ilege to visit Moscow ni ne tim es a nd "h and s on " e xper ien ce fro m "a n old retired
Bar Mit zvah, so my root s in shortwa ve listen- every time I have mad e it a poi nt to visit VO R co p."
ing go back ove r 50 ye ars.
" Back in the mid 1980 s. the poli ce dep art and the Lette rs Dep art ment in part icula r.
ment I worked for received one of the first
"Abou t five yea rs ago , I stumbled on to
" It was nice 10 read oft he w arm hospital ity
Intoxilyzer machines in Ne w Me xico . Th e
Monitoring Times. It rekindled my inte rest in tha t Bruc e rece ived on his visit-as I onc e told
shortwave listening. Through o ne of yo ur Olga Troshin a. I thin k one of the things that instrum ent worked on infrared mass spectresco py. Not long afte r we put it in se rvice. we
advertisers I bought a n RF B45 Pan ason ic
Russia is fam ous for is its warm ho sp ita lity.
receiver. I found I enjoyed ve ry much getti ng no mat ter if yo u visit so meo ne in thei r hom e or
go t a bu lletin from the state warn ing us that
my news direct from the U K, Holland , New
using HT' s in the vici nity of the instrum ent
pla ce o r busin ess.
Zea land, Israe l... It becam e a casua l hobby.

./

/'

Notes from the North

Seeing Spots

Monitoring Milestones

Voile of Russia

100

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The Elled of RF on IntoJdmeters

during a test co uld ca use incorrect readi ngs.

Th ey gave so me distan ce as bei ng safe (see ms
like it was te n feet) . We im mediately issued a
direc tive prohi biti ng Hr s from e ve n bein g
turned on in the book ing area.
" We ll, co ps bein g cops, o ne o f the other
supe rv isors a nd I conducted our ow n tests. We
ran the se while usin g known standard test S A
sam ples. T he readi ngs ran from .00 to .90

right on there).

pro pert y in 19 19asa wa y of luring Mar coni to

come and live there . He may have visited but
he ne ver lived the re,
" Fletcher write s that the vie w from the
ve ra nda is ma gnifi cent. It is. But the view
from the loft was ex traord inary, You could
sec a ll of T omales B:'IYin both dir ecti ons and
o ut ove r to Po int Reye s Natio na l Seashore .
T he whole a rea is o ne of the most beau tifu l in
all ofCa liforn ia. Flet cher writes that the building is no w used for sto rage. Wh at a sha me. it
deserves to be lived in: '
- Thomas Risher. Whittier. Califo rnia

"Se veral months later, the state reca lled all

the mac hines and di d an RF fix which was
suppose d to preve nt any inter feren ce. O ur
testing found that the erratic readings were
still there d uring HT use, but disappeared at
abo ut four feet.
" We dec ided to see wha t they had done to
'cure ' the pro blem. A quic k c hec k ' under the

"Exce lle nt art icle in the Nove mbe r issue. I

was ab le to mon itor alm ost all of the stations
listed in Figure I (The Globe Wireless CW
Ne twork) . Am a CW buff a nd re al int erested
in mariti me traffic of a ll kinds. Hope mor e
articles on thi s subject will follow ."
D Oll Driver KA9 CRF, valp araiso. IN

(about three times the lethal level),The actual

standa rd was . 10 . Th e interference co ntinued
ou t to a distan ce of about 10 feet (so they were

hood' disclosed that some tech had actually

wrapped the ci rcuit board w ith a layer of
a lumi num window sc reen and gro unded the
sc reen to the me tal cabine t. We ne ver did
can ce l the order pro hibiting HT use aro und
the machine.
" We also tested later ve rsions of the ma chine and fou nd they were still vulne ra ble,
especially at ve ry cl ose range. It appears the
inte rfe rence caused the pro ble ms not w ith the
ac tua l physica l testing of the brea th sample.
but with the ele ctro nic circu itry proce ssing

the data.
" I really enjoy MT. and ha ve for years.
Keep up the goo d wo rk."
- Jim Morrison, KM5BS. Hobbs. NM

Marconi, Maritime, and CW

O ur article s on Marconi' s stations in the
No ve m ber 1997 issue rece ived a number of
letters. One of the most une xpected ca me
from Thom as Rish er.
" I read wi th much interes t Leon Flet che r' s
arti cle on ' Ma rco ni's Ca liforn ia Stat ions.'
You see. at one time in my life I worked and
lived ill the 'hotel' Of J the Marshal/property .
From about 1965 to the early 19805 the
Marshall receiving station was o wne d by
Syna non Fo und ation. In 1975 I wor ked in
Syna non's food service operat io n a nd lived at
the hotel. I was allo wed to live in the loft,
wher e the five wind ows peek through the roof
as see n in the photo on page 18. At night the
bu ildi ng took on an ee rines s. W hile I lay on
my bun k I fe lt like I was o n a ship at sea . T here
was a ge ntle sway ing that I neve r co uld e xplain.
"Sy nanon res ident s were very much aware
that the prop erty wa s built for Marconi. Wh at
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maritime stations (KP H a nd Kf' Sj co vcred by
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A fter read ing A rthur Lee' s December article on taking the Mor se co de te st, one read er
from the Washi ngton, DC area , wa s en co uraged to give it a try . He discovered that VE
teams are apparentl y allowed a lot o f latitude
in how code tests are co nduc ted. T hey ma y or
may not ha ve multi ple c hoice ans we rs to the
questions. ma y or may not allow abbrev iation s in the answe r, an d may or ma y not allow
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By Bob Grove,
Publisher

The Internet Changes the Face of Politics

Ju st a year ago . it was politics as usual in Wash ington . A Hou se subcommittee was formed . heavily biase d
in favor o f an influential contribu tor. the Ce llular T elecommunication s Indu stry Association (e T IA) : nearly
two do zen Congressiona l reci pients of campaign donations from that industry assem bled to hear the wishes of
that ind ustry. It quick ly bec ame clear that the ab usi ve
proce eding evo lved from the widely publicized . and
politi ca lly embarrassing. Ne wt Gingrich cellul ar telephon e call int ercept: it wa s int ended to puni sh scanne r
listen ers. manufacturers. and dealers. But they hadn' (
co unted on the lnternct.

\Vithin minutes of the conclusion of the televised

hearing. ince nsed viewe rs were on the Net, briefi ng one
another on the sha m they had ju st witnessed on C-Spa n,
a clearly co ntrived Ce ll-PAC spec ial eve nt. By the
fo llowi ng mo rning . tho usands of c- ma ils, fax mes sages . and postal lette rs were barraging the subcommittee offices. stymieing norma l operations. Clearly. it was
no longer busine ss as usual. at least not in those offices .
T he politician s discovered that they were acco untab le, thai their electorate really we re watch ing what
they were doing and expected bette r of their rep resentati ves than thi s transparent se llout. The voters were
mao .
But had our elec ted officia ls learned anythin g by the
outpouri ng of protests? \Vithin month s. two Bills were
proposed (HR 1964 and HR2369), rctlect ing the ori ginal wishe s of the CTJA, while exhibiting co nsiderable
ignorance of the radio spect rum and its users. Agai n. the
Inte rnet respo nded to the poorl y-drafted docum ent s.
Short ly thereafter. another official news rel ease pro mised a better Rill. See this mon th' s Scanni ng co lumn by
Ric h Barnett conce rning the revised versionof HR2369.
Th e new Bill is. indeed. co nsiderably improved. It
offers to protect com munications wh ich are e ntitled to
privacy . while permitt ing normal scanner listening.
Whil e minor prob lema tica l areas sti ll remai n. we an:
clo se to a workab le doc ume nt.
I wo uld like to take thi s opportunity to thank the
co untless thousand s of respo nsib le citize ns who took an

activist role. lettin g yo ur legislator s know exact ly how

you felt about unfair legislation . The list see ms endless.
with kudos to Rich Barnett, Jo hn Coker, Capitol Hill
Monitors. the editorial staffs of Popular Commu nicalions and Monitoring Times. the Ameri can Radio Relay
League (ARRL), Unide n Corporation. Tandy Corpo ratio n. and countless mor e. many of whom wish to rem ain
anonymous. I would also like to than k the enlighte ned
Co ngressional members who exa mined object ivel y all
sides of the argument and acted with inte grit y. motivated
by the ir wisdom, not their wa llets.
Fina lly, I wo uld like to acknow ledg e the role pla yed
by a newcom er to the field of repre sentative gove rn me nt.
the Internet. witho ut whic h the rapi d gro und swe ll of
oppositio n to preferent ial legislat ion co uld not have
occurred. Represen tat ive of the many co ntrib utors to this
effort were Peter Laws and the Scan-L list. and David
Sharp NF20's Scann ing Page s.

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1000 M emory Channels

IF Shift & No ise Blanker
Aud io Peak Filter (APF)
Auto Frequency Control
7 Different Scan Types

" Rea l-Time" Band Scope

7 Different Sca n Types
EASY MODE fo r Beginn ers
Uses " AN' Ni-Cds (included)
or Alkalines - your choice!

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