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Adventures in the Clarke

Belt (DXing Satellite TV)
New 4-digit Numbers Site'
Halfwave Dog-pull Antenna
MT Reviews the Sony
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Inside this Issue

Eavesdrop on the "House of the Mouse" by John F. Combs

Disneyland. To millions of children around th e world, the name conjurs up images of Mickey, Donald and Goofy. To
author John Combs, it represents a scanning bonanza! Join him as he shows you how to lLlne in the action behind the
action at the House of th e Mouse.

TGN: Homebrew Radio in Guatemala by Don Moore

Depending on where you live, Radio Cultural's 3300 kHz signal isn't all that difficult to hear. That's because station
jack-of-all-trades, Wayne Berger, has a knack with transmitters. Join Don Moore as he travels to Guatemala for a look
at the man and his station.

Adventures in the Clarke Belt by Ken Reitz

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At one time, satellite DXing used to be th e province of the adventurous and the rich. Today, virtually anyone can team
to tune in the exciting world of TVRO. You 'II be surprised at what you can see -- and hear.

D'Xing in the USSR by Igor Sannikov

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He 's single, 26 years old and a teacher of English at the Kirov Polytechnical Institute. Igor Sannikov tells the story of the
radio monitoring hobby in th e Soviet Union in this first-ever article by a Russian DXer!

Scanning with Style by Bob Kay

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If someone put a blindfold on you, turn ed on your scanner and asked to you identify the transmissions you heard simply
by their audio, could you do it? Bob Kay says learning such characteristics is 011/y part of developing your own scanning
style -- and success.

New Four-Digit Number Site Found by Garganta La Profunda

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As promised, MT reveals th e location ofyet another "spy numbers" station -- a U.S. government transmitter near Jupiter
Inlet, Florida!

The Halfwave Dog-Pull Antenna by R.F. Bums

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Jock Elliott just decided to do something about poor reception. He's tired of being the only one who can't seem to hear
Radio Ribamar in Brazil on 4785 kHz. So off Jock goes to get parts for... a dog pull antenna ?I
DEPARTMENTS
Letters
Commun ications
International DX Report - Glenn Hauser
Broadcast Loggings - Gayle van Horn
Scanning the Nation . Bob Kay
Ut ility World - Larry Van Horn
T he Federal File Dave Jones
Domestic Broadcasting - Paul Swearingen
Plane Ta lk - Jean Baker
On the llam Bands - Ike Kerschner
Outer Limits - John santosuosso
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Frequency Section
Day to Day Shortwave
"Ask Bob"
Magne Tests ... the Sony ICF-7601 - Larry Magna
Equipment - The 0earca1 200/205 XLT
What's New
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Antenna Topics -Clem Small
Technical Topics - Terry Staudt
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Experimenters Workshop: Matchmakers
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Dis neyworld's Fantasyland (photo by Harry Baughn). Inse ts:
A r uined Maya n pyramid at Tikal in n orthern Guatemala
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LETTERS
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The Programming Debate

No matter how bad the programs
are on shortwave, they're still better
than what's. on TV. So stop whining!
Ken Matthews
Reading, Pennsylvania
Yor comments on shortwave
programmfog were thought-provoking. They remind me of the development of public television in the United
States. Originally, PBS programming
was something akin to a bad high
school lecture. It embraced the idea
that in order to be "educational," it
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had to be dry.
And then somebody got the bright
idea that public television could
attract more listeners (and more
dollars at pledge time) by being entertaining, too. Today, PBS remains
educational but you'll also see everything from rock concerts to re-runs of
old .commerdal TV shows. And in
some cases, PBS's ratings are quite
competitive with the networks. That's
a realistic course of action that shortwave broadcasters hoping to catch
even the tiniest segment of the North
American market should consider
following.
Martin Price
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
I started reading your magazine
five years ago; back in 1983, when it
was the Program Guide. I enjoyed your
no-holds-barred
commentary
on
shortwave broadcasting. You said
what needed to be said and to hell
with what anyone . thought. It was
refreshing and, best of all, you
happened to hit the nail on the head
every time! It was just what this tired,
old hobby needed: a healthy does of
truth.
That's why I was glad to see you
picking up the old jihad again in
response to Harrel Kline's comments
on shortwave programming [Letters,
May 1988]. Tell it like it is! Anyone
who says that the bulk of programming on shortwave isn't dull probably
is dull.
Alex Kalder
Los Angeles, California

Some months ago I read with

Monitoring Times looks really
interest the news that yet another U.S.
fine ... Keep up the great work and best
commercial shortwave station was wishes for many years of continued
planning to come on the air with success.
American contemporary (i.e. "rock")
Ed Janusz
music. Anyone who has traveled
SPEEDX
abroad or who knows anything about
DX Montage Editor
worldwide musical tastes knows what
Bricktown, New Jersey
a big mistake this is. The form of
American music which is craved most
Always of Interest. ..
around the world, especially in Europe
and J apan, is traditional and main1 find your publication not only
stream jazz.
entertaining but continually useful as
If anyone needs proof of this, well. It contains information one can
witness the enormous popularity that really use, such as the modification
Willis Connover has enjoyed world- instructions for the PR02004 and
wide with his jazz programs. Some of the ICF-7000. Since both those radios
the most popular jazz festivals in the are in our inventory, we had immediworld are held in Europe each year, ate application for this information.
notably Montreaux I in France] and Each issue never fails to provide
the North Sea Jazz Festival [in something of interest to me and I
Holland). If these new shortwave always look forward to its arrival.
broadcasters hope to be successful
Dick Dillman
commercially, I feel that they need to
Greenpeace Radio
take serious consideration of this and
adjust their musical formats approBut Not Always Fair.
priately.
Larry Weil
A publication dealing with as
Acton, Massachusetts many different peoples as does a
Your comments, while ce1tainly shortwave publication should be more
meritorious, are based on a fatally culturally aware, even if its writers are
not. 1 am speaking about Robert
flawed assumption: that U.S. commerRian's
"Mozambique: DXing a Troucial shortwave stations actually lfill1l to
reach a foreign market. Ever notice that bled Land" [April, 1988). Maybe Il1y
many of the non-religious ones have as assumptions are wrong. Is it possible
that Mozambique was uninhabited
their "official" target our northern
neighbor, Canada? That's because it's until the arrival of the Portuguese [as
the easiest way to satisfy the legal the writer implies in column 1, pararequirement that American shortwave graph 5]? No, the non-European
stations broadcast to a foreign audience world did not wait until the arrival of
and at the same time put Their signal Eu ropeans to be inhabited. Or do
indigenous people not count as
across the greatest amount of U.S.
tenitory. The U.S. market: that's who people?
That issue was, I bel ieve, settled by
they're aiming for. These arc commerthe
Spanish when they decided that
c.ifJl stations and they well know that
they won't sell many goods by beaming Indians (I use the all-encompassing
term for lack of a better one although
advertisements into Pent. -- ed.
Indians are really many very divergent
groups) did indeed possess souls and
We're Number One!
were . therefore worthy of conversion
to the white man's religion.
1 have always had high praise for
So please -- no further references
Monitoring Times but your new,
to the discovery of already-inhabited
revised format is deluxe. I look
areas by Europeans.
forward every month to the number
Michal Anne Moskow
one shortwave magazine.
Wallingford, connecticut
H.E. Brown
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Mt. Pleasant, Iowa

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Bookstore
Closes
.

Jmprime, the .m<l.ii.i order book

store specializing . iil co111munications
titles, has closed; The business,
which advertised l)eaVilY in a number
of radio-related publications, left the
business due to the' pogrhealth of the
owner. "We deeply appreciated the
support shown us by the radio hobby
community," said a spokesman for the
business, " and we enjoyed having the
opportunity to be . of service." All
checks sent to the business' address in
Pennsylvania have been. returned to
the senders and orders are no longer
being taken on the t~lHree number.

Regency Purchase Boosts

Uni den Scanner Share
The decision by Regency Electronics to sell its consumer electronics
division to Uniden will, according to
Autosound and Communications
magazine, give Uniden a commanding
65 percent share of the scanner
market. That 65 percent translates
into an estimated . $85 million
wholesale.
.
Regency's share.. of the scanner
market is estimated at 15 to 20
percent, but last . yea{ the company
made virtually no profits on $75
million in sales.
Along with Regency's share of the
market, Uniden gains access to
patented technology that it can now
use in its own scanner line. These
include TurboScan; which permits
channel scanning at a rate of 70 to 80
channels per second, and the
Informant technology; which permits
scanner owners to progr<1m tl)eir
radios by state . and seryice>
Production of Uniden equipment
has already been shifted out of Taiwan
and into the Philippines with some
subassembly work being completed in
mainland China. The first new
Uniden-produced scanner models
carrying the Regency logo will be
introduced by the end of this year.
=

VOA Prayer Rug May be Pulled

It may only be a 4-by~7-foot spot at
the Voice of America, but to the
people who broadcast in the Hausa
language of Africa, it is important
because they are Moslems. And as
Moslems, it is essential that they

conform to the religion's demands for and radio. stations and they frequently
daily prayer. This small, partitiOned quoted back media reports to us. It
space on the firsr floor of the VOA was :asjf they .had a real operations
meets their needs. The problem is, room going on in there."
however, that the VOA is a government program housed on government
property and to some people, having Radio for Mountain Climbers
the small prayer room places the
An electronic signal system
government in the position of designed fo find lost climbers was
"promoting" religion.
unveiled recently in Timberline,
"We don't want to be insensitive," Oregon: The system, called the Mount
says Dr. Robert L. Maddox, executive Hood Locator Unit, consists of a
director of Americans United for small, 8-ounce transmitter that is
Separation of Church and State, "but. .worn oil harness over the climber's
we're always concerned when .the tors&When the climber is lost, he or
government begins to provide chap~ . she pulls.a cord to activate a continulains and prayer rooms.
ous beep):iv'er a VHF radio frequency.
ReseiieJeams then tune in the signal
AM Band Expan~ion Meet.ing to locate: the climber.
Th sigifal is audible over a 200
The second session of the Interna- mile. radius ' and can be picked up
tional Telecommunications Union under 6 feet of snow and as deep as 75
(ITU) Regional Administrative Radio feet :in an open crevasse. Although
Conference continues this month in similar devices have been used to
track wildlife, it was not developed for
Rio de Janeiro. The session, headed
by FCC Commissioner Patricia Diaz human hse be<;ause manufactu rers
possible liability should one of
Dennis, will be used to plan the use of
the 10-channel (100 kHz) expansion
th~ .. devies: fail.
. . >: .
of the AM broadcast band. The AM
band currently ends at 1605 kHz. The
new plan .will. allow the US additional One;;Man Radio Station Goes
Under
space .for fu!Hime . comme_rcial and
public service broadcast stations, such
A fter 24 years as the disc jockey,
as Traveler Information Services.
technician and owner of WVCA-FM
(ARRL Letter)
in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Simon
Geller is hanging up the headphones.
Hijackers Now Using SW?
Gelle"r sold the station, located in his
cluttered, two-room apartment, to
Investigators reviewing hijacking Boston businessman Doug Tanger for
of a Kuwaiti airliner in April have a reported $1 million.
marveled at the professionalism of the
'Tm 68 years old, and I don't
hijackers. According to Christian
know how much longer I'll live, so I
Science Monitor reporter Jim Muir, . want .t o genhings straightened out in
the .c ommandos were an extremely cas J drop. dead next week," said
well-organized,.welHrained and highly Geller; Indeed, Geller's health was
educated team of specialists. At least deteriOrating. Once, while on the air,
one of them was apparently quite the classical music OJ fell in his
versed in radio communications and
apartment-studio and was unable to
that was, say investigators, one of the get up again. Friends and listeners
things that made the hijacking so were alerted to the dilemma when a
effective. The hijackers apparently had
tape unwound on the air for five
some kind of communications link hours.
with their leaders outside of the plane,
Geller gained national attention
probably in Beirut.
for his 11-year battle with the FCC
Several times, when the negotia- and a powerful group of New England
tors went to the plane to inform the station owners who wanted to take
commandos of some development, over the station's license -- a battle he
they found that they . were already evenfoally won; When asked about his
aware of it, although it was not decision to sell after mounting so
publicly known. Said one of the successful a fight, Geller says, "I've
negotiators, "Some of them were even
had 46 years in this miserable business
monitoring and analyzing all the press and . it's time to get out."

teared

MONITORING TIMES

June 1988

by John F. Combs
scanners and amateur transceive rs arc all owed in t he parks, as long
as they don't cause interference to their own rad io opera tio ns. H e
adm itt e d that "there's really nothing we can do if people want to
listen to our transm issions," but gave t he distinct impression that
they we ren't crazy about t h e idea. Maybe t hey're wo rried t hat
someone will dig up some poop on Mickey, D ona ld, or Goofy t hat
will wind up in t he Nntio11al Enquirer!

n 1928, a dejected
young
anilllator considered
leaving the cartoo n
busi n ess. H e had lost
the ri g ht s to his main
characte r,
Oswald
the Lucky Rabbit,
and was struggl ing to
come
up
with
:1not her o n which to
base a series. One
day, his ma in artist
showed him some
sketches o f a comical
little rode nt. Th e
you ng
animator
bestowed on him the
name
"M o rtim er
hlousc."

Nevertheless, you may still have reaso n to fee l uncomfort able

about carrying in your sca nner. Thieves p rey on tourists at a u raction s like Walt Disn ey World, so k eep your eye on th at scanner nt
all times! Even ch a ining it to you r belt would be a wise idea. If the
prospect still worries you, there a re a mu lt it ude of nea rby motels
where you shoul d still be abl e to hea r the a ction whi le soaki ng your
feet at day's end!

There's More Than Disney!

The name did not stick , but that little mouse (re-christ e ned
"Mickey") became, in a few short years, the world's most beloved
cartoon character. Little did young Walt Disney know t hat Mickey
would b e the ca talyst fo r a vast empire that would st ill be alive sixty
years later. And he had n ot even begun to dream of the th e me park
carved ou t of the central Florida countryside -- the attraction that
was destined to become the cou n try's number one touris t destinat ion !

Tourist Mecca
Contrary to popular belief, Walt Disney World is not "i n" Orlando.
It b si tuated about forty minutes t o the southwest on t he OrangeOsccola coun ty line. Th e Disney domai n co mprises the original
theme p::irk (th e Mag ic Kingdom), EPCOT center, a shopping
village, m a ny first -cl ass motels, and two incorporated ci ti es: Bay
Lake a nd Lake Buena Vista. (Needless t o say, the majo ri ty o f the
populat ion of these cities is transient; i.e. to urists!)
Wall Disney Wo rld is more than just an attraction o r amusement
park . If you and your family a rc making Walt Disney W orld your
clcstination thi s summer, be su re to p ack that sca nner! R adio is
used extensive ly for transporta t ion, securit y, ancl ope ra tions. Table
1 wi ll g ive you a lot o f freq u e ncies that will let yo u hear what's
happening b eh ind the scenes (or unclcr them, si n ce most unseen
operat io ns t a ke place in a la byri nth-lik e ne twork or underground
tunn e ls !) .
M::iny nilll ors h ave circulated throu gh the listening hobby abo ut
Disney's policy concerni ng the use of h and- held scan ners in th e
theme p;irks. Some have eve n con tenclcd t hat a mat eu r "h anditalkies" a rc ban ned, which would be a strange policy si nce there a re
alllatcur repea ters on Disney property! To set the reco rd straig ht , a
spokesman for Disney's securi ty office t o ld me that both ha nd-he ld
6

111111: 1988

While v isiting Mick ey's p layground, don't neglect the ot he r

Orla ndo-area a ttractions! Sea W o rld, Gatorland, the new Boardwalk, Baseball and others have their o wn specia l charms. And d o n't
forget the city of
Orlando itself, with
its mul t it ude o f pristine lakes and abundance of pa rks. Visit
the revitalized down"__: i town, w h ere tord raw
e ntertainers
head the bill at t he
Bob Ca rr Audi torium , a nd where t he
Orlando
M agic
expansio n team will
begin NBA action
next year! You can
tour the Nava l T ra in ing Cen ter o r histo rica l Rollins Co ll ege,
watch the h o rses trot
at Den Wh ite R aceway, or comlll une
wit h nature at lovely
L eu Gardens.

i!"!"'

Likewise, the Orlando area offers a co rnu copia of act ion t o th e

sca nner en thu siast ! Table 2 is an extensive list of wh at can be heard
on you r scanner in the three co unties that com p rise the Orla nclo
me tropolita n area .

Don't Take a Vacation ...

. . . from monitoring, that is! Make sure the ch eck list for you r
centra l Florida vacati o n includes no t only sunt an lo tion, lllaps, and
games for the kids, but you r scanner as well.

MON ITOR ING TIM ES

Table 1
Walt Disney World
147.3
151.625
151.655
151.655
151.865
151.895

154.43
154.625
157.74

158.46
442.0
453.475
453.825
453.875
453.925
461.3
461 .6
461.7
461.875
461.9
461.9
462.475
462.SS
462.575
462.625
462.65
462.675
462.775
462.85
463.575
. 463.75
463.975
464.1
464.125
464.375
464.4
464.425
464.525
464.625
464.8

WMABQ Repealer
Construction
Construction
Travelodge llotel
Royal Plaza llotel
20,000 Leagues
Fire Intercity
Hinon Hotel (Paging)
Paging
Buena Vista Palace ( Paging)
WMABQ Repeater
Reeoy Creek Improvement
Fire Mutual Aid
Fire F1
Fire F2

Fort Wilderness
Construction
Grosti Studios
Double Decker Lines
Hinon Hote l ( South)
Utilities
Operations F1 (Paging )
Operations F2 (Monorails)
Operations F3 (Transportation)
Maintenance F1
Maintenance F2
Paging
Paging
Ramada Inn
Entertainment
Cypress Walk
Security F2
Cypress Walk
Security F1
Buena Vista Palace
Hilto n Hotel
Utilities
Transportalion

Table 2:
Selected Orlando
Area Frequencies
11 8.7
118.7
11 9.4
120.15
120.15
120.65
121.1
121. 25
121.7
121 .8
122.1
122.2
122.65
122.95
122.95
123.65
124.3
124.8
124.8
125.55
127.25
127.75
134. 7
143.9
143.99
145.11
145.35
146.64
146.7
146.73
146.76

Orlando Exec Tower

Orlando Exec Ct af
Orlando lnl'I App/ Departure
Orl ando lnt'I App/Depar ture
Orlando Exec App/Departu re
O rlando ln t'I Flight Plan
Orlando lnl'I App/Departure
Orlando lnl'I Alls
Orland o
Exec
Ground Cntrl/
Clearan ce
O rl ando lnt'I Ground Control
O rl a n do Exec Flight Service
Orlando Exec Flight Service
Orlando Exec Flight Service
O rl ando Exec Unicom
Orlando lnt'I Unicom
Orlando Exec Flight Service
O rl ando l nt'I Towe r
Orlan do l nt'I App/ Departure
Orlando Exec App/Departure
Orla n do lnt'I App/Departure
Orl ando Exec Alls
O rl ando lnl'I App/Departure
Orlando lnt 'I Clearance
CAP
MARS
W04P Repeate r
A14U Repeater
WB4 TCW Repea te r
W40HL Repeate r
WB4CGW Repeater
KD4JL Repeate r

146.79
146.82
146.925
146.955
147.0 15
147.09
147.12
14 7.225
147.285
147.345
147.39
148.1 5
149.075
149.375
150.075
151.415
151 .805
151.865
153.77
153.95
154.01
154.07
154.145
154.1 75
154.19
154. 205
154.235
154.25
154.3 1
154.325
154.37
154.37
154.385
154.415
154.4 15
154.43
154.43
154.43
154.445
154.6
154.665
154.68
154.695
154.755
154.77
154.77
154.8
154.875
154.92
154.95
154.95
155.01
155.13
155.25
155.37
155.91
158.865
16 0.14
161 .64
161.67
161.73
161.76
162.475
162.825
163.2
163.4125
163.625
163.835
163.9125
163.9875
165.2375
165.2875
17 3.325
35.96
408.825
418.55
442.925
443. 1
443.2
443.275
443.325

W4SIE Repealer
W4JTK Repeater
N4KIC Repeater
KD40Z Repeater
KA4WMZ Repeater
N4GG Repeater
KC4CB Repeater
W4 Pl Repeater
WD4NVJ Repeater
WA4LUM Repeate r
W4STR Repeater
CAP
Orlando NTC Security
Orlando NTC Security
Orlando NTC Fi re
Fish and Game
Sea world
Yogi Bear's Campground
Orange Co Fire F1
Orange Co Fire F2
Orange Co Fi re F3
Apopka Fire
Kissimmee Fire
Kissimmee Fire
Orlavi sta Fire
Fire Mutual Aid
Seminol e Co Fire
Pine Hills Fire
Sanford Fire
Ocoee Fire
Osceola Co Fire F1
Orange Co Fire F4
Winter Park Fire
Kissimmee Fire
Altamonte Springs Fire
Fire Mutual Aid
Orange Co Fire F5
Osceol a Co Fir e F2
St Cloud Fire
Sea World
FL Highway
Patrol
(Orlando
North)
FL Highway
Patro l (Orlando
Soulh)
FL Highway Patrol (Kissimmee)
Kissimmee Po lice
Longwood Police
Altamonte Springs Police
Seminole Co Sheriff F1
St Clo ud Police
FL Highway Patrol (Airpla nes)
Seminole Co Sheriff
Ocoee Police
Apopka Police
Semino le Co Sheriff
Altamon te Springs Pollce
Statewide l ntersyste m
Winte r Garden Pollce
Altamonte Springs Pollce
Fish and Game
WHOO-AM
WKISAM
WBJWFM
WDBOAM
O rlando NWS (KIH63)
US Ma rshals
US Ma rshals
Army Corp o f En gineers
Border Patro l
FB I
FB I
FBI
C u stoms
DEA
O rl and o Sentine l
wrestling
FAA
DEA
N4EAV Repeate r
WD4 1XD Repeater
KC 4CT Repeater
N41PX Repeater
AA4 NA Repeat er

MONITORING T IMES

443.375
443.4 5
443.475
443.7
4 44.025
444.275
4 44.85
4 49.5
450.0875
450.1875
450.55
450.5875
450.65
450.75
453.0
453.05
453. 1
453.1 5
453.25
453.3
453.35
453.375
453.55
453.575
453.625
453.675
453.725
453.775
453.8
453.85
455.2125
455.65
46.6
460.025
460.05
460.075
460. 1
460.125
460. 175
460.2
460.275
460.325
460.375
460.4
460.425
460.475
460.5
460.6
460.675
4 60.7
460.725
460.75
460.825
460.875
460.0
462. 175
462.7
463.32 5
463.97 5
464.05
464.325
464.37 5
464.375
464.3875
464.425
464.425
46 4.45
464.575
464. 575
464.675
464.775
464.825
464.825
464.975
465.0
47.14
47.66
53.45

WA2KWO Repeater
WB4HZQ Repeater
AA4MM Repeater
KD4JL Repeate r
KC 4Ct Repeater
WY4A Repeater
KC4CB Repeater
WB4FSV Repealer
WES H-TV F1
WESH-TV F2
WDBOAM
Metro Tr affi c
WWKA-FM/WCPX TV
WDBOAM/WFTV-TV
Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Fire F1 ( Dispatch)
Or lando lnl'I Airport Police F2
Orlando Fire F2 (Fire ground)
Or lando Fire F3 (Admi nistration)
Or lando lnt'I Air port Police F1
Orlando Fire F4 ( Flreground)
Winter Park Police
Maitland Police
FL Turnpike F1 (Dispatch)
FL Turnpi ke F2 (Dispatch)
FL Turnpike F3 (Maintenance)
FL Turn pike F4 (Maintenance)
Orlan do lnl'I Ai r port Sec urity
Casselbe rry Police
O rlando INt 'I Airport Police F3
WCPXTV
WFTVTV
Army Reserve
Orange Co Sheriff F1 (Administration)
O rlan do Poli ce F1 (Information)
Orlando Police F6 (Cartocar)
Orlando Police F2 (West)
O range Co Sher iff F2 (West)
O range Co Sheriff (Car -to-car)
Osceola Co S11eriff
Orange Co S heriff F4 ( East)
Osceol a Co Sheri ff
Osceol a Co Sh eriff
Orlando Police F3 (East)
Orlando Police F5 (Tact)
Or ange Co Sheriff F5 (Inves ti gations)
Sanford Police
Or lando l nt'I Airport Fire/Rescue
Ozark Airlines
Piedm ont Air lines
United Airlines
Ea stern Airl ines
Della Airlines
Republic Airlin es
Sea Wor ld
Orlando Tour Lines
Orl ando tnt'I Airport Operation s
Sea World
Orl ando Transit
Com fort Inn Kissimmee
Sher aton Lakeside
Holiday Inn East
Holiday Inn Kissimmee
Sea World
Col on ial Plaza
Stars Hall of Fame
Col onial Plaza
Orlando Hyall House
Page Airways
Hyatt Orl ando Ho tel
Sea World
Altamonte Mall
Sea World
Sea World
Se a Wor ld
DOT District 2
Orang e Co School Board
N4HTU Repeater

Photos by I fnny I1n11gh11

June 1988

TGN:
by Don Moore

t's a rare day when visitors to most radio

stations get to see the director welding the
hack door on, but a t Guatemala's TGN,
there's not much directo r Wayne Berger
hasn't do ne. Mai ntaining the tra nsmitters and
studi o equipment is just a nothe r of Berger's
jobs. Anything t hat needs fixing ends up in his
shop.
"Equipme nt is born, repaired, and mee ts its
e ncl here," laughs Wayne. "That doesn't mean
we're not willing to own a nice, new piece of
commercia l equipment," he says, "it's just that
it's cheaper to buy junk from the US and
rebuild it." lf a nyone wa nts to make a donation, the station's biggest need is for a jeep for
go ing up the mountain and a new FM transmitter.
The road up to the transmitter is so bad that
the twenty mile t rip takes six hours. And a
jeep without shock absorbers doesn't make
for a comfortable ride. Sometimes he has to
go out at least o nce a week; somet imes o nce a

day. T GN's big problem right now is the FM

t ransmiuer. Every time t he power goes off,
however brieOy, Wayne has to go up the
mo untain to readjust it. "It keeps us jumping,"
he notes. And if that's not enough, after
returning he has to weld t he jeep's mufncr
back on!

it back o n. Somet imes, before he even got

back to the city, the transmitt er would shut off
again. "You can't hold listeners that way," he
adds.
Permission received from the govcrn111ent
allowed the statio n to close two weeks for
repairs. In just two days Wayne had
completely stripped a nd rebui lt the trans111 ittcr using army surplu s and other miscellaneous parts. "And it never gave me any more
t rouble," he says proudly.

A Lifetime of Electronics
Wayne Berger has a gift for electronics.
Growing up just nort h of Bnltimore,
Maryland, he started out repairing radio and
televisio n sets in grade school. Later he spe nt
time working for FM station WADC in
Lancaster, Pe nn ~)'l va n ia, during what he calls
the "early days of FM." He spent a su mmer in
G uatemala with TGN, th en return ed to the
US to auend college in Georgia.

Also using surplus parts, he built the short wave transmillers from scratch. The 3300 kHz
transmitte r is a "homemade clunker" mode
out of the very worst parts, he soys. Furthermore each transmitt er was built in a metal
clot hes cabin et -- a cheaper option than co111mercial transmitter cabinets. When new
tubes and other pa rts arc boug ht, there is a
peck ing o rder determining which transmitter
gets the best equipment. New parts go into
t he AM transmitter a nd those they repl<ice
arc put into the 3300 kHz tra nsmitt er. Fro111
3300 kHz, parts are passed down to the 5955
kHz transmitter, and fi na lly to the backup
AM transmitter.

He earned his way through school by working

as engineer fo r six small rural radio stat ions.
Every morning he wou ld wake up at 6 a.m. to
d rive around and take readings on the various
transmitte rs. His classes started at 8 a.m., so
he would d o whatever repairs were needed
a ft er school. His degree wns in t heology. Elect ronics ca me from experience.

Transmitters Rebuilt

Th e much maligned FM transmitter is, if

nothing else, a collector's it em. It is one of
o nly five made in the 1950s by a small company in La ncaster, Pennsylvania. I n 1968,
the FCC said these were unstable, and had to
be taken off the air. Deported, one ended
up at T G N where it 's "now more or less
stable," according to Wayne.

When Wnyne went to work for TGN in 1967,

the semi-commercial AM t ransmitter frequently broke d own. The statio n was o nly on
the air fo r eight to ten hou rs a day. T o make
matters worse, th e t rans111i tter would suddenly and unpredictably go off the air, forci ng
Wayne to o nce again fir e u p t he j eep and put

Aside fro m the cost, which T GN simply

cannot afford, Wayne says that commercial
f equipment doesn't take kindly to the frequent
{~electric power outages or the intense use it
gets at TGN. Co mpu ters, televisio ns, t:tpe
recorders, medica l sterilizers, and heat ing
equipment have all passed t hrough the shop.
O n a typical a fternoon an engineer from a
l local TV station may come by to test some
parts while a G uatemala n missionary from

Barillas pops in to say that t heir X-ray

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MONITOR ING T ll\IES

light, unt il they were machine-gun ned to

pieces five years ago. They "weren't out to

get us. Our sign just happened to be a nice,
lighted target," comments Wayne. During
those troubled years it was no telling what soldiers driving around town in a jeep might do.
Wayne plans to put up some back-lighted aluminum letters that he hopes will withstand
bullets. "[ l] don't want to put another target
up," he says.

Popular Antenna Site

Although the a ntenna site is difficult to reach,
it is an excellent location, possibly the best in
the country. At 7,200 feet, it overlooks
several major valleys. The FM signals can be
received as far away as Puerto Barrios on the
Caribbean coast, and even into Mexico, El
Salvador and Honduras with an ERP of just
e leven kilowatts. Once, while on top of the
antenna installing a repeater, company workers talked to people all over the country just
using a walkie-talkie. Therefore the tower is
mu ch in demand for repeaters. Several arc
mounted on it, including those of the local
ham radio club, the Guatemala City fire
department, and several commercial fi rms.
Wayne guesses that the fee charged commercial firms is below market value. The ham
club and fire depa rtment use the tower for
free.
Although not the tallest, the antenna tower is
the most ma ssive in combined width and
height in Guatemala. Constructed of heavy
steel, it weighs nine tons, and is 330 feet high.
"Shunt fed" and grounded, there is no RF in
the tower itself. Thus it can be climbed even
when the station is on the air.

Frequencies Not Chosen

As to frequency management , Wayne explains
that the governmc111 "doesn't let us choose
where we want to be in the band," but instead
assigns frequencies. Officially the main
shortwave frequency is 5955 kHz but its usefulness is limited "because Radio Canada
knocks me out on 49 meters." TGN's ten kilowalls just ca n't compete with two hundred and
fifty kilowatts, five kilohertz away.
He says that 31 meters is worse than 49.
Their assigned 31 MB frequ ency is 9505 kHz,
also used by Radio Japan. "No way l ca n
fight them," laughs Wayne. Ra ising power is
ou t of the question as Guatema lan law prohibits nongovcrnmcnt stations from using
more than 10 kilowa tts. Wayne has thought
about applying for a 60 meter band frequency,
but that band is already overpopulated.
Because of interference on the higher bands,
3300 kHz is TGN's primary SW frequency.
O n 90 meters the ir ten kilowatts is a
powerhouse, not a pipsqueak. How an d why

they ended up on
3300 kHz is probably
one of the most
bizarre cases of frequency selection in
the history of shortwave. Actually they
arc not even licensed
for 3300 kHz - it is a
substitute frequ ency
added to their 49
meter license.

Equipment is
born, repaired
and meets
its end here

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government o fficials
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didn't want to give it
to them. However,
at the time, the
Guatemala n government was pushing its
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Gcrcnt
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that Belize is really
Guatemalan terricory
a nd was trying to
make
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G uatemalans.
T he
G uatemalan "government wanted more
programming from G uatemala to be heard in Some programs are re-broadcast several limes
Belize," explains Wayne. T GN claimed they over the years. TGN has what Wayne believes
to be the largest record and tape library in
would be hea rd in Belize on 90 meters.
Central America. The collection is mostly reel
Although convinced that TGN cou ldn't do it, to reel tapes of programs made here in the
the government did assign them a 90 meter past. Included arc seasonal programs broadband frequ e ncy. The fr equency was 3300 cast annually a nd others which arc rekHz, which jusl huppcned to be Radio broadcast less often. A section for compact
Belize's shortwave frequency at the time. discs was recently added.
"For two years we battled it out and after a
'Live' English Broadcasts
long enough time, they moved."

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Programming Varies
TGN actually operates two different radio stations: the AM, which is always parallel to the
shortwave, and the FM. Wayne says that
there arc are "two audiences and they don't
like each other." The FM stat ion attracts
upper middle class listeners because its programming is the more neutral, that is, less religious, of the two. It plays a lot of classical
music, for example. The programming on the
AM station is predominately Christian Evangelist a nd includes more lowe r-middle to
lower class audiences.
Located just inside TGN's front ent rance,
both stations have separate studios and control rooms. A dditionally there a rc facilities
for playing prerecorded programs because
very li11le of the programming is done live.
Most is recorded for later re-broadcast. Up
to six hours of programming can be played
with out changing the tape.
MONITORING T lMES

Shortwave listeners in North America arc

probably most interested in the English programs from TGN. Most of these arc no1
produced locally, but rather arc transcription
programs from US ministries which pay the
station to run them. Monday th rough Saturday, E nglish is from 9:00-10:30 pm (0300-0430
UTC) and includes programs such as /Jack to
the Bible, T/11v11gh the Bible, and Insight for
Living.
On Sunday some of the English programs arc
locally produced. Sunday's schedule is
longer, from 6:45-10:00 pm (0045-0400 UTC).
Aside from an ai ring of Unshackled and a few
short featu res, most of Sunday's broadcast is a
program called Music in the Post /llfoiclian.
Since Wayne is presently the only English
announcer at the station, natu rally the honors
fall to him.

Music i11 the Post Me11'dia11 is designed to be a

live program with soft music and responses to
J1111e 1988

listener's mail. Dut Wayne's schedu le usually

makes live progra mming impossible, so he set
it up to be au toma ted. He recorded a variety
o f generic announcements such as "Well, I
hope you liked that song. Let's see what else
we have here to play. H erc's a favorite of
mine," so that the non-English speaking
technician can play an announcement after
every two o r three songs to give the
impression of a live program. "I foo l a lot of
people that way," Wayne jokes.

Announcer Andre Maldonado

Lopez checks reception
reports for RBN, located in
San Sebastian
Huehuetenango, below (see
sidebar story).

In addition to the English prog ram, there are

<1lso daily b roadcasts from 0430-0600 local
time ( 1030-1200 UTC) in the four major
In dian languages of Guatemala; Quiche,
to.lam, Cakchiquel, and Kckch i, with a different language each d<1y. Droadcasting in
native languages was begu n a few years ago.
After the 1976 earthquake ma ny rural people
whose homes were dest royed moved to the
capita l. Imm igrat ion continued through the
early 1980s as the guerilla war heated up in
some pa rts of the country. Typical woven
wall hangings made by listeners for the station 's anniversa ries demonstrate their appre-
ciatio n.

Station Funding and

a Valuable Wall
TGN is owned and operated by the Central
American Missio n o f Dallas, Texas, also
called CAM Internat io nal. It is only a small
pan of CAM. The missio n directory lists 285
couples working with CAM, but only two are
assigned to T GN, notes Wayne. The station
is funded fr om several sources. About 40
percent is raised locally from offerings and
special collect ions while an additional 40 percent comes from CAJvl. The remaining 20
percent is raised by selling air time to American evangelists.
However, if mo ney ever gets really tight at
TGN, taking o ut a wall and selling it might

solve the problem. In a second story conference room (called the Sala Atitlan) one entire
wall 1s a beau tiful colorfu l landscape painting
done by a now famo us art ist. The painting of
Lake A titlan was the work of Guatemalan
a rtist Deleon Campos, who started out working at TGN in the 1950s a nd pa inting in his
spare time. Now famou s, his paintings sell
for hundreds of dollars. Campos estima tes
TGN's painted wall is worth $30,000.

Another interesting room in the TGN building is the recital ha ll, with a baby grand piano.
Students from a nearby music school practice
on it and in exchange help record music fo r
different programs. It was originally set up
for live radio broadcasts or to record TV programs. T GN used to make TV programs
and then buy time on local TV stations, but
the practice was discontinued due to its high
cost. In the adjoining control room, Wayne
points to the console which he built in 1967.
"Haven't even changed a fuse in it," he
re marks.

Writing to TGN

Gonzalo Lopez Ramirez showing

RBN tape library to the author.
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June 1988

TGN 's sho rtwave out let is the easiest way to

verify Guatemala. The station receives

MON ITORIN G T IMES

about 4,000 tellers a month, mai nly from listeners in Guatemala and neighboring countries. The mailing list of local listeners'
addresses is computerized. Actual SWL/DX
repo rts numbe r abou t 80-90 a month.
Wayne checks the accu racy of every report
and notes t hat TGN is probably one of the
few radio stat io ns th at st ill do. Each correct
repo rt is answered with a QSL card, and if the
report can't be verified Wayne writes to tell
t he reporter why. So metimes angry hobbyists write back compl ain ing abou t t heir
unverified report. Wayne then responds
with a QSL card wit h "SAMP LE" written
across it and explains that if he receives a correct report he' ll send a real QSL.
The QSL card, which pictures a Quetzal bird-the national symbol of Guatemala-- has been
used for years. However, it seems every new
batch that comes back from the printers looks
a little fainter and sloppier, notes Wayne.
Present ly TGN is also sending small pennants
to DXc rs. If writing, DXers should include
two IRCs or a US dolla r to pay for retu rn postage. Their address is: T GN, Radio Cu lt ural,
Apartado 601, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

The Other Evangelist Stations

Since Lora n left, the station has b een run by the Canjobel
Evangelist church. Descendents of the Mayas, the Canjobcls arc
one of the approximately twenty smaller tribes in Guatemala. Radio
Maya's programs arc mainly in Canjobel, but some programs in other
regional languages arc broadcast as well. Radio Maya uses 3325
kHz with one kilowatt during morning and evening hours, and 2.160
A New Station with a Long History
kHz with 250 kilowatts in the mornings only. While 3325 kHz is
Radio Buenas Nuevas, 4800 kHz, which began broadcasting July reported regularly in No rth America, reports of2360 kHz arc few and
25, 1987, is the newest of the two. It is located in San Sebastian far between, although it was heard more frequently in the early 1970s.
Located in northern Huchuctcnango department, Barillas is in
Huehuetenango, about thirty kilometers west of the departmental
capital of Huehuetcnango in western Guatemala. Missionary Bob one of the most remote a reas of Guatemala. Maps show it as being
Rice and his wife, Donna, moved there in December to take charge of at the very end of the road going into that region. Alth ough only 120
the local mission complex on behalf of the Central American Mission. kilometers from Huchuetenango, the road is so bad that the trip to
Radio Buenas Nuevas may be new, but the station has a long Barillas takes twelve hours by fourwheel drive jeep or eighteen hours
history. It started out more than twenty years ago as a recording by local bus. There arc stations located in places harder to reach
st udio for Mam language programs on TGN and Radio Maya de overland, e.g. Puerto Lempira, Honduras, but those places have
Barillas. Descendents of the Mayas, the Mams are one of regularly scheduled air service.
Guatemala's four main Indian groups. Five years ago the fglesia
Evangelica Nacional Mam (the Mam Evangelist Church) decided 10 QRM from 'l Love Lucy'
A lthough out of the way, cable television with WTBS a nd other
apply for a station license because they believe radio broadcasting is a
successful method of cvangelization. With only 15,000 members satellite stations from the US has a rrived in Barillas. An enterprising,
among the half-million Mam living in western Guatemala, the church wealthy individual bought a satellite dish and a large roll of coaxial
is looking for converts. After a four year wait, the license was cable to hook up a local cable system. Installi ng the system, he ran
one of his cables across the street from, and parallel 10, the Radio
granted.
Maya antenna fcedline. Now Radio Maya can be heard on local
TGN Helps Out
TVs mixing with the "I Love Lucy" reruns. The cable company and
To put the new station on the air, TGN loaned out its 250 watt some of its nonevangel ist subscribers are complaining. The end
back-up shortwave transm.ille r and helped erect a temporary dipole result is anyone's guess!
antenna on the side of a hill beh.ind the station.
Once on the air, TGN's chief engineer Wayne Berger drove to Getting QSLs
Radio Buenas Nucvas is currently well heard in North America
Oklahoma and bought a junk one kilowat t Gates transmiller.
Finding a well-used pickup truck at a bargain price, he used it to carry from 1130-1230 a nd 0030-0130. Radio Maya de Barillas is best
the transmitter south through Mexico. He made Radio Buenas heard in the mornings just after its 1030 sign-on on 3325, und can
Nuevas one of the cheapest radio stat ions in history by selling the occasionally be picked up in the evenings as well.
Both these stations verify reception reports by letter, although
pickup truck in Guatemala C ity at a large enough profit to pay for
both the transmitter and needed repair parts. After spending much Radio Bucnas Nucvas is planning to have QSL cards printed. Both
of December rebuilding the transmiucr at TGN's shop in Guatemalu stat ions are very interested in mail from overseas DXcrs, but between
City, Wayne and Bob trucked it out to San Sebastian for installation the poor local mail service and demands of day-to-day work at the
in lute January. Al the same time a new antenna tower was erected. stations it may take a follow-up or two to get a reply. Be sure to
The station is only a small part of the mission, which also includes write your report in Spanish as no one at either station speaks
u health clinic and community education projects. More than a English. Even though Bob Rice at Radio Buenas Nuevas is
dozen buildings and houses cluster around the mission's compound. American, he docs not directly work with the station and won't
Station manager lsrncl Rodas Merida and announcers Gonzalo normally see the mail.
The Spanish Language Lab, available from many shortwave
Lopez Ramirez and Andres Maldonado Lopez are the only three
employees. They work in the recording studio in one of the dealers, makes Spanish reception reports a breeze even for people
compound's smaller buildings but are planning to add a new "'live" who don't speak a word of the language. If including return postage,
studio in an adjacent building soon. The recording studio is so make it unused Guatemalan stamps because IRCs are impossible to
heavily booked with producing programs for Radio Cultural and redeem in the outlying tow11s. For addresses: Radio Buenas Nuevas,
Radio Maya that it can only be used two hours a day for Radio San . Sebastian, Huchuetenango, Huehuetcnango, Guatemala, and
Duenas Nuevas. Once the "live" studio is finished, Radio Buenas Radio Maya de Barillas, Barillas, Huehuetcnango, Guatemala, will do
the job.
Nuevas programming can be extended.
The compound is also home to seven families, including those of
the stat ion manager, the two announcers, and missionary Bob Rice. New Station Coming!
If you've already heard all these stations, Wayne Berger has
good news. A new evangelist statio n has come on the air. It is
Central America's Remotest Station
The other, smaller, Evangelist stat ion, Radio Maya de Barillas, in located in San Cristobal Verapaz near Coban (home of the Catholic
Barillas, is well established. In August, 1987, they celebrated their Church's.Radio Tczulutlan). The San Cristobal station is operated
twenty-fifth anniversary with a marathon live eighteen hour music by the Kckchi Evangelist church und except for a few announcements
broadcast. It wasn't a "drop in to say hello party." "People came in Spanish, broadcasts exclusively in Kckchi. The station is called
a nd stayed the whole time" according to Wayne Berger. Long time Radio Kekchi and transmit on 4845 kHz. The power is 5,000 watts. If
DXers may remember missionary Loran Veith of H am10ny, you hear them, drop them a line. Radio Kekchi, San Cristobal
Pennsylvania, who ran Radio Maya and issued those all-important Verapaz, Alta Vcrapaz, Guatemala, is probably all the address
QSL cards in the early 1970s. Several years ago he moved to a job in needed since it is not a very big town!
a missionary school in Queretaro, Mexico, and from there to
missionary work in the states.

TGN is riot the only Evangelist radio stat ion in Guatema la -- it's
just the easiest to hear. The two others, while tougher to pick up, arc
ce rtainly not impossible. Neither station is actually owned by TGN
and the Central American Mission, but both are affiliated with it and
receive technical help from Wayne Berger, TGN's chief engineer.

MONITORING T IMES

J1111e 1988

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DXing Satellite Te levision

by Ken Reitz

f you're a typical monitoring enthusiast

you r rooftop bristles with UHF and VHF
antennae. You've got ampli fied, stacked Yagis
for FM and TY DX a nd you've slrung a Beverage anlenna th rough your neighborhood.
You've monitored ships in dry-dock and kids
on walkie-talkies. You've QSLed the wireless
mikes of NFL referees and all the
McDonald's drive-up windows in a tri-state
area. You figure you've heard it all. Well, not
quite.
Maybe you're ready fo r something else.
Maybe you're ready for the ultimate experience in DXing: satellite television.

Me111ion satellite television and most people

will think of HBO/Cinemax, ESPN, the
"Super Stations" and all other services found
on you r local cable TV system. What most

people don't know is that the home sa!ellitc

TV industry has its roots in the amat eu r community (A TYRO net for amateurs still meets
every Sunday afternoon at 1800 UTC on
14.309 MHz).
In the mid 1970s a ha ndful of i1inerant hams
using homebrew equipment real ized the possibility of receiving the weak microwave signals from geosiationary satelli1es used to
transmil programs from network headqua rters to cable companies across !he country.
Back then, a typical home dish sysiem featured a massive 16' solid steel dish on a fixed
mount (there was no moving these monslcrs!).
The entire feedhorn was rota!ed by a TV
antenna rotor taking 30 seconds or more 10
change polarity (a job now done by liny servo
motors sim ilar to ones used in R/C airplanes
in less than a second) and the signa l rode
thick cables to wired remote receivers which
featured click stop manual tuning kn obs.
They were called Television Receive On ly
Earth Terminals (TYRO) a nd by today's
standards those early efforts seem preuy
crude. With a price tag starting at SI0,000.00,
they certainly were expensive. 13ut it was the

ell

eh<

state of the a rt in home satellite systems.

Unsophisticated th ough it might seem today,
it did one lhing th at captured the hobbyist's
imagination: it brought in a crystal-clear pic1ure from a satellilc 23,000 miles away.

Ughtweight. Affordable Systems

Now ten years later, the state of the art system
picks up the same signal on a lightweight 10'
see-through dish which scans the sk)' on
smooth motor driven moun ts. The signal at
the feed horn is processed through smaller,
more efficienl electronic componenls and
delivered to a receiver which can tune both C
and Ku band sa1ellites (including more than a
hundred audio subcarriers in two modes of
stereo). Tu ning is by keyboard on an infrared
or UHF re mote control. Today's systems a rc
nea rly half the size and perform twice the
functions at one-fifth the price. Now that's
what you call a bargain!
Where a re the salell ites and how did they
come to be there? Unlike t he ma ny weather
and spy-type satellites in low orbit a round the
earth, telecommunications satellites arc in a
high geosynchronous orbit. This means that to
a dish on the earlh peering up into the sky,
the satellites appear to be fixed or unmoving
in !heir location.

Getting Started with

Arthur

c_

Clarke

It all started with a theory put forth in an

article in the Brilish publicat ion Wireless
Wodd in 1945 by the writer/ scientist Arthur
C. Clarke.
He specu lated t hat ir three objects were
launched int o orbit around the earth
equidistant apart and at an altitude of roughly
22,300 miles, communicat ions signals sen!
fro m any point on the globe could be relayed
to the rest of the planet. (Keep in mind that
!his idea came bcf01-e there was a capability to
launch such a n object to such a height let
alone keep it there a nd uplink and downlink
data on it' )

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A111hor's dish: 9 1/2 foot Ka11l-Tm11ics a11te1111a
ivith 75 degree LNB and l/a111111erblow 18"
act11ator. (Right) Author's STV gear (botJom to
top): U11ide11 UST-7000 Smellite Receiver
(Act11ator DC power s11pply to left); Tee/mies
AM/FM T1111er-a111p for satellite a11dio; Heil
SCl'C receiver (Pha11to111 /FI' JX Ten-es11ial
1!11c1fen:11ce jilter to 1ight); Clrm111el Master
Videociphcr fl satellite descrambler (all photos
by author)
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J1111c 1988

As a result of Clarke's prescience, the band

a round the earth into which all the
geosynchron ous satellites arc inserted is

MON ITORING TIMES

referred to today as the Clarke Belt.

There are two types of satellites in the Clarke
Belt over North America. They are known as
C band and Ku band satellites. The essential
difference between the two are that the C
band birds (as they are known colloquially)
operate in the 3.7 GHz band and the Ku birds
cover 11.7 to 12.7 GHz.
The a rea of the eart h saturated by the satellit e's beam with a signal st rong enough to be
received by a nominal TVRO installation is
called the footp1i111. In general, the C band
satellites have footprints which cover most of
North America. Ku satellites, on the other
hand, utilize a method of broadcasting called
spot beaming. In spot beaming, the microwave
beam is focused on specifica lly targeted
regio ns. The result is that w hat may be a
strong Ku signal in Canada may be totally
unrcccivable south of the border.

The WTN Billboard

is typical of
news feeds.
Below,
Brightstar Billboard's
color bars
alert stations
to an upcoming
news feed.

"""' _ _ _ _ ..........

At present there arc six Ku band birds receivable in parts of North America with relatively
few active transponders (channels). This compares to twenty-o ne C band birds with well
over a hundred active transponders. As a
result, we'll concentrate on the C band satellites in this article.

Illegal?
But a ren't home dishes illegal? And anyway,
aren't all the chann els scrambled? The answer
is "no" on both counts.
First, Congress enacted the "Cable Communications Policy A ct of 1984" which legalized
the ma nufacture, sale, distribution a nd use of
home satellite systems.
Secondly, since January, 1986, a lot of the
entertainment channels have been scrambled
(twenty-five as of t his writing). They were not
scrambled to prevent home dish-owners from
viewing them but rather to prevent home dish
owners from v iewing them for free. This is still
a controversial point and the issue of scrambling remai ns a hotly debated topic among
many dish owners.
Virtually all American programmers use the
same scrambling system which can be decoded
by the General Instruments VidcoCiphcrll
Descrambler. In fact, the hottest item now in
satellite TV dealer showroo ms, is the
Integrated Receiver D ecode rs (IRDs) . These
units have the satellit e receiver, dish actuator
( motor drive) and VidcoCiphcrll (VCII)
descrambler a ll in one unit.

So, What's Up There?

First, let's look al t he entertainment channels.
If you ignored all o f the esoteric side features
which TVRO hobbyists enjoy a nd used your
system solely for e nt ertainment, you wou ld
still get more than your money's worth. While

the average cable company in the U .S. offers

36 channels to its customers, dish owners have
ove r 100 channels o f regu lar program feeds
a nd anywhere from 50 to 100 mo re channels
of special feeds, occasional video, as well as
news and sports backhau ls.
Aside from the superior video an d au dio t o
which dish owners have become accustomed,
they have the ability to take control of what
they want to sec and when they want to sec it.
Your cable company probably does n't offer it
but with a dish you can sec such exotic fare as
A rmed Forces Radio and Television Service
(AFRTS), The Ca ribbean S upe r Station
(CSS), C-SPAN 11 , NASA Select, Galavision,
and C BC North just to name a few.

FM Subcarriers from Outer Space

Having gorged on seemingly e ndless video,
let 's examine what there is to hear start ing
with the FM subcarricrs. Uplinked wi th the
video will be several audio subcarric rs. Usu:illy, the standard frequencies for program
audio will be 6.80 and 6.20 MHz (except in the
MONITORING T IMES

case o f vcn encrypt ed audio wh ich is sent

digitally along with the v ideo).
Even with the v ideo and two chan nels of
audio there is st ill plenty of room o n the
t ran spo nder to upli nk addition al mate rial.
Therefore, common carriers ( the co mpany
t hat actually leases the tra nsponde r an d docs
all the uplinking) will o ften feed unrclntcd
audio broadcasts on diffe re nt frequencies o n
t he transponder. F or exa mple, th e Cable Jazz
Network can be fo u nd at 5.94 a nd 6.J2 tv!Hz
o n G a la'\)' 1 transponde r 11 which is the
C h ristian Broadcasting Nc lwork (CBN).
There arc two o the r unrelated audio se rvices
on that same tra nspo nde r.
Most satellite rece ive rs b uilt today have
stereo capability which means th at they have
two separate tuning co nt rols, o ne fo r each
channel of stereo. There a re also mo re than
one type o r format o f stereo used by p rogra mmers: Matrix, a nd Discreet. Fo rtunately, mo st
rece ive rs have "mo de" swit ches which allow
o ne to tune the proper stereo fo rmat. There is
a lso a mono switch sin ce ma ny broa dcasts arc

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13

shortwave version and you' ll suffer throu gh

all kind of noise, fading and interference. On
satellite, it's nawless.

Elevator Music from Space

Ever wonder where "elevator music" comes
from? Try Westar 5 transponder 18. A half
dozen ceiling speakers is all you need to
magically transform your home into a
dentist's office!

Intro fl_faphics to BBC 1

"Six-o clock' news on
G2 transponder 11
not in stereo. In addition many su bcarricrs arc
"narrowcast," which means you'll have to
~wit ch in or out your wide/ narrow audio control for proper reception.
You can monitor the FM subcarricrs through
your TV speaker but it won't be long before
you've patched your satellite receiver audio
into the "aux" input of your tuner/amp and
routing that great high fidelity stereo signal
into those tower speakers you bought. Watching a movie and listening to the audio that way
is as close to the movie theater as you can get
without paying for over-priced popcorn.

Easy to Find
All satellite TV guides list the most common
audio subcarricrs. These lists, however, may
not be complete as services come and go with
su rprising frequency and such lists may be
months old by the time it gets to you. Ju st as
with any DX situation, one simply has to do
the leg work of going from transponder to
transponder and satell ite to satellite. The
results of such DXing can be equally thrilling.
In October of last year, six new stereo services
were brought on line on Galaxy 3 transponder
11, alone.
The major radio networks (ABC, NDC, and
CDS) send their programming to affiliates via
digital audio and cann ot be tuned by home
TYRO receivers. However, CNN rad io news,
Satellite News Network, CBC radio news and
others arc available on FM subcarricrs. In
addition, Mutual Radio and National Public
Radio arc sent via Si ngle Channel Per Carrier
(SCPC) which will be discussed later.
Some of the more interest ing Thi subcarricrs
arc found on the Canadian satellit e An ik D.
Whi le many of their channels arc scrambled
(using an Oak/Orion encryption system) they
have several stereo subcarricrs on most transponders. For years, satellite dish owners have
been tuning in to CDC Radio's "Sunday
Morning," a three hour public affairs program
which was sent via shortwave to North
America and the Caribbean. Tune in the

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Jun e 1988

How about the "golden age of radio"? Eve r

wonder where it went ? It's now in outer
space. You can find the old shows
rebroadcast daily on Spaccnct l transponder
21, 6.2 monaural on a service called Yesterday USA. You can also hear th ese programs
occasionally on North America l (Satcom F'2
transponder 4, 6.2 monaural) .

The Good Stuff

Now, let's get to the good stuff. We've seen
hundreds of video channels and located over
a hundred audio subcarricrs. 13ut if you tune
to some transponders there may be no video
and yet your signal strength mete r shows a
strong signal present. You tune the aud io frequencies and there appears to be nothing on
the transponder. What gives? This probably
means that the t ranspon der is active with
some other type of transmission wh ich the
home satellite receiver is not equ ipped to pick
up.

Let's say you've set your dish on Westa r 4

transponder 3. You can shut off you r TV set
because there's no video here. Using the 70
MHz loop ou t of the back of you r receiver
attach a 75 ohm cable to your SCPC receiver's
antenna input and tune across the band. If an
On the FM subcarricrs you'll hear easy listen- sere signal is present you will hear it
ing, big band, contemporary rock, 50s and 60s through the speaker on the sere receiver
rock, country, religious, Greek, Spanish, (which ca n be something as simple as a
French, Italian, comedy and my favorit e: portable TV band radio).
CKMN from Yellowkn ife, Northwest Territories, on Anik D transponder 21, 5.4 Great! What will you hear? You may hear
monaural which plays it all.
interviews, live remote broadcasts, musical
programs for network distribution, the /11
Not all Receivers are
Touch read ing service, U.S. Nuval ObservaCreated Equal
tory's Master Clock, BBC feeds, RSA feeds,
jazz fr om Denm ark and Pacifica Radio, just
There arc a few caveats to rece1v111g good 10 name a few on this one transponder.
quality signals on the FM subcarricr frequencies. First: Not all audio sections of satellit e Un like the FM subcarricrs, SCPC is the
receivers arc created equal. Some have nar- method used by radio networks such as
rower bandwidth capabilities, easier tuning Nat ional Pu blic Radio or Mutual to broadcast
design and better audio relat ed controls. For to their affiliate stat ions. There arc a number
instance, the serious audio fan will want to of ot her smaller networks whi ch specialize in
avoid rccci,ers which have audio controls in a particular programming and feed their
difficult to access position on the receiver or affi liates (or backhaul) to the networks'
that don't have a digital audio tuning readout. center via SCPC.
There's no point in saving money on a
transmissions
come
and
go
cheaper receiver that won't give you what you These
unannounced so you may be advised to keep a
want.
log of what you find and when so thm you can
Secondly: If you arc unlu cky enough to have a find it again.
terrestrial point-to-point microwave tower
within a few miles of your dish or are near And here come the caveats. You should know
some other source of high power 4 GHz radia- that not all SCPC signals are equa l. This will
tion you will suffer terrestri al interference mea n that once again some signal s will not be
(TI). In its milder fo rms TI wi ll manifest itself listenablc while others will come in like the
as a hail of "sparklies" (little white or dark local FM powerhouse. The nature of sere
spots dancing about the screen). Or it can vir- broadcasting is such that through a process
tually wipe out the pictu re in a sort of pulsi ng known as companding. Through companding,
manner in which the picture can go from the signals of many services can be jam med
nearly perfect to nearly gone in seconds. As into a very narrow space. This makes
you might expect your audio quality will be homcbrcw tuning difficult but nothing that
most DXers a ren't used to.
similarly affected.
Not all is lost, however. There arc add-on
stereo processors which can great ly improve
you r subcarricr reception and there arc
various T l filte rs and techniques of site
insta llat ion which will help reduce interference.

MONITORING T IM ES

O ne of th e more crit ical links in your SCPC

hook-up wi ll be l he satelli te system's
downconvertcr. In SCPC reception we're
tryi ng to do techn ica l things which the designers of your electron ic components never envisioned. SCPC reception requires stability and
so the best quality downconvcrtcr is recommended. Otherwise you will end up constantly

adjusting the tuning on the

sere

receiver.

Filtering Power is Critical

Perhaps the most critical problem you may
face is inadequate filtering in your satellite
receiver's power supply. If not properly filtered you will have a constant hum in the
audio a long with your SCPC signal. It will
drive you to distraction. It's just another
reason to stay with the top quality components.
On the shortwave bands, listeners quickly
become aware of strange noises that sou nd
like burbling brooks on high speed or
machines run amuck. The seasoned SWLer
easily recognizes those sounds as radiotelctype {RTTY), the "Russian Woodpecker",
or simply local AC line noise. The vets know
to hook up the ir RTTY-rcadcrs, fax machines
or computers and sit back to "read the mail"
when they encounter these noises.
While data transmissions abound on the satellit es they do not make themselves quite as
obvious. Our study of SCPC signals have
shown us exactly tha t.
Sometimes we'll run across a transponder
which has no video but the signal strength
meter is pegged and the audio sounds like
hundreds of hams on SSB all trying to make
the same contact. What we have here arc telephone calls, up to a thousand of them on one
transponder (one side of the conversation
only).
O ccasionally we'll tune the '"blank channel"
wit h the sere receiver and come across a
bui.z saw-like sound which arc many RTTY
signals crammed into one spot. You've heard
of narrowcasting? Well, this has got to be the
limit.

be introduced soon, called Infocipher. It 's

from the same company which makes the
Videociphcr II. Reportedly, the Infocipher
will read a data stream sent via any VCII
scrambled satellite channel. By using General
Instruments-produced software for the consumer's own personal comput er, one will have
a substantia l amount of text available, inclu ding daily newspapers from around the world.
The last two years have seen extraordinary
changes in the world of home satellite television. Many new video channels and quite a
few new a udio services have come on line and
technological advances have provided consumers with higher quality products at sign ificantly reduced prices.
But there has been a downside as well. The
advent of scrambling dealt a crushing blow to
the fledgling home dish industry forcing thousands of dealers to go out of business and
causing tens of thousands of dish owners to be
"orphaned". Indeed, even a few equipment
manufacturers have gone under. It doesn't
take much to imagine the frustration of consumers who own systems built by companies
no longer in business and installe d by a dealer
who is no longer around.
What this tells us is that after the first ten
years of satellite television, the industry is st ill
in its infancy. And if there is any certainty
here it is that there will be big changes happening all the time. So, keep your
downconverter warm and stay tun ed!

Sources:
There are many books a nd p eriodica ls on the
subject of satelli te television. However,
in for ma tion on the subject changes almost
daily. Therefore books (with few exceptions)

become out of date quickly and periodicals

will be current on ly for a period of a few
weeks. If you have a dish the best source for
cu rrent information is found on the birds. Try:
KSAT on W4 transponder 16 6.2 narrow
M-F 7-12 p.m. ET
America 1 on F2 transponder 4 6.2 912 p.m. ET
The SJ...-y Store on Sl transponder 1
V ideo Tuesdays 9-12 Et (The Si..-y Store features techn ical topics and sells new and used
TYRO gear.)
Recent news and information in the form of
periodicals can be found in srv magazine (a
monthly) and Satellite Times (a bi-monthly).
Both are from Triple D Pu blications, P.O.
Box 2384 Shelby, NC 28150-2384. Triple D
Publications also have the STV Ilookstore
which is a broad collection of satellite
television related books.
Keep in mind that this is not intended as a
complete list a nd that there are many ot her
sources of informat ion on the subject. These
are just a few to get you started.
Sources used in writing this article include:

Tire Home Satellite TV Book (H ow to

put the world in your back yard) by Anthony
T. Easton. 381 pages, 1982 Perigrcc Books.
The Hidden Signals 0 11 Satellite
Television by Thomas P. Harrington W80MV
and Bob Cooper, J r. VPSD. 179 pages, 1984
Universal Electronics Inc.
Tire Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association of Ameiica (SilCA). A
trade and lobbying organizat ion . 300 N
Washington Street, Suite 208, Alexandria, VA
22314.
I

In addition there arc great numbers of specialty data transmissions using esoteric systems specifically designed for certain customers such as stock and commodity brokers.
These feeds are data on ly and use little
eighteen inch dishes for reception.
There is another type of data signal which is
promoted to cable and home dish owners.
That is videotext. The signa ls arc sent via the
Vertical Blanking Interval (VBI) of a few
cable satellite delivered channels such as
WTBS, WGN and the D iscovery Channe l.
Stand-alone videotext receivers a re available
for sale and the services which arc advertiser
support ed arc free. These services, such as
Elcctra(fcmpo text a nd ln fotcxt/DataVision,
have up-to-the-minute news, sports, and features which the user "pages" through using an
infra-red remote control unit.

Coming Up
On the horizon is a new text source which will

Dish farm for WVIR-TV Channel 29, Charlottesville, Virginia, shows a

variety of C and Ku band, point-to point microwave and data receive
only dishes.
MON ITORING TIMES

June 1988

15

The Hobby and the People

DXING IN THE

USSR:

An in timate look at the state of the hobby in Russia

by Soviet DXer, Igor Sannikov.

by Igor Sannikov

g rams t o us in Russian and

other languages spoke n in the
Soviet Uni o n. Not all of them
have been j ammed in the past,
and only a very few -- namely,
Radio Liberty and Kol Israel
(p a rtially, also Deutsche Welle)
-- arc still jammed now. Anyway,
it's possible to receive Russia n
la ng uage
broadcasts
fr o m
abroad around the clock.

ight now, we a re in a
period or rather low sunspot act iv ity. And it doesn't
seem to be in c reasing all that
rapidly. Wh at does show a more
d ramat ic change, however, is
activi ty or a diffe rent kind .
Extensive steps are being taken
to improve relations between
the two great nations or the
world: the Soviet Union and the
United States. Our leaders
shake hands, exchange smiles
and -- what is most important -cement deeds a imed at reaching
global peace and understa nding
between
all
nations. Why
shou ldn't we, common folks, do
th e sa me?

Igor Sannikov is a 26 year old teacher of English at th e Kiro v

Polytechnical Institute. A DXer si11ce 1975, he is a 111e111i>er of the
Soviet DX Club, Radio Budapest SW Club a11d th e DSIVCI. !le
cwrently lives i11 Novoviatsk.

I guess th at everyone knows

th a t the best way to start a
friendship -- o r at least not to be a liens -- is
to lea rn more about each other, and learn
the truth, not the biased stereotypes that
jou rn a lists in both countries are so used to.
That's why, b e ing well aware of American's
current interest towards everything concerning this country a nd hoping to make a
modest contribution to the policy of
"glastnost," I am very happy to a cquaint
you with the Russians -- as well as
Ukrain ia ns,
Lithuanians,
and
representatives of o ther nationa lities of the
USSR -- who share the same hobby as
many Mo11itori11g Times readers: DXing.

proper. If we want t o talk o f common

world ba nd radio listen ers, the number
should be much greater.
Quite a lot of people here h ave shortwave
radi os (es timated 162,000,000 sets, of them
only a comparitively small percentage lack
SW coverage). That's because shortwave,
especially the 75 and 60 meter Tropical
Bands, is widely used for domestic broadcasting in the more scarcely populated
areas, like Siberia and K azak hstan.

An Obscure Hobby

On the other hand, the Soviet Uni o n has a

well-developed system of cable radio,
reaching even the most rem ote villages. So,
in truth, there's no real reaso n to buy a
world band radio unless one is a hiking
ent husias t or living in a fore s t warden's
hut.

We DXers in the Soviet Union are not so

numerous as might be s upposed. There are
less than a hundred e nthusiasts known to
me, plus an obscure number of unknown
beginners. But we arc talking about DXers

All of thi s makes me think that shortwave

radios are used main ly for tunin g in foreign
broadcasters; for listening to "the other
side of a s tory." There a rc several very
powerfu l trans mitters that broadcast pro-

This is a story about Soviet DXers related

by jus t one of them. And it may well be the
firs t t o be published in North America.

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MONITORING TIMES

Since listening to Western programs is not prohibited b y any

Soviet law -- contrary to what is
sometimes a lleged in the West -t hey have a large a udience. It is
a pity, however, that major
Western
broadcas ters
still
prefer to program "dissident"type news and comments on
Soviet politics rather than
sto ri es of life in their own country.

Most of the common World Band radio listeners haven't got the least idea of DXing
as a hobby. This is mainly due to the l<ick
of any releva nt informa tion in our mass
media.
It was only recently, for example, that local
newspa pers in Lithuan ia and Latvia published anything at all on the hobby. And
even if an o rdinary listener happen s to
learn about it by stumbling across a broadca st of Sweden Calling DXers (the only
DX program currently broadcast in Russian), he may not know foreign languages
well e n o ugh to take the trouble of identifying various stat ions.
He may <i lso not feel much like rummaging
through t he sea of whistles, ch irps and
other noises. Those who find pleasure in
the latter, however, may already be members of clubs belonging to th e Radio Sport
Federation
of the
USSR
(AURU
member), which recogn izes nothing but
amateur radio a nd which is more or less
widely publicized.

""

Profile of a Soviet DXer

So, t hese arc t he p ossib le reaso n s why we,
rea l DXc rs, arc so few in number. And
he re is our co ll ective p o rt ra it : Age: fr o m
12 t o 60 bu t mainly b etwee n 2 2 a nd 35. Sex:
ma le, excep t for two you ng ladi es known.
occupation: s t u d e nts, eng ineers. workers,
cle rks, o r teachers; ve ry few arc experts in
foreign languages. Strange at it might
seem, I do n't know a ny p e nsio ne rs a mong
us.
Most DXers in th e Sov iet Union arc single.
l\farricd people wit h fa milies don't have
t he time to prowl th e bands. Th ere a rc, of
cou rse, a few. DXc rs, too, live ch ie fl y in
the European part o f t he USSR, esp ecially
l\foscow, Le n ingrad , Lithu a nia and the
Ukrai ne. Th e re arc at least two livi ng in
K aza kh stan an d n o thing ce rtain a b o ut a nybody living in Sibe ria of t h e fa r east. Interests ap a rt fro m D X ing inclu de everything
fr o m s t a m p co ll ectin g to playing g ui t a r in a
rock ba nd, w riting verses o r ma k ing comp u t er p rogra ms .
As fo r ou r interest s in D X ing it self, these
arc main ly world band. T hose w ho have
put in some tim e with t he hobby a nd who
have good com m u n icatio ns receivers with
su fficient an t enna fac ilities a re crazy about
the Trop ical Ilands -- w h ich can b e p ick ed
up even with a portab le. Ot her spheres of
in terest incl ude MW /LW, u t ilities, cla ndcst incs, Fl\! a n d TV. T hat is, we have no
specia lizat ion a mong us, tho ug h so me
DXcrs may be mo re successful in t his or
that fiel d .
Fo r in sta nce, I kno w a g uy in Li thu ania
w h o got q ui t e a number of QSL s from
E u ropea n T V s tatio ns, and the re's an
officia l T V DXe r's club sai d to b e fu n ctio ning in Riga, Latv ia . Two Sov ie t D Xers
have even made a con tinu o usly u pdat ed
C l<1 n dcsti nes S ta t io n Survey o f t he ir own.
And an owner o f a personal com pu t er in
th e Uk raine is keenly inte rested in programs t h at can be app lied t o D Xing. Satellite TV a n d V H F/U H F co mmunications
monitoring is simply not possib le h ere d ue
to t he abse nce of industria lly-m a d e receive rs.

Equipment
Now, a few wo rds about o ur "hardware."
As has already been m e nti o ned, th ere a rc
mill ions of shortwave sets in t his count ry.
T h e o lder d o mesti c m o d els are so met imes
still in u se an d ope rate on tubes a nd are

A cartoon from the

Leningrad OX bulletin,
"Exotic OX News, " by a Soviet OXer.
pa rt s of competent syste ms. A ll receivers
man ufact ured h ere nowad ays, however, are
transistor and JC portables price d at the
the equ iva lent of USS100 t o 800. O r
they're just tuners within stati onary stereo
systems. There is eve n a s hortwave model
dcsioncd
for the ca r. A ll, h owever, have
0
two principal drawbacks: the a nalogue
scale and the limited nu m ber of sh o rtwave
ba n ds. There arc no 120, 90, 19, 16 o r 13
meter bands, though th e lat t er th ree
app ea r on expo rt mode ls w hich ca n somct irn cs b e bough t on t h e hom e ma rket.
Th ere's s im p ly not a single model d esigne d
fo r DX in g.
So we t ry to get "wri tte n-o ff' pro fessio nal
receivers like t he o ld "Kazakh sta n" or the
curren t "Ishim, used fo r cab le radio n e tworks. T hey have more con t in u o us w orld
band CO\"eragc an d higher sensitiv ity,
thoug h still very vague ana logue dials.
Much better and mo re d ifficul t t o obta in
arc the rube operated "Volna-M " a nd R 250(M). The former is a commu nica ti ons
receiver u se d in navigation a n d the la tter is
an out-of-date military commun icat io ns
set. The R -250(M), thoug h rathe r bu lky, is
co nsidered number o ne among t he Soviet
DXers s ince its extre me sensit ivity allows
very fin e tuning-- up to 1/ 10 o f a Hertz on
sh o rtwave -- and t he receptio n o f SSB sigMONITO RING T IM ES

nals. It is said to o u tperfo r m ma ny foreign

po rt ab les that can be occasionally found in
seco n d-ha nd
s h ops. Japanese radioreco rders arc more accessible, and t hey
o ft e n com p ensate for the lack of h igher
shortwave b ands in ordinary Soviet receivers.
Na turally, t he best results in DXing arc
achieved by the lucky owners of R -250(M)
o r Volna-M. A n d these arc somet imes
fantas tic resu lts: A DXcr in Len ingrad
using a R-250M an d a 400 meter rho m bic
ante nn a ma n aged to get the Fal kland
Is la nds an d Vanu a t u o n th e Tropical
Ba n ds. So me minor Sout h Pacifi c stat ions
h ave b e en h ea rd in Moscow. T h is is to say
n oth ing of the n u merous Lati n American
a n d In do nesia n transm itters tha t can be
received even wi th a portable.
As fo r the genera l DX scene here, it varies
g reat ly because of th e vast territ ory of o ur
cou n t ry. W h ile in V ladivostok, for example, we can t u ne t o Hawai i. In Kazakhsta n,
South Ko rean stations arc received on AM
and Len ingrad DXcrs have no p roblem listening t o Europ ean pirates. I t shou ld be
men tioned that t he U.S. has become
"nea rer" in recen t years wi t h the adven t of
it s com mercia l s h o rtwave stat ions. These,
too, are h ea rd in the Soviet U nion.

June 1988

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The masthead of the current issue of the Soviet DX magazine, Exotic

DX News, published by DX Circ le of Leningrad.

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DXCL

nPMSET.,

DXMC T~I!

DXing is still conside red a n individual

hobby. But no one will deny the need to
excha nge observa ti ons, experiences and
idea b etween DXers. So we do, corresponding with each ot he r a nd with foreign DXcrs. We also meet occasiona lly
(but not at organized co nventions or DX
camps so far). And ma ny Sovie t DXers
belong to clubs.

The masthead of one of the Soviet

DX bulletins of the 1970s. Translated from Russian the title reads,
"Hello DXers!"

The Radio Budapest sho rtwave club is the

most popu lar of the forei gn ones. It boasts
about o ne hundred members fr om the
USSR. Many are mem bers of other DX
clubs support ed by sta tions in socia list
countries -- including our own Radio Kiev
DX Club and R ad io Ta ll in D X Club. But
problems in being able to pay -- including
the un ava ilab ility of Internatio nal Reply
Coupons (once upon a ti me, someone
reporte d seeing a few sold a t t he internationa l post office in Moscow) -- prevents
us from j oining any self-su pporting foreign
clubs. Only th e famou s DSWC I ca n boast
o f having a couple of members from the
Soviet Union!

N ow we a rc experiencing a new wave of

DX activity roused by t he "pe restroika ."
So, back in the summer of last year, a guy
from Donetsk, the Ukra ine, fou nded t he
"Soviet DX Club." T oday, it has abou t
thirty members, pu bl ishes "World DX
News" bulletin (in R ussia n) and has
already arranged a campa ign of colle ctive
reporting to Radio Budapest. There's also
anoth e r group of Soviet D Xers -- the DXCircle in Leningrad (and they a re in para lle l membe rs of th e SDXC) w ho p ublish
their bulletin, "Exot ic DX News." You can
guess how rea lly exotic the DX is, if I tell
you that the editor is the one w ho heard
Va nuatu and the F alklands!

We do have o ur own club, t hough. Its

predecessor was th e "Baltika DX Club,
which ope rat e d from June of 1974 unti l
March of 1979. The re was m uch publicity
about it and it even accept ed a member
from the States. Eventu a lly, it di sbanded
because of the passiven ess o f its members.
Apart from th at club and its bulletin, "DXEcho," a number o f primitive, home-made

We are rathe r opti mistic about the development of DXing hobby in this country,
especi a lly now, in t he peri od of renova tion
of genuine public activities -- all despite
the fact that the Rad io Sport F ederat ion of
the USSR, nor ot her bodies, sti ll haven't
recogn ized DX ing for t he exci ting hobby it
is.

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distributed among D Xers in the USSR .

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with Style

by Bob Kay
Developing a scanning "style" does
not imply th at the scanner buff must
invest thousands of dollars in "state
of the a rt" equ ipm ent. A twenty year
old crystal controlled Bearcat, when
used wisely,
can become an
"electronic can opener", capable of
lifting the commu nications "lid" off . . . . .
you r community. Likewise, a novice, sitting
behind an exp ensive ICOM-7000, is still a set, I loaned him a Bearcat XLT with 40
programmed frequ e ncies lo monitor and
novice.
record. This practice has proven t o be a
Th ere a rc, however, a few tricks of the reliable way to ide nt ify unknown frequentrade th at, if a pplied, can even make the old cies and to promote the hobby of scanning.
tim e rs "gree n with envy." Here are a few of
To obtain volunteers, visit a senior citize n' s
my personal favorites.
center. You may even want to consider
asking
the Director of the center for
Scanning Blindfolded
permission t o give a "scanning demonstraTurn on your scanner and listen to a tion."

L '

ra ndom sa mpling of at least five local

services. Th ey can be police, fire, utility
companies or any combination of your
choosi ng. Now cl ose your eyes and each
time the squelch breaks, immediately identify the sou rce of the transmission by the
st rength o f the signal and by the sound of
l he ca rrie r.
Ca n't do il ? Th en you 're not spending
enough time enj oying the hobby of scanning. Ded icated scanne r buffs will experience littl e difficulty in rapidly IDing the
more common transmissions blindfolded!

Catching the Un/Ds

When a newly discovered frequency defies
positive identification, th e scanner could be
left unaucnded and the transmission
reco rded by a voice activated recorder. This
can, of course, cause so me problems during
the current thun derstorm season if you've
got an out side a nt e nna . So why not ask a
retired seni or citizen to personally monitor
and record the act ion ?
A se nior citizen friend of mine was introdu ced to sca nning when I gave him an old
crystal co ntrolled Bearcat. After his enthusiasm grew beyond the limitat ions of such a

20

June 1988

Join a Local Club

Joi~ing

a local scanning cl ub is a nother way

to improve your style. In addition 10 loca l
frequency list ings, a sca nner club is an
exciting place to meet oth er peopl e that
share the sa me interests. Most club
membe rs would be delighted lo show thei r
listening posts to a new member.
In the northeastern United Stat es the
Nonh East Scanning News, (NESN)'. 212
West Broad S treet, Paulsboro, New J ersey
08066, is a club publication that covers New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware,
Maryland, Virgin ia, Ohio, West Vir"inia
District of Co lumbia, Mai ne, Rhode Island:
Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts
a nd Connecticut.
Under the editorial direction of Les
M a ttso n, NESN has gone a step further a nd
started a two way radio service. Operating
on a business frequency between 463.00 and
464.00 MHz, the "Notification Net Work"
provides club members wit h a very handy
communications net du ring emergencies.
Members no longe r have to guess what
frequen cies a rc in use during a maj or event.

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"On the spot" re porting by fell ow

sca nner memb ers provides all th e
information necessary lo successfu lly
monitor local inte rests.
The All Ohio Scanner Club, P.O. Dox
2496, Springfield, Ohio, 45501, is
another club tha t covers Ohio
Indi a na , Michigan, Ontario, Canada'.
Kent ucky, Northwestern Pennsylva nia and
West Virginia. The club publishes a forty
page booklet six tim es a year. For more
information contact D ave Marshall, Editor,
50 Villa Road, Springfield, Ohio, 455031036.

Stretching the Day

At two o'cl ock Su nday morning, most
people are sleeping. But th e seri ous scanne r buff is listening. During this pe riod
most FM ra dio and TV stations have shut
down. Int e rference from other so urces is
also at a minimum. Of particular interest
during this time period is the monitoring of
surve illan ce tra nsmitters. These operations
arc used by law en fo rceme nt , governm ent ,
industrial spying and priva te det ectives.
The most popul ar bands for such transmissions arc 88- 115 MHz, 30-50 MHz and 150174 MHz.
Searching for new frequen cies is a time
consuming venture. To lean the odds in
your favor, step through the band one
megahertz at a t ime. For example, when
searching for new frequencies between 410
a nd 420 MH z (Federal Ba nd), begin at 410
MHz and slop at 411 MHz. Devote an
e ntire day or at least a n evening to each of
the remaining steps.
As you can sec, nine days wi ll be requi red
to sea rch the entire federa l band. At first
glance, th at may seem like a n overly drawnoul procedure. Actually, il is the minimum
amount of lime required t o produce reliable rcsu ll s. Individuals that monitor
frequencies on a pro fessional basis, are
often assigned to a one mega hertz step for
months!

Scanning with style does not mean

spending thousands on equipment.
Fanny Scanning

are listening to a Walkman and not to the

entire community!

A rece nt nationwide survey discovered that

98% of America ns arc overwe ight. Do you
want to shed a few pounds while still enjoying the hobby of scann ing? Then try "Fanny
Scanning."
Here's how to do it: take a small note p ad
and pencil and go fo r a walk around the
block! Along the way, jot down the locations of any communications antennas that
can be seen. Gradually increase the
distan ce of your walk until every commercial antenna within a three mile rad ius of
your home has been logged int o you r notes.
After several weeks, your antenna sites will
prob ably include fuel oil delivery trucks,
utility repair vehicles, taxi cabs, hosp itals,
schoo ls and local merchants.

lsn 't it ironic -- satellite dishes

legally intercept pay TV signals
for free. Yet the scanner buff,
merely by monitoring a cellular
conversation, is breaking the law.
Using Your Equipment
Very few scanner owners use an attenuator.
Attenuators are rated according to how
ma ny d])'s of signal st rengt h they li mit. To
the novice, an attenuator seems to be
defeating the need to e rect a high gain
antenna with low loss cable. But the attenuator will often reduce incoming noise and
may even help to e liminate out of band
signals. Experimenting with several different dB ratings will help determine which
attenuato r is the best for you r particular
monitoring needs.

Once the antenna site is found, try to

discover the operating frequency by
contacting you r scanner club or through
sca nne r publications. If the frequency
remains evasive, don't be bashful. Politely
walk into the establishment and ask for
their operating frequency. If your inquiry is
not appreciated, simply excuse yourself and
search for the frequency on yo ur scanner or
use a frequency counter.
After logging all the a ntenna sites within a
three mile radius, expand your coverage to
four or five miles. Don't forget to take your
hand held unit a long with a set of head
phones. Most people will just think th at you

During your walks, don't neglect those odd

shaped a nte nnas that arc towering over the
homes of ham radio operators. Most hams
wou ld welcome your visit and will proudly
show off their "Shack." In fact, they may
even be able t o supply some additional
frequencies to mo nitor.
When you do lose a few pounds by "Fanny
Scanning", drop me a note stating the
amount of weight you lost and I'll send you
a small, but very handy scanning aid.

Still Want to Scan? Then Write!

Satellite TV owners have successfu lly
lobbied a nd won victo ries that provided
them free access to the airwaves. On the
other hand, scanner owners did little to
stop the passage of the Electronics
Communication Privacy Act of 1986. As a
resu lt, satellite dishes that intercept pay TV
signals a re perfectly legal. But the scan ner
hobbyist, by simply monit oring a cellula r
car phone conversation, is breaking the law.
If you enjoy the hobby of scanning, develop
a writing style as well as a scanning style.
Write your congressman, your senat or or
write directly to the President -- but write.
Otherwise, the corporate pen that placed a
"lid" on cellular monitoring, may also try to
take away you r "electron ic can opene r."

'/

Is your can opener

more important than
your scanner?

'

Oy installing a si mple A/B switch, the

allenuator can be switched in and out of the
an tenna line as needed. Best of all,
a ttenuat ors can be purchased from Radio
Shack for just a couple of bucks.

-
MONITORING TIMES

J1111e 1988

21

A Monitoring Times Exclusive!

New Four-Digit Number Site Found

''And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free."
John, VIII: 32

by Garganta La Profunda
It has been decades since the first shortwave
Hstener, listening sleepily to his radio late at
night, was puzzled awake by one of those
mysterious transmissions, now commonly
known as "numbers" or "spy" stations.
For some, the eerie, mechanical female
voice that speaks strings of seemingly meaningless numbers, has become a nightly companion. Like the smile of an attractive woman
_across the barroom floor, the transmission
beckons seductively but when approached,
demurs. It is maddening.
These broadcasts can be found all over the
shortwave bands. Like the smiling woman in
the bar, they make no effort to hide themselves. Numbers stations have powerful transmitters. Turn your back for a minute, however, and they arc gone, faded into the low
lights and smokey atmosphere.
"I would say," says well-known 'numbers'
authority Havana Moon in his book, Uno,
Dos, Cuatro, "that for one not to hear this
'semi-bionic' femme is just about impossible.
And she has been [at it] for at least a quarter
of a century. You'll have to admit that a
quarter of a..century is a long time in the life of
a mystery...
Slowly, ever-so-slowly, however, the
Spanish-speaking lady with the mechanical
voice has been giving up her secrets. Back in
1984, Monitoring Times revealed for the first
time that at least one of these stations was
based in the United States. That transmitter,
broadcasting four-digit numbe rs in Spanish,
.was discover_e d in Warrenton, Virginia. (See
also Monitoring Times, May, 1988, "Utility
World.")
Now Monitoring Times reveals the location
of yet another four-digit, Spanish language
numbers station: the state of Florida.
The exact location of this 2100 UTC/4670
kHz number station is 26 degrees, 56 minutes
north and 80 degrees 5 minutes west, just to
the south of Jupiter Inlet. An aerial examination of the site revealed three circular HF
antennas forming a triangle.
Due to the methods used, specific information on how this new numbers station was discovered cannot be disclosed. However, rest
assured that the disclosure comes from a very
reHable, highly-placed sorce. The information has been cross-checked and proven accurate and conclusive.
A Federal Connection
A microwave receiving antenna was also
noted and transmissions in the 2 GHz range
aimed at this antenna were monitored coming
from a passive repeater to the south ofJupiter

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lune 1988

Inlet. These transmissions were eventually

traced further south to their source atop the
Federal Building in Miami, Florida.
Transmissions on this microwave link
appeared LO be data that our MT source says is
then decoded at the numbers stat ion site and
synthesized into the voice transmissions for
broadcast.
This number station site reportedly is
owned and leased Lo the federa l government
by RCA communications. RCA also owns and
leases to the federa l government the HF
transmitter communication co mplex at
Malaba r, Florida, long believed to be another
site for numbers transmissions.
The Spy Connection
In a related development, another
anonymous source has forwarded to MT an
Italia n-Lo-English translation of a very
revealing inte rview concerning fo ur-digit
number transm issions.
In the inte rview which appeared in the
October JO, 1987, issue of the respected
Italian weekly publication Europeo, Mario
Casagrande cla imed to have spent twelve
years working as a double agent loyal LOCuba
and the United States.
Here is that portion of the interview concerning American numbers broadcast. MT
readers will find this interview very
enlight ening as to the nature of four-digit spy
number transmissions.

Q. How did the C lA remedy these difficullies

with the microdot?
A. Raphael decided that I wou ld receive radio
messages. So, in the middle of August, 1979, I
returned to Mexico City for a nother training
class on the use of the radio.
Q. What were the transmissions like?
A. We agreed on two daily transmissions at 7
PM and 8 PM. This schedule coincided with
my practice of spe nding a couple of hours
working in my stu dy just before di nner. The
CIA was very concerned that I did nothing to
alter my daily r outin e to e ncourage curiosity
and suspicion. The message was transmitted
in code on two different shortwave
frequen cies. The radio that I used was a Sony
bought in an electronic appliance store in
Panama, which the CIA suggested to me.
Q. Whal kind of code system was used?
A. Eve ry message was sent with the simulated
fe male voice known to us as Cynthia from
Langley. It bega n with ten minutes of
identificat ion, during which a series of three
digit numbers was transmitted. If the middle
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digit was even, it meant that a message would

follow. When they didn't have anything to_tell
me, that digit would be odd. In this case, the
message that followed was unintelligible. In
any case the transmission took place every
day.
Q. How did you decipher it?
A. The message itself consisted of a series of
four digit numbers. Normally, there were no
more than 250 numbers, the equivalent of
three pages of a big pad of graph paper. Once
the numbers were transcribed, I took a tiny
pad full of numbers, that had been given to me
by the CIA, to decipher the radio messages.
Thfa also consisted of a series of four digit
numbers. There were about 3000 numbers, so
that it could last for months and months of
transmissions.
To decipher the message, I had to subtract
the numbers received by the radio from those
written on the tiny pad. The results were
numbers between 1 and 26, equalling the
number ofletters of the English alphabet. The
number I corresponded to the letter "A", 2 to
"B" and so on. This system is absolutely
unbreakable by anyone without the tiny pad,
and every message is decipherable only by the
pad of the agent to whom it is sent. In the case
that the pad should fall into the hand of the
enemy, it is possible to decipher messages for
a limited pe riod of time only.
Q. What were the messages about?
A. They were requests for information, or
operational messages, with wh ich meetings in
Havana were set up, or plans for trips abroad.
Q. With what frequency were the messages
sent?
A. Considering that I was often abroad, I think
that in Cuba l was receiving about . 35
messages each year.
Q. When you travelled, what happened?
A. Transmissions were sent on normal
frequ encies, and therefore the CIA knew they
were intercepted by the Cuban counterespionage. To avoid any connection to my
presence in Cuba, during my trips they would
interrupt the tra nsmissions a few weeks
earlier, or they wou ld continue even when I
wasn't there.
There is no short age of speculation as to
the purpose of the numbers transmissions:
instructions for spies in the fie ld (both theirs
and ours), disinformation by the CIA, a HF
back-up for the Washington-Moscow hot line
(bot h started at about the same time),
international banking infomrntion, a beacon
for extraterrestrials. Or nothing.

MT Reviews:

the Halfwave Dog.-Pull Antenna

by R. F. Burns
It all started with an atom ic fir cbal l--one of
those hu ge red j awbreaker ca ndies filled
with cinnamon, the kind I hadn't seen s ince
I was a kid.
In th e middle of my Sat urday morning
e rrands, I saw a jar of atomic fir eballs in the
drugstore. I bought a couple an d headed
down the street.
A s soon as I popped one in my mouth , the
snap of the cinn amon b rou ght back my
earliest memories of radio: DXing AM
stations a fter being sent to bed. The checkstretch ing atomic fireball was the candy of
choice for my under-the-covers operations.
The next item on my e rrands list was wire
from the hardware fo r a halfwave dipol e.
"Ah'd lahk sum wa hr fer a heffwave
dugp ull," I sa id to the clerk in the hardwa re,
my mouth distorted by the gigantic sphe re
of confectionary.
The clerk blinked a nd asked me t o repeat
myself. W ith effort, I shifted the atomic
fir eball to the other cheek a n d tried aga in,
ca refully. "A h'd like some wah-er fer a halfwave dog-pu ll," I said, pointing to a ha nk of
lightweight bell wire.
The clerk nodded and disappea red . He
reappeared with a plast ic bag.
It co ntained about 75 feet of vi nyl-coated
aircraft cable, hooks, clamps, screw eyes,
a nd shock-ab sorbing sp rings. rn the middle
of the cable was a curious- looking pulley
arrangement with a down lead. (Frequency
adjustment, I thought.) Altogether, it
lo oke d like a comp lete kit for a d ipo le

strong e nough to withstand a moderate

eart hqu ake. I paid for it and left.
I can always use a little extra help putting
up an a ntenna, so when I got home, l
whist led up R alph, a n 11-year-old who lives
next door. He' s just getti ng into radio and
likes to he lp with these p rojects. He's a
nice kid, and I encourage him to ask
questions whenever he doesn't understand
something.
Sin ce slopers have been getting such good
ratings in the tests, I decided to try install
ing this a ntenna as a sloper. We attached
one e nd to a tree at ground level, the n I
climbed a neighbo ring tree to make the
st retch for the oth er end .
I had just finished attach in g the high e nd
when Ra lph sa id, "Mr. B., what's that pulley
fo r?"
I grabbed it a nd bega n to explain: "Ralph,
that's so you can slide it back a nd fo rth a nd
adj ust th e resonant frequency of th e
antc nnaWH AAAhoOOOOOoooooo!" Suddenly I fo und myself at th e low e nd of the
sloper, in the hyacinth bushes.

"This will never do,

I thought, a dog attached
to my antennar
your mother is calling you." R alph said he
didn't hear his mother, but he left anyway.
I reinstalled the anten na as a horizo ntal
dipole , hooked it to my receiver, and got
nothing but noise. I t ri ed an en cl-fed co nfigurati on and sti ll got on ly noise.
l was desperate, t rying to figure out what
had gone wrong, when suddenly the
receiver crackled to life. I spun t he dial,
Europe, Asia, Sou th America, even the
African sta tions were booming in! "What
a grea t antenna! The tropical bands a re
mine!" I cack led.
I dashed into the living roo m excla im ing to
my wife how pleased I was with the new
anten na.

"Mr. B., what docs 'WHAAAh o00000000000!' mean?" Ralph asked.

"An ten na?"

window.

"It 's a radio term that mea ns I sl ipped

because the *#@%& branch was wet," I
snarled.

f looked too. There was Spot, our beagle,

trotting happily back and forth, att ached to
the frequency adjust ment pu lley on my new
antenna!

"Mr. B ., what docs '*#@%&' mea n?"

Ra lph inqu ired.

"It means Larry Mi ller and Bob Grove run a

G -rated publicat ion, and, besides, I think

she

sa id, looking out the

"Th is wi ll never do ," I thought, "a dog

attached to my antenna!"
Th en my mind nicked back to t he scene in
the hardware store t hat morning. I had
asked fo r "some wah-er fer a halfwavc dogpull."
I just sm iled, popped anoth er atomic fir eball into my mouth , a nd went in to listen to
th e African stat ions.

Moral
A lthough atom ic fireba lls taste pretty good,
avoid th em when ordering radio gear. And
if you a re install ing an ante nn a, make sure
it is prope rly "hou nded. " I
MONITORING T IMES

l1111e 1988

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WORLD RADIO NEWS

International DX Report
Glenn Hauser
Box 1684 - MT
Enid, OK 73702

Consider yourself fortunate you live in a country where shortwave listening is a constitutional right (even though most citizens
fail to exercise it). Three depressing examples of the contrary:
Ordinary Iraqis cannot buy shortwave radios because the regime
does not want people to hear anyt hing but its carcfuUy censored
news. Also banned or controlled: foreign newspapers, magazines,
typewriters, photocopiers, cameras, binoculars (Closed Society,
Knight-R idde r News, March, via Ernie Behr, World of Radio).
Use of satellite monitoring equipment to receive foreign broadcasts has been declared illegal by thP. Nigerian government.
Information Minister Prince Tony Momoh also an nounced the
government's intention to acquire radios that would tune only
broadcasts from FRCN and state radio stations. Investigations
aimed at apprehending people who monitor foreign broadcasts have
begun (African News, April 4, via Al Quaglieri, WOR).
Radio Prague sent several people on a 'Tatra expedition" to
CLech on reception quality in the Americas. No problem in Canada;
the FBI tailed them across the U.S.; but in Guatemala they were
arrested a nd detained as spies. The evidence? A van full of hightech electronics gear, namely a Sony ICF-7600. (Sweden Calling
DXers) Whew, glad we made it through Guatemala with a DX-400;
if they reached Nicaragua, perhaps a warmer reception awaited
them.

Ascension: Another low-power, high-frequency propagation

beacon is BBC fourth harmonic 24020, on the air at 2000-2245 UTC,
including the otherwise inaudible African Alternative, Sundays
2100-2200 on 6005 kHz.
Australia: Radio Australia's new transmitter site at Brandon,
Queensland, may go on the air by the end of this month. Three 10kilowall units and a rotatable log-periodic from the recently-closed
Lyndhurst, Victoria, site have been installed at the existing 4QN
(mediumwave) facil ity, the better to serve Papua New Guinea,
Solomons. By year's end, 100 kilowatt transmitters and 2x2 curtains
(best for short hops) should be on line (Ron Place [?], Radio
Australia's Controller of Technical Services, on Co111111unicator).
Disregard the listings for VLH and VLR on page 9 of May MT; they
have been closed down. VLM and VLQ may be next.
Austria: We now confirm morning English language
broadcasts on 15320 kHz which have been ret imcd to 1130 UTC.
This includes Shmtwave Panorama, Sundays at 1134 UTC. For the
summer, evening English is on 9875 kHz at 0030 and 0430.
Belgium: Here's the new program lineup from BRT, Brussels
Calling: afternoon programs Monday through Thursday arc
repeated the next morning. News and Press Review open each
broadcast Monday through Friday. Features which fo llow: Monday;
Europe, Sports. Tuesday; The A1ts, P 0 Bru: 26. Wednesday;
Eco110111ics, Musical RoundaboUI. Thursday; No1th-Sowh,
Economics. Friday afternoon; Tourism, The A1ts. All Saturday
programs: Radio World, Music through the Ages (in Flanders).
Su nday afternoon; Fourth Community, P 0 Box 26, Cooking.
Monday morning; P 0 Ba."( 26, Cooking. Listen daily at 2100 UTC
on 9925 kHz, daily except Sunday at 2330 UTC on 9925 kHz and
1330 UTC on 15590 kHz (via Kraig Krist, VA).
Bolivia: The government is trying to move stations inside the
60 meter band. Rogildo F. Aragao suggested 4750 kHz fo r
R.C.V.U., La Voz dcl Tropico, former ly on 4450, but the engineer
fudged it to 4748.4 to avoid China. Comments on whethe r reception
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June 1988

has improved, covering at least 15 minutes, a nd including 2 IRCs

will be answered if sent to A ragao at Casilla 2250, Cochabamba. He
also reports a new stat ion, Radiocrnisoras 17 de J ulio, Huanuni, at
1130 UTC on 6326.7 kHz although it announces 6120. A nother new
one sounded like Radio Paiscauna, Cobija, at 0158 UTC on variable
4404.5; and Radio Sararenda, reactivated 4886 kHz at L130 UTC, at
least temporarily for tests (WOR).

Canada: Radio Canada In ternat ional's 15325 kHz freque ncy

is synonymous with Sad.-villc, but not this summe r. T he cast
European service at 1330-1 630, including English at 1445 UTC,
pulls a site switchcroo: 15325 is Daventry, England; 15305 is
Sackville, and unt il 1500 UTC, 15160 is Sines, Portugal. After 1630,
15325 kHz is still Sack-ville.
Newfoundla nd, which likes to be in step with India and
Afghanistan rather than the rest of Canada, is trying double-DST
this summer, UTC minus 1-1/2. This shou ld affect the schedule of
CKZU, 6160 kHz. Next fall, back to minus 3-1 / 2. (via Carlos
Coimbra, Toronto, WOR). In the meantime, WC assume enc must
now say "a sesquihour later in Newfoundland."
Ideas at 9:05 P.M. local time elsewhere in Canada: May 30,
Giving Chilclre11 1he Vote; June 1, and 8, Just Desse11s: Wo111e11 and
Food; June 13-14, East and West Gen11any Today; June 20-21, The
Bedin lllockade; J une 27, Bicycles: Wheels of Change. (CDC Radio
Guide)
Canary Islands: Aussie DXers are excited about local
programming from Tencrife, but we think it's noth ing new. Check
15365 kHz in Spanish fro m 2205 on Radio Exterior clc Espana.
China: Monito1ing Times editor Larry Miller and I can attest
that being the guests of Radio Beijing in the People's Republic of
China is a goal well worth pursuing. Your current chance is RB's
1988 competition, on the theme "China in My Mind." Essays up to
2000 words, travel notes or poetry (no length limit) mu st be posted
no later than J une 30 to English Department, Rndio Beijing,
Beijing, China . Include your name, sex, age, nationality, occupation,
country, work unit and address. Three prizes arc a 5-day tour of
Beijing, including free airfare; many lesser prizes and dragon
souvenirs for all entrants. Winn ers will be announced August 1.
A former Radio Beijing producer was the guest of a Canadian
shortwave club. He says low wages of C$30-50 a mont h lead to high
turnover in staff; waiters a nd cabbics earn more.
Typo last mont h: 9690, not 9590 via Spain at 0500. See also
MAU.
The mysterious Chinese numbe rs often heard on 8300 kHz have
also appeared on 15387, at 0716 and 1612 UTC (Bruce MacGibbon,
OR, DX-Spread).
Colombia: Radiodifusora Nacional has been quite active on
reduced carrier USB, varying 17708.65 to 17708.85 kHz (Ern ie Be hr,
ON.) Heard as ea rly as 1505, as late as 0330 UTC (Mike Harla, NJ,
both RCI Sl-VL Digest)
Costa Rica: Radio for Peace International moved its
weekday 2100-2400 UTC broadcast to 13660 kHz. Interference is
lower but as the MT propagation charts show, that band is too close
to LUF absorption. It's beamed clue north, while 7375 at 01 -04 goes
northwest. We're urging them to move up to 17, 21, or 25 MHz in
the afternoons. Transmitter powe r is soon expected to double, to 2
KW. Friends of RFP! changed to a $25 requested donation,
worldwide. Appropriately, hour-l ong speeches from the Beyond

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WORLD RADIO NEWS

War movement now air Tuesdays at 22, Wednesdays at 02. T wominute Earthwatch featu res on environme nt al topics can be heard
daily at 23 and 03.

France: A nother reorganization in E ngl ish from RFI : 12451310 to us on 15365, 17720, 21 645; to Eu rope on 9805, 11670, 15155,
15195; 16-17 on 17795, 17620, 15360, 11705, 9860; 0315-0345 to us on
9800, 11670, 11995, elsewhere on 6175, 7135, 7175, 9550, 9790,
11700, plus a bilingual DJ between 03 and 05. A French lesson
appears on the Saturday 1245 and 16 broadcasts; mailbag on
Sundays. La ti n America Notes airs Sundays after 16, Mondays 0315,
Wednesdays 1245 and 16, T hursday 0315.
Germany, West: Another phone number to add to ou r
April column: 49-221-389-4555 fo r colorful commentator on
Deutsche We lle, Lari)' Wayne. He's usually in his office until 1600
UTC (Ivan Grishin, DX Ontario).
Israel: Summe r channels for Israel R adio include 15585,
15485, 13625 and 11605 at 19; the same minus 15485, plus 12077 at
2130; 12077, 11605 a nd 9435 at 23, 00 and 01 (Bczeq)
Japan: Radio Japan's revised featu re pairs, 15 minu tes each
at 1126 and 1141 UTC on 61 20 kHz, next UTC day 0130 and 0145
UTC on 5960 kHz, both via Canada: M onday; Japan 7/avelogue,
Crosscwre11t. Tuesday; Asia Now, Let's Leam Japanese. Wednesday;
Radio Japa11 Jo11111al,Japa11 Pa11ora111a . Thursday; /11 Busi11ess,Asia11
Crornvads. Friday; 0 11e i11 a JJundred Millio11 , Let's Practice
Japanese. Satu rdays; the entire hour is ca lled Tlris Week. Sundays
arc diffe rent; 1121 JJullo [sic] A merica, UTC M ondays 01 25 DX
Co111er, both followed around :44 by Meet the People (via Bru ce
MacGibbon, WOR).
Kampuchea : After ma ny years, Phnom Penh has
reactivat ed 4907 kHz, heard at 1230 UTC in
kHz (lvfit ch Sams, KS, SWLD)

pa ra llel wit h 6090

Mali: No one but Baghdad wou ld dream of diffusing in the

middle of the night on 13 meters; so it's fortunate that the Ra dio
Beijing relay is so "dirty," transmitti ng the sum of 9770 and 117 15 on
21485, hea rd by Bob Hill in Massachusetts before a nd aft er 0100
UTC. H e's also picked up the second ha rmonic of each, and of M ali
it self on 2392 1 kHz at 1500 UTC (SWLD).
New Zealand: Radio New Z eala nd's new win ter schedule,
thru Septembe r 3: 1830-2115 on 12045, 15 150; 2345-01 45 (Saturdays
a nd Sundays to 0330) both transmitters on 15 150; 0345-0730 on
15150, 12045; 1030-1215 on 6100, 9540 (SWLD)
Nicaragua: La Voz de N icaragua has inte rnationa l bilingual
Spa nish-English programming at 0000 to 0300, English 0300 to 0400
and 0600 to 0700, on 6100 kHz (Lie. Freddy Lopez Quiroz, Dir., SW
Dept., M a rch 7, via Mel T hie le, CA)
Norway: Lest you think your receiver selectivity has gone
wacko, be advised that Ra dio Norway has scheduled "blanket"
broadcasting at 1400 to 1445 UTC on 15295, 15300, 15305 a nd 15310
kHz, each to a diffe rent targe t (via Mick Ogrizek, A ustra lian D X
News)
The Frederiksted site is no longer in regul ar use; j ust for brief
special tests (MTs J oe H anlon, ADXN)
Peru: Radio de! Pacifico has shown up on 9949.83 or so, which
happens to be tw ice 4975 but this is so strong it may be a deliberate
repl acement for 9675, heard as early as 11l6 to sign off at 0433 UTC
(Ed Lacrosse, CA; Ernie Behr, O nt; Werner Rutsch, Switzerla nd,
SWLD a nd WOR) Anot her occasion aroun d 00 they were on 99-14.36
(Rutsch and Dario Monferini, Play-DX)
Pola nd: See mingly taking a cue from Budapest, Radio
Polonia has also rctime d its E nglish to us: 2305 to 2355 UTC on
7270, 7 145, 6135 a nd 5995 kHz (David Cole and Ken Kuzenski , LA,

Spain: Ra re languages dept.: Ladino (Sephardic) from Spain,

Thursdays from 1800 to 1830 UTC is now schedu led on 17890 kHz.
Where will it all end dept.: Anot he r reade r, M ichael A. Bell in
Rota, Spa in, hastens to clarify that the costumes have no connection
with the KKK -- and sends along a couple of "mud dolls" portraying
the m. Thanks, M ichael, they're real cute litt le "coneheads."
UKOGBANI : Brain of Bn'tain, the superb radio quiz show, is
back fo r a Jong 1988 season on the BBC World Service, Sundays
1830, Mondays 12 15 a nd Wednesdays 0830 UTC. O ther great
listening in June: Radio A ctive, the sitcom set in a radio station,
Wednesdays from the 22nd at 1530 UTC , Thursday at 0030 and 1030
UT C (except for the mont hly satirica l review Two Clreers, 29t h30t h). The Politics of Lauglrter runs six weeks into J uly, Mondays at
2315, We dnesdays 1515, Fridays 0530.
Al ready underway in M ay, Be/rind the Wall, readings of Colin
Thubron's account of a journey th rough China, continues with J une
chapte rs: On tire Cir in a Sea; Eating in Canton ; 111 Mao Zedong's Bed;
a nd The Joumey No11h -- Mondays at 0430 and 0815; Fridays at 2145
UTC. The solem n but colorful traditional ceremony Trooping tire
Colour can be heard live on Saturday the 1lt h at 1001 UTC, with
edited re peats of t he broadcast at 1830 a nd Sunday 0230.
T here's a two-part behind-t he-scenes look at such celebrations,
Monday 13 a nd 20 at 2030 UTC a nd Tuesday at 0230 and 1030
UTC. 200 Yem ~ of Music in Australia, from Aboriginal to
contcmpora l)', sta rts on t he 27th, M onday 1715; Tu esday 0030, 0830.
Music of the l?oyal Cow1s is anything but baroque; three programs
feat u re Burma and Taiwan; India; a nd Mali -- until the 21st at the
same times. (Review of lntem ational B1vadcasting)
Uruguay: C XA3 is again active on 6075.3 but the call has
been reassigne d to La Voz de A rt igas, using a north-south dipole
and homemade 400-watt t ransmitte r, soon to be replaced by a 2.5
KW un it (D a nie l Mu noz Faccioli, M ontevideo, DX Club de!
Uruguay) Hea rd as ea rly as 1300 UTC a nd as late as 0200, it may be
on fro m 0900 to 0400 like 1420 kHz (Gabriel [va n Barre ra, Buenos
Aires, SW Bulletin) U nfortu nately for these guys, station only wants
to QS L reports beyond 500 km.
USA: Cuban troops in A ngola soon will hea r Radio Marti
urgi ng t hem to defect, says Jorge Mas Canosa, chairman of the
Cuban-American National Foundation (St. Pete Times, April 6, via
Rusty Sere nberg, WO R). Must mea n relays via VOA Botswana or
Liberia, if not courtesy the South A frica n-based clandestines.
VOA's Conceit I/all, M ay 29th at 1410 and 2010 UTC, plays and
interviews the Cleve land String Qua rt et.
Venezuela: YVTO seems be nt on becomi ng not only a ti mcsigna l but a standard fre quency station, by moving from 6100 to
5000 kHz, noted April 14 a round 0500 by M ike H a rla in New Jersey.
They were still a hefty 5 H z away from be ing zero-beat with WWV,
with which they a rc likely to interfere in fringes of the U.S. Their
time was off too, lagging slightly behind WWV. However, April 17
at 1024, D on Moore in Ohio found YVTO back on 6100. We know
where Freddy Lopez would like the m to st:iy.

You can hear Glenn Hauser's OX news every week over Radio Canada
lnlernali onal's SWL Digest: Saturday 2021 on17875, 17820. 15325, 11945, 9555,
6030; 2151 on 17820. 15150, 11880: UTC Sunctay 0021 on 9755, 5960; Sunday
2321 on 11730, 9755; Tuesday 1247 on 9625, 11855, 17820. A much broader
range of Information appears on World of Radio, via WRNO, New Orleans:
Thursday 1515 on 11965, UTC Friday 0030 on 7355, Saturday 0300 on 6185,
2330, on 13760, Sunday 1800 on 15420; and via Radio for Peace lnl ernalional.
Costa Rica, Tuesday 2300 on 13660. Wednesday 0300 on 7375; Friday 2100 and
Saturday 0 100 on the same.
Review of International Broadcasting, speclalizing In shOrtwave programming
and comment, also with Satelllle Wal ch and Radio Equipment Forum columns.
can be sampled for $2; 1o Issues for $21. Same rates apply 10 DX Listening
Digest. counlrybycounlry loggings, schedules, slallon news, plus Enjoying
Radio section: or bolh for $40, from Glenn Hauser, Box 1684-MT, Enid, OK
73702. (Rates apply l o USA. Canada. Mexico: US funds only on a US bank or
postal money order)

WOR)
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Broadcast Loggings
0300 UTC on 9475

English broadcast unless otherwise Indicated

Egypt: Radio Cairo. Program feature presentation of The Moslem

World. (Alan Rayment. Nelson. B.C., Canada)

0006 UTC on 11715

Mali: Radio Beijing relay. China's ' Year of the Dragon' dicussed
In depth. (James Kline, Santa Monica, CA)

0320 UTC on 3260.8

Ecuador: La Voz del Rio Carrizal. Spanish. Closing sign-off
message with ID, city, and 0330 UTC sign-off. (Rod Pearson. St.
Augus tine. FL)

0020 UTC on 9962

Clandestine: Radio Calman. Spanish. IDs between each musical
selection. Newscast covering U.S .. USSR, and Cuba. (Leslie
Edwards, Doylestown, PA)

0340 UTC on 3395

Ecuador: Radio Zaracay. Spanish. Spanish pop tunes with local
commercials and canned' station IDs. (David Heitzlnger, Dover,
DE)

0023 UTC on 7355

USA: WANO. Howard Cosell report with gum commercial and ID
for WANO. (George Neff, Tampa, FL) (welcome to FL!ed)

0030 UTC on 15473.7

0350 UTC on 5955

Malawi: Malawi Broadcasting Corp. African drum music with native
chanling. English news on Afghanistan at 0400 UTC followed by
the Chlchewa language. Dominant VOA Interference returns at
0407 UTC peaking by 0417 UTC. (Tom Roach, San Jose. CA)
(Good time to catch this station Is during this brief window while
VOA is off.-ed)

Antartlca: Radio Naclonal Arcangel San Gabriel. Spanish. Closing

IDs and station Information at 0032 UTC. (Stanley Mayo.
Westbrook, ME)

0030 UTC on 5910

Belgium: BRT. Tolling belts lnlerval signal and Radio World
shortwave program. (Mike Loran, Azusa, CA)

0401 UTC on 2360

Gualemala: Radio Maya de Barillas. Spanish. Numerous Spanish
music tunes witl1 titles and IDs. (Frank Mierzwin ski, Ml. Penn. PA)

0032 UTC on 6200

USSR-Ukraine: Radio Kiev. Political editorial, Shortwave Listeners
Program, and Ukrainian folk music. (Bruce Giison, Sliver Springs,
MD)

0405 UTC on 4679

Ecuador: Raelio Naclonal Espejo. Latin American music followed
by two clear IDs. Station recently reactivated. (Bruce MacGibllon.
Gresham, OR)

0043 UTC on 6210

Pirate: North Sea-Radio Caroline. British and U.S. pop music from
the Four Tops and Billy Ocean. IDs with Canadian lotlery
Information. (New address for reports: RSI Communications, 54
Plainfield Ave.. East Rockaway, NY 11518 1230. - Thanks, John
Tuchscherer! ed)

0432 UTC on 11760

Cook Islands: Cook Islands Broadcasting Corp. Prayers with
religious music and sermon until 0435 UTC. Also heard at 0757
UTC with Island music and phone-in music request. (Bruce
MacGillllon, Gresham, OR)

0115 UTC on 11490

Clandestine: Voice of Unity. Arabic. Pro-Afghan Rebel radio with
Koran recltalions and talk about Alghanlslan and Algeria.
Presumed newscast discussing Iraq, washinglon O.C., and
Pakistan. (Larry Van Horn, Orange Park, FL)

0120 UTC on 17880

0502 UTC on 4904

Chad: Radiodiffuslon Natlonale Tchadlenne. French/Vernaculars.
Native African music wilh tribal chanting. Male announcer In both
languages with cllat and IDs. (Frank Mierzwinski, Mt. Penn, PA)

0520 UTC on 9665

USSR: Radio Moscow-Siberia/ Irkutsk. Items on the increase in

trade between lhe USSR and Vietnam. (Garie Halstead, St. Albans,
WV)

0120 UTC on 3220

Soulh Africa: Radio Five. Stallon "5 on 5' prom otion for five rock
music selecllons in a row. and local commercials. (Tom Patterson,
Wisconsin Rapids, WI)

0530 UTC on 7285

Ecuador: HCJB. Quechua. HCJB regional service with IDs and

Ecuadorian guitars with flute music. (J.C. Brownlee, Laurens, SC)

0120 UTC on 6150

Costa Rica: Radio lmpacto. Spanish. Canned ' lmpacto ID and
Latin pop music. (Al Rayment, Nelson, B.C .. Canada)

South Africa: SABCRadio Oranje. Music and news report on

severe flooding, with evacuations in the provinces. (Donna
Robinson, Willow Springs, IL)

0533 UTC on 4815

Burkina Faso: RTV Burkina. Native African music and accordion
instrumentals. Time pips with stallon 10 at 0600 UTC. (Tom
Roach, San Jose. CA)

0130 UTC on 6550

Lebanon: Voice of Lebanon. Arabic. Contemporary American piano
music to 0213 UTC, and world newscast. (J.C. Brownlee, Laurens.
SC)

0551 UTC on 7255

Nigeria: Voice of Nigeria. Station ID and national news of Nigeria.
Very good signal. (Mike Loran, Asuza, CA)

0138 UTC on 9575

Italy: RAI. Chirping bird/ bell Interval signal and 'Radio RAI Italy'
ID. Italian newscast at 0145 UTC. (Mike Loran, Azusa. CA)

0635 UTC on 4870

Benin : ORTV Du Benin. French. Indigenous African music with
group singing. Stallon ID including menllon of city Cotonou.
(David Hellzlnger, Dover. DE)

0150 UTC on 4980

Venezuela: Ecos del Torbes. Spanish. Lalin pop vocals with
canned IDs and local ads. (George Neff, Tampa. FL)

0646 UTC on 3366

Ghana: Ghana Broadcasting Corp. Religious message wilh music
and station address. Orum beat Interval signal, and Gae ID at
0700 UTC. (Frank Mierzwinski, Mt. Penn. PA)

0151 UTC on 3927

Soulh Alrlca-Transkei: Capital Radio. Pop music wilh usual
amateur radio Interference al 0200 UTC. Schedules still Indicate
this as a 0300 sign-on. !hough logged earlier. (Bruce MacGibbon.
Gre sham. OR)

0200 UTC on 4970

Venezuela: Raello Rumbos. Spanish. Rapid-fire station IDs with pop
and Venezuelan music. (George Neff. Tam pa, FL)

0244 UTC on 9695

Sweden: Radio Sweden. Interview and commentary on the benefits
of the Swedish health care. compared to North America's. (Mike
Loran, Azusa, CA)

0704 UTC on 6160

Canada: CKZUVancouver. News, sports. regional weather, and
classical music. (Donna Robinson. Willow Springs. IL)

0754 UTC on 4850

Venezuela: Radio Capital. Musical mix of U.S. pop tunes and
Latin styles. Radio Capital ID. (Cliff Goodlet, Chatlanooga, TN)

0844 UTC on 3945

Vanautu: Radio Vanautu. French/ Blslama. Music from the
Supremes, Marvin Gaye, and the Commodores. Cultural program.
Big Band music, and clear stations IDs. Heard past 1000 UTC In
north Florida.

0245 UTC on 5040

USSR-Georgian SSR: Radio Tbihsl. Georgian. Musical excerpts
from Megrelian by Otar Tak1akishivlll. Several mentions of Tbilisi.
(Martin Peck. Bronx, NY)

0255 UTC on I 1825

Tahiti: RFO. French/Tahitian. French love songs and island music.
IDs w ith the mention of ' Papeete." (Robert May, Montgomery. IL)

0940 UTC on 9540

USSRUzbeck: Radio Tashkent. Newscast. station ID and Listener's
Opinion program. (James Kline, Santa Monica, CA)

0943 UTC on 2325

Australia: VL8T-Tennant Creek. Classic piano Instrumentals with
c11at and ID. Parallel frequency 231 o very weak!

0300 UTC on 4790

Peru: Radio Allantlda. Spanish. Peruvian music wilh ID at 0310
UTC. (Frank Mierzwinski, Mt. Penn. PA)

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0955 UTC on 9540

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New Zealand: Radio New Zealand. Night and Day musical

program with 10 break. (James Kline, Santa Monica, CA)

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Let other readers know what you 're enjoying.
Send your loggings to Gayle Van Horn
160 Lester Drive, Orange Park, FL 32073
1000 UTC on 4920

1540 UTC on 15630

Australia: ABC-Brisbane. Introductory comments for opera music

program. Weak signal with local Interference. (Mark Swarbrlck.
Thorndale, PA)

Greece: Voice of Greece. News story on United States and Greek

relations. (Mike Loran. Azusa. CA)

1600 UTC on 15375

1002 UTC on 2485

Australia: VL8KKatherlne. Music appreciation text on the history or
opera. with numerous selections from Carmen and Don Giovanni.

1017 UTC on 3375

Brazil: Radio Naclonal-Sao Gabriel da Cachoelra. Portuguese.
Naclonal IDs w1th frequency and city location. Announcer chat and
frequent Brazlllan pop tunes.

1020 UTC on 5020

Solomon Islands: Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corp. Friendly talk
from man and lady, no commerclals noted from very weak signal.
Parallel frequency 9545 kHz heard. (Mark Swarbrlck, Thorndale,
PA)

1035 UTC on 4845.2

Bolivia: Radio Fldes. Spanish. Bolivian folk style tunes with Ftdes
ID. (Rod Pearson, St. Augustine, FL)

1055 UTC on 6170

USSR: Radlostanslya Rodina Russian. Govorit Moskva" ID, time

check, and presumed evening news. Items Include a meeting of
the Supreme Soviets and the problems In the Nagorno-Karabakh
autonomous region. (Garle Halstead. St. Albans, WV)

1603 UTC on 15320

United Arab Emirates: UAE Radio-Dubai. Mailbag program with
Invitation for listener's letters. Easy-listening music and Arabic
recitations. (Errol Urbells, Kings Park, NY)

1620 UTC on 17620

France: Radio France lnternallonal. Programs Paris Calling Africa
and Focus on France. (Bob Fraser, Cohasset. MA)

1624 UTC on 11850

Norway: Radio Norway. Musical "oldies from 1940's bandleader
Glenn Miiier. Station monitored on parallel frequencies 15310 and
9660 kHz. {Tom Roach. San Jose. CA)

1640 UTC on 9625

Columbia: La Voz de la Selva Spanish. Local area commercials

w1th station IDs at 1059 and 1110 UTC. (Cliff Goodlet.
Chattanooga, TN)

1100 UTC on 9665

Canada: CBC. Double Exposure show with paradles on Ronald

Reagan, Princess Di, and James Bond. {Tom Patterson, Wisconsin
Rapids, WI)

1800 UTC on 9510

China: Radio Beijing. East Is Red Interval signal with station ID.
National news of China and press reviews from Chinese
newspapers. (Joseph Johnson. Savannah. GA)

1114 UTC on 6575.9

Seychelles: FEBA Radio. lmharlc. Short musical selections and

gospel message. Clear ID with Interval signal. (Donna Robinson,
Willow Spr1ngs, IL)

1834 UTC on 14802

North Korea: Radio Pyongyang. Editorial on the United States.

Japan, and 1988 Summer Olympics. Upper side-band Interference
on 6577 from American Airlines. (Stanley Mayo, Westbrook, ME)

1133 UTC on 4753

Indonesia: Radio Republlk lndonesla-Ujung Pandang. Indonesian.
Asian flutes and percussion music between news topics. {Tom
Roach. San Jose. CA)

1230 UTC on 15525

Kiribati: Radio Kiribati. Klrlbatese. Island music with deep lades.

Audio peaks at 19 15 UTC. Announcements and pop music to
1920 UTC. (Check for Kiribati II New Zealand Is heard on 15150
kHz.) (Bruce MacGlbbon, Gresham, OR)

1912 UTC on 9510

Algeria: Radio Algeria. Closing news headlines with Arabic music
and ID. Rock music from Michael Jackson. Del Leppard, and Billy
Idol. (Stephen Price, Conemaugh, PA)

2015 UTC on 9435

Bangladesh: Radio Bandladesh. International news with

commentaries and Bangalees music. (Stanley Mayo, Westbrook,
ME)

Israel: KOL. Report on agriculture along the shores of the Dead

Sea. (Bob Fraser, Cohasset. MA)

U45 UTC on 9700

2054 UTC on 12020

Philippines: Radio Verltas. Evangelical programming of music and

discussion. (Donna Robinson, Wiiiow Springs, IL)

1253 UTC on 5025

Cuba: Radio Rebelde. Spanish. Cuban music of congas and easyllstenlng. (David Heltzlnger, Dover, DE)

1337 UTC on 11900

Salpan: KYOI. English pop/ rock music tunes with ID. (Harold
Frodge, Midland, Ml) Also logged while In Hong Kong.

Vietnam: Voice of Vietnam. Asian music solos and ID as, "The

Voice of Vietnam at 2057 with sign-off. Morse code Interference.
(Stanley Mayo, Westbrook, ME)

2130 UTC on 9715

Madagascar: Radio Netherland s. Tom Meyer's Happy Station
program. Heard also on parallel frequency 9895 kHz. (Bob Fraser,
Cohasset, MA)

2133 UTC on 9950

1340 UTC on 21540

Germany-GDR: Radio Berlin International. GOA national news with
sports roundup. (Frank Mierzwinski, Mt. Penn, PA)

1432 UTC on 3905

Syria: Radio Damascus. Cultural feature on the arts and theater of

Syria. 2204 UTC sign-off with best wishes to listeners. (Stanley
Mayo, Westbrook. ME)

2149 UTC on 11830

Liberia: ELWA Gospel message and musical Instrumentals. Closing
IDs and schedules at 2200 with 2205 sign-off. (Leslie Edwards,
Doylestown, PA)

India: AIR-Deihl. World newscast. Heard on weaker parallel

frequency of 4860 kHz. Observed on 11830 at 0233 UTC with
news In Hindu and English and a 0250 sign-off. (Bruce
MacGlbbon, Gresham, OR)

2210 UTC on 7475

Tunisia: Radlodiffuslon Television Tunleslenne. Arabic. Arabic music
wilh applause. ID as "Tunislyyka" with newscast and Holy Koran.
(Stephen Price, Conemaugh, PA)

1440 UTC on 3799

Iran: Voice of Islamic Republic Iran. Farsi. Koran recitations to
1458. Farsi announcements with parallel frequency 4990 kHz.
Similar format at 0247-0250 on 4990 kHz. (Bruce MacGlbbon.
Gresham, OR)

2215 UTC on 5980

Yugoslavia: Radio Yugoslavia World news. national anthem. ID,
and editorials. (Errol Urbelis, Kings Park, NY)

1444 UTC on 15160

2230 UTC on 9490

Mexico: La Voz de America Latina. Commercials, IDs and time

tips tone signal at 1459 UTC. (Cliff Goodlet. Chattanooga, TN)

1450 UTC on 4950

Malaysia: Radio Television Malaysia-Sarawak. Newscast and Stock
Report for Kuala Lumpur. {Terry Coker. Cucamonga, CA)

Armenian SSR: Radio Yerevan. Armenian. Armenian. Armenian folk

music In instrumentals and female chorus. Lady announcer with
station ID. (Martin Peck. Bronx. NY)

2300 UTC on 9445

Turkey: Voice of Turkey. Piano interval signal and station ID.
News of a PLO member visiting Ankara. (Martin Peck, Bronx, NY)

1500 UTC on 11790

Indonesia: Voice of Indonesia. Station ID with local area news
and OPEC commentary. (James Kline, Santa Monica. CA)

2300 UTC on 5975

1535 UTC on 9670

Phlllpplnes: FEBC. Wortd and national Philippine newscast. ID as
Radio FEBC International." Rick Stevens presents Soundwaves
show of contemporary gospel music. (Harold Frodge, Midland. Ml)
(logged from Hong Kong)

Great Britain: BBC. International news and com mentary. Station

Schedule and "Write o n letterbox program. Monitored parallel
frequencies 6175, 9515, and 9590 kHz. (Bruce Giison, Sliver
Springs, MD)

2352 UTC on 6200

Albania: Radio Tirana. Feature on Albanian arl, national anthem,
and 2357 sign-off. (Bruce Giison, Sliver Springs, MD)

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Scanning The Nation

Bob Kay
104 Bonsall A ven u e
Glen olden , PA 19036

Vanity Phones
Cellu la r phones have become something of a status symbol.
Nearly every BMW or Mercedes sports the small, coiled cellular
car phone ante nna.

Status without the

price: Can't afford
a cellular phone for
your car? Just
mount a phoney
cellular antenna
that looks just like
the real thing (like
this one from
Antenna
Specialists)! ...
But there goes
your excuse for
why you didn't call!

For those of us that can't afford a cellular phone, Faux

Systems of Los A ltos, Cali forn ia, makes th e "Cellular Phoney."
Complete with a handset and a fake, stick-on antenna, the
company has sold over 40,000 of the phoney phones.
If fift een bucks still seems a little steep, just the stick-on
antenna can be purchased for under ten dollars. (submitted by
Jen Phillips, Oceanside, CA)

The Cellular Cab

Twenty taxi cabs in Boston arc equipped with credit ca rd
cellular phones. A ll calls, including long distance and international, a re billed to a customer credit card. If the cellular cabs
become popular, ferries that cross Boston Harbor and commuter
bu ses a rc next in line to receive cellular t elephones. (Submitted
by Glen Davis, Boston, MA)

He Who Laughs Last ...

In May, 1987, a young West German landed his Cessna 172 in
front of the Kremlin. Most of us laughed, thinking that the
Soviet defense system was a joke. MT has learned that the s mall,
wood and fiberglass plane was intercepted by fighter aircra ft on
two separate occasions. Why the craft wasn't shot down in true
Soviet fashio n is still unclear. However, from a technica l
viewpoint, the Soviet's abil ity to detect and track such a small
aircraft meant that the Soviets had to employ so me of the most
sophisticated state-of-the-art tracking abilities known to the
modern world.

Batavia; 462.5500 MHz (GMRS frequency), KAD8856, Chicago;

463.4375 MHz, KB93168, Illinois; 464.4750 MHz, KNBE644
Ch!cago Ridge; 467.8250 MHz (low powe r, call unknown):
Chicago; 467.8750 MHz (low power; call unknown) , Chicago.
(Bob Pa rnass, The Radio Enthusiast)

K-Mart and Venture Stores

Boom Year for Thunderstorms

In his article, "Listening in on the K-Mart Store Radio/Intercom," Bob Parnass found K-Mart's simplex autopatch operat ing
on 154.60 MHz. Now, says Bob, K-Mart sales people were heard
one Saturday morning on th e same frequency, just before the
st ore opened.

La st yea r many of southeastern Pennsylva nia's television

repai.r .shops experienced a record number of lightning dam aged
telev1s1on sets. One repair shop owner stated that during one
such storm customers were "knocking on his door" ten minut es
after the lightning sta rted. "One good storm," the owner
cont inued, "will bring in fo rty to fifty damaged set s."

When the doors did open at 9:30 AM, one salesperson was
observed usin g a sma ll, Touch Tone-equipped walkie-talkie to
communicate with someone in the stockroom as she checked
merchandise on the shelves.
La st fall, K-Mart applied for a license in the Downers Grove,
Illinois s tore for 207 mobile units on 457.5375 and 457.5875
MHz! Pe rh aps these, speculates Bob, are low power alarm transmitters.
K-Mart's competit or in the area, the Venture store chain, is
request ing licenses t o operate on 461.6125 and 463.4375 MHz in
several Illinois store locations. Here arc ot her Venture frequenci es: 151.7150 MHz, KAS719, Orland Park; 154.6750 MHz,
KQ5067, Aurora; 461.2750 MHz, KNGL878, Waukegan;
46 1.61 25 MHz, KB93168, lllin ois; 461.6750 MHz, WRD549,

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Jn add~tion to television sets, lightning strikes also dam aged

as many video cassette recorders. Since most peopl e have cable
tclev1s1on, the surge enters through the cable, through the VCR,
and then into the television .
Repair costs ranged fr om $40.00 to $250.00. Accordino t o the
repair shop, some sets were so badly damaged that rep~ir wa s
imp ossible!
The staff at MT reminds everyone that the summer
thunderstorm season is upon us. Remember th at Jiohtnino
usually damages our equipment through the electrical ci;cuit o~
through a static charge in the coax cablc--not from direct strikes.
During a storm, unplug the power cords and disconnect all
lead-in cables .

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Next Generation Radar to Forecast Weather

Ca lled the "Next Generation Radar, NEXRAD will e nable
both the Department of Defense and the National Weather
Service to detect potentially hazardou s weather conditions over
the conti nental United States, The Caribbean, Western Europe
and the Pacific.
According to Air Force Major Gerard D. Wittman, acquisiti on manager for weather systems development at the Pen tagon,
"Current radar systems cannot detect tornadoes or oth er hazardous wind events. The NEXRAD system will a ll ow us to better
detect and assess a storm's severity, and to improve our warning
lead ti me to the public."
Current radars provide information on ly when operated
manually. When the new radar becomes operational in two
years, it will continually sweep an area 150 nautical miles across
at six elevat ions up to 70,000 feet and auto matically provide
users with updat ed informa tion every six minutes.
Another NEXRAD unit will be located in Sterling, Virginia,
just outside Washington, D.C .. It will provide data to Andrews
Air Force Base, Maryland, and also to other Navy, Federa l Aviation Ad ministration and National Weather Service facilities in
the Washington area. Each installation will have their own
remote display to retrieve and ana lyze info rmat ion provided by
this single NEXRAD system.

Who's Who in War

When monitoring a Navy war exercise, the bad guys are
known as "Orange Forces." O ther nations that may become
involved in the scenario arc called "Purple Forces." The U.S. and
its allies a rc the "Blue Forces."
The problem of color identification becomes nearly impossible when fri e nds a nd foes use the sa me equipment. For example,
in th e Persian Gu lf; Ira n, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia all fly the F5 aircra ft. Mirage F-ls a rc flown by several Gulf States as well as
Iraq.
To help identify these forces, the McDonnell Douglas DC-854 has been convened to the "Fleet Electron ic Warfare Support
Group" (FEWSG). The DC-8 was select e d over the Boeing 707
for the following reasons:
1. The DC-8 has 30 more inches of grou nd clearance. This was
very important due to the large, forwa rd belly of the radar
dome.
2. The DC-8 has no flight time limitations on the air frame. Th e
707 is required to have the wings and fuselage reskinned
every 40,000 flight hou rs.
3. T he clima te contro l system on the DC-8 is more efficient.
4. The DC-8 is more stable at slower speeds.
The typical crew aboard th e DC-8 consists of a pilot, co-pilot ,
fli ght engineer and seven system operat ors. The plane can lift
3,000 pounds of additi o nal cargo and has twenty scats for maintenance perso nn el. Equipment on board th e jct is as follows:
l. Two radar jamming systems with stee rable a ntennas.
2. Two voice communications jamming systems.
3. Two com muni cations receiver systems with analyzers that
provide signal iden tifica tion capabilit y.
4. Six UHF transceivers.
5. Two VHF transce ivers.
6. Fo ur high frequency transceivers.

7. Two individua l computer syste ms.

8. Two di rection finding systems.
9. Three secure, encoded communicatio ns systems.
10 Two satellite commun ications systems.

FREQUENCY LIST
Frequencies f or My11le Beach, South Carolina, are submitted just
in time for the tanning season by Billy Estes, Sowh Carolina.
Mvrtle Beach
Fire
154.31
154. I 75 Fire
154 .80
Police
154.86
Police
155.16
Rescue
155.295 Rescue
North Myrt le Beach
154.22
154.40
155.40

Fire
Fire
Rescue

City and County of Georgetown

153.77
Fire
Fire
154 .16
154 .77 Sheriff--cou nty link
155.415 Po lice
155 .7 15 Local government (repeater)
156.015 Government (simplex)
Horry County
154.01
Rura l fire
154.40
Fire
154.725 Sheriff
155.40
Rescue
UHF Aero Band
239.80
269.90
275.80
3 17.40
343.00
343.60
381.30
381.40

Meteorol ogica l
Myrtle Beach AFB
Myrtle Beach AFB
Jacksonville ATCC
Wing Command
J acksonville ATCC
Wing Command
Jacksonville ATCC

Miscellaneous
151.685
151.775
151.805
151.865
464.865
151.925
151.955
154.5 15
157.62
460.80
461.35
461.40
461.475

Lake Arrow Head Ind.

Ponderosa Campground
Boa rdwalk Mote l
?ce?,n ~ake.? Family Campground
Brookgrccn Ga rdens
Cherokee Motel
Sea M ist Travelodge
Breczcvicw Mote l
Piedmont Airli nes
Beach Amusements Inc.
Lack's Beach Service
Myrtle Beach Family Farms

What can you hear on you r scanne r? Let me know! Send ;ill
scan ner-related information to me at the address, above!

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Utility World
Larry Van Horn
160 Lester Dri ve
Orange Park, FL 32073

Table One

Talk
The Strategic Air Command
"SJ..yking, skyking, do not answer-afplra, Juliette, clratiie
H ow many times have you heard this type of transmission on
shortwave a nd wondered, "What in the world am I listeni ng to?"
Well, wonder no more. You have managed to successfully tune
into the commu n ications of the United States Air F orce's Strategic
Air Comm and (SAC).
What is SAC a nd where can you h ear their commun ications?
T he primary mission of SAC is that of nuclear dctcrcncc, and if
that fa ils, nuclear retaliation. In fact, the St rategic Air Command
makes up two-thirds of the United States' nuclear fo rce triad.
Bombers a nd silo launched intercont inental ballistic missi les
(ICBMs) arc both SAC contributions to our nation's nuclear forces.
The navy fleet ballistic missil e submarines make up the last third of
th e triad.
F irst organized on March 21, 1946, the Str ategic A ir Command's
purpose was to continue and enhance the strategic bombing superiority the U .S. developed during World War II. SAC began wit h
100,000 military personnel and 1,300 aircraft, including 300 B-29
bombers. The command's was headquartered at Andrews Air Force
Base, Maryla nd.
120,000 People Stro ng
Today, SAC is headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base,
Nebraska. It involves over 120,000 military and civilian personnel. It
is a m ajor command of the A ir Force. A nd it is m ade up of two
numbered air fo rces: 8th Air Force at Barksdale AFB, LA, and the
15th Air For ce at March AFB, CA.
Responsib ility for SAC operations in the weste rn Pacific fall
un der t he 3rd A ir Division, headquartered a t Anderson AFB,
Guam. The 7th Air Division, Ramstcin Air Base, West Germany, is
the operat io nal commander for European SAC forces.
SAC operates 26 air bases and is tenant on 47 more. Upon mobilization, SAC gains command of 20 reserve and Air Nat ional Guar d
units comprising a p proximately 15,800 members.
Hardware is the backbone of the command and T a ble one gives
the latest figures that comprise the Strategic Air Command's
impressive list of assets.
Calli ng in a Nuclear Stri ke
Communication systems p lay an important role in the m ission of
SAC. The chain of command must be able to communicate with a ll
of the nation's nuclear forces at a moment's notice. At the very top
of the chain of command is the president of the United States. He
and the Joint C hiefs of Staff make up t he National Command
Authority (NCA).
In the event that a nuclear st rike has to called, the president
would issue the order through the NCA to SAC. The Commandcrin-chicf SAC (CINCSAC) ca n o r der the aircraft in the air at a ny
time. Only the president o r those in the nu clear weapon line of
succession, however, can order a nuclear st r ike.
Lines of Succession
Most Americans do not realize that there arc two different lines
o f succession. Constitutionally, the progression is the vice-preside nt,
speaker of the house, president pro-tcm o f the senat e and cabinet
members in order of sen iority.
However, the authority to launch nuclear weapons takes a different line of succession entirely: vice-president, secretary of defense,
chai rman of the joint chiefs of staff a nd finally the emergency action
o fficer, a general a board the Looking G lass Airborne Command
Post.

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June 1988

450 Minuteman II LGM30F ICBMs

26
90
151
56
7
6
2
4
16
31

550 MINUTEMAN Ill LGM30G

ICOMs
Titan II LGM-25C ICBMs
10 Peace Keeper (MX) LGM-118A
B52H Bombers
2 B 1 B Bombers
B52G Bombers (61 now carry AGM-86 ALCM Cruise Missiles)
9 LocKheeCI SR-71
Recon
FB-111 Swept-Wmg Strategic Bombers
Aircraft
LocKt1eee1 U-2 CT / R Recon Aircraft
TR-28 Lockheeel l'lccon Alrcrall (on loan to TAC Alr)
TR2B Lockheeel Recon Aircraft (useel for training)
E4B Airborne Commanel Post
2 1 EC-135 Moelels A/ C/ G/ L
RC-135 Aircraft
487 KC-135 Aircraft
KC-10A Aircraft

Keepini.: Communi cations Open

Many different communication mediums arc utilized to keep the
chain of command in touch with SAC units. Satellit es play a large
role in SAC communications. The air force satellite communications
systems (AFSATCOM) is used by the NCA for command and
control of U .S. nuclear capable forces a round the world.
AFSATCOM transponders are ca rried on such spacecraft as the
Flcctsatcom, Lcasat, and DSCS satellites in geostationary orbit, and
the sate llite data system in polar orbit. In addit ion, AFSATCOM
transponders arc also carried o n a va ri ety of other host civilian and
military satellites.
Air Force satellite communication messages arc usually short,
pre-formatted tra nsmissions that requi re minimal p ower. They
permit reliable and secure two-way communicat ions between
ground, ai rborne forces and command posts. They also provides a
conferencing capability between command posts. AFSATCOM
tr ansponders operate in the 225-400 MHz milit ary UHF band.
The primal)' day-to-duy method of communications that m ost
Monito1i11g Times readers arc familiar with take place on shortwave
frequencie s. SAC util izes what it calls the "Giant Talk" network to
communicate with different clements o f the command.
"Giant Talk" consists of 9 HF stations providing CJNCSAC and
senior SAC commanders wit h worldwide two-way voice communications for long range command cont r ol of tactical, reconna issance
and special SAC missions. The "G iant Talk" network also supp orts
the ICmvl fo rces. There arc three main communicat ion command
posts in the "Giant Talk" network. These stations arc located at
Offutt AFB, McClellan AFB, Ca lifornia, and Andrews AFB,
Maryland.
Six addit ional r emote sites associated with t he n etwork are
located at: Elmendo rf AFB. Alaska; Thule AB, Greenland; RAF
Croughton, Unit ed Kingdom; Incirlik AB, Turkey; C lark AB,
Philippines; and Yokota AB, J apan. All of the "Giant Talk" sites arc
accessible from SAC headquarters, the numbered air force
command post and other selected locations.
Same Frec1uencics; Same ldcnt ilil'rs
The Strategic Air Command has used the same basic frequencies
and associated ident ifiers for many years. Consequently, the more
active frequencies arc well known and have been published in
various sources. MT's "U tiliry World" recent ly compiled the most
compre hensive list of SAC frequen cies ever published. These
frequencies arc listed in T ab le two.
As noted in Table two, so me of the frequenc ies listed have "No
Designator Known." Either there is no d esignator assigned or one
has not been heard on th e indicated frequcnc..y Those frequencies
listed with "Floating Designators" arc indicative of a channel where
one or more different designators have been noted o n the
frequency.
Most SAC aircraft have HF transceivers that can be
programmed with twenty preset channels. Recently a MT reader

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Table Two

Table Three
..

F r eq Channel Designato r
Floating Designators
Floating Designators
Alpha Mike
Alpha Sierra
Floa llng Designator
Echo
Victor
Floating Designator
Foxtrot (See nole 1)
Foxtrot (See nole 1)
l'loatlng Deslgna lor
Two Leite r Designator -Floallng Designator
No Designator Known
Floating Designator
Foxtrol Quebec
Bravo Quebec
Bravo Uniform
Fox1rot Xray
Floating Deslgnalors
Quebec
Golf
No Designator Known
Oscar
Kilo+ (See nole 2)
No Known Designalors
Yankee/Xray
Fox1rot Charlie
Alpha Papa
No Known De signators

31 13
3292
3295
3369
4492
4495
4725
4896
5020
*5026
51 10
5171
5215
*5243
5328
5684
*5700
5826
6680
#6712
6761
6826
6840
6863
6870
6886
7330
7983
8101
*9023

9027
9057
9220
9234
# 10452
# 10510
111 00
* 11118
11 220
11 243
11408
11 494
11607
13205
13211
* 13241
13547
13907
14716
14744
14775
14955
15035
15041
15091
15544
15962
17617
17975
# 18005
18046
18594
20631
# 20737
# 20740
20846
20890
21815
23337
2341 9
27870

Usage
Airborne Command Post Intercommunication

Note 2:
Nole 3:

4725

2 6761
3 9027
4 11243

Airborne Command Post lnlercommunlcatlon

Primary Air-to-ground Channel/AF Refuel
Airborne Command Post Intercommunication
Airborne Command Post Intercommunication
Changes Every Three Monlhs

5
6'
7
8
9
10

1324 1
15041
2182
8364
15000
10000

Usage

Ch F r eq

Usage

SAC Victor
SAC Quebec
SAC Romeo
SAC Alpha One
SAC Sierra
SAC Mike
Intl Distress Ch
Intl Survival Craft
WWV/ WWVH
WWV/ WWVH

11

15091

12
13

111 82
9023

14
15
16
17
18
19
20

5707
4742
4742
13201
11179
6738
8989

SAC Bravo Whiskey/

Scott
USAF GCCS Channel
Scolt/ Andrews
(Mystic)
Scott
Scott/ Ande rsen
Andersen
USAF GCCS Channel
USAF GCCS Channel
USAF GCCS Channel
USAF GCCS Channel

Airborne Command Posl Intercommunication

Airborne Command Posl Inte rcommunication
Airborne Command Posl lnlercommunlcatlon
Also Alpha Two In PACAF
Primary Air-to-g round Channel, Pri Night
Nole: Popular Number Slalion Channel!!
Airborne Command Post lnlercommunicatlon
Channe l uses bolh designalors-alle rnales
Airborne Command Post lnlercommunlcalion
SAC/NORAD
lnlc rcommunlcalions/ AWACS
A/ C
Primary Air-lo-ground Channel
Airborne Command Posl lntercommunlcallon

Romeo
Papa
Floaling Deslgnalors
Floating Deslgnalors
Possible NORAD/ SAC lnlcrcommunlcatlon
OSCAR (PACAF Designator)
Possible PACAF Cl1annel
No Known Deslgnalor
Alpha Twenly-one
No Designator Known
Airborne Command Post lnlercommunlcatlon
Bravo
Alpha One
Primary Air-lo-ground Channe l, Prl Day
Yankee Quebec
Dala Channel
Training Frequency-Practice Messages
Lima
Alpha Zulu
SAC Special Operations Channel
Called <FAX >
Bravo Whiskey
Airborne Command Posl lnlercommunlcatlon
Sierra
Primary Air-to-gro und Channel
Floaling Deslgnalor
Alpha Charlie
Sierra Echo
Alpha Tango
Also Mike in PACAF
Floating Designators
Charlie
Cha rlie Quebec
Canadian Forces Channe l (shared)
Primary Air-lo-ground Channel
Mike
Bravo Xray
Tac-lo-SAC lnlercomrnunicatlon?
No Known Deslgnalors Possible AC Poinl-lo-Poinl Channel
India
Bravo Holel
Tango
Primary AJr-10-grouncl Channel
Tango (PACAF Designa lor)
J ullett
Zulu One
Whiskey
Prima ry Air-to-ground Channel
No Known Deslgnalor
Possible PACAF Channel
Lima (PACAF Deslgnalor)
Charlie Alpha
SAC-to-CAP lnle rcommunlcatlon
Della
Possible Floa11ng Designalors on lhls Freq
Foxtrol Sierra
Uniform
No Known Deslgnalor
Possible SAC-NORAD lnlercommunlcations
Della Quebec

~ ip~dfc':!ris 8a ~~~~F sgi~a~~~fork Channel

Nole 1 :

C h Fr e q

Foxlrol deslgnalor rola les belween lhese lwo channels. When nol
deslgnaled Foxtrol, lhe frequency uses lwo leller channel lhal end wilh
lhe fellers 'A/ B/ C or s.
Frequency uses a lwo letler designalor beginning wilh Kilo + one other
lelter lhat rolales periodically.
Other previous designators noleel on this channel Include: November
Alpha and India Alpha.

forwa r de d t he List in T able t hr ee. This ta b le indic ates t he fre quencie s p r ogramme d into t he twe nty preset cha nne ls of a SAC a ircraft
HF t ra nsce iver. The source t ha t provide d t his informat ion believes
tha t these HF presets a re probably a co mmon setup in m ost
stra tegic a ir c o mmand a ircraft prima ry HF radios.
First T ime SAC Listene rs
Newco m ers to SAC monit oring sh o uld start ou t o n the two
p rima ry fre quencies of 6761 (nigh t) a nd 11243 (day). Liste ning to
these two ch annels will let t he beginning SAC monit o r h ea r most of
the different types o f SA C tra ffic tha t are broadca st. M ost SAC
co mmunications are in u pper sideband.

Mailbag
Tom Roach in San Jose , California, has re ce ntly pu rchased a n
AEA PK-232 d emodulator for RTIY m o nito ring. T o m says he
c hose the PAKRATI-232 over the I n fo-tech M6000 because he can
c opy tra nslitera te d cyrillic an d st o re a ll the messages he re ceives
into a computer file for la ter review. T o m me ntio n e d the PK-232
re p re sents a g reat buy a t around $250 a s com pared to the M6000
which se lls for closer t o $900.
The PK-232 certainly d ese rve s the avid digital m ode fan's a tt e ntion, Tom . I a m not sure which versio n you h ave but I d o k now tha t
the newer versions now h ave six m odes of o perat ion. These modes
include RTTY, ASCII, TOR, CW, Pa cket a nd n ow F acsim ile. The
facsim ile m ode is g rea t and for those o f you who d o have the olde r
232s, write to AEA abo ut obtaining a n upgrade k it. Y o u won' t be
so r ry.
I Yearn for You T r agica lly
T o m a lso mentions that he h a s b een m o n itoring Russici n ship
traffic o ut o f V la divostok a nd Petropa vlovsk Ka mcha tskiy. H e says
m ost of th e traffic consists of "Boris, I ye arn fo r you tragica lly, love
a nd kisses Ludmilla" type me ssages. T o m says he has ma naged to
catch a few kriptogr a mma type messages indicative o f tra ffi c from
Russia n military ships and ships involved in the Sovie t space
p r ogram.
Recently T o m has monitore d severa l Russian ship callsigns he
could not id entify. The callsigns were : UI KN UL KD UITO UITV
UZET .
Here a re t he sh ips and associa te d ca llsigns you asked for.
Call

S hip Name

Hnm e po r t

T ype S h ip

UIKN
ULKD
UPTO
UPTV
UZET

Konstantin Suhl<anov
Slavyansk
Sulak
Severouralsk
Korablslr. Klapotov

Vladlvoslok
Vladlvoslok
Vladlvoslok
Vladlvoslok
Vladlvoslok

Shellfish Faclory
Fish Faclory
Fish Faclory
Fish Faclory
Shellfish Faclory

T om a lso a sked abou t the availability o f a b o o k that has

Soviet/Wa rsaw pa ct sh ip ca llsig ns. O ne of the be st lists that has
been availa b le is th e USSR Merclialll Ship List by J a son Berri. The
list, w hile n ot all inclusive (there a r e over 4500 U SSR ship ca llsig ns
in the ITU list), does reflect th ose m e rcha nt ships tha t arc actively
using shortwave e q uip me nt. In a ddition, th is list w ill b e considerab ly
chea per than a n ITU list. For mo r e information yo u should drop a
self-addressed, sta mped enve lo pe t o: J ason E. Be rri, 2 l 240 South
W este rn A ve #18, T o r rance, CA 90501. Be sure to tell J aso n t ha t
Mo11iton'11g Times sent ya!

MON ITO RI NG TI MES

J un e 1988

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Utility Loggings
Utility Abhrevia tion s Used in this Column
A ll times UTC, fre quencies in kiloh ertz

All voice tra11s111issio11s are English unless othen vise noted

AM
ARO

cw
FAX
FEC
ID
ISB
LSB
ATTY
UNID
USB

Amplllude Modulation
Sllor
Morse Code
Facsimile
Forward Error Correction
Identification
Independent Sideband
Lower Sideband
Radlol eletype
Unldonlified
Upper Sideband

2056.0 Possible US Navy channel. Several unlls In the scrambled voice (green)
mode at 0234.
2442.0 UDR-Miami, FL working the vessel Magic Dragon In USB at 0304 with
phone patch traffic.
2490.0 WOM M1aml Radio, FL checking channel for possible traffic at 0307 In
USB. No reply to frequency chec k.
2566.0 WOM-Miaml Radio, FL working the Sand Dancer at 0315 In USB with
phOne patch tratt1c.
2618.5 GFE25-Brackness Mel eo, England with a fax signal at 0324. Weak.
2680.0 4XZ-lsraell Navy Radio Haifa, Israel heard wilh a CW V marker at 0330,
then went Into traffic.
2691 .0 Possible US Navy traffic noted In the green at 0332 In USB.
2700.0 Cyprus Radio, Nicosia. Cyprus heard with a voice marker at 0334 In
English and Greek. Mentioned that the station was listening on 2182
4097 KHz.
3040.0 Spanish female five-digit number transmission at 0538. Strong signal
seemed undermodulated. (John Com bs, Jacksonville, FL) Welcome to
Ullllly World John. Thanks for the loggings.
3090.0 Spanish female five-digit number station at 0508. Noted ATTY station
causing Interference. (David Hellzlnger, Dover. DE) Welcome to the
column David, Please report oft en.
3016.0 Aeroradlo ATC-Shannon. Ireland noted at 0511 with aircraft traffi c
reports In USB. )David Heitzinger, Dover, DE)
3355.0 YN88 working YN01-Nicaragian army units In USB talking about the
resupply of ammunition. Noted at various limes during the eveni ng
hours. )Mark Knowllon. Melbourne. FL) Welcome to Utility World, Mark,
ed.
3425.0 Possible Mexican mllllary channel of the same type noled In the May
1988 Ulillly World colum n 11401.85. Transmission In LSB al 0605.
(John Combs, Jacksonville, FL)
4030.0 Bulgarian (?) four-digit numbers broadcast noted at 0538. Very weak
w ith bad MAAS lnl er1erence. (John Co mbs, Jacksonville. FL) Noted a
strong carrier al 0558 with an electronic Interval signal underneath the
carrier. Al 0600:45 transmission started with "All enclon ... 258 ... 235"
repealed until 0603:37, then Into Spanish fl ve-d igil numbers broadcast.
(John Combs, Jacksonville.FL)
4251 .3 ZLO-Royal New Zealand navy Walouru heard with an AR DE CE marker
at 1140.
4251.1 UFH-Petropavalovak, USSR heard at 0735 with a ATTY RY test tape. 50
baud/170 HZ shift/ normal sense. (Patrick Sullivan, La Crescenta, CA)
Welcome to Ullllly World, Patrick. Feel free to report your ATTY loggings
oft en.
4257.5 WL022Mobile A. AL noled at 11 46 wllh a CW DE marker.
4271.0 FUJ-French Naval Radio Noumea. New Caledonia at 1149 with a cw V
marker. ATTY lnl er1erence noted from CFH on the same frequency.
4277.0 ZLB-Awaru a Radio, New Zealand with a DE CW marker al 11 52.
4286.0 VHP-Royal Australian Navy, Canberra. Australia heard at 11 55 with a
CW V marker.
4310.0 WNU31Slldell Radio, LA at 1200 with a cw ca marker.
4313.0 FUG-French Naval Radio, La Reg ine, France noted with av cw marker
al 0543. (John Combs-Jacksonville, FL)
9VG-Singapore Radio, Singapore heard with a real weak signal al 1201.
Station was sending a CW ca marker transmission.
4315.0 F70 working N51 discussing radio/ generator problems at 0543. This
was a simplex frequency In USB. (John Combs, Jacksonville, FL) This Is
probably a USN tactical channel, Johned.
4319.0 XSG-Shanghal Radio. China with a real weak kslgnal al 1204 with a CW
CO marker transm ission.
4326.0 J DS-Nagasaki Radio, Japan al 1204 with a CW ca marker broadcast.
Signal levels weak.
4332.5 J CK-Kobe Radio. Japan with an extremely weak CO CW marker signal
at 1208.
4351.0 KFS-San Francisco, CA monllored w llh an ARO telex al 0508. 100
baud/170 HZ shift. (Patrick Sullivan. La Crescenla, CA)
4352.5 VIP-Perth Radio. Australia wllh a callslgn only CW marker plus ARO Idler
at t 213.
4355.0 WLO-Mobllle Radio. AL at 1215 In CW w ith a callslgn only marker and

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ARO Idler.
4356.0 KPH-San Francisco Radio, CA with a v CW marker at 1222.
4356.5 VIS-Sydney Radio, Australia heard wllh a callslgn o nly CW marker and
ARO idler at 1220.
44 13.2 High seas operator working the cruise ship "Nordic Prince m USB al
0352 in USB.(Trevor Stanley, Fl agstatt. AZ) Probably WLO-Moblile AL
on ship-to-shore channel 41 9. Ship side of comms on 4118.8. Welcome
to the column Trevor, Please repor1 often-ed.
4419.4 Iranian gunboats orderin g the vessel "Holland 55' to stop engines and
be prepared to be boarded at 0340. AJI lransmlssions in USB.
4530.0 Possible Mexican military traffic channel al 06 t3. Transm issions in LSB.
Similar traffi c to 3425 bu t a different operator. (John Combs,
Jacksonville, FL)
4558.0 Spanish gents In USB during most evening hours. This is a Spanish
drug traffic network. (Mark Knowllon, Melbo urn e. FL)
4665.0 Missionary aviation fellowship noted at 1530 with check-Ins and aircraft
traffic in USB. (AB. Palmarola, Honduras) This for the unique loggings.
AB. and please feel free to report l o Utlllly World often-ed.
501 5.0 German female five-dlgll number transmission noted al 0610. Each
group repealed two times before the next group read. Al 0616 a long
tone was transmitted. no more numbers but the earner remained for a
lime. (John Combs. Jacksonville, FL)
5120.0 SAHSA Airlines noted on this frequency In USB at various limes. Traffic
sent was regarding passenger lists, baggage, fllgh depar1ures etc. (AB.
Palmarola. Honduras)
51 25.0 RFE Holzklrchen feeder, Germany noted programming at 0550 in ISB.
(David Heilzinger. Dover, DE)
5421.6 NMG-US Coast Guard New Orleans, LA with unclassified ATTY traffic al
0500. 75 bacd/ 170 HZ shift/ reversed sense. (Palrlck Sullivan. La
Crescenta, CA)
5490.0 Missionary aviation fellowship, Slgualepegue, Honduras air-to-ground
communications noted w ith check-Ins at 1530 i n USB. (AB. Palmarola,
Honduras)
5547.0 Aerorad10 ATC-San Francisco. CA working Continenlal 41 al 0430 in
USB. The aircraft was requesting an altltude change. (Trevor Stanley,
Flagstaff. AZ)
5550.0 Aeroradlo ATC-New York, NY working an Aeroflot flight al 0245 in USB.
Aircraft givi ng a position repor1 to New York. (Trevor Stanley. Flagslaff.
AZ)
Aeroradlo ATC-SanJuan. Puert o Rico working an Unld aircraft at 39
north, 50 west. Aircraft was headi ng for Kennedy. (John Combs.
Jackson ville. FL)
5574.0 Aeroradlo ATC-San Fraaaaanclsco. CA working American flight 56 in
USB at 0455. ATC was giving 56 clearan ce to the Sanla Barbara slrport
via San Marcos. (Trevor Stanley, Flagstatt, AZ)
5616.0 Aeroradlo ATC-Santa Marla. Azores working TWA flight 90. Giving ATC
an allitude and position report In USB at 0438. Also New York ATC
working USAF MAC 60196 at 0343. 60 196 was roquesllng a change in
altitude. (Trevor Stanley, Flagstatt. AZ)
Aeroradlo ATC-Gander, Newfoundland working Speedbird 450 at 0430
In USB. (Trevor Stanley. Flagstatt, AZ) Speednlrd Is lhe on-t11e-air
callsign for BOAC (British Overseas Airline Company)-ed.
5692.0 German female numbers stallon al 0600. 3-digils repealed 3 limes then
counted 0-10. (David Hellzinger, Dover, OE)
5690.0 Coast Guard cutter Vigilant. Coast Guard Rescue 1717 and 2118, Coast
Guard COMSTA Miami working each olhor al lhe scene or the cruise
liner Scandinavian Star engine room fi re. Units stayed on scene and on
this channel most of the morning Eastern. Finally moved up 10 8984 kHz
later In the day. All transmissions In USB.
58 10.0 Spanish female four-digit numner groups noted around 0200. Gave a
group of about 600 numbers before going off the air abruptly at 0248.
(Bill Cantrell. Ft. Worth, TX) Thanks for the logging, Bill. Please report
often.-ed.
Spanish female four-digit number station heard at 0618. Signal very
strong. (John Combs. Jacksonville. FL)
5920.0 Noted an
beacon In CW on this channel al 0637. (John Combs.
Jacksonville, FL)
6051.6 WLO Mobile. AL with ARO news bulletin at 0312. 100 naud/ 170 HZ shift.
(Patrick Sullivan. La Crescen ta, CA)
6344 .2 HLFSeoul Radio, South Korea heard w ith a weak signal at 1231 with a
CW CO marker broadcast.
6383.0 NMC-US Coast Guard San Francisco. CA at 1237 with a CW CO marker.
strong signal.
6400.5 EAD2-Aranjuez Radio. Spain hoard with a OE CW marker al 0640. (John
Combs. Jacksonville, FL)
64 12.0 9VG Singapore Radio. Singapore noted al 1243 with a CO CW marker
al 1234.
6416.7 CCS-Chilean Naval Santiago, Chile sending a ATTY RY test tape al
0302 50 baud/ 850 HZ ShlM/ normal sense. (Patrick Sullivan. La
Crescenla. CA)
6463.5 HKB-Barranquilla Radio, Colombia al 0643 with a CO cw marker. (John
Combs. Jackson ville. FL)
VII Port Kennedy Radio, Thursday Island. Australia heard al 1253 w11h a
V CW mark er. Real nice signal. Noted several weaker CW signals
underneath VII marker possibly olher Australian coaslals known 10
Inhabit this frequency.
6465.0 FUM-French Naval RAdlo Papeete, Tahiti noted w ith a V CW marker al
0643. (John Combs, Jacksonville. FL)
6506.4 NOJ-US Coast Guard Kodiak, Alaska worki ng the US Coast Guard cutter
Confidence al 0400 i n USB. (Trevor Stanley. Flagstatt, AZ)
6577.0 Aeroradio ATC-New York, NY working navy aircraft "Navy JB443" i n
USS al 041 5. Aircraft giving a position and allilude report.
6645.0 NOAA operations worki ng various Gull aircraft In USB at various times.

MONITOR ING TIM ES

WORLD RADIO NEWS

This frequency Is being used by operation Gale" which Is lhe project of
studying lhe rormallon of northeasters along the easl coasl. (Mark
Knowlton, Melbourne, FL)
6745.0 Cl02 number slallon al 0130 Thursdays UTC. This Is an Israeli Mossad
numbers oullel.
6761.0 SAC-COHO 99 monitored calling Sl<yblrd al 0405 In USB. (Trevor
Stanley, Flagstaff, AZ) This Is SAC channel Ouebec-ed.
6800.0 World Relief. They send benevolent food donallons lo rerugee camps.
USB and noled at various limes. (AB. Palmarola, Honduras)
6840.0 This Is a very lnleresllng number channel. Al 0141 noted a five-digit
Spanish number transmission. Al 0230 monitored a Spanish four-digit
broadcast. Between 0242-0243 lime pips were heard on lhe channel. Al
0330 four-digit CW numbers broadcast was lransmllled. Al 0400 on
Thursday UTC I monitored a RTTY transmission bul could not gel lhe
PK-232 booted up l o copy whal was being sent These transmissions
are quile strong and could be coming from lhe Jupiter lnlel slle.
6963.1 NMG-US Coast Guard New Orleans, LA with unclassllled RTTY tral11c at
0325. 75 t>aud/ 170 HZ shill/ normal sense. (Patrick Sullivan, La
Crescenla, CA)
7400.0 SOSAAJrllnes of La Celba. Honduras heard al various limes with charter
airline lra111c In USB. (AB.Palmarola, Honduras)
7665.0 Monoilored CW slallon XE4 transmilllng a series of Vs al 0646. Who?
Where? (John Combs, JackSonvllie, FL) Good question John. Any help
cul there?-ed.
7775.0 Christian mission radio communlcallons from San Luis. Honduras
monitored al various limes In USB. (A B. Patmarota. Honduras)
7835.0 U.S. Nallonat Guard troops stationed In Yero, Honduras noled on lhts
channel lransmilling at various times In USB. (AB. Patmarota.
Honduras)
8903.0 Aeroradto ATC-Kinshasa, Zaire Unld alrcrall al 0250 In USB giving an
altltude and position report. Heavy slallc from storms In lhe area.
(Trevor Stanley, Ftagsta11, AZ) Nice catch Trevor-ed.
8984.0 Coast Guard Rescue Helo 6571 working Miami COMSTA at 1253 In
USB. Helo Airborne heading for lhe Grand Bahama Islands.
8993.0 USAF GCCSMacDill AFB, FL working Bravo 5 Julien (Navy alrcrall-ed.)
al 0450 In USB. MacDill requesting altitude and position report.
9072.0 SAC-SIOP Forces alrcrall calling Sl<yklng al 0500 In USB. (Trevor
Stanley. Flagstaff. AZ) This ts SAC channel Romeo-ed.
11070.0 LOR-Argentina naval radio Puerto Belgrano sending telex RTTY tra111c at
0115. 75 baud/ 170 HZ shill/ normal sense (Patrick Sullivan. La
Crescenta. CA)
11243.0 SAC-Unld stallon with a coded broadcast at 0400 In USB.
"RCOHJKNRIDL" (Trevor Stanley. Ftagsta11, AZ) This Is SAC channel
Alpha One-ed.
11282.0 Aeroradlo ATC-Honolulu, HI working United 182 at 0407 In USB. Alrcrall
passed on position, Temperature, sind speed and an altitude report lo
Honolulu. (Trevor Slantey, Flagslal1, AZ)
11476.0 HMS79-KCNA Pyongyang.North Korea with RTTY English news
transmission al 0330. 50 baud/ 240 HZ shill/ normal sense. (Patrick
Sullivan. La Crescenla. CA)
11530.0 Spanish female four-digit numbers slallon noted at 01 35. (David
Heilzlnger. Dover, DE)
12523. 1 UKKl-Unld Meleo sending an ATTY RY test tape al 03 15. 50 baud/ 170
HZ shill/normal sense. )Patrick Sullivan. La Crescenla. CA) Congrads
Pat. you snagged the geotog rersman an USSR NIS Research Vesseted.
12664.5 French naval Radio-Papeete. Tahlll monllored at 1233 w llh a CW V
marker.
12682.5 PKF-Mal<assar Radio, Indonesia In with a nice signal at 1241
transmilting a cw ca marker.
12709.0 8PO-Brldgetown Radio, Barbadoes heard al 1252 wilh a DE CW marker.
12724.0 9VG-Singapore Radio. Singapore at 1256 w ith a cw CO marker. weak
wilh Interference.
12735.0 HLX-Seout Radio, Soulh Korea sending a lral1ic !isl al 1300 In CW.
12743.0 JJC-KYODO News Service Tol<yo. Japan noted with a FAX signal al
0045. 60 LPM/IOC 576. (Patrick Sullivan. La Cre scenta. CA)
12750.1 NIK-US Coast Guard Boston, NA wilh a FEC weather transmission al
0020. 100 baud/ 170 HZ shill. (Patrick Sullivan, La Crescenta, CA)
12785.0 XSX-Keelung Radio. Taiwan heard at 1228 wilh a CO CW marker.
12856.0 XSG-Shanghat Radio. China with a real weak CO CW marker.
12889.5 NMO-US Coast Guard Honolulu. HI heard al 11 59 wilh a CW CO
marker.
12906.4 DZJ-Butacan Radio. Philippines at 11 56 with a cw CO marker.
12936.0 DZNNavolas Radio, Philippines heard wilh tral1ic lo an unknown ship al
1145 In CW.
13084.0 NMO-US Coast Guard Honolulu. HI heard al 0030 calling CO. Mode
was FEC 100 baud/ 170 HZ shill. (Patrick Sullivan, La Crescenla. CA)
13084.5 NMO-US Coast Guard Honolulu. Ht monitored calling ca at 0231. Mode
was FEC 100 baud/ 170 HZ shill. (Patrick Sullivan. La Crescenla, CA)
13580. 1 HMK25-KCNA Pyongyang. North Korea with a RTTY news transmission
at 0837. 50 Baud/ 250 HZ shill/ reverse sense. (Patrick Sullivan. La
Crescenla. CA)
13597.4 IMB56-Rome Meleo. Italy monitored al 1326 w ilh a FAX signal. weak
copy made the picture hardly readable. Looked llike a weather map or
Europe.
13636.2 "P" beacon-Kallntngrad, USSR noted In cw al 1330.
13815.0 KRH50-Department of Slale Radio. London. England al 1335 wilh a ORA
CW marker.
13995.5 VOA (USIA) Monrovia, Liberia wllh a news file al 0131 or English news.
75t>aud/425 HZ shill/ reverse sense. (Patrick Sullivan. La Crescenta,
CA) This Is lhe USIA African file service-ed.

14410.0 RIZ54-Radlo Moscow feeder. USSR heard at 1346 using ISO, noted
Russian on both sidebands. (Gayle Van Horn. Orange Park, FL)
14568.2 HMF32-KCNA Pyongyang, North Korea wllh a RTTY RY test al 0300. 50
baud/500 HZ shill/reverse sense. (Patrick Sullivan. La Crescenta, CA)
14901.7 CLN451 -Prensa Lallna Havanna, Cuba at 2000 wllh a RTTY RY test
tape. 50 baud/ 425 HZ shill/ normal sense. (Patrick Sullivan. La
Crescenla, CA)
14982.5 RBV76-Tashkent Meleo. Uzbeck, USSR monllored wilh a weak FAX
weather map at 1400.
14996.0 RWM-Moscow time slallons, USSR noted al 1405 wilh time licks.
15644.0 AOKSpanlsh Navy/ US Navy ROTA. Spain heard al 151 5 Wilh a FAX
weather map of lhe Indian Ocean.
15950.0 RBl77-Moscow Meleo. USSR monllored al 1530 wllh a FAX map of
Russia
15875.0 5LA25-VOA (USIA) Monrovia, Liberia wllh an English RTTY news file al
0010. 75 baud/ 425 HZ shllt/ reverse sense. (Patrick Sullivan. La
Crescenla, CA) This Is lhe USIA African file servlce-ed.
15876.2 CLN-Prensa Latina Havanna al 0239 with a RTTY RY lesl tape. 50
baud/ 425 HZ shill/ reverse sense. (Patrick Sullivan. La Crescenla. CA)
This Is CLN 488 I bellev~d.
16005.0 IDR6-ltallan naval radio at 1522 wllh a V CW marker.
16065.0 RFE Holzkirchen feeder. Germany heard al 1524 In ISB. (Gayle Van
Horn. Orange Park. FL)
16069.9 JJC-KYODO News Service Tol<yo. Japan with a FAX signal at 2245. 60
LPM/ IOC 288. (Patrick Sullivan, La Crescenla. CA)
16458.0 Monitored the following transmission at 1530: wv BPA BPA BPA" 1
believe this could be a new Xlnhua Beijing, China CW outlet. Heavy
Interference noted a Unld Tor type stallon.
16861 .7 PKX-Jal<arta Radio. Indonesia makes a rare appearance on this
frequency. thankS to WNU Slldell being silent. Noted a CW CO marker
al 1314. Nice signal levels.
16903.0 SVM-Alhens Radio, Greece at 1325 wllh a V CW marker.
16910.0 TFA-Reykjavlk Radio. Iceland monitored al 1327 wllh a cw ca marker
transmission.
16922.0 UOA4-Klev Radio, Ukraine. USSR heard calling a ship. Station has a
real wlerd CW marker. Monitored at 1603 wllh a weak signal.
16928.4 LFX-Rogaland Radio, Norway heard al 1331 with a CW CO marker.
16938.6 GYA-Royal Navy London, England monitored wllh a FAX weather map
of sea/swell forecast al 1530.
16942.8 YUR-Rijel<a Radio, Yugoslavia, at 1337 wllh a V CW marker signal.
17067. 1 JJC-KYODO News Service Tol<yo. Japan wllh a FAX signal at 2230. 60
LPM/ tOC 288. (Patrick Sullivan. La Crescenta. CA)
17128.5 ZLO-Royal New Zealand Navy Walouru monllored wilh a AR DE CW
marker at 1421 .
17162.0 PPO-Ollnda Radio. Brazil at 1429 with a CW v marker.
17165.6 CLA-Havanna Radio. Cuba heard wllh a traffic list In CW at 1430. Nice
signal here In north Florida.
17180.0 HWN-French Naval Radio Paris. France transmllllng av cw marker at
1433. Medium strength signal.
17204.8 NMC-US Coast Guard San Francisco. CA heard wllh a FEC ID/ CO
callup at 1800. 100 baud/ 170 HZ shlfl. (Patrick Sullivan. La Crescenta.
CA)
18191.0 CLN603-Prensa Lallna Havanna. Cuba monllored at 221 1 with Engtist1
ATTY news. 50 t>aud/ 425 HZ shill/ normal sense. (Patrick Sullivan. La
Crescents. CA) This one Is beamed lo lhe Far Easl. You should get
prelty good reception on a regular basts Pal-ed.
18240.0 Spanish female flve-digll numbers broadcast al 1907. Weak signal
strength. (John Combs-JackSonvllte, FL)
18241.5 LB054-Telam Buenos Aires. Argentina monllored w lll1 a 50 baud/ 650
HZ shlfl/ reverse sense RTTY signal at 1935. (Patrick Sullivan. La
Crescenla. CA) Tra111c??-ed.
18431.2 Reuters News Service photos monitored al 1750. Mode was FAX 60
LPM/IOC 288. (Patrick Sullivan. La Crescenta. CA) This is probably
LR083 Reuters wire pholo service out of Buenos Aires. Argentina. Pated.
18755.9 lnlerpot-monllored a French bullelln using the ARO mode at 2255. 100
t>aud / 170 HZ shill. (Patrick Sullivan. La Crescenla. CA)
19063.8 CLP1 -Prense Lalina Havanna. Cuba heard a RTTY signal al 2030 using
50 baud/ 1000 HZ shlfl/ normal sense. (Patrick Sullivan. La LCrescenla,
CA)
19438.5 LOR-Argentina Naval Radio Puerto Belgrano transmilllng a ATTY
shipping advisory al 1820. 75 baud/ 170 HZ shift / normal sense. Also
noted at 2156 w llh a 75 baud/ 425 HZ shill/ normal sense sending 5 llr
groups and ID. Frequency noled at 19438.7. (Patrick Sullivan. La
Crescenla, CA)
20013.1 NMC-US Coasl Guard San Francisco. CA transmllllng FAX weather
maps at 1945. 120 LPM/ IOC 576. (Patrick Sullivan. La Crescenta, CA)
21837.1 NPM-US Navy Pearl Harbor. Ht sending FAX weather maps al 1830. 120
LPM/ IOC 576. (Patrick Sullivan. La Crescenla. CA)
22461 .0 French Naval Radio Noumea. New Caledonia heard al 0039 with a V
CW marker.
22479.0 KPH-San Francisco Radio, CA monitored with a V CW marker al 0037.
22574.5 NMO-US Coast Guard Honolulu. HI sending FEC unclassified 1rffic al
1943. 100 t>aud / 170 HZ shill. Also noted al 1930 calling CO. (Patrick
Sullivan. La Crescenla, CA)
22567.5 KPH-San Francisco Radio. CA al 0033 wllh a CW v marker.

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No matter what port ion of the ra dio spcct rum you li sten to, interfe ren ce, or ORM as
it is sometimes called, is a problem. In fact,
users of the shortwave frequ encies arc hard
pressed to find any signal without int e rference -- which is a situation vast ly different
from what liste ners of do mestic services
expect. Newcomers are some times so fru st ratcd that they give up th e hobby. The
tru th is, however, that serious listen ers on
any band arc plagued by the sa me thing
whenever t hey attempt to listen beyo nd th e
"power-house" signa ls.
Out all is not lost! There a rc things you can
do t o combat ORM. Depending on the
st re ngth and type of interfe rence, you m ay
even be ab le to nearly e liminate it. But
before we can talk about how to stop in terfe rence, we mu st lea rn to identify it -- a task
easier said than do ne in pr int!

Identifying the Noise

There are two broad categori es of interference: Man-made and Natural.
Technically, natural interference (or static)
is not "int erfere nce", but is classified as
"noise." Static is caused by the e lectromagnetic signals re leased by lightni ng, a nd is
characterized by its broadba nd nature . If
you have ever listened to AM ra dio as a
thunderstorm approaches, you kn ow only
too well what static sounds like, a nd will
rea dily be able to identify it , even in it s less
ob noxiou s form s.
Occause it is caused by lightning, stat ic is
more prevalent in th e loca l summ e r. It is
also more both e rsome at lower freq uenci es,
and affects AM transmissions much more
than FM. As a re su lt, LW and AM list eners
a rc particularly plagued by stat ic during the
warmer weather a nd it is difficult to seriously DX those bands except in the wint er.
As for "true" interference, the re a re a
nu mber of different type s, each with it s own
characterist ics and cures.

True Interference:
Types and Cures
The first broad category of interference is
"receiver caused" di sturbances.
Especia lly with older receivers, the primary
source of receive r induced ORM arc
"im ages." An im age is caused by the
rece iver not properly filtering ou t the

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undesired signal generated by its loca l oscillator. That mouthful mea ns, in essence,
that due to a design limitati on the rece iver
is trying to receive two frequencies at the
same time . As a result, a statio n ocher th a n
the one you arc t rying to receive is forcing
it s way through the receiver.
To check if images are a problem with your
receiver find a strong signa l. Then tune 910
kHz (or two times the Intermediate
Frequency, if it is something other tha n 455
kHz) up and down and check if the same
signal is present. If it is at either of those
points, your receiver is not completely
filt ering the unwanted signals in it s
circuitry, and im ages will be a problem.
Another receiver problem is "ove rloading" - distortion a nd "bleeding th rough" of a
strong station adj a cent to the desired
sign al. P ortables a nd transistor receivers
(as opposed to tube receivers) are particula rly plagued by overloading and if you are
near a powerful transmillcr you will note
the problem eve n in t he most excellent
receiver.
The last major receiver-caused ORM is the
in ternal noise ge nerated by th e receiver
it se lf. This can range from hum due to poor
power supply fil teri ng to noise generated by
some digital freq uency displays or microprocessors. This sort of noise can best be
id emified by its absence in any but the
offending receiver.
The second broad category of ORM is
interference from or inh e re nt in the propagation ci rcuit. Any ORM that is not generated by the receive r generally falls into this
category, an d the major forms a re listed
below in no pa rti cular order.

Co-channel Interference
and Jamming
First, th e re is co-channel interference and
jamming. This is most common on medium
a nd shortwave signals since there arc so
many sta tion s trying to share the same
frequencies. It results from a stati on litera lly trans mitting o n the same frequency as
the one you a rc t ryi ng to receive. Whi le cocha nnel ORM is caused unintention ally,
there a rc severa l nations, most notably the
USSR a nd C hil e tha t intentionally broadcast either a nothe r program or random
noise on a frequency used by a broadcaster
th ey wis h to block from bei ng receive d.
Intentionally jammed s ignals sound unlike
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any other n oise, and o nce you have heard a

ja mmer in action, it is easy to identify the
raspy hash noise they use. Often, ja mmer
transmitters ide ntify them selves with a one
or two letter M orsc Code signal a t regular
intervals.

Splatter
One of the most common fo rms of int erference is "splatt er," o r mo re forma lly, adjacent cha nnel interference. Splatter resu lts
w hen two stati ons transm itting on adjacent
fre qu e ncies both fall within th e bandwidth
of you r rece iver, a nd both a rc thu s partially
audible. This is particularly common on SW
fr equencies, but obviously ca n occur
anywhere.
A form of int e rference unique to AM
signa ls (like th ose broadcast on MW a nd
SW) arc "hctcrodynes." A he terodyne is
caused wh e n th e "carrier waves" of two
adjacent transmi ssions "beat" against e ach
other, and cause a tone. The si tu ation is
analogous t o striking two keys on a piano,
and in addition to sounding the two notes
struck, a third note th at is caused by the
interaction oft he sound waves is heard. In
this case, it is th e radio waves interacting,
but the result is a n audible "whistle", the
pitch of which is dependent on the how fa r
apart (in frequency) th e two statio ns are.
H etcrodyncs arc broke n in to two broad
categories, based on the audio frequency of
the note produced -- thus you will hear of
either high frequency or low frequency hctcrodynes, depending o n the pitch of the
beat note produced.
Also common in a ll bands is loca l noise
caused by ma chine ry, light swit ches, or
other e lectrical devices. Everything fr om
car ignitions, to dimmer switches, to
furnaces can a nd do generate rad io signals,
and all these modern co nveniences can
int erfere with rad io reception if they a rc
close enough to yo ur receiver a ntenna.

Distortion
The last maj or source of interferen ce we'll
dea l with he re is distort ion in the circuit
it self. Although simp le fad ing is not classed
as in terfe rence, there arc a couple of exotic
fo rms of fadin g that do fall in to this category. Best kn own is th e "multi-path"
distortion so com mon in stereo FM reception . This is caused when a building or
other large structure reflects a radio wave,

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a nd two slightly ou t of phase signals reach your a ntenna. The result
is distortion a nd loss of ste reo separatio n.
A lso common is "n uttc r fadi ng" on SW, wh ich is a rapid, dee p
fa ding pa ttern usually created when a signal passes through the
ea rth' s aurora l zone. Se lective fading is also common in A M
signals, a nd resu lts when the sidebands of a tra ns mission fade at
differe nt tim es, causing a distin ctive "talk ing fr om the bott om of a
we ll" distorti on to t he tra nsmiss ion.
Now th at we have run down the maj or types o f Q RM, we ca n
discuss some ways to help lessen their affects.

Curing the QRM Blahs

The re are four basic ways to reduce in terfe rence. D ep e nding o n
the type of int e rfe rence you a re encountering, one or a ll may e limina te or at least lessen the p roblem: changing a nt ennae, cha nging
ra d ios, adding so mething to th e radi o, or s idestepping th e problem
a ltogeth e r.
If your proble m is caused by so me other stat ion interfering wit h
t he signal you want to receive, the best solution dea ls wit h your
antenna . A directional a nte nna will do wonde rs to help you separate sta tio ns on the sam e frequency so long as the sta tions are
coming from differen t a reas.
Simila rly, if the p rob lem is with fad ing of so me so rt, using a diffe re nt a nt e nna, o r more tha n one a nt e nna, may he lp e liminate your
problem . A gain, di rectional a nte nna systems may he lp if mu lti-path
is the problem since th e rcnccted signal often co me s fro m a diffe re nt direction than the ma in signa l.
Lastly, if you a rc having p roblems w ith im ages, a sha rply resonant
design (like a sma ll tu ned loop) will a lso help greatly by re ducing
th e undesired image fr e que ncy before it ever gets to the radio . In
e ssence, even though the radio is sti ll rece iving two fre quencies at
th e sam e time, the re is almost no signa l on the undesired fre quency
be ca use the ante nna docs not let it th ro ugh.

Using Your Radio to Cut Back QRM

T here arc a couple of different things you e n do with your radio
itse lf to cut back o n QRM's effects. Fi rst and fo re most, yo u should
tune as carefully as possible. It sounds si lly, bu t a grea t dea l of
Q RM ca n be e limin ate d simply by tu ning critica lly. A lso of use, if
you r rad io has such a prov ision, is to na r row the sele ctivity ba ndw idth by swit ching in a n IF filter. This will he lp with adj acent channe l Q RM and heterodyncs since it will cut back on the p orti on of
the radio sp ect rum your rad io is look ing at and thus e liminate
interference fr om nearby tra nsmissi ons. It may a lso degra de th e
a udio quality somewhat, but th ere is no such th ing as a fre e lunch!
T he no ise limi ter, a feature almost all communications receivers
have -- a nd a home-brew proj ect that is e asy to constru ct if your rig
is lacki ng this fea t ure -- arc particu la rly usefu l in he lp in g save your
ca rs when listening to a stat ic-prone signa l. I t's a che ap a nd easy fix
fo r tha t type of inte rfe rence.
Lastly, th ere is a rece ption techn ique ca ll ed Exa lt ed Ca rrie r S ingle
Sideband (E CSS fo r short) t ha t ca n he lp reduce sp la tter a nd heterodyncs in extreme cases. In esse nce, this invo lves turning on the
BFO (the device u sed to listen to Single Sideba nd tran smissions
such as used by most ham s) wh e n listening to an AM signal, a nd
tuning to one s ideban d . T hi s effectively removes one sideband and
the carrier wave, a nd allows you to ch oose to listen on ly to the sid e-

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band that is not badly interfe re d wi th. If you have a fa irly stable
rad io, a nd the abi lity to liste n to SS B t ransmissions, t his technique
can be most useful.

Filters and Other Add-Ons

Radi o add-ons may a lso help in some cases. The most common
for ms of add-o n a re audio fi lters and equa lizers . Both ca n "wipe
out" hct c rodyncs aft er the fa ct by simply cut ting out t he a udio
tones tha t a re interfering w ith you r enj oyment of the transmission.
A device th at is rare ly used today is t he Q -multiplie r. This is a
cheap way to add ext ra sel ectivity to a radio that does not have
p rovisions fo r selectable bandwidths. If you r rig is one t hat fits this
category, a Q-multip licr all ows you to co nt ro l both t he amplificatio n of the signa l and the ba ndwidth. It can a lso decrease t he
sensitivity over a na rrow range of freq uencies to "notch out" a n
offe nding statio n. The details a rc b eyond t he scope o f th is column,
b ut perhaps T erry Staudt w ill cover th is in so me future Technical
Topics column.
Lastly, pre-selecto rs a nd an tenn a tuners ca n help re duce images
a nd in crease the perceived signa l st rength of a sta ti on to make
sta tic, receiver noise a nd ot he r interfere nce more tolerable.
O f co urse, fo r li stene rs seek ing to hea r an Int e rn at ional Broa dcast
st ation the re is a "lateral solut ion" lo the interferen ce problem that
works better t han a ny of the met hods suggested above. Simply
cha nge fr equ e ncies to o ne t hat is not so severely interfered wi th!
T ha t is so obviou s, th a t pe rh a ps it gets overlooke d, but as a lways,
th e si mp lest cure is o ften the best.
T hat will do it for th is mo nth's "Getting Started." A s a lways, if you
have a qu estion, fee l free to drop me a line at t he address above.
Include a n SASE a nd 1 wi ll be happy to hel p.
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June 1988

35

FEDERAL FILE

Dave Jones
430 Gamor Drive
Suffield, Oil 44260

Protecting Voice Transmissions

Acronyms and the federa l government a rc
a lm ost synonymous term s whe n it comes to
federa l and milita ry monit oring ( FEDMILMON). Two of the most co mmon in the
VH F /U HF sp ectrum arc D.E.S. a nd D.V.P.
D.E.S. translates to "Digita l Encryption
Standard." D.Y.P. translates to "Digit al
Voice
Protection."
l)oth
arc
ofte n
mistnkenly interchanged as like te rm s.
D.E.S. and D.Y.P. arc d iffere nt methods of
d igi wl scramb lin g. D. E.S . is often used in
conj unct ion with D.Y.P. systems to provide
additional tra nsm issio n security.

Feds Converting to DES

The discrete digital values arc t hen scramb led based on stat istically unrelat ed ( i. e.
unique) codes. The data that is present with
the RF carrier is hen ce a digita l representation of the a nalog au di o which is scrambled
digitally.
The result heard by unit s no t equipped for
the digital secu re t ransm ission is the sound
of random no ise, that like when a squelch is
in the position whe re the re ceiver noi se is
heard on a freque ncy not being curren tly
ut il ized. The D .Y.P. system (a tvlotorol:i
trade name) has over 260 sept illion unique
codes!

DES: The National Standard

Federa l agencies in various sectio ns of the
Un it ed States are currently in the process of
co nverting to D .E.S. syste ms with both the
Un it ed States Departments of Ju stice and
Treasury slated t o adopt th e system.
The Fl)! has l he lead responsibility for
in tegrating into one system the voice
privacy systems being utilized by the Un ited
St ates Department of Justice (USDJ ) agencies. The United St a tes Department of
Trea sury (USDT) agencie s appear also to
be directly involved with the USDJ and the
D.E.S. conversion. Therefore, a brief
tutorial on digital voice pro tection is in line.

Working Out the Bugs

Digital voice protection will be widely
ut ilized by federal agencies nat ionwide in
the future once the "bugs" can be worked
ou t of the syste m. A concern that may not
be easi ly ove rcome is that signa l-to-n o ise
conditions must be very good t o permit
proper ope rat io n. Th e key is, o bviously,
int el ligible recovery of the t ransmitted
vo ice sign al. Problems with D.E.S. appea r
to be e ither logist ical (wit hin th e agencies)
or hardware. Logistica l prob lems typically
relate to different keying (code) of radios
between visiting agen ts and home field
agent s or among differen t gro ups of th e
home field agents (i.e. bank robbery squad
versus drug enfo rce me nt squ ad).
Digital voice p rotect ion (also noted as voice
privacy) systems utilize two level s t o obta in
desired securiry of the tran smitted material.
Th e first level is th e digi tizati o n of the
analog audio into discre te digita l values.

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June 1988

The Nat iona l Bureau of Standa rds (N13S )

has est ablished D.E.S. as the st a ndard
me t ho d of protecting dig it al data t ransmi ssio ns fo r all federal agencies. T he D.E.S.
module creates a un ique a nd o rth ogonal
vecto r encryption key va ri able that yield 70
quadrillion possibiliti es when combined
with D.V.P.
T he result is a mo re secure tran sm iss ion
when the system is properly performing
and, mo re importantly, a set st a ndard so
th at several
d ifferent
noncom pat iblc
syste ms arc not developed a nd field
dep loyed. A few key system fe atures of
D.Y.P./D.E.S.-equippcd system will be
prese nted, foll owed by a p rofile of the
USDJ agencies.
The Motoro la based DVP series radios, like
their MX ha nd-h eld se ries, o ffer two modes
of operations, clear or coded . The M X
series a ll ow clear voice t raffic to override
the DVP and switc h the receiver automatically into a clear reception mode. By this
ma n ne r a unit is able t o receive a ll traffic,
be it in th e clear or in coded mode . This
override feature would allow coded uni ts on
surve ill ance to receive a genera l ca ll about
a bank robbery, for exa mpl e.
T he MX units can be tailored for
multimodc ope ration where clear versus
coded status is automatically determined by
channel selection . A fiel d agent may be
opera! ing in the coded mode on channel
one on a surveill a nce and swit ch to channel
two in th e clear to co nt act the base srntion.

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The Department of Justice

T he United States Department of Just ice is
comprised of several major agencies. The
Attorney General of the United States is
the person directly in charge. He is assisted
by the Deputy Attorney General and Associate Allorncy General who ove rsee th e
ope rat ions of t he various agenc ies un der
th e auspices of the USDJ. Th e agencies
p resented t his month w ill be t he Bu reau of
Prisons (BP), the Drug E nfo rceme nt
Adm inistration ( DEA) a nd t he Un ited
States Marsha l Service ( UStv!). T he Fm ,
Immigration and Nat uralization Service,
including U.S. Border Patrol, and the U.S.
Allorneys will be presented in a second
column con ti nuing the coverage of t he
USDJ in the next issue of Mo11it01i11g

Times.
Table one presents the frequenc ies and
channel designato rs ut ilized by Ilurcau of
Prisons a nd the United States l\larshal
service. The BP is rumored to be swi tching
to a new set of frequencies with D.E.S.
capabil ities but the freque ncies li sted in
ta bl e one arc st ill active as press t ime .
U ni ted States Department of Just ice
fr equencies p resen ted a rc nationwide
assignments.

US Marshals
Th e US Marsha l service opcr:itions vary in
different sections of the country. For example, USM service o perations in t he
Cleveland area are usually t ransport ing
prisoners be tween loca l j ails a nd the courts.
However, t he USM service in T ulsa,
Oklahoma, ran its ow n wanted poste r in a
loca l newspa pe r. The poster had an individual's photograph and descri pt ion along
with n telephone numbe r and address fo r
those wishing 10 supply informat ion on the
whereabouts of the subject. T ha r individua l
had apparent ly escaped fr om federa l
custody while being charged fo r consp iracy
to import cocaine.

The Drug Enforcement Agency

I n today's Miami Vice-type world, T he Drug
Enforcement Admin istration is probably
just as widely k nown as the Fl)!. It receives
mention in almost every ep isode of the
popular TV show and a lm ost daily in the

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The DEA operates on a nationwide cha nn el / frequency set listed in
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DEA has been rep orted op erat ing on o th e r frequenc ies in the
4 17.400 to 419.000 MHz region wi th the m aj o rity reported between
418.625 and 419.000. Also the low power or com mon federal
government frequencies o f 4 18 .050, 418.075 a nd 41 8.575 sho uld not
be overlooked when mo nitoring DEA activities.

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37

DOMESTIC BROADCASTING - AM,

FM, and TY DXing

Paul Swearingen
3132 SE lrvi11gha111
Top eka, KS 66605

Following the FCC

AM rad io stat ion owners appear to be
moving towa rd some agreem e nt co ncern ing
sound quality. And they want the FCC to
take st ronger stands on other issues faci ng
them, especially that of in terference.
T he National Association of Broadcaste rs
has called for the FCC 10 stop granting
lice nses to new AMcrs until new technica l
sta ndards a rc created to reduce interfere nce to current stat ions. Several broadcast
ownership groups joined the NAB in
protesting current standards which have
created overlapping broadcast pattern s,
including skywave (nighttime) signa ls.
A number of groups w ith radio inte rests
have gone on reco rd as supporting the
NAB's AM precmphasis sta nda rd, fo rmulated by the National Radi o Systems Committee (NRSC). Filing favorab le comment s
wit h the FCC have been C a pital
Crawford
Broadcasting,
Cit ies/ABC,
Motorola, th e SBE, Della Electro nics,
Orba n, Fisher Broadcasting Su squehanna
Radio, the Consume r Electronics G roup,
WGN Broadcasting, CBS, and Group W.
The standard woul d limit stat ions to a 10
kH z audio bandwidth instead of the current
permi tted 15 kHz.
Continuing to oppose the sta ndard was
Bon nevil le
Internat ional,
questioning
w he ther stat ions could ever move back to a
15 kH z bandwidth standard. Jo ini ng
Bonneville in opposition we re Jacor Commu nications and Noble Broadcast ing.
Noble commen ted that instead of promoting AM improveme nt the proposed sta ndard could actually impede it , citing the
lack of co nsumer receivers which can now
reproduce high-fide lity sound.

Many Daytimers Now On At Night

Foll owing a qu ie t ruli ng by the FCC, ma ny
regional dayt imcrs now arc on t he air at
greatly reduced powers at night, ra ng ing
from 10 to 500 watts. Most a rc under 100
watts. As a result, many DXcrs have found
that it is now virtually impossible to hear
a nyth ing unusual on regional cha nn els -- at
least a t night before mi d night. Even th e
clea r-channel frequenci es of 940 and 1550
were included in the FCC's action.
About the only formerly daytime-nownightt im c stat ion 1 have heard has been
KL WN- 1320, Lawrence, Kansas, which
received a hefty 250-watt grant. A t a location some 23 miles fr om my house, KLWN's

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June 1988

new n ightt ime signa l seems to be equal in

strength to the other signals on 1320. By
compariso n,
gravcyarde r
KVOE-1400
Emporia, Kansas, at 1000 watt s and about
50 miles, al most never ri ses above the
nightt imc noise.
DXers might be able 10 bag a few new stations wh ich now stay on all night, bu t the
action by th e FCC has, on th e w hole, mere ly
resu lted in more use less noise fo r t he BCB
D Xcr to contend with.
On the ot her hand, even a station going
sile nt on a freq uency does not automatically
mean that a D Xer will st art logging newies.
I have not heard anyt hing new on 1250 since
WREN left the air last September, probably
beca use nea rly a ll stat ions with in 750 miles
or so had protected WREN at night.

New High Quality M-FM Receiver

R icha rd Scquerra has signed a cont ract to
bui ld a h igh qu a lity AM-FM receiver fo r
the NAB, but don't expe ct it t o be a DXcr's
dream. The New Yo rk engineer has been
asked to come up with a design w hi ch will
include AM ste reo/FM ste reo, cont inuous
digita l tuni ng b etwee n the two ba nds, the
N R SC standard, FMX decod ing, a signalstrcngt h LED, a nd a rotatable AM antenna.
Other re finements will inclu de decoding of
bot h Ka hn a nd C-Q UAM stereo signals.
Any such wide-band receiver, however, is
unl ikely to t une split frequenc ies or to
reject adjacent -chann e l reception. Even the
10 k Hz notch filt e r wi ll not p revent
overm odulatcd U .S. s tations fr om s lopping
ove r a channel or two. No technology
presen tly exists which w ill both make your
loca l AMer sound better and allow you to
tune fo re ign D X on an adjacent chan nel.

Pure Sounds from Crystals

It is said that the p urest AM sound possible
co mes from the crysta l radio . A nd Mark
Lawson of Lubbock, Texas, is hoping that
someone is still o ffering crystal radio kit s so
that his Scouts cou ld have fun building
the m -- j ust li ke he d id when he was a ki d.
Fortunately, severa l readers have forwarded more informat ion concerning compo ne nts . T erry Smith of Van Nuys,
Ca lifo rnia, with w hom I've spent many
p leasant hou rs talk ing about radio equipment a nd DX, sent me a cata log from
A ntique E lect ronic Supply (AES), 688 W.
MONIT OR ING TIMES

1st Street , T empe, Arizona 85281 (price

S2.00), which included such items as highimpedancc headsets and galena crystals
but, a las, no kits. D ave White of
C herryfield, Maine, noted that he uses the
booklet Radios that Work for Free by K.E.
Edwards, and All Abolll C1ystal Sets, by
Charles G reen. AES offers both in t he ir
catalogue.
I' ll continue to pass a long informat ion
concerning crysta l sets as I receive it. I may
even get enough time this summer to bu il d
one myself! If you order t he AES ca talogue,
be sure to mention t hat you hen rd about it
in Mon itoring Times.

DX Below 540
Fo r those of you who tune below 540 fo r
DX, you' ll find Ken St ryker's Updater to the
Aero/Marine Beacon Guide very usefu l. It 's
a labor of love, obviously, and lowfers
wou ld be lost without it. Th e Up dater is
S4.00 postpaid for both t he U.S. and
Canada, overseas $6.00; order fro m Ken at
2856-G.W. T ouhy, Chicago, IL 60645.
Ken has incorpo rated severa l new feat ures
into th e U pdater, including known
elevations of many beacons and designations of known double sidebands. T he
original Guide is st il l avai lable a t $10 in
Nort h America.

If you're interested in joining a club which

is devoted exclusively to longwavc, write to
the Longwave Club of America, 45
Wi ldflower Road, Levittown, PA 19057, fo r
information.

Information Needed on
Russian 66-73 MHz FM
I've had some int e rest ing correspondence
with a Finn ish MT reader and DXer who is
looking for a high-power an tenna and rf
amplifier 10 enable him to DX the R ussian
66-73 MHz FM broadcast band. Reijo
Siivonen, of Rauma, says th a t no one in
Europe appears to manufaclure such a
combo to e na ble him to lis1en to exot ic
music fro m the Soviet U ni on a nd oth er
Eastern Bloc countries. He can so metimes
hea r central Europe on FM now via sporadic E sk ip .
The closest NTSC TV channe l wou ld be
channel 4, and I've been trying to get in
touch w ith my loca l cable TV chief e nginee r
for his recommendat ions, but perhaps MT

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readers would be able to come up with some
addresses of manufacturers whom Reijo could
contact. I'd be happy to pass them alo ng.

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Speaking of antennas, J. Ken Kuzenski, Jackson,

Louisiana, came up with a variation of the passive
booster for AM, using coils around a beer can and
grounded to a ring that I described last year. He
soldered both the ground and lead of a female
coax connector (F-type, BNC, or any type will do)
to one end of a left-over coil, 77 turns of #22
stranded wire on 1.5 inch PVC (stronger than a
toilet tissue tube!). Then he connected the ot her
end of the coil to ground.

The EMP Series design is based

on t he National Communications
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The 200 W models are most sensi-

He then connected the coax connector to th e leadin of his available shortwave antenna, which happens to be a 55 foot Windom dipole running
north-south. After five minutes of work, Ken says
that by placing the coil near his BCB receiver, a
Sony ICF-2010, signa l strength of stat ions is
increased dramatically, a lthough he is unable to
null any stations.

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I use d a similar setup years ago with a ferrite

antenna and tunin g capacitor scrounged from a dead five-tube AM
radio, and as Ken says, the results were dramatic, much more so
than by connecting a longwire directly to the receiver's antenna
terminal. I'll have to see if I can dig up the plans for it sometime.
If you've discovered a quick and handy project as Ken has, won't
you share it with MT readers? Include a diagram, please, if
possible.

Win a Logbook!
Ken asks if I intend to include plans for a broadcast band loop in
the column sometime. Well, why not? But I'm going to let you
design it. Let's have a little contest, and the win ner will receive an
NRC Log, complete with Updaters. I'll include the plans in the
October column, just in time for the DX season. Postmark
deadline for entry w ill be July 10.

Please send all reader inquiries dire ctly.

Here are the ru les: (1 ) Your design may not have been prev iously
published. (2) Mat e ri als must be rea dily avai lab le from a ny
electronic, ha rdwa re, a nd lumber dea ler, an d a list of a ll materia ls
must accompany the design. (3) The easiest-co nstructed a nd most
user-friendly unam p lifie d loop providing a sign ifi ca nt signal ga in
will win the prize. (4) Everyone except my mothe r is e ligibl e to
enter.
I may a lso name a few honorable men tion s, sh oul d 1here be mult iple des~gns worthy o f me nt ion, and if so I'll awa rd 1he designers
something of value fr o m a round my s ha ck, the exact value com mensurate with th e design. Let's have fu n wi th it, an d let's make it
useful. Unt il next time , 73!
I

The signal from

the Caribbean
Beacon on 1610
kHz is boosted
as the coil
around the PVC
pipe is brought
nearer to the
receiver's
internal ferrite
rod antenna.

MONITORING TIMES

June 1988

39

PLANE TALK

Jean Baker, KIN9DD

213 W. Troy Ave. 4C
Indianapolis, IN 46228

A look at how radar lS utilized

within the modern ATC system
Radar--Radio Detection and R a nging.
According to
Webster's New Wodd
Dictionmy, it is a system or device th at
transmits radio waves to a reflecti ng object,
such as an aircraft, to determine its location,
speed, etc., by the reflected waves.
As aviat ion band mon itors, we are constantly hearing the word used in almost every
transmission between pilots and ai r traffic
controllers at both terminal and cnroute air
traffic control facilities. Let's examine the
various components which make up today's
modern radar system, a long with its associated
terminology.

Today's Modern Radar System

F irst of all, the National Airspace System
(NAS) comprises the common network of
U.S. airspace, air navigation faci lities, equipment, services, airports or landing areas, aeronautical cha rts, information and services, rules
a nd
regulations, procedures,
technical
information,
manpower
and
material.
I ncludcd are system compone nts shared
jointly with the military.
Concomitantly, the Nationa l Beacon Code
Allocation Plan Airspace (NBCAP Airspace)
is the airspace over United States territory
located wit hin the North Ame rican continent
between Canada and Mexico. This includes
adjacent territorial waters outward to about
the boundaries of oceanic control.

Primary and Secondary Radar

Primary Radar is a system in which a
minute portion of a radio pulse transmitte d
from a site is reflected by an object. T he
reflected signal is then received back at the
originating site fo r processing and display at
a n air traffic control faci lity.
Secondary (Surveillance) Radar, the Air
Traffic Control Radar Beacon System,
(ATCRBS), is a system in which the object to
be detected is fitted with cooperative e quipment in the form of a radio receiver/ tra nsmitter (transponder). Radar pulses transmitted
from the searching (interrogator) site trigger a
distinctive transmission from the transponder.
This reply transmission, rather than a
reflected signal, is then received back at the
transmitter /receiver site for processing and
display at an air traffic control fac ility. T he
replies received arc then mixed with the

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June 1988

primary radar returns and both arc displayed

on the same radarscope.
The transponder automat ica lly rece ives
the signals from the interrogator and
selectively replies with a specific pulse group
(code). These replies a rc indepe ndent of, and
much stronger than, a primary radar return.
A n integral part of the ATCRBS ground
equipment is the decoder which enables the
controller to assign discrete transponder
codes to each aircraft under his control. In
most cases, only one code will be <1ssigncd for
the entire flight. Assignments a rc made by the
ARTCC (Air Rou le Traffic Control Center)
computer on the basis of the National Beacon
Code A llocation Plan. T here arc 4096 ai rcraft
transponder codes which can be assigned.
When you hear an air traffic controller tell
a pilot whose flight he's working to "squawk
idcnt," this means that the pilot should
act ivate the identification fea ture of the trnnsponder which causes the assigned code
number to appear on the controller's
radarscope.

The Radarscope
The radarscope used by air tra ffic
controllers displays returns from both the primary radar system and the ATCRilS. These
returns, called targets, are what the controller
refers to in the control and separation of traffic. Data blocks (a lphanumeric display) show
the fl ight number, altitude, grou nd speed,
assigned climb or descent, emerge ncy, handoff, loss of radar contact, and ot her information of a n aircraft.
Rada r util ized by air traffic control facilities is divided into two broad general categories; A irport Surveillance Radar (AS R) and
A ir Route Surveillance Radar (ARSR) -- the
enroute or ARTCC function. Doth types can
scan through 360 degrees of azimuth and
present target information on a radar display
located in a n Air Traffic Control
Approach/Departure fa cil ity or Air Route
Traffic Control Center. This information is
used independent ly or in conjunction with
other navigational aids in the control of air
traffic.

Short Range Coverage

ASR (Airport Surveillance Radar) is
designed to provide short-range (50 miles)
coverage in the general vicinity of an a irport

MONITORING T I MES

a nd to serve as a n expedit ious means of

handling termin al area traffic t hrough
observation of precise aircraft locat ions on a
radarscope. Many medium to large radar
faci lities at airports in the United States utilize some form of the Automated Radar Terminal Systems (ARTS).
l n general, an ARTS displays ai rcraft
identification, flight plan data and other flight
associated information in conjunction with
the radar presentation (sec diagram). In addition to enhancing visualization of the air
traffic situation, ARTS facilitates intra- and
inter-facility transfer and coordi nat ion of
flight information. Each ARTS level has the
capability of communicating with other ARTS
types as well as with ARTCCs.
ARSR (Air Route Surveillance Radar)
refers to Air Rout e T raffic Control Center
(ARTCCs) radar used primarily to detect and
display an aircraft's position whi le cnroutc
between termina l areas. The ARSA enables
controlle rs to provide radar air traffic control
services when <1i rcraft are within 400 miles. In
some instances, ARSR may enable an
ARTCC to provide terminal radar services
sim ilar to, but usually more limited than,
those provided by a radar approach control.
National Airspace System Stage A comprises the en route Air Trnffic Control
System's radar, computers and computer programs, controller plan view displays
(PVDs/Radarscopcs), input/out put devices,
and the related commu nicat ions equipment
which arc integrated to form the heart of the
automated Instrument Flight Rules (I FR) air
traffic control system. This equipment performs Flight Data Processing (FOP) and
Radar Data Processing (RDP). It interfaces
with automated terminal systems and is used
in the control of enroutc aircraft.
Radar Data Processed (digit alized) Displays arc utilized 75 percent of the time; this
is referred to as being in the narrowband
mode. During the remaining hours the
back up (broadband) system is put into use so
that the ma in systems can undergo "preventive ma intenan ce." Each radar system has
several backups.
A number of airport surveillance radars
arc still two dimensional -- range and azimuth
only -- consequently, altitude information
must be obtained from the pi lot.
At some ATC locations sccondary-radaron ly gap-filler radar systems arc used to give

IN TRODU CING HI GH PERFORM ANCE

MON I TOR, AMATEUR & CB RADIO PRODUCTS
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lower alt itude radar coverage between two

larger radar systems, each of which provides
both primary and seconda ry radar coverage.
In these geographical areas aircraft without
transponders cannot be provided with rada r
service, nor ca n t ransponde r-equipped aircraft be provided with rada r advisories co ncern ing primary targets a nd weather.

and communi cations equipment for the

future of air traffic control is a continuous,
on-going process. You'll read about it, as it
happens, in Monitmi11g Times.

n maou r ac t u rf"r o f

a'flal~ ur ,

That's all for this month . The role that

Flight Service Stations play in t he world of
aviat ion and related communications will be
spotlighted in the next installment of Plane

Talk.

Precision Approach Radar

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by the military, although there is
RADAR SERVIC ES AND PROCEDURES
some civilian usage of it. Separate milita ry installations are
used to detect and display
azimuth, eleva tion and range of
aircraft on the fina l approach
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but it is primarily used to conduct a prec1s1on inst rument
approach wherein the controller
issues instructions to the pilot
based o n the aircraft's posit ion
in relation to the final approach
course (azimut h), the glidepath
(elevation) and the distance
(range) from the touchdown
poi nt o n the runway as displayed on the rada rscope.
Each scope is divided into
two parts. The upper half
presents altitude and distance
information, and the lower half
presents azimuth and distance.
Range is limited to IO miles,
azimut h to 20 degrees and
elevation to 7 degrees; co nsequently, only the fin a l approach
area is covered.

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the days when all radarscopes
we re mou nted horizo ntally, and
liu le plastic markers called
"shrimp boats," representing
flights, were pu shed around on
the scope to help controllers
identify th e aircraft. When
those shri mp boats were used,
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MON ITORING T IMES

J1111 e 1988

41

ON THE HAM BANDS

Ike Kerschner, N3/K

R.D . 1, Box 181 -A
Kunkletown, PA 18058

The National Traffic System

Sending third
pa rty
(no n-amateur)
messages has been part of a mateur radio since
its earliest d::iys. Pioneering hams enjoyed
clemonstrming their station's capabilities by
sending greetings to fri e nds and relatives all
over th e country. In those dawning days of the
hobby (and limited communication range), it
was common for an amateu r to send a
mcss::igc to a neighboring ham to be relayed
10 a more distant sta tion till it reached its
destination. T o be sure, some of the trips that
mess::ige took were round about -- to say the
least. But the dedication of those early hams
enabled a rather high percentage of messages
to be delivered.
The American Radio Relay League
The American Radio Rel ay League was
actu ally fo rmed in an effort to organize
message handling. Composed of amateurs
who were interested in span ni ng the continent
with messages for friends an d relatives and to
ma intain communicat ion during emergency o r
disaster situations, the basic desire was to
provide a public service. And they did it with
gusto 1
Public demonstrations were often organized and one of the mo re popular feat ured the
exchange of messages between political
figures or various sta tes. On Governo r's Day,
for example, messages would be sent between
the governors of various states or to the President of the United States. These demonstrations were held on a n annual basis and were
the focus of much media attention and publ icity for amateur radio.
Emergency Traffic
Floods, fire and other disasters fo und the
amateu r playing an impo rtant part in maintaining communicatio ns with the outside
world. Often, a lo ne amateur would be a
stricken community's only contact with
au t hority. Efforts such as these attracted the
a uention of the media who would present the
image of ammeur radio as public spirited men
and women will ing to serve t heir community
in time of need. The re is little doubt that
these early traffic handlers did much to ensure
the continuity of the hobby we enj oy today.
The Trunk System
Initia lly the system was composed of
ama teurs who had reliable stat ions that were
capable of spanni ng so me specific d istance.
These stations we re organized into what was
called a "Trunk System." Less powerful
stations could send their messages to these

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"power hou se" stations fo r retransmiuing to

distant points, eventually being relayed to
their destin atio n.
As you might imagine, such a system
placed a lot of responsibility on a few key
stations. For the most part these stations
responded with enthusiasm worthy of a zealot.
Such dedication earned the pioneer tra ffic
handlers the honored title "I ron t-.fan," fo r
such they were, often staying at l he key, hours
o n e nd to clear all of their traffic.

However there is nothing preventing you

from participating o n any of the other modes
if you have the required license and equipment.
To locate the t ime a nd frequ ency your
local nets operate on, obta in a copy of the Net
Dirc:c101y from the ARRL (cost Sl.00). A lso
o rder the free ARRL operating aids FSD-3
(a list of ARRL numbered radiograms) and
FSD-218 which is a list of special Q signa ls
that arc used in the traffic nets. The ARIUJ
Opemting 1'v/111wnl is also an excellent investEnter National Tra m e System
ment for t he beginning traffic operator.
1f you arc a rank beginner, consider one of
The sho rtcomi ngs of such a system were
the
many beginner o r Novice nets. For the
obvious. It was unrealistic to expect a few
dedicated amateurs to continue to handle most part these nets operate exactly as the
other nets, but at a slower speed. You will
large numbers of messages o n a continuing
basis. I mprovement in the system had to wait also fi nd many experienced hands wa iting to
help you through your first QNI (check in)
until a large eno ugh number of amateurs had
sat isfactory (capable of spanning over 50 and guide your entry into t raffic handling.
A famous m}'1h about CW traffic handling
miles) transmitte rs.
Availability of such gear eventually is that it is all done at speeds over 35 words
per minute. 'Tain't so! Average net speeds are
became common with the advent of the
from 15 to 20 WPM. It is true that experivacuum tube and shortly th ereafter, a system
enced traffic men arc usually speed merchants
of local area nets was est abl ished. These nets
and will zip along at incredible rates wit hout
met daily at a specific time and frequen cy to
receive messages from a local level and then missing a word but because they a re experisend them on to a regional net. The regional enced, they also understand the need to work
net then met after the local nets co mpleted at a speed the ot her station is comfortable
their business. Messages were routed via the with.
1f you choose a phone net, you will need to
regional nets to their final destinations,
fam iliarize yoursel f with the procedures used.
usually within 24 hou rs.
Again the Operating Ma1111nl will grease the
This system is today called the Nat iona l
Traffic System (NTS). Consisting of more way for you. RTTY a nd Packet also have
than 500 nets, it handles hun dreds of special protocols to follow so listening to
messages daily. Most of the traffic is of a these nets for a few sessions will be he lpful.
ro utine variety (birthday or hol iday greeti ngs) Growth With in the System
but this day-to-day handling of commonplace
After a few sessions with your regular net
messages p repa res participants in the NTS
system to handle emergency traffic speedily you will be invited to become an ORS
and efficiently.
(Official Relay Station). This means that you
arc a recognized member of the NTS and
You Ca n Be Part of t he System
familia r with traffic ha ndling. As you progress
W ithout a d oubt, serving the public in this the Net Manager may ask you to take a st int
ma nner is one of the g reater j oys of amateur as NCS (Net C ont rol Stat ion) o r represent
radio. A ll radio amateurs ca n participate. No the local net in the regional net a nd send and
longer do you need to be an "Iron t-. lan," ho ld- receive traffic from other a reas. As your
ing rigorous daily schedules. T o day's nets have growth continues you wi ll take deep satisfacso many participants that the active ham need tion in knowing you arc becoming a better
only check in daily, once a week or whenever o perator.
Try it, it's fun and it's good for amateur
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Getting Started

Polar Bridge Expedftion

The first thing you need to do is 10 join a

net. Nets o perate in M orse Code (CW). SSI3,
RTTY, Packet a nd FM. CW is still the most
po pula r mode for the beginning traffic
ha ndler because it is the easiest met hod.

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The adventure is now winding down but there's still a chance to get
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43

OUTER LIMITS

Dr. John Santosuosso

P.O. Box 1l16
Hig/zla11d City, FL 33846

The Year of the Pirate?

fs 1988 th e yea r of the pirate? Well, maybe
so. Pirate activity has been at something of
a low point the past few years, but that
cou ld change in the near future with the
sit uation improving still further in 1989.

the corner. The low point in sunspot

di sturbances has n ow been reached. Over
the next several years we s ho uld sec a n
increase and with it more jolly bucs on the
a irwaves.

The last time pirates were active to a major

degree was in the late 1970s and early
1980s. That is not just coin cidence. During
this period sunspot activity was a t it s peak.
Those pirate transmitt ers w ith their usually
extremely lim ite d watt power cou ld still be
heard over tremendous distances and cou ld
be heard regularly. If conditions were
particularly good Europirates could m ake it
across the Atlantic on a 100 watt s or less.
Likewise, it was possible for a North Ameri
can pirate to go coast to coast on nothing
more tha n flea power.

As we e nt er the su mmer month s it could be

a good idea to keep you r cars tuned to the
"pirate bands." Whi le propagation at th at
time is generally not the best for most kinds
of radio transmi ssions, there is a
compe nsati ng factor for the pirate sea rcher.
Many pirate operators a rc co llege stude nts.
It may be too in convenient or ri sky t o haul
the old transmitter off to the dormitory
with you. Su mmer vacations arc often a
better time to broadcast.

High Sunspots, More Pirates

As sunspot act ivity declined so did pirate
activity. There isn't much purpose in trans
mil ting when you cannot be heard. T o be
su re the re a rc always a few pirates around ,
but the number certainly decli ned as the
1980s matured. However, we have turned

During the su mmer months be especia lly on

the lookout for p irate broa dcasts a round
July 4. Nat iona l holidays have long bee n
favorite broadcast ing limes fo r pirates, and
I ndepcndcnce D ay seems to be one of the
most popular. In the "good old days" if you
got lu cky and st umbled across a "pirate fest"
you might hear five or six diffe rent ones in a
single holiday even ing.

Where to Hear Pirates

Pirates ca n turn up lit e rally anyplace, but
especially for those searchi ng for thei r very
first catch, several spots arc probably good
places to begin. Check just above the high
end of th e medium wave broadcast band.
M a ny pirates seeking an audience which
may not have shortwave capabilit y will
se lect frequencies in the vicinity of 1620
ki lo hertz.
Another ta rget a rea should be those
frequencies from about 6210 to possibly as
high as 6320 kilohe rtz. This band, long
popula r with Europirates, has a lso been
used by North American s including the
most famous pirate of recent months,
Ra di o Ncwyork Inte rna ti onal. RNI has
vowed to re turn, and if it docs, there is a
strong possibility it may turn up on its old
frequency of 6240. Of course, some
1m11ators may a lso decide to take up
reside nce in this same ne ighborhood.
Fina lly, be su re t o monitor those frequ e ncies between 7400 and 7500 and pe rhaps
even somewhat lower and higher th a n these

Will 1988 be the year of the pirate? Let us know what you hear
and share those rare QSLs with the 0uter Limits" audience!
11

44

Jun e 1988

MONITOR fNG TIMES

UNTIL THERE IS
two points. For yea rs this has been by far
the most popu la r of a ny o f the unoffi cial
pirate bands.

NO LONELINESS,

When to Hear Pirates

NO DESTITUTION,

Whe n should you listen? If p irates can turn

up on any frequency, they can also tu rn up
at a ny time. Still, you r best cha nce is on t he
weekends, especially UTC Sunday, which is
o f course, Saturday n ight and early Sunday
morning EDT. Above all do not get
discouraged. P irates a re fun to hea r, a nd
sometimes the p rogra mmin g is quite
creative. H owever, th ey do use low p ower,
and those that mai ntain a regular sched ule
arc seldom around very long. They are soon
shut down. So you may go mont hs without
hearing one, but if you arc persistent
soone r o r later you will be rewarde d.

NO SICKNESS,
NO WAR ...

Comact your local c hapte r to see

how your organizatio n can help.

When you arc, let us know what you heard.

'The Ou te r Lim its" column very definitely
wants your pi rate logs a nd any other p irate
news you can send along. Cont ribut ions
from stations arc welcome, and, of course,
your confidentiality will be respected.

Recent Pirate Happenings

T erry K ruege r writes from F lorida to repo rt
a recent ca tch of pira te Voice of Rad io F ree
Indiana on 7448. He also notes t hat the
statio n announced a pho ne numbe r which
he called to request a QSL. The QSL has
been received .
Krueger says that mail bei ng sent to th e
forme r New York offi ce of commercial
offshore Europirate Radio Caroline is
being returned by the post office. He
suggests you will have better luck if you try
54 Plain field Ave nu e, East Rockaway, NY
11518-1230. However, remember Caroline
se ldo m repli es to repo rts regard less of
where you send them. If you did not hea r its
recent tests on shortwave, you may wish to
monitor 6210 kilohertz. The stat ion itself is
on a ship ancho re d in intern ational waters
off the sout heast coast of Engla nd . It is
p rima rily a m ediu m wave b roadcaster and
has a huge a u dience in E urop e.
Were you one of those people who never
did ge t a reply to you r report to Radio
Newyork Internat ional? Unfortunately this
writer was, al though he knows of one D Xer
who got two ! A mong t he more fo rtuna te
recipients who did get QSLs was John
Dcmmitt. We reproduce here the RNI logo
from John's QSL letter in case you d id not
get a n a nswe r either and would like to sec

+
wha t it looks like.
H ey, how about it R NI ? Since you started
broadcasting, "Outer Li mits" has tri ed to
cove r your story the best we co uld, but we
sure cou ld use some he lp from you! Why
not put us on your mailing list?

American
Red Cross

n!I
~ih'c~

or 5 digit), your location, and your S-mcter

reading of the signal strength. Also include
time, date, and any othe r detai ls you think
might be he lpfu l. As a lways, we will not use
your na me if you request that we keep it
confidential. A numbers transmission with
an unusually strong signal was recently
logged here on 11464 at 2115 UTC.

And in case any of our readers want to send

a fo ll ow-up report or j ust write to the RNT Several readers repo rt in with some
staff. You can try either of the following numbers logs. In Texas, Bill Cantrell
addresses: P.O. Box 010073, Staten Island, reports 4-digit Spanish grou ps on 5810 with
NY 10301-0003; or 496 LaGuardia P lace, sign-off at 0248. I n West Virginia, Todd
Suite 451, New York, NY 10012.
McKown hea rd Spanish numbers on 6825
kHz at 0604 UTC. Out in Washington,
H e rma n Water man heard 4-digit Spanish
numbers on 8070 a t 0106 UTC. He remarks
that while the mode was standard AM, with
his "BF O off the audio sounded somewhat
like a mistuned SSB signa l which it
definitely was not."

1~1~~oRK

INTERNATIONAL

T hey conti nu e to be all over the place,

folks. They cannot hide forever. Someday,
perhaps soon, we will know what they are.
I

Numbers Intrigue
Attention
numbers monito rs!
Please
monitor the frequency of 11464 kilohertz
for Spanish numbers transmissions. If you
hea r any, please let us know the format ( 4
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45

ON THE AIR

Interval Signals:
Musical Windows on the World
Have you ever been listening to a program
when all of a sudden it's wiped out by
somebody's interval signal? The problem
usually occurs towards the end of the
program, five or ten minutes before the
statfon you're listening to is due to sign off
the frequency and another station signs on.
That interval signal isn't, of course,
designed to annoy. In fact, the nexf time
you hear one, consider .t hat you're listening
to a unique, old shortwave tradition.
Interval signals are generally very brief
passages of music, played over and over in
advance of a station's sign on. Usually only
a few Jiotqs long, they're often chosen by
hmv well they can call up an image of the
broadcasting station in the listener's mind.

/.\

On a more practical level, shortwave stations originally used tuning

signals to act as a sort of "beacon,"
helping listeners locate their station on the
dial. That way, if the station was ever
forced to change frequencies, all the
listener had to do was scan the dial a few
minutes before the program came on and
listen until he or she found the appropriate
tuning signal. The tradition continues
today.

Austrian Radio International, for example,

starts off their transmissions with the rust
eight notes of Johann Strauss' Blue
Danube.- Switzerland has a charming little
ditty played on a music box. It's perfect for
a nation often associated with watchmakers. Britain's is positively regal.
Australia's is the bouncy Waltzing Matilda.
The Voice of America uses Yankee Doodle.
Radio Netherland's tuningsignal, surprisingly, is a depressing melody played cin tolling bells. The station says it's an old Dutch
folk song called Merr:k tod1 hoe sterk. Given
its mournful tone, no one would be
surprised if the translation from Dutch
read something like, "I really hurt." One
can easily see roomfuls of frig htened, tearyeyed Hollanders crowded around an open
casket, singing Merr:k toch hoe sterk as they
weep uncontrollably. Compared to Austria's happy Blue Danube and Switzerland's
charming music box, Radio Netherland's
interval signal is positively dirge-like.
Some stations, wanting to take advantage
of every moment on the air to get their
message across, use their interval signals

46

June 1988

for political purposes. Radio Beijing in the

People's Republic of China plays the first
19 notes of The East is Red. Albania signs
on with nine notes from the patriotic
march, With Pickaxe and Rifle, played on
two trumpets. Radio Prague is more subtle.
They chose the opening bars of Seidl's
Fo1ward Left. Get the message?

~ For some stations, the tu ning signal

J. is part of a Jong heritage. Many
have used the same one for
decades. That's why, a few years ago, when
Radio Sweden International decided to
change theirs, not a few eyebrows were
raised and outraged letters written. Taking
the whole subject very seriously, however,
the Swedes specially commissioned composer Ralph Lundsten to come up with a
new one. The result is the electronic To tire
Wide, Wide, World, a positively spook-y
piece of music that sounds as if il had been
taken directly from the soundtrack of the
PBS TV show, Dr. U1ho.

Perhaps one of the most unique interval

signals is that of Radio Botswana. Often
descnbed by listeners as "barnyard noises,"
it is a collection of cowbells and animal
sounds. Not to be outdone in the animal
department is Malawi, which opens its 0253
UTC broadcast with a cock crow. One
more animal tuning signal we're aware of:
Zambia has the cry of the "fish eagle."
Radio Nacional de Guinea Ecuatorial is
unique in that it has transmitters at two
different sites. Each has its own interval
signal. For some reason, Bara (two 100 k-w
units on 4925 and 5004 kHz) opens with
tribal music; Malabo (6250 kHz) simply
starts with the national anthem.
Then there is the tuning signal for
Radiodiffusion-Television Centrafricaine
on 5034 and 7220 kHz. It's nothing nothing
more than someone repeatedly banging out
the same chord on a piano. If there is some
significance to these particular notes, it is
apparently missed on most listeners.

When WCSN, the world service of the

Chn.stia11 Scie11ce Monito1; decided to go on
shortwave, they, too, took the mauer of a
tuning signal very seriously and commissioned an original. Their goal was that no
matter who the listener was -- India, Africa
or Nepal - he wou ld recognize within that
interval signal at least elements of their
native music. IL was a tall task, given the
variety of music heard around the world.
Recently, however, WCSN has changed its
interval signal.

For no other reason than the fact that

description and title amuses us, third place
goes to the Republic of Guinea's, Voice of
the Revolution. Their interval signal is a
tune described in the World Radio 1V
Handbook as "the heroic song, Alpha
Yaya."

When it comes to the Third World, intervals signals can get very exotic, in both the
selection of tunes as well as the instruments
they're played on. In a way, they are able to
present tiny musical windows on the world.

Second place goes to a station broadcasting

from one half of the famous Iran-Iraq war,
Baghdad. Their tuning signal, perhaps
among the strangest, is the chirping of a
mechanical nightingale.

Benin's Voice of the Revolution uses an

instrument called a 'Tam-Tam," Burkina
Faso a "balafon" and the Congo, a "Zanzi."

Finally, one station has an interval signal

that, among stations that use songs like,
The Revolutionary People Tim/SI Onward,
seems enchanting and oddly out of place.
That station is the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service and its interval signal is a song
called, simply, The Rain is Comi11g. SLBS,
Freetown, is on 5980 kHz. According to the
1988 Passpo11 to Wodd Band Radio, there's
an E nglish broadcast Saturdays through
Thursdays from 2230 to 2330 UTC. That
interval signal alone is reason to listen to
the station.

Ethiopia's external service, which is now

ca lling itself 'The Voice of Ethiopia" (dropping the "revolutionary" part), uses a local
flute called the Wahint. In Madagascar, the
melody is played on a bamboo instrument
called a "Valiha." Mali and Senegal both
have interval signals using a local harp
called a "Cora." Mozambique's is played on
an indigenous >.')'lophone called the
"Mbira."

What are the most unusual tuning

signals? That award has to be
shared with three stations.

the

Diane Bleck

MONITORING TIMES

MT Monitoring T eam

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Greg Jordan,
Frequency Manager
18551 Franciscan Terrace
Winston-Salem, NC 27127

I0000 UTC
0000-0015
00000030

Joe Hanlon, PA

[8:00 PM EDT /5:00 PM PDT]

Voice of Kampuchea, Phnom-Penh
BBC, London, England

9693
5965
7135
9590
15435
9435
Kol Israel. Jerusalem
00000030
Radio Berlin lnt'I, East Germany
6060
0000-0030
Radio Korea, Seoul. Soutll Korea
0000-0030
15575
9620
00000030 M Radio Norway lnt'I. Oslo
00000030 S,M WINB. Red Lion. Pennsylvania
15145
0000-0050
Radio Pyongyang. North Korea
1511 5
9770
0000-0055
Radio Beijing, PR China
(US) Armed Forces Radio and TV
6030
0000-0100
All India Radio, New Delhi
6055
0000-0100
11715
6195
CBC Northern Quebec Service
00000100
CBN, St. John's, Newfoundland
6160
00000100
6130
0000-0100
CBU. Vancouver. British Colombia
CFCF, Monlreal, Quebec
6005
0000-0100
CFCN, Calgary, Alberta
6030
0000-0100
CBN. St. John's, Newfoundland
6 160
0000-0100
CBN. St. John's, Newfoundland
6160
0000-0100
00000100
CBU, Vancouver, British Colombia
6 160
0000-0100
CFCF. Montreal, Quebec
6005
0000-0100
CFCN. Calgary, Alberta
6030
CHNS, Halifax, Nova Scotia
6130
0000-0100
00000100
CKWX. Vancouver. Brlllsh Colombia 6060
00000100
CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
6070
0000-0100
FEBC, Manila, Philippines
15445
00000100
(US) Far East Network, Tokyo
3910
00000100
KSDA. Guam
15125
0000-0100 TA KVOH, Rancho Simi. California
9495
0000-01 00 S,M KVOH. Rancho Simi. California
17775
15405
00000100
KYOI, Salpan
15140
Radio Australia, MelbOurne
00000100
15395

11605 12080
9730
11640
15160
11 715 15455
11 790
7215 9535
11745 15110
9625

9910

T = Tuesday
A = Saturday

Radio
Radio
Radio
Radio
Radio

Baghdad, Iraq
Canada lnl'I. Montreal
Havana Cuba
Luxembourg
Moscow, USSR

Radio New Zealand. Wellington

0000-0100
Radio for Peace. Costa Rica
0000-0100
Radio Thailand, Bangkok
0000-0100
SBC Radio One. Singapore
0000-0 100
Spanish Foreign Radio, Madrid
00000100
00000100 TS Superpower KUSW, Utah
Voice of America. Washington
00000100

0000-0100 TA Voice of Nicaragua. Managua

0000-0100
WCSN, Boslon. Massachusetts
WHAi, Noblesville. Indiana
00000100
0000-0100
WANO New Orleans. Louisiana
0000-0100
WYFR. Oakland, California
0000-0100 T-A WYFR Satellite Net. California
0030-0045
BBC. London. England

15160 15240 15320

17750 17795

The first four digits of an entry are the broadcast start time In UTC.
The second four digits represent the end lime.
In the space between the end lime and the station name Is the broadcast
schedule.
M = Monday
F =Friday

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0000-0100
0000-0100
00000100
00000100
0000-0100

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H =Thursday

WEST COAST:

11936
5975 6005 6175
7325 9515 9580
9915 12095 11 955

W=Wednesday

If there Is no entry, the broadcasts are heard dally. If, for example. there IS an
entry of ' M.' .the broadcasl would be heard only on Mondays. An entry of
"M,W,F" would mean Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays only. "MF" would
mean Mondays through Fridays. "TEN" Indicates a tentative schedule and "TES"
a test transmission.
[ML] after a frequency indicates a mullilingual transmission containing
English-language programs.
The last entry on a line Is the frequency. Codes here Include ssB which
Indicates a Single Sideband transmission. and v for a frequency that
varies. [ML] after a frequency Indicates a mullllingual transmission
containing English-language programs.
v after a frequency Indicates thal it varies
Notations of USB and LSB (upper and lower sideband transmissions) usually
refer only to the Individual frequency after which they appear.
Listings followed by an asterisk () are for English lessons and do not
contain regularly scheduled programming.
We suggest that you begin with the lower frequencies that a station Is
broadcasting on and work your way up tile dial. Remember that there is no
guarantee that a station wlll be audible on any given day. Reception conditions
can change rapidly, though, and If II Is not audible one night. 11 may well be on
another.

0030-0055
0030-0100

BAT. Brussels. Belgium

BBC. London. England

0030-0100

HCJB, Quito, Ecuador

6110 11610
5960 9755
9655
6090
9700 9765 11 710 11 750
11760
15150 17705
7375v
9655 11905
5010 5052 11940
6125 9630 11880
15560
5995 6130 9455 9650
9670 9775 9815 11 560
11695 11740 15185 15205
17740
6100
9852.5
7405 9870
7355
5950 6085 9660
9505
6195 7235 9570 11 620
15435
5910 9925
5965 5975 6005 6120
6175 7135 7325 9515
9560 9915 9590 11955
12095 15435
9720 11775 11910 15155

HOW TO USE
THE PROPAGATION CHARTS
Propagation charts can be an invaluable aid to t he DXer in
determining which frequencies are likely to b e open at a
given time. To use the propagat ion charts, choose those
for your location (the are d ivided into east coast, midwest
and west coast of North America). Then look for the one
most closely describ ing the g eographic location o f the
station you want to hear.
Once you've located the correct charts, look along the
horizontal axis of the graph for the time that you are
listening. Th e top line of the graph shows the Maximum
Useable Frequency [MUF] and the lower line the Lowest
Useable Frequency [LUF] as indicated on the vertical axis
of the graph .
While there are exceptions to every rule (especially those
regarding shortwave listening), you should find the charts
helpful in determ ining the best times to listen for p articula r
regi ons of the world. Good luck!

MONITORING TIMES

June 1988

47

frequency I
00300100
0030-0100

Radio Austria lnl'I. Vienna

Radio Budapest, Hungary

00300100
00300100
00350040
00450100
0050-0100

SLBC, Colombo, Sri Lanka

WIN B, Red Lion. Pennsylvania
All India Radio, New Deihl
Radio New Zealand, Wellington
Vatican Radio, Vatican City

I0100 UTC
01000103

0100-01 10
0 100-01 15

9875
6110 9520 9585
11 910 15160
6005 9720
15145
3925 4860
15150 17705
6150 9605 11 780

[9:00 PM EDT/6:00 PM PDT]

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Vatican Radio. Vatican City

All India Radio, New Deihl

01000120
RAI, Rome, llaly
0100-0125
Kol Israel, Jerusalem
01 000130 W,A Radio Budapest. Hungary
01000130
0100-0130
01000145
0100-0150

Radio Japan, Tokyo

Laotian National Radio
Radio Berlin lny'I, E. Germany
Deutsche Welle, west Germany

0100-01 50
0100-01 55
0100-0200
01 00-0200

Radio Baghad, Iraq

Radio Austria lnl'I, Vienna
(US) Armed Forces Radio and TV
BBC, London, England

0100-0200
0100-0200
01000200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200

CBC Northern Quebec Service

CBN, SI. John's, Newfoundland
CBU, Vancouver, British Colombia
CFCF, Montreal, Quebec
CFCN, Calgary, Alberta
CHNS, Halifax, Nova Scotia

3295 4890 5960 5985

6020 6040 6080 61 40
9520
6150 9605 11780
6055 7215 9535 9910
11715 11745 15110
9575 11800
9435 11 605 12080
611 0 9520 9585 9835
11910 15160
15280 17810 17835 17845
7113v
6080 9620 9730 11785
6040 6085 6145 9565
9735 11865
611 0, 11810
9875
6030 11790 15345
5975 6005 6120 6175
7325 9515 9590 9915
9975
6195 9625
6 160
6160
6005
6030
6130

West Coast
30.00

01000200
0100-0200
0100-0200
0100-0200
01000200

Radio
Radio
Radio
Radio
Radio

Canada lnl'I, Montreal

Havana Cuba
Japan, Tokyo
Luxembourg
Moscow, USSR

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

Radio
Radio
Radio
Radio

Moscow World Service

New Zealand, Wellington
for Peace, Costa Rica
Prague. Czechoslovakia

Radio Thailand, Bangkok

01000200
SBC Radio One, Singapore
01000200
SLBC. Colombo, Sri Lanka
0100-0200
Spanish Foreign Radio, Madrid
01000200
01000200 TS Superpower KUSW, Utah
0100-0200
Voice of America, Washington

01000200
Voice of Indonesia, Jakarta
0100-0200
WCSN, Boston, Massachusetls
0100-0200
WINB, Red Lion. Pennsylvania
0100-0200
WHRI, Noblesville, Indiana
0100-0200
WRNO. New Orleans, Louisiana
0100-0200
WYFR. Oakland, California
01000200 T-S WYFR Satellite Net, California
01300140 T-S Voice of Greece, Alhens
01300145TWFS Radio Budapest, Hungary

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11940
15425

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9680
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9835

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16 20 24

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9700 9765
11780 11 860

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11 940

Central America/Carribean

15.00

15240 15320
17795

South America

25.00

20.00

11910 15155

East Coast To

MHz.

....----.,------.,----~

6080
6070
3910
15445
9720 11775
9495
15405
15160 15160
15395 17715
17750
9755 11645
9655
5960
6090
9530 9600
9865 11 750
15425
17860
15150 17705
7375
5930 6055
9630 9740
9655 11905
5010 5052
6005 9720
9630 11880
11 695
5995 6130
9775 9615
15160 15205
9680 11 790
9852.5
15145
7405 9870
7355
5950 7440
9505
7430 9420
61 10 9520
11910 15160

East Coast To

East Coast To

MHz.

CKWX, Vancouver. British Colombla

0100-0200
CFRB. Toronto. Ontario
0100-0200
(US) Far East Network, Tokyo
0100-0200
FEBC. Manila. Philippines
0100-0200
HCJB, Qullo, Ecuador
0100-0200
01000200 TA KVOH. Rancho Simi, California
KYOI, Saipan
0 100-0200
Radio Australia, Melbourne
0 100-0200

9835

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0130-0200
0145-0200
0145-0200

Radio Veritas Asia. Philippines

Radio Berlin lnl'I. E. Germany
Radio Korea. Seoul. South Korea

I0200 UTC

9475 9675
9655
7275 15575
6090
6000 6130
9765 9700
15425
0200-0300
Radio Moscow World Service. USSR17675 17680
0200-0300
Radio Orlon. South Alrlca
3955
0200-0300
Radio for Peace. Costa Rica
7375v
0200-0300 A Radio New Zealand, Wellington
15150 17705
0200-0300
Radio Polonia, Warsaw, Poland
6095 6135
9525 11815
0200-0300
Radio RSA. South Alrlca
60 10 9580
0200-0300
Radio Thailand, Bangkok
9655 11905
0200-0300
SBC Radio One. Singapore
5010 5052
0200-0300
SLBC. Colombo, Sri Lanka
6005 9720
11 695
0200-0300 T-S Superpower KUSW. Utah
0200-0300
Voice of America. Washington
5995 7205
15205
0200-0300
Voice of Asia. Taiwan
7285
0200-0300
Voice of Free China, Taiwan
5985 7445
11740 17805
Voice of Kenya. Nairobi
6045
0200-0300
0200-0300
9652.5
WCSN. Boston. Massachusetts
0200-0300
WHRI, Noblesville. Indiana
7405 9870
0200-0300
WRNO, New Orleans. Louisiana
7355
WYFR. Oakland. California
5950
0200-0300
0200-0300
WYFR Sateliile Net, California
9505
02 15-0220
Radio Nepal, Kalhmandu
5005 7165
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
3925 4890
0230-0240
6020 6040
9520
Radio Pakistan. Islamabad
701 0 11 570
02300245
17660
0230-0300
BBC. London, England
5975 6005
94 10 9515
9915 11 955
0230-0300
Radio Finland, Helsinki
9635 11755
0230-0300
Radio Netherland. Hilversum
6020 61 65

0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200-0300
0200 0300

9730 11 765

[1 0:00 PM EDT/7:00 PM PDT]

0200-02 t 5
0200-0230
0200-0230
0200-0230
0200-0230

15330 15365
6060 9620
7275 15375

Vatican Radio, Vatican City

BBC. London. England
Burma Bcasting Service. Rangoon
Radio Austria lnt'I. Vienna
Radio Kiev. Ukrainian SSR

7125
5975
94 t 0
7185
9875
7165

9650
6005
9515

6175
9590

7325
9915

7205

11790

1 3 6~ 5

15160
0200-0230
Swiss Radio lnl'I. Berne
5965 6135
12035
4910.4
0200-0230
La Voz de Mosquitia. Hond ura s
0200-0230
WINB. Red Lion. Pennsylvania
15145
6035 7265
0200-0250
Deutsche Welle. West Germany
0200-0250
Radio Bras. Brasilia, Brazil
11745v
Radio Bucharest. Romania
5990 61 55
0200-0255
11 810 11 940
0200-0255
RAE. Buenos Aires. Argentina
9690 11 710
0200-0300
(US) Armed Forces Radio and TV
6030 11790
0200-0300
CBC Northern Quebec Service
6195 9625
0200-0300
CBN. SI. John's, Newfoundland
6160
6160
0200-0300
CBU. Vancouver, Bnlish Colombia
6005
0200-0300
CFCF, Montreal, Quebec
02000300
CFCN. Calgary, Alberta
6030
0200-0300
CFRB, Toronto. Onlarlo
6070
0200-0300
CHNS, Halifax. Nova Scotia
61 30
CKWX. Vancouver, British Colombia 6080
0200-0300
0200-0300
3910
(US) Far Easl Nelwork. Tokyo
02000300
HCJB. Quilo. Ecuador
9720 11775
0200-0300 TA KVOH. Rancho Simi, California
9495
17865
0200-0300
KSOA. Guam
Radio Australia. Melbourne
02000300
15160 15240
17750 17795

9725

9865

9690 11945
9510

9570

15345

t 5155

15320 177 t 5

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Pacific
MHz .

MHz.

30.00

30.00

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9815

9555

9680

5960
6060

5965
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1511 5 15580
6175
9660

7325
9845

9590

9895

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7270

11 940
15425

South East Asia

. .

7145
15120
96 15

Australia & Malaysia

9530 9610
9665 11750

East Coasl To

15.00

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Cairo, Egyp t
Havana Cuba
Korea (South), Seoul
Luxembourg
Moscow, USSR

East Coast To

20.00

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0230-0300 T-A Radio Portugal, Lisbon
0230-0300
Radio Sweden. Stockholm
Radio Tirana, Albania
0230-0300
0230-0300 S,M WINB, Red Lion, Pennsylvania
All India Radio, New Delhi
0240-0250

Radio Yerevan. Armenian SSR

02500300

I0300 UTC

Radio Budapest, Hungary

0300-0330

Radio Cairo, Egypt

0300-0330
Radio Japan, Tokyo
0300-0330
0300-0330 S,M WINB, Red Lion, Pennsylvania
0300-0345 A Radio New Zealand, Wellington
Deutsche Welle. West Germany
0300-0350
0300-0350
0300-0355
0300-0355

Voice of Turkey, Ankara

Radio Beijing, PR China
Radio Polonia, Warsaw. Poland

0300-0356
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400

Radio RSA, South Africa

(US) Armed Forces Radio and TV
CBN, St. John's, Newfoundland
CBU, Vancouver, British Colombia
CFCF, Montreal. Quebec

5090
6195
9495
6020
3955
6175
9515
6110
11910
9475
11670
15145
15150
6010
9700
9445
9770
6095
9525
6100
6030
6160
6160
6005

5930
9625

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6165 9590
5975 6005
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9915 12095
9520 9585
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17825 21610
17705
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11785

9545

11715 15455
6135 7145
11815 15120
9580 9615
11730 11790

9895
6155
9410

CFCN, Calgary, Alberta

CHNS, Halifax, Nova Scotia
CKWX, Vancouver, British Colombia
CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
(US) Far East Network, Tokyo
HCJB, Quito, Ecuador
La Voz Evangellca, Honduras
Radio Australia, Melbourne

0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400

Radio for Peace, Costa Rica

Radio Havana Cuba
Radio Moscow. USSR

0300-0400

Radio Prague. Czechoslovakia

Radio Sofia, Bulgaria

0300-0400
0300-0400
Radio Thailand, Bangkok
0300-0400
SBC Radio One, Singapore
0300-0400
SLBC, Colombo, Sri Lanka
0300-0400 T-S Superpower KUSW, Utah
Trans World Radio, Bonalre
0300-0400
0300-0400
Voice of America. Washington

9835

9605

7270

0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0310-0330
0313-0400

Voice of Free China, Taiwan

Voice of Kenya, Nairobi
Voice of Nicaragua, Managua
WCSN, Boston, Massachusetts
WHRI, Noblesville, Indiana
WRNO, New Orleans, Louisiana
WYFR, Oakland, California
Vatican Radio, Vatican City
Radio France lnt'I, Paris

03300340 S-F

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0330-0400

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6030
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4620
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15395 17750
7375
9655 6140
6000 6130
13645 13665
5930 6055
9630 9740
9560 9595
9655 11905
5010 5052
6005 9720
9615
9535
6035 7170
9525 9550
11635
5965 9660
6045
6100
9652.5
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6185
5950 15566
6150
3965 7135
9550 9790
11700 11995
3925 4690
6020 6040
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3955 5975
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4695
6120
9610

0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
0300-0400
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East Coast To

MHz.

10.00

9660

[11 :00 PM EDT/8:00 PM PDT]

0300-0307
Radio Pakistan. Islamabad
0300-0310
CBC Northern Quebec Service
0300-0315 T-A KVOH, Rancho Simi, California
0300-0325
Radio Netherland, Hilversum
0300-0330
BBC, London, England

25.00

6060 9600 9635

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0400-0500
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04000500
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0400-0500
11 780
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04000500
SBC Radio One, Singapore
5010
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04000500
United Nations Radio, Honduras
4820
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Voice of America, Washington
7280
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Voice of Kenya, Nairobi
6045
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9870
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15145
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0430-0500
7150

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0400-0405
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0400-0410
Radio Thailand, Bangkok
0400-0410
RAJ, Rome. Italy
0400-0415
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0400-0420
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04000420 TS Radio Zambia, Lusaka
04000425
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0400-0425
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05000510 MA Radio Zambia. Lusaka
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0500-0515
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9645
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05000530
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9690
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06000615
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06000615 MA Radio Zambia, Lusaka
06000620
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06000625
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06000630
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6045
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6230
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4850
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9530
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6030
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7150
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6195
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6 160
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6005
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6030
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6130
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6215
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15345
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11 780
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06000700
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17805 21665
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5980
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3366 4915
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5995 9655 9845 15160
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21600
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11780 15150
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11880
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6065 7355 9852.5
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13750 15340
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7257
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6130
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6005
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6030
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6130
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6070
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11630
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11925
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6215
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6130
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9655
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6135
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6070
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0700-0800
Voice of Free China, Taiwan
5985
0700-0800 A.S Voice of Kenya, Nairobi
7270
0700-0800
6175
Voice of Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur
0700-0800
Voice of Nigeria, Lagos
15120
0700-0800
9495
WCSN. Boston, Massachusetts
0700-0800
WHRI, Noblesville. Indiana
7365
0700-0800
WYFR. Oakland. California
6065
071 5-0800 A.
Radio Berlin lnl'I. East Germany
6040
21540
0715-0730 M-A Vatican Radio, Vatican City
11725
0715-0735
FEBA Mahe. Seychelles
15115
0720-0730 MA Valican Radio, Vatican City
6248
0725-0800
Trans World Radio, Monte Carlo
7105
0730-0800
ABC, Alice Springs, Australia
2310
0730-0800
ABC, Katherine. Australia
2485
0730-0800
ABC, Tennant Creek, Australia
2325
0730-0800
Radio Australia, Melbourne
9655
0730-0735
All India Radio, New Delhi
5990
7205
11935
BBC. London, England*
0730-0745
3975
0730-0755
Radio Finland. Helsinki
6120
0730-0800
BBC. London. England
5975
0730-0800
Radio Netherland, Hllversum
9630
0730-0800
Radio Prague. Czechoslovakia
11685
0730-0800
Radio Sofia. Bulgaria
9700
0730-0800
Soloman Islands Broadcasting Corp 9545
0730-0800
Swiss Radio lnl'I, Berne
3985
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5985
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6055

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0800-0900
0000-0900
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0800-0900
0805-0900
0815-0830

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0800-0805 M-F Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

3925 4890 5960

6020 6040 6080
9520
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0000-0805
6165 7235
0800-0815 M-A Radio Zambia, Lusaka
0800-0825 M-F BAT, Brussels. Belgium
11695 15510
0800-0825
Radio Netherland, Hllversum
9630 9715
6175 9750 15295
0800-0825
Voice of Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur
HCJB, Oullo, Ecuador
0800-0830
6130 9610 9745
11925
12030 15525
Radio Bangladesh, Dhaka
0800-0830
9500 11835
Radio Tirana, Albania
0800-0830
Voice of Islam. Pakls1an
15525 17870
0800-0830
FEBA. Mahe, Seychelles
0800-0835
15325, 17785
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6070 9725
0800-0850
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9530 11 830 15160
ABC. Alice Springs, Australia
0800-0900
2310 [ML]
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0800-0900
2485
ABC, Tennant Creek, Australia
0800-0900
2325 (ML]
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9410 9640
0800-0900
CBN, SI. John's, Newfoundland
6160
0800-0900
CBU, Vancouver. British Cotombla
6160
0800-0900
CFCF, Mon1real, Quebec
0800-0900
6005
6030
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0800-0900
0800-0900
CHNS. Halifax, Nova Scotia
6130
0800-0900
CKWX, Vancouver. Brillsh Colombia 6080
CFRB, Toron1o, Ontario
0800-0900
6070
(US) Far East Ne1work, Tokyo
0800-0900
3910
King of Hope, South Lebanon
0800-0900
6215
KNLS, Anchor Point, Alaska
6150
0800-0900
0800-0900
KTWR. Guam
11805
0800-0900
KYOI, Salpan
11900
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5995 6080 9580
9710 11 720
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0800-0900
7550

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11835

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17830
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Voice of Indonesia, Jakarta
Voice of Kenya, Nairobi
Voice of Nigarla, Lagos
WCSN, Boston. Massachusells
WHAi, Noblesville, Indiana
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KTWR, Agana. Guam
Radio Aus1rla lnt'I, Vienna

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0815-0845 M-F Voice of America. Washington DC

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All India Radio. New Delhi

15180
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FEBC, Manila, Philippines
0830-0900
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0830-0900
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0830-0900
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0830-0900
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08300900
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9655

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0830-0900
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Radio Berlin lnt'I, Eas1 Germany
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0845-0900
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11 940

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7200
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11650
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6020
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17595
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11850
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11805
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3925
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Radio Berlin lnl'I. East Germany
21540
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21485
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11685
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6160
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2310
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2485
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2325
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9670
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6030
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7180
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6030
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6130
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6070
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6215
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21810
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Radio Budapest, Hungary
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0900-1000
09001000
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0900-1000
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09001000
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0900-1000
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0900-1000
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Voice of Nlgorla, Lagos
0900 1000
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09001000
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09300935
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15200
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6065 6100 6140
7140 7150 7160
7260 7295 9610
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4690 5960 5985
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ICTWR, Guam
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9740

1000 UTC
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CBN, SI. John's, Newfoundland
KTWR, Agana, Guam
Radio Beijing, China
Radio Sweden lnl'I. StockhOlm
BBC, London. England*
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2485
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5975
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7270
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7255
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7355
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1100-11 25
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11 00-1130
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1100-1130
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1100-1 130
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1100-1130
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1100-1150
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6005
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6130
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5995
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15575
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5980
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11840
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6125 15430
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1130-1200
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6060
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15475
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6030
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6110
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1200-1300
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7255
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9850
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Voice of Turkey, Ankara
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9500
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11850
15115 17890

7210

7135
9530
13790
15595
17820
9655
7165
5010
9850
6110
6100
4950
7255
13760
9455
11 965
5950
15050
3230
6110
15160
15240
9665
11945
9585
15220
2310
2325
5985
6280
9780
6060
5955
17575
9605
15155
7245
7240
11785
9575

9790

1i

:i !; :' !I :i

i:

12 16 20 24

UTC

June 1988

63

frequencyI
1445-1500

Vatican Radio. Vatican City

[11 :00 AM EDT/7:00 AM PDT]

j 1soo UTC

7200 15200
11960 15090
15325
9575 15305
95 10 9690
15250 15335
1500-1525
Radio Netherland, Hllversum
5955 11735
17575
1500-1530
Radio Berlin lnl'I. East Germany
11785 15170
1500-1530
Radio Sofia Bulgaria
7245 9560
1500-1530 A.S Radio Tanzania, Oar es Salaam
7165
Radio Verllas Asia. Phlllpplnes
9770 15215
1500-1530
WYFR. OaKtand. California
5950 6175
1500-1545
15375 17612
Deutsche Welle, West Germany
7225 9735
1500-1550
21600
1500-1550
KTWR. Agana. Guam
9820
Radio Pyongyang. North Korea
6576 7290
15001550
9977
1500-1555
Radio Beijing, China
11 600 15165
1500-1600 F ABC. Alice Springs, Australia
23 10 (ML]
1500-1600
ABC, Perth, Australia
9610
2325 (ML]
1500-1600 F ABC. Tennant Creek, Australia
1500-1600
9700 15330
(US) Armed Forces Radio and TV
AWA. Alajuela, Costa Rica
15001600
15460
1500 1600
5995 6195
BBC. London. England
9740 11750
15260 15400
17885
1500-1600
Burma Broadcasting Service
5985
9625 11720
CBC Northern Quebec Service
1500-1600
CBN. St. John's. Newfoundland
1500-1600
6160
CBU, Vancouver. British Colombia
15001600
6160
Africa No. 1. Gabon
Vatican Radio. Vatican City
FEBA. Mahe. Seychelles
Radio Ulan Bator. Mongolia
Radio Bucharest. Romania

1500-1505
15001510
1500-1515
15001520
1500-1525

MHz.

30.00

5.00

";: .. .:
: .. ;
: :

MHz.

30.00

. ~

~-'

1500-1600
15001600
1500-1600
15001600
1500-1600
15001600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
15001600
15001600
1500-1600
1500-1600

Radio RSA. South Africa

SBC Radio One. Singapore
Superpower KUSW, Utah
Voice of America. Washington
Voice of Ethiopia, Addis Albaba
Voice of Indonesia. JaKarta
Voice of Kenya, Nairobi
Voice of Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur
Voice of Nigeria. Lagos
WCSN, Boston. Massachusetls
WHAi, Noblesville, Indiana
WANO. New Orleans, Louisiana
WYFR. Oakland, California

15001600 MA WYFR Satellite Net. California

1505-1530
Radio Finland. Helsinki

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7160 9515
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9640

15430

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Radio Japan. Tokyo

Radio Jordan. Amman
Radio Moscow, USSR

5980 6020
6165 7135
7345 11670
11 900 13790
17755 21590
11940
15205

East Europe

9325

15.00 ....

\ :~ l

1500-1600
1500-1600
1500 1600

17765 15135

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UUF ,....,~ ....;.

Radio Canada lnt'I, Montreal

11830 15170

---~

West Europe

,..+...{. ....~ ....~ / -~? ? ! ! ~1

:

1500-1600

15255
11 735 15310

6060 6080
9580
11720 1191 5
15440 17820
11815 21700

West Africa

:-. ~ . .:++

'

13770 15560

17890

West Coast To

15.00
10.00

11775 11940

6005
6030
6130
6080
6070
11830
3910
9670
11740 151 15
6280
11980
11900
5995 6035
7205 7215
9555 9625
11955 15315
5990 7210
9560
5905 5920
6050 6095
7185 7315
11 705 11840
15475 15585
9655 15125
5010 5052
9850
9000 9760
7165 9560
11790 151 50
61 00
4950
7255 11770
13760
15105 2 1640
11965
5950 6175
15170
15375 17612
13695 15375
11850 15185

West Coast To

l l;~ !:

20.00 ....

17870

CFCF. Montreat, Quebec

CFCN, Calgary, Alberta
CHNS, Halifax. Nova Scotia
CKWX. Vancouver. British Colombia
CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
ELWA. Monrovia. Liberia
(US) Far East NetworK. Tokyo
FEBC. Mantia, Phlllpplnes
HCJB. Quito. Ecuador
King of Hope. Southern Lebanon
KSDA. Agat. Guam
KYOI. Salpan
Radio Australia, Melbourne

West Coast To

~-~~---~~

25.00 ....

15001600
1500-1600
15001600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
15001600
15001600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
1500-1600
15001600

6248 7250 9645 11740

11960 15090 17870

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12

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16 20 24

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MONITORfNG TIMES

16

20 24

' :

12

UTC

16 20 24

frequencyI
Radio Berlin lnt'I, East Germany
FEBA. Mahe. Seychelles
All India Radio, New Deihl

1515-1600
1515-1 600
1530-1545

1530-1555 M-A BRT, Brussels, Belgium

1530-1555
Radio Austria lnl'I. Vienna
Radio Prague, Czechoslovakia
1530-1600

1530-1600
Radio
Radio
1530-1600
1530-1600
Swiss
1530-1600
Voice
1530-1600
Voice
1540-1550 MA Voice
1545-1600
Radio

Tanzania, Dar es Salaam

Tirana. Albania
Radio lnt'I, Berne
of Asia. Taiwan
of Nigeria. Lagos
of Greece, Athens
Canada ln'I, Montreal

1545-1600
Radio Korea, Seoul. South Korea
1545-1600
Vatican Radio. Vatican Cily
1550-1600 H-S KTWR. Agana. Guam

11 600 UTC

7295
15325
3925
7412
15510
11780
7345
11990
21505

4860 6160
9545 9950
21810
11915
9605 11665
15110 13715

11 835
15430 17830 13685
7445
11645 15630
11915 11935 15315
17820
9870
15120 17730

11865 15325
4800
5010 5052
6110 9585
15160
6055 7345
1600-1625
Radio Prague, Czechoslovakia
11685 11990
15110 17705
11830
1600-1630
ELWA. Monrovia, Liberia
9660 11850
1600-1630
Radio Norway tnl'I. Oslo
1600-1630
Radio Pakistan, Islamabad
7365 9465
11625 15125
1600-1630
Radio Polonia, Warsaw, Poland
6135 9540
1600-1630 M-F Radio Portugal, Lisbon
15245
1600-1630
6065 11855
Radio Sweden. SlockhOlm
1600-1630
6075 9720
SLBC. Colombo, Sri Lanka
1600-1630
Trans World Radio, Swaziland
5055 9525
5980 7445
1600-1630
Voice of Asia, Taiwan
9840 12020
Voice of Vietnam. Hanoi
1600-1630
9820
1600-1645 HA KTWR. Agana. Guam
7245
9535
Radio Nacional Angola, Luanda
1600-1645
11730 15320
UAE Radio, Unlled Arab Emirates
1600-1645
Radio Beijing. China
7295 9570
1600-1655
1600-1700 F ABC, Alice Springs, Australia
2310 [ML]
9610
1600-1700
ABC. Perth, Australia
2325 [Ml]
1600-1700 F ABC. Tennant Creek. Australia
(U S) Armed Forces Radio and TV
9700 15330
1600-1700
15460
1600-1700
AWR, AJaJuela, Costa Rica
5975 5995
BBC, London, England
1600-1700
7180 9515
11705 11820
15260 15400
9625 11720
1600-1700
CBC Northern Quebec SeNlce
6160
CBN. St. John's, Newfoundland
1600-1700
6160
1600-1700
CBU, Vancouver, British Colombia
6005
CFCF, Montreal. Quebec
1600-1700
6030
CFCN. Calgary, Alberta
1600-1700
6130
CHNS. Halifax, Nova Scotia
1600-1700
CKWX. Vancouver. Brilish Colombia 6080
1600-1700
6070
CFRB. Toronto. Ontario
1600-1700
3910
(US) Far Easl Network. Tokyo
1600-1700
HCJB, Oullo. Ecuador
11740 15115
1600-1700
11735
KCBI. Dallas. Texas
1600-1700
1600-1700
5995 6035
Radio Australi a, Melbourne
7205 7215
15130
1600-1700
Radio Beijing, China
Radio Canada lnt'I, Montreal
9625 11720
1600-1700
17820
6175 9860
1600-1700
Radio France lnl'I, Paris

9730

[12:00 PM EDT/9:00 AM PDT]

FEBA. Mahe, Seychelles
Radio Lesotho. Maseru
SBC Radio One, Singapore
Radio Budapest, Hungary

1600-1610
1600-1610
1600-1610
1600-1625

6115
11865
3905
7160
17595
6155
6055
11685
17705
9684
9480
9885
5980
15120
9855
9555
15325
7275
11810
9780

1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700

Radio
Radio
Radio
Radio

1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700

Radio Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Radio Tanzania, Dar es Salaam
Radio Zambia. Lusaka
Superpower KUSW, Utah
Voice of America. Washington

1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700
1600-1700

9605 11665
15110 13715
21505

1600-1700
1602-1700
1610-1615
1610-1620
1610-1625
1610-1650
1630-1645
1630-1655
1630-1700
1630-1700
1630-1700

11870 15310
9785 11615

1630-1700
1630-1700

11940
9835 11910

Jordan, Amman
Korea, Seoul, South Korea
Malawi, Blantyre
Moscow. USSR

Voice of Kenya, Nairobi

Voice of Nigeria, Lagos
WCSN. Boston. Massachusells
WHRI, Noblesville. Indiana
WRNO. New Orleans, Louisiana
WYFR. Oakland. California
MA WYFR Satellite Net, California
WINB. Red Lion, Pennsylvania
MA Vatican Radio, Vatican City
M-F Radio Botswana, Gaborone
M-F FEBA. Agana, Guam
Deutsche Welle, West Germany
Trans World Radio, Swaziland
M-A BRT Brussels Belgium
M-A ELWA. Monrovia. Liberia
Radio Netherland, Hilversum
Radio Peace and Progress, USSR
Radio Polonia, Warsaw, Poland
SLBC, Colombo, Sri Lanka

9560
5975 9870
3380 5995
5905 5920
6050 6095
71 15 7135
7345 7440
11840
9705 9720
9684
9580
15225
9575 9700
15410 15445
17785 17800
6100
7255 15120
21640
15105 21550
11965
9535 11830
21525
15566
15295
6248 7250
3356 4820
15325
13780 151 05
5055 7285
17595 21810
11830
6020 15570
9470 9490
9860 11980
7125 9525
6075

5980 6020
6165 7105
7150 7315
9565 11670

9760 15205
15580 15600
17870

13695 15170

9645 11 740

15595 21680
9525

9515 9760
12030 12050
11840

11955
17865
11715 15130

15430
6195 7105
9605 9740
12095 15070
17885

The DX world as seen by

Deutsche Welle, and the
Lenin Library from Radio
Moscow, contributed by John
Palumbo of Windber,
Pennsylvania.

17890
6060
9580

6080

11955 15440
11 705 11995

:;,.
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MONITORING TIMES

June 1988

65

frequency I
Swaziland Com mercial Radio
16301700
Voice ot Africa, Egypt
1630-1700
1630-1700 MA Voice ot Namibia (Angola)
Radio Free Europe, Munich
16401650

BBC. London, England

Radio Bujumbura, Burundi
Trans World Radio, Swaziland

1645-1700
1645-1700
1645-1700

11700 UTC

1700-1750
1700-1755
1700-1800 F
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
17001800
17001800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800 AS
17001800
1700-1800
1700-1800 M-F
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1 800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
17001800 AS
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800

1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800
1700-1800 S F
1700-1600
17001600

1700-1600
1715-1730
1715-1745
1715-1600
1718-1600
1725-1740
1725-1600

66

9695

9725

4976 5026
9385 9640 9925 11585
11955
6020 15570
5995 6060 6080 7205
9580
6115 7260 9730
Radio Berlin lnt'I, East Germany
5990 11815
Radio Japan, Tokyo
9655 15220 15310
Radio Norway lnt'I, Oslo
6065
Radio Sweden lnt'I, Oslo
3985 6165 9535
Swlss Radio lnt'I, Berne
BBC, London, England
5975 5995 9515 9740
11820 12095 15070 15260
15400 17685
Radio Pyongyang, North Korea
7290 9325 9640 9977
Radio Beijing, China
7295 9570
2310 (ML)
ABC, Alice Springs, Australia
ABC, Tennant Creek, Australia
2325 [ML)
(US) Armed Forces Radio and TV
9700 15330 15430
AWR Africa. Gabon
9625
CBC Northern Quebec Service
9625 11720
6160
CBN, St. John's, Newfoundland
6160
CBU, Vancouver, British Colombia
CFCF, Montreal, Quebec
6005
6030
CFCN, Calgary, Alberta
CHNS, Halifax. Nova Scolla
6130
CKWX, Vancouver, British Colombia 6080
6070
CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
3910
(US) Far East Network, Tokyo
11735
KCBI, Dallas. Texas
Radio Havana Cuba
11920
Radio Jordan, Amman
9560
Radio Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
9553 (ML)
Radio Moscow, USSR
11840 13790
Radio Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
9705 9720
Radio Tan zania, Oar es Salaam
9664
Radio zambla, Lusaka
9580
RTM Morocco
17615
SBC Radio One, Singapore
5052 11940
6155
Swaziland Commercial Radio
15225
Superpower KUSW, Utah
Voice of Africa, Egypt
15255
611 O 9575 9645 11760
Voice of America, Washington
11920 15410 15445 15580
15600 17785 17600 17670
Voice of Kenya, Nairobi
6100
11770
Voice of Nigeria. Lagos
WCSN, Boston, Massachusetts
21640
WHRI, Noblesville, Indiana
15105
WINS, Red Lion. Pennsylvania
15295
9465
WMLK, Bethel, Pennsylvania
WRNO, New Orleans. Louisiana
15420
9535 11580 11830
WYFR. Oakland, California
13695
15170
WYFR Satellite Net, California
13760
Radio Korea. Seoul, South Korea
9670 15575
3975 6185 7165
BBC, London, England
9665 15145 15255
Radio Berlin lnt'I. East Germany
Radio Pakistan, Islamabad
6210 7835
Radio Suriname lnt'I, Paramlbo
7835v
11780 15150
Radio New Zealand. Welllnglon

June 1988

1730-1735

All India Radio. New Dei hl

1730-1755
17301800
17301755

BRT Brussels, Belgium

KNLS, Anchor Point. Alaska
Radio Bucharest, Romania

1730-1800

Radio Australia, Melbourne

1730-1800
1730-1800
1730-1800

Radio Berlin lnt'I, E. Germany

Radio Polonia, Warsaw, Poland
Radio Prague, Czechoslovakia

17301600
1730-1800
1730-1800
1734-1800
1745-1600

Radio Sofia, Bulgaria

Radio Yugoslavia, Belgrade
RAE. Buenos Aires, Argentina
FEBA Mahe, Seychelles
BBC, London, England

1745-1800

SLBC, Colm bo, Sri Lanka

9605

[1 :00 PM EDT /10:00 AM PDT)

Radio Uganda. Kampala

1700-1705
Kol Israel, Jerusalem
17001715
1700-1715 MA Voice of Namibia (Angola)
1700-1725
Radio Netherland, Hilversum
1700-1730
Radio Australia, Melbourne
1700-1730
1700-1730
1700-1730
17001730
1700-1730
1700-1745

6155
15255
11955
5985 71 15
11 895 15355
6195 7180
3300
7285 9525

1800 UTC
1800-1805
18001815

1600-1615
18001625 AS
1800-1825
1800-1825
1800 1830

18001830
18001830
1800-1630
1800-1630
1800-1830
18001630
1800-1830
1800-1830
1800-1845
1800-1845
1800-1650
1800-1850
1800-1656
1600-1900 F
18001900 F
1800-1900
1600-1900
1800-1900
1600-1900
1800-1900
1800-1900
16001900
18001900
1800-1900
1800-1900
18001900
16001900 AS
1600-1900
180Q-1900
1800- 1900
1800-1900
16001900
1600-1900 M-F
18001900
18001900
18001900
18001900
18001900
1800 1900 MA
1800-1900 AS

MONITOR NG T fMES

4840
741 2
5910
7355
7105
11940
5995
7205
6115
6135
9605
13715
7245
5980
15345
11760
9515
15260
11 800

4660
9950
11695
9530

4920

6160

9685 11790

6035 6060 6080

9580
7260 9730
9540
11685 11 695 11 990
151 10
9560 11735 15310
6100 7240 11 735

9740 12095 15070

15400

[2:00 PM EDT/ 11 :00 AM PDT)

SBC Radio One, Singapore
Radio Cameroon. Yaounde

11940
3970 4750
5010
SLBC, Colom bo, Sri Lanka
11800
FEBA Mahe, Seychelles
11760
Radio Prague. Czechoslovakia
9605 11685
151 10 21505
RAE, Buenos Aires. Argentina
15345
BBC, London, England
9740 11820
15400
Radio Bamako, Mall
4835 5995
Radio Canada Inn, Montreal
15260 17620
Radio Mozambique, Maputo
3265 4655
Radio Prague, Czechoslovakia
5930 7345
Radio Sofia Bulgaria
7245 7 155
Swiss Radio lnt'I, Berne
3985 6165
Voice ot Africa, Egypt
15255
Voice of Vietnam. Hanoi
9640 12020
Radio Abidjan. Ivory Coast
7215
Trans World Radio, Swaziland
9525
Deutsche Welle, Wesl Germany
11785 13790
Radio Bras, Brasllia, Brazil
15265
17880
Radio RSA Soulh Africa
ABC, Allee Springs, Auslralla
2310 (ML)
2325 (ML)
ABC, Tennant Creek, Australia
All India Radio. New Deihl
11 935 15360
(US) Armed Forces Radio and TV
9700 15330
CBC Northern Quebec Service
9625 11720
CBN, St. John's, Newfoundland
6160
CBU, Vancouver, British Colombia
6160
CFCF, Montreal. Quebec
6005
CFCN, Calgary, Alberta
6030
CHNS, Halifax. Nova Scotia
6130
CKWX, Vancouver. British Colombia 6080
CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
6070
(US) Far East Network, Tokyo
3910
KCBI, Dallas, Texas
11 735
KNLS, AnchOr Point, Alaska
7355
Radio Australia, Melbourne
5995 6035
7205 7215
Radio Jamahiriya, Libya
15450
15575
Radio Korea. Seoul, Soulh Korea
Radio Kuwait, Kuwait
11665
9553 (M L)
Radio Malabo, Equatorial Gui nea
11840 12060
Radio Moscow. USSR
Radio New Zealand, Welllngl on
11780 15150
Radio Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
9705 9720
Radio Tanzania, Oar es Salaam
9664
Radio Zambia, Lusaka
9580
Superpower KUSW, Ulah
15225
Swaziland Commercial Radio
6155

4795

4850

11990 13715

12095 15070

9618
13715
9700
9535

15135 177 15

15430

6060
9580

6060

frequencyI
1800-1900

Voice of America, Washington

1800-1900
Voice of Kenya, Nairobi
1800-1900
Voice of Nigeria, Lagos
WCSN, Boston, Massachusetts
1800-1900
1800-1900
WHRI, Noblesvllie, Indiana
1800-1900
WINB, Red Lion, Pennsylvania
1800-1900 S-F WMLK, Bethel, Pennsylvania
1800-1900
WRNO, New Orleans, Louisiana
1800-1900
WYFR, Oakland, California
1800-1900
WYFR Satellite Net, California
1815-1900
Radio Bangladesh, Dhaka
Radio Austria lnt'I, Vienna
1830-1855
1830-1855
BRT, Brussels, Belgium
1800-1855
Radio Polonia, Warsaw, Poland
BBC, London, England
Radio Budapest, Hungary

1830-1900
1830-1900

1830-1900 A.S Radio Canada lnl'I, Montreal

1830-1900
Radio R nland, Helsinki
1830-1900
Radio Havana Cuba
1830-1900
Radio Kuwait
1830-1900 MWFRadlo Mozambique, Maputo
1830-1900
Radio Netherland, Hilversurn
1830-1900
Radio Sofia Bulgaria
Radio Sweden, Stockholm
1830-1900
Spanish Foreign Radio, Madrid
1830-1900
Voice of Islamic Republic Iran
1630-1900
1830-1900
WINB, Red Lion, Pennsylvania
1840-1850 M-A Voice of Greece, Athens
1840-1900
Radio Senegal, Dakar
1845-1855
Radio Nacional, Conaky, Guinea
1845-1900
All India Radio, New Deihl
1855-1900
Africa No. 1, Gabon

11900 UTC

[3:00 PM EDT/ 12:00 PM PDT]

1900-1903
Africa No. 1, Gabon
1900-1915
Radio Bangladesh, Dhaka
1900-19 15
Radio Tanzania, Dar es Salaam
1900-1925
Radio Netherland, Hilversurn
Voice of Islamic Republic Iran
1900-1925
1900-1930 F ABC, Alice Sprin gs, Australia
1900-1930 F ABC, Tennant Creek, Australia
1900-1930
Kol Israel, Jerusalem
1900-1930
Radio Afghanistan, Kabul
1900-1930
Radio Berlin lnt'I, East Germany
1900- 1930
Radio Japan, Tokyo
1900-1930
Radio Kiev, Ukraine, USSR
1900-1930
Radio Norway lnl'I, Osto
1900-1930 M-F Radio Portugal, Lisbon
Radio Sofia, Bulgaria
1900-1930
1900-1930
Radio Yugoslavia. Belgrade
1900-1930
Spanish Foreign Radio, Madrid
Voice of Vietnam, Hanoi
1900-1930
1900-1955
Radio Beijing, China
All India Radio, New Delhi
1900-2000
(US) Armed Forces Radio and TV
1900-2000
BBC, London. England
1900-2000

1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000 A.S

9700 9760 11760 1541 0

15445 15580 15600 17785
17800 17870 21485
61 00
11770 15120
15390
13760 17830
15295
9465
15420
11 580 15170
11830 13695
6240 7505
5945 6155 11825 12015
5910 9860 11695
5995 6135 7125 7285
9525 11840
12095 15070 15400
6110 7220 9585 9835
11910 15160
15260 17820
6120 9550 11755 15185
15155
11665
3265 4855 9618
6020 15175 17605 21685
9700 11 720
15240
7275 9765 11840 15375
9695
151 85
11645 12045 15630
4950
4833 4900 7125
7412 11620
4830 15475

15475
6240
9684
6020
9695
2310
2325
11 605
71 60
9665
9505
6010
9590
11 870
7245
5980
7275
9840
6860
74 12
9700
6180
12095
CBC Northern Quebec Service
9625
6160
CBN, SI. John's, Newfoundland
CBU, Vancouver. British Colombia
6160
6005
CFCF, Montreal, Quebec
6030
CFCN, Calgary, Alberta
6130
CHNS, Halifax, Nova Scotia
CKWX, Vancouver, British Colombia 6080
6070
CFRB, Toronto. Ontario
3910
(US) Far East Network, Tokyo
11 790
HCJB, Qullo, Ecuador
11735
KCBI, Dallas, Texas

7505
15175 17605 21685
(ML)
[ML)
15485
9640
11920 15255
6090
15220
15250
9560
7240
9765
12020
9470
11620
15330
9410
15070
11720

6165
15310

7170

11735 15310
9620
11840 15375

11 935 15360
15430
9740 11820

SUPERPOWER~~~~~

KUSWo1fl~CJ/b'i

Salt lake C1tv uun - unittd States ct mt1lca

KUSW QSL's have been contributed by Bob Doyle of

Shelton, CT, John Florence, program director for KUSW
(along with times and frequencies - Thanks}, Radio Danny
of Providence, RI, and EE Patterson of Evergreen Park, IL-Obviously a popular station!
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000

KNLS,
KYOI,
Radio
Radio

1900-2000
Radio Ghana. Accra
1900-2000
Radio Havana Cuba
1900-2000
Radio Kuwall, Kuwall
1900-2000 M-A Radio Malabo, Equatorlal Guinea
1900-2000
Radio Moscow. USSR
1900-2000
Radio New Zealand, Wellington
1900-2000
Radio Prague, CzechOslovakla
1900-2000
Radio Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
1900-2000
Radio Zambia, Lusaka
1900-2000 M-A Superpower KUSW, Utah
1900-2000 A.S Swaziland Commercial Radio
1900-2000
Trans World Radio Swaziland
Voice of America, Washington
1900-2000

1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1900-2000
1910-1920
1920-1930
1930-1940
1930-2000
1930-2000
1930-2000
1930-2000

S-F

M-A
M-A

M-F

Voice of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa

Voice of Kenya, Nairobi
Voice of Nigeria, Lagos
WCSN, Boston, Massachusetts
WHRI, Noblesvllie, Indiana
WINB, Red Lion, Pennsylvania
WMLK. Bethel, Pennsylvania
WRNO, New Orlean s, Louisiana
WYFR, Oakland, California
WYFR Satellite Net, California
Radio Botswana, Gaborone
Voice of Greece, Athens
Radio Togo, Lorne
ABC, Katherine, Australia
Radio Beijing, China
Radio Bucharest, Romania
Radio Canada lnt'I, Montreal

1930-2000
Voice of Republic of Iran
1935-1955
RAI, Rome, Italy
1940-2000 MA Radio Ulan Bator. Mongolia
1945-2000
All India Radio, New Deihl

2000 UTC
2000-2005 SF

15270 17790

Anchor Point. Alaska

Salpan
Algiers, Algeria
Australia, Melbourne

7355
9495
9509
6035
7215
6130
15155
11665
9553
9735
11780
5930
9705
9580
15400
6155
3205
9760
15580
17870
9595
6100
7255
15390
13760
15295
9465
15420
11 830
15375
3356
7430
5047
2485
6955
5990
5995
17875
9022
7275
9575
9755

9685 15215 17745

6060 6080 7205
9580

[M L)
11 840 12060
15150
7345
9720

11760 15410 15445

15600 17785 17800

11770
17830

13695 15170 21615

15440
4820
9425 11645

7480 9440
6105 7145 71 95
7235 11945 15325
9770
7290
11870
11860

9575

[4:00 PM EDT/1 :00 PM PDT]

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

20002005
Radio Zambia, Lusaka
2000-2005 MA Vatican Radio, Vatican City

MONITORING TIMES

3295
6020
9520
3345
6190

Jun e 1988

4890
6040

5960
6080

5985
6140

6165
6248

7250

9625

67

frequencyi
9645 11700 15120
3345 6t65
6t00
3220 5047
9575 t1870
3205
6955 7480 9440
5990 6105 7145 7195
7355
6035 7205 7215 9580
9620
Radio Budapest, Hungary
61 t 0 7220 9585 9835
11910 15160
9555 6030 1t 945 15325
Radio Canada lnt'I. Montreal
17820 17875
Radio Ghana, Nairobi
3366 491 5
Radio Norway International, Oslo
9590 15310
7125 7145 9525
Radio Polonia, Warsaw. Poland
Swaziland Commercial Radio
6155
Voice of Nigeria, Lagos
7255
Voice of Republic of Iran
9022 9770
All India Radio. New Delhi
7412 9755 9910 11620
1 t860
WYFR, Oakland. California
1t830 13695 15170 15375
15440 17750 21525
Radio Pyongyang. North Korea
6576 9345 9640 9977
Radio RSA. South Alrlca
7270 11900 15252
ABC. Alice Springs. Australia
2310 [MLJ
2485
ABC, Katherine. AUstralla
ABC, Tennant Creek, Australia
2325 [MLJ
(US) Armed Forces Radio and TV 15330
t2095 15070 15260
BBC. London. England
15400
17760
6160
CBN. St. John's, Newfoundland
6160
CBU, Vancouver, British Colombia
6005
CFCF, Montreal, Quebec
CFCN, Calgary, Alberta
6030
CHNS, Halifax, Nova Scotia
6130
CKWX, Vancouver. British Colombia 6080
CFRB, Toronto. Ontario
6070
(US) Far East Network. Tokyo
3910
Radio Kuwait, Kuwait
11 665
King of Hope. Soulllern Lebanon
6280
KVQH, Rancho Simi. California
17775
KYQI, Salpan
9495
Radio Baghdad. Iraq
9875
Radio Malabo. Equatorial Guinea
9553
Radio Moscow. USSR
9735 11840 12010
Radio New Zealand. Wellington
11780 15150
Radio Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
9705 9720
Radio Zambia. Lusaka
9580
Superpower KUSW. Utah
t5400
Voice of America. Washington
9760 11 760 t 5600
Voice of Turkey, Ankara
9825
Voice of Nigeria. Lagos
t1770
WCSN. Boston, Massachusetts
15390
WH RI, Noblesville, Indiana
t3760 17830
WRNO, New Orl eans. Louisiana
t5420
WINB. Red Lion. Pennsylvania
15295
Radio Damascus. Syria
11900 12085
Voice of Kenya. Nairobi
6 100
ELWA. Monrovia, Liberia
11830
Radio Cairo, Egypt
9670
RAI, Rome. Italy
7235 9575 9710
Radio Polonia, Warsaw. Poland
6095 7285
Radio Australia, Melbourne
9580 9620
Radio Beijing, China
6955 7480 9440 9745
t 1790
Radio Canada ln'I, Montreal
6030 9555 11 945 15325
17820 17875
Radio Korea. Seoul. South Korea
13670
Radio Netherland, Hllversum
15560
Radio Portugal, Lisbon
7155 9740
Radio Sofia Bulgaria
7 t1 5 7155 9700

2000-2010 A Radio Zambia, Lusaka

2000-2010
Voice of Kenya, Nairobi
2000-2015
Radio Togo, Lome
2000-201 5 M-A Radio Ulan Bator, Mongolia
Trans World Radio, Swaziland
2000-2015
2000-2025
Radio Bei jing, China
Radio Bucharest. Romania
2000-2025
2000-2030
KNLS. Anchor Point. Alaska
2000-2030
Radio Australia, Meloourne
2000-2030
2000-2030
2000-2030
2000-2030
2000-2030
2000-2030
2000-2030
2000-2030
2000-2045
2000-2045
2000-2050
2000-2056
2000-2100 M-A
2000-2100
2000-2100 M-A
2000-2100
2000-2100

2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100 M-F
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2100
2000-2t 00
2000-2t00
2003-2100
2005-2t00
2010-2100 A.S
2015-2t00
2015-2t 00
2025-2045
2030-2055
2030-2100
2030-2t00
2030-2100 A.S
2030-2100
2030-2100
2030-2t 00 M-F
2030-2100

68

11111e 1988

2030-2100
2030-2100
2030-2100
2030-2100
2040-2100
2045-2100

Radio Tirana. Albania

Voice of Alrica, Cairo. Egypt
Voice of Vietnam, Hanoi
Spanish Foreign Radio. Madrid
Radio Havana Cuba
All India Radio, New Deihl

2045-2100
2045-2100
2045-2 100
2045-2100

IBRA Radio, Malla

Radio Bertin lnl'I. East Germany
Vatican Radio, Vatican City
WYFR. Oakland, Gallfornla

2050-2100

Vatican Radio, Vatican City

2100 UTC

2100-2130
2100-2130
21 00-21 30
2 100-2130
2100-2130
2100-2135
2100-2140
2100-2145
2100-2150
2100-2150
2100-2155
2 100-2200 M-A
2100-2200
2100-2200 M-A
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200

2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
2 t00-2200
2100-2200
2 100-2200 MA
2100-2200
2100-2200 A.S
2100-2200 A.S
2100-2200
2 t00-2200

2t 00-2200
2100-2200
2t00-2200
2t00-2200

MONITORlNG T IMES

11 835
12020
9765
15300
9550

9910 t1 620

6125
11 700 11760 15120
13695 15170 15566
17845
7250 9645

(5:00 PM EDT/ 2:00 PM PDT]

2100-2105
Radio Damascus, Syria
2100-2105
Radio Zam bia. Lusaka
2100-21 tO
Vatican Radio. Vatican City
2100-21 10 A.S Voice of Kenya, Nairobi
2100-21?5
BRT Bru ssels. Belgium
2100-2115
IBRA Radio, Malla
21 00-2 125
Radio AUstrla lnl'I. Vienna
2100-2125
Radio Beijing, China
2100-2125
2100-2125
2100-2130
2100-2130 T,F

9480
15375
9840
7275
15230
74 12
11715
6100
5965
9625
11830
17612
6190

11 900 12085
3345 6 165
6190 7250
6100
5910 9925
6100
5945 6155
6955 7480
11790
Radio Bucharest. Romania
5990 6105
Radio Netherland. Hllversum
9540 9715
Radio Bertin lnl'I, East Germany
5965 6125
Radio Budapest. Hungary
6110 9585
15160
Radio Japan. Tokyo
5965 7140
Radio Korea, Seoul. South Korea
13670
Radio Moscow, USSR
9490 9620
11840
Radio Sweden, Stockholm
6065 11845
Swiss Radio lnt'I, Berne
9885 12035
ELWA. Monrovia, Liberia
11 830
Radio Havana Cuba
15230 15300
Radio Cairo, Egypt
9670
Deutsche Welle, West Germany
9650
Radio Baghdad, Iraq
9770
Radio Beijing, China
6860 94 70
ABC, Alice Springs, AUstralla
2310 [M LJ
ABC, Katherine, Australia
2485
ABC. Tennant Creek. AUstralla
2325 [MLJ
All India Radio. New Deihl
9550 9910
(US) Armed Forces Radio and TV 15330 15345
BBC, London, England
3995 5975
6180 7325
15070 15260
CBC Northern Quebec Service
9625 11720
CBN, SI. John's, Newfoundland
6160
CBU, Vancouver. British Colombia
6160
CFCF, Montreal. Quebec
6005
CFCN, Calgary, Alberta
6030
CHNS. Halifax. Nova Scotia
6 130
CKWX, Vancouver, British Colombia 6080
CFRB. Toronto, Ontario
6070
(US) Far East Network, Tokyo
3910
King of Hope, Southern Lebanon
6280
KSDA. Agat, Guam
11 965
KUSW, Salt Lake Clly, Utah
17715
KVOH, Rancho Simi, California
17775
Radio Malal>O, Equatorial Guinea
9552.5
Radio Zambia, Lusaka
9580
Voice of Alrlca. Cairo, Egypt
15375
Voice of America. Washington
6040 6045
15410 15445
17800 17670
Voice of Nigeria, Lagos
15120
WCSN, Boston. Massachusetts
15390
WHRI, Noblesville, Indiana
9770 17830
WINB, Red Lion. Pennsylvania
15185

9645

9585
9440

9870
9745

7145 7195
9895 15560
9835 11910
7280 17835
9665 11675

15570
15340

9860

1171 5
15430
6005 6175
9410 12095
17760

9760 11 760
15580 17785

frequencyI
2100-2200
2100-2200
2100-2200
21102200
2115-2200

WRNO, New Orleans, Louisiana

WYFR, Oakland, California
WYFR Sa1elll1e Ne1. California
Radio Damascus. Syria
BBC, London, England

2115-2130
21252155 s
2130-2145
2130-2200
21302200
2130-2200
2130-2200
2130-2200
2130-2200
2130-2200
2130-2200
2130-2200
21352150 S-F
2 150-2200 M-F

i 2200

UTC

Radio Yugoslavia, Belgrade

Radio AUstrla lnt'I. Vienna
BBC, London, England*
BBC, London. England*
HCJB. Qullo, Ecuador
Kol Israel, Jerusalem
Radio Canada lnl'I, Montreal
Radio Finland, Helsinki
Radio Sofia, Bulgaria
Radio Tirana, Albania
Radio Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR
Swiss Radio lnl'I, Berne
ELWA. Monrovia, Liberia
ELWA. Monrovia, Liberia

[5:00 PM EDT/3:00 PM PDT)

2200-2205 MF ELWA. Monrovia, Liberia

200-2210 M-H Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

2200-2210
2200-2215
2200-2215
2200-2215
2200-22 15
22002225
22002225
2200-2225
2200-2230
2200-2230
2200-2230
2200-2230
2200-2230
22002230
2200-2230
2200-2230
2200-2230

M-A
M-A
M-F

s
M-A

2200-2245
22002245
22002245
2200-2250
2200-2255
2200-2300
2200-2300

2200-2300
2200-2300
2200-2300
2200-2300
2200-2300
2200-2300
2200-2300
2200-2300
2200-2300
2200-2300
2200-2300
2200-2300 M-F
2200-2300
2200-2300
2200-2300
2200-2300

13760
9652.5 15170 17645
13695 15375
11 7651 11 900
3995 5975 6005 6 175
6160 7325 9410 9915
12095 15070 15260
5960 7240 9620
5945 6155 7205 9655
5965 7160
6030 7230 9635
15270 17790
9435 9615 11605
11660 15150 17620
6120 111 745 11 755 15400
9700 11 720
9480
6100
6190
11 630
11630

3993
3925
6020
9520
Radio Sierra Leone, Freetown
5960
ABC, Alice Springs, Australia
2310
ABC, Tennant Creek, Australia
2325
BBC, London, England*
5965
Voice of America, Washington
9640
BRT, Brussels, Belgium
5910
RAI, Rome. llaly
5990
Vatican Radio, Vatican City
6015
2465
ABC, Katherine, Australia
All India Radio, New Delhi
9550
CBC North ern Quebec Service
9625
KGEI, San Francisco, California
15260
KUSW, Sall Lake Cily, Utah
15580
Radio Norway lnl'I, Oslo
15165
Radio Prague, Czechoslovakia
6055
Radio Sofia, Bulgaria
9700
Radio Vilnius. Lllhusanlan SSA
7165
15180
5965
Radio Berlin lnl'I. E. Germany
15185
WINB, Red Lion. Pennsylvania
9505
WYFR, Oakland. Californi a
21525
Voice of Turkey, Ankara
7135
RAE, Buenos Aires, Argnetina
6060
6030
(US) Armed Forces Radio and TV
BBC, London. England
5975
7325
12095
6160
CBN, St. John's, Newfoundland
CSU, Vancouver, British Colombia
6160
CFCF. Montreal, Quebec
6005
6030
CFCN. Calgary, Alberta
6130
CHNS. Halifax. Nova Scolla
CKWX, Vancouver, British Colombia 6080
6070
CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
3910
(US) Far East Network, Tokyo
King of Hope, Southern Lebanon
6280
KVOH. Rancho Simi, California
17775
15160
Radio Australia, Melbourne
17795
5960
Radio Canada lnt'I, Montreal
13660
Radio For Peace, Costa Rica
Radio Havana Cuba
7140
6130
Radio Moscow. USSR
9665
5010
SBC Radio One. Si ngapore

11630
4890 5960 5965
6040 6080 6140

[ML]
[ ML]
7160
11740 15120
9710 11 600
9615 11630
9910 11620 1171 5
11720

15180
11950
7400 11790 13645
9730 11965
11830 13695 15375
7160 9445 17760
9690 11710
15345 15430
6005 6175 6160
94 10 9590 9915
15070 15260

15240 15320 15395

9755

9490 9610
9765 11 710
5052 11 940

9640

2200-2300

Voice of America, Washlng1on

2200-2300
WCSN, Boston. Massachusetts
WHRI, Noblesville, Indiana
2200-2300
WRNO, New Orleans. Louisiana
2200-2300
2215-2230
BBC, London, England*
2230-2300 A.S CBC Northern Quebec Service
2230-2300
Radio Beijing, China
Radio Jamahiriya, Libya
2230-2300
Radio Mediterran, Malta
2230-2300
2230-2300
Radio Polonia, Warsaw, Poland
2230-2300
Radio Tirana, Albania
All India Radio, New Delhi
2245-2300
2248-2300

2300 UTC
2300-2315

WINB, Red Lion, Pennsylvania

15120
15320
15300
9770
13760
11620
9625
3965
11615
6110
5995
7215
6055
11715
15145

15165 15290 15305

17740
17630
15390
11720
6165
15450
6135
9460
7215
11745

7125

7270

9535

9910

(7:00 PM EDT/4:00 PM PDT)

BBC, London, England

5975 6005 6175 6195

7325 9410 9515 9590
9915 12095 15070
9435 11 695 12060
2300-2330
Kol Israel, Jerusalem
Radio Canada lnt'I, Mon1real
9755 11 730
2300-2330
Radio Medllerran, Malta
6110
2300-2330
Radio Polonia, Warsaw
5995 6135 7125 7270
2300-2330
2300-2330
Radio Sofia, Bulgaria
9700 11 950
Radio Sweden, Stockholm
9695 11705
2300-2330
9730
Radio Berlin lnl'I, East Germany
2300-2345
WINB, Red Lion, Pennsylvania
15145
2300-2345
2300-0000
All India Radio, New Delhi
6055 7215 9535 9910
11 715 11745
6030 15345
2300-0000
(US) Armed Forces Radio and TV
CBC Northern Quebec Service
9625 11 720
2300-0000
CBN, St. John's, Newfoundland
6160
23000000
6160
2300-0000
CBU, Vancou ver. British Colombia
CFCF, Montreal, Quebec
6005
23000000
6030
2300-0000
CFCN. Calgary, Alberta
CHNS, Halifax, Nova Scotia
6130
2300-0000
CKWX, Vancouver. Brillsh Colombia 6060
2300-0000
CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
6070
2300-0000
3910
2300-0000
(US) Far East Network, Tokyo
15580
2300-0000 M-A KUSW, Sall Lake Cily, Utah
17775
2300-0000
KVOH. Rancho Simi, California
Radio Australia, Melbourne
15160 15240 15320 15395
2300-0000
17795
13660
Radio for Peace. Costa Rica
2300-0000
Radio Jamahiriya, Libya
1181 5 15450
2300-0000
2300-0000
Radio Japan. Tokyo
7280 11 800 15195 15280
15300
23000000
Radio Moscow. USSR
9765 9865 11 750 11 780
15475
9655 11905
2300-0000
Radio Thailand. Bangkok
15300
2300-0000
WCSN, Boston. Massachusetts
9770 17830
2300-0000
WHRI, Noblesville. Indiana
WRNO. New Orleans, Louisiana
13760
2300-0000
5950 9505 9656
2300-0000
WYFR. Oakland, California
BBC. London, England*
11820 15390
2315-2330
2315-0000
BBC, London, England
5975 6005 6175 7325
9515 9590 9915 11 955
15435
6055 9630
2320-2325 M-A Radio Prague, Czechoslovakia
9925 11 695
2330-2355 M-A BRT, Bru ssels, Belgium
6110 9520 9585 9635
2330-0000 MA Radio Budapest, Hungary
11910 15160
5960 9755
2330-0000 M-F Radio Canada lnl'I, Montreal
2330-0000
Radio Korea. Seoul
15575
2330-0000
Radio Tirana, Albania
6200 7065 9760v
9640 12020
2330-0000
Voice of Vietnam. Hanoi
9395 11 645
2335-2345 MA Voice of Greece, AJhens
BBC, London, England*
3915 6080 7180 9560
2345-0000
2348-0000
WINB. Red Lion. Pennsylvania
15145
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June 1988

69

Your Guide to Shortwave Listening in June

Day to Day Shortwave

0230 BBC: The Ken Bruce Show (music
mix and ente rtainment news)
0230 Radio Netherlands: World News
Day to Day Shomvave is your daily guide to 0235 R adio Cairo: life in Egypt
the programs being broadcast on the 0235 R adio Netherlands: Newsline
inte rnational bands. Wherever possible, actual 0245 Radio Cairo: listeners' Mail
advance program details for the listed stations 0250 Radio Netherlands: Over to You!
are included. T o use this section, simply look
(letters)
up the day on which you arc listening, check 0300 BBC: World News
the time, and decide which program interests 0300 R adio Japan: News
you. Then go to the frequency sect ion in order 0309 BBC: News about Briwin
to locate the frequency of the station/ 0315 BBC: From Our Own Corresponprogram on the dial.
dent-In-depth news stories
simila r to "Radio Newsreel," with
AU days are in UTC. Keep in mind that the
some real gems.
new UTC day begins at 0000 UTC. The refore,
0315 Radio Cairo: News
if you are listening to the shortwave at 7:01
0315 Radio J apan: One in a Hundred
PM [EST] on your local Thursday night, that's
Million
equal to 0001 UTC and therefore F1iday
0400 BBC: Ncwsdesk
UTC.
0430 BBC: Music Feature
We invite readers to submit information and 0445 BBC: Renections (religion)
reviews about their favo rite programs. These 0450 BBC: Financial Review
must be in UTC day a nd time and can be sent 0500 BBC: World News
0509 BBC: Twenty-four Hours (news
10 program manager Kannon Shanmugam.
magazine)
We also invite broadcast stations to submit 0530 BBC: Big Bands--The Singers
advance program details for publication in 0530 Radio Netherlands: World News
Mo11it01i11g Times. Copy deadline is the 1st of 0535 Radio Nethe rla nds: Newslinc
the month preceding publication (details for 0550 Radio Netherlands: Over to You!
(letters)
programs to be broadcast in July must be
received by Kannon before June 1. 0600 BBC: Newsdcsk
Information can be FAXed via 1-704-837-6416 0630 BBC: Jazz fo r the Asking
and must include the fo llowing informatio n at 0700 BBC: World News
the top of the first page: To: Monitoring 0709 BBC: Twenty-four Hours (news
magazine)
Times, Brasstown, North Carolina. Phone: 1704-837-9200.
0730 BBC: From O ur Own Correspondent(sec Su n 0315)
P rogram Manager:
0745 BBC: Book Choice
Kannon Shanmugam
0750 BBC: Waveguide (SW radio)
4227 Wimbledon Drive
0800 BBC: World News
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0800 KNLS: Country Music
0809 BBC: Rencct ions (religion)
~-----------------' 0815 BBC: T he Pleasure's Yours (classical
music requests
Sunday
0815 KNLS: Let's Talk
0830 KNLS: American Music Spotlight
0000 BBC: World News
0900 BBC: World News
0009 BBC: News about Britain
0909 BBC: The Sunday Papcrs-(see 0209)
0015 BBC: Radio Newsreel
0915 BBC: Science in Action
0030 BBC: Great British Concert H alls
1000 BBC: News Summary
0100 BBC: News Summary
1001 BBC: Short Story
0100 Radio J apa n: News
1100 BBC: World News
0101 BBC: Play of the Weck
1100 Radio J apan: News
0115 Radio Japan: One in a Hundred
1109 BBC: News About Britain
Million
1115 BBC: From O ur Own Correspo n0200 BBC: World News
dent- (sec Sun 031 5)
0202 R adio Cairo: Egyptia n Music
1116 Radio Japan: Commentary
0205 Radio Cairo: Do You Know?
1121 Radio Japa n: Hullo America
0209 BBC: The Su nday Papers- -Of
int erest to expat riates; limited appeal. 1130 BBC: G reat British Concert Halls
1145 Radio Japan: Meet the People
0215 Radio Cairo: News
1200 BBC: News Sum ma ry
0225 Radio Cairo: Alte rn ative Poi nt of
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120 1 BBC: Play of the Weck

1300 BBC: World News
1309 BBC: Twenty-four Hours (news
magazine)
1330 BBC: Sports Roundup
1345 BBC: The T ony Myatt Request
Show
1400 BBC: News Summary
1500 BBC: Radio Newsreel
1500 KNLS: Fait h fo r Today
1515 BBC: Concert Hall
1515 KNLS: Bible Reading
1530 KNLS: Swingin' Years
1600 BBC: World News
1600 KNLS: Country Music
1609 BBC: Commentary
1615 BBC: From Coca to Cocaine
1615 KNLS: let's T alk
1630 KNLS: American Music Spotlight
1645 BBC: Lett er From America
1700 BBC: World News
1709 BBC: Re nections (religion)
1715 BBC: Jazz for the Asking
1745 BBC: Sports Roundup
1800 BBC: Newsdesk
1800 KNLS: Faith for T oday
1815 KNLS: Bible Reading
1830 BBC: Brain of Britain (quiz show)
1830 KNLS: Swingin' Years
1830 Radio Netherlands: Happy Station
(music and letters)
1900 BBC: News Summary
190 1 BBC: Classical Record Review
2000 BBC: World News
2009 BBC: Twenty-four Hou rs (news
magazi ne)
2030 BBC: Sunday Half-hour (religious
fea tu re)
2030 Radio Netherlands: H appy Station
(music and letters)
2100 BBC: News Summary
2101 BBC: Short Story
211 5 BBC: Th e Pleasure's Yours (classical
music requests)
2200 BBC: World News
2225 BBC: Book C hoice
2230 BBC: Fina ncial Review
2240 BBC: Rencctions (religion)
2245 BBC: Sports Roundu p
2300 BBC: Wo rld News
2300 Radio Japan: News
2309 BBC: Commentary
2315 BBC: Lett e r From America
2316 Radio J apan: Commenta ry
232 1 Radio J apa n: Hullo from Tok)'O
2330 BBC: Feature
2345 Radio J apan: Meet the People

Monday
0000 BBC: World News
0009 BBC: News A bout Britain

Your Guide to Shortwave Listening in June

0015
0030
0100
0100
0101
0115
0145
0200
0200
0205
0209
0215
0215
0225
0230
0230
0235
0245
0250
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0300
0300
0309
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0315
0315
0330
0400
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0450
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0509
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0530
0545
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0709
0730
0800
0800
0809
0815
0815
0830
0830
0900
0909
0915
0930
0945
1000
1030
1100
1100

BBC: Radio Newsreel

BBC: Religious Service
BBC: News Summary
Radio Japan: News
BBC: Drama Feature
Radio Japan: Japan Travelogue
BBC: A Schubert Anthology
BBC: World News
Radio Cairo: Egyptian Music
Radio Cairo: Egyptian Products
BBC: Commentary
BBC: Peebles' Choice (music)
Radio Cai ro: News
Radio Cairo: Letter From Egypt
BBC: Science in Action
Radio Netherlands: Happy Station
(music and letters)
Radio Cairo: Quiz of the Month
Radio Cairo: Egyptian Song
Radio Cairo: Cultural Life in Egypt
BBC: World News
Radio Cairo: Between Egypt and
America
Radio Japan: News
BBC: News About Britain
Radio Cairo: Egyptian Song
BBC: Good Books-Very nice,
detailed opinions on books. Highly
recommended.
Radio Cairo: News
RadioJapan: Japan Travelogue
BBC: Anything Goes
BBC: Newsdesk
BBC: Behind the Wall
BBC: Reflections (religion)
BBC: Waveguide (SW radio)
BBC: World News
BBC: Twenty-four Hours (news
magazine)
BBC: Nature Notebook
Radio Netherlands: Happy Station
(music and leuers)
BBC: Recording of the Week
BBC: Newsdesk
BBC: World News
BBC: Twenty-four Hours (news
magazine)
BBC: From Coca to Cocaine
BBC: World News
KNLS: American Magazine
BBC: Ref1ections (religion)
BBC: Behind the Wall (book journey
through China)
KNLS: World Radio Broadcast
BBC: Anything Goes (odd recordings)
KNLS: Jazz "E"
BBC: World News
BBC: British Press Review
BBC: Good Books-(see Mon 0315)
BBC: Financial News
BBC: Peebles' Choice
BBC: News Summary
BBC: The Vintage Chart Show
BBC: World News
Radio Japan: News

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1245
1300
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1850
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I 901
1945
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2009

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2030
2035
2050
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2101

211 5
2130
2200
2209
2225
2230
2240
2245

BBC: News About Britain

Radio Japan: Commentary
Radio Japan: Tokyo Pop-in
Radio Japan: Japan Travelogue
BBC: The Ken Bruce show (music
mix with entertainment news)
Radio Japan: Crosscurrents (topical
discussion)
BBC: Radio Newsreel
BBC: Brain of Britain 1988 (quiz
show)
BBC: Sports Roundup
BBC: World News
BBC: Twenty-four Hours (news
magazine)
BBC: Anything Goes (odd recordings)
BBC: World News
BBC: Outlook
BBC: Radio Newsreel
KNLS: American Magazine
KNLS: Bible Reading
KNLS: Swingin' Years
BBC: Music Feature
BBC: World News
KNLS: American Magazine
BBC: Commentary
KNLS: World Radio Broadcast
KNLS: Ja7.:t. "E"
BBC: The World Today (news
featu re)
BBC: World News
BBC: Book Choice
BBC: Music of the Royal Courts
BBC: Sports Roundup
BBC: Newsdesk
KNLS: American Magazine
KNLS: Bible Reading
BBC: Multitrack 1: Top 20 (pop
music)
KNLS: Swingin' Years
Radio Netherlands: World News
Radio Netherlands: Newsline
Radio Netherlands: The Research
File (science)
BBC: News Summary
BBC: Outlook
BBC: Peebles' Choice
BBC: World News
BBC: Twenty-four Hours (news
magazine)
BI3C: Sports International (feature)
Radio Netherlands: World News
Radio Netherlands: Newsline
Radio Netherlands: The Research
File (science)
BBC: News Summary
BBC: Network UK (feature)
BBC: This Particular Place
BBC: The Vintage Chart Show
BBC: World News
BBC: The World Today (news
feature)
I3BC: Duok Choice
BBC: Financial News
BBC: Reflecti ons (religion)
BBC: Sports Roundup
MON ITORING TIM ES

2300 BBC: World News

2300 Radio Japan: News

2309 BBC: Commentary

2315 BBC: Education Today
2316 Radio Japan: Commentary
2326 RadioJapan: Tot...-yo Pop-in
2330 BBC: Multitrack 1: Top 20 (pop
music)
2330 Radio Japan: Japan Travelogue
2345 Radio Japan: Crosscurrents (topical
discussion)

Tuesday
0000
0009
0015
0030
0100
0100
0101
0116
0126
0130
0145
0200
0202
0205
0209
0215
0215
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0230
0230
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0235
0245
0250
0250
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0300
0300
0309
0315
03 15
03 16

BBC: World News

BBC: News About Britain
BBC: Radio Newsreel
BBC: Music of the Royal Courts
BBC: News Summary
Radio Japan: News
BBC: Outlook
Radio Japan: Commentary
Radio Japan: Tot...-yo Pop-in
BBC: Short Story
BBC: This Particu lar Place
BBC: World News
Radio Cairo: Egyptian Music
Radio Cairo: Arab Poetry
DBC: Commentary
BBC: Network UK (feature)
Radio Cairo: News
Radio Cairo: Spotligh On the
Middle East
BBC: Sports International (feature)
Radio Netherlands: World News
Radio Cairo: T ourism In Egypt
Radio Netherlands: Newsline
Radio Cairo: Egyptian Song
Radio Cairo: This rs Islam
Radio Netherlands: The Research
File (science)
BBC: World News
Radio Cairo: Meeting In Cairo
Radio Japan: News
BBC: News About Britain
BBC: The World Today (news
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Radio Cairo: News
Radio Japan: Commentary

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0326 Radio Japa n: Tokyo Pop-in
0330 BBC: John P eel (p rogressive rock
music)
0400 BBC: Newsdesk
0430 BBC: A Schubert Anthology
0445 BBC: Reflections ( religio n)
0450 BBC: Financia l News
0500 BBC: World News
0509 BBC: T wenty-four Hours (news
magazine)
0530 BBC : New Ideas
0530 Radio Net herlands: World News
0535 R adio Net herlands: Ncwsline
0540 BBC: Tu rning Over New Leaves
(rel igious books)
0545 BBC : The World Today (news
fea tu re)
0550 R a dio Netherlands: The Research
File (science)
0600 BBC: Ncwsd csk
0630 B BC: C ou nte rpoint
0700 BBC: World News
0709 B BC: Twenty-four H ou rs (news
magazine)
0730 B BC: Th is Particu lar Place
0745 BBC: Network UK (feature)
0800 BBC: World News
0800 KNLS: Country Music
0809 BBC: R eflectio ns ( religion)
0815 BBC: Tech T alk (engineering)
0815 KNLS: Sound Words
0830 B BC: M usic of the Royal Courts
0830 KNLS: A ll Thar Jazz
0900 BBC: Wo rl d News
0909 BBC: Brit ish Press Review
0915 BBC: The World Today (news
feature)
0930 BBC: Financial News
093 5 B BC: Sports Roundup
1000 BBC: News Sum mary
100 1 BBC: Discove ry (science)
1030 BBC: Sports International (feature)
1100 BBC: World News
1100 R adio Japan: News
1109 BBC: News About Britain
111 5 BBC: Waveguide (SW radio)
1l16 Radio Japan: Commentary
1125 DI3C: Leu cr From Scot land
1126 Radio Japan: Tokyo Pop-in
1130 BBC: Citizens (drama serial)
1130 Radio J apan: Asia Now
1145 Radio J apan: Let's Learn Japanese
1200 B BC: R a d io Newsreel
1215 BBC: M ultit rack 1: Top 20 (pop
music)
1245 BBC: Sports Rou ndup
1300 BBC: World News
1309 BBC: Twenty-four Hours (news
magazine)
1330 BBC: Network UK (feature)
1345 BBC: Recording of the Weck
1400 BBC: World News
1405 BBC: Outlook
1445 B BC: A Sch ubert Anthology
1500 BBC: Radio Newsreel
1500 KNLS: American Magazine
1515 BBC: A J o lly Good Show (rock
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music)
KNLS: Bible R eading
KNLS: Swi ng in ' Years
BBC: World News
KNLS: C ou ntry M usic
BBC: C ommentary
BBC: O mnibus (topical fe ature)
KNLS: Sound Wo rds
KNLS: All That J azz
BBC: The Wo rld To day (news
feature)
BBC: World News
BBC: Citizens (dra ma serial)
BBC: Sports R ou ndup
BBC: Newsdesk
KNLS: A merican M agazine
KNLS: Dible R eadi ng
BBC: Develop ment '88
KNLS: Swingin' Yea rs
Radio Nethe rla nds: Wo rld News
Radio Netherla nds: Newsline
Radio Nethe rlands: Images (arts
feat u re)
BDC: News Summary
13BC: O utlook
DBC: Stock M arket R eport
DBC: Repo rt o n Religion- News on
modern religion. You might be
surprised
BBC: World News
I3BC: T wenty-four H ou rs (news
magazi ne)
BDC: Meridian (arts fea tu re)
Radio Nethe rla nds: W orld News
Radio Netherla nds: Newsline
Radio Netherland s: Images (an
feature)
13BC: News Summary
13BC: T urni ng Over New Leaves
( re ligious books)
BBC: From Coca to Cocaine
BBC: Andy Kershaw's World o f
Music (exotic music)
BBC: World News
BBC: T he World T o day ( news
feature)
BJ3C: Letter From Scot land
BJ3C: F ina ncial News
BJ3C: Reflect ions ( religion)
BBC: Sports Roundup
BJ3C: World News
Radio Japan: News
BDC: Commentary
BBC: Concert Ha ll
Radio Japan: Com mentary
Radio Japa n: T ok)'O Pop-in
Radio Japa n: Asia Now
Radio J apan: Let's Lea rn J apa nese

Wednesday
0000
0009
0015
0030
0 100

BBC:
BDC:
BDC:
BOC:
BI3C:

World NL'WS
News About Britain
Radio Newsreel
O mnibus ( topica l feat ure)
News Summ ary

MON ITOR ING T IMES

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0101
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0126
0130
0145
0200
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0209
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0215
0225
0230
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0300
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0509
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0630
0700
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0800
0809
0815
0815
0830
0830
0900
0909
0915
0930
0935
0945

Radio Japan: News

BOC: Outlook
Radio Japan: Commentary
Radio Japan: Tokyo Pop-in
BBC: Report on Religion-(sec Tue
1945)
BDC: Country Style--British country
music. Hmmmm ...
BBC: World News
Radio Cai ro: Egyp tian Music
Radio Cairo: Wednesday T alk
DOC: Commentary
BDC: Big Bands-The Singers
Radio Cairo: News
Radio Ca iro: Comment ary
BBC: Citizens (drama serial)
Radio Netherlands: World News
Radio Cairo: Nile Cruise
Radio Netherlands: Ncwsline
Radio Cairo: Liste ners' Mail
Radio Netherlands: I mages (art
featu re)
BDC: World News
Rad io Japan: News
BOC: News About Dri1ai n
BBC: The World Today (news
fea ture)
Radio Cairo: News
Radio Japan: Co mmentary
Radio Japan: Tokyo Pop-in
BBC: Discovery (science)
BOC: Newsdesk
1313C: Time for Verse
BOC: Book Choice
BOC: Renect ions ( religion)
BOC: Financial News
DOC: World News
DBC: Twe nty-four Hours (news
magazine)
DBC: R eport on Religion-(scc T ue
1945)
Radio Netherlands: World News
Radio Netherla nds: Ncwsline
DDC: The World Today (news
feature)
Radio Netherlands: I magcs (an
feature)
BBC: Ncwsdesk
BOC: Meridian (arts fea tu re)
BBC: World News
13BC: Twenty-four Hou rs (news
magazine)
Bl3C: World News
KNLS: American Magazine
BBC: Reflectio ns (religion)
DBC: Cl;issica l Record Review
KNL~ : Let's Ta lk
BBC: Brain of Britain 1988 (quiz
show)
KNLS: C lassical Music
BBC: World News
OBC: Bril ish Press Review
OBC: The World Today (news
feature)
DBC: Financial News
DOC: Sports Roundup
DBC: Music Feature

Your Guide to Shortwave Listening in June

1000
1001
1100
1100
1109
1116
1126
1130
1130
1145
1200
1215
1225
1245
1300
1309
1400
1405
1445
1500
1500
1515
1515
1530
1530
1600
1600
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1615
1615
1630
1645
1700
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1715
1730
1740
1745
1800
1800
1815
1830
1830
1835
1850
1900
1901
1939
1945
2000
2009
2030
2030
2035
2050
2100
2101
2115
2145
2200

BBC: News Summary

BBC: Omnibus (topical feature)
BBC: World News
Radio Japan: News
BBC: News About Britain
Radio Japan: Commentary
Radio Japan: Tol..-yo Pop-in
BBC: Meridian (arts feature)
Radio Japan: Radio Japan Journal
Radio Japan: Japan Panorama
BBC: Radio Newsreel
BBC: Irving Berlin and F riends
BBC: The Farming World
BBC: Sports Roundup
BBC: World News
BBC: Twenty-four Hours (news
magazine)
BBC: World News
BBC: Outlook
BBC: Report on Religion-(see Tue
1945)
BBC: Radio Newsreel
KNLS: America n Magazine
BBC: Education Today
KNLS: Bible Reading
BBC: King St reet J unior (drama)
KNLS: Swingin' Years
BBC: World News
KNLS: American Magazine
BBC: Commentary
BBC: Counterpoint
KNLS: Let's Talk
KNLS: Classical Music
BBC: The World Today (news
feature)
BBC: World News
BBC: A Leuer from Wales
BBC: Society Today
BBC: New Ideas
BBC: Book Choice
BBC: Sports Roundup
BBC: Newsdesk
KNLS: American Magazine
KNLS: Bible Reading
KNLS: Swingin' Years
Radio Netherla nds: World News
Radio Netherlands: Newsline
Radio Netherlands: The Savage
Breast (music fea ture)
BBC: News Summary
BBC: Outlook
BBC: Stock Market Report
BBC: Good Books-(see Mon 0315)
BBC: World News
BBC: Twenty-four Hors (news
magazine)
BBC: Assignment
Radio Netherlands: World News
Radio Netherlands: Newsline
Radio Nethe rla nds: The Savage
Breast (music feature)
BBC: News Summary
BBC: Network UK (feature)
BBC: Counterpoint
BBC: Recording of the Week
BBC: World News

2209 BBC: The World Today (news

feature)
2225 BBC: A Letter from Wales
2230 BBC: Financial News
2240 BBC: ReOections (religion)
2245 BBC: Sports Roundup
2300 BBC: World News
2300 Radio Japan: News
2309 BBC: Commentary
2315 BBC: Write On ... (letters)
2316 Radio Japan: Commentary
2326 Radio Japan: Tol..-yo Pop-in
2330 BBC: Multitrack 2 (pop music)
2330 Radio Japan: Radio Japan Journal
2345 Radio Japan: Japan Panorama

Thursday
0000
0009
0015
0030
0100
0100
0101
0116
0126
0130
0140
0145
0200
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0205
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0215
0215
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BBC: World News

BBC: News About Britain
BBC: Radio Newsreel
BBC: King Street Junior (drama)
BBC: News Summary
Radio Japan: News
BBC: Outlook
Radio Japan: Commentary
Radio Japan: Tol..-yo Pop-in
BBC: Waveguide (SW radio)
BBC: Book Choice
BBC: Society Today
BBC: World News
Radio Cairo: Egyptian Music
Radio Cairo: Questions and Answers
BBC: Commentary
BBC: Network UK (feature)
Radio Cairo: News
Radio Cairo: Egypt's Foreign Policy
BBC: Assignment

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0235
0245
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0255
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0300
0300
0309
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0316
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Radio Netherlands: World News

Radio Cairo: Story and Author
Radio Netherlands: Newsline
Radio Cairo: Science in Egypt
Radio Netherla nds: The Savage
Breast (music feature)
Radio Cairo: Egyptian Songs
BBC: World News
Radio Cairo: Egyptian Treasures
Radio Japan: News
BBC: News About Brita in
BBC: The World Today (news
feature)
Radio Cairo: News
Radio Japan: Commentary
Radio Japan: Tol..-yo Pop-in
BBC: From Coca to Cocaine
BBC: Newsdesk
BBC: Classical Record Review
BBC: ReOections (religion)
BBC: Financial News
BBC: World News
BBC: Twenty-fo ur Hours (news
magazine)
BBC: Peeble's Choice
Radio Netherlands: World News
Radio Netherlands: Newsline
BBC: The World T oday (news
featu re)
Radio Netherlands: The Savage
Breast (music fea ture)
BBC: Newsdesk

QSLs from the Voice

of Greece and the
BBC, compliments of
Paul Williams of
Shaw AFB, South
Carolina.

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Music (exotic mu sic)

BDC: Network UK (feature)
I33C: World News
KNLS: Country Music
BBC: Renections (religion)
13BC: Country Style-(see Wed 0145)
KNLS: Let's Talk
BBC: John Peel (progressive rock
music)
KNLS: Jazz "E"
BBC: World News
BBC: The World Today (news
feature)
BBC: Financial News
BBC: Sports Roundup
BBC: News Summary
BBC: Assignment
BDC: King Street Junior (drama)
BDC: World News
Radio J apan: News
OBC: News About Britain
BBC: New Ideas
Radio Japan: Commentary
BBC: A Letter from England
Radio Japan: Tokyo Pop-in
Radio Japan: In Business
BBC: Citizens (drama se rial)
Radio Japan: Asian Crossroads
DBC: Radio Newsreel
BBC: Mu ltitrack 2 (pop music)
BBC: Sports Roundup
BBC: World News
BBC: Twenty-four H ours (news
magazine)
BBC: Network UK (feature)
BBC: World News
BBC: Outlook
DBC: Write On .. . (lellers)
BBC: Radio Newsreel
KNLS: American Magazine
BBC: The Pleasure's Yours (classical
music requests)
KNLS: Bible Reading
KNLS: Swingin' Years
BBC: World News
KNLS: Country Music
BBC: Commeniary
BBC: Assignmen1
KNLS: Let's Talk
KNLS: Jazz "E"
BBC: The World Today (news
feature)
BBC: World News
BBC: Cirizens (drama serial)
BBC: Sports Roundup
BBC: Newsdesk
KNLS: American Magazine
KNLS: Ilible Reading
BBC: Discovery (science)
KNLS: Swingin' Years
Radio Netherlands: World News
Radio Netherlanclsa; Newsline
Radio Netherlands: Media Network
(SW radio)
BBC: News Summary
BBC: Outlook

lune 1988

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DDC: Stock l\farket Report

BBC: Herc's Humph!
BBC: World News
BDC: Twenty-four H ours (news
magazine)
BBC: Meridi:in
Radio Netherlands: World News
Radio Netherlands: Newsline
Radio Netherlands: Media Network
(SW radio)
BBC: News Summary
BBC: Talking From ..
BBC: A Jolly Good Show (rock
music)
BBC: World News
BBC: The World Today (news
feature)
BBC: A Lette r from England
BBC: Financial News
BBC: Renections (religion)
BBC: Sports Roundup
BBC: World News
Radio Japan News
BBC: Commentary
BBC: Seven Seas
Radio Japan: Commentary
Radio Japan: Tokyo Pop-in
BBC: Irving Derlin and Friends
Radio Japan: In Busi ness
Radio Japan: Asian Crossroads

Friday
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BDC: World News

BDC: News About Dritain
BDC: Radio Newsreel
BBC: Music Now (modern classical
music)
BBC: News Summary
Radio Japan: News
BBC: Outlook
Radio Japan: Commentary
Radio Japan: To\..-yo Pop-in
BBC: Music Feature
BBC: Talking From . . .
BBC: World News
Radio Ca iro: E1:,'YPti<i n Music
Radio Cairo: Holy Koran Interpretati on
BBC: Commentary
BBC: Tech Talk
Radio Cairo: News
Radio Cairo: Focus
BBC: Citizens (drama serial)
Radio Netherl ands: World News
Radio Cairo: Readers' Corner
Radio Netherlands: Newsli ne
Radio Cairo: Listeners' Mail
Radio Nerherlands: Media Network
(SW radio)
BBC: World News
Radio Japan: News
BBC: News About Britain
BBC: The World Today (news
feaiure)
Radio Cairo: News

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Radio Japan: To\..-yo Pop-in
BBC: The Vintage Chart Show
BDC: Ncwsdesk
BBC: Country Style-(see Wed 0145)
DBC: Renections (religion)
BBC: F inancial News
BBC: World News
BBC: Twenty-fou r Hours (news
magazine)
BBC: E ducation Today
Radio Netherlands: World News
Radio Netherlands: Newsline
BBC: The World Today (news
featu re)
Radio Netherlands: Media Network
(SW radio)
DBC: Newsdesk
BBC: Meridian (arts fea ture)
BDC: World News
BDC: Twenty-fou r Hours (news
magazine)
BBC: Write O n . . . (letters)
BBC: Seven Seas
BBC: World News
KNLS: American Magazine
BBC: Renections (re ligion)
KNLS: Let's Talk
BBC: Music Now (modern classical
music)
KNLS: All That Jazz
BBC: World News
BDC: British Press Review
BBC: The World Today (news
fea ture)
BBC: Financial News
BBC: Sports Roundup
BBC: News Summary
BBC: Andy Kershaw's World of
Music (exotic music)
BBC: J azz for the Asking
BBC: World News
Radio Japan: News
BBC: News About Britain
Radio Japan: Commentary
Radio Japan: Tokyo Pop-in
BBC: Meridian (arts fea ture)
Radio J apan: One in a Hundred
Mi llion
Radio Japan: Let's Practice J apanese
BBC: Radio Newsreel
BBC: Business Matters
BBC: Sports Roundup
IlBC: World News
BBC: Twenty-four Hours (news
magazine)
BBC: John Peel (progressive rock
music)
BBC: World News
BBC: Outlook
BBC: Nature Notebook
BBC: Radio Newsreel
KNLS: American Magazine
KNLS: Swingin' Years
BBC: World News
KNLS: American Magazine
BBC: Commentary

Your Guide to Shortwave Listening

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BBC: Science in Action

KNLS: Let's Talk
KNLS: All That Jazz
BBC: The World Today (news
feature)
BBC: World News
BBC: A Letter from Northern
Ireland
BBC: Music Now (modern classical
music)
13BC: Sports Roundup
BBC: Newsdesk
KNLS: American Magazine
KNLS: Bible Reading
BBC: Multitrack 3 (pop music)
KNLS: Swingin' Years
Radio Netherlands: World News
Radio Netherlands: Newsline
Radio Netherlands: Rembrandt
Express (magazine)
BBC: News Summary
BBC: Outlook
BBC: Stock Market Report
BBC: Personal View
BBC: World News
BBC: Twenty-four H ou rs (news
magazine)
BBC: Science in Action
Radio Netherlands: World News
Radio Netherlands: Newsline
Radio Netherlands: Rembrandt
Express (magazine)
BBC: News Summary
BBC: Network UK (feature)
BBC: Europe's World
BBC: Business Matters
BBC: Behind the Wall (book journey
through China)
BBC: World News
BBC: The World T oday (news
feature)
BBC: A Letter from Nortern Ireland
BBC: F inancial News
BBC: Reflections (religion)
BBC: Sports Roundup
BBC: World News
Radio Japan: News
BBC: Commentary
BBC: From the Weeklies (press
review)
Radio Japan: Commentary
Radio Japan: Tok.")'O Pop-in
BBC: Multitrack 3 (pop music)
Radio Japan: One in a Hundred
Million
Radio J apan: Let's Practice J apanese

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News About Britain
Radio Newsreel
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Recording of the Week
News Summary

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Radio Japan: News

Bl3C: Outlook
Radio Japan: Commentary
Radio Japan: T okyo Pop-in
BI3C: Andy Kcrshaw's World of
Music (exotic music)
BBC: World News
Radio Cairo: Egyptian Music
Radio Cairo: Questions and Answers
BBC: Commentary
Bl3C: Network UK (feature)
Radio Cairo: News
Radio Cairo: Current Events
BBC: People in Politics
Radio Netherlands: World News
Radio Cairo: Stamp Collector's Club
Radio Netherlands: Newsline
Radio Cairo: Songs We Sing
Radio Netherlands: Rembrandt
Express (magazine)
BBC: World News
Radio Cairo: Architecture of the
Pharaohs
Radio Japan: News
BI3C: News About Britain
Radio Cairo: Egyptian Song
Bl3C: The World Today (news
feature)
Radio Cairo: News
Radio J apan: Commentary
Radio Japan: Tokyo Pop-in
BI3C: Europe's World
BBC: Business Matters
BI3C: Newsdesk
BBC: Herc's Humph!
Bl3C: Reflections (religion)
BBC: Financial News
Bl3C: World News
BBC: Twenty-four Hours (news
magazine)
BBC: Personal View
Radio Netherlands: World News
Radio Netherlands: Newsline
BBC: The World Today (news
feature)
Radio Netherlands: Rembrandt
Express (magazine)
BI3C: Newsdesk
BI3C: Meridian (arts feature)
BBC: World News
BBC: Twenty-four Hours (news
magazine)
BBC: From the Weeklies (press
review)
BBC: Network UK (feature)
BI3C: World News
KNLS: Country Music
BBC: Reflections (religion)
BDC: A Jolly Good Show (rock
music)
KNLS: Let's Talk
KNLS: American Music Spotlight
I3BC: World News
BBC: British Press Review
I3BC: The World Today (news
feat ure)
BBC: Financial News
MONITORING TIMES

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June

0935 BBC: Sports Roundup

0945 BBC: Personal View
JOOO BBC: News Summary
BBC: Herc's Humph!
13BC: Letter from America
BBC: People and Politics
BI3C: World News
Radio Japan: This Weck
BBC: News About Britain
BBC: Big Bands-The Singers
BBC: Meridian (arts feature)
BBC: Radio Newsreel
BBC: Mullitrack 3 (pop mu sic)
BBC: Sports Roundup
BBC: World News
BBC: Twenty-four H ours (news
magazine)
1330 BBC: Network UK (feature)
1345 BBC: Sportswo rld
1400 BBC: News Summary
1401 BBC: Sportsworld
1500 BBC: Radio Newsreel
1500 KNLS: American Magazine
1515 BBC: Sportsworld
1515 KNLS: Bible Reading
1530 KNLS: Swingin' Years
1600 BBC: World News
1600 KNLS: Country Music
1609 BBC: Commentary
1615 13BC: Sportsworld
1615 KNLS: Let's Talk
1630 KNLS: American Music Spotlight
1700 BBC: World News
1709 BBC: Book Choice
1715 BBC: The Ken Bruce Show (music
mix with entertainment news)
1745 BBC: Sports Roundup
1800 BBC: Newsdesk
1800 KNLS: American Magazine
1815 KNLS: Bible Reading
1830 13BC: Great British Concert Halls
1830 KNLS: Swingin' Years
1830 Radio Netherlands: World News
1835 Radio Netherlands: Newsline
1850 Radio Netherlands: Over to You!
(letters)
1900 BBC: News Summary
1901 BBC: Play of the Week
2000 BBC: World News
2009 BBC: Twenty-four Hours (news
magazine)
2030 BBC: Meridian (arts feature)
2030 Radio Netherlands: World News
2035 Radio Netherlands: Newsline
2050 Radio Netherlands: Over To You!
(letters)
2100 13BC: News Summary
2115 BBC: Music Feature
2130 BBC: People and Politics
2200 BBC: World News
2209 BBC: From Our Own Correspondent-(Sun 0315)
2225 BBC: Book Choice
2230 BBC: New Ideas
2240 BBC: Reflections (religion)
2245 BI3C: Sports Roundup
2300 BBC: World News
2300 Radio Japan: This Week
2309 DBC: Commentary
2315 I3BC: The Tony Myatt Request
Show

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June 1988

75

ASK BOB

Bob Grove, WA4PYQ

Q~stions sent to M1' an answered in this
column as space permits. If you prefer an
answer by return mail, you must include a
self-ad~ssed, stamped envelope.

Q. Before World War II, what

frequencies were used by the
railroads? (Robert Brock, Phoenix, AZ)

The trend in all communications has

been to move gradually higher in
fr equency. E arly communications began
in the hundreds-of-kilohert z ra nge,
gradually shifting into the high
fr equency (shortwave) ba nds by World
Wa r II, during which tacti cal communications were condu cted as high as 400
MHz.

C omm ercial communicatio ns moved

more slowly; police could still be hea rd
a ro und 1700 kHz--just ab ove the AM
b roadcast b a nd--as late as the 1950s
and early '60s. Without a doubt, the
lowe r shortwave spectrum probably witnessed point-to-point train communicati ons experime nts before World Wa r TI.
It is possible, however, tha t sho rt-range
swit ch ya rd communications had already
begun their shift to lower VHF. FM
was growing in popularity due to its
inherent noise reducti on, a n importa nt
conside ra tion in industria l e nvironme nts.

Q. No matter how hard I

tighten the Grove Scanner
Beam to my metal mast, it
slips in a high wind. What can
I do? (Jerry Humes, Portland,
OR)

Thi s is a rare prob lem, easily cured.

Add about 4 feet of rigid PVC p ipe,
reinfo rced with a b roo mstick or oth e r
wood down it s center if necessary, to
the top of your mast. M ount the
Scanner Bea m to it, sliding the a nt e nna
snug against the PVC pipe, sawing off
the excess le ngth on th e o ld offse t p ipe.
Placing the Sca nner Beam aga inst th e
mast prevents torque leve rage developing from winds, the no n-metallic upp er
section prevents interaction of the mast
with the antenn a, and the grip be tween
the tooth ed bracke t a nd the plastic pipe
will have be tt e r "bite" tha n with the
me ta l masc.

Q. I have a loud hum on my

AC/ DC radio which goes away
if I hold the cord in a certain
position. What's happening
here? (Robert Covington,
Baltimore, MD)
76

June 1988

A Co mmon mode hu m is an a nnoying

property fr equently reporte d by
listeners, especially on the shortwave
b ands. It is caused by unba la nce d AC
cu rrents on the a ntenna or fe cdline
interacting with the AC p owe r line or
co rd.
The problem can usually be reduced by
experime nting wi th differe nt configurati ons of grounding (be ca reful when
grounding a tube-type AC/ DC ra dio-the chassis may be "hot"!), a nd is sometimes entirely elimina ted by switching to
battery ope ration.

Q. Why don't scanners automatically resume searching

after a few seconds after stopping on a busy frequency?
This could manually defeated
by pressing the "hold" button if
the listener wanted it to
remain there. (George Kleiser,
Rayne, LA)

A J apa nese sca nning re ceivers like the

ICOM R7000 do have the a ut omatic
search resume, but it is s ha rp ly
criticized by co nsume rs b eca use it won't
wait until a signal goes off the air
b efore it leaves the fr equ ency. Such an
opt ion allowing the user hi s cho ice
wou ld be desirabl e, especia lly when the
sea rch sequ e nce stop s o n dead ca rrie rs,
bird ies, int c rmod a nd image produ cts,
a nd so fo rth . It's just a matte r of cost.

Q . I recently bought a Cobra

SR 15 hand-held programmable
scanner and noticed that when
I first turned it on it had
unusual frequencies--66.45,
76. 825, 87.425 MHz--in
memory. I could not program
in similar frequencies myself.
How come? (Harold Winard,
Wharton, NJ)

A The Cobra S R1 5 is the same

scanne r as the Bearcat BC lOOXLT. A
Unide n e ngineer advised us tha t these
a rc pre-progra mmed test fre qu e ncies
burned int o ROM (m e mory) at th e
fact ory, an d cannot be keypad-ente re d.
Yo u ca n rest ore these unusual
fr equencies by removing the ba tteries,
allowing th e rad io to go dead, then
reinstalling the m again .
T he same e ng ineer told us tha t it is
M ON ITO RI NG T IM ES

impossible for the VCO (oscill ator) to

track those freque ncies; the readout is
simply a display of the algorithm s (comma nds) given to the microprocessor.
Wha t you a re hearing arc p robably
im ages of signals at other frequencies.

Q . I have a Grove PRE-3

preamplifier. When I attempt to
use it on the 800 MHz range,
I notice a definite difference
in signal levels between its
two output connectors--how
come? (Jon Mech/in, Marlborough, MA)

Good qu estion. Th e circu it b oard

layout apparently favors the
"RECEIVER 2" p ort over the
"R ECEIVER 1" port fo r 800 M Hz
reception; the difference is not
pronounced, howeve r, below 500 MHz.
Since the a nomaly docs not degrade
performance (simply use th at second
port for 800 MH z recepti on) , the
produ ct will nor be redesigned at this
time .

Q. Could you please give me

the frequency of the Central
Electric Membership Corporation (REA) in Sanford, NC? (J.
Gray Allen, Sanford, NC)

A Licensed as KIH 510, th ey ca n be

found on 48.26 MHz. Ru ral power
co mpa nies are typically assigned low
band freque ncies beca use of their wide
a rea cove rage.

Q. Does anyone make a voice

descrambler for police scanner reception? (James
Richards, Hackettstown, NJ)
A No. A couple of years back, Ca pri
E lectronics, D on Nobl es E lectronics
(ONE) and eve n G rove Ente rprises
ma nufactured them, bu t the E lectro nic
C ommunications Privacy Act (ECPA
'86) speci fi ca lly forbi ds monitoring
scrambled trans missio ns.
O bviously, agen cies utiliz in g scra mble rs
have descra mble rs as we ll, but these
two fu nctions a rc bu ilt int o the sa me
equipment.

. ....:

Q_ How does one know what mode to set a

scanner or receiver in when searching the VHF
and UHF frequency ranges? (William Browne,
Scottsdale, AZ)

FREE G>NE YEAR

SUBSCRIPTION!

Most VHF /UHF bands have specific emission types

authorized by the FCC. These include wideband FM (TV and
FM broadcasting), AM (civilian and military aeronautical),
and narrow band FM (low, high, UHF, and 800 MHz land
mobile services).

Typically, the bandplan is as follows: 29-54 MHz, FM-N; 5472 MHz, FM-W; 72-76 MHz, FM-N; 76-108 MHz, FM-W;
108-136 MHz, AM; 136-174 MHz, FM-N; 174-216 MHz, FMW; 216-225 MHz, FM-N; 225-400 MHz, AM; 400-406 MHz,
FM (data and telemetry); 406-512 MHz, FM-N; 512-806 MHz,
FM-W; 806-960 MHz, FM-N.

Q_ In the March issue of MT, you printed a list

of cellular telephone frequencies indicating that
the mobiles are 824-849 MHz and the bases
are 869-894 MHz. Why do I hear cellular telephones on my scanner in the 961-980 Mhz
range? (William Browne, Scottsdale, AZ)

lntroctuce monitoring to
your community!
Get a one year subscription (c)r extension)
td MI. by talking : to your book and
e/ectronfc stores, . PX, etc.
Tell them about the fun of monitoring and
how ML helps the listener. Ask them to get
In touch withMi to receive 5 free samoles.

A These signals are called "images"; they arc gene rated by

the mixer stage of you r scanner a nd will appear offset from
the actual frequ encies by 21.4, 21.6 or 21.7 MHz depending
upon the make and model of the scanner.

If the dealer decides to sell

In spite of efforts by scanner manufacturers to censor cellular

recepti on by eliminating those frequency ranges, cellular signals may be clearly heard on the ir images.

Q. Is it practical to modify my low, high, UHF,

FM-only scanner to receive the 225-400 MHz
military aircraft band? (D.B., Bangor, ME)

ML in their

store (minimum of 10 per month for 1 year)

you get a 1 year subscription for each new
dealer!

Be sure to have the store

give us your name and
address when they write.

No, for two reasons: The microprocessor, oscillator and

RF tuning circuits will not track that far out of their design
ranges; even if they did, air-to-ground transmissions are in
the AM mode and your scanner will only receive F1v[ signals
-- you would hear little, if any, audio.

Q_ How can I receive out-of-band signals on

my programmable scanner?

A The original Regency "Touch" (ACT-T-16K) could be

tricked by pressing "MANUAL, 9, CLEAR" before entering a
frequency outside the advertised frequency ra nge for the
scanner. Later models were even more easily tricked by
pressing the decimal key first. Electra Bearcats could be
tricked by a variety of keypad sequences. Radio Shack
scanners never could.

MONITORING TIMES
P.O. Box 98
Brasstown, NC 28902
704-8237-9200

Present day models can no longer be keypad-manipulated to

extend their design frequency coverage. While some Regency
scanners will accept frequency entries outside their advertised
lim its, they were intentionally designed to allow this
ove rrange as part of their alignment procedure.
I

MONITORING TIMES

lune 88

77

MAGNE TESTS ...

Lawrence Magne
Editor-in -Ch ief
Passport to World Band Radio

The New Sony ICF-7601 Portable

elevat ion leg, albeit one that tends to collapse
if you operate the radio on a smooth surface.
There's also a n all-bu t-useless LE D "glow
light" to give some coarse indication of signal
stre ngt h. And, to top thi ngs off, there's a twoposition "news-music" tone switch.
T hat's it in the features depart ment.
There's not even a dial light, -- and don't even
begi n to t hink of such lip-smacking goodies as
synchronou s detection or reception of singlesidcband signals.

New Model Gives

Improved Coverage

H ow do you take the temperature of the

world band ra dio market? Keep an eye on
how many new models of affordable portables
a re being introduced. First-time listeners
scoop these up because they're not costly a nd
they're easy to ope rate. T hey're fully selfcontained, too, so they ca n be carried a nywhere from the patio to Papeete.

Receiver of the Month Club

Newcomers must be coming in at quit e a
clip, because la tely a t least one interesting
new portable has been introduced eve ry
month. This isn't happening just in N orth
A merica, either. G ordon Darling of Papua
New G uinea -- and you can't get much fa rther
away than that -- just returned fro m a tour of
A sia. G ordon points out that in the Orient the
Sony ICF-20010 - what's sold in N orth
America as the ICF-2010 -- is selling faster
than Sony can produce them. That's despite
the high cost, ever-rising yen and the set's
appetite fo r batteries.
This month is no exception to the brisk
pace of new-p orta ble introductions. In th e
US, Sony recently unve iled yet another new
portable, the IC F-7601.

Volksradio of the Eighties

This is no ordinary event. Why? Because
it's apparent that the '7601 is mea nt to be the

78

Ju ne 1988

The '7601 covers AM up to 1700 kHz,

which means it will rece ive the new 1600-1700
kHz band pla nned fo r the A mericas. That's a
plus over many competing models and earl ier
models in this series.
FM coverage is 76-108 M Hz, which is
unusually generous, so you can tune FM stations almost a nywhe re in the world. In fact,
fo r listening to near-dista nce broadcasts, all
this set lacks is longwavc - which is only used
outside the A mericas, an)'way -- a nd the soonto-bc-phased-out FM low band used in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
successor to the JC F-7600 series of analog
However, unlike the more cost ly Sony
portables that has already sold over a million
ICF-SW1 covered last mont h, t he '760 l's FM
units worldwide a nd is a favorite of such
is in monaural only.
varied types as story-hunting newsmen in
But you're not paying big bucks to hear
Nairobi a nd bored diplomats in Nanjing.
local stations. Shortwave is the draw, a nd the
Whe n you're shooting fo r your second
'7601 cove rs most of t he shortwave broadcastmillion, you don't rock the ra dio raft. T he
ing spect rum in 10 bandspreadcd segments.
'7601 is, as you'd exp ect, basica lly th e old ICFThe 120, 90 and 75 meter bands a rc cov7600A , but with a mud pack and facelift
ered
in one cramped segme nt using the set's
worthy of a grand old da me.
simple mediumwave circuitry. This circuitry is
on ly single conversion a nd so doesn 't do a
Keep It Simple, Sensible
bang-up j ob. Bu t, t hen, most ordinary listenO ne reason for the '7600 series' havi ng e rs -- as opposed to knob-clu tching shortwave
been such a winner is that each set has had a j unk ies a nd muggers lying in wait fo r D an
sensible balance of characteristics: sma ll R ather - don't listen to these bands very
enough to carry on trips or on foo t, but large oft en, if at a ll. It 's clear this set is a imed at the
e nough to produce decent sound -- good per- average news a nd music listener, not the
formance, but not great - cheap, but not broadcast DXer -- and certainly not the ham
ell.'Pensive. And each has been all bu t foo l- or utility DXer.
p roof to operate.
The set's su perior double-conversion cirSo it is wit h the '7601. It's light, compact, cu it ry is used to cover the big-league 60, 49,
uses only fou r ordinary "AA" cells (none of 41, 3 1, 25, 21, 19, 16 a nd 13 meter bands.
those weird watch cells here) a nd has been There is generous overlap on both sides of
carefully designed to be easy and logical to each band, so the frequ encies fo r most staoperate -- what's ca lled "good ergonomics" tions on the air are covered. Th is is a big plus
a mong the ta rdily tre ndy. Al l the cont rols arc over the earlier '7600A. And it's nice to sec
where they belong a nd even the pushbut tons that the '7601, unlike some co mpet ing models,
operate with good "feel".
includes the import ant new 21 meter band.
But...BUT ... t hc '7601 has hardly any fea- This band, now bei ng used by a growing
tures. There is a power "hold" switch to keep number of stations, will be chocablock with
the set from bei ng turned on accidentally -- ju icy catches when it's offi cia lly unveiled next
say, wh ile you're travel ing. There's a lso an year.
MON ITOR ING TIMES

NEW COMMUNICATIONS CATALOGS

From Universal Radio
Multiple Conversion Means Better Performance
What's the difference between single-conversion and doublcconvcrsion circuitry?
No, none of this has to do with football. What it r efers to is radio
circuits which, by their very nature, tend to produce false or "repeat"
sou nds up and down the dial. As a result, you can hear stations and
funn y codes and other sounds bothering whatever it is you're trying to
hear.
Single conversion circu its arc prelly bad in this regard, so bett e r
models ha ve double-conversion circuitry to provide quieter results.
You hear fewer disruptive sounds and more of the station you're after.
But d ouble conversion is not a tangible concept, not like so many
peas in a pod. Some double-conversion designs a rc m uch better at
reduci ng image and I F rejection than others, a nd in this regard that of
the '7601 is on ly fair.

Old-Fashioned Tuning Lacks Precision ...

L ast month I noted how the new JCF-SWL has digital frequency
readout , programmable chan nel memories a nd synthesized tuning. All
these high-tech goodies make it easier to bring up the sta tion you want
to hear.
The '7601, being a slight upgrade of a set design already mucho
years old, has old-fashioned needle-and-dial tun ing. T here's no
memories o r any of that sort of thing, eit her - which should suit traditionalists just fine . As to how accurate the dial's readout is, it's roughly
plus o r minus 30 kHz in the singl c-corwersion shortwave band segme nt
and plus or minus 15 kHz within the more numerous doubleconversion b a nd segments.
This isn't the sort of resolution that will gladden the hearts of radio
bu ffs, but it's more than adequate for most ordinary world band radio
listeners. Too, if you use the set often enough you get used to the
nuances of the readout and can figure out pretty much what channel
you've tuned in.

...But Sensitivity Packs a Wallop

T he ea rlier '7600's were noted for their excelle nt se nsitivity, a nd
the '7601 is a worthy heir in that respect. It's great for nushing ou t
weak s ignals, and in th is respect the set 's old-fashioned a nalog circuitry
is a help because it's so quiet.
But beyond that, things a ren't so upbeat. Selectivity is no better
than w ith earlier '7600's, and that's a pity. As a result, adjacent-channel
interference on shortwave is worse than it should be.
A lesser drawback is som e crosstalk in the shortwave band selector
switch. Because of this, you can occasionally h ear stations in a n adjace nt band segme nt bleeding over to interfere with the station you're
trying t o hear.

A '7601 is a '7601 is a '7601

As to fin d ing a '7601 outside the US, Sony of Canada is no t yet su re
when the '7601 will be introduced o r what it will cost. Sony also seems
to be b acking away from its tradition of using varying model designalions for the same receiver sold in different parts of th e world . This
was originally started some years b ack to discourage "gray marke t"
sa les of Sony radios brought in from overseas "t hrough the back door".
But this complicates production and inventory, so cost-conscious Sony
says the new m odel will be called the "JCF-760 1" wh ethe r it's for sale
in Syracuse or Singapore.

Godzilla Engineers vs. King Kong Yen

Considering it 's a J apanese radio, the '760 1 is reason ably priced for
what it docs. Partly, this is because corners have been c ut o n some
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orange-peclcy paint jobs and the like in order to cope with the monster
yen.
For example, the telescopic a ntenna has a simpler-t ha n-usual
swivel, and its tip is plastic instead o f stainless steel. Too, there a re
minute what-look-like-ha irline cracks in the cabinet. Fortunately, a
lillle body E n glish reveals these are apparently surface blem ishes,
rather than cracks. Even Sony's name is merely painted o n the cabinet
in drab gray paint, rather than being proudly emblazoned in the usual
shiny meta l le11crs.

The Bottom Line

The '7601, which lists for $139.95, is no glamour gal. It 's more like a
Volkswagen Beetle that keeps chugging on a nd selling well but, like
most of the rest of us, shows more of its age w ith every passing year.
All that having been said, aside from the improvement resulting
fro m Sony's double-conversion circuitry, the '7601 doesn't appreciably
outperform su ch inexpensive non-Japanese m odels as the sing lcconversion Philips/Magnavox Dl835, which lists for $69.99. Ilut
double conversion does improve reception and is worth a premium,
a nd Sony is a master at marketing world b and radios. So it's a su re bet
the '760 1 wilJ be a major seller for some time to come.
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SCANNER EQUIPMENT

SENSITIVITY AND IMAGE

MEASUREMENTS
OF THE BC200/205XLT

The Bearcat 200/205XLT

by Larry Wiland

by Raymond AJ. Pesek. WB8NXR

Brunswick. OH

The Specs

They're h~! After months of anxious

waiting and several production delays, the 4:
Unidcn/Bcarcat BC200XLT a nd its ident ical .
twin, the BC205XLT (differently numbered
because of its importation through another
contract order), arc showing up in the hands
of dedicated scanner owners everywhere.
And what a sca nner it is!
Identical in appearance to the recentlyreleased BC-lOOXLT, the 200/205 represents
a radical departure from the handh.e ld
programm~ble scanners of the past,
mcorporating the latest technology - slideoff battery pack, surface-mount components
brightly-illuminated LCD readout (which
automatically switches off to conserve battery
power after 15 seco nds), 200 memory chan- :
nets and total 806-960 MHz (after ceUJtai
restoration) coverage.
t

Frequency coverage is 29-54 MHz FM,

118-136 MHz AM, 136-174 MHz FM, 406512 MHz FM a nd 806-956 MHz FM (assuming cellular coverage has been restored; as
shipped from the factory, 800 MHz coverage
excludes 824-849 and 869-894 MHz). Instant
weather scan is pre-programmed into ROM
for quick access.
IF selectivity is stated as -55 dB at + / -25
kHz. Measured sensitivity is very close to
that advertised (sec sidebar article), 0.4-0.8
microvolts VHF/UHF and 1.0 microvolt at
900 MHz.
The 7.2 volt battery pack may be directly
charged from any 12 VDC supply since it
contains an integral voltage regulator. In a
mobile installation, power may be taken
directly from the battery line, wired to the 12
volt system or plugged into a cigarette
At First Glance
tighter adaptor.
~
), i
Individual channel lockout and delay are
Upon opening the box one discovers a user-programmable, and the entire keypad
well-constructed radio in a sturdy grey case. may be locked at the press of a button to
An array of small, but easy-to-read, buttons
av~id accidental change while carrying the
arc arranged strategically across the face of
unit. Any frequency range may be searched
the unit. All functions are legibly labelled.
for activity; if an active frequency is found, it
Above this array is the LCD window
may be entered directly in to a memory
which displays bank indicators, operational
channel.
Up to 200 frequencies, along with delay,
modes, channel and frequency readouts, and
a low battery warning. The volume and may by banked into ten groups of twenty.
Each bank. offers a selectable first-channel
squelch controls, earphone jack (with
pr~ll function, if desired, for a total of ten
protective cover) and BNC antenna
connector arc on the top of the case.
... pmmcy c9annels, sampled for activity every
I
A wall-mount power supply is included ' two seconds
which allows the scanner to be operated
while it is charging the Nicad battery pack. A
small earphone, leatherette case and fiexib e
~.,.AYJtile'i the keypad is small and may be
"duck" antenna arc also included.
~. itjijqtidating to tllose with large fingers, it has
The professional slide-off battery p~ck' it>t' 0.!1 good "feel" - reassuring tactile feedback.
similar to those used on handie-talkiei.an91 There is a significant (about one second)
identical to that used on the BClOOXL~~:e:i delay between executing the frequency entry
LED alerts the user that the bat~ery is- and seein~ it cQipe up on the display.
Programnung 200 -Cha nnels takes a while!
successfully being charged when attached 10
the appropriate charging cord. For listeners
Audio is loud and clear, adequate for all
who want a fresh pack chargi ng while one is
but the cab of a speeding locomot ive!
in use, this is the way to go. Order a spare.
Sensitivity on all ranges is excellent (sec
sidebar article), although the rubber flex
Bearcat's
traditional
simplicity c of
programming is carried on in the 200/205;
antenna is a compromise. The radio responds
mcm?ry channels may be accessed directly by
much better to a full-size antenna such as the
prcss111g the channel number and "manual,"
Grove ANT-8 telescopic whip, a mobile
or may be stepped through sequentially by
antenna or outdoor base antenna.
repeatedly pressing "manual."
While intermodulation and image
The rubber keys are soft, yet tactile,
response seems to be improved over previ ous
providing the user with solid confirmation of
models, these annoying interference phantoms are still there. Aircraft transmissi ons
an entry (with no irritating "beep" wit(l every
will suddenly pop up in the middle of the 155
keystroke!). Weighing 2 pounds, 3 ounces,
the 200/205 measures 2-3/4"W x 7-1/2''H x 1MHz police/fire 1'and and strong trunked
l/4''D.
-;: '
repeaters could be heard in multiple spots

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Jun e 1988

MONITORIN G TIMES

Recent measurements made with an IFR FM/ AM

12005 service monitor disclosed a number of Interesting characteristics of the new Uniden BC200 (and
205) XLT scanner. FM readings were made using a
1000 Hz tone deviated al 4.5 kHz; AM readings also
used a 1000 Hz tone with 80% modulation.
Image rejection Is rather poor, especially at 800
MHz where Images may actually be stronger tllan the
desired frequency! AA unmodified scanner could read
lly monitor forbidden cellular telephone conversations
by merely adding 21 .7 MHz lo the censored frequen
c1es.
Al low and alrcraH bands (29-54. 118136 MHz).
the Image appears 21.7 MHz above the scanner
frequency; at UHF the Image will appear 21.7 MHz
below.
Maximum squelch selling requires, on Ille aver
age, slgnals 34 limes stronger than those at minimum
(most sensitive) selling to break squelch. The following measurements were made with the squelch set at
Ille most sensitive position.
Freq.MHz

Seo:siMly

Image Response

29
41 .5
54

0.25 UV
0.25 UV
0.50 uv

4.5 uV/25 dBm

5.0 uV/26 dBm
2.5 uV/10 dBm

118
127
135.975

0.25 UV
0.30 uv
0.25 uV

1.8 uV/19 dBm

2.5 uV/-20 dBm
2.0 uV/-19 dBm

406
459
512

0.30 UV
0.25 UV
0.30 UV

0.45 uV/ -1 dBm

0.50 uV/ 6 dBm
1.0 uV/10 dBm

806
876.5
947

0.80 uV
0.70 uv
1.0 uV

0.6 uV/ O dBm

0.65 UV/0 dBm
0.60 uV/ 0 dBm

throughout the 800 MHz range.

There a rc a few "birdies" as well; these
self-generated signals are most often discovered during the search routine and sound like
dead carriers (signals with no modulation on
them). They a re certainly no worse, however.
than those heard on other scan ners.

The Bottom Une

. The BC200/ 205XLTis quite probably the
fmest hand-held scanner on the market.
While still in short supply, quantities arc
exp~cted to arrive in this country shortly. It is
available for S26.t.95 plus SS shipping from
Grove Enterprises .

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Search m ode fi nds new channels. with an incredible 300
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Measuring a tiny 2" high by 7" wide and deep, this upgraded
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delay, direct channel access. external antenna jack (MOT
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In addition to normal 29-54, 11 8-174 and 406-512 MHz
coverage, the new 760/ 950 also has 806-960 MHz (less cellular
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Frequency coverage is wide: 29-54 MHz FM (ten meter
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An introductory text is packed with
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include system details, antennas, interp reting marine weather forecasts (MAFOR)
and frequency a llocation details. Several
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The New Grove

SR-1000 Spectrum
Surveillance Receiver
Back in Apri l Mo11iton'11g Times printed
an initial press release of the new Grove
SR- I 000 Sp ectrum Surveillance Receiver.
Additional specifications for the receiver,
to be re leased this fall, were unveiled at last
m onth 's Dayton Hamvcntion. Acco rding to
the manufacturer, Grove, "There has been a
deluge of inquiries from SW L's, sca nn er
enthusiasts, private investigators and
government agencies."
The receiver is still under act ive develop ment , so the spcciricat io ns arc tentative
and subject to change.

A lot of radio
in a desktop box
Measuring 16"W x 5-1/4"H x 13" D, t he
SR-1000 features continuous frequency
coverage from JOO kHz to 1000 M Hz a nd
digital frequency readout to 100 hertz. A
cathode ray tube (CRT ) oscilloscope
display presents a visual panorama of a ll
s ignal s within a b a ndwidth of 100 kHz, I
MHz or 10 MHz.
Five modes -- wideband frequency
modulation (WBFM), narrowband frequ ency m odu lat ion (NBFM), amplitude
modulation (AM), upper sideband (USB)
and lower sideband (USB) -- permit recept ion o f virtually every possible mode of
emission.
Frequencies may be set by a two-inch
tu ning knob or direct-entry keypad. Tuning
increm e nts -- "speed" -- may be selected
fr o m 100 Hz, 1 kHz. 10 kHz, 100 kHz o r I
MHz, a ll owing rapid ca pture of signals
which pop up on the surveil lance screen .
An LED bargraph shows relative signal
strengt hs a nd a center-tuni ng indicator
alerts the user when he is exact ly on
fr equency fo r precise receive r adjustm ent.

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Up to 100 memorized frequencies may

be sto red along with mode, individually
recalle d si mply by rotating the tuning dial
with memory selected. Reception may be
enhanced by a pream pli fier, attenuator,
not ch filter and to ne contro l. A squelch
circuit works in a ll m odes, e liminating
irritating backgrou nd noise.
Wide dynamic range reduces interm od
and images fr om strong signa l overload, so
apparent in many sca nn e rs and shortwave
radios. Rear panel jacks a llow tape re corder
act ivation a nd recording for unattended
monitor ing or perm anent logging.
The pri ce? This is th e most difficu lt
spccificat ion, according to Grove. A
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unde r $2000 -- p rc tly optim istic and very
reasonable considering the closest competitor sells for $ 16,000!
The reade r is cautioned that these
descriptions a rc preliminary and some
cou ld change before pro duction begins thi s
fall. For further information, contact Grove
Ente rprises, P.O. Box 98, Brasstown, NC
28902 or phone 1-70-1-837-9200.

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cover the freque ncy range 30-960 l\!Hz.
Se rvices include po lice (including
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a nd marine, gove rnm en t and provin cial,
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HELPFUL HINTS

Tricking the HX-2200

Out of Range
One of the most popular sports in scanner
monitoring seems to be discovering keyboard
techn iques to extend the frequency coverage
beyond that stated by the manufacturer.
Formerly, many scanners could be
manipulated out of range by combinations of
keypad entries, but manufacturers have
recently begun to restrict their intended
frequency coverage by undefeatable ROM
design.
Gary Churchill of St. John's, Newfoundland, may have discovered a way of fooling
the Regency HX-2200. H e suggests that in
addition to continuous 118-174 and 406-512
MHz, the unit is capable of 800-1200 MHz
just by entering 1.200 MHz. Try it!

Tuning Out and

Tuning In
Being a typical scanner enthusiast, I
believe in having a scanner on whenever
possible. One of my favorite times being early
weekend mornings. I turn on the scanner,
make coffee and watch the day unfold.
As the day progresses, TV, conversations
and standard household noises fill the air,
competing with my scanner for attention.
That's when list ening gets tough. Trying to
hear the scCJnner as I go about my business
around the house can be rough'
Then one day, while glancing at the Radio
Shack catalogue, I saw an ad for wireless
headphones. I went out and bought a pair,
came home and hooked them up to my scanner. Operation is simple. You plug the phono
jack to your scanner and tum on the headphones. Sound quality and coverage are
great!
I can now walk around anywhere in the
room and listen to the scanner. No more
missed transmissions because I can't hear; no
more bothering the family. I can even listen
to the scanner when I step out onto the patio
- without dragging out a lot of equipment.

(Co1111ibuted by Mike Bucko, Independence, Missouri)

De-Beeping the
Regency DX-3000
I've discovered a way to disable the
"beep" heard when keys are depressed on the

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June 1988

scanner. This modification could be helpful

to those who find this practice annoying.
Herc's the procedure:
1. As always, unplug the power cord.
2. Remove the volume and squelch knobs.
3. Turn the scanner over and remove the
four Phillips screws. Pull the cove r off and
set it aside.
4. R emove the top cover by carefully pryi ng
on the cover ends with a small screwdriver. Set the cover aside.
5. Locate the conductor strip to the le ft of
the keyboard and gently unplu g it.
6. Grasp the fifth pin from the from of the
scanner with necdlenose pliers and
remove it by pull ing upwards while applying heat with a soldering iron. Save the
pin in case you change your mind'
7. Plug the conductor strip back in and reassemble the covers and replace the knobs.

This modification does not affect any

other function of the scanner and may work
on the Regency D-310 as well. An interesting
idea might be to install a small switch so that
you cou ld turn the "beep" off and on at wil l.

Improving Sensitivity
on the PR0-2004
Monit01i11g Times has mentioned the poo r
sensitivity of the PR0-2004 before, but living
in a suburb of Philadelphia, it has not been a
problem. I have, however, experienced
intennittent sensitivity. (This is best noticed
with an "S" meter-equipped radio.)
I traced the problem to the poor quality
BNC connector on the rear of the radio. The
center contact is "fork" shaped and no matter
how I tensioned it, ultimately it would lose
contact with the mating connector.
Although removing and replacing this
connector is a dog of a job, after the job was
done, the problem of intermittent sensitivity
disappeared. Now, I'm 99% satisfied with t his
radio. I'm still trying for 100%. If only
someone out there knows how to increase the
scan delay!

(Conllibuted by Kenneth W Camuccio,

Runnemede, New Jersey.)

An Inexpensive Aid
to Outrageous DXing
Would you like to boost the effectiveness
of your DXing? If you would, th ere's a nifty
little product called 'The DX Edge."
The DX Edge is deceptively simple. It's a
kind of plastic slide rule showing two maps of
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the world, side-by-side. Into this slide rule

you snap one of 12 clear plastic slides (one
for each month of the year) with the scale for
local standard time marked across the top.
On the face of each slide is a transparent
area and a shaded transparent area.
Just line up the scale with loca l standard
time over the part of the map with your location and the DX Edge shows you which parts
of the world are in darkness and in light.
OK, you say, so what if I know where it is
light and dark? What does that do for my
DXing? Say that you're a sidcbander. Eleven
meter propagat ion is generally best during
daylight hours. So, it doesn't make any sense,
except in times of very high sunspot activity,
to try to make a DX contact unless both locations are in daylight.
In addition, the DX Edge allows you to
take advantage of an impressive phenomenon called Grey Line DX. What happens is
this: when it is su nrise or su nset at you r locati on, you may get unusually good reception
from other locations that lay a long the grey
line, that is twilight, or the line between
daylight and night.
The DX Edge is avai lable from most
shortwave stores.

Warning!
An Outside Antenna
May be Hazardous to
Your Sony's Health
T he Sony ICF-2010 and the ICF2002
po rtable shortwave receivers have external
antenna jacks. An antenna adapter is
supplied with the ICF-2010 t hat has a small
junction box with a lid to gai n access to the
terminals inside. A coax cable can be terminated inside the box. This adapter is a neat
idea but there is a problem.
Sony doesn't tell you that an internal
protection circuit, which is connected to the
rod antenna, is disconnected from the radio
when an outside aeria l is hooked up. This
lack of protect ion at the external antenna
jack can cause serious damage to the radio.
Any static or lightning strike during even a
moderate storm can damage the unit's amplifier stage. Th is will cause the radio to have
poor reception.
There are severa l ways to protect your
radio . First, you can use an antenna tuner
with built-in ligh t ning protection (check the
manufactu rer's specifications for lightning
protection). Or, you can use an active
antenna like the Sony AN-3 or Grove PRE-3
power antenna. Both will offer the protection

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your radio will need under moderate conditions. Of course, as indicated in last month 's
Helpful Hints, nothing wi ll save your radio
from a nearby or direct hit!
Another way to protect the radio from
lightning is to add your own protection circuit.
This can be done by purchasing a package of
diodes from Radio Shack. The part number is
276-1122 and you'll get ten 1N914 silicon
switching diodes. Only two are needed for the
modifica tion so you'll have an ample supply
for those stormy months a head. The diodes
themselves can be damaged if they're
connected to the coax during a storm. I have a
PL259 and a double female coax connector on
the Sony adapter which all ows a quick disconnect to the antenna lead-in wire.
Install the diodes inside the junction box
as shown in the diagram. Be careful when
soldering the diodes to the metal strain relief
tabs which are used to hold the coax. If the
glass diodes arc over-heated, they may break.
This can be prevented by tinning the tabs first.
This modification should also be done on the
second adapter for the ICF-2010, which is
used for the separate external FM antenna
input.
If you think that your radio has poor
sensitivity or it just doesn't pull in the
shortwave stations like it used to, you may be
the victim of lightning-itis. Then you will need
to take it to an aut horized Sony repair shop .
However, if you have the expertise to do it,
you may want to take a whack at it you rself.

Ant~nno

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d ~d-::! ~1:: sh o ..ur1 1n ho: aoov.:: sch<e:m'-10<::

The fi rst thing you need is a replacement

transistor. I fou nd a n America n-made
replacement known as the J304 or a 2N5951
(Jamco Electronics, 1355 Shortway Road,
Belmont, CA 94002]. There is also a Phillips
ECG replacement for the J304, which is the
ECG312. [Phillips ECG, Inc., Distributor a nd
Special Markets Division, 1025 Westminster
Dr., P.O. Box 3277, Williamsport, PA 17701].
If you don't believe in replacements, you
can get the Sony part from J oseph Electronics
[8830 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Niles, llinois
60648] or the "2SK" numbered part from
MCM Electronics. (MCM is a parts importer
and has a large stock of Japanese-made
transistors a nd ICs at a reasonable price.
Their address is 858 E. Congress Park Drive,
Centerville, Ohio 45459-4072.) The Sony part
number fo r the 2002 or the 2010 is 8-729-80042 a nd the transistor is 2SKl52. It's a good
idea to purchase the service manual for either
radio before tackling this job.

TO RADIO

INST ALLING THE DIODES IN THE

SONY ANTENNA ADAPTER

(Co1111ib11ted by Jack A lbeit, Neiv Lenox,

Neiv York)

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Jun e 88

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ANTENNA TOPICS

W. Clem Small, KR6A, GET

Rt. 1 Box 64A
Weybridge, VT 05753

MT Readers Reply
Now and then I like to pause in my coverage of a nt enna related topics, and review
some of the correspondence which readers
of Monitoring Times send in. It is always
interesting to see what other people have
come up with in their search for an
antenna to fit their particular needs.

Window on the World

Ruth Hesch, a shortwave listener from
White Plains, New York, writ es that in
order to avoid having her outdoor antenna
be too obvious, she used a red wire to
construct an antenna which wou ld match
the color of the bricks of the building
where she lived.
Then, w hen workmen working on the wall
broke her red a ntenn a, she came up with a
solution which was even less visuallyobvious. Fort his second antenna, she put a
wire around the inside of the metal frame
of the picture/casement window in her
hom e. With this antenna and a cold-water
pipe grou nd connect ion, Ruth was able to
"get all th e stations I want, and many
others." Although she doesn't claim that
this antenna is a DX chaser, it seems to be

doing quite well.

The Long and the Short of It

In the amateur radio secto r, J. Frank

Brumbaugh of Bradenton, Florida, solved
his ant e nna problems in a fashion somewhat simi lar to the SWL antenna described
above. H e ran a coaxial feedline (RG-59)
out to the aluminum framework which
holds the fiberglass screening a round his
eleven foot by six foot balcony. The center
cond uctor of his coax went to the aluminum framework, a nd the outer braid was
connected to two lengths of wire.

Just to show that you can never quite be

sure of what a pa rticul a r skywi re will do
until you try it , le t's mention an antenna
comparison made by Henry M. Henriksen,
of Racine, Wisconsin. He had a 32 foot
longwire, 16 feet above ground. H e also
had a dipole antenna which he had made
fo r his scanne r from two 18 inch rods. This
dipole antenna was mounted about 18 feet
above ground, and fed with coaxial cable.

One of these lengths of wire was a quarter

wavelength long on ten meters, and the
other one was a quarter wavelength long
on fifteen meters. At the inside end of the
cable, a Heathkit HFT-9 antenna tuner
completed the set up.
The day afte r installing his anten na , Frank
worked stat ions in Texas, Mississippi,
Arkansas, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, and
Indiana on the ten meter band. "... not
much signal stre ngth , but excellent audio
and ma inly solid QSOs."

Henry writes that, in one of his "less sane

moments" he tried the short dipole,
designed fo r his scanner, as a shortwave
receiving antenna. The results were quite
surp risi ng, in that "... reception of all the
standard stations was about twice the gain
of that of the long wire. What made
matters worse (or better) was that I picked
up stat ions never heard before, such as Sri
Lanka, New Zealand, India, and many
others."
So, never give up withou t trying; a short
antenna may st ill be effective at times.

MONSTERWIRE!
Short antennas do have their uses, but did
you ever wish you had just a little bit more
space so that you cou ld put up that big
antenna you've been dreaming of for so
long? (If you co uld affo rd to pay for it, that
is!). Well, le t's all give a sigh of envy as we
read of Bria n Webb's 5000 foot antenna!
Yes, 5000 foot , that's a lmost a mile long.
It seems that Brian, of Van Nuys,
California, and a fri end were able to lay
this tremendous length of 24 gauge solid
plastic in sulat ed wire directly on the
gro und in some barren la nd in the Mojave
desert. No attempt was made to ground
the receiver ground connection, mainly
due to the poor soil conductivity in the
area.

The giant radiotelescope antenna at Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

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MON ITOR I NG T IM ES

This antenna was intended for long wave

a nd mediu m wave reception. On the
longwaves its output was so high that it was
necessary to attenuate the signa l level
before it was useful. On th e medium wave
band, good reception was had, but only in
certain directi o ns, due to the high degree
of direct ional ity of the antenna. Even on

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the shortwave bands "... the antenna appeared to exceed the
performance of shorter elevated wires."
On the medium wave band, some AM broadcast stations were
received at "S-20" with this antenna, although they were inaudible
using a center-loaded, vertical automobile whip ante nna.
Brian reports that the antenna " ... appears to offer good gain,
directivity, and bandwidth. One potential problem which needs to
b e anticipated is receiver front end overloadi ng. Use of an RF
attenuator or receiver with good front end performance should
prevent overloading."

Eye On the Sky

Mo11i101i11g Times has several times carried articles which refer to
the giant radiotelescope antenna at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Reader
Berna rd Wimmers and hi s wife had the good fortun e to be
stationed near there a few years back. On a trip to see the antenna,
they took the picture shown.
The cage-like structure suspended in mid-air contains the
receiving antenna e lements which pick up the signals focused up to
them from the dish-shaped reflector on the ground beneath. That
lighter, striped area at the bottom of the figure is the re flector
itself. No doubt ET could have easily called home, if only he had
had access to this behemouth!

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Unfortunately, it seems that most man-made noise is vertically
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It was used to pi ck up shortwave broadcasts from Point Reyes,

California, so that they could b e rebroadcast loca lly in Hawai i.
Boxing events, big dance bands, the Lucky Stn'ke Ilit Parade, and
other such entertai nment were made possible there by this
d iversity link. Dick tells us tha t the fade an d hiss were obvious, but
everything was still quite intelligible. Nowadays, however, satellite
recep tion is great, and it is "... not like the old days!"

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for most ot her VHF and UHF services, the signals arc vertically
pola rized.
This is a s imple result of the way that we mount ante nnas for
mobile work in these services. A vertical whip is so much more
convenient and rugged to use than ot her antenna designs that we
have standardized on this design and the vertical polarization
which it produces. The no ise problem, which can destroy TV
video, is minimized by use o f FM in most VHF-UHF services.
And So ...
That's it for this time. Ma ny thanks to you readers who take the
time to send in the interesting tidbits of information such as those
which make up this mo nth's colu mn. l'm sorry that I can't get them
all in the column, but they arc all appreciated . 'Til next time,
Peace, DX, 73

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June 1988

87

TECHNICAL TOPICS

Terry Staudt, LPE, WOWUZ

716 N. Roosevelt
Loveland, CO 80537

CB
The One and Only
Having received the "go lden fleece" fo r
missing deadlines, I've been assigned to _tell
you all about CB. I don't hate CB. I JUSt
have a violent antipathy toward the "users"
(read: "abusers") of the serv ice.
Having lived in Ft. Worth, T exas, in '77-'79
(mo re C Bs per capi ta th an any ot her city in
the U.S.), I was forced, due to desire to
keep eating, to learn all abou t it from top to
bottom.
You haven 't lived until you've li ste ned to
C B in Ft. Worth! It sounds like a hog farm
before Easter. "This is that 011e 'Wile Ch ile',
hayou boutit." Enough.
CB was estab lished by the government in
the late 1950s as a radio service for people
w ith short-range needs to communicate
wit h home o r bu si ness. In the beginning it
worked as intended, although the equipme nt was prim it ive and left a lo t to be
desired. The frequency was 26.965 to (now)
27.405, th e German Afrika Corps tank
allotme nt. After the wa r, it was given to
hams, but because it had no harmonic relationship to the other ha m bands -- significant because of mult i-use antennas, it saw
Jill ie use.
Nature abhors a vacuum, so that's why it
was re-allocated to the Citizen's Band
Se rvice.

Words tor the Uninitiated

Be for e I go into what's ava il able in the way
of equipment and antennas, a few words to
the u ninitiated a rc called for.
In th is service, which now requires 110
license whatsoever, (even though the
previous rules were little m o re th an a post
card), you have to face the fact that thc re're
a lot o f people over 21 who shou ldn 't be on
the air . Th e last thing you want to do is "rise
to the b ai t."
My wife a nd I were on the airport fr eeway
in Ft. Worth one even ing and yes, I had a
CB in the ca r. She th ought it was a good
idea. It tra nsp ired that a fellow o n Channel
19, the highway frequency everybody is on,
Jct loose with a few "damns and hells." An
injured party came on a nd said "t he re arc
women and children , preachers and teachers listening to you." The rep ly, suffice to
s::iy, turn ed the air ultra-violet 1 Leave them
alone and they usually go away. The differ88

J1111c 1988

ence between grown men and little boys is

just the price of their toys.
The equipment available today is excellent.
You really have to try hard to go wrong .
There arc two major manufacturers,
Uniden and Cybernet of Japa n, with a very
few competitors. What this means is no
matte r where you get the set, with the
exception of Pe nny's and Scar's which arc
made by Alps (and which arc also very
good), you will very likely get one o r the
other.

Bells and Whistles

T he only thing to look for in "bells and
whistles" is a noise blanker. Th is is infini te ly
better than the common ANL (automatic
noise limi ter) and work s wonders with igniti on noise. You'll have to pay some 520.00
more for a set with this feature.
Whatever you get, be advised th at it will put
out about 2 1/2 watts and modulate a lillle
over 40 percent. If you don't know anyone
with an FCC 2nd class license or higher
with the facilities, you need to take the set
to a CB shop for a "legal peak-o ut. " F o ur
wa tt s at 100 percen t modu lation.
Why, you ask? The reason is simply that the
manufacturer of th e unit a nd the j obber
doesn't want the FCC to "pull" a represent;11ive samp le and find it exceeds these
specifications. They would wind up wit h a
warehouse fu ll o f sets t hey cou ldn't se ll. So,
they stay on the safe side to the detriment
of the consume r.
That's a real shame, as it adds abou t 515.00
to the price of the radio. They can usually
go over four watts, but the difference

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between say, four watt s and six isn't really

very importan t -- less than on e "S" unit. T o
be qui te honest, the FCC doesn' t really
care as long as the radio isn't modified!
They know that t he difference is too minor
to work up a sweat over. I'll probably get a
hot o ne over this, but several FCC field
enginee rs have told me this is, in fact, the
tru t h . I already kn ew th a t. You a lso will be
lucky to get an extra s ix blocks. . . .
Stay on the safe side, for the radio, not the
FCC. Contrary to popular opinion, the
FCC cannot stop a ca r to measure the
p ower o f your radio. T hey have to have t he
State Police and a Federal Marshall with
them, so except in the case of a trucker
runni ng a thousand watts with a crummy
linear wiping out 10 channels, it just doesn' t
happen .

The Antenna
Nothing works like a nine foot whip,
period. It's a quarte r wave on 11 meters and
shortening it only reduces your range. I
realize you all have see n lit tle 16 inch whips
o n both sides of a Honda -- the salesman is
laughing all the way to the bank a nd you
wonder why you can't talk home from a
mile away . No problem . These little things
not only work terrib ly, they cancel themselves out. T wo antennas on CD have to be
at least 8 feet a part to ra dia te. It 's a law of
physics.
lf you r fam ily ca n't stand the full size, a
fiberglass wound antenna such as the
"Firestik" and Radio Shack's can be gotten
from fou r feet up and work very well.
Otherwise, the on ly shorte ned antenna tha t
works reasonab ly we ll is the K-40. I
honestly don't know why, but it's an

observable fact.

On SSB

A lot or off-road four wheelers and hunters

have come to me in my area, wanting the
best possible results. I ca n identify with
th at, as these people arc not "whing dings."

Except for the most difficult situation and

CB hobbyists, it isn't wo rth the money as
there are so few sets out there to receive
you. Ir you arc really serious, this mode can
give you a few crucial extra miles a nd may
well be worth it if business use is your paramount interest. As to the CB h obbyist, this
gets you r feet wet for the true enjoyment of
ham radio. Except fo r local chit chat,
however, if yo u work 'skip' and arc caught
by the FCC, you can kiss that ha m license
goodbye, FOREVER. They have no sense
of humor.

My reputation follows me as a miracl e

worker, so I try not to disappoint. What I do
is put the radio on the bench and check
power, frequency and modulation. Adjust it
to specs and install it in the vehicle, using
an SWR meter with the longest antenna
they can pu t up with. A range of 12-18 miles
isn't all unusual. I get $55.00 for the whole
thing and have never had a come-back. I
usually recommend a Radio Shack CB
(Uniden) and full size metal or fiberalass
0
wh ip. It works.

I realize that this just scratches the surface

or the subject. I honestly had LO sit down at
the typewriter until little beads of blood
appeared on my forehead to get it out ,
having listened as the CBcr was shot and
.

. .

killed over a channel dispute in Ft. Worth.

It was sick. The fellow's wife, aft er he was
shot, got on the radio and said "I hope
you 're satisfied, you just killed a damn good
CBcr, and he was the father of my children ." This was repo rted by the Ft. Worth
Star-Telegram, verbatim.
Show's you how effective the whole thing is.
Enjoy?
Any questions will get my attention when
an SASE is provided.
I

For 111orc i11fon11atio11 011 CB Radio,

Monitoring
Times reco111me11ds Tom
K11eitel's, "Tomcat's Big CB Ha11dbook." It's
available fro111 your favorite bookstore or
direct from th e publisher at P.O. Box 56,
Commack, New York 11725.
.

CONVENTION CALENDAR

Date

Location

June 34

St Paul, MN

Club/Contact Person

June 18

North Area RA/ Steve Glatzel KOFHC

7400 Noble Ave, Brooklyn Park, MN 55443
June 3-5 OFW . Metroplex.TX Wesl Gulf Div/ John Flee1 WA50HG
Box 25028, Dallas. TX 75225
June 4
Coeurd'Alene.10 Kootenai AAS/ Waller Hogewelde K7ETJ
N.11655 Sundler La. Rathdrum, ID 83858
June 4
Columbia, MO Ctrl MO RA/ Dewey Bennett NOHKN
PO Box 13 Mid Sta, Columbia, MO 65203
June 5
Princeton, IL
Starved Rock ARC/ Ken Stasiak WB9ZFO
Box 134, Lostant, IL 61334
June 5
Manassas, VA Old Va Hams ARC/ Art Whittum W1CRO
12212 woodtark Court, Manassas, VA 22 111
June 5
Pittsburgh, PA Breeze Shooters/ William Kristoff Jr N3BPB
205 Twin Oak Or, Wexford, PA 15090
June 5
Salina, KS
Ctrl KS ARC/Jfm McKlm WOCY
1404 S. 10th. Szlina. KS 67401
June 5
C helsea. Ml
Chelsea Comm Club/ Robert Schantz KBJVK
416 Wiikinson St, Chelsea, Ml 4818
June 5
Newington, CT New'ton ARL/ Joel Kleinman N1 BKE
225 Main St, Newington, CT 06111
June 5
Muncie, IN
Muncie Area ARC/Robert Casad_a KC90Y.
2608 Sycamore, Muncie, IN 47302
Jun 10-11 Albany, GA
Albany ARC/John Crosby K4XA
PO Box 1205, Albany, GA 31702
June 11
Midland. Ml
Ctrl Ml ARA/ David Burdeaux WD8Dll
409 Heathermoor, Midland, Ml 48640
June 11
Winston-Salem.NC Forsy1h ARC/ Bob Gates KJ41C
Box 60, Cedar Grove Pk, Kernersville, NC 27284
June 12 Queens, NY
Hall of Sci ARC/ Stephen Greenbaum WB2KDG
85-1O 34th Ave. Jackson Hg ts. NY. NY 11372
144.300 s implex; 223.600 rptr; 445.225 rptr
June 12 S Dartmouth, MASE MA ARA/ Pete Kodis N1 EXA
PO Box 9187, N Dartmoulh, MA 02747
June 12 Willow Spgs.IL Six Meter Club/ James Novak WA9FIH
2337 s. 6th Ave, N.Riverside. IL 60546
June 12 South Bend, IN Michiana ARC/ Fred Boehlein KE9FE
733 E. 4th St.. Mlshlwaka, IN 46544

Cortland, NY

Skyline ARC/ Curt Smith WA2TOL

3673 S. Pendleton St, Cortland, NY t 3045
Jul 9-10 Lake Canton.OK Lake Canion Field Day/ Tim Mauldin WA5LTM
P.O. Box 19097, Oklahoma City, OK 73 144
146.52 simplex; 144.85/245.465 rptr
Jui 10
Atlanta, GA
GA State Conv/ Sandy Donahue WA4ABY
960 Ralph McGiii Blvd, Atlanta, GA 30306
Jul 10
Pittsburgh, PA North Hills ARC/ Bob Farrey, JR. N3 DOK
9821 Presldenllal Dr., Allison Park, PA 151 0 1
Jul 10
Alexander, NY Genesee RA Inc/ Ed Grabowski KC2ZR
11458 Sanderson Rd, Medina, NY 141 03
Jul 10
DownrsGrove.IL DuPage ARC/ Ron Smtih K90AM

4823 Florence, Downers Grove, IL 60515

Jul 16
:union, ME
Mid-Coast ARRC & Yanke RC/ Lynda Hawke
198 Cony SI. Augusta, ME 04330
Jul 16
Lorain, OH
Northern OH AAS/ John Jones WABCAE
4612 Tlmbervlew Or, Lorain, OH 44053
Jul 17
Washington, MO Zero-Beaters ARC/ Ken Bowles K90CU
14 Geotown Ct, Union. MO 63084
Jul 17
Wheeling, WV Triple States RAC/ Ralph McDonou911 K8AN
RD 1 Box 240, Adena, OH 43901
Jul 17
_Van Werl, OH Van Wert ARC/ J ack Snyder WD8MLV
RI 2 Box 153-C, Ohio City, OH 45874
Jul 2324 Chicago, IL
ACLR DeVry/ Allee Myk
.
6520 w 28th SI, Berwyn, IL 60402
Jul 31
Peotone, IL
Hamfeslers RC/ John Schlpitsch W9BNR
PO Box 42792, Chicago, IL 60642
Jul 31
W .Frlendshp,MD Bait RA TV Soc/ Mayer Zimmerman W3GXK
8711 Allenswood RD, Ranoallstown. MD 2 11 33
Jul 31
Asheville, NC
W.Carollna ARC/ Phil Haga KA4CAC
Rt.5 Box 438, Candler, NC 287 15
Jul 31
Grdn Pralre,IL Big Thunder ARC/ Jim Brlmsby W9HRF
210 Oak Lawn Lane, Poplar Grove. IL 61065

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89

EXPERIMENTERS WORKSHOP

The Pros and Cons

of Matchmakers
Do I need one?

by Ike Kerschner
The designer o f receivers, filt e rs, amplifiers, tra nsm itters, antenn as and all the
o th e r elect ronic things that ma ke up the
"crood life" always has a specific opera ting
i~1pcdancc fo r the overa ll system_in n~ind.
Th e finished product has t his e it her
st amped on it or specified in its operating
m anual.
Operating the equipment at other than its
desig ne d im pedance causes prob lems .. In a
receiver fo r insta nce, we may experie nce
poor sensitivity, red uced dyna~ic ra~ge,
disto rted output a nd genera lly disappointin g pe rforma nce. Filters, when mi_smatchcd,
may not filt er a t all. Transm itters a nd
amplifie rs will in some cases destroy the mselves if opera ting impedances aren't
st rictly observed. Ms. Match is no lady.

What's to be done?
Th ere is a si mple way out for the novice: Be
sure that everything in the R .F. syste m has
th e same operat ing impedance -- a nd the
s:imc cha racterist ics too. For instance, a 75
oh m ba lanced transmiss ion li ne is no mat ch
for a receiver with a 75 o hm u11ba!a11ced
input. Though the impeda nces arc t he
same, the pa rameters arc qu ite different.
Jn the audio output circu itry of a radio,
impedance must be respected, too. W~ a ll
kn ow th a t plu gging 8 ohm headphones into
a hig h impedance headphone jack ca uses
distorted, low o utput . Th ere is, however,
an easy fix for this problem. It' s called the
line impe dance matching tra nsfor mer.
Believe it o r not, such a fix a lso ex ists fo r
th e radio frequency circu its around your
radio shack. W hile a bit more com plicated
th an an audio tran sforme r. the matchbox
(a.k.a. antenna tuner) ac compli s h ~s im p~d
a nce transformat ions with ease whil e taking
care of any react ive compone nt as well.

As pointed out, if you stick with a_ c?o rdinated syst e m and operate only wnhin
its design limit s, t he a nswer is probably no.
There arc however, ma ny terrific antenna s
and some super radi os th at were never
designed fo r a ny k nown stand_ard opera ting impedance. That these units were not
made fo r each other doesn't mean th e
effort involved in m atching them won 't be
rewarded.
Some systems, designed to b_c c~ m pat_ibl~ ,
rea lly have hidden mat ching c1rcu1ts built-in
to avoid the mismatch. It would seem t hat a
bett e r understanding of th ese devices is
needed both fo r th e nov ice and for the old
hand . The main reaso n I say this is that the
drawback s of using a m atcher can out -we ig h
the advantages.

What's a Mis-Match, anyway?

E ngineers love to qua nti fy stuff. Formulas
an d numbe rs are their game. When given
the problem of properly connecting two
radio devices together, they had to inven t a
quant ity t hat wou ld give some measu re to
the degree of disagreement between the
un its.
As a practica l matt er, most devices arc
interconnected by tra nsmission lines. If
e ne rgy is directed dow n a line i_owa rd a l~ad
and a fini te disag reement in opcra1111g
impeda nce exists between th e line and the
load, so me energy will be absorbed by .the
load w hil e the rest is se nt back up the line.
What happe ns to the rejected energy has
been the subject of more than one barroom
brawl. Let's hold off o n this point just a b it.
The net effect o f electri cal e nergy directed
down a line a nd e nco unt ering a portion (or
a ll ) of it self return ing back up the line
causes waves of energy -- t rue cres ts and
troughs -- t o a ppea r as though sta nd ing still
on the line. The greate r the mismatch, the
hicrhc r the crests a nd t he deeper the
tr~ughs. If we d ivide th e crest's h_cig ht by
the tro ug h's heig ht, we get a stand111g w:ivc
rat io (SWR). A nd if we dete rmine th e
crests a nd t roughs by measu ring the ir voltages, we define a voltage standing wave
rat io.
Most engineers arc happy

90

J1111 c I 988

MON ITOR ING TIM ES

<ll

this p oint. A ll

a re happy if you emphasize t hat a

mismatched line has a conti nu ously varying
impedance throughout its physica l length.
Wi t h this concept , th e re 's no need for a
tran sm itter to be on lin e . Even a receiver
c:in suffer from mi smatched line conditi o ns.

What's bad about high SWR?

Sometimes not hing . If the ra dio transmitter
or power a mplifier is designed to ha ndle it,
a lm ost al l of t he reflected energy eventu ally
gets back to the load anyway. The
rcncctcd e nergy is redi rected at the scndmg
end back up the line and joins the newly
generate d energy from the sending unit.
This is why a mi smatched transmitte r seems
to have a high e r power outp ut than possible, when measu red o n an in-line watt
meter.
If t he sending unit can be damaged by t ~ e
rencction due to a mi smat ch, specia l
ci rcuitry exists for t he sending end t hat wi ll
dump thi s ret urned energy int o a dummy
load. Now that you know al l this, I'd
advise you to stay away fr o m any drinking
establ ishme nts fr equented by so- called
"experts".
But t his does n't mean very much to the
shortwave lis tener who cou ldn't care less
th at a high SWR decrea ses the power
handlincr capabi lity of a transm ission line,
th ough he may be interested i_n t h~ fact t~at
all signal losses increa se w11h 1ncreas1ng
SWR

Say what, SWL?

There a rc other more impo rta nt consequences. Receivers and preamplific rs can
easily overload on unwan ted, out -of-band
sion
a ls or become unstabl e when con nected
0
to a fine with a high SWR A unity SWR is
often call ed a "flat lin e". It really says all
the energy is goi ng one way, not hing is
bcin 0o returned and there arc no
energy
..
lumps. A ny fil ters or other add1t1ons to a
fl at line sho uld not alter this co ndition.

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Usually transmission lines display symptoms of high SWR because
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the line even for receivers. Unless of course the match box 1s
placed between the transmi ssion line and l he antenna. This is
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doesn't tune the SWR?

Not fo r the conditions just put forth. So in this case, don't call it a
transmission line tuner. By the way, it doesn't tune the antenna
either so do n't call it an antenna tuner. It's o nly a matching unit
that t'ransforms one impedance to another. And some of the
fancier units can change balance d lines into unbalanced lin es. Be
careful here, though. These balun transformers only work properly ove r specific res istive impeda nce levels a nd never work wel.t if
a significant reactive component is involved. But I'm get ttng
complex.

Will it improve my noise level?

Many SWL's and most ha ms know that a horizontal a ntenna is less
responsive to noise tha n a vertica l antenna simply beca use so much
man-made (and natural) noise propagates in a vertically pola rized
mode. So they st ring up a ho rizontal wire and run so me tran smission line up to it giving little th ought to SWR Gra nt ed, at a few
frequencies this antenna and transmission line may agree perfectly
in operating impedance. At o ther frequen cies they wi ll not.
Thi s effect appears as a standing wave probl e m in-so-far as the
apparent impeda nce along the transmission line cha nges point by
point. Your radio will not have been desig ned to accommodate
this, thus ju stifying use of a matching unit.
Remember, you can't change the SWR if the antenna doesn't
match the line. The downside of this is your transm ission li ne will
become a parasi tic a ntenna . After all, an antenna is -- loosely
speaking .... a tran smi ssion line that doesn't go a nywhere and therefore intrinsical ly has a n infinite SWR
So, if your fccdlinc has standing waves on it , it too becomes an
effect ivc antenna. It wi ll o bviou sly have some vertical length
which will surely pi ck-up noise. A nd worse yet, a ny computer gear
o r te rmina l units used in your radio room can generate noise easily
picked up by thi s mi smatched hunk of tr~nsmi s.s ion line .. A n~atch
ing unit will do you no good here. It will be JU St as noisy wllh or
with out it.
In some cases though , loud loca l signa ls and noise a rc co ncen trat ed
over a limite d frequency range. Because th e ma tching unit it self
ca n only accommodate a very narrow frequen cy span at any; given
setting, it can fa il to efficiently mat ch off-frequency sig nals t ~ yo ur
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receiver, then you a rc in lu ck. Many receivers do bene fit from the
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You mean I've got to readjust

this matcher for each station?
Well , maybe not each station but certainly band by band. F o r
those with scanning receivers, this is not a very handy tool.
Certai nly the matcher is not for everyone.

But who does need one?

It 's very good for th ose consta ntly working with new a ntenn as. If
more th a n o ne matcher is available, different antenna , t ransmission line a nd equipment combinations can be tested easily. When
results arc promising, more perm anent arrangements can be
e ffected . Tra nsmi tter ha rmonics will be suppressed, if you are
interested in that sort of thi ng.

My buddy told me his tuner

fixed all his noise problems
Th e re is the unique situat ion in wh ich the receiver is the o nly item
that doesn't match an o therwise harmonious system. In this one
special case, a match box really does shine. It docs reduce the SWR
to a flat line conditio n. It does reduce signal losses on t he line.
It will improve the noise immunity of the ante nna feedline system.
But this is not the usua l case.
As discussed in the p revious cases, receiver selectivity, stability and
performance may be improved. For t he ham , transm itter harmonics ca n be attenuated. Equipment specificatio ns will probably be
met. A ll of these good things can only be a ccomp lished at th e
expense of fr equency agility. It is a wise ma n wh o said tha t everything in life involves a compromise. That's why some me n marry
ba d cooks.
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June 1988

91

From the
Editor:
A Second Chance
for AM
It's nighttime. You turn on your radio
and scan across the dial. All about you is
chaos. Stations are broadcast ing on top
of one another. They fade in and out.
Audio quality is awful and the noise! It's
just too much!
We're talking about shortwave, right? .
Wrong. We're talking about the good old
AM broadcast band. And it's a mess.
Sure, there are AM_stations that are still
"making it." But there are probab1y far
more that aren't. Conduct an informal
survey of your friends. How mariy of
them still listen to AM radio? Point
made.
The reason why we bring this up is
because AM . radio has been having some
pretty rough _times. Some say that the
band is dead. And while broadcasters
work to revitalize it; there's still
contention. AM stereo is a good
example. What system should be used?
Will receiver manufacturers support the_
concept of AM stereo with new product?
And if they do, will more people listen?
Right now, the U.S. Federal
Comrnunkations Commission is looking
at the 1605 to 1705 kHz expansion of
the AM broadcast band. And, as can be
expected, a lot of questions arc being
asked. Should daytimers be given first
shot at the frequencies? How about
minodties? Should they get first crack at
the new frequencies? Especially intriguing,
too, . is _the proposal for establishing onelicensee national channels in the new
frequency range.
All this is really beside the point.
What's really important is that right now,
the FCC has the opporuniry to set new
standards for a virgi11 frequency ra nge.
And what they do with it can create
either another mess or a method of
allocation that can be used as the basis
for all ' of the AM band in the future.
lt;s too late to get in on the first
round . of comments on the AM band
expansion (Docket 87-267). But the
second round doesn't close until this
month. If you would like to make your
two cent's worth known in Washington
concerning the AM band expansion,
write. Make yourself heard. Because if
you don't so now, all we'll be able to do
later is sit back and complain. Remember
what happened with the Electronic
Communications Privacy Act -- a lot of
your hobby is now illegal!

Lany Miller

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lune 1988

LETTERS
continued from page three
Ham Radio:
A Wonderful Hobby
I am a disabled a rmy vet eran and an cx"mental" patient who has found a creative
way to spend my leisure hours: ham radio.
It all started when I read a n article in CQ (I
believe) about volunteers who went to
mental hospitals in New York State to help
patients obtain their novice license. I
thought that if they could do it, so could I.
And after 14 months of st udy, I did! Today,
I plan to go for my Extra Class license.
Hope to work you some day 1
(Withheld)
Evanston, Illinois

The Unfriendly Keyboard

I received by first copy of Mo11ito1i11g
Times in February and have been meaning
to write ever since regarding your editori a l
on unfriendly computers.
From the ja rgon of that piece, I gather
that yo u're using an MS-DOS-based
computer. I quite agree as to it s
unfriendliness. But please don't paint all
computers with the same brush. A fri e ndly
computer docs exist. It's call the Apple
Macintosh.
Al LaPlaca
Ccntereach, New York

We Want Scanners!
We could use more scanner frequencies
for the west coast.
P.J. Nemecek
Whittier, California

Danmarks Calling ...

I recently heard Radio Denmark at 1935
UTC on 11 861 MHz. A male announcer
sa id that 'This is the shortwave service of
Radio Denmark." That was the end of the
English. Any chance of getting a QSL our
of them? Will they respond? How many
IRCs are required? Could you please tell
me the address to write to?
Reinhard Foy
West Swanzey, New H ampshire

Radio D enmark, despite tire fa ct that

their programs are entirely in Danish (except
for tire ID you heard), welcome reception
repo11s and will respond with a QSL caJ'd
and an i11fo111wtio11al folder. Their address
is: Radio De11mal'k, Slro11wme Dep(//1me11t,

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Radio/rouse, DK-1 999 Frede1iksberg, Denmark. Or you could call them at 01-358181.
Denmark continues to !rave problems
with their shortwave se1vice. I've heard that
because of the i11te1fere11ce that their transmitter causes local residen ts, th ey operate it
at half power (50 kw). You might take the
opponunity of your reception repo11 to ask
them to consider some broadcasts in
English. Tirey will politely say 110, bl// if th ey
get e11011gh letters. .. --ed.

Caroline Calling ...

For the last 45 minutes, I have been
copying Radio Caroline o n 6210 kHz. I
would li.ke to send them a reception report
but I do not have an address. Do you? By
the way, I heard them from 0215 to 0300
but they were on the air both before and
a fter that. My Radio Database l11te111atio11al
[Passport to World Band Radio] book
shows Riverside Radio on this frequency
but they very definitely announce "Radio
Caroline." l have not heard the abovementioned ill egal again.
Chuck Oliver
Spring, Texas

MT's Dr. John Santosuosso says that

Radio Caroline is "a 11oto1iously bad
ve1ifier" bw suggests sending your repo11 to
the statio11 's New York office and aski11g
them to pass it 011 to the sh ip 011 which the
statio11 is based, the Ross Re1e11ge. The
address is R SI Comm1111icatio11s, 25 Randall
A venue, Lynbrook, NY 11563. Some rcpo11s
say, howeve1; that the station is ref11si11g mail
at that address. --ed.

Bangladesh Calling ...

The Bangladesh DX-club Internationa l is
publishing its English bulletin, The Bangladesh Calling DX-ers every three months. A
m e mbership fee of USS50.00 will create an
excell ent opportunity for foreigners to
receive our bulletin for a year and promote
world peace and friendship.
MD. Iqbal Khandkcr, Chairman
Bangladesh D X-club Internation al
Department of External Affairs
c/o Int'l Communications Division
G.P.O. Box No. 4051
Dhaka, Bangladesh

World peace, ped1aps. Ce11ai11ly a healthy

profit at $12.50 a11 issue! --ed.

Lawful Listening
Several letters have been received regarding author and attomey Kenneth Vito Zich i's
"Gelling Sta11ed" column e11tit/ed, "Radio
Listening and the Law" {Ap1il, 1988/. The
column covered, pn'mmily, the controversial
Electronic Co111m1111icatio11s P1ivacy Act,
which makes illegal ce11ain radio monitoring. The subject is complex but it both
requires and dese1ves substa11tial discussion.
Because of this complexity, however, we
have selected only 011e lei/er for publication.
lL appears to me that the Electronic
Comm unicatio ns Privacy Act's amendments to 18 U.S.C. 2510 and 2511 may be
unenforceable. I reach this conclusion after
reading the April 1988 edition of
Mo11it01ing Times wherein a lawyer, on
pages 34-35 of that edit ion, shows that the
Act is so incomprehensible that even
lawyers don't understand it.
[The author) Mr. Zichi cites the
exception in the act for communications
"readily accessible to the general public" as
"a loop hole you can drive a truck through."
In fact, this is more like the eye o f a nee dle.
You sec, as is often the case in fe deral
legislation, the term "readily accessible to
the general pu b lic" doesn't take on its
everyday meaning in this statute since the
term is specifically defined in paragraph 16
of the preceding sectio n, 18 U.S.C. 2510.
This is a bit Orwellian in that if Congress
defines blue to be red, it is red for the
purpose of the law.
I n any case, the dcfinit ion of "readily
accessible to the general public" is stated in
the statute as follows:
(a) not scrambled or encrypt ed ;
(b) not transmitted using modulation
techniqu es whose essential parameters
have been withheld from the public
with the intention of preserving the
privacy o f such communication;
( c) not carried on a subcarricr or other
signa l subsidiary to a radio transmission;
( d) not transmitted ove r a comm unications system prov ided by a common
ca rrier, unless the com municati on is a
tone only paging system communication;
( c) not tra nsm it ted on frequencies all ocated under part 25; subpart D,E, or F
of part 74; or part 94 of the Rules of
the Federal Commu nications Commission, unless, in the case of a communica tion transmitted o n a frequency
a llocated u ndcr part 74 that is not

exclusively allocated to broadcast

auxiliary services, the communication
is a two-way voice commu nication by
radio.
The first two of these arc no problem. If
a signal is scra mbled, law-abiding DXers
will leave it alone. Paragraph ( c) begins the
real restrict ions on DXcrs. U nder the statutory definiti on, sig na ls on subcarricr, such
as the types being experiment ed with in
television at the moment, arc not readily
accessible to the genera l public and are not
permitted listening.
The next section poses the greatest
problem for DXcrs. Under the definition,
i!..m'. signal, other than a tone, which is
transmitted by a commo n carrier is off
limits. The FCC defines a common carrier
as "a ny p erson engaged in rendering
communications serv ice for hire to th e
public." ( 47 CFR 21.2) The sta tutory definition given in 47 U.S.C. 153(h) is a bit more
specific:
(h) "Common carrier" or "carrier" means
any perso n engaged as a common
carrier for hire, in interstate or foreign
co mmunicat ion by wi re o r rad io or
interstate or fo reign radio transmissio n of energy, except where refere nce
is made to common ca rriers not
subject to this chapter; but a person
engaged in radio broadcasting shall
not, insofar as such person is so
engaged, be deemed a common
carrier.

MHz and 26.47 MHz, but unless you have a

copy of the FCC Rules and Regulations,
there is no easy way for a DXcr to know
that listening to t hese transmissions is a
federal offense.
This is precisely why I maintain that this
law is unenforceable. I n order for a p rosecution under 18 U.S.C. 2511 to be successful, the gove rnm ent must prove beyond a
reasonable
doubt
that
the
DXer
intentjonnlly intercepted a protected
transm1ss1on. Since even att orneys are
unsure what frequencies arc off limits, how
can the government hope to prove that a
DXcr who happens upon one of these
federally- legislated minefields in the radio
spectrum, actua lly intended to do so?
In the same issue [Letters, April 1988],
Jim Small of Omaha, Neb raska, likens
listening to cellular telephone tra nsmissions to climbing a telephone pole and clipping on a handset. The writer simply misses
the point regard ing the rights being
assert ed. This is not a question of protecting an arcane hobby e nj oyed by a small
minority. Th e EC PA makes it a crime to
listen to the radjo.
T hose people who be lieve t hat cellular
te lephone and other radio-transmitted
services should have privacy have not
co nsidered the implications of th is thing. A
more apt analogy t han climbing a telephone pole to eavesdrop is that the providers of cellu lar service want the right to
parade down Ma in Street with no clothes
on and then prosecute anyone who looks.
In my opi nion, the First Amendment
demands that .all radio co mmu nications
which arc not scrambled in some way so
that they rIllli are not accessible to the
genera l pub lic, arc fair game to anyone
with a receiver. And if the U.S. Attorney
wants t o prosecute me, he better be ready
fo r a long fight.

This definit ion is very broad and will

include, beyond obvious services such as
cellular telephone, radiotelegraph services,
mobile radio services, and just about every
other utility station o n the face of the
earth.
The types of radio transmissions made
off limits t o D Xers by paragraph (c) are
certai n satellite comm uni catio ns, certain
Frank T erranella
microwave communicatio ns, and auxiliary
Smith, Don, Alampi & Scalo
Englewood Cl iffs, New Jersey
stations to broadcasters used fo r such
things as feeds from the mobile van back to
the st udi o or fr om the studio to the trans-~----------------~
mittcr. The frequencies of these services
arc a ll above l gigahertz except for the
Monitoring Times welcomes
bands 928-929 MHz and 944-960 MHz.
your considered comments,
The exception to this is the frequency
assignmen t given to remote broadcast
questions and opinions on
p ickup stations under subpart D of part 74.
the world of radio. Address
T his service, which is off- limits to DXers, is
them to Letters, P.O. Box
assigned bits and pieces of the radio spec98, Brasstown, Noith
trum from 1606 kHz through 455.925 MHz.
Twen ty-six frequencies in the shortwave
Carolina 28902.
b and arc allocated to this service. The
allocations arc sca ttered between 25.87 L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - '
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YAESU FRG7700 receiver with 12 channel
memory, FRV770F VHF converter $425
(mint). SANGEAN ATS803A portable with
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sh ipping. Bob [2l5] 493- l019.

For Sale: ICOM R71A SW receiver with

external speaker, manual, original packing.
Very good. $600 plus UPS shipping. SONY
ICF 2002 receiver, packing, very good $125
plus shipping. Interested in KENWOOD 5000
receiver new or used, trade or buy. John
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For Sale: INFO-TECH M-600A, mint

condition, $429.00; ZENITH ZVM-121 green
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Krolak.

For Sale or Trade: KENWOOD R-2000

shortwave receiver, in perfect condition. Will
trade for REALISTIC PR0-2004 scanner or
sell for $385.00, money order or certified
check. Manual included, do not have original
box; EAVESDROPPER An t inclu ded fo r
quick sale. Reason for sale, changing listening
station to scanner operation only. Will ship
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Milan, MO 63556 (816) 673-6278.

For Sale: KENWOOD R-1000, SONY 5900W

receivers. $350.00 fo r both + UPS. Sumter
Hickman, 1008 West 10th St., Plainview, TX
79072 (806] 293-5809.

Wanted: ZENITH Oceanic 7000, TOSHIBA

"Global," GRUNDIG
"Stellit," SONY
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37
AF Systems
43
Alpha Delta
39
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87
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71
Communicatio ns Electronics
4
EEB
2
Galaxy
85
Grove
49,81
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Lunar Industries Nati ona l
41
M il Spec
91
83
National Tower Company
Ohio Radio
18
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Scanner World
Systems & Software
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June 1988

SONY ICF-2010 (new) in box. SWL-64

RTTY /CW cartridge for the C-64 computer.
GROVE 1988 SW Directory, TAB SW
Handbook. On ly $320.00, O.B.0., Call (301)
326-6261, ask for Bob.
RADIOS, YAESU portable, FTH-2005,
VHF, 10 channel, scan, programmer, desk
charger, spare battery, new $425.00.
Pager/monitor, SONAR 2-channel, 154.130154.75 4-Tone Charger, $100.00. Horne Alert
Monitor. ELECTROSONICS EC-22 154.130
4-Tone SJ00.00. J ohn Miller (907] 349-7817
AK time.
- - - - - - - - - -- - - - T AP NEWSLETTER. Complete ser. Over
300 pages of telephone phreaking, hacking,
surveillance and bugging. $50 money order. J.
Leonardelli, Box 722, Station A , Downsiew,
Ontario M3M-3A9.
- - - - -- - - - -- - - - Wanted to buy, Cassette tapes of NYPD or
LAPD during periods of heavy activity. Ed
Anderson, P.O. Box 4492, London, Ontario,
Canasa, N5W-5J5.
- - - - - - - - - -- -- - Wanted: Pa ir of MOTOROLA HT-220's,
VHF-HI; also want police radar speed gu ns.
Mark H artman, 14 Silver Lane, Kirk.wood,
MO 63122; Call (314] 966-3894
- - - - -- - - -- - - -- For Sale or Trade: R-2000 Communications
Receiver, VG to excellent condition, 4kHz
wide special AM filter; CW filter, $425.00 Neg
- Will trade for TS-130 Sor SE or ICOM-730
ham rig. Call for details. 4:00 pm-11 :00 pm
EST 1717( 763-9047.

Wanted: ZENITH Trans-Oceanic 11 or 12 Wanted: SONY CRV-320A excellent condiband, 10000, 1000, 2000, 3000 ro 3000-1. tion. Bill Cress [20 1) 694-5l54, 28 Worcester
TOSH IBA Globe, SONY Orbit er or Dr, Wayne, NJ 07470.
NORDMENDE Globetrotter rnu ltiband - - - -- - - -- -- -- - receiver. Harald Herp, 6615 Michele Ct., HARD TO FIND PARTS for Shortwave, CB
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in cluding UPS shipping. Call (808] 879-6800. CA 92640.
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CITIZEN World Time and Alarm - Displays For Sa le: INFO-TECH M600A with parallel
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- -- - -- - -- - - - [612) 487-3206.
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condition. Oest offer. [202] 882-8462.
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posted on politics, finance or
sports worldwide.
For the best reception, there
is a telescopic antenna and a
built-in ferrite antenna. each
optimally tuned to their
appropriate bandwidth.
Power is supplied by four AA
batteries so the Yach t Boys will
operate anywhere. The tuner

circwtry incorporates AFC

automatic fine control that locks
onto stations and minimizes
frequency drift.
The Yacht boys incorporate
a special widerange speaker
driver and adjustable tone for
unusually pleasant audio
fidelity For private listening,
the built-in speaker can be
switched off for headphone
listening.

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